Community Bot 1. A virus is neither a fungus nor a microbe. Interesting first answer. If you haven't done so already please take the tour and visit the help center to learn more about the site.
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Not to mention many other such weapons. I don't think this answer the spirit of the question, "Why Wood" with its implied and nothing else. That argument is a lot more applicable to other answers. Such a stake would be harder to make in any setting and impossible in most vampire story settings. Could you make that in your garage? I could make a fiberglass or composite material easier though. Separatrix's and Liquid's answers say metal is fine; GAnn accidentally makes fire better; Tim B's would work for bone.
My answer is relevant and is what a better author than me came up with. I came up with more plausible reasons in literally under a minute, and I don't write about vampires at all. Plus as a materials scientist you instantly thought of alternatives for "not wood".
I did not vote down your answer, btw. It is a very good book. You suggested DNA, chain reactions, and atomic configurations as if they were magic; buzzwords don't make things plausible or good.
If it helps: the vampires are rotting and no longer breathe so they build up easily oxidized and flammable compounds in the interior of the body. Any way to explain scientifically accurate undead forming naturally ends up being absurd especially in but it is well thought out and one of the first to do this.
Any explanation for why one gets dusted, or why only wood works, is going to smack of magic, too. The question is " As for buzzwords no. I understand genetics better than most people; I have invented and contributed algorithms to this field of study; I am familiar with protein configurations and how they operate.
Anybody with a basic physics education I have four years worth in my 25 years of school has a basic grasp of chain reactions atomic physics. Show 1 more comment. Shufflepants Shufflepants 1, 6 6 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Nothing is as durable as movie robots, and if something is running around doing incredible feats of strength and laser power, it's going to run out of batteries pretty quickly.
After all, self replicating machines that can take over the planet already happened: it's call 'life'. To me the big question is "why garlic"? Placidia Placidia 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. And this answer does add information not found in the other answers. Nicely done. The problem is that killing a vampire with staking does not change their appearance like decaying into dust or going into flames, so you do not know if they are dead and that the vampire heart is quite robust and the life signs are extremely hard to detect, so vampires could fake death if you don't hit the heart exactly.
Thorsten S. So if sunlight and garlic were toxic to the virus, they would result in the death of the virus. It does, however, seem to imply some form of sentience for the vampire virus itself. Brythan Justin Thyme Justin Thyme 9, 2 2 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. SE Justin! Cool first answer. If you have a moment please take the tour and visit the help center to learn more about the site.
Looking forward to your contributions to the site. Have fun! That was the one FrostFyre was referring to. Maybe you should delete your first answer, because you expanded your answer by posting a second one instead of editing the first one.
Some of the reasons might be: Vampires are immortal half-gods, capable of taking ghost form, so killing their body won't stop them for long.
However, one of the trees contains soul of god that seals the vampire's whatever it has - soul, ghost, mind , and the thing that gets stolen is stored at its heart. Vampires are built of cells that show some specific quantum properties that make them almost invincible.
However, wood disrupts this property. Attacking any other part would leave the vampire with enough time to make his quantum backup. Or however this solution works. However, they are genetically related to some tree, which allows the tree to be used as a weapon.
For the same reason as why vampire can't in practice kill other vampire, the wood needs to be applied to the heart. Although there's really no way to do that without using pseudoscience. MatthewRock MatthewRock 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Wayne Wayne 3 3 bronze badges. Doomfrost Doomfrost 2, 2 2 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. It's an important difference and the vampire hunter needs to be able to identify the distinctive style of the noble vampires quickly in the field as it's a mistake that you only get to make once.
You need to spot the better cut cape, bespoke tailored suit and handmade shoes in a matter of seconds. Ah, da children ov da night. What sveet musik they make. Nuff said, yeah? Brent Hackers Brent Hackers 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. N2ition N2ition 1, 8 8 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. You explain why a wooden stake would be able to kill a vampire, but this doesn't explain why a wooden stake is the only thing that would be able to kill a vampire - would you be able to explain this?
And most importantly "So if Vampires aren't real, how come wood kills them? I tried shooting them with a gun, but they just came back. I stabbed one with a wooden stake, and the other took fright and never came back.
More likely, the cure relates to the process of fire-hardening and it was actually the making of the stakes cured you, but like most things the cure isn't instantaneous. That is the real reason that the Vampire that was never staked never came back. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.
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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Question Does a wooden stake have a be a certain wood? Thread starter smgismyqueenjpg Start date Sep 5, Does a wooden stake have to be a certain wood? Puppet Actual size. You know, I've often wondered this myself. I've had this thought about wooden bullets, but they wouldn't be heavy enough to be shot, so then what a regular bullet coated in a thin layer of wood?
But that's not pure wood, so would it work in the Buffyverse? Good question Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Walsh: We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick. Buffy: Oh, it's more effective than it sounds. Anime and Manga. It's mentioned in Karin that this will kill a vampire, though it doesn't really qualify as a weakness since "A stake through the heart would kill anybody!
It's even suggested that a wooden stake to the heart isn't fatal, since Genjirou's wife Touko has brandished a stake and mallet in order to make him calm down and stop harassing Asahi.
In Shiki , a stake to the heart is one of the preferred methods in dealing with the many vampires running around. It does however not need to be a wooden stake, any kind of stake will do as long as it pierces the heart and keeps it from repairing itself in a timely fashion. Hyo from Ushio and Tora finally kills for good a classical Vampire by ramming a massive wooden stake in his chest while he was lunging at him.
This proves the only way to kill him for real. Comic Books. Zigzagged in Alan Ford : Vampires can be killed with a stake through the heart, but also by being submerged in water, and both methods are employed. Played straight in Astro City , in the "Confessions" arc. A gun that fires wooden stakes is used to kill a vampire. Batman Vampire : The traditional method of killing vampires is via stabbing and thus immobilizing them with wooden stakes, followed by beheading to kill them permanently.
Batman winds up killing Dracula via impaling him on a splintered utility pole and then he's hit by lightning, dusting him , and utilizes special wooden throwing knives against his vampire enemies.
Later, Batman himself is immobilized with a wooden stake, leaving him in a dormant state of And I Must Scream until it's removed. Unfortunately, by that point he's been driven quite mad and goes on a killing spree.
Parodied in Cattivik : a crowd of angry peasants surrounds the vampire's castle First Peasant: "Tsk, that dumbass thought we were still using the whole stake-in-the-heart thing.
Second Peasant: " Yeah, and the castle was declared unfit too ". Regular wooden stakes can't pierce his skin, not even being magically-enhanced. Kara gets stakes carved of Kandorian trees since anything from Krypton becomes indestructible on Earth. Films — Live-Action. Blood Red Sky. Eightball sharpens the handle of a wooden hockey stick into a spear to use against Nadja. It's shown that a knife to the heart works just as well, as when Nadja uses one to put down Berg as he turns, but Eightball had likely seen too many vampire movies.
He has Holmwood stake her followed by Helsing immediately cutting off her head with a machete. Count Yorga : Surprisingly only used once in between the two movies and only in the first film.
Micheal and Hayes do try to gear up by using makeshift stakes from wooden chairs. The vampires are scared enough of them to stay back when threaten. In the climax, Yorga sacrifices one of his brides when Micheal threatens them by pushing her into it and fleeing. However Michael breaks off a smaller piece from the initial stake and uses that to kill Yorga, which only happened because Yorga foolishly ran into it while trying to ambush Micheal at the door of the room he was coming out of.
The only certain way to kill a vampire according to the information available to Preacher Dan in Curse of the Undead. Drago's father stabbed his son's corpse through the heart with a silver dagger, only to be told afterwards by the village priest that it needed to be a wooden stake. By the time he returned to his son's coffin, the body was gone. Deadtime Stories: Volume 1 : The doctor drives a wooden stake through the heart of the vampire at the end of "House Call".
Dracula A. A vampire can heal from most injuries, but a wooden stake through the heart is not one of them. It eventually evolved into just needing to pierce their heart. After all, vampires have been around awhile. And, among other things, vampires are usually inherently hot — at least since the modern vampire era began years ago.
The manananggal is an old mythical creature in the Philippines that separates from their lower part of body and their fangs and wings give it a vampire-like appearance.
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