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| David the Vampire | |
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| David | |
| Aliases: | David |
| Franchise: | Lost Boys |
| Notability: | Antagonist |
| Type: | Vampire |
| Gender: | Male |
| Location: | Santa Carla, California |
| Associations: | Lost Boys |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Introduction: | The Lost Boys |
| Actor: | Kiefer Sutherland |
David is a fictional vampire and one of the main antagonists from the Lost Boys multimedia franchise. He was introduced in the 1987 action/horror film The Lost Boys by director Joel Schumacher. He was played by actor Kiefer Sutherland in one of his first major film roles.
Biography[]
David was a youthful looking vampire, who appeared to be around the age of twenty. He operated out of the beachside community of Santa Carla in California and was the leader of a pack of vampires known as the "Lost Boys". David was of lesser station than the head vampire, Max, who was the maker of David's allies, Dwayne, Marko, and Paul. Max was also responsible for slowly transforming a young woman named Star and a boy named Laddie into vampires as well, though Star seemed to gravitate towards David as if he were her master.
David and the Lost Boys routinely stalked the areas surrounding the boardwalk. After nearly coming to blows with a group of Surf Nazis at the carousel, they were run off the boardwalk by a security guard. That night, after the shops closed down, David and the others took to the sky and attacked the guard in the parking lot, killing him.
When Star took note of a newcomer named Mike Emerson, David decided that he was prime material to become a member of their brood. David tested Michael's mettle by egging him into joining them in various dangerous stunts, such as racing their motorcycle's towards the edge of a cliff and hanging off the underside of a trestle bridge as a train passed over them. Michael was angry and terrified yet drawn to the allure of David's reckless ways.
David invited him to the Lost Boys' lair, which was the ruins of a structure that sank beneath the ground after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. David used vampiric mesmerism to alter Michael's perceptions, making him believe that he was eating maggots instead of rice, and worms instead of noodles. He then urged Michael to drink from a large ornate flash. Michael was unaware that he was actually drinking David's blood and was now one step closer towards becoming a vampire like them.
Afterward, the Lost Boys took Michael out on a hunt with them. They went to the beach where they found the Surf Nazis. Michael stood in shock and horror as David and the others tore into the surfers, revealing their true monstrous heritage before him.
The following day, Michael's younger Sam, who had befriended two 14-year-old amateur vampire hunters named Alan and Edgar Frog, learned where the lair of the Lost Boys was located. They went there during the daylight hours, and succeeded in killing, Marko.
David decided to avenge his fallen comrade by attacking Michael and Sam's home. Michael, having yet to fully transform into a vampire, stood by his brother's side. While Sam and the Frog Brothers dealt with Dwayne and Paul, David fought against Michael in his grandfather's workshop. Michael seemingly killed David by impaling him through the back on a pair of mounted animal antlers. [1]
Three years later, in the year 1990, David emerged once again, showing that he had survived his encounter with the Emerson brothers and the Frog brothers. [2]
Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Vampirism: In addition to the various mental and physical benefits that vampires are heir to, they also possess the ability to turn others into vampires as well. Each new vampire is traditionally subservient to the one who "turned" them, but some strong-willed vampires have been known to rebel against their masters.
- Enhanced senses: Vampires have improved several times higher than those of any human being of course these skills can vary depending on each person they will have some other stronger senses of his companions always given the dedication and training that each set to improve ways. Among the main ways that vampires have improved we find the following:
- Immortality: So long as vampires continue to consume blood, they will not age beyond the physical state they were in when they first became a vampire.
- Invulnerability: Vampires are invulnerable to most forms of injury (certain exceptions apply). Bullets, blades and blunt objects do little to no damage to a vampire's body.
- Regeneration: In addition to being virtually indestructible, whatever damage a vampire does in fact suffer can be healed through the consumption of human blood.
- Superhuman strength: A vampire's strength level is several times that of a normal human being and they are considered superhuman.
- Superhuman stamina: So long as they continue to consume human blood, a vampire can function tirelessly without rest or relaxation. However, a vampire's stamina wanes the closer it is to sunrise.
- Psychokinesis: Most vampires possess some form of psychokinesis. Some are clairvoyant, others can communicate telepathically, some possess mind control. Particularly powerful vampires can control the minds of several people at once.
- Hypnosis: Vampires possess the ability to hypnotize or mesmerize human targets. This may become difficult against opponents with an extremely high will power. It often doesn't work against other supernatural creatures. In some cases, vampire mesmerism may be referred to as "glamouring".
- Transformation: Vampires often possess the ability to transform into a variety of creatures or effects such as bats, wolves, rats or even mist. While their physical attributes may fluctuate during such states, a vampire's mental acuity is the same as that when they are in their human shape. A vampire who transforms into an animal may also benefit from that particular animal's attributes including razor-sharp claws, fangs or the ability to fly.
- Metamorphosis: Only vampires with a more advanced powers Control demonstrate the ability of altering either its appearance to imitate other people or in such cases selective transformation for creating claws to increase the lethal capability of its attacks in extreme cases and only vampires with a capacity of very advanced monitoring capabilities such change would show how elements, elasticity and other capabilities which vary depending on their ability, imagination and control, because as you know some vampires are stronger than others.
- Claws: Vampires can often turn their fingernails into sharpened claws, which are extremely durable and sharp. They are ideal for rending and tearing through flesh, though they are not as effective as the claws possessed by a werewolf.
- Fangs: A vampire's most often-used weapon are her fangs. They are enlarged sharpened canine teeth, which are often retractable so as to allow a vampire the ability to pose as a normal human. The primary purpose of fangs is for feeding, which they use to puncture the jugular vein of a victim in order to get to their blood.
Skills[]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of David was created by director Joel Schumacher and writers Janice Fischer, James Jeremias and Jeffrey Boam.
- "David/Lost Boys" and "David (Lost Boys)" both redirect to this page.
- Although David died in the feature film, his character was resurrected in the comic book limited series Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs by WildStorm Productions.
- This is the first horror film work for actor Kiefer Sutherland. He is also known for playing the ambitious scientist Nelson in 1990's Flatliners and Ben Carson in the 2008 film Mirrors.
- Although some may assume that David is the progeny of Max, it is implied that he may have been created by another, possibly even the Widow Johnson. In the film, Max makes reference to "David and my boys", as if to suggest that David was separate from the others.