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I'm astounded that the werewolves are so far ahead of the vampires in this very unscientific poll. Is it backlash for the over exposure of vampires? Or is it a genuine preference for the werewolves?

It also occurred to me--not an original observation, I'm sure--that werewolves and vampires represent different extremes of the psyche. Werewolves are the id left unchecked, and vampires are the super ego left unchecked (not exclusively, and not always). Werewolves are still living and still mortal, generally, but are humans reduced to their most primitive instincts. Vampires are dead, and yet their minds live on eternally, generally, and in most depictions do not consider themselves human anymore; in fact, many times they consider themselves the superiors of humans through a kind of evolution.