What Powers and abilities do vampires have?

Answer 1

These range from culture to culture and from story to story
I'll make a difference between pré 20th century and 20th-21st century
In medieval stories, most vampires were cute. They were immortal and loved the night, but also fluffy, and didn't have much other super natural abilities.
In popular culture since the 20th century, most vampire have a wide range of powers.
very often (but not always) these powers are:
- Crooked, or sideways turned Baseball caps. Often referred to as the "homeboy look".
- flight: some vampires have the ability to fly, some graciously (flying at high speed, with little flaw and also capable to levitate and glide), others more clumsy, much like the famous vampire elephant in the Disney classic, Dumbo.
- Super strength (for example: Dracula says he's can kill ten with one swat of his hand: however he is referring to killing the common housefly)

- super speed (ranging from a bit faster than humans to a bit faster than Pikachu)
- enhanced senses, such as distinguishing the subtle taste differences in feral urine.
- turning into a bat, a wolf, mist, a toaster, or often simply a banana
- hypnoses: Most vampires can calm persons of the other sex, or even control them. This helps them immensely during the Christmas shopping season. Rarely, they can do this to masses as well
- beauty: always a plus and although not all vampires are beautiful (nosferatu e.g), most are, such as Hanna Montana or Dustin Hoffman.
- Lie detection: Most vampires can tell when someone is lying, usually by sniffing a person's dirty socks
- blood sucking: Almost every vampire does this, with the exception of the vampire rodent, who simply sucks hickies.
- wall crawling
- Immaterial: Some vampires can go through walls, others must take the door way.
- no need of air (as they don't breath). However, some like to suck on helium balloons and hear their squeeky voices.
- Healing: Some vampires heal very quickly from wounds, some die rather quickly.
- Immortality: This is a tough one.

- Telekinesis: Very rarely, Vampires have telekinetic powers
- gain memories trough absorbing: rarely, vampires can get people's memories trough sucking their blood.
- reforming: Very powerfull vampires have the ability to reform, meaning that after extreme damage, they can renew and pull together their bodies. Very rarely (only Alucard is known to being able to do this), they can even do this after they've been decapitated.
- almost every vamp has no shadow, nor mirror reflection. This can be very frustrating when preparing for dates, or simply getting dressed in the evening