The cartoon reveals O'Rourke, 46, pulling back a curtain, which causes Cruz, 47, depicted as a vampire, to catch fire when sunlight bursts through the window. "Go Bet! Go, Democrats! Vote like ...

But while the idea of vampires and sunlight not exactly being friends is largely a standard when it comes to the creatures of the night in fiction now, that wasn’t always the case.

Sunlight was painful ... 1967: Roman Polanski directs "The Fearless Vampire Killers." 1971: A cartoon vampire starts selling Count Chocula cereal for General Mills. 1972: William Marshall stars ...

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If you're not familiar with Morbius from Marvel's Spider-man comics or cartoons ... Finally, Morbius isn't as vulnerable to sunlight as normal vampires, but being in the sun still weakens him ...