The Logic of The Little Vampire part 8: How does that stake gun work, anyway?

I've spent all this time talking about vampires, their characteristics, their powers, their sympathizers. Now it's time we turn our attention to their greatest enemy: the vampire hunter. Though the goal of the hunt hasn't changed over time, methods and weapon types clearly have, so to cover this, this article will cover two categories: past and present.

Rookery's ancestor:

For some reason, people keep giving this guy lines, but I'll get to that when I abridge the movie. In any event, the only real weapons we see this guy use are stakes, a two-fold cross that can fold up nicely (for...some reason), and a wagon of torches. However, during the vampire mania that once gripped the world, the weapons of choice were stakes of certain types of wood, axes with which to decapitate, crosses, garlic, etc as protectory devices. It isn't illogical to assume, then, that these would be among the weapons of choice for Rookery's ancestor, who, according to the man himself, is part of a 400-year tradition, a "family business". Also, that last statement implies at least the guise of professionalism, so it would be expected that this man would be prepared and able to get the job done with a reasonable degree of efficacy.

Rookery:

This man, psycho as he may be, is ready for anything when it comes to vampire hunting. If you need proof of this statement, check out his truck. When they introduce it, just sit back and stare in awe, because it is very impressive. He's rigged it with lights, shovels, drills, a rack for a dead body, and on the inside he's got everything from cigars and stake gun ammo to a pickaxe. Just in the backseat.

Let's go weapon by weapon, shall we?

A personal favorite, the stake gun: Staking a vampire requires considerable force, just to get the thing through the ribcage. Without something like, oh, say, a stake gun, you would need an axe or hammer to drive the stake home. The stake gun removes the axe or hammer from the equation and allows the hunter to fire at a safe distance, and let's face it, it's basically a giant revolver-bazooka of vampire-killing awesome, even though the vampires are good guys.

The neon cross: a great double-wammy when one is dealing with vampires. Vampires avoid light and also crosses and other religious symbols, so a two-in-one is a very effective way to keep vampires at bay.

The gigantic light: It's a light twice the size of your head, shines in five out of six directions, and is extremely bright. Clearly it was designed to mimic the sun, and it also accounts for the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle of where the living hell are vampires again? by shining everywhere at once. Even though it does ultimately get broken, it's still pretty cool from the standpoint of just how set this guy is.

And of course, because I can't stop obsessing over it, that goddamned truck.