Blade

Origin

Original Blade sporting 'fro and wooden stakes.

This resulted in Blade's superhuman abilities, such as immunity to being turned, ability to "smell" supernatural creatures, and greatly prolonged lifespan.

This also caused Blade's sensitivity to bright light. Frost was driven off by Blade's mother’s coworkers before he could kill the infant as well. They raised him until he was nine years old. Though he lacked superhuman physical prowess, he trained himself to become an Olympic-level athlete and formidable hand-to-hand combatant. Most notably, he became an expert with edged weapons and especially knives and daggers. Walking home from school, Blade saw an old man being attacked by three bandits. Blade fought off the hoodlums, who turned out to be vampires, and rescued the old man. He learned that the old man was Jamal Afari, a jazz trumpeter and vampire hunter. Afari moved into Madame Vanity's brothel and trained the young Blade in both music and combat. Blade was soon able to defeat many of the weak, younger vampires that he and Afari found in abundance. However, Blade's victories made him cocky.

Dracula

Blade tracked Dracula throughout Europe and Asia Minor, then on into the far east, staking him many times, but never completely destroying him. In China, Blade joined Ogun Strong's vampire hunters which included Azu, Orji and Musenda. Together, they staked Dracula again.

Once more, Dracula survived, and taught Blade an object lesson by killing all of his new-found friends except Musenda (who eventually retired from vampire hunting). However, Orji created a lasting impression on Blade with his use of wooden daggers as a means to combat vampires. Sometime after Orji's death, Blade mastered the use of daggers and adopted the use of wooden daggers as his preferred method of combating vampires. Consumed by grief, Blade resumed his quest alone. It was decades before he again allowed himself to endanger another human.

When hunting down Dracula in Paris, Blade met up with a group of vampire hunters, being led by Quincy Harker. They have align with each other on various occasion, but Blade does officially join the team. After tracking down Dracula in London, he fought him, Morbius, and his minions. Back in America, Blade once again find himself joining Harker's team but with another ally, Dracula. Here they fight a more powerful villain, Doctor Sun. After the battle, Dracula fled, with Blade hot on his tracks. He then encountered Hannibal King, a private investigator who was turned into a vampire by Deacon Frost. They first team-up to defeat a Blade doppelganger, but when the doppelganger absorbed the real Blade, Hannibal called for Hellstorm, to exorcise Blade out of the fake one. Eventually Blade and Hannibal killed Deacon.

Blade, Hannibal and Doctor Strange formed the Borderline Investigations Inc. an investigative agency that battle supernatural beings, they battle Dracula and the Darkholders. But they briefly disbanded when King left and Blade was put in a mental hospital after a fight with a resurrected Dracula. Doctor Strange them reassembled the Borderline Investigations Inc and renamed it the Nightstalkers. When the demon Lilith  tricked them to kill Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch) and Johnny Blaze. Then they all team up to defeat Lilith and Lilin. They also fought Hydra. In the story arc " Midnight Masscre", Blade becomes Switchblade by a page of the Darkhold. After a battle with Varnae, the team disbanded.

Blade once again find himself fighting a resurrected Deacon Frost and Dracula, but with the help of Hannibal King, Frost was killed yet again. he also defeated Morbius, who was being controlled by another vampire. After that he followed him to New York where Blade team-up with Spider-Man. When Morbius bit Blade, his vampire anatomy reacted to Morbius natural vampirism, that it granted him all the strengths of a vampire and eliminated his sensitivity to sunlight, which gave him the title, "Daywalker" by his enemies. Blade also had a run-in with SHIELD, who were retrieving his blood to create vampire operative. With the help of other vampire hunters, they were able to stop them. He then joined with other vampire hunters all over the world to prevent Dracula from becoming a god.

Weeks later, In Madison Square Garden, Blade was attacked by four Doombots – who were tasked with bringing Blade to Latveria for a meeting with Dr. Doom. Blade defeated the doom bots however; the battle gave him the motivation to make the trip of his own accord. Blade was informed that he was destined to save his mother from a vampire infested jail facility. Though not completely willing, Dr. Doom didn’t take no for an answer and teleported Blade years into the past. Along with saving Dr. Dooms mother, he saved his own father, Lucas Cross, from rotting away, which would fulfill the first part of a prophecy his father had set in motion back in the present. In return, Dr. Doom gave Blade a formula that could cure an individual of their blood lust for vampires; Blade accepted the gift but didn’t use it.

Blade then became one of America’s most notorious after the police mistook his series of vampire killings as homicides and attempted to jail him. While on the run, Blade ran into a level 9 demon by the name of Animus. Blade defeated the demon and continued his run form the law.

He continued to Long Beach, California, where he ran into a long-time rival – Morbius. The two did battle before Morbius, who was revealed to be a registered superhuman, called in S.H.I.E.L.D. to capture Blade. Blade took out several agents before being taken down. In the office of Maria Hill it was revealed Blade was a part of a contingency plan to bring down Wolverine – seeing as the tacticians felt Blade was their best shot at taking him down. Though dismayed, a newly registered Blade went after Wolverine – after a drawn out fight where the two were on the verge of killing each other, Blade realized Wolverine had saved his life years ago and that he owed his very existence to him. Blade called off the fight and stormed into Maria’s office claiming that if S.H.I.E.L.D. went after Wolverine, they would have him to deal with.

Several weeks later, Blade is captured by none other than Lucas Cross, as father and son meet for the first time. Blade, chained to a wall, is instructed by his father to feed upon a young girl – unbeknown to Blade this would fulfill the second part of the prophecy. Blade passes on the offer and chews off his own hand to escape confinement; he fights through the entire facility before escaping with the little girl.

He then travels to London where he encounters possibly one of his greatest enemies – The priest, Draconis. It is revealed that Draconis has been training for years to kill Blade, and that’s precisely what he does. The newly handicapped Blade is no match for his mysterious new foe and is staked through the heart. Blade wakes up in the morgue to find a mystical amulet he had taken off a vampire thug earlier had saved him from death. Infuriated he calls upon the help of Hannibal King and with Hannibal at his back, Blade takes on Draconis once more. In order to defeat Draconis Blade feeds upon him to remove his enhanced abilities and then kills him. To his fathers joy, Blade accidentally fulfilled the second part of the prophecy by feeding upon virgin blood.

Blade

Blade is then recruited to lead a secret government team of superheroes known as Vanguard. The team if comprised of, Micromax, Retcon, Dominic Fortune, and Yelena Belova. The original leader is murdered and they’re tasked with finding the murderer, it is revealed that Stacy Dolan, the detective assigned the murder case, was in fact their leader murderer. However, she had been mind-controlled by an individual named Yoosef. After he manipulates The Thing into attacking their team, Blade shoots him in the head, and has the team wipe The Things memories and teleport him away.

Surprisingly, their original leader, Colonel America, the most powerful telekinetic on the planet, shows himself and it is revealed that not only was he never dead, the government wanted the team disbanded, seeing as Micromax had been captured and tortured by Al Qaeda on a mission and they now knew more about Vanguard than the president. – in other words killed. Thinking quickly, the team gives Colonel America the illusion that he killed them and port away. They then go into hiding. Unfortunately, Blade is captured and tortured, the rest were safe as Blade used a back-up story to explain why he was the only one who survived.

 After this Blade made his way to England to serve in another secret organization – MI 13. Following the Skrull invasion of Britain, Blade joined MI:13 to aid with the resurgence of evil forces, resulting from the Skrulls defeat. Blade fails to ingratisate himself, however, when he attempts to kill fellow team member, and part-vampire, Spitfire.

His actions were tempered by the Hell-Lord in action at the moment, and his surprise at finding out about her Vampire nature. Coaching her on the extent of her new abilities he helped her to regenerate from the damage he had caused, before moving on. Blade was able to use his senses to track the Hell Lord, using one of his special weapons, a paper katana made from Holy Texts, to harm the beast. Until he and the rest of the team were capture in the Dream Corridor, by their turn-coat teammate.

While in the Dream Corridor, Blade and his team-mates were forced to confront visions, and more of the Hell Lords useless drones, though when Peter forced the Ebony Blade to free them they were able to once more confront the Hell Lord. Realizing taht Blade's weapon was the only one that could hurt him, surprising considering Excalibur and the Ebony Blade were present, he used his hell fire to destroy it. Blade and his teammates were able to figure out how to defeat him, with Captain Britain dealing the finishing blow.

Blade was kept on the team at the insistence of Spitfire, much to Peter's and his own surprise. Once they returned to base, he confided in Lady J about his unease with working someplace he originally set out to assault. She allays his fears and also kisses him, making clear her intentions at starting something with him.

Powers and Abilities

Blade has shown many times that he is somewhat immune from the bite of a vampire, This is due to his healing ability obtained from the mutated vampire. However their has been temporary cases showing his vampire instincts takeover and are enhanced due to Blade already being in a weakened state (usually from an intense battle and blood loss), But Blade now seems to embrace what he has become, but he still fears giving into his thirst.

He has an enhanced healing factor which is similar to Wolverine, but unlike Wolverine his vampire anatomy attacks any alien substances (chemicals/viruses) in his body and eliminates any chance of him being rendered helpless or maimed from the inside.

Blade has the very rare ability to smell and sense supernatural creatures (which vampires don’t seem to posses.) This has helped him many times to identify a demon even if they have possessed the body of a human being (this is noticeable when a demon possessed a man dressed as Santa Clause, Blade sensed the demonic essence coming from him.) He can enter the spiritual realm due to being a demon and he posses the ability to hypnotize humans in a similar fashion of normal vampires, including Dracula.

Blade also has a greatly prolonged lifespan which indicates that Blade may possess immortality. This is obviously due to his accelerated healing ability and has saved his life many times in the movies. The formula Blade uses to suppress his supernatural thirst also slows down his healing rate, but it is evident that Blade still has this healing ability to a very high degree.

Blade can withstand the Ultra Violet rays of sunlight to an extent, But this most defiantly doesn’t make him immune. Human eyes are very shy towards the harmful rays of the sun, but his eyes have severe sensitivity to bright lights of any sort (which is why he uses his protective sunglasses.) However he can see in the dark as clearly as day, which also helps him identify the glyphs on buildings and identifying vampire safe houses and blood banks. His smell, sight and hearing is also heightened to super human capacity, which makes his tracking abilities surpass even the best hunters in the marvel universe.

Blade is stronger than most vampires which is seen in all three movies and most of the comics. He has superhuman agility and stamina. He can jump from a building to building or jump from a roof top to the ground with little damage or fatigue, unlike vampires who would most likely die or at least be paralyzed from a fall so high. He can also move and run much faster than most vampires and this has been greatly seen in the comics.

Blade has mastered all weapons and all martial arts. He cant be captured on film or be seen in a mirror.

Blade has the ability to cause a vampirism in whoever he chooses and due to something in his saliva, the person (referring to people as hosts from now on) becomes paralyzed as soon as the saliva makes contact with the blood stream (immobilizing the host from moving.) But even though they are paralyzed it is obvious the hosts he feeds on feel great pain and discomfort. It has been noted that Blade is allergic to cows blood, but if he is allergic to all animal blood (it has not been stated.)

Blade's reflexes and senses are so refined that he re-acts before his brain can actually analyze a situation. This characteristic is found in humans, but is selectively seen in rigorously trained martial artists (this indicates that Blade has at least 25 to 50 years of martial arts training history.

Blade has shown that he has vast knowledge and an understanding of the bigger picture of the supernatural realm and he seems to understand that he plays a bigger part in the world than he first anticipated. Blade also knows that the world is full of unimaginable horrors and he feels that his abilities make him the key to save humanity.

This justifies that Blade no longer thinks of himself just a vampire slayer, but a demonic reaper and he will do (kill) and happily terrorize anything necessary to protect what he believes in. This has also given Blade the negative reputation of going to extreme lengths and killing as many familiars as possible to get to just one vampire, Blade also kills familiars with the full vengeance and extent of his sword as he would a vampire, because he knows they want to be like vampires and they aid vampires in their demonic and satanic acts. He doesn’t show much remorse for people who give in to the viscous acts or bullying of vampires. He has expressed that he would rather let them die than help a coward.

(A disturbing characteristic is that Blade seems to enjoy the pain and suffering of even an infant vampire.)

All these abilities have been called upon at least ones In his past and they have given Blade the strength to fight such demons as the original vampire Dracula and many other powerful demons, showing he himself is a very powerful warrior and hunter.

Characteristics:

Blade Animated

Blade first appeared in episode 22 of the Spider-Man the Animated series. He story was slighty changed he was the son of a vampire man and a human woman, whose mother left him in foster care after she was bitten by a vampire. He first appeared trying to kill Michael Morbius but Spider-Man stopped him on numerous occasions from killing morbius. The series also introduced Whistler. He returned when Vampires where appearing in New York city thinking it was Morbius Blade returned and discovered it was his mother.

Wesley Snipes from the Blade films

In 1998 a Blade movie was made by New Line Cinema and directed Stephen Norrington. Wesley Snipes played Blade in the film (he was originally going to be in a Black Pather film but it was cancelled). In it he was teamed up with Whistler trying to find and kill Deacon Frost (played by Stephen Doriff) trying to resurrect La Magra the Blood God. While trying to look for clues on Frost he encountered his lackey Quinn who he left to burn after a vampire rave. He was still alive and attacked the coroners inspecting him. He also bit a woman named Karen Jenson. Blade feeling sorry for what happened to her decides to take her back to his hideout to try and help her before she turns. Blade also discovers that Frost needs him for the ceremont to resurrect the Blood God. After returning to his hideout he finds Whistler nearly dead,  and Karen taken hostage by the Frost men. Whistler then asked him to kill him before he turns into a vampire, Blade regrets at first but Whistler forces him to do so. So Blade walks away as Whistler kill him self. Blade then prepares for his battle with Frost, and makes his way to his hideout. After killing many familiars and vampires he discovers his mother was still alive but now a vampire, and it was Deacon who bit her. They then knock him out and take him to the Temple of Eternal Night. He is then locked in a box where his wrists are cut and his blood drips into a hole in the floor where it seaps down the to the sacrificed pure bloods and Eventually Frost. Karen then arrives to free him and lets him suck her blood so he can regain his strength. His mother arrives to kill but he is able to stop her, she then says "are you going to kill your mother". To which he says I must release you and kills her. In anger he grabs his clothes and goes after Frost. He finally kills Quinn and all of Frosts men, and finally faces Frost. Blade is able to slice off his arm and and cut him in half but he discovers he is still alive and reataches his body and grows a new arm. Frost begins to beat Blade until he finds the EDTA he brought with and throws all of them into Frost making him explode. He and Karen then leave the temple and she asks she going to make more of the antidote to cure him. But Blade says to keep and just make him a new serum to stop his thrists. He then seen in Russia killing a vampire as the film ends. 

Blade II

The second Blade film came out 4 years later. The film begins with Blade trying to find Whistler who is still alive just a vampire. He captures a vampire and forces him to take him to whistler, after which he sets him free saying I find you later. He is able to find him and take him back to his hideout. It is shown Blade has a new weapon smith named Scud who was formerly a Vampire familiar who is cautious of Whistler. Whistler is then cured and they are attacked by two Vampires one named Nyssa Damaskinos who snuck in asking for his help. Blade is taken to the fortress of Damaskinos a ancient vampire who asked for his services in killing a new breed of vampire created by his men. It is revealed they have been trying to make a new breed of vampires but it was a failure and one of them named Jared Nomak has escaped. These new vampires called Reapers are able to humans and vampires into these mindless killing machines. Blade is then teamed up with a team of Vampire mercenaries called the Bloodpack who were trained to kill Blade. They then decide to start their hunt by going to a vampire rave to find the reapers. The Reapers arrive and prove to be hard to kill with most of their weapons proving useless except for UV lights. Nomak and Blade and begin to fight but proves to powerful for Blade. Nomak escapes because it is sunrise and they are able to discover they are hiding and the sewers and find a captured Reaper starving to death. They take the reaper with them to experiment showing their hear is protected by bone ribcage covering their heart. They then prepare to hunting them in the sewers and using light grenades to kill them. Once in the sewers each of the Bloodpack are picked off one by one until only two are alive and Whistler and Blade. Blade is able to use the light grenades to kill all the reapers except for Nomak. Nomak then grabs Whistler and gives him his ring and telling him the truth behind the Reapers. Damaskinoos men arrive and take Blade Whistler and Scud Prisoners and take them back to his fortress where they reveal the reason for making the reapers in hopes of creating perfect vampires that are able to live whithout a thirst and walk in sunlight. Whistler then gives Damaskinos Nomaks ring asking why he gave it to him to which he says is his son. Blade then tries to activate the grenade on the back of Reinhardt head but it proves to not work. Scud then revales he was working for him and gave him a fake grenade. Blade reveals he knew he worked for them all along and activated the grenade killing Scud. Blade is then taking to a lad where his blood is drained, and Whistler with Reinhardt who beating him up for fun. Blade then tells the scientists that they let Nomak know where they are. Nomak arrives and starts killing soldiers making his way to his father. Whistler is able to free Blade but is attacked by Reinhardt and his men. Blade is then falls into a pool of blood and regains his strength. Blade then kills Reinhardts men and finally killing Reinhardt. Blade then finds Nomak who just killed his father and bit Nyssa. Blade then begins to fight Nomake but is unable to until he jabs his broken sword hard enough into Nomaks heart cage. Nomak happy at his pain finishes the Blow killing himself. Blade then goes to Nyssa wishing for him to take her outside so she can see the sun rise so she can die before becoming a reaper. Blade is then shown in London going after the Vampire he let got away. He found him in a sex club about ready to attack the stripper but Blade is on the other side saying you didn't think I would forget about you, and stabbing him in the head with his sword.

Also starring Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds.