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Blade's first appearance


The name of the "doctor" was Deacon Frost, in reality a bloodthirsty vampire. Frost feasted on Blade's mother during Blade's birth, killing her, and accidentally passing along certain enzymes in his own blood to the infant. This process turned Blade into a Dhampir - one who has been touched, but not converted, by a vampire.

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.



Blade was created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan and first appeared in Tomb of Dracula #10 (1973) .

Major Story Arcs





The Dracula Hunters

Dracula Hunters








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 from 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.


A new mission

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 uses his S.H.I.E.L.D. resources to order himself a new hand – a gun hand, which he tests out on none other than England’s Union Jack. After the two resolve their differences, Blade makes his way back to New York where everything started. He interrogates both Lucas Cross and Spider-Man to find out that his long time mentor, Jamal Afari, was alive and kicking - on Dracula’s side. He goes home and is abducted once again my his father who seeks to complete the third and final part of the prophecy. Blade, Hannibal King, and Lucas Cross travel to Dracula’s Castle – now a tourist attraction - in order to attempt to complete a prophecy Lucas believes will give all vampires’ back their souls. All it would require is Blade to shatter his newly acquired amulet and drop a piece of the stake he used to kill Dracula to the salted ground. Blade declines - and a furious Hannibal King attacks him.

Blade makes short work of Hannibal King and his father’s henchmen - however Dracula arrives on the scene with Jamal Afari in order to help Lucas to complete the prophecy. Dracula shatters the amulet and then attacks Blade; Jamal Afari breaks Dracula’s control and attacks him, but is kicked to the ground. Enraged Blade charges at Dracula, yet knocks into his father who accidentally drops the vial containing the stake fragment that killed Dracula. It shatters on the ground, however they feel no different – save for a resurrected Hannibal King. They all realize Dracula had been manipulating Lucas Cross the entire time – not into giving vampires’ back their souls – but into resurrecting every single vampire that had ever died. Blade and Hannibal part ways, leaving a broken Lucas Cross, but not before Blade gives Hannibal the serum Dr. Doom had made to cure a vampire of his or her blood lust.




MI:13 and Captain Britain

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 ingratiate himself, however, when he attempts to kill fellow team member, and part-vampire, Spitfire. His actions were tempered by the Hell-Lord, Plokta, 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 Plokta, 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.


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 allayed his fears and also kisses him, making clear her intentions at starting something with him.



Following this victory, MI:13 is invited to, where else but, NYC to be honored for their decimation of Dracula's forces. However, unbeknownst to Captain America, who is honoring them, Blade and Spitfire are on a secret mission. This mission consists of tracking down a vampire believed to be selling secrets to the Mys-tech Corporation, old enemies of the UK heroes. Again, we see Blade teaching Spitfire the extent of her abilities, and the two work great together. Ultimately, Spitfire defeats the vampire and we hear her tell Blade she loves him, although Blade doesn't hear.

Sometime during Blade's MI:13 membership, he, alongside a plethora of Marvel's magical characters, was possessed by Nightmare in an attempt at taking over the world. Blade, fighting alongside his MI:13 comrades, both Ghost Riders, a newly resurrected Dracula, and more, launched an assault on both Dr. Doom and Dr. Voodoo, who both managed to hold the assault back for days. Blade was seen among the many bodies strewn across the landscape after being defeated by Voodoo and Doom.

Curse of the Mutants

During the events of Curse of the Mutants, Blade would go on to investigate vampire slayer killings, independent of MI:13. He traveled the globe with ex-lover Claudia Bell before finally discovering that Dracula's throne had been usurped by his son Xarus. He lead an army of slayers to Xarus' base of operations and blew it up during the day time, expecting the vampires would turn to dust. However, to his surprise, the vampires walked out of the base into broad daylight, undaunted. His team was massacred but Blade obtained a vital bit of information, that Xarus would be launching an attack on Utopia, home of the X-Men.

Blade escaped Xarus and traveled to San Francisco where he met up with Colossus and Wolverine to help them catch a vampire. He delivered the fact that Xarus was now in power and helped the X-Men battle back the invasion. To his dismay, Cyclops resurrected Dracula in the hopes that the former Lord of Vampires would aid their defense. Dracula did indeed kill his upstart son and agreed not to press the vampiric invasion on Utopia.

This was not good enough for Blade though, he attacked Dracula. Before Blade could land a sword on the Drac, he was blasted out of the air by none other than Cyclops who didn't want to reignite tensions with the vampires. Blade returned to Utopia in order to try and get Wolverine to stake Jubilee, who had been turned in the invasion, yet when Wolverine contested him, Blade stormed off the island, saying they would have to listen to him eventually.

Powers and Abilities

Due to his mother being bitten by a vampire while pregnant with him, Blade displays unique abilities as a Dhampir. It has been shown, several times, that he is immune to vampire venom and cannot become an actual vampire by normal means. He has all of their abilities and none of their weaknesses. Blade does posses a trait common to all vampires: the thirst for blood.

However, rather than consuming blood, he injects a specially designed serum that provides the same nourishment. As a Dhampir, Blade possesses superhuman strength and senses. He is capable of seeing objects with perfect clarity and at a much greater distance than a human or vampire. Blade's hearing is similarly enhanced, allowing him to detect sounds that humans and vampires can not. Dissimilar to vampires, he is immune to sunlight. Blade also possesses a number of other powers and abilities due to training and his vampire-like physiology.

  • Pseudo-Immortality: Blade possesses a form of immortality. Due to his vampire-like abilities he ages slower than an average human, which has allowed him to have a prolonged lifespan.
  • Invulnerability: Due to his vampire-like physiology, Blade is resistant to the hypnotic gaze of vampires (known as mesmerism) and highly resistant to other psychic and physical attacks.
  • Healing Factor: Similar to Wolverine, Blade has a healing factor that allows him to recover from injuries at alarming rates. His immune system attacks alien substances (chemicals/viruses) and eliminates any chance of him being rendered helpless or maimed from toxicity or infection. The full extent of Blade's regenerative abilities are unknown, but after being bitten by Morbius, he is able to regenerate missing/damaged limbs, tissue, organs, and muscles.
  • Danger Sense: Blade has a very rare ability to sense supernatural phenomenon (which vampires do not seem to possess). This has helped him many times at identifying demons, even if they have taken possession of a human being (this is noticeable when a demon possessed a man, Blade sensed the demonic essence coming from him). Blade can sense nearing danger, allowing him to quickly react to incoming threats
  • Superhuman Agility: Blade's agility, balance and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of a human being. His agility is also greater then that possessed by most vampires.
  • Hypnosis: Blade has displayed the ability to hypnotize his opponents. He can directly influence the minds of others. He's showcased this ability when he caused Tyrone Cash to revert to from his Hulk-like level, to his human form.
  • Master Martial Artist: Blade is Master Martial Artist, proficient in practically every known weaponry and martial art known to man. Blade can easily hold his own against multiple enemies, and can adapt to any fighting style (unarmed or armed).
  • Espionage: Due to being a vampire-like being, Blade can not be captured on film, camera, or be seen in a mirror. His superhuman agility and advanced speed allows him to infiltrate compounds almost undetected.
  • Intellect: Blade has shown that he has vast knowledge pertaining to supernatural phenomenon, gained by his experiences and decades of living. He has an understanding of the supernatural realm. He no longer thinks of himself as just a vampire slayer, but a demonic reaper. He will do anything necessary to protect what he believes in.
  • Superhuman Strength: Although the amount he can lift is not specified, he has overpowered a vampiric Spider-Man, jumped hundreds of feet into the air and ripped the head off of another vampire with his bare hands.

Alternate Realities


Ultimate Blade debuts in Ultimate Spider-Man #96. While chasing after a vampire, Spider-Man unknowingly intervenes in Blade’s hunt. He saves Spider-Man’s life before threatening to kill him if he ever gets in his way again before disappearing into the night.

He is not seen again until well after the events of Ultimatum. In a hotel in New York City, he is being seduced by several prostitutes when a group of vampires interrupts. They take him on as well as the prostitutes, who were vampires too. Blade kills them all before continuing his hunt for the new vampire leader. After a brutal interrogation he learns of the vampires plan to infect the super humans. Blade spies in on the medical bay of the Triskelion and learns that Captain America has been bitten. He breaks in and tries to kill Cap before he turns but is too late. Black Widow breaks it up and Cap escapes.

Blade speaks with Nick Fury and Gregory Stark about how his mother was bitten when he was born making him immune to the vampires. He also explains that their leader is a man named Anthony who is a skilled ninja who trained himself as well as Daredevil, Stick and others. Blade is taken back into custody and is told he will not be a part of the upcoming mission to take down Anthony and his army. However, the Triskelion is compromised before the attack is launched. Blade takes on Anthony and Kid Daredevil. He’s taken down and is about to be beheaded when Captain

America teleports the Triskelion to Iran using Perun’s hammer. Blade runs Anthony through as he burns in the sunlight.

Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates

Blade is seen soon after meeting with Nick Fury. He asks for his services in a recovery mission in exchange for Deacon Frost, the vampire who bit Blade’s mother when he was born. When Blade and the rest of Fury’s black op Avengers discover Tyrone Cash is selling Super Soldier secrets he takes on War Machine in a devastating battle. Blade approaches Cash after he beats Rhodey and hypnotizes him long enough for him to transform back to normal. As Cash is about to be beheaded he reveals he’s been working for Carol Danvers.


Spider-Man The Animated Series (1994)

Blade first appeared in episode 22 of the Spider-Man the Animated series. He story was slightly 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 Abraham Whistler, who would later be more famously associated to Blade from the live action film. He returned when Vampires where appearing in New York city thinking it was Morbius, Blade returned and discovered it was his mother. He was last seen in the final part of the Secret Wars story-arc after Black Cat was returned to Earth where she, Blade, and Morbius had been fighting Blade's vampire mother.

Blade: The Series (2006)

Blade the series was a sequel show to the movies. In it, Blade was played by rapper Sticky Fingaz instead of Wesley Snipes. The show aired on Spike TV until it was canceled after 12 episodes due to unknown reasons, more than likely due to the cost.

Blade Anime Series (2011)

Blade also appears in the 12-part episode anime series. In the series, Blade is sent on a mission to Japan where he confronts a dangerous vampire named Deacon Frost. Deacon was responsible for killing Blade's human mother during birth. Due to his mother's vampire bite, Blade was born a half-human and a half-vampire. Blade also faces a powerful organization of new vampires called Existence who were led by Deacon Frost. In this anime Blade also shows more powers of his such powers like his healing factor when one lady punches him with a spiked hand and he hardly feels it and heals back in seconds. His accuracy with weapons is much greater as well. For example when blade smacks a bullet away from his face before impact. His speed is also much greater.

Ultimate Spider-Man (2013)

Blade appears in a two-part Halloween special along side members of the Ultimate Universe's Howling Commandos. Here Blade carries his signature weaponry, but lacks the strength, speed, skill, cunning, and healing factor shown in other incarnations.


Blade (1998)

Wesley Snipes as Blade

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 canceled). 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 ceremony 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 seeps 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 reattaches 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 thirsts. He then seen in Russia killing a vampire as the film ends.

Blade II (2002)

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 without 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 reveals 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 get away. He finds him in a sex club about to attack a 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.

Blade Trinity (2004)

The third Blade film was released December 8, 2004. It introduced Hannibal King, and Abigail Whistler to the series. The film main villain was a vampire named Drake, aka. Dracula. He was the first and has been sleeping for the last thousand years. A group of vampires awakened him so that he could help them in destroying Blade.



From New Line Cinema, distributors of such big-screen sensations as The Mash, Mortal Kombat, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, comes the movie event of the summer. Wesley Snipes stars as Blade, the DayWalker, born in violence, neither human nor vampire -- but both. Trained as an instrument of vengeance by a scientist, and using his awesome powers and razor-sharp weaponry, he is pitted in a deadly struggle against the vampire overlord Deacon Frost, who is bent on bringing about an apocalypse known in legends as The Blood Tide. Aided by a beautiful woman doctor, Blade battles against the Dark Ones in a lonely and thrilling crusade to protect humankind.

  • Written By: Mel Odom
  • Publisher: Harper Entertainment (August, 1998)
  • ISBN-10: 0061059137
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061059131

Blade: Trinity

Movie novelization.

  • Written By: Natasha Rhodes
  • Publisher: Black Flame (October, 2004)
  • ISBN-10: 1844161064
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844161065

Video Games


Activision made an M rated adaptation of the Blade movie in video game form for the Sony Playstation, Activision would also make a game based on the sequel. The game was poorly received by critics.

Blade 2

Also made by Activision, Blade 2, based on the sequel movie of the same name, was released on the Playstation 2, it was likewise rated M. This game likewise received poor reviews.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance (2006)

Blade is an unlockable character in Marvel Ultimate Alliance. He unlocked when you go to Arcade's Muderworld and find him in the Claw machine and joins your team. He also had three unlockable costumes in the game which include the Classic, Ultimate, Nightstalker, and Daywalker variations. During the game if you have him in your team after you beat the Mandarin he will have a special dialogue with Mandarin and Volla. His comic book training mission has him fighting in Hell and the final boss is Dark Spiderman.

Ghost Rider The Video Game

Blade is an unlockable character in Ghost Rider the video game. He is unlocked when you beat the game on easy or medium. In this game Blade only has the weapon choice of a sword (Katana) . Blade also has a bike in this game when you are selected to the next level.

Spider-Man Friend or Foe

Blade encounters Spider-Man in Stokerstov, Transylvania eliminating P.H.A.N.T.O.M.s where Blade tells Spider-Man, Venom is guarding a shard and later becomes an unlockable character. He is voiced by Khary Payton.

Marvel Avengers Alliance 2

Blade appears as a playable character in the PS2, PSP, and Nintendo Wii versions, but was oddly not included as a playable character in the X-Box 360 and PS3 versions.

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