Abraham Whistler Abraham Whistler Abraham Whistler is a fictional character appearing in Blade II American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a vampire and the mentor of Blade. Screenwriter David S. Goyer created him for the 1998 film "Blade" (in which the part was played by Kris Kristofferson), but he first appeared on screen in "Spider-Man: The Animated Series" where he was voiced by Malcolm McDowell and later by Oliver Muirhead. In 2006, Abraham Whistler appeared in the television show "". Abraham Whistler is a vampire hunter and the mentor of Blade. Abraham Whistler was once a happily married man
Blade II of the first "Blade movie", Blade has been searching in Prague to find his mentor Abraham Whistler, who was thought to have died after being attacked by Deacon Frost and his vampire pack but instead was turned into a vampire. Blade discovers Whistler being held at a vampire safe house inside an amniotic-like tube. After returning to their headquarters, Blade gives Whistler an anti-virus vampire serum to revert him back to human. Blade's new weapons creator, Scud, express doubts in Whistler becoming human again. Unbeknownst to Blade a pandemic known as the "Reaper virus" has spread through the vampire community.