I need some opinions on these scans. Is Blade saying he's immortal?
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c379/Doggydogg/Blade/Bladeimmortal.jpg
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Originally posted by snoopdoggyes, he's saying he's immortal, but he's just trying to scare the vampires when he says he's unkillable.
I need some opinions on these scans. Is Blade saying he's immortal?http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c379/Doggydogg/Blade/Bladeimmortal.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c379/Doggydogg/Blade/Bladeimmortal2.jpg
Originally posted by snoopdogg
The guy asked him if he was pulling the Vampires chains by saying that then Blade does say 'no'. I'm guessing he saying he's immortal.
Yeah I was going to question his interpretation but when I read it again I had the same interpretation ie Blade cant age but he can be killed.
If you mean immortal that he cant age then yeah I agree but obvoulsy he can be killed.
Originally posted by Phantom Zonehe was killed in the series, so yeah obviously
Yeah I was going to question his interpretation but when I read it again I had the same interpretation ie Blade cant age but he can be killed.If you mean immortal that he cant age then yeah I agree but obvoulsy he can be killed.
Blade takes out two big vampires with his hands tied together:
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Varnae has Blade surrounded unarmed in a room full of vampires, however once Blade gets a weapon Varnae realizes they are in trouble he has a sh!t fit:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c379/Doggydogg/Blade/Bladearmed.jpg
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Originally posted by TrackzYea, Varnae is the true lord and first of the vampires. He's older than a motherf*cker.
did Blade get to fight varnae?
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c379/Doggydogg/Blade/Bladeswordskills.jpg
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I found this neat superhero video on Youtube. Check out the 3:50 mark, it shows Blade and Punsher in a cool scene. They should have these two guys team up for a mini-series.
Despite Morbius having a big lead, Blade catches him from behind while running across some rooftops:
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Blade breaks free from a hopped up Deacon Frost's grip:
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BTW both of these are pre-Daywalker Blade son.
Originally posted by Warrior18No, the second scan is some chick from his Max series that turned out to be a hybrid vampire trying to trick him into impregnating her. And yea, Blade is good in MI:13 so far. The last two pages of issue #9 look promising as Dracula enters the scene!!
Is that Blade and Spitfire in the second scan?Which Blade series would you guys recommend I read and is he good in the MI13 series?
BLADE
Annotated Character History & Notes
Marc Guggenheim
LAST UPDATED: October 23, 2006
BIOGRAPHY
ORIGIN
· The man called Blade was born in a Soho whorehouse, in Great Britain over 70 years ago. Blade's mother, a prostitute at Madame Vanity’s Brothel, experienced severe labor complications, and a doctor was summoned.
· 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 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.
JAMAL AFARI
· When Blade was nine years old, while walking home from school, he 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, 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.
BLOODSHADOWS GANG
· However, Blade's victories made him cocky. He soon joined a street gang, the Bloodshadows, which was headed by a much older and more powerful vampire than any Blade had met before: Lamia (a/k/a Cutter ).
· The Bloodshadows were based in London, England.
· One night the Bloodshadows went to an old woman's house on Blaylock Street. Glory was sure that they would find money and precious things because normally old people didn't trust banks. After breaking into the house they soon found a room filled with bleeding humans and the vampire Lamia. Carla stabbed Lamia and was ripped apart. Hector and Chen attacked her with their knives as well, but they too became victims of Lamia. Blade tried to protect Glory from the vampire who realized that he was tainted since birth. Glory helped Blade when he was overpowered by Lamia and saved his life. Lamia tossed Blade to the outside and seemingly killed Glory. Blade returned home with broken bones. Later that night Glory returned to him as a vampire.
· Blade barely defeated Lamia, and, in doing so, lost his girlfriend Glory, a loss which caused him not only to accept his destiny as an enemy of the undead but also to swear to it forever.
AFARI BECOMES VAMPIRE/VENDETTA AGAINST DRACULA
· Afari himself later fell prey to the attack of the vampire Dracula, the first occurrence in an ongoing battle between him and Blade. Blade slew the vampire Afari and followed Dracula back to Europe.
· 1968: In China, Blade joined Ogun Strong's vampire hunters which included Azu, Orji and Musenda.
· This was Dracula’s first encounter with Blade. However, 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.
· Blade eventually located Dracula in Paris, where he first encountered Quincy Harker' and his vampire hunters, the Drac Pack. Blade had heard of Harker before, but had never met him. Because of his mercurial temperament, Blade had a strained but steady relationship with Quincy Harker, Rachel Van Helsing, Taj Nital, and Frank Drake, vampire hunters dedicated to destroying Dracula. Blade never joined the Drac Pack, but served as their ally on several occasions.
· After an unsuccessful battle with Dracula, Blade realized for the first time that he was immune to turning from a vampire's bite. Armed with this knowledge, he left the Drac Pack and began a quest to find the vampire that killed his mother and avenge her.
· Blade's hunt for his mother's killer next led him to Boston, where he again encountered the Drac Pack and their new ally: Dracula.
· Blade spurned the alliance and berated Harker for it until he faced Doctor Sun, the common threat that drove these natural enemies together. During the battle with Sun, Blade met up with one of Sun's allies, whose face provoked a strange reaction in him, dredging up long-buried memories. The vampire escaped, and Blade again abandoned the Drac Pack, and set out on his own.
HANNIBAL KING
· Blade eventually encountered Hannibal King, a private detective who had been turned into a vampire by Deacon Frost thirty years ago; however, to further gain Blade's trust, King lied about his age, saying it was only five. While initially distrusting King, Blade teamed up with him to track down Frost.
· Blade and King fought together against Blade's evil doppelganger (created when Frost killed his mother), who absorbed the real Blade. King enlisted the help of Daimon Hellstrom, the so-called Son of Satan, who exorcised Blade from his doppelganger and killed it with King's help.
· Blade and King eventually caught up with Frost who had created an army of vampiric doppelgangers, one for each of his victims. Together, they shut down Frost for good, forging a lasting friendship.
· Dracula killed Blade in Tomb of Dracula #51 by putting a stake through Blade’s heart. Hellstrom reincarnated Blade in Tomb of Dracula #53.
NIGHTSTALKERS/MIDNIGHT SONS
· In later years, Blade, along with King and Drake, became a frequent ally of Doctor Strange and assisted in the casting of the Montesi Formula. The formula had been retrieved from a page in the Darkhold a powerful book of magic responsible for the creation of all vampires. This destroyed Dracula and, for a time, all vampires on Earth.
· Blade, King and Drake stayed together, and formed a private detective agency called Borderline Inc. The agency discontinued after Drake left and Blade was committed to a psychiatric hospital following a battle with a temporarily resurrected Dracula.
· Doctor Strange later arranged the release of Blade so that he could join Drake and King in reforming Borderline Inc. as the Nightstalkers, members of Strange's new team: the Midnight Sons, at the core of which stood the Nine, humans and others chosen to defend Earth against mystical invasion.
· Together, unknowingly under Strange's manipulation, they battled various supernatural villains such as the Darkholders, Hydra's DOA, the Lilin (the children of Lilith, mother of demons), and Varnae, the Lord of Vampires.
· D.O.A. stands for the Department of Occult Armaments (D.O.A.), a division of Hydra headed by Belial.
· To ensure Blade's cooperation, Strange mystically transmuted Blade's hatred of vampires into an enmity against all things supernatural.
· Due to its gross over-use, the Montesi Formula was weakening: King transformed back into a vampire, and Blade's vampiric DNA resurfaced, making him even more volatile and dangerous and playing him and King against each other. Blade even tried to sacrifice King to the DOA. It was only through Frank Drake's insistence that Blade decided to save his former friend.
· At one point, Blade used a page of the accursed Darkhold book of spells to become, apparently, the mystically empowered Switchblade. In truth, his body was taken over by an ancient entity bent on the destruction of the supernatural world called the Demogorge. In this form Blade fought and slew many of the Midnight Sons, and was only stopped when one of them read a spell of banishment and exiled the Demogorge forever.
· The damage he had done as Switchblade was reversed; however, Blade could not reconcile himself to the fact that he remembered everything that had occurred, and that he had caused it all through his blind hatred of the supernatural.
· Using a mystical knife called the Edge of Intrados, Blade reviewed his life as though living it again. This was a major turning point in his life: he realized that, even before Strange's manipulations, he had been governed by his own obsessions and blinded to the safety and well-being of his friends and allies, or the possibility of leading a normal life. He decided to retire.
· He was soon pressured into returning to the game, however, when Drake and King were kidnapped by Shortcircuit, one of the Lilin. Blade followed them into an alternate reality where King had become the Lord of Vampires. Escaping from this living nightmare, Blade killed Shortcircuit, and swore to King that he would never allow King to lose control of his vampiric urges, sealing the rift between them and cementing their friendship forever.
· The Midnight Sons were soon after involved in the events known as the Siege of Darkness. In the culminating chapter of this adventure, Blade obtained the mystical sword Justicar from Foundry, a former member of both the Blood and the Fallen, immortal enemies and servants of Zarathos, respectively.
· Foundry had never completed the forging of Justicar because it needed to be tempered in Blood. Not blood - Blood. However, when Zarathos and the Fallen attacked, Foundry allowed Blade to kill her, completing the sword. Blade proceeded to kill each and every member of the Fallen, and to seemingly destroy Zarathos.
· After the Siege of Darkness, the Midnight Sons began to drift apart, as their destiny as a team seemed fulfilled.
· Blade and the Nightstalkers continued to hunt vampires, believing that it was partially their fault (through their lack of understanding about how to properly use the Montesi Formula) that vampires were being reintroduced into the human world.
BLADE – VAMPIRE HUNTER (VOL. 1 - 1993)
· Blade was devastated when he appeared to be the only one of the trio to survive the final battle with Varnae, which culminated in the death of Blade's old friend and the only one of the Drac Pack he was ever able to connect with: Taj Nital, now a vampire serving Varnae.
· With every member of the Drac Pack now gone, Blade decided to return to vampire hunting to honor their memory.
· He also attempted to forge a normal life for himself outside of vampire hunting. Befriending a woman named Julia Suarez, he rented an apartment from her under the name Frank Blade.
· He clashed with Marie Laveau, Steppin' Razor and Night Terror while the trio were reviving Varnae once more.
· Blade's spirit briefly traveled back in time, experiencing the life of 17th-century vampire hunter Jonas Cray.
· Laveau later sent her agents, the Vampz, to kill Bible John but Blade once more halted her plans.
· Meanwhile, Carik's visions of Hannibal King and Frank Drake eventually culminated in the revelation that the two men had somehow merged with Bloodstorm to form this new Dracula. Blade and a future version of himself known as Crossbow were instrumental in helping King and Drake return from this state, though Dracula's true soul retained possession of the body they had once shared. Drake has yet to recover from these events.
· Blade was soon summoned to New Orleans by the enigmatic beauty Dominique Levant, who led him into the midst of a vampiric coup of sorts involving the living vampire Morbius and the powerful Ulysses Sojourner. Sojourner sought to unify all vampires on the East Coast, but Blade halted the scheme.
· Remaining active in New Orleans, Blade teamed with Brother Voodoo to thwart Marie Laveau and Deacon Frost's attempts to build an undead army.
· Later, Blade and Spider-Man encountered the vampire Henry Sage and learned of the development of the Daywalker formula, an evolution of the Sunlight Serum.
· Continuing to refine his techniques and equipment, Blade helped Spider-Man try to capture their former ally Morbius, who had fallen under the sway of a vampire known as the Hunger. During their confrontation, Morbius bit Blade, who soon realized that his blood enzymes were not enough to protect him from his foe's unique form of vampirism.
· Transforming into the thing he hated most, Blade became a Daywalker, a vampire able to move about in the sunlight and lacking most of the vampire's traditional weaknesses. Blade was now driven by bloodthirst, however, and he struggles to this day to cope with his hunger for human blood.
BLADE – VAMPIRE HUNTER (VOL. 3 – 1995)
· Shortly thereafter, Blade was captured by Silvereye, a S.H.I.E.L.D. division devoted to developing its own cadre of vampire soldiers. The Silvereye division was partially a front for a scheme engineered by Darius Venginian, a vampire who sought to resurrect an ancient vampiric demon known as the Reaper. He also sought to program Blade into becoming a Silvereye pawn, but this plan failed when Blade broke free of his programming.
· The vampire-hunting twins Mosha and Mikado aided Blade during this adventure and accompanied him when he fled the scene, swearing to have nothing more to do with S.H.I.E.L.D. in the future. Blade's partnership with the twins was brief, and he was alone again when he faced a terrifying breed of multi-stage vampires known as the Tryks. Blade was seduced by their queen, who hoped that their progeny would eventually allow her kind to rule the Earth.
· Most recently, Blade teamed up with a new group of vampire hunters, thwarting an immense vampire conspiracy threatening the entire planet, led by Dracula himself. Dracula was destroyed once again, though his eventual resurrection seems to be assured.
· Blade's last known solo adventure involved a plot by Dracula to assume the title of Vampire Lord officially, by becoming a god-like being like Varnae. Blade joined Noah Van Helsing (actually Noah Tremayne, Rachel's adopted cousin) and several vampire hunters from across the globe to stop Dracula from succeeding.
· Blade has since encountered the Punisher , and has taken up protecting a Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans from an escalating vampire population, most notably alongside Luke Cage, Brother Voodoo, and the Black Panther.
· A short time later, Blade was also invited to attend the wedding of the Black Panther and Storm in Africa.
POWERS & ABILITIES
· Blade has all the strengths of a vampire, but none of their weaknesses.
· Can see in the dark.
· Is a great deal stronger than a normal human being
· Has faster reflexes.
· Has a regenerative healing factor.
· Can "smell" supernatural creatures of all kinds.
· Is immune to being turned into a full vampire via a vampire's bite.
· Has mastered the use of every single type of weapon known to man, and can adapt new weaponry to his growing repertoire in mere minutes.
· Is an expert of several martial arts styles.
· Possesses the skills of a professional jazz trumpeter.
