Blade: Trinity

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Blade: Trinity is a 2004 vampire horror film that is the third and final film featuring Wesley Snipes as Eric Brooks/Blade. It also had Jessica Biel as Abigail Whistler, Ryan Reynolds as Hannibal King, Parker Posey as Danica Talos and Dominic Purcell as Drake/Dracula. It was directed and written by David S. Goyer and had a Troubled Production. The mixed-to-negative reception resulted in a fourth film and a Nightstalkers spin-off being cancelled.

Dracula: Blade, ready to die?
Blade: I was born ready, motherfucker!
Dracula: Motherfucker. I like that.


Tropes used in Blade: Trinity include:
  • Abandoned Warehouse: Blade's hide-out.
  • Action Girl: Abigail.
  • All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Drake later sneaks into Night Stalker HQ.
  • The Archer: Abigail.
    • Jessica Biel received training in archery before the film. According to her trainer, she had a natural talent for it. During the filming of one scene, the camera was behind a plexiglass safety screen with a hole for the lens to fit through. She was supposed to shoot towards the camera. They were not expecting her to actually shoot the camera right through the lens, destroying it.
  • As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The film features nearly subliminal use of Esperanto to make the setting seem a little off and vaguely foreign. This is most noticeable when Hannibal watches the Esperanto language horror film Incubus in his hospital bed, starring William Shatner pre-Star Trek.
  • Audible Sharpness
  • Awesome but Impractical: Nearly everything about Abigail Whistler, but her situational-awareness-killing personal soundtrack is at the top of the list.
    • The UV Laser comes close second, because slicing through things like butter may sound good, but when a UV lamp hurts them and not you, and a normal sword is sufficient to dust them... why risk lightsabering yourself?
  • Badass Longcoat: It has a hole for his blade to poke out of and everything.
  • Badass Normal: The Nightstalkers, who take out vampires without the benefit of superpowers.
  • Big Bad: Drake/Dracula.
  • Bond One-Liner: "My friends are coming to kill you."
  • City of Weirdos: No one bats an eyelash at Blade's appearance when he's being hunted by the FBI.
  • Convection, Schmonvection: Although it might be hyperbole, Abigail holds a UV laser that is "half as hot as the Sun" in front of her face. To say nothing of the power requirements for that...
  • Cool Boat: Nightstalkers' base of operations.
  • Cool Car: 68' Dodge Charger.
  • Cool Sword: A silver, impossibly sharp blade and a clockwork anti-theft mechanism built into the handle. Amazingly, it has a straight blade and is not a katana.
  • Country Matters: Hannibal calls Danica a "cock-juggling thundercunt".
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Don't worry, Karen. The leather-clad biker shooting up the hospital as he runs from the cops is here to help.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Hannibal King. He's played by Ryan Reynolds, after all.
  • Dirty Coward: Drake runs away from Blade and takes a baby hostage in order to escape without a fight and then has the gall to deliver a speech about honor and dying by the sword while holding the baby captive.
  • Esperanto, the Universal Language: Used to make the setting vague.
  • Everyone Owns a Mac: EVERYONE uses Mac computers, and even features a scene where Jessica Biel's character uses iTunes to create a music playlist for her iPod that she can listen to while fighting vampires (never mind that having music blaring into your ears would be detrimental to your situational awareness in a battle with undead blood suckers). More than one reviewer has commented that the film is basically a two hour long commercial for Apple products.
  • Everything Fades: Vampires explode into embers upon death. It's awesome.
  • Fangs Are Evil
  • Final Solution: The vampire apocalypse.
  • Four Lines, All Waiting: Is it about vigilante Blade versus human law enforcement, the upcoming vampire apocalypse, Blade's attempt to create his own apocalypse via The Virus, or Blade vs. Dracula? Concentrating on any two of these plotlines would have worked, but not four. Wesley Snipes was reportedly very upset that the core character was lost in the plot shuffle.
  • Friendly Neighborhood Vampires: Blade himself.
  • Good Is Not Nice: Blade is a hard-ass dick, but he's also a hero.
  • Guns Akimbo: This practice is shown by Blade, Hannibal King and Abigail Whistler.
  • Have You Tried Not Being A Jerk:

Why can't you be nice?