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The vampires are insanely rich, powerful and secretly in control of the world from behind the scenes with their own research labs and army. But Blade is still a legend among them, calling him "The Daywalker."
All three movies star Wesley Snipes as Blade and Kris Kristofferson as Whistler. In addition to the movies there was a spinoff TV show titled, creatively, ''[[Blade (TV series)|Blade: The Series]]''. The first film helped usher in the current era of consistently well-done comic book films, coming earlier than [[X-Men (film)|X-Men]] or [[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]. As part of a four series deal between Marvel and [[Madhouse]] (the others being X-Men, Wolverine, and Iron Man), he currently stars in his own [[Blade (anime)|anime]], which premiered on July 1st, 2011.
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* [[Abandoned Warehouse]]: All of Blade's hide-outs.
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: Happens in every movie.
** In the first, vampires invade Blade's [[Abandoned Warehouse]].
** In the second, vampires invade again but in order to form an [[Enemy Mine|uneasy truce]] to defeat a common enemy.
** The third movie has two instances in two different bases by different antagonists: a SWAT team infiltrates Blade's lair at the beginning and Drake later sneaks into Night Stalker HQ.
* [[Anti-Hero]] (Type III): Blade and Whistler. [[Fridge Logic]] makes them seem more like sociopaths in some respects.
* [[Audible Sharpness]]
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: "Blade" is apparently a real Old English name meaning, well, "blade."
* [[Badass]]: Blade
* [[Badass Biker]]: Blade again.
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* [[Badass Normal]]: Whistler and the Nightstalkers, who take out vampires without the benefit of superpowers.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Few characters in the Blade universe ever need to reload their firearms.
* [[Bullet Time]]: On one of the directors commentaries they jokingly mention the fact they did it ''[[Older Than You Think|before]]'' The Matrix.
* [[City of Weirdos]]: No one bats an eyelash at Blade's appearance while he walks around in broad daylight with a leather duster and sword, nor when he does things like beat up cops on the street. Especially in the third film when he's being hunted by the FBI. This was averted several times in the series, however.
** In ''Blade'' Two people beating up ''a uniformed police offer'' in broad daylight doesn't attract any attention. Nor is Frost holding the young girl hostage, nor Blade saving said girl from being hit by a bus.
* [[Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames]]: Notably averted in this film. The eponymous hero goes solely by that name, even when we learn his real name: Eric.
* [[Cool Garage]]: All the movies have a form of this.
* [[Cool Shades]]:
** In a DVD commentary, the filmmakers state that Blade is effectively invincible while wearing his shades.
** Also Priest and Reinhardt from the second movie.
* [[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 [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]].
* [[Cool Car]]: 68' Dodge Charger in all 3 movies. According to Guillermo del Toro, the car was practically nonfunctional and had to be pushed into the set.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]:
** Blade and Whistler.
** Deacon Frost, although its justified in that he admits he's been studying Blade for ''years'' so of course he knows ''everything'' about him.
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* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Blade is a [[Dhampyr]], which is called a "daywalker" in the film's world. He has all the strengths of a vampire with none of their weaknesses except their thirst. Hardly seems fair.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Whistler has a pronounced limp and wears a leg brace due to a bad leg injury that never quite healed up right. Despite this, he's more than capable of kicking ass.
* [[Hemo-Erotic]]: The various vampire-club scenes in the movies often involve the vampires being aroused while feeding. In fact, the first movie begins with a vampire-rave in which vamps are sprayed with blood, then start getting hot and heavy.
* [[Knuckle-Cracking]]: In the movies, it seems not even the Daywalker is immune to the ravages of arthritis.
* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: The vampires' various human "familiars", who knowingly aid the vampires against their own kind.
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* [[Masquerade]]: Vampires hide from humanity. In the first film, Deacon Frost wants to break the Masquerade and rule humans in the open. In the second film, the vampires have beefed up their Masquerade a bit just to hide from Blade. They still feel the need to visibly brand their minions with glyph tattoos, though, apparently to keep things sporting.
* [[Mentor Archetype]]: Whistler in the films, Jamal Afari in the comic
* [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: Blade rarely tries to hunt down vampires during the day - while they sleep.
* [[Monster Lord]]
** Dragonetti in ''Blade''.
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** At the same time, it grants enhanced strength, agility, retractable sharpened fingernails and canine teeth, a healing factor that scarlessly repairs any injury that doesn't disable the brain or the heart in a matter of days(including the complete regrowth of limbs and other body parts), and slows down the aging process to a negligible rate after the subject reaches maturity.
** Vampires have no weakness to crucifixes, crosses or holy water and do not need to be invited into a dwelling to enter it.
** A vampire can be killed by destroying or separating its brain from its body, destroying its heart, completely incinerating it, or overwhelming it with a dose garlic or silver. When a vampire dies, a volatile chain reaction occurs which incinerates its entire body except for remnants of its skeleton.
** During the first film, a hematologist looking for a cure for the virus also develops a serum that causes vampire blood to explode on contact with it. Injecting a vampire with it is obviously violently fatal.
** Unlike in [[Blade (Comic Book)|the comics]], Blade is the result of a vampire attacking and infecting his mother as she went into labor with him. The result was him developing the characteristic super-strength, agility, enhanced healing and the thirst for blood but not the weaknesses to sunlight, garlic or silver.
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* [[Vampire Vannabe]]: Most of the humans who work for the vampires, their "Familiars", are doing so for the promise of being turned.
* [[Wall of Weapons]]: On more than one occasion Blade's hideout is displayed with a prominent wall mounted arsenal.
* [[Weaponized Weakness]]: Blade's weapons are all made of silver and garlic. His gun scopes have UV lights. He's a walking anti-vampire arsenal.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Blade's… blade.
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Quinn: (Beat) AHAHAHAHA He was just fuckin' with me, man! He was just fucking with me. }}
* [[Big Bad]]: Deacon Frost
* [[Blood Bath]]: In the first movie, blood is showered on vampires at a [[Vampire Dance|vampire rave]] with the [[Pun|punny name]] "Blood Bath".
* [[Blown Across the Room]]: Played straight (and ludicrously so) during the shootout in the night club in the beginning of the first movie.
* [[The Cavalry]]: In the first film Blade is pinned to a wall and surrounded by badguys, when Whistler bursts through the wall holding 2 machine guns and delivers the line "Catch you fuckers at a bad time?".
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{{quote|Whistler: You're the key. He needs your blood. The blood of the Daywalker. You're [[The Chosen One]].}}
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: It becomes apparent that they ran out of their CG budget. {{spoiler|Frost's death}} actually looks like a cartoon animation, and the one [[Dragon Lady]] whose head explodes looks like a balloon just popped.
* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!|Damn It Feels Good To Be A Vampire]]: Expressed in the first film, implied in the others; being a vampire turns you into an [[
* [[Deadly Hug]]: How Blade {{spoiler|brings rest to his mother.}}
* [[Dead Star Walking]]: Traci Lords, killed off in the very first scene.
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** And despite ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' being basically a [[Genre Killer]] the year before, ''Blade'' proved comic book movies still had it.
* [[A God Am I]]: Deacon Frost after becoming La Magra.
* [[Groin Attack]]: In the first film's opening scene, pornstar Traci Lords received a rifle butt to the groin, and then a stake to the face when she doubles over. One can't help but wonder if the crotch shot was a reference to the actress's career.
* [[I Am Your Father]]: Blade discovers that his mother is still "alive."
* [[Infant Immortality]]: The girl Frost throws ''through a hot dog stand'' [[Made of Indestructium|is none worse for wear]] when Blade saves her from the bus a moment later.
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* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: {{spoiler|Nyssa dissolves gently into sparkles, instead of violently charring away to a skeleton and then dust while screaming like every other vampire exposed to sunlight does.}}
* [[Big Bad]]: Nomak
* [[Blood Bath]]: Vampire Lord Damaskinos wades into a small but literal pool of blood. Later on, Blade is rejuvenated when he takes a nosedive into one such pool.
* [[Body Horror]]: The transformation into a reaper is very painful (provided the victim has been bitten for long enough to properly drain them, as happens to Priest), a victim's hair falls out, their skin goes deathly pale, their jawbone dissolves, their chin separates into two pieces and sprouts fangs, and their tongue turns into a sucker. That's just what we see on the outside.
* [[Brick Joke]]: The fate of {{spoiler|Rush}} in the second movie. This also happens midway through in a [[Freeze-Frame Bonus|blink and you'll miss it]] encounter in the House of Pain.
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* [[Dying as Yourself]]: A variation. {{spoiler|Nyssa has been bitten by Nomak, and will become a Reaper. Blade gently carries her out into the sun, so she can die as a vampire.}}
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Blade's teaming with the Bloodpack in ''Blade II''.
* [[Food Chain of Evil]]: Reapers have knocked vampires off the top and whilst they do attack the occasional human, vampires are currently their main source of food. The situation is lampshaded by Whistler.
{{quote|'''Whistler''': "They're just shitting bricks cause they're no longer top of the food chain." }}
* [[Groin Attack]]: Blade kills one vampire by staking it in the crotch in the opening scene.
* [[Intimidation Demonstration]]: As Nyssa approaches Blade before their duel, she whirls her blades around to display her swordsmanship. The scene can be viewed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0Ch2_2o7I#t=0m43s here].
* [[Kryptonite-Proof Suit]]: The Bloodpack's [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]] outfits from the opening fight scene.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Averted. Blade II plays up its campiness a bit more, but is also more of a horror film than the original.
* [[Looks Like Orlok]]: Damaskinos and the Reapers.
* [[The Mole]]: The second movie: {{spoiler|Scud, though Blade already knew about him}}.
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{{quote|'''Blade:''' You obviously... do not... know who you are ''[[Precision F-Strike|fucking]]'' with!}}
* [[You Will Be Spared]]: See CMOF. Probably one of the funniest bits in ''Blade 2''.
* [[Zombie Infectee]]: Lighthammer hides his bite in the second movie until he starts to turn.
== ''Blade: Trinity'' ==
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* [[Hero Harasses Helpers]]
* [[Hero Secret Service]]: The Nightstalkers
* [[High Altitude Interrogation]]: A mook is dangled in an attempt to lead the protagonists to the [[Big Bad]], but he refuses to talk. Then his cell rings. Blade answers, tells the mook it's for him, and lets go of the rope.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: In the PG era that the ''WWE'' is in right now, it can be hilarious to hear Triple H constantly cussing in every other scene that he's in.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: In ''Blade III'', Blade is fooled into killing a human disguised as a vampire, despite having the instincts to distinguish between the two! Considering in the first movie he could smell a vampire from roughly 40 feet away, and can even differentiate vampire and human by the way they move, there is no way he should have been fooled.
* [[In Name Only]]: Hannibal King in the third film. In [[Blade (Comic Book)|the comics]] he is a middle aged (in appearance) [[Vampire Detective|Vampire 50's style hard boiled private investigator]]. In the film he is 20 or so year old wise cracking vampire hunter who was cured of vampirism before the film began. Most of the change is probably down to the [[Ryan Reynolds|casting]].
* [[Kryptonite-Proof Suit]]: Anti-sun excursion suits in the third film.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: This installment is much cornier than the first two.
* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Both Blade ''and'' Abigail.
* [[Monster Progenitor]]: Drake ({{spoiler|Dracula}}) in ''Blade: Trinity''.
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