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'''''Blade: Trinity''''' is a 2004 vampire horror film that is the third and final film in the ''Blade'' trilogy. It features [[Wesley Snipes]] as Eric Brooks/Blade. It also stars [[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.
Blade is framed by the killing of a human familiar and tracked down by the FBI, that kills his mentor Abraham Whistler. Meanwhile, a group of vampires unearth Dracula, that was sleeping on a tomb of Iraq for thousands of years.
Blade is rescued by a group of vampire hunters known as Nightstalkers. They developed a virus that may kill all vampires once and for all, but need to test if it will work on Dracula, because as common ancestor of all vampires, if it kills him, it can kill every other vampires. From the opposite side, the vampires hope Dracula can help save their species by giving them his blood. From his own side, however, Dracula has contempt for everybody, but sees something in Blade that he doesn't see in his own descendants.
Directed by David. S. Goyer. Distributed by New Line Cinema.
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* [[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 is well, not one: the Nightstalkers developed the virus completely independent of him and only see it using on him as an opportunity. The plan to frame Blade was created by other vampires. Thanks to the film's multiple storylines overlapping, there is no real [[Big Bad]].
* [[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.
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* [[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. See also ''Product Placement'', below.
* [[Fangs Are Evil]]: Blade is tricked by fake fangs in killing a familiar, seeing it as indication of the man being a vampire.
* [[Final Solution]]: The vampire apocalypse.
* [[Foil]]: Dracula is under the delusion he is one to Blade, constantly comparing himself to him. However, his contempt for both vampires and humans shows he is nowhere like Blade, that never harmed a man intentionally in his life.
* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: Is it about vigilante Blade versus [[Les Collaborateurs|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 Lines, No Waiting|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.
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* [[In Name Only]]: Hannibal King. In [[Blade (Comic Book)|the comics]] he is a middle aged (in appearance) [[Vampire Detective|Vampire 50s-style hard-boiled private investigator]]. In the film he is twenty 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]].
* [[Ironic Name]]: A werewolf named [[w:Jack Russell Terrier|"Jack Russell"]].
* [[In Name Only]]: Dracula is a vampire that can infect others with vampirism and has minor shape-shifting powers but that is it. No Romania, no brides, no accent, no gypsies working for him, and no signals that the other characters of the novel ever existed. In fact, Hannibal pulling the Marvel Comics' book [[The Tomb of Dracula]] and Blade being skeptic about him may be a hint that the book itself is fictional but somehow Dracula is still real.
* [[Kryptonite-Proof Suit]]: Anti-sun excursion suits.
* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: The vampires' various human "familiars", who knowingly aid the vampires against their own kind.
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* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Both Blade ''and'' Abigail.
* [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: Blade rarely tries to hunt down vampires during the day - while they sleep.
* [[Monster Lord]]: Drake
* [[Monster Progenitor]]: Drake
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Vampire hoods try to molest [[Action Girl]] Jessica Biel and get staked.
* [[Recycled IN SPACE!]]: [[Triple H]]'s vampire character is basically his early aristocratic persona with a brutish side on the WWF AS A VAMPIRE.
* [[Off with His Head]]: One of the ways to kill a vampire.
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Jack Russell, a biker werewolf appears in an alternate ending.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Blade.
* [[Present Day]]: Set in 2004, the release year of the film.
* [[Product Placement]]: All the computers are Apple brand. The fact that Abigail likes to listen to an iPod while fighting vamps is made into a character trait. There's even a little montage of her putting together a playlist. This inspired quite a few groans. Apple actually didn't pay for the product placement, but it did sold the product with sixty percent discount.
* [[Public Domain Character]]: Dracula
[[In Name Only]].
* [[Re Cut]]: The film has an extended cut with an alternate ending.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Drake.
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