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'''Blade''': ''Like me''. }}
 
Blade is a vampire hunter [[Blade (Comic Book)|comic book character]] from [[Marvel Comics]] created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan who debuted in ''[[The Tomb of Dracula]]'' #10 (July, 1973). In the movies, his [[Super-Hero Origin]] is that vampires killed his mother during childbirth, which had a bizarre side-effect in making him [[Half Vampire|part-vampire]]. He remained mostly human but gained [[Cursed Withwith Awesome|all the strengths of a vampire and none of their weaknesses]]. He can walk in sunlight, is not allergic to garlic or silver, [[Healing Factor|heals quickly]] and has all their enhanced senses. There is a slight catch, however: Blade still gets the "hunger" for blood and is never quite satisfied with an artificial substitution. While vastly outnumbered, Blade makes do working with his mentor, a grizzled veteran vampire hunter named Abraham Whistler, who manages to devise all sorts of vampire hunting gear.
 
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 (Filmfilm)|X-Men]] or [[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|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 (Animeanime)|anime]], which premiered on July 1st, 2011.
 
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* [[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.
* [[Lost in Imitation]]: Blade being half-vampire (vampire powers minus the weaknesses except for the bloodlust he needs a serum to control) and his companion Whistler came from his guest appearance in the ''[[Spider -Man: theThe Animated Series]]''. The comic book Blade was just a [[Badass Normal]] immune to vampire bites until a bite from Morbius [[Ret Canon|put him in line with the movie counterpart]].
* [[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
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* [[No Badass to His Valet]]: Whistler treats Blade like a normal person.
* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Whistler.
* [[Off Withwith His Head]]: One of the ways to kill a vampire.
* [[One-Liner]]: Blade is full of them.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]:
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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 Aa 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 [[Always Chaotic Evil]] bloodthirsty psychopath, but you will look good forever, join a secret society that secretly rules the world, and live and be encouraged to live an eternal un-life of absolutely debauched sex, violence, partying and hedonism. Basically one of the reasons the film works; it both captures the sheer utter bastardy of the nosferatu race and yet perfectly illustrates ''why'' people would want to be such evil bastards in the first place.
* [[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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* [[Fast-Forward Gag]]: The [[Car Chase]], unintentionally, presumably because Los Angeles didn't want to have an actual car chase for some reason.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Deacon Frost. With everyone.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: In a sense, the first movie led to the boom of Marvel movies. Though later overshadowed by 2000's more successful ''[[X-Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men]]'', ''Blade'' was the first Marvel movie to be a bonafide financial and critical success (''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]]'' came out first but technically, it was more a property ''bought'' by Marvel than ''made'' by Marvel. And granted, some productions such as ''[[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]]'' [[Development Hell|had long been gestating]], but the movie's success proved that Marvel characters could headline their own movies.) Additionally, Blade himself was not as well-known prior to the movie's release, but still made for a successful property. In addition to their A-list stars, Marvel and DC have subsequently looked at other lesser-known characters for possible movies.
** And despite ''[[Batman and Robin (Filmfilm)|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.
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* [[Monstrosity Equals Weakness]]: This trope was the reason the [[Final Battle]] of the first film was changed. Test audiences didn't care for Frost [[One-Winged Angel|transforming]] into a giant [[Blob Monster]] made of [[Blood Magic|blood]], so the theatrical version ended with a [[Sword Fight]] instead.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In the first film, Karen becomes a vampire (and her boyfriend is killed) because Blade chose to set Quinn on fire rather than staking him, even though he knew it wouldn't kill him.
* [[Now ItsIt's My Turn]]: Deacon Frost in the first film.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: ''"Some mothafuckas are always trying to iceskate uphill,"'' which was something that Snipes said on set one day, and Stephen Norrington liked it so much he added it to the script.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: As Blade is about to kill a henchman in the first movie, said [[Mook]] replies "No... please! I just work for them!"
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* [[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.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: When Reapers are "ashed", they explode in a flash of blue light, as opposed to a regular vampire's red-orange.
* [[Create Your Own Villain]]: ''Blade II'' {{spoiler|1=is all about the Vampire Government recruiting Blade to help them fix their own mess, Nomak and the entire Reaper sub-species was the result of the Vampire Leadership trying to genetically erase the typical vampire weaknesses. The Reapers are immune to garlic and silver and their hearts are surrounded by solid bone ("Try and get a stake through THAT!") but are still just as vulnerable to sunlight/UV rays. What they didn't expect was the Reapers could turn humans ''and'' regular vampires into Reapers through mere sharing of sweat, let alone blood and vampire bites.}}
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Nyssa and Assad both wield a pair of swords when they infiltrate Blade's hideout. Blade responds by wielding his sword in one hand and his sword's scabbard as a parrying weapon in his offhand. Earlier in the film a pair of the mooks guarding Whistler dual wield fighting sticks or batons of some sort and Blade retaliates by dual wielding a pair of silver stakes as if they were daggers.
* [[Dying Asas 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.
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* [[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 Asas It Sounds Foreign]]: The third 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 (Franchise)|Star Trek]]''.
* [[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''?
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* [[Product Placement]]: All the computers in ''Blade: Trinity'' 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.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Drake.
* [[Suicide Byby Sunlight]]
* [[The Older Immortal]]: Drake ({{spoiler|Dracula}})
* [[Trick Arrow]]: Abigail Whistler uses, in addition to her normal arrows, a drill arrow, plague arrow, and an arrow that can shoot around corners.
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