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- "Forget what you think you know. Vampires exist. My name is Blade. I was born half-human, half-vampire. They call me The Daywalker. I have all their strengths, none of their weaknesses except for the thirst. Twenty years ago, I met a man that changed that. Whistler. He taught me how to hold the thirst at bay. Taught me the rules. Gave me the weapons to hunt with: silver, garlic, sunlight. "
- āBlade[src]
Eric Brooks is a human-vampire hybrid who hunts vampires. Before he was born, his mother was attacked and bitten by a vampire, dying while giving birth to him. As he grew into puberty, Blade began exhibiting various vampiric traits, but without the weaknesses. He was eventually found by Abraham Whistler, a vampire hunter who taught him to control his thirst, and hone his abilities to hunt vampires. Now, under the moniker of Blade, Eric works to hunt down and thwart vampire plots across the globe. He is known as the legendary Daywalker to the Vampires, who greatly fear him.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Vanessa, a nurse, was attacked and bitten by a vampire while she was in pregnancy. Eric was born while his mother was dying, inheriting all the powers of a vampire; without developing any of their weaknesses at all; except for the thirst for human blood. For a time, Eric was fed with butcher's blood and stolen blood from the hospital; by his father. When it became apparent that; Eric could not be contained and his thirst could not be satisfied, Robert had called in an expert vampire hunter, named Abraham Whistler. Eric had realized the nature of his thirst after saving a man from criminals in the back room of his shop, where he had believed that; his father had died; due to a gunshot wound. Eric broke Whistler's leg and ran off.
Sometime later, Eric was taken in by a street gang; known as the "Bad Bloods". But; due to his blood-thirst; Eric had turned the members of the gang and had departed. He then once again ran; into Whistler; who became his helper, mentor and lifelong friend. Whistler had developed a serum that; allowed Eric to hold off his vampiric thirst and taught him everything he knew about hunting, fighting and killing vampires. Eric decided to change his name to "Blade" and has; since then gained infamy among vampires for his power to walk in the light of the day, often being called the "Daywalker".
Blade[]
Years later, Blade is hunting Deacon Frost, a powerful turned-vampire, and destroying his vampire nightclubs. During an attack on one of the clubs, Blade badly wounded Quinn, one of Frost's retainers. He was interrupted by the police before he had time to kill the vampire; opting instead to track him. Having tracked Quinn to the hospital, Blade found that Quinn had already bitten the two doctors who were examining the creature. Seeing Dr. Karen Jenson, and seeing a resemblance to his mother, he refrained from destroying her and took her with him instead.
Blade decided to use Jenson as bait for Frost and let her go back home. There she was attacked by one of Frost's Familiars, a police officer. Blade intervened and beat him ruthlessly, just to follow him again to the hideout of a vampire archivist named Pearl. Blade and Karen interrogated him, and found out Frost's plans regarding La Magra, a legendary vampire blood god. The two were then attacked by Quinn and Mercury, but managed to escape thanks to Whistler's arrival.
Blade goes out to get more of the serum from one of his allies but, when he comes back to the base, finds out that Karen has been kidnapped by Frost and Whistler has been bitten. Blade can't shoot his mentor so he gives him the gun, letting him commit suicide. Enraged, Blade attacks Frost's penthouse, with the new weapon granted by Karen, the EDTA (a blood thinner that proves to be lethal to vampires). After killer several of Frostās retainers, Blade finds out that his mother is still alive, but as a vampire, and that she's become one of Frost's lovers. Shocked, he's quickly captured by Frost's men and taken to La Magra temple. In here, he's put in a special sarcophagus, which drains him of all his blood; the apparent key to freeing La Magra. Exhausted, Blade is saved by Karen, who managed to free herself as well. The woman lets Blade bite her in order to regain his strength; just in time to fight his mother, whom he kills.
Having regained his strength, Blade kills most of Frost's minions, Quinn included. After which he confronts Frost, who had become the vessel of La Magra. After a lengthy duel, Bladeās sword proved to be useless against the blood god; it required large doses of the EDTA to finally kill the La Magra empowered Frost. Once the conflict with Frost was over, Blade and Dr. Karen Jenson exited from the temple, Dr. Jensen asked Blade if he wants to be cured, as it would be an end to Blade's thirst and suffering, however, as it would come at the cost of losing his vampire strengths, Blade refused, as he still wanted to continue the fight against the Vampires. He was later seen in Russia, pursuing a vampire: he was following the vampires who transformed Whistler and kidnapped him.
Blade II[]
After two years of researches, Blade has finally tracked down the vampires who kidnapped Whistler in Prague: he kills them all and frees his old friend, taking him back to the base for curing him. Along with Scud, his new assistant, Blade injects Whistler with the cure and manages to heal him, gaining his mentor. Blade, anyway, doesn't seem to really trust him.
On that very night, Blade is reached by two messengers, who prove to be even skillful fighters. They present themselves as Nyssa Damaskinos and Asad, who ask Blade and his companions to follow them to Eli Damaskinos' place. The three hunters meet the elderly vampire lord, who, after thanking Blade for killing Deacon Frost, asks for their help: a plague, called the Reaper Virus, is spreading all over Prague, carried by Jared Nomak, the first of the new race. Nomak is biting humans and vampires alike, and the virus is spreading much faster than the normal vampire one. Blade agrees and meets The Bloodpack, an elite vampire squad created for hunting Blade but now forced to be his ally. In order to be feared, if not respected, by the Bloodpack, Blade reacts to Reinhardt's provocations by implanting in his head a remote controlled explosive.
The team goes to the House of Pain, a vampires night club. In here, they find a group of Reapers: they soon find out that the new kind of vampires are much more strong than the normal ones and that their weapons are useless against them. Priest is killed, but the other members of the team, thanks to Whistler, manages to capture a Reaper alive. Nyssa, after the Reaper died for hunger, performed an autopsy on him, and discovers that their only weak point is sunlight, since their heart is covered with bones. During this time, Blade and Nyssa begins to get along, with Nyssa trying to convince Blade to accept his true nature.
The team finds the enemies' base in Prague's sewers and goes down, with the new weapon developed by Whistler and Scud, sunlight grenades. The hunters are soon attacked by the Reapers. Blade manages to activate the grenades, killing all the Reapers, but is exhausted at the end of a fierce battle, which have, as only survivors of the Bloodpack, Blade, Reinhardt and Nyssa. The three are taken to Damaskinos' palace, where they discover that Nomak is not a mutant, but a genetic experiment of Damaskinos, and that Reinhardt and Scud were spies. Reinhardt mocks Blade and tells him that the bomb was a fake assembled by Scud, and gives the bomb to the boy; Blade tells them that he knew Scud was a traitor from the beginning, and that the bomb is actually a real one, and makes it explode, killing the mole. Blade is later taken to a lab by Karl Kounen, who wants to kill and dissect him, but Whistler intervenes and save his friend.
Blade goes on rampage and kills all of Damaskinos' men, Reinhardt included, and reaches the roof, wanting to prevent Damaskinos to flee. Once there, he finds out that Nomak was in the building too, and that he already killed Eli and bit Nyssa. Nomak offers Blade and alliance, but he refuses and starts a fight, during which Blade is in great difficulty against the Reaper. Just when he's about to be killed, Blade uses a fragment of his shattered sword and impales Nomak, reaching the only point without bone armor of his heart. Blade than takes a dying Nyssa to the roof, where he stares into her eyes moments before dawn arrives, incinerating her.
Blade and Whistler leave Prague, but not before Blade kills Rush, a vampire he left alive during Whistler's rescue.
Blade: Trinity[]
While on hunt, Blade attacks a group of vampires and kills them all. The last one manages to flee, but Blade reaches him and impales him. He soon finds out that he was a Familiar posing as a vampire, with Danica Talos filming the scene from afar. Blade has fallen in a vampires' trap: the world, in fact, unaware of vampires' existence, believes him to be a serial killer, and FBI has now the evidences against him.
Blade and Whistler are tracked down by two FBI agents, Wilson Hale and Ray Cumberland, who attack their base with a SWAT team. Whistler is killed during the battle, and Blade is arrested. He's later interrogated by a psychiatrist, Edgar Vance, who's in reality a Familiar of the House of Talos. He declares that Blade is mentally unstable and calls some personal from a criminal asylum, Danica and her minions, to take him. Blade is rescued at the last moment by Hannibal King and Abigail Whistler, two hunters members of the Nightstalkers. He's taken to their base, in which he's informed of Dracula's existence and of Danica's plans to resurrect him. Blade, although being a loner, agrees to fight on the side of the Nightstalkers, guiding them in the battle against Dracula.
With King and Abby, Blade starts a massive hunt, reaching for last Vance's office. In here, they find out that Drake has already killed the psychiatrist and is posing as him. King is wounded and Blade follows Drake on the rooftops, where he receives a formal challenge from him. Having to save a newborn, Blade lets Drake escape, with the promise of a future fight.
Blade is later acknowledged of a bioweapon developed by Sommerfield, one of the Nightstalkers: the Daystar, a special virus which, once fused with Drake's blood, will destroy the vampire race. There's a risk that Blade will be killed too, but he declares to be ready for it. He then goes out on hunt with Abigail, King being incapacitated on bed. The two finds out of vampires' "Final Solution", which is a true apocalypse for human race: many men and women are held captive in a comatoes state and used as infinite blood supplies. Blade kills Martin Vreede, he chief of police who's a Familiar, and destroys the Final Solution storage. When he and Abigail come back to the base, they find out that Drake has killed all the Nightstalkers and kidnapped Hannibal King and Zoe, Sommerfield's little child. After taking the only Daystar sample existing, the two prepare to go to Talos' place to rescue their companions and kill Drake.
Once in the palace, after a brief fight with Jarko Grimwood, Blade reaches Drake and engages a spectacular sword fight with him. The two are perfectly matched, with none of them managing to prevail. Eventually, Drake assumes his true form, the one of a towering demon, who proves to be much superior to Blade. The Daywalker is overpowered and is about to be killed, when Abby tries to shoot the Daystar charged arrow on the vampire. Drake grabs it in midair and lets it fall on the ground. As he's about to impale Blade with his sword, Blade grabs the arrow and stabs him with it, freeing the virus. Exhausted, he lays on the ground beside Drake, who tells him he's not afraid anymore of the future of his race, since Blade can be a true heir for him, and tells him he has a last gift for him. Drake transforms into Blade, allowing the real one to escape while the FBI agents take the wrong body. Since the Daystar wasn't as lethal as it should've been, Blade is continuing his long-lasting battle against vampires.
Deadpool & Wolverine[]
It is revealed many years later that; Blade was "pruned" and sent to the Void; by the Time Variance Authority, where he had formed a resistance against the bloodthirsty ruler of the wasteland, Cassandra Nova, and her mutant underlings. His allies included Elektra Natchios, X-23, the Human Torch, a variant of Gambit, Deadpool, and Wolverine, as well as Quicksilver, the Punisher, and Daredevil among the deceased. The group would stage an assault on Cassandra's fortress, with Blade using Punisher's bazooka to breach the gate. The Daywalker then engaged Cassandra's forces with the others, slaying Azazel and Toad personally and accomplishing their task of allowing Deadpool and Wolverine to deal with Nova.
The group were ultimately consumed by Alioth; but are restored to life by the TVA at Deadpool's request. Blade presumably returned to his timeline.
Personality[]
Blade is a cynical individual who is highly determined to rid the earth of vampires. He is known to be stoic, cold, and holds a temper. Like many in the vampire hunting community, Blade holds a deep grudge against vampires, mainly because of the death of his mother, Vanessa Brooks; when she was killed by Deacon Frost and being half-vampire, he has an unquenchable thirst for blood which caused him major problems as he killed and drained people in his youth. Despite his cold demeanor, Blade is not without a heart; he saved Karen Jenson, a brilliant hematologist; when she was nearly killed by a vampire and later took her in as a partner. Blade holds a tremendous amount of respect for his mentor, weaponsmith and father-figure, Abraham Whistler. His friendship with Whistler was so strong that Blade could not bear to end him of his misery when he was brutally tortured by Frost and his men. When Whistler sacrificed himself, Blade goes through an emotional breakdown and becomes depressed after he gets arrested by the FBI, devastated by his beloved mentor's death.
Although emotionless most of the time, Blade does smile and rarely shows his feelings. Evidences is when Whistler is cured of his vampire virus and toying with the other vampires. He was also somewhat sympathetic toward Nyssa Damaskinos of the Bloodpack, recognizing her as someone with a sense of honor similar to his own; despite her being a vampire. He was even visibly saddened by her death, holding her in his arms as she was being incinerated by the sunlight.
Blade is known to be a "lone-wolf" as he completes his missions alone and dislikes using sidekicks unless the situation is dire. The only exception is Karen, who was quite useful to him and Whistler. Blade was relatively and understandably uncomfortable with working alongside the Bloodpack as they were originally trained to kill him and the Nightstalkers because most of the members were are young and not really serious about their job as vampire hunters.
Powers and Abilities[]
- "Blade's mother was attacked by a vampire while she was pregnant. She died, but he lived. Unfortunately, he'd undergone certain genetic changes. He can withstand garlic, silver, even sunlight. And he's got their strength."
- āAbraham Whistler
Powers[]
Dhampir Physiology: As a result of his mother being bitten by a vampire during the late stages of her pregnancy, Blade is a human-vampire hybrid; he is endowed with all of the typical vampiric powers, and only endures one of their weaknesses. Blade possesses superhuman strength, speed, agility, endurance, senses, and an accelerated healing factor. Due to his Human nature, Blade is also immune to sunlight, silver, garlic and EDTA; conventional Vampiric weaknesses, however, he still experiences the Vampiric thirst for blood. Blade can also transmit the Vampire virus through his bite.
- Retractable Fangs: Blade possesses a set of wickedly sharp retractable fangs, which are generally used as a means to more easily tear flesh and obtain fresh blood. Bladeās bite can also transmit the Vampiric virus.
- Superhuman Senses: Blade's senses are sharper than those of a human. He is capable of seeing objects with perfect clarity at much greater distances than an ordinary human. Blade retains this same level of visual clarity in near-total darkness; allowing him to hunt and fight at night or in dark areas.. Blade's hearing is similarly enhanced, allowing him to detect audial frequencies that are beyond the human range, as well as detect sounds from greater distances. Blade's sense of smell is as acute as a wolf or a dogās, enabling him to track his prey for miles by scent alone. Overall, Blade's keen senses give him several advantages when hunting or eluding enemies, and will usually allow him to sense the presence of a Vampire.
- Superhuman Strength: Blade possesses inhuman strength equivalent to that of ten strong men; roughly strong enough to lift and press 1 ton. He is able to easily overpower, lift, toss and throw others; he can exert sufficient force to throw an adult human across a room with great speed and force. Blade can also leap great distances, break down doors, snap steel chains, and deliver powerful blows. Through years of rigorous training and experience, Blade's strength has evolved beyond the limits of typical vampires, and he always has the advantage of overwhelming raw physical strength against any human opponent.
- Superhuman Speed: Blade is able to run and move at faster speeds than any human. Blade is able to run and move at superhuman speeds; he is able to quickly hunt down his Vampire prey, sprint fast enough to briefly keep up with moving vehicles, and his combat speeds allow him to fight and outmatch multiple fighters at once.
- Superhuman Agility: Blade possesses enhanced reflexes, agility and flexibility, far superior to that of any Human. He is able to quickly move, run, jump, flip, climb and perform above-human parkour feats without difficulty or exhaustion. Blade can leap several feet into the air and almost always land on his feet, even when falling from great heights. Bladeās reflexes also allow him to dodge and combat multiple fighters simultaneously.
- Superhuman Stamina: Blade's musculature generates less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. He can exert himself at peak capacity for several hours before fatigue begins to impair him.
- Superhuman Endurance: Bladeās body is tougher and stronger, he is able to endure physical punishment that would critically injure or kill a normal human being. Blade can survive immense trauma; such as blows from stronger superhuman/supernatural beings, being thrown into materials such as concrete and marble, repeated shocks with high voltage tasers/guns, gunshots, impalement with multiple stakes, and having his bones dislocated multiple times. The extent of his resilience is unknown, however ingesting Blood will further increase his limits.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Blade, like full vampires, possesses advanced regenerative capabilities, that allow him to regenerate from any injuries, including fatal wounds, more quickly and effectively than normal humans. His regenerative abilities are far more effective after he has ingested fresh blood; as he was able to instantly recover from the La Magra ritual after drinking from Karen Jenson.
Abilities[]
- Master Martial Artist: Blade is a master martial artist, having been trained from a young age to fight vampires. He was able to fight on an even footing the likes of Deacon Frost, Jared Nomak, and Drake using his exceptional fighting prowess (who were more physically superior to him at the time). He can also hold his own against multiple attackers, be they humans, vampires, or even reapers. Blade's main form of combat is a mixture of Shotokan Karate, Hapkido, Wushu, Shaolin Kung-Fu, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Aikido, Silat, Capoeira, and Pro-Wrestling. In addition, he has also mastered every martial arts weapon in existence, with swords and daggers being his main specialty.
- Gifted Intellect: Blade has a great deal of knowledge about strategically hunting vampires, as well as trapping, intimidating, and interrogating them for information. He can speak various languages including Czech, Russian, and to a degree, the vampire language. Blade is also highly knowledgeable about vampire lore as well as the supernatural.
- Expert Hunter: Blade is an exceptional Hunter, especially when it comes to Vampires. He has been able to tail various marks, Human and Vampire alike, without being caught, and can use knowledge about a personās habits to find their location; Blade was able to track down and kill Rush, a Vampire he met days earlier during his rescue of Whistler.
- Expert Marksman: Blade is an experienced highly accurate marksman. He is trained in the use of multiple types of firearm, including short and long range, as well as automatic and semi automatic. Blade is able to use a number of ranged weapons and can throw various projectiles with precision accuracy.
- Multilingual: Blade can speak and translate English, Russian, Romanian, Czech, German, Japanese, and The Vampire Language. It is unknown that he can speak much more than these languages.
- Tactician: Blade is a skilled tactician able to make various plans even when heās very short on time. He is also an great investigator, able to detect the slightest details of the situation. Such as when he already knew about Scud's betrayal, the Vampire Nation's plans, and Dracula's resurrection.
Weaknesses[]
- Bloodlust: Blade must continually drink blood in order to survive or he will die. He will also get more aggressive the longer he goes without blood. He has created several blood serums to combat drinking pure-blood and to keep his body in peak form. But there's a catch, every time he uses the serum, his body will slowly reject the serum completely and he will have to find a way to make a stronger serum.
- Decapitation: While Blade does have immunity to vampire weaknesses and a healing factor; he will die permanently if his head is cut off.
Equipment[]
Weapons[]
- Blade's sword: Blade's sword is a specially designed titanium blade with acid etching. It consists of a straight, double-edged blade similar to that of a longsword, terminating in a metal hilt designed around the aesthetics of South East Asian swords. Hidden within the hilt is a security device consisting of a quartet of small retracted blades, spaced equidistantly around the grip, that spring out to severely maim any hand gripping it if the device is not disabled.
- Handguns: Blade employs a variety of guns loaded with custom ammunition. His most common firearm is a semi-automatic pistol with a laser sight mounted under the barrel. Larger guns include a shotgun (equipped with a stake-launching device), sub-machine guns, and assault rifles. The ammunition he uses is typically home made with metal components cast in silver and bullets filed to a hollow point.
- Garlic: Blade is known to utilize garlic against Vampires; which he uses in his handguns' ammunition besides just using silver; for a more lethal effect.
- Silver stakes: Blade carries several silver stakes strapped to his thigh. With the silver able to cause an allergic reaction in vampires, these are occasionally used for interrogation purposes when impaling a vampire's extremities, although they are more often used to lethal effect in strikes to the head or chest.
- EDTA: Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid is a compound developed by Dr. Karen Jenson. It is an anti-coagulant that reacts explosively when introduced to a vampire's bloodstream. Early EDTA weapons were ampoules that could be thrown at a target and later, Blade employed arm-mounted reloading EDTA cartridges that could inject the substance with a punch.
- UV light: Ultraviolet light saw rare use in Blade's arsenal due to his need to move quickly, but he has been known to equip UV lamps and UV flash devices for occasional missions.
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Appearances[]
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Behind the scenes[]
- LL Cool J, Denzel Washington and Laurence Fishburne were all considered for the role of Blade.
- Wesley Snipes reprised the role in the 2024 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Deadpool & Wolverine.