In the Blade movies, he gets his powers when his mother is bitten by a vampire while she’s pregnant. At the end of the first movie, it’s revealed that the vampires know about this because his mother turned and joined them. Yet, in the other two movies, the goal of the vampires is to make more like Blade, who can withstand the sunlight. So….. why didn’t they just start biting more pregnant women????
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Versus: Episode 9
In the last episode of Versus (which was a while ago….sorry), I had a matchup of zombie fighters. Since Matticus and I are writing a vampire story, I thought my next matchup should be about vampire fighters.
Obviously, the best vampire fighter is Blade. There’s really no debate there (in my mind, at least). So, then the question becomes: who is second best? Whistler? Not only is he old, he died in two of the Blade movies. His daughter? I’m sorry, but no matter how they edited that movie, I never bought Jessica Biel as an ass-kicker. If that’s all she did was shoot her bow, she might not have been so bad. Her hand-to-hand fighting scenes were awful, though.
Who does that leave (besides Matticus and myself, I mean, as we’re clearly right behind Blade on the badass vampire killing scale)? I’ll tell you. Continue reading
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