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How Blade changed superhero movies and no one noticed


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The Marvel Cinematic Universe celebrated its tenth year — and its 20th film — in 2018. From Iron Man to Ant-Man and the Wasp and every crossover in between, Marvel Studios has become an unstoppable juggernaut by bringing their vast world of heroes and villains to the screen. Of course, the story of Marvel's journey to the movies stretches back much further than the MCU, as many of their most popular comic book icons were signed away to bigger studios long before they took matters into their own gauntlets. Sony had already spun Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, and Fox was the home of the X-Men, Daredevil, and the Fantastic Four.

Even before those efforts, though, the first truly successful Marvel movie arrived in an unexpected form: Blade. Director Stephen Norrington's 1998 feature from New Line Pictures cast Wesley Snipes as the vampire hunter created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan for Marvel's Tomb of Dracula comics in the 1970s. Not only was Blade a surprise hit, its influence can be found in some surprising places. To honor that legacy, we're looking at how Blade changed superhero movies… even if you didn't notice. 

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It is unquestionably an important movie in comic book and Marvel movie history.

Can’t wait to see this character again.

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Dig it suckas

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Blade 1 might be the last vampire movie I liked. Even it had many of the stupid vampire movie tropes that eventually added up to repelling me from the genre forever. But in spite of the typical head-shaking stuff, I did like it. Another three or four vampire movies later and I quit.

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Some post Blade vampire films worth checking out.

30 Days of Night
Thirst
Let the Right One In
What We Do in the Shadows
Only Lovers Left Alive

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First of all Blade is not a superhero, He is an anti-hero. Secondly the movie was not marketed as a "superhero" movie. It was marketed as a horror movie. People forget this was still during the Buffy years so those whom never read a comic book, looked at Blade as being a Black vampire slayer if you will.

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You have a point. Blade was never marketed as a superhero movie and the character is not a typical superhero. He has no costume (although he has a certain "look") and while he does go by a cool name, it's not as though he has a secret identity. Everyone knows his real name is Eric and Blade is little more than a nickname.

Despite this, he is still from a superhero universe and carries many of the same tropes (super powers, a cool car, and a rogues gallery). I think it's important to bring up in a discussion about the superhero movie renaissance even if it isn't as obviously superheroic as X-Men or Spider-Man.

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When Blade came out it blew my fucking mind.

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