10 Most Powerful Characters Killed By Blade

10. Taj Nital

Taj Nital was a member of Quincy Harker’s group of vampire hunters. Nital was part of a trusted inner circle of the aging and crippled Harker that included Rachel Van Helsing, the granddaughter of Quincy’s parents' friend and mentor Abraham Van Helsing, and Frank Drake, a direct descendant of Dracula himself. An attack by a group of vampires led by the vampire lord left Nital mute, his wife in a wheelchair and his son, Adri, cursed with vampirism.

Taj left the vampire hunters after an angry mob of villagers broke into his home and killed his son, who his wife had kept in the basement for five years. Nital wrote a farewell letter to Rachel in Tomb of Dracula #34. Sometime later, the ancient vampire Varnae found him and turned him into a vampire. He was told to kill Blade, who Varnae had abducted and brought to his base in Rhode Island. Blade was forced to stake his former ally, killing him.

The Nightstalkers arrived to assist Blade. Hannibal King fell under Varnae’s thrall but he showed incredible willpower in impaling himself to not hurt his friends. Frank Drake shot Varnae with his Exorcist Gun to no effect. He overloaded it and ran at the vampire, bringing the castle down on everyone. Blade and King survived and Eric gave Hannibal Doom’s elixir to cure his blood lust.