10 Dumbest Villains In Movie History
2. Deacon Frost - Blade (1998)
The first Blade movie is justifiably revered as a cult classic in 2014, although sadly inferior to Guillermo Del Toro's storming sequel. The less said about Blade: Trinity, the better. In the first instalment of the franchise about a half-human, half-vampire hero that fights and kills other creatures of the night, the antagonist was one Deacon Frost, and through him the vampire Blood God, La Magra.
Frost, a member of the vampire cabal the Shadow Council, chafed under their edict that coexistence with humans was the only way to survive in the modern world. Frost reads the Lost Pages Of Erebus, a.k.a. the vampire Bible, and learns of a ritual that can be enacted to bring the Blood God itself to earth to subjugate the human race. Frost longs for the kind of power that this would bring him and, come the climax of the film, has successfully completed the ritual. La Magra is loose once more, immune to sunlight, vastly stronger even than pureblood vampires, and able to transform humans into vampires with only a touch.
Wait, what? If La Magra's aim is to transform all humans into vampires, then what are the vampire race going to snack on? The Blade series makes sure to establish its vampire mythology early on: they need human blood, and only human blood, to survive. They can't eat normal food, and they can't eat each other. The Shadow Council promotes peaceful coexistence for the same reason that the mainstreamers do on the True Blood series; humans outnumber vampires and can put up a nasty fight, and they're necessary for vampire survival. If an indestructible Blood God comes to town and starts turning all of their food supply into vampires, exactly how long will the vampire race themselves survive?
Moreover, Frost is possessed and subsumed by the creature until there's no trace of him left. So well played, Deacon Frost. Not only have your plans to have vampires control the human race catastrophically failed, but you're not even around to see what happened anymore. That's the consequence of ambition for you.