10 Thrilling Predictions For Blade In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
5. The New Blade Films Will Retain The Best Elements Of The Prior Adaptations
Blade’s depiction in the MCU should retain a lot of the concepts established in the original movie trilogy such as familiars (human servants controlled by vampires), purebloods (natural-born vampires as opposed to bitten humans), and a secret war hidden from mankind.
The MCU should also pull from Blade: The Series, which aired for one season in 2006. The television program, which stared Sticky Fingaz as the titular daywalker, expanded upon Blade’s origin story, recounting his time spent in a gang during his youth and his first encounter with his film mentor Abraham Whistler. The show also added to the vampire mythology by incorporating elements such as the use of vampire ashes as a drug and introducing a 200-year-old child vampire to illustrate the slow aging of purebloods.
Blade: The Series’ largest contribution to the vampire mythos was its exploration of vampire houses (clans of vampires with similar customs and abilities). The television series established that there were twelve vampire houses, but only explored a few, including the elitist House of Chthon and the non-violent House of Leichen.
The comics later introduced vampire sects in the 2010-2011 X-Men comic storyline entitled The Curse of the Mutants. Incorporating vampire houses or sects into the MCU gives Blade a variety of adversaries and streamlines storytelling as it eliminates the need to provide a separate origin story for every type of creature Blade may encounter. For example, in the comics, gargoyles and sirens were simply depicted as sects of vampires.