20 Most Epic Character Introductions In Movies

15. Blade - Blade (1998)

A year after the high-camp debacle of Batman and Robin, Stephen Norrington's Blade went a long way to rehabilitating the comic book movie as a more serious genre. It helped that it starts with one of the best opening scenes in recent memory, and a suitably epic introduction for Wesley Snipes' titular Daywalker.

An unwitting man is led to a secret underground rave, filled with prime late-90s techno, when the sprinkler system begins showering the dance-floor with blood. Freaking out, as well he should, the man crawls along the floor and stops at a pair of black boots. The blood rain stops and the camera slowly tilts up to reveal Blade in all of his glory, before all hell breaks loose as the Daywalker slices and dices his way through the throng of blood-soaked ravers. Blade's introduction both establishes the movie's premise and tells us what we need to know about the character in one fell swoop. Vampires are real and they live among us, but there is also a leather-clad, sword-wielding, martial-arts expert that will not hesitate to cut them to pieces in an awesomely-choreographed set piece that instantly positions Blade as a total bad-ass.
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