Lucas Cross would make an incredibly interesting antagonist in a Blade movie. He is Blade's long lost father. In the late 1920s, he was convicted of a crime he didn't commit and imprisoned in Latveria while he was dying of cancer. He feared he'd never see his lover - Tara Brooks - and their unborn son (the child who would become Blade), ever again. In jail, he began to talk with his cell-mate, who told him his story, and he offered him a way to survive his illness, get out of his prison sentence and see his family again. When Cross asked "what's the catch?", the cell-mate revealed that he was a vampire, killed Lucas and transformed him into a fellow vampire and the pair escaped. In the present, Cross captured Blade, revealing hes his father and that he's trying to fulfil a prophecy. The prophecy was as follows:
A father in chains Freed by a son not yet birthed Will unlock Vlad's remains Upon the salted earth After his vampire urge is sated Upon drinking of virgin essence His resistance now abated Upon learning of Father's presence Returning essence lost From those undead in graves At immortal living's cost To the man known as Blade
He attempts to get Blade to drink the blood of a young virgin girl by chaining him up with her and starving him. Although it looked like Blade was going to succumb to his vampire urges, he resisted by literally chewing off his own hand to escape. However Blade unwittingly fulfils part of the prophecy when he drains the blood of Draconis, a vampire priest. Cross thought that the prophecy would give him his soul back, but it actually brought every vampire who ever lived back to life. The film would set up a number of potential future movies. Most prominently, it would give Blade and the Marvel Cinematic Universe a global army of vampires to deal with (including the most infamous one of all) and, interestingly, it could lead to Blade coming in to contact with S.H.I.E.L.D., as it was the espionage agency who fitted his arm with a gun when he lost his hand. On that note...
