Sorry, I couldn't resist the pun. But anyway, the point still stands and the stakes are indeed high. What truly impresses about Blade's story arc is how it grows organically from rogue vampires killing humans without permission to the summoning of an all powerful 'blood god' using an iron maiden. Blade's presumed-dead mother also pops up to fight her son, revealing that Frost is the reason he's half vampire in the first place and adding a nice, if improbable, personal dimension to proceedings in the final act. Blade's ending also works because you never see Frost's army of faceless vampire's unleashing hollow destruction on the city, as has become popular in modern superhero films. Instead Blade's final fight is all about containment, forcing Blade and Frost into a one-on-one, toe-to-toe scrap that our hero can't win with brute strength alone. If he fails though, Frost and his monsters will tear through the world leaving a path of death the likes of which has never been seen. Looking back at Blade, it's impressive to see just how well the film establishes the stakes without the need to show too much. That may be something that the current crop of destruction worshipping comic book movies could take on board.
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