MCU Phase 4: Predicting Every Major Character That Will Join
8. Blade
Marvel Comics
First Appearance: Tomb of Dracula #10
Before Iron Man, Spider-Man or even the X-Men, there was one Marvel hero who really made waves in cinema. That character was Blade, and with Wesley Snipes in the title role he made waves from 1998 through to the early 2000s (best not to discuss Blade: Trinity).
The character's gone AWOL ever since though, and while his rights have been back with Marvel for some time now, there's been relatively little talk of a proper Blade reboot. Snipes was said to have held talks with Marvel about reprising the part, but nothing genuine has really emerged since.
Fans of the Daywalker need not be so despondent however. Just the other week, in the press junket leading up to Infinity War's premier, Kevin Feige spoke of his desire to visit the horror genre in the MCU, and although the producer clarified he prefers Poltergeist more than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it proves that Blade has to be on the cards over at Marvel Studios.
He's the company's most iconic horror-bound hero, possessing an onscreen reverence they can't afford to neglect. All that remains to be seen is whether it's with Snipes, or without him.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
