⚔️*• Blade

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REAL NAME Eric Cross Brooks[1] ALIAS(ES) Codenames Blade[2] SPECIES Human/Vampire Hybrid CITIZENSHIP Flag of United States of America American GENDER Male STATUS Alive 2/ NAME Eric Brooks CURRENT ALIAS Blade ALIASES AFFILIATION AND RELATIONSHIPS AFFILIATION RELATIVES Parents: Tara Cross (mother), Lucas Cross (father); Jamal Afari (foster father) Children: Possibly Zukajaa (spawn via Cilla);[12] Brielle Brooks (daughter)[13]

MARITAL STATUS Single PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS[132] GENDER Male HEIGHT 6′2″ (1.88 m)

According to his earliest appearances in the original The Tomb of Dracula comics, Blade relied on teakwood daggers which he used to impale opponents, and a variety of mahogany stakes. He was an excellent hand-to-hand combatant and knife-fighter. Later comics upgraded his arsenal significantly over the years, including a variety of different bladed weapons ranging from long swords to katanas, as well as guns, flamethrowers, and UV and silver-based weapons. He relies mainly on a double-edged sword he carries on his back. He has also had some success with improvised weapons, such as stakes made from snapped brooms and, after losing his hand, a replacement appendage made from duct tape and a pointed stick. He would replace this with a new machine gun-esque firearm used in place of his missing hand, which responds to different muscle twitches as an indication of reloading and firing, among other functions (including a grappling hook, which Blade describes as his "favorite feature"). It also uses three different kinds of ammo. This weapon was created by S.H.I.E.L.D.[67] Blade also had an arsenal of EMP grenades. Films and television series edit Much in the same way as in the comics,[68] in the movie series, Blade employs a stylized double-edged sword as one of his main offense and defense tools. Although not much detail is specified in the comics about the composition of the sword, in the films, it is equipped with an acid-etched titanium blade that has a security feature that will release blades into the wielder's hand after a set time. This is aborted by Blade or others who know of the system by pushing a hidden switch in the sword's hilt. The movies also depict him wielding varieties of throwable "glaives" (boomerang- or chakram-like weapons which return when thrown), different knives, silver stakes, and firearms. He also uses specialized weapons, such as throwable injector canisters filled with an anticoagulant which is explosively lethal to vampires, and extendable injector spikes worn on the back of the hand. Anime edit In addition to all his above skills and powers, Blade's swordsmanship in particular is shown in Marvel Anime to be especially advanced.[69] Blade's sword-style revolves mainly around his mastery of Yagu Shinkage-ryu, a kenjutsu art that can unleash powerful shockwaves or transparent wind blades from his sword swings, allowing him to blast or slice respectively his opponents from a distance. The Yagu Shinkage-ryu also has three principal Yagyu techniques. The first technique, "The First Blade: Residual Moon", draws a small circle with the tip of his sword, producing a perfectly tangible after-image of himself for diversions. The second technique, "The Second Blade: Phantom Moon", involves a high-speed spin, allowing Blade to launch an omnidirectional slash in rapid succession with such intensity that it sets his strike ablaze. The final technique, "The Third Blade: Chaotic Moon", launches several shadow blades around the opponent, hiding the user's attack path with little chance of being noticed. So, how many times do I have to put you in the ground? Quote2 —Blade[src]

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Early life

Eric Brooks was born in Soho, London, on the 24th October 1929.[15] His father, Lucas Cross, a member of the secret society the Order of Tyrana, sent his pregnant wife Tara to England before he was taken prisoner in Latveria. There she took the name "Vanessa Brooks" and found shelter with brothel owner Madame Vanity, another member of the Order of Tyrana.[16] Experiencing labor complications, Tara was forced to seek a doctor's assistance. The doctor, Deacon Frost, was actually a ravenous vampire and feasted on the woman as she gave birth, passing on a series of enzymes that altered her baby. The enzymes entered the infant's bloodstream, transforming him into a being tainted by a vampire's kiss, but not converted. In other words half-human, half-vampire also called a Dhampir. Frost was driven away before he could slay the child, but Tara perished, leaving the orphaned Eric Brooks to be raised at Madame Vanity's brothel.[5]

Training

While he was growing up on the street of London, he ran into American veteran Vampire Slayer, Jamal Afari and saved him from being killed by vampires with a grudge against the old man. Afari soon learned about Eric and his origins and decided to take him under his wing, becoming his mentor and foster-father and helping him to control his powers. Afari taught Eric everything he knew about hunting, fighting, and killing vampires.

Determined to avenge his mother's death, Eric fashioned himself into a vampire hunter like Afari while still a teenager and started calling himself Blade, after the sharp weapons with which he used to kill vampires. Finally, Blade and Afari split up when Jamal willingly took the fall for murder when Blade killed a man (who was suffering from a derangement), whom he mistook for a vampire.[17]

WWII

In 1943, he joined the Secret Invaders on a mission on the Irish Sea, where he found and destroyed U-666, a Nazi U-Boat being possessed by Mephisto. They turned up late due to fighting the Vampire Luftwaffe.[18]

1968

After stalking the night on his own for a number of years, Blade became a part of a small band of like-minded individuals hunting Dracula consisting of Musenda, Orji, Ogun, and Azu. Blade went to Dracula and told him he represented a group of men who believed that in another sixty years vampires would rule the world, and that realizing humanity had no chance against their "superior," Blade would offer his and his associates assistance to carry on Dracula's bidding during the daytime. Blade further enticed Dracula with this idea telling him that they had facilitated a plan that would speed up global conquest by vampires to only ten years. Intrigued, Dracula agreed to go with Blade to meet his associates. Dracula met these associates: Ogun, Azu, Musenda, and Orji. However, Dracula would soon find that this was all a trap and that they were really a group of vampire killers. They nearly succeeded in destroying Dracula by driving a stake into his heart. It was during this battle that Blade's companion would try out wooden knives of his own design and find that they work just as well as stakes. However, Dracula soon was resurrected by his servants and exacted revenge by murdering the band of vampire hunters, leaving only Musenda and Blade alive.[19]

Mighty Avengers (1970s)

On November 7, 1972, the murder of a bat-like monster in New York brought Blade's attention. When looking for the corpse in a morgue, he discovered Kaluu investigating the body with magic, and attacked him believing him to be a vampire and an enemy. As soon as detective James Lucas, Constance Molina, and Adam Brashear arrived at the scene, the fight was stopped when Blade realized he was among allies. They started investigating the murder as soon as The Bear appeared, and presented herself as the killer of that creature, in self-defense, as she wanted to prevent the Deathwalkers from using it for a sacrifice.[20]

The Bear explained that she herself was the result of a failed attempt of the Deathwalkers to extinguish humanity in 1908 and that they would try to do it again. With the mystery solved, the people present formed the Mighty Avengers, and went to find the Deathwalkers. Kaluu tracked down the magic they used in the werebat to a secret subway below the City Hall. The Mighty Avengers then attacked the Deathwalkers before they could make their sacrifice. After Blade recovered the Talisman of Kamar-Taj, which was required to perform the sacrifice, Adam Brashear caused the subway to collapse above the Deathwalkers. With the Deathwalkers stopped, the team disbanded.[21]

Tomb of Dracula

Eric Brooks (Earth-616) from Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 Vol 1 1 0001 Blade in his original costume When Blade was in need of money, he'd often perform at nightclub in London as trumpeter. With time, he noticed there was a beautiful woman who would never miss his performances and, one night, the two finally met after Blade intervened to protect her from a pimp named Ponce. After this, Blade and the woman, named Safron, became romantically involved.[17]

Still a vampire hunter, Blade would often fight alongside a team led by Quincy Harker, also a great vampire hunter. The company's members included Rachel van Helsing and Frank Drake.[22] Blade and the team battled Dracula and attempted to kill him and rescue Elizabeth Langley.[23] Blade and the hunters chased Dracula across Europe. After being attacked by his thralls they reached Dracula's mortuary. The team managed to outnumber him, and eventually Blade got close enough to the vampire lord to stake him through the heart, effectively killing Dracula.[24][25] However his death was short-lived and he was resurrected by his minions.[26] Blade attempted to once more slay Dracula. Dracula managed to overpower Blade and fed upon the vampire hunter before leaving him for dead.[27] Quincy Harker came across the body of Blade, and seeing that he had been bitten by Dracula, and him to be dead. Quincy Harker got a stake out and prepared to ram it through Blade's heart.[28] Before Quincy could strike, Blade suddenly revived and to Quincy's surprise, Blade has not changed into a vampire. Blade explained that he is immune to vampire bites due to the fact that his mother was bitten by a vampire while Blade was being born. Blade vowed to use his immunity to his advantage.[29] They traveled to London, and at Quincy's home he tried to convince Blade to stay and continue their quest to destroy Dracula. Blade declined the offer, feeling that he should get back on the case of the vampire responsible for killing his mother.[30] Blade returned to the flat that he shared with Safron to find that a vampire had broken in and was attempting to feed upon his girlfriend. Blade easily destroyed her attacker. A friend, Trudy, explained what happened and Blade agreed to go out looking for Dracula. After putting on his vampire hunting gear, Blade went out into the night and was soon attacked by Dracula in his bat form. Dracula knocked him down into the street with a car speeding toward him. Blade battled Dracula across the city, their fight took them to a sporting goods store. Dracula was forced to retreat when Blade managed to partially impale the vampire lord in the chest with a broken ski pole, and then later with one of his wooden daggers. With the battle over, Scotland Yard let Blade walk away from the scene, and he returned home to Safron and Trudy rest and told them he would explain everything in the morning.[31]

When Dracula traveled to Boston, Blade was also there tracking down the vampire who killed his mother. Blade attacked the Vampire but was easily stopped in his tracks by Dracula who demanded that Blade accompany him back to Harold's home to meet with Quincy Harker. Dracula explained he has nothing to do with the murders and that the coven is acting on their own. Blade had no interest in getting involved in their battle with Dr. Sun as he came to destroy the vampire who killed his mother. When Dr. Sun was about to kill Dracula Blade arrived and offered assistance in killing Dr. Sun.[32] The two work together and destroy Dr. Sun. But after the fight Blade threatened Dracula telling him that if he does not help him find his mother's killer he would die by his hands.[33] Dracula refused to be ordered around, leading to a battle between the two.[34]

Hannibal King

Blade, still looking for his mother's killer, found a clue leading to their apartment. Blade attacked the occupant, but the vampire was revealed to be Hannibal King, the vampire detective.[35] Hannibal easily defeated Blade but due to their mutual mission, they decided to work together. They waited in Frost's apartment for his recent victim to rise as a vampire. When he awoke, he explained that he had dug up a coffin containing an exact copy of Blade.[36] Blade and Hannibal King continued their hunt for Deacon Frost, they wondered how Frost intended to take over the world with a duplicate of Blade.[37] After a while alone in London, Safron moved to the United States to stay with Blade in Boston, claiming that London "was a drag" without him there.[38]

Doppelgänger

Blade and King found the "Doppelgänger" and he revealed that he was created to destroy the original.[39] The two fought, but Blade stopped when the two began to fuse together on contact. Hannibal King tried to rush to Blade's rescue, however, he was too late to stop the merger from completing. With the vampire doppelgänger in full control of their unified body, it set its sights on King.[40] The Doppelgänger attacked King, and despite his savage fury, he is easily fought off by King who stabbed the faux-Blade in the chest with one of his own wooden daggers, defenestrating the imitator, allowing Hannibal to escape.[41] King fled from the vampire doppelgänger of Blade and their fight crashed into Dracula's party with Deacon Frost in attendance. Furious of Blade's interruption of his party, Dracula attacked and was shocked to find his longtime vampire hunter foe to be a vampire himself.[42] Blade appears to have the upper hand when he stabs Dracula in the back with one of his wooden daggers. However, Dracula turns around, and mocking the fake Blade's inferior skill to the original impaled the vampire doppelgänger in the chest with a stake, killing him. King enlisted the help of Daimon Hellstrom who exorcised Blade from the Doppelgänger and killed it with King's help. Blade and King eventually caught up with Frost and together they destroyed the Vampire and his vampiric doppelgängers, and forging a lasting friendship.[43]

Eric Brooks (Earth-616) from Blade Vol 2 2 0001 "Daywalker" Nightstalkers

The agency discontinued after Drake left and Blade was committed to a psychiatric hospital following a battle with a temporarily resurrected Dracula. Doctor Strange later arranged the release of Blade so that he could join Drake and King in reforming Borderline Inc. as the Nightstalkers.

The mother of all demons, Lilith, hired Blade's agency to kill Ghost Rider -- the leather-clad, motorcycle-riding Spirit of Vengeance -- and bad-boy Johnny Blaze, the fiery skeleton's former host. After a protracted battle, Blade and company realized they had been duped. The team joined with Ghost Rider and Blaze against Lilith, battling her monstrous minion Meatmarket.[44] Blade, Drake, and King continued their partnership with Ghost Rider and Blaze. Along with Dr. Strange, Morbius the Living Vampire, and the Darkhold Redeemers, they formed the Midnight Sons, a group dedicated to preserving the boundaries between our world and the dark realms. The Midnight Sons clashed with Lilith and her demonspawn, the Lilin, in a supernatural contest with Earth as the prize. The Midnight Sons proved victorious, destroying Lilith and her brood.[45] Blade also rescued his girlfriend Safron Caulder from the Darkholders,[46] but shortly after they grew apart.[47]

Blade's desire to destroy supernatural enemies led him to be tricked into using the Darkhold. As 'Switchblade' he attacked a number of supernatural beings and stole their power in the 'Midnight Massacre'. Eventually, Blade was stopped and another page of the Darkhold was used to restore things back to normal.[3]

The Nightstalkers also battled other threats, such as Hydra's D.O.A. (Department of Occult Affairs).[48]

Upon the eventual weakening of the Montesi Formula, and the return of vampires, Blade encountered and staked a former ally, a now-vampiric Taj Nital. Blade, Drake, and King, who again had become afflicted with vampirism, began their crusade anew to cleanse the world of all bloodsuckers. Blade and his partners clashed with dread lord Varnae, the supposedly first vampire and the demon who had visited the hellish curse upon men. King and Drake were slain in a bloody and futile battle. The loss of his compatriots only strengthened Blade's resolve to rid the world of vampires, regardless of the circumstances of their creation. Following their victory, King was cured of his vampirism. Subsequently, he and King formed a private-investigation firm.[49]

Dracula Returns

Following the dissolution of the Nightstalkers, Blade left Boston and moved to Greenwich Village.[7] At some point before this time, Blade had a daughter with Safron, a girl named Brielle.[13][50]

Deacon Frost teamed up with Marie Laveau to take over organized crime in New Orleans as a staging area for greater conquests. Blade was alerted by Bible John, and the two fought Dracula and later Marie Laveau, who was attempting to resurrect Varnae. It appeared that King and Drake had somehow been merged into Dracula when he was resurrected, but the two had since been freed.[51]

In New Orleans, Deacon captured Blade, Hannibal King, and Brother Voodoo to establish his rep among the undead in a power grab. The heroes freed themselves from the trap and Blade battled Deacon Frost to a stalemate. Deacon escaped and Blade vowed again to hunt him down.[47]

Blade encountered a new type of vampiric creature called a Tryk, which was fearless of vampires and hunted them.[58] The queen of the Tryks was interested in a ceremony which would make Blade her king and an organization called the The Seven was introduced which pursued a policy of 'vampiric equilibrium'. They killed both vampires and the Tryks which prey upon them, but only enough to regulate the numbers of both types. They were upset with Blade's recent escalation of vampire killings, as they didn't want an all-out war spilling over into the streets, so they authorized assassinating him.[59] The Seven revealed that the Queen Cilla of the Tryks wanted Blade for her mate so that she could devour him and produce another queen. Blade went on a date with his new girlfriend Susan and told her that the vampires tricked him into slaying his former lover with a sword by drugging her and outfitting her with contact lenses and fake fangs. The vampires captured Fofo, Blade's weapons supplier, and placed a tracking device on him so that he would lead them to Blade after they dump him in the river. The vampires got the drop on Blade and captured him.[15]

The Tryk captures the Seven agents who were sent to kill Blade while Blade escapes from the vampires. The Tryk brings the agents to his queen after Blade receives some I.D. from them which he traces back to their leader. The boy (since leaders of the Seven age backward) makes Blade the offer of a sword to invade the queen's stronghold and slay them so he can submerge himself in the queen's baths and become fully human.[60]After Blade has sex with Susan, he finds out that she has been the Tryk queen in disguise all along. Blade enters the queen's baths but does not change, so he realizes the leader of the Seven was manipulating him. Blade then destroys the Tryk lair, but the now-pregnant queen escapes. Realizing the Tryk numbers have been so thinned by Blade, the Seven countermands its previous directive to assassinate Blade and let him have a free hand in the field.[12] Blade later helps a woman put to rest her husband who was killed by a vampire being pursued by Blade.[61]

While still in England, Blade dug up his mother's grave and within her casket marked 'Tara Cross' he found a confession she wrote about having been married to Lucas Cross as well as being a member of the Order of Tyrana from whom she had been forced to flee. From Maria Hill he learned that the Order were connected to the Knights of Pendragon of which he also learned Joseph Chapman, the current "Union Jack", was a member as well as a vampire hunter. Chapman was already on Blade's trail and attempted to kill Hannibal for being a vampire. After getting Chapman to spot attacking them and speak with them instead, Blade learned more about the Order, including the fact that they were supposedly good people.[66]

Blade returned to America and tracked his father down to a social club party in Washington, D.C. to get answers. Blade learned his father was a vampire and that everything he had been doing was in service to the prophecy. Blade had distracted his father long enough for Hannibal to obtain a copy of the prophecy, the details of which Blade recognised in his recent actions, including the freeing of his father from a Latverian prison. Blade began working on stopping the prophecy which led him to try and track down Dracula's body, to aid in this he approached Spider-Man in New York City (whose uncle and aunt he was unaware he had once saved from a vampire attack shortly after their marriage). Blade learned more about how Spider-Man was temporarily turned into a vampire, including the fact that Jamal Afari, an old friend and mentor of Blade's who he was forced to kill, had been the vampire to turn him.[67]

Blade spent weeks searching the planet for Jamal but was unable to find him, until his father broke into his home to offer his help. Blade travelled alongside his father and Hannibal to Transylvania where his father assured him they would find Jamal at Castle Dracula according to the prophecy which he believed would give all vampires back their souls. Blade wasn't interested in potentially making vampires invulnerable by returning their souls and refused, at which point his father revealed he had been holding Jamal and would stake him dead if Blade did not cooperate. Desperately wanting the return of his soul, Hannibal turned against Blade who quickly killed him.[68]

Moments after killing friend, Blade was confronted by Dracula who Lucas had returned to life and brokered a deal with. Dracula tried to force Blade to complete the prophecy by returning a piece of the stake used to kill him to the ground of his Castle but Blade refused, causing Dracula to target Jamal in an attempt to Heroes ]

The Mother of Evil

In order to repay a favor he owed to an old acquaintance, Blade accepted a mission to protect a young woman from a masked Cambodian assassin wielding a magic sword. While Blade succeeded in killing the assassin in a duel, the woman he was hired to protect seized the assassin's sword before revealing her identity as the Adana: a primordial eldritch god who could only be stopped by the assassin Blade had just decapitated. Realizing that he'd been duped, Blade immediately tried to slay Adana but was effortlessly defeated by the god instead. Blade woke up thirteen days later in the Cardamom mountains, where he was imprisoned and tortured by a militant sect of warrior occultists as punishment for murdering their champion and dooming the entire world to annihilation at the Adana's hands. Fortunately, a teenage member of the sect named Rotha decided to defect and free Blade from captivity so he could help her stop the Adana's apocalyptic machinations.[105]

In order to obtain another weapon capable of slaying Adana, Blade and Rotha traveled to Japan to recruit the assistance of his ex-girlfriend Tamlyn Hamato or Tulip, a clairvoyant Japanese arms dealer with a history of selling supernatural armaments to the highest bidder. After helping Tulip kill a local Yakuza boss she swindled in an arms deal, Tulip informed Blade and Rotha that Lightbringer, the sword of Lucifer, was the weapon currently on Earth that had the best chance at slaying an eldritch entity like the Adana. But Lightbringer was in the possession of a vampire-turned-war-profiteer named Hamilton Achilles, who locked the sword inside a fortified adamantium train that served as his fortress. Doctor Strange also arrived to confront Blade over his disastrous handling of the crisis, as Adana murdered over a dozen of Stephen's subordinates trying to apprehend her, but Strange agreed to support Blade in his heist to steal Lightbringer.[106]

Boarding the train, Blade slashed his way forward to reach Hamilton and Lightbringer while Tulip and Rotha fought to free the captives kept to serve as livestock for its vampire passengers. While Hamilton attempted to fight Blade over the holy sword, the vampire boss was psychically compelled by the Adana to relinquish the weapon, and he committed suicide immediately afterwards. With Lucifer's flaming sword in his hands, Blade and his allies arrived just in time to confront the Adana while she was conducting a ritual, but it turned out to have been another ruse by the eldritch horror, who duped Blade into delivering Lightbringer to her so she could carry out the next step of her plan.[107]

Blade and his allies failed to stop Adana's ritual, resulting in a "primordial wave" that transformed millions of people across the planet into supernatural horrors. The Adana also bonded a demon to Tulip's soul, forcing the woman to perpetually suffer in agony seemingly to spite Blade. Overcome with guilt and a lust for revenge, Blade forced Doctor Strange to teleport him directly to Adana for a desperate rematch, where she personally revealed to Blade that she had created an entirely new Hell from scratch to both rule over and serve as a display of her regained power. After effortlessly defeating Blade once more, the eldritch god decided to spare his life and cast him out of her Hell.

With the Adana stronger than ever before, the world embroiled in chaos as new supernatural horrors run rampant, and Tulip continuing to suffer from her demonic possession, Blade left both Tulip and Rotha in Doctor Strange's care before traveling back to the vampire nation of Chernobyl. Realizing that he would never be able to defeat something as powerful as the Adana while suppressing his vampiric heritage, Blade decided to swallow his pride and seek mentorship from his oldest enemy: Count Dracula.[108]

After several sparring sessions, Dracula ascertained that the reason Blade failed to stop Adana was because he intentionally limits himself out of hatred for his own vampiric heritage, and that he'll need to start embracing that side of himself if he wants any real chance at defeating her. This culminates in Dracula convincing Blade to drink his blood, permanently evolving the latter into a "Strigoi" of the same caliber as Dracula himself, granting the Daywalker access a whole new suite of supernatural abilities.[109] Blade then came to the aid of Bruce Banner, who had also been embroiled with combating supernatural monstrosities and needed the Daywalker's assistance in dealing with a demon that had possessed a teenager while overrunning a small town with its bloodthirsty kin. So Blade manipulated the demon into leaving the teen's body and lured it and its demonic spawn to the outskirts of the town for the Hulk to safely destroy.[110]

With that matter resolved, Blade and Rotha turned to Satana Hellstrom to send the Daywalker to Hell so he could assemble an army of the damned to march against Adana, a plan that fell apart when a reaper named Abrath the Collector attempted to kill Blade for trespassing into the realm of the dead. Thankfully, the spirit of Draven, the masked assassin Blade mistakenly slew, killed Abrath before he could take Blade's life. Believing that they could potentially destroy Adana if they worked together, the two escaped Hell and began working on the next phase of their plan.[111] Needing a way to get the Adana's attention, Satana pointed Blade to the sacred Archives of the Second World, which if defiled would force all of the supernatural evils of the world to come after him in retaliation. So Blade massacred all of the Archive's occult attendants and leveled the entire facility with explosives, forcing Adana to come after his head in accordance with the rules of the pact.[112]

With Tulip, Rotha, and Draven at his side, Blade slaughtered hordes of supernatural foes who were gunning for him in retaliation for destroying the Archives. After utilizing his new abilities to eliminate another wave of opponents, Satana arrived to reveal that she was able to pinpoint Adana's location and opened a portal to send Blade and his allies to her, but not before warning Blade that, as one of the "Celestial Embodiments of Immortal Evil", the concept of self-preservation didn't mean anything to an entity like the Adana, especially since she has already achieved everything she had set out to do since Draven's death.

Against all odds, Blade and his allies were able to slay Adana's physical avatar with Lucifer's sword after coordinating with one another to pry it from the eldritch entity's possession. But in her dying breaths, Adana boasted how it was already far too late as her countless supernatural creations were still running rampant in the mortal world, and Blade had to corrupt his very being physically and spiritually to best her. Blade sat down and lamented on how the Adana was right in the end and that he would have to dedicate the rest of his life undoing the chaos she had unleashed onto the world, but he invited Tulip to stay by his side and help him slay the horrific monstrosities who still remained.[113]

Blood Hunt

Some time later, Blade came under the full possession of Varnae, essentially losing his body to the first vampire lord, with his consciousness trapped in the backseat of his mind.[114] In preparation for the worldwide vampire invasion, Varnae, pretending to be Blade, went to meet some vampire hunters whom Blade had personally taught and having not raise any suspicion he caught them by surprise and slaughtered them all. The real Blade was forced to watch all of this, shedding a tear for what he was forced to do.[115]

Varnae continued masquerading as Blade, kick-starting the vampire invasion, making quick work of superheroes who would've thwarted his plans early on, and dispatching his minions to capture Brielle since due to being related to Blade could pose a threat to him.[116] Varnae also went to attack the reformed Midnight Sons who were joined by Tulip, but was prevented from killing them by Blade.[117]

Varnae eventually imbued himself with the power of the Darkforce to ascend to godhood,[114] but was soon confronted by the Avengers, Moon Knight, Dracula, Brielle and Miles Morales. The latter two used their blood relation to Varnae and Blade to deal heavy damage to the vampire lord. This paved way for Varnae to be exorcised from Blade's body, freeing Blade from Varnae's possession at last, but was left in an injured state.[118] Blade managed to make a full recovery, and wanting to find peace and forget about what had happened he went to spend some time at a Buddhist temple in Thailand. There he was reunited with Tulip, and the two talked for a while.[119] ADVERTISEMENT

Attributes

Power Grid[133]

Powers

Dhampir Physiology: Blade was born a human/vampire hybrid, the enzymes in Blade's blood made him immune to normal vampire bites, uniquely attuned to sensing the supernatural and resistant to aging. Since being bitten by Morbius, Blade has gained many of the traditional powers of the vampire without developing their weaknesses. He has superhuman strength, senses, and stamina, plus an accelerated healing factor.[120] After drinking the blood of Dracula, Blade became better connected to his power, allowing him to unlock new abilities.[16] Superhuman Senses : Blade's sense of sight and hearing are heightened to levels comparable to those possessed by true vampires. He is capable of seeing objects with perfect clarity at much greater distances than ordinary humans. He retains this same level of clarity even in near-total darkness. His hearing is similarly enhanced, allowing him to detect sounds that an ordinary human can't hear and enable him to hear sounds an ordinary human can hear but at greater distances. Blade is also able to sense the presence of supernatural beings or forces whereas an ordinary human would be oblivious to them.[120] Superhuman Smelling : Blade possesses an incredibly pronounced sense of smell, easily able to discern what's human and what's not even from a good distance away.[121] Jen Walters likened his olfactory senses to that of Wolverine. Superhuman Hearing Superhuman Strength : Blade possesses the strength of a vampire, allowing him to lift about 1 ton due to his half-vampire side. Blade has overpowered a vampiric Spider-Man, routinely makes prodigious jumps of hundreds of feet through the air, and has sufficient strength to easily rip the head off of another vampire with his bare hands.[120] Superhuman Speed : Blade is capable of running and moving at speeds greater than even the finest human athlete. He can also accelerate his movements to cover short distances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see, but he is not as fast as a pure vampire. His reflexes are similarly heightened. He moves so fast that everything else when compared to him, appears to be moving in slow motion. Eric Brooks (Earth-616) from Deadpool Vol 6 28 001 Superhuman Agility : Blade's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. He can leap several feet into the air and is able to move, jump, climb, flip, and run at incredibly fast speeds without difficulty or exhaustion. He can perform above-human parkour feats and virtually always land on his feet. Superhuman Stamina : Blade's musculature generates less lactic acid (i.e. muscle fatigue) during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. He can exert himself at peak capacity for several hours before fatigue begins to impair him.[120] Superhuman Durability : Blade's Vampire/Human Hybrid tissue allows him to sustain physical trauma to a certain extent. He can withstand powerful energy blasts, exposure to temperature extremes, and great impact forces without being injured. He's been seen tanking a blast from Lilith herself and walked away with minor burns and injuries. This also contributes to his healing factor, making him more resistant than a normal human. Regeneration : Blade, like true vampires, possesses an accelerated healing ability that allows him to heal mild to moderate injuries with much greater speed and efficiency than ordinary humans.[120] He is capable of healing from severe slashes and puncture wounds within a matter of minutes to hours depending on the severity of the wound. Wolverine himself stated that his regeneration was almost on par with his during his fight with Blade in the Civil War. However, he is not able to regenerate missing limbs or organs. Contaminant Transferal : Eric can take any kind of ingestible or even metaphysical ailments coursing in the system of another living being, or willingly introduced into his system and pass it along, using the same process that Vampires use to infect others.[122] He used this ability to drain away the infection which remade Robbie Reyes into a more monstrous form of Ghost Rider.[123] Healing : Blade can also use his vampire bite to deliver cures that he has contained within his bloodstream, as he did to nullify the Roxxon B.E.R.S.E.R.K.E.R shocktrooper's hulk-like transformation abilities.[123] Advanced Longevity : Although not a pure vampire, he does have the advantage of being a Hybrid. This includes a Pseudo-Immortality, granting Eric a greatly enhanced lifespan. This has also been noted in the Superhuman Registration act as one of his abilities. Also, no change of his appearance has been seen during his time on earth. Besides losing his hair sometimes.[citation needed] Immunity To Vampire Vulnerabilities: True vampires have numerous and very particular supernatural vulnerabilities, most of which Blade is totally immune to. For instance, Blade is unaffected by direct exposure to sunlight, whereas most vampires are either rendered comatose during the daylight hours or are quickly incinerated when exposed directly to sunlight. Vampires are also highly allergic to silver, supposedly because of the metal's mystical purity. As a result, silver blades or bullets are capable of killing vampires. If not killed, and merely injured, it will take a vampire much longer to heal than if the injury had been inflicted by another material. Blade himself could be injured by a silver weapon, much as an ordinary human would, but his healing powers would be able to heal it as if it were an ordinary wound. Blade is also immune to the effects of religious icons, such as crucifixes, whereas vampires are rendered almost powerless when confronted by them. Appearance Alteration : Blade seemingly possesses the ability to change to & from human form to a more monstrous state of being by force of will.[124] After drinking the blood of Dracula, Blade gained the ability to transform into a swarm of bats, a dark mist, and a wolf.[67][16][64] Animal Form [67] Winged Flight : Blade's transformed state comes with the added proclivity of bat like aviary appendages that enable him to fly around at high speed.[124] Gaseous Form : When in his mist form, Blade is capable of entering the bodies of multiple vampires and cause them to all explode at once.[67] Self-Exorcism: Blade is capable of forcibly removing possessing entities from his own body, such as demons. He can also maintain control over his body while he is possessed.[64] Magic : Though rarely displayed, Blade possesses some skill with magic. He knows one spell that allows him to trap and contain vampires inside a mystical artifact.[125] As Switchblade, Blade was the embodiment of the Demogorge, during this time he was drawn to mystical power and gained numerous new powers, by absorbing them from those he had killed.[120] Vampirism Healing Mystical powers of Modred the Mystic Clairvoyance Lycanthropy Powers of the Spirit of Vengeance Weapon Conjuring Abilities

Master Martial Artist: Blade is a master martial artist proficient in practically every form of weaponry known to man.[120] After training with Jamal Afari and various other private instructors, his main form of combat is a mixture of Boxing, Capoeira, Escrima, Jeet Kune Do, Hapkido, Jujutsu, Shotokan Karate, Kung Fu, and Ninjutsu.[citation needed] He is also proficient in krav maga.[63] Expert Marksman: He can throw most projectile weaponry with great aim and is well-versed in the use of firearms.[120] Expert Swordsman: His particular specialty is the use of edged weapons, be they teakwood daggers or swords.[120] Weapons Proficiency: Blade is practically proficient in every form of weaponry known to man. His particular speciality is the use of edged weapons, be they teakwood daggers or swords. Blade is a master in the use of small bladed weapons and can hurl knives with great accuracy. Blade also shows great skill with firearms, including both automatic and semi-automatic, which he often modifies to fire hollow-point, garlic-filled silver bullets.[120] Occult Knowledge: Blade has exceptional knowledge and understanding of magic and the supernatural. He was capable of quickly identifying a demon by its attributes.[4] As Spider Hero, he showed exceptional magical knowledge, as he assumed Photon's mimicry of Shuma-Gorath's magic sigils would buy them time. He also guided Power Man to utilize his Chi in greater and more diverse ways than ever before.[84] Intimidation: Blade is well-known and feared among vampires and other supernatural beings who are hesitant about ever facing him in combat or invoking his wrath. Multilingual: Blade is fluent in English, German, Romanian, and Japanese. He might be lingual in other languages.[citation needed] Expert Vehicular Driver: He is proficient in driving cars, motorcycles, and various other vehicles when needed.[citation needed] Weaknesses

Blade does possess one weakness common to all vampires: the need to ingest fresh blood in order to stay alive. However, rather than consume blood, he ingests or injects a specially designed serum that provides even better nourishment that blood would provide. If Blade doesn't drink the serum for an extended period of time, he will weaken and his self-control will be stretched. He would be forced to attack a human and consume his or her blood if this period is more than a week. Blade does have a special meditation to maintain his self-control and a huge amount of blood-serum in his inventory. One serum is enough for 24 hours of extended combat or he can use it to quickly recover from grave wounds. However, an extended period of time without consuming either blood or the serum could prove fatal.[126][120] Vulnerability to Red Sunlight: While not affected by normal (yellow) sunlight and immune to all the weaknesses of traditional vampires, Blade has been shown to be vulnerable to red sunlight which is able to burn his skin. Longer exposure to red sunlight can be fatal.[127] Weapons

Blade's Swords: Blade uses a small arsenal of weapons: teakwood daggers; Adamantium, acid-etched swords; Kevlar body armor; automatic and semi-automatic firearms converted for use with hollow-point, garlic-filled silver bullets; and a variety of portable, custom-designed weapons that employ silver, garlic, sunlight, ultraviolet rays, and anticoagulants.[120]

• Justiciar: A powerful sword forged by the Blood that Blade used to defeat Zarathos.[129] Lightbringer: Lucifer's original sword which Blade claimed to fight the Adana.[106] Transportation

Motorcycle

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