History Film / BladeTrinity

* PeopleFarm: Blade and friends discover a facility where the vampires are keeping racks of comatose people alive to harvest for blood. It's revealed that this is their plan to survive once they dominate the human world.

* SuicideBySunlight

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The Nightstalkers are hoping that they can use the Daystar virus to wipe out not just the featured vampire bad guys but ''all'' of the vampire race, once the virus is completed with Drake's blood (and the plan actually succeeds in one of the alternate endings). On one hand, [[Film/Blade1998 the first movie]] was pretty clear that vampires are AlwaysChaoticEvil monsters, regardless of who they used to be when they were human; on the other hand, the first movie also showed that some if not most elite vampires are more reasonable and pragmatic than the trilogy's antagonists, willing to maintain the status quo of living alongside humanity without usurping us. The moral and ethical questions about whether or not the Nightstalkers' plan for total vampire extermination is really justified get more disturbing in light of [[Series/BladeTheSeries the sequel TV series]]' introduction of the House of Leichen[[note]]A vampire house which strictly swears off killing and whose members subsist on cloned blood, although this is more a matter of spirituality than morality[[/note]] -- however, it should also be noted that even the series makes it clear that the only really "good" vampires whose personalities aren't twisted out of shape after turning are ones who've subsisted mainly on Blade's blood-substitute serum more than actual blood since being turned, and there wasn't any such vampire in existence before Krista Starr was turned during the series.

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler:When Dracula cuts a bloody swathe through Nightstalker HQ, he makes sure to leave Sommerfield's half-naked and mutilated body strung up with a message for the heroes to find. [[{{Understatement}} This just pisses them off]].]]

* EveryoneOwnsAMac: EVERYONE uses Mac computers, and even features a scene where Jessica Biel's character uses iTunes to create a music playlist for her iPod that she can listen to while fighting vampires (never mind that having music blaring into your ears would be detrimental to your situational awareness in a battle with undead blood suckers). More than one reviewer has commented that the film is basically a two hour long commercial for Apple products.

* FourLinesAllWaiting: Is it about vigilante Blade versus [[LesCollaborateurs human law enforcement]], the upcoming blood-farming vampire apocalypse, the Nightstalkers's attempt to create his ''own'' apocalypse via TheVirus, or the symbolic war of Blade vs. {{Dracula}}? Concentrating on any [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two of these plotlines]] would have worked, but not four. Wesley Snipes was reportedly very upset that the core character was lost in the plot shuffle.
* GodzillaThreshold: The act of seeking out Drake is this for the vampires. Apparently Blade's success in hunting and killing high level vampires has shaken their world to the point of desperation. So now the plan has become to use Drake's blood to become daywalkers, wipe out the humans entirely and live off of blood farms.

* InconvenientlyVanishingExoneratingEvidence: Inverted, as Blade is tricked into killing a familiar instead of a vampire, so that the body doesn't disintegrate in the sunlight.
* IndustrializedEvil: [[spoiler:The vampires' 'final solution'.]]
* InNameOnly: Hannibal King. In [[ComicBook/{{Blade}} the comics]] he is a middle aged (in appearance) [[VampireDetective Vampire 50's style hard boiled private investigator]]. In the film he is 20 or so year old wise cracking vampire hunter who was cured of vampirism before the film began. Most of the change is probably down to the [[Creator/RyanReynolds casting]].

* MonsterProgenitor: Drake ([[spoiler:Dracula]]) is the first vampire.

* OhCrap: When Hannibal sees Dr Vance standing over his own corpse, he fumbles for his gun, shouting "Oh Jesus, it's him! Abby! It's Drake!"

** Theatrical ending: As Blade fought honorably, Drake gives him a "parting gift" by transforming his dying body into a replica of Blade's. The FBI retrieves the body of who they think is Blade, and thus call off their manhunt. Just as they begin the autopsy, Blade's body reverts into that of Drake's. Hannibal's voiceover tells the viewer that Blade is still alive somewhere, finishing the last struggles of the war; having rejected Drake's hopes of prolonging the vampire race, Blade's war will never end.
** Unrated ending: The body retrieved by the FBI is Blade's, but he's not really dead. Drake's body is nowhere to be seen, hinting at his survival too. At the morgue, Blade sits up abruptly, attacks the FBI agents, and appears ready to bite a nurse on the neck. The ending is ambiguous as to whether Blade has retained his humanity or given in to his vampire thirst as Drake predicted. This is the ending seen on the director's cut of the film, and commentary on the DVD indicates it was the ending director Goyer intended.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The audience is led to believe that Blade died fighting Drake/Dracula, but just before the credits roll, Drake is still alive, and the audience sees Blade riding away on his motorcycle, set to fight again another day. This actually depends on which cut you're watching.]]

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Instead of the film focusing on Blade, a group of hunters get the most attention with Blade showing up, every-now-and-again. The film suffered a huge backlash by the fans because of this and Wesley Snipes even sued, claiming they were whitewashing him for his own film franchise. However, given the myriad of rumours that Wesley Snipes ''allegedly'' couldn't be bothered to show up on set most of the time, leaving his stunt double having to perform most of the filming in his place; if true, then it's not entirely surprising that Blade ultimately doesn't appear much.

* TheOlderImmortal: Drake ([[spoiler:Dracula]]), due to being the first of his kind, is the oldest vampire in existence.

* VaginaDentata: Danica Talos' fangs are NOT in her mouth, at least according to Hannibal King.
* VillainDecay: The vampires, with the sole exception of [[WorldsStrongestMan Drake]], in this movie are...really fucking lame. They're incompetent, immature and you never really get the sense that they pose a threat to Blade or any of the Nightstalkers. It's a bad sign when the cops are the second most dangerous entity in a film with Dracula.

* WorthyOpponent: Drake [[spoiler:[[RunningGag (Count Dracula)]]]] is far more interested in fighting Blade due to his reputation than for any reason related to helping his debased great-great-great grandspawn.
* YouHaveFailedMe: A familiar tries to avoid talking to Blade by insisting that he'll be killed for doing so. Blade angrily points out that ''he'' has no problem killing the familiar himself, and will in fact enjoy it more.

* FinalSolution: Both the heroes and the villains have a plan to end the conflict between humans and vampires by wiping out the opposing race.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Instead of the film focusing on Blade, a group of hunters get the most attention with Blade showing up, every-now-and-again. The film suffered a huge backlash by the fans because of this and Wesley Snipes even sued, claiming they were whitewashing him for his own film franchise. However, given the myriad of rumours that Wesley Snipes ''[[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement allegedly]]'' couldn't be bothered to show up on set most of the time, leaving his stunt double having to perform most of the filming in his place; if true, then it's not entirely surprising that Blade ultimately doesn't appear much.

* StuffedInTheFridge: [[spoiler:When Dracula cuts a bloody swathe through Nightstalker HQ, he makes sure to leave Sommerfield's half-naked and mutilated body strung up with a message for the heroes to find. [[{{Understatement}} This just pisses them off]].]]

* OhCrap: When Hannibal sees Dr Vance standing over his own corpse, he fumbles for his gun, shouting "Oh Jesus, it's him! Abbey! It's Drake!"

* VaginaDentata: Danica Talos's fangs are NOT in her mouth, at least according to Hannibal King.

* FlowerMouth: The "vampire dogs" have a bottom jaw that splits into two halves.

* IdiotBall: Blade is fooled into killing a human familiar disguised as a vampire, despite having the instincts to distinguish between the two! Remember that in the first movie he could smell a vampire from roughly 40 feet away, and can even differentiate vampire and human by the way they move, so there is no way he should have been fooled.

* ProductPlacement: All the computers are Apple brand. The fact that Abigail likes to listen to an iPod while fighting vamps is made into a character trait. There's even a little montage of her putting together a playlist. This inspired quite a few groans.

* RepeatedCueTardyResponse: Hannibal King is captured by the villains and reveals that he had a tracking device, allowing his teammates to know his exact location. He then gives a verbal cue, expecting a Big Damn Heroes moment. It doesn't come and he nervously asks for a cellphone.

** Unrated ending: The body retrieved by the FBI is Blade's, but he's not really dead. Drake's body is nowhere to be seen, hinting at his survival. At the morgue, Blade sits up abruptly, attacks the FBI agents, and appears ready to bite a nurse on the neck. The ending is ambiguous as to whether Blade has retained his humanity or given in to his vampire thirst as Drake predicted. This is the ending seen on the director's cut of the film, and commentary on the DVD indicates it was the ending director Goyer intended.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Instead of the film focusing on Blade, a group of hunters get the most attention with Blade showing up, every-now-and-again. The film suffered a huge backlash by the fans because of this and Wesley Snipes even sued, claiming they were whitewashing him for his own film franchise. However, given the myriad of rumours that Wesley Snipes ''[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement allegedly]]'' couldn't be bothered to show up on set most of the time, leaving his stunt double having to perform most of the filming in his place; if true, then it's not entirely surprising that Blade ultimately doesn't appear much.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The third film features nearly subliminal use of Esperanto to make the setting seem a little off and vaguely foreign. This is most noticeable when Hannibal watches the Esperanto language horror film ''Incubus'' in his hospital bed, starring Creator/WilliamShatner pre-''Franchise/StarTrek''.

* IdiotBall: Blade is fooled into killing a human disguised as a vampire, despite having the instincts to distinguish between the two! Remember that in the first movie he could smell a vampire from roughly 40 feet away, and can even differentiate vampire and human by the way they move, so there is no way he should have been fooled.

* InNameOnly: Hannibal King in the third film. In [[ComicBook/{{Blade}} the comics]] he is a middle aged (in appearance) [[VampireDetective Vampire 50's style hard boiled private investigator]]. In the film he is 20 or so year old wise cracking vampire hunter who was cured of vampirism before the film began. Most of the change is probably down to the [[Creator/RyanReynolds casting]].

* KryptoniteProofSuit: Anti-sun excursion suits in the third film.
* LighterAndSofter: This installment is much cornier than the first two.

* VaginaDentata: Danica Talos's fangs are NOT in her mouth... at least according to Hannibal King.

* YouHaveFailedMe: A Familiar tries to avoid talking to Blade by insisting that he'll be killed for doing so. Blade angrily points out that ''he'' has no problem killing the Familiar himself, and will in fact enjoy it more.

* CasualHighDrop: When being broken out of the FBI building by Abigail and Hannibal King, Blade briefly breaks of from the group and jumps up a ventilation shaft. Immediately after Hannibal and Abigail escape on the ground floor, Blade jumps out of a higher window and lands unharmed, saying he only took the detour because he "forgot his sword".

* BigBad: Drake ([[spoiler:{{Dracula}}]])

* FinalSolution: Both the heroes and the villains have one planned.

* GrandFinale: Intended as this in many ways.

* HeroSecretService: The Nightstalkers

* MonsterProgenitor: Drake ([[spoiler:Dracula]]).

* SmugSnake: Drake.

* TheOlderImmortal: Drake ([[spoiler:Dracula]])