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* EvilLawyerJoke: See the entry under AmoralAttorney above.
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* AlasPoorVillain: The death of [[spoiler:[[TragicMonster Prince Nomak]], who was driven to [[CallingTheOldManOut kill his father]] out of revenge for making him the first [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Reaper]]. In a final battle, he is stabbed in the heart and chooses to drive the blade in further to end his suffering. Tellingly, he does so [[GoOutWithASmile with a smile]].]]
** What's more, his final line makes it clear that his condition as a Reaper leaves him in constant pain, which is likely why he was so eager to confront Blade as often as he did.
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* AlasPoorVillain: The death of [[spoiler:[[TragicMonster Prince Nomak]], [[spoiler:Nomak]], who was driven to [[CallingTheOldManOut kill his father]] out of revenge for making him the first [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Reaper]]. In a final battle, he is stabbed in the heart and chooses to drive the blade in further to end his suffering. Tellingly, he does so [[GoOutWithASmile with a smile]].]]
** What's more, his final line makes it clear that his condition as a Reaper leaves him in constant pain, which is likely why he was so eager to confront Blade as often as he did.
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* AntiClimax: The resolution of the rivalry between Blade and Reinhardt. Somewhat mitigated by the fact that it ''is'' very cool... but considering the conflict between them had been building for the entire movie, while Blade had only a single scene previous with Nomak, it still feels like a bit of a letdown.
** Though it is very much in tune with their previous interactions in the movie; Reinhardt smugly antagonizes Blade and Blade effortlessly retaliates and humiliates Reinhardt in return. Really, if Reinhardt (who got owned by ''Whistler'' a couple scenes back) put up anything of a real fight, it would have clashed with the rest of the movie.
** The problem was probably that Reinhardt was played by Creator/RonPerlman. In the first film, Quinn was a similar loudmouthed pushover who spent his every other appearance being humiliated by Blade. If the actor had been less prominent, then the scene where he [[spoiler:pulls the bomb off the back of his neck]] would've looked a hell of a lot cooler, rather than being a shrug-worthy sequence that led up to a pathetic final confrontation.
** Though it is very much in tune with their previous interactions in the movie; Reinhardt smugly antagonizes Blade and Blade effortlessly retaliates and humiliates Reinhardt in return. Really, if Reinhardt (who got owned by ''Whistler'' a couple scenes back) put up anything of a real fight, it would have clashed with the rest of the movie.
** The problem was probably that Reinhardt was played by Creator/RonPerlman. In the first film, Quinn was a similar loudmouthed pushover who spent his every other appearance being humiliated by Blade. If the actor had been less prominent, then the scene where he [[spoiler:pulls the bomb off the back of his neck]] would've looked a hell of a lot cooler, rather than being a shrug-worthy sequence that led up to a pathetic final confrontation.
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* AntiClimax: The resolution of the rivalry feud between Blade and Reinhardt. Somewhat mitigated by the fact that it ''is'' very cool... but considering the conflict between them had been building for the entire movie, while Blade had only a single scene previous with Nomak, it still feels like a bit of a letdown.
** Though it is very much in tune with their previous interactions in the movie;Reinhardt smugly antagonizes Blade and Blade effortlessly retaliates and humiliates Reinhardt in return. Really, if Reinhardt (who got owned by ''Whistler'' a couple scenes back) put up anything of a real fight, it would have clashed is resolved abruptly to make room for the more plot-relevant confrontation with the rest of the movie.
** The problem was probably that Reinhardt was played by Creator/RonPerlman. In the first film, Quinn was a similar loudmouthed pushover who spent his every other appearance being humiliated by Blade. If the actor had been less prominent, then the scene where he [[spoiler:pulls the bomb off the back of his neck]] would've looked a hell of a lot cooler, rather than being a shrug-worthy sequence that led up to a pathetic final confrontation.Nomak.
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** The problem was probably that Reinhardt was played by Creator/RonPerlman. In the first film, Quinn was a similar loudmouthed pushover who spent his every other appearance being humiliated by Blade. If the actor had been less prominent, then the scene where he [[spoiler:pulls the bomb off the back of his neck]] would've looked a hell of a lot cooler, rather than being a shrug-worthy sequence that led up to a pathetic final confrontation.
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** What's more, his final line makes it clear that his condition as a Reaper leaves him in constant pain, which is likely why he was so eager to confront Blade as often as he did.
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** Earlier, a Reaper does this with Snowman's katana. He simply pulls it away, injuring the Reaper's hands.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Nyssa calls her father out for using her and her pack as bait, and for creating the Reapers. [[ShutUpKirk Then Damaskinos strangles her to be quiet]].]]
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* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Nyssa calls her father out for using her and her pack as bait, and for creating the Reapers. [[ShutUpKirk Reapers using his own son. Then Damaskinos strangles her to be quiet]].quiet, [[ShutUpKirk telling her the survival of their race is more important to him than his own family]].]]
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* KryptoniteProofSuit: The Bloodpack's InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja outfits from the opening fight scene.
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* SamusIsAGirl: This seemed to be the idea behind Nyssa's first scene. It didn't quite work. In fact, it would probably count as a genuinely surprising subversion of this trope if an armored antagonist were to wordlessly, facelessly appear, go toe-to-toe with the male protagonist using acrobatic moves, and then be revealed to ''not'' be female.
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* SamusIsAGirl: This seemed to be ''may'' have been the idea behind Nyssa's first scene. It didn't quite work.scene (though even before we see her face, it's reasonably easy to see that she has breasts), but it was fairly easy to see coming regardless. In fact, it would probably count as a genuinely surprising subversion of this trope if an armored antagonist were to wordlessly, facelessly appear, go toe-to-toe with the male protagonist using acrobatic moves, and then be revealed to ''not'' be female.
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* AlienBlood: In the second film; caused by ExecutiveMeddling from the censors. For some reason they needed to have some of the characters bleed green to get an R rating, even if there's gallons upon gallons of red-coloured gore anyway.
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* AlienBlood: In the second film; caused Caused by ExecutiveMeddling from the censors. For some reason they needed to have some of the characters bleed green to get an R rating, even if there's gallons upon gallons of red-coloured gore anyway.
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* BarehandedBladeBlock: [[spoiler:Blade does this in the second film. Even bringing the blade ''toward'' his face afterwards whilst his opponent struggles to push it through his hands.]]
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* BrickJoke: The fate of [[spoiler: Rush]] in the second movie. This also happens midway through in a [[FreezeFrameBonus blink and you'll miss it]] encounter in the House of Pain.
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* BrickJoke: The fate of [[spoiler: Rush]] in the second movie.Rush]]. This also happens midway through in a [[FreezeFrameBonus blink and you'll miss it]] encounter in the House of Pain.
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* LockAndLoadMontage: Used to show Blade loading up during the opening credits of the second film. A second occurs before Blade and the Blood Pack begin the hunt in the sewers, during this one Whistler and the Blood Pack are shown loading guns, prepping weapons, and donning armor.
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* LockAndLoadMontage: Used to show Blade loading up during the opening credits of the second film.credits. A second occurs before Blade and the Blood Pack begin the hunt in the sewers, during this one Whistler and the Blood Pack are shown loading guns, prepping weapons, and donning armor.
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* TheMole: The second movie: [[spoiler:Scud, though Blade already knew about him]].
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* TheMole: The second movie: [[spoiler:Scud, though Blade already knew about him]].
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** Throughout the first half of the movie, Scud is wearing a T-shirt with the {{ComicBook/BPRD}} logo from the ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' series. The catch is that Blade 2 came out two years before the first Hellboy movie came out. Apparently, Creator/GuillermoDelToro was thinking ahead to greener pastures and better movies.
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** Throughout the first half of the movie, Scud is wearing a T-shirt with the {{ComicBook/BPRD}} logo from the ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' series. The catch is that Blade 2 came out two years before the first Hellboy movie came out. Apparently, Creator/GuillermoDelToro was thinking ahead to greener pastures and better movies.ahead.
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* VaginaDentata: The Vampire Hunters have faces like the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' which give their victims a [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong Face Full Of Vampire Wing-Wong]].
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** Throughout the first half of the movie, Scud is wearing a T-shirt with the {{BPRD}} logo from the ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' series. The catch is that Blade 2 came out two years before the first Hellboy movie came out. Apparently, Creator/GuillermoDelToro was thinking ahead to greener pastures and better movies.
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** Throughout the first half of the movie, Scud is wearing a T-shirt with the {{BPRD}} {{ComicBook/BPRD}} logo from the ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' series. The catch is that Blade 2 came out two years before the first Hellboy movie came out. Apparently, Creator/GuillermoDelToro was thinking ahead to greener pastures and better movies.
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** Throughout the first half of the movie, Scud is wearing a T-shirt with the {{BPRD}} logo from the {{Hellboy}} series. The catch is that Blade 2 came out two years before the first Hellboy movie came out. Apparently, GuillermoDelToro was thinking ahead to greener pastures and better movies.
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** Throughout the first half of the movie, Scud is wearing a T-shirt with the {{BPRD}} logo from the {{Hellboy}} ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' series. The catch is that Blade 2 came out two years before the first Hellboy movie came out. Apparently, GuillermoDelToro Creator/GuillermoDelToro was thinking ahead to greener pastures and better movies.
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* AchillesHeel: The Reapers have two. Firstly they're still vulnerable to sunlight, and in fact may be even ''more'' vulnerable given that the "sunlight bomb" detonated late in the film kills dozens of Reapers yet only manages to give Reinhardt what look like second-degree burns. Secondly their metabolism is so fast that unless they feed regularly they starve to death within a few days.
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* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler:After she's infected by the Reaper virus, Nyssa Damaskinos asks Blade to carry her out in the open just before dawn so she can see the sunlight and die while she's still a vampire. When the sun comes up she disintegrates in his arms.]]
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* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler:After SuicideBySunlight:
** When being pursued by the Reaper-ized [[spoiler:Lighthammer]], [[spoiler:Verlaine]] chooses this over the prospect of being infected herself.
** After she's infected by the Reaper virus,Nyssa Damaskinos [[spoiler:Nyssa Damaskinos]] asks Blade to carry her out in the open just before dawn so she can see the sunlight and die while she's still a vampire. When the sun comes up she disintegrates in his arms.]]
** When being pursued by the Reaper-ized [[spoiler:Lighthammer]], [[spoiler:Verlaine]] chooses this over the prospect of being infected herself.
** After she's infected by the Reaper virus,
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* OutrunningTheFireball: Blade and Nyssa outrun the "fireball" created by a big box of "light grenades." Quite aside from the question of how these light grenades caused an explosion in the first place (or indeed, how the "blast front" flows round a curve of a tunnel in spite of the fact that light beams travel in straight lines) one wonders how fast Wesley Snipes must have been running, considering that light travels at the speed of - well - light...
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* OutrunningTheFireball: Blade and Nyssa outrun the "fireball" created by a big box of "light grenades." Quite aside from the question of how these light grenades caused an explosion in the first place (or indeed, how the "blast front" flows round a curve of a tunnel in spite of the fact that light beams travel in straight lines) one wonders how fast Wesley Snipes must have been running, running, [[ArtisticLicensePhysics considering that light travels at the speed of - well - light...]]
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* LockAndLoadMontage: Used to show Blade loading up during the opening credits of the second film.
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* LockAndLoadMontage: Used to show Blade loading up during the opening credits of the second film. A second occurs before Blade and the Blood Pack begin the hunt in the sewers, during this one Whistler and the Blood Pack are shown loading guns, prepping weapons, and donning armor.
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* TransformationAtTheSpeedOfPlot: A new strain of vampire virus creates Reapers. The transformation from a vampire to a Reaper is shown early in the movie to take place quickly with considerable pain and BodyHorror. However, [[spoiler: Nyssa]] gets plenty of time to watch Blade's fight and then the sunrise.
** Although Priest changes in about twenty minutes. [[spoiler: Nyssa]] only has five.
** Although Priest changes in about twenty minutes. [[spoiler: Nyssa]] only has five.
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* LighterAndSofter: Averted. Blade II plays up its campiness a bit more, but is also more of a horror film than the original.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Reinhardt has a neo-Nazi look about him and asks Blade if he can blush.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Reinhardt has a neo-Nazi look about him and asks Blade if he can blush. This was based on a real incident experienced by Snipes.
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* YouWillBeSpared: As listed in BrickJoke, Rush is let go as Blade says that "he'll see him later". In the very last scene he does it, with hilarious results.
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* YouWillBeSpared: As listed in BrickJoke, Rush is let go as Blade says that "he'll he'll see him later".later. In the very last scene he does it, with hilarious results.
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* UnwittingPawn: Subverted. The EvilOverlord's AffablyEvil daughter mocks the eponymous protagonist for agreeing to a meeting with his enemies too easily, but quickly shuts her trap when its revealed he was prepared to kill them all with a LOT of carry-on explosives at the first sign of treachery. Later in the movie, when TheMole reveals himself and gloats at the heroes' gullibility, Blade corrects him by stating that he knew of his duplicity from the beginning, a fact he illustrates in [[YourHeadASplode explosive fashion]].
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** Although Priest changes in about twenty minutes. [[spoiler: Nyssa]] only has five.
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* CoolShades: Blade slips on his signature sunglasses (thrown to him by Whistler, no less) [[spoiler:right after he takes out Reinhardt.]]
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* GunsAkimbo: Blade, Nyssa, Reinhardt, at one point even Scud shows up wielding a gun in each hand.
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* TheOlderImmortal: Eli Damaskinos is a vampire lord who seems to have been around since the dawn of their race.
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* TheOlderImmortal: Eli DamaskinosTakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: Played with. One of the Blood Pack has a small explosive in the back of his skull, courtesy of Blade. [[spoiler: It is revealed that Whistler's replacement, Scud, is TheMole and the supposed explosive he provided is a dud]]. Scud pulls out the explosive for some quality gloating time. Blade promptly [[spoiler:reveals that he knew Scud was a traitor, "and no, it's not a dud." He hits the detonator and Scud is killed in the explosion]].
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Nyssa Damaskinos is the daughter of Overlord Eli Damaskinos, one of the rulers of the vampire nation. Despite this, she is a member of the Blood Pack, an elite team of vampire warriors trained to hunt Blade. She actually gives him a pretty good run during their first encounter. It is also made clear that her father does not put a lot of stock in family.
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* AlasPoorVillain: The death of [[TragicMonster Prince Nomak]], who was driven to [[CallingTheOldManOut kill his father]] out of revenge for making him the first [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Reaper]]. In a final battle, he is stabbed in the heart and chooses to drive the blade in further to end his suffering. Tellingly, he does so [[GoOutWithASmile with a smile]].
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* AlasPoorVillain: The death of [[TragicMonster [[spoiler:[[TragicMonster Prince Nomak]], who was driven to [[CallingTheOldManOut kill his father]] out of revenge for making him the first [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Reaper]]. In a final battle, he is stabbed in the heart and chooses to drive the blade in further to end his suffering. Tellingly, he does so [[GoOutWithASmile with a smile]].]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: The death of [[TragicMonster Prince Nomak]], who was driven to [[CallingTheOldManOut kill his father]] out of revenge for making him the first [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Reaper]]. In a final battle, he is stabbed in the heart and chooses to drive the blade in further to end his suffering. Tellingly, he does so [[GoOutWithASmile with a smile]].
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* BlackHelicopter: Blade is carried to a meeting with a vampire lord in ''Film/BladeII'' by a black helicopter.
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''Blade II'' is the second film in the ''Film/{{Blade}}'' movie series. It was directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro.
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''Blade II'' is the second film in the ''Film/{{Blade}}'' movie series. ''Film/BladeTrilogy''. It was released in 2002 and directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro.
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Following on from the first film, Blade (Wesley Snipes) continues to hunt down vampires in Central Europe and is reunited with Whistler after the vampires kept him alive on life support and moved him around to evade Blade's pursuit. The vampire leadership contact Blade to ask for [[EnemyMine his help to battle an even greater foe]]. A new breed of supervampires named the Reapers have spawned from Jared Nomak, the original carrier, and have started devouring and turning vampires en masse. Blade teams up with the special united the Bloodpack to defeat the Reapers before they have finished with the vampires and move on to wiping out mankind.
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Following on from the first film, Blade (Wesley Snipes) continues to hunt down vampires in Central Europe and is reunited with Whistler after the vampires kept him alive on life support and moved him around to evade Blade's pursuit. The vampire leadership contact Blade to ask for [[EnemyMine his help to battle an even greater foe]]. A new breed of supervampires named the Reapers have spawned from Jared Nomak, the original carrier, and have started devouring and turning vampires en masse. Blade teams up with the special united vampire unit the Bloodpack to defeat destroy the Reapers before they have finished with the vampires and move on to wiping out mankind.
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* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: Novak stands at the top of a staircase that is littered with fallen security guards. Director Guillermo del Toro acknowledges it as an homage to Frazetta in the commentary.
* CradlingYourKill: [[spoiler:Blade carries Nyssa (who was infected with the Reaper virus) outside at sunrise to [[SuicideBySunlight honor her last wish to see the sunlight, and die as a vampire.]]]]
* FreeFallFight: Blade and Nomak fall off a gantry mid-fight and fall all the way to the floor, each still grappling and punching all the way down.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Lighthammer and his lover Verlaine, two vampire members of the Bloodpack.
* LaserSight: Blade has a little competition with one of the Blood Pack; he draws his pistol and aims at Blade's heart, thinking how easy it would be to shoot him. Turns out Blade has already done the same to him. We're let in on exactly what they're thinking by their laser sights.
* MercyKill: One of the Blood Pack is bitten by a Reaper, and is quickly mutating into one of them. The others demand he be put out of his misery, so he's shot twice in the chest. However, he's mutated far enough that the silver bullets won't do the trick. Then a guy cuts half his head off, which also fails. Blade finally shoots a hole in the ceiling so sunlight will do the job.
* MixAndMatchWeapon: Reinhardt carries a pair of Beretta pistols that have huge blades extending from the grips to the end of the barrel, allowing them to be used as guns or knives. According to the weapon's designer [=TyRuben=] Ellingson the weapon was originally designed for Blade but was given to Reinhardt during production.
* MixAndMatchWeapon: Reinhardt carries a pair of Beretta pistols that have huge blades extending from the grips to the end of the barrel, allowing them to be used as guns or knives. According to the weapon's designer [=TyRuben=] Ellingson the weapon was originally designed for Blade but was given to Reinhardt during production.
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* MixAndMatchWeapon: Reinhardt carries a pair of Beretta pistols that have huge blades extending from the grips to the end of the barrel, allowing them to be used as guns or knives. According to the weapon's designer [=TyRuben=] Ellingson the weapon was originally designed for Blade but was given to Reinhardt during production.
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* MixAndMatchWeapon: Reinhardt carries MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The Reapers don't necessarily have ''more'' teeth than a pair of Beretta pistols human being, but their odd placement sure makes it look that have huge blades extending from the grips to the end of the barrel, allowing them to be used as guns or knives. According to the weapon's designer [=TyRuben=] Ellingson the weapon was originally designed for Blade but was given to Reinhardt during production.way.
* ObiWanMoment: The film gives the same moment to a villain after long, eventful battle with Blade: "It hurts. It hurts no more." -- as he actually slides the knife deeper into his heart himself.
* OhCrap: TheMole is playing with a bomb he thinks is a dud... only it's not a dud, and Blade reveals he was on to him from the start, and presses a second button on the detonator...
* OutrunningTheFireball: Blade and Nyssa outrun the "fireball" created by a big box of "light grenades." Quite aside from the question of how these light grenades caused an explosion in the first place (or indeed, how the "blast front" flows round a curve of a tunnel in spite of the fact that light beams travel in straight lines) one wonders how fast Wesley Snipes must have been running, considering that light travels at the speed of - well - light...
* OhCrap: TheMole is playing with a bomb he thinks is a dud... only it's not a dud, and Blade reveals he was on to him from the start, and presses a second button on the detonator...
* OutrunningTheFireball: Blade and Nyssa outrun the "fireball" created by a big box of "light grenades." Quite aside from the question of how these light grenades caused an explosion in the first place (or indeed, how the "blast front" flows round a curve of a tunnel in spite of the fact that light beams travel in straight lines) one wonders how fast Wesley Snipes must have been running, considering that light travels at the speed of - well - light...
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Bloodpack are an elite group of vampire warriors formed to hunt down Blade. Ironically, they're only introduced to team up with Blade against the BigBad. Ultimately some of them remain villains throughout the shaky alliance.
* RealMenWearPink: The vampire Chupa is shown watching ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''. Whistler nicknames him "Buttercup".
* SamusIsAGirl: This seemed to be the idea behind Nyssa's first scene. It didn't quite work. In fact, it would probably count as a genuinely surprising subversion of this trope if an armored antagonist were to wordlessly, facelessly appear, go toe-to-toe with the male protagonist using acrobatic moves, and then be revealed to ''not'' be female.
* RealMenWearPink: The vampire Chupa is shown watching ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''. Whistler nicknames him "Buttercup".
* SamusIsAGirl: This seemed to be the idea behind Nyssa's first scene. It didn't quite work. In fact, it would probably count as a genuinely surprising subversion of this trope if an armored antagonist were to wordlessly, facelessly appear, go toe-to-toe with the male protagonist using acrobatic moves, and then be revealed to ''not'' be female.
* TransformationAtTheSpeedOfPlot: A new strain of vampire virus creates Reapers. The transformation from a vampire to a Reaper is shown early in the movie to take place quickly with considerable pain and BodyHorror. However, [[spoiler: Nyssa]] gets plenty of time to watch Blade's fight and then the sunrise.
* VaginaDentata: The Vampire Hunters have faces like the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' which give their victims a [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong Face Full Of Vampire Wing-Wong]].
* VaginaDentata: The Vampire Hunters have faces like the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' which give their victims a [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong Face Full Of Vampire Wing-Wong]].
* WheresTheKaboom: Happens with the bomb/leash that Blade put on the head of his vampire ally.
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* ZombieInfectee: Lighthammer hides his bite in the second movie until he starts to turn.
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''Blade II'' is the second film in the ''Film/{{Blade}}'' movie series. It was directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro.
Following on from the first film, Blade (Wesley Snipes) continues to hunt down vampires in Central Europe and is reunited with Whistler after the vampires kept him alive on life support and moved him around to evade Blade's pursuit. The vampire leadership contact Blade to ask for [[EnemyMine his help to battle an even greater foe]]. A new breed of supervampires named the Reapers have spawned from Jared Nomak, the original carrier, and have started devouring and turning vampires en masse. Blade teams up with the special united the Bloodpack to defeat the Reapers before they have finished with the vampires and move on to wiping out mankind.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: When chasing the Reapers.
* ActionGirl: Nyssa.
* AlienBlood: In the second film; caused by ExecutiveMeddling from the censors. For some reason they needed to have some of the characters bleed green to get an R rating, even if there's gallons upon gallons of red-coloured gore anyway.
* AmoralAttorney: Once Blade sees that one of the vampire committee stands out:
-->You're human?
-->Barely; I'm a lawyer.
* AntiClimax: The resolution of the rivalry between Blade and Reinhardt. Somewhat mitigated by the fact that it ''is'' very cool... but considering the conflict between them had been building for the entire movie, while Blade had only a single scene previous with Nomak, it still feels like a bit of a letdown.
** Though it is very much in tune with their previous interactions in the movie; Reinhardt smugly antagonizes Blade and Blade effortlessly retaliates and humiliates Reinhardt in return. Really, if Reinhardt (who got owned by ''Whistler'' a couple scenes back) put up anything of a real fight, it would have clashed with the rest of the movie.
** The problem was probably that Reinhardt was played by Creator/RonPerlman. In the first film, Quinn was a similar loudmouthed pushover who spent his every other appearance being humiliated by Blade. If the actor had been less prominent, then the scene where he [[spoiler:pulls the bomb off the back of his neck]] would've looked a hell of a lot cooler, rather than being a shrug-worthy sequence that led up to a pathetic final confrontation.
* AntiVillain: Some of the Blood Pack. Nomak is also a bordering example... while distinctly villainous, his danger to humans is more incidental than intentional, as he focuses on vampires whenever he can.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** Nomak is a "carrier" for the Reaper condition, but carriers by definition are not affected by their carried disease/gene defect. Nomak clearly has ''some'' of the traits of the other Reapers. He has their general appearance, split jaw, heart shield, and drug addict-like appetite for blood. The only difference seems to be that he has retained his intelligence.
** Also, pheromones don't come from the adrenal glands, nor are they "nut juice" (we can forgive this, as it comes from a non-scientist). And a species that doesn't have a mandible bone shouldn't have any use for bifurcated masseter muscles ... or any lower teeth, which Nomak clearly has in numerous close-ups.
* BadGuyBar: The House of Pain, a sadomasochistic vampire bar.
* BaldOfEvil: Damaskinos, Reinhardt, Nomak, and the Reapers. Damaskinos originally had hair during filming, but it was soon removed because it made him look like MichaelBolton according to Creator/GuillermoDelToro.
* BarehandedBladeBlock: [[spoiler:Blade does this in the second film. Even bringing the blade ''toward'' his face afterwards whilst his opponent struggles to push it through his hands.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler: Nyssa dissolves gently into sparkles, instead of violently charring away to a skeleton and then dust while screaming like every other vampire exposed to sunlight does.]]
* BigBad: Nomak
* BloodBath: Vampire Lord Damaskinos wades into a small but literal pool of blood. Later on, Blade is rejuvenated when he takes a nosedive into one such pool.
* BodyHorror: The transformation into a reaper is very painful (provided the victim has been bitten for long enough to properly drain them, as happens to Priest), a victim's hair falls out, their skin goes deathly pale, their jawbone dissolves, their chin separates into two pieces and sprouts fangs, and their tongue turns into a sucker. That's just what we see on the outside.
* BrickJoke: The fate of [[spoiler: Rush]] in the second movie. This also happens midway through in a [[FreezeFrameBonus blink and you'll miss it]] encounter in the House of Pain.
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Nyssa calls her father out for using her and her pack as bait, and for creating the Reapers. [[ShutUpKirk Then Damaskinos strangles her to be quiet]].]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: When Reapers are "ashed", they explode in a flash of blue light, as opposed to a regular vampire's red-orange.
* ConspicuousCG: Blade and Nyssa's initial fight, as pointed out by Creator/GuillermoDelToro on his DVD commentary.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: ''Blade II'' [[spoiler:is all about the Vampire Government recruiting Blade to help them fix their own mess. Nomak and the entire Reaper sub-species was the result of the Vampire Leadership trying to genetically erase the typical vampire weaknesses. The Reapers are immune to garlic and silver and their hearts are surrounded by solid bone ("Try and get a stake through THAT!") but are still just as vulnerable to sunlight[=/=]UV rays. What they didn't expect was the Reapers could turn humans ''and'' regular vampires into Reapers through mere sharing of sweat, let alone blood and vampire bites.]]
* DropTheHammer: Bloodpack member Lighthammer carries a huge two-handed maul with a retractable spike as his primary weapon, using his firearm as a backup.
* DualWielding: Nyssa and Assad both wield a pair of swords when they infiltrate Blade's hideout. Blade responds by wielding his sword in one hand and his sword's scabbard as a parrying weapon in his offhand. Earlier in the film a pair of the mooks guarding Whistler dual wield fighting sticks or batons of some sort and Blade retaliates by dual wielding a pair of silver stakes as if they were daggers. Reinhardt also dual wields his gunblades as knives in the sewer battle.
* DyingAsYourself: A variation. [[spoiler: Nyssa has been bitten by Nomak, and will become a Reaper. Blade gently carries her out into the sun, so she can die as a vampire.]]
* EnemyMine: Blade teaming with the Bloodpack.
* EvilLawyerJoke: See the entry under AmoralAttorney above.
* FoodChainOfEvil: A Reaper is the page image, as they have knocked vampires off the top and whilst they do attack the occasional human, vampires are currently their main source of food. The situation is lampshaded by Whistler.
--> '''Whistler''': "They're just shitting bricks cause they're no longer top of the food chain."
* GroinAttack: Blade kills one vampire by staking it in the crotch in the opening scene.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: How [[spoiler:Reinhardt]] meets his end.
* IHateYouVampireDad: In a sense. [[spoiler:Nyssa traps both her and her father to face Nomak. As Damaskinos lays dying, she takes off her family ring and drops it near his face.]]
* IntimidationDemonstration: As Nyssa approaches Blade before their duel, she whirls her blades around to display her swordsmanship. The scene can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0Ch2_2o7I#t=0m43s here]].
* KeepingTheEnemyClose: [[spoiler:Blade knew that Scud was a traitor the whole time, but kept him around for this reason.]]
* KryptoniteProofSuit: The Bloodpack's InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja outfits from the opening fight scene.
* LighterAndSofter: Averted. Blade II plays up its campiness a bit more, but is also more of a horror film than the original.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Used to show Blade loading up during the opening credits of the second film.
* LooksLikeOrlok: Damaskinos and the Reapers.
* TheMole: The second movie: [[spoiler:Scud, though Blade already knew about him]].
* MixAndMatchWeapon: Reinhardt carries a pair of Beretta pistols that have huge blades extending from the grips to the end of the barrel, allowing them to be used as guns or knives. According to the weapon's designer [=TyRuben=] Ellingson the weapon was originally designed for Blade but was given to Reinhardt during production.
* MuggingTheMonster: In the opening three vampires try to forcibly extract blood from Jared Nomak. They realized the consequences too late.
* NonActionGuy: Scud, in contrast to the BadassNormal Whistler.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Reinhardt has a neo-Nazi look about him and asks Blade if he can blush.
* PowerWalk: Blade and the Bloodpack walking into the House of Pain, with Massive Attack blaring on the soundtrack.
* ShoutOut:
** Blade drawing his stake and slapping Reinhardt, then taunting him before doing it again, is a homage to a scene in the Western comedy ''[[Film/{{Trinity}} Trinity Is Still My Name]]''; [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd8TpzioY6k&t=0m34s here's the original scene]].
** Throughout the first half of the movie, Scud is wearing a T-shirt with the {{BPRD}} logo from the {{Hellboy}} series. The catch is that Blade 2 came out two years before the first Hellboy movie came out. Apparently, GuillermoDelToro was thinking ahead to greener pastures and better movies.
* SmugSnake: Reinhardt and [[spoiler:Scud]], neither of whom are anywhere near as clever or awesome as they seem to think.
* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler:After she's infected by the Reaper virus, Nyssa Damaskinos asks Blade to carry her out in the open just before dawn so she can see the sunlight and die while she's still a vampire. When the sun comes up she disintegrates in his arms.]]
* SwordSparks
* TheOlderImmortal: Eli Damaskinos
* TokenEvilTeammate: It's more a matter of "token good teammate". The film is an EnemyMine scenario in which we already know that every one of Blade's collaborators except Whistler and Scud is evil and it's question of ''when'' rather than ''if'' they'll betray him. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Scud was also planning to betray him from the start]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: Damaskinos tries this with [[spoiler:Nomak. Unfortunately for him, he fails to sell it well enough]].
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Blade busts out a vertical suplex. Later, Nomak hits Blade with the [[Wrestling/RandySavage Savage Elbow Drop]].
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith:
-->'''Blade:''' You obviously... do not... know who you are ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]'' with!
* YouWillBeSpared: As listed in BrickJoke, Rush is let go as Blade says that "he'll see him later". In the very last scene he does it, with hilarious results.
* ZombieInfectee: Lighthammer hides his bite in the second movie until he starts to turn.
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''Blade II'' is the second film in the ''Film/{{Blade}}'' movie series. It was directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro.
Following on from the first film, Blade (Wesley Snipes) continues to hunt down vampires in Central Europe and is reunited with Whistler after the vampires kept him alive on life support and moved him around to evade Blade's pursuit. The vampire leadership contact Blade to ask for [[EnemyMine his help to battle an even greater foe]]. A new breed of supervampires named the Reapers have spawned from Jared Nomak, the original carrier, and have started devouring and turning vampires en masse. Blade teams up with the special united the Bloodpack to defeat the Reapers before they have finished with the vampires and move on to wiping out mankind.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: When chasing the Reapers.
* ActionGirl: Nyssa.
* AlienBlood: In the second film; caused by ExecutiveMeddling from the censors. For some reason they needed to have some of the characters bleed green to get an R rating, even if there's gallons upon gallons of red-coloured gore anyway.
* AmoralAttorney: Once Blade sees that one of the vampire committee stands out:
-->You're human?
-->Barely; I'm a lawyer.
* AntiClimax: The resolution of the rivalry between Blade and Reinhardt. Somewhat mitigated by the fact that it ''is'' very cool... but considering the conflict between them had been building for the entire movie, while Blade had only a single scene previous with Nomak, it still feels like a bit of a letdown.
** Though it is very much in tune with their previous interactions in the movie; Reinhardt smugly antagonizes Blade and Blade effortlessly retaliates and humiliates Reinhardt in return. Really, if Reinhardt (who got owned by ''Whistler'' a couple scenes back) put up anything of a real fight, it would have clashed with the rest of the movie.
** The problem was probably that Reinhardt was played by Creator/RonPerlman. In the first film, Quinn was a similar loudmouthed pushover who spent his every other appearance being humiliated by Blade. If the actor had been less prominent, then the scene where he [[spoiler:pulls the bomb off the back of his neck]] would've looked a hell of a lot cooler, rather than being a shrug-worthy sequence that led up to a pathetic final confrontation.
* AntiVillain: Some of the Blood Pack. Nomak is also a bordering example... while distinctly villainous, his danger to humans is more incidental than intentional, as he focuses on vampires whenever he can.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** Nomak is a "carrier" for the Reaper condition, but carriers by definition are not affected by their carried disease/gene defect. Nomak clearly has ''some'' of the traits of the other Reapers. He has their general appearance, split jaw, heart shield, and drug addict-like appetite for blood. The only difference seems to be that he has retained his intelligence.
** Also, pheromones don't come from the adrenal glands, nor are they "nut juice" (we can forgive this, as it comes from a non-scientist). And a species that doesn't have a mandible bone shouldn't have any use for bifurcated masseter muscles ... or any lower teeth, which Nomak clearly has in numerous close-ups.
* BadGuyBar: The House of Pain, a sadomasochistic vampire bar.
* BaldOfEvil: Damaskinos, Reinhardt, Nomak, and the Reapers. Damaskinos originally had hair during filming, but it was soon removed because it made him look like MichaelBolton according to Creator/GuillermoDelToro.
* BarehandedBladeBlock: [[spoiler:Blade does this in the second film. Even bringing the blade ''toward'' his face afterwards whilst his opponent struggles to push it through his hands.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler: Nyssa dissolves gently into sparkles, instead of violently charring away to a skeleton and then dust while screaming like every other vampire exposed to sunlight does.]]
* BigBad: Nomak
* BloodBath: Vampire Lord Damaskinos wades into a small but literal pool of blood. Later on, Blade is rejuvenated when he takes a nosedive into one such pool.
* BodyHorror: The transformation into a reaper is very painful (provided the victim has been bitten for long enough to properly drain them, as happens to Priest), a victim's hair falls out, their skin goes deathly pale, their jawbone dissolves, their chin separates into two pieces and sprouts fangs, and their tongue turns into a sucker. That's just what we see on the outside.
* BrickJoke: The fate of [[spoiler: Rush]] in the second movie. This also happens midway through in a [[FreezeFrameBonus blink and you'll miss it]] encounter in the House of Pain.
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Nyssa calls her father out for using her and her pack as bait, and for creating the Reapers. [[ShutUpKirk Then Damaskinos strangles her to be quiet]].]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: When Reapers are "ashed", they explode in a flash of blue light, as opposed to a regular vampire's red-orange.
* ConspicuousCG: Blade and Nyssa's initial fight, as pointed out by Creator/GuillermoDelToro on his DVD commentary.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: ''Blade II'' [[spoiler:is all about the Vampire Government recruiting Blade to help them fix their own mess. Nomak and the entire Reaper sub-species was the result of the Vampire Leadership trying to genetically erase the typical vampire weaknesses. The Reapers are immune to garlic and silver and their hearts are surrounded by solid bone ("Try and get a stake through THAT!") but are still just as vulnerable to sunlight[=/=]UV rays. What they didn't expect was the Reapers could turn humans ''and'' regular vampires into Reapers through mere sharing of sweat, let alone blood and vampire bites.]]
* DropTheHammer: Bloodpack member Lighthammer carries a huge two-handed maul with a retractable spike as his primary weapon, using his firearm as a backup.
* DualWielding: Nyssa and Assad both wield a pair of swords when they infiltrate Blade's hideout. Blade responds by wielding his sword in one hand and his sword's scabbard as a parrying weapon in his offhand. Earlier in the film a pair of the mooks guarding Whistler dual wield fighting sticks or batons of some sort and Blade retaliates by dual wielding a pair of silver stakes as if they were daggers. Reinhardt also dual wields his gunblades as knives in the sewer battle.
* DyingAsYourself: A variation. [[spoiler: Nyssa has been bitten by Nomak, and will become a Reaper. Blade gently carries her out into the sun, so she can die as a vampire.]]
* EnemyMine: Blade teaming with the Bloodpack.
* EvilLawyerJoke: See the entry under AmoralAttorney above.
* FoodChainOfEvil: A Reaper is the page image, as they have knocked vampires off the top and whilst they do attack the occasional human, vampires are currently their main source of food. The situation is lampshaded by Whistler.
--> '''Whistler''': "They're just shitting bricks cause they're no longer top of the food chain."
* GroinAttack: Blade kills one vampire by staking it in the crotch in the opening scene.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: How [[spoiler:Reinhardt]] meets his end.
* IHateYouVampireDad: In a sense. [[spoiler:Nyssa traps both her and her father to face Nomak. As Damaskinos lays dying, she takes off her family ring and drops it near his face.]]
* IntimidationDemonstration: As Nyssa approaches Blade before their duel, she whirls her blades around to display her swordsmanship. The scene can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0Ch2_2o7I#t=0m43s here]].
* KeepingTheEnemyClose: [[spoiler:Blade knew that Scud was a traitor the whole time, but kept him around for this reason.]]
* KryptoniteProofSuit: The Bloodpack's InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja outfits from the opening fight scene.
* LighterAndSofter: Averted. Blade II plays up its campiness a bit more, but is also more of a horror film than the original.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Used to show Blade loading up during the opening credits of the second film.
* LooksLikeOrlok: Damaskinos and the Reapers.
* TheMole: The second movie: [[spoiler:Scud, though Blade already knew about him]].
* MixAndMatchWeapon: Reinhardt carries a pair of Beretta pistols that have huge blades extending from the grips to the end of the barrel, allowing them to be used as guns or knives. According to the weapon's designer [=TyRuben=] Ellingson the weapon was originally designed for Blade but was given to Reinhardt during production.
* MuggingTheMonster: In the opening three vampires try to forcibly extract blood from Jared Nomak. They realized the consequences too late.
* NonActionGuy: Scud, in contrast to the BadassNormal Whistler.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Reinhardt has a neo-Nazi look about him and asks Blade if he can blush.
* PowerWalk: Blade and the Bloodpack walking into the House of Pain, with Massive Attack blaring on the soundtrack.
* ShoutOut:
** Blade drawing his stake and slapping Reinhardt, then taunting him before doing it again, is a homage to a scene in the Western comedy ''[[Film/{{Trinity}} Trinity Is Still My Name]]''; [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd8TpzioY6k&t=0m34s here's the original scene]].
** Throughout the first half of the movie, Scud is wearing a T-shirt with the {{BPRD}} logo from the {{Hellboy}} series. The catch is that Blade 2 came out two years before the first Hellboy movie came out. Apparently, GuillermoDelToro was thinking ahead to greener pastures and better movies.
* SmugSnake: Reinhardt and [[spoiler:Scud]], neither of whom are anywhere near as clever or awesome as they seem to think.
* SuicideBySunlight: [[spoiler:After she's infected by the Reaper virus, Nyssa Damaskinos asks Blade to carry her out in the open just before dawn so she can see the sunlight and die while she's still a vampire. When the sun comes up she disintegrates in his arms.]]
* SwordSparks
* TheOlderImmortal: Eli Damaskinos
* TokenEvilTeammate: It's more a matter of "token good teammate". The film is an EnemyMine scenario in which we already know that every one of Blade's collaborators except Whistler and Scud is evil and it's question of ''when'' rather than ''if'' they'll betray him. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Scud was also planning to betray him from the start]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: Damaskinos tries this with [[spoiler:Nomak. Unfortunately for him, he fails to sell it well enough]].
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Blade busts out a vertical suplex. Later, Nomak hits Blade with the [[Wrestling/RandySavage Savage Elbow Drop]].
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith:
-->'''Blade:''' You obviously... do not... know who you are ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]'' with!
* YouWillBeSpared: As listed in BrickJoke, Rush is let go as Blade says that "he'll see him later". In the very last scene he does it, with hilarious results.
* ZombieInfectee: Lighthammer hides his bite in the second movie until he starts to turn.
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