History YMMV / BladeII

** When [[spoiler:Scud]] is revealed as the mole, he reveals his tattoo which is on the inside of his lower lip. Sixteen years later and ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' would feature the War Dog spy network whose operatives are identified by tattoos on their inner lips.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: A few of the things that fans complained about in ''Film/BladeTrinity'' got their start here. Blade was given a new sidekick, and wound up working with a team of vampires. These new characters, however, didn't steal the spotlight from Blade, and Whistler at least remained an important character. The third film turned the new arrivals into a SpotlightStealingSquad and abruptly killed off Whistler, souring things for lots of fans.

** When the unsentimental hard-ass Whistler desperately cries to a dying Blade ''"Don't you give up on me, boy!! You didn't give up on me, and I'm not gonna give up on you!!"'' you know that even he is capable of love.

* {{Narm}}: The remark Reinhardt makes to Blade, "Can you blush?", was intended to be a racial slur, since Blade is black-skinned and it was based on a personal experience from Wesley Snipes. The character was originally envisioned as a racist skinhead, which didn't come across in the final film, thus making the line confusing for some viewers.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: While the maw effects don't look too bad, some of the [=SFX=] haven't aged too well such as the dust effects on some vampire (particularly in the beginning when a camera focus on one Novack kills). Some CGI was dodgy even at the time of the film's release, such as the shot of Blade fighting Nyssa against the "god lights," which the director lambasts in his commentary track.

** When [[spoiler:Scud]] is revealed as the mole, he reveals his tattoo which is on the inside of his lower lip. Sixteen years later and Film/BlackPanther would feature the War Dog spy network whose operatives are identified by tattoos on their inner lips.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Scud is played by Creator/NormanReedus. If you didn't recognize him at the time from ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'', you probably did after he started playing Daryl Dixon in ''Series/TheWalkingDead''.

* HilariousInHindsight: Luke Goss would go on portraying another nonhuman AntiVillain with a FreudianExcuse, [[spoiler:eventually SelfMadeOrphan]], in yet another [[Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy second movie]] directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro.

* CompleteMonster: [[EvilutionaryBiologist Eli Damaskinos]] is the [[VampireMonarch Overlord of the Vampire Nation]], and the true villain behind the Reaper outbreak. A believer in the pureblood rhetoric of vampires, Damaskinos schemes to create [[MasterRace an entirely new race of vampires]] to overthrow and slaughter humanity and vamprekind alike, with Damaskinos as the progenitor of the new species. In his quest for this, Damaskinos oversees routine mass murder of humans to harvest their bloods in such quantities as to fill factory reservoirs, and Damaskinos personally [[BloodBath bathes in large pools of his victims' blood]]. Willing to forego all semblance of empathy or humanity to achieve his desires, [[AbusiveParents Damaskinos]] experimented on his own son Jared Nomak to turn him into a Reaper before targeting him for death, and Damaskinos later sends his daughter and her elite squadron to die at Nomak's hands, uncaring of the swathes of life lost in the process so long as he can raise an entire brood of vampire children to be experimented upon.