So vampires need to feed on humans because their blood can't support hemoglobin (the stuff that transports oxygen through your body and is kind of necessary to live), so if Frost summons La Magra, which turns EVERYONE into a vampire, what are vampires supposed to feed on?
This is explained in a deleted scene where Frost reveals a pilot idea to keep humans in cold storage. This idea was reused in Blade III.
It's actually referenced in the first scene of the movie. Those aren't cows in the freezer.
Still though; even with cold storage you have effectively reduced your infinite food supply into something that will last fifty years at best — Frost has basically ended both Mankind and Vampirekind in one swoop.
I think that was kind of the point. Frost was a bit of an idiot — there's a reason the other leading vampires wanted to stop him.
Not if you use artificial insemination. Just imagine the Matrix; Vampires would store humans, but impregnate the women so they could keep a constant food source. Humans would be turned into cattle. It's about the same plan as the Leviathans, only less detailed.
It is possible that they were taking La Magras abilities too literally, Rather than "turning everything in it's presence" it was just a really super powerful vampire,for a "god" it Frost went down rather easily, I subscribe to the theory that the ritual is the same one that made Dracula into what he is, but because of Frost being a turned, rather than born vampire, he only got a few powerups.
Something to remember - Frost's girlfriend killed one of the elders. It's possible that disrupted the ritual or made it weaker.
Another instance: being born with a "genetic defect" does not make your condition any less treatable with a gene-rewriting retrovirus than someone who acquired the mutation later. May stray into Plot Hole territory.
Because all genetic defects and retrovirus-induced conditions are exactly the same, and should act the same, right?
So... if it started as a mutation from Dracula... what the HELL was La Magra and all those winged demon vampire spirits in the first movie?
Perhaps Drake was La Magra's answer to Adam?
And this is WITHOUT the actual script version of La Magra. Where Frost becomes a, well, a force of nature. A blood-storm that would allegedly turn everything in his path. La Magra is just a really powerful vampire. The concept of a "soul" is really never brought up again in the movie series.
It is possible that Dracula was the Original La Magra, And that temple they dug up/Rebuilt? was how Drac got his powers in the first place, maybe Dracula was part of a kind of proto-vampiric race, and they were dying out or something and the last members willingly transfered all their power into him, making him the first modern vampire.
I think it's safe to say there were more than a few retcons between Blade 1 and Trinity.
If the Daystar nanovirus kills all vampires in the world, and Blade then repopulates the species, then why are there purebloods who are up to 600 years old in Blade: The Series? I realize the series isn't canon, but they deliberately mention certain events from the third film (like Blade preferring inhalers to injections) and then proceed to ignore it.
The series isn't canon? Ah well, either way, there is a mention that the Daystar virus wasn't nearly as effective as the Nightstalkers thought it would be.
When Blade rescues Karen from the hospital he throws her some, what, 10 meters across the roofs? How did she survive it with all her bones intact? I guess there was something soft on the roof, but the sound her body made on impact implied a solid surface to me.
And bear in mind that even then, she dislocated her shoulder. Blade then pops it back in on-screen.
It was a canopy of some sort that cushioned the impact. Underneath it looked like cardboard boxes and carpets.
Why, when the Blood Pack prepare to go down into the sewers, do they make so few adjustments to their armory? They saw small-caliber bullets having little effect on a reaper except when coming en masse from a high-powered machine gun, and melee weapons being next to useless, yet Blade and Nyssa stick to their handguns. Reinhardt ditches his stake-gun for a pair of bladed guns while Lighthammer and Snowman keep their melee weapons! If they knew their weapons were only good for physical damage, they should have switched to magnums.
Blade outright states that the guns are only for hurting the mutants long enough to deploy UV-grenades. Even if they don't kill them, bullets still stun mutants and you need them to stay in one place in order for the grenades to work. Ditto for cutting them up. Magnums are simply upscaled versions of other calibers, they don't work differently than other bullets. Going out and buying new weapons and ammo (especially since theirs is handmade) probably wasn't worth the effort of having to empty 50 (instead of 60) bullets into a baddie to open him up for a grenade. Also, Reinhardt doesn't ditch his stake-gun, he merely happens to hold the machine-pistols in his hands during the Lock-and-Load Montage- he is seen using his shotgun/stake-gun during the hunt. As for the hammer and katana guys- it's better to have someone very skilled with a melee weapon who has super-strength and possibly decades/centuries of experience with them than the same person with a gun. Especially since they have proven themselves able to at least temporarily hold off a mutant during the night club fight.
Better question; why don't they make more adjustments to their armor? Nyssa and the other guy were wearing UV-proof suits at the start during their fight with Blade. Why not suit up with a bunch of those and UV blast the damn things to death.
Maybe the thoroughly UV-proof suits are expensive or made out of rare materials. Maybe only Nyssa and the other guy were trained enough in wearing them that they could move properly in them, and they would have hampered everyone's movements too much. Maybe they wanted to make sure they had full field of view, since the suits cover the head completely and you see through goggle lenses. Yeah, it's kinda silly that they didn't cover up more, but just pick an explanation or make up one of your own and go with it, there's plenty of potentials.
It bugs me a little that Blade could even fight Dracula. It's been established that Blade becomes more powerful when he drinks blood (ie. the first and second movies), and that Blade was roughly comparable to Drake in terms of power. Now, the only difference, really, is that Drake has drank literally GALLONS of blood before that fight. Drake should have stomped him flat in half a second.
Blood only rejuvenates him; Blade has physical limits, and he is rarely in his prime because he doesn't drink human blood. It really just how strong he would be if he regularly drank blood. How much blood he drinks is largely irrelevant. He doesn't become more powerful when he drinks blood; he is just an utter badass and blood just makes him even more badass than normal. The only reason a normal vampires isn't in his league is because the average normal vampire isn't a badass, just a Jerkass with superpowers.
So how does the Council keep the Vampire World a secret from the Muggles when every time a Vamp bites a human they turn? this isn't like other Vampire Franchises such as Buffy that require a new Vampire to be deliberately turned; there should be hundreds of new Vamps being created every single night and yet not one has ever revealed himself to the general population after having a Hell with this, I'm not becoming a blood sucking monster who murders innocent people level epiphany. True it is stated that Vamps control things such as the media and the Police but it is simply impossible that they control all the police and all the media in every government and country in the world. The all Vampires are evil argument doesn't work either because all the Vampires we see are the ones who go to illegal raves or to snuff parties; what we don't see are the masses who doubtless try to blend in. The only way it could possibly work is if there was a law stating that Vampires must take charge of their prey after feeding and return them to the Vampire world so they be educated. Pity they showed in the first movie that there is no punishment for attacking humans in the middle of a crowded hospital...
They do have to deliberately turn them. If they feed enough, the human dies.
No, watch the first movie again, a single bite without draining is enough to infect someone. Most likely there's not a ridiculous amount of vampires running around because the vampires probably tend to make sure their victims are dead after they've fed.
We also saw Karen's boyfriend turn into some kind of zombie after being bitten and the cop familiar simply had his neck ripped open to die. So there are variations on what happens when a victim is bitten.
We see what the vampire "masses" act like in the beginning of the first movie. They're all getting together to have a sickening bloody dance party, and they're happy to murder any hapless human who stumbles in with them. So yes, it seems every vampire does become evil once they turn completely.
I agree. We have been spoiled by all the friendly vampires in recent fiction, but vampires in folklore are supposed to be homicidal monsters by nature. I think that when presented with a setting with vampires in it, as a rule we should work with the assumption that vampires are all evil by default if it's not explicitly shown otherwise. The writers need to show us when they are deviating from the norm, not when they are going with it. So if like in the Blade movies, we aren't shown even one Vegetarian Vampire, we should believe there aren't any. Notice that Blade himself doesn't count as he's not a full vampire, and despite Nyssa being made somewhat sympathetic in the second film, she's not given any indication of even trying to suppress her thirst for blood, and probably has killed lots of humans.
Why doesn't Blade drink animal blood? as far as I am aware it is never stated that the Blade universe Vampires can only feed on humans. Before anyone states the obvious, yes Blade probably would consider drinking any kind of blood offensive, but given the choice between that increasingly lethal serum he had in the first movie, does it really make sense to choose death when his mothers killer was still on the loose? Incidentally does the blood actually have to be drunk? A black pudding is essentially solid pigs blood and I am going to assume Blade still has a digestive system.
Fortunately, Twilight did not pioneer that little variation on vampire lore. Angel did the same thing in the late 90s, and the movie My Best Friend is a Vampire did it a decade before that (and there are probably other examples I'm not aware of). As for why Blade can't do it, obviously there's something about human blood he needs that animal blood can't provide. While it's never outright stated that vamps in the Blade-verse can only drink human blood, the fact that they're never seen drinking anything else strongly suggests it. If they could drink, say, cow's blood then they would just invest in cattle farms and have a steady supply of easily replenished, very docile food sources that would be perfectly legal for them to buy, sell, and kill.
Having just watched this, the vampires can survive on any kind of blood — even other vampires. Quinn or Frost mention it just before dumping Karen in the pit with her zombie-vamped ex. Seems that vampire society looks down on drinking anything other than human; Blade may have subconsciously adopted the same mindset. No idea why he'd agree with the suckheads, though.
Funnily enough, in the comics, Blade is allergic to animal blood.
Why does Damaskinos look like Orlok, when all other vampires look like normal people?
Supreme age, I suppose. Whistler says that vampires age more slowly than humans, so they still age. He looks unique because no other vampire shown has reached the same age, which surpasses what even vampires would call "old".
Yup. In one of the deleted scenes he shows some of his organs that his body rejected as the vampire virus progressed in him to the point that they were replaced or no longer necessary. It actually fit in nicely with the revelation that Reapers have organs and developments that "normal" vampires don't... it makes it clear that the Reaper strain is partly to allow other vampires to gain some of the same benefits Damaskinos enjoys without waiting hundreds (or thousands) of years.
Why did the House of Erebus put up with Frost and not eliminate him?
They probably thought he was just dreaming and that his ambitions were impossible to fulfill.
That's still extremely lenient for a bunch of blood-sucking monsters, however civilized. You'd think earning a death sentence from these would be as simple as annoy them, which Frost clearly did.
He had lots and lots of followers. They probably considered it too much of a risk, not realizing what he's planning until it was too late.
And yet in the council scene he's all alone with them (I think. He could've had his cronies sitting next room, of course, but I doubt this.)
Speaking of which, when they did realize what he was planning, why did they go along with it? They're goners either way, at least rushing the guards and forcing them to kill them, thus botching the ritual seemed reasonable.
What exactly was Priest's role in the Blood Pack? I can see the rest being expected to overwhelm Blade through a combination of swordplay, firepower and brute strength. Priest goes into combat with an ordinary pistol, and we see him get his arse handed to him on a silver platter. Who expected this guy to give Blade any trouble?
In Blade world, the vast majority of people who are turned seem to enjoy their newfound power. The cure only ever comes up when it's plot relevant.
Much like in the tie-in comic that shows how King and Abby met. By that point, he’s riddled with regret at his vampiric life and tells her that staking him would be doing him a favor, as there’s no escape from it. At which point Abby informs him there is a cure, and the rest is history.
