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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I don't see why Blade wouldn't fit. We already have Norse gods, Inhumans, aliens, and science-accident superpowers. We're about to get sorcery. Vampires don't seem that far-fetched.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The more characters get adapted, the more I realize how many secret organizations secretly controlling the characters' world there are in the average comic book universe - and since every newly introduced organization is a secret to everybody, everyone has to be manipulating the same events without even realizing everybody else exists.
Next up, Secret Order of Vampires.
edited 25th Aug '15 9:56:25 AM by KnownUnknown
We can't have two black protagonists running around! It'd lead to fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together—mass hysteria!
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.![]()
Wait—Black Panther, Blade, who's the third?
Oh, right, forgot about the non-movie stuff.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.I think they meant tone-wise he wouldn't fit.
That makes even less sense. Aside from being generally light, tone-wise the movies are all different. Hell, tone-wise, Blade might fit right in with Doctor Strange - after all, that has magic and will have an overall horror feeling. Next logical step is, of course, vampires.
The only objection to having a new Blade movie or TV show is that the comic itself hasn't come out yet and we don't know if it will be good or not. But since it's written by Tim Seeley, who writes the awesome Hack/Slash and Revival comic, I'm thinking it's going to be good.
The only other objection I see is from the source itself, Bleeding Cool, who seems to be saying "This comic was delayed. MAYBE IT'S BEING TURNED INTO A MOVIE?"
There are a lot of problems with the concept of Blade in the MCU. For one, shouldn't the concept of Vampires on earth come up by now after two seasons of Shield?
But, yeah, above all he doesn't fit tonally. It is easy with Daredevil and co, because they are in their own "Netflix" verse in the MCU. I don't see how you can make the same distinction in the movies.
There are a lot of problems with the concept of Blade in the MCU. For one, shouldn't the concept of Vampires on earth come up by now after two seasons of Shield?
It did: in Season 2, while Simmons is undercover in Hydra, she finds a reference to Bessie the Hellcow, a vampire bovine who was turned by Dracula in the comics.
See? One canonical reference to a vampire is all it takes.
Once again: Agents of SHIELD has made reference to Bessie the Hellcow
.
Also, you don't need to say that SHIELD didn't know about it, just that they knew but vampires are good at hiding, so there wasn't a way to fight them. I mean, if SHIELD can make a reference to the Bermuda Triangle, I think they can make a reference to vampires.
In Agents Of SHIELD we only follow one group who, for half the first season and most of the second, were dealing with a specific threat. The fact that something didn't come up in that series means really little. Vampires could easily be something that Colson's team just happened to have met yet.
Also, as it was already mentioned, it have come up in the show, however briefly.
Yeah, that's also my issue with the whole vampire thing in the MCU. I mean at least with Doctor Strange it seems that "demons" and other "magical entities" reside in alternate/parallel and otherwise inaccessible universes.
Yeah sure you could have a secret society of vampires, I can totally see how,, they're small, not particularly populous but live for long times as leaders of isolated and small communities where they effectively have nigh-total control over the citizens and minimal government oversight, and extreme hostility towards outsiders and people with interests in leaving.
So you know, places like the Appalachian mountains would be a good place to set a Blade story as he is on his secret war against the vampire menace.
They wouldn't necessarily be a threat to humanity as a whole but they are basically enslaving whole populations and treating them like cattle and there is little better than to make stakes small and personal after going through story after story of nationwide and worldwide threats.
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They can always make a Blade movie without tying it into the MCU.