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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
People are busy and vampires are hardly a massive threat. A vampire here or there is a street-level threat. There's no reason they should be considered more dangerous than, say, Doctor Doom or the Brotherhood of Mutants or Galactus. Nobody shies away from fighting vampires if they happen upon one, but most superheroes aren't making a dedicated effort to root out all vampires and destroy them because they're busy dealing with other things.
That's pretty much always the answer to, "Why isn't X superhero getting involved in this?" Because he's doing stuff. Sure, all the superheroes of the world COULD drop what they're doing and spend the next six months tracking down and exterminating every last vampire in existence. Then, when they're done, they'll come home to find Magneto wiped out half the planet, Doom controls the other half, and Galactus is setting up shop. Because while every superhero on the planet was worrying about vampires, nobody was doing anything about those guys.
edited 19th May '16 9:30:40 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.See, and that's what I don't agree with. Those Vampires roam the street and randomly kill people AND they can create more dangerous Vampires to roam the street. That is on the one hand a huge threat and one the other hand one the various heroes could easily deal with. There is no excuse for Vampire being in the MCU, none.
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Inhumans are isolationist. They found a pocket of the world to secret themselves away to and never interact with humans again.
Vampires, by definition, cannot be. The most fundamental aspect of vampires is that they eat people. It is physically impossible for a vampire society to never interact with human society in any way.
It's really not that huge a threat. A vampire is no more dangerous than a serial killer. People die every day.
edited 19th May '16 9:34:56 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.To clarify, what makes a vampire a street-level threat is the lack of scope. Vampires target, prey upon, and kill individuals. A vampire will never destroy an entire city. A vampire will never be a global threat that may wipe out all life. A vampire will never end the universe. A vampire is just an infrequent single-target murderer.
So long as their population isn't depicted as unreasonably large like having hundreds of vampires in a single city, there's no reason they can't fly under the radar.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.They don't fly under the radar, though, Blade knows about them and Blade interacts with other heroes. And they just say "oh, a whole population of Vampires who randomly kill people? How terrible. Well, I guess you can deal with it on your own." ?????? Nope, that doesn't fly by me. We are not talking about a threat like the Kingpin, who is basically a common criminal, or Killgrave whose very existence is hard to proof. We are talking about a group of serial murderers. Sure, the other heroes have their own enemies, but it is not like they get attacked every single day.
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Also, in comics, there's often a division between villains - there are villains specific to Spider-Man, Captain America, the X-Men, et cetera. Apocalypse is almost always considered an "X-Men villain" and therefore the X-Men (or a related X-team) are usually the ones to face off with him.
In recent years, this has changed, but for the longest time, the X-Men section of the Marvel universe was kept pretty far apart from the rest.
Never underestimate the ability of people to make up explanations. "Gangs on PCP" I believe.
edited 19th May '16 9:50:18 AM by alliterator
Yeah, that's something that always annoyed me about the X-Men part of the comic verse. I mean, they were able to work Kang the Conqueror and Dracula into Apocalypse's backstory, but then they just leave him for the X-Men to deal with most of the time. At least Magneto fights with the Avengers a lot and actually teams up with villains some.
Speaking of which, wasn't there a crossover type deal once where Magneto, Doctor Doom, Kingpin, Wizard, Mandarin, and Red Skull all teamed up with Loki and swapped enemies?
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Marvel's already expressed the desire to eventually use Blade again someday, so it's gonna happen. What people are saying is that vampires in the MCU is not nearly the impossibility you're making it out to be.
edited 19th May '16 9:55:32 AM by comicwriter
"We are not talking about a threat like the Kingpin, who is basically a common criminal, or Killgrave whose very existence is hard to proof." Kingpin is not a common criminal. He's the guy who employees common criminals to do his bidding. The Kingpin has more power than any real-life mobster. He rules on 80+% of the East Coast’s organized crime, and he *is* organized crime in New York.
Kingpin in the MCU will eventually reach his comic status if they keep on going at
edited 19th May '16 9:59:16 AM by FictionWriterKing
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I am not opposed of them using him, I am opposed of them using him in this reality of the MCU. I don't want him near this nice, orderly universe, unless it is in some sort of alternate reality. And honestly, "someday" is very vague and might mean nothing.
edited 19th May '16 10:01:56 AM by Swanpride
Compared to the everyday human criminal inside and outside the MCU he is not. Compared to everyone above him then yes. While on the same plane of existence, he stands out.
Asguardians are mundane within outerspace cultural, being just another warrior race much like Nova Corps is a typical space cop organization patrolling that part of the universe (speaking about MCU only). Now Thor is larger than life, having far more importance than 95% of Asgurdians. The Nova Corps or Asgurdains have come across as a rarity or something breaking outside the norm apart from the individuals they're made up of.
As for a conflict. Well Kingpin isn't a big enough stake for larger than life superhero teams to gang up on unless he somehow got his hands on a weapon allowing for that situation to arise.
edited 19th May '16 10:18:57 AM by FictionWriterKing
Of course the real reason that the Avengers don't fight Apocalypse is because Apocalypse is a X-Men villain.
Whenever Apocalypse pops up, the X-Men deal with him. Take a look at what the Avengers were doing those same publication months and they were probably dealing with something else.
Even the Apocalypse Twins were fought by the Avengers team that was half X-Men. And also, terrible.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI'm just saying, surely there should be more than just a few instances of the Avengers fighting Apocalypse. Heroes sometimes share the same rogues gallery. Mysterio sometimes fights Daredevil, the Avengers and the Fantastic Four both fight Doctor Doom, Juggernaut fights both the X-Men and the Hulk, and occasionally Spider-Man.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?And yet the Avengers never fight Mr Sinister and the X-Men never fight the Squadron Supreme (probably)
Sometimes there is overlap, sometimes there isn't.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

Bessie the Hellcow, please. She's a vampire cow. Turned by Dracula himself.