Afro Slytherin

[wordishismart9]

Oh.... ok?? I'm fine with Monet & Quicksilver joining the team for a bit, but having them lead feels weird. Like, Wolvi, Kurt, and Jubes still exist. They can lead. Why are we instead having someone who I don't think has ever lead a team, and a major loose canon.

Uncanny X-Men (2024) #29

[tyrantotooth]

Kurt is one thing, but nobody wants to see Wolverine at the forefront anymore taking up all of the attention like he always does. Also, Monet is just as experienced as Jubilee, but significantly more charismatic and with access to far greater resources for a variety of needs. 

Pietro can go fall off a bridge for all I care.

[creaturefeaturecommando]

It amazes me that no one caught on that Richie was allies with Static early on because after every fight he was always running up to him

[tyrantotooth]

Ebon did.

[cherry-pop-elf]

Hearing Elsa Bloodstones voice lines makes me sad because

British Blade : (

He British

Why no accent? Hmph

[tyrantotooth]

Blade likely does not speak with a British accent. And probably never hasn't for decades, in-universe. When they met for the first time, Captain Britain himself couldn't tell that Blade was native to London.

[mutant-perfection]

This is very uncharacteristic for Monet, and the writer, Marc Guggenheim clearly isn’t aware of the fact that she has a photographic memory.

X-Men (2013) #21

[tyrantotooth]

Marc Guggenheim also thought it was a good idea to try and rewrite Blade with a white father from Latveria who was part of a cult no one ever heard of.

In other words, he doesn't do his research.

[personal-character-bible]

Can anyone tell me why they never seem to use Blade's real name? Like is there a lore reason or is it just a weird thing from this comic in general, because it seems like they intentionally avoid it even when specifically using other people's names.

[tyrantotooth]

Probably because Blade doesn't allow most people on a first-name basis, with him.

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Batman/Static: Beyond (2025-2026) #2 art by Nikolas Draper-Ivey

[tyrantotooth]

Gear finally has the gear he's deserved all these years.

[tawked]

I am consistently upset that Blade of the comical books is not just straight up Wesley Snipes Blade.

The whole of Marvel Comics post-1998 has been a failed effort to reach even a fraction of the power of the stupid blood rave scene

This is where the American superhero as a multi-medium genre peaked. It has never been better than this moment.

[tyrantotooth]

Writers have tried, but it always fails. The problem is, what made the movie version of Blade so iconic is Wesley Snipes, himself. There are things that you can do on the screen that simply don't translate to the page. Though usually stoic in the films, you can still interpret much of Blade's personality through his microexpressions, but that does not work in a book.

[srdcovka]

Falcon and Blade in Falcon #8 (2017)

[tyrantotooth]

This was NOT a good interpretation of Blade.

[she-who-is-two-sizes-too-big]

The most unfortunate thing about Blade as a character is that the pop culture perception of him outside of the comics is unable to move on from a singular and honestly outdated movie to the point where if you're not just doing that movie again and are trying to actually do something with the character, its rejected.

The comics have Blade go on this incredible emotional journey about overcoming his self-hatred of his vampiric side through reconnecting with his estranged daughter, but 80% of Blade's biggest self-proclaimed fans turn it away because it required more thought than "cool guy in trench coat kills vampires".

[tyrantotooth]

As much as I appreciate Wesley Snipes for revitalizing the character, at 100% agree that the common Blade fan refuses to move on from that film series. It's like they want to reinvent the wheel, then act like they're being original. 

This is exactly why so many of the Blade comics in the early 2000s were complete flops. Writers thought they could copy/paste Snipes onto the comic version. But this really doesn't work because you can't capture Wesley's on-screen presence and small micro-expressions on a comic page.

[boardsdonthitback]

Wesley Snipes - Blade II (2002)

[tyrantotooth]

Supposedly, Wesley was moving so fast that they needed him to slow down.

[velvetvexations]

Buffy Summers having appeared in more comic books than Blade should be immensely shameful for Marvel. He was the most mainstream-popular Black comic book character for years and they did virtually nothing with him in that time. Completely absurd.

[tyrantotooth]

In the early 00s, Marvel made the mistake of thinking they could copy-paste Wesley Snipes' entire vibe onto the character, and it failed time and time again, resulting in boring, lackluster stories.

[lolarewu-deactivated20260302]

blade rant

The thing that makes me sad (and laugh ngl) is that blade doesn’t know anything outside of killing vampires, he doesn’t know the days the years he didn’t go to school and live a normal life and was homeless until whistler found him at 14 or younger HES LIKE A RACCOON and he doesn’t even know that that childhood is not okay and I think his lack of knowledge (outside of vamps) nor vocabulary is what makes him quiet (or he’s autistic idk)And something I noticed (other than his fat ego) is that he doesn’t use what other people recommend not because he thinks he’s always correct it’s because he’s to uncomfortable or scared to move onto something he doesn’t know or doesn’t have experience with for example in blade trinity he refuses every type of new guns or gadgets, I would say he has some type of disorder other than ptsd but I don’t know… share your thoughts!

P.s this only applies to movie blade

[tyrantotooth]

That's only if you're talking about the film version, exclusively.

When it comes to the comics, there are three different "eras" that Blade's character has existed in. The classic era, the Nightstalkers era, and the modern era. And it is definitely no exxageration to say that in the 2020s, he is a very different person than he was in the 1970s.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Blade really only has a real small handful of rogues, so I am kinda surprised we haven't had a Deacon Frost show up for so long... but Deacon is supposed to be dead... and also this doesn't look like or act like him, so either something is up or this guy's resurrection really didn't do him any favors.

[tyrantotooth]

The thing about Deacon Frost is that unless it's 100% confirmed to be him, you can safely bet that Blade is interacting with one of his doppelgangers.

[thenixkat]

We switched artists in the middle of issue 3 of Static: Season One and Frieda's Black now??? Like, I'm not against racebending white characters but doing it mid story like no one would notice or be confused is weird.

Issue 1 and first artist Frieda:

[id: A crop of a comic panel showing a white girl with curly red hair in a grey sweater. /end id]

Issue 3 second artist Frieda:

[id: A comic panel showing a Black girl with reddish brown hair talking to a Black boy.

Frieda: Can we talk? Virgil: Uh, yeah, of course. /end id]

*Edit: She goes back to being white the next issue when the artist switches again

[tyrantotooth]

I think it was just a mistake by the artist. It's not like Static's supporting cast is well-known to anyone aside from his longtime fans.

[hylianane]

I KNOW Strikeforce was very short-lived but genuinely, I mean this will full sincerity, if they don’t give Angela and Blade an interaction referencing their team together I’m gonna be so mad. It’d be particularly egregious because Angela really doesn’t have that many comics to her name, so there’d be no reason to pretend this one didn’t exist just because it was cancelled. Oh, but I just feel it in my bones that they might overlook it and, god forbid, give her an interaction with Luna Snow instead.

[tyrantotooth]

Glad I'm not the only one to remember this.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

The place is full of explosive material, so Blade's idea is to get Varnae to make enough sparks to blow the whole place up... I am pretty sure there would be easier ways to do that...

Also, that "see you again" is funny because he will! in 30 years!

[tyrantotooth]

Letting himself get hit so he can harm the opponent worse is something Blade has done rather consistently.

[yuta-nakamots]

general questions while writing vampire!reader x bucky barnes fic:

- can bucky be turned into a vampire? will the serum allow it?

- do people care about blade? do they even know about him outside of deadpool & wolverine?

- has bucky ever been to detroit, michigan before? does he have the means to keep in contact with ex-HYDRA agents and/or people he met while on the run? (how the hell did he go from dragging steve out of the river to bucharest? he can’t just buy a plane ticket and fly over after that and especially not with a metal arm)

- is the reader classified as an alien or wizard? because she’s not an android, at least. and sam said they always fight one of the big three.

- what is the order of seniority between bucky and blade? do we go by who was born first? (bucky) or who has actively lived more years? (blade)

- would sam and blade get along? how freaked out would joaquin be by bucky having a vampire girlfriend?

- does blade like techno music? he would’ve been a young adult in the 40s and 50s so im imagining his music taste would be more like bucky’s. but isn’t his theme techno?

- am i just writing the plot of the next blade movie? could i be a screenwriter for marvel?

[tyrantotooth]

I think the average person who knows Blade only knows him from the movies.