Blade is a half-vampire vampire hunter.
Character History[]
Eric Brooks was born in a whorehouse in the Soho neighborhood of London, England on July, 10th 1929. Eric's mother, Tara Brooks, was a prostitute at Madame Vanity's Brothel. When Tara experienced severe labor complications, a doctor was summoned who was in actuality Deacon Frost, a vampire who feasted on her during Eric's birth and killed her. However, this inadvertently passed along certain enzymes in his own blood to the infant. This resulted in Eric's quasi-vampiric abilities, including a greatly prolonged lifespan and the ability to sense supernatural creatures, as well as an immunity to complete vampirism. Brooks' fellow prostitutes drove off Frost before he could kill the infant as well.
Eric grew up living at Madame Vanity's, and at age nine, returning home from school one December, he saw an old man being attacked by three vampires. Eric helped the old man, who used a silver cane to kill the vampires and fight off the attackers. The man was Jamal Afari, a jazz trumpeter and vampire hunter who then moved into Madame Vanity's and trained the young Eric in both music and combat.
Blade was soon able to defeat many of the weak, younger vampires that he and Afari found in abundance. Eric became an Olympic-level athlete and a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with an expertise in edged weapons such as knives and daggers so notable that it earned him the nickname "Blade" among both his fellow hunters and the vampires they opposed, who began to fear the young hunter. One night he encounterd a type of vampire, a man named Michael Morbius, who Blade fought but Morbius bit him. This enhanced his stregenth and he was able to overcome Morbius but he escaped.
In later years, Blade, along with Hannibal King and Frank Drake, became a frequent ally of the sorcerer Doctor Strange, and the three assisted Strange in battles with Dracula and the Darkholders and assisted in the casting of the Montesi Formula, which for a time destroyed all vampires on Earth. Blade, King, and Drake then formed the private detective agency Borderline Investigations, Inc. to combat supernatural threats. Alongside Doctor Strange, the three detectives battled the Darkholders again. Blade also rescued his close friend Safron Caulder from the Darkholders. The agency discontinued after Drake left and Blade was committed to a psychiatric hospital following a battle with a temporarily resurrected Dracula. Doctor Strange later arranged the release of Blade so that he could join Drake and King in reforming Borderline, Inc. as the Nightstalkers.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance: Story[]
He was found trapped on Murderworld and was freed by the heroes, aiding them against Arcade and later against Doctor Doom and his Masters of Evil.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2: Story[]
After the events of MUA, Blade would later team up with Ghost Rider, Moon Knight, Punisher, and Doctor Strange to form the Midnight Sons. As they defend the world from Supernatural threats
Gameplay[]
Trivia[]
- The Blade that appears in the third game is not the same one who appeared in the first two games, as the third game is set in a different continuity.
- Khary Payton voices Blade in the first two games. He also voices him in the video game Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
- In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, He is available through the DLC "Marvel Knights: Curse of the Vampire".
- He is one of the many characters to appear in every game as a playable character alongside Spider-Man, Hulk, Wolverine, Iron Man, Thor, Deadpool, Captain America, Luke Cage, Storm, Daredevil, Carol Danvers, The Fantastic Four, Venom, Magneto, and Black Panther.
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