I don't know much about Blade but, does he actually gain anything from not being a vampire anymore? Was he interesting in any way as just a human?
While changes for the sake of synergy can be really stupid, changing it back for the sake of nostalgia can be just as stupid, how many people would seriously ask for Alfred to be the fat butler who didn't raise Batman?
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I actually think Blade's character moved out of Snipes synergy fairly quickly, other than in his cameo appearances. If you look at most of his depictions in on-goings after the early 2000s, he's back to the trash talking, irritating, quick tempered, mystical expert that he was immediately before the movies. I think the powers are neccesary for him to have relevance in the 616 marvel universe. Given the fact that Marvel vampires are some of the weakest in fiction, it would be impossible for his stories to hold any weight unless he had the abilities to impact other threats.
I wouldn't call it nostalgia. Blade had already been synergized when I got into comics. And the Alfred companion doesn't work because he was thin and with a mustache in the serial, which likely came earlier and prompted the creation of the comic version, which guessed what he would be like and shortly thereafter changed what they got wrong. Comparing that to Blade would make more sense if you were talking about having Whistler jump into the comics, which I wouldn't be opposed to. So long as it didn't displace Jamal Afari in his mythos.
Good Marvel characters- Bring Them Back!!!
What would you call it then? I'm not seeing any justification for why the changes should be undone other than "that's how it originally was", which is often a pretty poor reason to change things back. Whistler isn't even in the comics, so Afari has nothing to worry about.
^^^Seventies era Blade worked, though!
Who's the black vampire slayer that's a sex machine and all around player?
(Blade)
You're damn right
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?
(Blade)
Can you dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's Nosferatu all about?
(Blade)
Right on
They say this cat Blade is a bad mother
(Shut your mouth)
But I'm talkin' 'bout Blade
(Then we can dig it)
He's a complicated man
And no one understands him even Whistler…
I prefer Blade with daggers, not swords. There's something about the close quarters nature of combat against superior foes that appeals to me.
As for his powers, I prefer that Blade didn't have any, but made use of wards, talismans, etc., that helped make him highly resistant, but not impervious, to vampires and other supernatural creatures.
The problem with Blade is that Marvel has a notorious habit of featuring nonpowered humans with a gimmick in the same venue as godlike, world-breaking villains. They made Blade at least a part-time Avenger, so obviously it benefits him to have superhuman abilities, as opposed to merely survivability devices and a sharp, pointy, jabby, slashy weapon. As long as Marvel writers keep doing that, Blade can't really go back to the days of being "normal" entirely.
Why?
I don't see what would be gained. All moving him backwards would do is give him more hair.
And given that virtually nothing in comics is realistic, taking his powers away wouldn't matter
I rather what we have now instead of black Simon Belmont.
"Cable was right!"
People ha dot be FAIR the 70s blade was gone long before Snipes movie, rember the time he become a darkhold infused pseudo demogorgon and gone in a rampage to kill ALL magic being(one of those mass murdering moment that Marvel use to make some clean up) ?
Before that he could as well have superabilities for what he did.
<this is actually true for most "regular athletic" humans, including a certain caped crusader. They may as well be superhuman considering that they, on panels, they punch, leap, jump, run and kick as well as spiderman or Daredevil, and can handle kinetic or energy attacks that make me think they are much more sturdier than one expect. Consider that in Marvel faserip rpg Dracul is nearly as strong as Ben Grimm! - take it as it was- and according to modern Canon can fight Apocalypse....>
You wish was black Simon Belmont, truth is was more like ineffective big black angry man version fo the punisher with extremely unpleasant personality, as the actual Punisher is was a frat boy by comparison. He was terrible, useless and boring. There was a reason why before the movie he never really clicked in the heart of many readers