Blade

Part man. Part vampire. All hero.

Before Marvel was sold to Disney and started hatching their methodical, annual, interlacing, box office bursting franchises, the studio tested out one of it’s lesser known anti-heroes. The first of the modern Marvel era found a star in the brooding the half-vampire, half-mortal man. Wielding cool tech and Wesley Snipe’s signature martial arts skills the film soon found a devout following and tapped into the popular culture of comics and vampires before they even knew they were cool. (Aaron Prescott)