I like the subtle aspects of Drake's character. Like him wearing a cross, or how he learned to hold a baby properly, or him telling Blade "the thirst always wins." He feels like he has an actual origin story, just one we don't get to see.
From a writing standpoint, I think that's what helps make him interesting as a character. Breaking the mistery usually goes poorly, so I like it better that way XD
ye i always liked how he seems to 1 have a interesting backstory and 2 his abilites are a mix of supernatural but also just being biologically complex like the blood god is truly supernautral but the virus he made to gift drake his power seems completely biological my question is did the blood god directly make the virus or is the virus something drake had when he was turned that got mutated supernaturally to spread the vampire curse abit like in underwrorld or others. i personally like to think as a warrior who as he said lived by the sword he got infected with a virus that was gonna kill him so he made offerings to the blood god and was turned as a result because alot of warriors back then saw dying of illness a less honorable death then combat so it would make sense for drake to make a deal that would allow him to only die to his equal in combat
I always liked how when he became a full on demonic vampire he had the Reaper jaw. Suggesting the reaper strain is a part of the vampire DNA that Demaskinos accidently unlocked.
@Nix91 In most vampire stories, it's just their "blood" thinning out and them losing powers because they keep adding in humans in their gene pool. But it could also be a more active event. Like how elephants of today are losing their tusks, the tyrannical split mouth vampires that didn't hide probably got hunted to extinction at some point and the "mutated" vampires that are weaker and look more human that blended in human society is survived and that's how they lived ever since.
@@belldrop7365maybe the split jaw and tongue thing we're for penetrating the armor people use to wear way back and the vampire race lost it as people stopped wearing all that armor or like you said they can just go the route every other vampire franchise does too much breeding with humans has made the vampire race more human than vampire lol
It's also a Homage to Michael Morbious plasma holes in his wrist on the Spiderman cartoon Also Morbious did have a similar mandible and he was supposed to eventually become a villian
depends on how he was made going by his skeleton id say he as breed sense his mouth is like a reapers im going to say he has something similar but a paralytic is redundant they can feed from the newly dead as long as the blood cells are liveing sdo they could easy snap someones neck to keep them from going away so im going to say the venum is the original carrier for the transformation meaning the thirst is just a intensive to attack to carry on the vamp blood line so as he would be half human he wouldent need to feed on blood it would be mind over matter as a warrior and jking hed have to be pretty disciplined so theres no way of knowing
@@craiglanyon7752 I love the Iraq tomb origin since they also have a Dracula myth The sumerian God myth like Anu and his offspring Enlil who tried creating supernatural hybrids
Personally, I think Drake's strongest line was "Sooner or later, the thirst ALWAYS wins". You could hear his bittersweet amusement in those words and it makes you realize that there is a story there. That his ancient creature that kills without conscience might not have always been that way. That at one time, the original vampire might have once been like Blade. A young man turned into some unknown thing, alone among humans with lethal urges that he had to struggle to control every day. Until one day, like an addict that's been on the wagon for years, the struggle just became too much. 😱
There is also the fact that Blades serum kept having a lesser and lesser effect for him. One day no amount if serum will help and then there will be only thirst.
@@Amadeus8484 A new Serum that for now will work until its begins to be rejected although that could be years or decades. Honestly the best thing would be to develop artificial blood that carries needed nutrients the vampires could have and no longer need to feed on humans. This would solve the majority of problems for them and perhaps allow them to focus on other endeavors.
Also remember drake said “allow me a parting gift” and when the cops came to the building, Drake shapeshifted into blade to make the cops think they caught him like they were trying to do in the beginning of the movie. Then right as they were about to cut him open he turned back into his human form
His swag is truly unmatched through the ages. They cast the perfect person honestly. He has the perfect strut and his confidence just fits the role so well
Drake implies that he is the only pure vampire daywalker to ever exist. I think that the idea that La'Ma'gra impregnated a human women makes sense. Its possible he grew up human then at a certain age his vampiric nature kick in. It would also explain why he seemed to feel a connection with Blade beyond the fact that they were both real warriors. He also may not have been talking about their physical characteristics when he said that current vampires were a shadow of their former selves. He may have been referring to how they are no longer warriors and conquerors. That seemed to be more in line with his character, he would shun all the hiding and running businesses to gain power. He seems more like the raise an army and kill all your enemies kind of guy. They definitely missed an incredible opportunity to enhance Blade by not expanding his back story.
Exactly. The other vampires were narcissists and Drake didn’t respect that. He respected Blade because Blade had honor and didn’t crave attention or power over everything.
Like in Dracula Untold Fuck man I wish we had a proper vampire series with Dracula, not some bullshit The CW network show made for preteen girls 😂 Imagine a proper written blade or Dracula series that does a deep dive into the past of Dracula and his conquers Also I wish the universal monsterverse worked out , Dracula Untold with Luke Evans was my favorite iteration of Dracula and I wanted to see Charles dance as the bad guy in future sequels , he could have been like a Mephisto esque character
going by the skeleton that fits two the phiscal changes the reapers go through in the second movie drives them crazy as well as the blood lust, and yes thats what he ment from the get go the vamps of today hide just look at his wepon a sword same as blade a warriors wepon yoiu have to look into the face of the person your fighting and it takes hours years to master
I'd like to think that Drake's human form is his "true form", and the big form he fights in is more of a "war form" he probably created back in the days of ancient warfare.
Well Dracula always had a beast form in case he's in a big fight, just ask Simon Belmont or his ancestor Trevor Belmont, or Abraham Van Helsing and Jonathan Harker and that other guy who was with them, or even Buffy the vampire slayer!
They could portray him as the first "Blade". Until the thirst took over. With how old he is, they could even have him team up with a younger Apocalypse.
Maybe some of them were immune to the daylight, while others were immune to garlic and silver. I am guessing no to each one. I am thinking the vampires he created were just stronger and more powerful. They could tolerate sunlight, garlic and silver, but it would weaken them. Kind of like the vampires of Elder Scrolls. The vampires in it were not immune to sunlight, but they were not destroyed outright. The sunlight weakened them.
@@cainabel6356 Not entirely true , in Skyrim and Elderscrolls online yes , but in oblivion becoming a vampire and trying to travel in day was a death sentence , i can't even count how many time i was fast traveling there and time ended in day and i was dead when loaded in :P
@@TheVandaliser I believe that depends on the bloodline in Elder Scrolls, the disease passed down by the Lamae Bal in Elder Scrolls Online. In Skyrim, you become a member of the Volkihar family (Serena and her mother are the real vampire line starters). In Oblivion, you get it from various methods, but none of them are potent enough to get it from the source. From my understanding, you need to be a descendant of a pure-blood to be powerful enough to handle the sun. That's why random vampire attacks happen at night in Skyrim.
@@TheVandaliserThis is true, but only for the vampires that don’t feed, the vampires that don’t feed are more vampiric and bat like and don’t blend in with society well, as well as that, are much more powerful and crazy, but… …The vampires that feed are more human like and aren’t affected as much by the sunlight, This at least applies to the Cyradilic strain of the vampirism disease
I find it interesting that both Drake and the Reapers have the same kind of "mouthparts", though the Reapers' have cruder jaws. I wonder if the Reapers are almost a "devolution" of the vampire race to beings closer to Drake?
Yes and no. It's entirely possible for ressessive genes to comeback in every species. Many people are born with actual tails despite us belonging to the ape family and the split between monkeys and apes being quite far back in the gene-pool that you'd think we wouldnt have that extra part anymore but it still appears in like 5 born babies each 10 years on average
I believe the reapers are definitely a devolution, if only for the simple fact that the human body can only change so much at a time before it becomes destructive. The body has a sophisticated system and cycles that needs to be respected and given time to gradually go from from one step to the next. The reaper strain violently overrides these systems and never allows for proper rest and recovery. Basically it runs human body ragged, so unless you were already a vampire or some sort of meta human you will most likely not survive for long or be able to control your “altered” self.
The virus never killed Blade, but did it rid him of his vampire half? Also, I really liked Drake as a character. He showed that vampires didn't have to be completely bad, he never lost his way.
It likely didn't as Blade's vamperic half was pretty much genetically encoded into his system right near his moment of birth. Its possible that genetically he's resistant to the Daystar Virus enough that its possible he is probably a different vampire strain. Drake knowing that the daystar virus would wipe out existing Vampires and that Blade would live on gave him peace knowing that the diluted lines are done with and that if Blade was to restart the vamperic lines they might be far more capable than the original strains.
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent that makes sense, drake clearly wants the strongest to be on top and he sees those other vampires that cant walk in sunlight as weaklings. Blades version of vampirism could make daywalkers and that is just only a matter of time until he succumbs to his vampiric urges even if he's a dhampir
From what I have heard, it did not remove his vampire half. Remember he was born when his mother was bitten. It is encoded in his dna. He was just more immune to the virus, that was meant to kill vampires. It was his human half that saved him and his vampire half from dying. I believe that Drake new this, seeing how he was feeling the effects of the virus, that was injected into him. Blade is the next step, being born of Vampire and Human. The only warning Drake gave Blade was the thirst is the problem he will have to combat for the rest of his life.
Blade evolved after being exposed to the virus and became immune to it. But he will still continue to age as a human and will die over time, might take longer, but he will definitely have to consume blood a lot more than he has been doing. As for passing on his gene's, he would have to procreate with either another dhamphir or vampire with similar traits. But to be honest about things, Blade wants it to end with him
15:50 they figured out what he looked like by comparing the scale of his arm spike in all his ancient depictions to the real deal. this means that in the world of blade everyone knew dracula existed, sorta like Charlamagne, but specifics weren't there.
I always found the end of Blade Trinity kind of tragic and ominous because it really suggest that Blade is the last Vampire and as Drake says, maybe Blade was doomed to fall by his blood thirst and became one of the monsters what he'd always fought. It could have been an interesting plot for a 4th movie having Blade being the one persecute and hunt by their former allies, and see if some vampires evolve resistant to the Day Star virus. Thank you for the video. PS Wesley Snipes is Blade forever 😔✊
Bro a 4th blade film can't snipe says he's happy that Ali guy has the role for the remade blade film... and it's a REMAKE ain't continuing snipes blades franchises anymore...
watch blade the tv show its the same universe they just didnt want to pay snips to play him the day star killed off about 75 persent of the vamps it was a large portion of the turned and the pure bloods who basically whent into lock down that serveived
Drakes starved form had a visible protruding snout while his later form doesn't, which I find interesting. Also, ancient vampires having splitting jaws makes sense since they'd logically at least somewhat resemble drake.
not necessarily if drake was born what he is witch the skeleton would suggest then the jaw would be unique to him, the over lord from the secound movie calls the reapers rib cages and jaws a unforeseen mutation its more likely that this was triggered by novack a test tub baby that was genitally engendered triggering some of the small amount of dna in his gens from drake
I don't know if it's already been mentioned or not, but he's more armored when they first find Drake. I've always thought he looked extra spooky, but I did some image searching to confirm. When Drake first emerges, he's wearing the helmet and chestplate alongside his whole arm guantlets from when they later analyze his armor. It's just really hard to see because of the flashing lights. Thought that was cool.
the snake thing makes me cringe so hard every time. while they do have a lot of bones, everything after the head is basically ribs and vertebrae, not some random floating bones.
@@ericburton1244 obviously, tho some animals, like cephalopods would have been a better example. this here to me sounds like some more unneccessary shitting on snakes for no particular reason :/
@@HelixSC shitting on snakes? Who tf is shitting on snakes? And you really think an octopus would’ve got the point across to the average listener better? You’re weird man you’re inventing things to be upset about 🤣
Yeah Drake is immortal, not even Daystar could kill him. In the deleted scene, the ending, Drake is actually still alive as he wakes up from the autopsy table to feed on everyone around him. So yeah he is one of a kind.
They didn't show what Blade really is , Blade is a young Vampee, These things are almost immortal. A Vampee at mid tier experience will kill Drake, They're more like a spiritual vampire, you can't cut any of their body parts without it growing back, they soul can also leave the body and fight... That was supposed to be set for Blade 4 but I don't know why Wesley not doing it 🤷♂️
@@SantasGAINdeer Actually there is a 4th movie I believe made without Snipes, most likely because he was in Prison trying to evade taxes by spending all his money.
I can totally see a series about Drake being an anti-hero like Devilman or something 😂 He'd fight vampires, werewolves, and everything else. Too bad he was defeated by science, but just like any previous Dracula iterations, Drake might come back still. Dracula always finds a way to come back one way or another 😂
he never once mentioned Wesley Snipes, was talking about Dracula, so... and Dracula being a shape shifter can be played by literally anyone. We don't even know if his human for in the movie was actually his true appearance or just one he preferred when not in his demonic form.
fun fact: Ryan Reynolds was having difficulty getting his character right. The Director David (something or other) handed him a few Deadpool comics and said "act like this guy" Afterwards Ryan Reynolds was all "this is the character I was made for!" in reference to Deadpool.
Why did he not hand him one of the hundreds of blade comics, does nobody realize blade is a marvel comic that has been around for half a century and was one of the first movies of the marvel mcu and also the first black superhero lead in a marvel movie and the black panther was not the first.
I thought you were going to say that they just told him to be Ryan Reynolds, because he's Ryan Reynolds/same character in almost every movie, including Blade 2.
Or blade probably evolved his powers after fighting drake im sure his body and abilities became like 5x stronger and faster, also im sure his weapon crafting abilities has also approved as well.
Drinking another Vampires blood can transfer the power but the other Vampire has to drink all the blood and kill the other one in the porcess if the effect is supposed to last. Otherwise the power up blood just gets digested like blood from something living.
When asked how he can walk in the daylight he says "I am unique." Pretty sure that implies that his immunity is exclusive to him. Even if vampires he makes are similar to the reapers they'd still likely be vulnerable to silver, garlic, and sunlight.
yes and no id say hes a hybrid like blade sense blade has the immunity as well but id where blade is about 1/4 drake is probly the opposite 3/4 his human part is what makes him immune
@@rednas2.079 - He has a human form, so he is part human, but for the reference he is La Magra's child. How he came to be is what we don't know, but he had to be born
@@rednas2.079 unless he sprang up from the earth fully form and a adult hed have to have been born from a human so he has to have some human dna there for hybrid
@@ethandoyle4978 no personnaly I understand but I was more prepared too see a Dracula like in the comics with red armor and magical powers. Recently the marvels version of Dracula has a become a daywalkers after absorbing a large dose of Wolverine blood.
18:31 they should’ve used the alternate ending because all vampire villains say the same thing The Thirst always wins and I think it would’ve been poetic if it ended up winning in the end.
Me too, but I feel Blade is going to stop aging and become the new Dracula. I feel Drake passed his power unto Blade and crowned him the new king of the vampires. Now that would be interesting.
If I'm not mistaken in Blade I, they said vampires blood can't sustain hemoglobin, and that's why they were affected by sunlight. This is a great explanation, and thanks for sharing this!!
The movies were not perfect, but they did do an excellent job of world building in my opinion. Drake’s story, to the extent they fleshed it out, was a highlight of the series for me. Blade needs to come back for one final battle against the god that created Drake.
Technically speaking, he did fight La Magra in the first film. It wasn't in the gods full glory, rather him possessing deacon frost, due to him consuming the souls of the 12 elders or whatever it was. It's been a while since I've seen the movie. I do agree that him fighting the ACTUAL God, not just him possessing someone, would be cool af.
LaMagra never made Drake. Drake went into hibernation before LaMagra was made by the 12 elders from thousands of years ago. LaMagra was made 1000 years after Drake went into hibernation and is purely vampiric blood. Drake owns LaMagra as all vampires are made to serve Drake
World building? Blade is marvel comic that had its world and backstory written over half a century ago and it was a marvel superhero movie made by marvel based on the comic, so they did not have to build any world they just transfered it to the screen.
@@King_Flippy_Nips the movies are vastly different from the comics. In fact the comics have been more heavily influenced by the movies than the reverse. Blade being a half vampire? Came from the movies. Blood God is also a movie invention. So is Drake as in the comics, Dracula is not the original vampire. And etc... the film makers indeed had to create their own lore, which was so successful it changed how the comic books were written.
Well the world of darkness by far has the most lore. The reason for that is they basically took all known vampire, demon, fae and mummy mythologies in human history and put it into one package that connects them all in a way that makes sense. In the world of darkness Dracula is far from the first vampire. He is like 7th generation but he still has a bad ass story and he is based of Vlad Țepeș who is the real life inspiration for Count Dracula.
As for being able to find out what Drake's armor looked like from one scale, that was merely bad narration on the writers' part...sure, they had one scale (which was shaped closer to a shark's scale than those of a reptile), but they also had manuscripts and murals throughout history to work with. (Remember that mosaic used several times in this very video?) The scales were on the forearms and upper legs of the armor, as were two pauldrons, one with large studs and the other with an axe-like blade. The center of the breastplate was more like a bat-wing shaped gorget bearing Drake's personal glyph (hist chest has a scar to match) flanked by two plates which have ribs fluted into them. This is over several sections of chainmail, silver (color, not the actual metal( for the shoulders and armpits, red at the insides of the elbows and back of the knees. At Drake's throat was more maille in both silver and red, the red coming from his throat, down his chest under his breastplate, and hanging past his waist. Most notable is the woven leather vest he wore in many scenes...out of all of the armor worn in the film, that vest and one arm were the main pieces he wore in the last fight against Blade...the vest was made by Rebecca Sevrin, who also made Selene's coat for the Underworld series.
(A huge giggle-factor for me was that Drake was played by Dominic Purcell, who also played the leader of the hijackers in the movie Blood Red Sky...about a plane that is first taken over by terrorists and then overrun by vampires.)
He was caine, from the book of genesis, the curse for committing the first murder (his brother) after spending centuries living among mankind, he even used his shapeshifting abilities to replace Vlad tepes Dracula after the original had been killed. Eventually, "Drake" went into seclusion in the ancient tomb. This is how I understood it, of course it is open to anyone's interpretation since nothing in this video or in blade 3 ever sets it in stone. Also just because he appears to die at the end of blade 3, it doesn't mean that he did...he probably just went into stasis, until he could make his escape, only to go back into seclusion knowing that the future of vampires was safely in the hands of blade.
@@ChestofGold am i?? Or was blade 3??? Bottom line is there are so many versions and legends about vampires at this point, that none are very original. Who was the 1st vampire??? In marvel comics it was an ancient atlantean sorcerer named varnae, multiple myths attribute caine as the 1st vampire because he committed the first murder and GOD cursed caine to walk the earth, never to find comfort ir rest from the earth, and finally GOD marked him in a way so that all who seen him would know who and what he did but could not kill him. Of course if heard and read myths that say judas iscariot was the first vampire and because he betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver, he suffers from a weakness to silver. The reality is that vampires aren't real and were meant to be an anti-jesus if you will..the vamires weakness' are representatons of the death and resurrection of Christ. For instance the vampire cannot cross running water ,because christ said from me flows the river of life, 2.silver, because Christ was betrayed with 30 pieces of silver,3. Rose thorns, because Christ was forced to wear a crown of rose thorns when he was crucified, 4.sunlight, is just a metaphor for Christ's tranfiguration after his resurrection and all of our sins were burnt away,5. The stake turn the heart ( originally supposed to be a branch from a live olive tree) representing the ritual of anointing the dead with olive oil. I think I've made my point and have gone completely of track. My simple answer is no, it was not "ripped off " of anything ...it just seems to make the most sense in my imagination ( if I were to believe in vampires) besides I didn't write the movie, so I definitely couldn't have ripped off anything.
@@CarbonTheCrab thank you, sorry about all of the typos. I was pretty tired when I wrote my reponse and apparently my eyes weren't seeing as well as I'd have hoped.
Would have been so cool if they squad of vampires who woke up Drake had addressed him in broken Sumerian, only to have Drake correct their terrible grammar as his first spoken words in thousands of years, before biting the head off one of them
id like to think that drake didnt go into hybernation because of the people but because of him cause him saying the thrist always wins makes me think he when feral on someone he loved or cared about draining them
Seeing how he was born and he had a people, I would expect that would be the case. He was saddened for destroying his own people because of the thirst got to him.
Yeah he Drake even said himself you shouldn't have woken me like he didn't want to be awaken and Hannibal also said that Drake was pissed that he was awaken implying that Drake want to stay asleep possibly forever
I always liked to think he was a fallen hero and he is what blade would become if blade was immortal😁 hopefully blade dies of old age before succumbing
That was a really good video, and it made me appreciate Trinity a bit more than I have previously. Subbed. Looking forward to more interesting content.
One outside possibility that you didn't cover is that Drake and Blade's origin story might be extremely similar. E.G. Blade and Drake's mother was pregnant and got turned by some vampire, in Drake's case La Magra.
I think I could know how Drake would have been developed. Rituals were a common thing back then. It could be that his people were trying to bring their god, La Magra, to the world, and used Drake's mother as the catalyst/body to be used. La Magra was just too powerful and could not use the body, so the blood god decided to impregnate Drake's mother, giving itself a child. There you get Drake. Sound reasonable to me.
LaMagra never made Drake. Drake was in hibernation for 1000 years by the point the elder vampires sacrificed themselves to create LaMagra. Drake even says in the movie that there's no God. If LaMagra existed and did create him, then Drake would've mentioned him
@cainabel6356 it doesn't matter. If there was any God and especially if LaMagra existed, Drake would've said something along the lines that only god there is, is LaMagra. The book already clarified that LaMagra never existed in Drake's time and was instead itself created by 12 elder vampires
@@Gabriel-r3d6k wouldn't that make you an art historian? If you were a vampirologist, you would need an actual vampire or a specimen of a vampire to study. Kind of like in toxicology, you need a urine or blood sample.
He was definitely unique. The 3rd film may not have been everybody's favorite but he definitely added more to the film than the film itself Drake was definitely. I think it's a good antagonist he wasn't the worst I guess we're right they flushed them out more
I like the idea that in blade, the "Dracula" in europe that we think of might have still existed, but he was not actually called dracula, just that there was an infamous count who was a vampire, and the existing legends thanks to Drake led all of europe to call the count "Dracula".
The "selective mutation" spoken of is akin to a fruit squash or cordial. In it's original form, it is strong, but when diluted, it weakens, and some abilities are lost as a direct consequence. Modern vampires cannot sustain haemoglobin, hence their need to feed more often than Dracula would need to. It might also suggest why they cannot tolerate UV light, leaving them with a high vulnerability to it, while the original lore only ever mentioned that Dracula was weaker in sunlight than at night.
Any plans on covering Murphy and Lucy from z-nation? Their half-zombies who can control zombies and they can turn others into half-zombies under their control, they can even bite normal zombies and keep them under control for quite a considerable big distance
About the cradle of civilization and Vampires. Stories about beings that feed on blood existed even in ancient Mesopotamia. These beings were called Rabisu or Rabasa. However, they were not Humans turned into monsters, but Demons.
Drake might have not been able to transmit through a bite (with danica), but I'm sure if she ingested some of his blood. Perhaps that would make the difference ?
This movie and his other TV show "John Doe" had me convinced Dominic Purcell was going to be a Shakespearean actor. Instead he's the flame guy on Legends of Tomorrow. *facepalm*
I’m gonna admit this my favourite of the franchise, why? The attempt to change the mythos of blade by introducing Drake , it’s a hated film but I just love it everything and the cast Reynolds steals the show as Hannibal King, Biel is just deadly as Abigail Whistler, Snipes is in total Asshole mode his last great movie Payton Oswald just kills me too, Whistler dies in the beginning Parker Posey is great vampire and Purcell does what he does with varying degrees of success if anyone hasn’t seen this film please give it a watch or rewatch and I was born ready MuthFucka love that line, great video, Cheers
I always thought Drake was a bit underwhelming. He's the first and strongest of his kind and still runs away from Blade and basically hides behind a baby on their first encounter. And Blade makes short work of him in the final fight. Nomack was a bigger threat to him. I wanted to this awesome, next to impossible to take down villain. Finally someone who would actually have Blade shook and humble him a few times before Blade is ultimately victorious. Just seemed like the tale of Drake's legend was scarier than he actually turned out to be. 😂
Drake was toying with Blade he saw him as a playmate a worthy challenger he didnt want to destroy him. To be honest on rewatch I think he actually wanted Blade to stop him he took it easy on him you can kind of tell.
Also take notice how he has similar features to the Reaper strain with no draw backs in terms of them being very aggressive (accept they cannot control it), stronger than average vamps, his mouth opens up like a Reaper vamp, he needed to feed a lot to get back to strength while Feeding a lot is an addiction in a sense to reaper vamps. It seems like the reaper strain had brought out some of the original features that "Drake" had because although it was flawed, it was presenting past genetic things like the mouth and more vampiric look in the teeth. Reaper vamps also had harder bones to protect them from being staked in the heart without knowing the angle to push the stake in while Drake has unique features to his bones in general that allow him to shape shift so an alteration to genetics could allow a reaper infected host bones to change as all of the reapers were former human or vamps with normal bodies outside of vampirism and didn't have this feature to protect their heart at first until infected.
I like all of the Blade Trilogy. The fact that Drake’s is left open is kind of a plus. It leaves some for the imagination to fill in. TY for the video. Great Backstory.
It struck me that they were able to identify Drake's look from a small piece of armour because they already had descriptions in a database from manuscripts or stone work. Using the computer to combine these built up the image we later saw as Drake.
I honestly like Blade Trinity, though it did kinda have to grow on me. At first, being a fan of the comic book version of the Nightstalkers, and particularly of that version of Hannibal King, this take put me off big time. But I came around over time, and actually really like this version of King as his own character. I do still sometimes wish that they'd done something closer to the comics, where for a time, he was something closer to movie-verse Blade: a "vampire" who didn't need blood, could walk in the daylight, etc. Could've easily explained it as the "cure" not being meant to work on someone who'd been turned for that long (in the comics, it's implied that King was turned in the 1940s, while investigating a case involving Deacon Frost), and thus rendering him stuck kind of halfway between human and vampire. Would've given a great reason for him and Blade to not get along. As for Drake, I generally love him in concept. I just wish they'd given us a little more about him, what makes him so significant besides being the "first vampire." Do we assume that he turned all of those who would end up becoming the originators of the various vampire houses? Or were they his children in the more literal sense? If he was having to interbreed with human women in order to create those who were born vampires, then it might account for why their lines began to weaken and diminish, particularly if those children then also took human mates, further thinning the blood until a greater number of vampires were turned rather than born. Also, I continue to wonder at the ending...you'd presume that holding another shape takes concentration, a certain measure of deliberate intent, which suggests that it was not Drake's dead body that was brought to the FBI morgue in place of Blade, but rather a still very much alive first vampire. After all, it certainly appears that the virus wasn't affecting him as aggressively as it did the other vampires, implying that while his blood was needed to create the final version that would dispatch any vampires exposed to it, it didn't mean that he would be killed by Daystar in the same way. After all, the blackening of the skin that we see in the other vampires is much slower as it starts to appear, and it seems to present much less aggressively and visibly, suggesting that his body was trying to fight it off. Basically, I'd love to see him show back up, if they were to revisit the series. I'd also love it if they'd throw us some more of the Nightstalkers, since we're shown in one of the alternate endings that Whistler and King did in fact stay together to hunt other forms of supernatural predators (in this case, werewolves), possibly recruiting more to the cause. I also would love to see what comes of Daystar, since I really can't figure out how they expected it to wipe out all vampires. An airborne virus isn't going to travel _that_ far, no matter what you do to make it. Without some way to expand its range, it really shouldn't pass beyond the Talos building, or the city at best, meaning that there would still be vampires out there in the world. Especially since infectees seem to die almost instantly, leaving no way for them to carry it and pass it along further. Basically, what I'm saying is that the ending is full of plot hooks and red herrings, and I'd love to see Marvel do something with it.
it might have been airborne, but I suspect Daystar could be carried by humans asymptomatically. I mean, we do have pandemic level events across history that show that even things in isolated regions can get out.
@@TheoRae8289 Yeah, but that seems dangerous. Either the only ones who have Daystar in their blood are the Nightstalkers and whatever random familiars were in the Talos building, or it passes on asymptomatically to humans who would have to probably get perilously close to vampires (possibly even be fed on, risking their death) to infect the vampires. Airborne would be the most sensible, but it was released in an enclosed building, and all those it was meant to infect were turned to dust as a result...meaning that it likely couldn't actually spread on a large scale, and definitely wouldn't be crossing any oceans or anything.
and it was used on glass to create mirrors, hence the myths about vampires not having reflections (and I think I read one where they don't show up on old film for the same reason)
I think the reason vampires from the Blade series became weak to sunlight was because a vampire that was a daywalker turned someone who was already weak from sunlight, like a natural redhead.
This was very well done! Personally, I think Drake would rather have a child rather than "Turn" someone. He's an Elitist, who clearly follows a lot of the ancient ways and childbirth was the way his culture would've likely choosen in lew of watering down the vampiric race on non-aroisticracric vampires or pure-blooded humans.
I think he turned a few people either purposefully or by accident when he first became vampire otherwise the vampire race wouldn't be a thing but I agree maybe after turning a few hrs became a elitist and wanted to have a child after becoming disappointed with the vampires
I'm torn on this character On the one hand I like his Demon warrior design, like a forebearer to The reapers from Blade II On the other hand he's nothing like Dracula in any form Plus him being called Dagon, a philistine god of agriculture and rain, doesn't fit Honestly they could have kept all reference to Dracula out and tied it to the first film by calling him La Magra. I love these films but it's like each film once to distance itself from the previous ones as well distance itself from the comics Originally in the Blade 98 alternate ending, a figure confirmed to be Morbious shows up intending for a clash in the sequel (rights issues) Still great video great work
I've been working on a functional replica of Drake's sword for some time now... The most difficult part has been finding a screen accurate blade with the right geometry, or something close enough that would require minimal modification. It's got a really weird shape that's wider at the end and slims down towards the hilt, and a sorta geometrically ground tip. I'm using copper and bronze for the ornate portions on the spine of the blade and the guard, figured this would be best since these materials are more accurate to the period of Drake's origin. I'll be using a real human femur for the hilt as well which will probably be one of, if not *the* most expensive aspects of the whole thing if I'm being honest (genuine human remains of any kind are not cheap!). It's one of those projects that's been on my "to do" list for ages and I've only just recently begun to acquire some of the initial materials to get started. Initially I had just intended on creating a nice replica of the prop, but I finally said "screw it" and decided to make something fully functional and useable. It will be totally capable of slaying both daywalkers and humans alike with ease by the time I'm done with it... I'll try to remember to get some pics sent to you when I'm finished along with a few photos of some of my other "Blade" related props/items I've made and some of the other vampire shit I've done over the years (vampire hunting kit, 'Stake/Spike Launcher' from "Dracula 2000", etc.).
I love the overall premise of the film. I do believe that the movie should have been a bit darker like the original and not cartoonish. Blade comics are dark and it honestly should have stayed that way.
Whenever I re-watch Blade Trinity I can't help but wonder what would Drake's reaction to Nomak be like. He seemed sort of proud of Blade's existence, so I wonder if he would consider Nomak an evolutionary step or just a failure.
yeah I always figured Drake was the end goal for the Vampires, even Eli making the reapers was a failed experiment to replicate Drake which is evident in the split jaw commonality
Highly recommend the Batman Vampire Trilogy: red rain, bloodstorm, and crimson mist. One of dc elseworlds best series. Also recommend the ten volume Sandman series. Would love to see a video about the endless and the other side characters.
I like this version of dracula dominic purcell did a great job. I understand that drake is a deep character but i think simply he got tired of living. Like when batman's bain said "victory has defeated you" all that was left in drake warrior spirit was a honorable death and for so long no one was up to the task for so long.
It's not perfect but I loved this 1. Blade is such an underrated vampire/action movie. The Blade movies were really unique when they came out & changed the trajectory of action movies...especially with their fighting scenes. I also love movies with a decent amount of lore added in2 them...not just fight scenes but a little bit u can breakdown like u did here. Really enjoying ur channel & subscribed after the 1st video I watched.
i wanted to point out the E.D.T.A also worked on the bloodgod, well the frost version anyway, not sure if he was supposed to be a complete form as the frost variant of the blood god was shown to be much much faster than even drake and even stronger, but was defeated with multiple vials of edta
In Deacons case it was cause one of the purebloods was killed off before completion of the ritual so it wasn't fully done. He was extremely powerful and likely blessed with the power of the bloodgod but he wasn't Dracula. Even Blade points this out when he kill him, pointing out that Deacon pretty much bit off more than he could chew.
Exactly that quote you pulled from Hannibal king in the movie insinuates he was born a vampire. Also, I have watched that movie so many times I know it by heart and it never once brings up a link between “LaMagra” & Dracula. Unless you’re talking about source material. ie. comic books, TV shows, cartoons, or legends
I'd love a movie that alters the history+alternate timeline like in Back to the Future). How would Drake react to the Reapers or LaMogra enhanced Frost? I bet he would have been disgusted enough to help Blade set the timeline right.
I like to think he was a good leader to his people but "the thirst" eventually led him to create vampires but over time they would eventually give into the thirst much quicker and begin to fall as a civilization leaving him to go into hibernation in shame of his people and to prevent his thirst from creating more hoping they would learn to become better at controling the thirst to then be disappointed by the current vampires ad much as his own civilization. When he was woken he was pissed it was by the decendants of his shamed people but while he is now awake he may as well have fun in this new civilization not caring for anything or anyone as he no longer loves his people. But hey, thats just a thought. a Film thought 😂
I like the subtle aspects of Drake's character. Like him wearing a cross, or how he learned to hold a baby properly, or him telling Blade "the thirst always wins." He feels like he has an actual origin story, just one we don't get to see.
From a writing standpoint, I think that's what helps make him interesting as a character. Breaking the mistery usually goes poorly, so I like it better that way XD
I liked when Drake looked into the camera, smiled, winked, and said "It's Draken' time!" then draked all over the place.
ye i always liked how he seems to 1 have a interesting backstory and 2 his abilites are a mix of supernatural but also just being biologically complex like the blood god is truly supernautral but the virus he made to gift drake his power seems completely biological my question is did the blood god directly make the virus or is the virus something drake had when he was turned that got mutated supernaturally to spread the vampire curse abit like in underwrorld or others. i personally like to think as a warrior who as he said lived by the sword he got infected with a virus that was gonna kill him so he made offerings to the blood god and was turned as a result because alot of warriors back then saw dying of illness a less honorable death then combat so it would make sense for drake to make a deal that would allow him to only die to his equal in combat
@@Unpainted_Huffhines tf
@@TheDogman71109 HOLY FUCK ITS MANBEARPIG
I always liked how when he became a full on demonic vampire he had the Reaper jaw. Suggesting the reaper strain is a part of the vampire DNA that Demaskinos accidently unlocked.
@Nix91lol oh yeah I always wondered why the pomeranian and Rottweilers had split Jaws I was confused asf by that.
@Nix91 In most vampire stories, it's just their "blood" thinning out and them losing powers because they keep adding in humans in their gene pool.
But it could also be a more active event. Like how elephants of today are losing their tusks, the tyrannical split mouth vampires that didn't hide probably got hunted to extinction at some point and the "mutated" vampires that are weaker and look more human that blended in human society is survived and that's how they lived ever since.
@@belldrop7365maybe the split jaw and tongue thing we're for penetrating the armor people use to wear way back and the vampire race lost it as people stopped wearing all that armor or like you said they can just go the route every other vampire franchise does too much breeding with humans has made the vampire race more human than vampire lol
@@KcMcclarythey say in the movie that they were messing around with giving other animals vampirism don't they.
It's also a Homage to Michael Morbious plasma holes in his wrist on the Spiderman cartoon
Also Morbious did have a similar mandible and he was supposed to eventually become a villian
His whole "the thirst always wins" seems to imply that he once tried to resist drinking people. I wonder how long he was able to hold off.
Thousands of years apparently....
@@AnathemaMysticalcel right but he found it much easier to do in extreme seclusion.
depends on how he was made going by his skeleton id say he as breed sense his mouth is like a reapers im going to say he has something similar but a paralytic is redundant they can feed from the newly dead as long as the blood cells are liveing sdo they could easy snap someones neck to keep them from going away so im going to say the venum is the original carrier for the transformation meaning the thirst is just a intensive to attack to carry on the vamp blood line so as he would be half human he wouldent need to feed on blood it would be mind over matter as a warrior and jking hed have to be pretty disciplined so theres no way of knowing
It's like food for humans.....can't fight the natural order. Human or Vampire!
That or he’s seen other vampires try and fail.
This depiction of Drake was perfect and hands down Dominic Purcell acted so well in this movie as Drake. This Dracula's armor was so sick as well
Vlad the Impaler as a comic book character
His acting was terrible lmao
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I love the Iraq tomb origin since they also have a Dracula myth The sumerian God myth like Anu and his offspring Enlil who tried creating supernatural hybrids
Yeap what do you expect from aan born and bred in Australia not far from where I grew up actually
Its strange to see Lincoln Burrows as dracula
Personally, I think Drake's strongest line was "Sooner or later, the thirst ALWAYS wins". You could hear his bittersweet amusement in those words and it makes you realize that there is a story there. That his ancient creature that kills without conscience might not have always been that way. That at one time, the original vampire might have once been like Blade. A young man turned into some unknown thing, alone among humans with lethal urges that he had to struggle to control every day. Until one day, like an addict that's been on the wagon for years, the struggle just became too much. 😱
There is also the fact that Blades serum kept having a lesser and lesser effect for him.
One day no amount if serum will help and then there will be only thirst.
That was my first instinct too. I wonder how long it was before he gave in.
@@Mukation Fortunately only the first serum had that problem. Blade's new serum was working.
@@Amadeus8484 A new Serum that for now will work until its begins to be rejected although that could be years or decades. Honestly the best thing would be to develop artificial blood that carries needed nutrients the vampires could have and no longer need to feed on humans. This would solve the majority of problems for them and perhaps allow them to focus on other endeavors.
What about animal blood ?
Also remember drake said “allow me a parting gift” and when the cops came to the building, Drake shapeshifted into blade to make the cops think they caught him like they were trying to do in the beginning of the movie. Then right as they were about to cut him open he turned back into his human form
Damn I just commented this. His did he miss the most important scene though😂😂😂
You know humanity is corrupted when a 7,000 years old vampire decide to starve for many more years because it’s better than being alive around us.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 FACTS 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I mean, he isn't wrong
dude saw what horrors of the internet
like specially in the shop where removed the guy and sucked the girl dry out of hatred xD
Drake: I’m hungry AF but, on the other hand, f*ck ‘em.
His swag is truly unmatched through the ages. They cast the perfect person honestly. He has the perfect strut and his confidence just fits the role so well
isn't he the "yogurt male" guy? lmao
@@findout-YGO who?
@@dmitritelvanni4068 look It up, the same actor did some greek yogurt ads and became a meme a few years ago
@@findout-YGOno he was out of prison break
Drake implies that he is the only pure vampire daywalker to ever exist. I think that the idea that La'Ma'gra impregnated a human women makes sense. Its possible he grew up human then at a certain age his vampiric nature kick in. It would also explain why he seemed to feel a connection with Blade beyond the fact that they were both real warriors. He also may not have been talking about their physical characteristics when he said that current vampires were a shadow of their former selves. He may have been referring to how they are no longer warriors and conquerors. That seemed to be more in line with his character, he would shun all the hiding and running businesses to gain power. He seems more like the raise an army and kill all your enemies kind of guy. They definitely missed an incredible opportunity to enhance Blade by not expanding his back story.
Yeah Drake sees Blade as a powerful force with honor like himself so Drake has huge respect for Blade
Exactly. The other vampires were narcissists and Drake didn’t respect that. He respected Blade because Blade had honor and didn’t crave attention or power over everything.
Like in Dracula Untold
Fuck man I wish we had a proper vampire series with Dracula, not some bullshit The CW network show made for preteen girls 😂
Imagine a proper written blade or Dracula series that does a deep dive into the past of Dracula and his conquers
Also I wish the universal monsterverse worked out ,
Dracula Untold with Luke Evans was my favorite iteration of Dracula and I wanted to see Charles dance as the bad guy in future sequels , he could have been like a Mephisto esque character
going by the skeleton that fits two the phiscal changes the reapers go through in the second movie drives them crazy as well as the blood lust, and yes thats what he ment from the get go the vamps of today hide just look at his wepon a sword same as blade a warriors wepon yoiu have to look into the face of the person your fighting and it takes hours years to master
I think he meant it literally, as to why they can still age and turn to Ash in sunlight or death.
Quiet literal shadows of what vampires used to be.
"Motherfucker... I like that"
I fucking love blade trinity
This version of Dracula was pretty cool, the movie itself left a lot to be desired but he was pretty cool.
Nah
@@dominushydra Ok..don't know why you felt the need to disagree but I guess it is the internet.
@@dominushydra oooh..I just saw where you said he was straight out of a gay bar. Guess that's why I like him...since I'm gay as hell.
@@adammocaby2636 yeah that's probably why you like him.
@@dominushydra Regardless..I thought when he was in demon form or whatever it looked pretty cool. Just my opinion.
I'd like to think that Drake's human form is his "true form", and the big form he fights in is more of a "war form" he probably created back in the days of ancient warfare.
I think he used that form to fight werewolves and other powerful supernatural creatures. We see a werewolf in the alternate ending.
@@jadebrownbull4903alternative ending 😮
Well Dracula always had a beast form in case he's in a big fight, just ask Simon Belmont or his ancestor Trevor Belmont, or Abraham Van Helsing and Jonathan Harker and that other guy who was with them, or even Buffy the vampire slayer!
@@jadebrownbull4903what alternative ending?
I agree, it'd be cool to see Drake's origin. I'm always down for a good origin story.
that would be a cool movie to see how Drake came into existence and end it off with going into hibernation were they found him
Basically he was sent to prison, then his brother got himself arrested to get into the same prison in order to free Drake...
Bring him back! What could ho wrong?🤗😆
They could portray him as the first "Blade". Until the thirst took over. With how old he is, they could even have him team up with a younger Apocalypse.
@@dsan17 well you know he is a day walker as well🤣
He doesn’t say all vampires used to day walk, he says he’s unique. I think they were all night walkers except for himself
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Maybe some of them were immune to the daylight, while others were immune to garlic and silver. I am guessing no to each one.
I am thinking the vampires he created were just stronger and more powerful. They could tolerate sunlight, garlic and silver, but it would weaken them. Kind of like the vampires of Elder Scrolls. The vampires in it were not immune to sunlight, but they were not destroyed outright. The sunlight weakened them.
@@cainabel6356 Not entirely true , in Skyrim and Elderscrolls online yes , but in oblivion becoming a vampire and trying to travel in day was a death sentence , i can't even count how many time i was fast traveling there and time ended in day and i was dead when loaded in :P
@@TheVandaliser I believe that depends on the bloodline in Elder Scrolls, the disease passed down by the Lamae Bal in Elder Scrolls Online. In Skyrim, you become a member of the Volkihar family (Serena and her mother are the real vampire line starters). In Oblivion, you get it from various methods, but none of them are potent enough to get it from the source. From my understanding, you need to be a descendant of a pure-blood to be powerful enough to handle the sun. That's why random vampire attacks happen at night in Skyrim.
@@TheVandaliserThis is true, but only for the vampires that don’t feed, the vampires that don’t feed are more vampiric and bat like and don’t blend in with society well, as well as that, are much more powerful and crazy, but…
…The vampires that feed are more human like and aren’t affected as much by the sunlight,
This at least applies to the Cyradilic strain of the vampirism disease
I find it interesting that both Drake and the Reapers have the same kind of "mouthparts", though the Reapers' have cruder jaws. I wonder if the Reapers are almost a "devolution" of the vampire race to beings closer to Drake?
I always thought that, but likely Goyer just liked Nomak so he reused ideas of Nomak again
It could just be plain old survival of the fittest. A normal jaw vampire is more likely to go unnoticed than one of the reaper types.
Yes and no.
It's entirely possible for ressessive genes to comeback in every species.
Many people are born with actual tails despite us belonging to the ape family and the split between monkeys and apes being quite far back in the gene-pool that you'd think we wouldnt have that extra part anymore but it still appears in like 5 born babies each 10 years on average
I believe the reapers are definitely a devolution, if only for the simple fact that the human body can only change so much at a time before it becomes destructive. The body has a sophisticated system and cycles that needs to be respected and given time to gradually go from from one step to the next. The reaper strain violently overrides these systems and never allows for proper rest and recovery. Basically it runs human body ragged, so unless you were already a vampire or some sort of meta human you will most likely not survive for long or be able to control your “altered” self.
Reemergence of earlier traits is atavism.
The virus never killed Blade, but did it rid him of his vampire half? Also, I really liked Drake as a character. He showed that vampires didn't have to be completely bad, he never lost his way.
It likely didn't as Blade's vamperic half was pretty much genetically encoded into his system right near his moment of birth. Its possible that genetically he's resistant to the Daystar Virus enough that its possible he is probably a different vampire strain.
Drake knowing that the daystar virus would wipe out existing Vampires and that Blade would live on gave him peace knowing that the diluted lines are done with and that if Blade was to restart the vamperic lines they might be far more capable than the original strains.
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent that makes sense, drake clearly wants the strongest to be on top and he sees those other vampires that cant walk in sunlight as weaklings.
Blades version of vampirism could make daywalkers and that is just only a matter of time until he succumbs to his vampiric urges even if he's a dhampir
From what I have heard, it did not remove his vampire half. Remember he was born when his mother was bitten. It is encoded in his dna. He was just more immune to the virus, that was meant to kill vampires. It was his human half that saved him and his vampire half from dying. I believe that Drake new this, seeing how he was feeling the effects of the virus, that was injected into him. Blade is the next step, being born of Vampire and Human. The only warning Drake gave Blade was the thirst is the problem he will have to combat for the rest of his life.
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent - Hmmm..... You beat me to it.
Blade evolved after being exposed to the virus and became immune to it. But he will still continue to age as a human and will die over time, might take longer, but he will definitely have to consume blood a lot more than he has been doing. As for passing on his gene's, he would have to procreate with either another dhamphir or vampire with similar traits. But to be honest about things, Blade wants it to end with him
15:50 they figured out what he looked like by comparing the scale of his arm spike in all his ancient depictions to the real deal. this means that in the world of blade everyone knew dracula existed, sorta like Charlamagne, but specifics weren't there.
Drake's first form and true form are badass and terrifying. If they were aiming for primordial demon with his look, then they really hit the mark.
I always found the end of Blade Trinity kind of tragic and ominous because it really suggest that Blade is the last Vampire and as Drake says, maybe Blade was doomed to fall by his blood thirst and became one of the monsters what he'd always fought. It could have been an interesting plot for a 4th movie having Blade being the one persecute and hunt by their former allies, and see if some vampires evolve resistant to the Day Star virus.
Thank you for the video.
PS Wesley Snipes is Blade forever 😔✊
Daywalkers even in small numbers would easily fill in the void left behind by the Vampires.
Bro a 4th blade film can't snipe says he's happy that Ali guy has the role for the remade blade film... and it's a REMAKE ain't continuing snipes blades franchises anymore...
@@TheDogman71109 Isn’t that movie in production hell because Ali walked off the set due to poor writing? That Blade movie is DOA.
watch blade the tv show its the same universe they just didnt want to pay snips to play him the day star killed off about 75 persent of the vamps it was a large portion of the turned and the pure bloods who basically whent into lock down that serveived
I was thinking the same about Blade that he'll become like Drake when the thirst overtakes him.
I think that your deep dive into this character was more impressive than the movie itself.
Drakes starved form had a visible protruding snout while his later form doesn't, which I find interesting. Also, ancient vampires having splitting jaws makes sense since they'd logically at least somewhat resemble drake.
not necessarily if drake was born what he is witch the skeleton would suggest then the jaw would be unique to him, the over lord from the secound movie calls the reapers rib cages and jaws a unforeseen mutation its more likely that this was triggered by novack a test tub baby that was genitally engendered triggering some of the small amount of dna in his gens from drake
@@seanbraley2772 bull shit
Theory: the hungrier he gets the more demonic he becomes. His body adapting to make him a more effective predator. To make it easier for him to feed.
@@theo-jamesmoulton2000 interesting theory, definitely like it.👍
@@seanbraley2772 yes perhaps. You bring up valid points.
I don't know if it's already been mentioned or not, but he's more armored when they first find Drake. I've always thought he looked extra spooky, but I did some image searching to confirm. When Drake first emerges, he's wearing the helmet and chestplate alongside his whole arm guantlets from when they later analyze his armor.
It's just really hard to see because of the flashing lights. Thought that was cool.
There’s the scene where the little girl is chained to the armour on the armour stand you can see it there too
the snake thing makes me cringe so hard every time. while they do have a lot of bones, everything after the head is basically ribs and vertebrae, not some random floating bones.
And?
@@ericburton1244 that means that the shape shifting bs from the movie doesn't make sense in relation to snakes.
@@HelixSC well you are aware that no animals shapeshift, right? And the metaphor obviously got the point across?
@@ericburton1244 obviously, tho some animals, like cephalopods would have been a better example. this here to me sounds like some more unneccessary shitting on snakes for no particular reason :/
@@HelixSC shitting on snakes? Who tf is shitting on snakes? And you really think an octopus would’ve got the point across to the average listener better? You’re weird man you’re inventing things to be upset about 🤣
Yeah Drake is immortal, not even Daystar could kill him. In the deleted scene, the ending, Drake is actually still alive as he wakes up from the autopsy table to feed on everyone around him.
So yeah he is one of a kind.
They didn't show what Blade really is , Blade is a young Vampee, These things are almost immortal. A Vampee at mid tier experience will kill Drake, They're more like a spiritual vampire, you can't cut any of their body parts without it growing back, they soul can also leave the body and fight... That was supposed to be set for Blade 4 but I don't know why Wesley not doing it 🤷♂️
@@SantasGAINdeer Actually there is a 4th movie I believe made without Snipes, most likely because he was in Prison trying to evade taxes by spending all his money.
@@BruceDragon-sf1tr well we do know what Blade is, a Dhampir as the movies are never as strong as their comic book counterpart
@@RvnWolf thats somewhat like a Vampee 🤷♂️
@@BruceDragon-sf1trWhat exactly are you referencing? Vampee shows no relevsnt search results
I can totally see a series about Drake being an anti-hero like Devilman or something 😂 He'd fight vampires, werewolves, and everything else. Too bad he was defeated by science, but just like any previous Dracula iterations, Drake might come back still. Dracula always finds a way to come back one way or another 😂
Wesley Snipes is 100 years old. Granpa ain't doin' no action anymore.
he never once mentioned Wesley Snipes, was talking about Dracula, so... and Dracula being a shape shifter can be played by literally anyone. We don't even know if his human for in the movie was actually his true appearance or just one he preferred when not in his demonic form.
I haven't watched the movies, but I know this due to having read Bram Stoker's Dracula: you can only temporarily kill him.
@@annageorge8406 Dracula (Alucard) in Hellsing OVA became omnipresent at the end of the series. In-universe, there's no killing that version of him.
@@abelingaw5070 temporarily in my mind (in his case) means he is gone for an hour at most.
fun fact: Ryan Reynolds was having difficulty getting his character right. The Director David (something or other) handed him a few Deadpool comics and said "act like this guy"
Afterwards Ryan Reynolds was all "this is the character I was made for!" in reference to Deadpool.
Why did he not hand him one of the hundreds of blade comics, does nobody realize blade is a marvel comic that has been around for half a century and was one of the first movies of the marvel mcu and also the first black superhero lead in a marvel movie and the black panther was not the first.
@@King_Flippy_Nips Hannibal King was likely a lot less fun in the comics.
I thought you were going to say that they just told him to be Ryan Reynolds, because he's Ryan Reynolds/same character in almost every movie, including Blade 2.
@@King_Flippy_Nips King is way different in the comics and that's not what they wanted.
that sucks, the character turned very generic in the movie in contrast to his comic counterpart.
Wouldn't surprise me if blade is destined to become like drake in the future. Given time he'd probably develop some unique abilities.
Or blade probably evolved his powers after fighting drake im sure his body and abilities became like 5x stronger and faster, also im sure his weapon crafting abilities has also approved as well.
Blade ages like a human so he doesn't have time to develop powers.
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@@TheDogman71109 correct, didnt he drink drakes blood at the end?
Drinking another Vampires blood can transfer the power but the other Vampire has to drink all the blood and kill the other one in the porcess if the effect is supposed to last. Otherwise the power up blood just gets digested like blood from something living.
When asked how he can walk in the daylight he says "I am unique." Pretty sure that implies that his immunity is exclusive to him. Even if vampires he makes are similar to the reapers they'd still likely be vulnerable to silver, garlic, and sunlight.
Probably, or that they were weakened when those were used on them, but not straight up destroyed like the weakened vampire strain.
yes and no id say hes a hybrid like blade sense blade has the immunity as well but id where blade is about 1/4 drake is probly the opposite 3/4 his human part is what makes him immune
@Sean Braley have you not watched this video? He's not a hybrid, drake's the first, pure blood vampire. There's nothing human about him 😂
@@rednas2.079 - He has a human form, so he is part human, but for the reference he is La Magra's child. How he came to be is what we don't know, but he had to be born
@@rednas2.079 unless he sprang up from the earth fully form and a adult hed have to have been born from a human so he has to have some human dna there for hybrid
I know a lot of people don't like Blade Trinity but I think it's pretty underrated
its still fun
Is it wrong that I personally hope we get to see this kind of Drake/Dracula in the MCU ?
@@ethandoyle4978 no personnaly I understand but I was more prepared too see a Dracula like in the comics with red armor and magical powers. Recently the marvels version of Dracula has a become a daywalkers after absorbing a large dose of Wolverine blood.
18:31 they should’ve used the alternate ending because all vampire villains say the same thing The Thirst always wins and I think it would’ve been poetic if it ended up winning in the end.
I always got the sense that Drake was a dhampir like blade and that he is what Blade will eventually become.
Me too, but I feel Blade is going to stop aging and become the new Dracula. I feel Drake passed his power unto Blade and crowned him the new king of the vampires. Now that would be interesting.
Had to be born..
If I'm not mistaken in Blade I, they said vampires blood can't sustain hemoglobin, and that's why they were affected by sunlight. This is a great explanation, and thanks for sharing this!!
The movies were not perfect, but they did do an excellent job of world building in my opinion.
Drake’s story, to the extent they fleshed it out, was a highlight of the series for me.
Blade needs to come back for one final battle against the god that created Drake.
Technically speaking, he did fight La Magra in the first film. It wasn't in the gods full glory, rather him possessing deacon frost, due to him consuming the souls of the 12 elders or whatever it was. It's been a while since I've seen the movie. I do agree that him fighting the ACTUAL God, not just him possessing someone, would be cool af.
First time?
LaMagra never made Drake. Drake went into hibernation before LaMagra was made by the 12 elders from thousands of years ago. LaMagra was made 1000 years after Drake went into hibernation and is purely vampiric blood. Drake owns LaMagra as all vampires are made to serve Drake
World building? Blade is marvel comic that had its world and backstory written over half a century ago and it was a marvel superhero movie made by marvel based on the comic, so they did not have to build any world they just transfered it to the screen.
@@King_Flippy_Nips the movies are vastly different from the comics. In fact the comics have been more heavily influenced by the movies than the reverse. Blade being a half vampire? Came from the movies. Blood God is also a movie invention. So is Drake as in the comics, Dracula is not the original vampire. And etc... the film makers indeed had to create their own lore, which was so successful it changed how the comic books were written.
I really like the world of darkness vampire lore. I especially like the idea that cain is the first vampire.
Well the world of darkness by far has the most lore. The reason for that is they basically took all known vampire, demon, fae and mummy mythologies in human history and put it into one package that connects them all in a way that makes sense. In the world of darkness Dracula is far from the first vampire. He is like 7th generation but he still has a bad ass story and he is based of Vlad Țepeș who is the real life inspiration for Count Dracula.
As for being able to find out what Drake's armor looked like from one scale, that was merely bad narration on the writers' part...sure, they had one scale (which was shaped closer to a shark's scale than those of a reptile), but they also had manuscripts and murals throughout history to work with. (Remember that mosaic used several times in this very video?) The scales were on the forearms and upper legs of the armor, as were two pauldrons, one with large studs and the other with an axe-like blade. The center of the breastplate was more like a bat-wing shaped gorget bearing Drake's personal glyph (hist chest has a scar to match) flanked by two plates which have ribs fluted into them. This is over several sections of chainmail, silver (color, not the actual metal( for the shoulders and armpits, red at the insides of the elbows and back of the knees. At Drake's throat was more maille in both silver and red, the red coming from his throat, down his chest under his breastplate, and hanging past his waist. Most notable is the woven leather vest he wore in many scenes...out of all of the armor worn in the film, that vest and one arm were the main pieces he wore in the last fight against Blade...the vest was made by Rebecca Sevrin, who also made Selene's coat for the Underworld series.
(A huge giggle-factor for me was that Drake was played by Dominic Purcell, who also played the leader of the hijackers in the movie Blood Red Sky...about a plane that is first taken over by terrorists and then overrun by vampires.)
He was caine, from the book of genesis, the curse for committing the first murder (his brother) after spending centuries living among mankind, he even used his shapeshifting abilities to replace Vlad tepes Dracula after the original had been killed. Eventually, "Drake" went into seclusion in the ancient tomb. This is how I understood it, of course it is open to anyone's interpretation since nothing in this video or in blade 3 ever sets it in stone. Also just because he appears to die at the end of blade 3, it doesn't mean that he did...he probably just went into stasis, until he could make his escape, only to go back into seclusion knowing that the future of vampires was safely in the hands of blade.
Lol
Are you just ripping off vampire the masquerade?
@@ChestofGold am i?? Or was blade 3??? Bottom line is there are so many versions and legends about vampires at this point, that none are very original. Who was the 1st vampire??? In marvel comics it was an ancient atlantean sorcerer named varnae, multiple myths attribute caine as the 1st vampire because he committed the first murder and GOD cursed caine to walk the earth, never to find comfort ir rest from the earth, and finally GOD marked him in a way so that all who seen him would know who and what he did but could not kill him. Of course if heard and read myths that say judas iscariot was the first vampire and because he betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver, he suffers from a weakness to silver. The reality is that vampires aren't real and were meant to be an anti-jesus if you will..the vamires weakness' are representatons of the death and resurrection of Christ. For instance the vampire cannot cross running water ,because christ said from me flows the river of life, 2.silver, because Christ was betrayed with 30 pieces of silver,3. Rose thorns, because Christ was forced to wear a crown of rose thorns when he was crucified, 4.sunlight, is just a metaphor for Christ's tranfiguration after his resurrection and all of our sins were burnt away,5. The stake turn the heart ( originally supposed to be a branch from a live olive tree) representing the ritual of anointing the dead with olive oil. I think I've made my point and have gone completely of track. My simple answer is no, it was not "ripped off " of anything ...it just seems to make the most sense in my imagination ( if I were to believe in vampires) besides I didn't write the movie, so I definitely couldn't have ripped off anything.
@@dmsturgeon8762 10/10 enjoyable read.
@@CarbonTheCrab thank you, sorry about all of the typos. I was pretty tired when I wrote my reponse and apparently my eyes weren't seeing as well as I'd have hoped.
Would have been so cool if they squad of vampires who woke up Drake had addressed him in broken Sumerian, only to have Drake correct their terrible grammar as his first spoken words in thousands of years, before biting the head off one of them
I just had a mental pic now. Hilarious and gory. The perfect combination. 😆😳
I may not be a fan of the movie itself, but the character of Drake is underrated, and had so much potential.
id like to think that drake didnt go into hybernation because of the people but because of him cause him saying the thrist always wins makes me think he when feral on someone he loved or cared about draining them
Yes, that would make a lot of sense. The hibernation was a self-imposed punishment or sorts maybe
Seeing how he was born and he had a people, I would expect that would be the case. He was saddened for destroying his own people because of the thirst got to him.
Yeah he Drake even said himself you shouldn't have woken me like he didn't want to be awaken and Hannibal also said that Drake was pissed that he was awaken implying that Drake want to stay asleep possibly forever
I always liked to think he was a fallen hero and he is what blade would become if blade was immortal😁 hopefully blade dies of old age before succumbing
Ye it was the thirst that beckoned him awake and not his own will. He even seemingly is relieved that blade kills him in the final battle.
That was a really good video, and it made me appreciate Trinity a bit more than I have previously. Subbed. Looking forward to more interesting content.
One outside possibility that you didn't cover is that Drake and Blade's origin story might be extremely similar. E.G. Blade and Drake's mother was pregnant and got turned by some vampire, in Drake's case La Magra.
I think I could know how Drake would have been developed. Rituals were a common thing back then. It could be that his people were trying to bring their god, La Magra, to the world, and used Drake's mother as the catalyst/body to be used. La Magra was just too powerful and could not use the body, so the blood god decided to impregnate Drake's mother, giving itself a child. There you get Drake. Sound reasonable to me.
LaMagra never made Drake. Drake was in hibernation for 1000 years by the point the elder vampires sacrificed themselves to create LaMagra. Drake even says in the movie that there's no God. If LaMagra existed and did create him, then Drake would've mentioned him
@@Boss-ot1iy Drake is talking about the Christian God, not La Magra.
@cainabel6356 it doesn't matter. If there was any God and especially if LaMagra existed, Drake would've said something along the lines that only god there is, is LaMagra. The book already clarified that LaMagra never existed in Drake's time and was instead itself created by 12 elder vampires
@@Boss-ot1iy info lost because the vast majority of people who watch films don't read novelizations.
I’m really glad I’m watching your vampire videos just by watching this encourages me to become a vampirologist
Didn't know that was a profession.
@@seventhkeyomegasghost8233 actually, it is, there’s some people that study the art of vampirism and that what makes them vampirologist
@@Gabriel-r3d6k wouldn't that make you an art historian? If you were a vampirologist, you would need an actual vampire or a specimen of a vampire to study. Kind of like in toxicology, you need a urine or blood sample.
Like..a vampire gynecologist? Fukc yeah...!
He was definitely unique. The 3rd film may not have been everybody's favorite but he definitely added more to the film than the film itself Drake was definitely. I think it's a good antagonist he wasn't the worst I guess we're right they flushed them out more
I like the idea that in blade, the "Dracula" in europe that we think of might have still existed, but he was not actually called dracula, just that there was an infamous count who was a vampire, and the existing legends thanks to Drake led all of europe to call the count "Dracula".
The "selective mutation" spoken of is akin to a fruit squash or cordial. In it's original form, it is strong, but when diluted, it weakens, and some abilities are lost as a direct consequence. Modern vampires cannot sustain haemoglobin, hence their need to feed more often than Dracula would need to. It might also suggest why they cannot tolerate UV light, leaving them with a high vulnerability to it, while the original lore only ever mentioned that Dracula was weaker in sunlight than at night.
everything weakens when diluted, its literally what diluted means and the reason why we dilute things.
Any plans on covering Murphy and Lucy from z-nation?
Their half-zombies who can control zombies and they can turn others into half-zombies under their control, they can even bite normal zombies and keep them under control for quite a considerable big distance
That'd be awesome to be seen covered. I miss that show alot
need to rewatch that show
did that series end the last time I watched it Murphy ate that doctors brain and discovered something
@@shadowslayer2929 I keep checking back but I haven't noticed anything new. Last checked April.
Thinking about rewatching kingdom while I wait
Is that show good? I’ve tried to watch it one time but it seemed very cheap and I turned it off
About the cradle of civilization and Vampires. Stories about beings that feed on blood existed even in ancient Mesopotamia.
These beings were called Rabisu or Rabasa. However, they were not Humans turned into monsters, but Demons.
I like that...kinda like the nephilim are rumored to be sons of fallen angels...hence the legends..
Very well documented and logical. I greatly appreciated your insights and time taken on making this. Thank you!
It is my favorite Blade film by far. I really like it, loved the first one as well, but didn't care too much for the second.
Yeah I love the first Blade and Blade Trinity. The second was kind of trash tbh.
Congratulations Cogan! 100,000 subs! Well deserved! Keep up the great work!
Drake might have not been able to transmit through a bite (with danica), but I'm sure if she ingested some of his blood. Perhaps that would make the difference ?
This movie and his other TV show "John Doe" had me convinced Dominic Purcell was going to be a Shakespearean actor. Instead he's the flame guy on Legends of Tomorrow.
*facepalm*
He's like the Great White Shark he never had to evolve. I love that part. Ryan Reynolds is the man.
I’m gonna admit this my favourite of the franchise, why? The attempt to change the mythos of blade by introducing Drake , it’s a hated film but I just love it everything and the cast Reynolds steals the show as Hannibal King, Biel is just deadly as Abigail Whistler, Snipes is in total Asshole mode his last great movie Payton Oswald just kills me too, Whistler dies in the beginning Parker Posey is great vampire and Purcell does what he does with varying degrees of success if anyone hasn’t seen this film please give it a watch or rewatch and I was born ready MuthFucka love that line, great video, Cheers
I always thought Drake was a bit underwhelming. He's the first and strongest of his kind and still runs away from Blade and basically hides behind a baby on their first encounter. And Blade makes short work of him in the final fight. Nomack was a bigger threat to him. I wanted to this awesome, next to impossible to take down villain. Finally someone who would actually have Blade shook and humble him a few times before Blade is ultimately victorious. Just seemed like the tale of Drake's legend was scarier than he actually turned out to be. 😂
Drake was toying with Blade he saw him as a playmate a worthy challenger he didnt want to destroy him. To be honest on rewatch I think he actually wanted Blade to stop him he took it easy on him you can kind of tell.
Good video 🙌🏾 i love the blade movies and the lore
Also take notice how he has similar features to the Reaper strain with no draw backs in terms of them being very aggressive (accept they cannot control it), stronger than average vamps, his mouth opens up like a Reaper vamp, he needed to feed a lot to get back to strength while Feeding a lot is an addiction in a sense to reaper vamps. It seems like the reaper strain had brought out some of the original features that "Drake" had because although it was flawed, it was presenting past genetic things like the mouth and more vampiric look in the teeth. Reaper vamps also had harder bones to protect them from being staked in the heart without knowing the angle to push the stake in while Drake has unique features to his bones in general that allow him to shape shift so an alteration to genetics could allow a reaper infected host bones to change as all of the reapers were former human or vamps with normal bodies outside of vampirism and didn't have this feature to protect their heart at first until infected.
Great vid man, always wondered the mythos behind Drake. You should do the Vamps from Dusk till Dawn. That would be hella interesting.
I would like to see that definitely but which version movie or tv show
Drake holding a box of Count Chokula at 15:04 is priceless!😆😆😆
Bro, first!!! Love the content! Thanks for all the effort
I like all of the Blade Trilogy. The fact that Drake’s is left open is kind of a plus. It leaves some for the imagination to fill in.
TY for the video. Great Backstory.
Cogan, I think you should definitely look into Vampires from the «Nochnoi Dozor» and its sequel. Also known as "Дневной Дозор". Очень крутые фильмы 👍
does it have English translation?
@@Arnabsrkfan, I believe it does. It was distributed by Fox Searchlight.
Loved Night Watch & Day Watch
Oh yeah I saw that movie as a youngen!
Reynolds insults fuckin floored me every time he went off. Calling the vamp lady a "cck juggling thunder unt" slaughtered me 😂😂
probably one of my favorite lines in the whole movie.
Drake: Blade are you ready to die
Blade: I was born ready muthafuckahh
Best line in the series
You’ve cracked 100k!!! Congratulations dude, you deserve praise coz it hasn’t been long since you started it!
do an explanation about the vampires on ''Blood+'' is an Anime but is very well made 👍🏻👌🏻
It struck me that they were able to identify Drake's look from a small piece of armour because they already had descriptions in a database from manuscripts or stone work. Using the computer to combine these built up the image we later saw as Drake.
I honestly like Blade Trinity, though it did kinda have to grow on me. At first, being a fan of the comic book version of the Nightstalkers, and particularly of that version of Hannibal King, this take put me off big time. But I came around over time, and actually really like this version of King as his own character. I do still sometimes wish that they'd done something closer to the comics, where for a time, he was something closer to movie-verse Blade: a "vampire" who didn't need blood, could walk in the daylight, etc. Could've easily explained it as the "cure" not being meant to work on someone who'd been turned for that long (in the comics, it's implied that King was turned in the 1940s, while investigating a case involving Deacon Frost), and thus rendering him stuck kind of halfway between human and vampire. Would've given a great reason for him and Blade to not get along.
As for Drake, I generally love him in concept. I just wish they'd given us a little more about him, what makes him so significant besides being the "first vampire." Do we assume that he turned all of those who would end up becoming the originators of the various vampire houses? Or were they his children in the more literal sense? If he was having to interbreed with human women in order to create those who were born vampires, then it might account for why their lines began to weaken and diminish, particularly if those children then also took human mates, further thinning the blood until a greater number of vampires were turned rather than born. Also, I continue to wonder at the ending...you'd presume that holding another shape takes concentration, a certain measure of deliberate intent, which suggests that it was not Drake's dead body that was brought to the FBI morgue in place of Blade, but rather a still very much alive first vampire. After all, it certainly appears that the virus wasn't affecting him as aggressively as it did the other vampires, implying that while his blood was needed to create the final version that would dispatch any vampires exposed to it, it didn't mean that he would be killed by Daystar in the same way. After all, the blackening of the skin that we see in the other vampires is much slower as it starts to appear, and it seems to present much less aggressively and visibly, suggesting that his body was trying to fight it off.
Basically, I'd love to see him show back up, if they were to revisit the series. I'd also love it if they'd throw us some more of the Nightstalkers, since we're shown in one of the alternate endings that Whistler and King did in fact stay together to hunt other forms of supernatural predators (in this case, werewolves), possibly recruiting more to the cause. I also would love to see what comes of Daystar, since I really can't figure out how they expected it to wipe out all vampires. An airborne virus isn't going to travel _that_ far, no matter what you do to make it. Without some way to expand its range, it really shouldn't pass beyond the Talos building, or the city at best, meaning that there would still be vampires out there in the world. Especially since infectees seem to die almost instantly, leaving no way for them to carry it and pass it along further.
Basically, what I'm saying is that the ending is full of plot hooks and red herrings, and I'd love to see Marvel do something with it.
it might have been airborne, but I suspect Daystar could be carried by humans asymptomatically. I mean, we do have pandemic level events across history that show that even things in isolated regions can get out.
@@TheoRae8289 Yeah, but that seems dangerous. Either the only ones who have Daystar in their blood are the Nightstalkers and whatever random familiars were in the Talos building, or it passes on asymptomatically to humans who would have to probably get perilously close to vampires (possibly even be fed on, risking their death) to infect the vampires.
Airborne would be the most sensible, but it was released in an enclosed building, and all those it was meant to infect were turned to dust as a result...meaning that it likely couldn't actually spread on a large scale, and definitely wouldn't be crossing any oceans or anything.
The silver thing was known to be the highest reflecting metal believed to contain a fraction of the sun's power. Hence, dust.
and it was used on glass to create mirrors, hence the myths about vampires not having reflections (and I think I read one where they don't show up on old film for the same reason)
Imagine a Blade prequel about Drake's origin. Or to satisfy my monkey brain, a sequel where Drake and Nomak fight each other for Blade's sympathies
Drake wins. He's have to fight frost I'm his magra form
4:42 “It’s time to play the game!” *evil laugh*
I think the reason vampires from the Blade series became weak to sunlight was because a vampire that was a daywalker turned someone who was already weak from sunlight, like a natural redhead.
Red heads aren't weak to the sun light, White skins processes the sun light the best to produce vitamin D. lol 😂
It's Symbolic
Vampires hate sunlight
Sunlight means awareness
Escape form dark
They rule people ans afraid people will get aware
From the intro alone i pressed the sub button, really smart to do that in the start, many don't, like we supposed to know all UA-camrs
This iteration of drake is my favorite Dracula
This was very well done! Personally, I think Drake would rather have a child rather than "Turn" someone. He's an Elitist, who clearly follows a lot of the ancient ways and childbirth was the way his culture would've likely choosen in lew of watering down the vampiric race on non-aroisticracric vampires or pure-blooded humans.
I think he turned a few people either purposefully or by accident when he first became vampire otherwise the vampire race wouldn't be a thing but I agree maybe after turning a few hrs became a elitist and wanted to have a child after becoming disappointed with the vampires
great video, I wish they woulda explored Drake's lore more
I'm torn on this character
On the one hand I like his Demon warrior design, like a forebearer to The reapers from Blade II
On the other hand he's nothing like Dracula in any form
Plus him being called Dagon, a philistine god of agriculture and rain, doesn't fit
Honestly they could have kept all reference to Dracula out and tied it to the first film by calling him La Magra.
I love these films but it's like each film once to distance itself from the previous ones as well distance itself from the comics
Originally in the Blade 98 alternate ending, a figure confirmed to be Morbious shows up intending for a clash in the sequel (rights issues)
Still great video great work
I hope in the future you do more videos about vampire hunter D
Oh god, I can see it now, " NO IT WAS LIKE THIS IN THE MANGA YOUR WRONG" even when he's covering the anime movies. Did that during his lists.
I've been working on a functional replica of Drake's sword for some time now... The most difficult part has been finding a screen accurate blade with the right geometry, or something close enough that would require minimal modification. It's got a really weird shape that's wider at the end and slims down towards the hilt, and a sorta geometrically ground tip. I'm using copper and bronze for the ornate portions on the spine of the blade and the guard, figured this would be best since these materials are more accurate to the period of Drake's origin. I'll be using a real human femur for the hilt as well which will probably be one of, if not *the* most expensive aspects of the whole thing if I'm being honest (genuine human remains of any kind are not cheap!).
It's one of those projects that's been on my "to do" list for ages and I've only just recently begun to acquire some of the initial materials to get started. Initially I had just intended on creating a nice replica of the prop, but I finally said "screw it" and decided to make something fully functional and useable. It will be totally capable of slaying both daywalkers and humans alike with ease by the time I'm done with it... I'll try to remember to get some pics sent to you when I'm finished along with a few photos of some of my other "Blade" related props/items I've made and some of the other vampire shit I've done over the years (vampire hunting kit, 'Stake/Spike Launcher' from "Dracula 2000", etc.).
not to mention you can wind up with a criminal record if you're caught with those bones.
This channel is so awesome. You think more about this stuff than the writers of these movies and television shows haha.
I think as fans we all tend to think deeper about these movies and tv shows than the actual maker of the products Lol 😂
Hey mate, Congratulation's on the 100k subscribers!!
He was so damn gorgeous i rooted for him 100%
To be honest he isn't fully evil, he had concept of Honor and Rules, quite a likeable character in my book.
I love the overall premise of the film. I do believe that the movie should have been a bit darker like the original and not cartoonish. Blade comics are dark and it honestly should have stayed that way.
Whenever I re-watch Blade Trinity I can't help but wonder what would Drake's reaction to Nomak be like. He seemed sort of proud of Blade's existence, so I wonder if he would consider Nomak an evolutionary step or just a failure.
probably curious but still dissatisfied because of Damaskinos (I'd be insulted if my descendants looked that waxy and feeble)
@@TheoRae8289 Agree. Even with the healthy-looking ones, he was kinda disappointed by the way they were living.
You should do a video about the vampires from the game Evil West.
That game "WAS" very good but its sad that their is no news on future dlc
I haven't heard of that one before but I will check it out! thanks for the suggestion
How convenient, a Ryan Reynolds "Mint" ad played right after your excerpt of Ryan Reynolds (King) talking about Drake. 😅
This means Michael Scofield must be a vampire as well.
yeah I always figured Drake was the end goal for the Vampires, even Eli making the reapers was a failed experiment to replicate Drake which is evident in the split jaw commonality
Highly recommend the Batman Vampire Trilogy: red rain, bloodstorm, and crimson mist. One of dc elseworlds best series.
Also recommend the ten volume Sandman series. Would love to see a video about the endless and the other side characters.
This is so cool thanks for the breakdown of this character
Sadly the weakest of the Blade movies. I wish Guillermo del Toro would have come back.
This video actually made me want to go back and watch Blade: Trinity after not seeing it since was I a teenager
I like this version of dracula dominic purcell did a great job. I understand that drake is a deep character but i think simply he got tired of living. Like when batman's bain said "victory has defeated you" all that was left in drake warrior spirit was a honorable death and for so long no one was up to the task for so long.
It's not perfect but I loved this 1. Blade is such an underrated vampire/action movie. The Blade movies were really unique when they came out & changed the trajectory of action movies...especially with their fighting scenes. I also love movies with a decent amount of lore added in2 them...not just fight scenes but a little bit u can breakdown like u did here. Really enjoying ur channel & subscribed after the 1st video I watched.
i wanted to point out the E.D.T.A also worked on the bloodgod, well the frost version anyway, not sure if he was supposed to be a complete form as the frost variant of the blood god was shown to be much much faster than even drake and even stronger, but was defeated with multiple vials of edta
One of the purebloods where killed off before the ritual that’s why deacon can be killed with E.D.T.A
In Deacons case it was cause one of the purebloods was killed off before completion of the ritual so it wasn't fully done. He was extremely powerful and likely blessed with the power of the bloodgod but he wasn't Dracula. Even Blade points this out when he kill him, pointing out that Deacon pretty much bit off more than he could chew.
Exactly that quote you pulled from Hannibal king in the movie insinuates he was born a vampire. Also, I have watched that movie so many times I know it by heart and it never once brings up a link between “LaMagra” & Dracula. Unless you’re talking about source material. ie. comic books, TV shows, cartoons, or legends
I'd love a movie that alters the history+alternate timeline like in Back to the Future). How would Drake react to the Reapers or LaMogra enhanced Frost? I bet he would have been disgusted enough to help Blade set the timeline right.
imagine if they had needed to find Drake to have a chance at La Magra?
@@TheoRae8289 ooh, interesting. That could have been fascinating
Although the third Blade film's poor ratings & box office ruined any further sequels at the time,...Dominic Purcell's Drake/Dracula was 🔥😍
I like to think he was a good leader to his people but "the thirst" eventually led him to create vampires but over time they would eventually give into the thirst much quicker and begin to fall as a civilization leaving him to go into hibernation in shame of his people and to prevent his thirst from creating more hoping they would learn to become better at controling the thirst to then be disappointed by the current vampires ad much as his own civilization. When he was woken he was pissed it was by the decendants of his shamed people but while he is now awake he may as well have fun in this new civilization not caring for anything or anyone as he no longer loves his people. But hey, thats just a thought. a Film thought 😂