Eric Brooks (Earth-26320)

Blade
Name	Eric Brooks
Current Alias	Blade
Aliases	Nicknames: Daywalker, the Vampire Killer, B, B-Man, the Hunter
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Resistance Formerly Bloodpack, Nightstalkers
Relatives	Parents: Vanessa Brooks (mother, deceased) Robert Brooks (father) Other Relatives: Deacon Frost (vampire sire, deceased)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	5′9″ (1.75 m)
Weight	175 lbs (79.38 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Black
Unusual Features	Develops fangs whenever the blood-thirst is upon him; has a variety of tribal tattoos across his neck, shoulders and back.
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Born half-vampire, or dhampir
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-26320
Place of Birth	Detroit, Michigan
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Vampire hunter
Base of Operations	Mobile
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Stephen Norrington, David S. Goyer
First	Blade (August 21, 1998)
First	Blade (August 21, 1998)

 Some motherf%&kers are always trying to ice-skate uphill. 

—Blade

History

Origin

Blade is a half-vampire "Daywalker" who hunts vampires. Eric Brooks (Blade) is the son of Robert and Vanessa Brooks. Vanessa Brooks, a nurse, was attacked and bitten by a vampire (Deacon Frost) while in pregnancy. Eric Brooks was born while his mother was dying, inheriting some of the traits of vampires. Young Eric Brooks lived most of his life on the streets; until the day he was attacked by Abraham Whistler, a vampire hunter who mistook him for a pure-blooded vampire, but when he came to understand the nature of the child, took him in and trained him to become a vampire hunter.

Invocation of La Magra

Blade was hunting Deacon Frost, a young powerful vampire, and was destroying his vampire night clubs. During an attack on one of the clubs, Blade badly wounded Quinn, one of Frost's retainers. He was interrupted by the police and did not finish the vampire, opting instead to track him. Having tracked the vampire to the hospital, Blade found that Quinn had already bitten the two doctors who were examining the creature. Seeing Dr. Karen Jenson, and seeing a resemblance to his mother, he refrained from destroying her and took her with him instead.

Blade decided to use Jenson as a bait for Frost and let her go back home. There she was attacked by one of Frost's familiars, a police officer. Blade intervened and beat him hard, just to follow him again to the hideout of a vampire archivist named Pearl. Blade and Karen interrogated him, and found out Frost's plans regarding La Magra, a legendary vampire "blood god". The two were then attacked by Quinn and Mercury, but managed to escape thanks to Whistler's arrival.

Blade was out to get some serum from one of his allies but, when he comes back to his base, found out that Karen had been kidnapped by Frost, and that Whistler had been bitten. Blade couldn't shoot his mentor and so gave him the gun, letting him commit suicide. Enraged, Blade attacked Frost's mansion, with the new weapon granted by Karen, the EDTA, an anticoagulant which proved to be lethal to vampires. In there, Blade found his mother, now a vampire, and that she had become one of Frost's lovers. Shocked, he was easily captured by Frost's men and taken to La Magra temple. Blade was placed in a special sarcophagus for his blood to be drained and used for freeing La Magra. Exhausted, Blade was saved by Dr. Karen Jenson, who managed to free herself. The woman let Blade bite her to regain his strength, just in time to kill his mother.

With Blade at full strength, he killed most of Frost's minions, Quinn included. Eventually, he confronted Frost, who had become a vessel of La Magra. With his sword proving to be useless on the blood god, Blade attacked him with EDTA, killing him. Finally, Blade and Dr. Karen Jenson exited from the temple and Karen asked Blade if he wants to be cured. The cure would end Blade's thirst for blood, but at the cost of losing his vampire powers. Blade refused, wanting to continue his battle. He was later seen in Russia, pursuing a vampire; he was following the vampires who transformed Whistler and kidnapped him.

The Reaper Virus

After two years of investigations, Blade managed to find the vampires who had held Whistler captive and forced a vampire named Rush to show him where their base was and after killing his companions, he let him go but told him he would see him again. After reuniting and freeing Whistler, he thought at one point of ending his life but did not and took him to his current base to provide him with a cure that would cure him of vampirism even though his companion, Scud, had told him to kill him anyway, before long, the cure took effect and cured him. On that same night, they were ambushed by two messengers who were Nyssa Damaskinos and Asad who were sent by Eli Damaskinos to bring Blade and his companions to him. The three of them meet the old pureblood, he asks them for help against a plague, called the Reaper Virus that is being spread by Jared Nomak, an abnormal vampire just like Blade, the infection attacked both humans and vampires who became transmitters of the virus and must be stopped before the infection spreads further.

Blade was assigned to the Bloodpack team, a squad of elite vampires created to kill Blade himself but due to the current circumstances, Blade intimidated the team who one of them, Reinhardt, reacted to his provocations and tried to attack him but only received a remotely controlled explosive implant in his head.

The Void

Sometime later, Blade came across the Time Variance Authority who would ultimately prune him and send him to the Void where he would meet several other heroes such as Elektra, X-23, Gambit, Human Torch, Daredevil, Punisher and Magneto who would build the Resistance against the malevolent ruler of the Void, Cassandra Nova.

They were able to hide from Alioth in the Borderlands, but remained unable to take down Cassandra who would kill any of them who tried to go against her.

One day, Laura brought to their hideout Deadpool and Wolverine who were recently deposited to the Void. Deadpool revealed that the two of them have been to Cassandra's lair and were able to escape, and that Cassandra possessed a way out of the Void. A plan was formulated to block her powers by using the Juggernaut's helmet, and the six of them set out for Cassandra's lair inside a Honda Odyssey. Blade used Punisher's rocket launcher to blast their way inside, where the Resistance was confronted by the army of Cassandra's henchmen. Wolverine and Deadpool went after Nova, while the other four stayed behind to provide cover. During the battle Gambit used his staff and playing cards to violently explode many of his enemies. Eventually the plan worked, and Nova used a Sling Ring to open a portal leading out of the Void, but only Wolverine and Deadpool managed to make it through because Nova opened it high above the ground. The rest could only stand and watch as the mission was accomplished and their legacy was secured.

Cassandra soon left the Void herself and planned to use a Time Ripper to destroy every universe, leaving only the Void. Deadpool and Wolverine stopped her, and after being thanked for their efforts by B-15, asked her to retrieve their friends from the Void and get them back to their home realities.

Attributes

Powers

Dhampir Physiology: As a result of his mother being bitten by a vampire while giving birth to him, Blade was born with superhuman physical capabilities similar to those of vampires.

• Superhumanly Acute Senses: Blade's sense of sight, smell and hearing are heightened to levels comparable to those possessed by true vampires. He is capable of seeing objects with perfect clarity at much greater distances than an ordinary human. He retains this same level of clarity even in near-total darkness. Blade's hearing is similarly enhanced, allowing him to detect sounds that an ordinary human cannot and to be able to hear sounds an ordinary human can, but at greater distances.
• Superhuman Strength: Blade is supernaturally strong and is capable of lifting about a ton.
• Superhuman Speed: Blade is capable of running and moving at speeds greater than even the finest human athlete.
• Superhuman Agility: Blade's agility, balance and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.
• Superhuman Stamina: Blade's musculature generates less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. He can exert himself at peak capacity for several hours before fatigue begins to impair him.
• Regenerative Healing Factor: Blade, like full vampires, possesses advanced regenerative capabilities, that allow him to regenerate from fatal wounds at a much faster pace than normal humans. Like Vampires, he is also capable of limb regeneration, aside from the head. Though it will take several hours for his lost body parts to regrow. This regenerative healing powers also extend his lifespan to a much greater limit than normal humans.
• Prolonged Lifespan: Being a dhampir, Blade's vampire traits also grants him decelerated aging which allows him to maintain his health throughout centuries. As a result, he has aged gradually two decades later and is still agile without ill effects.
• Immunity To Vampire Vulnerabilities: Having half-vampirism, allows his human characteristics, a resistance to the weaknesses of traditional vampires, meaning that the usual effects of sunlight, garlic, silver, stake to the heart will cause no effect onto Blade.

Abilities

• Master Martial Artist: Blade is a master martial artist, having been trained from a young age to fight vampires. He was able to fight on an even footing the likes of Deacon Frost, Jared Nomak, and Drake using his exceptional fighting prowess (who were more physically superior to him at the time). He can also hold his own against multiple attackers, be they humans, vampires, or reapers. His main form of combat is a mixture of Shotokan Karate, Hapkido, Wushu, Shaolin Kung-Fu, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Aikido, Capoeira, Pencak Silat, and Pro-Wrestling.
• Master Swordsman: Blade is proficient in a wide variety of bladed weapons.
• Expert Marksman: Blade is a master in the use of small bladed weapons and can throw them with great accuracy and precision. Blade also shows great skill with firearms ranging from automatic to semi-automatic weapons.
• Weapons Proficiency
• Intimidation
• Multilingual

Weaknesses

Blade is known to have no weaknesses of a vampire; except for one weakness common to all vampires: the need to ingest fresh blood in order to stay alive. However, rather than consume blood, he usually lives off a synthetic specially-designed serum developed by Abraham Whistler that provides the same nourishment that blood would provide. If Blade does not drink the serum for an extended period of time, he will rapidly weaken and his self-control will be stretched to the limit. He would be forced to attack a human and consume his or her blood. An extended period of time without consuming either blood or the serum will prove fatal. Abraham Whistler once stated that Blade ages like any other human, although this has never been truly proven. However, he started developing a resistance to the serum. Later on, though, Blade received a better serum from Karen Jenson that was administered via injection and then afterwards, through an inhaler.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Blood Serum: Blade utilizes a synthetic serum allowing him to gain the nutrients needed to refrain him from feeding off the blood of humans. He uses either a syringe or inhaler to administer the serum.

Weapons

• Blade's Sword: Blade's sword is a specially designed titanium blade with acid etching. It consists of a straight, double-edged blade similar to that of a longsword, terminating in a metal hilt designed around the aesthetics of South East Asian swords. Hidden within the hilt is a security device consisting of a quartet of small retracted blades, spaced equidistantly around the grip, that spring out to severely maim any hand gripping it if the device is not disabled.
• Handguns: Blade employs a variety of guns loaded with custom ammunition. His most common firearm is a semi-automatic pistol with a laser sight mounted under the barrel. Larger guns include a shotgun (equipped with a stake-launching device), sub-machine guns, and assault rifles. The ammunition he uses is typically home made with metal components cast in silver and bullets filed to a hollow point.
• Garlic: Blade is known to utilize garlic against Vampires; which he uses in his handguns' ammunition besides just using silver; for a more lethal effect.
• Silver Stakes: Blade carries several silver stakes strapped to his thigh. With the silver able to cause an allergic reaction in vampires, these are occasionally used for interrogation purposes when impaling a vampire's extremities, although they are more often used to lethal effect in strikes to the head or chest.
• Shuriken: Blade uses small throwing blades forged in silver.
• EDTA: Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid is a compound developed by Dr. Karen Jenson. It is an anticoagulant that reacts explosively when introduced to a vampire's bloodstream. Early EDTA weapons were ampoules that could be thrown at a target and later Blade employed arm-mounted reloading EDTA cartridges that could inject the substance with a punch.
• UV Light: Ultraviolet light saw rare use in Blade's arsenal due to his need to move quickly, but he has been known to equip UV lamps and UV flash devices for occasional missions.

Transportation

• Modified 1968 Dodge Charger 440 with blackened windows. Armour-plated motorcycle.

Notes

Blade as he appeared in Blade: The Series.

• Wesley Snipes portrayed Blade in Blade, Blade II, Blade: Trinity and Deadpool & Wolverine, while Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones portrayed him on Blade: The Series. John Kent Ethridge portrayed a young Eric Brooks in Blade.

Trivia

• This version of Blade was very much unlike his comic counterpart when he originally debuted. The Blade in the comics was notorious for using wooden stakes and talking and acting like John Shaft since he was originally created in the 70s. The comic book character has since been modified to be similar to his film counterpart.

See Also

• 25 appearance(s) of Eric Brooks (Earth-26320)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Eric Brooks (Earth-26320)
• 2 mention(s) of Eric Brooks (Earth-26320)
• 43 image(s) of Eric Brooks (Earth-26320)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Eric Brooks (Earth-26320)
• 13 victim(s) killed by Eric Brooks (Earth-26320)

Links and References

• Interview with Wesley Snipes
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