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* InNameOnly: Hannibal King in the third film. In [[ComicBook/{{Blade}} the comics]] he is a middle aged (in appearance) [[VampireDetective Vampire 50's style hard boiled private investigator]]. In the film he is 20 or so year old wise cracking vampire hunter who was cured of vampirism before the film began. Most of the change is probably down to the [[RyanReynolds casting]].
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* InNameOnly: Hannibal King in the third film. In [[ComicBook/{{Blade}} the comics]] he is a middle aged (in appearance) [[VampireDetective Vampire 50's style hard boiled private investigator]]. In the film he is 20 or so year old wise cracking vampire hunter who was cured of vampirism before the film began. Most of the change is probably down to the [[RyanReynolds [[Creator/RyanReynolds casting]].
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* ContinuityNod: Both the dogs and Drake himself sport [[Film/BladeII Reaper]]-like jaws and tongue.
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* EpicFlail: In the opening scene Blade carries a knife that with the push of a button, can launch its blade a short distance (like a ballistic knife). However, the blade is attached to a wire or chain of some sort, allowing it to function as a bladed flail after being launched. After the battle, Blade tells Whistler "This worked real good" (and then never uses it again for some reason).
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* EpicFlail: In the opening scene Blade carries a knife that with the push of a button, can launch its blade a short distance (like a ballistic knife). However, the blade is attached to a wire or chain of some sort, allowing it to function as a bladed flail after being launched. After the battle, Blade tells Whistler "This worked real good" (and then never uses it again for some reason).again, presumably because he is stripped of it by the FBI).
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* FourLinesAllWaiting: Is it about vigilante Blade versus [[LesCollaborateurs human law enforcement]], the upcoming vampire apocalypse, Blade's attempt to create his ''own'' apocalypse via TheVirus, or Blade vs. {{Dracula}}? Concentrating on any [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two of these plotlines]] would have worked, but not four. Wesley Snipes was reportedly very upset that the core character was lost in the plot shuffle.
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* FourLinesAllWaiting: Is it about vigilante Blade versus [[LesCollaborateurs human law enforcement]], the upcoming blood-farming vampire apocalypse, Blade's the Nightstalkers's attempt to create his ''own'' apocalypse via TheVirus, or the symbolic war of Blade vs. {{Dracula}}? Concentrating on any [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two of these plotlines]] would have worked, but not four. Wesley Snipes was reportedly very upset that the core character was lost in the plot shuffle.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: At one point Blade asks Dracule how he can walk on the sun. He then asks if he read "that fairy tale from Stoker". As a matter of fact, Dracula is not significantly hurt by the sunlight in the novel.
* DeadpanSnarker: Hannibal King is a master of this. It doesn't hurt that he is played by Ryan Reynolds.
* DeadpanSnarker: Hannibal King is a master of this. It doesn't hurt that he is played by Ryan Reynolds.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: At one point Blade asks Dracule how he can walk on the sun. He then asks if he read "that fairy tale from Stoker". As a matter of fact, Dracula is not significantly hurt by the sunlight in the novel.
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* UncleTomfoolery: Inversion. The BadAss hero is a black guy and the jokey sidekick is white.
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* BuryYourDisabled: One of the Nightstalkers, Sommerfield, is blind. She doesn't make it to the end of the film.
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** Theatrical ending: As Blade fought honorably, Drake gives him a "parting gift" by transforming his dying body into a replica of Blade's. The FBI retrieves the body of who they think is Blade, and thus call off their manhunt. Just as they begin the autopsy, Blade's body reverts into that of Drake's. Hannibal's voiceover tells the viewer that Blade is still alive somewhere, finishing the last struggles of the war; having rejected Drake's hopes of prolonging the vampire race, Blade's war will never end.
** Unrated ending: The body retrieved by the FBI is Blade's, but he's not really dead. Drake's body is nowhere to be seen, hinting at his survival. At the morgue, Blade sits up abruptly, attacks the FBI agents, and appears ready to bite a nurse on the neck. The ending is ambiguous as to whether Blade has retained his humanity or given in to his vampire thirst as Drake predicted. This is the ending seen on the director's cut of the film, and commentary on the DVD indicates it was the ending director Goyer intended.
** Werewolf ending: The Daystar virus circles the globe and wipes out all vampires. Blade walks off into the sunset, his long battle finally over. The final shot is of the Nightstalkers battling a new enemy: werewolves. This version of the ending was used in the novelization of the film and is included on the DVD as an extra.
** Theatrical ending: As Blade fought honorably, Drake gives him a "parting gift" by transforming his dying body into a replica of Blade's. The FBI retrieves the body of who they think is Blade, and thus call off their manhunt. Just as they begin the autopsy, Blade's body reverts into that of Drake's. Hannibal's voiceover tells the viewer that Blade is still alive somewhere, finishing the last struggles of the war; having rejected Drake's hopes of prolonging the vampire race, Blade's war will never end.
** Unrated ending: The body retrieved by the FBI is Blade's, but he's not really dead. Drake's body is nowhere to be seen, hinting at his survival. At the morgue, Blade sits up abruptly, attacks the FBI agents, and appears ready to bite a nurse on the neck. The ending is ambiguous as to whether Blade has retained his humanity or given in to his vampire thirst as Drake predicted. This is the ending seen on the director's cut of the film, and commentary on the DVD indicates it was the ending director Goyer intended.
** Werewolf ending: The Daystar virus circles the globe and wipes out all vampires. Blade walks off into the sunset, his long battle finally over. The final shot is of the Nightstalkers battling a new enemy: werewolves. This version of the ending was used in the novelization of the film and is included on the DVD as an extra.
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* PsychoPoodle: One of the "vampire dogs" is a poodle and is quite vicious, though not as much as the vampire rottweiler.
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* GrandFinale: Intended as this in many ways.
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* UsefulNotes/EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage: Used to make the setting vague.
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* CasualHighDrop: When being broken out of the FBI building by Abigail and Hannibal King, Blade briefly breaks of from the group and jumps up a ventilation shaft. Immediately after Hannibal and Abigail escape on the ground floor, Blade jumps out of a higher window and lands unharmed, saying he only took the detour because he "forgot his sword".
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* RepeatedCueTardyResponse: Hannibal King is captured by the villains and reveals that he had a tracking device, allowing his teammates to know his exact location. He then gives a verbal cue, expecting a Big Damn Heroes moment. It doesn't come and he nervously asks for a cellphone.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Hannibal King is a master of this. It doesn't hurt that he is played by Ryan Reynolds.
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* InconvenientlyVanishingExoneratingEvidence: Inverted, as Blade is tricked into killing a familiar instead of a vampire, so that the body doesn't disintegrate in the sunlight.
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Marvel has the film rights to Blade now. Best to assume that \'\'Blade 4\'\' is dead.
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* FinalSolution: Both the heroes and the villains have one planned.
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* GunsAkimbo: Blade, Hannibal, and Abigail all sometimes fight with a gun in each hand.
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* ThrowItIn: Hannibal's questioning "He doesn't like me, does he?" was actually from Reynolds regarding Snipes, as the latter was infamously off-putting during filming.
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The audience is led to believe that Blade died fighting Drake/Dracula, but just before the credits roll, Drake is still alive, and the audience sees Blade riding away on his motorcycle, set to fight again another day. This actually depends on which cut you're watching.]]
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* UsefulNotes/EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage: Used in ''Blade 3'' to make the setting vague.
* EveryoneOwnsAMac: In ''Blade: Trinity'' EVERYONE uses Mac computers, and even features a scene where Jessica Biel's character uses iTunes to create a music playlist for her iPod that she can listen to while fighting vampires (never mind that having music blaring into your ears would be detrimental to your situational awareness in a battle with undead blood suckers). More than one reviewer has commented that the film is basically a two hour long commercial for Apple products.
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* ProductPlacement: All the computers in ''Blade: Trinity'' are Apple brand. The fact that Abigail likes to listen to an iPod while fighting vamps is made into a character trait. There's even a little montage of her putting together a playlist. This inspired quite a few groans.
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* [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster Have You Tried Not Being A Jerk]]: In ''Trinity'':
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* SpotlightStealingSquad: Instead of the film focusing on Blade, a group of hunters get the most attention with Blade showing up, every-now-and-again. The film suffered a huge backlash by the fans because of this and Wesley Snipes even sued, claiming they were whitewashing him for his own film franchise. However, given the myriad of rumours that Wesley Snipes ''[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement allegedly]]'' couldn't be bothered to show up on set most of the time, leaving his stunt double having to perform most of the filming in his place; if true, then it's not entirely surprising that Blade ultimately doesn't appear much.
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* KillerRabbit: The vampire Pomeranian, "[[MeaningfulName Pac-Man]]".
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* CountryMatters: From Hannibal King to Danica Talos in one of the most memorable insults in the franchise.franchise.
-->'''King''': See, that tickle that you're feeling in the back of your throat right now? That's atomized colloidal silver. It's being pumped through the building's air conditioning system, you cock-juggling ''thundercunt''!
-->'''King''': See, that tickle that you're feeling in the back of your throat right now? That's atomized colloidal silver. It's being pumped through the building's air conditioning system, you cock-juggling ''thundercunt''!
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''Blade: Trinity'' is the third and list film in the ''Film/{{Blade}}'' movie series.
To defeat Blade and finally make their kind invulnerable, the vampires have awakened the original [[MonsterProgenitor vampire progenitor]] [[{{Dracula}} Drake]] to help them. Meanwhile, Blade is joined by a duo of human vampire hunters called the Nightstalkers.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Abigail.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The third film features nearly subliminal use of Esperanto to make the setting seem a little off and vaguely foreign. This is most noticeable when Hannibal watches the Esperanto language horror film ''Incubus'' in his hospital bed, starring Creator/WilliamShatner pre-''Franchise/StarTrek''.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Nearly everything about Abigail Whistler, but her situational-awareness-killing personal soundtrack is at the top of the list. The UV Laser comes close second, because slicing through things like butter may sound good, but when a UV lamp hurts them and not you, and a normal sword is sufficient to dust them... why risk ''lightsabering yourself''? They never use it more than once, anyway.
* BigBad: Drake ([[spoiler:{{Dracula}}]])
* BondOneLiner: "My friends are coming to kill you."
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Although it might be hyperbole, Abigail holds a UV laser that is "half as hot as the Sun" in front of her face. To say nothing of the power requirements for that...
* CoolBoat: Nightstalkers' base of operations
* DirtyCoward: In their first confrontation, Drake grabs a baby to keep Blade from attacking him, then tosses it as a distraction to escape. This while making a speech about how they, unlike everyone else, know about honour and dying by the sword. Possibly justified in that Drake was unarmed while Blade was not; Drake does fight Blade on fair terms later on, which would suggest he was waiting for an even match or simply wanted to talk first.
* EpicFlail: In the opening scene Blade carries a knife that with the push of a button, can launch its blade a short distance (like a ballistic knife). However, the blade is attached to a wire or chain of some sort, allowing it to function as a bladed flail after being launched. After the battle, Blade tells Whistler "This worked real good" (and then never uses it again for some reason).
* UsefulNotes/EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage: Used in ''Blade 3'' to make the setting vague.
* EveryoneOwnsAMac: In ''Blade: Trinity'' EVERYONE uses Mac computers, and even features a scene where Jessica Biel's character uses iTunes to create a music playlist for her iPod that she can listen to while fighting vampires (never mind that having music blaring into your ears would be detrimental to your situational awareness in a battle with undead blood suckers). More than one reviewer has commented that the film is basically a two hour long commercial for Apple products.
* FourLinesAllWaiting: Is it about vigilante Blade versus [[LesCollaborateurs human law enforcement]], the upcoming vampire apocalypse, Blade's attempt to create his ''own'' apocalypse via TheVirus, or Blade vs. {{Dracula}}? Concentrating on any [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two of these plotlines]] would have worked, but not four. Wesley Snipes was reportedly very upset that the core character was lost in the plot shuffle.
* [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster Have You Tried Not Being A Jerk]]: In ''Trinity'':
-->Why can't you be nice?
* HeroHarassesHelpers
* HeroSecretService: The Nightstalkers
* HighAltitudeInterrogation: A mook is dangled in an attempt to lead the protagonists to the BigBad, but he refuses to talk. Then his cell rings. Blade answers, tells the mook it's for him, and lets go of the rope.
* IdiotBall: Blade is fooled into killing a human disguised as a vampire, despite having the instincts to distinguish between the two! Remember that in the first movie he could smell a vampire from roughly 40 feet away, and can even differentiate vampire and human by the way they move, so there is no way he should have been fooled.
* IndustrializedEvil: [[spoiler:The vampires' 'final solution'.]]
* InNameOnly: Hannibal King in the third film. In [[ComicBook/{{Blade}} the comics]] he is a middle aged (in appearance) [[VampireDetective Vampire 50's style hard boiled private investigator]]. In the film he is 20 or so year old wise cracking vampire hunter who was cured of vampirism before the film began. Most of the change is probably down to the [[RyanReynolds casting]].
* KryptoniteProofSuit: Anti-sun excursion suits in the third film.
* LighterAndSofter: This installment is much cornier than the first two.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Both Blade ''and'' Abigail.
* MonsterProgenitor: Drake ([[spoiler:Dracula]]) in ''Blade: Trinity''.
* MuggingTheMonster: Vampire hoods try to molest ActionGirl Jessica Biel and get staked.
* OhCrap: When Hannibal sees Dr Vance standing over his own corpse, he fumbles for his gun, shouting "Oh Jesus, it's him! Abbey! It's Drake!"
* ProductPlacement: All the computers in ''Blade: Trinity'' are Apple brand. The fact that Abigail likes to listen to an iPod while fighting vamps is made into a character trait. There's even a little montage of her putting together a playlist. This inspired quite a few groans.
* SmugSnake: Drake.
* SuicideBySunlight
* TemptingFate: [[DumbMuscle TripleH]]![[JerkJock Jarko]] [[GenreBlindness lets off]] a "[[LightningBruiser you're not]] [[MusclesAreMeaningless so big]]" line when Clan Talos arrives to abduct a heavily [[WithMyHandsTied restrained]] and [[InstantSedation sedated]] Blade from the Police Department.
* TheOlderImmortal: Drake ([[spoiler:Dracula]])
* TrickArrow: Abigail Whistler uses, in addition to her normal arrows, a drill arrow, plague arrow, and an arrow that can shoot around corners.
* VaginaDentata: Danica Talos's fangs are NOT in her mouth... at least according to Hannibal King.
* TheVirus: Daystar.
* WorthyOpponent: Drake [[spoiler:[[RunningGag (Count Dracula)]]]] is far more interested in fighting Blade due to his reputation than for any reason related to helping his debased great-great-great grandspawn.
* YouHaveFailedMe: A Familiar tries to avoid talking to Blade by insisting that he'll be killed for doing so. Blade angrily points out that ''he'' has no problem killing the Familiar himself, and will in fact enjoy it more.
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''Blade: Trinity'' is the third and list film in the ''Film/{{Blade}}'' movie series.
To defeat Blade and finally make their kind invulnerable, the vampires have awakened the original [[MonsterProgenitor vampire progenitor]] [[{{Dracula}} Drake]] to help them. Meanwhile, Blade is joined by a duo of human vampire hunters called the Nightstalkers.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Abigail.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The third film features nearly subliminal use of Esperanto to make the setting seem a little off and vaguely foreign. This is most noticeable when Hannibal watches the Esperanto language horror film ''Incubus'' in his hospital bed, starring Creator/WilliamShatner pre-''Franchise/StarTrek''.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Nearly everything about Abigail Whistler, but her situational-awareness-killing personal soundtrack is at the top of the list. The UV Laser comes close second, because slicing through things like butter may sound good, but when a UV lamp hurts them and not you, and a normal sword is sufficient to dust them... why risk ''lightsabering yourself''? They never use it more than once, anyway.
* BigBad: Drake ([[spoiler:{{Dracula}}]])
* BondOneLiner: "My friends are coming to kill you."
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Although it might be hyperbole, Abigail holds a UV laser that is "half as hot as the Sun" in front of her face. To say nothing of the power requirements for that...
* CoolBoat: Nightstalkers' base of operations
* DirtyCoward: In their first confrontation, Drake grabs a baby to keep Blade from attacking him, then tosses it as a distraction to escape. This while making a speech about how they, unlike everyone else, know about honour and dying by the sword. Possibly justified in that Drake was unarmed while Blade was not; Drake does fight Blade on fair terms later on, which would suggest he was waiting for an even match or simply wanted to talk first.
* EpicFlail: In the opening scene Blade carries a knife that with the push of a button, can launch its blade a short distance (like a ballistic knife). However, the blade is attached to a wire or chain of some sort, allowing it to function as a bladed flail after being launched. After the battle, Blade tells Whistler "This worked real good" (and then never uses it again for some reason).
* UsefulNotes/EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage: Used in ''Blade 3'' to make the setting vague.
* EveryoneOwnsAMac: In ''Blade: Trinity'' EVERYONE uses Mac computers, and even features a scene where Jessica Biel's character uses iTunes to create a music playlist for her iPod that she can listen to while fighting vampires (never mind that having music blaring into your ears would be detrimental to your situational awareness in a battle with undead blood suckers). More than one reviewer has commented that the film is basically a two hour long commercial for Apple products.
* FourLinesAllWaiting: Is it about vigilante Blade versus [[LesCollaborateurs human law enforcement]], the upcoming vampire apocalypse, Blade's attempt to create his ''own'' apocalypse via TheVirus, or Blade vs. {{Dracula}}? Concentrating on any [[TwoLinesNoWaiting two of these plotlines]] would have worked, but not four. Wesley Snipes was reportedly very upset that the core character was lost in the plot shuffle.
* [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster Have You Tried Not Being A Jerk]]: In ''Trinity'':
-->Why can't you be nice?
* HeroHarassesHelpers
* HeroSecretService: The Nightstalkers
* HighAltitudeInterrogation: A mook is dangled in an attempt to lead the protagonists to the BigBad, but he refuses to talk. Then his cell rings. Blade answers, tells the mook it's for him, and lets go of the rope.
* IdiotBall: Blade is fooled into killing a human disguised as a vampire, despite having the instincts to distinguish between the two! Remember that in the first movie he could smell a vampire from roughly 40 feet away, and can even differentiate vampire and human by the way they move, so there is no way he should have been fooled.
* IndustrializedEvil: [[spoiler:The vampires' 'final solution'.]]
* InNameOnly: Hannibal King in the third film. In [[ComicBook/{{Blade}} the comics]] he is a middle aged (in appearance) [[VampireDetective Vampire 50's style hard boiled private investigator]]. In the film he is 20 or so year old wise cracking vampire hunter who was cured of vampirism before the film began. Most of the change is probably down to the [[RyanReynolds casting]].
* KryptoniteProofSuit: Anti-sun excursion suits in the third film.
* LighterAndSofter: This installment is much cornier than the first two.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Both Blade ''and'' Abigail.
* MonsterProgenitor: Drake ([[spoiler:Dracula]]) in ''Blade: Trinity''.
* MuggingTheMonster: Vampire hoods try to molest ActionGirl Jessica Biel and get staked.
* OhCrap: When Hannibal sees Dr Vance standing over his own corpse, he fumbles for his gun, shouting "Oh Jesus, it's him! Abbey! It's Drake!"
* ProductPlacement: All the computers in ''Blade: Trinity'' are Apple brand. The fact that Abigail likes to listen to an iPod while fighting vamps is made into a character trait. There's even a little montage of her putting together a playlist. This inspired quite a few groans.
* SmugSnake: Drake.
* SuicideBySunlight
* TemptingFate: [[DumbMuscle TripleH]]![[JerkJock Jarko]] [[GenreBlindness lets off]] a "[[LightningBruiser you're not]] [[MusclesAreMeaningless so big]]" line when Clan Talos arrives to abduct a heavily [[WithMyHandsTied restrained]] and [[InstantSedation sedated]] Blade from the Police Department.
* TheOlderImmortal: Drake ([[spoiler:Dracula]])
* TrickArrow: Abigail Whistler uses, in addition to her normal arrows, a drill arrow, plague arrow, and an arrow that can shoot around corners.
* VaginaDentata: Danica Talos's fangs are NOT in her mouth... at least according to Hannibal King.
* TheVirus: Daystar.
* WorthyOpponent: Drake [[spoiler:[[RunningGag (Count Dracula)]]]] is far more interested in fighting Blade due to his reputation than for any reason related to helping his debased great-great-great grandspawn.
* YouHaveFailedMe: A Familiar tries to avoid talking to Blade by insisting that he'll be killed for doing so. Blade angrily points out that ''he'' has no problem killing the Familiar himself, and will in fact enjoy it more.
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