The Blade movies are at times forgotten among the sea of current comic book films, but they were good for their time. Both Blade 1 and 2 had the action fans would expect and were vampire-slaying fun. It helps that Wesley Snipes killed it as the title character, owning the role as Hugh Jackman did with Wolverine.
That said, the films were made in the ’90s and early 2000s and are littered with some poor CGI as well as plot holes a mile deep. The maligned Blade Trinity has more holes than swiss cheese.
10 Why Did The Vampire Elders Not Try To Fight Back When It Was Clear They Were Being Sacrificed?
Deacon Frost needed sacrifices for his ritual to become the blood god in the first Blade. The whole story had been leading to that point, so it makes sense why the ritual was a success. Why none of the elders fought back before that began makes less sense.
Yes, they were restrained by Frost’s goons, but an arm around your throat isn’t a lock-tight defense. One of the elders trying to escape and Frost flexing his muscle to keep them in line would have made more sense.
9 Why Was Frost Never Punished For Repeatedly Going Against The Elders’ Wishes?
The elders were one of the most ineffective ruling bodies in a movie. Dragonetti catches Frost in a restricted area, something Frost has been warned about before, yet, he just gives the half breed a slap on the wrist rather than any real punishment.
If someone is repeatedly acting out, you’d think the elders would make it a point to corral them. Yet, Frost seems to run around doing whatever he wants for the majority of the movie, with the elders doing little beyond sneering at him.
8 Why Did Blade Still Have The Detonator After The Vampires Frisked Him?
Most of the reveal revolving around Scud didn’t make a whole lot of sense. From Blade knowing Scud was a traitor the whole time to Blade somehow keeping the fact that the bomb wasn’t a dud away from Scud, despite him being the tech guy.
The biggest headscratcher of them all is the fact Blade even had the detonator with him, to begin with, considering the vampires had frisked him and made him their prisoner. The whole scene felt like it existed only because it’d look cool.
7 How Did Nyssa Seem To Intimately Know Everything About The Reapers Despite Them Being An Experiment Gone Wrong?
When Nyssa was dissecting one of the reapers so the team could understand how to more effectively kill them, she seemed far more knowledgeable than someone getting their first look at the species.
This was likely meant to be a hint that the vampires were involved in the reaper’s creation, which would make sense if the reapers were the intent from the beginning. They were an experiment gone wrong. Had the vampires been catching reapers in secret before approaching Blade?
6 How Was Abigail Able To Fight With Music Blaring In Her Ears The Whole Time?
There are plenty of things wrong with Blade Trinity as it’s easily the worst film in the franchise. It’s filled with poor decision-making that makes characters look extremely dumb, such as Abigail needing a playlist to get into the mood for vampire hunting.
Sure, the music wouldn’t affect her if she’s battling one person that she can see, but that’s not what she’s doing. This isn’t like playing Call Of Duty. You need to be able to hear what’s going on around you to hunt effectively.
5 What Was The Villains’ Plan In Blade 3?
It’s proof of how poor the movie was that it even needs to be asked, but what was the plan of the villains in Blade Trinity? They dug up Dracula and then just locked him up in a room for a bit. What purpose did that serve?
They didn’t even discuss anything all that important with him other than mentioning Blade and their desire for Drake to kill him. If they planned to recruit him to their cause, they went about it in the worst way possible.
4 The End Of Blade’s Fight With Dracula Makes No Sense
Dracula manhandles Blade after his transformation, and it looks like the fight’s over until Abigial fires an arrow at Dracula, containing the serum they need to defeat him. Dracula spins around and catches the arrow in the air, and tosses it aside.
Abigail then fires another, and somehow, Dracula can no longer catch them as it hits him in the shoulder, buying Blade time to stab the serum into the omega vampire, ending them. It made no sense at all and was a cheap end to the fight.
3 What Was Drake’s Parting Gift At The End Of Blade Trinity?
At the end of the movie, Drake says he’s going to give Blade a parting gift for fighting him with honor, something he respects. In the theatrical release, that’s him shapeshifting into Blade before he dies, allowing Blade to escape and go underground.
Unfortunately, that ending had been wiped from existence in favor of the alternate ending where he says the same line but doesn’t provide anything. Blade wakes up in an autopsy room instead.
2 Why Does Blade Receive Such A Massive Power Up From Ingesting Blood?
One of the most irksome things about the Blade series is how powerful Blade becomes after drinking blood. As a vampire, it makes sense that he’d get stronger from doing it, especially after being without so long. The problem is he doesn’t receive some minor powerup.
He becomes strong enough to fight à La Magra-powered Deacon Frost and can start dusting vampires by just punching them in both the first and second movies. It could have used some explanation as to why.
1 How Did La Magra Exist If Vampires Were All Mutations Of Dracula?
If Dracula was the basis for all vampires, the gene they all mutated from, what was La Magra and all of the winged bat creatures shown in the first film? Understandably, Blade wanted to try something new and not go with Dracula as the first villain in the series, but it introduced all sorts of continuity issues when he showed up at the end of the trilogy.
La Magra’s whole existence makes little sense when a vampire’s existence ties back to Dracula.