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| “ | Remember this: sooner or later... the thirst always wins. | „ |
| ~ Drake to Blade before he dies. |
| “ | Drake: Blade... ready to die? Blade: (unsheathes his sword) I was born ready, mother******! Drake: Mother******... I like that. |
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| ~ Drake to Blade, moment before their fight starts. |
Drake, also known as Dracula, is the main antagonist of the Blade trilogy. He is the patriarch of the vampire race and the very first vampire.
He was portrayed by Dominic Purcell, who also plays Mick Rory in the Arrowverse, and Adrian Delorio in Assassin.
History[]
Background[]
| “ | Abigail: We need to pool our resources, Blade. Blade: "We"? Abigail: Yeah, we. He's come back. King: Take a look at this. (gives Blade a comic book about Dracula) Blade: (tossee the comic aside in disbelieve)You gotta be kidding me. King: He is real, Blade. (shows Blade a piece of Drake's ancient armor) This is a piece of his armor. With it, we were able to extrapolate a basic idea of what this ****er looked like. Check this out. (shows the digital rendering of Drake's full armor set) Dracula's only one of the names he's gone by. The Babylonians worshipped him as Dagon, and now they call him Drake. If you believe in the legends, he was born in ancient Sumeria. (rapid transitions of Drake's armor, ancient Sumerian statue, blood dripping into stone rendering of Drake's true form) Nobody really knows the specifics of his origin, but we do know this: He was the first of his kind. The patriarch of Hominus Nocturna. (another transitions, this time featuring Drake's insignia, Drake's human form in a pool of crimson liquid, Drake's demonic form, Drake's silhouette with flames in the background, other glimpses of Drake's human and demon forms with latter's eye more prominent to the audience, and finally his bloody campaigns) He was born perfect. And just like the great white shark, this guy has never had to evolve. Forget the movies, forget the books. There's no happy ending with this guy. He's been there, moving behind the scenes, cutting a bloody ****ing path through the ages, until suddenly... (snaps his finger) just like that. (final transition, this time Drake disappearing into a pool of blood from earlier) He up and disappeared. And then we heard a rumor. The vampires were searching for him. Some say he'd been sleeping through the ages, that he'd retreated from a world he'd become disgusted with. And according to our information, they found him in Iraq about six months ago. And he was pissed. |
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| ~ Hannibal King and Abigail informing Blade about Drake's origins. |
According to legend, Drake was born in Ancient Sumeria. Nobody knows the origin of Drake's vampirism for certain, but it is specifically known that Drake was the very first vampire, from whom the rest of the vampire race originates. Drake has been known by many names over the ages; he was worshiped by the Babylonians as Daegon, and is apparently the vampire behind Bram Stoker's story of Dracula. Drake spent the millennia cutting a bloody path through the ages, but as a more recent society and civilization began to develop, Drake, out of disgust at the contemporary world's lack of honor and lack of living by the sword, exiled himself and went into hibernation in the desert to escape what he perceived as an honorless world.
Blade: Trinity[]
However, Drake is awakened by a group of vampires led by Danica Talos hundreds of years later for the purpose of remaking the vampire race as Daywalkers and also to kill the vampire hunter Blade. Drake is immune to sunlight, is able to transform into a monstrous demon-like form referred to as "The Beast", and is also capable of shapeshifting into various other beings (as long as they are roughly the same height and shape of himself).
At the climax of the film, Drake crosses swords with Blade in a brutal battle, which ends with Blade impaling Drake with an arrow containing a special serum. This serum, when in contact with Drake's "pure" blood, releases a virus that kills all of the vampires in the immediate vicinity. Drake, mortally wounded, praises Blade for being the only one capable of defeating him and tells him that the vampire race will live on through him. Before dying, he also warns Blade that "sooner or later, the Thirst always wins".
Powers and Abilities[]
| “ | He was born perfect, and just like the Great White Shark, this guy has never had to evolve. | „ |
Though movies and books states that Dracula has the same powers with his various fictional counterparts, in reality Drake only possessed few of the said Dracula's' overall powers, which are:
- Superhuman Attributes: Dracula (also known as Drake) has far greater strength, speed, agility, durability, and better reflexes and senses than most vampires. He can run faster, jump higher than Blade. He is also capable of dodging a bullet or catching an arrow in mid-air. While in his demonic form, he has superhuman durability and it enhances all his other powers.
- Shapeshifting: Dracula possesses shapeshifting abilities that supported by his special skeleton. He uses this power to hide his true demonic form, as well as took other forms such as Blade, Whistler, and Dr. Vance. While this power is similar with his fictional counterparts, his shapeshifting ability seemed to limited to humanoid form and unable to alter his body structure and mass to more complex forms like bats or gas.
- Immortality: Like all vampires, Dracula is immortal. But the only way he is able to sustain it is to drink the blood of humans. He is stated to be between 6,000 and 7,000 years old, but looks like he in his 40's. Like all vampires, Dracula has potent regenerative, but to an even greater extent, making him very hard to kill.
- Self-Control: Dracula does not require half the amount of blood a normal vampire does for fueling his vitality.
- Combat Mastery: Dracula is a masterful hand-to-hand combatant and swordsman with centuries of experience. He can nearly defeat Blade in combat.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- According to Nightstalkers, Drake's famous ability to shapeshift had been embellished by popular culture over the years in which recent claim went so far described him able to turn into bat, wolf, or puff of smoke. In reality, his shapeshifting ability only worked up at the musculoskeletal level which allows him to look and sound like an exact duplicate of any living being, including height, weight, and built not unlike Mystique's, specifically her movie counterpart.
- Drake apparently based upon his Marvel comics counterpart with minor similarities in terms of power, as the filmmaker wanted the Drake to be more realistic.
- Drake shares traits with Varnae from the comics, as the progenitor of the vampire race.
External Links[]
- Drake on the Blade Wiki
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