Blade Vs Underworld?

[Reynard69]

So... Hollywood is apparently debating a crossover between Wesley Snipes Blade and Selene's Underworld. It got briefly dismissed when the MCU wanted to pic up Mahershala Ali as blade, but when that got memory-holed, the pitch got made again, and hasn't yet been shot down.

But that's left me questioning... could the series even exist in the same universe?

Underworld vampires don't respond to silver, don't turn to dust when they die, and have a much lower reaction to sunlight (though it's still deadly to them), can have kids and can get old.
Blade vampires literally burn when touched by silver, flash fry in the light, are immortal and can't breed, Blade himself aside.

That being said, both of them have a difference between turned vamps and born vamps (even if in Blade its only him).
I also don't think there's any contradictions between Blades Werewolves and Underworlds. I know they come up in the comics, but i haven't read that one.

Can anyone tell me more contradictions? Parallels? Ways to handwave them?

My current thoughts are that there are a bunch of levels of vamps and aside from Dracula, Blade's only come up against the lowest levels of them, the turned and the Reavers.
Living Vamps (blade)
Born Vamps (Selene)
Turned vamps (same in both series)
Bestial Vamps (Blade 2's reavers)

Dracula and Michael (these two are all over the place freaks and wouldn't fit anyway)

 

[Soupervan]

I don't see why it couldn't work, Blade goes in to a vampires den, gets his ass kicked and barely escapes, he- and Wesley- mostly the latter- researches what went wrong, they find out different vampires and contact someone in the know to figure out how to kill them right, round two he wins, and he keeps winning until the elders or half werewolves or whoever the final boss is show up leading to the climax, practically writes itself.
As for different power levels if Blade's too weak have him get injected with werewolf blood, get some power armor or some such, if he's too strong have there be more elders or other strong ones around, easy.

 

[ArsMagna1337]

Living Vamps (blade)

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Ah yes. The idiotic vampires who never realized they can make bank by making a blood bank to conquer the other vampire clans/tribes/whatever they are called.

Born Vamps (Selene)

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Remember that Morbius becoming a vampire thing through that plant? What if their ancestors unknowingly did that procedure to become a Morbius Vamp in their primitive tech, and their weaknesses lessened in each generation?

Dracula

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We all know what kind of freak he is. He is the guy who owes Moon Knight money. That is most freaky in terms of lore due to Taskmaster wanting nothing to do with Moon Knight. The same Taskmaster who can fight Captain America to a standstill.

 

[Reynard69]

Ah yes. The idiotic vampires who never realized they can make bank by making a blood bank to conquer the other vampire clans/tribes/whatever they are called.

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As far as I know, Blade is the only "living vampire", and Deacon Frost is running the blood donation industry.

We all know what kind of freak he is. He is the guy who owes Moon Knight money.

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kek. That;s actually a meme. The original comic page has completely different text.

Remember that Morbius becoming a vampire thing through that plant? What if their ancestors unknowingly did that procedure to become a Morbius Vamp in their primitive tech, and their weaknesses lessened in each generation?

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Hmm... perhaps. Though Morbius, if I understand it, doesn't have the "burns in the light" problem, underworld vamps do. Morb would be with Blade in my hierarchy.

Living vamps, all the strengths, none of the weaknesses.
Born Vamps, only weak to sunlight.
Turned vamps, weak to sunlight, sometimes silver, turn to ash.
Bestial vamps, Sunlight, Silver, turn to ash, lose their minds.

Dracula. Weakens but doesn't burn or die in sunlight. Silver is poison, not acid. Stake to the heart paralizes him, but doesn't kill. Decapitation? he turns to mist and reforms. Can also turn into a swarm of bats, wolves and fly, which none of the 4 can.
Michael, living vamp, transforms like a werewolf into a gigantic man sized bat.

 

[humon]

To account for his silver katana no longer being as effective, Blade should work something into the hilt to have it beam a UV laser down the length of the blade. So when he cuts into a vampire, the UV radiation burns the open wound, preventing it from fast-healing. He could also use this to weaken his target in advance of a cut by just pointing the sword's tip in the vampire's direction. Or maybe he just coats it in holy water, idk (holy oil?). Or he finds some other poison that works (garlic?).

He would have to do something to boost up his sword, otherwise there's no point in calling him Blade.

I never watched/read Underworld, but I dig that sunlight shouldn't be an instant kill. In the old myths vampires just couldn't use their powers under sunlight. They became as weak as ordinary humans. It fits with the idea that sunlight (transparency) is the best disinfectant. A vampire's powers are based on deception/manipulation, and when you shine a light on a deceiver, his powers disappear and he's exposed for what he is.

There is only one way to defeat Dracula, and that's to use the Vampire Killer whip (alongside a cross-shaped boomerang with the triple-shot upgrade). That plus a lot of jumping around.

Wouldn't Blade be a "born vamp"? Since he was turned while in the womb? So technically, he was born a vampire... (but he's also the Daywalker, so...) I forgot now, why is he immune to sunlight? It's because he wasn't fully turned, right? His mother was turned while pregnant, but the placenta shielded him from the worst part of the infection? Narratively, the key is just that he's like Batman, having a foot in the world of men and the world of monsters, making him the ideal person to go monster-hunting, since he understands their ways while refusing to become one himself. So as long as that dynamic is upheld, the rest is just details.

 

[Reynard69]

Wouldn't Blade be a "born vamp"? Since he was turned while in the womb? So technically, he was born a vampire...

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I mean, technically, but he doesn't have a vampire lineage like Underworld. He got it from his mom being turned, but he never died, so he doesn't have most of their weaknesses. I think whistler may have said something about never having killed a person while feeding, but I may be messing that up with a fanfic or alt timeline.

As for his blade, putting a uv light or laser on the dull side of the katana would achieve what you're asking.