Blade

Blade (1998)

8 corrections since 27 Apr '18, 00:00

(11 votes)

Corrected entry: In the room which contains manuscripts from the book of Erebus, Blade senses the child vampire but when he actually comes face to face with her, he offers her his hand as if she is human. This is only a mistake because she moved like a vampire and he showed earlier on the film that he was very capable of sensing whether people were vampires or human. Yet he didn't notice that she was.

Correction: He knew she was a vampire. But she's also a child. It's not in the nature of Blade to just kill a child, even a vampire one.

lionhead

Correction: It would be entirely in keeping for Blade to have more than one of that gun.

Phaneron

Corrected entry: At the end when Blade and Frost are having their big sword fight, where did Frost get his sword from? Mercury had Blade's sword which she used to kill one of the pure blood elders, and Blade retrieves it after it sticks in the wall, but Frost's sword comes from nowhere.

Joey221995

Correction: He could have stored the sword somewhere in the temple off-screen before starting the La Magra ritual. Unless you can come up with a reason why it would be impossible for him to have a sword, then it's not really a plot hole.

Phaneron

Corrected entry: Blade's mother's driver's license falls on the floor of the hospital, but somehow Blade has it, as evident when Karen finds it being injected with the garlic, waking up, and there's no blood on it anymore.

Joey221995

Correction: But since then decades have passed. Somehow Whistler or Blade got it, it would make sense they'd clean it off.

dizzyd

Corrected entry: Silver has a melting point of 962° celsius - some alloys melt a little lower, but in any case these kind of temperatures are not obtained using a small open top thin walled bench-top melting pot. Blade uses regular equipment for normal lead projectiles (melting point of 327.5° celsius), which would not work with silver.

Joey221995

Correction: Blade also has an incredibly clever foster father who could've either made a bullet furnace that does operate at that temperature or else make a silver alloy that melts that low while still killing vampires.

dizzyd

Corrected entry: In the background of the vampire nightclub after Blade's killing spree, a man is visible in the background covered head-to-toe with blood, however his bright blue shorts don't have a speck on them, even though it rained from the ceiling a few moments beforehand.

Joey221995

Correction: Well firstly it's a girl and secondly the material is some kind of plastic or latex from which the blood simply runs off. No stains.

lionhead

Corrected entry: Karen knows the reaction between the vampire blood and EDTA is going to be energetic, in fact so much that she feels the need to advise Blade to take a step back. As such, why on earth does she demonstrate it under a microscope, gratuitously blowing up expensive equipment? Hardly a prudent move for an underground resistance movement.

Joey221995

Correction: She wants Blade to see the effect under the microscope before the reaction destroys it. She doesn't care it destroys a microscope, she's out of there pretty soon anyway. Whistler can get a new one, no problem, they do enough funding for security measures, lab equipment, weapons, fuel, etc. They don't seem to be on such a tight budget, considering how carelessly both Blade and Whistler operate.

lionhead

Corrected entry: When Blade is rescuing Karen from the hospital, the police mistakenly believe he is kidnapping her and proceed to open fire on him while he is carrying her, and then again when he jumps to the rooftop across the street. Police officers would not fire freely at a suspect when his supposed hostage is in such close proximity due to the obvious risk of accidentally shooting the hostage.

Phaneron

Correction: Blade mentions later to Karen that the vampires own "half of downtown" and we also see that at least one cop is a familiar. So it's not unlikely that the cops in the hospital are also familiars and know who Blade is, and therefore have little regard for any "hostage" of his.

Correction: And Whistler even mentions to Karen that the vampires "own the police."

Joey221995

Continuity mistake: In the big fight scene in the end between Blade and Frost, the blood smear on Frost's face changes sides a few times. (01:43:55)

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Blade: You better wake up. The world you live in is just a sugar coated topping. There is another world beneath it. The real world. And if you want to survive it, you better learn to pull the trigger.

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Trivia: In the Marvel Comic series where the characters originate from, Deacon Frost was actually an elder man, and an alchemist who dabbled in vampirism and - via one of his experiments - turned himself into a unique vampire who could create doppelgangers of his victims.

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Question: When Blade is getting ready to leave the morgue and Karen is lying on the ground after being attacked by Quinn, Blade is about to walk by and leave her there. However, a flashback of his mom reaching out for help appears twice, triggering Blade to save her. This represents his mom, which I understand. But his mom's death occurred in the opening scene or at the beginning of the movie, and Blade was only a baby. How could he possibly have a memory of that as an adult from being a baby? (00:14:35 - 00:15:03)

Answer: I don't think it's so much a memory as it is Blade just equating Karen with his mother in that moment. The only way to convey his thought process to the audience, though, is to show his mother onscreen.

Phaneron

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