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Blade, the Vampire Hunter
Episode #22 - Blade, the Vampire Hunter Drawn to New York to track down the Vampire...Blade encounters Spider-Man who he believes is the culprit. But after discovering that his usual weapons do not affect Spidey, Blade reluctantly agrees that Spidey's not the vampire plaguing the city. When Spider-Man reveals that Morbius is the creation of a Neogenic Recombinator experiment gone awry, Blade decides to demolish the scientific equipment. Can Spider-Man prevent the vampire hunter from destroying the Recombinator as well as Michael Morbius? Review: The whole Morbius angle was wearing a little thin at this point for me personally, and the introduction of a new character didn’t really help it at all. Having said that, Blade was pretty cool. This was the pre-Wesley Snipes Blade film, BTW, so he hadn’t defined cool yet. The mutation angle was still kicking in, however it shifted back to Dr. Conners rather than Dr. Crawford, which I personally liked, The Lizard’s alter ego is a far better character than Kraven’s main squeeze. Again, the censors made Blade a pretty useless character. He could barely use his sword or act violent in anyway. He resorted to fancy lasers and garlic bombs. His appearance, much like the Dr. Strange episode, was greatly helped by his sidekick, Whistler. This episode isn’t especially bad, but I think the series basically had too many Morbius episodes. Screenshots:
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