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With a Blade movie already in the works for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Morbius ready to join him by linking Sony's Spiderverse with the MCU, it's clear that Marvel is getting ready to fill the big screen with big bloodsuckers. Luckily, there are plenty more vampires from the pages of Marvel Comics thirsty for their own shot at a feature-film appearance, but which ones are we most likely to see in the MCU?

Before ever appearing in the MCU, Blade is already Marvel's most popular vampire character. His first film debuted in 1998 and was a massive success, so Marvel will likely want to both capitalize on the prior franchise while still differentiating the MCU version of the character from it. Additionally, the MCU tends to focus more on integrating its characters into the world at large, so while theBladefranchise focused primarily on lead actor Wesley Snipes, the new film will likely broaden its lens to encompass the character's supporting cast. That means looking back to Blade's original comic,Tomb of Dracula.

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Blade did not originally star in his own comic, instead, he appeared as one of a band of vampire hunters on a quest to kill the famed Dracula himself. If the MCU were to ground itself in a more comic-accurate approach, then it would be only natural that they would fit in many of Blade's companions from the series, like Quincy Harker and Rachel van Helsing, both of whom are descendants of characters from Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. However, if their focus were to turn away from anything directly derivative of Dracula, Marvel would need to look no further than Hannibal King and Deacon Frost.

Both characters are vampires and both are immensely likely to appear inBlade-related projects. Deacon Frost will be familiar to fans as the antagonist from the firstBlade film. He's an evil vampire with ambitious goals of leadership and power that bring him directly into conflict with Blade. Less familiar from the films (although technically present in them) is the character of Hannibal King. While Ryan Reynolds portrayed the character inBlade: Trinity as a wise-cracking ex-vampire hunter, his comic iteration is quite different from the comic version of the character.

In the comics, Hannibal is a brooding figure who is tortured by his own vampirism and fortified in his resolve to abstain from human blood. As Marvel looks out for other vampires to fill its cinematic universe with, Hannibal makes for a perfect choice because he's more morally complex than the monsters Blade typically hunts down. At the same time, he's also interesting in his own right, and his role as a private investigator would be helpful to Blade or any other Marvel character who wants to learn about vampires.

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Since Blade was not the star ofTomb of Dracula, not all of the vampires introduced in the comic are necessarily tied to him, either. Dracula's daughter Lilith rarely had much to do with Blade. With the circumstances of her birth and the intervention of a sorcerer that grants her all of the strengths of vampirism without any of the drawbacks, she's somewhat similar to the "living vampire," Morbius. Assuming that Marvel is looking for alternatives to including Dracula in the franchise, Lilith or Deacon Frost would both be extremely likely candidates to serve as antagonists.

Not that Blade has the market cornered on vampires, either. As Marvel looks forward to introducing mutants into the MCU, there are a range of vampire-related possibilities that could also show up. The Black Queen Selene would be one example. She drains the life force from victims to imbue herself with immortality in much the same manner as a traditional vampire.

Similar to Selene, the X-Men villain Emplate also absorbs the life-force and psychic energy of his victims, and even other X-Men, like Rogue and Sauron, who do the same could be said to be vampires in a sense. Jubilee, the yellow trench-coat-wearing Gen X-er familiar to fans of the '90sX-Men: The Animated Series even became an actual vampire for a stretch of time, and if Marvel is truly committed to tying the world of mutants into the world of X-Men this storyline could prove to be a natural progression.

Regardless, Marvel's options for vampiric characters do not begin and end with Blade and Morbius. With plenty of other options on the table, the MCU has many directions to go, and there's no doubt the stories will continue to feel fresh as long as they keep introducing new blood.

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