Dagon was the patriarch of the vampire race, later taking on the name Dracula or Drake. He was an enemy of Blade.
Biography[]
Blade: Trinity[]
Dagon was a pureblood, born as a vampire. He was the terror of humankind in the very first moments of mankind's history, spreading his blood all over the world. Suddenly, during the Babylonian empire, he was so disgusted from the world that he buried himself in a royal tomb and disappeared for centuries.
Searching for help in their fight with Blade, siblings Danica and Asher Talos find Dracula's tomb in Syria and awaken him. After consuming dozens of humans in order to regain his strength and powers, Dracula, now under the name "Drake", is informed by Danica on the situation of the vampirekind and about Blade. Disgusted by their weakness, Dracula agrees to hunt down and kill the Daywalker.
Dracula, immune to the effects of sunlight, exits from Talos' base and sees all the changes the world has gone through in the millennia he was asleep. Mocked and accidentally humiliated by two shop owners who try to sell him a Dracula-shaped vibrator, Dracula kills them both and then heads for Edgar Vance's office. Once there, Dracula kills the familiar and waits for Blade's arrival in the shape of the psychiatrist. The hunter arrives along with Abigail Whistler and Hannibal King. After discovering Vance's corpse, the trio attacks Dracula, but he easily incapacitates King by stabbing his shoulder. While Abigail takes care of Hannibal, Blade follows Dracula who's escaping on the rooftops. Dracula tells Blade he feels affinity with him, since they're both "honorable warriors", and challenges him to a regular duel. After making a distraction with a baby he held hostage, Dracula flees.
Some days later when Blade and Abigail are out on the hunt, Dracula arrives at the Nightstalkers' base in the shape of Abraham Whistler. There, he kills all the Nightstalkers with the sole exceptions of Hannibal King, who is taken to Danica for interrogation, and Zoe, Sommerfield's little daughter, who Dracula wants to convert to the vampire's cause. Zoe refuses Dracula's offers of immortality and eternal youth, instead threatening the master vampire.
When Blade arrives at Talos' place, Dracula is waiting for him. The two engage in a sword fight, during which they prove to be equal. Enjoying the fight, Dracula assumes his real shape, a towering demon whose powers are far superior to Blade's. Just a moment before he finishes Blade, Abigail tries to kill Dracula with an arrow charged with the Daystar Virus, the biological weapon created to kill all vampires once mixed with Dracula's blood. Dracula's reflexes are too sharp and he grabs the arrow in midair, roaring at the girl and letting it falling on the ground. Blade realizes the opportunity, grabs the arrow, and stabs Dracula's flank with it, releasing the Daystar virus which kills all nearby vampires. Before death, Dracula praises his enemy for his skills and honor, telling him that, as long as Blade is alive, there is a future for the vampire race. He then grants Blade a "parting gift", though not before warning him that the thirst will eventually win.
When FBI agents Ray Cumberland and Wilson Hale arrive, they find Blade's corpse and take him to the morgue. They soon find out that the body is in reality Dracula's, who had transformed so that Blade had the time to escape, thus making a final praise to his enemy.
Character traits[]
Dracula was a very skilled warrior who had a personal code of honor which was quite particular, since it allowed him to use newborns as a shield but makes him recognize his enemy's value on the battlefield. He was quite intolerant towards his own kind, which he felt had grown weak and pathetic after his first "death". He sees Eric Brooks as a creature similar to himself, and wants to test him for being the future of the vampire race.
Powers and Abilities[]
Dracula was the first vampire, and he had all the canonic vampire powers (superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, stamina and senses, nigh-invulnerability, regenerative healing factor, anti-aging) brought to their peak level. He was not affected by sunlight or other vampire weaknesses, and was also nearly immortal. Similar to his comic book counterpart, he possesses shapeshifting powers, and combined with the special skeleton within his body, allow him to transform into any human being he can think of. He was an amazing swordsman as well as a great hand-to-hand combatant. In his true demonic form, all of his physical attributes increases to an incredibly high level, being a hundred times more powerful than any other vampire or Blade.
Relationships[]
- Eric Brooks/Blade - Enemy.
- Danica Talos - Ally; deceased.
Appearances/Actors[]
- Earth-26320 (1 film)
- Blade: Trinity (First appearance) - Dominic Purcell and Brian Steele
Behind the scenes[]
- For the role of Dracula, Dominic Purcell went through a hard training and a strict diet. He hated the latter, since he loves fast food.
Trivia[]
- Dracula uses Blade's ally's name Frank Drake, who is a direct descendant of Count Dracula from The Tomb of Dracula comic book series.
- Dracula's jaw opens just like the Reapers', so it has been speculated by fans that he was half-vampire and half-Reaper. It has been stated, then, that in reality the research on the Reapers triggered a gene that was dormant in vampires but active in the progenitor.
- In the movie version, Dracula lacks most of his abilities from the comics, since the producers wanted to have a "more realistic" version of him. Even though he still retains shapeshifting powers like the canonic powers of vampires in the movie, his shapeshifting ability seemingly limited to humanoid forms.
- The novelization offers a slightly different death for Dracula; while the Daystar arrow still misses, in the novelization, Blade is only given the chance to stab Dracula when Zoe sneaks up on him and stabs him in the leg with a silver stake. The distraction as Dracula turns to Zoe provides Blade with the opportunity to grab the arrow and impale his enemy with it.
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