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Comic Book Alphabet of Vampires - F
Again, coinciding with First Second Books' Vampire Month, here's the next in our alphabet of comic book vampires!
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Deacon Frost
Deacon Frost is an important figure in Marvel vampire history, as he is the vampire who both turned Blade's mother into a vampire (thereby making Blade a bit of a half-vampire) and also the one who turned Hannibal King into a vampire.
Right there, that's a pretty significant legacy!
However, Frost was cool otherwise. He was a scientist studying ways to become immortal, and he figured he would try to inject the blood of a vampire into a person, however, due to an accident, HE was injected with the blood. It turned him into a vampire, but one with a bizarre power - anyone he bit would automatically get a doppleganger that Frost would control. How the hell Wolfman came up with that idea is beyond me, but it's a useful power, no?
Frost planned on using this power to become the head vampire, unseating Dracula. Didn't work out that way!
In the first Blade film, Stephen Dorff plays Deacond Frost, but he plays him a lot different (most importantly, he's a lot younger).
An odd version of Deacon Frost popped up awhile back, but it was revealed that that was just a doppleganger.
Deacon Frost is a cool character - he should be used again (only without the whole doppleganger part of his powers)!!
- Posted on May 24, 2008 @ 10:47 AM
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MRW
May 24, 2008 at 11:51 am
I think Drac's a little mixed up. Since Hannibal King is already dead, shouldn't he be telling Frost to kill Blade and destroy King?
Ian Astheimer
May 24, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Frank Drake was robbed!
Twice over now.
Birmy
May 24, 2008 at 11:37 pm
He could always pop up under "N'" for "Nightstalkers," Ian.
alan
May 25, 2008 at 1:02 am
So the E for Blade was his first name, which he doesn't even use and the F for Deacon Frost was his his last name. Hmm, somebody grab me a shoehorn!
/snark off
wwk5d
May 25, 2008 at 3:37 am
I haven't read the series, but hearing so many wonderful things about it has gotten me interested. But I am curious, how was the doppleganger created from King biting someone?
SanctumSanctorumComix
May 25, 2008 at 3:07 pm
The whole first initial of the first name or last name is an unfortunate, but understandable dilemma.
I understand the difficulty of keeping a consistent methodology (my long-box filing system is much the same).
Hopefully, "K" is for King (Hannibal).
~P~
P-TOR
Omar Karindu
May 25, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Frank Drake's not a vampire.
Brian Cronin
May 26, 2008 at 6:37 pm
By now, he might be!
But yeah, I don't think he's a vampire.
Leandro Javier Aude
December 15, 2008 at 9:35 am
Blade´s mother is a vampire? In the series starring by Kirk "Sticky" Jones,in the episode in what Blade remember his childhood memories,the vampire hunter that visits Erik Brooks home explains to his father that she was not iniciated. That is quite contradictory, isn´t it?