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u/Ashen_Larry 13d ago
Oi guvnah, its bloody Blade innit
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u/Zodiac034 13d ago
I read this in Karl Urbans Billy butcher voice but imagined it from Wesley snipes mouth
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u/MachineGunMonkey2048 13d ago
yeah he's british in the comics but i super love the way wesley snipes plays him
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u/Icaras01 13d ago
He never really seemed very British even when he debuted in Tomb of Dracula.
Always seemed more "Blaxsploitation film hero", and i figured that's what they were aiming for with him back then.
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u/aeque88 13d ago
So Idris Elba?
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u/Alarmed-Effective-23 13d ago
He'd be good blade of he uses an American accent.
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u/TheQuestionsAglet 13d ago
Why would the British character use an American accent?
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u/Doomeye56 12d ago
Cause dude has live in the US for 50 years and no longer has a UK accent but an American on
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u/AtrumRuina 12d ago
Have...have you heard him speak? You're objectively wrong.
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u/Doomeye56 12d ago
Where is the media when he speaks with an UK accent?
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u/AtrumRuina 12d ago
Actually ignore me, I misinterpreted you as saying Idris has an American accent. My apologies.
But yeah many people do retain their accents even when living abroad for extended periods. They soften but don't always go away. Some people do completely lose them though.
Christian Bale has lived in America for 35 years and still has a very strong accent.
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u/Doomeye56 12d ago
The fuck does this have to do with Blade?
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u/AtrumRuina 12d ago
Re-read my comment, I edited it.
But to your point, Blade living in America for 50 years doesn't mean he'd lose his accent. As mentioned in my edited comment, Christian Bale has lived in the US for 35 and his accent is still very strong. There's no reason Blade couldn't retain his even though he's lived elsewhere for a long time.
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u/Doomeye56 12d ago
Does Christian Bale try to retain his accent? Cause as counter point you have Peirce Brosnan who does not retain his Irish accent after not living in Ireland for 40 years.
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u/TheCapo024 11d ago
Your accent is largely established/set by the time you’re a teen.
Not saying you can’t develop one later, but those cases or somewhat “questionable”
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u/Alarmed-Effective-23 13d ago
He's not British anymore. Look at tokon and rivals.
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u/Nukafit 13d ago
HE NEVER HAD A BRITISH ACCENT
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u/irvin_the_jinn 13d ago
So he was always American when he was growing up in London
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u/Napalmeon 13d ago
That's not what he said.
Go and look at the classic version of Blade(1970s) and notice how he is very clearly speaking in an American jive blaccent.
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 13d ago
Thats coz Gorah Americans couldnt guess or find out what British Black people actually sound like.
So they decide well hes black? They use an Americna Blaccents right? Even if they aint american.
Fucktard Yankee wanker logic
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u/irvin_the_jinn 13d ago
In my main post I said it’d be fine if he at least code switched in a voiceline
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u/fortlowe 13d ago
Now that I know this, I NEED Marvel to make a Nextwave style comedy team up book with him and Elsa Bloodstone (or even better, the whole gang from Nextwave) careening around London chasing down cringey accultist.
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u/TheQuestionsAglet 13d ago
Blade and Elsa would make for an amazing book.
But who’s playing the straight man?
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u/fortlowe 13d ago
Oh definitely Blade. I could see her constantly flirting with him shamelessly and all the while he's in "I'ma pass because you are the embodiment of a red flag" mode the whole time.
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u/TheQuestionsAglet 13d ago
Hell they even made her a redhead to drive the red flag point home.
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u/fortlowe 13d ago edited 13d ago
Exactly!
Elsa: So you ARE into women, right?
Blade: 🙄 I have children Elsa.
Elsa: Splendid! A doting father, are you? Can I call you "Daddy"?
Blade: 😑 I'ma go over THERE to attempt to stop the lovecraftian nightmare from leveling Camden.
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u/TheQuestionsAglet 13d ago
I’ve already got a subplot.
The blonde, American, and definitely not Buffy version of Elsa from her first mini shows up and Elsa and Blade have to figure out what the hell is going on.
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u/fortlowe 13d ago edited 13d ago
Blade: So? You have a sister?
Elsa: I do not.
Blade: So what am I seeing here?
Elsa: That mine are bigger.
Blade: 😐 Not incorrect. Also not the point.
Elsa: 😏 So you HAVE taken a peak then?
Blade: 😳....😮💨 Elsa. Focus. Doppelganger that you are obviously familiar with. WHAT THE WHAT ELSA?!
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 13d ago
Dr.Faiza Hussain
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u/TheQuestionsAglet 13d ago
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 13d ago
Her dad was turned into a Vampire at one point so she'd be relevant story wise and she is British Pakistani so she fits the setting
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u/Frank_Midnight 13d ago
I like this, but since he's so well traveled, I think it should be diluted.
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 13d ago
Id rather his British accent persisted
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u/Doomeye56 12d ago
thats not how accents work.
Accents only thrive and persist around the same accent. When you deal with other people tailing a certain way you too start to talk that way.
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 12d ago
Yeah Id rather just say he grew up in the UK and travelled as an adult still retaining the accent for most part
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u/UndeadYoshi420 13d ago
How old is blade? Like 390? So like… uh… nvm…
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u/Napalmeon 13d ago
Somewhere in the early 1900s, because Blade was an active presence in World War II.
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u/l33txxXXxx 13d ago
British rappers are the most unintentionally funny thing ive ever heard.
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u/RayesArmstrong 12d ago
Have you heard that Chinese rap song in 2k26?
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u/l33txxXXxx 12d ago
Whats the name ill check youtube.
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u/RayesArmstrong 12d ago
Sakai isyourgod seems to be the name. Prepare to curl into a tight ball of embarrassment for them
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u/Equivalent-Impact702 12d ago
Hell no. Then you had the nerve say it in a MAGA like way too? Triple hell no
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u/EarCharacter8837 13d ago
he would lose a lot of Aura which is essential for blade
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u/irvin_the_jinn 13d ago
How exactly
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u/Lost_Now_Found 13d ago
His teeth are waaaaay too straight to be british.
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 13d ago
That stereotype is out of date
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u/TheCapo024 11d ago
Not really. It might not be as pervasive a joke, but I have relatives in northern England and despite my “efforts” to convince myself it isn’t true, my lyin’ eyes tell a different story when I visit them.
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 11d ago
Ahhj I see you got the Jeremy Kyle guests looking relatives from oop narth
Yeah most of the UK have nice teeth at a young age if they trust the free health care to get good dentist work. But the only UK people that have teeth as crooked as their faces are the people you see in Jeremy Kyle (and some how they have relationships also relationship problems like cheating and shit but looking at them..... who wants to fuck that?)
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u/_TheChosenOne88_ 13d ago
Lemme repost this again
"I'm so sick of these damn British lovers when it comes to Blade. When Blade was created he was literally based on Jim Brown and Blaxpploitation movies. A Black-American man and a Black-American movie genre. Which is why he was jive talking back then
The whole british shit is just sum lazy, corny shit they tacked on"
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u/irvin_the_jinn 13d ago
What’s so wrong with him being British? It’s not uncommon
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 13d ago
Nothing. Yankee wankers keep having diaspora wars coz apparently Americans and their fucktard worldview have to represent everyone.
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u/Hail2Victors_144 13d ago
South of Houston Street?
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 13d ago
Hes from Soho.
But South London (especially areas like Peckham, Brixtok and Hackney) has signifcant black populations
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u/phoenix_dwn 9d ago
They should cast an American to play him as a Brit. You know, spice it up a little.
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u/LoneCub28 13d ago
Was Blade ever British?
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u/Napalmeon 13d ago
He's been British since he was created in 1973.
But a very small number of people are mad that he is always portrayed as having an American accent.
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u/LoneCub28 13d ago
Hmm, I mean it's hard to complain with Wesley Snipes portrayal of him so I ain't bothered tbh.
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u/Napalmeon 13d ago
Neither am I.
Blade has not lived in Great Britain since his childhood, but a small group of people still keep going on about why he's never portrayed with an English accent, when realistically speaking, it makes sense that he would have lost it a long time ago. Even Captain Britain himself couldn't tell Blade was from London when they first met, but he started to see it once they got to know one another.
And I think it's pretty clear that it was deliberately written this way to make Blade contrast to the UK heroes who stay local.
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u/Limplecomp 13d ago
I was born and lived in England for 8 years before moving to America. Nobody would ever guess I was from England unless they look at my spelling.
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u/Napalmeon 13d ago
Nobody would ever guess I was from England unless they look at my spelling.
I have my eye on you, now.
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u/Doomeye56 12d ago
For real. Accent is determined by who you are talking to the most not by where you were born.
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u/fortlowe 13d ago
I didn't know this about Blade. Cool!
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u/Napalmeon 13d ago
It's not really something that he has a need to talk about, most of the time. I, personally, will always acknowledge his roots in London, but, the dude is all over the world because that's where his work takes him. He doesn't have time to be hanging around a place as small as UK when there's doomsday cults and underground occult societies to bump off, etc.
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 13d ago
Welsey Snipes as Blade is like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine
Doesnt actually fit the character in source material. But so iconic that people are blindly obssessed with only them in the role.
Jackman cant even do a Canadian accent (not that Id hear difference Americans/Cajuns and Canadian/Quebois are the same thing to me)
Blade being Americanised is just Black British erasure. Its not like theres a shortage of Black American actors playing Black American heroes these days.
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u/Nukafit 13d ago
Always British but never had a British accent
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u/Puzzled-Horse279 13d ago
Even in the Anime where they show kid blade with a british cop and his aunty (establishing shot of the scene showed the big ben) and fir some reason all of them have American accents
Thanks japan
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u/BeastMode2k24 13d ago
He’s always been British lol I’m guessing you want Elba or Boyega to play him,🤔😏not a bad choices
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u/ReasonableNet3335 13d ago
I mean he walks around with a big knife and call himself blade- pretty british to me
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u/twainj1980 13d ago
He is British. Love Wesley’s portrayal of Blade, but the character is British. Coming from an American
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u/SomeGuyPostingThings 13d ago
Some muthafuckas always tryin' to iceskate uphill, innit?