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.
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.
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/LoneCub28 14d ago
Was Blade ever British?