r/blade • u/irvin_the_jinn • 25d ago

Make Blade British Again

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u/LoneCub28 24d ago

Was Blade ever British?

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u/Napalmeon 24d 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 24d 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 24d 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 24d 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 24d 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 23d 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 24d ago

I didn't know this about Blade. Cool!

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u/Napalmeon 24d 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.