The second Blade upped the stakes, pairing Blade with other vampires to take on even stronger vampires.
The first Blade pit the daywalker against comic book mainstay Deacon Frost, an alpha vampire played by Stephen Dorff.
And this is similar to The Godfather: Part III, which was once a very personal family drama for parts 1 and 2, but somehow ended up with a plot concerning the Pope.
It was an origin story, but it still felt fresh since it was a hard-R rated superhero film.