SuperFerret
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Really, most things with vampires in them don't really bother explaining where vampires come from. That trend started with Ann Rice and got picked up and popularized in the minds of nerds by Vampire The Masquerade, but most of vampire lore before that doesn't bother, and a lot of vampire lore after that skips over it to, or is only half hearted about it.
Vampires exist. They are (mostly) evil. Blade is half vampire. He fights them. He also sometimes fights other monsters. That's your movie or TV series.
Anyway, on the subject of Marvel bringing back Blade, I think that if they do so they should make it a TV or Netflix series and they should make it a full on Tomb of Dracula adaptation.
Tomb of Dracula, for folks who don't know, is the comic book series where Blade first appeared, and the Blade movies took a ton of liberties with the source material. Now, I personally have no problem with this, and I think that the Blade movies are a ton of fun, but for the sake of having a change of pace I think it would be neat to go back to the source on this one. And the big difference between the movies and the comic is that the comic is a team book. Blade is one member of a team of vampire hunters, and they should make up the main cast of this hypothetical series.
The worst thing to happen to speculative fiction is this obsession people have about having everything explained to them.