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word of advice : This article contains spoilers forAvengers#27
Marvel has just givenBlade- and by university extension all vampire - a failing that is usually link up withSuperman . Marvel ’s most famous vampire , Blade is the " Daywalker " - a half - human , half - vampire loan-blend who possesses the ability to walk in the sun .
It is n’t that Blade is immune to vampire helplessness , of course of study ; rather it ’s simply that he has a heightened resistance to them . Thus Blade would gradually get himself weakened if he dwell in Alaska , for example , the fabled " Land of the Midnight Sun , " where the Dominicus does n’t jell between May 10 until August 2 . And Marvel Comics has just introduced a unexampled weakness to the Daywalker as well , one that ’s typically link with Superman .
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This week’sAvengers#27 unwrap that Blade will be killed - just like a normal vampire - if he ’s exposed to radiation from a red-faced Dominicus . Jason Aaron’sAvengersrun has seen the Daywalker stone’s throw up and join the Avengers , which think of he ’s taking on very different enemy . In this case , the Avengers have been contacted by the exotic Shi’ar Empire , whoseregent Gladiatorhas go away during a prison house break . course , the Avengers are never able-bodied to resist a call for help , but affair go severely haywire from the get - go . It turn out the prison is airless to multiple ruby sun , and that radiation is calamitous even for a Daywalker .
accord to vampire lore , the tool of the night are force back by anything that is holy . According to Genesis 1:3 - 4 , light is the one specific affair blessed as " good " by God , and as such it is fatal to vampires . Marvel has traditionally applied a pseudoscientific account , suggesting it ’s actually ultra - violet radiation that is harmful to a vampire ; thus Blade typically wield UV bomb calorimeter , using them to withering effect against his quarry . But this new item suggests that vampire are also vulnerable to radiation in other percentage of the electromagnetic spectrum , notably the cherry-red wavelengths . It ’s difficult to guess at the level of exposure , of course , givenBladehas an unusual amount of resistance - but is also in place inAvengers#27 , meaning the radiation has n’t been diffuse by traveling through an atmosphere .
Of course , the literal humor here is found in Marvel ’s giving Blade - and , by extension , all vampires - a impuissance that ’s usually associated with Superman himself . In DC Comics , Superman loses his power when exposed to the radioactivity of a violent sun . divertingly , this also suggest another parallel - should garlic be look at " VampireKryptonite ? "
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