Everybody Wants to Play as Blade in Marvel Rivals

Marvel Rivals starts a series of big updates on August 8 that will eventually bring a new map, new team-ups, and a whole new mode to the game—and almost none of that matters, because everybody’s talking about one single thing: Blade, the game’s latest playable character. The Daywalker comes to Marvel Rivals at the end of next week, along with the launch of Season 3.5: The Abyss Awakens, and it sounds like the vampire killer will immediately become everybody’s main.
Is it any surprise, though? Ever since Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan introduced Blade in The Tomb of Dracula #10 over 50 years ago, he’s been one of Marvel’s coolest characters. He became a true superstar when Wesley Snipes brought him to the silver screen in 1998, launching a successful movie series whose rep has really grown lately. And with Marvel continuing to flub its long-gestating movie relaunch, despite initial excitement over seeing Mahershala Ali pick up the leather jacket and shades, Blade’s coolness hasn’t been dinged by quipping it up in the increasingly uncool MCU. Blade started cool, got even cooler, became a supernova of cool in the late ‘90s, and has never looked back. As Detroiters taught us, Blade is friggin’ cool. Of course Marvel Rivals players would jump at the chance to play as him.