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Okay, I'm having trouble deciding who is the cooler vampire. Having recently stated that I think Alucard is a seriously cool vampire I’m trying to work out who’s cooler between Alucard and Blade. This isn’t really any kind of serious dilemma but it’s something that I’m trying to work out and my blog is a good place to do it, I think.
Let’s look at the facts.

Firstly I am comparing them specifically from what I know, that would be the Blade Trilogy where Blade is portrayed by Wesley Snipes and the Hellsing anime and Hellsing Ultimate OVA series English dub where Alucard is voiced by Crispin Freeman I cannot compare them from any other media they may have been in because I haven’t seen/read it.

Now then, let’s look at the candidates.


Blade
Vampire hunter, daywalker who stakes, shoots and decapitates vampires, even burns one to a crisp, using various weaponry. Strikes me more as the strong silent type, doesn’t really open up to people. Guided and trained by a vampire hunting veteran. Wouldn’t willingly attack a human.



Alucard
Vampire hunter, daywalker who shoots and uses supernatural powers. In my opinion often demonic in personality and exceptionally gory. Under the command of a human master. Various hints that he is in fact Count Dracula (The most iconic vampire ever). Would willingly attack a human but must wait for orders to do so.

That’ll do for facts I think, there are others and I haven’t gone into much detail but they should be readily available on the net for those who wish to inquire further.

Query;
Can Blade be counted as a vampire? He has the fangs, the abilities and a need for blood but suppresses it via serum and can walk in daylight without complication (although so can Alucard, though he states that getting up during the day is exhausting). Then again, he has been seen to feed on human blood. For the purpose of this debate I therefore conclude that he can be counted as a vampire.

So, to the debate, which is the cooler vampire?
Blade has the advantage of being played by a human and that is how I have mainly seen him while Alucard is only voiced and drawn by humans, then again could Alucard successfully be played by a human actor without losing any of his cartoon coolness, as it would depend entirely on the actor playing him?
Blade also has the advantage of choosing to hunt vampires while Alucard is ordered to hunt vampires (Though his expressing his disgust for the lesser vampires could mean that he would hunt them if he wasn’t under the command of a human, but that is speculation only and must be stricken from the argument due to lack of evidence).
Though Blade has superhuman abilities he cannot match Alucard in strength or power.
In a fight I’m pretty sure that Alucard would win as I’m pretty sure that Blade couldn’t survive having his head cut off while Alucard could and no one expects Alucard to have the supernatural powers that he does and usually **** themselves when he unleashes them.
Alucard’s personality can be darker than Blades because even though he is the protagonist he obviously wasn’t always so.

All I can say is this debate will take some time to resolve. I’m grateful to anyone who actually read all of this, you didn’t actually have to, unless you wanted to that is .
Feel free to leave your thoughts on what a waste of time this debate is .

Bluebiird out.