Though soulless as any other blood-sucker, Blade kept his vampire virginity and so earns the all-time abstinence award.īut he’s still not the first vampire trying to be good. Before Joss Whedon turned his attention to men in leotards, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator sired not one but two vampires-with-a-soul, the angsty Angel and the bad boy Spike.īut Buffy owes both those lovers and most of her name to Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan, who introduced Blade the Vampire-Hunter to readers of Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula back in 1973. The BBC’s Being Human featured three seasons of the AA-esque Mitchell struggling to stay on the blood-sucking wagon, followed by season four’s equally valiant and tortured Hal. Edward might not literally have a soul, but his soulful self-restraint recalls a colony of similarly abstinent vampire hunks. That’s some serious restraint for a soulless monster who literally lives to devour women.īut he’s not the first. It was, for example, very noble of him not to kill and eat Bella when she smelled so delicious in science class. Meyer paints him in superhero shades, a cursed but noble superhuman who uses his powers for good. And yet I feel I have inhaled more than my fair share of Edward Cullen from our cultural ecosystem. I set her copy down just before the baseball scene. I started reading the novel too, in an attempt to understand what was enthralling my then tween daughter. Though I might have it confused with a really good parody my daughter showed me on Youtube (Edward was Santa Claus). I’m pretty sure I saw the first Twilight movie.
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