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Blade

MCU

the Daywalker
MCU · in the waiting loop
First appearance: Eternals post-credits (voice only)

Played by

Mahershala Ali

Powers

Half-vampire: all the strengths, none of the weaknesses

Who is this?

Announced with fanfare in 2019, heard as a voice in the Eternals credits in 2021 ('Sure you're ready for that, Mr. Whitman?') — since then: script restarts, director changes, silence. Marvel's most famous ghost project.

🎭 Double life

Mahershala Ali also plays: Cottonmouth. From Harlem crime boss to the eternally waiting Daywalker — two Marvel lives, one of them on hold.

The relationship web

AlliesEnemiesFamily & loveIt's complicated

In detail

Mephisto — It's complicatedvampire hunter meets devil, eventually Sersi — It's complicatedboth waiting for their Marvel comeback

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