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“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads: to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” -Bram Stoker

Blade, Dhampir Daywalker of Marvel Comics. 

Buffy Summers, the Sunnydale Slayer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

They drink your blood, turn into bats, and fly into the night. Vampires are some of the most fearsome creatures of the night, striking fear into human hearts for centuries. Yet these two humans rose up to dispel the darkness, becoming the best at what they do and staking their names into history as the vampire slayers. Will Blade put Buffy into the ground, or will Blade’s final nightmare be Buffy? Fear the living that walk in this DEATH BATTLE!

Before We Start…

You know the drill by now, for Blade we will be using his Earth-616 comic appearances… Though this time we’re actually looking at a bit more, as we’ll be covering all of Blade’s supplementary material in addition to that – all of his film appearances, Marvel Rivals, the anime, his television show, novels, video games (even pinball), and any other cartoon appearances he has, to be thorough with everything. We won’t be necessarily scaling him to everything in these appearances and mostly relying on his own feats, abilities and equipment.

As for Buffy, we’ll be going through everything. The original show, the Angel spinoff show, all of her 500+ comics, her 128 novels, her 6 video games, the guidebooks, film, scripts, commentary tracks, website, and board game will all be included in our analysis. If you think we missed anything, the insane load of content is probably why.

Yeah, there’s a lot to cover, but with all that’s been said, let’s get hunting.

Background

Preview images by Cabbage.

Blade

“They call me… Blade! Blade — The Vampire Killer!!”

It was a dark cloudy night on October 24th, 1929 in Soho, London. Tara Cross was soon to be expecting a child, and her husband Lucas, a member of the secret society of the Order of Tyrana, was to be taken prisoner in Latveria. So he sent his pregnant wife into England in hopes of her finding refuge under the new alias of Vanessa Brooks, and she found shelter with a fellow member of the Order of Tyrana named Madame Vanity, who owned a brothel. Unfortunately, complications arose for Vanessa delivering the baby, and she needed medical assistance fast. Her doctor was Deacon Frost, a vampire in constant search for immortality through humans, devouring Vanessa and passing on a series of enzymes to the newborn baby, altering him completely, for his bloodstream was tainted with the kiss of a vampire, creating a half-human half-vampire known as a Dhampir. Frost was stopped before anything else would happen to the child, but Vanessa unfortunately died of her injuries, leaving the boy in the care of Madame Vanity. His name was Eric Brooks.

When he was a boy, Eric had an encounter on the London streets that would forever change his life. A group of vampires were about to kill him, when the American vampire slayer Jamal Afari saved his life. It was then and there that Afari learned about who Eric was and his past, and decided to take the boy under his wing and train him in being a vampire slayer like him. With sharp weapons at his disposal, Eric Brooks rose up under a new name like unto his weapons, determined to avenge his mother’s death and become the greatest vampire killer to ever walk among the day; Blade.

Buffy

“I’m Buffy, the vampire slayer. And you are?”

Buffy Anne Summers was just your average high school kid worrying about your normal everyday problems, until one day she met a man who would change the course of her life forever. Merrick was a Watcher, sent to tell Buffy that she was destined to be a Slayer to hunt down the evils of the world and train her for this purpose. Buffy and Merrick had a somewhat tumultuous relationship as he found himself frustrated with Buffy’s greater concern for her teenage lifestyle than her calling as the Slayer, but he ultimately came to respect the inner strength that Buffy possessed that enhanced her potential as a Slayer. Unfortunately, tragedy struck and Merrick was cornered by the powerful vampire Lothos. Nearly quitting slaying following the grief of her mentor’s loss, Buffy managed to get her revenge by taking advantage of Lothos’ ego to stake him.

Due to the chaos caused at the school from this incident, Buffy was expelled and moved to the town of Sunnydale, which happened to have a Hellmouth that acted as a portal for demonic forces to pour into the area. With the help of a new Watcher and father figure in Rupert Giles, and her best friends [REDACTED] and Willow Rosenberg, Buffy was no longer a normal teenager when she walked through the doors of her new school. She was now Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ready to fight the forces of Hell with everything she’s got.

Experience & Skill

Blade

Blade is one experienced killer of vampires. Born in 1920s London, Blade is considered the greatest vampire hunter in the world, and has been hunting vampires since he was 12 years old, slaying hordes and hordes of vampires along the way, from nazi vampires in World War 2 with the Secret Invaders to Hannibal King to the dark lord himself, Dracula, all the while nearing 100 years old!. While somewhat unorthodox and straightforward at the start of his career, Blade has honed his skills for nearly a century into something far deadlier. Working alongside the Avengers, Blade’s training became more rigid, training in the automated mandroid combat range. He helped them fight against Knull’s forces, led Strikeforce in battle, fought Khonshu’s mummies and werewolves with Captain America, and ran with the British agency MI13. And this isn’t even the end to who he’s worked with over his century long career, he’s worked alongside the Howling Commandos, three separate Hellsings’ Vampire hunter teams, the Nightstalkers, the Midnight Sons, the Nine, Quincy Harker’s Vampire Hunters, Ogun Strong’s Vampire Hunters, and the Bloodshadow Gang. Quite the resume of teams he’s worked with!

As a fighter, Blade not only has blades, but he’s got hands. He is a competent hand-to-hand combatant, considering himself a “seasoned street fighter” capable of performing aerial kicks and punches, sometimes acrobatically rolling with the punch in order to put himself at a distance to be able to throw his knife. He continued his training by fighting and training with Divinity Drake/Aamshed, who is an expert in Hapkido. He eventually became good enough to teach his daughter Brielle how to fight. And when it comes to his knives and swords, you can bet Blade is a master. Blade is extremely skilled in knife throwing, and can handle or use any throwing knife he gets his hands on, which is fair, considering he’s stated to be proficient in every form of weapon known to Man. He is stated to be as good with throwing knives as a martial artist is good with his hands. He can even precisely throw his swords at the heads of creatures and into the hearts of vampires from short distances. 

As a vampire slayer, Blade is considered the greatest for a reason. He isn’t just good at killing them, but good at exploiting their weaknesses even if not immediately equipped, and defending against them if need be, such as when he set Chinese curtains on fire and threw it at three vampire bats at once, or when he formed a crucifix shape with two nearby candelabras to disintegrate a vampire. He even fought Doppelganger, a vampire clone of himself that is capable of absorbing with and fusing with Blade, being skilled enough to avoid being touched/absorbed. His skills are so great that Dr. Strange brought him in as a guest lecturer at Strange Academy for “defense against vampires”. Even Dracula himself appointed Blade to be his sheriff over his sovereign nation of vampires due to his effectiveness!

Blade isn’t just skilled against fighting vampires however. His experience has taken him across the world and dimensions to face even more horrifying creatures of the night, from ghosts to cybernetic monsters to zombies made of blood, or even extradimensional bandits. Blade’s taken on Draugrs during Chthon’s apocalypse and encountered the Vridai, fae creatures that once invaded Midgard and dangerous for their memetic spread (via knowledge of their existence).

Blade’s experience has also formed him into an expert tactician and pragmatic fighter. He can track down the likes of Angela after tracking her for an hour, fearlessly leaping out of a plane to take out airborne vampires despite not knowing if he can fly yet, or learning how to ride a…dark elf horse. Tapping into his half-vampire self, Blade is also extremely stealthy, capable of breaking into an alternate reality’s Pentagon for coordinates, sneaking  into Castle Doom undetected and stealth past Dark-Doom (the entirely evil half of Doom), sneaking up on armed soldiers, and disappearing from view of a suspected mercenary, only to appear right behind her.

Buffy

Across her extensive slaying career, Buffy has endured just as extensive training in order to be ready to combat any force of darkness that comes her way, almost becoming a grueling routine. Whether it be initial training with Merrick, overtime “Slayer Training” with Giles, or training other allies and Slayers herself in martial arts, Buffy has spent plenty of time in the dojo. Fitting considering her being described as the “kung fu Slayer”, though she has also trained in Aikido, Jiujitsu, wrestling, boxing, katas covering multiple fighting styles really, combat stances like the Wombat, etc. Though it is also worth noting that she’s learned a lot outside of practice thanks to learning various moves from movies. She has additionally been trained in a plethora of different weapons, including bo-sticks, axes, quarterstaffs, swords, crossbows, stakes (duh), etc. She has additionally shown excellent opponents against opposing top fighters, being able to handle a squad of trained commandos on her own, fighting large crowds of demons, and fighting minions that are considered skilled martial artists in their own right. In general she’s good at employing martial arts maneuvers while doing battlefield surveillance, keeping track of openings and opportunities while executing complex moves. It helps having Giles as a teacher, considering he was head boy of his Watcher class and watchers extensively train Slayers in combat, strategy and tactics.

What best defines Buffy however, and what separates her from every Slayer before her, is how creative and unpredictable she is. She is good at efficient traditional maneuvers of course, excelling at disarming both close and long-ranged weapons, feints, defensive tactics, environmental analysis, you get it. But she has a tendency to think… outside the box? On the spot she crafted Molotov cocktails, or used a can of hair spray to turn a burning cross into a holy flamethrower. Buffy can also seem to make an on the spot stake out of basically anything wooden, would it be a guitar head or a ripped off piece of a torch. But sometimes it just gets outright crazy, like when she improvised using a hooked tube cable as a whip, willingly infected herself with a virus so she could see an invisible demon, and ripping off her arm when her mind was inside a robot to break out of restraints (don’t ask). It helps that she has crazy precision with tools both small and big, would it be spitting out a pushpin to stab a fly, or throwing a battle axe at a tree to knock down a big spider (or just at a demon like normal). Her greatest strength though is that Buffy is empowered by her emotions in combat, angering her to maintain activity and the determination to find any win condition she can. This in conjunction with her imagination is what Buffy highlights as her best traits, outdoing the extra extensive training and isolation of another Slayer like Kendra.

It helps that in general, martial arts and improv aside, Buffy is simply a damn good Vampire Slayer. She’s able to fight large crowds of demons, quickly deduce when someone is a vampire and even before her proper training could catch a stake on pure instinct and ram it through a vampire cleanly. Immediately after waking up, she’s able to efficiently fight her fellow Slayers. Heck, one time when her memories were hidden by amnesia infliction magic, her natural Slayer instincts just let her fight efficiently and optimally regardless. Even having a bruised arm isn’t enough to slow her down considering how she could still cleanly fight a dangerous vampire in the form of Sunday. Sunday is also a good vampire to point out when it comes to Buffy’s precision, as she was able to casually throw a stake at her heart across a room while barely looking. When she is looking, she can perfectly fling multiple stakes into demon throats, and her precision is so good that she can easily hit a softball dunk from 40 feet away. [REDACTED] hyped her up further, having the thought process that “Buffy has perfect coordination, and Buffy could hit that target with any weapon known to mankind.”

The biggest detail to note about Buffy’s experience however is how much of it there actually is. Sure, Buffy herself hasn’t been around for too long, but the Slayer lineage from which her powers rise has been existing for millennia, being present since ancient times. This is important because Buffy (and all other new Slayers) has access to the memories of all previous Slayers, alongside the fact Buffy already had prophetic dreams of past Slayer experiences (more on that specifically later). Would it be the Crusades or in London 1888, Slayers have been an active organization since 1398 (with them having other activity in “ancient times”), with the total count of Slayers reaching 1,800. Additionally, the awakened into Slayers Potentials would go on to work as bodyguards and Slayer Organization special squad members. And despite all members having past Slayer memories rather than just Buffy, and so many being spread out in such extensive organizations? Buffy remains top tier. 

Buffy is good at general skills as well. She can do perfect somersaults (probably because of the cheerleader background), and can sneak around people like Angel, who’s hearing can detect heartbeats like he’s Daredevil. Buffy is good at performing stealth and countering opposing stealth as well, being able to kick away a vampire she knew was speaking up behind her despite not having seen the vamp. It’s safe to say she doesn’t need sight anyways to kill a hundred demons, which considering she’s trained blindfolded and killed a hundred demons early in her career, yeah really safe to say. It helps that she’s used to extensive variety dealing with both normal vampires and new shiny ones that can walk in the daylight and transform into bats, wolves, bees, panthers and mist. She’s also good at tracking, rituals, bodyguard work, etc. Add up her outdoing enemies that range from hundreds to several hundreds to… “insert the age of the universe here” years old (obviously the First Evil wasn’t in the dojo that whole time, but you get why outdoing him is impressive regardless), and doing better with Hope’s Dagger on her first go than the warrior Cassandra did after eight years of practice? It’s safe to say that Buffy might as well be the Everything Slayer with how talented and versatile she really is.

Equipment

Blade

Teak-Wooden Knives

From his earliest days of vampire hunting, Blade has always carried with him a teak, ebony wood fang knife designed solely to kill vampires by exploiting their weakness against wooden stakes. He always has these knives on him, whether strapped to his classic outfit sash or in a backpack of his. With incredible skill, Blade has carved his knife through hordes and hordes of ghoulish vampires, ranging from the Legion of the Unliving to the dark lord himself, Dracula. While Blade usually prefers close-quarters combat, he can fling stakes at a distance if needed, and often sharpens his stakes to nanopoints. Blade keeps wooden stakes all over his body, from his sash to hidden stakes in the tips of his boots. He also owns variants of his wooden stakes that sometimes come in the form of metal. In the movies, Blade also carries a bandolier of silver stakes.

Blades

Blade has a variety of…blades that he has used throughout his history. While wooden steaks can get the job done, swords can provide a little more usage. Often dual-wielded, Blade has a wide assortment of sharp weapons from his walls, from his ol’ reliable katanas to a rapier to a…saracen steel blade? Gee Marvel way to make up metals and not elaborate. His katanas however, are worth elaboration, they’re acid-etched and made from a titanium alloy. In the movies, they also possess a safety feature should Blade be disarmed of them. Without pressing a hidden stud, small blades will shoot out near the hilt and literally disarm whoever’s holding it. It’s said that even his normal swords are useful against vampires, since decapitation can prevent vampires from dispersing into mist. These swords are sharp enough to cut through monsters far stronger than him such as Meatmarket, a monster who could beat around Ghost Rider. He has a katana made of Teakwood, with religious symbols carved into the hilt and the blade, including but not limited to the Latin Cross, the Celtic Cross, the Botonee, the Torii, the Star of David and the Ankh, which he claims can kill any vampire regardless of its origin

Adamantium Odachi

Blade has an odachi (a Japanese samurai sword of feudal Japan) made out of secondary adamantium, a far superior sword due to being made of a cost efficient steel made from an unbreakable metal. And the material itself is very potent at cutting through stuff, seeing as Blade’s own usage of it can cut through things such as Mindless Ones (as seen above), and similar usage of Secondary Adamantium has been able to harm the likes of Ultron Bodies or the Incredible Hulk, meaning it’s capable of hurting beings far above Blade’s own paygrade.

Justiciar

A weapon given to Blade by Foundry, this blade of Blade’s has some unique properties that make it arguably one of Blade’s strongest tools. It can disrupt teleportation fields for one, but more notably and importantly. It was capable of killing even the likes of Zarathos, and petrifying his remains with a single stab.

Old Atlantis Swords 

When he was possessed by Varnae during the events of Bloodhunt, Blade wielded two blades forged in Old Atlantis made with the purpose of killing magicians. As Blade (or Varnae I guess) says above, the swords could cut through enchantments and protect the user from dark spells and hexes. The swords were able to cut through Clea’s magic, forcing her to fight Varnae with a Blade of her own.

Costume

Decked out with a trench coat and shades, Blade’s costume provides a surprising amount of protection and utility. He wears a Kevlar vest to protect against bullets, and even the heavy leather can help protect against the brunt of physical attacks. In his classic outfit, Blade wore photo-sensitive glasses that helped him see in the dark better and shield against hypnosis.

Silver Nunchucks

Blade has silver nunchucks with hooked-curved blades on both ends, made to exploit another common vampire weakness of silver.

Firearms

If up close and personal isn’t cutting it, then Blade is more than happy to pump a vampire full of silver lead. Blade has a wide assortment of firearms, ranging from walls of standard machine guns or submachine guns, but he has a few firearms that are meant for vampires. He has double-barrel shotguns that shoot wooden stakes in the barrel sets, a crossbow, a giant stake launcher, an automatic tranquilizer dart gun, and a pair of submachine guns with “hollow point miniature stakes filled with holy water”.

Blade also has a gun that fires UV pellets for anti-artificial vampire ammunition to revert them back to human form, though only this specific strain of vampirism. For many of these guns, Blade has access to silver bullets as its primary damage dealer to vampires. In the movies, Blade carries a matte-black and silver-finished MACH pistol that fires garlic tipped silver bullets, a customized cut-down shotgun that fires silver stakes, and an assault rifle with a UV light spotter and wooden fragmentation rounds.

Handgun

After cutting his hand off in order to prevent himself from eating an innocent girl (badass), Blade got an attachment for his hand in the form of, well, a gun! It’s noted to be lightweight and is capable of switching ammo types with just Blade’s muscle twitches, and is capable of firing rubber bullets, normal bullets, tranquilizers, and a grappling hook line! He also has a normal hand attachment too, just in case.

Hellfire Shotgun

Blade can pull out a Hellfire Shotgun, and hellfire does spiritual damage. It was so strong that it could punch a hole through the Hell-Charger. 

Explosives

On occasions, Blade will lay waste to a stronghold or castle of vampires with a well placed explosive. In his early days, Blade used timed explosives that caused an explosion over a large castle. Over the years, Blade now owns various remotely detonated explosives that he strategically used to leak in sunlight through a Helicarrier. With a handful of explosives, he even leveled a building.

Malacoda Blades

A wristblade with two sharp blades that can spew flames.

Vampire Blood Vial

A dangerous piece of Blade’s arsenal and one that comes as a gambit. As said above, he has vials of vampire blood he can use to inject his opponents with to turn them into a Vampire, even overpowering healing factors as potent as Wolverines. Doing so makes them vulnerable to Blade’s anti-vampiric arsenal, but it also gives them the power of a vampire, so it’s a fairly risky gamble but something that Blade is willing to do if he’s struggling with putting down an opponent.

Plasma Capsules

On the flipside, Blade has plasma capsules that contain a cure for the effects of vampirism, only needing to be plucked into someone’s skin and within moments. When applied, the vampiric infection will completely go away. In the case of Dhampir’s like Bri and himself, the capsule will help them return to normal should they go feral with bloodlust

Motorcycle

Blade has a motorcycle that he uses on missions to get around quickly. He even motorcycle raced Dracula in Idaho!

Wordsword

The Wordsword, stated to be made out of pages from magical books, is a unique tool in Blades arsenal, capable of hurting Plokta and threatening Plotka. Impressive, not only considering that Plokta is normally immaterial, but Plokta is a Duke of Hell and is responsible for a magical principle of the universe, and he drew power from the Dream Corridor, an infinite sized dimension. Plokta claims that Blade’s Wordsword is the only thing that could have hurt them, likely through its special properties since Blade concedes Plokta is too much for the squad on their own. 

Witch Compass

Crafted a thousand years ago, the Witch Compass gifted to Blade was designed to be drawn to negative energies and the occult in order to pinpoint their exact geographical locations.

Sealing Artifact

A seal Blade used to contain R’ym’r, an ancient energy vampire. By muttering an incantation with the seal, Blade can trap R’ym’r within it, stun people and even Clothes Beam someone their own vampire hunting suit, Piccolo style. As it has only been shown to seal R’ym’r it’s unknown if it can trap anyone else.

Breathing Gun

Probably one of Blades most potent weapons, the Breathing Gun is a sentient weapon, no, literally, with a variety of applications, such as biting its wielder or sensing demonic forces, but what’s most notable is the ammunition itself, both in its power and it’s… more unique function. The Breathing Guns ammunition specifically are Bloodhound Rounds, which can specifically track targets, because they’re sentient bullets and track their targets scent, capable of turning corners to follow their targets and hit them dead on. Where if they hit, they can’t be healed, and then they proceed to… lay maggots inside their targets bodies to create baby breathing bullets, alright… Though them being sentient does mean they are vulnerable to attacks that would work on sentients, such as, being mindhaxxed.

As for its power? It’s truly something to behold. It’s been a threat to Hellstorm, the son of Satan, killed Inanna, a Archdemon, and it’s been deemed more powerful than a Hellfire Shotgun, and has actively harmed even someone as strong as the Cosmic Ghost Rider, who was imbued with the Power Cosmic. Fitting, considering its especially good against demonic entities. Though it’s not limited to only being able to hurt Demonic entities, as it was capable of threatening a relatively simple human like Madcap, or outright killing Doctor Druid. Showing that while it’s super effective on demonic entities, the gun does not limit itself to only slaying the Demonic with its insane firepower.

It just has… one weakness notably, in that it can not fire upon anything remotely holy, even a Nun, as it’ll jam if it tries to.

Stake Thrower

Starting with his arsenal found in the games, Marvel Avengers Alliance contains a special weapon that’s designed off Blade’s High Stakes ability. While his other abilities will be tackled later, you can find a document here that details the unique status effects involved for Blade’s kit.

The Stake Holder is a powerful weapon that combines many different Stake types into one powerful firearm that can be adjusted on the fly for the situation. The weapon automatically matches Blade’s own level, while also having guaranteed critical hits when fired. The gun also contains an array of different stake types, which are as followed:

• Adamantium Stake: The most powerful stake for damage, it contains both the Brutal Strike and Fatal Blow properties. Brutal Strike prevents its damage from being cancelled by resurrection abilities (essentially ones that trigger upon a character getting knocked down), while Fatal Blow instantly kills at 20% health or lower, though this doesn’t work on bosses.
• Shredder Stake: Deals Bleeding to targets hit, which makes foes take damage worth 4% of their health for every stack. The stake also has the Ravaged effect, which deals 50% more damage to foes affected by Bleeding or Internal Bleeding.
• Smoke Stake: Shots avoid triggering counter or protect abilities, while causing a 50% chance for the next target’s attack to miss along with Disorienting them, making their attack have a 30% chance to miss.
• Stun Stake: Stuns a target, making them unable to act in their next turn while reducing their dodge chance.

It should be noted that aside from the Shredder Stake, all stakes listed have a 2 turn cooldown after use.

Dodge Charger

Blade’s car from the movies, it gets him places in the city and comes with a cell phone scanner that lets him pick up transmissions and conversations from nearby signals.

Miscellaneous Equipment

Considering the sheer amount of vampires Blade has fought, it’s no wonder Blades arsenal has gone all over the place over the years in his endless crusade against the undead, and it’s led him to use some more, unique tools in his battles, such as some of the following.

• Tasers: For tasin’ people. 
• Scuba Gear: Used for deep-sea diving, comes with a harpoon gun.
• Cloves of Garlic: After Blade kills the vampire Billy Blue, he puts cloves of garlic into their cranium to slow their resurrection. He’s seen stocking up on garlic in general whenever necessary.
• Axe: At times, Blade has wielded other sharp melee weapons such as an axe.
• Flashbangs: what do you imagine a flashbang does?
• Aerolized Silver: A gaseous form of silver he’s used to, you guessed it, gas Vampires.
• Exploding Knives: A knife that…well explodes, more than likely taking the head of whoever it was plunged into.
• Smoke Bombs:They’re, smoke bombs-
• A Silver-Boomerang Blade: Easily tossed, slashes multiple targets and returns to sender!
• Holy Water Laced Metal Sticks:Stabs into the victim, and then injects them with Holy Water!
• Caltrops: Can be used to pop wheels, or be painful to step on probably
• Silver Shurikens: Shurikens made of Silver, has several
• Grappling Hook: Good for well, mobility!
• A retractable stake in his Shoe(what): I feel I don’t need to explain what this does.
• A Spear Cannon: A… spear cannon, what do you think it does?
• Flamethrower: Throws flames, what else
• Garlic Gumbals: Good for giving vampires serious indigestion, sticks to their mouth and then releases garlic essence inside
• Drill: Good for drilling vampires in half
• Garlic Sprayed Underwear: What
• Double Crossbow: Fires forwards AND backwards
• Anti Vampire Spray: With just a spritz of what is likely holy water, this spray can melt away a vamp’s face
• Parachute: In case he jumps out of a plane.
• Palimpsest: A lengthy notebook of general vampire history and notes.
• Alien Malaria Pills: Given to Blade by Black Panther, these pills, according to Robbie Reyes, are protection against alien diseases.
• Avengers Communicators: Devices for communicating with his teammates.
• Health Boosters and Medi-Kit: Blade carries around booster jabs as well as Med Kits to restore his health with the latter providing a large boost (Video Game)
• Serums: Provides a massive boost to Blade’s strength, speed, and stamina (Video Game)
• Coagulant: Restores Blade’s strength to 100% (Video Game)
• Indian-style Katar punching dagger: It’s a dagger (Movies)
• Silver throwing knife: It’s a knife (Movies)
• Incendiary Grenade: Uses it to set Quinn on fire (Movies)
• Handheld UV Lamp: A UV Lamp (Movies)
• Explosive Chemicals: Blade carries an aerosol can with explosive chemicals (Movies)
• Hidden Silver Wrist Blade: A silver wrist blade (Movies)
• EDTA: An anticoagulant that causes vampires to explode, Blade carries serum injectors to use it (Movies)
• Retractable Garrote: A metal wire Blade uses to decapitate Quinn (Movies)

Buffy

Stakes

Buffy’s main weapon she uses to kill vampires are wooden stakes and her most common one. Should Buffy stab a vampire through the heart, it’ll usually kill them, dusting them completely. She’s also been shown to spice up her fighting style with them a little bit, by throwing stakes or dual wielding them. The most ‘iconic’ stake is perhaps the one given to her by fellow slayer Kendra called Mr. Pointy, which is imprinted with the psychic signature of the Slayer, protecting it from the command of supernatural forces like the goddess Kali. Though Buffy is rarely too picky on what she uses. In fact, she’s used stuff like a random wooden stick, drumsticks, and a unicorn toy horn as substitutes. 

Handbag

A trusty seemingly innocent handbag, it’s great for carrying around miscellaneous weapons for killing the undead.

Crossbows

Standard crossbows for launching arrows and stakes into the undead. Load one up beforehand, press the trigger, and watch whatever’s in front of you taste tree bark. Able to be folded up for easy transportation.

mʔ
(AKA, The Scythe)

Though it’s called a scythe in the series, it’s actually a bardiche, a type of pole arm. It’s just called the Scythe because you try pronouncing mʔ without biting your tongue. The Scythe is considered the counterpart of Excalibur and it’ll hold its power even in a magicless world. When Buffy first found it, she handled it flawlessly, immediately feeling like it belonged to her, thanks to her instinct as a Slayer. This makes sense when you realize the Scythe is mystical and has a connection to Slayers like Buffy. It’s likely linked to a demonic spirit and it’s a versatile weapon as Buffy has used it to swing of course, but also use it defensively to block beams and even use the hilt itself as a stake.

While it’s already a strong weapon on its own, it has plenty of interesting powers. It has been able to absorb magic from Willow to amp itself up for a more powerful strike and can even cut magic itself. Willow herself has used the Scythe to slash open a dimensional portal to another place and another character stated if she went too far, she could have collapsed all of reality. It can be used to travel through time with said portals and it has one hell of a defensive mechanism as it has a protective ward trying to prevent others from stealing its magic. That’s impressive since Willow has used it to run an energy scan and awaken every potential Slayer around the world, amplifying women who fit the criteria since the Scythe contains the essence of the energy history of past Slayers to end the Slayer cycle. 

Perhaps the most impressive thing about the Scythe is that it was created to kill the “Old Ones,” which is important as they are considered to be the mightiest in all of demonkind. The Guardians forged the Scythe centuries ago to kill the last pure demon (Old One) that walked the Earth. The Old Ones for context are pure demons who walked the Earth before humans took it from them. The Old Ones came with the Seed of Wonder and shared the earth with higher beings known as the Powers That Be. Old Ones include Lohesh, Boluz, Vrill, Neauth, Illyria, Arsgomor, Sephrilian, Quor’toth, and Maloker. It’s also been used to destroy the Seed of Wonder as well (though this also broke the Scythe). This means even if Buffy is at a power disadvantage, she’d always have ol’ reliable to do the job usually. (More information in Before The Verdicts)

Needless to say, the Scythe is one of her most powerful weapons in her arsenal and one of her go tos.

Miscellaneous
Anti-Vampire Gear

As a Slayer, Buffy carries some essential anti-vampire tools that don’t seem to be weapons at first, like stakes and crossbows. Crosses can burn whatever vamps come to close, with direct contact directly lighting them on holy fire (which doesn’t seem to harm normal individuals). Holy water also works as an acidic substance against vampires, with it being able to be sprayed onto other objects to make them dangerous to touch like ropes and even the ground. Buffy can have holy water made of other types of water too like mineral water, leading to the most painful drink of Perrier one of the undead will ever consume or even spraying it at them through the use of a water gun.

Miscellaneous Weaponry

Of course, while Buffy has a large catalogue of special specific weaponry fitting her profession of Vampire Slayer, she also has a far wider list of just about everything you can imagine being used to kill a person! Swords, quarter staffs, throwing stars, torches, a sledgehammer, a spatula, a tranquilizer gun, a rocket launcher, a katana, an assault rifle, a machete, a butcher knife, a flail, a spear, a miniature catapult, shovels, torches, pitchforks, pool cues, brass knuckles, bolts, knives, daggers, a boka, battle axes, a Roman short sword, normal staffs, bo-sticks, hair spray (watch out for fire hazards), Hell-Fire Bottles (basically Molotov cocktails Hell edition), a Hell-Fire Super Soaker (again, watch out for fire hazards), and even a giant battle axe twice her size called a Pylean Crebbil. You name it, she’s got it! You name it, she’s probably also used it to kill someone! Like, if she can stake a vampire with a spatula, then the sky is probably the limit really. 

Miscellaneous
General Equipment

Alongside more combat focused tools, Buffy does have a good amount of general use items. She has Medi-Paks (without a C) that can heal injuries quickly on the fly, a scapula that protects against spirits, a magic clump of braided rope that can nullify blindness spells, and a double bladed boomerang called the Reaper Blade that can home in on demons (though against non-demons it just, phases out of reality temporarily instead of hitting them). 

There are a couple miscellaneous tools as well that aren’t really combat applicable, but we thought would be fun to mention. At one point Buffy is given a bottle of glowing liquid that she can splash on people to return them to the Magic Box in the First’s pocket dimension during its challenge in Chaos Bleeds, with the issue being that this relocation is limited in where it can be used. Buffy also received an emergency kit from Robin Woods’ mother, a previous Slayer, which had Shadow Casters to shine light through in order to perform a somewhat involved ritual. After performing an exchange of herself and a demon, which she leaves in her place, she appears in another dimension where ancient Shadowmen explain lore and attempt to have a demon bond with her.

Taser Blaster

A weapon mainly utilized by the Initiative, a military group tasked with capturing and studying demons, with Buffy getting her hands on one after briefly allying with them (and getting betrayed by its leader). The blaster fires around 12,000 volts of electricity, enough to knock out a human for about two hours after hitting them. It’s just as effective on demons, being the main way agents of the Initiative could incapacitate them in their missions.

Shield of R’Morlo
the Undefeatable

Also known as the “Shield of Rei“, this shield has magical properties that allows it to block spells and mystical projectiles sent Buffy’s way. It’s specifically stated to “stop magic completely”, although a big enough volley and spread of projectiles can still get past its protections.

Gorgon Venom

After being advised on how to deal with gargoyles by her ever reliable Watcher, Giles, Buffy was led to acquire vials of a mystical green substance known as Gorgon Venom. Whether she flings mere drops, throws entire vials, or dips her stakes in it, this substance is potent enough to induce petrification not only in gargoyles, but in people too.

Hope’s Dagger

Forged and constructed at the beginning of time by Cassandra Rayne, a powerful sword was created out of the first biblical ray of light to shine on Earth, the purest light in creation. This came to be known as Hope’s Dagger, and the process of its creation made Cassandra (and only Cassandra) immortal for the purpose of putting this holy sword to use against the First Evil. For you see, Hope’s Dagger is the only way to harm this powerful, incorporeal, and conceptual evil. However, the First Evil overpowered Cassandra and separated her body parts, hiding them amongst its pocket dimension as her immortality and spiritual link to the sword was a threat to it.

Enter the Scooby Gang, who have been forced into a confrontation against the First’s interdimensional champions by Ethan Rayne as pawns in his plan. Seeking a way to defeat the First, Buffy and her friends collected Cassandra’s body parts to reform her. Once they did so, Cassandra seemingly shunts them back to her Crusades era, allowing Buffy to seek out Hope’s Dagger for herself as she was deemed worthy of wielding the blade. This determination was proven correct once she found the Dagger, as it would glow in her hands and extend whenever she willed it to do so. As a bonus, it also unlocked a specific magical seal leading to the First’s boss room and nullified some animation magic on certain gargoyles. Neat!

As Buffy wielded Hope’s Dagger and the First inhabited Ethan Rayne, puppeting him with a dark blade of its own, the Slayer fought and defeated both entities. This did not kill the First, but rather it managed to disperse its essence across all realities and dimensions, making it so that it would take centuries for the First to reassemble itself again. Don’t get it twisted though, the Dagger acts as a natural opposite and counter to this entity, so it would not do this to regular mooks normally. Against regular vampires, Hope’s Dagger still only takes them down with multiple hits like other weapons. However, when used against gargoyles that she struggled to physically contend with earlier, the blade was able to cut through them like butter and smash them to pieces, meaning it would still upscale Buffy’s usual strength.

The Dowsing Rod of Vem

(Image edited by Blue Igneous (“low quality makes it funnier”))

Described as “looking like Gandalf’s staff with a piece of Kryptonite attached to the end”, the Dowsing Rod of Vem was an item that Buffy had stolen from an alternate universe Jonathan and Andrew. The staff will naturally move by itself to point towards the greatest concentration of evil, allowing Buffy to track down the nearest “Big Bad”. It can also be used as a weapon, given it being made of naturally tough magic wood (though enough damage can start to carve into the wood) along with having a sharp end at the back to serve as a substitute stake. 

However, the most notable part of the staff isn’t the staff itself, but rather the Kryptonite that Buffy attached to its tip: the Marnoxon Gem. A literal piece of creation itself, the gem allows for Buffy to open portals through space and time through the staff. While she originally struggled to use the portals efficiently, she did eventually get a hold of the gem’s ability of infinite reality-hopping across the multiverse, letting her make portals with specific places in mind like a realm featuring specific people, or a realm with intense sunlight. She even became capable of making portals within the same dimension, letting her hop around the battlefield like Rise TMNT Leonardo. It is worth noting however that Buffy requires the Dowsing Rod and Marnoxon Gem being connected for her to be able to control the gem. Otherwise any portals it makes will just be random.

Soulsword

From the novel Mortal Fear, Buffy would eventually reassemble a sword that can slice the soul of its victims and grant its raw energy to their victim. It’s a sword that can weaken people upon a touch by siphoning from their soul, and take the strength from them. It was even able to absorb Willow’s blasts.

Elemental Axe

Buffy was given an axe that is meant for Slayers of their element. Since Buffy is the element of air, it can kill any Slayer with the corresponding element, but if used on different elementals, it can only seriously injure them. 

Olaf the Trollgod’s
Enchanted Hammer

Upon defeating Olaf, a troll who used to be the former lover of Anya (long story, don’t ask), Buffy decided to keep his hammer for himself. She can lift it without issue, something even a vampire like Spike has trouble with. The troll’s strength was actually in the hammer itself. It was used against Glory because if you wanted to fight a god, you needed a weapon of a god. Buffy had previously struggled with fighting Glory before, but was able to defeat her thanks to the troll hammer, causing visible bleeding to her.

Abilities

Blade

Dhampir Physiology

(Breaking Bad AND JoJo reference??)

Blade is what is known as a dhampir or “daywalker”, a half-human half-vampire, due to being infected with vampire blood at the time of his birth. Blade has all the strengths of a vampire and none of the weaknesses, meaning things like fire, garlic, holy crosses/water, and silver are useless against Blade, though he retains some human weaknesses such as simple suffocation. Blade has no reflection since, like all vampires, he has no soul, and detection of Blade confirms that he is part vampire. On occasion, inherent vampiric bloodlust in Blade manifests as his compulsion to hunt vampires, and with this comes a wide array of abilities. 

Enhanced Senses

Often referred to as his “Vamp Senses”, Blade has superhuman senses far beyond what a normal human can sniff, hear, or sense. On a basic level, Blade can easily sniff out vampires, sometimes by their blood, and easily sniff human blood no matter how faint or cold. Such as the time he detected Punisher being on the same roof as him without even turning to face him, or the time Blade was sent to track down the frozen solid corpse of Captain America in the Arctic that’s been dead and frozen since 1945. But more advanced, the Vamp Senses give Blade warnings, feeling impulses that something isn’t a good idea, or tell him how many “targets” are on board a train through smell, even identifying and differentiating mummies. He can also detect when someone is in a coma, or detect a person such as Thor withholding information. In fact, Dracula’s own sense of smell can sense the Avengers in advance.

More peculiarly, Blade is capable of sensing and sniffing magic and “stench of the occult”. He can detect (via scent) the likes of blood magic, black magic, magical sources, and “undeath” on the half-breed Divinity Drake, but she turned out to be Aamshed, a human Sumerian sorcerer who “erased her true identity” from her own awareness. This would mean that Blade’s senses were fooled to think of her as another type of entity by a form of magical masking, in a sense.

Deaccelerated Aging

Blade is stated to be resistant to aging due to his dhampir physiology. Despite being born in the 1920s, Blade thinks that eventually, he will rid the world of all vampires in his old age.

Shapeshifting

Prior to drinking Dracula’s blood and awakening his true power (more on this later), Blade still had a little bit of vampiric abilities within him. Despite saying he can’t (for some reason), Blade is able to turn into a bat-like misty ethereal form, and claims to Deadpool before his power boost that he could turn into a bat and fly away.

Disease Siphoning

With his fangs, Blade can absorb physical or supernatural infections with a bite in order to remove them from a person. When Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) was demonically subverted, Blade was able to siphon the evil influence infection out of Robbie, something he can do to absorb physical or supernatural infections through a bite. He can reverse this and ”administer cures” like when he reverted “Hulked Out” guards to their usual human forms via injecting T’Challa’s concoction.

To be clear, it isn’t energy siphoning. Bit of a misconception.

Healing Factor

Due to being part vampire, Blade has an accelerated healing factor. Most wounds that would take humans days or weeks to heal can happen in mere moments for Blade. One notable example comes from his daughter (who is also a dhampir), who healed from a vampire bite in her arm and regain her strength in the time it takes for her to run away from the scene. He can quickly recover from being littered with bullets and having an arrow fired into his heart, and even recover from his throat being torn out

Mist Form

After gaining access to more of his Vampiric Abilities, Blade gained access to the ability to turn his body into a mist form, which he has used to great effect. He’s turned into a bundle of bats that act like mist, traveled long distances while as mist, used it to phase through attacks, multiple times, used it to explode targets from the inside, and a doppelgänger of Blade was capable of turning into mist while in the middle of being stabbed even.

Vampiric Powers in Marvel

When the Mother of All Horrors was spreading hatred across the world, Blade turned to his old foe Dracula, unsure about how to deal with this cosmic horror. It didn’t take long for Dracula to realize what the problem was; for all of Blade’s life, he had been repressing his vampiric heritage. Dracula spars with Blade, and Blade struggles to hit his archnemesis, Drac tells Blade to stop thinking like a man, and Blade begins to approach sparring zombies with more ferocity. Blade had touched upon his true nature. Dracula then had Blade drink a goblet of his blood, as a shortcut for Dracula having to teach Blade centuries of knowledge of the things and powers he knew. Not necessarily to give Blade Dracula’s powers, but to unlock the powers that he always had. Once he drank, Blade became “strigoi”, a vampire capable of immense power, immediately turning into mist to avoid Dracula, who said that Blade now had the “bloodline of eternity” in his veins. In quick time, Blade was already very proficient with his newfound powers, shapeshifting into a wolf and turning into a swarm of bats with ease. That being said though, does this mean Blade has more than just these two powers? 

General Vampires

Thanks to Blade’s awakened, vampiric potential, he should be able to not only draw on the abilities showcased by regular Marvel vampires, but certain non-weakness related aspects of their biologies too. Considering how experienced he is with fighting and understanding them throughout his life, tapping into his vampire side and its capabilities, even if not showcased yet, should not be too much of a stretch.

Vampires in Marvel Comics are very similar to most depictions of vampires, being bloodsuckers that live off the blood of humans and have immense capabilities and fear of the light of day. They are agelessly immortal, having no soul, which is why they have no reflection. Through this lack of a soul, vampires are vulnerable to all their weaknesses. Outside of vampire bites, you can only become a true vampire after coming back from the grave 3 days after your death, the process is described as warping your mind. Despite being able to resist their natural bloodlust from time to time, vampires experience a heavy temptation to feast on blood in order to gain more power. Their blood is comparable to a virus, meaning vampire bites are an infection that turns people into vampires. Vampires have a wide variety of powers in Marvel, such as:

• Enhanced Senses: Vampirism grants an amplification of power and enhances “every sense”. Reese, a newly turned vampire, claimed she could “See in the dark, smell the life in every person around me, hear the blood in their veins, feel every clench of their hearts”. Hannibal King stated he has ‘perfect night vision’ 
• Enhanced Stats: Logan claims vampirism made him stronger and faster than he already was, taking on multiple X-Men. This is consistent with other recently turned vampire claims as well.
• Shapeshifting: Vampires can become mist and other types can become ice shards along the wind. Inka once used this ability to enter another vampire’s body and blow them up from the inside with a sunlightbomb. Vampires can also turn into forms other than bats like wolves or rats.
• Vampire Bites: Obviously, vampires can turn people into vampires with a bite. Some vampires can turn people with immediate bites rather than the bite victims being buried for a few days. Regular vampires can have their bite victims under their thrall to follow their commands. Vampirification sometimes leads to the victim becoming more aggressive and primal, “going crazy” as Spidey puts it.
• Pain Tolerance: Some vampires don’t die immediately from stakes due to adrenaline, living for a few more minutes. Doppelganger, a vampiric clone of Blade, could still turn into mist even when injured by a wooden stake. 
• Healing Factor/Regeneration: Vampires have a natural healing factor. Spitfire, who is a vampire, is shown regenerating her flesh over her skull, but this entire sequence is revealed to be a part of a dream illusion that Dracula was tricked by. Though, it was based on his desires. What did happen, however, was underwater vampires reattaching bisected bodies to regenerate and reanimate.
• Limited Precognition: Vampires that starve themselves can see somewhat into the future as oracles.
• Resistance to Mind Control: Fish that are already mentally dominated by aquatic vampires resist mental domination from Namor.

Naturally, this would also mean Blade would have the capability of turning someone into a vampire himself or with his aforementioned equipment. If it takes, the newly sired victim would, of course, gain the numerous weaknesses showcased by Marvel vampires over their long history. This would include things such as hallowed ground, holy and religious objects, getting staked in the heart with any pointed tools available, sunlight in general, silver–based equipment, garlic, and life-rejuvenating blood. Speaking of which, cancerous blood can negate even Dracula’s healing factor, and getting staked or introduced to certain weaknesses causes vampires to combust immediately. 

Generally speaking, there are ways around some vampiric powers too, like how mind control can be broken through willpower, drinking specific kinds of blood like Gamma, or just being immune outright to mental manipulations. Vampirism itself can also be avoided by slicing off the chunk of flesh that was bitten into right away, having a potent enough healing factor at the DNA level, or having radioactive blood like Spider-Man that breaks down vampire enzymes. Vampires can also be prevented from dispersing into mist upon decapitation or even just taking advantage of when they materialize.

Dracula’s Powers
(Potential Abilities)

From consuming the blood of Dracula this would hypothetically give Blade physiology (and by extension resistances) similar to the Lord of the Vampires, and even potential access to powers otherwise exclusive to Dracula.. While it can be debated whether Blade would use these over his go to vampire abilities normally, or how efficient he’d be at using said powers, we will list all abilities for a fully comprehensive overview (though don’t worry, these won’t play a major role in the verdict). These include:

• Shapeshifting: Dracula turns into a bat-beast and multiple bats. He turns into mist to avoid attacks mid-combat, and his mist form is called intangible. Dracula can move as and manifest from a shadow. He even uses his mist form to suffocate his foes.
• Telepathy: Dracula can use a psionic attack to revert entities from their monster forms.
• Hypnotism: Dracula can make a hypnotic gaze. Despite Dracula being dead, his mind control lingered in the minds of villagers, still living out the command by their master to kill anyone who opposed him.
• Flight: Dracula can fly without turning into a bat at various heights.
• Illusions: Dracula can make illusions. Briefly tricks Hulk and Bruce Banner with a mental illusion. Tricks Satan by faking his own death with an illusion. Dracula made a very illusionary corpse of himself to make it seem like he was dead to fool Dr. Strange into leaving. This was due to a combination of his mist form and hypnosis, using the mist to act as if his body had been incinerated, leaving behind an illusion of a corpse.
• Blood Draining: Dracula victims can have all of their blood drained, although the timeframe for this process isn’t stated in this example. Drinking special kinds of blood with empowering properties can amplify Dracula’s strength. Regular vampires can do this too, like drinking blood from Gamma users. Dracula once drank blood from the goddess Sif, which amplified him to feel more powerful than he’s even been before, though he loses this power later due to the ‘ichor in his veins’ rejecting it.
• Strength Sapping: Bites from Dracula, even just as a bat, can weaken characters like Apocalypse.
• Assimilation: Gradually assimilates Storm with one of his bites. Bites Wolverine and immediately causes him to lash out against his fellow X-Men. His control over Storm and Wolverine got lifted following his death.
• Advanced Enhanced Senses: Dracula can smell and differ between different blood types, such as sweet. He even uses his senses to immediately pinpoint the location of someone he believed shot him. Dracula has unnaturally sharp hearing.
• Summoning:  Dracula calls down lightning and controls groups of rats, bats, and wolves under his thrall. He can summon legions of creatures with a point of the finger from the ‘Loins of Asmodeus’. Dracula’s daughter, Lilith, makes a storm, though the concentration needed for it will weaken her for hours. He once even made a hurricane to try and slow down Silver Surfer. Once called a massive array of winds, rains and lightning with his leftover strength to wipe out an entire village, leaving it as a destroyed wasteland.

Marvel: Avengers Alliance
1 and 2 Abilities

In Marvel: Avengers Alliance 1 and 2, Blade is a playable character with many different skills to his name. Relevant status effects can be found here.

Passive Effects

• Danger Sense: Gives Blade a 50% chance to dodge attacks from foes that are Bleeding
• Daywalker: Immune to Mind Control and Disoriented effects
• Vampire Hunter: Attacks that damage vampires have a 30% chance to inflict Stun, and a 20% chance to perform a follow-up or counter attack, with it increasing to 30% if the enemy has less than 30% health left. Has a maximum of 3 uses per round.

Abilities

• Bleeding Edge: A slashing melee attack that hits the enemy three times and deals 3 rounds of Bleeding.
• Dead by Dawn: An unarmed melee attack that hits one foe three times. Enemies hit by this move take 50% more damage from Slashing attacks for 3 rounds. Blade also restores 5% health for each stack of bleeding on a target, and gains an additional 10% attack, defense, accuracy and evasion upon attacking Bleeding targets.
• High Stakes: A ranged attack that deals 150% damage to foes who are Undead, Vampires or Demons that have a Hallowed vulnerability. This also causes any applications from Bleeding to automatically trigger, along with triggering Internal Bleeding, while also being stealthy to avoid triggering counter or protect abilities. Enemies hit can have a 40% chance to lose their next turn, and any enemies at or below 20% health are instantly downed (does not apply for bosses).
• Bloodlust: A move that buffs Blade, it lets him gain a free turn while buffing his next attack. Additionally dispels any debuffs currently active, along with increasing his accuracy, attack, defense and evasion stats, while also restoring stamina with life draining attacks instead of health. All effects last 1 turn.

Marvel Heroes 2015 Abilities

In Marvel Heroes 2015, Blade is not only a playable character, but has access to a variety of skills for each of his skill trees to adjust his playstyle. Blade comes with his own system, dubbed Thirst, which essentially is a meter he can fill up from foes bleeding, eventually being able to enter a Bloodlust state to increase his attack, move speed and damage by 10%, at the cost of losing health while under the effects.

Only notable skills from Blade’s skill trees will be listed, but if you want a full runthrough of all his abilities you can find so here.

• Helichopter – Using a dagger attached to a chain, spins it around to deal damage to foes close by
• Loud & Flashy – A signature attack, Blade leaps into the air and lands, stabbing his sword into the ground which makes a shockwave to damage enemies around where he landed. Can be used 3 times in 15 seconds
• Toxin-Loaded Gauntlets – Using his bladed gauntlets which have toxin infused, punches a foe several times and makes them vulnerable to Bleed abilities. If Blade defeats an enemy with the debuff, it causes the toxin infused in them to explode as an attack to hit other enemies. 6 second cooldown
• Unleash Glaive – Throws his glaive to chain between multiple enemies, applies Grievous Wounds. 6 second cooldown
• Stake Thrower – Fires a sharpened stake twofold towards the target, pierces through enemies, deals +100% damage against Bleeding targets, 8 second cooldown
• Hyper-Toxin Grenade – Throws a grenade, which then explodes and covers the enemy in an ichor that explodes. Enemies defeated from this move have their ichor explode and damage other foes, 6 second cooldown
• The Serum – Restores the thirst gage to 0 and removes the Bloodlust effect, gives 20% damage negation, adds deflect and defense rating, gives 8% chance to evade incoming damage and regenerates all of your health when defeated (10 minute cooldown). Slowly regenerates health when used, 12 second cooldown
• The Ride – Uses his motorcycle to traverse the area
• UV Grenade – Throws a UV grenade which causes a massive explosion of light when detonated, light stuns and damages enemies
• Just Stay Down – Ultimate ability, Blade fires his uzis all around him before, after entering a vampiric rage, deals massive damage to all foes around him, cooldown of 10 minutes, always crits, maxes Bloodlust

Marvel Future Fight Abilities

Blade is a playable character in Marvel Future Fight, and has access to multiple skills based on the uniform he has equipped. Only notable skills will be included here, but if you want a full list, you can check his wiki page here.

• Daywalker: Has a 25% chance of activating when attacking. Blade restores health equivalent to 8% of the damage dealt to a target, and reactivates 0.5 seconds from using the ability. Lasts for 10 seconds, and has a cooldown of 25 seconds after use.
• Vampire Senses V2: For his Avengers uniform. When Blade uses a HP Steal ability, he removes all Debuffs from himself for 5 seconds, while increasing his attack and defense by 25%, along with his speed by 5% and critical rate by 25%, and removes Incapacitation for 10 seconds. Has a cooldown of 20 seconds.
• Deep Wounds: When using a Bleed effect, removes all activated debuffs (5 seconds), restores health equal to 10% of damage dealt from the attack (10 seconds, limit to 3% max health), can be reactivated 0.5 seconds following activation. Also increases attack and defense by 40%, speed by 5% of critical rate by 30%, and removes Incapacitation for 10 seconds.
• Vampiric Curse V2: Ignores 30% of a target’s evasion rate, and increases damage dealt by skills by 40%, and bonus damage by 35%.
• Killer Instinct: Inflicts Burn (30% extra fire damage every second for three) and Bleed (Deals 30% extra damage every second while shortening recovery rates by 50% for 3 seconds). For Blade himself, it gives him 50% chance to penetrate those with special defenses like Super Armor, Shields or Invincibility for 9 seconds, while granting himself Invincibility for 5 seconds. Also increases the attack damage he deals by 40% and his defense and speed by 10% (9 seconds), while increasing his basic damage by 70% (7 seconds), and increases physical damage by 135%
• Sword Edge: The version from the 70s Classic Uniform. Decreases an enemy’s physical defense by 30% (10 seconds), and deals physical damage based on 77% of Blade’s physical attack. Cooldown of 7 seconds.
• Blood Dance: For Blade’s Avengers Uniform. Gives +70 chance for an enemy to miss their attack (1 second). Also decreases basic defenses by 8% (can stack up to 50%), and ignores immunity (cooldown of 8 seconds). Deals physical damage based on 56% of Blade’s physical attack. Cooldown of 9 seconds.
• Hunter’s Revenge: For Blade’s Avengers uniform. Blade can inflict 20% additional damage every second while shortening recovery rates by 40% (5 seconds). Can also stun foes for 2 seconds while granting +70 chance for attacks to miss Blade (1 second), alongside decreasing basic defenses by 8% with the same stacking effect as Blood Dance, alongside granting Blade 6 seconds of invincibility while dealing 111% of physical damage based on Blade’s physical attack stat. Has a cooldown of 17 seconds.

Marvel Rivals Abilities

A recent addition to the roster, Marvel Rivals gives Blade numerous abilities to slice and dice his foes.

• Ancestral Sword – Blade cuts in front of himself with his Ancestral Sword
• Hunter’s Shotgun – Blade shoots his shotgun forward, dealing damage in a straight spread
• Scarlet Shroud: Holds his sword in front of him, parrying attacks to reduce damage taken, while also used to shorten Daywalker Dash’s cooldown.
• Bloodline Awakening: Awakens his Dhampir bloodline, which makes Blade move and attack faster while also gaining a Whirlwind Slash ability, which has him spin in a circle several times to deal extra damage. His attacks also gain lifesteal, at the cost of having reduced healing while active.
• Daywalker Dash: Blade dashes forward and attacks with his currently equipped weapon. If he has his sword, it deals a strike inflicting Slow, while with his shotgun it shoots the targeted enemy while reducing their healing. Has 2 charges that regenerate overtime.
• Thousand-Fold Slash: Using the Sword of Dracula, Blade dashes forward and executes a strike which leaves behind a zone of constant slashes for a short time. Enemies hit have their healing reduced while in the field.

Resistances

• Fire: Endures Boy-Thing’s burning touch, which was beginning to melt the War-Widow armor on Black Widow nearby. Also survives the flames of Adana, only receiving burn scars that would quickly heal. This same fire previously incinerated several sorcerers.
• Electricity: Stood back up after being electrocuted by Nighthawk’s Hawkarangs. Comparable physiology to Dracula, who endured his lightning being blasted back at him.
• Vampire Bites: Blade’s half-human half-vampire physiology means Dracula’s vampire bite proved to be ineffective due to the already existing vampire blood in him; not enough blood to change him into a vampire, but just enough to provide him with immunity to vampire bites.
  • Mind Control: By extension, this means that Blade is immune to the mind control that vampires have as well. Not vampiric, but Blade also resists the powers of Lord Daimo “the invader of thoughts and conqueror of minds”. Fighting back Daimo’s attempt to control his mind and body. He also went through anti-mind control training with the Avengers.
• Memory Manipulation (Magic-Based): Blade woke up in an alternate universe with no vampires while aware of the old reality’s history, which was rewritten by Mephisto’s Pandemonium Cube. He remembers specifically due to his connection to the supernatural after this affected “all of reality”. 
• Auditory Brainwashing: When Sarnak used a record to drive everyone at a rave into a murderous frenzy, the vampires were immune thanks to their physiology and altered brain structure.
• Possession: Becomes the host for a demon possessing a boy and was able to resist it taking over
• Empathic Manipulation: One psychic vampire fed on vampiric fear to leave vampires mentally incapacitated. Then, Blade resisted an attempt to send him into a rage state because he already hates vampires, plus he just resists empathic manipulations better than other vampires.
• Extreme Pain: To travel to hell, “Blade is cloaked with death” and experiences the pain of the fire of judgement until it became pleasure
• Radiation: Blade and other vampires are able to live deep into the irradiated areas of Chernobyl where the radiation is unsafe for humans.
• Limited Poisons: Comparable to Dracula, who claims that poisons will only hurt him rather than kill him.
• Disease: An Alternate Blade’s body was stated to be able to destroy any disease within it.
• Soul Manipulation: Sorta hard to affect him with, considering he’s stated to not have one. Consistently even.

Buffy

Slayer Physiology

As the chosen one selected to slay all monsters, Buffy has been granted many special qualities to help her combat the various creatures emerging from the Hellmouth. Ever since even the stone age, Slayers have occupied the Earth as a means of fighting off holding off all forms of evil that walk the world. Manifested when she was 15 years old, Buffy wouldn’t just awaken her own abilities, but the abilities of all the past Slayers across history. 

At a baseline, the most consistent property granted to Buffy is superhuman characteristics that let her compete with any foe of the supernatural. She possesses super strength and healing abilities and are “acutely attuned to their surroundings”. She also has the endurance of 10 men and she gets stronger every day.. Every slayer is psychically linked to those that came before. It’s always been like this, so it applies to Buffy and confirmed again she has the essence of all the slayers within her. This would include Sineya, an ancient African girl who was the First Slayer, who was part-demon and whose essence would pass on from one Slayer to the next and Slayer powers originate from a demon’s spirit from the beginning of time (ancient times). Other potential slayers have fought vampires with little experience because it felt they were born to do it and Buffy can stay up as long as she wants. Slayer instincts are also natural and cannot be removed by amnesia magic. Each Slayer is rooted in the fundamental magickal matter of the universe, which for Buffy is air.

Buffy also has good stamina and fought off an entire room of vampires for a good amount of time. Plus she was capable of going from barely being able to keep her eyes open to keeping up with Chirayoju evenly. She also has accelerated healing, being able to heal fast from bruises, blood loss and spinal damage. That being said, it’s not perfect as Buffy doubts it could bring her back from a really hard blow to the head and while Buffy has said she heals fast like Angel, it is not proven her regeneration is comparable to a vampire.

On the more esoteric angle, Buffy is shown to have premonitions of future events while dreaming and are sometimes prophetic: She has had a prophetic dream of the future warning her of the voice stealing of the Gentleman that comes true later in the episode. And another time, she had a premonition through a nightmare of a girl’s death and a foreshadowing of the First Evil. Buffy always remembers her dreams in perfect detail.

Lastly, the properties of her blood are magical in nature, and come with different side effects when applied to other mystical energies or beings. Killer of the Undead is a poison for vampires that can only be cured by Slayer blood. Buffy’s Slayer blood is able to close a portal that grew to the size of the Sunnydale Zoo. Slayer energy appears to negate mystical dimensional portals, like when Elizabeth’s body falls into Jack’s portal and when Buffy dove into the energy thrown off by Glory’s magicks. 

Danger Sense

As a Slayer, Buffy possesses superior senses in comparison to the average person, which sharpen greatly during battle to improve her performance. If she ever finds herself unable to track an enemy through sight, her other senses can be enhanced tenfold or even a hundredfold to make up for it. Closing their eyes and focusing on other senses is a tactic that Watchers teach their Slayers to do in battle for that very reason. But in addition to her regular senses, Buffy has even more up her sleeve.

While her friends joke about it by calling it a Spider-Sense, Buffy legitimately has a sort of “Slayer Sense” that clues her in on incoming dangers and instinctively detects evil creatures. She tends to just feel when something is wrong without any cues, with it originally being in the form of cramps but changing to just a sudden gut feeling as she feels something in the air. She can detect nearby vampires to know they’re around, though one time she just knew a Wolfman was about to attack her and where it was landing without any visual or auditory cues whatsoever, because, sure. Even if the enemy happens to be invisible, Buffy is still able to detect their presence. If any vamp or demon tries to go after Buffy, the element of surprise will pretty much never be in their favor.

Non-Physical Interaction

Buffy has been able to cut away enemies made of Ectoplasm, which is the “the underlying psycho etheric constitutional substance of an individual’s soul”. Basically just, soul matter. On the Ghost Roads, Buffy is capable of harming specters with just her kicks and punches, shattering them in a single blow.

Ghost Roads

The Ghost Roads exist as an underlying dimensional space connecting all realms that can be accessed by anyone connected to the supernatural. By focusing, one can enter them and use them as a means of fast travel, leaving the physical universe and returning to a different spot a short time later; in one of his first times using them, Oz was able to travel 3000 miles in under an hour. It should be noted however that while Buffy has used them for long distance travel and escape, she has not utilized them as a means of combat mobility, and doing so does require some time and concentration.

Resistances

• Effects That Target The Wicked: A bit specific, but Buffy was immune to curses summoned by the archangel Michael, with Michael explaining to Buffy that this is because she is a type of angel herself and is immune to things that work by targeting evil or unholiness.
• Mind Manipulation/Hypnosis: When Dracula tried hypnotizing Buffy, she was able to resist and toss him across the table. Buffy also resisted the Master’s hypnotic summons. Faith and Buffy get mind haxed, but Buffy resists and rejects the temptation of an alternate peaceful life, although this particular example is more a temptation than a mental manipulation. Drusilla’s psychic abilities were also unable to see Buffy, though it’s worth noting Drusilla was weakened during this time yet her abilities still work on others. Was immune to smoke that caused [REDACTED] to flip out and attack Buffy.
• Vampirism: While it has been overpowered in the past, Buffy does have a natural resistance to vampire bites (and the overpowering was by DRACULA of all people and was delayed anyways).
• Soul Manipulation:  Buffy is affected by a ritual that gives her nightmares and steals her soul, but it’s somewhat implied that she would be fine without it before Giles returns it with his own ritual. More notably however Buffy was able to resist the vampire spirit Chirayoju pulling at her soul, escaping his grasp, and having her soul fractured across time. 
• Memory Manipulation (Interdimensional): Nobody remembers the alternity catastrophe of The Unseen Trilogy of novels aside from people that used dimensional portals and the Reality Tracer like Buffy, which is potentially implied to be a result of her having experienced a “reality shift”.
• Possession: Buffy rejected a demon attempting to bond with and possess her since she didn’t want to lose her humanity. She was also able to fight against a vampire spirit called Chirayoju, actively fighting against his possession of her.
• Bodily Intrusion: A demon tried to merge with Buffy’s body as black smoke entered her, but she was able to refuse entry and push it out.
• Extreme Heat: Buffy dove into literal boiling super acid and, just, was fine. Spike bursts into flames as he holds onto Buffy but she “ignores” it. Endures a searing spell shot at her that burns her shoe and blisters her leg from an alternate universe Giles currently in his Ripper years. Withstands being lit on fire briefly by Hell-Fire bottles and garbage bins.
• Electrocution: On a few occasions, Buffy has been shown to be able to shrug off being electrocuted. One of them features her being shocked by a million volts and having every single nerve and muscle on her body zapped, only to be able to quickly recover due to her Slayer healing abilities.
• Energy/Magic Draining: Buffy had her blood sucked by Angel (the vampire) and her magical power was unaffected. This is important as Angel’s blood sucking can drain you of your magical power and the amplifications they give you.

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Blade

Boy-Thing

Trimmed away from the main body of the terrifying Man-Thing’s Floridian swamp flesh born of interdimensional magic and science, the Boy-Thing manifested as what can only really be described as a “silly little guy”. After previously being forcibly used to provide extra stakes from his body for Dracula’s son and Shadow Colonel, Xarus, Boy-Thing quickly took a liking to Blade and hopped right up on his shoulders, his preferred hangout spot where he can morph into wings to help Blade fly. Although, he does tend to act and run around independently should the need arise. In fact, he somehow even knows how to drive! However, appearances can be deceiving, since the Boy-Thing has a few deadly powers of his own. He can elongate his limbs and body to restrain anything threatening his friends with power “as strong as the planet itself”. Although, heavy enough hitters like Cosmic Ghost Rider can make quick work of him. 

But, everyone in Marvel knows one thing: Whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing’s touch! Boy-Thing himself has been able to demonstrate this through burning Silver Surfer, Gladiator, Blade himself, and Cosmic Ghost Rider even as he was possessing a dead Celestial. However, this isn’t done through outright power. Rather, the Burning Touch is literal in its catchphrase. It negates durability by burning you no matter what if you feel any semblance of fear or even fear-adjacent emotions like anger. For physical bodies, this can end up irradiating cells through molecular-level potency. But, this is also what allowed it to bypass the intangibility of the Surfer and induce pain in a Spirit of Vengeance to the point that he hops out of his vessel (fitting given this has exorcized demons in the past) despite the fire seemingly being “physical” in nature. Boy-Thing can independently weaponize this by forming an armor around Blade with his body that not only blocks the dhampir from the specifically dhampir-fatal red sun, but this allows him to form blades imbued with those same fear-based flames at the risk of burning himself to death over time if he also feels afraid.

However, there are ways around this seemingly absurd ability. For one, it only chemically activates through touching the entity’s body if you’re afraid at all. The Burning Touch effects can also be withstood if the victim is naturally resistant to fire or extreme heat, and Man-Thing entities can burn themselves if they’re also feeling fear themselves. This caustic fire is sometimes not instantly fatal, since breaking free from Man-Thing entities can help put out the fire in time. However, there’s still the risk that this fire can burn your internal organs out via one touch, melt flesh to seal body parts, or fuse hands to items.  Additionally, Boy-Thing is literally mindless given that he lacks the vestige of Ted Sallis within a small clump of the main body’s cells, meaning he wouldn’t have access to crazier Nexus-based dimensional portals or cosmology-spanning Man of Lineage powers since they’re linked to Ted. This means the little dude will act primarily on instinct or psychic emotional links. Without Ted, he is susceptible to plant manipulation, getting overwhelmed into inaction by strong enough emotional responses or oversaturation, or getting incapacitated and weakened through dehydration.

Boy-Thing should be fairly tough to fight traditionally as well, given how his body is literally slippery, swamp slime that can ignore physical attacks and slip through cracks with his malleability, although enough surface area can override this. His body even comes with extra goodies like eyes that can bypass magical illusions or invisibility, attunement to the emotions of ghosts, and regeneration at the molecular level. Unfortunately for him, however, Blade himself only sparsely used him for around four missions or so before leaving the Boy-Thing behind at Avengers Mountain. (See Before the Verdict)

Buffy

Camazotz

The Slayer of Vampires, as old as 500 BCE, weighing several tons and capable of lifting six full grown people on his back, Camazotz is a giant bat-creature that has a grand total of two purposes: cleansing evil, and helping the Slayer. Sorta Buffy’s Pegasus in a way. Fitting considering he’s lifted her around for mobility before. Camazotz is capable of flight, can hurt normally unharmable by normal means and outright called “Ghosts” entities called Lurkers, and can seemingly identify if someone is human or not. But the most important thing Camazotz brings to the table is pure power. Just by taking off he can blow holes through buildings, and take a beating from Buffy without really seeming to be bothered by anything more than the fact that the Slayer is fighting him.

But most importantly, he’s the only individual who can consistently hurt and battle Silas, with every interaction the two have having Silas on the backfoot until he managed to snap Camazotz’ wing. Now why is Silas important? Well, this is a bit of an explanation, so hold on. Silas is the big overarching bad of the second half of the Buffy 2019 run, and has the title “The Worldeater” and “The Devourer of Worlds and Memories”. He consumes the latter to power him up, but how literal is the former?

Simply put, if it was not literal, his plan would not work. And the idea of him being this strong is very consistently backed up statement-wise.

Now, notably Silas DOES get weaker with the more Lurkers destroyed, as they are extensions of him, and by the time he isn’t solidly overpowering every Slayer he comes across is after dozens of Lurkers got tossed into the Hellmouth and destroyed, but that only occurs midway through Issue 33 of the 2019 run, even if multiple lurkers are destroyed before, and Camazotz not only was capable of holding off Silas for a fair period prior to this point in that issue, Camazotz was in physically overpowering Silas in every fight they had in issue 31 and 33 (prior to the Lurkers being destroyed), and is the only one to do so in the comic consistently at that. Meaning he’d scale to Silas’s insane power.

So to say Camazotz is strong would be an understatement, and he’s Buffy’s personal Pegasus as long as he’s awake. The Slayer of Vampires indeed.

Feats

Blade

Overall

• Considered to be the greatest vampire hunter of all time
• Defeated many notable vampires such as Dracula, Hannibal King, Deacon Frost, Xarus the Shadow Colonel, and Legion of the Unliving
• Briefly took up the mantle as Ronin
• Joined the Avengers and helped them stop Knull
• Became the sheriff of Dracula’s new Vampire Nation
• Had a daughter with Safron named Brielle
• Thwarted Adanna, the Mother of All Horrors
• Owed a favor from Heaven
• Paved the way for current superhero movies

Power

• Can easily kick down doors.
• In his early days, could still easily wind people with just a punch.
• Without weapons, can still physically overpowerandtrade hits with vampires.
  • According to Blade, vampires are 10 times stronger than multiple people.
• Blade and Strikeforce fight and break apart Doombots together.
• Blade ends up decking and holding back Knull-brainwashed Cyclops.
• Severs the neck of the vampire with a knife.
• Vampirism is described as “power coursing through” the infected body.
• Fought Deacon Frost, who claimed to be 10 times stronger than Blade, and staked him after briefly contending with him in a fight.
• Knocks out Svengali with the butt of his axe.
• Slams Xarus the Shadow Colonel into a wall.
• Strong enough to toss around a large demon. (0.5 Tons for Lifting Strength)
• Blade has been stated to be able to lift “about a ton”.

Speed

• Dodges a Laser Scalpel. (0.15c)
• Tackles a vampire trying to escape at ‘hellish speed’ and stabs him.
• Avoids being hit by a bus.
• Narration says Blade moves like a ‘well-oiled machine’.
• Like a true anime swordsman, Blade slices a vampire into pieces with his sword before they react.
  • And does it again!
• Blade fights evenly with Deadpool and weaves through his bullets, knocking him down decisively.
• Vampires in general are described as moving inhumanly fast.
• Dodged point-blank gunfire.
• Jumps above a car right before it hits him.
• Reacts to a knife slash from Dahlia, a teenage vampire.

Durability

• Survives a sword impaling him through the chest that didn’t hit any vital organs.
• Gets sent flying by a cavern explosion.
• While weakened from Dracula dropping down the stairs, musters enough strength to stab Dracula despite his left leg being numb and one arm being useless.
• Hulk easily tosses Blade into the sky after claiming he can’t turn into a bat, but Iron Man says that Blade is tough enough to survive the fall on his own, which he does. 
• Gets shot several times, falls out of a building, lands on a car, and is immediately ran over.
• Blade stands back up after being shocked by Nighthawk’s adamantium Hawkarangs, which had sliced his blade in two, but is then knocked out after a shot by a weakened Hyperion’s eye beams.
• Gets smashed through a brick column by Deacon Frost.
• Takes hits from Doppelganger, a vampiric clone of Blade stronger than him.
• Cyclops incapacitates Blade with one beam specifically to the vertebrae.
• Blade says he and other vampire slayers would die to a hydrogen bomb going off.
• Willingly put his own hand in molten steel.
• Tanks hits and huge eyebeams from Shadow Colonel.
• Slammed into a wall by Fio’ri, a large psychic monster.
• Survives being set on fire by Adanna, the Mother of All Horrors.
• Blade survived this explosion fine.

Buffy

Overall

• Defeated Lothos, Angelus, Spike, The Master, Mayor Richard Wilkins, Adam, Caleb, D’Hoffryn, The First Evil, and an eight foot tall penguin because why not?
• And vampires. So, so many vampires.
• Prevented the First Evil’s plan of world ruination
• Lived the longest of any Slayer ever, to the point of being a living legend to all evil monstrosities
• Became a leading figure once the Slayer role spread around the world to several awakened teenagers
• Protected her little sister Dawn for years and helped give her a better life
• Able to befriend Angel and Spike (who are vampires) and turn them to the side of good…and have romantic ‘intimate’ relationships with them
• Somehow able to survive dealing with [REDACTED], no we are NOT name dropping him
• Despite dying a lot, always seems to come back to save the day
• Has one of the most influential TV shows of all time (it literally spawned TV Tropes)

Power

• Punched Spike really hard as seen above (he kinda deserved it at the time, long story)
• Has tossed Dracula across a table
• Able to lift a troll’s hammer with ease, something Spike has trouble with
• Brought down Big Jack, a 287 lb vampire
• Tossed Spike away a great distance with just one arm
• Can break chains
• Broke open a door with a kick
• Could maybe drag her entire school if she felt like it?
• Broke a vampire’s neck with a kick
• Buffy fights off Spike after the Gem of Amarra removed his vampire weaknesses.
• Could break every bone in [REDACTED]’s body and take out a pro football team in 10 seconds.
• Slayer strength is stated to be well beyond even peak human strength.
• Bends a bar of rebar with ease.
• Shatters a large ice block “into a million shards” by kicking it.
• Snapped a magic sword in half by pulling a Bane.
• Punched Merrick so hard he went flying several feet and got a nose bleed .
• Kicked two different coyotes 20 feet away.
• Struggled but moved a chain that Willow and Tara couldn’t move, that moves an entire room like a lift after their magic is inhibited.
• Smashed the teeth of a dragon the size of the Sun Cinema by kicking his jaw closed, and held onto him after he tried to shake her off of his head, only slipping due to sweat and blood.
• Once punched Camazotz, the giant bat monster thing, with enough force to send it higher into the air. (4.5 Tons for Lifting Strength)
• Defeated Ravana by keeping a blade in them after stabbing him as he struggled to push it out in an effort to survive. Ravana can tear down mountains with his bare hands. (751 Kilotons of TNT)
• Fought an alternate reality version of Giles in his Ripper years.
• Gargoyles weigh half a ton and they could easily restrain Buffy… before she kicked and smashed a part of their face. Though, she calls them unkillable later. With Hope’s Dagger, however, she cuts through the gargoyles like butter and destroys them.
• Buffy decapitated D’Offryn with the Scythe.
• Other Slayers like Renee have been killed by the Scythe.
• The Scythe was created to kill the Old Ones. (More in Before The Verdict)

Speed

• Has been described by the narration as “agile, graceful, tougher than anyone would ever guess by looking at her, and fast. Very fast”.
• Stated that not a human alive could best Buffy in a speed skirmish.
• The Slayer state is described as Buffy’s muscles being in tune with every nuance and sound.
• Caught a knife thrown at her by Merrick “at lightning speed” inches before it reached her face in less time than it took to blink.
• Kept up with a school bus.
• Identified and outran a rocket launcher in a split second.
• Stated to have the speed of an Olympic Athlete.
• Ran faster than the strongest Olympic athlete.
• Dodged a falling bookshelf.
• Moves almost faster than [REDACTED]’s eyes can track.
• Once traveled a short distance to react to a rat demon a short distance behind her friends.
• Once jumped from a rooftop to a dragon to stab it in the face.
• Blocks most stingers from a spiked tail guy.
• Outruns Adam’s gatling gun fire
• Buffy caught a crossbow bolt right before it hit Cassie’s forehead.
• Dodges a red bolt of energy from Alternate Universe Giles currently in his Ripper years.
• Makes a “lightning-fast” sweep with her arm.
• Spike’s amulet produces a massive flash and ray of sunlight to annihilate the Ubervampire army, and Buffy manages to dive out of the way of it after it does this in an “instant”. (Speed of Light)

Durability

• Survived getting tossed through a glass case as seen above.
• Stated to have the highest pain threshold of any human on the planet 
• Survives a blow that would break the bones of a normal person.
• Tanks hits from the vampire Helen, said hits would give a normal human a broken neck.
• Survived being thrown through a brick wall.
• Fell from the roof of a building to the floor with shattering glass.
• Fights zombie gorillas and panthers and takes hits from them.
• Got stabbed through the stomach by a sword, a mortal wound, but she powered through to continue fighting.
• Continued fighting and dealing blows with an injured arm a vampire failed to intentionally break.
• Ended up getting struck by red lightning from Willow after The First briefly inhabits her.
• Survived lightning from the Gatherer.
• An alternate future timeline version of her survived a lot of punishment here, like, ow
• The fae army battle Buffy actively fought in lasted for “hours and hours”.
• Survived the Deeper Well’s explosion. (149.98 Tons of TNT)

Scaling

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Blade

Street Level Heroes

From going dead even with Wolverine to being confident that Punisher would need his help with even basic vampires, and that he himself could blitz him if he wanted to. It’s fairly clear that Blade is comparable to, if not superior to your typical Comic Street tier level Heroes, which does lend him scaling to a variety of feats, including but not limited to

• Moon Knight deflected a light beam from the Master of Illumination. (44.2% Lightspeed)
• Punisher has survived a blast from Shocker, and Shockers minimum can create mile long earthquakes. (924 tons of TNT)
• Deadpool once got hit by Magik REALLY hard it caused a big explosion. (182.1 – 849.6 tons of TNT)
• Wolverine easily defeated vampires.
• Wolverine has injured Domina, who can ‘literally move mountains’. (1.615 Kilotons of TNT)
• Wolverine has reacted to and deflected Cyclops’ optic blasts, which are lightspeed. (1.49 times faster than light)

Spider-Man

We can never escape him-wait what do you mean it’s clear cut this time? Alright, let’s make this quick and easy, Blade has varying showings against the various Spider-Mans out there, let’s quickly tackle the positive and negative showings.

Positive-wise there’s a fair few to look through, Blades fought a vampirized Peter Parker twice who was out of his mind and actively noted he was losing his inhibitions the second time, the first time Blade won the fight, and the second his punches were actively helped Peter focus through the pain to get his inhibitions back. Which is consistent with Blade being able to battle demons that were actively giving Ben Riley a hard time fighting a single one and battling Morbius three separate times and being portrayed as roughly even

He does have a few negative showings though, such as Spider-Woman easily beating him in a 2v1 fight where she was outnumbered, even if it was a bar fight bet, and an instance of him being folded fairly quickly by Peter Parker, but for the most part those are his only negative showings against characters on the level of “Spidey-Tier” You can tell that Blade has a lot more positive showings against Spiders then negative, which does make us comfortable enough to at least Downscale Blade from the feats Spider-Man is capable of.

• Spider-Man (Miles Morales)
  • Blows up this large mech 
  • Dodges laser fire
  • Survives being pounded into the ground by Rhino
  • Miles tanks being caught in an explosion
  • Insomniac’s version of the character once absorbed the energy of a Nuform reaction that would have ‘vaporized’ Harlem (15.03 – 39.52 – 55.58 Megatons of TNT)
    • It should be noted while Miles did survive the explosion, it was still nearly fatal to him. Readers should come to their own conclusions.
• Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
  • Peter survived hits from a Mayan god known as Wayeb, who can make a massive blizzard that covered all of Manhattan. (102 – 650 Kilotons of TNT)
• Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)
  • Spider-Woman yanks down a full helicopter with a boat’s anchor and detonates it with her electric powers.

Dracula (Debatable)

Prior to the 2023 Blade run, we would’ve immediately written this off as something not possible. For most of Blade’s history, Dracula, and other vampires, have easily beaten Blade in every physical encounter. The few times Blade has won or killed him was primarily due to his weapons that exploit vampire weaknesses, not through any strength or power boost (Blade even believes Dracula let him win on those occasions). But as of recently, Blade drank a goblet of Dracula’s blood, giving him an awakening of his vampiric side that lets him perform some of the powers Dracula himself has, with Blade being able to turn into mist to evade Dracula, something he has never previously done before on his own. Which lends a discussion on if he could compare to Dracula’s own physical feats

• Dracula blitzes Deadpool and dismembers him by hand.
• Can easily rip vampires in half and considers hordes of vampires to be cannon fodder
• Elsa Bloodstone could only fight Dracula evenly with the Bloodstone’s amplifications.
• Dracula gets absolutely outclassed by Hulk and cowers in fear of him.
• Dracula knocks vampire Jubilee out with a single slap.
• Dracula’s daughter is stronger than regular vampires and she claims to be on par with Dracula himself to his face.
• Dracula has vampiric and supernatural strength and agility, which outclasses other regular vampires.
• Easily deals a fatal blow to Black Knight in one hit.
• Dracula doesn’t believe his fangs can pierce Hulk’s skin.
• Dracula is unharmed by Daredevil’s attacks, easily reacting to his many kicks and throwing him aside, stating Matt is only alive because he permits it
• Even as a human (long story), is noted to run as fast as a panther
• Decks Nightcrawler in the face, who later claims that he and Wolverine can’t match his raw power
• Survived a blood pool of immortality exploding, which he notes would’ve been more than enough to kill one hundred thousand humans
• Blade stakes Dracula with his hidden boot stake.
• Doctor Strange and Blade fought Dracula together.
• According to Dracula, he and Blade fought “countless times” over the decades.
• In the past, Dracula was too fast and powerful for Blade and blitzed him.

Buffy

The Scooby Gang
& Other Allies

“The Scooby Gang”, as referred to by [REDACTED] consists of Buffy and her main group of friends as they’ve tackled the forces of darkness. There’s always been a key roster, with miscellaneous allies shifting in and out of the group at different points. But the consistent fact is that Buffy is typically considered the muscle of the group, handling the toughest fights before most of the group can get involved. This is further supported by Buffy being stated to hold back so as to avoid friendly fire scenarios and that she’s among the four toughest fighters Earth has to offer.

• Giles and Robin fought off some Turok-han.
• [REDACTED] reacted to and blocked a snapped whip.
• Willow moved thousands of pounds of rubble with her magic.
• Willow survives a small explosion caused by her ritual.
• Willow and Tara’s spells bar a door to the point that only a “bulldozer” could break it down.
• Willow and Tara fight Ethan Rayne while firing and reacting to magical lightning bolts, heavily implied to be conductive like the real thing.
• Willow and the rest of the gang react to a cloud-to-ground lightning bolt before it strikes.
• Faith, Kennedy, and co found a bomb that went off and destroyed a lot of concrete, which some of them survive.
• Faith throws a kick so fast it almost seems invisible.
• Faith outran flooding water that rushed down a mineshaft.
• Faith dodged Nash’s laser eyes point-blank. (0.86 – 4.89 C)
• Kennedy was stated to, uh, “move lightning fast”.
• Rojelia Flores telekinetically halted a bullet after it was fired just before it could hit someone’s face.
• Caridad was a Potential Slayer that survived an armory exploding.
• Various characters dodge a flare gun shot that Buffy fires that ricochets around a hallway.

Notable Vampires
& Demons

Across the series, Buffy has killed a ginormous catalog of vampires and demons, which well it is in the title of the series after all. She has also managed to rough up and surpass top level vampires in the form of the soulful Spike and Angel, with Buffy being stated to be just as strong as the latter even earlier in her career. There’s other statements hyping up their capabilities as well, like Buffy calling Spike the “strongest warrior she has”. Additionally, Camazotz (a different one from the one she can summon) is stated to be above all demons, and Buffy is able to injure him and outspeeds him; while Camazotz was stated to be weakened earlier, he had since gone through not one but two amps by the time Buffy fights him. Considering this and her Slayer status, it is safe to say she’s more than comparable to both the allies and enemies that make up the monsters of the world.

• Angel
  • Angel kicked a guy’s head so hard that it exploded.
  • Can pry open elevator doors with his bare hands.
  • Angel threw a battle axe at a helicopter 30 feet away.
  • Jumped up to running sixty miles per hour in an instant when heading towards a vampire.
  • Dashed at a speed he considered would still be faster than some demons even if they were faster than normal humans.
  • Angel ran and caught up to a truck, but not one going at top speed.
  • Avoided a shot from a flare gun after it was fired.
  • Angel’s vampire speed allows him to outrun basically any human, but not the top speed of a cheetah or even a thoroughbred racehorse.
  • Sidestepped a point blank shot from a pistol after it had been fired.
  • Angel injured a Tremblor with enough force to send it flying. This is important as they are Quake demons that can cause widespread earthquakes comparable to the Great Japan Earthquake of 1923. Mentions of tectonic plate movement. They are charged with earthquake energy and can use their earthquake powers normally without a ritual. That being said, it did require 200 of them to do the earthquake, so the feat will be divided as such. (1.043 – 2.94 Gigatons of TNT per Tremblor) 
  • His show did this to one of our volunteers (Boundless)
• Spike
  • Broke through a wall with his hand and yanked Andrew through it.
  • Spike tore doors apart.
  • Spike and Drusilla survived large furniture falling on them.
  • Dealt an impact that could bend steel and withstood a mystical gem’s magic lightning coursing through him.
  • Survived getting struck with a nearby force of an explosive round.
  • Avoided getting shot by purple alien ray gun beams that have an odd non-laser property to freeze someone’s kinetic energy depending on the target’s mass and size.
  • Spike fell down an elevator shaft and walked it off.
• Miscellaneous Vampires & Demons
  • A vampire broke a wall behind Buffy.
  • A Goliath vampire Spike fought took “a few hundred volts” from a cattle prod Spike found.
  • One vampire Buffy fought managed to cross 30 feet in an instant.
  • Lothos ran so fast he was going to catch up with the motorcycle Buffy was on if Merrick didn’t shoot him.
  • Kakistos ran faster than humans can conceivably reach on foot.
  • MacKenna and Angel’s fight goes evenly until MacKenna is KO’d by a big rig going 40 mph.
  • A vampire lord called Chirayoju flew halfway across the sea from China to Japan overnight.
  • Tara’s vampire doppelgänger moved at superhuman speeds.
  • The demon Solitaire “moved his hands with lightning speed” to redirect a biker’s arm while he was in the process of firing his gun.
  • While the Hellmouth is a permanent weakness between dimensions, a “dimensional bleed-through” of other alternate universes can only be caused by absurdly strong witch spells, powerful vengeance demons like Anya when she had wish powers, or other powerful entities, not by characters like Ethan Rayne normally. (See Before the Verdict)

Miscellaneous

Of course there are more threats to the world than just your typical vamps and demons. Many of which Buffy is more than a match for in one way or another (more on said “another” later). Thus it is important to mention other miscellaneous feats performed throughout the Buffy canon.

• The dragon Flamestryke had its flames directly compared to nuclear capacity in the megatons. These flames were powered by an artifact aptly known as the Flame, which Buffy destroyed with a sword.
• Shugra, a powerful witch searching for eternal life with a companion, could destroy cities in ways too numerous with her black arts
• Thak, the true fae name of Jack the Ripper (yes, really), withstood being struck by lightning.
  • Jack fought Angel, Spike, and Drusila, the latter two of which Darla says he outclasses.
  • Milak, Thak’s brood brother, turns into a girl named Maeve with “lightning-fast reflexes”.
• Caleb, a man being amplified by The First using him as his vessel, knocked Buffy out in one punch and easily defeated most of the main cast, but later Buffy killed him with the Scytheeven after he amplified himself by merging with The First.
  • The First says that Buffy acquiring the Scythe made her more powerful than Caleb.
  • Merged Caleb deals “lightning-bolt blows” on Buffy that she blocks, and she then maneuvers in a “blurry fast” fashion to mortally wound Caleb with the Scythe.
  • Merged Caleb blocks The Scythe with his arm, but Buffy then fatally slices him in half.
• The Old Ones were pure demons who walked the Earth before humans took it from them. The greater ones were interred, for death was not always their end, and the Old Ones came with the Seed of Wonder and shared the earth with higher beings known as the Powers That Be.
  • Some noteworthy Old Ones include Lohesh, Boluz, Vrill, Neauth, Illyria, Arsgomor, Sephrilian, Quor’toth, and Maloker.
  • Even a fraction of Illyria’s power is too much for a regular demon to bear
  • Severin was going to use Illyria’s power to cause a temporal fold to reverse a major event in time which would tear apart the fabric of the universe
  • Illyria caused a huge explosion in the city 
  • Illyria’s old one form caused a mountain to explode like a volcano 
  • Jasmine is a “Power That Was” that was forged in the inferno of creation at the beginning of time who brought world peace by taking everyone’s free will
  • The Powers That Be were immensely powerful beings that were the first life to exist in Earth’s dimension, and inside every living thing there is a connection to them.
  • Illyria unmade time itself in her Old One form, which then reset. This act would involve multiple “infinities”, which would encompass “existence”. (See Before the Verdict)
• The Gatherer is a terrifying deity that predates humanity, feeding on the souls of Slayers in order to gain more power and consume all that is.
  • Caused Hellmouth reaching ground zero filled the air with energy, turned living things into statues, caused more death in 24 hours than 24 years, made the wind blow like a hurricane, and fires rage everywhere.
  • If the Gatherer defeats Buffy and Faith, then no more Slayers can ever exist, and he will destroy the entire planet without opposition.
  • Shook the Earth with renewed force, causing the oceans to burn light to spread across the night sky, and giant fissures to erupt in the Earth.
  • Boasted to have destroyed entire worlds and absorbed thousands of souls.
  • Threatens to absorb the world, then swallow the universe and all dimensions within and without in.
• The First Evil is the incorporeal originator and concept of evilthat existed before the universe was born, meaning he’s made of all the evil that exists.
  • The First Evil shook Buffy and Dawn’s house after appearing to them.
  • Willow is stated outright to not be powerful enough to contend with the First.
  • If it gets past Sunnydale, Buffy thinks it’ll be days or hours until it has corrupted the world.
  • The First has a pocket dimension that’s a mirror of Sunnydale where it controls everything, which unravels upon its defeat through Buffy’s use of Hope’s Dagger.
  • Physical blows can’t harm the First Evil’s true darkness form, but Hope’s Dagger does.
  • Magic is amplified in strength beyond Willow’s control in the First’s pocket dimension.
  • Hope’s Dagger, its natural counter, detonates and disperses the First’s essence across all realities and dimensions, but doesn’t kill it outright as it’s an “integral part of the universe”.
  • It’s younger than the Seed of Wonder and the incorporeal manifestation of evil as a concept.
  • The First is a primordial concept of evil, predating the sun and even when the Lord said, “Let there be light”. It is the cause of a major dimensional bleed through the Hellmouth, and it’s a power that transcends spacetime, reality, and taps into all possible realities and times. (See Before the Verdict)

Weaknesses

Blade

Despite being the aurafarming master that he is, Blade obviously isn’t invincible. Specifically, even dhampirs begin to die from enough fatal exposure to a red sun, which is fatal to his vampire DNA to the point that Robbie Reyes had to try and drive out of the entire solar system to get him away from it. Additionally, even with his own potent mental defenses, Blade’s mind can be overtaxed by powerful entities like Chthon, whose book ends up causing Blade to fall into madness, or the sorcerer Kulan Gath, who was siphoning power from Shuma Gorath to “mystically taint” people with evil influence and rot that Doctor Strange had to cleanse people of with a spell.

When Dracula was undergoing a metamorphosis to become a powerful vampire god (long story), Blade was vulnerable to Drac’s vampire-specific telepathy and body puppetry thanks to their vampiric connection. He’s even fallen prey to his own feral rage after enduring enough pain, though he managed to snap out of it thanks to his daughter. Additionally, Ophidian’s spores and Vridians were able to make Strikeforce, including Blade, witness Svartelheim’s secrets through enforced memory viewing. And, while Blade can certainly fight through crowds of vampires, enormous armies of them or larger groups will overwhelm him with their numbers advantage. While Blade’s shapeshifting mist is certainly powerful too, strong enough winds from a blizzard or Super Breath have countered it when used by other vampires in the past.

Buffy

As capable of a Slayer as Buffy is, she is by no means invincible. She’s been helped significantly by having a gang supporting her over the years after all. She has lost fights before to more skilled and/or intelligent opponents, and this is especially an issue considering her healing factor is not so impactful to where it can undo more significant wounds mid-fight or falls from absurdly dangerous heights. Plus against substances resistant to conventional damage, she typically has to resort to different tactics or weapons. Despite an impressive resistance catalogue, she also is not resistant to everything she’s encountered. She’s been affected by reality warping, strong magic effects, especially strong mental and emotional powers (key word especially since she’s shown resistance to mental effects on different occasions), sound manipulation, biological effects, body-swapping, and power nullifying.

Before The Verdicts

Blade

Is Boy-Thing Standard Support?

Now, one of the bigger questions to address is whether Blade would typically have Boy-Thing trailing along with him into his fight. Is he outside help? Would he even be something Blade brings along with him nowadays? Well, we can start examining this question by looking into every single Boy-Thing appearance and his level of involvement in each of the missions with Blade where he was most prominent. Including appearances, cameos, and guidebook mentions, Boy-Thing has about 20 appearances overall in mainline Marvel comics.

Okay, so Boy-Thing himself debuted in Avengers Volume 8 Issue #12 where he was stuck on the Shadow Colonel’s shoulders, who ended up being revealed as one of the sons of Dracula: Xarus. Throughout Issues #14, #15, and #16 following his first appearance in the same comic run, we learn that Boy-Thing is a trimming from Man-Thing and provides Xarus with stakes, but it’s not until Issue #17 that we see Blade fight Xarus and meet the little guy. What does he do with him in this issue? Well, he takes Boy-Thing and he smacks Xarus with him, but it’s from this point onwards that Boy-Thing sticks around with Blade. His next appearance is in Issue #21 where he brings Boy-Thing with him on an offscreen mission, where he forms wings to help Blade fly his motorcycle.

He has a quick cameo in Issue #22 before we see Boy-Thing pull some weight at Avengers Mountain in Issue #23, where Blade tells him to run once Cosmic Ghost Rider has possessed the dead Celestial the Avengers are using as a headquarters. He independently extends his body to restrain the corpse and burn the Cosmic Ghost Rider within, but he later gets easily burned away in Issue #24 by him once he’s walking around. Boy-Thing makes another cameo in Issue #27 before having a big presence in Issues #28 – #30 where Blade is left suffering from near-fatal red sun poisoning. Our little guy drives Robbie’s car before coming up with the idea to form the Boy-Thing armor around Blade himself to help shield him from the red sunlight and stab Silver Surfer and Gladiator once with fear burns via formed weapons.

After this mission, Boy-Thing does a whole lot of nothing beyond babysitting the newborn Starbrand throughout Ant-Man Volume 2 Issue #3 and Avengers Volume 8 Issues #32, #42, and #45 where Blade bids a cold farewell to Boy-Thing, leaving him behind in Avengers Mountain to pursue his next story arc. Aside from small cameos at Avengers Mountain in Issue #55 and appearing on Man-Thing’s shoulder in Avengers Assemble Omega, he’s only mentioned by name in passing in Empyre Handbook once. Alright, let’s count these up then. Boy-Thing was either with Blade or actively assisted him in the Shadow Colonel fight, where he barely did anything, the offscreen mission on his motorcycle, the Cosmic Ghost Rider assault on Avengers Mountain, and the Starbrand mission during the whole red sun and Silver Surfer debacle. This means that Boy-Thing was Blade’s partner for 4 total missions over a span of 7 issues before bidding him farewell and not popping up in Blade comics or appearances significantly since then.

Unlike a good majority of Blade’s arsenal that he’s used admittedly sparsely, Blade’s actually said goodbye to Boy-Thing and left him behind, leaving him only potentially accessible on a detour to Avengers Mountain. Adding onto the fact that he’s an independent entity in general, then we’re left with someone that’s a bit hard to justify to Blade as explicitly “standard” or “accessible” support without it coming across as what is essentially outside help. But, you may be asking, what if he was actually included? Well, setting aside the fact that Buffy has some extreme heat resistances of her own, be it through enduring searing spells, flames, or boiling superacid vats, Boy-Thing’s fear activation needs to also be able to take effect. While Buffy certainly has had fear forcibly induced in her and uses humor to mask her fear, she’s also no stranger to odd creatures or terrifying monsters on a daily basis. This is especially true with how she could stare down and face The First Evil, an unimaginably terrifying, conceptual evil throughout the series with a brave face or front. Even if she slips up, Camazotz exists as a universe-level stat brick that can contend with Boy-Thing’s planetary strength or even just distract him. Plus, she can portal herself away from him the Dowsing Rod of Yem since Boy-Thing doesn’t demonstrate or even really have access to Nexus travel. In fact, Boy-Thing kind of doesn’t have speed feats, so Buffy could just avoid him outright.

TL;DR: Boy-Thing has been not only left behind canonically, but also was used too sparingly (across 4 missions and 7 issues) and acts too independently of his own accord outright, making him both non-standard and outside help unless Blade makes a detour to Avengers Mountain. Even then, Buffy has methods of enduring his flames, playing keep away with the Dowsing Rod of Vem, keeping him busy with Camazotz, being potentially brave and experienced enough to not set off the fear activation, and outright could outspeed him. So, it’s possible Buffy could get around him even if he’s factored in fully.

Buffy

What’s the deal with
Buffy’s miscellaneous amps?

Throughout Buffy’s long career of slaying, she’s gained various boosts in power and general powerset that aren’t exactly accessible to her in normal combat scenarios. You might be aware of some of the feats Buffy has accomplished through these, but most don’t quite know the full context behind them or how usable they are or not. We’ll be listing off all of those amps here, as well as the reasons why they aren’t being taken into account, for the sake of clarity.

• Twilight’s Empowerment: If you’ve seen Buffy get discussed in power scaling before, chances are that you’ve seen this scan of her and Angel tearing through mountains while having sex. This event, which culminated in the creation of a new universe known as Twilight, was possible through an evolution of Buffy’s Slayer powers forcefully triggered by the consciousness of Twilight in order to reach this outcome. During this period of time when her powers were in an evolved state, Buffy was much more powerful than usual, as well as gaining brand new powers such as the ability to fly. However, this upgrade was far from permanent, as Buffy lost it upon destroying the Seed of Wonder and getting rid of all magic on Earth, never reaching this level of evolution ever again.
• Willow’s Magic: In some of the comics and games, Buffy is capable of channeling the magic of her best friend Willow through her body, making up for her significant lack of magical skill and allowing her to utilize various magical spells by serving as Willow’s conduit. This, however, comes at the cost of actively requiring Willow’s participation and casting of the spells, which is hard to justify as anything other than outside assistance that Buffy wouldn’t have in a one-on-one fight. 
• The Enjoining Spell: During the climax of Season 4, the Scooby gang was struggling to come up with a way to defeat the bio-mechanical demon Adam, due to his overwhelming power outmatching even Buffy. While coming up with strategies, Giles noted that a paralyzing spell would be useful in giving them an opening to remove the core powering Adam, but it required close proximity to the target, which only Buffy could reasonably do without dying, speaking the Sumerian language, which only Giles spoke, and an experienced witch like Willow to perform the incantation. In order to accomplish this impossible combo, they utilized the Enjoining Spell. The enjoining spell spiritually merged Buffy and [REDACTED], Willow, and Giles into one being, not only augmenting Buffy’s strength to the point where she could easily punch through Adam’s body, but also allowing her to utilize magic, creating barriers to block Adam’s attacks, transmute other bullets into birds and force Adam to retract his gun arm. However, this spell requires a ritual performed by Giles, Willow and [REDACTED], so it is impossible for Buffy to achieve these powers in a one-on-one without their assistance.
• Slayer Reversal Spell: After the power of the Slayer was distributed around the world, creating over a thousand Slayers that existed simultaneously, Buffy could utilize a spell that funneled it all back to her, multiplying her power several times over and supercharging all of her abilities to the extreme, to the point where her regeneration became nearly instantaneous. Unfortunately, she did not keep this increase in power permanently, and while she could perform the spell again, that would require Willow’s assistance. Noticing a pattern here.
• Power of the Sun: Lastly, we have an amp that Buffy only ever acquired in an alternate future, where she remained as the only Slayer up until she was 50 years old. Because she held the position of Slayer for so long, and a lack of using them against the forces of evil due to a peace treaty being made, Buffy’s powers became to stockpile until she became a conduit for the Sun itself, unleashing light and incinerating vampires with a mere touch. However, not only does this power require Buffy to be much older to achieve, once it runs out, it permanently removes all of her Slayer powers once it runs out, rendering her a normal human again. So it’s not something that she could (or even would) rely on in battle.

Buffyverse Cosmology

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“Wait, what? Buffy the Vampire Slayer has a cosmology section?!” Yes, dear blog reader, it sure does. So, the reason we’re delving into all of this is actually fairly simple. The Scythe, one of Buffy’s signature and most well known weapons, was specifically created to kill the Old Ones, the mightiest in all of demonkind. One of these purest of demons is known as Illyria, who would go about unmaking time, collapsing all of existence while doing so in her Old One form. Thankfully for everyone, time was reset, but now we have a simple way to scale the Scythe itself to “existence”. Now, would this just entail the main universe? Well, the process of unmaking time was described in the same breath as multiple “infinities”, so we know it’s far more than one universe that was being threatened. With that in mind, it’s time for a crash course on Buffy lore as we dive into the Buffyverse!

Predating all of existence and all entities sat the Seed of Wonder, the originator of this reality and all the magic in Earth’s realm, something the world cannot live without. At the beginning of time after the Seed of Wonder came the first biblical ray of light to shine on Earth, the purest light in creation, alongside the First Evil, a slightly older, integral part of the universe and its natural opposite and enemy. At around this time, powerful beings known as the Old Ones and the Powers That Be came into being with the Seed of Wonder, forged in the inferno of creation at the beginning of time. The Powers That Be, specifically, were the first life to exist in Earth’s dimension, and every single living being has a connection to them.

Earth’s universe is vast, not just encompassing our cosmos, but various heaven and hell planes as well. Hell dimensions specifically are considered “lower planes”, and some of them even have different flows of time. Running through the planet itself exists a Deeper Well, a dimension of thousands of sarcophagi for the Old Ones. The cosmos itself also happens to operate on or reference various different principles including but not limited to: supersymmetry, p-dimensional subspace, entropy as a way to channel chaos and disorder, and physics articles on quantum particles. However, the Buffyverse grows even beyond this.

The multiverse of Buffy has an absurd amount of statements confirming that it contains infinite universes. The Hellmouth at Sunnydale itself is a thin veil between dimensions that can have major dimensional bleed from powerful entities that causes an “overlap” with other alternate universes. Additionally, time may sometimes move differently in other dimensions, there exists a Deeper Well in every dimension, and there are also various “transcendentally oscillating portal realms”. There’s other types of dimensions known as “alternities” as well, which are differentiated from different dimensions in a similar way to alternate timelines that can be visited without issue if a character has experienced a “reality shift” via entropy currents, losing and gaining a soul, or body swapping.

But, wait! There’s more! It seems the writers were perfectly aware of how intricate they were making this multiverse. They’ve made reference to an “infinite extradimensional space” that exists as a pocket universe back when Illyria needed to hide her excess power somewhere without killing her. This isn’t the important statement, however, as episodes of Angel have mentions of “Fractal Geometry in 12-Dimensional Space” and they’ve talked about “multi-dimensional superstring theory”, both in reference to higher spatial dimensions. Another Angel episode even has Cordelia becoming a higher being after “outgrowing” this dimension, ascending and “moving on to a new level”, a higher plane that potentially exists in a higher dimensional space. Existing beyond all of this, there is the First Evil, who is a power that “transcends spacetime, reality, and taps into all possible realities and times”, whose essence could not be killed by Hope’s Dagger, instead dispersed across all realities and dimensions.

Now, we cannot exactly scale the Scythe to the First Evil given he transcends existence and hasn’t been harmed by it, only by its own natural opposite. But, what we do know is that Illyria is outright affecting “infinities”, in reference to the multiverse, alongside collapsing “existence”. This would include, to speak “plainly”, an infinite multiverse with 12 higher spatial dimensions at an Old One’s fingertips. Since the Scythe was made to kill Old Ones, this provides a rough power level for the weapon itself.

Verdicts

Blade

Stats

Both Buffy and Blade have a fair bit in terms of stats to cover, so let’s jump right into it.

Starting with Blade’s power, he can certainly scale to a wide variety of Marvel’s street tiers. Thanks to his ability to keep up with the best, he’s shown that he’d easily scale above the likes of Wolverine, who was able to contend with Domina, who could move mountains, getting 1.5 kilotons of TNT! But, that’s not all. Thanks to his experience with Morbius, Peter, and Miles, he should easily scale to their feats, such as Peter contending with Wayeb and his ability to make storms, getting upwards of 650 kilotons of TNT, or Miles being able to absorb an explosion that could vaporise Harlem, getting 15 megatons of TNT. In addition, said explosion was caused by a reactor that could power Harlem for 500 years, which lands results of 39 megatons of TNT, locking down Blade in the CIty range. Admittedly, he’d certainly downscale this feat, even with the amp to power he got after drinking Dracula’s blood, but he’d still get some level of scaling to it.

Next, Buffy’s own power. Via her direct feats, she was able to tank 150 tons of TNT from a blast, and she’s been able to keep up with characters who could destroy mountains, getting 750 kilotons of TNT! In addition to that, she could even defeat Flamestryke, who’s power was compared to nuclear weapons and was said to be in the megatons range. However, obviously, none of these compare to powering Harlem for 500 years. However, none of this comes close to the greatest feat of strength the Vampire Slayer has under her belt – the Tremblors. They were able to cause the 1923 Great Japan Earthquake, which involved them moving the tectonic plates. 200 of them were involved in this ritual, so dividing the result of such a feat by 200 gets anywhere from 1 to 2 gigatons of TNT, far above even the Harlem feat in power. As a result, Buffy should pretty easily take the edge in raw power. 

Let’s talk about speed next. Both Buffy and Blade have dodged lasers or beams of sunlight in the past, and they can scale to other characters who can do the same – Buffy to Faith, who’s laser dodge got 0.89c, and Blade to Wolverine, who’s dodge got 1.5c. Of course, Buffy’s own sunlight dodge gets around lightspeed, and both upscale these feats to a pretty massive degree, meaning that it wouldn’t really matter that much whose feat was quantifiably faster, especially with such a small difference to begin with, meaning that speed should be relative. You might be asking about the higher end for Faith’s laser dodge, but the truth is that end relies on saying that the sword was a 180 degree slice before the laser travelled, which is not provable and is incredibly shaky to argue. As a result, speed should be a tie between the two.

Finally, there’s a couple of other factors in this matchup in terms of stats. In terms of lifting strength, Buffy should have a solid edge – while Blade can lift a ton, Buffy can lift 4.5 tons, a solid edge in her territory. In addition, in terms of travel speed, while Blade’s no slouch, Buffy being able to catch up to moving cars is faster than he normally is. Of course, his speed as mist and the dashes he can perform as such can keep up, making this more relative than it seems.

Overall, Buffy has an overall edge in stats outside of combat/reaction speed, and travel speed outside of Blade’s mist form. But we hold that this isn’t enough to change our view on who wins this battle. Why? Well…

Arsenal & Abilities

Considering the sheer depths of these two Vampire Slayers arsenals over the decades they’ve been hunting, there’s a lot to go through for their arsenals and their abilities, so let’s try to break it down.

Starting with sheer quantity, it’s not hard to imagine to see that Blade simply has well, a lot more at his disposal compared to vice versa, as for basic options Blade basically has every practical weapon that Buffy has, but then also several more options to boot, and Blades more esoteric weapons outnumber Buffy as well, not even speaking to their specific uses, but quantity doesn’t decide a winner, so let’s focus on the specifics of how these two clash.

Now, for starters, it is worth admitting Buffy would be able to resist or negate a fair amount of Blades abilities and arsenal, turning Buffy into a vampire wouldn’t work due to her natural resistances, she’s expelled mist entities entering her body before, and attempting to drain her energy(even ignoring that Blade doesn’t have that) wouldn’t work on her, all being notably win conditions for Blade being tossed down the drain. There is room to talk about the Breathing Gun, as contradictory statements between main canons, secondary material and guidebooks on both side puts it into question on if the Breathing Gun would work or not, but it is more agreed then not that the Breathing Gun would likely jam if fired upon Buffy, so it’s not a reliable win condition despite having the power to hurt the likes of Cosmic Ghost Rider.

For the main sticking point though, since we brought up weaponry power, let’s talk about the raw power of both’s arsenal, as while we’ve established both’s physical power, their weapons are capable of fighting foes far, far above their own physical weight class with a fair few weapons on both ends.

While Blade’s normal arsenal is far weaker than Buffy’s own, Blade has several weapons that are far, far stronger than anything Buffy’s capable of withstanding, the Adamantium Odachi, Adamantium Stakes from the Stake Launcher and the Hellfire Shotgun. Blade has quite a few tools that are far, far stronger than Buffy or the vast majority arsenal. Even something as dangerous as the Gorgon Venom, which Blade doesn’t resist, isn’t as easily used since it would require having weapons dipped into it which would leave Buffy open, or require Buffy to throw vials or drops of it at Blade… Which admittedly isn’t as effective or reliable as a Hellfire Shotgun. 

The exception though, to Blades arsenal overpowering Buffy’s own though, is the Scythe, Buffy’s strongest tool and capable of tearing through anything Blade has. As scaling to 12th Dimensional AP would be above the Secondary Adamantium weapons like the Odachi or Stake Launcher scaling to Ultron Bodies and The Hulk(both of whom tend to vary), the Hellfire Shotgun only damaging a base Robbie Reyes Hellcharger, and the Old Atlantis Sword being… more of a haxier weapon then a sheer strength based weapon in it nullifying magic. Sorta meaning that Blades arsenal would fall flat against the sheer power of the Scythe if they were to clash… Except for one tool. The Justiciar, a blade forged for Blade specifically that is strong enough to kill the likes of Zarathos even, and considering the sheer cosmology level threat that Zarathos is, the Justiciar is a weapon that far exceeds everything else in Blade’s arsenal by a mile.

So we have the main two tools though, the Scythe and the Justiciar, being by far the strongest weapons on the field, considering the Scythe would scale to the Buffy Cosmology (what a phrase) being higher dimensional, and the Justiciar being capable of killing the likes of Zarathos who can scale significantly high into Marvel’s Cosmology. Both weapons are capable of tearing through everything the other has on the field… Except for the fact that comparing Buffy’s Cosmology to the higher stuff in Marvels where Zarathos would scale, the Justiciar has the capability to slice right through the Scythe, and Buffy herself if they were to ever clash blades. The Justiciar is just that insanely powerful compared to everything on the field.

Of course, this leads into the question of, how does Blade normally approach fights, and what would he use first? We’ve established Blade has a massive arsenal, and the Justiciar is just one weapon, so why would he use it first?

Simply put, it’s sorta how Blade approaches fights when he has a super powerful weapon, even against weaker opponents he tends to bring out some of his strongest stuff if he has it on him. The Breathing Gun, the Adamantium Odachi, the Justiciar, when he had them he used them on everything he fought if it could hurt them, and in a fight like this where Blade’s main goal is to well, simply slay Buffy, there’s not much of a reason for Blade to in-character start with his more basic stuff instead of bringing out the big guns, or well, sword in this case.

Now, obviously considering their dead even speeds there is a fair case to say Buffy would be able to dodge the Justiciar even if it does slash through the Scythe and gives Buffy time to fight back, and similarly you can argue the same for if Blade were to use one of his tools that couldn’t break through the Scythe(which is, admittedly everything else in his arsenal) and Blade would have time to react to dodge before he gets cleaved through as well. It’d be a disservice to this matchup to assume that it’d end in a one stroke duel dependent on what sword Blade feels like using that day, so let’s go deeper into their abilities to figure out what makes the difference.

For starters, both have healing factors and crazy endurance, which considering most of their one-shot tools are blades or bullets, does mean that unless its a lethal shot, even with how much stronger they are compared to Blade and Buffy’s physicals, it is worth talking about what they can withstand, and in both attributes Blade takes the advantage. 

Buffy fought while stabbed through the stomach, sure, but Blades managed to fight off multiple opponents in a row while starving and after his hand was severed, a clear advantage to Blade.

And while Slayer’s healing factors can heal spinal damage, it’s not in a short timeframe, while Blades can repair a torn out throat, and in shorter timeframes can heal a stab to the heart, not only a difference in severity, but also timeframe. Both potency and applicability in healing factors lean Blade. Which gives him more room for error in a fight like this.

Both have enhanced senses that frankly, are better than any human senses, but Blades is more well rounded in what it can detect. Blades showings have him being able to detect people without them being in line of sight, locate things significant distances away like Captain America’s corpse, and he’s capable of detecting magical energies and even differentiate types of magic. Which would help considering something like the Scythe, while not solely powered by magic, DOES have mystical energy coming off it, so it’d let Blade know how much of a threat it is vaguely off the bat, alongside letting Blade be able to detect Buffy and Camazotz wherever they are. 

Buffy’s, meanwhile are stated to increase her senses a hundredfold and detect when and where an enemy would come from exactly, which is still impressive and negates any sense of stealth for Blade to be fair. It’s just that while both are capable of tracking the other down no matter what, Blade’s senses are at a notable advantage of being able to detect specific magics that would let him understand Buffy’s arsenal better than vice versa.

Now since he was mentioned earlier, Camazotz is something that needs addressing, he’s a four ton bat whose far stronger then Blade and then some, and he’s that strong with every attack he lands and is, fairly large honestly so it’s a fair concern if Blade being forced into a two versus one where both opponents can kill him in a single hit would put him at a notable disadvantage… Albeit the issue is Camazotz is a simple fighter, the literal definition of a flying brick, and considering Blades mobility and lethal arsenal, including the fact that Camazotz is not something the Breathing Gun would refuse to fire upon, and the Slayer of Vampires, despite his massive power, would be more of a mild inconvenience for Blade in this fight all things considered.

Of course, even despite Blades insanely potent arsenal, it is worth placing doubt on that when Buffy is a hundred times stronger than the Daywalker with the highest end for the Harlem Feat, and it’s a question on if Blades able to avoid being one shot, which is where Mobility comes into play.

You see, Blade’s ability to turn into Mist is an insanely useful tool, and how he uses it actively does benefit him in a fight. He’s used it to dodge attacks by instinctually turning into mist, separate himself into a hoard of bats and get distance, phase parts of himself through attacks, travel far distances, a clone of Blade even used it to get out of impalement. All of which absolutely benefit Blade and how he’s used it against Buffy, since his ability to instinctually turn parts of himself into Mist would allow him to dodge lethal blows from Buffy, and his usage of it to get distance would allow him to wear Buffy down with his ranged lethal options like the Hellfire Shotgun or Stake Launcher. And the main thing is that Buffy has no showings of being able to hit someone when they’re in a mist-like state, meaning that by all means, WHEN Blade is in his mist-form (note: he wouldn’t camp in it, do not take that as Team Blade’s argument), Buffy can’t really do anything to him. 

This advantage in mobility is even boosted by the abilities Blade would get from the game, with abilities like Blood Dance and Vampire Senses V2 allowing Blade to amplify his speed and give Buffy a 70% chance to miss her attack, while Vampiric Curse V2 would outright debuff Buffy’s evasion abilities furthering the point that Blade’s mobility heavily outclasses Buffy’s own. Even with things like the Dowsing Rod, it’s a disruptable item that Buffy has to actively pull out to use, compared to Blade being able to instinctually use the Mist form at a whim.

And what this allows Blade to abuse is his better ranged options, we already went over the limited options Buffy has to take down Blade in one shot from a range, but what about vice versa? Well, considering the raw power of the Hellfire Shotgun and the Adamantium Stakes from the Stake Launcher, it’d allow Blade to pelt Buffy with attacks that if they get a single good shot on her, would kill her in a single hit. The weapons are powerful enough to overpower even defensive options like the Shield of Rei, which has never blocked projectiles as strong as Adamantium or Hellfire. And while the Scythe does have powerful deflective properties and the strength to parry weapons like these, the simple fact is… the Hellfire Shotgun is a Shotgun, and Buffy wouldn’t be able to reliably block the entire spread of a shotgun for a significant period of time. 

So with Blade’s superior mobility, even if he ends up losing a close quarters clash, Blade could easily make distance and prevent Buffy from closing the gap or reliably hitting him with his Mist Form and Game abilities, and inevitably land a killing blow on Buffy with one of his ranged one-shot options.

Overall, Buffy resists a good amount of Blades instant wins and has some dangerous tools of her own, Blade’s far stronger arsenal and potent mobility based abilities lend the Daywalker the advantage in this category.

Tertiary Factors

Moving on to factors such as experience & skill, neither has demonstrations of either that would distinctively tip the edge in either’s favor too much.

Buffy is a master combatant, being proficient in a multitude of fighting styles involving physical capabilities and weaponry as well. She regularly employs these, along with her creativity and unpredictability in battle as well. She is extremely precise with her weaponry, even being able to hit a fly with a push pin, attesting to her status of a formidable fighter. Comparatively, though, Blade is no slouch. Aside from his complete weapons-mastery, he is a ‘seasoned’ fighter – essentially, as good as he is with weapons such as blades, his skill in the martial arts compares. This is corroborated by the Dhampir Daywalker having gone up against a plethora of opponents: he’s taken on hordes of zombies, ghosts, werewolves, and (obviously) vampires; to be more specific on that latter part, Blade has managed to hold his own against the prince of evil, Dracula. Astounding, considering the demon’s résumé; Dracula was the brutal warrior Vlad the Impaler, and an over 500 year-old entity from Hell’s deepest bowels. He has killed thousands of people throughout the centuries, utterly dominated the likes of Black Knight, Spider-Man, & Deadpool – Blade himself has beat down the merc with the mouth decisively, and he has also matched Wolverine – even being described as “the best possible person to take him down.” 

From scaling chains and internal fighting throughout the world of street-level Marvel, we can roughly say that Blade should be able to match levels of fighting skill equivalent to characters that are masters of every single form of armed and unarmed combat in the world, individuals that adapt instinctively to every possible situation & fighting style, and those that can adapt to equally skilled foes by switching from conventional martial arts styles to more unpredictable & erratic methodologies nigh-instantaneously. So, while Buffy has mastered more forms of fighting and in general is more precise with her weaponry, Blade’s adeption of equivalence against holding his own and matching similarly skilled, if not more skilled combatants in the grand calculus of Marvel’s vast world makes it so that Buffy’s advantage isn’t as significant as it could be. Considering Blade regularly keeps up with and defeats opponents with superior raw martial arts skills than within his possession, it should be more than safe to say that Blade is not at a notable enough disadvantage in this department. Though admittedly he is behind.

Experience-wise, Buffy having access to the memories of all the previous slayers centuries prior certainly benefits her in this debate, although not by a significant margin. Blade has been killing a variety of threats since he was 12 (even Nazi vampires in World War II), including but not limited to ghosts, zombies, aliens, werewolves, and the forces of god-like entities. Let’s also not forget that one of his main villains, Dracula, is quite literally 500 year-old demon Vlad the Impaler. So, while Buffy has more direct experience, it is nothing he hasn’t seen or fought before (at least to a significant extent), making it so that he lacks a notable disadvantage in this department as well.

Something to also note here is Blade’s mist form and how it clashes with Buffy. Buffy’s fight with Dracula’s own mist-like form (from Buffy, not Marvel), while not exactly 1:1 with Blade’s utilization of his own mist form, does provide a general idea as to how Buffy would approach Blade’s mist. In her encounter with Dracula, the latter dissipates into a mist in order to shift the advantage in his favor – but Buffy, being the intuitive fighter that she is, picks up on the vampire’s tactics and tracks his positioning. One could potentially use this instance as an explanation for how Buffy would deal with Blade’s mist form; however, it’s worth noting that Blade’s usage of his mist is much more versatile and varied than Dracula’s. The former can even make it so that his body is part-tangible and part-intangible in his mist form, theoretically allowing him to attack while in a partially intangible state – and that is something Buffy has not dealt with before. Vampires in Marvel in general, are much swifter with their mists and employ it more intelligently mid-combat. They even use it more creatively – they’ve used it to blow opponents up from the inside or even suffocate them. Of course this application wouldn’t work on Buffy, but you get the point being made here. Therefore, it is plausible to assert that Blade’s own masterful skill facilitated by his versatility and mobility via the options provided by his mist form poses an unavoidable issue for the other vampire slayer in the room.

Perhaps this key advantage is what paves the way for this clash of vampire slayers to tilt in Blade’s favor. In other words, Blade’s very approach to fighting ensures his victory. To be more elaborative, the Daywalker is simply more likely to use his higher-level, ‘one-shot’ gear first; if Blade ascertains Buffy’s threat level as too high, he will fight with the intent to permanently exterminate her. And historically, in these situations, Blade has always led with his best options: i.e. the Justiciar, the sword that killed Zarathos; the Adamantium Odachi, a material capable of hurting the higher-tiers of Marvel; the Hellfire Shotgun, a gun that could bust through the Hellcharger and traumatize & infect the souls of individuals on a spiritual level, etc. [See the Arsenal and Abilities section for more].

To summarize, Buffy’s level of skill in combat and weaponry, while astounding, is not superior enough to the fighters Blade has fought to be too insurmountable of an advantage. And while Buffy has access to more direct experience, Blade has still had a century of experience in his own right and has fought foes with centuries even more than that! Blade’s mist form is unpredictable and would be hard to Buffy to counter, combined with his fighting style generally being to start out with some of his overpowered gear, enables Blade’s edge and Buffy’s demise. So while Blade is admittedly behind in Tertiary Factors, and the point goes to Buffy, it is not enough of a gap to where his other advantages can’t save his skin.

Conclusion

“So, how many times do I have to put you in the ground?”

Advantages:

• Relative speed
• Superior mobility, has ways to boost it, and can negate Buffy’s own ability to evade
• His mist form allows him to phase through anything Buffy throws at him
• Larger array of tools and abilities at his disposal with an average higher quality
• Superior survivability
• Regeneration is far more combat applicable
• His stronger tools such as the Hellfire Shotgun or Justiciar can kill Buffy with a single good hit
• Consistently resorts to his best options every single time he has them
• The Breathing Gun would tear Camazotz apart
• More direct experience…
• There’s only ever gonna be one Blade

Disadvantages:

• Physically weaker by a significant margin
• With the exception of the Justiciar, Blade’s weapons are inferior to the Scythe in raw power
• Worse travel speed and lifting strength
• Does not resist the Gorgon Venom
• Less skilled
• …but Buffy having the experience of all past Slayers blows his own out of the water
• Tools and abilities such as the Breathing Gun or mist detonation would not work on Buffy
• There’s only ever gonna be one Blade

This match is likely more complex than anyone could have imagined. With Buffy taking raw power and matching Blade’s speed, going in simply guns’ blazing was never going to be efficient here. In the metaphorical sense to be clear, since well, going in with his blazing shotgun, Justiciar, etc. was exactly the equalizing factor Blade needed. Considering Buffy’s better strength and other dangerous offensive options, we had a fight where both fighters could realistically win with one solid hit. The questions are who had the skills needed to land a fatal blow first, and who had the capabilities to better avoid one. 

To answer these questions, let’s look at each character’s defensive potential against the other’s offense in this fight, as that will paint the picture best. Looking at Blade’s defense, he has the obvious issue in that Buffy’s superior striking and lifting strength makes any solid direct hit lethal. Add on Buffy having Gorgon Venom and the support of Camazotz as additional threats, he may seem like he’s in an inescapable corner. However, Blade’s healing factor, pain tolerance, and overall survivability is very helpful here. We specified “solid direct” for a reason, as simply stabbing Blade or cutting off a limb is not necessarily instantly fatal for him. This is not to say he can just shrug off strong painful blows, but they won’t put him out of the ring. His evasive options with Mist and his game abilities are the bigger factor here, with them enabling Blade to avoid big attacks all together. While Buffy’s superior tertiary factors means he likely cannot avoid her forever, he shouldn’t have to when we compare Buffy’s defense VS Blade’s offense.

Buffy can tank most of Blade’s traditional weapons thanks to her raw strength, but when put up against Blade’s toughest weapons, she’s lacking in defensive options. Blade’s best gear is blasting through any and all of Buffy’s toolkit except for the Scythe, and even a weapon as strong as that can’t block a Zarathos-killing level Justiciar without being cleaved in two. Same goes for Camazotz, who is especially vulnerable to Blade shooting him down with a just as strong Breathing Gun. And while Buffy’s better skill could let her plan around Blade’s advantages, it is not enough of an advantage to where we could confidently say it is better as a defensive tool than Blade’s Mist and game abilities. They basically give him a secondary safety dodge on top of just normal evasive talents, something Buffy lacks a strong equivalent for.

While the Slayer was mighty and talented, she simply cannot match Blade’s firepower and vampiric powers in their overall effectiveness. Seems the sun is going down on Summers, because Eric had more at stake. Our winner is Eric Brooks: Blade.

Buffy

Stats

Stats are generally the simplest part of this matchup to cover, and there’s not much in the way of contention even among opposing teams here. Given Team Blade has already presented effectively the same points, we’ll try to keep it succinct.

We can scale Blade to Wayeb’s weather controlling feat, which gets a yield of 650 Kilotons. Buffy can however match, and in fact slightly exceed that, by scaling to Ravana crumbling mountains at 750 Kilotons. A lead, albeit a minor one. However, this is of course not as high as the numbers can go here.

With a bit of chaining thanks to official crossovers, Blade can theoretically scale to Spider-Man’s feat in the Insomniac games of absorbing enough energy to vaporize Harlem, getting a much more impressive 56 Megatons. That being said, Death Battle has previously put this feat at only 15 megatons, and it of course almost killed Miles, making scaling to it rather suspect and generally keeping the Wayeb feat a safer bet. Buffy herself does also have a much clearer Megaton end, scaling to the dragon Flamestryke being blatantly stated to have megaton-yield nuclear warhead levels of power, but it’s unclear how many megatons that would actually be. The safest bet is just to say 2, but that’s obviously not stacking up to 56 if you accept the Harlem feat.

So, let’s get to the OTHER big showing in the room: the Tremblor demons causing the 1923 Kyoto earthquake. Firstly, while it’s not explicitly stated in the novel to be the 1923 quake, rather just stated to be an earthquake in Japan, 1920, enough evidence exists for us to assume the quakes are meant to be one and the same. They affected the same area, affected similar population numbers, and while the years are slightly different, happened at about the same time. The demons are also established to be able to cause similar major quakes, so the equalization should be fine as a baseline. And, since tectonic movement is 100% confirmed, we can use the actual proper earthquake calc’ing method, which yields notably higher results than the simpler shaking one that most “earthquake” feats use.

Taking the energy involved in such a quake and dividing it between the 200 Tremblors required to perform the ritual gets up to 3 Gigatons, over 50 times greater than Miles’ Harlem feat, and over 4000 times higher than Wayeb’s. The Tremblors also amp their physicality using their “earthquake energy,” meaning Angel injuring one should scale just fine to that yield, and in turn let Buffy scale to it; with such a gap, basically any good hit Buffy lands would put Blade down, regardless of if its with the Scythe, one of her other weapons, or even just her martial arts.

Lifting strength is a similar story, and we’ll keep it brief; Death Battle themselves have already put Buffy’s lifting strength at 4.5 tons, and guidebooks for Blade put his at 1 ton. A pretty clear advantage in Buffy’s favor, and checks out with her higher striking strength.

And, simply put, speeds should be largely relative. While Blade’s scaling to Wolverine is slightly faster, being about 1.5x lightspeed vs Buffy’s dodge simply being baseline lightspeed, similarly to the earlier AP arguments this is not enough to make that much of a difference, especially given repeated statements of Buffy’s stats improving every single day over the course of the series, and how using higher-ends of Faith’s point-blank laser dodge reach values even higher than Wolverine did, almost 5c (though the higher-end of this calc is more debatable). Combat speed is, for all intents and purposes, a draw here. However, Buffy does generally have superior travel speed; moving almost faster than the eye can track, outrunning the best Olympic athletes, outrunning rocket launchers, keeping up with a bus, etc.

So, with combat speed being relative between the two but Buffy being anywhere from dozens to thousands of times stronger than Blade in striking strength, and 4.5 times stronger when it comes to lifting along with superior travel speed, Buffy quite comfortably holds the stat advantage, with even her lowest physicals matching with Blade’s.

Arsenal & Abilities

This here is the real meat and potatoes of the debate, and the main point of disagreement between sides of whose will let them secure a win. While Buffy herself has a relatively basic offensive powerset, her defenses and resistances are actually quite impressive. For starters, a lot of Blade’s typically game ending abilities aren’t actually likely to work on Buffy. Her ability to expel smoke demons from herself prevents Blade from using his mist form to blow her up, her resistance to vampirism prevents Blade from infecting her with it to make her easier to kill, her ability to retain her strength after Angel drained her prevents Blade from siphoning her powers (if you think he even has that ability, given its more likely infection draining), etc. But of course, let’s now ask the question that we’re sure has been haunting people for the past couple weeks: what about the Breathing Gun?

Being blunt, it’s probably not working either. Rather famously as of late, the Breathing Gun was unable to fire upon a Nun due to their holy nature. Of note is that the character in question is also actually a portal to Heaven, which is possibly the actual reason it didn’t fire, however the wielder of the gun at the time is very knowledgeable on its workings (being the most prolific user), and bought the nun explanation without question, likely meaning it would still check out.

Now, how does this relate to Buffy? Well, before we touch on that, let’s address the common argument for why it would work: Spike’s microchip that only lets him hurt demons identifying Buffy as one after she was resurrected. This is, by itself, a fine argument, however, there is a much more blatant citation to the contrary in, shocker, one of those 128 novels.

In which, the archangel Michael (yes, that one) outright tells Buffy that being a chosen one makes her a type of angel and, explicitly, protects her from effects that target the wicked, such as the apocalyptic plagues currently affecting Sunnydale. Not only that, but she was the only one able to tap into the full power of Hope’s Dagger, which is made from the literal first light of creation and was the only weapon capable of dispelling the concept of evil. So, what seems more solid? A biblical archangel telling Buffy she too is a type of angel and can’t be affected by things that target the wicked and her being the only one able to use the full power of the light of creation, or a microchip having a glitch after she was revived? When she died, she also explicitly went to Heaven, and coming back from that somehow registered as demonic. We do not think we need to explain why someone returning from Heaven suddenly making them count as demonic feels like anything more than a glitch on the part of the microchip. We feel it’s pretty clear, and that Buffy would more than qualify as a holy entity not targetable by the gun.

Now, one thing to address is a guidebook statement saying the gun can kill angels. This is… odd, to say the least, given again a nun was enough to jam it. The simplest explanation truly is just that the guidebook contradicts the source material. We have never seen it put an angel down on-page, but we have seen it jam against simple clergy. It could also be referring to Marvel’s fallen angels, as the gun’s bullets are specifically mentioned to feed on disgraced priests. So despite what the guidebook says, it’s unlikely the gun can actually take down non-fallen angels; though, even if you do think it would work, counters do exist. The Scythe and especially Shield can nullify magical properties of attacks, letting Buffy potentially take down the bullets herself directly; while they are exceptionally powerful, they have shown vulnerability to hax before, such as when Madcap drove one insane. As such, the anti-magic properties of Buffy’s arsenal may be able to stop them in their tracks. Speaking of Madcap, he has shown that even physically normal people can outrun the Breathing Gun’s bullets, meaning even if she can’t block them, Buffy should have no trouble avoiding them, or using the Dowsing Rod to remove them from the battlefield through portals. Even with their homing properties, they’d mostly just prove a nuisance, and due to both oneshotting it’s unlikely Blade would have the time to get an overwhelming amount on the field.

So let’s talk about other weapons here. While the Scythe does obviously turn Blade into paste, so does just about everything Buffy does, so it’s not as notable here as you might think, though it can overpower most of Blade’s gear (with the exception of the Justiciar and Breathing Gun, which, as we’ve established, would not work anyways). More of note is the Gorgon Venom, able to take Blade out even with a single drop or grazing blow should any make contact with him. However, Blade’s weapons like the Justiciar and Hellfire Shotgun would still be able to take Buffy down in a single hit. So, it largely comes down to who is going to get their killshot first; Blade using one of his specialty tools, or Buffy using her, well, anything. This in turn also basically makes both their healing factors largely deadweight, given Blade is going down in one hit and Buffy is either also getting dropped right away or tanking whatever Blade throws at her, depending on the weapon.

Finally, an ability Blade has that actually gives Buffy some trouble: his Mist Form. While he can’t use it offensively, he can use it to gain mobility and extra bursts of dodging/defense, potentially letting him evade Buffy until he hits her with a stronger weapon and prevent her from getting her hit in. While Buffy does have ways to keep up with Blade’s mobility here, such as the Dowsing Rod’s portals or applying extra pressure with Camazotz (albeit he can be taken out by the Breathing Gun), she does actually lack a way to properly hurt him while he’s in this state, potentially letting him pull ahead. So, does she have the expertise necessary to work around the mist if she lacks proper tools to directly counter it? Weeeeell…

Tertiary Factors

Arguably the most human elements are the key factors that can swing the battle in a battle of supernatural warriors. 

As varied and unique as many of Blade’s plethora of options and tools are, Buffy has basically seen just about anything he could throw at her. She’s fought plenty of people with bladed weaponry, firearms and other ranged weapons, and has her fair share of dealing with mystical energies and abstract elements. Most notably, this includes vampires with similar abilities and skills to what Blade has demonstrated with his mist abilities. 

In her fight with Dracula, she immediately picked up on his attempt to evade her using his mist, and immediately tracked the spot he’d end up in, leapt to the location in question, and staked him as soon as he reformed. When he tries the same trick again, Buffy catches him again, even making fun of him for thinking it’d work. She’s also had experience dealing with the New Vampires in Season 10, who also use similar powers to Blade, including transforming into bats and mist as an evasion tactic. When put into a position where he can only use the mist in an evasion maneuver and not much else, Buffy would be able to recognize and track his positioning to ensure he’s not out of reach, especially considering her ability to leap huge distances and run fast enough to outpace cars and damn rocket launchers. The moment she closes the distance, she’ll be able to press her existing advantages, alongside her most useful trait in a close quarters scenario: Her Slayer skillset.

Make no mistake, Blade is certainly a talented warrior, but when compared to Buffy on multiple fronts he finds himself coming up short. The Day-Walker may be implied and stated know multiple styles, but Buffy has also mastered those styles (karate, capoeira, kickboxing) and has far more up her repertoire to throw out. Blade’s shown to be accurate with his precision such as throwing his knives and swords perfectly, but Buffy has displayed the same with her stakes and has shown to be even more precise such as hitting a fly with a push pin. Even without specifically comparing them, Buffy has shown to employ more proper martial arts tactics such as feints, wrestling, martial arts katas, and more. She’s even shown in a fair amount of these fights the knowledge on how to properly disarm a target, such as quickly recognizing and disarming a vampire’s sword in Chaos Bleeds or quickly removing firearms in Long Way Home.

Buffy’s victories against her fellow Slayer Faith if anything goes to show how she’d perform against another superhuman with access to the same skill set as her. In her fights she’s matched her blow for blow, broken out of her specific holds, disarmed her weapons, and even turned them against her. All of this is before factoring her ability to pull from the skills and knowledge of over thousands of Slayers across history, which can grant her even more ways to dismantle and take Blade out efficiently.

Overall when looking at the wider picture Buffy’s more direct experience against Blade’s kit combined with her vast array of combat skills gives her the means to win tertiary elements, and handle even some of Blade’s most effective abilities.

Conclusion

“Dawn, the hardest thing in this world… is to live in it… Be brave. Live. For me.”

Advantages:

• Much stronger physically
• Relative combat speeds and superior travel speed
• More skilled and much more experienced
• Effectively guaranteed to open with her win-con (just trying to hit Blade)
• Gorgon Venom can take out Blade even with a grazing blow
• Resists or counters many of Blade’s otherwise fight-ending abilities (Draining, Infection, Breathing Gun, Mist Explosion, etc.)
• Prior experience, greater travel speed, and Dowsing Rod can help her keep up with Blade’s mist form…
• Camazotz can act as an effective distraction…
• Chocolate milk enjoyer

Disadvantages:

• Smaller arsenal that gets outclassed by Justiciar
• Worse ranged options
• Vulnerable to certain weapons like the Justiciar or Adamantium Odachi
• …but she can’t directly injure him while he’s in it
• …but only for a moment before he gets shot by the Breathing Gun
• Joss Whedon 
• _{Ok fine we’ll say his name once.} Willingly friends with… sigh… xander.

It’s unshocking to say that Blade is certainly going to provide an uphill battle for our favorite vampire slayer, especially when you consider his frankly absurd loadout (Dracula CANNOT be that serious man). When looking at the greater picture however, we believe Buffy has the tools necessary to score the victory more often than not.

While both are relative enough in speeds, Buffy’s immense strength would let any blow she deals be fatal to Blade compared to the Daywalker’s more specific means to score the kill, especially when many of those weapons would largely prove ineffective. Outside of weapons like Justiciar and the Hellfire Shotgun, Blade’s arsenal is either resisted, overpowered by the Scythe, or just not going to work at all like the Breathing Gun. This leaves Blade largely with only defensive measures to score the dub such as evading with the mist, but Buffy’s greatest asset to shut down those means would be her vast array of skill and experience as a Slayer. Between her direct showings in combat, fights against other fighters with similar skillsets and powers to Blade, and having access to the entire library of Slayers across history, Buffy would have the time and means necessary to outmaneuver Blade properly to stop his evasive maneuvers and score the kill properly.

Blade may be one of Marvel’s best when it comes to slaying vampires, but when fighting the thing monsters have nightmares about, he may just have to bite it. 

Final Tally

Blade (7) – Bang, Blue Igneous, Brobuscus, door-kun, Ninjamonkey3904, Sifu, SpaceJellO

Buffy (11) – Cabbage, ishi_yuki, Joshski, KrisWarlock, Luz, Maddie, Noah, Rae, The Black Shulk, TWILTY, Yerm

Before We Go…

First and foremost, we would like to extend an extremely warm thank you to every volunteer contributor who worked on this blog! This one was… a lot, with an absolutely staggering amount of undocumented content to get through and only three weeks to do it, but everyone did an incredible job. Big thanks to all of you. 💖

Secondly, we would like to officially welcome the newest member of the core G1 team: Blue Igneous! He has done a lot of great work for a ton of our blogs in the past, and is always a joy to work with. He also suffered through Angel season 4 for this blog, so y’know, he’s more than earned it.

Lastly, we have a smaller bonus blog upcoming that should be releasing within the next couple of weeks. Look out for it!