Deacon Frost

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Deacon Frost
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceThe Tomb of Dracula #13 (October 1973)
Created byMarv Wolfman
Gene Colan
In-story information
SpeciesVampire
Notable aliasesWhitehair

Deacon Frost is a fictional character appearing in

Blade. In the comics, Deacon Frost was depicted as a tall, white-haired, late middle-aged gentleman with red eyes, and wearing 1860s Germany period clothing. His doppelgänger sported an accent and attire that suggested a Southern
preacher.

The character appeared in the 1998 film Blade as a young adult instead of an older gentleman, portrayed by Stephen Dorff.

Publication history

Deacon Frost first appeared in The Tomb of Dracula #13 (October 1973), and was created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan.

Fictional character biography

Deacon Frost was allegedly a scientist looking for the key to immortality. For one of his experiments, he kidnapped a young woman in order to inject his victim with the blood of a recently killed vampire. The girl's fiancé broke into the lab, and (in the resulting scuffle) Frost was accidentally injected with the blood himself. The result was that Frost became a vampire but (due to the unusual method of becoming one) he was endowed with a unique characteristic; anyone he turned into a vampire would generate a doppelgänger. He could create an unlimited number of doppelgängers by biting each doppelgänger, and they would all be under his mental control. Frost intended to use this ability to contend for the position of Lord of Vampires, a position that was presently held by Dracula. Frost is the vampire responsible for the death of Blade's mother; Blade's initial mission is to exact revenge against her killer.[volume & issue needed] It was also Frost who turned Hannibal King into a vampire.[volume & issue needed] Blade and King (while initially distrusting each other) eventually teamed up to fight Frost's army of doppelgangers of Blade and King.[volume & issue needed] The two of them managed to defeat and apparently destroy Frost in his underground hideout, stabbing him twice and leaving his body to be consumed as his hideout exploded.[volume & issue needed]

Many years later, Blade encountered a vampire that called itself Deacon Frost.[

Simon Garth the Living Zombie). Frost escaped this encounter vowing revenge.[volume & issue needed] More recently, Frost appeared at the summons of Dracula to defend the Lord of Vampires as he underwent a magical ritual, only to be staked by Blade.[volume & issue needed
]

Powers and abilities

Deacon Frost, like the rest of the vampires, has superhuman strength and the standard powers of a vampire, including the ability to change his appearance and resistance to conventional wounds. Frost is also capable of creating vampiric duplicates of his victims with his bite, which are under his absolute mind control. Frost can even create replicas of these duplicates by biting them. Ultimately, these beings are able to absorb the original victim into their own body. Frost also possesses extensive knowledge of medicine, physics, and chemistry.

Like the rest of the vampires, Deacon Frost needs to drink blood assiduously to survive, cannot expose himself to sunlight without burning, and is damaged if exposed to crucifixes or any other religious symbol wielded by someone with deep faith. In addition his heart must be pierced with a wooden stake to end his unlife. He does not appear on reflective surfaces like mirrors.

Reception

  • In 2021, Screen Rant included Deacon Frost in their "Marvel: 10 Most Powerful Vampires" list.[1]
  • In 2022,
    CBR.com ranked Deacon Frost 8th in their "10 Most Important Marvel Vampires" list.[2]

Other versions

Earth-9991

While roughhousing, two boys enter the parking garage where Frost is located with his latest creation, a monster called the White Worm. Frost sics the White Worm on the children, then flees when he senses the approach of Blade.[3]

Ultimate Marvel

The

Nick Fury's Black ops team.[4]

Darkhold

In the

The Darkhold: Blade by Daniel Kibblesmith, presenting an alternate ending to the 1998 Blade film, Deacon Frost is successful in his plans at using his power attained as avatar of La Magra to turn billions of humans around the world into vampires.[5]

In other media

Television

  • Deacon Frost appears in Marvel Anime: Blade,[6] voiced by Tsutomu Isobe in the Japanese version and by JB Blanc in the English Dub.[citation needed] This version is the leader of an organization he created called Existence (the symbol of the organization being a bat with DNA threads), whose membership comprises hordes of vampires, most of which have been genetically altered by his science to make them more powerful, and humans who have been deceived into helping them in exchange for fulfilling their own desires. Frost is known as the four-fanged vampire and famed as powerful even by vampire standards. With his organization greatly spreading its influence in Asia, this puts him in conflict with the high council of pure-blood vampires who have ruled Europe for centuries. While responsible for many tragedies surrounding Blade and others, Frost suffered his own tragic event while human. Having witnessed his son Edgar killed by a vampire and further infuriated by corrupt police that were not looking into the case, Frost decided to research vampires with the help of many vampire hunters he hired with the purpose of turning himself into a stronger breed of vampire. This ultimately motivates Frost's goal to wipe out the old vampire race, then breed a new race of vampires created from Blade's own Daywalker blood to rule the world. Deacon Frost has done experiments on the Mandurugo, the Manananggal, and the Sundel bolong. By the end of the series, Frost drinks the blood in his daywalking vampires to assume an ultimate form but is slain moments after in a final showdown with Blade, using his mother's and Makoto's silver weapons.

Film

Video games

In the 2010 game Marvel Pinball the Blade table includes Deacon Frost.[10]

References

  1. ^ Taggers, C. M. (2021-07-26). "Marvel: 10 Most Powerful Vampires". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
  2. ^ Saffle, Ben (2022-02-10). "The 10 Most Important Marvel Vampires, Ranked". CBR. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
  3. ^ Bart Sears (w), Bart Sears (p), Bill Sienkiewicz (i), Mark McNabb (col), Dave Sharpe (let), Ralph Macchio (ed). "Bane of the White Worm" Blade: Vampire Hunter, vol. 1, no. ½ (1999). United States: Marvel Comics.
  4. ^ Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates #2
  5. ^ Dodge, John (October 31, 2021). "Blade's Movie God Is Officially Part of the Marvel Universe — and It's Bloody Scary". Comic Book Resources.
  6. ^ "Blade, Fairy Tail, Ro-Kyu-Bu! Promo Videos Streamed". Anime News Network. 4 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Stephen Dorff to star in Blade trilogy spin-off". The Sunday Mail. Daily Record. Archived from the original on 7 July 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  8. ^ Rob M. Worley (July 6, 2009). "Exclusive: BLADE spin-off in the works - Mania.com". Comics2Film. Archived from the original on 2009-07-08.
  9. ^ Kit, Borys (August 14, 2012). "Fox's Daredevil Rights on Verge of Reverting to Marvel as Ticking Clock Looms (Video)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on August 15, 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  10. ^ Marvel Entertainment (Dec 14, 2010). Marvel Pinball Video Game: Blade Trailer. Zen Studios – via YouTube.
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