Blade (2016 TV Series)

Blade is an American Action Supernatural-Comedy Horror Television Series, loosely based off of the 1998 film of the same name, premiering on November 20, 2014, on the CW Television Network. Featuring Michael B. Jordan, Stephen Quire, Tessa Thompson, Corey Hawkins, Joel McHale, and Kristen Wiig as the original Main Cast, the series follows the life of Blade is a vampire hunter

Plot
In 1967, a pregnant woman is attacked by a vampire while giving birth. Doctors are able to save her baby, but the woman dies of infection, Thirty-one years later, the child has become the vampire hunter Blade. He raids a rave club owned by the vampire Deacon Frost. Police take one of the vampires to the hospital, where he feeds on hematologist Karen Jenson and escapes. Blade takes Karen to a safe house where she is treated by his old friend Abraham Whistler. Whistler explains that he and Blade have been waging a secret war against vampires using weapons based on their elemental weaknesses, such as sunlight and silver. As Karen is now "marked" by the bite of a vampire, both he and Blade tell her to leave the city.

Main Cast

 * Michael B. Jordan as Eric Brooks/Blade, a half-vampire "daywalker" who hunts vampires and possesses superhuman reflexes and powers as a result of his mother being bitten by a vampire.
 * N'Bushe Wright as Dr. Karen Jenson, a hematologist who is bitten by the vampire Quinn. She fights vampires alongside Blade while she finds a cure for herself.
 * Stephen Quire as Deacon Frost, an upstart vampire leader who emerges as Blade's primary enemy and who wants to conquer the human race by becoming the supreme blood god "La Magra".
 * Joel McHale as Abraham Whistler, Blade's mentor, weaponsmith, and surrogate father figure.
 * Donal Logue as Quinn, a cocky lead minion of Frost's.
 * Udo Kier as Gitano Dragonetti, the head of the House of Erebus.
 * Sanaa Lathan as Vanessa Brooks, Blade's mother, believed dead, who became a vampire and lover to Frost.
 * Rowan Blanchard as Abigail Whistler,
 * Arly Jover as Mercury, Frost's second lover and second in command.
 * Kevin Patrick Walls as Officer Krieger, a "familiar", or human servant, of Frost's.
 * Tim Guinee as Dr. Curtis Webb, Karen's ex-boyfriend who later becomes a decomposing zombie.
 * Traci Lords as Racquel, a seductive vampire who leads a man to the blood rave.
 * Erica Todd as Pearl, the obese records keeper.