In a sense, the movie led to the boom of Marvel Comics-based movies. Though later overshadowed by the 2000's more successful X-Men (2000) and Spider-Man (2002), Blade was the first Marvel movie to be a bona fide financial and critical success (Men in Black (1997) came out first but technically, it was more a property bought by Marvel than made by Marvel). And granted, some productions such as the aforementioned Spider-Man had long been gestating, but the movie's success proved that Marvel characters could headline their own movies. Additionally, Blade himself was not as well-known prior to the movie's release, but still made for a successful property. In addition to their A-list stars, Marvel and DC have subsequently looked at other lesser-known characters for possible movies. And despite Batman & Robin (1997) being basically a Genre-Killer the year before, Blade proved comic book movies still had it. Of course, the general public probably wasn't really aware that Blade was a comic book character originally, and thought it was just a cool Vampire Hunter, especially since Buffy l'ammazzavampiri (1997) premiered a year before. Though on the flip side, it was thanks to cartoon, Spider-Man (1994) where Blade made his first animated appearance and was still playing at the time, that likewise go interest up among cartoon goers.

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