Not as far as I know. I don't know...I haven't seen Blade in forever.

I really got thinking about this after I saw Blade II last year, because the genetically-altered super vamps (that hunted on regular vamps) in that film have similar physical characteristics and strengths of the Buffyverse "Turok-Han" ubervamps. It also seems that the Mutant Enemy creative team was borrowing from the Lord of the Rings story with the Turok Han. The Urok Hai seem to be a straight copy.

The vampires in the Blade franchise have the usual weaknesses -- stakes through the heart, sunlight, but can also be killed by silver bullets. There is only one other place where I've seen the silver-bullet weakness for vamps, in a Batman comic from over 60 years ago that was in an anthology titled "Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told." Of course, perhaps the Blade creative team was just looking for a way to put automatic weapons in the hand of a vamp hunter!

Like I said, just throwing something out there. I like both Blade and Buffy because they both play to interesting elements of the whole vamp mythology.

I know this isn't fanfic, but what is it? Visual filk? It's like fandom and the internet and ... dunno. It's not something I could explain to my grandmother, even were she not, um, dead.

Do people do that a lot?

Icon sets to lyrics? All the time.

Icon sets to lyrics? All the time.

Can you point me to others?

Sure.

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(Disclaimer to anyone going there, please, please read the rules if you're going to use 'em. They're pretty simple.)

Of course, they only do one song I like. Figgers.

There's a whole Live Journal community, buffy_icons.

I see a lot of lyrics sets pop up on people's entries.

Boils and Blinding Torment have at least one set.

I really got thinking about this after I saw Blade II last year, because the genetically-altered super vamps (that hunted on regular vamps) in that film have similar physical characteristics and strengths of the Buffyverse "Turok-Han" ubervamps. It also seems that the Mutant Enemy creative team was borrowing from the Lord of the Rings story with the Turok Han. The Urok Hai seem to be a straight copy.

The vampires in the Blade franchise have the usual weaknesses -- stakes through the heart, sunlight, but can also be killed by silver bullets. There is only one other place where I've seen the silver-bullet weakness for vamps, in a Batman comic from over 60 years ago that was in an anthology titled "Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told." Of course, perhaps the Blade creative team was just looking for a way to put automatic weapons in the hand of a vamp hunter!

Like I said, just throwing something out there. I like both Blade and Buffy because they both play to interesting elements of the whole vamp mythology.

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Welcome! Bloody good question, that - it'd be hella tricky. I did read one piece of fanfic which tried to do a similar bridging exercise, with Buffy & Willow meeting Lestat and Louis. For my money it didn't work, but Whedon did it himself with Dracula, who had various un-Whedonvamp tricks up his sleeve and didn't pull vamp face, so I'm confident that it could be done. Hmm.

Most obvious thing would be to go with an AU/portal scenario, so that you don't have to try to paper over the join between 'verses. Trying to tug at the two 'verses until they fit together will be way trickier, but you could maybe relate the Bladeverse vamps' transformation to the kind of transformation we've seen with werewolves etc in the Buffyverse - say that they're a different kind of demon, maybe, or that they were created artificial by such-and-such a thing, or that they're another branch of the vampire family tree going back to the Grr Arrgh monster. But if you do that, you're going to have to think of a bloody good reason why we haven't seen or heard of them for seven years. I reckon it's doable, but it's not a task I'd relish myself. I think I'd be tempted to go the portal route - 'cause you could have an awful lot of fun with the intersection of characters from two different 'verses, with their different expectations.