The Blade Series

In 1998, Blade revamped the comic book genre with a brilliant offering that made it trendy to like comic book movies again. Starring Wesley Snipes in the titular role of the vampire hunter, the movie spawned two sequels – 2002’s Blade II and 2004’s Blade: Trinity – and they’re all on this list as one entry.

To say they kicked off the recent comic book trend, it’s really a surprise that more comic book movies aren’t full of swearing, violence and gore – because all three of these movies were.

Vampires invariably bring blood with them wherever they go, and there was a hell of a lot of it being thrown around here, but it was the language that really made the trilogy unsuitable for kids – especially the third one, when Ryan Reynolds’ Hannibal King came onto the scene.

Example: Far from being like the more sophisticated and older version in the comic books, Reynolds’ King was a young, brash, cocky character whose language was as bad as it gets. Here’s an example…

Hannibal King: That’s atomised colloidal silver. It’s being pumped through the building’s air conditioning system, you c*ck-juggling thunder-c**t!