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word of advice : Contains spoilers for Midnight Sons : blood line Hunt # 2
As Marvel’sterrifyingBlood Huntevent begins to pull to a close , the lamia ' modish rape on Earth-616 has revealed some fascinating point about how the hirudinean lock . Midnight Son : Blood Hunt#2depicts a ugly aspect wherea lamia shockingly rips his own face off , becoming the transform goliath vampires are often shown to be , explaining why some vampire look more human than others .
Part of that vampiric complexity is the fact that some people completelylose themselves to the vampire computer virus , giving into their darker nature and turning into full - mature monsters . In contrast , others retain some semblance of their human selves .
Midnight Word : Blood Hunt#2 , from author Bryan Edward Hill and creative person German Peralta , introduces the readers toa newly sour vampirewho terrorizes a unseasoned nurse at a Chicago hospital , using his claws to slice up his human face off , revealing his fearsome true physiognomy underneath .
Vampires Can Choose To Look Like Their Most Monstrous Selves
Marvel answers the question of why some vampires look human
Marvel’sBlood Hunthas done a great job of continue Marvel ’s complex attitude towards vampirism , through detail like showing Jubilee ’s empathy towards some vampires or stool heroical vampires like Pia inStrange Adacemy . The Marvel Universe often maintain gamy - level vampires looking vaguely human , with hypertrophied tooth and claws but holding on to many thing that would make them identifiable as one of the living . Similarly , lower - stage lamia , fodder for the vampiric warfare , are often describe as more atrocious and animalistic , unable to operate their urges which has caused them to degenerate away from human race .
Marvel ’s First Vampire is Also Pop Culture ’s First Vampire ( Pre - Dating Dracula )
Midnight Sonsreveals a potentially different answer to why some vampires retain some of their humanity : Vampires can choose to cut away the parts of them that make them human . The scene in the infirmary is a truly terrifying example of body horror , as the vampire slices off its face as if it has a zipper on it , revealing a fully vampiric nous underneath . With its former human face hanging limply off its headspring , this vampire has passionately comprehend its new life history as a force of terror and bloodshed . While the comedian does n’t explicitly say that all vampires must take their human faces to reveal their full lamia soma , the scene does imply that it is a choice .
Varnae Has Revealed Vampires Can Undergo One Final Transformation
The goal of the Blood Hunt was to become the Unliving Darkhold
Even though the lamia inMidnight Sonshas choose to remove its human cheek to fully become a vampire , origin Hunt#4 reveals the major mystery that there is afinal organic evolution a vampire can go through at Marvel . The issue finally let out that " Blade " is not truly Blade , but rather is the ancient vampire Varnae possessing the Daywalker , attempt to reach its terminal state of being . By using ancient Atlantean engineering Varnae has transcended its " pupal " form to become the " Unliving Darkforce , " a being that holds the Darkforce Dimension within itself .
Varnae is turn up that no matter how atrocious a lamia may appear - even after ripping the flesh correctly off their face -they can still become even more loathsome . Vampires at Marvel have never had an easy time , but following the events ofBlood Hunt , most vampire should probably test to keep their human faces on if they can …
Midnight son : Blood Hunt#2from Marvel Comics is available now in stores .
