Talk:Blade (New Line franchise character)

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Tattoos[edit]

I cannot recall right now exactly where I read it but Snipes said that Blade's tattoos were inspired by a particular wrestler. -- 109.78.197.54 (talk) 19:15, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Found it[1] "The tattoos, I actually got from a UFC wrestler named Kimo." -- 109.78.197.54 (talk) 19:26, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also it was influential, according to tattoo historian Matt Lodder of the University of Essex: "Really iconic. Like, I think one of the reasons you saw, like, spiky tribal everywhere in the late '90s and early 2000s is because loads of people had seen "Blade" and thought it looked awesome."[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.78.197.54 (talk) 19:57, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution[edit]

See Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. This article was clearly created by copying from other Wikipedia articles. That's acceptable and it has come together quite nicely but some effort should be made to make attribution clearer. Another editor already moved the article to draft space and requested that it be properly attributed before moving out of draft space[3] but it was moved out of draft space before that happened. A template such as {{Copied}} (with details specified) or similar may need to be added to the top of this Talk page. -- 109.78.197.54 (talk) 19:34, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]