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/></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a> as Abraham Whistler in the <i><a href="/wiki/Blade_(franchise)" title="Blade (franchise)">Blade</a></i> film series.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First appearance</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/List_of_Spider-Man_(1994_TV_series)_episodes#ep22" title="List of Spider-Man (1994 TV series) episodes">Chapter IX: Blade, the Vampire Hunter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spider-Man:_The_Animated_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Spider-Man: The Animated Series">Spider-Man: The Animated Series</a><sup id="cite_ref-Allstetter_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allstetter-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (November 18, 1995)"</li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Blade_(1998_film)" title="Blade (1998 film)">Blade (1998)</a></i></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last appearance</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Blade:_The_Series#ep8" title="Blade: The Series">Sacrifice</a>"</li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Blade:_The_Series" title="Blade: The Series">Blade: The Series</a></i></li><li>August 9, 2006</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Portrayed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a> (films)</li> <li>Adrian Glynn McMorran (TV series)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Voiced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_McDowell" title="Malcolm McDowell">Malcolm McDowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Muirhead" title="Oliver Muirhead">Oliver Muirhead</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/First_appearance" title="First appearance">First comic appearance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Blade II</i> #1 – The Official Comic Adaptation (May <a href="/wiki/2002_in_comics" title="2002 in comics">2002</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_S._Goyer" title="David S. Goyer">David S. Goyer</a><sup id="cite_ref-Otto_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Otto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">In-universe information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Species</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">Human</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/Vampire_(Marvel_Comics)" title="Vampire (Marvel Comics)">Vampire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vampire_hunter" title="Vampire hunter">Vampire hunter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Affiliation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Blade_(character)" title="Blade (character)">Blade</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/Nightstalkers_(comics)" title="Nightstalkers (comics)">Nightstalkers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Unnamed wife</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Two unnamed daughters <br /><a href="/wiki/Abigail_Whistler" class="mw-redirect" title="Abigail Whistler">Abigail Whistler</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">American</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Abraham Whistler</b> is a fictional character appearing in the <a href="/wiki/Blade_(franchise)" title="Blade (franchise)"><i>Blade</i> film</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blade_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blade (TV series)">television series</a>. Developing the 1998 film <i><a href="/wiki/Blade_(1998_film)" title="Blade (1998 film)">Blade</a></i>, screenwriter <a href="/wiki/David_S._Goyer" title="David S. Goyer">David S. Goyer</a> created the character, and named him after <a href="/wiki/Abraham_van_Helsing" class="mw-redirect" title="Abraham van Helsing">Abraham van Helsing</a>, the nemesis of <a href="/wiki/Count_Dracula" title="Count Dracula">Count Dracula</a> from <a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker" title="Bram Stoker">Bram Stoker</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula" title="Dracula">Dracula</a></i> (1897). Whistler is a <a href="/wiki/Vampire_hunter" title="Vampire hunter">vampire hunter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blade_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blade (comics)">Blade</a>'s mentor. Whistler is an original character created by Goyer, although some comparisons have been made to Jamal Afari who appeared in the comics as Blade's mentor. <a href="/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a> was cast in the role and later reprised his role in <i><a href="/wiki/Blade_II" title="Blade II">Blade II</a></i> (2002) and <i><a href="/wiki/Blade:_Trinity" title="Blade: Trinity">Blade: Trinity</a></i> (2004). Ahead of Kristofferson's casting and the film's release, Whistler first appeared onscreen in <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man_(1994_TV_series)" title="Spider-Man (1994 TV series)">Spider-Man: The Animated Series</a></i> in 1995, adapted from Goyer's then-unfilmed screenplay, where he was originally voiced by <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_McDowell" title="Malcolm McDowell">Malcolm McDowell</a> and later by <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Muirhead" title="Oliver Muirhead">Oliver Muirhead</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Allstetter_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allstetter-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Blade:_The_Series" title="Blade: The Series">Blade: The Series</a></i> (2006) a young Whistler was played by Adrian Glynn McMorran. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Whistler&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a> created by <a href="/wiki/Chris_Claremont" title="Chris Claremont">Chris Claremont</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tony_DeZuniga" title="Tony DeZuniga">Tony DeZuniga</a> Blade had a mentor, a jazz musician called Jamal Afari. Developing the 1998 film <i><a href="/wiki/Blade_(1998_film)" title="Blade (1998 film)">Blade</a></i>, screenwriter <a href="/wiki/David_S._Goyer" title="David S. Goyer">David S. Goyer</a> wanted Blade to have a mentor and thought of the archetype of "The aging gunfighter who passes down his knowledge. It's the <a href="/wiki/John_Wayne" title="John Wayne">John Wayne</a> character."<sup id="cite_ref-Allstetter_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allstetter-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marvel liked the Whistler character and before the film had even been made they used him when Blade made a guest appearance in <a href="/wiki/Spider-Man_(1994_TV_series)" title="Spider-Man (1994 TV series)"><i>Spider-Man</i> 1994 TV series</a>. This resulted in a legal dispute as <a href="/wiki/New_Line_Cinema" title="New Line Cinema">New Line Cinema</a> insisted that Marvel did not own the character created by Goyer.<sup id="cite_ref-Otto_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Otto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Director <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Norrington" title="Stephen Norrington">Stephen Norrington</a>'s first choice to play Whistler was <a href="/wiki/Patrick_McGoohan" title="Patrick McGoohan">Patrick McGoohan</a> as he was a fan of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Prisoner" title="The Prisoner">The Prisoner</a></i> (1967). <a href="/wiki/Jon_Voight" title="Jon Voight">Jon Voight</a> was also considered for the role.<sup id="cite_ref-Kutzera_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kutzera-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Allstetter_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allstetter-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The casting supervisor suggested <a href="/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a><sup id="cite_ref-ew-oral_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ew-oral-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Goyer had been impressed by Kristofferson's work in the 1996 film <i><a href="/wiki/Lone_Star_(1996_film)" title="Lone Star (1996 film)">Lone Star</a></i> and he ultimately won the role.<sup id="cite_ref-Allstetter_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allstetter-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kristofferson has been quoted as saying that beyond the role of mentor, Whistler also serves as a father figure for Blade, citing that his own experience of having eight children helped him prepare for the role immensely.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fictional_character_biography">Fictional character biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Whistler&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Fictional character biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aw-blade2-no.1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Aw-blade2-no.1.jpg/170px-Aw-blade2-no.1.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Aw-blade2-no.1.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="220" data-file-height="322" /></a><figcaption>Interior artwork from Blade II: The Official Comic Adaptation #1 (May 2002). Art by Alberto Ponticelli & <a href="/wiki/Tim_Bradstreet" title="Tim Bradstreet">Tim Bradstreet</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Abraham Whistler is a vampire hunter and the mentor of Blade. Abraham Whistler was once a happily married man with two daughters and a beautiful wife. He lived a normal life, and his family lived comfortably, but all of that changed one night when a drifter came, seeking dinner and place to rest for a while before continuing on his way. Whistler let the man in, only to regret that decision for the rest of his life. The drifter was a vampire, and a sadistic one at that. After torturing the family – mainly Whistler – for a while, he then tried to force Whistler to decide in which order his family would die. Whistler refused, struggling to stop the vampire from killing his wife and daughters. He was unable, and a few hours before dawn, the vampire left him with a damaged leg, other injuries, and the drained corpses of his family. </p><p>Whistler dedicated himself to hunting down vampires, learning about their ways and customs, and shut himself off from the world. A few years after his family's death, he went to a bar, got drunk, and ended up sleeping with one of the locals. The next morning, he explained to her that he was on the run from a powerful organization, and she would be in danger if they found out she'd been involved with him. He left her with a name and took her number and address, just in case he needed to get in touch with her should something happen. The one night stand had a big consequence: A daughter, whom Whistler learned about not long after her birth. He almost panicked, forcing his one-time lover and daughter to move somewhere else and change their names. He was determined not to lose this new family to the vampires. Certain they were safe, Whistler then left them to fend for themselves after giving them a substantial amount of money he'd earned from stealing from the vampires and their familiars. He checked in on his new family so often but kept them largely ignorant. </p><p>Several years later, Whistler met up with a young boy who he'd almost mistaken for a vampire – Eric Brooks, a half-vampire, half-human miracle. He took the Daywalker in, teaching him to use his powers and was able to create a serum to sate the bloodlust Eric suffered. The two of them became a team, Eric taking on the name Blade, and since then they have stayed together and fought the vampires as partners. In the recent years though, Whistler was diagnosed with lung cancer from his smoking, and he realized that without him, Blade would be alone. </p><p>Determined Blade wouldn't have to fight the war on his own, Whistler secretly began forming a team of vampire hunters. Around the same time, <a href="/wiki/Abigail_Whistler" class="mw-redirect" title="Abigail Whistler">Abigail Whistler</a> showed up, having tracked down her father, determined to know the man who had left her and her mother alone while occasionally supporting them. Whistler reluctantly told her everything, only to have an even more determined girl on his hands – one that wanted to follow in his footsteps. Seeing it was useless to convince her otherwise, he put her on the team, thankful that she would at least have others with her and he would be able to check up on her. </p><p>Later, Whistler was nearly beaten to death by <a href="/wiki/Deacon_Frost" title="Deacon Frost">Deacon Frost</a>'s goons and shot himself in an attempt to prevent resurrecting as a vampire. His suicide was in vain, though. He came back, only to be kidnapped by the vampires working for Eli Damaskinos, who saw Whistler as a great advantage over the Daywalker and someone who could prove useful. Kept as a prisoner and tortured regularly, Whistler was eventually saved by Blade and given a cure for the vampirism. Whistler wasn't happy about the temporary alliance between Blade and the vampires, and he sensed something between Blade and Nyssa. He also resented Scud but went along with Blade's plan. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spider-Man_(1994_TV_series)"><span id="Spider-Man_.281994_TV_series.29"></span><i>Spider-Man</i> (1994 TV series)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Whistler&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Spider-Man (1994 TV series)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abrahamwhistler_scrnsht_1994_s2e9.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/98/Abrahamwhistler_scrnsht_1994_s2e9.jpg/170px-Abrahamwhistler_scrnsht_1994_s2e9.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/98/Abrahamwhistler_scrnsht_1994_s2e9.jpg/255px-Abrahamwhistler_scrnsht_1994_s2e9.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Abrahamwhistler_scrnsht_1994_s2e9.jpg 2x" data-file-width="309" data-file-height="322" /></a><figcaption>Whistler in <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man_(1994_TV_series)" title="Spider-Man (1994 TV series)">Spider-Man: The Animated Series</a></i>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Abraham Whistler's background in the animated series is the same as that in the films, although he appears younger and unlike the cinematic interpretation of the character does not have long hair and a beard. Whistler was a vampire hunter who took on a young Blade and trained him in martial arts and as a vampire hunter. Blade, who was half-vampire himself, was given a serum developed by Whistler that would stop him from craving human plasma. When Blade hunted <a href="/wiki/Michael_Morbius" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Morbius">Morbius the Living Vampire</a>, a young human student who was accidentally mutated into a vampire-like creature, Blade discovered the <a href="/wiki/Neogenic_Recombinator" class="mw-redirect" title="Neogenic Recombinator">Neogenic Recombinator</a>, which could transform humans into vampires. Whistler told him not to destroy it, as it could also be used to cure Blade of his vampirism. Morbius was eventually driven into hibernation. </p><p>While Blade was hunting a vampire in Europe, Whistler was visited by the <a href="/wiki/Black_Cat_(Marvel_Comics)" title="Black Cat (Marvel Comics)">Black Cat</a>, who was looking for help to cure Morbius. Whistler told her that the only way he knew to cure him would be to destroy him and gave her a weapon to do so, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film">Film</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Whistler&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blade"><i>Blade</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Whistler&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Blade"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Blade_(1998_film)" title="Blade (1998 film)">first <i>Blade film</i></a> it is revealed that Whistler lost his wife and two daughters to an attack by a vampire who had arrived at their home posing as a drifter. Whistler was beaten and tortured, being forced to choose which one of his family died first. These events shaped his hatred of vampires and his mission to destroy as many as he could. Whistler is a weapons expert and master of several martial arts, having a part in creating many of Blade's weapons. When he discovered a thirteen-year-old Blade on the streets preying on the homeless, he took him under his wing. Realizing that he was half human and lacked a vampire's normal weaknesses with the exception of their thirst, he developed a serum to suppress Blade's vampiric lust for blood. </p><p>Deacon Frost, an ambitious vampire whom Whistler and Blade had been tracking, located their base and attacked Whistler, causing him to be infected with vampirism. After informing Blade of Frost's plan to resurrect an ancient vampire god, Whistler then seemingly commits suicide, considering death a better fate than becoming a vampire. However, his death is not seen on camera; only the sound of a gun firing is heard. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blade_II"><i>Blade II</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Whistler&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Blade II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It is revealed in the <a href="/wiki/Blade_II" title="Blade II">second <i>Blade</i> film</a> that Whistler survived his suicide attempt to be kidnapped by another gang of vampires and taken to the Czech Republic. After killing all but one of the vampires responsible for his imprisonment, Blade frees him from <a href="/wiki/Suspended_animation" title="Suspended animation">suspended animation</a>, taking him to Prague and injecting him with the "cure". During his time with them, he was repeatedly tortured to the point of death, healed, and then tortured again. </p><p>Blade, Whistler, and Scud were summoned by the Shadow Council, ruled by overlord Eli Damaskinos, to eradicate the reaper threat. Reinhardt and Chupa (played by <a href="/wiki/Matt_Schulze" title="Matt Schulze">Matt Schulze</a>), a friend of Priest who now wishes to kill Whistler to even the score with Blade, corner Whistler, and Chupa proceeds to savagely beat him. Reinhardt leaves the two. Whistler, to save himself, releases the reaper pheromones into the air. As Chupa is about to finish him off with a gun, reapers swarm the sewers and feed on Chupa, allowing Whistler to slip away. During his escape, Whistler is confronted by Jared Nomak, the original Reaper, who lets Whistler live to reveal the truth about the Reaper strain to Blade. When Blade and Whistler are captured by Damaskinos thanks to Scud's betrayal, Whistler manages to escape after Reinhardt underestimates him, rescuing the injured Blade and taking him to a vat of blood so that Blade can be restored to full health to stop Damaskinos's forces and Nomak. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blade:_Trinity"><i>Blade: Trinity</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Whistler&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Blade: Trinity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Blade:_Trinity" title="Blade: Trinity">third <i>Blade</i> film</a>, Blade is framed for the murder of several humans. Blade is in the public eye and being hunted by the FBI. In a raid on their new hideout, Whistler set the self-destruct mechanism and seemingly died in an explosion. He is not seen or heard of afterwards (although <a href="/wiki/Drake_(Blade_character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Drake (Blade character)">Drake</a> took the form of Whistler when he attacked the Nightstalkers). </p><p>Whistler fathered a daughter out of wedlock or before marriage. This was Abigail Whistler, who eventually tracked down her natural father when she came of age, and asked to be trained as a vampire hunter. Whistler trained her, although he trained her separately from Blade, who was totally unaware that Whistler had any protégés other than himself. Whistler also set up Abigail as the leader of one of the many <a href="/wiki/Nightstalkers_(comics)" title="Nightstalkers (comics)">Nightstalker</a> units he had secretly founded.<sup id="cite_ref-Otto_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Otto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Blade:_The_Series"><i>Blade: The Series</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Whistler&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Blade: The Series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Blade:_The_Series" title="Blade: The Series">Blade: The Series</a></i>, which takes place after <i>Blade: Trinity</i>, the writers go further into Whistler's background. In the episode "<a href="/wiki/Sacrifice_(Blade:_The_Series_episode)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacrifice (Blade: The Series episode)">Sacrifice</a>", viewers learn that Whistler got his trademark limp from a young Blade, who escaped his father's house and broke Whistler's leg in an attempt to flee. Blade's father called Whistler in at the urging of a helpful policeman, and Whistler tested him to learn that he was not a regular vampire. He asked Blade's father to give him the boy to use as a weapon against vampires, but Blade <a href="/wiki/Runaway_youth" class="mw-redirect" title="Runaway youth">ran away</a> before a decision was made. After Blade joined and turned a <a href="/wiki/Street_gang" class="mw-redirect" title="Street gang">street gang</a> called the "Bad Bloods", Whistler found him and killed several members of the gang before taking Blade under his wing. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Whistler&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Whistler&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2021</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Kristofferson has been praised for his role as Whistler.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="Generalization requires multiple sources (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Actor <a href="/wiki/Ethan_Hawke" title="Ethan Hawke">Ethan Hawke</a> praised Kristofferson's "pitch-perfect" performance and called it "the grounding wire running through those two popcorn movies."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In retrospect, some criticized Kristofferson's casting as <a href="/wiki/Whitewashing_in_film" title="Whitewashing in film">whitewashing</a> as Whistler replaces Blade's mentor from the comics, Jamal Afari, who was black.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Oakman_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oakman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At one point before <a href="/wiki/Wesley_Snipes" title="Wesley Snipes">Wesley Snipes</a> had been cast, <a href="/wiki/New_Line_Cinema" title="New Line Cinema">New Line Cinema</a> even asked if Blade could be white, which Goyer rejected.<sup 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Comics Continuum. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20120723143748/http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0203/19/bladeindex.htm">Archived</a> from the original on 2012-07-23<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-01-08</span></span>. <q>Initially, with Whistler, we were thinking Patrick McGoohan, and then we started thinking Jon Voigt and then Kris Kristofferson</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Comics+Continuum&rft.pub=Comics+Continuum&rft.date=2002-03-19&rft.au=Rob+Allstetter&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comicscontinuum.com%2Fstories%2F0203%2F19%2Fbladeindex.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAbraham+Whistler" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Otto-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Otto_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Otto_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Otto_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOtto2021" class="citation web cs1">Otto, Jeff (1 November 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/03/01/an-interview-with-david-s-goyer">"An Interview with David S. Goyer"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/IGN" title="IGN">IGN</a></i>. <q>the reinforcements are the Nightstalkers, which is sort of Whistler's contingency plan that he's been training on the side</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=IGN&rft.atitle=An+Interview+with+David+S.+Goyer&rft.date=2021-11-01&rft.aulast=Otto&rft.aufirst=Jeff&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ign.com%2Farticles%2F2004%2F03%2F01%2Fan-interview-with-david-s-goyer&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAbraham+Whistler" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Kutzera-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Kutzera_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDale_Kutzera1998" class="citation magazine cs1">Dale Kutzera (1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2029%20No%2010%20%28Feb%201998%29/page/n26/mode/1up">"LONE WOLF VAMPIRE SLAYER"</a>. <i>Cinefantastique Magazine</i>. p. 27 – via <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>. <q>the only three people we were thinking about for Whistler were Patrick Mac-goohan, Jon Voight, and Kris Kristofferson.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Cinefantastique+Magazine&rft.atitle=LONE+WOLF+VAMPIRE+SLAYER&rft.pages=27&rft.date=1998&rft.au=Dale+Kutzera&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcinefantastique_1970-2002%2FCinefantastique%2520Vol%252029%2520No%252010%2520%2528Feb%25201998%2529%2Fpage%2Fn26%2Fmode%2F1up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAbraham+Whistler" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ew-oral-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ew-oral_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ew-oral_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreenblatt2018" class="citation magazine cs1">Greenblatt, Leah (July 16, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ew.com/comic-con/2018/07/16/blade-oral-history-wesley-snipes/">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Blade' oral history: Wesley Snipes and the cast look back at a modern cult classic"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Entertainment_Weekly" title="Entertainment Weekly">Entertainment Weekly</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190514114748/https://ew.com/movies/2018/07/16/blade-oral-history-wesley-snipes/">Archived</a> from the original on May 14, 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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