Deacon Frost
Deacon Frost is a male comic vampire supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Deacon Frost
Deacon Frost was a scientist looking for the key to immortality. For one of his experiments, he kidnapped Ilsa, a young woman, in order to inject her with the blood of a recently killed vampire. Ilsa's fiancé broke into the lab and in the resulting scuffle, Frost accidentally was injected with the blood himself. The result was that Frost became a vampire but due to the unusual method of his becoming a vampire, he was endowed with a unique characteristic. Anyone he turned into a vampire would generate a doppelgänger. He could create an infinite number of doppelgängers by biting each doppelgänger, and they would all be under his mental control. (Tomb of Dracula v1 #13)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Originally, Deacon Frost was an ordinary human being who by adulthood came to be a chemist. It was this foundation that led to him engaging in experiments in life prolongation and gaining immortality. (Tomb of Dracula v1 #53)
Notes
- Deacon Frost was created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan where he made his first appearance in The Tomb of Dracula v1 #13 (October, 1973).
Alternate Versions
- In Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates v1 #2 (2011), an alternate version of Deacon Frost appeared in the Ultimate Marvel reality that was designated as Earth-1610 in the Multiverse. Deacon Frost is responsible for Blade's mother's death. He bit and turned her during his birth, thus resulting in his Daywalker condition. Blade has been hunting him for most of his life, but was not able to kill him. Frost was apprehended by Nick Fury and kept locked in a safe-house to be used as leverage in persuading Blade to join the Avengers. Blade accepted on the condition that he be granted some alone time with Frost when his mission with the Avengers was over.
In other media
Television
- In Marvel Anime: Blade, Deacon Frost appeared in the setting of the anime television series where he was voiced by Japanese actor Tsutomu Isobe and by Englisha ctor JB Blanc in the dub. This version was the leader of an organization he created called Existence whose symbol was of a bat with DNA threads whose membership comprises hordes of vampires, most of which have been genetically altered by his science to make them more powerful, and humans who have been deceived into helping them in exchange for fulfilling their own desires.
Films
- In Blade, Deacon Frost appeared in the setting of the 1998 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Stephen Dorff. Deacon Frost is a vampire, once turned by the bite of another. The manner of his creation left him in a second class position and subservient to the dominant "purebloods" of the vampire nation. Seeking to improve his position, he gathered a number of new vampires to his cause and proceeded to manipulate his way up the ladder of their society. During his gradual ascendancy, he learned of a vampire legend that spoke of the rise of La Magra, the vampire blood god, and the resulting fall of humanity in the world. Aspiring to be the vessel through which La Magra would arise, Frost began to gather the secrets of the La Magra Formula that would propel him to the top of the vampire nation. An unexpected difficulty proved to be Blade, a half-human vampire who had been born just as his mother was succumbing to a bite from Deacon Frost himself. The baby had grown up to become a formidable vampire hunter and had come into contact with Frost's holdings and henchmen on several occasions, gradually whittling down Frost's developing empire. When the altercations escalated to direct contact between the two, Frost struck back by biting Blade's mentor and abducting Dr. Karen Jenson, Blade's newest ally. This in turn lured Blade into a trap that would place the vampire hunter at the centre of the La Magra Formula, as it was Blade's unique blood that was needed for the ritual to be complete.
Video games
- In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Deacon Frost was referenced in the setting of the video game. Blade's mother was said to had died at the hands of Deacon Frost and Eric dedicated his life to killing the undead.
Appearances
- Tomb of Dracula v1: (1973)
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