Marvel's Greatest Vampire Hunter isn't Blade, It's an X-Men Hero
While Blade is considered Marvel's best vampire hunter, X-Men's Magik may give him some competition. While Magik is typically seen working alongside the X-Men or as a recent teacher at the Strange Academy, one version of her was a member of the multiverse-traveling Exiles. It was during one of multiversal trips where she proved she could be an even greater vampire hunter than Blade himself.
The Exiles are a group of mutant characters from parallel dimensions whose purpose is to travel to alternate universes where they are given missions to help prevent great calamities or allow specific events to occur in an effort to preserve that universe from destruction. In Exiles #31, the team ends up in a world where a classic battle between Captain America and Baron Blood, an ancient vampire supervillain who tangled with Rogers during his time with the Invaders, went a different route. Baron bit Steve Rogers and thus turned him into a vampire. The now-evil Rogers not only killed Baron but then proceeded to transform his fellow Avengers into vampires as well. The Exiles needed to stop the evil Avengers from using a powerful totem they stole from SHIELD with the power to enslave an entire city. With the help of that universes' Union Jack, the Exiles manage to surprise the Vampire King and his team but learn that this Cap can't be killed by conventional methods and witness their teammate Sunfire begin to transform after being bitten.
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In Exiles #32 by writer Judd Winnick and Jim Calafiore, the Exiles teleport back to Union Jack's in England courtesy of Magik's powers in hopes to cure Sunfire. Magik is widely considered one of Marvel's strongest mutants,
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