Sim, absolutamente ele era. Whedon cita "Blade the Slayer Vampire" (e especificamente A Tumba do Drácula ) como um dos principais influências em o desenvolvimento dos personagens de Robin e Nikki Wood. Ele e Doug Petric estão no registro como sendo chuffed para pedaços que eles realmente tem Gene Colan (o co-criador de Blade) para lápis mais tarde uma história em quadrinhos de Buffy em ' Contos dos Slayers # 7 ':
Westfield: Can you say anything more about the Tales of the Slayers book?
Whedon: We don't have a date for it, but we talked about this when we were shooting the seventies flashback of Spike killing a slayer on a subway. I said to Doug Petric, who's one of my writers and who's written some of the Buffy comics and is, like me, a comic book nut, "God. We should do a compendium of stories of slayers throughout history." And he was like "I get to do the seventies slayer on the subway." He's actually doing it with Gene Colan. There was so much of the original Blade and Tomb of Dracula in that whole sequence. We were so into that. We pitched that to Scott and he was all over it and it turned out that practically my entire staff wanted to do it. They all picked an era and we talked about length and I'm doing three little pieces in it myself. It's a different artist for every piece and we're getting some really exciting people to
Curiosamente, o personagem de Robin Wood parece ter sido strongmente moldado por (e possivelmente nomeado) o arquetípico "guerreiro assombrado" descrito no ensaio seminal de 1979 " Uma Introdução ao American Horror Film " escrito pelo crítico de cinema Robin Wood, algo que continua sendo leitura essencial para todos os estudantes de cinema e foi quase certamente o ponto de referência para o desenvolvimento de Whedon. Buffy e mais tarde "Cabin in the Woods".