"Prerequisites: Blades/Claws/Fangs

Choose a character. The character can use Steal Energy if it can't already."

A lot of people are saying they use Vampirism on the new Venom... but he has steal energy. How is this possible?

b/c when he has B/C/F he is not able to use Steal Energy.
If there is a clix that has both B/C/F and steal energy it would not allow steal energy to stack.

Well, now I just feel silly.

This is not a dumb question.

Compare that to Force Field.
With FF, you must a choose a character without a power that reduces damage anywhere on the dial.

I can see where a person might equate the two, but there is a subtle difference in that "choose a character" occurs before the game. The way Vampirism is worded, there are no qualifiers on who you can choose, but FF does have qualifiers.