Morbius is set in the same reality as the Venom movies, as suggested by Morbius' joking reference to the symbiote antihero when threatening a goon and confirmed by director Daniel Espinosa in an interview with CinemaBlend.Ī Daily Bugle newspaper glimpsed in the film confirms that this universe has a Spider-Man, but that he's missing. "We're putting a team together" is something of a post-credits cliche at this point - we've also seen it in multiple early MCU movies and Joss Whedon's Justice League.
That movie hinted at villain Harry Osborn gathering a bunch of baddies, but the plot thread was cut off since Sony's deal with Marvel effectively ended the Amazing Spider-Man series and replaced Andrew Garfield with Tom Holland's MCU Spidey. The Morbius scenes seem like Sony exercising its cinematic right to Vulture to set up the Sinister Six: a classic group of Spidey villains the studio has been trying to bring to the silver screen since Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014.
The various parallel multiverses were unleashed when timeline dictator He Who Remains was defeated in MCU Disney Plus series Loki, while Spider-Man accidentally ported a bunch of multiversal villains into the MCU in No Way Home when he messed up Doctor Strange's spell to make the world forget his secret identity. The first of the two scenes acts as a companion to the No Way Home and Venom: Let There Be Carnage mid-credits scenes, in that a character is sent to another universe and reckons their displacement is somehow Spidey's fault. Toomes suggests that he, Morbius and some other guys team up and "do some good." Morbius apparently finds this idea intriguing. The former MCU resident doesn't know how he ended up in that universe, but reckons Spider-Man has something to do with it. Morbius drives to an appointment somewhere in the remote desert, where he meets Toomes, who's somehow acquired his full winged Vulture exo-suit.
In a TV segment, a newscaster says Toomes is expected to be released immediately (since he hasn't been convicted of any crimes in this reality). "Hope the food here's better than the other joint," he says with the calm of a guy who's lived in a universe of comic book craziness for too long. He figured out Peter Parker's identity during the course of that movie, but opted to keep it to himself in the slammer.Īdrian Toomes, AKA Vulture, is the star of the movie's extra scenes. We met Toomes in the MCU-set Spider-Man: Homecoming, where he was beaten by Spidey and ended up in prison. It's none other than Adrian Toomes (AKA Vulture, played by Michael Keaton), who's teleported into Manhattan Detention Facility. This tear in the multiverse was first seen leading to parallel realities in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and through it a familiar face pops into Morbius' world. Roll credits! But a moment later, a purple portal appears over the New York City skyline. In the film's finale, Morbius defeats his surrogate-brother-turned-vampire-enemy Milo (Matt Smith) and transforms lady friend Martine (Adria Arjona) into a vampire. Let's sink our teeth right into some succulent SPOILERS. In a perplexing turn of events, Morbius shoehorns an MCU character into its closing moments. Disney has been allowed to use some of them in its MCU movies through a special deal with Sony that allows Tom Holland's Spider-Man to show up alongside the Avengers. This movie doesn't take place in the Disney-owned Marvel Cinematic Universe, since Sony only owns movie rights to Spider-Man and characters who originated in Spidey comics (like Morbius and Venom). "If you can be bothered to stick around, the bottom is well and truly scraped by a post-credits scene that reeks of desperation." "There's very little in Morbius to get the heart pumping, as the obligatory origin story dribbles away any interesting ideas and deflates like a leaking plasma drip," CNET's Richard Trenholm says in his review.