When Sony announced the studio would produce a feature-length film on the Spider-Man villain Morbius — without Spidey making an appearance — many fans asked why. Sony's complicated relationship with Marvel and the wall-crawling hero has led to the creation of Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU). What started as a universe featuring Tom Hardy as Venom, is expanding to feature characters such as Madame Web, El Muerto, and Dr. Michael Morbius himself.
Starring Jared Leto as the pseudo-vampire villain, Morbius finally made it to theaters after months of delays. It was a critical and commercial failure, making $163.3 million at the box office on an $80 million budget. Despite the failures, Sony brought the film back to theaters after #MorbiusSweep spread across social media, mocking the film and its titular character. But even a second chance in the theaters didn't erase its bizarre plot choices.
10 Lucien Goes By "Milo" After One Scene
In the big flashback sequence for Morbius and Lucien/Milo, viewers see them meet for the first time as children. Michael is a patient at an orphanage and when Lucien sits down in the bed next to him, Morbius ignores him before calling him Milo.
Morbius then explained that every kid who had been in that bed before had been called Milo. From this point onward, Lucien officially goes by Milo, even to the point that his doctor Emil Nicholas calls him Milo in the next scene.
9 Detective Shroud Somehow Catches Morbius After The Chase
When Morbius tries to leave the lab, he's confronted by Agents Stroud and Rodriquez of the FBI and a chase around the building ensues. Morbius races up the building using his super-speed to climb directly up a flight of stairs to the roof of the building, but he's only there for a moment before Agent Stroud confronts the doctor.
Stroud does theoretically have a mechanical arm, but it isn't seen in the film, and that enhancement doesn't explain how he is only a few seconds behind Morbius during the chase. The scene feels heavily edited to save time, leading to Stroud's sudden appearance.
8 Milo Has Unexplained Wealth And Resources
When Michael Morbius is arrested after trying to escape the lab, Milo visits him and says they can "make this go away." This is a clear nod to the wealth, power, and influence Milo must have if he can make Michael's arrest disappear.
Additionally, the film shows off Milo's home many times — including that infamous dancing song — but there's never an explanation as to how Milo acquired any of his wealth. The most plausible explanation is that Michael has been sharing his own wealth with Milo, but the film never offers any evidence to that effect, and if his influence somehow came from Morbius, it renders Milo's offer to help out ridiculous.
7 Martine Goes On the Boat With Morbius, Even Though He Tells Her To Stay Away
Dr. Martine Bancroft is Morbius' colleague and the first person to discover the doctor's experiments with bats and his plans to test a cure for his disease. When Bancroft confronts Morbius, the scientist claims he never told Martine about it, so she could have plausible deniability.
Morbius believes keeping Martine in the dark will protect her from the trouble he will likely get into if his experiments are discovered. However, this doesn't last. A few minutes later, Morbius takes Martine with him for the final test, rendering the previous conversation pointless.
6 The Vulture Thinks Spider-Man Is Involved With His Teleportation
When the Vulture meets with Michael Morbius in the second post-credit scene, he said he believed Spider-Man was involved in him ending up in the SSU. While fans who saw Spider-Man: No Way Home knew this and thought had merit, there was nothing Adrian Toomes could've seen that would have indicated Spider-Man's involvement.
The only real explanation is that Adrian is randomly blaming his enemy, Spider-Man. However, Toomes and Peter Parker part on decent enough terms in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Why would Toomes jump to this conclusion when there's no evidence to back it up?
5 Morbius Monitors His Transformations On His Watch, But There Is No Clear System
Throughout the film's many monologues following Morbius' transformation into a vampire, Morbius' reliance on artificial blood is the main focus of the plot's conflict. The doctor documents how long he can rely on the fake blood before going hungry, using a watch to time himself.
While Morbius states how long he's holding the hunger off, the system is muddled at best. Some points in the film show him counting down from six hours, and other moments show him resetting his watches to count up. The message is clear, artificial blood is wearing off more quickly, but the delivery of that message is messy.
4 Adrian Toomes Stays In The Sony-Verse Despite The End Of No Way Home
How Adrian Toomes got to Sony-Verse is already a little confusing since the rules of Doctor Strange's spell were never completely or clearly defined. This makes the idea that Strange's magic would bring some villains to the universe of Spider-Man: No Way Home and send others out of that universe relatively plausible.
However, the whole thing falls apart when Toomes remains in the SSU, presumably after Dr. Strange corrects the spell. This is especially confusing after the post-credit scene of No Way Home revealed that Venom, who had come to the MCU, was sent back to the SSU after Dr. Strange fixed the spell.
3 Martine Becoming A Vampire Is A Cheap Twist With No Explanation
When Martine offers her blood to Morbius, so he can be at full strength to fight Milo, it seems to like a fatal sacrifice for the man she loves, even as she's already bleeding out from Milo's attack. This all goes out the window when Martine is revealed to be alive and has been turned into a pseudo-vampire, like Morbius.
Throughout the film, Morbius and Milo attack and bite several people, and not one of them is transformed into a vampire. There is nothing different about Morbius biting Martine. Perhaps it is a twist to be explained in the sequel, but as it stands now, it's one of the most confusing parts of Morbius.
2 Vulture Wants Team Up With Morbius And Do Some Good
After all that happens in the post-credit scenes, fans are left with one final thought from the Vulture. Adrian Toomes believes "guys like them" should team up to do some good. He asserts this even though Toomes is a bitter villain, even if he protected Spider-man's identity when he was in prison.
While it's a clear setup for the Sinister Six somewhere down the line, the idea the famous group of villains would be heroes, or at least anti-heroes is laughable. The Vulture has been a criminal up to this point and even then, his ultimate goal should be to return home, not join Sinister Six Lite.
1 The Vulture Rebuilds His Suit Without Chitauri Tech
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In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Adrian Toomes builds his suit from stolen Chitauri tech from the Battle of New York wreckage, and he has his assistant Phineas Mason design the tech. When he is teleported into Morbius' universe, Adrian doesn't have Mason and more importantly, he has zero access to the Chitauri tech.
In fact, since Adrian Toomes doesn't exist in the SSU universe, the supervillain has no resources of any kind. Despite that, he is able to rebuild the Vulture suit in its entirety, with only minor cosmetic differences but the same functions and distinctive look.