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Dr. Michael Morbius is a renowned scientist who specializes in the field of blood-borne diseases.

Morbius was the director of Horizon Labs, who suffered from a rare blood disease that prevented his body from creating new blood cells.

After he injected himself with a formula, that was extracted and modified from the DNA of vampire bats, he gained superhuman bat-like attributes becoming a living vampire.

After his best friend, Milo, became a living vampire, Morbius came into conflict with him as he chose to embrace his monstrous side.

Morbius killed Milo by injecting him with an antibody, putting an end to his reign of terror for good.

Initially, he intended to kill himself after he had killed Milo, as he believed that he was becoming a monster, but ultimately chose to embrace and live his life as a vampire, as a way to honour his colleague and love interest, Martine Bancroft, who sacrificed herself so that he would be strong enough to defeat Milo.

Biography[]

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Michael Morbius suffered from blood deficiency since childhood. Once he saved his surrogate brother Milo Morbius, the Doctor Nicholas who adopted them decided to send him to a school in New York. Morbius received his degree at the age of 19 and later invented a method of artificial blood. He was recommended to receive the Nobel Prize for that, but he refused it because it was a short-term cure. He illegally brought vampire bats from the Amazon forest to find a cure for the disease with the help of vampire bats. But his colleague Martine Bancroft found out and warned Michael about it. He tested the method on a rat and it worked.

Later, he tried it with the martini in international waters with Milo's help. From that he got superhuman powers like a vampire and he uncontrollably sucked the blood of everyone on the ship except Martine. When he came to his senses, he regretted what he had done, sent a distress call to land, deleted the CCTV footage on the ship and left. Returning to his laboratory, he tested his supernatural abilities. He quenches his thirst for blood by drinking artificial blood, but finds that he can only live on it for six hours. Milo comes looking for him and demands that he be given the cure as well, but Morbius tells Milo that he can't do it and sends Milo away.

That night, he kills a nurse due to bloodlust and drinks her blood. The next day, he is shocked and leaves with several bags of artificial blood, but is stopped and questioned by FBI agents, Simon Stroud and Alberto Rodriguez. Stroud captures him. In jail, Stroud and Rodriguez ask him why he killed the nurse, but he refuses to answer. Milo comes to the jail as his lawyer and says he will get out soon. When Milo forgetfully leaves his hammer, Morbius is furious when he learns that Milo also got the vaccine. When he jumps out of jail, Milo kills a newspaper vendor and drinks his blood. Morbius fights Milo and flies away to escapes.

The next day he meets Martine and explains what happened and asks her for help. He takes over a laboratory of a gang that prints fake money. He finds cure and plans to kill himself with it. Morbius suddenly gets a phone call from Dr. Nicholas. When Morbius goes to Nicholas, Milo has fatally attacked him. He tells Morbius to stop milo and dies. Milo kills Martine and Morbius gets angry and fights him fiercely after dirinks Martine's blood. Then he kills Milo with a bat army. Finally milo apologizes for what he did.

Adrian Toomes from another universe invites Morbius to meet him. He learns that he came here because of Spider-Man. He says that people like them should team-up. Morbius agrees to it.

Character traits[]

Michael is a brilliant scientist, turned vampire after a lab incident occurred during an experiment which was supposed to cure his blood illness. Michael possesses all of the classical vampire powers, but he's not affected by sunlight and he can fly using the wind streams. He hates his current status and tries everything to cure himself.

Powers and Abilities[]

Powers[]

  • Living Vampire Physiology: After being injected with the Morbius Formula, Michael gained superhuman attributes, including superhuman strength, durability, speed, agility, reflexes, stamina, senses, accelerated perception and an accelerated healing factor. Michael also developed a humanoid bat-like appearance with pale skin, bright red eyes, and razor-sharp teeth and claws.
    • Transformation: Michael is capable of transforming between his human and humanoid bat forms at will.
    • Superhuman Strength: Michael is much stronger than normal humans. He is able to break through bulletproof glass in a matter of seconds and can overpower a group of mercenaries relatively easily.
    • Superhuman Durability: Michael is far more durable than normal humans. He can withstand great impacts, such as surviving falls from tremendous heights, that would have severely injured or kill a normal human.
    • Superhuman Speed: Michael is much faster than normal humans. Michael can also move so fast that he looks like that he is turning into mist when he is moving too fast for the human eye to see.
    • Superhuman Agility: Michael is far more agile than normal humans.
    • Superhuman Reflexes: Michael's reflexes are much faster than normal humans. He can dodge or counter any attack, such as gunfire, even at point-blank range.
    • Superhuman Senses: Michael's senses are far more greatly developed than normal humans. He can pick up even the faintest of sounds and smells over vast distances.
      • Night Vision: Due to Michael's superhuman senses, he can see clearly in the dark.
    • Accelerated Perception: Michael can process information, and think much faster than normal humans. He was able see bullets moving in slow motion, despite the fact that they were moving at high speeds.
    • Accelerated Healing Factor: Michael's metabolism allows him to heal much faster, more extensively, and efficiently than normal humans but only when he drinks blood.
    • Gliding: Michael is able to glide on wind currents at amazing speeds and at high altitudes, simulating flight.
    • Razor-Sharp Teeth: Michael possesses razor-sharp teeth that are capable of biting through most other materials such as flesh and bone.
    • Razor-Sharp Claws: Michael possesses five razor-sharp claws on each of his hands, that are capable of cutting through most other materials, such as flesh, wood, stone and metal.
    • Wall-Crawling: Michael is able to stick or grip onto any surface, much like any bat would, by using his fingertips and feet.
    • Echolocation: By manipulating reflected sound or sound waves, Michael is able to locate objects or other individuals over small or vast distances.
    • Vampirization: Michael is able turn humans into other living vampires, when they are exposed to his vampiric blood.

Abilities[]

  • Genius-Level Intellect: Michael is a highly intelligent individual. He earned his doctorate at the age of 19.
  • Master Scientist: Michael is an excellent scientist and an expert in biochemistry. He was able to successfully create artificial blood, that saved more lives than penicillin, thus, earning Michael the nobel prize.
  • Master Engineer: Michael is an excellent engineer. Even at the age of ten, he was able to successfully fix Lucien Crown's blood pump with only a spring from a pen.
  • Expert Medic: Michael is a highly skilled doctor. He is the world's leading expert on blood-borne diseases.
  • Master Hand-To-Hand Combatant: Michael is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant, he was able to best a group of mercenaries relatively easily but mostly through brute strength and violence. Michael's combat skills combined with his superhuman physical attributes, make him a formidable opponent in single combat.

Weaknesses[]

  • Antibody: Morbius' living vampire physiology is similar to that of actual bats, which makes him vulnerable to the antibody and if he is injected with a massive amount of this serum, it will kill him.
  • Bloodlust: Morbius has a thirst for human blood, which forces him to rely on artificial blood, to avoid succumbing to his thirst for blood.
  • Blood Dependancy: Without blood, artificial or otherwise, Morbius grows weak and his blood disease returns making him immobile and vulnerable.

Former Weaknesses[]

  • Blood Disease: Michael had a rare blood disease that prevented his body from creating new blood cells, meaning that he had to be given new blood three times a day, but this only suppressed or slowed down Michael's medical condition, rather than cure it. After becoming a living vampire, consumption of blood suppresses the disease.
  • Lack of control: When Michael transformed into his humanoid bat form for the first time, he was extremely feral, and did not have any awareness and control over his actions. He even killed all of the mercenaries that were aboard the LCV Murnau. After Michael came out of his feral state, he had complete awareness and control over his actions.

Equipment[]

  • Artificial Blood: Michael uses artificial blood to avoid succumbing to his thirst for human blood. But as noted by Michael himself, artificial blood will eventually become ineffective.

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