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One of the most compelling and conflicted characters in Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil – or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges?
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Morbius Plot Summary and Synopsis
At a hospital in Greece, 10-year-old Michael Morbius welcomes his surrogate brother Lucien, whom he renames Milo; they bond over their shared blood illness and desire to be “normal”.
Their adoptive father and hospital director Nicholas arranges for Michael to attend medical school in New York while he focuses on caring for Milo.
25 years later, Michael publicly declines a Nobel Prize for his work with synthetic blood.
Michael’s colleague Martine Bancroft discovers he has secretly captured dozens of vampire bats from Costa Rica in the hope of splicing their genes with his own to cure his condition.
After informing Nicholas and Milo of his planned experiment, Michael receives funding to outfit a private mercenary vessel in international waters with his equipment. While the cure works, it transforms Michael into a vampire. Michael kills and drains the crew of their blood after they attack him out of fear.
Once his bloodlust subsides and he regains his senses, a horrified Michael erases all CCTV footage of his experiment before contacting the authorities and jumping overboard.
Michael returns to New York and discovers he has superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, and echolocation. He subsists on his synthetic blood until it gradually ceases to satisfy his needs.
FBI agents Simon Stroud and Al Rodriguez investigate Michael’s victims and deduce his involvement.
Milo learns that Michael is cured, but becomes furious when Michael refuses to cure him as well. While checking on a hospitalized Bancroft, Michael finds a dead nurse, drained of her blood. Believing he was responsible, he attempts to escape before being cornered and arrested.
In prison, Michael is visited by Milo, who offers to use his wealth to free him. Upon realizing Milo took his cure and killed the nurse, Michael escapes to confront him. An unrepentant Milo confesses to his crimes and urges Michael to embrace his powers as he has.
Unwilling to hurt his brother, Michael flees.
Michael meets Bancroft to explain what Milo has done before acquiring a new lab and developing an anticoagulant to stop and kill Milo; he also plans to use it on himself since he will become unable to resist his bloodlust.
Stroud and Rodriguez find footage of one of Milo’s attacks and release it to the media. Nicholas recognizes Milo and pleads with him to stop.
Angered by Nicholas’ perceived preference for Michael, Milo wounds and forces him to call Michael. Michael watches Nicholas die while Milo attacks Bancroft. Michael returns to Bancroft, but she dies in his arms and he drinks her blood. Michael confronts Milo and summons an army of bats to restrain him and inject the anticoagulant.
Morbius Ending
Milo dies and Michael flies off with the bats, mourning his loved ones and embracing his identity as a vampire. Unbeknownst to him, Bancroft is revived by her newly developed vampiric powers.
Morbius Post-Credits Scene
Adrian Toomes is transported to Michael’s universe by a spell. Knowing that his transportation involved Spider-Man, Toomes approaches Michael and suggests that they form a team.
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