Michael Morbius

* Human
* Vampire

Born in 1989 Doctor **Michael Morbius** is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist suffering from a rare blood disease, who attempts to cure himself with vampire bat DNA; but; instead becomes afflicted; with a form of vampirism; which sees him develop unusual inhuman traits and abilities, the progressive, gradual mutation of his physical appearance and the gradual degradation of his mental health for the worst; by becoming a human-turned-vampire; known as **Morbius the Living Vampire**.

## Biography

### *Morbius*

25 years earlier, at a private hospital in Greece in 1999 a 10-year-old Michael Morbius welcomes the arrival of his surrogate brother Lucien, who he decides to name "Milo Morbius" instead. Both children were suffering from a rare blood disease that prevented their bodies from creating blood. Eventually, Michael manages to save Milo's life by fixing his broken blood pump. As a result of this, their adoptive father figure Dr. Nicholas arranged for him to study at a special school for geniuses in America while he continuing to care for Milo himself.

A now 35-year-old Dr. Michael Morbius refuses a Nobel Prize from the King and Queen of Sweden for having developed synthetic blood that has saved millions of lives, due to it failing as a long-term treatment for his specific disease. He returns to his lab, where Morbius' colleague and girlfriend Martine Bancroft chastises him for his illegal experiments that he is conducting with piranhaiac vampire bats he had illegally stolen from the Amazon Rainforest. Later, Morbius manages to get funding to continue his experiments on a cargo ship in international waters, and develops a working cure, managing to turn both a mouse and then himself into a vampire. However, after Morbius breaks free of his bonds and climbs to the ceiling, Martine absentmindedly opens his containment field, causing Morbius to escape and massacre the entire crew, draining them of their blood. When he comes to his senses once his bloodlust has subsided, a horrified Morbius erases all CCTV footage of his experiments before calling in a distress call to the mainland and jumping overboard.

Upon his return to New York City, Morbius continues his experiments, relying on his synthetic blood until it begins to grow less potent, finding his original set of vampire bats view him as a bat, and that he now has superhuman "Olympian" strength and echolocation abilities. Later, while checking in on the comatose Martine at their hospital, Morbius finds a nurse has been drained of her blood and killed. Believing himself responsible, he attempts to escape the hospital before allowing Stroud and Rodriguez to arrest him when confronted.

In prison, Morbius is met by Milo posing as his lawyer, who promises to use his connections to have him freed. After Milo leaves without his cane, Morbius realises he had taken the cure and most likely killed the nurse, and escapes from prison to confront him, hearing him kill a man who mocked Morbius for his original disability. Admitting he killed the nurse, but only due to the same bloodlust that caused Morbius to kill the ship's crew, Milo asks Morbius to join him in embracing their truer selves and live as vampires, before killing a group of police officers attempting to arrest Morbius and leaving.

The next day, Morbius meets with Martine to tell her of Milo's involvement and asking her to stay away from him. Morbius acquires a new lab from some counterfeiters to work from, developing a compound to commit suicide, but finds himself reluctant to. Once Morbius responds to Nicholas' phone call and goes to his side, seeing him die. Hearing Martine's final moments, Morbius makes his way across the city and holds her in his arms as she dies, before feeding on her blood, gaining more power. Confronting Milo, Morbius tackles him into the sewers, before summoning an army of thousands of bats from the sewers and setting them upon Milo, keeping him motionless long enough for Morbius to use his compound on him, ending his bloodlust. Tearfully accepting of Morbius for having given him his name, Milo dies in his arms. Mourning Milo and Martine, Morbius takes flight with the vampire bat swarm in full sight of the city, embracing his identity as a vampire.

Meanwhile, Adrian Toomes finds himself transported to Morbius' universe; by a magic spell. Knowing Spider-Man was responsible, he reaches out to recruit Morbius to help hunt him down.

## Personality

Morbius is devoted to cure his disease while staying good-natured as a doctor. He seeks to help people; but becomes a threat after testing on himself. He is forgiving, as seen; when he offered Milo a chance for redemption; following the latter's fall to villainy.

Morbius retains the desire to help people, voicing intrigue in Vulture's proposal that; they find others like them that; work outside the law and form a team to do what others can't.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Pseudo-Vampirism**: Michael Morbius created a supposed cure for his rare blood disease and used it on himself, upon which he transformed into a Living Vampire. As a living vampire Morbius now possesses several superhuman powers. When Morbius uses his powers, his overall appearance changed as well. He gained fangs and claws, his nose flattened to appear more bat-like, and his skin became extremely pale. His eyes also change color depending on what ability he is using, whether it be their normal red color, or white and black star-like shapes when he is using his echolocation. He claims to have the constitution of an Olympic athlete in addition to strength and speed increased to superhuman levels.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Morbius is much stronger normal human, enabling him to overpower and manhandle full grown men with relative ease. He is also able to go head-on against other living vampires, such as Milo Morbius.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Morbius' body is much harder and more resistant to conventional forms of physical injury than the body of a human being. He can withstand falls from great heights like buildings, and tremendous impact forces from other superhumans, such as Milo Morbius, without sustaining injury.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Morbius is capable of movement at exceptionally high speeds even being able to dodge bullets. His power causing him to generate an aura of energy currents and mist-like shapes of the color of the clothes he has using, much like fire or wind, leaving behind a trail of it as he ran. He proved capable of equalize Milo in a high-speed hand-to-hand combat during their fights, able to dodge his feral attacks and land his own blows. Morbius's speed allows him to slow time itself down and the environment, as he can observe and uses methods to fly in front of a train which prevents Milo from chasing him. As such, the surroundings produce various misty trails which directs where the wind is blown as well.
	+ **Superhuman Agility**: Morbius possesses greater agility, dexterity, balance, and body coordination than that of a normal human being.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: Morbius' advanced musculature is considerably more efficient than that of a normal human. As a result, his muscles virtually do not produce fatigue toxins during physical activity. His endurance allows him to exercise his maximum capacity for an indefinite period of time without tiring at all.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes**: Morbius can react and dodge objects traveling at high speeds, enough to dodge bullets even while free falling.
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: Morbius can hear, smell and see far better than a normal human, even being able to use his enhanced senses to track his targets.
		- **Echolocation**: Morbius can use echolocation similar to a bat to isolate and track prey even in giant cities.
		- **Night Vision**: Due to Michael's superhuman senses, he can see clearly in the dark.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Morbius' metabolism enables him to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily tissue with greater speed and efficiency than that of a human.
	+ **Gliding**: Morbius can use limited amounts of psionic energy to hover above the ground at considerable speeds and simulate flight, leaving behind a trail of it as he flight.
	+ **Vampirization**: When Martine was dying, Morbius dripped his blood into her mouth and turned her into a vampire in order to save her life.
	+ **Bat Communication**: Morbius was able to call upon an army of bats and order them to attack Milo.
	+ **Accelerated Perception:** Michael can process information and think much faster than humans. He was able see bullets moving in slow motion, despite the fact that they were moving at high speeds.
	+ **Wall-Crawling:** As a vampire, Michael is able to stick or grip onto any surface, just like a bat.
	+ **Sharp Claws and Fangs:** As a vampire, Michael has razor-sharp fangs which he could use to bite and tear through flesh and bone and razor-sharp claws which he could use to rip and tear through materials.

## Equipment

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## Relationships

### Allies

* Milo Morbius - surrogate brother/friend
* Martine Bancroft - fiancée
* Dr. Nicholas - mentor

### Enemies

* FBI
	+ Simon Stroud
	+ Alberto Rodriguez

## Trivia

* If Morbius is 35 and the film takes place in 2024; which means; Morbuis was born in 1989.

## References

1. ↑ "EXCLUSIVE: Plot Details for Sony’s ‘Morbius’ Spider-Verse Spin-Off" - That Hashtag Show