Morbius post-credits scenes reveal a larger Spider-Man universe

Morbius has finally arrived, and Marvel’s (living!) The debut movie features a vampire doctor who has to confront some of his own demons. But just because the movie keeps things small, doesn’t mean it can’t tie into a larger world in one way or another.

The majority of Morbius is rooted in the doctor’s battling his own bloodthirstiness and Matt Smith’s villain, the post credits widen the scope a bit and set up for an expansive future and a few familiar faces.

Morbius Two scenes are set mid-credits. The first takes place just after the credits have begun. Another is set a few minutes later. The final credits do not contain a single scene.

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers from Morbius.]

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Morbius’ post-credits scenes connect the movie to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, sort of like the teaser scene of Venom: Carnage!. However, this one is more complicated.

The first of the movie’s two stingers cuts to a shot of New York City, just as a giant purple rift appears in the sky — which is presumably the effect of Doctor Strange’s spell from Spider-Man, There’s No Way Home. After that, we move to the interior of an empty cell. Adrian Toomes, Michael Keaton, appears just seconds later. Because he appears a little different from before, he checks out the mirror and seems content with whatever he finds. The news reports that Adrian Toomes, a male named Adrian Toomes has been found in an empty prison cell are brief and will be soon released. It’s not really clear when this takes place in relation to the plot of the movie.

The movie’s second after-credits scene shows Morbius, well after the events of the movie, driving a sports car in the middle of an open road with fields on either side. He suddenly gets out and feels his bat sonar tingling before Toomes’ Vulture appears in a slightly altered version of his wing suit from Spider-Man’s Homecoming. Toomes has a quick chat with Toomes, where he admits that he does not know how he got to this place but believes it is related to Spider-Man. More importantly, Toomes says that he thinks some people like him and Morbius should team up and “do some good.”

These scenes seem to be set up for a Sinister Six film. It is true that Morbius Daniel Espinosa, director suggested that this was the case in interview with CinemaBlend. Thanks to some jokes, we also know that Morbius This takes place in the exact same universe as both Venom movies. The ending of Spider-Man, There’s No Way Home, we also know that Eddie Brock is back in this same universe — that is, the Morbius universe, which is where Vulture also lives now. Venom might be another member of this new team.

These scenes, however, are very confusing. This is due to the fact that they have little to do with previous movies. There are many questions that remain unanswered.

For one thing, we know Eddie Brock returned, too, but it seems that the news media is somehow only aware of Toomes’ odd appearance, so it’s possible not many people were involved or noticed the disappearances and reappearances. We also don’t know how this works, since it seems like Toomes is the only person shown to be affected by Doctor Strange’s spell who didn’t end up back in his own universe when it was undone.

Finally, it’s not really clear whether there is a Spider-Man in this universe! These were the initial few Morbius trailers featured posters of Spider-Man, but they weren’t actually present in the final film, so who knows exactly who this universe’s Sinister Six would actually fight.

Unfortunately, we’ll just have to wait for more Sinister Six news for now, but as of 2018, writer Drew Goddard still expressed interest in the project.