Headscratchers / Morbius (2022)

The Vulture's equipment

• The midcredits scene shows that as a result of the spell featured in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Adrian Toomes arrived into the universe this movie takes place in. He was shown arriving, literally with just the clothes on his back. And yet, in the other stinger, he meets Morbius wearing his full Vulture flight suit from Spider-Man: Homecoming. How did he got it? This version of Toomes is not a Mad Scientist, he is a construction foreman turned arms dealer, so he couldn't have built it from scratch himself in the new universe.
  • Toomes is already shown in Spider-Man: Homecoming as able to understand enough tech to dismantle and reassemble alien tech in creative ways. While he's no Tony Stark or Bruce Banner, he may have enough smarts to cobble something close enough with whatever the new universe had.
    • That wasn't Toomes. That was his underling Mason AKA the Tinkerer who made all the tech. Toomes simply used it.
    • I may be wrong, but though Tinkerer was the inventor, I believe the whole gang was involved in the construction of his inventions. Toomes might have become familiar enough with Tinkerer's designs to be able to replicate them himself. If that's true, however, he still shouldn't be able to design anything new or stray too far from Tinkerer's designs.

Vulture and Morbius

• How did he manage to contact Morbius, who is on the run for multiple murders, and why would he agree to meet him? And why would Morbius have any interest in teaming up with him to do anything?
  • The Law of Conservation of Detail. It really doesn't matter how he did it. He's a supervillain and pulled it off. Do you want to watch a five-minute montage of him searching? As to why Morbius would want to team up with him, he doesn't necessarily. All he says is "intriguing." Presumably he's willing to give a few minutes of his time to hear out the guy who tracked him down in a flying super-suit.

Spider-Man?

• Why does Toomes think Spider-Man would have had anything to do with what happened to him?
  • Perhaps the MCU version of his cell had (or was near) a TV showing Spider-Man's broadcast to the villains and later the rift opening in the sky, and he put two and two together? (Maybe?)
  • Toomes hates Spider-Man. That alone is enough to make him want to believe that Spider-Man is responsible. So it might not be a case of Toomes deducing that Spider-Man did this, but rather Toomes assuming, eagerly, that Spider-Man must be responsible for Toomes's troubles now just like Spidey's been in the past, and being right in that assumption purely by chance.
• Also, does Spider-Man exist in the SSU or not? It's implied he does since Morbius's first reaction to Toomes isn't "who or what is Spider-Man?", but it remains unclear.

The Vulture's Future Villain Team

• During the second post-credits scene, Adrian Toomes in his new Vulture flight suit, he meets with Morbius and Toomes talks with Morbius about forming a team to defeat Spider-Man. But which members would join The Sinister Six of Vulture?
  • That would be a question for future films to answer, which we'll probably never get.

Why is Vulture?

• Why is Toomes in the SSU? Strange's spell explicitly removed the dimensional visitors from the MCU, by wiping their memories of Peter Parker, it shouldn't take someone already from that universe and take them to a different universe, how does that work?
  • Presumably this is why Wong was against using the spell, it's that unpredictable. Alternatively this is actually the result of Multiverse of Madness.
  • I think for this one, as well as the other three folders, we may see what'll happen in Multiverse of Madness as mentioned. I also think something may have changed along the way because this film has been delayed several times and it could have undergone rewriting.
  • Not that this would avoid raising further questions, but perhaps Adrian is from the SSU originally, having somehow arrived in the MCU at a much earlier point (possibly earlier than he remembers), and was thus returned by the spell?
  • Maybe Toomes had a portal open to this verse near him and went in to investigate, and the spell counted that as part of the "nobody in the MCU remembers Peter Parker" because he wasn't in the MCU at the time?
  • To be fair, that spell's side-effects were ridiculously random. Going from a simple memory erasure to opening the gates of the Multiverse and drawing in people who died years ago was quite a logic-stretch even if you just write it off as magic.
  • Since Across the Spider-verse also had a displaced Vulture, the connection might be down to something else. Especially since that Vulture was stranded in a world where Peter Parker never became Spider-Man.

Milo’s surname

• I understand that Milo is simply a nickname that Morbius gave him when they were kids since he didn't want to get attached, but do they explain why they have the same last name since Nicholas isn’t simply a father figure and not actually their parent?
  • Milo/Lucian doesn't seem to be credited with a last name in the film.

The Rift in the Sky

• Another one for The Stinger. To establish that we're seeing the effects of No Way Home, we can see a giant rift in the sky like the one that appeared in that film. However, the only individuals in the SSU who should be affected by No Way Home are any who happen to know Peter Parker is Spider-Man — which, apart from Venom and his Hand Wave-d multiversal hive-mind knowledge of Spidey, may not actually be anyone since it's still unknown if Spider-Man exists in this universe. Even if there are others, why is the SSU itself being affected in seemingly the same way as the MCU?
• The universe/magic knows that there are characters in this universe who are related to Spiderman in other universes (aka the comics), so it dragged them into the spell?

Animal Blood

• Why wouldn't Morbius just immediately think of drinking animal blood as an alternative? It's been a stable of almost every vampire based story.
  • Since animal blood is relatively easy to come by if you want it, it's safe to assume that he already tried that alternative.
  • Why doesn't animal blood work though? This isn't a curse or magically created vampire. It's a product of science, using the DNA of vampire bats. They can drink any type of blood. There's no reason he shouldn't be able to drink pigs blood from a butcher or something.
    • There's no reason why he'd have a drive to kill as opposed to just drink a little either, as vampire bats don't normally take enough blood to harm their much larger food sources, let alone kill them. Possibly it's a case of the normal bat's drive to sip a little blood getting entangled with atavistic human impulses to fight other humans, even to the death in extremis.

Very nonchalant FBI agents

• Why aren't Stroud and his partner bothered that vampires are running rampage in their universe? They see a man jumping off walls and "teleporting" like the Flash. They seem to take the existence of vampires pretty well.
  • They are Fantastically Indifferent. And if this is in the same universe as Venom, other supernatural stuff has been going on lately, so the existence of vampires wouldn't be as mind-shattering as it would be in real life. (FYI, it's "running rampant").

Why is blood dependance a problem in a world with artificial blood?

• Even if artificial blood won't sate his hunger it should be simple to get an abundance of regular blood bags by just getting people to donate normally then topping them up with the artificial stuff so they're able to donate again sooner.
  • If Morbius were able to create some sort of stable support network of willing donors, it wouldn't be a problem, but at this point in his existence, he isn't in a position to do so.

Echolocation eyes

• Why do Michael's eyes change to a grey, wavey form when he uses echolocation? Echolocation is purely sound-based, essentailly a form of sonar, so his eyes would not be involved in any way.
  • Perhaps it's just a visual cue meant for the audience's benefit? The way I see it it's just a sign that he's activating his power.

Michael and Milo's crutches

• As kids, it is shown that Michael walked around with only one crutches while Milo had two. But somehow it got inverted in their adulthoods: Michael has two crutches and Milo only one. How could that be?
  • Although the exact nature of their blood disorder isn't specified, we know Michael was trying to incorporate the bat saliva's anti-clotting factors into himself. This suggests that the impairment to his and Milo's legs is a side effect of excess coagulation, which could potentially occur in any body part: legs, arms, internal organs, brain, whatever. Both of them beat the odds and survived to adulthood because it never happened in a vital organ, but their legs - one of the more likely locations for an embolism to strike, given how gravity works - weren't so lucky. Both men probably went through periods of having one, both, or neither leg impaired throughout their lives, as repeated clotting episodes occurred and were recovered from.

Michael's shoelaces

• Why does Michael wear his shoes untied? For someone who needs crutches to get around, that's kind of a tripping hazard.