Morbius Ending And Post-Credits Scene Explained

So, Morbius finally happened--and, yeah, it may not be that great, but it will still have some sort of impact on the future of the MCU. Or, maybe not the MCU proper, but the Sony villains movies--it's kind of confusing and the lines between the two are more blurry than ever before. So with that in mind, we're going to talk about what happened at the end of Morbius, spoilers and all, to either help you sort out what you just watched or save you a trip to the theaters depending on the sort of person you may be.

Major Morbius spoilers to follow.

Unsurprisingly, after taking the vampire serum/blood disease cure, Morbius's friend Milo goes completely off the rails and becomes a full on power hungry villain in a matter of days, framing Morbius for various vampiric murders around the city. This leads Morbius to shift his focus away from his own problem--the fact that blood isn't sustaining him for very long anymore and he'll eventually need to kill (despite a mostly unlimited supply of both real blood in blood bags and the artificial blood he himself invented.) Thankfully, his solution to this problem is likely going to be a two-for-one deal. He develops (with the help of his Martine Bancroft) a "cure" for vampirism that borrows a whole lot from traditional folklore: it is deployed as a stake to the heart which will prevent a vampire from regenerating and surviving.

He makes two, with the intent on using one on Milo and then using one on himself.

Unfortunately, however, before he can do either, Milo attacks Martine and leaves her for dead, making the fight all the more personal.

Said fight is a bit confusing--and mostly a blur of CGI bats and slow motion effects--but ultimately ends up with Morbius accomplishing his mission and killing Milo. Meanwhile, some ways away, Martine awakens on the rooftop after her attack where it is revealed that Milo didn't actually manage to kill her, but transmit the vampiric curse to her unbeknownst to Morbius himself.

When the smoke clears in the final battle, Morbius flees the scene to avoid the authorities and, apparently, at some point in his escape, he has a change of heart about using the cure on himself because the next thing we know, he's having a clandestine meeting during the post-credits scene.

The set-up for the post-credits scene is a bit tricky. Apparently, at some point (likely during the final moments of Spider-Man: No Way Home) a mysterious man manifested out of nowhere in an empty cell in prison. This was Adrian Tombs, AKA The Vulture, who has no criminal record here in this world and was therefore set free immediately. Why Tombs was sent to a new world is never made clear--though the specifics of how or why the No Way Home spell worked the way it did are fuzzy at best, given the fact the same spell also brought (and sent home) Eddie Brock to the main MCU world as well.

The first thing Tombs apparently does after being set free from prison is contact Morbius and offer him a proposition: gathering a team of like-minded individuals to do some good (or maybe some bad, who knows.)

This is obviously a nod to an upcoming Sinister Six (or Sinister Six-style) team-up of Spider-Man villains and/or anti-heroes, though that project has yet to be officially announced. Thus far we can assume the involvement of Vulture, Morbius, and most likely Venom, as well as Kraven the Hunter who is getting his own movie very soon and possibly Madame Webb who is also in the works for a solo film.

How or where these villains or this potential team-up will fit into the MCU at large remains to be seen.

Morbius is in theaters now.