Phase Zero
Characters

Michael Morbius

The living vampire

Michael MorbiusVenomEarth-688

A doctor with a fatal blood disorder who cured himself with something taken from bats, and got a different fatal problem in exchange.

Morbius is a straightforward tragedy played straight, and it did not land. Michael Morbius is a Nobel-winning biochemist with the same rare blood disorder as his closest friend, and the treatment he develops works exactly as intended and turns him into something that needs blood.

The film is included here because it is part of the same shelf as Venom and because its credits scene reaches across to another studio’s universe, which is the more interesting fact about it.

Played by
Jared Leto
Role
Biochemist
Affiliation
None
What they can do
Strength, speed, echolocation, and a hunger the cure did not remove.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. Morbius2022

    Cures his own condition, discovers the cost, and finds that his oldest friend wants the same treatment.

Appears in

  1. Morbius2022

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 8, 2026