Morbius’ End Credits Scenes Defy Logical Explanation

I can not cease serious about the top credit scenes of Morbius. They could be the apex of what finish credit scenes could be. From right here? It’s all downhill. These scenes are magical. The scenes are horrible and, frankly, we love them for it. We’ve peaked and there’s no going again.

Morbius, the brand new Sony movie set within the Spider-Man universe, was simply launched in theaters and, in case you make it to the top, you’ll be rewarded with two of probably the most stunning finish credit score scenes in reminiscence. But not due to how cool or thrilling they’re. No, nothing like that. These scenes have no thought what’s going on. They make little or no sense, acknowledge themselves as a lot, and had been largely spoiled in advertising earlier than launch. Suffice to say, this was a really enjoyable article to jot down.

We’re gonna drop a spoiler warning under, however once more, the movie’s director was already ruining these scenes earlier than the movie’s launch, and one was teased in a current trailer, you possibly can in all probability learn forward with out a lot fear.

As you might have learn in our overview, a lot of Morbius is about Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) attempting to stability the necessity to maintain his vampire powers, which maintain him alive, with the will to drink human blood. Ideally, he might keep a vampire and never kill anyone, however the movie by no means lets us understand how or if he finds that stability. Instead, after the ultimate battle, it ends with a close-up of the nice physician flying by way of the air and goes proper into the credit. The edit leads you to consider that the top credit scenes might, you already know, wrap up the precise story of the film. On the opposite.

Instead, after a couple of credit, scene one begins with a skyline and fracture within the sky. Fans who noticed Spider-Man: No Way Home acknowledge this because the multiverses mixing from the top of the movie so, you’d think about, shit’s about to go down. What truly goes down although is Adrian Toomes (Michael Keaton), final seen in Spider-Man: Homecoming, materializes in a jail cell. He appears to be like confused for a half-second earlier than being utterly OK materializing in one other universe the place his spouse and daughter don’t exist. He then says one thing cute alongside the traces of “I hope the food is better in this place.” Next, we see a information section about how police are baffled that this man appeared out of nowhere in a jail cell and that they’re planning on letting him out as quickly as potential.

In No Way Home, it was established that anybody who knew that any Peter Parker was Spider-Man was being drawn to the MCU dimension, and the one technique to cease it was for everybody to neglect Peter was Spider-Man, therefore that film’s bittercandy ending. But this ending doesn’t appear to slot in with that. Toomes is in truth one of many individuals who is aware of Peter Parker is Spider-Man however in some way he magically goes from the MCU dimension into one other dimension as a substitute of staying in his personal and forgetting about Peter. The act makes zero sense, virtually as if Doctor Strange’s spell didn’t work. At least it makes extra sense that he’s not a prison on this dimension and is let loose of jail, organising the second scene.

After a couple of extra credit, we reduce for scene two. In it, we see Morbius himself driving to some random location manner exterior of town. Before we get to that, it’s necessary to notice that Morbius appears to be like high quality. Almost as if he’s solved his little downside about ingesting human blood and is flourishing, with loads of time to drive into the center of nowhere to satisfy random folks. Does the film care that this predominant storyline is just not defined? Nope. Of course not. Nice work, group. An actual bang-up job there.

Anyway, Morbius arrives at this random spot and sees one thing large flying towards him on the horizon: it’s Adrian Toomes in a model of the Vulture costume from Spider-Man: Homecoming. Before we get to what he says (aka the perfect half), let’s break the costume down. As far as we all know, the Avengers don’t exist on this universe. So the Chituari don’t exist on this universe, or no less than haven’t invaded New York. If that’s true, how the hell does Toomes piece collectively a model of the Vulture swimsuit with out the know-how that made it potential within the first place? No one is aware of. No one cares.

We assume Toomes heard about Morbius on the information as a result of he’s nonetheless a fugitive or one thing and wished him to satisfy, however that looks as if an entire different story we’re going to skip. Then comes true perfection. Toomes says one thing alongside the traces of “I don’t know why I’m here. I think it has something to do with Spider-Man. But I feel like guys like you and me should team up.” Morbius agrees.

Let’s step away for a second right here and picture a boardroom at Sony. Executives and writers are discussing an thrilling finish credit scene for Morbius that may tease a possible Sinister Six film, the plain implication right here that doesn’t want any type of deeper thought. You’d think about the consideration might have gone like this:

“Why is Toomes there?”

“I don’t know, something to do with Spider-Man?”

“Well, obviously, but what exactly?”

“I don’t know but someone can figure it out eventually.”

“But if we don’t know why he’s there, what’s he going to say?”

“How about he just literally says he doesn’t know why he’s there, that it has something to do with Spider-Man, and we leave it at that?”

“That’s a terrible idea.”

“Do you have a better one?”

The direct, literal, dumb nature of this scene could be the top of finish credit score scenes as we all know them. We’ve gotten to the purpose the place the characters can type of simply say “Hey, we don’t know what this means but we’re here on-screen” and anticipate the viewers to care. We would possibly as properly see them sitting at a desk signing their contracts for Morbius 2. At least that may have been concrete. But no, as a substitute it’s “I don’t know why I’m here, probably something to do with Spider-Man.” Genius.

Now, if you wish to get all critical about it, based mostly on dialogue within the movie we will guess that Tom Hardy’s Venom, Jared Leto’s Morbius, and now Michael Keaton’s Vulture are all on this universe. The movie additionally exhibits a couple of Daily Bugle headlines a few Chameleon additionally breaking out of someplace (the above picture additionally has Rhino and Black Cat however I’m not 100% positive that’s nonetheless within the film.) That’s no less than 4 villains. Aaron Taylor Johnson’s Kraven the Hunter is coming subsequent. All of which, sure, appears to be pointing in direction of a Sinister Six film.

But after this scene, in need of beings as highly effective because the Living Tribunal explaining why they made positive everybody forgot about Peter Parker besides this one man and funneled him and others into one particular dimension, there’s little likelihood a Sinister Six film with these characters will match as cleanly within the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Spider-Man: No Way Home did. And that’s not even mentioning that the existence of the Daily Bugle all however confirms there’s a Spider-Man on the market too. Or there may be about to be. Because why not simply spoil factor much more?

And when the fuck does the opening scene of this film happen? We’ve talked in regards to the finish credit score scenes however within the opening of this film, the place Morbius goes to Costa Rica to do one thing with the bats… we by no means know what he’s doing, what the result’s, or when in context to the whole lot else it occurs. That ought to have been the primary clear signal at how this film has zero cares about narrative readability.

I digress. I’ve given this dumb film manner an excessive amount of time. I’m going to make like Vulture and simply actually say that I’ve written an excessive amount of and am going to finish right here.

Morbius is now in theaters… in case you dare.

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