One of DC’s most popular animated shows is Spider-Man: The Animated Series. Spider-Man, known for his diverse and popular arsenal of foes, has had his fair share of problems as he tries to navigate his life, swinging from Peter Parker to Spider-Man.
In the comics, the animated series, and even the movies, Spider-opponents Man’s have received critical praise. When it comes to being an iconic villain, characters like Venom have typically grabbed the lead. The vampire Morbius, on the other hand, is a villain who has been neglected by the general public. He’s a living vampire who gains his abilities through the same process that turned Peter Parker into Spider-Man.
Unfortunately, numerous Morbius sequences were cut since the filmmakers couldn’t show visual footage of him draining the blood from his victims on broadcast because the bulk of the audience watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series were children.
The character was originally presented in Season 2’s episode “The Insidious Six.” Michael Morbius, an Empire State University student, develops vampiric abilities after being subjected to a beam from the NeogenicRecombinator while dealing with Peter Parker’s mutated blood and a vampire bat. This causes him to lose touch with his girlfriend Felicia, while Peter Parker tries to persuade Morbius to reverse his mutation.
The Living Vampire, a Marvel/Columbia Pictures film, is due to hit theatres shortly. It will be released in theatres in the United States on January 28, 2022. Michael Morbius will be played by Jared Leto (pronounced -Let-O). It would be quite easy to go through Morbius’ arc and origin story from Spider-Man: The Animated Series before the film’s premiere.
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The Insidious Six
This is the first episode of the second season of the show, and it centres on Peter’s struggles with losing his Spider Powers and having to combat the Insidious Six – Dr. Octopus, Chameleon, Mysterio, Rhino, Scorpion, and Shocker.
Spider-Man begins to lose his grasp on the walls as he descends a New York City building. He plummets but finds his way back as his powers return. But he loses them again and falls into a dumpster. This repeats as he searches for the criminals from the Insidious Six. He gets home and goes to sleep but finds himself being late for the class held by Curt Connors so he rushes to the Empire State University.
Dr. Connors was lecturing about Neogenics, a relatively new field of research. Scientists will be able to learn a lot more about DNA and even control it thanks to neogenics. It was invented by Dr. Farley Stillwell. The Empire State University would supposedly be getting funds from the Toomes(pronounce:-Tooms) Foundation to continue researching Neogenics. However, they had to prove to the Foundation the importance of Neogenics.
Curt Connors challenges the pupils to come up with their own Neogenics experiment. The winner would become the doctor’s research assistant if the University for the grant from Toomes. However, Peter was not there in class to witness it and entered only when the class had ended. He begins to walk off when Michael Morbius – an ESU student, stops him. Very early on, a bitterness is formed between the two as Morbius says that he had considered Peter to be an intellectual threat to him in class but not anymore. He also tries to get closer to Felicia Hardy, the woman with whom Peter had a date. Flash shows him footage of five criminals and Spider-Man working together to commit crimes. Realizing that someone was impersonating him, Peter leaves the scene.
Peter is having difficulties with his powers again after an altercation with the Insidious Six, so he seeks out Dr. Curt Connors, who studies his DNA sample. Peter’s DNA structure was altering, it turned out. He runs a couple more tests and concludes that Neogenics was involved in giving Peter his powers. Peter realizes how the spider that had bitten him had gotten in the path of a radioactive beam when Dr. Farley Stillwell was conducting an experiment. Curtis suspects that Peter’s DNA mutation was permanent.
Meanwhile, Aunt May gets kidnapped by Dr. Octopus and a thief steals Felicia’s purse. However, Michael Morbius stops the thief.
Battle of the Insidious Six
Peter meets Felicia Hardy the next day after defeating the Insidious Six in Kingpin’s lair and rescuing Aunt May. They had scheduled a date for the previous day, to which Peter could not show up, so he apologizes for it and tries to make up for the missed date by asking her to have dinner with him. But, Michael Morbius walks up to Peter and tells him that Felicia would be having dinner with him instead not just for the night but for the rest of the week. He walks off.
Dr. Curtis Connors is a professor at Empire State University, and Peter travels there to see him. He tells Connors that he felt great, despite the fluctuations in his powers but Connor tells him how Peter’s DNA was mutating further and he had no idea what Peter would change into. But, he knew that with this new mutation, Peter would not remain human.
Morbius
Michael Morbius mutates into a vampire in the sixth episode of season two, confirming Peter Parker’s darkest fears.
Spiderman talks to Mariah Crawford about the pain he has been feeling due to his DNA mutation. He demands the untested serum from her even though she warns him of its dangers and swings away.
Michael Morbius comes into the Science Hall at Empire State University with Debra Whitman, who chastises him for working on the Neogenics project for nearly twenty hours straight and wonders whether he ever sleeps. Morbius tells her that he sleeps only when he is done with his work and asks her to sleep well as she leaves. These references to sleeping foreshadow future events.
Peter examines his blood sample for the serum and places a vial of his own blood in the locker. He leaves the lab but Morbius enters and takes the vial from Peter’s locker to study it. He learns that Peter’s blood has been genetically engineered in a way that one can attain superpowers from it. But, Morbius thinks that its part of Peter’s Neogenics Project, winning which will make him Dr. Curt Connors’ research assistant.
Felicia notices the Neogenic Recombinator in Morbius’ office when she first meets him. He tells her how he is trying to find a cure to a disease that has plagued his hometown in Europe with his research. Morbius also reveals how he has been studying vampire bats because he thinks they are the source of the disease.
Morbius is frantic to figure out how Peter came up with the genetically modified Neogenic blood, but his tests come up empty. He decided to run an experiment and turned on a recorder to record it. He also turns on his NeogenicRecombinator and exposes the blood sample to the beam of the device. But, one of his loose vampire bats fly into the path of the beam. Morbius tries to shoo off the bat but it bites his hand and Morbius passes out.
He feels stronger when he wakes up. He discovers that he has the ability to fly, but he also notices how his look has altered. He had white skin with fangs. He is terrified and desperate to reverse this condition but a hunger takes over and he chooses to fly away instead. He attacks a student at ESU and drains his blood. He realizes that the hunger he had felt was the one for blood. Spider-Man appears at the nick of time and tackles Morbius. They duel but in the end, Morbius flies away.
Spider-Man finds a tape recorder on the roof and listens to it. He discovers that the vampire he just defeated is Morbius, who gained supernatural abilities as a result of Peter’s blood sample and the NeogenicRecombinator. He visits Felicia’s apartment and tells her that she has to stay away from Morbius because he was dangerous. She kicks him out thinking that he is jealous. Morbius comes to her balcony and calls for her. Felicia is terrified to see Morbius as a vampire as he tries to drain her blood but stops himself.
Spider-Man rushes in and attacks Morbius, but the latter flees after being taken aback by Spider-knowledge Man’s of his identity. Spider-Man realizes that Morbius wasn’t as strong as before because he hadn’t drunk blood. They fight at a rooftop near ESU and Morbius tries to drink Spider-Man’s blood but after the sun comes up, Morbius turns into a human again.
Felicia pays a visit to Morbius in the hospital, but after sunset, he transforms back into a vampire. He flies away, realising that if he stays near to her, he would end up hurting her.
Meanwhile, Peter Parker grows four more arms after injecting himself with Mariah Crawford’s untested serum.
Enter the Punisher
In the following episode, Spider-Man continues to mutate as he hunts for Michael Morbius, while the police are looking for him since they suspect him of being responsible for Morbius’ disappearance. The arrival of the vigilant Punisher further complicates things.
Morbius is out on the run, sucking people’s blood. Meanwhile, Mariah Crawford and the television news station inform Spider-Man about Morbius’ disappearance from the hospital. On the other hand, the Punisher wishes to capture Spider-Man in order to redeem himself in the eyes of the law. Spider-Man decides to go after Morbius.
Morbius is taken aback by Spider-four Man’s new legs, and the two duke it out once more. Morbius overwhelms him, and he is thrown off the structure and flies away. Spider-Man evades the scene. Later, he arrives at a hospital where he hears the doctor speaking about a man from whose body, the blood has been drained. Spider-Man decides to go after Morbius again but is prevented by the pain in his body from the mutation. However, he decides to think about himself later and goes after Morbius.
Morbius is tracked down and discovered in a clock tower. He informs Morbius that he want to accompany him to assist him in reversing the mutation, but Morbius refuses. As they fight, Spider-Man pushes Morbius into the NeogenicRecombinator that Morbius had built by himself. Morbius, enraged, tells Spider-Man that he had created it to cure himself as he hated the feeling he had as he was hungry for blood. Then, Morbius reaches out to drain Spider-Man off his blood but Spider-Man webs him in the face and kicks him to the ground. Morbius flies off and Spider-Man follows suit but is stopped by the Punisher.
By striking Spider-Man with his RPG and a rocket, the Punisher causes him to crash into a warehouse. He walks into the warehouse and observes Spider-Man transform into a humanoid spider. After he turns into the Manspider, he attacks the Punisher.
Duel of the Hunters
The media dubs the monster Spider-Man mutates into Man-Spider. The Punisher climbs into his Battle Van and ready to battle him. The signal from the tracer he had connected to Man-Spider is then followed.
Felicia Hardy, meantime, gaze at a photograph of Michael Morbius. Morbius flies to a neighbouring building and observes Felicia, as he is unable to approach her owing to his bloodlust. His thirst increases but he stops himself as he does not wish to harm Felicia. He flies away and thinks about curing himself but he also realizes that he might need help from others for the cure.
Man-Spider and the Punisher fight when Kraven the Hunter intervenes and tackles Punisher to the ground. Man-Spider spots Morbius flying through a window.
Morbius arrives to Empire State University and goes straight to the lab. He asks Debra Whitman for help but she shrieks at the sight of Morbius’ vampiric state. Morbius attacks her to feed on her blood but Flash pushes Debra to save her. He tries to take on Morbius, who drains Flash off his blood. Before he could kill Flash, Man-Spider intervenes and stops Morbius. The two begin to fight and Morbius throws Man-Spider and flies away.
Blade The Vampire Hunter
Blade, a half-human, half-vampire, makes his first appearance in season two’s ninth episode. He assists Spiderman in locating Morbius.
For his blood, Michael Morbius assaults a local guy in the park. Spider-Man tries to stop Morbius, but he is ignored and thrown into a tree by Morbius. Morbius lands atop Spider-Man but a mysterious man clad in leather throws a grenade towards Morbius. The grenade releases a gas, immobilizing Morbius. The man tries to kill him with a sword but Morbius gets away. The man pursues Morbius and tries to kill him but Spider-Man stops him. Morbius escapes but wonders who this new, mysterious man is.
At Empire State University, Spider-Man encounters Dr. Curtis Connors, who exposes him to radiation from the NeogenicRecombinator, which he must perform every day to avoid mutating into the Man-Spider.
Swinging around the city, Spider-Man witnesses another Morbius victim being rushed to the hospital after having his blood drained. He spots Morbius and tackles him. He tries to explain that he can help Morbius in finding a cure but he replies that he enjoyed being a vampire. Morbius drains Spider-Man’s blood but the leather-clad mysterious man attacks him again. He introduces himself as Blade and confesses that he wanted to kill Morbius.
Blade defeats Morbius, but Spider-Man prevents him from murdering him. Morbius flees while Spider-Man explains to Blade why he needs to heal Morbius. But, Blade begins to consider Spider-Man as a threatinstead.
Blade tells his buddy Abraham Whistler about Morbius’s attacks at Empire State University and Spider-role Man’s in his creation. Spider-Man arrives on the scene to combat Blade and successfully webs him. Blade frees himself but Whistler tells Blade how Spider-Man may have the answers to their questions.
Whistler discloses to Spider-Man that he and Blade were vampire hunters, as well as Blade’s history as the offspring of a human woman who was later forcedly changed into a vampire and a vampire man. His mother had put Blade up for adoption to save him and trained to be a vampire hunter. Spider-Man tells Whistler about how Morbius had turned into a vampire and Blade demands to know the whereabouts of the machine to destroy it. He tries to kill Spider-Man when he refuses but Whistler saves him.
Later, Peter goes to the police station to inquire about Morbius’ whereabouts. Terri Lee ponders Morbius’ departure while Harry Osborn, Felicia Hardy, and Mary Jane discuss him. Peter and Felicia hug as Peter tries to comfort her because she was distressed due to the disappearance of Morbius, who sees the two hugging and gets jealous. He vows to kill Peter.
Morbius sneaks into the Neogenics lab at Empire State University and takes the Neogenic Recombinator. On the roof of a skyscraper, Morbius comes face to face with Blade. The two fight and Morbius reveals how he wanted to turn everyone into a vampire. Spider-Man arrives to rescue Blade. Meanwhile, Morbius flies off with the Recombinator.
The Immortal Vampire
In the tenth episode of the season, Spider-Man and Blade pursue down vampire Michael Morbius, whose storyline this season comes full circle.
After hours of hunting, Spider-Man and Blade finally find Morbius. Spider-Man intends to reclaim the Neogenic Recombinator from Morbius in order to prevent the city’s residents from becoming vampires. Morbius flies over the river but Spider-Man and Blade go to the George Washington Bridge to look for Morbius.
Spider-Man required the CBU computer chip from the Recombinator to stop it from operating, thus the two went to EXG Electronics. However, they find Morbius there looking for the CBU chip. Blade practically wages war on Morbius but Spider-Man prevents Blade from killing the vampire. Morbius makes Terri Lee her hostage and flies away. Spider-Man chases Morbius and tackles him. Morbius drops the CBU chip but later grabs the chip and flies away.
When Spider-Man gets home, his spider senses warn him that something is wrong. Morbius breaks through his chamber once more in pursuit of a sample of Peter’s blood, but comes up empty-handed.
Morbius breaks inside the Daily Bugle and murders a few guards. He then inquires as to Spider-location. Man’s Peter’s spider senses go crazy again when he returns home since Morbius was rumoured to be around. With strategy, they capture Morbius and his men. Meanwhile, Morbius tries to repair the NeogenicRecombinator with hopes of being with Felicia again.
Felicia is summoned by a voice, and she traces it down to Morbius. However, she is alarmed by his new appearance. Felicia is taken to an empty cargo ship, where she learns about Morbius being responsible for the plasma disease.
Morbius attacks Blade and Terri, but Terri prevents Blade from murdering him because she wants to take him into jail. Blade flies into the ship and activates the Recombinator, which Spider-Man confronts. Debris fell on the device, causing it to turn the beam on. As Felicia is exposed to the beam that will make her a vampire, Morbius takes the beam and mutates into something worse. Spider-Man tells Felicia that Morbius will never be human again due to the new mutation.
The next day, the sun rises and Morbius goes to sleep after bidding farewell to Felicia.
The Awakening
Michael Morbius is discovered hibernating in the sixth episode of the fourth season. He’s taken back to New York City to be treated, but Kingpin is here to thwart the scheme once more. He wishes to use Morbius’ DNA for immortality for himself, like vampires.
Debra Whitman and her team seek a cave. They discover Michael Morbius slumbering there. She brings his body back to New York City, hoping to cure him. Dr. Curtis Connors tells the press that he was going to try and reverse engineer Morbius’ mutation. Felicia also learns about Michael Morbius being found.
Curtis, Debra, and Clay Marks are about to start an experiment that will cure Morbius, hopefully. But Debra stops the experiment as Curtis turns into a vampire.
Blade confronts Felicia, nicknamed Black Cat, and holds Whistler at gunpoint. Morbius awakens from his slumber after being hit by a Vibro-Shock Gauntlet blast. Herbert Landon and Shocker try to fight him. Spider-Man chases Morbius again and Black Cat joins in as well. Morbius attacks someone in Central Park.
Spider-Man goes to Felicia’s apartment in search of Morbius, but he isn’t there. Meanwhile, Black Cat tells Whistler about how she used to look after Morbius. He meets Black Cat. Meanwhile, Spider-Man realizes that Morbius was nearby and jumps away.
Landon and Shocker take off with Morbius on their helicopter, as Spider-Man tries to stop them by wearing a tracer. He follows the signal with Black Cat. They reach a mortuary where they see Morbius being placed inside a machine. Landon activates a beam towards him and Morbius turns into his original humanoid form. Spider-Man bursts into the lab with Black Cat and fights the Kingpin. Later, Black Cat points a solar weapon at Morbius but she fails to kill him.
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