MCU Vulture Changed Universes To Sony-Verse After No Way Home Confirmed
Director Daniel Espinosa confirms Michael Keaton's Vulture in Morbius is the same version from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When Sony launched their own Marvel universe with 2018's Venom, fans debated whether or not it was connected to the MCU. The movie's success allowed the studio to move forward with other Spider-Man villain movies, such as Morbius, starring Jared Leto as the Living Vampire. Despite the belief that the film took place in a different universe, fans understandably got confused when Keaton made a surprise appearance in the Morbius trailer, as he was last seen as Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
The confusion over Morbius' use of Vulture seemed to be cleared up once audiences saw Spider-Man: No Way Home (which was originally meant to come out after Leto's solo film). The movie utilized the multiverse to bring former Spider-Men and their villains to the MCU temporarily, including Tom Hardy's Venom. However, Spider-Man: No Way Home's ending reversed this, sending everyone back to their original universes. This did at least confirm that Sony's Venom-verse is part of the MCU multiverse, which led fans to believe that Keaton's Vulture in Morbius was a variant that exists in Sony's universe.
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According to Morbius director Daniel Espinosa, though, that is not the case. In a surprising interview with CinemaBlend posted on Twitter, the director was asked if Keaton's Vulture from the movie was the same version audiences know from the MCU and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Espinosa confirmed that Morbius' Vulture is the same as the MCU's. This does not mean that Morbius takes place in the MCU, though, as Espinosa revealed that the multiverse events
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