Why Morbius' Post-Credits Scene Is Bad News For The MCU

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This article contains spoilers for both Morbius and Spider-Man: No Way Home.One of the aspects of Sony Pictures’ Morbius that was most heavily advertised by the film’s marketing campaign was the appearance of Michael Keaton, reprising his role as the Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming. But in the film itself, his role is much less extensive than the trailers would have you believe.

The Vulture, aka Adrian Toomes, only appears in the film’s two post-credits scenes, which are both so brief that it’s unclear why they weren’t just combined into a single scene. Before Morbius was released, many fans were confused as to how and why Vulture was even in a movie that wasn’t set in the MCU. But now that the film is actually out, the answers it provides only serve to raise further questions.

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The first post-credits scene begins with a rift in space opening in the sky above New York City: an image that will look very familiar to anyone who’s seen Spider-Man: No Way Home. Indeed, it seems that this is the very rift caused by Green Goblin’s destruction of the Macchina di Kadavus, which threatened to pull in everyone throughout the entire multiverse who knew that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. But of course, Spidey managed to close the rift by having Doctor Strange erase Peter Parker from the memory of everyone in the world. After that, everyone who came to the MCU because of Strange’s magic returned to their original universe, from Green Goblin to Doctor Octopus to the two Spider-Man variants — and even Tom Hardy’s Venom, as seen in the film’s post-credits scene.

However, Morbius portrays the opening of the rift as having some unforeseen consequences. Adrian