Bio

Michael Morbius was a Nobel Prize winning biochemist. He was also engaged to Martine Bancroft. However he was suffering from a rare blood disease. He took part in experimental test to cure his disease and even though he tried his best the disease just worsened.

The procedure involved using vampire bats and electro shock therapy; however it only mixed with his rare problem and turned him into a makeshift vampire.

Morbius's appearance turned into a vampire like being, his skin turned white, and his teeth grew into fangs and he became a "vampire"

The first time he changed, he killed his partner Nico by accident. Then he fled from the boat he was doing the experiment on. He left Martine as well. Later he was picked up by a ship. Soon he would feed on the blood of the crew members. After nearly being outnumbered by the remaining crew, Morbius fought them and escaped the ship. He would soon take refuge in an abandoned beach house in Long Island, NY.

Morbius meets Spider-Man

When Spider-Man had four extra arms growing out of his sides, Peter Parker borrowed Curt Conner (the Lizard)'s beach house has a lab to find a cure for himself. Little did he know that Morbius was in the same house. The tow would end up fighting in the house. Soon the Lizard would get involved in the fight. During the final part of their first encounter, Spider-Man threw Moribus into a bridge and Morbius was knocked out and fell into the river.

Morbius would fight Spider-Man in a few other issues.

At One point he encountered the Thing while attacking Elisha.  After the battle with Thing, he tries to attack the alien Living Eraser.  He and Thing are then transported to a cel in Dimension Z but escape and return back to Earth to defeat Living Eraser.  Morbius then uses the Living Eraser's technology to transport away from Earth so that he can not harm anyone.

He would then come back to Earth for a short period of time and fight Spider-Man and Human Torch.

For a while Morbius got control of a set of wristbands that transported him to another dimension so that he couldn't feed on the blood of others. But he ran into the being known as The Empathoid and used Morbius as host and returned him to the real world. Morbius would kidnap a girl and run into a fight with Spider-Man again. The resulted with the Empathoid entering Spider-Man's body and then fighting Morbius in a battle all over the city. In the end Empathoid died due to the over emotion of the crowd. Morbius left.

At one point Morbius takes some of Spider-Man's blood which cures Morbius of his vampirism. But this didn't last long.

Morbius later meet Spider-Man in the Black suit while he was the master of a group of bums in the sewers.

Moribus tried to get Spider-Man's blood again but was tranquilized by Simon Stroud during his attack and was captured by Dr. Paine's men. He would later discover his hypnotic powers and use it to trick Spider-Man in giving him some of his blood.

He would soon be on the same side as Spider-Man while fighting Carnage and his evil family during Maximum Carnage but have strong difficulty getting along.  Most of the time he was teamed up with Venom, Black Cat, Cloak, Dager, and Nightwatch.

He would also fight alongside with Spider-Man unwilling again but this time against Spider-X and Zzzax.  But at first he thought Spider-Man was Spider-X.

Anti-Hero and Midnight Son

After he thought he was cured, he went on a feeding frenzy after he got his vampire powers back. But he hated feeding on the blood of others.

He would soon be seen in an image by Ghost Rider Danny Ketch of himself, Morbius, and others fighting Lilith. Ghost Rider and Blaze went to NYC to find Morbius in order him to join the Midnight Sons. After losing his love Martine in the hands of murder, Morbius swore to only drink the blood of the wicked. As soon as he started his life as an anti-hero, he required a new suit, got a job as a hematologist at St. Judes and used his new alias Morgan Michaels. He would also encounter villains like the assassin turned vampire Vic Slaughter, the serial killer Basilisk, and even Nightmare. During a battle that took place in Greenland, the fully foamed Midnight Sons fought against Lilith and the Lilin. In the fight, Morbius drained the life out of Fang, a lilin that tainted Morbius's blood with demon blood.

Midnight Massacre

One night while as his other Alias Morgan Michaels, Morbius received a call from Frank Drake telling his how Blade turned into Switchblade and how he might be after him. He later meets with friend Jack Russell (Werewolf By Night). As Morbius's feeding grows Jack tries to convince Morbius to get used to his curse and accept it. They soon encounter Switchblade and engage in a fight in the sewer. At one point of the battle, he tries to save Jack but fails and is stabbed to the wall and dies. But his demon Lilin side doesn't and attacks Switchblade only to be burned to death by Switchblade's reign of hellfire.

He is later resurrected after the Demon in Blade is destroyed.

He would later encounter a man named Gunther, a guys who's daughter Morbius killed a while back. He almost killed Morbius after trapping him in a electronic web, but Morbius escaped and later attacked a group of vicious thugs. Gunther saw that Morbius changed his ways and let him live.

During point his life during the Midnight Sons Unlimited, Morbius was being framed for a set of ruthless murders taking place in the subway. He decided that he wanted to get to the bottom of things. In the subway, Morbius found a hidden lab with a recorded journal entry.

He finds out from the journal, that a soviet doctor was seeing a patient with a rare blood disease. They had a child before she died. The child suffered from the blood disease even worst then it's mother. As the child got older it started to grow spike out of it's chest. But the spikes were really fangs. The child would feed off certain blood types of others to live (As well a special designed suit to live). The soviet doctor went to American to find Micheal Morbius to find a cure for the baby. The baby was later given the nickname Bloodbath.

Morbius later fought Bloodbath after Bloodbath tried to kill a TV crew. After nearly losing, Morbius crippled the special suit that Bloodbath was wearing. Bloodbath slowly died. He later used his hypnotic powers on a female reporter to forget what she saw.

While a Darkhold victim named Spider-X was on the lose, Morbius thought it was Spider-Man. But it wasn't. Both Morbius and Spider-Man encounter Spider-X at his web. Morbius attacks Spider-X and is almost killed by him until Ghost Rider, Blaze, the Darkhold Redemers, and the Nightstalkers come to aid. Morbius throws him into the Midnight Son's line of fire but all of a sudden, a power slave called Zzzax breaks lose. Morbius then uses his hypnotic powers to make Spider-X attack Zzzax. Both Zzzax and Spider-X are destroyed. Spider-Man wants to turn in Morbius but is stopped by Hannibal King. Morbius then tells Spider-Man that they both have the same goal in life to protect the innocent and that he rather fight someone who deserves it. This angers Spider-Man saying that he and Morbius will meet again. Morbius does not wish this and flies into the night.

Massacre Aftermath

After he was resurrected he learned that he lost his soul. At this vulnerable point, Morbius was tricked by the Dwarf to use a Darkhold page. He used it to resurrected his old girlfriend Martine. However Martine did come back, but with the Lilin Parasite in her and getting commands by Lilith.  . After this, Morbius's lust for blood was getting stronger the Lilin Bloodthirst was rupturing his mind.  During this time, Jacob and Jack Russel tried to calm him but the craving Morbius had was to dangerous to handle.  Even the demon Dyparere had trouble dealing with Morbius.  At one point, Morbius felt he can conrol his craving and start a new.  But during a sexual intercourse, his primal state was set lose and the Lilin Bloodthirst was released.  At this point Werewolf by Night seeked the aid of Ghost Rider to snap Morbius back to his sences.  But In the end subdued to the Lilin Bloodthirst.

Siege of Darkness

During the Siege of Darkness, Morbius was possessed by the Lilith Bloodthirst. Possessed by the Lilin, Morbius betrayed the Midnight Sons by at first leading his team consisting of Blade, Frank Drake, Louise Hastings, Modred The Mystic, and Jinx threw the mist leading them to a group of Lilin on the Brooklyn Bridge(but failed to get rid of them). Morbius then lead his team to a hide out where he got Meat market distract the other team members while he killed Louise Hastings and later got the other four Midnight Son captured. He then lead other Lilin to Doctor Strange's place where the other Midnight Sons were hiding. But Doctor Strange helped Morbius destroy Bloodthirst, and Morbius joined in the fight to save his fellow members.

Though he turned back, him, Blade, and the other Midnight Sons would not see eye to eye and end up fighting. From this point, Morbius did everything he can to redeem himself.  He tried to convince the others only to get into conflict.  But at one point he did convince ghost Rider and stopped the Lilin Sister Nil from killing anyone else.

At one point, after the fall of Dr. Strange's mansion by Lilith and the Lilin the Midnight Sons took time to escape to Caretaker's night club. But Morbius was left behind. During his time alone, he spied on Lilith, Zarathos, and the Lilin in graveyard. He later helped aid Ghost Rider, Johnny Blaze, and Vengeance save the Medallion of Power before Lilith can get her hands on it.

Afterwards, Morbius still didn't blame his teammates for not trusting him after he was possessed. But now he had to locate a member of The Blood known as Raydar. Morbius later finds a wounded baby Lilin. Morbius aids the innocent baby but is interrupted by Hannibal King who wanted the baby dead. Though Morbius tried to save it, the baby Lilin died. Though Hannibal King didn't care about the death, Morbius confronted King telling him it should make no difference if an innocent is human or demonic. The two later go out to find Raydar and member of the Blood.

After finding Raydar, they were found by the Fallen members known as Embyrre and Rubach. During the fight Morbius nearly drains all the blood from Embyrre while being burned alive until he spots Martine attacking Raydar. Morbius soon rips her chest open and releases the Lilin Parasite. Martine later recovers and Morbius holds her in his arms. Morbius's actions also influenced Embyrre to turn back to the side of good.

In the final battle of the Siege of Darkness, Morbius promnant in both battles against the Fallen. In the end he and Hannibal drained the blood of a Fallen member leaving Blade to finish her off. He would then try to stop Embyrre from returning to Zarathos. In the end he was given the brand of the Midnight Sons.

After the events of Siege of Darkness, Morbius was possessed along with Werewolf by Night by Mordred. He wanted to used them and Vengeance as a way to defeat Salome, only to find out Mordred was stabbing them in the back.

He would also help Ghost Rider and Brother Voodoo stop a living corpse from killing people.

After the Siege:

Morbius would still try effortlessly to find a cure for himself. But during this time him and Martine were not really seeing eye to eye like they used to.

Soon Morbius would team up with Deathlok and fight against the powerful hypnotist the Wrath from starting intense riots in the city.

Later on he would also fight the lilin Bloodthirst who controlled him. during a savage battle in St. Judes Hospital.

Then we would be sought by the CIA to help find a crazed ex-agent. During this event he would get into conflicts with old enemy Simon Stoude, arch enemy Vic Slaughter, and Spider-Man.

Morbius would then fight Basilisk again as well as his relationship with ex-love Martine would start to diminish as he developed love for another woman named Lena.

He would soon get into his dark craving for blood and while trying to be aided by friend Jacob and Werewolf by NIght, Morbius killed himself in the sun light. At his funeral Morbius was brought back to life by the Dark Dwarf.

For a short period of time he had a better control off is power and even helped Lena save a woman.  But Martine later revealed to Lena that Morgan was Morbius and set the relation to a downward spiral.  He then told Lena that we will try and due good.  That is the last he ever saw over her.  He then got back his bloodlust.

Morbius, years later

As we all ready knew, Morbius and Blade have an on and off hate relationship. Years after the Nightstalkers fell during a battle with Varnea, and Blade fighting a returning Deacon Frost, Blade and Morbius team up and beat Frost.

Later on, Morbius was genetically altered to fight a super vampire named Hunger. Morbius stored in a chest. The chest was caught by King Pin and Jimmy 5. Blade was following the chest Morbius was in. Morbius escaped, killed some of King Pin's men and bit Blade. Then Morbius was shocked by Kingpin's cain. Spider-Man was present at this battle as well. Morbius wanted Spider-Man to let Blade kill him but Spider-Man wouldn't let it happen. Blade then left Morbius to Spider-Man. Spider-Man then took the injured Morbius to Tricorp Research.

Morbius would later leave Tricorp Research.

Morbius would then try to bit the neck of a crippled teen. (wither to turn him into a vampire to walk and speak or end his suffering) He was stopped by Spider-Man who threw him off of a roof.

Morbius would later join the Superhuman Registration Act. This would lead him to catch Blade and have Blade to be sent off to fight Wolverine.

Legion of Monsters

The latest appearance of Morbius was in the new Legion of Monsters where Morbius now lives in San Fransisco. At some point of his life he was hanging out with a bunch of junkies, but would later go hide in a church to die of thirst. At this time, he would be taunted by a talking bat(maybe Dracula) to kill the teens and saver their blood. After one teenager died of an overdose, they wanted Morbius to bring her back to life by bitting her. She came back to life and ended up killing all her friends. Morbius then killed the vampire girl.

Powers

Even though Morbius isn't a true vampire his powers are near the same. He's natural abilities were amplified to increase his strength, speed, intellect, and his senses. He also has the ability to fly and turn other people into vampires like himself. Morbius must feast on blood to survive, and though he hates it he must accept that this is how he is.

At one when he was infected with demon blood, Morbius for a brief period of time had the same power that Fang did. He can turn into a slime-like substance and move threw small places. He later lost this power when Dr. Strange helped cure Morbius of the Lilin Bloodthirst.

Morbius has a healing ability almost simular to Wolverine. He has survived a massive rain of gun shots, multipule stabbings, and burns by fire.

Morbius also has hypnotic powers. He can make himself look like something or someone else to the person he mesmerizes.

For a short period, while being infested with Lilin blood, this made Morbius immortal. This made him a favorite victim of Nightmare.

As of late, in Peter Parker, Spider-Man, he was genetically altered. It is unknown what powers he might hold as of now weather they are a more enhanced verison of the powers he has now, or they are new ones.

Known Crimes:

(Amazing Spider-Man 101)

Killed his partner Nico on the ship which changed him into a living Vampire.

Killed people on another ship.

Killed old man as soon as he got to land

Kidnapped a girl.

(Morbius 1)

Killed a girl walking late on night.

Lead the Midnight Sons into a trap on the Brooklyn Bridge as well as the Murder of Louis Hastings.

Fatality Victories:

Sucked out the blood of the Lilin Fang in the Battle with the Midnight Sons in Greenland.

Broke the life fluid of BloodBath.

Killed the Wraith with help of Deathlok.

Poisoned Bloodthirst after he left his body.

Alternate Versions

Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610)

In this reality, Morbius is a true vampire and is the brother of Dracula. He is portrayed as a hero and is resisting his vampiric instinct. He first appeared helping Ben Urich from a group of vampires and preventing him from becoming a vampire. When Spider-Man appeared, he thought that Morbius is attacking Ben and attacked him. Fortunately, Ben didn't turned despite the conflict.

House of M (Earth-58163)

In this reality, Morbius is a scientist that gave Luke Cage his powers

Earth-37072

This reality is ruled by Kulan Gath and Morbius is one of his servants. He is more powerful and has a more bat-like appearance with huge leathery wings.  He is also more evil and has no remorse.  He is close to Wendigo.

Appearance

Morbius's first suit was the suit he wore as protection of the electricity while trying to cure himself. It was dark black with red sides that looked like wings. His hair was down to his neck.

When Todd Mcfarien came, Morbius wore a cape simular to spawn.

When he got his own series, Morbius started to wear a hard leather suit with long side looking like huge wings hanging from the side. His hair also got longer.

When he was in the chest during Peter Parker: Spider Man, his head was really long a ratty, and was wearing what looked like munny wrappings. He also had purple smoke streaming from him.

In Spectacular Spider Man with the art of Paolo Rivera, Morbius's head was shaved, and was wearing a leather suit simular to what he wore in his solo series but without the cape.

During the Legion of Monsters series, he wore a leather trench coat and jeans. The leather jacket was red inside simular to his old costume.

Other Media

Spider-Man The Animated Series:

Micheal Morbius was a gifted forgein student who was in some what compititon with Peter Parker. He was also the boy friend of Felisha Hardy(Black Cat). In the animated series, he was no effected with the blood disease but people from his home country were. He would end up stealing some of Peter Parker's blood in a petree dish(Spider-Man's blood infected with a weird mutation at this point). He would then shot the blood with a electro-genetic gun at his lab, but a vampire bat he was experimenting on escaped from it's cage and drank some of the blood. As Morbius tried to get rid of the bat, the bat bit him and turned him into a living vampire.

Due to Fox's censorship for the morning cartoon show, the charcater of Morbius was completely altered. He who feed on plasma instead of blood, and instead of bitting his victims, he and little suckers on his hands.