Is Morbius in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

and the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films?

Knock, knock, let the vampire in

because the trailer for the latest

in Sony's Mavel Cinematic Universe is here.

Morbius, folks, that's right, the living vampire himself.

The new trailer dropped on Monday

and fans are already scratching their heads over it.

Reactions have ranged from saying the film looks generic

to saying that Beethoven himself must be spinning

in his grave over this trailer.

In fact, the best thing people seem to be saying

are that this film looks it would have been perfect

back in 2005.

Which seems to be a recurring theme

for some of Sony's Marvel movies,

a.k.a., Tom Hardy's Venom.

- Hey, I'm sorry about Venom.

- However, there are two moments in the trailer

that have gotten fan's attention

and they have huge implications for Sony's

Universe of Marvel Characters

and the Marvel Cinematic Universe

and the Spider-Man PS4 Universe

and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy from the early 2000s.

- Pizza time.

- There's so much going on here

because somehow the Morbius movie

might take place at the nexus of all of those timelines

where they're all happening concurrently.

- What?

- So how is this possible?

I know, I have that same question.

We're gonna break it down right now.

Now, in case you haven't dragged out your comic book

long boxes in a while,

Morbius is sort of this anti-hero from Spider-Man Comics

whose movie rights have long been owned by Sony

and not the Disney controlled Marvel division.

In fact, you might remember that Marvel made a deal with

Sony to use Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,

a deal that almost fell apart last summer.

Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed in a drunken Tom Holland

and both sides realized that they really like

making a lot of money.

Wow, me too.

But, overall, these Spider-Man characters

are controlled by Sony when it comes to the big screen

and they're able to do what they wish with them.

And Morbius is one of those characters.

Now, in the comics Michael Morbius is a biochemist

who tries the radical treatment of becoming a vampire

to fix his rare blood disorder.

And look, who wouldn't?

And while this movie most definitely takes place

in the same cinematic universe as 2018's Venom

it might also take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

because the first thing that has fans talking

is that button at the end of the trailer

with the appearance of Michael Keaton as Adrian Toomes

a.k.a. the Vulture who was last seen in the slammer

at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming,

which is a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie

co-produced by Sony.

Now, in that movie's mid-credit sequence

Michael Mando's Scorpion teases out the long-time

Spider-Man villain team, the Sinister Six.

And in this trailer fans are speculating

that Vulture is trying to recruit Morbius

to join that team as well when he asks him,

"Got tired of doing that whole good guy thing?"

Now, if this movie's a part of the MCU

as indicated with Michael Keaton's Vulture

appearing in both movies,

it looks like Sony finally go their way

as this is something they've wanted to do

for a very long time.

And Marvel, specifically Kevin Feige,

had definitely not wanted to do this

since they can't really control

how those Sony Marvel characters are portrayed

on the big screen.

You're not gonna see Tom Holland chompin' a lobster

while he sits dead ass in a whole aquarium.

(groans)

No!

You're gonna see him, like, not remember cool movies

from the '80s.

- I do not want another single pop culture reference

out of you for the rest of the trip.

- Of course, if this does tie into the MCU

this raises a ton of questions like,

is this how they introduce vampires into the Marvel movies?

Did Venom get snapped by Thanos?

- Hey, I'm sorry about Venom.

- And what about Spider-Man?

Like, specifically Tom Holland's Spider-Man?

How does he fit into this.

- (sighs) You'll fit right in.

- But now here's where the fun really begins

because if that wasn't confusing enough

there's another shot in this trailer

that ties this movie to not only the MCU

but to two more Spider-Man universes as well!

In the trailer we see Morbius in an orange jumpsuit

walkin' past a post of Spider-Man

with the word murderer written on it.

Murderer most likely refers to the end

of Spider-Man: Far From Home

when Mysterio frames Spidey for that catastrophe

that happened in London.

However, the devil is in the details

and eagle-eyed viewers were quick to notice

that the suit in the trailer isn't the one

worn by Tom Holland in Far From Home

or anywhere in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It's the suit that was made famous by Tobey Maguire

in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy.

And on top of that the picture itself

was taken from a promo image for Insomniac Games

Spider-Man PS4 DLC where players were able to use

the Raimi suit in-game.

So, has the video game universe merged

with the Raimi-verse and the Venom-verse

of Marvel characters as well as the MCU?

Well, there are a couple of options here.

One is that it's all true

and ooh boy the Spider-verse has been confirmed

for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

We're off to the races.

Number two is that someone done goofed

by using that particular Spider-Man image

and it's gonna be swapped by the time

Morbius actually hits theaters.

You know, kind of like how Jenny Slate pronounced symbiotes.

- [Jenny] We call them symbiotes.

- When they fixed that for the film.

- We call them symbiotes.

- Simbiotes?

- Number three is that this is a poster

for the Spider-Man game in the world of Morbius,

a fun little cross-promotion,

which would make sense if you had these major figures

in the world, they might they to capitalize on them.

Option four is similar to two,

in that the image is gonna be swapped out

when the movie comes out

but the reason is that the real image

is hiding a much bigger reveal,

like Tom Holland's Spider-Man and a potential cameo.

Look, while the Spider-verse confirmed is a fun theory,

if we had to put money on why this actually happened,

it's most likely because someone just goofed

and we'd imagine they're gonna see a fix for this happened

before the next trailer comes out.

Unless, of course, it's real,

in which case (laughs), oh boy,

we're just gonna have to wait and see where the facts lie

when Morbius hits theaters this summer.

What do you folks think?

Are all of these universes connected?

Is this how Marvel should set up vampires in the MCU?

And did you notice that Batman, a.k.a. Michael Keaton

met the Joker a.k.a Jared Leto in a Marvel movie?

(croaking laugh)

- What's the deal with that?

Let's discuss!

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