Michael Morbius (Earth-21399)

Early Career
Dr. Michael Morbius was a biochemist working at Horizon Labs, and a colleague of Curtis Connors. Due to his reclusive work habits as well as his fixation with bats, Connors jokingly nicknamed Morbius “the Living Vampire”.

However, Morbius was secretly suffering from T-cell lymphoma, a rare and incurable form of blood cancer, and hoped his work with Connors on the bats would lead to a cure.

Becoming the Living Vampire
After Horizon Labs was liquidated and merged with OsCorp, Morbius became a part of the team that developed the new strain of the OZ formula – the same serum responsible for turning Maximiliano Gargan into the Scorpion and Maxwell Dillon into Electro. With his condition worsening, a desperate Morbius worked in secret, deriving a version of the OZ serum from the DNA of vampire bats and injecting himself with it.

The serum didn't outright cure Morbius – instead, it transformed him into a hideous, batlike vampiric creature that needed to consume human blood to stave off his cancer. Morbius learned this the hard way when two fellow scientists entered his lab, trying to get him to go home for the night, and he killed them both in his blind hunger before escaping OsCorp's headquarters.

Powers

 * Superhuman Strength
 * Superhuman Speed
 * Superhuman Agility
 * Regeneration
 * Superhuman Senses
 * Wall-Crawling
 * Gliding
 * Vampirism
 * Fangs & Claws
 * Pseudo-Vampire Creation
 * Immunity to Traditional Vampire Weaknesses: Unlike true vampires, Morbius has no special vulnerability to garlic, silver or EDTA.

Abilities

 * Biochemistry
 * Chiropterology

Weaknesses

 * Blood Thirst: Morbius, like a true vampire, must sustain his physical vitality on blood. The longer he goes without it, the further his cancer progresses, and the more likely he is to degenerate into a feral beast.
 * UV Light Sensitivity: Although sunlight is not lethal to him, Morbius's eyes and skin are sensitive enough that he can't comfortably function out in the sun.