| Milo Morbius | |
|---|---|
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| Name: | Lucien Crown |
| Alias(es): | Milo Morbius |
| Rank: | Villain |
| Portrayed by: | Matt Smith |
- "We are the few against the many."
- ―Milo Morbius to Michael Morbius
Milo Morbius, born Lucien Crown is the main antagonist of the 2022 supernatural superhero film Morbius. He was portrayed by Matt Smith. He is the former friend turned arch-nemesis of Michael Morbius .
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Lucien Crown was a young boy from a wealthy family suffering from a rare blood disease which prevented his body from properly being able to create blood, affecting his body and health in devastating ways. At the age of ten, he was transferred into a private medical centre under the care of Dr. Emil Nicholas where he met Michael Morbius, another boy suffering from the same disease as him. He was saved by Michael after fixing his broken blood pump after being unconscious for a while. The two bonded over their illness and Michael decided to start calling Lucien Milo, with the two becoming surrogate brothers and lifelong best friends.
Morbius[]
Twenty-five years later, Milo is now a billionaire. He goes in search of Michael at his lab looking for Martine, unaware of her coma. He is surprised that his brother is cured and seeking blood. But he then gets outraged when Michael refuses to give him the cure, despite of the warning and risks. He then killed and drained a nurse of her blood at the hospital. He meets his brother in prison who poses as a lawyer to use his connections to free his brother, then it is revealed he took the cure. After that he kills a man who mocked Morbius' original disability.
He admits he killed the nurse because of the same bloodlust that caused Morbius to kill the ship's crew. Milo asks him to join him in embracing their truer selves and live as vampires, before killing a group of police officers who attempt to arrest him and leaving. Milo then did another one of his attacks which caught him on security and released to the media. Nicholas recognizes him and tells him to stop. Angered by Nicholas' perceived preference for Michael, Milo wounds and forces him to call Michael. Michael watches Nicholas die while Milo attacks Bancroft.
He is then confronted by Michael and fights him in the sewers before he is attacked by a swarm of bats summoned and injected with the anti-vampire serum on him by his brother. Milo tells him that he is now in his human form and that he can't kill him and asks him if he remembered that he gave him his name. Milo apologizes for everything he did to him, before dying in his arms, making him the supposed last of Michael’s loved ones to be gone, unaware that his fiancé is alive.
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Trivia[]
- Milo is a loose adaptation of Hunger from the comics and while he does share the same basic qualities as him, for unknown reasons, the character’s name was changed from Loxias to Lucien, and he is portrayed in a much more sympathetic light.
- In addition to this, Matt Smith explained in an interview that he was somewhat confused with his character’s history as he wasn’t really aware of how Milo tied into Hunger’s greater legacy and origins from the comics since it wasn’t clarified in the script he was given for the film.
- Many reports from when the film was first announced also claimed that Smith’s character was named Loxias Crown, and only very shortly prior to the release of the movie was it announced that his name was actually Milo (although his birth name is Lucien Crown, which is somewhat similar). This has led some to believe that his name was changed during one of the film’s many reshoot periods. However, it is also equally possible that this was always the plan and that the reports simply assumed that the film would retain his original name from the comics.
- In addition to this, Matt Smith explained in an interview that he was somewhat confused with his character’s history as he wasn’t really aware of how Milo tied into Hunger’s greater legacy and origins from the comics since it wasn’t clarified in the script he was given for the film.
- Matt Smith accepted the role of Milo after Karen Gillan, one of his closest friends and former co-star during his time as The Doctor, encouraged him to take on the opportunity, having experience in the realm of superhero films herself as Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He also accepted due to being excited by the opportunity to work under the direction of Daniel Espinosa and for his self admitted love for vampire movies.
- Matt Smith apparently deliberately channeled Keifer Sutherland’s performance as David from The Lost Boys in some scenes of the film. He joked that this was due to both movies having their main characters named Michael.