Michael Keaton has often appeared as a superhero or villain in his acting career. He was an iconic villain in the Spiderman films who returned for another film, but he has no idea why he appeared in another Sony Marvel film.
Michael Keaton made his first appearance in a comic book film as Batman in the Tim Burton films. In Birdman he played an actor who wanted to escape his rut as a hero actor. He is so iconic as Batman that he is even provoked by his enemies on the Oscar stage.
Spider-Man: Homecoming was released in 2017 with the iconic actor portraying the villain Vulture. Keaton, as the Vulture, also appears in another Marvel film from Sony. In the end credits scene of Morbius, the vulture met the vampire, but he doesn’t really know why. He revealed this in an interview.
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Even they couldn’t fully explain it
In an interview with Josh Horowitz on YouTube, Michael Keaton talks about many aspects of his career. At around 33:40 Horowitz asks the actor what the cameo in Morbius was all about and whether Keaton understood that.
He says in the interview that he had no idea what it was about and that he didn’t even have one [die Verantwortlichen] could fully explain it. He explains that it was complicated and that he understood what was happening in the scene, but he didn’t even know all the people.
At the end of the film you see Vulture being teleported to a prison in the world of Morbius. But because no one knows him, he has to be released. At the end of the credits, the Vulture meets Morbius in his familiar steel-winged costume. As a final sentence, the Vulture simply says: But I think that a few guys like us can do something good together.
This is a clear reference to the Sinister Six, which in the Spider-Man comics was a group of villains that Spider-Man wants to defeat. Interestingly, many of them were already together in Tom Holland’s 3rd Spider-Man film.
Such end credit scenes are intended to foreshadow future events or films. But that doesn’t always work as well as it did with Thanos and the Avengers. If you look at the box office and critical results for Madam Web or Morbius, you’ll see that you’re not always successful. The situation is different when a certain actor is supposed to become the new big villain but is privately condemned: Marvel snuffs out the new supervillain who was supposed to replace Thanos