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It's Morbius, he's supposed to cause mass murder. That's part of his character. He's on quest for redemption by trying to find a cure while coming to the decision that he will only drink the blood of criminals. How many Morbius comics or Spider-Man issues featuring MOrbius have you read? Morbius is supposed to be taken seriously because he's a horror character, not some jokester. Leto has the perfect facial feature for Morbius so he was perfect for the role. He did a good job with what he had to work with.

Except that he's almost always been seen as a cheesy character that take itself way too seriously. Any attempt to actually portray him as a horror character has usually failed. The 90s Spider-Man cartoon added to him being seen as a bit of a joke due to having to nerf his entire vampire gimmick and have him extract 'plasma' via weird sucker things on the palms of his hands (which to be fair is actually kinda grosser than teeth lol). And yeah I'd read Morbius in various Spider-Man comics across the decades (earliest one being when Spidey gave himself 6 arms which I believe was Morbius' first appearance. I liked a lot of the Gil Kane art era from the 70s). I think the most recent comics I read with Morbius in them was one of the Marvel Zombies minis from about 10 years ago or so where he was held captive by zombie/vampire morbius from the zombies universe. Used to have a couple issues of a 90s series that I remember said Midnight Sons at the top and was the typical 90s cringey attempts at trying to be edgy and cool (and godawful 'art' to match). So aye, basically Leto nailed that then, the more seriously he tried to play the part the more laughably bad it came across. lol

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Smith, on the other hand, as I said, just didn't give a damn.
The director most likely only used his scenes because he had to.

lol. So Smith didn't give a damn appearing in a big hollywood Marvel movie? Sure. You think he's that above it all? Well you did claim he 'sabotaged' it because yeah that seems like something a guy trying to have a career in Hollywood does. lol. And the director? You know them personally and can confirm he 'had to use' all the scenes of Smith that were used? Smith was the only remotely entertaining part of the entire movie, mate. Well, except for smirking at Leto trying to be all dark and broody.