
To understand why the Midnight Sons function as a team, despite their unusual members, it’s helpful to look at their beginnings in Marvel comics and how they’ve already appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The team first came together in the early 1990s during a crossover event called “Rise of the Midnight Sons,” which featured Ghost Rider, Morbius, and the Nightstalkers. In this initial gathering of supernatural heroes, characters like Danny Ketch, Michael Morbius, Blade, Hannibal King, Frank Drake, and the Darkhold Redeemers united to battle Lillith, a powerful supernatural queen, and her offspring, the Lillin. They assembled to fight against these forces of darkness when Lillith returned to Earth.