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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
Yeah, but Morbius isn't really very much like Vader. Remember, he's a mass murderer, but he doesn't know it. Or at least, not consciously. As Captain Adams observes, he remembered enough to try to warn them off.
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I don't think he's an anti-hero. This is essentially a classic Star Trek episode a decade or two early; the hero is the starship captain (Adams or Kirk). And an anti-hero is a type of hero, at least in the idiom you're using (for the original sense of anti-hero, an example would be Captain Mercer of the Orville). Morbius is the equivalent of the people the Enterprise encountered who'd gotten caught up in some alien culture or unwise scheme, whom the captain had to oppose but who wasn't an actual villain.