Michael Corvin

Michael Corvin (in hungarian: Corvin Mihály) is a fictional character from the Underworld films, portrayed by Scott Speedman. He also appears in the novelizations of these films. He is the first Lycan/Vampire Hybrid from the mythos and the second protagonist.

Fictional biography
Michael was born sometime in 1975. He grew up and married Samantha Corvin, who died after a car accident. He took up residency as a trauma surgeon at a hospital in Budapest. According to the Underworld novelization, he lived in Long Island before moving to Hungary.

In the events of the first film, Michael is repeatedly caught in the middle of a conflict between vampire Death Dealers and Lycans, as his blood might have held a rare genetic trait needed by the Lycans for a hybrid experiment. Despite the help of Selene, he is bitten by the Lycan leader Lucian. This sets him on the path to become a Lycan, and allows Lucian to gain a blood sample to confirm that Michael has a rare genetic trait for immortality. Selene and Michael work together to evade the Lycans, and understand Michael's significance to the conflict. But he is eventually subdued and captured by the Lycans, who take him to Lucian.

Michael is finally able to understand what had motivated Lucian in the war, in part because Lucian's memories had been passed on to Michael when he bit him. Selene and the death dealers interrupt the meeting, and in the commotion Michael was shot with a lethal amount of silver nitrate bullets by Selene's jealous suitor, Kraven. This would normally kill a Lycan, but Selene bites Michael, saving his life by transforming Michael into the first Hybrid. Viktor fights Michael, having been against the creation of a hybrid. But Selene interferes and kills Viktor.

In the second film, Selene and Michael went on the run from both Lycan and Vampire alike. Michael learns to master his power, although he accidentally poisons himself by eating ordinary food instead of drinking blood. The duo confronted the last Vampire Elder, Marcus Corvinus, and narrowly managed to escape him, after which the duo confess their true feelings for each other. They investigate a cargo ship where Michael encountered his forefather, Alexander Corvinus. But Michael is interrupted by Marcus, which ends with Michael impaled and apparently killed on a steel beam beneath a nearby dock. Michael recovers as his healing powers are much stronger than those of Vampire or Lycan. Selene defeats Marcus, while Michael defeats William.

Production
As an actor, Scott Speedman notes that he did not know what he was doing with firearms, and that his hardest task was enduring the werewolf make-up.