Origin
On Earth-928 the year is 2099, Miguel O’Hara worked as the head of the genetics department for the Alchemax Corporation, specializing in genetic coding and splicing. He toyed with the idea of recreating the powers of the original Spider-Man from years ago. Miguel’s boss, Tyler Stone, secretly got him addicted to the drug Rapture. This highly addictive drug couldn’t be worked out of the body. It was Stone’s way of controlling his employees by offering them the expensive drug in return for their loyalty. Miguel decided to try to genetically cure himself by rewriting his genetic code from a sample he had taken previously. He was being watched by a competitive co-worker Aaron Delgato who attempted to sabotage his experiment by adding a random code into the process. The results cured Miguel but also gave him spider-like powers. Aaron tried to shoot him but he fell from the Alchemax building despite Miguel trying to save him. Soon Tyler sent out a cyborg bounty hunter named Venture to capture him. Miguel fled to his home to escape Venture. Grabbing a costume from a Day of the Dead celebration he fought Venture and won. Miguel began fighting crime and the evil corporation Alchemax as Spider-Man.
Creation
Spider-Man 2099 was created by Peter David and Rick Leonardi and first appeared in Spider-Man 2099 issue 1 (1992). He had however appeared before in previews in Marvel Age and Amazing Spider-Man 365.
Major Story Lines
Beginning Of A Super-Hero
Even after receiving his new powers O`Hara continued his functions at Tyler Stone’s company after his brother Gabriel‘s girlfriend Kasey was kidnapped by the Specialist, Miguel saw that there was still a need for Spider-Man even after the huge time gap. Using his powers he rescued Kasey from the Specialist (however he died due to Miguel’s ineptitude in use of his talons) and Kasey would begin a long going crush on Spider-Man. After his daring rescue from Alchemax, the new Spider-Man was now being targeted by Stark-Fujikawa, led him a one way ticket to Nueva Tork, a city overrun and controlled by gangs. At this place Spider-Man encountered numerous gangs, one of these was ruled by a cannibalistic man named Vulture 2099 who proceeded to extend an invite to Miguel to join their gang which O`Hara declined. With the help from other gangs Spider-Man fought off Vulture and his gang, and ended up returning home, where he had gained a fan that inspired him to continue as Spider-Man.
The Crossover
After the series relative success Marvel decided to do a crossover with the original Spider-Man, this ended up boosting sales both ways. After a while Spider-Man and Miguel swapped places. Miguel swings around in awe through the time-period which is so adored in the future. Peter swings around in horror at the 2099 world. Miguel ends up in a fight against Venom, Eddie Brock, while Peter does the same to Vulture 2099. On a more sinister level, it seems that 1995 is the point at which the Age of Marvels was destroyed and the 2099 world becomes inevitable. Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099 get together and are thrown into the future where they meet Spider-Man 2211, as well as Hobgoblin 2211 who is actually a girl and Spider-Man 2211’s daughter, who is the architect of the whole evil plan of time traveling. Together the three Spider-Men managed to defeat 2211 version of the Hobgoblin, there after the two spiders went back to each of their own time with their memories intact of the happenings.
Growing Pains
After his encounter with Earth-616’s Spider-Man, Miguel grew from an arrogant scientist too a justice driven superhero. As Miguel O`Hara, relationships at home were going sour, as he became more Spider-Man than Miguel O`Hara. Alongside Dana D’Angelo and Gabriel, he visited their mother Conchata, who was committed to an asylum, he confessed to his mother that he was the newest Spider-Man, only to see her break down in laughter. After he left the asylum, he faced off against Public Eye and sent a message too Tyler Stone saying he wasn’t messing around anymore. He was brought by Tyler Stone to inspect a Russian sub that was left from the Cold War, during their expedition, they found out that all the crew were in fact superhuman agents left in cryogenic sleep until the start of the war, one of the agents, Chernobyl, heard them speak English and thought that the war had in fact started, he fought against Spider-Man until is body overheated and he was forced to retreat to space where his body ended up exploding, Miguel erased the data so that Alchemax wouldn’t get the info. He was asked for help from is colleague Tarantella, whose lab had been attacked by a monster, after Miguel tested a piece of skin he found at the lab only too discover the monster was Tarantella himself, he then tracked him down only to find that he was calling himself Man-Spider and had kidnapped Dana, after Spider-man won the battle he copied the file of Tarantellas work for himself and erased the rest.
Spider-Man VS Thanatos
After hearing an explosion in fellow colleges lab Jordan Boone, Miguel went to help, only to be insulted by Boone who was frustrated by is life long work having been a failure, who proceeded to apologized too O`Hara. A bit later Spider-Man had to rescue Tyler Stone and Dana from Thanatos, not wanting to put Dana in danger he offered to switch places with Dana as an Hostage, which Thanatos accepted. Tyler and Spider-Man were taken to the virtual unreality project, which had been developed by Jordan Boone. Boone taunted Thanatos only too be knocked into the portal, as something pulled itself through the portal, that something was not Boone. The new character was named Net Prophet, when Thanatos tried too attack the Prophet, Spider-man jumped in to intervene only to be sent alongside Thanatos into the portal. Spider-man started too hallucinate that he was being attacked by Thanatos who was in a monstrous from, he bit himself in order to stop hallucinating. After hearing a voice he headed towards it, only to wake up in his apartment, believing everything too be a dream, then he found the Net Prophet, bleeding next too him. After performing a quick surgery too the Net Prophet, he asked Miguel to take him where the people truly need help were, after a confrontation in the St. Patrick church Spider-Man saved Father Jennifer, the Net Prophet decided to stay in O`Hara’s world a bit more in order to fully experience it, before returning to is own world.
Teaming Up With Captain Marvel
Not much later Captain Marvel and Starfox were transported to 2099, upon their arrival they were attacked by the Time Authorities, only for Spider-Man to arrive at the scene and join the battle, during this Captain Marvel requested for the S-man to be their guide in 2099, to which O`Hara refused and proceeded escape during the ruckus. He was still tracked down to is own apartment by Captain Marvel and Starfox, after a quick brawl Captain Marvel told Spider-Man that they were trying to stop a villain named Thanatos that was messing with time, upon hearing his name Miguel agreed to assist the duo as they made their way to Alchemax. The battle was short because Thanatos sent all three heroes into an alternate time where Maestro ruled the world. Captain Marvel and Spider-Man teamed up to faced Maestro and is minions to by enough time for Starfox to steal Doctor Strange’s amulet and cloak, which gave the battle balanced, only to have Thanatos teleport Captain Marvel and Starfox away leaving Spidey alone to face Maestro, as the unbalanced battle raged Spider-Man was defeated and left to be executed by Maestro when Captain Marvel and Starfox were finally able to defeat Thanatos and teleports the S-man back to safety, as the heroes went back to their own times Thanatos was left defeated and the time line secure.
The Coming Of Thor 2099
Spider-Man got into a battle with Blood-Sword and his gang. He beat Blood-Sword and destroyed his weapon. Some Thorites saw the battle and began to chant at Spider-Man and one woman even asked him to heal her child. Miguel had been sent to Alchemax’s newest project a floating city known as Bifrost and “Valhalla” by the Thorites building it. It soon became the site for the return of Thor and Heimdall (however they were in fact not the real deal but two humans who were granted powers and given computer chips to make them believe they were true gods by Jordan Boone). After an argument Thor attacked Miguel and tossed him off Bifrost. However Miguel was able to change into his uniform and fought the two “Gods” as Spider-Man. He took Heimdall’s sword and used it against Thor, but Spider-Man failed again and was sent off the Bifrost again and Thor throw Mjolnir after him but Spider-Man escaped before he was killed by the weapon. Spider-Man along with the Punisher returned to Bifrost. After joining up with Doom, The X-Men and Ravage the heroes defeat Thor and Doom takes over the city.
Blood-Sword found Thor’s hammer and renamed himself Blood-Hammer and has people gathered around him even Spider-Man’s mother. Miguel tries to talk reason to his mom and the crowd but is caught and bound, ready to be killed. However he escapes and defeats Blood-Hammer and leaves with his mom. Miguel goes home to Gab and Dana and lies saying Spider-Man saved his life. He later finds that Lyla has malfunctioned. Spider-Man finds out the whole central computer grid is damaged and all the machines are acting wrong. After saving Hikaru-Sama and Dana he goes to Gab’s finding his brother trapped in the Cybernet and he enters to save him using old tech finding the man causing the trouble named Discord. Miguel does battle with Discord and with help from Gab is able to beat Discord and Gab reveals he know Miguel O’Hara is Spider-Man. Next Spider-Man fights a group of women known as Maryjanes. These women have “Black cards” meaning they have so much money they feel they can get away with murder. Spider-Man stops them and destroys their cards. At the time SIEGE had taken Kasey to the offices of Stark- Fujikawa to pay the debt Hikaru-Sama owed. There Kasey became Payback and was given enough power to help Spider-Man however a cyborg named Risque who is Venture’s sister beat her but she was defeated by Spider-Man.
Flipside
Tyler and Dana soon begin to grow closer and even go out on a date. Spider-Man while in Nightshade meets a robot named Junior that takes on identity combined of Spider-Man’s and Venom’s and tries to violently become Spider-Man’s friend. The robot starts calling itself Flipside and acts like a lunatic. Flipside and Spider-Man fight and although Spider-Man destroys the robot it is seen repairing itself.
(Not Dr.) Strange
On vacation with Xina in Mexico Town Miguel ran into his brother and Kasey again. Meanwhile a man named Fernando Morgez was attempting to resurrect his deceased sister Anita with a spell. Sadly the spell did not work right and instead created zombies from a local graveyard. Miguel had seen the spell performed and the bright light from it had temporarily blinded him to due his sight. After recovering he went to investigate. While doing so Spider-Man met the current Sorceress Supreme known as Strange. The two heroes stopped the undead forces and Morgez took his own life out of guilt for his failure. As Miguel, Xina, Kasey and Gabriel went home they found the country was now run by Doom and his officers took Miguel.
Doom 2099
After arriving at the White House Doom was impressed by Miguel. Tyler who was now Doom’s corporate Minister gave Miguel the job as CEO of Alchemax. Later Spider-Man protected some Spiderites and became Doom’s Minister of Supernormal Affairs. Tyler Stone was later shot by Conchata who also hold Dana hostage.
Venom 2099
Dana escaped and Tyler lived and was taken to a hospital. Meanwhile Venom 2099 appears and kills Blood-Mace. Miguel arrives at the hospital upset that Dana and Tyler are together since Tyler is his father. Venom later attacks Tyler at the hospital while Miguel and Dana are there. Miguel leaves and goes to change into Spider-Man. Spider-Man and Venom begin to fight. The battle rages in and out the hospital and although SHIELD arrives they are useless, in the end Venom vanishes. However he later attacks Miguel at Alchemax and threatens Dana and Xina. Miguel chooses Xina to save, but as Venom tries to kill Dana he slashes his arm with his talons and Venom just thinks he has a weapon. Venom flees with Xina and Miguel orders SHIELD to kill him. They later find and attack Venom and Mig changes to Spider-Man and finds that Venom has Dana too. He once again does battle, and as the SHIELD agents arrive, they fire at Venom only for the bullets to over-penetrate his body and kill Dana who was standing behind him. Miguel would grieve the loss of his fiancée before plotting his revenge against Venom. Back at Alchemax, Miguel finds that Venom is weak to sound. He blasts noise from the city speakers weakening Venom and arrives and attacks him. He tries to kill him when the symbiote leaves its host. It turns out the host was Kron Stone, Tyler’s other son. Back at Alchemax he has both Kron and the suit imprisoned. Miguel goes home to find that a female priest Father Jennifer was Dana’s sister and she wanted to know what happened to her sister. He shows her Kron’s videos telling how he got the symbiote and faked his death and wanted to finish off his father after he heard of his shooting.
Goblin 2099
Spider-Man goes to see his brother Gabriel when he is suddenly attacked by the Goblin 2099. The two begin to fight high in the sky. After the Goblin uses a hallucinating dust Spider-Man is able to close his eyes and get the drop on the Goblin, but he shows false images of Spider-Man making him look like a tool of the corporations and not a hero. People begin to shot at him meanwhile Valhalla begins to fall apart.
Miguel got the people out of the White House but couldn’t find Doom and later sees Thorites and the Vulture kill a Spiderite. He fights them off and goes to Dana’s funeral but can’t say anything and ends up talking to the girlfriend of the dead Spiderite. He later informs Tyler of his rise to power and although Tyler tells Miguel he’s his son Miguel says he knew. Miguel tried to see Xina but couldn’t find her and went to his office to find his mom as his secretary. The building was soon attacked by a group led by a man named Boru. Spider-Man fought him but Conchata ended it by giving him a meeting with Miguel.
Atlantis
Later Spider-Man had to save one of the researchers on New Atlantis from Sharks. He told him about the new Atlanteans and Miguel left not knowing the man was a double agent. He tried to talk to the board but also needed to go speak to Boru. He went downtown to talk but it flooded. Miguel change into his costume and went off to fight the new Submariner Roman. Roman was using the giant monster Giganto to attack the city. Spider-Man fought with Roman till he gained the horn used to control Giganto and sent him away. He finished his fight with Roman and was able to beat him. He went back to Alchemax and found his mother about to shot Tyler again, but stopped the gun with a webline. Tyler said he knew Miguel was Spider-Man and Miguel shot him but it was really only hologram.
The End?
Spider-Man got into a fight with the Goblin and during the battle discovered that it was in fact his brother Gabriel who was jealous of his brother and wanting power. The Goblin was able to escape from his battle with Spider-Man. Meanwhile the Atlanteans attacked the city as it flooded and Vulture was intent on bringing down the Alchemax building. During the battle Tyler was murdered by the Atlantean General Dagim and Conchata was thought to have perished. Spider-Man was able to escape and learned that Gabriel was in fact not the Goblin and the Goblin was actually a shapeshifter.
The World Of Tomorrow
While in the Savage Land, the Invisible Woman asked if Spider-Man would become the new President of the new society but he refused the offer. Soon a strange man appeared and advised the heroes that a city in the sky had appeared. Spider-Man along with members of X-Nation went to see what the man was talking about and their ship was destroyed. Spider-Man regained consciousness on board a ship about to be examined by robots. However he escaped and found Xina. He wanted to know where Wulff and Uproar where but she said they were probably in the very dangerous infected area but he still went there. However he found Doom instead who told him it was the Phalanax invading and although he was unsure Doom told him if he didn’t help he would murder Gabriel. They were soon attacked by Magus who absorbed Spider-Man. Doom and Xina ran away and due to modifications to his suit Miguel got free. He found the two in time to see Xina infect Doom. However Doom beat the infection and the party left only to be attacked by Winnand Nostromo. While Doom diverted the attackers Miguel armed himself ready to kill Nostromo, but instead Doom uploaded a virus into him to destroy the Phalanax. Winn also betrayed the Phalanax as well. Doom sacrificed himself to destroy Magus while the others left. Miguel found Doom’s mask telling him how to find his brother and he gave his Spider-suit to Nostromo now ruler of Latveria.
Miguel then remade Alchemax and he and Xina were wed. His mom found the Goblin who pretended to be Gabriel and Miguel and Xina revived Captain America who gave him Thor’s hammer before being lost in space. He used the power to create a new age of peace. He lived for a thousand years and after finding Steve Rogers again he gave him back the hammer so he could live a life of piece and rest.
Superior Showdown
After anomalies in the 2099 timestream are detected caused by the events of Age Of Ultron so Miguel heads to Alchemax and realizing how bad the damage is travels back in time to the Heroic Age in order to help repair the damage where he had a confrontation with the Superior Spider-Man who was in the process of attempting to apprehend Tiberius Stone, Miguel’s grandfather. Not knowing that Doctor Octopus is currently Spider-Man, Miguel refers to him as Peter which drives Superior into a rage and cause him to attack Miguel. Superior would later knock Miguel in order to prevent a timestream meltdown on his own. Miguel debates killing his grandfather to prevent the foundation of Alchemax and rewrite the 2099 timeline but decides against it as it could have far worse ramifications. He also discovers that Stone has destroyed the portal leaving him stranded in the current 616-verse, ushering in the formation of Alchemax. To help guide the company, Miguel becomes Tiberius’s assistant under the name of Micheal O’Mara with the aid of his computer Lyla.
Goblin Nation
Spider-man 2099 later appeared to help the Superior Spider-man fight off the Goblin King‘s army. Both of them were then attacked by next gen spider-slayers built under the command of J. Jonah Jameson to capture Superior. Fortunately with his 2099 tech Miguel was able to shut them down however to his surprise they were rebooted by Osborn not a few moments later. Norman then gave Superior the option to stay and fight or go find Anna Maria Marconi an option that Doctor Octopus took, leaving Miguel to face the robots alone much to his shock and calls him an imposter knowing that the real Spider-Man would never abandon his allies.
After a vicious fight Miguel is left a bit worse for the wear but victorious over the spider-slayers. He then teams up with the real Spider-Man who is back in control of his body and explained the situation. While Peter went off to face the Goblin King, Miguel began evacuating the Alchemax employees.
New Spider-Man 2099 Series
In order to stop his sworn enemy Tyler Stone, the Head of Alchemax, from disappearing out of time, Spider-Man 2099 traveled to the year 2013. Unknown to Stone, he is Miguel’s biological father thus if he is erased from time, Miguel may also cease to exist. After being sent back in time by Alchemax scientists, Miguel soon discovers the time stream is being unknowingly damaged by his grandfather Tiberius Stone. Miguel soon bumps into the Superior Spider-Man and has to rescue Tiberius from him. A combination of Horizon Lab scientists, Miguel, Tiberius and Superior Spidey manage to stop the time dilation however Miguel O’Hara is know stuck in the year 2013.
Shortly afterwards Liz Allan‘s Allan Chemicals completes their aggressive takeover of Horizon Labs and in order to keep an eye on Tiberius Stone, Miguel takes a job as his personal assistant in the guise of Michael O’Mara.
Now stranded in the present day (616-verse) Miguel continues his job at Alchemax until an agent from T.O.T.E.M comes to kill him for being in the wrong timeline and restore balance. The two fight through Alchemax until Miguel ends up in the office of Liz Allan. Upon seeing Liz Allan the agent offers Miguel a deal. His life in exchange for Liz Allan’s as the time anomaly is caused by both her and Miguel and removing one means the other can live. Miguel pretends to accept the offer and uses the distraction to turn the agent’s own weapon on himself before escaping. After his leave Liz Allan realizes that Spider-man 2099 most likely works for Alchemax and begins searching for him.
After attempting to patch things up with his janitor who seems to have a taken a dislike to him whom Miguel recognizes as a girl he had saved from a mugging who’s name he discovers is Tempest, Miguel is confronted by Liz Allan at his apartment who after doing some research has discovered that Miguel’s alias is a fraud. She accuses him of being Spider-man and to throw her off Miguel uses his holographic suit to produce a furturistic looking costume and explains that he is from the future and Stone’s grandson and that he is here to help him achieve his full potential which manages to throw Liz away from believing he is Spider-man. The two have a brief conversation which ends with Liz kissing him before leaving. Tempest then reappears and explains to Miguel that she has leukemia and thanks him for the flowers he brought earlier before leaving.
Under Liz’s orders Miguel accompany’s Tiberius Stone to Transabal in order to facilitate the sale of Spider-Slayers. Upon arriving they are attacked and Tiberius is captured by the rebels opposing the current regime. Miguel now in his 2099 suit races to find Stone knowing that if the rebels kill him he will fade from existance. Miguel eventually finds the rebel hideout but before he can save Tiberius the Scorpion who was apparently working as Alchemax’s security attacks and threatens to kill everyone unless they release Tiberius. When they refuse Miguel steps in and he and Scorpion have a brief fight that ends when the Scorpion reveals that all the Spider-slayers are active and converging on Miguel due to him being Spider-man.
Spider-man and Scorpion briefly clash until Miguel is forced to give hm the slip due to the army of Spider-slayers. The Scorpion enraged by his disappearance sets the Spider-slayers on surrounding civilians. Miguel uses Lyla to coat Scorpion in a hologram of Spider-man causing the Spider-slayers to turn on him. Meanwhile, Tiberius escapes when the building he is being held in collapses. His life is also saved by the woman who captured him at the expense of her own. Miguel and Tiberius head to the original buyer of the Spider-slayers where Tiberius reveals he no longer wishes to sell them due to the man potentially using them on his own people. Miguel and Tiberius then enter a vehicle where Stone introduces Miguel to Mac Gargan.
Spider-Verse
When a variant of Miguel experiments with reaching across dimensions to his other selves, it causes Miguel to have vision of Morlun hunting down variants of himself. These visions cause Miguel to get swept up with an army of Spider-Totems from across multiple dimensions that are teaming up against Morlun and his family, The Inheritors, who feed on Spider-Totems. These Inheritors thrive using replicating clone bodies. While using a safe house in Miguel’s home dimension, they are attacked by one of the Inheritors, Daemos. When Daemos is killed, he returns in a cloned body and reinforcements. Miguel joins a group that steals the dead Daemos and escapes to study it for weaknesses.
Miguel found them a lab at Alchemax by agreeing to not fight Tyler Stone for stranding him in the past. From the autopsy, Miguel concluded that they were especially vulnerable to radiation. They also learned more about the teleporting tech that Miguel had gotten off the earlier variant of himself. Using his own 2099’s tech to upgrade it, he was able to teleport himself and Lady Spider to The Safe Zone before Daemos would catch up with them in his new clone body. Unfortunately, they found the so-called Safe Zone destroyed after an Inheritor attack.
Finding the Leopardon mech, Miguel and Lady Spider work on fixing it before joining the rest of the Spider-Totems for a final showdown against the Inheritors. With Miguel’s findings about radiation, the Spider-Totems worked to trap the Inheritors in a safe house on an irradiated variant Earth, where they would not be able to escape.
After the dust settles, Miguel made it back to his home Earth.
Fixing 2099
After returning to his home world, he was shocked to find it completely in disrepair, as if it fell victim to a great war. While looking for survivors, he came across Maestro who threw Miguel in a dungeon with Strange. Maestro blamed Alchemax for what happened, but Strange sensed reality warping. With her help, Miguel was able to break out of the dungeon and into Maestro’s armory which housed Doom’s time platform. Miguel managed to get it working and narrowly escaped before Maestro got the drop on him.
Back in the present, Miguel was worried the work he started at Alchemax while he was previously stranded might have changed the future. To counteract it, he asked Peter for a job at Parker Industries. As head of Research and Development at Parker Industries, he managed to create a temporal portal to his future, one he would often check to see if his world had returned to his previous status, while he created programs to compete against Alchemax.
His efforts would be interrupted when he and his girlfriend, Tempest, were almost killed in a terrorist attack. With a new advanced suit, he started looking into Fist, the organization responsible for the attack. This organization recently Venture, recruited a refugee from 2099, and a NuHuman, Glorianna, both originating from Miguel’s lab. They lured Miguel into a time portal and returned him to a yet a new variation of his 2099, taken over by Alchemax.
Once in this new 2099, Miguel was kidnapped by a 2099 variation of the Sinister Six. They are currently running Nueva York for Alchemax. It wasn’t long though before revolutionaries led by his brother, Gabriel, rescued Miguel. They did so with the help of the Six’s Goblin, who was actually Jennifer D’Angelo, a mole for Gabriel. Since they remembered Miguel but he didn’t remember them, they filled him in on the 2019 Guerilla War that was responsible for the current state of his present. He was able to return to the present using the temporal portal in his lab back in Peter’s present.
Civil War 2099
After conferring with a fellow refugee from his time, Captain America 2099, about how the future changed again, she went through the time portal to find her family. Opening the portal for that brief moment allowed the prophetic Inhuman, Ulysses, to have a vision of the future, which he passed on to Parker Industries about this Cap’s death. With this info, Miguel went through the portal to stop it from happening. He found 2099 had shifted once more. The Sinister Six are no longer in control, and superhumans have been outlawed.
Not long after he arrived, Miguel was arrested by Gallows, who never became the Punisher in this version of 2099. Before he could be delivered to the authorities, he was rescued by Ghost Rider 2099 and delivered to Strange. Together, they align with a team of supers standing against Alchemax and their Anti-Powers Act. They had previously helped Cap track down her husband. Unfortunately, Cap’s husband called the authorities on her, and she was taken to SHIELD by the Power Pack.
The CEO of Alchemeax, J.J. Jameson, plans to use her as bait to lure Spider-Man out in the open. Despite its obviousness, Miguel still managed to convince the rebel supers to join him in the fight. He arranged for them to assault SHIELD headquarters so that he could sneak into Alchemax and confront Jameson. He turned out to be a Skrull, so deep undercover that not even he knew. The shock of it broke his spirit and allowed Miguel to leave with Cap. The two then returned to Earth-616 with the rebel supers and SHIELD vowing to work together against the Skrulls.
Vs. The Fist
Miguel believed he had an edge against The Fist, who still believed Miguel was trapped in the future. With Cap 2099 by his side, they continued to look into The Fist, which caused them to cross paths with Elektra, who targeted them since they were a splinter group of The Hand. While investigating where Miguel was trapped in a time machine, they found only Iron Man 2099 (Sonny Frisco), who had been brainwashed into helping The Fist. Sonny was a promising new resource, but Miguel was distracted when Tempest awoke from the coma she was in since The Fist’s first attack.
She had been taken by Tyler Stone, Miguel’s estranged father and rival from 2099. He was working with The Fist and had the 2099 Sinister Six in his employ. Electro 2099 was sent after Sonny, but Miguel was able to stop him. With Lyla’s help, they tricked him into revealing the future event that kicks off the warped version of 2099 that Miguel keeps returning to. With a new target date, Miguel has his temporal portal adjusted so he can travel to that fateful day.
Miguel tracks down Tyler Stone who is about to release a deadly toxin. Tyler is protected by members of the Sinister Six 2099, but Miguel gets back up from heroes from this present: Tempest as a wasp humanoid and Gabriel, the son he will have with Tempest using his old costume. Gabri stabs Stone, and the toxic vile was recovered. The rest of The Fist went on the run.
With the toxin recovered, his true 2099 has returned. He returns Captain America to her future and promotes Sonny to his job at Parker Industries. He then sets out to rescue Tempest from Tyler in this present despite learning he will die doing so. With Tempest safe and Miguel killed, he awakes once more in 2099, rescued by Cap and Strange. However, he is unable to return to his family since the historical records say he truly died that day.
The End of 2099
In the year 2099, reality began to slowly warp, getting exponentially worse. Miguel confronted Doom, but Doom took no responsibility. Instead, he sent Miguel back through time to get help. This would have normally caused the timeline to collapse after his last time travel adventure, but the collapse was already happening.
Miguel fell through time and landed back on Earth-616 in the present yet again. He landed on an offshore oil platform belonging to Roxxon during a disaster bigger than Deepwater Horizon. He couldn’t remember how he got to the present or how to use his spider-powers. He only knew he needed Peter’s help. While being chased by Roxxon goons, Miguel eventually catches up to Peter and informs him of what’s going on before disappearing from the timeline.
Once Miguel disappears from the timeline, the resulting temporal energy surge powers a probability device created by an ESU student. Spider-Man is able to use the device to predict the best course of action to sway the timeline damage, which was caused by Doctor Doom overreacting to an assassination attempt on one of his Doombots.
Once the timeline stabilized, Miguel reappeared and washed up on an island. While searching the beach town, he found Tempest with his son, given a second chance at having a family. Meanwhile a variant of himself was reborn in a new 2099.
Earth-2099
Origin
In the new 2099 future, Miguel was an up and coming geneticist with Alchemax. He was sent to an area called The Ravage, where prolonged exposure causes fatal mutations. He was looking for a useful mutation when he found a spider humanoid mutate. He took a number of tissue samples during an autopsy and isolated the genetic sequence. Miguel was racked with guilt because his work wasn’t more helpful to those who needed it.
After trying to score drugs in the boroughs and arguing with his bleeding heart brother, Miguel ran into an old man who claimed to be the previous version of Miguel. The older him filled Miguel in on the Forgotten Age (the present fo Earth-616) about noble heroes standing between destruction and everyone else. They were memories stolen by Doom, and old Miguel believes young Miguel was the key to fixing it. He needed to use the spider humanoid genetics to become Spider-Man
Miguel rejected it at first, but his brother was the victim of Alchemax. He had broken into Miguel’s apartment to steal confidential files about Alchemax’s secret business, and the company responded by blowing up Miguel’s apartment, killing Gabriel in the process. This was the trigger than pushed Miguel into willingly becoming the Spider-Man of 2099.
Exodus
When an Illuminati type group called The Cabal kills a Celestial, it crashes near Nueva York. Its body causes a new Garden of Eden to spring up. Miguel was monitoring chatter from The Cabal that was interested in securing the garden for their own needs. Led by Norman Osborn, who learned to extend his life, The Cabal has placed a bounty on the garden, and Miguel is afraid it will cause chaos as civilians compete to secure it for the prize.
Miguel collected a group of allies that could assist him in protecting the garden. Ghost Rider 2099 got him in touch with Winter Soldier 13. She helped take down the Murmurnet satellite, shutting down the gig economy that was offering the bounty. When Osborn called in his Masters of Evil, Miguel convinced Moon Knight, the surviving Avengers, to bring together a new roster of Avengers to stand against them. It wasn’t until the X-Men tried to make a home out of the Garden that Osborn finally showed his face.
With the X-Men and Avengers as back up, Miguel fought this Galactic Goblin. He swiped his black car, the key to his wealth and power, and slipped it to the mutant technopath, Nostromo. With Ghost Rider’s help, Nostromo hacked the card and shut the whole network down, cutting The Cabal off from its resources. No longer above the law, Osborn was arrested, and the Garden was given to the X-Men.
Dark Genesis
After Miguel managed to shut down Osborn, his “black carders,” Cabal members who were above the law, protests broke out against the next group of elites trying to take their spots. Miguel, with his new partner, Spider-Woman, had to walk a thin line of allowing them to speak but stopping them before they got violent. This was made more difficult by Carnage, who joined the protests for the sole purpose of instigating riots. He was able to stab Miguel in the leg causing the wound to immediately fester.
He needed the help of Ghost Rider and Blade, who tended to his wounds and helped him and Spider-Woman strategize against this version of Carnage, which shows signs of vampirism. Their plan was to deoxygenate Carnage’s blood making it useless to him and then lock him in Rider’s Ghost Room. Carnage had new allies though, specifically Halloween Jack, who was posing as a member of the Alchemax board, and a spider-android called Flipside that Alchemax had developed. He has also used his blood to put part of the protesters under his thrawl as his “hive.”
Thankfully, more allies come to Miguel’s side. Punisher, Daredevil, Moon Knight, and a new Venom all join him against the hive. Together, they were finally enough to overtake Carnage, whom Venom threw into a building fire to finally be rid of.
Powers
Spider-Man 2099 has powers similar to the modern day Spider-Man. He has superhuman strength, agility, durability, speed, reflexes, eyesight. His healing abilities are also heightened. He has spinnerets in his forearms that allow him to shoot organic webbing out from the top of his wrist.
Miguel also has retractable talons that come out of his fingers and toes that allows him to climb any surface, and can also be used offensively. They’ve been shown to be able to cut and grab most objects, but were ineffective against Thanatos’ armor.
He also has fangs that secretes poison if he bites someone. The poison of these fangs appear paralyzes Spider-Man’s “victims”. The poison has been shown to be powerful enough to affect people like the Sub-Mariner, Risque, and even Thanatos.
Miguel also has genius-level intelligence and is especially gifted in genetics.
He doesn’t have any extra sense like Spider-Man’s danger sense, but makes up for it with all his enhanced senses, and doesn’t web-swing as much as Spider-Man either, but is able to travel as fast as the Original Spider-Man is. Instead he uses a web cape for gliding. His “web cape” was given to him by a “Thorite”. One of Thor’s worshipers. This Thorite believed that Spider-Man is the Harbinger of Thor, and gave it to him, because, as the Thorite so rightly put it, “The Spider-Man must be masked”.
His costume is composed of Unstable Molecule Fabric (UMF). This allows Miguel free use of his talons without the risk of damaging his suit, and protects him from slashing damage as seen when Superior Spider-Man takes a swipe at him with his claws but fails to cut the suit. It appears the UMF also protects against acid which Miguel notes in his battle against Venom 2099 who was secreting a skin-eating acid.
Miguel received a new high-tech outfit, courtesy of Peter Parker that improved upon his original suit. This time the Unstable Molecules were bonded to kevlar, greatly increasing its durability. It features on-board sensors for complete vicinity readings, better Lyte Byte Material for improved gliding, and internal boot thrusters for launch.
Alternate Realities
Exiles (Earth-6375):
During a battle when the inter-dimensional team known as the Exiles visited Earth-928, from before Doom 2099 took over the United States. It was here that Miguel’s identity was exposed to the entire world when he was unmasked by Hulk 2099, who was possessed by Proteus. This resulted into the creation of an alternate 2099 reality, known as Earth 6375. Rather than being hunted by Alchemax, Miguel decided to join the Exiles in trying to fix time-lines that went wrong. He had remained with the team for various missions, his intellect helping to save the day on many ocassions. When all of the members were scattered throughout different realities, Miguel was thrown into the past of his own reality and decided to settle on that alternate earth (Earth-6375) with a new girlfriend, that reality’s Mary Jane Watson.
Not much was heard from Miguel untill a few months later, when he noticed, thanks to some Exiles equipment he took with him, that a group of beings known as the Inheritors had been killing Spider-like heroes through the multiverse. Miguel had taken it upon himself to warn other heroes of this looming thread. While he was spying on one of the Inheritors, Morlun, the foe noticed his presence. Miguel quickly aborted the spying and tried to travel to Earth 616 to warn his Earth 928 counterpart (whom was currently staying in that reality) about Morlum. But right at the moment that Miguel made contact with that reality, and was about to travel through it, he was caught and killed by Morlun. His girlfriend was left behind in grief and disgust. It was later revealed that the ‘main’ Spider-Man 2099 of the 928 reality had received the Exiles armband from the Exiles’ Spider-Man 2099. It was used by him in order to help the other Spider-Men in defeating the Inheritors.
Time Storm
A different version of Spider-Man 2099 appearaned in the Time-Storm mini-series. That story paired him and the original Spider-Man together once again, this time around, Spider-Man 2099 was just a teenager who got his powers from energy from the Time-Storm and spider DNA and out for the first time as Spider-Man and didn’t know how to use his powers completely. Though he was nearly killed, Miguel O’Hara managed to rescue Peter from Scorpion 2099, and the two heroes took down the freak of science. Later Miguel fought Human Torch 2099, an Atlantean with control over fire, Human Torch 2099 soon offered to train Miguel in the art of combat.
Larval Universe 2099 (What the–?!):
In this reality, Miguel O’Hara is turned into Piguel O’Hara, a laboratory janitor who got bathed in spider venom and was granted spider-like powers. He then became the hero, Spider-Ham 15.88 . He has allot in common with the original Spider-Ham.
Other Media
Film
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man 2099 makes an appearance in the post-credit scene of the movie, where he travels back in time from the future. He ends up in a past reality resembling the 60s Spider-Man cartoon, and ends up getting into an argument with the classic Spider-Man.
He was voiced by Oscar Isaac.
Television
Spider-Man Unlimited
This short-lived show was originally going to be an adaptation of Spider-Man 2099. Though it ended up starring Peter Parker, certain elements from the 2099 comics could still be felt.
Ultimate Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2099 appears in the four-part “Spider-Verse” crossover in Season 3, voiced by Freddy Rodriguez. He is one of the alternate Spider-Men who teams up with Peter Parker. He initially believes Peter to be an impostor, as his world’s Peter is long dead, and is now considered a legend. The two end up working together to fight the Green Goblin, who steals some of Miguel’s blood. Miguel bids Peter farewell as the original Spider-Man departs. Miguel returns in “Part 4,” where he is one of the many Spider-Men who helps battle the Green Goblin, who has transformed into the Spider-Goblin after injecting himself with the blood of the various Spider-Men. At the end, the various heroes return to their own dimensions, and Miguel thanks Peter for helping him become a better Spider-MAn.
Video Games
Spider-Man
The Spider-Man 2099 costume was available as an alternate costume for Peter Parker in both Spider-Man and its sequel, Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro.
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
Spider-Man 2099 is an alternate costume that can be unlocked on the Wii version of the game. It is also a downloadable mode for the PC version.
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
In the Spider-Man game, the tablet of Order and Chaos has been broken, and the four fragments scattered across different Spider-Man Universes. One of these universes being Spider-Man 2099’s home universe. Along with different gameplay for each universe, Spider-Man 2099 will fight the Hobgoblin 2099, Scorpion 2099, and Doctor Octopus 2099. He is voiced by Dan Gilvezan.
Spider-Man: Edge of Time
In the game Spider-Man Edge of Time, Peter Parker and Miguel O’ Hara must work together to fixed a timeline gone wrong and prevent the untimely death of Peter Parker. He is voiced by Christopher Daniel Barnes.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The Video Game
In this game Spider-Man 2099 costume appears as an alternate costume to Peter Parker.
Spider-Man Unlimited
Spider-Man 2099 is a playable character in this mobile game.
Merchandise
- ToyBiz released a Spider-Man 2099 figure for The Amazing Spider-Man line.
- A 10-inch Spider-Man 2099 figure was released for ToyBiz’s Marvel Universe line.
- Spider-Man 2099 was featured in ToyBiz’s Spider-Man Classics line.
- Spider-Man 2099 was featured in the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection from Eaglemoss Publications.
- Hasbro released a Spider-Man 2099 figure for the Spider-Man Origins line.
- Hasbro released a Spider-Man 2099 figure for the Marvel Universe line.
- Hasbro released a Spider-Man 2009 figure as part of the Marvel Legends Hobgoblin Build-a-Figure wave.
- Kotobukiya released a Spider-Man 2099 statue for the ARTFX+ line.
- Funko released a Spider-Man 2099 figure for their Pop! line of bobbleheads.
- Hasbro released a Spider-Man 2099 figure as part of the Titan Heroes line.
- Hasbro released a Spider-Man 2099 figure for the Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors line.
- Hasbro released another Marvel Universe figure of Spider-Man 2099.
- Another Marvel Legends figure was included in the Marvel Legends Sandman Build-a-Figure wave from Hasbro.