Rumor: Spider-Man 2099 Is Also Swinging Into Fortnite

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Dataminers have unearthed new Fortnite skins for Miles Morales, and also Miguel O’Hara, AKA Spider-Man 2099.

The two join Spider-Ghost Gwen Stacy and the OG Spider-Man, Peter Parker, as skins in Fortnite. As reported by Comic Book, pictures of the skins were shared online. You can see them in the tweet below.

Better look at Miles Morales and Spider-Man 2099 pic.twitter.com/CeJW83lUTA

Epic has opted to lean into the Spider-Verse promotion and based the skins on their appearances in the upcoming Sony Pictures film Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse. Given that Sony has a little bit of money invested in Spider-Man and Fortnite developer Epic Games, this was a no-brainer.

Spider-Man 2099 is reportedly set to be an antagonist in the film, but to really understand Miguel, we really have to go back to his creation. That didn’t actually happen in 2099 (76 years from now!) but instead 1992.

Predating Batman Beyond by a good seven years, Spider-Man 2099 was part of Marvel’s 2099 comics line, set over a hundred years after what was then the status quo. While some Marvel characters, like Dr Doom and the Hulk, would prove long lived to still be in that period, some heroes would be emerging using old superhero identities, but being completely different people. So Miguel O’Hara didn’t belong in an alternate universe originally, so much as a potential future to the one Peter Parker lived in.

Miguel himself was head of the genetics program at multinational corporation Alchemax. After one of their experiments leads to someone dying, Miguel tries to leave the company, but is blackmailed to stay, and is later given spider abilities against his will by genetic tampering on his own body.

Miguel wasn’t really originally a superhero, and