Prodigy-level geneticist Miguel O’Hara gives himself spider-like abilities in an experiment gone wrong. He sees an opportunity to protect ordinary people against abusive corporations, and decides to use his powers for good and become Spider-Man of the year 2099.
Young Miguel O’Hara hails from the alternate universe of Earth-928, during a future time after the end of the “Heroic Age.” He grows up with his eccentric mother, Conchata, younger brother Gabriel, and the abusive man he believes to be his father, George. Brilliant and precocious, Miguel is awarded enrollment in the Alchemax School for Gifted Youngsters (formerly the X-Men’s Headquarters) in Westchester under the fair direction of headmistress Angela Daskalakis. Here he befriends Xina Kwan, who helps Miguel defend himself against the bullying of Kron Stone, son of Alchemax’s Vice President of Research and Development, Tyler Stone. With Xina’s encouragement, Miguel musters the bravery to have Kron expelled from the school.
Years later as young adults, Miguel and Xina date until Miguel cheats on her with Gabriel’s girlfriend, Dana D’Angelo. In time, Miguel and Dana get engaged. Confident and smugly self-assured, Miguel then becomes project head of the genetics program for Alchemax, performing research inspired by Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man, of the Heroic Age involving alterations of animals’ genetic structure.
Genetically imprinted with spider DNA, Miguel has superhuman strength (lifting 10 tons under optimal conditions), speed, stamina, reflexes and agility, and enhanced durability. He can jump up to 30 feet. He has enlarged canine teeth (fangs) which can secrete paralyzing venom. His fingers and toes have retractable talons used for climbing walls and rending substances as durable as cinderblock. Both forearms contain spinerettes capable of releasing adhesive strands of a webbing-like substance from the backs of his wrists. Miguel has an enhanced fast-healing metabolism, and enhanced sensory acuity enabling him to see in the dark, at great distances, and track fast-moving objects clearly; however, he is more sensitive to light than normal humans.
Outside of his spider DNA, Miguel is a highly skilled geneticist. His costume is composed of unstable molecules resistant to tears from his talons, and includes a light byte airfoil on his back, emitting low-level anti-gravity particles enabling him to glide on air currents. His updated suit can cast mirages and includes a chameleon function that allows him to blend into his environment.
Miguel also possesses a Lyrate Life-Form Approximation Holographic Assistant, or Lyla, which helps him in his web-slinging ways and adventures.
Tyler Stone is Miguel’s boss at Alchemex who gets Miguel addicted to a powerful drug, and he is also his father, leading to a tense and complicated relationship. Alchemex is a mega-corporation that controls the United States, creates products for consumer needs and owns the Public Eye, a police force, which Miguel is often monitoring so they don't destroy the future as he knows it.
Kron Stone is Tyler Stone’s son and Miguel’s half-brother. He is also bonded with the mutated Venom symbiote that battles Spider-Man on occasion.
Spider-Man comes up against fearsome foes including The Specialist, Vulture 2099, Hobgoblin 2211, Venture, and Doctor Doom. But it’s the Goblin who shocks Spider-Man with his identity as his jealous brother, Gabriel. Though Spider-Man later finds out that a shapeshifter took over Gabriel’s life, playing the role of the Goblin.
The Net Prophet turns out to be an ally to Spider-Man when he aids him in a fight against the Fenris gang.
Lyla is Miguel’s holographic aid and artificial intelligence, who listens and records his journal entries. The A.I. sometimes assists him in taking down fearsome foes and solving problems.
Dana D’Angelo and Xina Kwan are the on-again off-again romantic partners in Miguel’s life. They both support him but experience jealousy towards one another, and eventually Dana dies saving Xina in battle against Venom 2099. While time-displaced in present-day Earth-616, he befriends and later dates Tempest Monroe, AKA Tempest. She lovingly calls him “Miggy”.
When trying to stop a terrible future from happening, Miguel travels back in time and befriends Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man, of Earth-616. When Miguel gets stranded in present-day New York City, he works at Parker Industries as Parker’s head of Research and Development. There, he uses his access to technology to research ways to fix the future. Miguel also fights alongside a dozen other Spider-People from across the Multiverse to help stop a terrifying family known as the Inheritors, who feed on the lifeforce of Spider-Totems.
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5' 10"
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170 lbs
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Male
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Red; formerly brown
HAIR
Brown
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After an explosion in the lab, Delgato apparently fell to his death while Miguel fled, realizing his new powers as he avoided the Alchemax-sponsored Public Eye security patrol. A Thor worshipper aided Miguel’s escape, deeming “Spider-Man’s” appearance an omen of his god’s return. Meanwhile, Tyler Stone hired the cyborg bounty hunter named Venture to investigate the incident. With Venture in pursuit, Miguel returned to his Babylon Towers apartment, and concealed his identity in a full body costume acquired at a Mexican Day of the Dead festival. After a fierce assault, Spider-Man shredded Venture’s circuitry. Upon recounting the events to his quirky holo-agent (holographic assistant) Lyla, Miguel realized his uncertain future.
With Stone feigning ignorance of Miguel’s transformation, Miguel returned to work, hoping to find a cure for his condition. Though he gradually discovered the importance of Spider-Man in his world, where his own employer was a major source of corruption and oppression.
He helped rescue Karyn “Kasey” Nash, Gabriel’s girlfriend, after she was kidnapped by a Zaibatsu Samurai, the Specialist, for Alchemax to perform human experimentation on. Spider-Man’s victory over the Specialist earned him the enmity of another major corporation, Stark-Fujikawa, and left him plummeting below the elevated city into Downtown, the realm of the forgotten and undesirables of Nueva York, independent of the major corporations’ control but ruled by gangs. Here, Spider-Man encountered the cruel Watchdogs and Fenris gangs, the hopeful Thorites, the justice-seeking Throwbacks, and the largest gang, the Freakers, with their cannibalistic leader, the Vulture. Spider-Man rejected the Vulture’s offer to join his crusade against Alchemax, and after a vicious battle aided by Kasey, Gabriel and the Throwbacks, he retreated home. While he was away, Dana was approached by Tyler to partner with her firm, Synthia, and Alchemax. Miguel discovered that Spider-Man had become a hero to his institutionalized mother (alone after George died at a young age) and inspiration for the Spiderite cult of costumed followers.
After another battle with the Vulture, Miguel’s world was turned upside- down as he switched places with the Spider-Man (Peter Parker) of the Heroic Age of Earth-616, waking up next to Peter’s wife, Mary Jane, due to Fujikawa (in the Modern Age) and Stark-Fujikawa (in 2099) running experiments on a temporal energy generator. While Peter tackled the Vulture of 2099, Miguel faced Eddie Brock, AKA Venom. The two Spider-Men were united to face the twisted time-traveling Robin Borne, AKA Hobgoblin of the year 2211 and from the alternate universe Earth-9500. Hobgoblin’s father, Max Borne, AKA Spider-Man, deflected her Retcon bombs into the generators and the ensuing explosion sent everyone back to their respective universes.
Genis-Vell, AKA Captain Marvel, and a critically injured Eros, AKA Starfox, of the Heroic Age of Earth-616 were sent to 2099. After encountering Spider-Man, Captain Marvel located Miguel to act as their guide. At Alchemax they battled Thanatos, sending the three into the dystopian alternate future of Earth-9200 ruled by an evil future Hulk, the Maestro. While Spider-Man sparred with the Maestro, the other heroes defeated Thanatos, returning everyone back to their original timeline.
While Spider-Man battled the savage Bloodsword and the Fenris gang Downtown, back home Lyla began malfunctioning, while at Alchemax Stone made romantic advances towards Dana. Upon his return, Miguel and Dana visited Alchemax’s floating city, Valhalla, where it appeared that Thor and Heimdall had returned, though lacking the nobility of their Heroic Age counterparts. Alchemax CEO, Avatarr, had transformed ordinary people into the Aesir, loyal to the corporation, in order to eliminate rising super hero interference. With help from Doom, Paul-Phillip Ravage, AKA Ravage, Jake Gallows, AKA Punisher, the X-Men, and Loki (a transformed Jordan Boone), the Aesir were defeated.
When temporal distortions threatened his bloodline on the Stone side, Miguel worked with Alchemax to go back in time to the Heroic Age and save his time. Once there, he met the Superior Spider-Man (Dr. Otto Octavius, AKA Doctor Octopus, in Spider-Man’s body) and though they fought at first, they ultimately worked together to save time from the saboteur who caused the temporal distortions: Miguel’s ancestor Tiberius “Ty” Stone. As Miguel confronted Stone and planned to take him out, he realized that his friends and family would be impacted. In his hesitation, Superior Spider-Man figured out an equation to construct a counter-device and restore time and ended the threat. Meanwhile, in 2099, Tyler Stone destroyed Alchemax’s time travel device, stranding Miguel in 2015. Miguel wouldn’t risk putting his friends and family in danger so he decided to leave Ty alone. Miguel then had his assistant Lyla set him up with a secret identity as Michael O’Mara and a job at Alchemax as Ty’s personal assistant so he could keep an eye on him.
Miguel then assisted Superior Spider-Man (Otto) against Norman Osborn, AKA Green Goblin, who had become known as the Goblin King, and his army. First, he deactivated J. Jonah Jameson’s Spider-Slayer robots but they were soon taken over by the Goblin. Suddenly, Superior left Miguel to battle the bots alone and upon his return, Miguel had nearly beaten them all. Superior informed him he was actually Parker whose mind had been restored to his body, thanks to Otto who gave up his endeavor to be superior so that Parker could save his beloved Anna Maria from the Goblin. The pair of Spiders then joined other heroes against the Hobgoblin, and traced the source of the signal controlling the Spider-Slayers: Alchemax. Upon their arrival to the corporation, they were attacked by Lily Hollister, AKA Menace, whom Spider-Man shot in the neck with a cure, disabling her. Hearing ominous laughter in a nearby office, Miguel and Spider-Man entered to find Norman’s grandson and Liz Allan’s son, Normie. Liz and Ty Stone came crashing into the room and when Miguel punched Ty in the face, he dropped a Spider-Sense jammer he was clutching, leading Liz to realize he was responsible for hurting Spider-Man. She informed them that the Green Goblin was up on the roof with explosives and the pair of Spiders split off, Miguel taking the others to safety and Spider-Man headed up to the roof to defeat Norman. On the ground, Peter returned with Alchemax’s CEO Mason Banks, who was actually Norman with an altered face and identity. When Liz saw him, she tensed up and inadvertently pressed the Spider-Sense jammer, allowing Norman to escape. When Liz apologized, claiming it was a mistake, Miguel didn’t believe her but Parker did.
Still working for Alchemax, Miguel faced and defeated an agent from T.O.T.E.M. who attempted to erase him from the time-stream because of his interactions with boss, the newly minted CEO of Alchemax, Liz Allan. Miguel also faced Liz herself when she uncovered his fraudulent identity and accused him of being Spider-Man. To throw her off, he revealed a bit of the truth, that he was from the future and related to Ty Stone. However, to protect his Spider persona, his A.I. Lyla updated his holographic suit to a more futuristic one to sell the fact that he wasn’t Spider--Man. Liz kissed him and departed, but it meant that he’d have to tread carefully around her. He attempted to befriend his apartment’s janitor and neighbor, Tempest Monroe, AKA Tempest, who he had previously saved from muggers. In becoming friends, she revealed to him that she had leukemia. He also had another run-in with Spider-Slayers, protected Ty from being killed by rebels in Transabal, and faced off with Mac Gargan, AKA Scorpion.
When Miguel began having visions of versions of himself being killed, he didn’t think too much of it until another version was slain by Morlun, the ravenous Inheritor, right in front of him. Connecting with Spider-Man and Cindy Moon, AKA Silk, they joined with Spider U.K.’s Spider-Army and rendezvoused on Earth-13, a safe haven. Miguel joined a smaller team of Spider-Totems from across the Multiverse, and the Daemos, the largest of the Inheritors, was killed in battle but returned in a clone body. Miguel returned to his time with the deceased Daemos, along with Maybelle Reilly, AKA Lady Spider, from the Steampunk Earth-803 and the six-armed Spider-Man from Earth-91200, but the restored Daemos was hot on their trail. They fought Daemos and lost the Six-armed Spider-Man but eventually trapped the living Daemos in an electrified field, while his dead body was stored at Alchemax. Though the trap couldn’t hold him and he overpowered it, but they had learned that the Inheritors were especially vulnerable to radiation. Miguel and Lady Spider returned to the safe zone, but when they arrived, they found many of their fellow Spiders dead. Instead, they found a giant robot known as Leopardon, which they patched up on Lady Spider’s world. They soon rejoined the remaining Spider-Totems in the final push against the Inheritors on Loomworld, Earth-001. The Spiders defeated the Inheritors and left them all to rot on Earth-3145, a destroyed planet ripe with radiation.
Miguel’s team at P.I. was then tasked with concocting a cure for the deadly consequences of mutants being exposed to the Terrigen Cloud moving across the globe. But the Terrigen sample that they had received from the Inhuman Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon, AKA Medusa, breached containment and transformed one of the scientists, Rhonda Fleming, into an Inhuman herself. Renaming herself Glorianna, she established herself as a God using fear to gather worshippers. Miguel attempted to intervene before she used her destructive power, but Jasmine, one of Miguel’s coworkers and Glorianna’s girlfriend, took a brutal hit, landing her in the hospital while Rhonda fled.
Returning to present-day, Miguel hoped to prevent such a future and returned to his investigation of The Fist, who put his girlfriend Tempest into a coma and may be responsible for the dark turn of the future. Mendez also returned to help him take down the threat but they were ambushed by ninja assassin Elektra Nachios, AKA Elektra. She reluctantly shared that the radical organization was formed by defectors from the Hand, ancient ninja guild, and confirmed that the group was set on starting an Armageddon. They banded together to stop them and apprehended a Fist operative, the time-displaced Sonny Frisco, AKA Iron Man of 2099, whom Elektra interrogated. Meanwhile, Tempest awoke from her coma. Miguel, Elektra, and Mendez learned from Frisco that he’d been brainwashed into helping the Fist and their planned world-ending endeavor would occur in Chicago. Upon arriving to intercept, they were too late. The Fist, with help from the mystical Medea, turned a convention center full of people into reptilian monsters. Back at the P.I. Medical, Tyler Stone of 2099 visited Tempest.
Later, Miguel returned to present-day to find the only person that could help him with the new state of the future: Peter Parker. Though Miguel was captured and experimented upon by Roxxon Energy Corporation, but he narrowly escaped Roxxon’s Berserkers by jumping out a window high above Manhattan. Though he suffered from being disoriented and struggled to track down Spider-Man. When he finally did, dodging Berserker attacks, he remembered why he needed to find the present-day web-crawler. He informed Spider-Man that his time started changing slowly and then it was sudden chaos. Miguel resolved that there wasn’t anything to prevent his time’s collapse because it was inevitable since the future was always changing, and that his time was not fixed like other futures in the Multiverse. He dissipated, seemingly erased from existence, but then awoke on an island reunited with Tempest and his son.