Character Spotlight: Spider-Man 2099
Hailing from the alternate future of Earth-928… Miguel O’Hara — known as Spider-Man 2099 — swings into MARVEL SNAP!
The first time this moves to a location, destroy an enemy card there.
Miguel O’Hara was a brilliant, prodigal child who was awarded enrollement in the Alchemax School for Gifted Youngsters at an early age. He proved to be a genetics genius and eventually became the project head of the genetics program for Alchemax.
Miguel’s genetics research at Alchemax was specifically inspired by surviving records of Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man. He held aspirations to one day create a similarly powered person, which led him to experimenting upon animals’ genetic structure. After a fatal experiment involving a criminal test subject failed, Miguel decided to quit Alchemax in protest of their unethical practices.
However, Miguel’s spiteful colleague, Tyler Stone, poisoned him with an addictive drug called Rapture as punishment for quitting Alchemax. Miguel’s system was then bound with Rapture and became dependent upon it to survive, but the drug was only available through Alchemax, forcing Miguel to either continue employment at Alchemax or buy Rapture illegally through the black market.
To escape this predicament, Miguel hatched a plan to sneak into Alchemax and use the gene alteration machine on himself in an attempt to reset his genetic code. His jealous supervisor, Aaron Delgato, sabotaged the experiment and mistakenly endowed Miguel with fantastic spider-like abilities.
After this “failed experiment,” Miguel had become genetically imprinted with 50% spider DNA, granting him superhuman strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, agility, and durability. He discovered that he had grown fangs, talons and spinerettes which could be used to fight off enemies and dexterously traverse terrain.
Following this transformation, Miguel recognized how ignorant he had been to the oppression and pain caused by corporations in his world. He saw his newfound augmented form as an opportunity for change — to protect ordinary people against abusive corporations. He decided to embrace his identity as the new Spider-Man, donning his costume and publicly proclaiming that he will use his powers to fight in favor of the greater good against those in power who abuse their influence and authority.
Spider-Man 2099 possesses many unique skills in addition to the usual strengths of a spider-person. His telescopic and night vision enable Miguel to see far greater distances, with perfect clarity, and in near-complete darkness. His genetically-enhanced metabolism affords him advanced longevity and a self-healing ability that regenerates damaged body tissues at a highly-accelerated rate.
Spider-Man 2099’s razor-sharp fangs can secrete paralyzing venom and his organic webbings are particularly strong and adhesive, making them ideal for both movement and restraining foes.
Additionally, Miguel’s genius-level intellect has proven useful in creating a special freestyle of fighting that allows him to make full use of his strength, speed, and agility, as well as gifted computer hacking and marksmanship abilities.
Miguel O’Hara is not known for messing around — the cruel world of 2099 has taught him that the ends justify the means — keenly demonstrated by his effect:
The first time this moves to a location, destroy an enemy card there.
When it comes to protecting your locations, he’s one of the most ruthless payoff cards for the Move strategy — destroying an enemy card the first time you move him each game. You can drop him after Iron Fist for a surprise attack, or play him out and leave your opponent guessing as to whether Heimdall or Ghost-Spider is coming next turn to ruin their plans. He can even destroy Cosmo the dog — but please don’t, Cosmo is adorable and doesn’t deserve it!
