Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5448995-20160103010513/@comment-61022-20160308161124

I've been reading the original run of Spider-Man 2099, and I think the divergent point between how the original 2099 run ended and how his appearances in Superior Spider-Man likely happened... It looks to me that when Miguel was pulled backward in time was sometime prior to. In that story downtown Nueva York was flooded by Atlantis. This later led to other massive catastrophes like the Phalanx invasion and eventually the future of 3099 seen in Manifest Destiny.

It seems like the likely divergence point between of a few facts:

- Namely Miguel recognizes "Peter Parker" in Superior Spider-Man, so his appearance here happens after.

- If I'm not mistaken, Tyler Stone is in a hover chair type deal, which means it happens after he was shot by Miguel's mother in and after he got out of the hospital in.

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That all said, there is definitely a divergent point in Miguel's timeline and evidence certainly supports that any time Miguel has been involved in time travel is that if it upsets the status quo of the 2099 timeline it creates a divergence.

That said, it could go either way, Marvel could decide "Anything past Spider-Man 2099 #42 is a divergent timeline" or "everything after Superior Spider-Man is a divergent timeline". I could see them opting for the former as opposed to the latter. I highly doubt they're going to put all this time and effort in writing new Spider-Man 2099 stories just to stick him back in a timeline that has a definitive end to it (RE: Manifest Destiny 2099)

As for if Roberta Mendez is from Earth-928.. I'm going to say a solid no. At this time there's no explanation for it. She never appeared in anything prior to Secret Wars 2099. Ditto for any of the Avengers 2099. Likewise the Miguel Stone who appears in that story does not have a volatile relationship with his father Tyler. The entire story is inconsistent with Peter David's run of Spider-Man 2099 and the entire 2099 run as a whole.

Also to make a point points out that Roberta recognizes Miguel from her time on Battleworld it notes that he is not the same man she knew.

I think it's more strongly supported that the 2099 domain in Secret Wars was an totally alternate 2099 from Earth-928. That's the one that "cased to exist" (which I think it's kind of a bold statement to make since Secret Wars ends with Reed Richards and his family rebuilding the multiverse one reality at a time) If it "no longer exists" I figure that's going to be a temporary concern (and not unprecedented, Earth-295 was considered destroyed for years until it was revealed that it survived annihilation when they revived the Age of Apocalypse on its 10th anniversary in the early 2000s) ---

Of course we're going to have to wait and see what the new Handbook says at the end of the month, but I'm willing to put a bet on the fact that the 2099 that appeared during Secret Wars was a different reality.