Gabriel O'Hara (Earth-928)

Gabe O'Hara
Name	Gabriel "Gabe" O'Hara
Aliases	Firelight, Gabe O'Hara, Gabri O'Hara
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Avalon Five, Throwbacks
Relatives	Conchata O'Hara (mother); George O'Hara (father, deceased); Miguel O'Hara (maternal half-brother); Gabri O'Hara (nephew)
Host of	Unnamed symbiote
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Brown
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-928
Cause of Death	Impaled through the heart by Venom (Kron Stone)
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual (secret identity as Firelight)
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Netglider, adventurer, hacker, freedom fighter
Base of Operations	Nueva York, New York, United States of America; Cyberspace
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Peter David, Rick Leonardi
First	Spider-Man 2099 #1 (September, 1992)
First	Spider-Man 2099 #1 (September, 1992)
Death	Symbiote Spider-Man 2099 #4 (June, 2024)
Death	Symbiote Spider-Man 2099 #4 (June, 2024)

History

Gabriel "Gabe" O’Hara was the son of Conchata O'Hara and half-brother of Miguel O'Hara. He maintained a relationship with both his family members, often choosing to placate his mother’s theatrical means to get them to visit her at the Wellvale home. He once dated Dana D'Angelo, but the two broke up when he learned of Dana's infidelity with Miguel.

Shortly after, Gabe became deeply involved in Cyberspace. He became one of the most renowned net-gliders as Firelight, spoken of with the same reverence as Broken Haiku or Duke Stratosphere, but had to get offline eventually when he became too addicted. He and Miguel worked together online to stop a hacker named Discord.

Gabe dated a woman named Kasey Nash, however, their relationship is strained at best. She begins to admire Spider-Man a great deal and thinks lowly of Gabriel, which sparks jealously in him.

Gabriel was the first person to learn Miguel's identity as Spider-Man, although it was several weeks before he told Miguel that he knew.

Spider-Verse

During a search for Miguel, who had recently disappeared, Gabriel instead encountered a time-displaced Peter Parker. Gabriel brought him to Miguel's apartment and gave him a halo-agent to assist him in returning home.

Shortly after returning home, Gabriel was confronted by his brother, Lady Spider (who he immediately fell for), and an alternate reality Peter Parker. They needed a place to hide from the Inheritors, but were quickly found by the Inheritor Daemos, who immediately consumed the alternate Peter Parker. May immediately lunged at Daemos but was easily overpowered and about to be consumed until Gabriel was able to shoot the Inheritor out of the building by using a weapon given to him by Dana D'Angelo, saving her life, he was then thanked with a kiss before she left with Miguel in pursuit of Daemos.

Death

After Miguel bonded to an offshoot of the Venom symbiote and began rampaging across Nueva York alongside Kron Stone, who'd rebonded to the Venom symbiote, Gabriel learned from his mother that Miguel and Kron were half-brothers and was approached by President Doom--who requested he find a way to stop Miguel before he went too far. Seeking out Miguel, Gabriel attempted to persuade him to separate from his symbiote before it caused him to kill someone, but was impaled through the heart Venom and contemptuously tossed off a roof by Venom.

After Miguel came to his senses and got rid of his symbiote, the symbiote, furious over being lied by its host, found Gabriel's dead body and bonded to it. Piloting the body from within, the symbiote began masquerading as Gabriel as part of its plan to get revenge on Miguel.

Notes

• Goblin 2099's identity became a twisted mess due to Peter David's abrupt departure from the original Spider-Man 2099 series. David only intended Gabriel O'Hara to be a red herring for the Goblin identity, and planned to reveal Father Jennifer D'Angelo was the Goblin. When David left the title two issues before cancellation, a dialogue box was added in issue Vol 1 44 during editing that deliberately shifted a conversation between Jennifer and Gabe to pin the Goblin identity on him. The fill-in writer for Spider-Man 2099 #45 explicitly pointed the finger at Gabriel. This was later retconned in 2099: Manifest Destiny #1 where the characters established that Gabe was not the Goblin, but had been framed by a shape changer whose true identity remained unknown. However, Manifest Destiny has since been placed in different continuity to that of Earth-928. When David restarted to write Spider-Man 2099 (Vol. 3), he decided to use the "alternate reality escamotage" to retcon Goblin's identity as Father Jennifer.

See Also

• 48 appearance(s) of Gabriel O'Hara (Earth-928)
• 3 minor appearance(s) of Gabriel O'Hara (Earth-928)
• 12 mention(s) of Gabriel O'Hara (Earth-928)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Gabriel O'Hara (Earth-928)
• 5 image(s) of Gabriel O'Hara (Earth-928)
• 3 quotation(s) by or about Gabriel O'Hara (Earth-928)