- —Miguel O'Hara[src]
Quick Answers
What are the unique abilities of Miguel O'Hara as Spider-Man in Earth-928B?
Who is LYLA and how does she assist Miguel O'Hara in his work as Spider-Man?
What is the significance of the special watch designed by Spider-Man and LYLA in Earth-928B?
How does Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Man differ from other versions of Spider-Man across the multiverse?
What is the setting of Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Man adventures in Earth-928B?
History
Origins[]
On Earth-928B in 2099, Miguel O'Hara is the superhero "Spider-Man", a human mutate with retractable talons, fangs, and enhanced strength that he used to fight crime in his home of Nueva York, along with a spider-inspired costume and laser web shooters.
He works closely with his A.I. assistant LYLA, who develops many of his gadgets and weaponry for his work as Spider-Man.[1]
Trials in the Multiverse[]
- —Spider-Man[src]
Spider-Man and LYLA studied the multiverse for some time, designing a special watch that would allow its wearer to travel from universe to universe without their molecules destabilizing. Spider-Man came to observe the events on Earth-1610B, where a particle collider built by Alchemax drew in several spider-like heroes from across the multiverse to its dimention. After the situation was resolved, Miguel completed his watch and tested it out, traveling to various worlds, the first being Earth-67.[1]
Some time later, he came across a world where his counterpart had a daughter and was living a happy, peaceful domestic life. When his counterpart in that dimension was shot and killed by a thief, Miguel stepped in to take his place and raise his daughter. However, the presence of a different Miguel being there disrupted a "canon event", a fixed point in that universe's timeline, and created an anomaly that shattered that universe and erased everyone in it, including Miguel's daughter, from existence. Left cold and guilt-ridden after that event, Miguel sought to investigate the multiverse as best he could so as to properly protect it and stop similar events from occurring.
In his studies, Spider-Man discovered the Web of Life and Destiny, the set timeline of canon events for spider-like heroes across the multiverse that couldn't be disrupted, lest that universe be destroyed. He also discovered that the collider event on Earth-1610B had scattered many individuals into the wrong universes, creating many multiversal anomalies, all linked back to an early test of the collider in which the radioactive spider meant to bite the Miles Morales of Earth-42 and turn him into Spider-Man, being transported to Earth-1610B and biting that world's Miles Morales and turning him into Spider-Man instead.
Desperate to protect the multiverse, Miguel decided to create the Spider Society, a group of spider-like heroes from across the multiverse dedicated to eradicating anomalies and returning displaced individuals to their original universes. By the time a year had passed since the collider event, Miguel had amassed over a hundred heroes into the society, with Jess Drew of Earth-332 and the Scarlet Spider being his top lieutenants, and even recruiting Gwen Stacy of Earth-65B and Peter B. Parker of Earth-616B, two of the people involved in the collider event.[2]
Conflict with Miles Morales[]
Miguel would later learn that Johnathon Ohnn was affected by the collider on Earth-1610B and, over a year later, would use the Spotted Dimension to travel anywhere within the Multiverse. Johnathon then successfully used a miniature particle collider he created to boost his traversal powers. After Gwen, Hobie Brown and Miles Morales failed to stop him on Earth-50101B, he ordered all three of them to travel to his universe.
During his meeting with Miles, Miguel revealed to him that there were certain canon events that each Spider-Person needs to experience to ensure the survival of their respective universes. After Miles refused to accept the fact that his father dying was a canon event, he escaped Miguel's prison and ran way, with Miguel and the rest of the Spider Society following in pursuit.
Miguel eventually caught Miles and revealed to him that the spider that bit him was from an alternate universe that came to his world due to Kingpin's collider and Miles was never meant to be Spider-Man. He also declared that, if he never got bit, his Peter Parker would have lived, and stopped Kingpin's collider before it ever went off, preventing the multiverse from ever getting fractured in the first place. Despite this revelation, Miles refused to give up and used his venom blast to force Miguel off of him before jumping off the train to make his way to the Go Home Machine.
O'Hara would later find his way to Miles just as the Go Home Machine was in the process of transporting the latter to his home universe and desperately claw at the energy casing in an attempt to stop it. However, he fails, angrily throwing the dimensional signature scanner aside when it attempted to scan him, expressing frustration at Miles's refusal to listen to him, and blaming Gwen for not catching Miles. When Gwen tries to stand up for the former, however, Miguel deems her a liability, and uses the Go Home Machine to send her back to Earth-65, effectively expelling her from the Spider Society, before ordering Jess Drew and Scarlet Spider to follow him to Earth-1610 in pursuit of Miles. [2]Personality
Attributes
Powers
Paraphernalia
Equipment
- Spider-Man's Suit: This Miguel's suit seems is digital; and when destroyed gives appearance of burned-out LED screens.[3] The suit also has a red digital retractable cape which doubles as wings used for gliding. Miguel also has been shown using the arm blades on his suit as weapons.
- Smart Web: Miguel's Spider-Man suit is capable of generating red-colored laser web lines from its red areas.
- Dimensional Travel Watch: Miguel wears a device on his wrist which allows him to open wormholes between universes, as well as communicate with others with similar devices.
Weapons
Notes
- Oscar Isaac voices Miguel O'Hara in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. He will reprise his role in Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.
- Isaac also portrayed En Sabah Nur in X-Men: Apocalypse and Moon Knight in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- In the credits of Into the Spider-Verse, Miguel is credited as "Interesting Person #1."
- Miguel's design was changed between movies, going from a relatively slender build to a much bulkier, muscular and stylized appearance. His costume was also changed, with its design elements being comprised of mostly straight lines and sharp angles.
- He is shown injecting a liquid into his shoulder. What that substance is is currently unknown, but may be a reference to the drug Rapture that serves as the initial reason for him altering his genetic code.
- In this universe, Miguel is older and more experienced than his Earth-928 counterpart, as he's in his mid 30's.
- Miguel O'Hara's height was listed as 6'9" on his Tastykake collectible card made as promotional material for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. However, because the cards also listed Spot's reality as Earth-616 and Jessica Drew's reality as Earth-404, their overall accuracy is dubious.
Trivia
- His smart webs are somewhat similar to Julia Carpenter's psionic webs.
See Also
- 2 appearance(s) of Miguel O'Hara (Earth-928B)
- 1 mention(s) of Miguel O'Hara (Earth-928B)
- 68 image(s) of Miguel O'Hara (Earth-928B)
- 2 quotation(s) by or about Miguel O'Hara (Earth-928B)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- ↑ Anka, Kris (23 June 2023) Not only did i get to design the suit, but I got to help figure out how to destroy it. Some explorations on how #SpiderMan2099 's digital suit could disintegrate. Had a lot of fun researching dying or burned out LED screens. Twitter. Archived from the original on 23 June 2023.
- ↑ Tastykake Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Collectible Cards