History ComicBook / SpiderMan2099

** Miss Angela Daskalakis, Miguel's old teacher. She is a strict lady but she cares deeply for ber students, and was not afraid to get her hands dirty to protect them. She protected Miguel from Kron when he was a kid, and eventually [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice gave her life]] to protect them]]. All in all, she is one of the very few people Miguel has held in high esteem over the years, and has an epic case of HeroicBSoD [[spoiler:after he failed to save her]].
** Conchata O'Hara. Regardless of her sons' low opinion on her, she's still the lady who bas the guts to stare down and even fight ''anyone'', ranging from Tyler Stone to Metahumans threatening to kill her.

* YourCheatingHeart: Miguel began hooking up with Dana, his younger brother's girlfriend, when he was still with Xina. [[spoiler: May even run in the family, since Miguel's mother had an affair with Tyler Stone, while married to her husband, which produced Miguel.]]

** Miguel and some other Alchemax scientists also discover a Russian submarine that was intact since ''the Cold War''.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: After Kron Stone has been captured and stripped of the Venom Symbiote he initially refuses to give Alchemax any information on the Symbiote and mocks Miguel over the deaths of innocent people and Dana. Miguel, who's already barely holding it together by this point, makes Kron an offer: if Kron can beat Miguel in a fight he can walk away a free man. Kron jumps at the offer. Naturally, he loses and it ends with Miguel beating him to a pulp, even after he's down.

-->'''Miguel:''' I ''know'' you will, Kron. But this isn't ''just'' about you talking. It's about all the people who'll never talk ''again''...never ''smile'' or ''laugh'' or ''make love'' again...because of ''you''. I don't ''want'' you to talk, Kron. I want you to ''scream''. And we'll builed from ''there''.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: After Kron Stone has been captured and stripped of the Venom Symbiote he initially refuses to give Alchemax any information on the Symbiote and mocks Miguel over the deaths of innocent people and Dana. Miguel responds by releasing Tyler from his cell and stating that if he can beat Miguel in a fight he can walk away a free man. Kron jumps at the offer. Naturally, he loses and it ends with Miguel beating him to a pulp, even after he's down.

* TurnOutLikeHisFather: The reason that Miguel is TheUnfavorite, as he always suspected. However, he's only half-right. As he later finds out, his mother doesn't dislike him because she fears he'll turn out like her husband, George O'Hara, but because she believes she sees him growing more and more like his ''real'' father everyday, [[spoiler: Tyler Stone]].

** Gabriel is running around with a gang called the Vultures, rescuing people, even though the Vultures are vicious criminals. In the original comics, Vulture 2099 led a gang called the Freakers and rescued Miguel from the public eye.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Miguel ends up helping Maestro get back to the past.]]

* CallBack: When Miguel and Peter Parker first met, Miguel pointed out that the whole superhero thing is pretty stupid since it involves running towards danger. In the reboot, the new Miguel tells the original Miguel pretty much the same thing, and the old one agrees. However he also says that they provided hope.

-->'''Miguel:''' ''And then my accelerated vision saw three things, one after the other, which got me progressively more upset.\\

* LecherousStepparent: It's revealed that Tempest's step-father had set up hidden cameras all over the house and took countless pictures of her, much like a stalker. She wasn't even in her teens at the time.

* AlternateSelf: In the wake of ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #34, Earth-616's Miguel O'Hara is seemingly erased from existence and is replaced by a new version of himself living in a rebooted 2099 timeline, who has yet to acquire his Spider-Man powers. However, he suffers from Rapture-induced hallucinations of the Earth-616 Miguel O'Hara and [[spoiler:runs into the elderly Miguel from the original three volume run.]]

** Miguel does this for a while after finding out Tyler Stone is his father. Doubles as a JourneyToFindOneself.

* AlternateSelf: In the wake of ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #34, Earth-928's Miguel O'Hara is seemingly erased from existence and is replaced by a new version of himself living in a rebooted 2099 timeline, who has yet to acquire his Spider-Man powers. However, he suffers from Rapture-induced hallucinations of the Earth-928 Miguel O'Hara and runs into the elderly Miguel from ''Spider-Man 2099'' Vol. 1's original ending.
* DescentIntoAddiction: Miguel exposits Alchemax's rather nefarious scheme to keep control of its employees -- in order to work at Alchemax, applicants must take a mind-altering drug called Rapture, which is highly addictive. Miguel had quit working for Alchemax after encountering a Thorite mutated into a spider-monster; and his Rapture withdrawal causes him to have hallucinations and nightmares of his Earth-928 self.

* AffirmativeActionLegacy: The new Spider-man is half-Mexican, half-Irish.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Flipside, an android created back during the Heroic Age that was designed to mimic the powers of the first superhuman it came into contact with. That ends up being Spider-Man 2099, whose appearancd isn't exactly like classic Spider-Man, therefore it ends up mimicking the powers of the original Spider-Man and Venom.

* AxCrazy: Flipside. Maybe it was laying around for however many years and being unable to fulfill its programming, but the android is completely nuts in both speaking patterns and mannerisms.
* BackFromTheDead: Vulture 2099, who Spider-Man lets fall to his death early on in the series, but shows up alive and well over 20 issues later with no explanation.

* TheBully: Kron Stone.
* BungledSuicide: Miguel attempted this right after his transformation, by jumping of the Alchemex building. However, his talons caught him in time and he realised that he didn't have it in him.

* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Miguel's half-brother, Kron Stone, becomes Venom 2099.]]

* CanOnlyMoveTheEyes: The result of being bitten by Miguel's fangs.

* CassandraTruth: Miguel tries to tell his mother that he's Spider-man, but she does not believe him.

* ChosenOne: Spider-Man 2099 is called the "Herald of Thor", and is prophesied to save the world. [[spoiler: Turns out he really was the Chosen One, and was the third person to wield Thor’s Hammer (with ComicBook/CaptainAmerica being second.)]]

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Miguel is this to the original Spider-Man; Whilst Peter Parker was reserved, and Spidey a wisecracker, Miguel is the opposite, mouthing off as a civilian, while not talking much in his heroic identity. His creator, Creator/PeterDavid, explicitly took this approach.
-->''"Pretty much every place where Stan (Lee) zigged, I zagged... whereas Peter Parker is a high school student, Miguel is a fully-realized adult working in a laboratory. Whereas Peter was shy and reticent and didn’t know how to talk to girls but talky and outgoing as Spider-Man, Miguel O’Hara was a fully-confident wiseacre with a fiancée... and as Spider-Man, relatively mute."'

* CrapsackWorld: The Earth is this under Alchemax and the other big corporations.

* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Flipside towards Spider-Man. When Miguel rejects it, Flipside immediately tries to kill him.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Dana for Miguel.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: How Miguel reacts after various civilians turn on him when Goblin 2099 convinces them that he's a corporate stooge, pointing out the number of times that he's fought on their side and defended them from corporations like Alchemax.

* EvilTwin: Flipside; he was an inactive Super-Adaptoid with files on various supers, and becomes a combination of Spider-Man and ComicBook/{{Venom}} after scanning Miguel. He didn't recognize the new hero, so he turned into the closest approximation of him that he could based on appearance. Oh, and he's pretty much ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}.
* ExactWords: Tyler Stone talks Gabriel down, after he's pointed a gun at a bunch of officers, partially through mentioning that he won't even be arrested. After Gabriel has surrendered his gun, Stone then specifically tells the guards not to arrest him as he's walking away. He didn't say they couldn't brutally beat him, however.
* FantasticDrug: Rapture is a legal designer drug developed by (and exclusive to) the Alchemax corporation, distributed to employees in order to keep them loyal to the company. A "very high-powered, mind-expanding hallucinogen", it causes the user to feel perfectly calm and collected... unless he tries to fight the drug's effects, in which case it causes him to hallucinate wildly, "seeing monsters everywhere." It also bonds with the user's DNA in short order, becoming so addictive "you need it the way you need air to breathe."

* FemaleGaze: Part of the reason why Kasey is attracted to Spider-Man is because in her own words he has the tightest ass she's ever seen.

* GoingCommando: Lyla comments that Miguel never wore undergarments of any sort.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Miguel is much more mutated than Peter ever was; on top of the unnatural speed, agility, strength and HealingFactor, his eyes have turned red and are very sensitive to light, he was talons on each finger and tow, he has poisonous fangs and actual glands for shooting webs (unlike Peter who had to make both his web-shooters and the fluid). He is ''very'' upset with all the changes, openly calling himself a freak.

* HotBlooded: Miguel (what do you expect, with him being half-Irish and half-Mexican?)
* IAmAHumanitarian: The Vulture of 2099 is a cannibal.
* IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing: Miguel in the early issues. He not only has no idea how to use his powers, he also has no real plan as to what he wants to do with them. He mostly just reacts to events as they happen. Eventually he gets into the swing of being a hero and a symbol of hope to the people.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Miguel's eventual goal is to turn himself back to normal; while he is getting increasingly comfortable with his powers, he makes it quite clear that he does ''not'' want them.
* IllKillYou: Conchata O'Hara threatens to do this to Tyler Stone if he ever reveals to Miguel that he is his real father. Unknowingly to both parties however, Conchata just revealed this to Miguel herself, since he was listening in on the conversation.
* InsufferableGenius: Miguel has this air when he first appears.

* LoveDodecahedron: Miguel is in love with and engaged to Dana D'Angelo, who was dating his younger brother Gabriel when they originally got together, when Miguel was already with Xina Kwan. Early on Gabriel still shows signs of having feelings for Dana and they even share a kiss, but he is already in a relationship, and in love with, Kasey Nash, who later breaks up with him after she falls in love with Spider-Man, which is Miguel's secret identity. The Miguel/Dana side of things is resolved when Dana is tragically killed and Miguel later gets back together with Xina, after which the two get married.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Miguel towards Dana, even though he was with Xina at the time.
* LukeIAmYourFather: While eavesdropping on his mother and [[spoiler:Tyler Stone, Miguel learns that Stone is his biological father.]] Later, [[spoiler:Stone]] does tell Miguel himself in a last-ditch attempt to rattle him, but Miguel calmly sips his coffee, tells him he already knew and orders him to get the hell out of his office.
* MadeOfIndestructium: Flipside apparently. Not only did it survive in perfect condition for decades, it also effortlessly repairs itself after getting shot full of holes and getting blown apart by Spider-Man.

* MultiEthnicName: Miguel has a Spanish first name and an Irish last name (O'Hara), reflecting his heritage.
* MurderByMistake: A group of police officers fatally shoot Dana when they shot Venom 2099 and their bullets went right through him, hitting her.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Miguel briefly experiences this after he lashes out at the Specialist (an agent of Stark-Fujikawa sent to attack him), slitting his throat.
* MythologyGag: Early on, the AI in Miguel's apartment offers to change her appearance and switches between 3 or 4 different ones. The last one that offers to make him some warm milk and brownies looks exactly like Aunt May. After a not so subtle moment of LeaningOnTheFourthWall, when Miguel looks directly at the reader, he tells her to "kill it".

* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Mig's costume is made out of unstable molecule fabric (the same material as the costumes of the ComicBook/FantasticFour), which allows him to use his talons without tearing it, and protects him against knives and guns (though he still feels the impact of the attacks). However, the costume was actually for the Day of the Dead festival; the UMF feature was to protect it if things got rowdy.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Due to just having had a run-in with his sister Risque, Miguel is already on edge the second time he meets Venture. He therefore immediately begins attacking the other man, assuming that Venture is attempting to capture him for Alchemax again. Only, as Venture reveals at the fight's conclusion, he wasn't. While he'd spent months since their last fight being angry at Spider-Man, as he himself notes, he had a ''lifetime'' of hatred towards his sister and was happy Spider-Man had defeated her. He mentions that had Spider-Man only listened to him they might have become friends, but because of his assault he'll be looking to kill Miguel the next time they meet.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: When Miguel tried to remove the Rapture in his system, Aaron Delgato, Miguel's supervisor, sabotaged the attempt with Spider DNA. That wound up bestowing Miguel with spider-powers that would enable him to become one of Alchemax's biggest enemies.

* NotQuiteFlight: Miguel's cape is made of a material called "light byte" that allows him to catch wind currents and lessen his descents.

* TheParalyzer: Miguel becomes this through the fangs he grows in his mouth.
* TheParanoiac: Kron Stone, who at school was under the impression that Xina and Miguel were plotting against him, when Miguel really wanted nothing to do with Kron since he was a bully and he was certain that Kron would be protected from any actual punishment due to his father's authority.

* PetTheDog: Tyler Stone, who has shown no redeeming qualities thus far, sheds a tear when he finds out about Dana's death. He was dating her at the time.
* PoisonousPerson: Venom 2099, with the Symbiote having mutated to the point that it now secrets acid through touch.
* PungeonMaster: Venture's sister, who makes a pun in every single sentence she says. She even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it, saying she can't resist.
* PunnyName: "Daskalakis" comes from the word "daskalos" which means teacher. Guess what her job is.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Miguel obtains red irises after the experiment and he's certainly one of the most dangerous people in his verse.

* TheQuietOne: Miguel when in Spider-man mode. He barely talks, if at all. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one of the crossovers with the original Spider-man, where one of the rogues comments that "it's a nice change of pace" (compared to old Spidey's endless chatter).

* SarcasticConfession: When Miguel's brother, Gabriel, asks him why he's mumbling, Miguel tells him [[CassandraTruth it's because he's grown fangs, and if he opens his mouth too widely, Gabriel will see them.]] Gabriel thinks he's just making a bad joke.

* SirSwearsALot: Miguel is particularly fond of the all-purpose "[[FutureSlang shock]]".

* SuicideIsShameful: Doubles with BungledSuicide for Conchata. She gets as far as holding the gun to her head and pulling the trigger, but a later issue reveals that she missed on purpose, having decided to live with her actions (she shot Tyler Stone and thought she'd killed him) and stand before a court of law to explain them.
* SunglassesAtNight: Miguel is forced to wear them as his eyes are too sensitive to light.
* SuperReflexes: Unlike [[ComicBook/SpiderMan his namesake]], Spider-Man 2099 does not have a SpiderSense ''per se''. Instead, he has enhanced perceptions that happen to tune in more quickly to what's pertinent, such as an immediate danger or a general plot point. Unlike SpiderSense, it's limited by what his senses are focused on, and he could still be caught flat-footed.
** The version of Miguel, by coincidence in his late teens, who appears in ''Timestorm'', however, ''does'' have the Spider-Sense in addition to the regular Miguel's powers.
* SuperSenses: Eyesight, in particular. Miguel has accelerated perception - something that completely throws him off initially - and InnateNightVision. The latter however means that he's [[LogicalWeakness very sensitive to light]], forcing him to wear SunglassesAtNight (and day) and keep the lighting in bis apartment at minimum.
* TemptingFate: Right after the whole affair with the Atlanteans...
-->'''Miguel''': God, what a day. How could it '''''possibly''''' get any worse?\\
'''Conchata''' ''(pointing s gun at Tyler Stone)'': Not now, Miguel. Mother's ''conference''.\\
'''Miguel''': Uh boy.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Miguel is of both Irish and Mexican descent.

* WalkTheEarth: Miguel does this for a while after finding out Tyler Stone is his father. Doubles as a JourneyToFindOneself.
* WhatHaveIBecome: Miguel is ''not'' pleased with his powers. At all. He calls himself a "freak", refers to them as a "condition" more than once and always has the thought of finding a cure at the back of his head. His initial reaction to realising what he's turned into is pure terror.
-->'''Miguel''': A freak! He turned me into a ''freak''! I'd rather '''DIE'''!

* TenMinuteRetirement: At the beginning of the 2015 series, Miguel was determined to give up the heroics and live with Tempest. When a terrorist attack "kills" her, he drops this attitude pretty quickly.
* AGodAmI: Gloriana, an Inhuman, certainly fancies herself one, to the point of invading a church to demand worship.

* BackFromTheDead: At the end of Volume 3, [[spoiler:Miguel is killed by Tempest thanks to a psychic suggestion set up by Tyler Stone. However, he's warped back to 2099 and resurrected by Doctor Strange 2099]].

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* TenMinuteRetirement: At the beginning of the 2015 series, Miguel was determined to give up the heroics and live with Tempest. When a terrorist attack "kills" her, he drops this attitude pretty quivkly.

* LockedIntoStrangeness: Miguel's accident gave him talons on his fingers and toes, enhanced eyesight ([[BlessedWithSuck which makes bright lights a problem]]) and fangs. He learns to retract the talons, but can't do anything about the fangs, and his eyes are a vivid shade of red, requiring that he wear tinted glasses to conceal them. He explains the sensitivity to light as a side effect of Rapture when questioned by Tyler Stone.

* PunyName: "Daskalakis" comes from the word "daskalos" which means teacher. Guess what her job is.

* AfterlifeExpress: Implied to be the case in issue "Route 666". Miguel is in the middle of the desert, yet somehow runs into a guy named Dash who he hasn't seen in decades yet is completely unchanged, Dash somehow knows he's Spider-man, and the truck he's driving is full of people making dead jokes. One of which is the recently deceased [[spoiler:Angela Daskalakis]]. ''Then'' a roadblock forces them on an incredibly bumpy road that Dash explains as being "paved with good intentions", and suddenly they're chased by actual demons riding motorcycles. The ending makes it seem like it was all JustADream, but Miguel finds one of the tentacles he cut off from the demons.

** Tyler Stone [[spoiler:was Conchata's original lover and Miguel's biological father]]. He's the BigBad of the series - a CorruptCorporateExecutive of the highest order - and is not above making Miguel addicted to an extremely dangerous drug just to keep him in his company ([[spoiler:even if it turned out that was faked]]). He also doesn't form any real emotional attachments - while he claims one of his girlfriend s made him happy, he does not hesitate to [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring order the execution of his own son Kron]], just as he had done for his [[spoiler:wife]].

--->'''Miguel''': [[spoiler:I have ''two'' half brothers. ''One'' thinks he's my ''full'' brother, and ''hates Spider-man''... and the other doesn't know we're ''related'' and hates ''Miguel''. Add them up, I've got ''one whole'' brother who hates me ''completely''.\\

%%** Eventually Miguel [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the whole situation with quite the bitterness.
%%--->'''Miguel''': [[spoiler:

* AllYourPowersCombined: Flipside, an android created back during the Heroic Age that was designed to mimic the powers of the first superhuman it came into contact with. That ends up being Spider-Man 2099, whose powers aren't exactly like classic Spider-Man, therefore it ends up mimicking the powers of the original Spider-Man and Venom.

** Kron Stone was a pathetic and entitled bully as a kid, regularly humiliating and attacking Miguel, and that got even worse as he grew up. In his first appearance in ''ComicBook/Punisher2099'', he killed happy families precisely because they were happy. After the Punisher got to him, he ends up half-dead in the sewers and[[spoiler:bonds with the Venom Symbiote]], now looking for revenge on his father for discarding him. He also tries to kill Miguel several times, apparently unaware that [[spoiler:they're related]].

* BotchedSuicide: Miguel attempted this right after his transformation, by jumping of the Alchemex building. However, his talons caught him in time and he realised that he didn't have it in him.

** Tyler Stone [[spoiler:was Conchata's original lover and Miguel's biological father]]. He's the BigBad of the series - a CorruptCorporateExecutive of the highest order - and is not above making Miguel addicted to an extremely dangerous drug just to keep him in his company ([[spoiler:even if it turned out that was faked]]). He also doesn't form any real emotional attachments - while he claims one of his girlfriend s made him happy, he does not hesitate to [[spoiler:order the execution of his own son Kron]].
** Kron Stone was a pathetic and entitled bully as a kid, regularly humiliating and attacking Miguel, and that got even worse as he grew up. He ends up [[spoiler:bonded with the Venom Symbiote]] and wants revenge on his father for discarding him. He also tries to kill Miguel several times, apparently unaware that [[spoiler:they're related]].

** Mrs. Angela Daskalakis, Miguel's old teacher. She is a strict lady but she cares deeply for ber students, and was not afraid to get her hands dirty to protect them. She protected Miguel from Kron when he was a kid, and eventually [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice gave her life]] to protect them]]. All in all, she is one of the very few people Miguel has held in high esteem over the years, and has an epic case of HeroicBSoD [[spoiler:after he failed to save her]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: It's eventually revealed that Miguel's boss, Tyler Stone, is actually his biological father. While this comes as a complete surprise to him, there are a few hints earlier in the series to this revelation, such as the fact that Stone refers to a young Miguel as ''son'' and personally arrives to pick him up to take him to the Alchemax School for Gifted Youngsters, which is noted to be unusual.

** Mrs. Daskalakis is portrayed that way, as she tolerates absolutely no bullying in her school and has no problem helping out the victims in defending themselves.