Headscratchers / Spider-Man: Edge of Time

• Why is Anti-Venom a villain here? The latest trailer from E3 indicates that it's Eddie who kills Peter & causes the timeline to get all screwed up, but if Beenox really wanted Eddie Brock to be the one who kills Spidey, why didn't they just use him as Venom?
  • Anti-Venom was picked because mere contact with him would cause Spider-Man to lose his powers, leaving him vulnerable to brutal attacks. As for why he is a villain, it is explained that the villain from 2099 is controlling Anti-Venom into killing him. Spider-Man tries to snap him out of it, but is unsuccessful.
• The CEO's archives have most of the costumes Peter wore when he was Spider-Man, but why is Spider-Man 1602 there when the symbiote/black suit isn't?
  • The Symbiote itself is bonded to Kron Stone in the 2099 universe, and as for a replica of it... who knows?
• Is it just me or does it appear that Amazing Spidey fights all of the large enemies?
  • He fights Black Cat. And Miguel fights PP2099, who is kind of big in the Iron Spidey suit.
    • No what I'm talking about is that he tends to fight the Giant Mook enemies. But I now remember that 2099 fights some in Act Three. But still why does Amazing Spidey fight more giant mooks and bosses?
    • The old Parker Luck.
• Wouldn't Miguel saving Peter Parker in the present set the whole plot into motion in the future? If Peter died in the past, then Peter Parker 2099 would no longer exist (as he would be dead).
  • Probable Causality. Just like when Peter does stuff in the past that affects 2099, Miguel tossing Doc Ock, Anti-Venom and Sloan into the time gate erased Sloan from the CEO position while allowing Peter Parker to live. Ergo, Peter Parker would go on to become the CEO, go crazy, and remember everything that the two had done together thus far.
• I put this in the YMMV section, but why would Miguel think his security access code would work in the past way before it would've been programmed into the computers of the building?
  • Probably did it on reflex, sort of like 'worth a shot' if you will.
  • He may have also been hoping that Sloane took some kind of database from his version of Alchemax into the past (nobody could build up an entire company from memory alone, after all) and included Miguel's access codes; something similar happened in the Star Trek Shatnerverse series, as an example (residents of the Mirror Universe stole the plans of USS Voyager and built their own version, but they copied the plans so exactly that they even copied the ship's command codes).
• Why did Spidey 2099 need Amazing Spidey to save him from the failed experiments? Couldn't he have just climbed up onto the ceiling or something so that they couldn't reach him?
  • There was certainly a point where they were strangling him and keeping him closer to the ground, so Miguel may not have been able to shoot the webs to get himself higher up.
• Why does Alchemax have a failed experiments lab? Who has a laboratory for failed experiments? Wouldn't failed experiment disposal be a better name?
  • It’s possible that said failed experiments lab is meant to collect and contain any products from experiments that failed their original goal, so that, in the future, those products could be examined and explored for other potential uses. At least, that’s the best I can think of.
• How is Peter Parker the CEO of Alchemax? In the original 2099 comics, Peter Parker had been dead for decades, if not a century. So, this definitely isn’t something from the “proper” 2099 before Sloan started screwing with time.
  • It’s likely this is the result of the Quantum Causality that Miguel and Peter use throughout the game. Effectively, this Peter seems to be a what-if fork off of the “main” Peter in the game. From what we can tell, he seems to have gone through some equivalent of Edge of Time’s events, albeit one that led to him losing Mary Jane as well as all of the other people he cared about, but not one where he encountered Atrocity. And, after that, Peter goes mad with grief, and eventually joins Alchemax, eventually becoming CEO. Effectively, he’s a what-if timeline Peter Parker. As for WHY he exists in 2099 even after Miguel managed to save Mary Jane, that’s most likely the result of the time-storm that’s been generated from all the Causality events throughout the game, effectively bleeding timelines together.