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Miguel O'Hara

Debut: Spider-Man 2099 (vol.1) #1

The head geneticist of Alchemax, Miguel was overseeing the development of genetic splicing technology, with the ultimate goal of developing corporate raiders who would have the powers of the heroes of old - most specially, Spider-Man. However, even as crooked as his job was, Miguel had morals. When a failed experiment killed a human volunteer - despite Miguel's repeated protests that they were not ready for testing on humans - yet was deemed a success by his superiors, Miguel tried to quit Alchemax, only to be tricked by his boss Tyler Stone into becoming addicted to Rapture, a drug which only Alchemax provides. Desperate for a cure, Miguel tests the technology on himself, but another scientist tried to kill him by sabotaging the experiment while it was underway.

And thus the new Spider-Man was born; a man who knew nothing but the cut-throat world of business and science, yet now hating them with a passion, and determined to fight against the corruption they spread.

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• 10-Minute Retirement: At the beginning of vol.3, Miguel was determined to give up the heroics and live with Tempest. When a terrorist attack "kills" her, he drops this attitude pretty quickly.
• Absurdly Sharp Claws: His talons can cut through any material, including swords. The only thing they can't cut is unstable molecule fabric.
• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • In Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Miguel is as chatty and snarky in combat as Peter, while in the comics he's almost mute and dead serious.
  • In his cameo in The Stinger of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, he gets into an argument over pointing, which is completely out of character as he's usually pretty stoic. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ends up correcting this and turning him back into a very dour, significantly more aggressive individual like he is in the comics.
  • In the 2019 reboot, he has a stronger moral compass than before, and a better relationship with his family, but he's also more subdued and resigned to his situation, and nowhere near as snarky. Then again, he's in a pretty bad shape due to his drug addiction.
• Affectionate Nickname: Miggy. Tyler Stone calls him "Mike", but he hates it.
• Affirmative-Action Legacy: Peter Parker is white, but Miguel is half-Mexican, half-Irish. The Irish part is put under question when his true father is revealed though.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: A retroactive example, as Spider-Man 2099 predates Batman Beyond by 7 years. A rebellious young man who steps into the shoes of a famous animal-themed superhero in a dystopian cyberpunk near future, wearing a cutting-edge costume and embodying an anti-heroic persona. Are we sure we aren't talking about Terry McGinnis? Interestingly, Miguel would later get a second costume that functions similarly to Terry's batsuit, but it's white in color, contrasting Terry's black-and-red version.
• Alternate Self: There's Miguel-928, there's the version from Exiles, the one who lifted Thor's hammer, a Spider-Ham version, the Timestorm version, the one from Secret Wars 2099, and so on and forth...
  • In the 2019 reboot, Miguel runs into an elderly version of himself, heavily implied to be the original Earth-928 version.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Spiders.
• Antagonistic Offspring:
  • Miguel hated his father George with a passion; he wanted him to grow so old that all his organs would have to be replaced with mechanical substitutes that would keep collapsing, just to make him suffer. The reason Miguel cried at his death wasn't sadness to see a loved one go, but anger because his plan never came to fruition.
  • His biological father is Tyler Stone, who Miguel already absolutely loathed for his complete Lack of Empathy. Tyler does his best to get Miguel under his thumb, and when that failed, gets rid of him.
• Artificial Hybrid: After having his DNA spliced with 50% of a spider, Miguel undergoes quite a few physical changes. Super-Strength, crazy reflexes and agility, enhanced eyesight, red eyes, venomous fangs, retractable talons on each toe and finger, and organic web glands.
• Aside Glance: When Lyla goes through the various modes she has installed, she switches to one that looks exactly like Aunt May. Miguel stares right at the reader and then tells Lyla to kill it.
• The Atoner: An interesting case, as his interpretation of With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility is actually "With Great Power Comes Great Guilt".
  Miguel: I've spent the past few years trying to make up for what a shocking uncaring jerk I was for most of my life.
• Back for the Dead: The Miguel from Exiles returns in issue #5 of the 2014 series... only for Morlun to effortlessly kill him.
• Back from the Dead: At the end of vol.3, 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 Strange 2099.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: He once teamed up with the Net Prophet to take down a gang that had invaded St. Patrick's.
• Badass Bookworm: Miguel looks and acts like an arrogant scientist most of the time, but he's one of the most dangerous-powered individuals of his era.
• Badass Cape: A tiny one with a web-like appearance that can be used for gliding.
• Badass Family: He ends up starting one, as he, Tempest and their son are all superheroes. In addition, both his brothers are badasses in their own right, and his mother isn't too shabby herself.
• Big Damn Kiss: Miguel gives this to Tempest, right after her brainwashing kicks in and she kills him. It even has the classic pose from that "the war is over" picture.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Part of one. Miguel is The Unfavorite to his mother, pushed around by his father, the object of jealousy for his brother, a man to kill at all costs for his other brother, and a tool to his biological father. Miguel's relationship with all of them ranges from "tense" to "near-homicidal rage that's very much mutual".
• Black Belt in Origami: Miguel's attempts at Casual Danger Dialogue never go well, and this line proves it.
  Spider-Man: I know karate, kung fu... and several other dangerous words.
• Black Sheep: Nobody in his family is a saint, but Miguel had practically sold his soul to Alchemax before the events of the comic.
• Blessed with Suck: His enhanced eyesight grants him Innate Night Vision and the ability to see great distances, but he can't turn it off which means he has to wear sunglasses when not in costume because it's extremely sensitive to light.
• Blindfolded Vision: His mask has no lenses or eyeholes of any kind, but the material is implied to be already kind of see-through, and with Miguel's enhanced eyesight it's no longer a problem.
• Body Horror: Milder by most standards, but he's still pretty freakish if exposed. He has retractile hooked claws in each digit, extendable fangs like a vampire, blood red eyes and, most disturbingly of all, scaled-up spinnerets in his arms that are visible under his skin.
• Bullet Time: His accelerated perception allows him to see things in this fashion. When he first gets it, it completely throws him off.
• Bungled Suicide: When he first obtained his powers, Miguel, terrified by the change, tried to jump off the Alchemax building, only for his talons to catch him. After that, he found that he did not have it in him to kill himself.
• Cain and Abel: His half-brother Kron Stone was a psychotic killer who tried to kill Miguel multiple times, and that was before he bonded with the Venom Symbiote.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: Even after The Reveal, Miguel continues to call Tyler Stone by his name. He only calls him "dad" once, and it was as hateful as it gets.
• Canon Immigrant: Miguel is the first 2099 character to make it to Marvel's 616 "main" continuity.
• Cassandra Truth: He tried to tell his mother that he's the new Spider-Man, but between his status as The Unfavorite and his mother's worship of Spider-Man, she just laughs in his face. Hard enough to miss how he reveals his talons right in front of her.
• Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: Played with. At first, this was averted, as Miguel had to sneak into places to change into his costume as fast as possible. However, after he got stuck in the past, he wore the costume (sans mask and gloves) all the time and had Lyla project a hologram of ordinary clothing over it. So all he has to do to change is to tell her to drop the projection.
• Character Development: He went from a Corrupt Corporate Executive who was full of himself to a man filled with doubt yet has a strong moral compass and seeks to improve the world.
• Character Tics: Not really seen, but Dana says that Miguel's nostrils flare up whenever he's angry.
• Chest Insignia: A skull-like spider.
• Child Prodigy: Smart enough to be transferred to the Alchemax School for Gifted Youngsters.
• Childhood Friend Romance: He met Xina when they were both kids in the same school, and they later started dating. In one continuity they even get married.
• Chosen One: The Thorites are absolutely convinced that Spider-Man is the Herald of Thor. Whether this is true or not depends on what continuity you're reading.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Peter David specifically designed him that way.
  "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."
• Costume Evolution: Miguel's second outfit is far more high-tech than the first one and it shows. The new one has a black, red, and white motif, a far more stylized and streamlined design, and Tron Lines.
  • He goes back to his old design in the reboot, due to a reality reset.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: How he started off. His job was to create Corporate Samurais, consequences be damned. And he was very proud of it.
• Cover Identity Anomaly: Liz Allen takes less than a day to figure out that Miguel is Spider-Man, as Spider-Man did not break into the Alchemax building (meaning that he was already inside, thus he was either visiting - unlikely - or is an employee), his name belongs to a dead man, and none of his credentials check out.
• Cowardly Lion: In his first fights, he's scared out of his mind because he's completely inexperienced and facing foes he knows how dangerous they are. Still, he does not let them see how scared he is.
• Create Your Own Villain:
  • Miguel curing Tempest of her cancer inadvertently turned her into a mutate bug monster that wants to eat him.
  • If not for his actions, the alternate Venture would have never become a member of the Sinister Six.
• Cumbersome Claws: Miguel is glad that his retractable claws reflexively retract when he touches his own skin because otherwise going to the bathroom would be a huge chore... But he's not quite as lucky with other tasks. While he's still getting used to his claws, it was a very common occurrence for him to wake up with shredded sheets or to accidentally tear his clothes.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You:
  • He is the bastard son of Tyler Stone, the CEO of Alchemax, and absolutely no one in that triangle wants anything to do with each other.
  • He sacrifices himself to save Tempest while she was pregnant with his son Gabriel. Gabriel is very understanding of this fact.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He wears an almost black costume with a skull motif and spikes, but he's one of the good guys.
• Dead Person Impersonation: When undercover in 2014, he uses the fake name "Michael O'Mara" as an alias, which belongs to a guy who had died decades ago. That's one of the things that clues Liz Allen that Miguel isn't who he claims to be.
• Deadpan Snarker: When in his civilian persona, Miguel pretty much snarks all the time. Not so much in his Spider-Man persona.
  Thorite: Remember, Thor is coming!
  Miguel: Yeah. Swell. I'll set an extra place.
• Defector from Decadence:
  • He tries to quit Alchemax after an experiment on a human test subject (which he did not approve of) resulted in the death of the man, and Tyler Stone calls it a success.
  • In the 2019 reboot he does quit Alchemax, because he couldn't stand how his superiors were treating the victims of genetic mutation.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: He dies in Tempest's arms after she was hypnotized into stabbing him.
• Dirty Coward: That's how Xina viewed Miguel when they were kids at school, as he refused to stand up to his bully Kron Stone. The real reason for that was that Miguel knew Kron's father had a huge pull in the school, so Kron not only would not get expelled no matter what he did, but Miguel would have to put up with him for quite a few years.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: In the 2019 reboot, Miguel has this opinion of himself, as he constantly lets his brother down.
• Dodge the Bullet: He can do that thanks to his Super-Reflexes.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: When he first obtains his powers, Miguel tries to save Aaron from falling off the building, but he held on too tight, and along with the talons he ends up crushing Aaron's arm and tearing off his skin. Later, he's absolutely shocked he can lift a car.
• Dressed in Layers: Miguel starts wearing his costume beneath his civilian clothes. Subverted in vol.3 where his civies are just a hologram.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Miguel's reaction when a bunch of civilians accuse him of being a corporate stooge despite fighting against them all the time. That said, they were being manipulated by the Goblin.
• Dumb Struck: When asked to speak in Dana's funeral, his Heroic BSoD is so heavy that he flees without saying a word.
• Dynamic Entry: Miguel starts his first real fight as Spider-Man by jumping off the window (which doesn't open, by the way), and lands on Venture with a kick.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After all he's been through, in The Amazing Spider-Man (2018), the main version of Miguel reunites with Tempest and gets to raise his son.
• Everyone Has Standards: Even at his very worst, Miguel was completely against human experimentation, and treated the one human test subject he had with politeness and respect, asking him if he was sure about his decision and being as accommodating as possible despite Mr. Sims being a criminal.
• Eye Colour Change: Miguel's eyes turned red, forcing him to hide them.
• Fake High: Played for Drama. Turns out that Tyler Stone never slipped Rapture into Miguel's drink, but a fake drug mimicked its effects and would get flushed off his system in three days. In other words, the entire plot of the comic could have been avoided if Miguel just waited.
• Fiery Redhead: Depending on the Artist, Miguel is portrayed with either red or brown hair, and he has a short temper. Dropped after vol.1, when his hair colour settles on brown.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Subverted in vol.2 while Miguel is stuck in the past; he's unfamiliar with the modern culture such as shows or how water comes in brands, but overall he's not really disoriented.
  • Turned on its head in the 2019 reboot. Miguel is in his proper time, but he stands out because he remembers stuff he experienced back in the past. He is much more disoriented.
• Flash Sideways: In the 2019 reboot, Miguel is able to recall things that happened to him in the previous volumes, mainly through hallucinations. These can go from minor things, like the original ending of a movie, to full-blown flashbacks.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: Despite being a superhero in the Marvel universe, he does not believe in God or any other deities. Which is why Atropos catches him by surprise.
• Freak Lab Accident: Played with. Aaron Delgato caused the accident in an attempt to kill Miguel, but he ended up giving him spider-powers instead.
• Foil:
  • To Peter Parker, which is intentional by Peter David's design.
    • Peter started off as a high school student while Miguel started off as an adult with an important job.
    • Peter is White while Miguel is of mixed heritage (half-Mexican and half-Irish, though the Irish half is called into question due to his birthfather being Tyler Stone).
    • Peter has an Alliterative Name while Miguel doesn't and instead, a Significant Anagram.
    • Peter has brown hair while Miguel's hair is initially red.
    • Peter started off with limited social skills, Cannot Talk to Women, obviously not good in a fight, is rather unconfident, and has a massive chip-on-his-shoulder while Miguel started off as a Deadpan Snarker with the necessary communication skills in the cutthroat business world, has a fiance, and is capable of holding his own in a fight, is confident to the point of arrogance, and has an insufferable attitude due to his genius intellect.
    • Peter was an orphan who was raised as an only child by his elderly, but loving aunt and uncle. Miguel on the other hand, was raised by his abusive father and clinically insane mother along with his younger brother, and is later revealed that he also had a blood relation to another abusive family.
    • Peter initially wore glasses due to poor eyesight, only to gain perfect 20/20 vision thanks to his spider-powers and allegedly switches to contacts in public while Miguel never had any vision problems prior to gaining his own powers and now has to constantly wear sunglasses in public due to his Innate Night Vision causing his eyes to be very sensitive to light.
    • Peter is a Working-Class Hero who often deals with Perpetual Poverty due to having imbalances between his civilian life and superhero one while Miguel is part of the Uptown and has a very high source of income due to working in Alchemax.
    • Depending on the Writer, Peter would zig-zag between his beliefs in Christianity and Atheism while Miguel is firmly a staunch Atheist.
    • They were both bullied during their school years, but as Peter ultimately mends his complicated relationship with Flash Thompson, Miguel's relationship with Kron Stone only gets worse and worse to the point that they're sworn enemies as adults.
    • Most importantly, Miguel's own interpretation of Spider-Man's iconic With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, is that instead of "responsibility", it means "guilt". This, along with growing up in an abusive family and dealing with the cutthroat world of 2099, leads to him being a Well-Intentioned Extremist who is willing to make Sadistic Choices, including sacrificing innocent people, For the Greater Good. A complete antithesis to Peter, who always try to save others, even if doing so only leads to personal misery.
  • As Spider-Man, Miguel also contrasts Peter in their costume designs, personas, powersets.
    • Both of their costumes include red and blue as primary colors but are invoked with a Red Oni, Blue Oni theme. While Peter's costume is mostly red and showcases his extroverted and joking persona, Miguel's costume is mostly blue and it showcases his somber and serious persona.
    • In Amazing Fantasy #15, Peter had a brief Beta Outfit before eventually donning his iconic one, which is still made with cheap material, while Miguel's costume design is the first one he went with and is made of Unstable Molecule Fabric, making it a far more cunning edge.
    • While Peter's costume initially had underarm webs, they're purely a stylistic choice. Miguel's costume includes a small Badass Cape made of "Light Byte" that allows him to glide.
    • Peter's costume includes a Utility Belt while Miguel's costume does not.
    • When in-costume, Peter's Spider-Man persona acts far more confident, comical, and chatty while Miguel's Spider-Man persona acts unsure, serious, and relatively mute.
    • Peter's spider-powers derive from a radioactive spider bite, along with a later Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane aspect to their origins while Miguel's spider-powers derive from a futuristic gene-splicing machine that is firmly grounded in sci-fi and later become a case of Self-Made Superpowers with his new timeline self.
    • Peter can subconsciously manipulate his body's electron interaction, allowing him to stick to any surface and hold/rip things without grabbing them. Miguel has retractable talons on his fingertips and toes that can cut through nearly any material and can use them to climb flat surfaces by sinking them in.
    • Peter designed and build his own webshooters that can shoot webbing from his wrists while Miguel has natural spinnerets that can shoot webbing from the top of his hands.
    • Unlike Peter, Miguel doesn't possess a Spider-Sense, instead, he has incredible eyesight and is capable of Innate Night Vision.
• Genius Bruiser: He's both a powerful crime fighter and a talented geneticist.
• Get Back to the Future: Miguel's goal in volumes 2 and 3, but only after he fixes the future.
• Going Commando: After Miguel starts wearing his suit under his regular clothes, Lyla comments that he never used to wear any sort of undergarment under his clothes. Not that Miguel doesn't own any underwear (he has a few shirtless scenes where he's just in his boxers).
• Grandfather Paradox: During Superior Spider Man, Miguel tries to stop Tyler Stone from traveling back in time to ensure the creation of Alchemax, and then has to stop the Superior Spider-Man from killing his grandfather Tiberius.
• Guest-Star Party Member: He briefly fights alongside Captain Marvel and Starfox against Thanatos and Maestro.
• Healing Factor: One of his abilities.
• He Who Fights Monsters: The reason for his 10-Minute Retirement was that he was getting increasingly brutal over minor crimes. Miguel withdrew from the superhero scene before he could no longer recognize himself.
• Hero-Worshipper: Of the original Spider-Man. At his worst, Miguel intended to create "corporate raiders" for Alchemax by gene-splicing humans with animal DNA as an inspiration for Spider-Man's powers. Then he gains spider-powers himself in a Freak Lab Accident through a failed assassination attempt by Aaron Delgato and the ball rolls from there.
• Heroic BSoD: He suffers this quite a few times during the story, especially when the plot throws a huge curve-ball at him. The most notable cases are Dana's death and discovering who his real father is.
  • His shock after Tempest's "death" is expressed much more violently; rather than shut down, he becomes recklessly brutal and blinded with rage during fights, almost committing murder several times before he realizes what he's doing.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He went to save Tempest, his son, and the timeline as a whole, despite knowing he would die doing it.
• Home Nudist: When he's at home, he's either wearing a very short robe, or briefs. Nothing else.
• Hot-Blooded: Lampshaded by his brother, as he's half-Mexican, half-Irish (allegedly).
• Hypocritical Humor: He thinks the Future Slang "flark" sounds ridiculous, despite flinging "Shock" around like nobody's business.
• I'm Having Soul Pains: He can feel when the Inheritors kill one of his alternate counterparts.
• I Am Not My Father: Either of those.
• I Have No Idea What I'm Doing: He admits as much in the early issues, as he has no clue how his powers work, no idea how to fight, and no plan beyond "make it out as intact as possible".
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Miguel's ultimate goal. For the longest time, all he really wants is to cure himself and keep living a normal life as a scientist. He drops this after vol.1.
• I Lied: He admits that he has no idea what would happen to Daemos if the force field that imprisons him went down.
• Imagine Spot: He occasionally does that while examining different scenarios in his head. He tends to tune out everything else while at it.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His death.
• Impersonating an Officer: He disguises himself as a Public Eye flyboy to avoid detection and escape Downtown.
• In-Series Nickname:
  • Several characters in 2099 call his Spider-Man persona "S-Man" for short.
  • The other spider heroes call him 2099.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Depending on the Artist, Miguel's hair is either red or brown, as his costume is either blue or black. That was dropped in when the series was restarted in 2014, and his hair is now brown, with a dark blue suit.
• Innocently Insensitive: After he notes Tempest's fatalistic attitude and sees the medical bills on her table, he flatly asks her how sick she is. She doesn't take kindly to this.
• Insistent Terminology: When someone from an alternate future calls the city "Nueva York", he cuts him off saying it's New York.
• Insufferable Genius: In the very first issue, before his ego got knocked down a few pegs.
  Miguel (talking to another scientist): We just can't go too quickly. Otherwise...
  Aaron: Otherwise what?
  Miguel: Otherwise we'd lose you. So we're taking it nice and slow so that you can follow along. Enjoy the book. It has lots of pictures.
• It Runs in the Family: Miguel starts thinking that madness is a family trait, seeing that his mother was in a mental hospital, his brother is a Cybernet addict with a lack of impulse control, and Miguel is Spider-Man.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Miguel had an abusive childhood and grew up to be a sardonic, abrasive ass. He met his current fiancé by cheating on his girlfriend with his brother's girlfriend, and revels in the privilege of his job without concern about others. But by becoming Spider-Man, he proves he does have a side that cares about people.
• Laughing Mad:
  • He breaks into panicked laughter when he realizes he has grown spinsters in his arms.
  • He laughs again when Tyler Stone offers him (Stone's) old position in the company. Even through the paper, it doesn't sound healthy. At all.
• Legacy Character: He is the second iteration of Spider-Man, both in and out-of-universe.
• Lightning Bruiser: Getting spliced with a spider's DNA has made him absurdly strong, fast, and durable.
• Literal-Minded: At one point he says he "needs perspective" to deal with the other executives during a meeting. He stands on the table.
• Logical Weakness: Since Miguel can see in the dark, lights become a huge problem for him. At one point he's temporarily blinded by fireworks.
• The Lost Lenore:
  • Dana.
  • For a while he thinks that Tempest is dead, before a coworker of his found her by accident in the hospital.
• Love at First Sight: Miguel fell in love with Dana as soon as he saw her, which was problematic as she was dating his brother at the time.
• Love Dodecahedron: Miguel fell in love and stole his brother's girlfriend Dana while he was still dating Xina. And that was before things got complicated. Let's just say his love life is a mess.
• Loves My Alter Ego:
  • His mother Conchata adores Spider-Man, but has very low opinion of her son.
  • Kasey also falls for Spider-Man, but to her, Miguel is a slimeball.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: While overhearing a conversation between his mother and Tyler Stone, Miguel finds out that Tyler is his father. He proceeds to freak out.

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• The Man Is Sticking It to the Man: Miguel fights passionately against the corporate stooges despite being a high-ranking corporate executive himself.
• Me's a Crowd: After he goes public, there's a whole bunch of people with cheap copies of his suit running around.
• Mistaken for Badass: Early in his Spider-Man career, several people take him as a much more serious threat than he is because they have the reputation of his predecessor in mind.
• Mistaken Identity: Several people in the 616 universe confuse Miguel for the original Spider-Man. When a cop notes that it can't be the same guy because the costume is different, another one asks him if he only owns one set of clothes.
• Mr. Exposition:
  • In Peter David's run of Captain Marvel, he fills in the Captain and Starfox (no, not that one) on everything he knows about Thanatos.
  • In the 2019 reboot, he's the one who finally explains - to the readers - how exactly the economy works now that there's no money.
• Mr. Fanservice: In-Universe. His suit is perfectly form-fitting, giving a very satisfied Kasey a good look of "the tightest ass she's ever seen".
• Mundane Utility: When stuck in the past, Miguel uses his access to future databases and his powers to make money.
• Murder by Mistake: His first two kills were caused entirely by the fact that Miguel couldn't control his powers just yet. He manages to avoid killing later on.
• My God, What Have I Done?: This is Miguel's reaction when he realizes he slit the Specialist's throat by accident.
• My Suit Is Also Super:
  • His first suit is a Day of the Dead costume that's made of Unstable Molecule Fabric (UMF for short) so that it wouldn't tear in case things got rowdy. Since nothing can penetrate it, it protects Miguel from most cuts (though he still feels the impact) and he's able to use his talons unimpeded. He also attached a short cape made from anti-gravity web foil (the material is called light byte), so he can glide and control his free falls.
  • The second suit, courtesy of Peter Parker, is made of a mix of Unstable Molecule Fabric and Kevlar, thus making it invulnerable to almost everything, has a perfected glider system, thrusters in his boots, mini bombs, and a full radar-GPS system for navigation and threat detection. Even with his 2099 standards, Miguel admits that it's top of the art.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Peter David named Miguel after the actor Miguel Ferrer, who he was friends with.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • His second run with Venture was seconds after he fought Venture's sister Risque, so Miguel attacked without a second thought. And then it turns out that the whole thing could have been avoided as Venture was only there to kill her and was willing to leave him alone, but now that they fought they're mortal enemies.
  • Dana's death could have potentially be prevented if Miguel hadn't authorized the Alchemax security personnel to use lethal force against Venom, who was holding her hostage.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He delivers one to Kron Stone after the latter refused to give any information and mocked Miguel's anguish over the death of his loved ones. Miguel let him out of the cell he was captive and goaded him to a fight, resulting in this.
• No One Could Survive That!: He fell who knows how many hundred meters right after being shot at with several bolts. It's only his Healing Factor that saves him, barely at that.
• Not Quite Flight: The cape on his back is made of an anti-gravity material called light byte, which allows him to glide.
• Not So Above It All: He giddily proclaims the Ghost Rider's flybike to be the "Coolest. Ride. Ever."
• Oh, Crap!:
  • When Miguel finds himself face-to-face with Morlun, he almost wets himself in terror. When he notices Morlun is having the same reaction, he realizes the super villain is afraid to set foot in the 616 universe and decides to ask Peter Parker why.
  • His reaction when he realises he shares a cell with Strange 2099.
  • And again later, when he realises he shares a plane with Elektra.
  • And when he briefly thinks he pissed off Ghost Rider.
• Paradox Person: Miguel-928 still exists despite his timeline being rebooted twice over and gets to live happily ever after with Tempest and their son on Earth-616.
• The Paralyzer: The poison in Miguel's fangs allows him to paralyze his targets so they Can Only Move the Eyes.
• Patricide: At one point he's seriously considering it but never actually goes through with it.
• Perma-Stubble: In volumes 2 and 3, he's just too busy to shave.
• Pet the Dog:
  • He comforts the Thorite who saved him in the second issue as he was dying, and then he comforts his widow too.
  • He cures Tempest's leukemia for the sole reason that he could do it and he didn't want to see her die.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: He fails to recognize a reference to The Wizard of Oz in vol. 3. In fairness, it's a hundred and sixty-odd years before his time, but then Lyla is physically based on Marilyn Munroe, who's only a few decades out from that, so... *shrug*?
• Precision F-Strike: An odd trope for Sir Swears-a-Lot, but it's in Future Slang, so it doesn't get censored. He only gets censored exactly once; when he found out that Tempest's mother faked her daughter's death.
• Properly Paranoid: He planted a transmitter on Tiberius Stone so he could find him at any given moment. It comes in handy.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: He's really, really pissed at Tempest's mother.
  Miguel: She. Doesn't. Get away. With it.
  Peter: O. Kay. Mister. Pro. Nunciation.
• The Quiet One: Miguel when in Spider-Man mode. He doesn't talk unless it's strictly necessary. Lampshaded a few times, most notably in a crossover with the original Spider-Man, when one of the latter's rogues comments that Miguel is a nice change of pace.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Miguel aims to become this after taking over as the CEO of Alchemax. Not so much the one in Secret Wars 2015, but he sort-of gets there in the end.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He lays one out on J. Jonah Jameson. Being from the future, he straight-up tells Jameson that Spider-Man is widely remembered and loved as a hero while Jameson dies a nobody due to all of his ridiculous rants.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Miguel's eyes turned red after he obtained his powers, and he's one of the most dangerous characters in the setting, with a short temper to match.
• Required Secondary Powers: His talons retract when he touches his own skin. This is necessary so that he doesn't injure himself when doing everyday tasks like going to the bathroom.
• Retired Badass: The version of Miguel in Secret Wars 2099 was Spidey at some point, but gave up the webs in favor of taking over Alchemax, though he still has his powers.
• Revenge:
  • His initial motivation for fighting Alchemax was to take revenge at Tyler Stone for getting him addicted to Rapture.
  • In vol.3, he comes out of his 10-Minute Retirement to take revenge for Tempest's supposed death.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: His memory is unaffected by the events of One More Day, so he still knows that Spider-Man is Peter Parker.
• Sadistic Choice: Venom forces this on him when he keeps both Xina and Dana captive and tells him to choose which one to save.
• Sarcastic Confession:
  • When asked by his brother why he's mumbling, Miguel replies that he's grown fangs and if he opens his mouth too wide, Gabriel will see them. Gabriel thinks it's a tasteless joke.
  • Right after he delivers a short lecture on Norse mythology, a tour guide asks him if he's a Thorite. Miguel replies that he's an object of their worship. She just laughs it off.
  • When stranded in the past, whenever Miguel acts odd or displays future knowledge and other characters call him out on it, he simply tells them the truth, they laugh and all is fine again.
• Save the Villain: He tried to save Aaron's life despite him trying to kill him. Later he considers saving the Vulture from falling to his death, but decides not to.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Miguel lampshades this by saying that given the number of spider-themed heroes in the Heroic Era, the cops should have already known that "hands in the air" is a non-starter. And then he escapes arrest.
• Secret Identity: Par of the course with Spider-Man, and in this case, more than a little necessary. After all, he works for the company that wants to eliminate him.
• Secret-Keeper:
  • He's one of the few people who know that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. This comes to bite Otto Octavius in the ass during Superior Spider Man, as he has absolutely no clue who the hell this stranger is.
  • He also knows The Punisher 2099's secret identity.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: He finds out that Tyler Stone is his father, but doesn't reveal to him that he knows until the man himself tells him.
• Self-Made Superpowers: In the 2019 reboot, Miguel gives himself powers on his own accord.
• Shirtless Scene: A few when he's home. As far as he's concerned, the only people who can see him are he, Lyla, and maybe Dana.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: He's very fond of the all-purpose Future Slang "shock". That's the equivalent of "fuck", by the way.
• The Slow Path: In the 2019 reboot, the main Miguel waited for eighty years to find the new one and urge him to become a hero.
• Spanner in the Works: For everyone in the 616 timeline. Here comes this complete stranger who knows Spider-Man's true identity, tries to both protect and sabotage Tiberius Stone at the same time, infiltrates Alchemax for some unknown reason and nobody has any clue what he wants or what he's doing here. He also plays a vital role in overthrowing the Goblin Nation.
• Spider-Sense: Averted. Miguel is one of the very few Spider-Man Legacy and Spin-Off Characters to completely lack this trait. He compensates through a combination of his accelerated perception and Super-Reflexes abilities, and by having his personal AI Lyra hack in to nearby cameras or other visual recording devices and watch his back for him.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: He has definitely mastered the "bye" part.
• Stranger in a Familiar Land:
  • He and his friends experience this after they return from the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico, as in their absence, Dr. Doom took over the White House, SHIELD is up and running again, Tyler Stone was shot and suddenly Alchemax fell on Miguel's hands.
  • Most of Miguel's efforts in the 2015 series are focused on restoring 2099 to what it's supposed to be after the events of Spider-Verse and Secret Wars II left it in shambles. He ends up in many alternative Bad Futures, each more different than the last.
• Suddenly Shouting: When he and the other Alchemax scientists try to figure out Venom's weakness, Miguel says that IT MAY BE SENSITIVE TO SOUND!! (His punctuation, not ours). Sure enough, it works.
• Sunglasses at Night: Miguel is forced to wear them as his eyesight is too sensitive. When asked about it by Tyler Stone, he lies that it's a side-effect of Rapture.
• Super-Reflexes: Part of his power set. That said, he doesn't have the Spider Sense but enhanced eyesight, so he can still be caught blind-sighted.
• Super-Senses: Eyesight in particular. Miguel has accelerated perception - something that completely throws him off initially - and Innate Night Vision. The later makes him very sensitive to light, so he has to wear sunglasses at all hours and keep the lights as low as possible.
• Super-Strength: He can lift a car with ease, much to his disbelief.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
  • With The Punisher 2099, Ravage and Doctor Doom, when they try to stop Valhalla (a flying city) due to the ecological dangers it posed. He doesn't have the highest opinion of them.
  • Happens again with Doom in The Amazing Spider-Man (2018).
    Miguel: Why did I trust him again? Oh right. Because I didn't have a choice.
• Tempting Fate: Happens a lot, but one that stands out is right after the whole affair with the Atlanteans.
  Miguel: God, what a day. How could it possibly get any worse?
  Conchata (pointing a gun at Tyler Stone): Not now, Miguel. Mother's conference.
  Miguel: Uh boy.
• Time-Travel Romance: Tempest is from 2014, and Miguel is from 2099.
• Trapped in the Past: He ends up stuck in the Heroic Era after the events of Superior Spider Man as Tyler Stone tricked him by destroying the time machine from his end.
• Tron Lines: Downplayed, but they're part of his second outfit.
• Tuckerization: Peter David was friends with actor Miguel Ferrer and after Ferrer's passing, he revealed Miguel was named after the actor.
• Turn Out Like His Father: This is both Miguel and Conchata's greatest fear, especially when it turns out said father is Tyler Stone. Miguel puts a conscious effort not to let this happen.
• Twofer Token Minority: Atheist, half-Mexican, half-Irish. Though the Irish part is later brought into question.
• The Unfavorite: He is this to his mother, as she keeps seeing his father in him the more he grows up. In fact, when Conchata attempts to commit suicide, she sends a message only to Gabriel. Later on, their relationship is somewhat improved.
• Unwanted False Faith: Miguel is not happy with the Thorites' worship of Spider-Man, and he's even less happy when those worshippers form their own faction. However, he does occasionally use this status to get out of some tight spots.
• Unwitting Pawn: By fixing Dr. Doom's time machine, he accidentally helps Maestro get back to the past as he wanted.
• [Verb] This!:
  • He interrupts the Vulture's "consumerism" speech with this line.
    Spider-Man: Consume this, jerkweed.
  • He interrupts the normal Venom's mocking in this fashion.
    Miguel: Cut this. (Slits Venom's throat)
  • And again on Electro 2099, with much less success.
    Spider-Man: Cross this current, battery man. (thinking) I have absolutely no idea what that means. I have got to work with Peter and come up with better quips for when I take down bad guys.
• Walk the Earth: He does this for a while after he finds out that Tyler Stone is his father. Doubles as Journey to Find Oneself.
• Wall Crawl: Rather than naturally stick to walls as Peter could, Miguel sinks his talons into surfaces.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Tempest says his eyes are like the sunset. She was admittedly, very drunk at the time.
• What Have I Become?: 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 realizing what he's turned into is pure terror.
  Miguel: A freak!! He turned me into a freak!! I'd rather DIE!!
• White Sheep: From the Stone part of his family, he's the only one with a moral compass.
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Defied. According to Miguel, "With Great Power Comes Great Guilt". Over the course of the series, he keeps asking himself many times why he continues his superhero gig.
• Wolverine Claws: Downplayed, but he has retractable talons in each finger and toe, which allow him to both cling onto walls and use slashing attacks. Unusually for this trope, rather than coming out horizontally from each digit's tip or replacing the nail, they extend vertically downwards from each finger and toe, which can look rather odd, but does make them more naturally suited for their primary purpose of helping him cling to surfaces.

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