Made in 2004, this figure started as a repaint of the original figure to have a darker blue. Then I noted the original figure lacked the arm "feelers" that Spiderman 2099 is equipped with. To make these "feelers" we used a batman glove guard to supplement those spikes. The darker paint job is much more accurate and the blue that I used in this second attempt at repainting this figure. I have dubbed the Testors Saphire Blue "Marvel Blue" as it is the dark blue used in most of the marvel figures.


The character's alter ego is Miguel O'Hara, a half-Mexican, half-Irish genetic engineer at the Alchemax Corporation. Miguel is in charge of the Corporate Raider program, the basis of which is to modify the genetic structure of individuals in the idea of endowing them with great abilities. He is working on a possible candidate by studying the file of Spider-Man. Because of this , there is a spider DNA genetic program in the computer.
After an incident in which a convicted prisoner, used as a test subject, dies after being genetically modified for enhanced strength, Miguel is starting to doubt the goings on at Alchemax. His boss, Tyler Stone, sees the fact that the man demonstrated increased strength before he died as very positive, despite the fact that the man died. It seems to matter little to him. Miguel then decides to quit. In the office of Tyler Stone, he has a drink offered to him while Tyler makes a small speech like "Our employees are cherished participants... Not prisoners. You are perfectly free to leave our little family, if you wish. We're a business, not a stalag". Of course, there is a catch, the drink is spiked with a mind expanding hallucinogen called Rapture, made by Alchemax and is perfectly legal. Rapture is incredibly addictive since it bonds to the user genetically. Once taken, the user needs it like oxygen and without it, he/she dies.
In order to get rid of the drug, Miguel hacks his way into the alchemax building at night, covering his electronic entries so that records show he wasn't there at all. He intends to use the genetic modifying machine to restore his genetic signature to what it was before receiving the Rapture. Since he used his own signature in his tests, the computers already have a previous version. He programs the device, strips naked and enters it. As he does this, a jealous and verbally abused co-worker, Aaron Delgato, decides that in a procedure this complex, something could go wrong. When the machine threatens to shut down following safety parameters, Aaron disables the safeguards with a manual override. In doing so, the spider file and the Miguel O'Hara DNA file are merged before the imprint in Miguel. The machine explodes with Miguel unscathed but not unchanged. He gains incredible strength, speed and agility, he can now shoot webbing from spinnerets in his forearms, his eyes give him enhanced vision though they are more light sensitive, he gains talons on his fingers and poisonous fangs. He escapes the lab and after a small period of adaptation, he finally gets home.
After investigating the destroyed laboratory site, an Alchemax enforcer called Venture starts to track him. When Miguel sees him in the streets below, he realizes that he is after him and so he dons a spider-like suit he purchased for the Mexican Day of the Dead. This costume is made of a nigh-indestructible unstable molecule material. He heads out with it and runs around the city, going through the alchemax building and his own appartement to mix up his footprints so that the enforcer cannot associate him with the person that was in the lab of Alchemax. Later, as Spider-Man, Miguel fought against the Alchemax Corporation's control over the city, and tried to bring down the corporation's CEO, Tyler Stone, whom Miguel later discovered to be his birth father.
Miguel's family tree was complicated. His mother Conchata frequently disagreed with his "father", her husband George. He would beat her when she voiced that disagreement. At one point Conchata cheated on her husband with Tyler Stone, and Miguel was born. Miguel went to the Alchemax Academy For Gifted Youngsters (which was hinted at being the future of Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Children.) and studied alongside Xina Kwan, who later became his girlfriend, and Kron Stone, whom he did not know until later was his half-brother. Much later, Kron, by then a petty crook, bonded with the Venom symbiote, which discovered him after he was nearly killed by the 2099-era Punisher, Jake Gallows. As Venom, Kron tortured Miguel and Xina Kwan, and eventually murdered Miguel's one-time fiancée, Dana D'Angelo. Miguel's other half-brother, Gabriel "Gabe" O'Hara, grew up resentful of the attention shown Miguel by their parents. He moonlighted in virtual reality as a superhero named Firelight, and at one time was accused of being a 2099 version of the Green Goblin (who later was revealed to be a shapeshifter assuming Gabe's form).
Over the four-year-run of the series, Spider-Man 2099 encountered futuristic versions of modern Spider-Man villains, including the previously-mentioned Goblin and Venom, as well as the Vulture and the Chameleon. He also battled new villains like Venture, a cyborg; Thanatos, the Rick Jones from an alternate timeline; Discord, a virtual reality archetype; and Flipside, a Spider-Man doppelgänger. He also met the other heroes of 2099; the hero Justice from the New Universe, who was known in 2099 as the Net Prophet; and also, in a special edition entitled Spider-Man Meets Spider-Man 2099, his original web-slinging counterpart. This comic also introduced Spider-Man 2211, yet another latter-day Spider-Man from further down the timestream. It also introduced the Hobgoblin of 2211, whose appearance clearly recalled that of Norman Osborn's Green Goblin persona in keeping with the recurrent 2099 theme of confusing distant history, characters, and events.