Time to go on a journey to the future, nerd squad.
The year is 2099.
All hereos of the 20th century has seemingly disappeared.
The world is run by corporations, seeking power and control.
Someone must rise up and put a stop to these corporations before they take things too far
and it is too late.
Yet some work hard to earn and maintain their own power over the populace themselves and
become an even bigger bad than these corporations.
The battle between good and evil continues on, eternally, though time has changed what
those two sides look like.
Many outfits look like they've come out of the 80's version of the future, flashy, neon,
bright and metallic.
This is Marvel's 2099 alternate world.
It is comprised of more than one type of earth but we'll go into that later.
Today we'll be looking at the alternate versions who reside in 2099, particularly some that
are even better than their original earth 616 counterparts.
Many of them are, though not all of them make the cut, being based in a future that in my
mind could very well be our reality.
Be sure to stick around for till the end of the video as we also have some exclusive bonus
content for you today.
Now join me on a trip to the future as we get counting.
10 Doctor Doom
The 2099 version of Doom has always been super interesting to me because he is even more
anti-hero than his earth 616 counterpart.
For a time people didn't even think that he was actually Victor Von Doom due to him being
so young and originally entering 2099 without his standard facial scars or disfigurement.
However it was later revealed that it was actually Doom when he was forced to battle
Eric Czerny who given some of his memories by Margaretta, aka Neon Angel in order to
make the two duke it out.
Neon Angel actually was sort of Doctor Doom's lover but they liked to play weird games with
each other and this one ended up being viewed as her taking it too far.
Doom won the fight and left her and Eric to die in their own base.
This Doctor Doom also successfully took over the US and had an era named after him, calling
it Anno Doom, in the year of Doom.
He also is consistently working in this time period to protect the people of Latveria.
Which he does anyways normally but you really get to see the 2099 version of Doom fight
hard to save them from all kinds of destruction.
9 Daredevil
There are actually two different versions of Daredevil in the 2099 alternate world.
One is Samuel Fisk, the grandson of Wilson Fisk who struggles with his feelings revolving
around his grandfather.
He becomes Daredevil but also tries to carry on the Kingpin legacy, despite feeling remorse
for this grandfather's actions.
The other is Eric Nelson.
Nelson is the one that is cooler than his earth 616 counterpart to me.
Don't get me wrong, Matt Murdock is awesome.
But this version of the hero has a cooler costume to me, jet black, he looks like a
wandering black hole, or some demon creeping out from the dark with bright red glowing
eyes.
He summons his light batons which he uses as projectiles or to fight close quarters
with, which also just look super cool.
He gets his sensory powers from a man whose case he wouldn't take on and was granted the
power to change his life from a safe one to dangerous one and open him up to the corruption
all around him.
And as such ends up becoming a vigilante to fight this corruption.
Some have speculated that he may be related to Foggy Nelson, Murdock's partner.
8 Venom
Venom in 2099 is just amazing because of his connection to Spider-Man.
Sure, Eddie Brock has a connection to the main continuity Spider-Man.
He feels that he ruined his life and is looking for vengeance.
But the 2099 version is even more closely tied.
He is Spider-Man's half brother.
The two share a father in Tyler Stone, who is also exists in more 2099 continuities than
you could imagine.
Kron Stone is a twisted individual who enjoys inflicting pain on others and hates his half
brother so much that he tries to kill him.
When he bonded with Venom symbiote and later had it wrenched from his body, it was revealed
that the bond went down to a molecular level, meaning that Kron's body actually possessed
properties of symbiote just by itself.
This version on Venom is just a closer tied rival to Spider-Man especially when it was
revealed in the earth TRN590 continuity that he knows 2099 Spider-Man's secret identity,
he knows it's his half brother in that suit.
7 Hulk
In 2099 John Eisenhart becomes the Hulk.
Remember 2099 is a time in the Marvelverse where we don't have any hereos.
All the heroes of the 20th century are gone.
Corrupt corporations rule.
It's a very real world we could be facing as we watch history progress in the present
day and watch people get greedier and greedier.
John Eisenhart is a ruthless studio exec tasked with getting the movie rights for the Knights
of Banner, a cult that worships the long since gone hero of the Hulk and stands for honour
and integrity who reside in California.
Eisenhart learns that they are conducting gamma radiation experiments in an attempt
to create a new Hulk to save us all from the evil corporations.
When they won't agree to give him the rights to make a film about their story, he reports
their illegal experiments to the police.
This results in all the knights getting brutally slaughtered in an attack from the police.
Eisenhart manages to save knight Gawain from his death.
But feels super guilty about the other Knights deaths.
During the scuffle, the Knights gamma radiation device went off and John was transformed into
the Hulk.
His version doesn't come with the feeling of guilt over being a monster, his version
comes from the guilt of his actions and through his time as the Hulk he fights to redeem himself.
6 Doctor Octopus
So there's an interesting thing to understand about the 2099 universe and that is that is
comprised of multiple earths.
There is earth 928 and earth TRN590 primarily.
This is important to understand because there are some characters who are different depending
on which earth we are talking about and TRN590 has been used to change identities of a character
or to retcon characters backstories.
This villain only exist though in TRN590 earth.
Not much is known about this version of Doctor Octopus so you might be wondering how I know
that they are better than earth 616 Doc Ock, but that a simple query to answer.
They are actually a freaking octopus!
Well, I mean still humanoid.
But this version of Doc Ock is an atlantean scientist who is a humanoid octopus so yeah
just basically the coolest looking and the most sensical in terms of the name.
5 Moon Knight
You don't need to know much about this version of Moon Knight to know how much cooler she
is.
If you are a fan of Moon Knight, you will know that he is often presented as someone
who gets his power from the Egyptian moon God Khonshu, and thus the moon itself.
Well in 2099, this Moon Knight actually fights crime on the moon where both immigrants of
the earth and the Inhumans reside.
She defends those who live on the moon, acting as their protector.
Many believe that she is a ghost.
Oh yeah, this version of Moon Knight is also a woman.
We never get to know her identity sadly but imagine how powerful Moon Knight on the moon
would be.
4 Vulture
The 2099 version of Vulture is just a more terrifying version than that of earth 616.
Not much is known about him.
We don't even know his real name.
But you don't need to know that to be scared of this guy.
The Vulture of earth 616, Adrian Toomes is usually presented as being old and frail looking.
Bald and lean, like a vulture.
2099 Vulture, especially in earth 928 is swoll.
A big muscle bound man who stumbles upon a fly contraption similar possibly last used
by the former villain of the main continuity who knows.
This Vulture is also a cannibal and was even before he adopted the alias.
All I can imagine is him circling a dying a human and then swooping in for a bite of
their flesh.
Scary stuff.
3 Spider-Man
In the 2099 universe, Miguel O'Hara is Spider-Man.
What's so much better than him when compared with his earth 616 counterpart?
His suit is pretty cool, all iterations of it.
But I especially like his red spider mask that he wears, the spike that usually adorn
his arms.
He isn't perfect.
Not that Peter Parker is perfect either.
But what I really like about most 2099 heroes is that they generally tend to live in a very
ignorant world.
2099 is a very corrupt time and most people are too full of themselves or too busy to
notice, much like the world we live in today in 2019.
Miguel ends up discovering his ignorance in his journey to become a hero which is what
makes him so great and relatable.
He's not perfect.
He's arrogant, ignorant, and sometimes downright cruel but as he becomes a hero, he becomes
more self-aware and ultimately a better person.
2 Ghost Rider
Because he's so much more future in a way that is amazing.
This version of Ghost Rider imagines him tied to a technological work, not a magical one.
Making him in a sense more realistic.
Well realistic if you believe in the ultimate power of AI in the future.
Kenshiro "Zero" Cochrane was a hacker who ran with the gang the Hotwire Martyrs.
Futuristic worlds where we have gangs of hackers.
I dig it.
Their gang was in possession of some heavily encrypted info when they were attacked by
the Artificial Kidz.
With a zed, of course.
Kidzzzz.
The hacker Kidz ended up killing the Martyrs but Cochrane managed to get away.
However he had been shot by a tech bullet that was eating away at his nervous system,
effectively killing him.
Before he died, he managed to transfer the file to his girlfriend and download himself
into cyberspace.
There he awoke to the Ghostworks, a network of AI intelligence that wanted Cochrane to
return as their agent and help fix the world, which they feared was on a decline.
Should civilization collapse tech would also be threatened and they would cease to exist.
They wanted to fix the way things were run so this wouldn't happen.
Cochrane agreed and was downloaded into a warbot becoming the new Ghost Rider.
Kind of a combo of ghost rider and terminator.
1 Alchemax
If you're fairly familiar with Marvel's 2099 continuity, you will probably have heard of
Tyler Stone and Alchemax.
Alchemax was originally an evil corporation that often is at the centre of most conflicts
in the 2099 world.
That is, when Doctor Doom isn't.
It's better than is 616 counterpart because it actually ends up being more important in
the 2099 world.
It also goes from being a corporation that provides many different services and products
to consumers in a way that gives it an evil amount of power--they even own a division
of the police--to being run later by Miguel O'Hara, 2099's Spider-Man and being re-purposed
as a good corporation.
Meanwhile on earth 616 it's just a small fish in an ocean full of larger villainous threats.
Thank you for watching, nerd squad.
I hope you enjoyed this far out trip to the future of Marvel's 2099.
What do you think about the outlook of this future?
Do you feel like Marvel may have predicted a future that could very well exist?
Where corporations rule the world?
Who are some of your favourite alternates from this universe?
Did they make the cut?
And if you could any Marvel character to this universe who has not yet appeared, who would
you choose?
Let me know in the comments below.
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