Fortnite Marvel live event: Giant Doctor Doom boss and Fortnitemares 2024

Fortnite released a Marvel live event bringing the real Doctor Doom onto the island, which meant players had to work together as a community to defeat the enormous NPC boss.

The ongoing Chapter 5 Season 4 is past the midway point with the third content patch v31.30, released on October 1. The upcoming Fortnite update is expected to include content themed on this year’s Fortnitemares event and the next round of lore-based quests for the season.

However, with the newly added Part 6 Marvel quests, it has been intimated that a war between Hope and Doom is approaching, and it could happen before Season 4 ends in November.

Meanwhile, in the Day of Doom LTM, players must choose between Doom’s Henchmen and the Avengers to stop Doom from recovering Pandora’s Box Artifacts. But when he obtains those and unleashes his ultimate form, the leaked live event will kick into high gear, and here’s what we know about it so far.

Fortnite Doctor Doom live event start date and time

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The Fortnite live event started on October 5, 2024, at 11:00 AM PT | 2 PM ET | 7 PM BST.

The event was first revealed after Epic Games implemented the game’s v31.30 update which added a countdown timer just east of the Reckless Railways location on the Battle Royale island map.

Epic then posted a teaser trailer that “Doom is coming” when the countdown eventually would end, with no extra details about Doctor Doom’s arrival being given.

Doctor Doom live event

A massive Doctor Doom NPC boss spawned in the middle of each Battle Royale map as players worked together as a community to defeat the villain. Similar to the Pandora’s Box event, Doctor Doom had an overall health bar in which players collectively dealt damage to decrease his health gradually.

However, after just an hour, Doom’s health was completely wiped out which led to him quickly escaping by teleporting through a Rift.

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A huge Doctor Doom NPC boss spawns in the middle of the map and must be defeated.

Before Doom appeared, various Rift Beacons were seen gradually activating across the map as the countdown timer reached its final hour. With no time remaining, the live event then kicked off with an in-game cinematic to mark his arrival.

Epic posted the full trailer to their official social accounts shortly after. “CALLING ALL HEROES: the fight is not over yet! Jump in now and help us take down Doom,” the developers stated alongside their social post.

What is next?

Despite some players and leakers in the community anticipating the mini-event may also kick off this year’s Fortnitemares event, this was not the case. The annual Halloween event is expected to start making its way into the Battle Royale on October 11. Find out more Fortnitemares info on our main hub.

However, there have been various Fortnitemares teasers scattered around the map such as Pumpkins appearing at various locations around the island.

The Part 6 Absolute Doom Story Quests revealed how Doom was going to approach the island and how Hope needed to be prepared to fight him. But first, loopers were tasked with defeating Emma Frost on the island and using Forecast Towers.

Hope says she has to fight Doom based on a prophecy by the Oracle that tells she “might” win the battle. Adding to this, Hope also looks terrified to face him but says she’ll try to stop him before he takes over the island.

On the other hand, several leaks pointed out that a big battle between Doom and Mephisto is incoming which will bring the second phase of Story Quests and will bring in the Fortnitemares update on October 15th.

While Epic is still keeping things under wraps, we’ll keep you updated about the live event, what to expect from it, and how to play it when it’s officially out in Fortnite. Until then, check out the new set of Day of Doom LTM quests and the best weapons to use this season.