Fortnite has confirmed that The Basis, the heroic character voiced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, might be returning subsequent season, kicking off an Avengers: Doomsday-style countdown to his return.
A cinematic teaser trailer launched in the present day reveals the Basis at the moment frozen in ice after being captured by the Ice King (one other essential character in Fortnite lore). Nonetheless, gamers are hopeful that they will be capable of defeat The Rock’s character within the subsequent season of the battle royale mode, which begins in per week or so.
Actually, in the present day’s teaser reveals the official title of Epic Video games’ subsequent slice of Fortnite, riffing on the language seen within the current Avengers: Doomsday teaser (which apparently is not really a teaser) and confirming the return of a number of main characters.
“The Basis and the Ice King are returning to Fortnite: Showdown,” the teaser states, earlier than the textual content adjustments to the date (March 19, 2026), adopted by a countdown clock displaying the remaining weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds till the replace goes reside.
The teaser itself reveals a brand new in-game location, and it seems like a recent, extra detailed model of the Ice King’s basic Polar Peak Fortress. Earlier in-game photos teased this Winter Palace, suggesting it was house to one of many sport’s present Zero Level Shard MacGuffins.
The implication right here is that this new Ice King is teaming up with Fortnite’s present villain, Darkish Voyager, to attempt to reunite the damaged items of Zero Level via heinous means. Nonetheless, earlier Fortnite lore, developed via graphic novels, depicted the unique Ice King as a extra noble determine who froze entities he deemed a risk to actuality. Followers have prompt that Darkish Voyager can corrupt earlier Fortnite characters (equivalent to Lynx) at his command. Or is Ice King actually damaged?
The unique Ice King was a mysterious character who held prisoners in a dungeon in Fortnite’s first chapter (not too long ago glimpsed once more via the Fortnite OG mode, which recreates the sport’s authentic story). Nonetheless, in the present day’s teaser reveals that the brand new Ice King additionally has a number of different captives, together with the golden skeleton lady Aurelia and Marvel’s personal Steve Rogers (although he could also be one other nod to Doomsday).
The teaser ends with Ice King freezing mid-punch and cuddling as much as the Basis. How he escapes stays to be seen, however one factor is for positive: With the Basis and Ice King’s newly tweaked designs on show right here, followers can have some must-have new skins to get subsequent season.
In current weeks, a number of surviving members of Fortnite’s heroic Seven factions have returned to the sport, together with a brand new model of the Customer voiced by a really acquainted actor. Fortnite has but to formally announce that Dwayne Johnson might be returning to his function, however it seems like followers will not have to attend lengthy for the Basis to talk once more.
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