Zero Hour

Build-Up[]

The Event[]

Pre-Event[]

Inside a lab assembled right beside Springfield Town Square, Hope and Jones are busy configuring the Rift Device as the embiggened Homer Simpson sleeps in the central square. There is a red button besides the window that overlooks the town square, and pressing it summons giant donuts through a rift to fall on Homer in a fruitless attempt to wake him up. There are rakes littered all over the lab and the cavernous passageway that encircles it. Several valves that are on the pipes in the lab can be turned, but this only has a visual effect. The ventilation shaft above Jones and Hope also doubles as a parkour course, with a red button at the end that sends players back down to the bottom.

With 8 minutes counting down towards the event, Hope and Jones began contacting various individuals throughout the Omniverse for help, with their primary contacts being Kong, Godzilla, Superman, the Power Rangers, the Mecha Team Leader, and the Resistance.

Zero Hour[]

Hope and Jones established numerous Rift Beacons in multiple realities within the Omniverse, which Jones uses to broadcast a distress message in those realities and rally a large number of heroes to Oninoshima to help fight the Dark Presence. With the plans now set into motion, Jones uses the Rift Device to rift them out of Springfield, but due to improper calibration, they find themselves in a handful of other realities instead. These include a Hatsune Miku concert, an encounter with Playboi Carti on a basketball court, a visit into a reality where inanimate objects had become sentient, and back to Springfield.

They eventually find themselves back onto Oninoshima, which had become heavily corrupted by the Dark Presence's influence. A large number of rifts appear behind them, and the innumerable bands of heroes rendezvous with Oninoshima's residents before following Jones into battle. Their path to the Dark Presence is blocked when Kong is thrown to the ground, so the Looper joins HUNTR/X and O.X.R. in fighting the Dark Presence in the skies as he fends off Kong once more. After tossing him aside, the Dark Presence swats their Choppas out of the sky.

As HUNTR/X glide back to the battlefield, the Looper is ambushed and cornered by a tentacle. The Bride intervenes and gives the Looper a ride back to the front lines on a motorbike, where the battle is going poorly; the Imperial Star Destroyer is split in two, Homer is dragged down by a tentacle, The Devourer is blasted onto the side, Megazord and Mecha Team Leader are pinned down, and Godzilla and Kong are held at their throats by the Dark Presence. Jones gets the idea to rift a red Corruption Cube from another reality to the battlefield, which a bewildered Hope admonishes as a far-fetched act. The Cube and the Dark Presence exchange blows with intense rays of energy that allows the Looper to deal critical damage to the Dark Presence, but then he uses Kong's body as a shield to take the blast before throwing him at the Cube to knock it away, causing it to go haywire. Mecha Team Leader returns and punts it back to the Dark Presence, who is vanquished in the resulting explosion.

Now liberated from the Dark Presence, the Zero Point Shard produces a reality wave that returns the summoned allies back to their home realities while also reforming the area torn from battle, purifying Oninoshima of all demonic magic and sealing it off from the Spirit Realm. Afterwards, the Shard draws the Looper inside.

As Hope, Jones, and the Looper travel to a new Island, a mysterious spacecraft shoots down the Battle Bus.

Characters[]

Spirit Realm[]

Dark Presence	Swarmers	Bombers	Queens

Oninoshima's Forces[]

The Looper	Hope	Jones	Daigo	Jade
Onyx Winter	O.X.R. Agent Stryker	Morgan Myst	Killswitch	Ziggy
Peely	Meowscles	Big Dill	The Brat	Midas
Brite Bomber	Skull Trooper	Black Knight	Tricera Ops	Tracker
Cybernetic Assault Bomber	Wastelander Dummy	Agent Webb	Assault Trooper	Bug Punk Sunny
Cate Meowdy	Danica	Pixie	Cluck	Survivalist Jonesy
Cube Fiend	Archetype	Survivalist Jonesy (Online Test)	Kyle (Online Test)	Seven Sentry
	O.X.R.	Many Others

Circumstantial Allies[]

Revin the Cube	Galactic Empire	The Devourer

Omniverse Forces[]

Homer Simpson	Godzilla	Kong	Dino Megazord	Mecha Team Leader
The Resistance	Hatsune Miku	Rumi	Zoey	Mira
Iron Man	Winter Soldier	Yelena Belova	Rocket Raccoon	Superman
Invincible	Atom Eve	Allen the Alien	Scorpion	Sub-Zero
The Bride	Front Man	Games Manager	Games Guard	Kang Sae-byeok
Scooby-Doo	Shaggy Rogers	Velma Dinkley	Beavis	Butt-Head
Leonardo	Raphael	Michelangelo	Donatello	Green Ranger
UNSC Spartans	Marty McFly	Playboi Carti	Ninja	Loserfruit
Clix	Nick Eh 30	Lachlan	TheGrefg	Rubius
Bugha	Flakes Power	MrSavage	SypherPK	LazarBeam
Ali-A	Chica	Octane	Italian Brainrots	FOAD
Gold Slime	Havoc Hotel

Other Characters[]

Beans

Audio[]

Related Cosmetic Items[]

Baller	Miku Live	Miku Miku Beam	Ninja Style
Everybody Falls (Chill Mix)	EVIL J0RDAN	The Simpsons Main Title Theme	Miku
The Imperial March

Teasers[]

• Twitter
• In-Game

Image	Description	Date
	What the heck was that demon?! Something huge is coming at the end of this month, stay tuned for more about our End of Chapter event on November 29th...	November 1st 2025
	Help us stress test servers for the Chapter End Event & get 80,000 XP! 📅 Thursday 11/20 & Friday 11/21 @ 1:40 PM ET. 🤝 A new ‘Epic Event Test’ playlist will appear for you to join and help us prepare for an awesome live event!	November 18th 2025
	11.29.25 #fortniteseven	November 21st 2025

Image	Description	Date
	Live Event Nov 29 2 PM ET Heroes, villains, and worlds collide in the final endgame to save all reality. Join the fight in Zero Hour, the Chapter Finale live event, November 29 at 11AM PT | 2 PM ET | 8PM GMT. Get there early, doors will open 40 minutes before showtime.	November 19th 2025
	Live Event Nov 29 2 PM ET Heroes, villains, and worlds collide in the final endgame to save all reality. Join the fight in Zero Hour, the Chapter Finale live event, November 29 at 11AM PT | 2 PM ET | 8PM GMT. Get there early, doors will open 40 minutes before showtime.	November 21st 2025
	Bingo! Login To Unlock the Kill Bill Yuki Yubari Outfit between Nov 27 and Nov 30 Login between November 27 at 9 AM ET and November 30 at 9 AM ET to unlock the Kill Bill Yuki Yubari Outfit when Chapter Seven launches. Save the date for Zero Hour, the Chapter Finale Live Event on November 29 at 2 PM ET, and stay tuned for Kill Bill The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge on November 30 at 2 PM ET!	November 26th 2025

Trivia[]

• Zero Hour's codename is "SkyMango".
• In terms of file size, Zero Hour clocks in at a total of 1.05 GB, which is very large compared to past live events.
  • The Pre-Event for Zero Hour sits at 120 MB, while the main event is at 930 MB.
• Epic Games held stress tests on November 20th and 21st 2025 to prepare servers for the Live Event.
• Approximately 10,500,000 players watched the Live Event, making it the third most-watched event in Fortnite's history behind Remix: The Finale and The Big Bang.^[1]
• Zero Hour...
  • ...has the largest ensemble of characters of any Live Event, featuring 18 major IP collaborations and 15 real-life icons:
    • Homer Simpson from The Simpsons.
    • Godzilla from Toho's Godzilla franchise and Kong from Universal's King Kong franchise, as part of Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse franchise.
    • Dino Megazord and Green Ranger from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
    • The Resistance's X-Wings and the Galactic Empire's Star Destroyer and TIE Fighters from Star Wars.
    • Hatsune Miku, a Japanese Vocaloid idol.
    • Rumi, Zoey, and Mira of Korean-American virtual girl group HUNTR/X from KPop Demon Hunters.
    • Iron Man, Winter Soldier, Yelena Belova, and Rocket Raccoon from Marvel Comics.
    • Superman from the DC Universe film Superman.
    • Invincible, Atom Eve, and Allen the Alien from Image Comics' Invincible.
    • Scorpion and Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat.
    • The Bride from Kill Bill.
    • The Front Man, a Masked Officer, a Circle Guard, and Kang Sae-byeok from Squid Game.
    • Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, and Velma Dinkley from Scooby-Doo.
    • Beavis and Butt-Head from Beavis and Butt-Head.
    • Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
    • The female UNSC Spartans from Halo.
    • Marty McFly and the DMC DeLorean Time Machine from Back to the Future.
  • ...is the first Live Event to include characters that were introduced or featured in every season of the respective Chapter.
  • ...is the first Chapter Finale Event since Fracture...
    • ...to not feature any encore showings, instead transitioning directly into server downtime.
    • ...to be entirely dedicated to the storyline.
    • ...to not feature Eminem or music from Juice WRLD.
  • ...marked the first time two Battle Royale Islands have co-existed in gameplay (Springfield Island and Oninoshima).
  • ...marked the first time characters that originated from Fortnite's other core gamemodes appeared in the mainstream Battle Royale story, with the appearance of Revin the Cube from Fortnite OG.
  • ...marked the first time characters from Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Image Comics have appeared together in an official medium.
  • ...marked the first time user-generated content (UGC) appeared from various Creative maps and experiences, those being the Italian Brainrots from Steal the Brainrot by FeRinS, the Gold Slime from Lumberjack Heroes by ItsJacky, and a Fully Operational Annihilation Device (FOAD) from Boom Tycoon and Boom Wars by FOAD. Additionally, a Havoc Hotel sign from the eponymous experience by Tera Creators can be found in the debris right before boarding on the Hammerhead Choppa.
    • One of the realities Jones and Hope end up in as a result of the Rift Device's miscalibration has everyone turn into inanimate objects, possibly acting as a reference to Prop Hunt, a popular genre of user-generated maps.
  • ... is the first Live Event to feature Icon Series streamers.
• The news tab announcement uses the phrase "save all reality", which coincidentally, is also featured in the description for The Devourer of Worlds event.
• The event music is split in two files, for Epic Games owned IPs (Noir reality, Fall Guys, and other Fortnite original mixes), and third-party music (Playboi Carti, The Simpsons, Star Wars, KPop Demon Hunters, Kill Bill).
  • Despite the separation, the setting to mute copyrighted music is disregarded in this event.
  • The Omniverse theme, which first appeared in The Big Bang, is reprised for Zero Hour.
  • During the Hatsune Miku concert, "Miku" is played from the Miku Live Emote.
• Hatsune Miku's concert takes place in the Battle Stage of Fortnite Festival Season 7, which is the same Festival Season she was the face of.
• During the reality-hopping segment before the arrival to Oninoshima, the comic book reality uses the 2D comic assets from the Super Showdown Live Event.
• In the "How It's Done" segment, Hatsune Miku is perched on top of Godzilla as they execute a joint laser attack on the Dark Presence using their Miku Miku Beam and Atomic Breath respectively, paying homage to the two characters' "friendship" through their joint appearances in media.
• The Hammerhead Choppa that was swatted out of the air by the Dark Presence is the second aircraft HUNTR/X had crashed on Oninoshima, after their private jet.
• The Dino Megazord uses the Outfit model rather than the Playable Boss model.
  • However, the Playable Boss model was included with all the other giant models. So the Outfit model being used was likely a mistake.
• While the Galactic Empire's Imperial TIE Fighters were present during the battle, the models primarily shown in the event area are the First Order Special Forces TIE Fighters.
• The battle against the Dark Presence took place on the ruins of Ranger's Rest, which sat on the former location of Nightshift Forest. The latter location saw the end of The Shattering War and the initial arrival of the Zero Point Shard on Oninoshima.
• While Invincible first appears with the other heroes in the blue-and-black suit featured in the "Invincible War" arc, he later can be seen on the ground during The Bride's motorbike sequence in his traditional yellow-and-blue suit.
• The ending to Zero Hour mirrors the ending to KPop Demon Hunters, with the defeat of a demon lord and the purification of the world from demonic influence through the creation of a blue-colored magical barrier separating it from a demon-populated realm.
• To create the illusion of massive armies of cross-reality allies and loopers aiding the players, many low poly models were made as crowd filler.
  • During the moment where characters from other realities were rifted onto Oninoshima the character models include:
    • Rare Survivalist Jonesy.
    • A green Cube Fiend.
    • Archetype.
    • The Online Test version of Survivalist Jonesy.
    • The Online Test version of Kyle.
    • Rocket Raccoon.
    • A female Seven Sentry.
  • When armies of Loopers rallied against the Dark Presence the character models and weapons include:
    • Agent Webb with a Low Tier Submachine Gun.
    • Assault Trooper with a Midnight Stalker.
    • Tricera Ops with a First Order Blaster Rifle/F-11D Blaster.
    • Tracker with a Thunder Shotgun.
    • Pixie with a Frenzy Auto Shotgun.
    • Bug Punk Sunny with a Dragon's Breath Shotgun.
    • Danica with an EvoChrome Shotgun.
    • Cybernetic Assault Bomber with an Auto Shotgun.
    • Wastelander Dummy with a Primal Shotgun.
    • Cate Meowdy with an Ex-Caliber Rifle.

Gallery[]

• Teasers
• Event

Fortnite.com website asset

Billboard at OG Risky Reels

Ditto, close up

Billboard in Hawkins Heights

Billboard in Springfield Nuclear Power Plant

Promo material from the event's official teaser

Fortnite Zero Hour Full Event Experience

Other Languages[]

Name in Other Languages
Language	Name	Language	Name	Language	Name
English		Italian		Russian
Arabic		Indonesian		Thai
German		Japanese		Turkish
Spanish		Korean		Vietnamese
Spanish (Latin America)		Polish		Chinese (Simplified)
French		Portuguese		Chinese (Traditional)

References[]