Fortnite Explains Where The Rock's Character has Been All These Years, And Begins an Avengers: Doomsday Countdown to His Return

Fortnite has confirmed that The Foundation, its heroic quality voiced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, volition instrumentality adjacent play - and begun an Avengers: Doomsday-style countdown for his reappearance.

A cinematic teaser trailer released contiguous shows The Foundation presently frozen successful ice, captured by The Ice King (another important quality successful Fortnite lore). Still, players expect they'll beryllium capable to interruption retired The Rock's quality successful the conflict royale mode's adjacent season, which begins successful soon implicit a week's time.

Indeed, today's teaser reveals the authoritative sanction for Epic Games' adjacent portion of Fortnite, and riffs connected the wording seen successful caller Avengers: Doomsday teasers (not that they're really teasers, apparently) to corroborate the instrumentality of respective cardinal characters.

"The Foundation and The Ice King volition instrumentality successful Fortnite: Showdown," the teaser states, earlier the words displacement into a day (March 19, 2026) and past a countdown timepiece revealing the weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds near to spell until the update drops.

The teaser itself reveals a caller in-game location, which looks to beryllium a caller and much elaborate mentation of The Ice King's classical Polar Peak fortress. Previous in-game imagery had teased this wintry palace, and suggested it was location to 1 of the game's existent Zero Point shard macguffins.

The proposition present is that this caller Ice King is moving with Fortnite's existent baddie, The Dark Voyager, to reunite the Zero Point's breached shards for nefarious means. But erstwhile Fortnite lore, doled retired done graphic novels, painted the archetypal Ice King arsenic thing of a much noble figure, who freezes beings helium has deemed a menace to reality. Fans person suggested the Dark Voyager is susceptible of corrupting erstwhile Fortnite characters (such arsenic Lynx) to bash his bidding. Or possibly the Ice King truly has conscionable breached bad?

The archetypal Ice King was a mysterious quality who kept a captive successful his dungeon backmost successful Fortnite's archetypal section (something precocious glimpsed again via the Fortnite OG mode, which retells the game's archetypal storyline). In today's teaser, however, the caller Ice King is shown to person respective different captives, too, including aureate skeleton woman Orelia and Marvel's ain Steve Rogers (though his whitethorn conscionable beryllium yet different motion to Doomsday).

The teaser concludes with The Ice King sidling up to The Foundation, frozen mid-punch. How he'll flight remains to beryllium seen, though 1 things for certain: with newly-tweaked designs for The Foundation and The Ice King connected amusement here, fans volition person respective must-have caller skins to get adjacent season.

Recent weeks person seen respective surviving members of Fortnite's heroic Seven faction instrumentality successful game, including a caller mentation of The Visitor voiced by a precise familiar-sounding actor. Fortnite is yet to officially corroborate the instrumentality of Dwayne Johnson to his ain role, though fans seemingly won't person agelong to hold until The Foundation speaks erstwhile more.

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