Season 5[]
| “ | Despite all of the creepy noises and glowing glyphs, we couldn't resist taking a closer look.
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- — Drift
Kevin the Cube is a Corruption Cube that first appeared in Season 5. It is a sentient being born from The Last Reality with malicious intent to corrupt everything.
It is a major antagonist in Fortnite: Battle Royale, serving as the main antagonist of Season 5 and Season 6.
Description and Lore[]
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Kevin is a sentient entity that appeared first on August 24, 2018, during Season 5. It appeared near Paradise Palms, being created from several lightning strikes from the Sideways Rift, closing it in the process. The Cube is an object of immense power, as it was capable of destroying objects in its path as it rolled towards Loot Lake, printing powerful runes which reduced gravity, and generated Cube Monsters from its fragments.
The Cubes are the power sources of The Last Reality, an evil and malicious faction affiliated with the The Sideways with an intention to corrupt and destroy realities. The Cubes are all controlled by The Cube Queen. Thousands of dormant cubes are stored in a dedicated room in the Motherships, used to power the gigantic alien ships.
Appearance[]
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Behavior[]
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Lightning Attack A self-defense mechanism that any cube can use. |
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Rolling Can move in one direction at a time. |
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Corruption Corruption Cubes can spread corruption from the Sideways near them. |
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Infection Corruption Cube can spread small cubes around it. Some will turn into Monster Spawner for Cube Monsters. |
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Turn Solid or Liquid Cubes can melt in water and turn into liquid. It can also return back to full solid cube at will. |
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Sky Portal Portal to The Last Reality. |
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Generate Wind Cubes can make strong wind around them. Abductors used their wind to float. |
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Low Gravity The first cube can produce a low gravity field around it. |
History[]
Season 5[]
Birth of the Cube
As the Sideways Rift continued to rapidly close up, it suddenly turned purple. Within the next few days, purple storm lightning bolts began shooting out of the crack, all targeting a hill near Paradise Palms, containing a large stone rock surrounded by a ring of cacti. Each lightning strike picked off one cacti one-by-one, until a larger lightning bolt destroyed the large rock. The Crack Closure event occurred on 24th August 2018, with a gigantic storm lightning bolt striking out of the rift, lasting for around 10 seconds. When it was over, the Crack in the Sky closed. then The Cube was formed. Though it first appeared to be a stationary object, it began to move at a rate of one revolution every 1 hour and 43 minutes. It was unclear where it would end up. During its journey around the map, The Cube printed seven runes with anti-gravity domes surrounding. Throughout the final three weeks of Season 5, the cube continued to print these runes.
After finishing this process, The Cube destroyed one of the buildings in Tilted Towers. The sporting goods store was hit by a meteorite and was just in the final stages of reopening. The Cube then proceeded to the edge of Loot Lake on September 19, 2018. The Cube appeared to dissolve, turning Loot Lake in a purple-pink gelatinous state with properties akin to The Cube itself, such as becoming bouncy.
Season 6[]
The Floating Island
With the beginning of Season 6, it was revealed that The Cube was still intact, as it rose from the waters, taking the cabin and island in the center of the lake with it, forming the Floating Island. This created a large hole in the lake exposing the bridge to The Zero Point, a vortex in the middle. After just two days of the island rising, The Cube began to move the island to each of the runes it had printed in Season 5. After getting energy from all runes, they dropped to the ground and the island returned to Loot Lake. A portal to The Last Reality was formed above, which began to expand until it covered the entire island. On October 24, 2018, the first day of Fortnitemares 2018, The Cube exploded the floating island into multiple pieces, the Cube still intact. Following the explosion, The Cube fragments that had been growing on the island had been sent all over the map, which released The Cube monsters.
Season X[]
| “ | Darkness rises once more.
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Kevin the Cube is a Corruption Cube that first appeared in Season X. It is a Kevin from an alternative timeline of Reality Zero brought to this reality by The Scientist.
It is a major antagonist in Fortnite: Battle Royale, serving as a minor antagonist during Season X and one of the main antagonists during Chapter 2: Season 8 alongside the other Cubes, The Cube Queen and the rest of The Army of the Last Reality.
Description and Lore[]
An alternate timeline version of Kevin where the Floating Island was a fusion between the Motel and Loot Lake house. Rifted objects believed to have disappeared or changed places such as the Durrr Burger tagged by Drift, the Lonely Lodge sign etc... during World Collide are also on this Island, strongly suggesting that it comes from another timeline where the events, although similar, happened a little differently. In The End, the Island blew up but Kevin itself lived and became the power source of Steamy Stacks. When it managed to escape, it joined the rest of the Cubes at The Convergence.
Behavior[]
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Lightning Attack A self-defense mechanism that any cube can use. |
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Rolling Can move in one direction at a time. |
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Corruption Corruption Cubes can spread corruption from the Sideways near them. |
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Generate Wind Cubes can make strong wind around them. Abductors used their wind to float. |
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Sideways Portal Portal to the Sideways. |
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Sky Portal Portal to The Last Reality. |
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Empowerment Corruption Cube's dark energy can be harness for many uses. The Ice King and Raz uses it to make them stronger and more powerful. The Cube Queen uses it to power her Golden Cube and create portal to The Last Reality. |
History[]
Season X[]
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Season X Floating Island
The Floating Island from an alternate timeline came through a Rift Beacon. it didn't do anything after that except circle the island aimlessly. Later in the season, Cube memorials appeared at Loot Lake and on the mountain Kevin was created.
Chapter 2: Season 1[]
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Following The End of Athena and the creation of Apollo, The Floating Island was destroyed, but The Cube was conserved. Following the reconstruction of the island by The Zero Point, it was placed into a dormant state and underneath Building 2 of Steamy Stacks, a power station which uses The Cube to generate electricity. The facility is run by Kevolution Energy.
Chapter 2: Season 8[]
- The Steamy Stacks Cube was added to the island, broken out of Steamy Stacks and had already plowed its way west of the location.
- September 28th 2021, 12:00 PM EST - Activation Beginning
- September 28th 2021, 6:00 PM EST - Activation Conclusion
- September 28th 2021, 10:40 PM EST - The cube rolls for the first time (south)
- September 29th 2021, 2:23 AM EST - The cube rolls for the second time (west)
- September 29th 2021, 6:04 AM EST - Third movement (west)
- September 29th 2021, 9:46 AM EST - Fourth movement (west)
- September 29th 2021, 8:50 EST - Seventh movement (west)
- September 30th 2021, 10:41 PM EST - Fourteenth movement (west)
- October 2nd, 2021, 12:32 AM EST - Twenty-first movement (west) approximately entering the vicinity of Mowdown.
- October 2nd, 2021, 3:18 PM EST - Twenty-fifth movement (west)
Content Update v18.10[]
- October 6th 2021, 12:32 AM EST - Forty-seventh movement (south) approximately entering the vicinity of Scenic Spot.
- October 6th 2021, 7:00 PM EST - Fifty-second movement (south) is also when the cube sat upon the overlook at Scenic Spot for some time.
- October 8th 2021, 8:55 AM EST - Fifty-third movement (south) the cube moves down the overlook, though the movement did not happen in-game.
- October 11th 2021, 3:32 PM EST - Seventieth movement (east)
Update v18.20[]
- October 17th 2021, 2:59 PM EST - One-hundredth movement (west) approximately entering the vicinity of The Aftermath.
Update v18.21[]
- The Cube formed part of what is now The Convergence.
Chapter 4: Season OG[]
- This version of Kevin doesn't exist in Fortnite OG's Reality and is instead replaced by Season OG Kevin, which is this reality's Original Kevin who survived instead of being destroyed like in Reality Zero.
Chapter 4: Season OG[]
Kevin the Cube is a Corruption Cube that first appeared in Chapter 4: Season OG. It is an alternate version of the Original Kevin from Fortnite OG's Reality
It is a major antagonist in Fortnite: Battle Royale, serving as the main antagonist of Chapter 4: Season OG.
Description and Lore[]
Because of the notable difference of this timeline compared to Reality Zero, it didn't appeared from the Sideways Rift but directly under Loot Lake. It therefore never placed its runes and its plan was totally different from its Original Timeline Counterpart. Indeed since it was not hostile towards the loopers because it did not have enough energy to attack them, they therefore didn't attacked Kevin which allowed it to survive longer than it should have. This allowed it to extract the Zero Point and absorb its energy. However it completely dissapeared just before The Big Bang, having been allegedly rifted or destroyed off-screen.
Behavior[]
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Generate Wind Cubes can make strong wind around them. |
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Gravitaional Pull The Cube could pull The Zero Point out of The Vault. |
History[]
Chapter 4: Season OG[]
The Floating Island
Trivia[]
- Kevin's name's origin was due to the name "Cube" being banned on a megathread on the Fortnite Subreddit.
- The nickname "Kevin" originated from the title of a post by Reddit user u/6acee.
- The first time "Kevin" was officially used in the game was in the final Fortnitemares 2018 reward, the Lil' Kev back bling.
- When rolling over, Cubes deal 10000 damage, thus destroying any player or vehicle underneath.
- If players get eliminated by a Cube, the kill feed will say "[player name] Got Pancaked by", followed by flickering Cube Runes.
- Counting all of Kevin's alternate timeline counterparts, it is the only antagonist in Fortnite: Battle Royale to have returned after its death twice.