And, listen, you know, in fact more than you...how much unbridled ego comes with this job. To be who we are, to represent what we want to represent...you have to be arrogant enough to believe you can do it. It's ego that got us here and it's ego that allows us to stay. Yes, we took the damn Infinity Gems, and we did so because we thought they were safe with us. It was arrogance and it was ego. And it was absolutely right. For all this time. So, though you may think it's your job to judge me and the others for what we did here...I think it's nothing. Nothing compared to the things we've had to do to keep the world safe. Nothing. 
Appearing in "Absolute Power"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Sea monster (First appearance; dies)
- The Hood (Parker Robbins)
Other Characters:
- X-Men (Mentioned)
- Blob (Fred Dukes) (Danger Room construct)
- Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr) (Danger Room construct)
- Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (Danger Room construct)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (Danger Room construct)
- Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde) (Danger Room construct)
- Toad (Mortimer Toynbee) (Danger Room construct)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Mutants
- Asgardians
- Kree-Cockroach Hybrids
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids
- Inhumans
- Inhuman Dogs
- Human-Kree Hybrids
- Brood (Danger Room constructs)
- Sentinels (Danger Room constructs)
- Atlanteans (Mentioned)
- Kree (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- Westchester County
- North Salem
- Salem Center
- Xavier Institute (Wreckage, ruins, debris, fragments)
- Salem Center
- North Salem
- Westchester County
- New Mexico
- Roswell
- Roswell Army Air Field (First appearance)
- Roswell
- New York
- Area 51, Groom Lake, Nevada (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- North America
Items:
- Mjolnir
- Spider-Woman's Suit
- Wolverine's Suit
- Ms. Marvel's Suit
- Moon Knight's Suit
- War Machine Armor Model 5
- Magneto's Helmet (Danger Room constructs)
- Ant-Man's Suit and Helmet
- Fantastic Four Uniforms
- Bleeding Edge Armor
- Dragonfang
- Infinity Gems
- Black Widow's Gauntlets
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
- Hawkeye's Bow
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Absolute Power"
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
The Infinity Gauntlet is back! And no power on the Earth can stop it! It is sentences like these that made Stan Lee invent the phrase: ‘Nuff Said!! Another pulse-pounding, Earth-shattering chapter from Marvel's blockbuster superteam of Bendis and Romita Jr! Plus: Another illustrated chapter of the oral history of the Avengers!
Notes
- The Roswell Army Air Field is mistakenly associated with Area 51 by Agent 13, Iron Man, and Commander Steve Rogers; however, Area 51 is not in Roswell, New Mexico, it's about 900 miles away in Groom Lake, Nevada.
- Stark was initially shown with the Reality Gem during the distribution at the end of New Avengers: Illuminati (Vol. 2) #2, but he had apparently swapped it with the Space Gem, initially shown with Black Bolt.
- Xavier acquired the Mind Gem at around the same time that the Danger Room went rogue in the form of Danger, after which point the Danger Room was apparently inoperable. It's unclear if Xavier would have implemented the Mind Gem's security protocols before or after the event. At any rate, the digital entity that appears as the last layer of security bears a slight resemblence to Danger.
- Also reprints the entirety of Heroes for Hire (Vol. 3) #1.
- Oral History of the Avengers was omitted, despite what the Solicit claims. Most likely it was replaced by H4H reprint.