Appearing in "Vengeance! Cries the Valkyrie!"
Featured Characters:
- Defenders (Main story and recap)
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Hulk (Bruce Banner) ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- Valkyrie (Brunnhilde) (Main story and flashback)
- Sub-Mariner (Namor McKenzie) (Main story and recap)
- Hellcat (Patsy Walker) (Main story and recap)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (Main story and recap)
- Gargoyle (Isaac Christians) (Main story and recap)
- Son of Satan (Daimon Hellstrom) (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- ⏴ Spider-Man (Peter Parker) ⏵ (Main story and recap)
Antagonists:
- Enchantress (Amora) (Main story and recap)
Other Characters:
- Valkyries (Only in flashback)
- Love (Main story and recap)
- Vera Cantor (Main story and recap)
- Zaffer (Only in recap)
- Damask (Only in recap)
- Barbara Norriss (Only in recap)
- Cyttorak (Mentioned)
- Raggadorr (Mentioned)
- Hela (Mentioned)
- Karnilla (Invoked)
- Surtur (Mentioned)
- Odin (Main story and flashback)
- Thor (Only in flashback)
- Dolly Donahue
- Kyle Richmond (Mentioned)
- Joshua Walker (Photo)
- Dorothy Walker (Photo)
- Satan (Mentioned)
- Six-Fingered Hand (Mentioned)
- Clea (Photo)
- Oshtur (Referenced)
- Dormammu (Referenced)
- ⏴ Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond-712) ⏵
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Asgardians (Main story and flashback)
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids (Main story and recap)
- Mutants (Main story and recap)
- Human-Demon Hybrids (Main story and recap)
- Abstract Entities (Main story and recap)
- Fire Giants (Mentioned)
- Winged Horses (Only in flashback)
- Celestials (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Earth-616 (Main story and recap)
- Wasteland (Only in recap)
- Asgard
- City of Asgard
- Bifrost (Mentioned)
- Valhalla (Mentioned)
- City of Asgard
- Hell (Mentioned)
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Upper West Side
- First Avenue (Mentioned)
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Ohio (Mentioned)
- New York
- United States of America
- Heaven (Invoked)
- Earth-712
Items:
- Dragonfang (Main story and recap)
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters (Main story and recap)
- Cloak of Levitation
- Eye of Agamotto
- Rose of Purity (Only in recap)
- Crimson Bands of Cyttorak
- Roving Rings of Raggador
- Globe of Souls (First appearance)
- cat Suit (Main story and recap)
- Hellstorm's Trident
Synopsis for "Vengeance! Cries the Valkyrie!"
In Asgard, the Valkyrie—now restored to her true body—challenges the Enchantress and asks her fellow Defenders to stay out of the battle. Dr. Strange constructs a barrier to keep the Enchantress from using her magic to escape. While Valkyrie pits her fury and strength against Enchantress’ magic, Strange, Gargoyle, Beast, and Spider-Man battle her harpy servants. Beast realizes that harpies are from Greek, nor Norse, mythology, and the defeated harpies turn out to be Asgardian women transformed by Enchantress’ sorcery. As Valkyrie begins to transform into a tree due to Enchantress’ magic, she manages to gain control of the Globe of Souls, where her own spirit had remained a prisoner of the Enchantress for centuries, and sucks Enchantress’ spirit into it. Rather than smash the Globe and destroy the Enchantress, Valkyrie decides to keep her a prisoner and gives the Globe to Dr. Strange for safekeeping. As the Defenders depart for Earth, Val stays behind to confront Odin and ask why he had forsaken her for so many centuries. Odin explains that he was preoccupied with the coming of the Celestials and had to make plans to stop them. He asks Brunnhilde to forgive him, and she says that she cannot forgive him, but she can finally accept him as he is—a god who is capable of making mistakes. Back on Earth, Dr. Strange tries to bring Hellcat, Namor, Hulk, and Son of Satan back from the alien world the Enchantress had abandoned them on. Hellcat returns, but some mysterious force pulls the other three Defenders away and drops them in another dimension. Strange vows to search for them, while Spider-Man and Gargoyle depart, and Hellcat decides to search for her father to determine if he is really Satan. Dr. Strange eventually tracks down the missing Defenders to an alternate Earth, where he finds them with someone who claims to be Nighthawk, alive and in a new costume.