She thought she was fighting against seven minds, when, in fact, eight were raised against her! Had she moved more slowly, and consolidated her power, she might have won all our minds! Instead, she lost the single one that mattered most... her own! 
Appearing in "Ashes, Ashes... We All Fall Down"
Featured Characters:
- Defenders (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Only in flashback)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Only in flashback)
- Valkyrie (Brunnhilde) (Only in flashback)
- Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond) (Only in flashback)
- Hellcat (Patsy Walker) (Only in flashback)
- Sub-Mariner (Namor) (Only in flashback)
- Clea (Only in flashback)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- The Tribunal
- Elf with a Gun
- Yandroth (Stephanie Donal) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Yandroth (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Lord (God) (Referenced)
- Son of Satan (Daimon Hellstrom) (Only in recap)
- Messiah (David Kessler) (Only in recap)
- Mandrill (Jerome Beechman) (Only in recap)
- Fem-Force (Only in recap)
- Aragorn (Only in recap)
- Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Only in recap)
- Hela (Invoked)
- Omegatron (Mentioned)
- Ancient One (Yao) (Invoked)
- Barbara Norriss (Referenced)
- Cyttorak (Referenced)
Races and Species:
- Elves
- Androids
- Tribunals
- Humans (Only in flashback)
- Human-Demon Hybrids (Only in recap)
- Demons (Only in recap)
- Mutants (Only in recap)
- Asgardians (Only in flashback)
- Winged Horses (Only in recap)
- Horses (Only in flashback)
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids (Only in flashback)
- Faltine Hybrids (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Earth
- Israel (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in flashback)
- New York (Only in flashback)
- Long Island (Only in flashback)
- Nassau County (Only in flashback)
- Richmond Riding Academy (Only in flashback)
- Nassau County (Only in flashback)
- New York City (Only in flashback)
- Manhattan (Only in flashback)
- Greenwich Village (Only in flashback)
- Bleecker Street (Only in flashback)
- Sanctum Sanctorum (Only in flashback)
- Bleecker Street (Only in flashback)
- Greenwich Village (Only in flashback)
- Manhattan (Only in flashback)
- Long Island (Only in flashback)
- New York (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Son of Satan's Trident (Only in recap)
- Cloak of Levitation (Only in flashback)
- Cat Suit (Only in flashback)
- Dragonfang (Only in flashback)
- Daredevil's Suit (Only in recap)
- Eye of Agamotto (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "Ashes, Ashes... We All Fall Down"
Brought before the Tribunal by the Elf, Luann Bloom is revealed to be a mechanical being created by the Tribunal to spy on the Defenders. Tapping into her memory banks, the Tribunal watches a flashback to one of the Defenders’ earlier adventures, which takes place in-between issues #68 and #69. The Hulk battles a mysterious woman who defeats him and injects a tiny device in his brain that enables her to control him. Heading to the Richmond Riding Academy, she manages to do the same to Nighthawk, Valkyrie, and Hellcat. She then brings the Defenders to Dr. Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum, where she injects Strange and Clea with the same device. However, Strange escapes her control by separating his astral self from his body. Strange listens as the woman reveals herself to be Yandroth, whose consciousness merged with that of a female scientist after his death. She gave Yandroth a body he could use to get revenge on the Defenders, while he gave her the scientific knowledge to create her mental implants, but she claims to have overpowered Yandroth’s consciousness. Strange summons the Sub-Mariner to his aid and manages to free Hulk and Valkyrie from her control. She uses the other Defenders still under control to fight them, but the strain of trying to control so many minds at once becomes too great. Strange suspected that the real Yandroth’s consciousness was still struggling to regain control of her, and as he breaks free, her own mind is destroyed. The Tribunal considers this information to be of no consequence to their own plan. “The Defenders must be destroyed,” they declare, “or time itself will die!”
Notes
- The cover is an homage of X-Men #100.
- Script: DeMatteis is credited with an "invaluable assist."
- Letters are credited to "D. Hands."
- The woman that hosted Yandroth went unnamed until Yandroth's entry in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #12.