Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Defenders (Name revealed)
Supporting Characters:
- Daily Bugle (Only in flashback)
- Ben Urich (Only in flashback)
- Robbie Robertson (Only in flashback)
- Betty Brant (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed others
Antagonists:
- Diamondback (Willis Stryker) (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Diamondback's henchmen (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers (Main story and flashback)
- Black Cat's Gang (Only in flashback)
- Hammerhead Family (Only in flashback)
- Hammerhead (Joseph) (Only in flashback)
- Roman (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed henchmen (Only in flashback)
- Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) (Only in flashback)
- Hammerhead Family (Only in flashback)
- Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (Mentioned)
- Marcus Toomes (Mentioned)
- Spider-Man (Miles Morales) (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Bombshell (Lana Baumgartner) (Mentioned)
- Roman's girlfriend (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
- NYPD (Main story and flashback)
- Detective Frank Quaid (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed officers (Main story and flashback)
- Victor von Doom (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Deadpool (Wade Wilson) (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Avengers (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Tony Stark (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Wilson Fisk (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- A.I.M. (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Weapon Plus (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- X-Men (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Charles Xavier (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Defenders (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Diamondback's parents (Mentioned)
- Rand Corporation (Mentioned)
- Matthew Murdock (Mentioned)
- Dani Jones-Cage
- Elektra (Cameo)
- NYDOC
- District Attorney Ben Hochberg (Mentioned)
- Punisher (Frank Castle) (Cameo)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Inhumans (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Mutants (Named only) (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- The Bronx (Only in flashback)
- Hammerhead's pub (Only in flashback)
- The Cellar (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- Midtown (Only in flashback)
- Murray Hill (Only in flashback)
- Daily Bugle Offices (Only in flashback)
- Hell's Kitchen (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Murray Hill (Only in flashback)
- Greenwich Village
- Harlem
- Headquarters of the Heroes for Hire (Destroyed)
- Civic Center
- Midtown (Only in flashback)
- Brooklyn General Hospital, Brooklyn (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- The Bronx (Only in flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- Wakanda (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Latveria (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Diamond (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Black Cat's Suit (Only in flashback)
- I.G.H. (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- M.G.H. (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Spider-Man's Suit (Only in flashback)
- Gamma Bomb (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Adamantium (Named only) (Only in flashback)
- Iron Fist's Suit
- Elektra's Suit (Cameo)
- Elektra's Twin Sai (Cameo)
- Punisher's Suit (Cameo)
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
• The streets of the Marvel Universe have exploded into chaos, and the only thing standing in between the innocent people of New York and that chaos are the Defenders.
• But can a group of socially maladjusted heroes actually trust each other enough to continue as a team?
• Can the Defenders partner up with a stranger in a devil costume? And what is Diamondback’s big plan?Notes
- The flashback scene in this issue takes place during Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #17. Spider-Man makes a cameo, going into Hammerhead's pub to confront the villain (as he did in the aforementioned issue) right as Roman is leaving.