Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Defenders (Name revealed)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Diamondback (Willis Stryker) (Main story and flashback)
- Punisher (Frank Castle) (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Thunderer (Lei-Kung) (Mentioned)
- Norman Osborn (Mentioned)
- Paladin (Cameo)
- NYDOC (Main story and recap)
- District Attorney Ben Hochberg (Mentioned) (Main story and recap)
- Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Don Rigoletto (Mentioned) (Deceased) (Only in flashback)
- Maggia (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Sonny Caputo (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- NYPD (Only in flashback)
- Maria Castle (Mentioned) (Deceased) (Only in flashback)
- Lisa Castle (Mentioned) (Deceased) (Only in flashback)
- Frank Castle, Jr. (Mentioned) (Deceased) (Only in flashback)
- Alias Investigations (Mentioned)
- Daimon Hellstrom
- She-Hulk (Jen Walters) (Mentioned)
- Raindrop's henchmen
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Photo)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Photo)
- Crusher Creel (Poster)
- Battlin' Jack Murdock (Poster)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Photo)
- Doc Samson (Mentioned)
- Squirrel Girl (Doreen Green) (Mentioned)
- Dani Jones-Cage (Mentioned)
- Elektra (Mentioned)
- Black Cat's Gang
- Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) (Apparent death)
- Hammerhead (Joseph) (Voice only)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Human-Demon Hybrids
- Mutants (Mentioned)
- Inhumans (Mentioned)
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)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- Chinatown
- Civic Center (Main story and recap)
- Manhattan Detention Complex (Main story and recap)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive (Only in flashback)
- Harlem
- Headquarters of the Heroes for Hire (Destroyed)
- Midtown
- Storefront Legal Services (Mentioned) (Destroyed)
- Chrysler Building (Cameo)
- Black Cat's Penthouse
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
Items:
- Iron Fist's Suit
- Daredevil's Suit
- Punisher's Suit (Only in flashback)
- Daredevil's Billy Club
- Iron Man Armor Model 4 (Photo)
- Spider-Man's Suit (Photo)
- Diamond (Mentioned)
- Black Cat's Suit
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
• The Punisher strikes! With the mean streets of Marvel more dangerous than ever, what could possibly make Frank Castle turn on his fellow vigilantes? Don’t they all want the same thing?
• Another dangerous chapter of the hottest new team in all of comics!