Appearing in "Before the Devil Knows We're Dead (Chapter One)"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Daniel Chilton (First appearance; dies)
Antagonists:
- Purifiers
- Jonathan Standish (First appearance)
- Benedict Ryan (First appearance)
- Garrity (First appearance; dies)
- other unnamed members - (Death)
Other Characters:
- Blob (Fred Dukes (Mentioned)
- Bob Woodward (Mentioned)
- Carl Bernstein (Mentioned)
- Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) (Mentioned)
- The Worthy (Appears on screen)
- Sin (Sinthea Shmidt) (Possessed by Skadi) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Absorbing Man (Carl Creel) (Possessed by Greithoth, Breaker of Wills) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Titania (Mary MacPherran) (Possessed by Skirn, Breaker of Men) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Possessed by Nul, Breaker of Worlds) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Thing (Ben Grimm) (Possessed by Angrir, Breaker of Souls) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (Possessed by Kuurth, Breaker of Stone) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Attuma (Possessed by Nerkkod, Breaker of Oceans) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Gray Gargoyle (Paul Duval) (Possessed by Mokk, Breaker of Faith) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- God (Yahweh) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Mutants
- Snakes (Mentioned)
- Human-Otherworlder Hybrids
- Atlanteans (Appears on screen)
- Pigs (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- Arizona
- New York
- Maryland
- Baltimore
- Fort Carroll (First appearance)
- Baltimore
- Dubai (Appears on screen)
- France (Appears on screen)
- Paris (France) (Appears on screen)
- China (Appears on screen)
- Beijing (Appears on screen)
- United States of America
- Heaven (Mentioned)
- Hell (Invoked)
Items:
- Deadpool's X-Force Suit and Katanas
- Wolverine's X-Force Suit
- Bamf doll (Toy)
- Hammer of Nerkkod (Appears on screen)
- Hammer of Greithoth (Appears on screen)
- Hammer of Skirn (Appears on screen)
- Hammer of Nul (Appears on screen)
- Hammer of Angrir (Appears on screen)
- Hammer of Mokk (Appears on screen)
- Hammer of Kuurth (Appears on screen)
Synopsis for "Before the Devil Knows We're Dead (Chapter One)"
A man strapped with explosives takes his own life and the lives of many others in an airport. Later on, while the world goes crazy as a result of the Worthy's destruction, Archangel shows Wolverine the airport footage and suspects that the man was with the Purifiers since he yelled out "Purify!" before killing himself, but there were no mutants present. Then he shows him a video of a young superhero being held hostage and thinks it may be a public execution.
Fantomex and Psylocke crash a party for New York's wealthiest and approach Benedict Ryan, a well-known TV personality with secret ties to the Purifiers. But before they can question him on the superhero boy's whereabouts, Ryan jumps off the building, preferring to die rather than be touched by mutants. Regardless, Fantomex sends E.V.A. to catch his fall.
While questioning him, he claims that the devil has come to Earth because of the superhumans and refuses to tell them anything. However, he decides to talk when Psylocke threatens to probe his mind with a psychic blade and the idea of having his mind contaminated frightens him. He starts by telling them that the person coordinating things is a man named Jonathan Standish.
Watching the Worthy's destruction unfold on TV, Standish thinks that the devil has come because of the superheroes, not just mutants, and wants to take his own life. But he believes God still has work for him and his group of Purifiers and wants to send a message by killing the superhero boy.
At an abandoned military base in Baltimore, E.V.A. emerges from the water, distracting the Purifiers and giving X-Force the chance to get the drop on them. After breaking in, the team kills the Purifiers until only one remains. Fantomex tells Wolverine that the boy is nowhere to be found. So, Wolverine orders the last Purifier to talk. He tells them that Standish's people are a part of a splinter group so he has no idea where the boy is.
Meanwhile, Standish records a live video imploring people to take their lives and the lives of their loved ones to save themselves from the devil and his minions, the superhumans. When he finishes his speech, he kills the boy.
Solicit Synopsis
FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN
As armageddon hits the Marvel world in the events of FEAR ITSELF terror grips the planet. An extreme faction of the mutant hate group The Purifiers believes that the end of the world has come, that the devil is here for humanity and it is up to them to “save” as many human souls as they can before he strikes. Can X-Force stop their drive for worldwide suicide? And what, exactly, is a mutant kill crew afraid of?Notes
See Also
- 9 image(s) from Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Force Vol 1 1
- 2 reprint(s) of Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Force Vol 1 1