—Bobby ponderingFunny. When you get the high-level government clearance The Defenders received after the Secret Empire Affair, people start believing whatever you tell them! I don't think I like that.
Appearing in "Instant Karma!"
Featured Characters:
- ⏴ Iceman (Bobby Drake) ⏵ (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- ⏴ William Drake ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Madeline Drake ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Marge Smith ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Joel Drake (Only in recap)
- ⏴ Mary Drake (Only in recap)
- ⏴ Walter Smith ⏵
- Marge Smith's "family"
Antagonists:
- ⏴ Idiot ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ White Light ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Oblivion ⏵ (Shadow only)
- Kali (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Port Jefferson Police Department
- ⏴ Ralph Ratchit
- a sergeant
- other officers
- William Drake (First appearance; dies)
- Madeline Bass (First appearance)
- Defenders (Mentioned)
- Liberty Legion (Mentioned)
- Secret Empire (Referenced)
- Charles Xavier (Named only)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Photo)
- Liberty Legion (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Mutants (Main story and recap)
- Abstract Entities
- Unrevealed alien races
Locations:
- Oblivion's Realm
- Earth-616 (Main story and recap)
- Sol (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- North America (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Long Island (Main story and recap)
- Brookhaven (Main story and recap)
- Port Jefferson (Main story and recap)
- Port Jefferson Police Station (First appearance)
- the Drake house (Main story and recap)
- the Smith house (Only in recap)
- Port Jefferson (Main story and recap)
- Brookhaven (Main story and recap)
- Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (Named only)
- Long Island (Main story and recap)
- New Mexico (Referenced)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Europe
- United Kingdom
- England, 1892
- United Kingdom
- North America (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- Sol (Main story and recap)
- Earth-8501
Items:
- Bounce-Box (First appearance)
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield (Photo)
Synopsis for "Instant Karma!"
Oblivion is angered at Idiot and White Light after their failure to complete their mission in Port Jefferson and punishes them.[1] He summons Kali to complete the mission for him.
Back in Port Jefferson, Iceman convinces the Port Jefferson Police Department to release him after his arrest at the wreckage of the Smith house by Ralph Ratchit by using his authority as a Defender and claiming he was dealing with Communist spies. He returns to the site and discovers an unusual box which he takes back to his parents' house. His father is incensed at him for his actions and yells at him. Bobby afterwards contemplates his relationship with his parents but the box begins making a sound and he suddenly disappears.
Marge Smith and her family find themselves in the England of 1892. They manage to view Bobby on a terminal with the box that they refer to as a Bounce Box suggesting its purpose to be a teleportation/time travel device. They suggest that "Margaret" should do something to help him.
Booby winds up finding himself teleported to the year 1942 but is confronted by a policeman die to his lack of appropriate clothing. He flees on an ice slide but is clipped in the arm by a bullet shot by the cop and passes out. When he awakens, he finds himself in a bed being tended to by his much younger parents. His parents feel an overwhelming sense of trust and recognition for Bobby and beg to let them help him but Kali and her army on flying spiders and olive-skinned riders suddenly appear and attack after Kali detects the presence of the Bounce Box.
Bobby transforms into Iceman and puts up an ice barrier to protect him and his parents from Kali's assault. Iceman does his best to fight off the attackers while "Margaret" frets with her family in 1892 England about Kali attacking the wrong people. Bobby's father seeks to perform an act of heroism and retrieves the Bounce Box with the intention of getting it to Iceman and is subsequently attacked by Kali's henchman. He is picked up and thrown into a wall as Iceman is restrained by Kali. An image of Margaret then appears in the sky and she beseeches Kali to leave as she convinces her she is in the wrong time and place. Kali flees with her army as Iceman seeks to comfort his gravely injured father who then dies. Bobby is terrified of the consequences since he hadn't yet been born in that timeline.