- —Nova
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Nova (Richard Rider)
- Fraternity of Raptors (Disbands)
- Wing-Commander Gyre (Death)
- Dark Starhawk / Talonar (Robbie Rider) (Possessed by Ratha'kon the Starhawk) (Leaves)
- Numerous unnamed others (Death)
Other Characters:
- Nova Corps (Behind the scenes)
- Mother of God (Mary of Nazareth) (Invoked)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- NYPD (Only in recap)
- Code: Blue (Only in recap)
- Lieutenant Marc Stone (Only in recap)
- Several unidentified others
- Code: Blue (Only in recap)
- Chris Powell (First appearance)
- Sleepwalker
- An alien influence (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Annunaki (Mentioned)
- Androids
- Gods of the Shi'ar
- Robots
- Falcons (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Kree (Mentioned)
- Sleepwalkers
- Shi'ar (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Multiverse (Mentioned)
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and recap)
- Milky Way Galaxy (Main story and recap)
- Sol System (Main story and recap)
- Mars
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- Sol System (Main story and recap)
- Andromeda II Galaxy (Behind the scenes)
- The Rock (Behind the scenes)
- Datasong (Mentioned)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Null Space, Darkforce Dimension (Mentioned)
- Tree of Shadows (Mentioned)
- Mindscape
- Milky Way Galaxy (Main story and recap)
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and recap)
Items:
- Nova Star and Force
- Raptors (Race) and Amulets
- Nega-Bands
- Infinity Stones (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- Kree warship (Destruction)
- Kree shuttle (Only appearance; destruction)
Synopsis for 1st story
Nova is traveling through space back within the Solar System. The Nova Corps request his return to assist with other matters but he is determined to find and retrieve his brother Talon-R. He encounters the Darkhawk Spaceship armor engaging the Raptors and their recently capture Kree warship.
Darkhawk is making short work of the Raptors but continues to struggle with the Dark Starhawk who notes his corruption of the Raptor form into the spaceship suit is why they want to bring order to the galaxy. Suddenly, Nova swipes Talonair's bodyout of the Dark Starhawk. Nova refers to Talonair as Robbie, which Talonair disapproves of blasts him away rejoining with Dark Starhawk.
Darkhawk catches and puts him inside of his spaceship suit where he Razor educates Nova on the seriousness of the situation and tells him his brother is possesed by Dark Starhawk. Razor encourages Nova to stand down but he does not and blasts a hole through the spaceship suit injuring Darkhawk. They continue to argue about if Talonair can be rescued whilst fighting Raptors, when suddenly Gyre stabs Darkhawk and begins to hank him for allowing the Raptors to be freed of the Tree of Shadows. Razor's bird avatar attacks Gyre and Darkhawk transform his arms to cannons to blast Gyre. And Nova teams up on him as well. But Gyre uses Nova as a shield for the blast.
Holding Nova hostage Gyre explains to Dark Starhawk asking him if knows what he must do. Dark Starhawk agrees and disintegrates Gyre with a blast.
Dark Starhawk holds Nova in a forcefield and explains that he has gained new cosmic awareness creating a new vision for how he will "cleanse this reality" mentioning the infinity stones as potentially falling into the wrong hands.
Nova is in dismay that his brother would say such things but Darkhawk explains that Talonair sacrificed himself through hatred to become Dark Starhawk. Dark Starhawk notes his goal is remove the infinity stones from reality.
Death Head interrupts their conversation by blasting a Kree warship with its warp drive exploding around them. Nova shields Darkhawk who frees himself and suddenly takes his amulet back from Talonair. Talonair cries for help and suddenly explodes with energy and disappears. Darkhawk reasons with Nova who wants none of it. He warns him to never leave earth or he will kill him.
Later, Darkhawk heads back to earth as Chris Powell and reunites with Miranda noting that he he is happy to be back home and and that he take the job with Code:Blue. He falls asleep that night and wakes up to a nightmare. In it, he sees a hooded figure whom he believes is Razor but is actually Sleepwalker. The Sleepwalker warms himthat he must save the midscape from the Infinity Stones and he will need to become a Sleepwalker soon.
Solicit Synopsis
THE FINAL CHAPTER OF DARKHAWK... FOR NOW!
In the wake of a disastrous run-in with the more-dangerous-than-ever Fraternity of Raptors, Chris faces the fear that he may never make it home from space! But even as his foes’ might grows, Darkhawk will discover that his lowest point... has brought him incredible new power!See Also
- 2 image(s) from Infinity Countdown: Darkhawk Vol 1 4
- 1 reprint(s) of Infinity Countdown: Darkhawk Vol 1 4