Wealth, power, fame. They want to aspire. They constantly want something better. But that’s not possible in the Wastelands. You can’t get ahead, no matter how hard you work. There’s only one victor, and his name is Doom. 
Appearances
Featured Characters:
- Cora
- Star-Lord (Peter Quill) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Second Dawn
- White Queen (Emma Frost)
- Jonny Lumus (First appearance) (Apparent death)
Antagonists:
- Brandon Best (Main story and flashback) (Voice only) (Impersonates Victor von Doom)
Other Characters:
- Paul White (Voice only) (First appearance; dies)
- Unnamed woman (Voice only)
- Ghost Riders (Mentioned)
- Rocket Raccoon (Mentioned)
- Joanna Forge (Mentioned)
- Kraven the Hunter (Mentioned)
- Doombot
- Guardians of the Galaxy (Mentioned)
- Slaughter Lords (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- J'son (Mentioned)
- Agatha Blackwater (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Jack McCall (Referenced) (Only in flashback)
- Sisterhood of Badoon (Mentioned)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Horses (Mentioned)
- Rigellians
- Human-Spartax Hybrids (Main story and flashback)
- Halfworlders (Mentioned)
- Mutants
- Cyborgs (Mentioned)
- Bees (Mentioned)
- Badoon (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth-TRN907 (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- Wastelands (Main story and flashback)
- Black Hills (Main story and flashback)
- Doomwood (Main story and flashback)
- Heaven and Hellfire Club
- Doom's Compound (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Second Dawn's armory (Mentioned)
- Doomwood (Main story and flashback)
- Black Hills (Main story and flashback)
- Wastelands (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Drones (Mentioned)
- Transponder chip
- Guillotine Collars
- Black Vortex (Mentioned)
- The Collector's Map-Mirror
- Electro-Magnetic Pulse
Vehicles:
Synopsis
As the protests in Doomwood ramp up, curfews are implemented in the Wastelands. Quill meets the former librarian of Doomwood and finds out information from her which give him clues as to where the Black Vortex might be hidden. The Second Dawn launches a plan to infiltrate Doom's government by hacking into a Doombot, but things don't go smoothly. The episode ends with a tunnel cave-in that traps Quill, Cora, and their new ally Johnny Lumus.