Appearing in "Apokolips... Now!"
Featured Characters:
- X-Men (First appearance)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (First appearance)
- Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) (First appearance)
- Wolverine (Logan)
- Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (First appearance)
- Sprite (Kitty Pryde) (First appearance)
- Cyclops / Dark Phoenix (Scott Summers) (First appearance) (Briefly merges with Phoenix Force)
- Storm (Ororo Munroe) (First appearance)
- Teen Titans (First appearance)
- Raven (First appearance)
- Starfire (Princess Koriand'r / Kory Anders) (First appearance)
- Changeling (Gar Logan) (First appearance) (Impersonates Phoenix Force, Lockheed)
- Kid Flash (Wally West) (First appearance)
- Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) (First appearance)
- Cyborg (Victor Stone) (First appearance)
- Robin (Dick Grayson) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Metron (First appearance)
- John Grey (First appearance)
- Elaine Grey (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Darkseid (Uxas)
- Dark Phoenix (Jean Grey) (First appearance) (Resurrection and death) (Main story, dream, vision, and flashback) (As Phoenix in vision only)
- Phoenix Force (First appearance) (Resurrection and death) (Main story, dream, and flashback)
- Vince (First appearance)
- Harry (First appearance)
- Parademons (First appearance)
- Shock Commandos (First appearance)
- Deathstroke the Terminator (Slade Wilson) (First appearance)
- Ravok the Ravager (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Promethean Giants (First appearance)
- Canadian Army (Mentioned)
- Angela Roth (Referenced)
- Trigon (Mentioned)
- X'Hal (Invoked)
- Terry Long (Referenced)
- God / Lod (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Benny (Referenced)
- Intergang (Referenced)
- The Citadel (Mentioned)
- Shi'ar Empire (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Empress Lilandra (Mentioned)
- Justice League of America (Mentioned)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Dog Cavalry (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Lowlies (Mentioned)
- Azar (Referenced)
- Lockheed (Referenced)
- New York Philharmonic (First appearance)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Topical Reference)
- Athena (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Promethean Giants (First appearance)
- Apokoliptians (Main story and flashback)
- New Gods
- Gods (Mentioned)
- Mutants (Main story, dream, vision)
- Human-Demon Hybrids (First appearance) (First appearance)
- Demons (Referenced)
- Abstract Entities (First appearance) (Main story, dream)
- Tamaraneans (First appearance)
- Humans
- Amazons
- Cyborgs (First appearance)
- Parademons (First appearance)
- Gordanians (Mentioned)
- Shi'ar (Only in flashback)
- D'bari (Mentioned)
- Dragons (Referenced)
Locations:
- Earth-7642
- Promethean Galaxy (First appearance)
- Source Wall (First appearance)
- Milky Way
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- Westchester County (First appearance)
- Salem Center (First appearance)
- Professor Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (First appearance)
- Danger Room (First appearance)
- Professor Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (First appearance)
- Salem Center (First appearance)
- New York City
- East River (First appearance)
- Titans Island (First appearance)
- Titans Tower (First appearance)
- Titans Island (First appearance)
- Queens
- John F. Kennedy International Airport (First appearance)
- Manhattan
- Midtown
- 57th Street (First appearance)
- Central Park
- Belvedere Castle (First appearance)
- Midtown
- East River (First appearance)
- Annandale-on-Hudson (First appearance)
- Grey's House (First appearance)
- Westchester County (First appearance)
- New Jersey
- Gotham City
- S.T.A.R. Laboratories (First appearance)
- Gotham City
- Texas (First appearance)
- Sullivan County (First appearance)
- Illinois (Mentioned)
- Chicago (Mentioned)
- Frost Industries Research Facility (Mentioned)
- Chicago (Mentioned)
- New Mexico
- Psi-Phons (First appearance) (Destruction)
- New York
- United States of America
- Atlantic Ocean
- Europe (First appearance)
- United Kingdom (First appearance)
- Antarctica (First appearance)
- Tahiti, French Polynesia, France (Mentioned)
- North America
- Earth
- Tamaran, Vega (Mentioned)
- D'bari System (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- D'bari (First appearance) (Only in flashback) (Destruction)
- Apokolips (Mentioned)
- New Genesis (Mentioned)
- Heaven (Invoked)
- Promethean Galaxy (First appearance)
Items:
- Psychon-Wave (First appearance)
- Omega-Phage Helmet (First appearance)
- Wolverine's Suit
- Adamantium
- Ruby-Quartz Sunglasses (First appearance)
- Cyclops' Visor (First appearance)
- Ruby-Quartz (First appearance)
- Promethium (First appearance)
- Speed Force (First appearance)
- Robin's Utility Belt
- X-Uniforms (First appearance)
- Cyclops' Visor (First appearance)
- Cerebro (Mentioned)
- Dyno-Blast Bazooka (First appearance)
- Energy Disperser Helmet (First appearance)
- Electro-Lance (First appearance)
- Deathstroke's Energy Lance (First appearance)
- Omega Effect (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Mobius Chair (First appearance)
- Blackbird
- Aero-Discs (First appearance)
- Boom Tube (First appearance)
Events:
- Dark Phoenix Saga (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "Apokolips... Now!"
The image of their late teammate, Phoenix, appears in dreams to the X-Men, and to Raven of the New Teen Titans, seeming to warn of a coming catastrophe. At the same time, Robin encounters the Terminator working in partnership with one of Darkseid's Para-Demons. When Starfire reveals the history of the Dark Phoenix to her comrades, the Titans investigate the connection between Phoenix and the X-Men.
They are mistaken for the mutant heroes by attacking Para-Demons and captured, along with Professor X, by Darkseid, the demonic lord of Apokolips. Meanwhile, the Terminator, sent by Darkseid to gather Phoenix's residual energies from locales where she had expended a great deal of power, is able to defeat and capture the real X-Men.
Drawing on their memories of their deceased partner-in-peril, Darkseid is able to use the gathered energies to bring Dark Phoenix back to life, after which he intends to use her power to transform Earth into a second Apokolips. Freed of their bonds with the evil god's departure, the Teen Titans and the X-Men meet for the first time, and discover the abandoned Mobius Chair of Metron of the New Gods, which they use to travel back to New York to fight a return match against the Terminator.
They are then attacked in turn by Darkseid and Dark Phoenix, and in the ensuing battle, Raven and Professor X psychically weaken the Phoenix-entity so that she it is forced to possess the body of Cyclops to survive. Reunion with her former lover returns Phoenix's memory of her life as Jean Grey, and she turns on Darkseid in revenge for his having reawakened her from death. In a mammoth explosion, both Darkseid and Dark Phoenix vanish, and Metron regains the Mobius Chair.
See Also
- 42 image(s) from Marvel and DC Present featuring The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans Vol 1 1
- 2 reprint(s) of Marvel and DC Present featuring The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans Vol 1 1
