Appearing in "The Ripple Effect"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- The Six
- Elektra
- Scotty Summers
- X-Men
- Magneto (Max Eisenhardt) (Apparent death)
- Mystique (Raven Darkhölme) (Apparent death)
- Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (Apparent death)
- Rogue (Apparent death)
- Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (Apparent death)
- Polaris (Lorna Dane) (Apparent death)
- Cerebro
- Captain America (First appearance)
- Hellfire Club (First appearance)
- Black King (Sebastian Shaw) (First appearance)
- Black Queen (Kitty Pryde)
- Forge
Antagonists:
- SHIELD
- Sunfire (First appearance; dies)
- Cerebro Mark XIII (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Graydon Creed (First appearance)
Locations:
- Earth-1298
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- Westchester County
- Salem Center
- X-Mansion (Destruction)
- Salem Center
- Dutchess County
- Eagle's Rest
- Westchester County
- New York
- United States of America
- Earth
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Ripple Effect"
The Six watch in horror as footage of the nuclear blast at the X-Men's HQ comes rolling in. President Graydon Creed pardons all former SHIELD members, including Nick Fury, claiming they were under the Goblin Queen's spell, and Cerebro arrives at Bannerman Castle barely alive, stating that all of the X-Men are dead.
Just then a SHIELD Helicarrier shows up and SHIELD agents try to capture The Six. They escape through the Hudson River in a Blackbird and meet up with Forge and Kitty at Forge's HQ, the Eagle's Rest. There they meet up with Captain America, Sebastian Shaw and Sunfire to discuss the freedom of mutants as SHIELD is going around locking them all up. Forge unveils the next generation of Cerebro, and Sunfire turns out to be a double agent, then trying to destroy the machine and everyone else there.
The Six, Kitty, Forge and Captain America escape, but the base is destroyed when Sunfire kills himself.
Out of the wreckage of the base crawls the latest incarnation of Cerebro, and he looks evil.