Appearing in "To the Ends of the Earth"
Featured Characters:
- New Mutants (Main story and flashback)
- Sunspot (Bobby Da Costa) (Main story and flashback; possessed by Karma in main story)
- Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) (Main story and flashback; possessed by Karma in main story)
- Mirage (Dani Moonstar) (Main story and flashback)
- Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) (Main story and flashback; possessed by Karma in main story)
- Magik (Illyana Rasputin)
- Magma (Amara Aquilla) (Possessed by Karma)
- Doug Ramsey (Possessed by Karma)
- Warlock
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- The Gladiators (Death)
- Karma (Xuân Cao Mạnh) (Possessed by Shadow King) (Main story and flashback; leaves New Mutants in flashback)
Other Characters:
- X-Men (Mentioned)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Referenced)
- Juliana Sandoval (Referenced)
- Madonna (Invoked)
- General Ngoc Coy (Photo)
- Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian) (Photo)
- A stewardess
- Mos Eisley (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Madripoor citizens
- Beyonder (Referenced)
- Hellions (Mentioned)
- Unnamed bodyguards and mercenaries of Karma
- Fido, and other unnamed demons
- Madripoor Police Force (First appearance)
- Pharaoh's guards
- Ashake (First appearance)
- Ashake's Familiars
- Hamarkis (First appearance)
- Phix (First appearance)
- Alternate Universe New Mutants (First appearance)
- Samuel Guthrie (First appearance)
- Amara Aquilla (First appearance)
- Roberto Da Costa (First appearance)
- Rahne Sinclair (First appearance)
- Rolf (First appearance; dies)
- Kyri (First appearance; dies)
Races and Species:
- Mutants (Main story and flashback)
- Mutant Technarch
- Humans
- Swines (Mentioned)
- Abstract Entities
- Demons
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- California (Main story and flashback)
- Big Sur (Main story and flashback)
- Viper's Base (Only in flashback)
- Big Sur (Main story and flashback)
- Kentucky (Mentioned)
- Appalachian Mountains (Mentioned)
- Los Angeles (Mentioned)
- Arena, Underground Mutant Theatre, Hollywood (Mentioned)
- California (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Pacific Ocean (Only in flashback)
- Ullapool, Scotland, Europe (Mentioned)
- Asia
- Vietnam (Referenced)
- Southeast Asia
- Tortuga, Haiti, Caribbean Sea (Mentioned)
- Asia
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Mentioned)
- Limbo
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Earth-8510 (First appearance)
Items:
- X-Uniforms (Main story and flashback)
Vehicles:
- a UTA plane
Events:
- Vietnam War (Referenced)
Synopsis for "To the Ends of the Earth"
Sunspot relives the horrible events that led to Karma’s seeming death, blaming himself for her change. He and the other New Mutants travel to Madripoor, following Karma to find out what made her change. The team attacks but find themselves overwhelmed by Karma’s power; only Magik and Mirage escape to Limbo. When they return, they find that Karma framed them for the murder of her guards. Mirage orders Magik to teleport to Cairo, Egypt, where Karma has her other hideout. Inadvertently, they shift into the far past, where they run into and are helped by an ancestor of Storm’s. Teleporting again, they end up in the near future, where they find that their teammates have turned as evil as Karma. Dejected, they finally teleport to the right time, getting into a heated argument, until they are joined by the still-free Warlock and Storm, whom Warlock has brought to help.
Notes
- Karma seemingly died off-panel between New Mutants #6–#7 after being contacted by an evil, unidentified force, although Charles Xavier even then suspected that things were not quite as they seemed.
- Roberto’s girlfriend, Juliana, died saving Roberto’s life in Marvel Graphic Novel #4.
- Illyana and Moonstar had to save the others from the Hellions in New Mutants #17.
- After the loss of her powers, Storm took a sabbatical from the X-Men and travelled through Africa (Uncanny X-Men #193–#198), before ending up in Cairo.
Trivia
- The story refers to Roberto’s meeting with the Beyonder having an averse effect on him; however he wasn’t among the mutants who actually met him in Secret Wars II #1 or New Mutants #30.
- Arriving in Madripoor, Doug calls it “Earth’s Mos Eisley” and a “modern day Tortuga”. Mos Eisley was the spaceport in the original Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) where Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi met Han Solo and Chewbacca. Preparing Luke for what he would see in the Tatooine spaceport, Kenobi told Luke “You’ll not find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” In contrast to this comparison, Doug’s recount of Tortuga is quite real. Tortuga is an island in the West Indies off northern Haiti and was a refuge for pirates in the 17th century.