Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- The Underground (Main story and flashback)
- Frank Fireheart (Joins) (Main story and flashback)
- Silas Fireheart (Joins) (Main story and flashback)
- ⏴ Red Wolf ⏵ (Joins) (Main story and flashback)
- Nighthawk (Tilda Johnson) (First appearance as Nighthawk) (Joins) (Main story and flashback)
- Nico "Wheels" Wolinski (Joins) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- The Underground (Main story and flashback)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Joins) (Main story and flashback)
- Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) (Main story and flashback)
- Giant-Man (Raz Malhotra)
- Ant-Man (Scott Lang)
- Tony Stark (A.I.) (As a hologram)
- Wonder Man (Simon Williams)
- Thing (Ben Grimm)
- Numerous unnamed farmers
Antagonists:
- Hydra (Main story and flashback)
- Hydra Command (Only in recap)
- Hydra High Council (Only in recap)
- Dr. Arnim Zola (Only in recap)
- Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo) (Only in recap)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Only in recap)
- Hydra High Council (Only in recap)
- Marty (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed others (Main story and flashback)
- Hydra Command (Only in recap)
Other Characters:
- Raymond Kane (Death) (Only in flashback) (As Nighthawk in recap)
- Brian McAllister (Only in recap)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- X-Men (Mentioned)
- Nick Fury (Mentioned)
- Crazy Horse (Mentioned)
- Geronimo (Mentioned)
- Skrull Empire (Mentioned)
- Dungstonians (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Human-Inhuman Hybrids (Only in recap)
- LMDs
- Robots (Mentioned)
- Inhumans (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Hydra Nation (Main story and flashback)
- Washington, D.C. (Only in recap)
- North Carolina (Only in recap)
- Greensboro (Only in recap)
- Iowa (Only in flashback)
- Dungston (Only in flashback)
- Illinois (Only in flashback)
- Chicago (Only in flashback)
- New Mexico (Only in flashback)
- Santa Rosa (Only in flashback)
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New York, New York (Mentioned)
- Manhattan (Mentioned as isolated via Darkforce Dimension)
- South Dakota (Mentioned)
- Wounded Knee Creek (Mentioned)
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Mentioned)
- Rosebud Indian Reservation (Mentioned)
- Hydra Nation (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Mentioned)
Items:
- Hawkeye's Suit, Bow, and Trick Arrows (Main story and flashback)
- Arnim Zola's Robotic Body (Only in recap)
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield (Only in recap)
- Black Widow's Gauntlets (Main story and flashback)
- Tilda's Robots of Fury (Nick Fury LMDs) (First appearance)
- Giant-Man's Suit
- Ant-Man's Suit and Helmet
Vehicles:
- Vantastic (Main story and flashback)
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
SECRET EMPIRE TIE-IN!
• With Hawkeye pulled into the fray of SECRET EMPIRE, the rest of the team finds themselves without a leader on their most important mission to date, forcing Tilda to take charge.
• But honestly, was Clint that much of a leader? And with new members joining the fight, the team is poised to save the country, or die trying.