We can't go anywhere. We have to stand here glaring like this to see which one's the toughest. Only kidding.
- —Valery Stepanovich
Appearing in "2: The Other Side of the Mountain"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Valery Stepanovich (Name revealed) (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- Solntsevskaya Bratva (Main story and flashback)
- Konstantin Pronchenko (First full appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed others (Death of several)
Other Characters:
- NYPD
- Mikhail Kalashnikov (Topical Reference)
- Jesus Christ (Invoked)
- Michael (Mentioned)
- Russian Armed Forces (Only in flashback)
- 103rd Guards Airborne Division (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Viktor (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Stinky Joe (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Vladislav (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Klatrio (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Sergei Fedotov (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed soldiers (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- 103rd Guards Airborne Division (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Mujahideen (Death of several in flashback)
- United States Marines (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-200111 (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Brooklyn
- Brighton Beach
- Grand Odessa
- Brighton Beach
- Brooklyn
- New York City
- Portland, Oregon (Mentioned)
- San Diego, California (Mentioned)
- Los Angeles, California (Mentioned)
- New York
- Germany (Referenced)
- Russia (Mentioned)
- Chechnya (Mentioned)
- Moscow, Moscow Oblast (Mentioned)
- Vladivostok, Siberia (Mentioned)
- Mexico (Mentioned)
- Vietnam (Mentioned)
- Afghanistan (Only in flashback)
- Hindu Kush (Mentioned)
- Kabul (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
Items:
Events:
- Vietnam War (Mentioned)
- Russian-Afghan War (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "2: The Other Side of the Mountain"
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
• Seeds planted decades ago in Moscow and Afghanistan bloom bloody in New York City.
• Who is Valery Stepanovich and why did he mow down a room full of Russian mobsters?
• These are questions Frank Castle is going to answer and then decide if Valery deserves his own punishment.