I will hunt the Death Sponsors. I will rescue my tenants. I will avenge Mr. Taylor. I will kill Gringrave.
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Shatterstar (Gaveedra-Seven / Ben Gaveedra) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Pug-Smasher (Karl Snortenthau) (First appearance)
- Goldon (First appearance)
- Crimzor (First appearance)
- The End Woman (First appearance)
- Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor) (First appearance; dies)
- Tina Cooke (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Death Sponsors
- Deadair
- Sweepzweak
- Cancellator
- Lead-In
- Timeslot (Death)
- Gringrave the Smiling Executioner (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast)
Other Characters:
- Cadre Alliance (Mentioned)
- X-Men (Mentioned)
- Mojo (Mentioned)
- X-Factor Investigations (Mentioned)
- Thanhorse (Mentioned)
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
- Mitzi Moscowitz (First appearance)
- American Kennel Club (Mentioned)
- Isiclus (Mentioned)
- Rupert Grint (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- X-Angels (Mentioned)
- Sister Conflagration the Burning Nun (Gabbi Sotelo) (Mentioned)
- Gabbi Sotelo (First appearance)
- Gabbi Sotelo's mother (Mentioned)
- New York Warriors (Mentioned)
- Ms. Slip (Rina Patel) (Mentioned)
- Fantastic Four (Named only)
- Galactus (Mentioned)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- X-Force (Mentioned)
- William Shakespeare (Named only)
- Rictor (Julio Richter)
- Za (Invoked)
- Longshot (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Domino (Neena Thurman) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Boom-Boom (Tabitha Smith) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
Races and Species:
- Mutants (Main story and flashback)
- Unidentified alien species (Main story and flashback)
- Alien Gods (Mentioned)
- Dogs
- Humans
- Dragons (Mentioned)
- Cyborgs
- Mutant-Demon Hybrids
- Bears (Toy)
- Horses (Mentioned)
- Gods (Mentioned)
- Horusians
- Spineless Ones
- Cosmic Beings
Locations:
- Mojoverse (Only in flashback)
- The Wildways (Only in flashback)
- Prime Marvel Universe
- Milky Way
- Sol System
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Queens
- College Point (First appearance)
- 15th Avenue (First appearance)
- Manor Crossing (First appearance)
- The Shakedown (First appearance) (Unnamed)
- 15th Avenue (First appearance)
- Glen Oaks (First appearance)
- Queens High School of Teaching, Liberal Arts and the Sciences (First appearance)
- College Point (First appearance)
- Manhattan (Mentioned)
- Bronx (Cameo)
- East River (Cameo)
- Queens
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- Earth
- Horus (First appearance)
- Horus IV (First appearance)
- The Mount (First appearance) (Unnamed)
- The Amphitheatre on the Mount (First appearance) (Unnamed)
- The Mount (First appearance) (Unnamed)
- Horus IV (First appearance)
- Sol System
- Scorpus Citadel (Mentioned)
- Milky Way
- Larval Earth (Mentioned)
- Earth-18140 (Mentioned)
- Marvel Noir (Mentioned)
- "Earth-1218" (Mentioned)
Items:
- Shatterstar's Swords (Main story and flashback)
- Titus Andronicus (First appearance) (Topical Reference)
- X-Uniform
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
A gladiator, a warrior, a hero…the man called Shatterstar has been many things, but one thing he’s always been is deadly. He’s not a man you want to cross or you’ll learn that fact all too well. Walk back into the darkness with Shatterstar.
Notes
- Rictor and Shatterstar are shown to be broken up once again. They had broken up and reconciled seemingly recent in the time between Iceman (Vol. 3) #11 and New Mutants: Dead Souls #2