Take it down a gear. No shame in being afraid. Being brave isn't the same thing as not being scared.
Appearing in "To Waste Their Lives Saving People Who Just Don't Care? It's The Only Thing They've Ever Wanted."
Featured Characters:
- The Shield's Hel-Rangers (Main story and flashback)
- Commander Abigail Brand (Main story and flashback)
- Leah (Main story and flashback)
- Magik (Illyana Rasputina) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Endless Summers Legion
- Major Summers
- Unnamed clones
- Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards)
- The Thing (Ben Grimm)
- Vitruvian Man (Leo da Vinci)
- Lady Katherine of Bishop
- Ms. America (America Chavez)
- Kitty Pride (First appearance)
- Tigra (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- The Unite (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Zombies (Only in flashback)
- Magneto (Max Eisenhardt) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed Skrull (Only in flashback) (First appearance)
- Unnamed zombies (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Annihilation Wave (Only in flashback)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
- Ultron Engine (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Lord Ultron (Mentioned)
- Fury (Nick Fury) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Thanos (Mentioned)
- Baron Sinister (Mentioned)
- Thanos (Mentioned)
- God Emperor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Mutant-Alien Hybrids (Main story and flashback)
- Asgardians (Main story and flashback)
- Mutants (Main story and flashback)
- Zombies (Only in flashback)
- Skrulls (Only in flashback)
- Robots (Mentioned)
- Titanians (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth-15513 (Main story and flashback)
- Battleworld (Main story and flashback)
- The Shield (Main story and flashback)
- Deadlands (Main story and flashback)
- New Xandar (Only in flashback)
- Perfection (Only in flashback)
- Limbo (Mentioned)
- Battleworld (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Magneto's Helmet (Only in flashback)
- Kang Armor
- Infinity Gauntlet (Mentioned)
- Soulsword (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "To Waste Their Lives Saving People Who Just Don't Care? It's The Only Thing They've Ever Wanted."
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
THEY CAN’T EVER WIN. THEY CAN’T AFFORD TO LOSE.
• THE SHIELD is the only thing that protects the more civilized areas of Battleworld from the ZOMBIE HORDES, DEATH MACHINES, AND ANNIHILATION WAVES.
• Anyone who annoys Doom gets sent to The Shield. Anyone who gets sent to the Shield deals with ABIGAIL BRAND.
• Miss America, Lady Katherine, Kang the Conqueror, Leah Shieldmen, the Endless Summers Company, Leonardo Da Vinci and a cast of thousands will fight to the death to keep Battleworld safe. But don’t worry, Kieron Gillen is writing this book, so I’m sure everything will end happily for everyone.
• “Imagine NextWave as a tragedy,” says Kieron, if anyone asks him about it.