Take it down a gear. No shame in being afraid. Being brave isn't the same thing as not being scared. 
- —Ms. America (America Chavez)
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.