Appearing in "End of a Circle"
Featured Characters:
- Thunderbolts (Main story and flashback)
- Ghost (Main story and flashback)
- Luke Cage (Main story and flashback)
- MACH-V / Beetle (Abe Jenkins) (Main story and flashback)
- Songbird/Screaming Mimi (Melissa Gold) (Main story and flashback)
- Troll (Gunna Sijurvald) (Main story and flashback)
- Baron Zemo / Citizen V (Helmut Zemo) (Only in flashback)
- Atlas / Goliath (Erik Josten) (Only in flashback)
- Moonstone / Meteorite (Karla Sofen) (Only in flashback)
- Fixer / Techno (Norbert Ebersol) (Only in flashback)
- Blizzard (Donnie Gill) (Only in flashback)
- Photon (Genis-Vell) (Only in flashback)
- Jolt (Hallie Takahama) (Only in flashback)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Only in flashback)
- Joystick (Janice Yanizeski) (Only in flashback)
- Cyclone (Pierre Fresson) (Only in flashback)
- Ogre (Brian Dunlap) (Only in flashback)
- Smuggler (Conrad Josten) (Only in flashback)
- Radioactive Man (Chen Lu) (Only in flashback)
- Speed Demon (James Sanders) (Only in flashback)
- Scourge (Frank Simpson) (Only in flashback)
- Venom (Mac Gargan) (Only in flashback)
- Venom Symbiote (Only in flashback)
- Penance (Robbie Baldwin) (Only in flashback)
- Bullseye (Lester) (Only in flashback)
- Paladin (Only in flashback)
- Headsman (Cleavon Twain) (Only in flashback)
- Man-Thing (Ted Sallis) (Only in flashback)
- Shocker (Herman Schultz) (Only in flashback)
- Crossbones (Brock Rumlow) (Only in flashback)
- Hyperion (Mark Milton) (Only in flashback)
- Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) (Only in flashback)
- Satana (Satana Hellstrom) (Only in flashback)
- Mr. Hyde (Calvin Zabo) (Only in flashback)
- Boomerang (Fred Myers) (Only in flashback)
- Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (Only in flashback)
- Centurius (Noah Black) (Only in flashback)
- Blackheath (Sam Smithers) (Only in flashback)
- Norman Osborn (Only in flashback)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Mentioned)
- Angar the Screamer (David Angar) (Corpse, skeleton or other remains) (Only in flashback)
- Aragorn
- Edwin Jarvis (Mentioned)
- Thor (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Fomorians
- Asgardian-Troll Hybrids
- Titanian-Kree Hybrids
- Symbiotes
- Asgardians
- Winged Horses
- Man-Things
- Human-Demon Hybrids
- Eternals
Locations:
- Earth
- Europe
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- Chicago, Illinois (Named only)
- United States of America
- Hell (Mentioned)
Items:
- Ghost's Suit
- Mobile Armored Cyber-Harness (Main story and flashback)
- Beetle Armor MK III (Only in flashback)
- Hawkeye's Bow (Only in flashback)
- Fixer's Tech-Pac (Only in flashback)
- Headsman's Axe (Only in flashback)
- Shocker's Vibro-Shock Gauntlets (Only in flashback)
- Ant-Man's Suit (Only in flashback)
- Ant-Man's Helmet (Only in flashback)
- Spider-Man's Suit
- Dragonfang
- Mjolnir (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- Quinjet
- Headsman Glider (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "End of a Circle"
With most of the Thunderbolts having disappeared after the battle of Chicago, Luke Cage, MACH-V, Songbird and Ghost are searching for a way to bring them back. They found one of Satana's hideaways and engage its guardians, Balor. Ghost manages to get rid of him by passing through the portal he was guarding, reasoning that the guardian would disappear if it failed its duty. While MACH-V goes to check out some readings in Austria, the others go venturing into the lair, they discover a river of souls and take a boat across it. Suddenly, they come to a stop and the trio suddenly fall asleep.
Songbird, in particular, lets her hand touch the water. When it seems like she wakes up, she finds herself in her Screaming Mimi costume, just as Baron Zemo forms the Thunderbolts. She then began reflecting on the history of the Thunderbolts. Her dream then shifts and she encounters MACH-V. They kiss but then suddenly he changes into Zemo and then his face is torn apart.
Back in reality, Cage and Ghost are scrambling to get Songbird to safety. She wakes up and they explain what happened to her. Cage tells her rest and they get aboard the Quinjet. They go to Austria, where MACH-V had found the Thunderbolts Tower transmitter, which Ghost determines to have been lying there for 68 years.
Returning to Avengers Mansion, Songbird describes her experience in the cave and theorizes that the bodies in the water were people who were trapped in their own past memories and never got out. The conversation switches to the thought that the Thunderbolts are in the past and they wonder if they screwed anything up. They are then interrupted by Spider-Man, announcing that Valkyrie has arrived in response to the Raft's destruction. Songbird and Cage go out and inform her of the Thunderbolts, Troll included, being lost in the timestream. However, Valkyrie draws her sword, revealing that it's glowing. She explains that Troll's axe is Asgardian made, which can give off a powerful wave that they can track in any space... or time.