For this gleaming Spindle of Steel... is the weapon with which Stark intends to murder the Human Race.
Appearing in "Wish upon a Star"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Dirge (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Stark Enterprises (Referenced)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Mentioned)
- U.S. Government (Referenced)
- Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards) (Mentioned)
- Force Works (Mentioned)
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- ⏴ Sheva Joseph ⏵
- Worldwatch (Behind the scenes)
- ⏴ Rae LaCoste ⏵ (Behind the scenes)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Timestream (Mentioned)
- Present Day
- Milky Way
- Solar System
- Earth
- Earth Orbit
- Stark's Starcore Satellite (Destruction)
- Moon (Cameo)
- United States of America
- California
- Works, Ventura (Mentioned)
- Bakersfield (First appearance)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Research Infirmary (First appearance)
- California
- Earth Orbit
- Earth
- Solar System
- Milky Way
- Present Day
Items:
- Eidolon Warwear
- War Machine Armor (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Wish upon a Star"
War Machine flies to the Starcore Satellite and is surprised that it is already completed. He meets Skye, who explains that it was not an accident that he found the Eidolon Warwear. Dirge, an ally of Kang, appears to protect the satellite from War Machine.
A fight begins and Skye is mortally wounded. War Machine manages to destroy Dirge's Warwear, which explodes. The explosion kills Dirge and destroyed the space station. War Machine escapes with the wounded Skye, but she dies in his arms.