Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Guardians of the Galaxy (First appearance)
- Rocket Raccoon (First appearance)
- Star-Lord (Peter Quill) (First appearance)
- Groot (First appearance) (Apparent death)
- Drax the Destroyer (Arthur Douglas) (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Gamora (First appearance)
- ⏴ Adam Warlock (Earth-19141) ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd) (First appearance)
- Mistress Death (First appearance)
- Pip the Troll (First appearance)
- Shi'ar Empire (First appearance)
- Imperial Guard (First appearance)
- Majestor Gladiator (Kallark) (First appearance)
- Mentor (First appearance)
- Neutron (First appearance)
- Sybil (Oracle) (First appearance)
- Manta (First appearance)
- Imperial Guard (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Annihilation Wave (First appearance)
- Ravenous (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Doctor Bultar (First appearance)
- Blastaar (First appearance)
- Annihilus (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed members
Other Characters:
- Protectorate (First appearance)
- Galactus (First appearance)
- Terrax the Tamer (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Super-Skrull (Kl'rt) (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Kree Empire
- Supreme Intelligence (First appearance)
- Unnamed members
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Nova (Sam Alexander) (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Onslaught (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Black Bolt (Blackagar Boltagon) (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Proxima Midnight (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Stranger (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- D'Spayre (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Beyonder (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- In-Betweener (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Mephisto (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Impossible Man (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Supergiant (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Enclave (Only in recap)
- Maris Morlak (Only in recap)
- Jerome Hamilton (Only in recap)
- Wladyslav Shinski (Only in recap)
- Thor (Only in recap)
- High Evolutionary (Herbert Wyndham) (Only in recap)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Only in recap)
- Thanos (Only in recap)
- Mistress Death (Only in recap)
- Magus (Adam Warlock) (Only in recap)
- Infinity (Only in recap)
- Eternity (Only in recap)
- Infinity Watch (Only in recap)
- Moondragon (Heather Dragon) (Only in recap)
- Gamora (Only in recap)
- Pip the Troll (Only in recap)
- Drax the Destroyer (Only in recap)
- Thanosi (Mentioned)
- X (Thanosi) (Only in recap)
- Goddess (Only in recap)
- Akhenaten (Only in recap)
- Lady Sif (Mentioned)
- Universal Church of Truth (Mentioned)
- Xelor (First appearance)
- Skrull Empire (First appearance)
- J'son (First appearance)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (First appearance)
- Fantastic Four (First appearance)
- Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) (First appearance)
- The Thing (Ben Grimm) (First appearance) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Adam Warlock (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Adam Warlock (Earth-616) (Mentioned)
- Living Tribunal (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Arthrosians
- Numerous unidentified alien species
- Demons
- Baluurians
- Halfworlders
- Human-Spartax Hybrids
- Flora colossi
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Robots
- Cosmic Beings (Main story and recap)
- Taa-ans
- Landlaks (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Skrulls
- Strontians
- Zenn-Lavians
- Human-Kree Hybrids (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Inhumans (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Abstract Entities (Main story and recap)
- Titanians (Main story and recap)
- Mutants (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Beyonders (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Poppupians (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Asgardians (Only in recap)
- Laxidazians (Main story and recap)
- Zen-Whoberis (Main story and recap)
- Outriders
- Stygians
- Kree
- Spartax
- Gardeners (Cameo)
- Shi'ar
Locations:
- Negative Zone
- Posiverse (First appearance)
- Unnamed planet (First appearance)
- Solar System (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
- Earth Orbit (First appearance)
- Moon (First appearance)
- United States of America (First appearance)
- New York (First appearance)
- New York City (First appearance)
- Manhattan (First appearance)
- Midtown
- Columbus Circle (First appearance)
- Avengers Tower (First appearance)
- Columbus Circle (First appearance)
- Midtown
- Manhattan (First appearance)
- New York City (First appearance)
- New York (First appearance)
- Earth Orbit (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance)
- Realm of Death
- Soulworld (Mentioned)
- Polaterrax-7 (Mentioned)
- New Kral (First appearance; destruction)
- Knowhere
- Shi'ar Galaxy
- Large Magellanic Cloud
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earth-616 (Only in recap)
- Counter-Earth (Mentioned)
- Earth-19141 (Mentioned)
Items:
- Cosmic Control Rod
- Star-Lord's Uniform
- Element Gun
- Drax's Knives
- Nova Helmet (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Infinity Gauntlet (Recap and vision)
- Infinity Gems (Recap and vision)
- Mjolnir (Only in recap)
- Kree Militia Uniforms
- Iron Man Armor Model 42
- Fantastic Four Uniform
- Cosmic Cube (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- C.I.T.T.
- Taa II (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Silver Surfer's Surfboard
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
Annihilus, lord of the Negative Zone, makes a renewed assault on the positive universe, searching for a source of infinite power. To stop him, a fragile alliance of cosmic protectors forms. The Guardians of the Galaxy. Gladiator, Majestor of the Shi’ar. And Adam Warlock — whose complex cycle of death and rebirth has left him more confused than ever about his true nature. With Adam reunited with his Infinity Watch comrades Gamora, Drax and Pip the Troll — and joined by newer friends like Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon and Groot — they hold the potential to end Annihilus’ threat once and for all… if only they knew how! But the answer lies in the dark mind of another. A Titan, whom some would hold as mad. Could the fate of everything rest in the hands of… Thanos? Cosmic maestro Jim Starlin’s infinite odyssey continues!
Notes
Chronology Notes[]
- This story seemingly takes place before Infinity, as evidenced by the presence of Uatu the Watcher in later installments. Uatu was killed by Nick Fury in Original Sin, an event chronologically set after Infinity, which ended with Thanos being trapped within an amber construct by his son, Thane. As Thanos was not freed from his imprisonment until some time after Uatu's death, it's impossible for this story to have taken place after Infinity.
- On the other hand, given that the Watcher who appears in later installments is never identified as Uatu, there is no reason to assume that that Watcher must have been Uatu. Accordingly, this story could well have taken place after Infinity.
- The events of this graphic novel were mostly undone by the Above-All-Others in Thanos: The Infinity Finale #1. Above-All-Others restored the Posiverse up to the point Annihilus had yet to begin his assault on it so Thanos and Adam Warlock could prevent the invasion, and thus allow the universe to follow an all-new, all-different path.
Continuity Errors[]
- Despite the story being set before Infinity, Star-Lord is shown sporting his MCU-based look that only debuted in comic books during the All-New Marvel NOW! initiative.
- Similarly, Reed Richards is shown wearing a version of the Fantastic Four Uniform he only got to wear for the first time in Fantastic Four #644.
See Also
- 48 image(s) from Thanos: The Infinity Relativity Vol 1 1
- 1 reprint(s) of Thanos: The Infinity Relativity Vol 1 1