Blade awakens in a
flophouse in London with no idea of how he got there. He tries to call the Avengers
for assistance and learns that the Avengers have never existed. He
investigates: Jennifer Walters is a successful lawyer in Los Angeles; Bruce
Banner turned into the Hulk once and was banished to the Negative Zone forever;
Carol Danvers is a USAF pilot with a history of insubordination; Tony Stark is
a hard-drinking playboy who was never injured; Robbie Reyes thinks Ghost Rider
is a new street drug; there’s a head shop in Greenwich Village where Dr.
Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum should be; Wakanda does not exist on any map; Iron
Fist never left Tibet; Captain America went missing in action at the end of
World War 2. And it’s all because the Squadron Supreme prevented the need for
any more heroes….
Doctor Doom,
exiled from Latveria through a fair election, attacks the White House, seeking
to conquer the United States. He holds the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak and transforms
into Dr. Juggernaut; Hyperion arrives to take him on with his sunlight powers….
And Doom is not
alone, he’s joined by the Masters of Doom: Nighthawk enters the Capitol where
the Black Skull (Red Skull powered by the Venom symbiote) and his minions are
holding Congress hostage….
The super-fast
Blur battles Wanda Maximoff, the Silver Witch who has absorbed the powers of
her late brother Pietro….
At the Lincoln
Memorial, Power Princess battles her nemesis, All-Gog (Mangog after destroying
all of the Norse pantheon, except one)….
Dr. Spectrum flies
out to intercept something coming in through space, as the Air Force, including
Carol Danvers, is told to stand down. And then Spectrum meets the foe he thought
dead: Thanos, with all of the Infinity Rings….
Brief flashback:
Blade discovered Thor getting drunk in a tavern and guesses this is the result
of his people being wiped out and never finding Mjolnir. Thor gets surly and
ends up vomiting on Blade’s shoes….
Back to the present:
Blade joins Nighthawk in battling Black Skull’s minions in the Capitol and he learns
that Nighthawk recognizes him—as a criminal. But Blade also realizes that
Nighthawk also knows the truth of the disordered world and he leaves….
President Phil Coulson watches the fight between Hyperion and Doctor Doom and revels in the
beauty of superheroes in action….
At the tavern,
Thor strikes his drinking horn on the bar and it transforms into Mjolnir.
Meanwhile, on a trek to the Arctic, Blade discovers Captain America frozen in
the ice….
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