Devil's Reign

Daredevil: Woman Without Fear

After visiting Fisk, Elektra meets up with Matt Murdock, who learns about her visit. Elektra has coffee with Robert Goldman as she sees Aka in the streets. After making it to the forest, Elektra encounters Aka as jumps off a cliff. Elektra goes hunting for what appears to be Aka only to avoid a trap. She finds the culprit responsible in the form of Kraven the Hunter, who is looking for a challenge.^[7]

Kraven mentions that he is looking for a challenge and wants to take on Elektra who holds the title of "World's Deadliest Assassin". As Elektra states to Kraven that he is being used, Kraven states that he knows that she took her file from Fisk and it will benefit them both. Kraven mentions how Fisk told him about how Elektra betrayed Daredevil once and was associated with the Hand. After Kraven intercepts one of Elektra's attacks, the police arrive responding to the car accident. Kraven flees to keep up his insurance policy while Elektra subdues the police and makes off in their police car. After a flashback with Aka, Elektra finds that Kraven got to Goldman as she is attacked by the Thunderbolts unit. After fighting them off, Elektra catches up to Kraven and Goldman as Aka is shown watching from the rooftops. When the Thunderbolts agents catches up, Kraven states to Elektra that Fisk also gave him the law.^[8]

Elektra engages Kraven in battle as Goldman and the Thunderbolts agents stand back. When Kraven manages to punch Elektra, Goldman throws a snowball at him as the Thunderbolts agents restrain him. Elektra manages to kick Kraven before entering a school. He pursues Elektra and is defeated by her as Aka appears noting that Elektra is still trying to recruit Matt Murdock. Aka then disappears as Elektra notices that the Thunderbolts agents are clearing the school. Borrowing a jacket from a student, Elektra meets up with Goldman, who states that Matt Murdock has been killed.^[9]

Devil's Reign: Superior Four

Doctor Octopus forms the Superior Four with his multiversal counterparts: Hulk of Earth-8816 (Otto Banner), Ghost Rider of Earth-1666 (Otto Blaze), and Wolverine of Earth-9712 (Otto Howlett). He mentions that he has gone through an evolution after his tenure as Superior Spider-Man and that he plans to span the multiverse and establish a Council of Ocks from every version of Doctor Octopus he can find. The other three Ottos claim that his actions could cause a paradox. As Doctor Octopus continues his research, Banner, Blaze, and Howlett talk about how their fates will intertwine with the other Ottos. Arriving on Earth-2902, the Superior Four arrive in its forested city area and cause a disturbance to draw out Doctor Octopus. They encounter a variant of Otto named TJ, who operates as Spider-Ock and is familiar with the multiverse. Doctor Octopus uses a parasite on Spider-Ock to claim his knowledge, killing him.^[10]

A portal suddenly sucks the Superior Four to Earth-7212, which was hit by an unspecified mass extinction event involving sulfur. Doctor Octopus is then teleported to the Savage Land on Earth-8969 and ensnared by Supreme Octopus, who considers himself superior to Doctor Octopus. Hulk, Ghost Rider, and Wolverine turn against Doctor Octopus and help Supreme Octopus to rip off Doctor Octopus' tentacles. Doctor Octopus is locked up with a skeleton and carnivorous plants in Supreme Octopus' mobile base called the Supreme Sanctorum.^[11]

Supreme Octopus reveals that his real name is Otto Werner von Strange and that he is the last and remaining variant of a long and tireless war. Having maintained a Multiversal balance, Supreme Octopus is in need of an heir or some heirs as he has stopped a Doctor Octopus while having obtained an army of Ocks. Meanwhile, Doctor Octopus tries to get his Man-Thing counterpart to help him as the Man-Thing bonds to him and serves as his guide through the Sanctum Supreme. The Man-Thing variant then detaches from Doctor Octopus as it is introduced by Doctor Octopus as the source of a paradox. Using Supreme Octopus' body, Man-Thing opens a portal back to Earth-616. Doctor Octopus makes a counter-offer with the Superior Four: he gives Hulk a special pill to return him to his human form, travels to Hell with Ghost Rider and retrieves his soul, and arranges for Wolverine to be a citizen on Krakoa. Man-Thing is brought to Earth-2902, where it takes on a form similar to Spider-Ock.^[12]

Spider-Woman

After her longtime friend and former fellow private investigator Lindsay McCabe is hurt, Spider-Woman fights the Thunderbolts agents and Thunderbolts members Coachwhip and Puff Adder. Despite having a broken arm, Spider-Woman fights them off to get Lindsay to safety. Later, a Thunderbolts agent visits Lindsay McCabe's hospital room to get the details on who attacked her. This turns out to be Jessica Drew in disguise as she tells the doctors to take care of her. Spider-Woman then interrogates the captive Thunderbolts agent whose outfit she borrowed. As the Thunderbolts agents arrive, Spider-Woman figures out who Fisk is talking about as Spider-Woman claims that she is supposed to be dead. Fisk states that Norman Osborn kept his "trophy" where Fisk provided a storage place. Spider-Woman then flees the area. The captive Thunderbolts unit member then breaks free from the ropes and is revealed to be a thought-to-be-dead Veranke.^[13]

Spider-Woman catches up to Veranke as a Thunderbolts unit truck escapes with Spider-Woman's son Gerry. Spider-Woman instructs Linda to help Lindsay. Veranke still has the same powers as Spider-Woman, but has become out of practice due to how long she was locked up by Norman Osborn. When Spider-Woman catches up to the Thunderbolts truck, Iron Man shows up to help only for Spider-Woman to see that it is Veranke in disguise. After Gerry escaped, Spider-Woman encounters Carol Danvers and Spider-Man, with Gerry identifying the imposter Danvers. Spider-Woman uses a point blank venom blast in Veranke's face, incapacitating her.^[14]

Devil's Reign: Villains for Hire

Thunderbolts members Agony, Electro, Rhino, Taskmaster, and Whiplash arrive and defeat the Humanity Liberation Front. Later at the police department, the Thunderbolts members get impatient waiting for their next assignment. They get into a fight with each other until Wilson Fisk arrives to break it up. He sends them to find the person responsible for the attack on the gala where the suspect is hiding somewhere in Gowanus. The Thunderbolts raid a warehouse where some of its members are hiding and defeat them. Afterwards, the Thunderbolts are in Fisk's office as U.S. Agent appears, stating that he reporting for duty.^[15]

Fisk sends the Thunderbolts out of his office as U.S. Agent informs him that he wants to be part of the Thunderbolts to keep its members in line. When the Thunderbolts attack jewelry store robbers in animal masks, some of them are killed or badly beaten up until U.S. Agent arrives stating that he is now in charge. While in the alley, U.S. Agent is revealed to be secretly working with the FBI to incriminating information against Fisk. At Fisk's rally, U.S. Agent and the Thunderbolts deal with a mind-controlled crowd. As Agony advises Fisk to leave before the crowd attacks him, Fisk notices that the crowd has changed. The culprit is one of the Purple Children as Electro gets mind-controlled.^[16]

U.S. Agent advises the Thunderbolts to get Electro away from the area before she goes nuclear. Fisk is loaded into his limo as he advises U.S. Agent to keep the Thunderbolts in line and clean up the mess. U.S. Agent and Agony encounter the culprit called Conviction who claimed that Fisk kept her trapped in Ravencroft trying to reproduce the Purple Children's power. After a brief scuffle where Conviction escapes, U.S. Agent and Agony meet up with Fisk and the rest of the Thunderbolts to mention about their encounter with Conviction. Fisk then assigns them to find the Purple Children as James Wesley gives them trackers. As Rhino does not want to hunt children, Fisk brings in Abomination as his replacement and mind-controls U.S. Agent to oversee the assignment as the Thunderbolts hunt down the Purple Children. When they are found, they are confronted by Jessica Jones and the Champions.^[17]

Devil's Reign: X-Men

U.S. Agent and the Thunderbolts agents are outside the New York hideout of the X-Men, demanding that they surrender. As Emma Frost goes to the United Nations building, U.S. Agent is met with resistance from Polaris. Fisk is informed of the situation with the X-Men and their diplomatic immunity. Thunderbolts members Agony, Electro, Rhino, and Taskmaster arrive as backup for U.S. Agent. Jean Grey speaks to U.S. Agent who wants to report the X-Men's "illegal structure" to the Parks Department. Just then, Frost shows up with an order from the United Nations to not violate a structure from Krakoa. Wesley informs Fisk on what U.S. Agent informed him as he tells Wesley to send a message to the Thunderbolts to leave the X-Men to him. U.S. Agent withdraws the Thunderbolts from Seneca Park. Fisk has Wesley summon the chief of detectives about a murder of a young woman, wanting to blame Frost for the incident.^[18]

Emma Frost breaks free from police custody and make the police officers fight one other. Frost is later informed that she still has arrest warrants in countries that do not recognize the Krakoa amnesty deal until further notice. She instructs them to have the finance team slowly and quietly buy stock in the insurance company. Frost mind-controls Typhoid Mary into confronting Fisk, claiming that his life will come crashing down one day.^[19]

Devil's Reign: Winter Soldier

Fisk is informed by James Wesley that Gracie Mansion is secured and Typhoid Mary is away. He has been having sleepless nights since the new law has passed. Winter Soldier infiltrates Gracie Mansion to steal some files when he is confronted by a sleepwalking Fisk. As Fisk goes on the attack, Winter Soldier works to dodge his attacks while holding his file. As Gracie Mansion is partially-collapsed, James Wesley returns with the NYPD and finds Fisk near the rubble stating that he had a wonderful dream. After burning some files, a wounded Winter Soldier makes his way to an alley with his own file. Now that he has a purpose, Winter Soldier vows that whoever wrote this file will not survive the year and states that he will "sleep when they're dead".^[20]

Moon Knight

After Moon Knight is arrested by the Thunderbolts, Dr. Badr meets with the Moonlight Mission where he substitutes as "Doctor Moon". He and Mr. Flint find that several people were slain by crossbows which leads them to suspect that Stained Glass Scarlet is responsible. After traveling the church in the South Bronx where Scarlet was supposedly killed, Doctor Moon encounters Scarlet, who has been resurrected. Back at the Midnight Mission, Badr informs Reese about these recent events. At Ravencroft, it is discovered that a patient is not in their cell as a guard tells his co-worker that the inmate is an ex-Hydra assassin. Knowing the description of the inmate, the guard initiates a red alert that states that Rutherford Winner is on the loose.^[21]

Devil's Reign: Spider-Man

Ben Reilly is ambushed by a Thunderbolts agent who places a power dampener collar on him to easily transport him to the Myrmidon. After breaking out of the transport, Ben contacts Janine Godbe while Marcus Momplaisir is ambushed by Richard Fisk, also known as Rose, who fails to get any useful information out of Momplaisir. As Spider-Man, Ben Reilly finds the Thunderbolts agents arresting Momplaisir, who has dressed as Spider-Man. Rose appears and attacks Spider-Man, revealing that he spiked Momplaisir's Spider-Man costume with electrodes. Before Rose can finish off Spider-Man, Momplaisir uses one of the Thunderbolts agents' electric sticks which helps him to knock out Rose. Ben is later visited by Momplaisir, who advises him to take time off to recuperate. Meanwhile, Rose is captured and brought to the NYPD by Thunderbolts agents.^[22]

Devil's Reign: Moon Knight

8-Ball is imprisoned in the Myrmidon prison alongside Moon Knight. After winning several fights against the Myrmidon's inmates, Moon Knight is pitted against Man Mountain Marko. Moon Knight beats Marko into surrender, temporarily blinding him. After an altercation, Moon Knight is placed in solitary confinement in chains as 8-Ball mops up outside his cell. Moon Knight states that the incarcerated superheroes will go after Fisk when they get out.^[23]