When the weapon was fired, it created a massive EMP that caused a twenty-four hour global blackout, killing thousands.

Various forces conspire to create a second Energy Well, resulting in Dormammu invading Earth, but he is defeated by the combined power of Thor and the other heroes.

Ultimate Ironman reappears in Volume 2, where it is destroyed in combat with T'Channa, the sister of Black Panther and the second Doctor Doom.

Revealed to be the sister of Black Panther, he overwhelms the Avengers before being defeated by the Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, Tigra, and Scarlet Witch.

Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Mirage and Jean Grey form the core of the group, with Rogue living with them but seemingly not being a member.

Other X-Men characters appear in the story, most as forces for evil, including Beast, Amanda Sefton, Mystique, and Nightcrawler.

Charles Xavier is depicted as the leader of the Hellfire Club, putting him into direct opposition to the X-Men along with his daughters, Sage and Emma Frost.

He, along with Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Black Cat, Wolverine, Iron Man, the Human Torch, and the new Captain America, form a new group of Avengers and battle and defeat the Hand, along with a mind-controlled Sharon Carter.

At the end of the series, the Black Cat is revealed to have been working alongside Nick Fury, who is implied to have orchestrated the decimation of the super-powered population.