History ComicBook / InfinityCountdown

Infinity Countdown leads in to Infinity Wars in July 2018.

** Issue 5 begins with Hank Pym's soul fragment seemingly finding a way to escape from Soul World. Near the end of the issue, the Avengers seemingly create a dimensional doorway to allow Pym to escape back to earth, where he is greeted with welcomes from his friends, and a loving embrace from ''[[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet Van Dyne]]''. [[spoiler:Only for the next page to reveal that all of this was part of his imagination, as he gets eaten by a tentacled monster. The last lines from Old Woman Gamora says it all.]]

* EvilIsNotAToy: When the new Fraternity of Raptors break down the barrier to Null Space hoping to access the original Fraternity's android bodies and armor, the old Fraternity is awakened and enter the main universe through the rip in space. The new Raptors are immediately slaughtered as a mockery to their legacy.

Infinity Countdown is set to culminate in Infinity Wars in July 2018.

* ''Infinity Countdown: ComicBook/BlackWidow''
* ''Infinity Countdown: Captain Marvel''
* ''Infinity Countdown: ComicBook/{{Champions}}''
* ''Infinity Countdown: ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''
* ''Infinity Countdown: ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}}''

** Speaking of Ultron, Ultron uses his virus and the Soul Stone to assimilate [[spoiler:the Silver Surfer]] into an Ultron Hybrid!

* BaitAndSwitch: Adam Warlock's tie-in and the prologue set up the Magus as the BigBad. [[spoiler:He's killed by Ultron before the first issue of the main book.]]

* BigBad: The Magus [[spoiler: until he is killed by the Ultron/Hank Pym Hybrid, setting him up as the big bad]]

* TheCameo: Kang's glimpse of the future has several, including Phyla-Vell (who has been suffering from a bad case of dead since 2010).

* EvilCounterpart: The event further explores the parallels between Adam Warlock and Ultron which were first brought up in Annihilation Conquest. Ultron even taunts Adam with their similarities, noting how both were artificial creations of humans who would quickly surpass their creators and even oppose them.

* HumanSacrifice: The Raptors require two, one willing and one not, for [[spoiler: the summoning of the Starhawk]]. [[spoiler: Chris Powell barely manages to survive being the unwilling one]].

* SaveTheVillain: The Champions rush to defend Chitari soldiers who serve under Thanos from being slaughtered by Warbringer.

* SummonBiggerFish: [[spoiler:After being freed from Ultron, the Silver Surfer goes to recruit someone who can help fight him: Galactus.]]

* ThirdPersonPerson: [[spoiler: Restored Groot]]
* UngratefulBastard: Nova Corp commander Adsitt thanks the Champions for capturing Warbringer by depowering Sam Alexander on the grounds that the new Corp didn't authorize him to weild the Nova Force, despite predating the new Corp and having the blessing of the Nova Prime.

* CanonImmigrant: Nova Centurion Eve Bakain from Secret Wars: The Infinity Guantlet, is introduced into the prime Marvel Universe.

* ThatManIsDead: Talonar feels this way about his past life as [[spoiler:Robert Rider]]. Though once the entirety of the New Raptors are slaughtered and he realizes that the greater purpose they promised was all a sham, he declares Talonar dead as well while the original Fraternity ponder giving him a new MeaningfulRename.

* SadisticChoice: Galactus and the Silver Surfer are faced with a rather cruel one in issue 4. [[spoiler:Either destroy the dead planet which was fully assimilated by Ultron before he could launch his assimilation virus on a universal scale, but in turn forcing Galactus to lose his status as the Lifebringer and once again become a slave of the hunger, or leave it alone and remain free, dooming all life to Ultra's assimilation plot. He picks the former only on the grounds that Norrin once again takes up the mantle of his herald.]]

* AlternateUniverse: Where Captain Marvel found the Reality Stone. Apparently the Reality Stones of various parallel universes were displaced from their home dimensions, and are being recovered from there by anyone named Captain Marvel.

* ''Infinity Countdown: Black Widow''

* ''Infinity Countdown: Champions''
* ''Infinity Countdown: Daredevil''
* ''Infinity Countdown: Darkhawk''

* EvilIsNotAToy: When the new Fraternity of Raptors break down the barrier to Null Space hoping to access the original Fraternity's android bodies and armor. Instead, the old Fraternity is awakened and are able to to enter the main universe through the rip in space. The new Raptors are immediately slaughtered as a mockery to their legacy.

* EvilPowerVaccuum: Turk Barret plans to use the Mind Stone to fill in the void left by Wilson Fisk in the criminal underground after Fisk became mayor.

** BiggerBad: See Vagueness Is Coming.

** Talonar reveals his identity to [[spoiler:his brother]] Nova by revealing that [[spoiler:he's still missing half of his left pinky finger]].

* AndIMustScream: Hank Pym, still stuck inside Ultron. Then Ultron touches the Soul Stone, and part of Hank gets dragged in there.
** Speaking of Ultron, Ultron uses his virus and the Soul Stone to assimilate [[spoiler: THE SILVER SURFER]] INTO AN ULTRON HYBRID!

* BigFun / BoisterousBruiser: [[spoiler: Restored Groot]].

* ContinuityNod: The fact that the Planet Sakaar has been recreated after its pretty comprehensive destruction is given as proof of the Time Stone's work.
** When Groot [[spoiler: is restored to his original form (vocabulary and all), Ant Man is confused by how chatty Groot is]] and asks Gamora if she's ever seen him like this, to which she replies no. Gamora was the only one present, besides Scott and Nova, who joined the team after [[spoiler:Groot's switch to PokemonSpeak]]. Star-Lord even comments on this when Nova questions it.

* ItsPersonal: Warbringer has a personal vendetta against the Nova Corp for being humiliated by Sam Alexander twice in the past. Of course when he tries to take this out on Richard Rider, he's mostly ignored by Richard who is more focused on Talonar of the Fraternity of Raptors, both of whom have VERY personal issues with the other.

* ItsPersonal: Warbringer has a personal vendetta against the Nova Corp for being humiliated by Sam Alexander twice in the past. Of course when he tries to take this out on Richard Rider, he gets effortlessly blasted aside by both Rich and Talonar of the Fraternity of Raptors, both of whom have VERY personal issues with the other.

* GottaCatchEmAll: Several parties want the Stones for their own ends, including (but not limited to) Thanos, the Fraternity of Raptors, the Magus, Ultron, and Super-Skrull.

'''''Infinity Countdown''''' is a 2018 Creator/MarvelComics event spinning out of Gerry Duggan's ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' run, and is the cumulation of various plots that were planted as early as his Nova and Deadpool runs from 2012.

** Talonar reveals his identity to Nova by revealing that [[spoiler:he's still missing half of his left pinky finger]].