Synopsis
Last issue Hawkeye was tried for the murder of Bruce Banner. Now Captain Marvel flies to the Triskelion after the verdict has been given. She's heard She-Hulk has woken from her coma and wants to be the 1st to let her know what's happened to her cousin. And Jennifer Walters isn't happy at the end to hear that Clint Barton was acquitted.
It's all over the news, and we see Miles Morales/Spider-Man listening to some of it. There are suggestions that it was an assisted suicide or mercy killing (because Banner requested it). Many people are just relieved that the Hulk is gone (forgetting about the Amadeus Cho version). Many believe the conspiracy theory that the super-community deliberately let Hulk live for this long.
Tony Stark is devastated over this death, and the death of James Rhodes/War Machine earlier. And he blames Carol Danvers for those deaths, for trusting too much the visions of the Inhuman Ulysses. Now he's called together a group in the old Illuminati meeting place, his abandoned Funtime Inc factory. He wants to show them some new information. The group consists of Beast, Black Bolt, Black Panther, Captain America/Steve Rogers, Captain Marvel, Dr Strange and Medusa.
Stark repeats his basic problem with Ulysses' prophecies - they all know there are alternate futures so how can his predictions be certain? In #2 he made a computer copy of the Inhuman's brain and last issue his AI Friday gave him her conclusions. Ulysses' unique brain takes in all available data and calculates the most likely future which it displays as a vision - a vision which Ulysses can now, as a result of training by Karnak, even make other people see too.
But it's still only an informed guess based on current data, which to Tony in some cases is akin to profiling. It isn't the absolute certainty that Carol is betting on.
But Stark isn't going to repeat his error from Civil War I - he's not going to force his view on everyone else. That's why he's called this meeting, even including Medusa whose people messed up his life (Uncanny Inhumans #11) in retaliation for his abduction of Ulysses. This time he's going to listen to Steve Rogers.
Captain Marvel wants Henry McCoy to review Stark's findings. But Beast already has, and his conclusion is that he's at least not wrong. But Danvers still thinks she's right in doing all she can to prevent disasters, even minor ones. Stark wants to know what percentage chance of correctness she considers sufficient to act on. Her reply is that the track record is very good so far. And she leaves.
The rest of the group are still unsure, even divided. But Tony isn't sure Bruce Banner had to die last issue. (In fact it looked to me as though CM's actions triggered off the problem Ulysses had foreseen in this case.) He feels it's his duty to go public with his theory.
What the group (presumably) didn't know is that Marvel already has a test case on her hands. She and SHIELD arrested a banker Alison Green who Ulysses said was a Hydra Agent, part of a plot to destroy US capitalism using the contents of her briefcase. But when they picked her up the briefcase was empty.
She joins Maria Hill and Black Panther in considering the problem. SHIELD has found nothing suspicious in Alison's life, and she denies knowledge of anything terroristy. She even has an explanation for the empty briefcase. And her cop father is already making waves. But Danvers is convinced they'll find evidence if they dig deep enough.
Suddenly the game changes as Nightcrawler bamfs in and teleports the suspect away. And Hill learns that Iron Man is on the roof. But he's not alone. It's time for a confrontation.
Shellhead has brought the other ANAD Avengers (Captain America/Sam Wilson, Ms Marvel, Nova, Spider-Man/Miles Morales, Thor and Vision) alongside Cap/SR and Dr Strange (noticeably Beast and the Inhumans are keeping out of it) plus the young X-Men from an alternate past (Angel, Beast, Cyclops and Iceman) and newer young X-Men Genesis and Oya (with them in All-New X-Men), topped up with Hawkeye/Kate Bishop, Luke Cage and the new armoured female Riri Williams from Invincible Iron Man.
Captain Marvel is backed by the other Ultimates (Black Panther, Blue Marvel, Ms America and Spectrum), fellow Alpha Flight members (Aurora, Puck and Sasquatch), more X-Men (Forge, Iceman (the current 1), Magik, Storm and the young alternate Marvel Girl) plus Ant-Man, Maria Hill and SHIELD.
Even so Iron Man thinks he's got the upper hand. Until Danvers calls in the Guardians of the Galaxy too (Angela, Drax, Gamora, Groot, Kitty Pryde, Rocket Raccoon, Star-Lord, Thing and Venom).