Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Zero Squadron (First Appearance)
- Hiro
- Suzuki (Death)
- Toshi
Villains:
- Cor-Tek (First Appearance)
- Dexter Cortex (Dexter Cortez) (First Appearance)
- Kyoga (Only appearance; dies)
- The Baptist (Anthony Bryce) (First Appearance)
- Blackheart (First Appearance)
Other Characters:
- Keiko
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for 1st story
In a dark cavern, a man calling himself the Baptist cuts the heart out of a volunteer, imbues it with dark magic, and puts it back, granting the volunteer superhuman powers. In Tokyo, the new Supreme falls to Earth, damaging buildings and several city blocks. Japan’s special defense team, Zero Squadron, don their combat armor and scramble to intervene. Their corporate overseer, Kyoga of Cor-Tek Industries, checks in with his boss, CEO Dexter Cortex. Supreme wakes up in a crater in the street. He cannot remember who he is yet can somehow speak Japanese. A gathering crowd angrily calls him Supreme, and one man explains that the Japanese hate Supreme because he dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. Zero Squadron attacks, and Supreme swats them away, accidentally killing one of them. They redouble their assault to little effect. Supreme demands they leave him alone. Two of them fly him miles into the air to question him. They refuse to believe Supreme has amnesia, and he accidentally kills another one of them. The surviving one drops Supreme, and he quickly discovers he can fly. Remotely monitoring the battle, Kyoga prepares to commit ritual suicide for his and Zero Squadron’s failure to defeat Supreme. Cortex intervenes and beheads him instead. After Supreme lands, a young American boy approaches him, shows him a Supreme comic book, and says he does not look anything like the real Supreme.
Notes
- This issue is part of the aftermath of the "Extreme Sacrifice" crossover with Bloodstrike, Brigade, New Men, Prophet, Team Youngblood, and Youngblood Strikefile.
- The comic book that the young boy shows Supreme is Supreme #25. This means the events portrayed in that issue are a work of fiction in the Extreme Universe and thus not in continuity.