Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Guardians of the Galaxy (Re-forms)
- Rocket Raccoon (Rejoins)
- Star-Lord (Peter Quill) (Rejoins)
- Groot (Rejoins)
- Drax the Destroyer (Arthur Douglas) (Rejoins)
- Gamora (Main story and recap) (Rejoins)
- The Thing (Ben Grimm)
- Kitty Pryde
- Venom (Flash Thompson) (Main story and recap)
- Angela (Aldrif Odinsdottir)
Supporting Characters:
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Commander Sharon Carter
- Numerous unnamed agents
- Alpha Flight
- Captain Marvel (Cmdr. Carol Danvers)
- Puck (Eugene Judd) (Cameo)
- Sasquatch (Walter Langkowski) (Cameo)
- Lt. Commander Abigail Brand (Cameo)
- Unnamed members (Behind the scenes)
Antagonists:
- Queen of the Brood (Death)
- Annihilation Wave
- Annihilus
- Numerous unnamed members
- Thanos (Main story and recap)
- Badoon Empire (Main story and recap)
- Brotherhood of Badoon (Main story and recap)
- Y-Gaaar
- Numerous unnamed members (Main story and recap)
- Brotherhood of Badoon (Main story and recap)
- Armadillo (Antonio Rodriguez)
- Numerous unnamed Brood (Death; behind the scenes)
Other Characters:
- Uatu (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Champions (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Nova (Sam Alexander) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Past; on-screen)
- Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Galactus (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Ultimates (Cameo)
- Black Panther (T'Challa) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Spectrum (Monica Rambeau) (Cameo)
- Ms. America (America Chavez) (Cameo)
- Iron Man (Victor von Doom) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Howard the Duck (Referenced)
- Unnamed female Garonthian (Mentioned)
- X-Men (Mentioned)
- Yvette Douglas (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Nova Corps (Return)
Races and Species:
- Brood
- Brood Queens
- Arthrosians
- Titanians (Main story and recap)
- Badoon (Main story and recap)
- Kree (Mentioned)
- Skrulls (Mentioned)
- Watchers (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Human-Kree Hybrids
- Humans
- Cosmic Beings (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Mutants
- Inhumans (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Duckworldians (Referenced)
- Halfworlders
- Human-Spartax Hybrids
- Flora colossi
- Symbiotes (Main story and recap)
- Star Sharks
- Acanti
- Asgardians
- Angels (Mentioned)
- Zen-Whoberis (Main story and recap)
- Mutant-Alien Hybrids (Cameo)
- Rigellians
- Mephitisoids
Locations:
- Negative Zone
- Hala (Mentioned) (Destroyed)
- Spartax (Mentioned)
- Ten Realms (Mentioned)
- Earth
- United States of America
- Ohio
- New York
- New Jersey
- California (Cameo)
- San Francisco (Cameo)
- Golden Gate Bridge (Cameo)
- San Francisco (Cameo)
- Wakanda (Cameo)
- Birnin Zana (Cameo)
- Royal Palace of Wakanda (Cameo)
- Birnin Zana (Cameo)
- Russia (Cameo)
- Moscow (Cameo)
- Red Square (Cameo)
- Saint Basil's Cathedral (Cameo)
- Red Square (Cameo)
- Moscow (Cameo)
- Indonesia
- Earth Orbit
- Moon (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Asgard (Mentioned)
- Earth
- Hell (Invoked)
- Basillza Quadrant (Only in recap)
- Xalda-Volta (Only in recap)
- Titan (Only in recap)
Items:
- Cosmic Control Rod
- Black Vortex (Mentioned)
- Captain Marvel's Suit
- Captain America's Uniform (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Spider-Armor MK IV (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Nova Helmet (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Cyclops' Visor (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- X-Uniforms
- Ms. Marvel's Suit (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Panther Habit (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Iron Man Armor Model 51 (Model-Prime Armor) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Venom Symbiote (Main story and recap)
- Element Guns
- Star-Lord Armor
- Drax's Knives
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Flight Packs
- Spectrum's Suit (Cameo)
- Nova Stars
Vehicles:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
- C.I.T.T. (Mentioned) (Destroyed)
- Numerous unidentified Badoon spaceships
- MV-22 Osprey
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Flying Cars (Shadow only)
- Quinjets (Shadow only)
- Unnamed Guardians of the Galaxy spaceship (First appearance)
- Unidentified Nova Corps spaceship
Events:
- Civil War II (Mentioned)
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
Brian Michael Bendis’ last issue!
• It’s all built to this! GROUNDED comes to a conclusion with this double-sized blockbuster as Brian Michael Bendis wraps up his epic run on GUARDIANS!
• With the team stuck on Earth and scattered to the winds, could the only thing to bring them together truly be…THANOS?
• Featuring art by series artist Valerio Schiti and special guest artists to celebrate the end of an era!