“Blood Hunt” begins with heroes across the globe noticing that both heroes and villains powered by the Darkforce, including Darkstar, Silhouette, Dusk, Cloak, and Blackout, have all become portals to the Darkforce Dimension. The energy quickly seeps into and breaches the Avengers’ dimension, leading to vampires attacking in droves. The current Avengers team assembles at their home base and tries to develop a plan to combat the vampires, but they’re instead attacked by the Bloodcoven. The mystical vampires more than hold their own against the Avengers, defeating them in battle. During the melee, one of the foes, Damascene, cuts Thor, angering the God of Thunder. When he tries to retaliate, the Asgardian is impaled through the forehead by a sharp object. Things don’t go much better for Black Panther, who heroically dies after being impaled himself while teleporting his teammates to safety.
Elsewhere, Doctor Strange and Clea Strange attempt to find a spell to kill every vampire on Earth. Blade meets them at the Sanctum Santorum and tells the powerful magic-users that the vampires’ plan is to create portals using Atlantean rituals, cause global chaos, attack critical infrastructures, and take out the Avengers. Blade describes the Bloodcoven as “ultravampires” empowered by pain, magic, and ghosts, calling them a match for the Avengers. He then reveals that he’s responsible for blocking the sun, freeing the vampires, assembling a monster kill squad, and being the new leader of the Structure. Before Strange can respond, Blade impales him through the chest with his sword and prepares to feast on the hero.
Blade’s goal is to destroy the Avengers, and he’s going to do so by turning as many as he can. Marvel has already revealed that Doctor Strange and Black Panther are vampires in upcoming “Blood Hunt” tie-ins, and it stands to reason that a similar fate awaits Thor as well.
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