Chapter Summaries

Wang Khan won his ninth Blood Sand Arena match and met arena owner Thornton, who offered him money to deliberately lose and get injured in his next fight. Wang Khan refused and challenged Thornton’s attempt to pressure him, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Wang Khan defeated a mechanically modified opponent with Thor's Hammer, earning his ninth consecutive victory.
• Wang Khan and his followers returned to his newly purchased mobile home, where Thornton asked to discuss a lucrative business deal.
• Thornton showed Wang Khan the betting odds and proposed that he deliberately lose his next match in exchange for two million Nova Credits.
• Wang Khan rejected the offer, poured out Thornton’s Dreamscape, and dismissed his threat to cancel Wang Khan’s eligibility to compete.

Wang Khan defied Thornton’s threat by warning that disqualifying him would anger Blood Sand Arena’s sponsors. Thornton then plotted to sabotage Wang Khan’s next fight by having Sam replace Mjolnir with a fake, while Wang Khan secretly prepared to make Sam his trusted aide.

• Wang Khan warned Thornton that sponsors and major clients would retaliate if Blood Sand Arena disqualified him, and Thornton stormed away threatening revenge.
• Wang Khan took Sam into Laboratory Zero, showed him ten flesh-filled culture tanks bearing Sam’s and his subordinates’ names, and injected Sam with a syringe.
• Thornton summoned Sam to his villa and questioned him about Wang Khan’s weapons, learning that Wang Khan wielded Mjolnir.
• Thornton declared Wang Khan a traitor and ordered Sam to switch the real Mjolnir with a fake before the next fight, threatening him with punishment if he failed.

Wang Khan investigated Jerry Lee, Thornton’s illegitimate son, and prepared for his next battle while learning how costly an Atmosphere Modifier would be. Sam secretly delivered Mjolnir to Thornton, who tested its power and planned to use it against Wang Khan in their match the next day.

• Wang Khan had Red Queen confirm that Jerry Lee was Thornton’s biological son and ordered her to monitor him around the clock.
• Sam told Wang Khan that his next opponent was a powerful Kroonan Warrior and reported that Atmosphere Modifiers were enormous and extremely expensive.
• Wang Khan asked Sam to buy Interstellar Communicators and keep researching Atmosphere Modifiers.
• Sam secretly visited Thornton’s villa and gave him Mjolnir.
• Thornton threw Mjolnir hard enough to smash a heavy hovercar and summon it back, then vowed to defeat Wang Khan without his hammer.

Wang Khan faced a powerful Kroonan Warrior in a deadly arena match while Thornton bet his liquid assets against him. Wang Khan’s first hammer strike shattered Thor’s Hammer without harming his opponent, leaving the fight’s outcome uncertain.

• The Blood Sand Arena revoked the surrender privilege for legendary gladiators before Wang Khan’s match against the Kroonan Warrior.
• Thornton raised his total bet to 1.6 billion Nova Credits, and Wang Khan arranged for capitalist tycoons to target Thornton’s businesses if he lost.
• Wang Khan ordered Sam and the others to capture Thornton’s illegitimate son, Jerry Lee, as a trump card.
• The Kroonan Warrior charged Wang Khan, who used Bagua Steps and a palm strike to send him sprawling.
• Wang Khan leaped onto the Kroonan Warrior and struck his head with Thor’s Hammer, but the hammer shattered while the warrior remained unharmed.

Wang Khan defeated the Kroonan Warrior despite Thornton's attempt to disable his powers and sabotage the fight. He reclaimed Mjolnir, exposed Thornton's trick, and demanded his one-million-credit appearance fee.

• Wang Khan lost Thor's Hammer after Thornton's trick, then used Tai Chi to fight the Kroonan Warrior as the audience reacted to the broken weapon.
• Thornton activated four Spatial Interference Devices, preventing Wang Khan from opening his storage space, but Wang Khan explained that he could overcome or destroy them.
• The Kroonan Warrior smashed the arena floor and tried to crush Wang Khan, but Wang Khan flew behind him and used his Quake ability to pulverize him.
• Thornton collapsed after Wang Khan won, and the trapped Thor's Hammer burst from its box and flew back to Wang Khan.
• Wang Khan pressed Mjolnir against Thornton's chest, then recalled it and demanded that Thornton pay his one-million-credit appearance fee.

Wang Khan’s scheme left Thornton financially cornered, while Sam’s men kidnapped Jerry Lee and erased the Pink Gang. Wang Khan then confronted Thornton at his villa and demanded 3.87 billion Nova Credits, leaving Thornton fearing for his life.

• Financial tycoons exploited Thornton’s lost 1.6 billion Nova Credits to attack his businesses and force him to mortgage assets.
• Sam’s men kidnapped Jerry Lee, and Wang Khan drew his blood before ordering the Pink Gang eliminated to keep secrets.
• After a week of attacks, Thornton agreed to surrender half his businesses to the financial tycoons and became addicted to Dreamscape.
• Thornton learned Wang Khan had been staying in Satellite City and threatened to capture him and put him in a wood chipper.
• Wang Khan appeared in Thornton’s villa, where he found the guards incapacitated and rejected Thornton’s offer of ten million Nova Credits.
• Wang Khan demanded 3.87 billion Nova Credits, and Thornton realized he might not survive the night.

Wang Khan killed Thornton and arranged for Jerry Lee to inherit his estate, then watched as the Nova Corps’ investigation derailed the tycoons’ attempts to seize Thornton’s businesses. Wang Khan ended up with Thornton’s assets, worth 3.87 billion Nova Credits.

• Wang Khan revealed that Thornton’s children had been eliminated and Jerry Lee was his only remaining heir, then petrified Thornton and a trusted aide with his Petrification Eye.
• Sam reported that Thornton’s household had been wiped out, and Wang Khan’s group left with the asset documents.
• The Nova Corps investigated Thornton’s murder, making the tycoons who had targeted his business prime suspects and forcing them to abandon their plans.
• Jerry Lee claimed Thornton’s inheritance, and DNA testing and the Nova Corps confirmed his right to the estate.
• Wang Khan told Jerry Lee that the Nova Corps would deal with the tycoons, and five were soon imprisoned and fined after investigations uncovered illegal activities.
• Wang Khan took control of Thornton’s assets, valued at 3.87 billion Nova Credits.

Wang Khan studied the Atmosphere Modifier schematics so he could use the Reality Stone to create one, while Sam and his team tracked a Donk connected to the Ravagers. Roman targeted Wang Khan for extortion over his earnings and robotic spacecraft, then arrived with Nova Corps officers to take him in.

• Wang Khan spent 200 million Nova Credits on the schematics for an ultra-large Atmosphere Modifier and began studying how to reproduce it with the Reality Stone.
• Wang Khan told Sam and the others to monitor a Donk and report any developments around him.
• Roman recognized Wang Khan's portrait at the Blood Sand Arena and decided to extort him because he was a wealthy immigrant from Terra.
• Roman ordered his subordinates to investigate Wang Khan's earnings and planned to use his robotic spacecraft against him.
• Roman and Nova Corps officers confronted Wang Khan outside his motorhome, and Roman ordered him to come with them.

Roman arrested Wang Khan on a fabricated weapons charge and tried to extort him, but a top lawyer secured his release. Roman then learned Wang Khan had powerful ties through Jerry Lee and decided to target him again.

• Roman accused Wang Khan of injuring an Immigration Bureau officer and detained him, while Wang Khan told Sam to get him a lawyer.
• Roman demanded three million Nova Credits from Wang Khan and threatened him with stun batons when he refused.
• The Immigration Bureau director and a top lawyer arrived, and the lawyer secured Wang Khan's release.
• Roman learned that Wang Khan had won money at the Blood Sand Arena and that Jerry Lee, who had inherited a fortune, followed him.
• Roman and his subordinates resolved to gather stronger evidence and extort even more money from Wang Khan.

Roman persuaded Grand Judge Baba Vanga to issue a warrant for Wang Khan by accusing him of murdering the Thornton family, while angling to extort him. Wang Khan learned that Star-Lord and Gamora had been arrested and began preparing his plans before Roman arrived to arrest him, unknowingly accusing him of the real crime.

• Roman argued to Baba Vanga that Wang Khan and Jerry Lee had conspired to kill the Thornton family, but she demanded evidence before agreeing to an arrest.
• Roman offered Baba Vanga a sightseeing vehicle in exchange for help extorting Wang Khan, and she gave him a warrant with one week to act.
• Sam told Wang Khan that Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, and Groot had been arrested after a fight outside Donk's shop.
• Wang Khan recognized the start of the Guardians of the Galaxy events, learned that the Nova Corps had the Universal Orb, and told Sam's people to stop monitoring Donk.
• Roman arrived with Nova Corps officers and announced Wang Khan's arrest for allegedly murdering the Thornton family, and Wang Khan realized Roman had guessed the truth.

Wang Khan let Roman arrest him and was thrown into a harsh Xandar detention center, where he quickly took control of his cell and paid for better food. He remained in detention, studying the Atmosphere Modifier materials and refusing the guard’s offer to eat elsewhere.

• Roman arrested Wang Khan under the Grand Judge’s warrant while Sam and the others were released.
• Roman’s four subordinates threw Wang Khan into a crowded detention cell and planned to interrogate him the next day.
• The Elephant Man attacked Wang Khan, who sent him crashing into the electrified cell door and intimidated the other inmates.
• Wang Khan had his cellmates clean a bed, then studied the Atmosphere Modifier materials in his storage space.
• At lunch, Wang Khan paid a prison guard 10,000 Nova Credits to arrange a few dishes, but chose to eat in the cafeteria.

Wang Khan defeated more than a hundred suspects after they attacked him over the feast he had brought into the detention center, and the guards locked him in an isolation cell. Roman planned to exploit Wang Khan’s confinement during tomorrow’s interrogation, but a man serving Dream Mist wine to Roman and his aides left them facing a sudden, bloody crisis.

• A Kree tried to take food from Wang Khan’s feast, and Wang Khan knocked him down before a crowd of prisoners attacked.
• Wang Khan broke the limbs of more than a hundred attackers without killing them, while the prison guards deliberately delayed their arrival.
• The guards restrained Wang Khan and took him to an isolation cell, and Roman learned what had happened.
• Roman decided to keep Wang Khan isolated until the next day so the interrogation might pressure him into paying money.
• A hooded man brought Roman’s group a bottle of Dream Mist wine, and one of Roman’s aides drank it and began bleeding from every opening on his body.

Roman investigated a poisoning that nearly killed him and suspected Wang Khan, but found him locked in the detention center. As Roman sought arrest warrants to pursue the suspects, a laser attack killed Baba Vanga and left Roman in danger.

• Roman discovered that Dream Mist wine had been poisoned and suspected the hooded waiter might have been Wang Khan.
• Roman visited the detention center, where Wang Khan warned him that he faced a bloody disaster.
• Roman tried to arrest Sam and the others, but their attendance at Jerry Lee's party gave them alibis and he lacked a warrant.
• Roman persuaded Baba Vanga to issue arrest warrants, but a delivery robot's laser sliced through her living room and killed her.

After Grand Judge Baba Vanga was murdered, Nova Prime investigated Roman’s suspicion that Wang Khan had escaped isolation to kill her and ordered him secretly monitored. Wang Khan denied involvement during questioning, then spotted signs that someone had entered his cell and noticed the hidden surveillance.

• Roman erupted in grief and rage after finding his aunt Baba Vanga murdered, and news of her death reached Nova Prime.
• Nova Prime learned that Roman suspected Wang Khan, who had been investigating the Thornton family murders and was locked in an isolation cell.
• Nova Prime ordered concealed surveillance in Wang Khan’s cell and told her adjutant to investigate Roman and other leads.
• Interrogators questioned Wang Khan about Baba Vanga, but he denied killing her and blamed her death on Roman’s bad fortune.
• Wang Khan returned to his cell, sensed that someone had entered it, spotted concealed cameras, and dismissed the surveillance as ineffective.

Roman’s three subordinates were killed in an ambush at Baba Vanga’s funeral, and Nova Prime ordered the Nova Corps to investigate. Wang Khan secretly used his network ability and Red Queen to fake his surveillance footage, leaving his role in the attack concealed.

• At Baba Vanga’s funeral, Roman delayed his return to retrieve Wang Khan and went into the cemetery woods when his diarrhea became urgent.
• Gunmen attacked Roman’s hovercar as his three subordinates left the cemetery, destroying the vehicle and killing them.
• Roman fled the cemetery after seeing the explosion, and the Nova Corps found only inconclusive traces of weapons and an encampment.
• Nova Prime ordered the Corps to investigate everyone who had entered or left the cemetery, while an officer reported that Wang Khan appeared motionless in his cell during the attack.
• Wang Khan used his consciousness to contact Red Queen through the surveillance camera and arranged for her to replace his cell footage with a recording of him meditating.

With Ronan the Accuser approaching Xandar, the Nova Corps prepared for war while the cities descended into chaos. Wang Khan escaped detention to help Red Queen seize Nova Military Academy’s technology, and Roman set out to kill him.

• After learning Ronan was coming with an Infinity Stone, Nova Prime ordered the Nova Corps to assemble for battle.
• Jerry Lee sold most of his businesses and property at steep discounts as Xandar braced for war.
• Central City and the surrounding Satellite Cities fell into chaos as civilians fled and looters ransacked stores.
• Roman left his villa armed and headed for the detention center, determined to kill Wang Khan.
• Wang Khan ordered Red Queen to seize Nova Military Academy’s technology, broke out of his isolation cell, and flew toward the academy.
• Roman arrived and charged at Wang Khan when he saw him.

Wang Khan exploited the battle over Xandar to break into Nova Military Academy and steal its technological data. After Roman caught him, Wang Khan killed him and planned to erase the evidence before joining the battle against Ronan.

• Wang Khan used the Nova Corps’ focus on stopping the Dark Aster to infiltrate Nova Military Academy with Red Queen and attack its defenses.
• Wang Khan and Red Queen broke through the academy’s super artificial intelligence and copied its technological data while guards rushed to stop them.
• Roman confronted Wang Khan and accused him of spying, but Wang Khan admitted he had come to steal technology and destroyed the guards’ weapons with his Shockwave.
• Wang Khan killed the guards and slowly tortured Roman before killing him, telling him that Xandar would regard Wang Khan as a hero for helping defeat Ronan.
• Red Queen reported that she had copied the data, and Wang Khan ordered her to erase the network traces and cripple the artificial intelligence before they went to witness the battle.

Wang Khan destroyed Xandar’s super artificial intelligence, then used the Justice Gundam to rescue civilians and destroy Necro-ships as Ronan’s forces attacked. As Star-Lord and the Guardians confronted Ronan aboard the Dark Aster, the ship lost control and headed toward Central City, where Wang Khan prepared for what came next.

• Wang Khan and Red Queen reduced Xandar’s super artificial intelligence to primitive code, and Wang Khan recovered the Justice Gundam from the Immigration Bureau.
• Wang Khan learned that more than one hundred million civilians were trapped across Central City and the surrounding Satellite Cities, then began his operation to attack the Necro army.
• Wang Khan destroyed hundreds of Necro-ships with the Justice Gundam, and Nova Prime ordered Xandar’s defenses to treat him as an ally.
• Wang Khan expanded his rescue efforts to the four Satellite Cities and gained the gratitude of Xandar’s civilians.
• Star-Lord and the Guardians attacked Ronan aboard the Dark Aster, but their launcher failed to stop him.
• Rocket Raccoon crashed a Ravagers fighter into the main control room, sending Ronan flying and causing the Dark Aster to hurtle toward Central City.

Wang Khan intervened when Ronan defeated the Guardians and threatened to destroy Xandar, then battled him using the Space Stone and several other powers. The fight escalated as both charged into a city-threatening clash, leaving the Guardians scrambling to escape.

• After Groot sacrificed himself, Star-Lord tried to distract Ronan while Rocket assembled the Quantum Rocket Launcher, but Ronan knocked the Guardians aside and wrecked the weapon.
• Wang Khan confronted Ronan and met the Power Stone’s blast with the Space Stone’s power, leaving both of them standing after the collision.
• Wang Khan trapped Ronan in a vortex of rock and mud and shattered his armor, but Ronan unleashed the Power Stone and devastated a crater over a kilometer wide.
• Gamora and the others recognized that Wang Khan wielded another Infinity Stone and retreated as his battle with Ronan intensified.
• Wang Khan grew into his Giant Green Man form, summoned lightning and Thor’s Hammer, and charged Ronan as Gamora warned that their next strike could destroy the city.

Wang Khan shielded Central City from the devastating clash of his hammer and Ronan’s Universal Weapon as the people of Xandar hailed him as their savior. He forced Ronan to unleash the Power Stone’s full strength, then secretly summoned an axe to prepare a killing strike.

• Wang Khan and Ronan’s weapons collided, unleashing a catastrophic shockwave that Wang Khan contained and redirected with Space power.
• Xandarians and surviving Nova Corps soldiers began praying to Wang Khan, while Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, and Rocket argued over whether to retreat or stay.
• Ronan offered to stop fighting if Wang Khan let him destroy Xandar, but Wang Khan demanded the Power Stone instead, and Ronan refused.
• Wang Khan and Ronan exchanged a lightning sword and a spiraling Energy Cannon as Red Queen warned that Ronan’s body could not withstand much more Power Stone energy.
• Wang Khan told Red Queen he was pushing Ronan to his limit, then secretly drew an axe from his storage space.