Chapter Summaries

The Living Tribunal questioned Orsaga about the Crimson Dimension’s effect on the Omniverse, and Orsaga hinted that DC Comics was behind the merging worlds. After the Tribunal left to consult OAA, a Beyonder asked to explore beyond the Crimson Dimension, but Orsaga refused because of his agreement with OAA.

• The Living Tribunal asked Orsaga why the Crimson Dimension was distorting the Omniverse and bringing forth strange things.
• Orsaga hinted at DC Comics Company, and the Living Tribunal deduced that the DC World was merging with its own through the Crimson Dimension.
• Orsaga told the Living Tribunal to ask its superior, OAA, and the Tribunal left to do so.
• A Beyonder arrived, asked whether the Crimson Dimension connected to other realms, and Orsaga confirmed that it served as a passage between many regions.
• The Beyonder asked to travel beyond the Crimson Dimension, but Orsaga refused, citing his agreement with OAA.

A Beyonder discussed the possibility of reaching the outside world with his kin after Orsaga refused his request, while Orsaga watched the Beyonders’ domain and considered their immense power and naïve nature. The chapter ended with Orsaga asking OAA for a taste of the merging worlds, but OAA told him to wait.

• After Orsaga refused his request, the Beyonder considered whether OAA controlled access to the outside world and discussed the matter with his kin.
• The Beyonders split between those who wanted to cooperate with Orsaga and those who wanted to seize the Crimson Dimension.
• The Beyonder left, and Orsaga watched the Transcendence Domain, where a powerful lifeform was slowly being nurtured.
• Orsaga reflected on the Beyonder’s great power and foolish behavior, wishing he could take advantage of the Beyonders without OAA stopping him.
• Orsaga asked OAA for a taste of the merging worlds’ hot pot, but OAA refused and said he still had to wait.

OAA revealed that he had authorized the Marvel World and DC World to be merged, with Orsaga serving as the contractor and scapegoat. Before leaving, OAA warned Orsaga to guide the worlds toward fusion without letting the process become unmanageable.

• OAA explained that Orsaga’s casual comment about crossovers had inspired him to consider combining the Marvel World and DC World, though the decision had been his own.
• OAA said he had chosen Orsaga to carry out the merger so he could remain a neutral observer and shift blame if anything went wrong.
• OAA described how the merger could be framed as a supervillain’s scheme while he stayed hidden as a safety net.
• OAA asked Orsaga why he had bargained with Death but simply offered the Living Tribunal a hint, and Orsaga said he had tried to get something from Death because he could.
• OAA left after warning Orsaga not to make the merger too difficult to manage, and Orsaga agreed while focusing on his soup.

Tony Stark dismissed his strange dreams as nostalgia for superhero comics and headed to a nightclub despite J.A.R.V.I.S.'s warning about his military demonstration the next day. The chapter ended with news of Johnny Blaze's nearby stunt performance catching the attention of the crowd outside.

• Tony Stark woke beside a supermodel, paid her, and reflected on his recent dreams of aliens, space battles, and comic-book-like figures.
• Tony Stark asked J.A.R.V.I.S. to preorder superhero comics, then insisted on going out for drinks despite being advised to prepare for a military missile demonstration.
• Tony Stark drove his supercar to the nightclub Hell, followed by bodyguards, and entered as onlookers recognized him.
• A screen outside Hell announced Johnny Blaze's stunt performance in the area the following day, drawing the crowd's attention.

Mephisto tried to recruit Ancient One to exploit gifted humans as the universe faced a vast upheaval, but she refused to abandon her duty to protect Earth. The Crimson Vortex was drawing another universe toward theirs, and Planet Devourer had already died trying to stop it.

• Mephisto watched Tony Stark at the nightclub and prepared to approach him, but Ancient One warned him to stay seated.
• Mephisto urged Ancient One to join forces and use gifted humans to survive the coming changes, but she refused.
• Mephisto returned to the Hell Dimension, while Ancient One watched Tony and worried about the uncertain future.
• The Crimson Vortex altered the universe’s matter, energy, and physical rules as another universe slowly overlapped with it.
• Planet Devourer tried to stop the crisis but died, and his corpse drifted beside the Scarlet Vortex as it devoured him.

Ancient One sought Odin’s help to contact Eternity as the Nine Realms faced destruction. Meanwhile, Orsaga approached Tony Stark in a nightclub, spoke of the movie Iron Man, and left Tony puzzled about their encounter.

• Ancient One sensed the dead Planet Devourer’s immense power and opened a portal to meet Odin.
• Ancient One told Odin she would try to contact Eternity, and Odin urged her to act quickly and offered help.
• Ancient One asked for something from Odin’s treasury before the portal closed, leaving nightclub patrons confused by the suddenly empty space.
• Tony Stark noticed Orsaga approach him in the nightclub, though his bodyguards seemed unable to see the horned man.
• Orsaga told Tony he had liked the movie Iron Man and said Tony would understand in the future if he survived; then Orsaga finished his drink and left.

Tony Stark questioned witnesses after an apparently invisible man visited him, then ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to review the nightclub’s surveillance. Elsewhere, Orsaga considered his death list and chose Spectre as a counterpart to Living Tribunal, deciding to leave both alive for now.

• Tony Stark asked J.A.R.V.I.S., a dancer, and Jala about the man in the white suit, but only the dancer remembered seeing him.
• Tony Stark left the nightclub and told J.A.R.V.I.S. to retrieve all of its surveillance recordings from that day.
• Orsaga stood atop Stark Company's headquarters and considered destroying the Marvel universe, but decided against it.
• Orsaga reviewed his list, which had Planet Devourer crossed out while Living Tribunal and Flash remained unmarked.
• Orsaga searched online for a DC character to pair with Living Tribunal and settled on Spectre, resolving to kill one if the other died.

Mobius and the Time Variance Authority confronted a catastrophe distorting observable universes and timelines, but a new arrest mission led him to Loki. Mobius ordered the Time Guards to arrest Loki and throw him into the void, while Loki wondered why the mortals were so bold.

• Mobius watched the Authority's screens report severe distortions across observable universes and timelines.
• Mobius received a mission alert for a newly discovered Time Criminal and set out with his arrest team.
• Mobius recognized Loki on a desolate planet at the edge of the Milky Way and sighed at encountering him again.
• Mobius ordered the Time Guards to arrest Loki and throw him into the void.
• Loki saw the approaching agents and wondered whether mortals were always this brave.

A powerful Loki from the Comic Book Marvel World overwhelmed the Time Variance Authority guards and learned about Agent Mobius by probing his mind. He left Mobius alive and entered the TVA through a portal.

• Loki warned the Time Guards, then destroyed their disruption devices and killed them with a Magic Ray that also split several planets apart.
• Loki spared Agent Mobius, who introduced himself as a Time Variance Authority agent responsible for Time Criminals.
• Loki seized Mobius and used his Mind Power to break through his mental protections and read his memories.
• Loki realized Mobius was a brainwashed puppet, chose not to kill him, and tossed him aside.
• Loki opened a portal into the Time Variance Authority and strode through as its employees stared in confusion.

Loki slaughtered his way through the Time Variance Authority and discovered Kang hiding behind the Time Keepers. Kang unleashed Elios, a monster of irregular Time Power, against him.

• Loki used telekinesis to kill resisting Time Guards while sparing those who surrendered.
• Loki killed Miss Minutes and Ravonna, then tore open the door to the Time Keepers’ chamber.
• Loki detected that the Time Keepers were robots and crushed them before opening the hidden room behind them.
• Loki identified the hidden ruler as Kang and questioned why this version was Black.
• Kang, enraged by Loki’s attack, unleashed Elios, the time-transcending monster he used to protect the Time Variance Authority.

Loki summoned the Black Death Sword and killed Kang before using it to attack Elios, spreading black corruption through the monster, the Time Variance Authority, and the branching Timelines. The chapter left Elios screaming as the black tide reached the Void and terrified the Lokis stranded there.

• Loki dismissed Kang’s warning and revealed the Black Mist gathering around him into an unstable sword.
• Elios froze in fear of Loki’s power, and Loki appeared before Kang and beheaded him.
• Elios went berserk after sensing Kang’s death and unleashed a powerful violet blast at Loki.
• Loki raised the Black Death Sword and attacked Elios, while black lightning spawned Symbiotes and infected the monster.
• The black tide spread across the Time Variance Authority, the splitting Timelines, and the Void, alarming the stranded Lokis.

Loki put away the dangerous Black Death Sword, seized control of the ruined Time Variance Authority, and began rebuilding it around himself. As the Marvel and DC worlds continued to merge and shift, his sword-wielding rampage was treated as only one of many growing disturbances.

• Loki sensed the Black Death Sword’s hunger and stored it away, wary that it could corrupt its wielder.
• Loki used his powers to rescue surviving Time Variance Authority employees and bring Lokis from The Void to the ruins.
• Comic Loki killed a suited Loki who challenged his claim to be boss, frightening the others into submission.
• Comic Loki reorganized Kang’s former subordinates and began rebuilding the Time Variance Authority around himself.
• The changing space-time structure brought strange events across the merging Marvel and DC worlds, including Loki cutting down planets with the Black Death Sword.

Ancient One, Odin, and Frigga contacted Eternity to seek help against an impending collision between universes. Eternity could not intervene directly but offered a way to reach the other universe, while revealing that powerful enemies and a mysterious source of time lay beyond Ancient One’s understanding.

• Ancient One, Odin, and Frigga combined their magic to connect with an alternate-universe Ancient One and then reach Eternity.
• Ancient One asked Eternity to save their universe from colliding with another universe.
• Eternity said it could not provide direct aid because it was confronting enemies, but offered a method to travel to the other universe so both sides could work together.
• Ancient One asked whether Eternity had equally powerful opponents, and Eternity explained that its enemies had multiplied and some had fundamental conflicts with it.
• Eternity raised Ancient One’s consciousness, allowing her to glimpse an incomprehensible existence that seemed to be the primordial source of time.

Ancient One learned from Eternity that the Marvel universe’s cosmic entities were being constrained by the Endless Family, including Time, and that cooperation with the DC universe might stop the world-ending crisis. After reading all of DC Comics, she became more anxious about the powerful beings she might encounter there.

• Ancient One perceived Eternity’s main body confronting Time of the Endless Family amid devastating Time Turbulence.
• Eternity explained that the two universes’ cosmic entities were in conflict, and that the Living Tribunal was helping the Creation Gods contend with overlapping powers.
• Ancient One told Odin and Frigga that Eternity had shown her a way to reach the DC universe and that its inhabitants might help avert the crisis.
• Ancient One returned to Earth and read all of DC Comics using the Time Stone’s acceleration.
• Ancient One worried that entering the DC universe could bring her face-to-face with Darkseid, Anti-Monitor, or similarly dangerous beings.

As the Live-Action Marvel World and Live-Action DC Universe moved toward collision, powerful beings in both worlds worried about the approaching disaster while ordinary people on Earth remained unaware. From beyond the two Complete Worlds, OAA watched Orsaga's experiment, curious about the new possibilities the outsider might create.

• Ancient One, Odin, and others considered how to address the approaching collision, while powerful factions in the DC Universe feared the incoming universe and nearly formed a coalition.
• Earth's ordinary people continued their daily lives, unaware that the Live-Action Marvel World and Live-Action DC Universe were on course to collide.
• The chapter explained that Orsaga's collision drew in multiple parallel universes from both Live-Action Worlds, with the Crimson Vortex pulling in increasingly vast realms.
• OAA watched the collision as a small experiment within His greater existence and considered Orsaga more worthy of study than the native beings.
• OAA regarded even the smallest possibility as something that could be magnified until it became certain, making the convergence of all possibilities a path to doing anything.

The chapter describes Gotham’s cursed economy, where crime and disaster drive prosperity and Batman’s fight against Supervillains keeps the cycle going. As a storm approaches, Orsaga is about to arrive in Gotham.

• Gotham’s curse made the city grow more prosperous as deaths, unemployment, and crime increased.
• Joker, Poison Ivy, and other Supervillains were described as driving Gotham’s economy through their crimes.
• Batman restrained infighting among the Supervillains and repeatedly sent them to Arkham Asylum, where they could return to crime after being released.
• The Gotham Curse funneled money to Wayne Enterprises, helping Bruce Wayne improve his equipment and sustain the cycle.
• As a storm drew near, Orsaga prepared to arrive in Gotham.

Orsaga arrived in Gotham and responded to a taxi driver’s robbery attempt with terrifying force. After police and reporters discovered what had happened, he unknowingly completed his daily good deed by causing many people to become vegetarians.

• Orsaga rode into Gotham in a taxi while the driver showed him the city’s crime and chaos.
• The driver pulled a gun and tried to rob Orsaga, who stepped out of the locked taxi and caused the driver’s body to swell and burst.
• Orsaga wandered through Gotham, appreciating the contrast between its orderly workers and its homeless people, addicts, and gang members.
• A cleaner discovered the taxi and called the police, while the scene left him and the responding officers traumatized.
• Commissioner James Gordon let reporters approach the scene, and the sight left them unable to eat meat.
• Orsaga’s actions unintentionally reduced future slaughter and fulfilled his daily good deed.

Batman met with Commissioner Gordon to review a supernatural murder and learned that the unseen suspect could evade cameras and disintegrate people. When Batman spotted John Constantine near the crime scene and went to question him, Constantine tried to leave but Batman appeared behind him.

• Commissioner Gordon gave Batman a report linking the murder to a recently arrived supernatural outsider who had ridden in the dead taxi driver's cab but appeared on no camera footage.
• Batman realized the suspect could bypass his usual surveillance and considered contacting Clark and Diana for help.
• Batman spotted John Constantine near the crime scene and told Gordon he might know something.
• Constantine sensed a familiar but dangerous presence at the scene and decided to flee Gotham.
• Batman crashed down behind Constantine and asked whether he had discovered something, leaving Constantine in pain and regret.

Batman pressured Constantine into investigating the supernatural incident, and Constantine accepted after Batman offered him a seven-figure check. Constantine summoned a demon to question about the unknown figure behind the strange events.

• Constantine denied responsibility to Batman, then admitted that the lingering aura seemed vaguely familiar to him.
• Batman offered Constantine a seven-figure check, and Constantine agreed to investigate as a professional exorcist.
• Constantine drew a Magic Circle while Commissioner Gordon questioned whether he could handle the case; Batman vouched for his expertise.
• Constantine explained that the culprit was likely a famous demon or powerful evil god and said he would question a knowledgeable demon from Hell.
• Constantine completed his spell and summoned a malformed demon before Batman and Commissioner Gordon.

Constantine summoned a Hell Devil to investigate the evil aura left at the scene, but learned that a Cosmic Collision was threatening Hell and the wider world. The devil identified Orsaga’s aura and burst into crimson flames, leaving a blood-red flower mark that made Constantine fear the identity of the great being behind it.

• Constantine bound the Hell Devil and ordered it to identify the evil power recently revealed at the scene.
• Batman noticed the Hell Devil’s reaction and warned that it seemed to know something important, prompting Constantine to force it to explain.
• The Hell Devil revealed that a Cosmic Collision was underway, and Constantine realized Hell’s powerful devils and evil gods had been too busy trying to survive to pursue him.
• The Hell Devil inspected the scene, found Orsaga’s aura, and began analyzing it.
• The Hell Devil suddenly burst into crimson flames, leaving a blood-red flower-shaped mark that made Constantine recognize the danger of the being involved.