Chapter Summaries

Rorschach destroyed Malekith’s fleet and returned the Aether to Earth, where he prepared to pursue the Soul Stone. Raven then warned him that their people had encountered the Eternals.

• Rorschach destroyed Malekith’s flagship and killed Malekith, wiping out the Dark Elves.
• Rorschach returned to Asgard with Thor and Loki, celebrated with Odin, and then brought the Aether back to Earth.
• Rorschach gave the Reality Stone to Hank, and Charles reported that Danvers expected to find the Cosmic Cube within two months.
• Rorschach approved the plan to obtain the Soul Stone using terminally ill people as sacrifices.
• Raven told Rorschach that their people had encountered the Eternals.

Rorschach traveled to Vormir with Brian and Maria to obtain the Soul Stone, which required the sacrifice of a loved one. Brian gave his life, and Maria awakened with the Stone in her hand.

• Rorschach learned that the Eternals had discovered another Spider-Man through a mission involving Deviants and resolved to seek the Infinity Stones to prepare for Arishem.
• Raven arranged for Brian and Maria, whose son needed expensive treatment, to accompany Rorschach in exchange for his promise to help them.
• Rorschach, Raven, Scott, Hank, Brian, and Maria traveled to Vormir aboard an interstellar warship.
• Red Skull appeared and guided the group to a hidden cliff, explaining that obtaining the Soul Stone required losing someone they loved.
• Brian embraced Maria, leaped from the cliff, and died, after which Maria awoke holding the Soul Stone.

After Captain Marvel returned with the Cosmic Cube, Rorschach and the X-Men decided to pursue the Time Stone through time travel rather than provoke Kamar-Taj. Two and a half years later, Hank completed an Infinity Gauntlet and a time machine, and Rorschach traveled to 1964 to find the Avengers’ route to the Time Stone.

• Captain Marvel returned to Krakoa with the Cosmic Cube, giving Rorschach another Infinity Stone.
• Charles and the X-Men advised Rorschach not to start a war with Kamar-Taj over the Time Stone.
• Rorschach told Hank to build both an Infinity Gauntlet and a time machine, and Hank agreed.
• After two and a half years, Hank completed both devices, and Rorschach prepared to travel through time.
• Rorschach traveled to 1964, the day Iron Man and Captain America traveled back from 2023 to retrieve the stones.

Rorschach traveled to 2023, incapacitated Iron Man and Captain America, and took their time-travel equipment to reach Avengers headquarters. He demanded the Time Stone, defeated the Avengers who tried to stop him, and intercepted Doctor Banner as he fled.

• Rorschach found Iron Man and Captain America in the past, knocked them unconscious, and took their time-travel equipment.
• Rorschach arrived at Avengers headquarters in 2023 and told the Avengers he intended to borrow the Time Stone.
• Thor attacked while Doctor Banner tried to escape, and Rorschach sent Thor, War Machine, Nebula, Rocket Raccoon, and Hawkeye Barton crashing to the ground.
• Rorschach beat Thor down again, then caught up with Doctor Banner before he could escape.

Rorschach defeated Doctor Banner and took the Time Stone before returning to Krakoa, where he equipped all six Infinity Stones and gained immense power. He realized Earth could still be destroyed when the Celestial inside it emerged, so he planned to find a safe planet for mutant immigration in case the Eternals failed to stop it.

• Rorschach beat Doctor Banner, took the Time Stone, and vanished back to Krakoa.
• Rorschach gathered Hank, Charles, Erik, Raven, and the others in the laboratory and placed all six Infinity Stones into the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Rorschach adapted to the Stones’ power and sensed the infant Celestial inside Earth.
• Rorschach concluded that the Celestial’s emergence could destroy Earth and that he could not safely confront Arishem.
• Rorschach decided to find another planet for mutant immigration as a contingency if the Eternals failed to kill the Celestial.

Rorschach used the Infinity Stones to sever mutants’ connection to the Celestials, then warned the X-Men that Tiamut’s emergence could destroy Earth within decades. He proposed a two-pronged plan to stop the threat and find a refuge, leaving Captain Marvel to search for a suitable planet and Asgard as a promising option.

• Rorschach altered reality so mutants were the result of natural genetic mutations rather than creations of the Celestials.
• Rorschach gathered the X-Men and Captain Marvel and revealed that Tiamut was gestating inside Earth and could destroy it in decades.
• Rorschach outlined a two-pronged plan that relied on the possibility that the Eternals would turn against one another and kill Tiamut.
• Captain Marvel promised to search for a planet suitable for Earth’s people, while Rorschach considered helping Asgard survive Ragnarok so it might shelter them.

In 2017, Odin warned Thor and Loki that Ragnarok was coming and revealed that their imprisoned sister, Hela, was about to return. After Odin dissolved into light, Hela arrived in Asgard and demanded that her family kneel, catching Thor’s Mjolnir when he attacked her.

• Rorschach reflected that his agreement with Odin and the need for an escape route from Earth had made helping Asgard against Hela unavoidable.
• Odin told Thor and Loki that Ragnarok could not be stopped by Asgard alone and revealed that Hela, his first child, was coming.
• Odin reminded Thor and Loki that Rorschach was trustworthy, then dissolved into light as Frigga, Thor, and Loki grieved.
• Hela emerged from a portal, showed no sorrow at Odin’s death, and identified Thor and Loki as her younger brothers.
• Hela demanded that Frigga, Thor, and Loki kneel before her as queen, and she caught Mjolnir when Thor hurled it at her.

Hela defeated Thor, Loki, Frigga, the Warriors Three, and Asgard’s army, then seized Odin’s throne. Frigga, Thor, and Loki escaped with some Asgardians to a hidden cave as Hela’s conquest left Asgard facing destruction.

• Hela crushed Mjolnir with her bare hand and beat Thor, while Loki surrendered and claimed he was adopted.
• Loki pretended to join Hela, beat Thor, then stabbed Hela with a dagger, but she healed and slashed Loki.
• Frigga attacked Hela to protect Thor and Loki, but Hela overpowered her and all three fought her together.
• The Warriors Three and Asgard’s army arrived to help, but Hela slaughtered them and took Odin’s throne.
• Frigga, Thor, and Loki led some Asgardians into a hidden cave to escape Hela.

As Hela overwhelmed Asgard, Frigga asked Heimdall to contact Homelander, and Rorschach agreed to come. Thor and Loki fought Hela and lost, but a mysterious voice interrupted her as she approached them.

• Thor and Loki left Asgard’s final refuge to confront Hela, while Heimdall promised to protect Frigga and the people.
• Frigga told Heimdall to contact Homelander, and Rorschach agreed to head to Asgard.
• Thor and Loki searched for Hela and discussed whether they could rely on Homelander.
• Hela appeared and mocked the brothers for hoping Homelander could save them.
• Thor awakened his power of Thor during their fight, but Hela defeated both brothers and declared she would destroy Asgard.
• A voice called Thor pathetic, startling Hela as she approached the battered brothers.

Homelander Rorschach arrived to face Hela, the Goddess of Death, and proved powerful enough to overwhelm her. After one crushing punch sent Hela into a crater, Thor and Loki watched in amazement at Rorschach’s strength.

• Hela was startled when Rorschach appeared beside her without her sensing him, while Thor and Loki welcomed him and warned him not to underestimate her.
• Hela challenged Rorschach and attacked with her sword and summoned blades, but he blocked her blades with a telekinetic barrier and swept heat beams across her, forcing her into the air.
• Rorschach moved faster than Hela could react and punched her into the ground, creating a deep crater and sending cracks across the earth.
• Loki celebrated Rorschach’s victory, while Thor wondered at the strength that had made even Hela seem helpless.

Rorschach defeated Hela by carrying her away from Asgard, where she lost access to her endless power, and then returned to Krakoa. He planned to rely on Thor’s gratitude to secure refuge for Krakoa’s mutants if Earth faced a future catastrophe, though Thanos’s defeat might delay Tiamut’s emergence.

• Hela recovered instantly from Rorschach’s attacks and explained that Asgard let her draw on endless power, while Thor warned Rorschach that she could keep fighting there indefinitely.
• Rorschach restrained Hela and carried her away from Asgard until her power weakened, then killed her with a heat beam.
• Rorschach returned Hela’s corpse to Thor and Loki, and Thor thanked him for saving Asgard.
• Rorschach flew back to Krakoa and reasoned that Thor would help shelter the mutants if Earth faced a civilization-ending crisis.
• Rorschach calculated that Thanos’s defeat could delay Tiamut’s birth, which the movie timeline had placed in 2023 after Banner’s snap restored half of Earth’s population.

Rorschach investigated an exponentially growing energy vortex above New York and watched it collapse into a spatial black hole. As a mysterious voice warned him to defeat a threat to the multiverse, Rorschach detected The Watcher observing him and recognized him.

• Raven alerted Rorschach to a major unknown energy fluctuation in New York and brought him to the laboratory.
• Hank explained that the energy vortex would collapse space within seconds, and Rorschach considered the danger of something crossing between universes.
• Rorschach used his super senses to watch the vortex crack open into a spatial black hole.
• Rorschach heard a faint voice calling him the multiverse’s hope and warning that he had to defeat a madman.
• Rorschach sensed an unseen observer, searched for the source, and discovered The Watcher’s enormous head in the sky.
• The Watcher was stunned that Rorschach had both seen him and recognized who he was.

The Watcher warned Rorschach that Infinite Ultron had arrived in his universe, and Rorschach saw the robot devastating New York. The Avengers confronted Infinite Ultron but were overwhelmed by his vast robot army, leaving them with no hope beyond the world’s strongest person.

• The Watcher told Rorschach that a dangerous intruder had entered his universe, and Rorschach recognized Infinite Ultron near New York.
• Infinite Ultron faced Iron Man Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye Barton, and the other Avengers, who did not know who he was.
• Infinite Ultron declared that he would destroy the world and summoned a sphere that released tens of thousands of robots.
• Iron Man, Hawkeye Barton, Black Widow, Captain America, and Hulk fought the robots, but their attacks could not stop the swarm.
• Hawkeye Barton asked Stark and Rogers for a solution, but the Avengers realized the crisis exceeded their abilities.

The World Security Council overruled Nick Fury and launched a nuclear missile at Infinite Ultron’s robot army, but Ultron turned it into butterflies with the Reality Stone. Just as the Avengers fell into despair, Homelander arrived and destroyed more than half the robots at incredible speed.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. and military aircraft attacked the robot army, but the robots quickly overwhelmed them as New York fell.
• The World Security Council dismissed Nick Fury and ordered a nuclear strike despite his objections.
• Infinite Ultron used the Reality Stone to transform the incoming nuclear missile into butterflies, leaving the Avengers despairing.
• Homelander flew at several thousand meters per second and smashed apart more than half of the robots.
• Iron Man recognized Homelander as the one who had turned the battle around.

Rorschach confronted Infinite Ultron after destroying his robot army and used telekinesis to steal five of Ultron’s Infinity Stones. He left Ultron blasted away and now held ten Stones in total.

• Rorschach wiped out the robots surrounding the Avengers and destroyed the robot nest above Infinite Ultron.
• Rorschach faced Infinite Ultron, who blocked his heat rays with the Mind Stone while the Avengers watched anxiously.
• Rorschach used the clash to distract Infinite Ultron and silently pulled the five Stones from his chest with telekinesis.
• Infinite Ultron flew after the stolen Stones, but Rorschach struck him away before he could recover them.
• Rorschach secured the five Stones, bringing his total to ten.

Rorschach used the Infinity Stones to disable Infinite Ultron’s ability to transfer between bodies, then defeated him and brought him to Krakoa. He asked Hank to crack Ultron’s programming so he could search the robot’s database.

• Rorschach revealed that he possessed ten Infinity Stones and used the Reality Stone to confine Infinite Ultron to his current body.
• Rorschach tore off Infinite Ultron’s limbs, ending the multiversal threat as the Avengers and The Watcher celebrated.
• Rorschach grabbed Infinite Ultron and took him from the Avengers without explaining his plans.
• Rorschach arrived at the Krakoa laboratory with Infinite Ultron and asked Hank to crack his programming for information in his database.

Rorschach captured Infinite Ultron and had Hank use the Mind Stone to break through Ultron’s program and access his database. Rorschach sought the method Ultron used to travel between parallel universes, determined that Krakoa had to prepare for multiversal threats.

• Infinite Ultron tried to attack Rorschach, but Rorschach used the Infinity Gauntlet to imprison Ultron’s consciousness in a network and cut off his control of his body.
• Rorschach told Hank that Ultron came from another universe and wanted to destroy the world, then asked Hank to examine and crack Ultron’s program.
• Hank said Ultron’s intelligence exceeded anything he had seen, but agreed to try after Rorschach used the Mind Stone to suppress it.
• Hank gained access to Ultron’s database, and Rorschach asked for information on how Ultron had used all six Infinity Stones to travel between parallel universes.
• Hank asked whether Rorschach planned to explore parallel universes, and Rorschach said Krakoa had to prepare for the multiverse.

Rorschach successfully used a complete set of Infinity Stones to open a passage between universes and told Krakoa’s leaders he planned to explore the multiverse. After leaving five Stones behind, he entered an unfamiliar universe and saw a sign welcoming visitors to Gotham.

• Rorschach studied Infinite Ultron’s multiverse-travel data, but his first attempts to open a passage failed with Stones from different sets.
• Rorschach combined Infinite Ultron’s Mind Stone with its other Infinity Stones and successfully opened a spatial black hole.
• Rorschach explained his plan to explore the multiverse to Raven, Charles, Erik, the White Queen, and Krakoa’s other leaders.
• Erik and the White Queen accepted Rorschach’s decision, and he left five Infinity Stones behind to protect Krakoa.
• Rorschach stepped through the passage and arrived in an unfamiliar universe, where he saw a sign reading “Welcome to Gotham.”

Rorschach arrived in Gotham and encountered Batman while four criminals tried to rob him. He recognized Batman as Ben Affleck’s version and concluded that Henry Cavill’s Superman was likely in this world, leaving him confident that Superman was not yet stronger than he was.

• Rorschach decided to explore Gotham after realizing he had landed in the DC universe.
• Four armed young men, led by Henry, tried to rob Rorschach, who warned them that they should run.
• Batman knocked Henry’s gun away, took him down, and defeated the other criminals.
• Rorschach used his X-ray vision to identify Batman as Ben Affleck’s version.
• Rorschach inferred that this world’s Superman was Henry Cavill’s and believed he was currently weaker than Rorschach.

Rorschach killed the bald robber and attacked the men who had threatened him, ignoring Batman’s attempt to stop him. After Rorschach knocked Batman down with a single blow, he turned to Henry and stomped on him.

• The bald man took Rorschach hostage, but Rorschach crushed the dagger and lifted him by the neck.
• Rorschach broke the bald man’s neck and threw his body aside, shocking Batman.
• Rorschach moved toward Henry and the other robbers, but Batman blocked his path.
• Rorschach charged Batman and sent him crashing into a wall, leaving him badly injured.
• Rorschach walked to Henry and stomped down as Batman helplessly shouted for him to stop.