Chapter Summaries

He-El told Pietro Maximoff to take Wanda away, then explained that he could not be certain the Infinity Stones would remove the Omega Effect curse. He asked the remaining heroes to leave the battlefield, but Hela was confused by his order.

• He-El told Pietro Maximoff to take Wanda Maximoff away from the battlefield, and Pietro asked whether the curse would destroy the universe.
• He-El said he could not guarantee the six Infinity Stones would resolve the curse, explaining why Ancient One and Odin had opposed him.
• Pietro thanked He-El for saving Wanda, then carried her away to find treatment.
• He-El told Stephen Strange, the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the others to leave the battlefield.
• Hela asked what He-El meant by telling them to leave.

He-El sent Hela away from the coming battle, then welcomed Marshal Ross, who pledged his support and received command of Earth. As both sides converged on He-El and a burning mothership fell toward New York, a massive armored figure arrived and struck at it.

• He-El told Hela to retreat and promised her a greater role in his future conquests, and she agreed to watch the battle from a distance.
• Marshal Ross stepped through a portal and pledged his support to He-El, who ordered him to deal with the Black Order’s forces and command Earth.
• T’Challa reached the ground battlefield with Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, and Natasha Romanoff, but Clint and Natasha stopped him from reuniting with his teacher.
• Stephen Strange escaped Ebony Maw and headed toward He-El as Carol Danvers, Thor, and the Guardians of the Galaxy approached from the sky.
• Thanos walked through the flames of his exploding mothership as it fell toward the New York battlefield.
• A massive armored figure broke through the air and swung at the falling mothership.

Tony Stark arrived in a thousand-meter Iron Man Armor and saved the New York battlefield from Sanctuary II's falling wreckage. As the armor shrank back to human size, Thanos and Earth's heroes gathered around He-El for a confrontation.

• Sanctuary II broke into two burning halves and plummeted toward the soldiers in central New York.
• Tony Stark's giant Iron Man Armor struck both halves, shrank them, and launched them into outer space.
• The stunned battlefield welcomed Tony, who said he was late because he had given the armor a fresh coat of paint.
• Thanos landed before He-El with the Infinity Gauntlet as Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, and the Guardians of the Galaxy assembled nearby.
• Carol Danvers, Drax, Thor, and Tony Stark joined the gathering around He-El while Peter Parker hurried toward them and sensed the battle's strange atmosphere.

Thanos demanded the Reality Stone and Mind Stone from He-El, while He-El challenged him to surrender his three Infinity Stones. As He-El donned his Quark Armor, the others made clear they feared him more than Thanos, and Thanos declared that no one could rule his will.

• Thanos demanded He-El hand over the Reality Stone and Mind Stone, and He-El countered by demanding Thanos's Power Stone, Soul Stone, and Space Stone.
• Thanos called on everyone to attack him together, but He-El said they were helping Thanos deal with him.
• He-El's Quark Armor covered his body and spread an oppressive pressure across the battlefield, leaving Thanos astonished by the others' grave reactions.
• Stephen Strange and Thor said they could resist Thanos, while the Avengers regarded He-El as the greater danger.
• Tony Stark told Thanos that He-El had brought him to Earth, but Thanos laughed and proclaimed, "I am destiny!"
• He-El's armor covered his eyes, and a dark red glow burst from them.

He-El used the Space Strings to ambush Thanos and dragged him through Third Avenue, but Thanos escaped with the Space Stone. Tony Stark then activated a Stillness field around them and warned He-El that shrinking into the Space Strings could pull him into the Quantum Realm.

• He-El vanished into the Space Strings and suddenly seized Thanos by the face, dragging him more than a thousand meters through the road.
• Thanos survived the attack by reinforcing himself with the Space, Power, and Soul Stones, then used the Space Stone to create spatial turbulence and break free.
• He-El released Thanos after recognizing that the Space Stone could sever matter across spatial dimensions.
• Tony Stark deployed four giant mechanical pillars that spread a Stillness field across the area.
• He-El praised Tony's invention, and Tony warned him not to shrink into the Space Strings or risk being pulled into the Quantum Realm.

T'Challa and Peter Parker arrived as Tony Stark and the others tried to restrain He-El, and Steve Rogers began explaining why the Avengers opposed him. He-El effortlessly countered their attacks, insisting that the He-El Thor remembered had never existed.

• T'Challa questioned Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff about why the group was working with He-El and opposing the president.
• Peter Parker arrived from his exams and asked why the heroes were fighting He-El instead of the invading aliens.
• Steve Rogers began explaining the situation to T'Challa and Peter as Tony Stark activated the stasis field pillars.
• Thanos created a miniature black hole with the Infinity Gauntlet, but He-El erased it with a magnetic sphere and said the pillars could only stop him from shrinking.
• Stephen Strange, Captain Marvel Carol Danvers, Thor, and the Guardians attacked He-El, but he countered their assaults and overwhelmed Mantis's psychic attack.
• Thanos fired powerful rays from his eyes at He-El.

He-El matched Thanos’s three-Infinity-Stone beam with a dark matter beam and began advancing, leaving the others to intervene. Captain Marvel Carol Danvers compressed her photon energy into a powerful sphere and threw it at He-El.

• Thanos fired a combined beam from the Space, Power, and Soul Stones, but He-El countered it with a dark matter beam, blasting a huge crater into the ground.
• The beams remained locked as He-El began walking toward Thanos, while the onlookers realized Thanos was losing ground.
• Thor urged the others to stop He-El, and Captain Marvel Carol Danvers shouted for Drax to get away from him.
• Captain Marvel gathered and twice compressed her photon energy into a nearly black sphere, warned everyone to find cover, and hurled it at He-El.

He-El effortlessly trapped Captain Marvel Carol Danvers’s powerful photon sphere in a spatial cube while continuing to clash with Thanos. The heroes recognized how far his technology surpassed theirs, and Thor looked to Stephen Strange as he resolved to become stronger.

• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers warned everyone to take cover as her compressed photon energy sphere flew toward He-El, and the heroes hurried to shield themselves.
• He-El sent tiny devices around the sphere and sealed it inside a spatial cube that used the sphere’s own forces to sustain its prison.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers was shocked that her attack had been neutralized, while Tony Stark, Rocket Raccoon, and the other heroes feared they had no chance against He-El’s technology.
• Thor realized he could not approach He-El with his current strength and resolved to use his life and lifespan to gain power.
• Stephen Strange noticed Thor watching him, looked back warily, and met Thor’s gaze.

He-El sent the Space Cube into Destroyer Drax, but it did not kill him; instead, Drax became infused with energy and turned against the Guardians of the Galaxy. The chapter left the battlefield in chaos as the others realized Drax was being controlled.

• He-El hurled the Space Cube at Destroyer Drax, and Captain Marvel Carol Danvers failed to reach him in time.
• The Space Cube entered Destroyer Drax, who remained alive and ran excitedly toward the Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Rocket Raccoon warned the others that Drax might explode and fled, while Star-Lord Peter Quill and the others tried to keep Drax away.
• Destroyer Drax ignored their warnings, then glowed with photon energy and leaped into the air before crashing down among the fleeing Guardians.
• Mantis realized that Destroyer Drax was being controlled.

He-El overwhelmed Thanos with a dark matter beam, but Thanos escaped harm by using the Space Stone to shift through space. With the Guardians forced to restrain the controlled Drax, Carol Danvers and Thor attacked He-El while Tony Stark called on Thanos to seal the battlefield.

• Rocket Raccoon restrained the controlled Drax with electromagnetic devices, forcing the Guardians to regroup instead of fighting He-El.
• He-El intensified his dark matter beam and overwhelmed Thanos's Infinity Stone attack, but Thanos used the Space Stone to Hollowfication himself and avoid injury.
• Thanos repeatedly jumped through space to evade He-El, who remarked that he had run away far too fast.
• Carol Danvers and Thor charged at He-El, while Stephen Strange prepared his duplicates to strike.
• Tony Stark shouted for Thanos to use the Space Stone to seal off the space around them.

Tony Stark urged Thanos to use the Space Stone to restrict He-El’s spatial abilities, and Thanos solidified the surrounding region so only the Stone could manipulate space. He-El’s attack on Thanos stopped, but he then struck Captain Marvel Carol Danvers and sent her crashing into the Four Seasons Hotel.

• Tony Stark warned Thanos to use the Space Stone to lock down the area and prevent He-El from manipulating space.
• Thanos used the Space Stone to stabilize the region, stopping He-El’s spatial devices and limiting movement through space to himself.
• He-El withdrew his hand from Thanos and called the sealed region a cage, then turned to face Captain Marvel Carol Danvers.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers charged He-El and clashed fists with him, but He-El’s blow hurled her through the air and into the Four Seasons Hotel.

He-El took Mjolnir from Thor and launched it into space, then sent Thor crashing into a taxi. Stephen Strange and Tony Stark joined forces to restrain and attack He-El, drawing Thanos out of the multifaceted dimension, where He-El turned to meet him.

• He-El caught Mjolnir, used its power to numb Thor’s arm, and took the hammer from him.
• He-El launched Mjolnir into space and told Thor he had freed it from its unwilling struggle.
• Thor charged He-El, who struck him through a guardrail and into a Mercedes-Benz taxi.
• Stephen Strange bound He-El with golden whips as Tony Stark enlarged his armor and prepared to attack.
• Thanos emerged from the multifaceted dimension and attacked He-El alongside Tony Stark.
• He-El shrank his armor to escape the bindings, then turned and struck toward Thanos with spatial distortion around his hand.

He-El struck Thanos with the Two-Dimensional Foil Slap, reducing him and the space around him to a two-dimensional plane. Thanos remained as a visible sheet of paper, with the Infinity Stones transformed alongside him.

• Thanos launched a sneak attack on He-El with the power of three Infinity Stones gathered in his fist.
• He-El turned and swung his hand, producing strange spatial fluctuations and gravitational waves that Thanos sensed through the Space Stone and Power Stone.
• Thanos's fist collided with a thin white film emerging from He-El's hand, and the surrounding three-dimensional space collapsed into two dimensions.
• Thanos and the Infinity Stones became a flat plane measuring 3.2 meters by 2.78 meters.
• Everyone saw Thanos as a sheet of paper as the Infinity Stones prolonged his gradual transparency.

He-El turned Thanos into a sheet of paper with a Two-Dimensional Foil, shocking the assembled heroes. Tony Stark’s enormous Vibranium hand could not move He-El, and the chapter ended with Tony speculating that Thanos had been reduced in dimension.

• Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Clint Barton watched in disbelief as He-El turned Thanos into a sheet of paper.
• Tony Stark pushed He-El with his giant Iron Man hand, but He-El stopped it with one hand and the machine could not advance.
• Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Captain Marvel Carol Danvers, and Thor saw Thanos flattened and reacted in shock.
• Tony Stark said that Thanos had been reduced in dimension.

He-El reduced Thanos to two dimensions and trapped him on the Two-Dimensional Foil, leaving Thanos unable to understand his new state. As He-El tore away Thanos’s arm and Infinity Gauntlet, the foil became unstable and began collapsing the surrounding three-dimensional world.

• Tony Stark and the others realized He-El had reduced Thanos to two dimensions, while Hulk joined the Guardians of the Galaxy to restrain Destroyer Drax.
• Thanos struggled to perceive the three-dimensional world as disconnected slices and feared he had been sealed away.
• Thanos tried to use the Infinity Stones, but He-El cut off the arm bearing the Infinity Gauntlet and tore it away with part of Thanos’s body.
• Thanos attacked wildly as the Two-Dimensional Foil became unstable and began collapsing the surrounding space.

He-El used the Reality Stone to restore the Two-Dimensional Foil, recovered three Infinity Stones from Thanos’s flattened arm, and then killed Thanos by letting the foil burn away. He demanded Stephen Strange hand over the Time Stone, while Stephen and Thor prepared to keep fighting.

• He-El ordered Vivian to restore the Two-Dimensional Foil, which returned Thanos’s arm and Infinity Gauntlet as flat iron and released the Power, Soul, and Space Stones.
• He-El placed the three Stones into his armor as Captain Marvel Carol Danvers, Stephen Strange, Thor, Tony Stark, and the others watched helplessly.
• He-El stabilized the collapsing Two-Dimensional Foil and demanded that Stephen Strange surrender the Time Stone.
• The foil burned away Thanos, leaving no corpse and deepening the heroes’ despair.
• Stephen Strange told Thor that they might still win, and Thor grimly nodded.

The Avengers and their allies attacked He-El after learning he had orchestrated events, but his power quickly overwhelmed their opening assault. He-El sent the Guardians of the Galaxy and Hulk away in a sealed sphere, while Thor asked Stephen Strange to use the Time Stone on him.

• The Guardians of the Galaxy subdued Destroyer Drax, and Mantis put him to sleep before Star-Lord Peter Quill and the others joined the fight against He-El.
• T'Challa, Peter Parker, and the Avengers joined the attack, and He-El compressed Star-Lord's plasma shot and threw it back at them.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers detonated the plasma sphere near Steve Rogers, blasting him into a vehicle as the others charged He-El.
• He-El blocked the Guardians' attacks with a growing light screen, enclosed them and Hulk in a sphere, and hurled them away from the battlefield.
• Thor asked Stephen Strange to use the Time Stone on him, and Stephen activated the Eye of Agamotto despite warning Thor of the risk.

He-El overwhelmed the Avengers who confronted him, knocking them unconscious while explaining that their weakness had kept him from killing them and destroying Earth. Tony Stark and Stephen Strange prepared a desperate counterattack, with Strange using the Time Stone to accelerate Thor’s aging and unleash his power as a storm gathered over New York.

• He-El caught Captain Marvel Carol Danvers's punch, incapacitated her with vibrations, and hurled her into Clint Barton, knocking them both unconscious.
• Natasha Romanoff, Peter Parker, and T'Challa attacked He-El; he blasted Peter and T'Challa unconscious and then knocked Natasha out with a flick.
• He-El said the Avengers' weakness had kept him from killing them and destroying Earth.
• Tony Stark prepared to act while Stephen Strange used the Time Stone to accelerate Thor's life progression.
• Thor's face aged as lightning erupted around him, and dark clouds and thunder filled the sky over New York.

Thor used the Time Stone to age himself to the end of his life and unleash his full power, surpassing Odin. After Stephen Strange evacuated the battlefield, Thor and Tony Stark prepared to face He-El together.

• Thor endured the storm’s lightning and demanded that Stephen Strange accelerate his life toward its final moment.
• Stephen Strange used the Time Stone to age Thor, who reached a powerful form greater than Odin’s.
• Thor told Stephen to evacuate the others, and Stephen’s duplicates carried the heroes away while General Ross withdrew the forces.
• With Thanos dead and most of the Black Order defeated, the remaining alien forces fled Earth.
• Stephen watched from another dimension and warned that he might use the Time Stone if Thor lost.
• Thor and Tony Stark turned toward He-El and launched their final attack.

Thor and Tony Stark fought He-El, but he outmatched them and used Thor’s lightning against him. He-El pinned Tony’s shattered armor to the ground, where Tony angrily declared that he would not let He-El become his child’s godfather.

• Thor and Tony Stark attacked He-El together, unleashing a shockwave that devastated downtown New York.
• Thor and Tony reminded He-El of their friendship, but he said he did not mind being considered a friend and then threw them aside.
• Tony shrank to molecular size and battled He-El at high speed while Thor tried to trap them in a lightning domain.
• He-El manipulated Thor’s lightning, triggering an explosion that injured Thor and disrupted his control.
• He-El returned to normal size and pinned Tony’s badly damaged Iron Man Armor to the ground.
• Tony told He-El that he would not let him become his child’s godfather.