Chapter Summaries

Jude abandoned his plan to destroy Freedom City, freed Trigon, and prepared for his wedding to Ivy aboard Star One. As the wedding drew near, Ivy chose her dress and Jude confronted the downcast Little Spider about a decision he had yet to make.

• Jude shut down the module trapping Trigon, then kicked him back into Hell after Trigon boasted about escaping.
• Jude arranged an elaborate wedding aboard Star One and sent invitations throughout the universe.
• Pepper Potts, Diana, and Bridget helped Ivy choose between two wedding dresses, and Ivy picked one after spinning around.
• Jude complained that Tony's bachelor party was too tame, while the group drank and joked together.
• Jude took Little Spider aside and demanded an answer about the matter he had been considering.

Peter declined to leave with Jude, choosing to stay with Aunt May and Gwen Stacy. Jude held a grand wedding celebration on Star One, where guests from Earth and across the universe gathered before the wedding officially began.

• Peter told Jude he could not leave Aunt May and Gwen Stacy, and Jude accepted his decision.
• On the wedding day, officials, superheroes, business leaders, and other guests arrived in Times Square and traveled through Jude's portal to Star One.
• Jude welcomed the guests and invited them to enjoy the entertainment and festivities.
• The three great empires, Planet Devourer, and representatives of other cosmic powers arrived to congratulate Jude.
• Hell Lords, including a projected avatar of Lucifer, arrived shortly before the wedding bells rang and the ceremony began.
• A notice explained that Chapter 420 had passed through after being blocked, creating a duplicate, and told readers not to subscribe twice.

Jude and Ivy celebrated their wedding with friends before Jude revealed that the promised grand performance was a war between the New Gods. Thanos and Mongul had joined forces to attack Apokolips, and Jude opened a portal so guests could watch the battle.

• Jude resisted changing out of his wedding suit, then left backstage with Tony and Peter as the ceremony began.
• Bruce hosted the wedding, and Pepper walked Ivy down the aisle before Jude and Ivy exchanged vows and rings and kissed.
• Ivy tossed her bouquet to Bridget, who had recently started dating Jason Todd.
• Jude opened a lake of wine for the guests and promised them a grand performance, then kicked Deadpool into the lake when he asked about adult entertainment.
• Jude and Ivy emerged after more than two hours, and Jude opened a spatial portal to invite guests to watch the New Gods' battle for supremacy.
• Thanos, having mastered the six imitation Infinity Stones, joined forces with Mongul to launch an attack on Apokolips.

Thanos and Mongul invaded Apokolips to overthrow Darkseid and avenge their mother, Heggra. Thanos revealed that the Infinity Stones had given him the power to challenge Darkseid and demanded that the New Gods kneel.

• Darkseid considered sending Kalibak or Steppenwolf to investigate reports that the Anti-Life Equation might be hidden in the Eagle Alliance Republic.
• Mortalla reported that Thanos and Mongul had appeared outside Apokolips with their fleets and were preparing to attack.
• Darkseid recognized that the Infinity Stones had allowed his brothers to bypass Apokolips's defenses.
• Thanos accused Darkseid of murdering their mother, Heggra, and seizing the throne, then declared that he and Mongul would overthrow him.
• Thanos displayed his Infinity Gauntlet and ordered the New Gods to kneel or die.

Jude and the others watched as Darkseid easily defeated Mongul, then fought Thanos, who used the Infinity Stones to wound him. The battle escalated when Mongul ordered an attack on Apokolips and Warworld began preparing its Planet Destroyer Cannon.

• Darkseid dodged Mongul's punch, struck him away, and blasted him through a fleet of warships with his Omega Beams.
• Jude told Superman that the real battle had not begun because he had given Thanos the Infinity Stones to strengthen him.
• Thanos used the Power and Reality Stones to hit Darkseid, then teleported behind him with the Space Stone and struck him again.
• Darkseid caught Thanos's next punch, but Thanos used the Mind Stone to briefly daze him and land another blow to his head.
• Mongul emerged from the explosions and ordered his forces to attack Apokolips as Warworld opened its Planet Destroyer Cannon.

Kalibak led the New Gods and the Doomsday Legion in a raid on Warworld to stop Mongul from firing its Planet Destroyer Cannon, while DeSaad and Granny Goodness organized Apokolips's defenses and reinforcements. The assault reached Warworld at heavy cost, where Mongul overwhelmed Kalibak and prepared to crush his throat.

• Mongul's forces bombarded Apokolips, while its defenses held under the attack and Darkseid fought Thanos elsewhere.
• Kalibak took command and ordered the New Gods and Doomsday Legion to raid Warworld as DeSaad directed the ground counterattack and Granny Goodness summoned reinforcements.
• Mongul chose to let the attackers approach while Warworld continued charging the Planet Destroyer Cannon, and artillery destroyed more than half of the Doomsday Legion.
• Kalibak's forces boarded Warworld and clashed with Mongul, Gormann, Mongul Jr., Sein, and their forces.
• Mongul swiftly defeated Kalibak, seized him by the throat, and prepared to crush his neck.

Kalibak and Darkseid’s forces attacked Mongul on Warworld while Thanos battled Darkseid far from Apokolips, using the Infinity Stones to overwhelm him. Just as Darkseid seemed to gain the upper hand, Thanos revealed that he had reversed time by one minute.

• Mantis attacked Mongul, but Mongul blasted him away, and Kalibak struck Mongul before retreating and sending Doomsdays to sabotage Warworld’s Planet Destroyer Cannon.
• Thanos used the Infinity Stones to punch Darkseid through a planet, shattering it, and declared that Darkseid’s search for the Anti-Life Equation was pointless.
• Darkseid attacked Thanos with his fists and Omega Beams, forcing him back and damaging his armor.
• Thanos activated the Time Stone and sent himself and Darkseid back one minute, claiming that he was invincible.

Thanos used the Time Stone to reverse his defeat and battered Darkseid, but overusing the incompatible Stones caused them to explode. Darkseid recovered, killed Thanos, and left the battle victorious.

• Thanos rewound time to restore himself and taunted Darkseid, who refused to surrender and attacked again.
• Thanos redirected Darkseid’s Omega Beams, struck him with the Power Stone, and repeatedly battered him using the Space Stone.
• Jude warned Peter that Thanos was getting carried away and might be in danger because he kept boasting instead of finishing Darkseid.
• Thanos channeled the power of the Stones into a final attack, but the incompatible Stones exploded and destroyed his left arm.
• Darkseid dodged most of the blast, then struck Thanos with Omega Beams, tore away his right arm, and snapped his neck.
• Darkseid reduced Thanos to ashes with the Omega Beams.

After Darkseid returned to Apokolips, Mongul defeated the remaining Doomsdays and used Warworld’s Planet Destroyer Cannon to pierce the planet, leaving Apokolips doomed to explode. As Mongul celebrated, an icy voice spoke beside him.

• Jude and the Hell Lords concluded that Thanos’s soul would likely enter the realm of the Goddess of Death, while Darkseid returned to Apokolips through a Boom Tube.
• Mongul slaughtered the remaining Doomsdays, and Gormann warned him that Kalibak and Mantis were trying to stop Warworld’s cannon.
• Mongul commanded Warworld to activate its defenses, trapping Kalibak and Mantis inside its shifting, superheated interior.
• Warworld revealed its Planet Destroyer Cannon, and Mongul fired it at Apokolips after its energy shield collapsed.
• The blast pierced Apokolips and destroyed its core, and Mongul celebrated before an icy voice addressed him.

Darkseid killed Mongul after defeating Thanos, then turned to establish a new capital after Apokolips was destroyed. In the Death Realm, Thanos saw the Goddess of Death and became infatuated with her.

• Darkseid confronted Mongul and defeated him with his Omega Beams and a brutal beating.
• Darkseid told Mongul he could have won if he had fought back, then killed him.
• Darkseid mourned the loss of Apokolips as his base and planned to find a new capital.
• Thanos tried to escape the Death Realm and demand revival, but the staff reported him to enforcement personnel.
• The Goddess of Death returned, and Thanos saw her and became a lovesick devotee.

Jude announced he would leave Earth and refused to help the others attack Darkseid, who escaped through a Boom Tube. After a farewell tour with Ivy, Jude prepared to use a time machine to travel with her to the era of the Old Gods, 5.3 billion years in the past.

• Jude told the others he planned to leave the world and urged them to decide whether to attack Darkseid without him.
• Superman, Ancient One, The Flash, and Dr. Banner stepped forward, but Jude mocked their chances, and Darkseid escaped through a Boom Tube.
• Jude and Ivy spent the next half-month touring the world together.
• Aboard Star One, Jude revealed his time machine and explained that it would take him and Ivy 5.3 billion years into the past.
• Jude asked Barry Allen to power the machine by running around Star One and borrowed the Time Stone from Ancient One.
• Jude told Bruce and Little Spider to study the technology he had left behind, then ordered Barry to run.

Jude and Ivy traveled back to the Age of the Old Gods and used a Portal Gun to open a gateway through the Source Wall. The portal destroyed the wall and freed the beings trapped inside, beginning the destruction of the Old Gods’ world.

• Jude and Ivy entered the charged Time Machine and vanished from Star One, leaving Bruce, Ancient One, Barry, and Little Spider behind.
• Veronica revealed that she had secretly created and preserved a baby using Jude’s sperm and an embryo.
• Jude and Ivy arrived in the Prometheus Galaxy 5.3 billion years in the past and found the Source Wall at the galaxy’s edge.
• Jude opened a golden portal in the Source Wall with his Portal Gun, and he and Ivy stepped through it.
• The portal continued dissolving the Source Wall until it collapsed, freeing the beings trapped inside and unleashing their resentment across the world.