Chapter Summaries

Loki convinced Malekith that he could lead the Dark Elves into Asgard, while Psyphon kept his real allegiance to Vilgax secret and claimed to be a servant of Thanos. Malekith prepared to attack before the Nine Realms aligned, as Loki returned to Asgard after Ben, Odin, and Frigga discussed the evacuation.

• Psyphon considered recruiting Loki for Vilgax, but Malekith threatened him until he claimed to have served Thanos and revealed that the Galactic Plumbers held at least three Infinity Stones.
• Loki presented himself as Malekith's loyal ally and offered secret routes into Asgard, while Malekith kept Psyphon alive to watch Loki.
• Loki warned that Odin's next Odinsleep was approaching, and Malekith set a deadline before he would attack Asgard regardless.
• Ben, Odin, and Frigga waited for Loki while discussing the evacuation of Asgard's residents to the Legerdomain Dimension and the life developing there.
• Loki returned to Asgard and told them that Malekith was very wary.

Loki reported that Malekith planned to attack within a month, prompting Odin and Bant to prepare Asgard and discuss freeing Hela. Bant identified the supposed Black Order member as Vilgax's agent Psyphon, while on Earth Thor joined the Galactic Plumbers and hoped to rebuild his life as a mortal.

• Loki told Odin and Bant that Malekith was suspicious and had given him only one month, and Odin said Asgard's civilians and important belongings had been evacuated to Legerdomain.
• Odin proposed freeing Hela to strengthen Asgard, then suggested sending her to the Galactic Plumbers afterward; Bant considered the idea once Odin pointed out that Hela's death authority could benefit Legerdomain.
• Odin said he did not know where the Aether Particle was, and Bant said it was likely on Earth, where Galactic Plumbers agents were already searching for a passage to it.
• Loki revealed that Psyphon had approached Malekith claiming to represent the Black Order, but Bant recognized him as an agent of Vilgax and told Loki to keep in contact with him to learn Vilgax's location.
• Thor joined the Galactic Plumbers on Earth, determined to become a brave mortal and rise from a low-ranking branch plumber to a senior position at headquarters.

Malekith launched a surprise attack on Asgard before Odin entered Odinsleep, while Psyphon diverted his fleet to bring Vilgax into his plans. The chapter ended with Dark Elves breaching Asgard’s palace as the remaining warriors fought back and feared Odin was about to fall asleep.

• Loki reported Odin’s approaching Odinsleep to Malekith, but Malekith ordered an immediate attack to find the Aether Particle.
• Malekith kept Loki under guard, while magic from the Three Witches of War hid Svartalfheim from Heimdall and Odin’s ravens.
• Psyphon diverted his fleet from Muspelheim and persuaded the Cursed Warrior to meet Vilgax, who agreed to join his scheme to seize the Nine Realms’ powers.
• Malekith’s warships appeared above Asgard, bombarded it, and shattered its defenses as the Three Witches of War attacked Heimdall.
• Malekith rammed his ship into Asgard’s palace, and the Warriors Three and Sif led the remaining Asgardian warriors against the Dark Elves.
• Volstagg said Odin and the Goddess Queen were in the palace, while Fandral feared Odin was about to enter Odinsleep.

Asgard's warriors fought Malekith's invading Dark Elves while Odin, weakened by the approaching Odinsleep, confronted their king. Loki helped Malekith wound Odin, but Hela appeared, killed her father, and declared herself queen.

• Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun fought through the Dark Elves as the Asgardian general sent Volstagg to support Heimdall and ordered reinforcements requested from the Galactic Plumbers.
• Malekith led his elite guards through the palace toward Odin, cutting down the Asgardian defenders.
• Odin unleashed his full power against Malekith, but Loki appeared and stopped the attack by pretending to plead with his father.
• A second Loki stabbed Odin from behind and demanded the Aether Particle and Asgard's throne, leaving Odin gravely wounded.
• Hela emerged through a portal and killed Odin with Death Blades after he reached toward her.
• Hela restored her power and clothing, then ordered Malekith to kneel and welcome his queen.

Hela fought Malekith’s forces in Asgard, but discovered that Odin had given away the Eternal Flame, leaving her unable to summon her undead army. Malekith abandoned his search for the Aether Particle and retreated, while Heimdall shattered the Bifrost to protect the Three Warriors from the Three Witches.

• Hela rose from the ruins and fought the Cursed Warrior and the Dark Elves, growing stronger as she battled in Asgard.
• Malekith and Loki searched the Asgard Vault for the Aether Particle, but found nothing and were confronted by Hela.
• Hela tried to use the Eternal Flame to awaken her undead army, then learned from Loki that Odin had given it to the Sakaar King.
• Malekith and Loki left Hela behind, while the Cursed Warrior arrived to block her and the Dark Elf army continued fighting in Asgard.
• The Three Witches drained the Bifrost’s power and attacked Heimdall, who used his remaining strength to shield the Three Warriors and shatter the Bifrost.

Coulson and Thor led a Galactic Plumbers team to investigate a spatial distortion in a London factory, where Thor sensed magic and recognized an unusual energy. They entered the warped space and reached a ruin filled with red energy, where a mysterious woman attacked them.

• Coulson briefed Thor, May, and Jemma on anomalous energy fluctuations in London and handed Thor a cube-shaped containment device.
• The team found a factory where gravity and space behaved strangely, and May sent scouting devices inside, but their signals failed.
• Thor sensed something like Black Magic and showed Coulson the magical rune on his Plumber Badge before they entered the distortion together.
• Coulson and Thor crossed the shifting space using safety cables and emerged in a dark ruin where red energy flowed and their equipment stopped working.
• A robed woman attacked them with an oversized greatsword, then clutched her head and shouted at an unseen presence.

Coulson and Thor led a Galactic Plumbers team to investigate spatial distortions in an abandoned London factory, where Thor sensed Black Magic. They entered the warped space, found a ruin saturated with red energy, and were attacked by a mysterious woman wielding a greatsword.

• Coulson briefed Thor, Melinda May, and Jemma Simmons on an energy disturbance in London that Eunice had detected.
• The team found an abandoned factory where space behaved erratically, and May's scouting drones failed to map the distortions.
• Thor sensed something like Black Magic and revealed magical runes on the back of his Galactic Plumbers Badge.
• Coulson and Thor entered the warped space, followed its energy readings, and reached a dark ruin where red energy flowed through the ground.
• A black-robed woman attacked them with an oversized greatsword, then clutched her head and shouted that she had not meant to hold back.

Thor fought Gamora for the Aether Particle but was defeated, while Ben captured the first Energy of the Universe life-form and began becoming the ruler of the Manna Dimension. Elsewhere, Vilgax took control of Muspelheim and recruited Khyber, and Gamora left with the Reality Stone after Thanos urged her to kill Thor.

• Thor refused to retreat from Gamora, and Azmuth used nanotechnology in his suit to make him a small hammer.
• Ben captured the newly born Anodite in his watch, transformed into an Anodite, and joined Ancient One and Odin in preparing to bind the Manna Dimension's power to him.
• Vilgax declared himself ruler of Muspelheim, kept Sindr alive, and offered the Cursed Warrior's power and the fire dragon Jormungandr to Khyber.
• Gamora defeated Thor and knocked Coulson unconscious, then extracted the Aether Particle and condensed it into the Reality Stone.
• Thanos told Gamora she should have killed Thor and warned her that sparing the Red Skull had caused trouble, and Gamora told him to shut up and left.

Ben strengthened Legerdomain with the Energy of the Universe while Ancient One planned to lure Dimensional Rulers into lending her power. Charmcaster arrived there as a baby with Cable and other survivors, while Ben set out to recover the Reality Stone from Requiem, identified as Gamora.

• Ben controlled Legerdomain as an Anodite, and Ancient One planned to gather more dimensional power and possibly move Kamar-Taj there.
• Ben returned to Earth and asked Connors to collect biological genes for a new ecosystem in Legerdomain.
• Cable, Magik, Colossus, and White Queen fell into Legerdomain with infant Charmcaster, whom Cable called the mutants' final hope.
• Ben learned that Requiem had defeated Thor and Coulson and taken the Reality Stone, and he identified her as Gamora.
• Ben ordered a universe-wide warrant for Requiem and learned that Galactic Plumbers could soon locate the Reality Stone.
• Ben prepared to go after Gamora as a Bifrost opened above Earth and a blue portal formed before him.

Thor learned that Asgard had fallen to Malekith and agreed to join a Galactic Plumbers mission to help reclaim it, while Loki remained missing from their side. Malekith expanded his campaign across the Nine Realms and ordered Loki to undertake a mission that made him suspect he was being sent as a spy.

• Thor learned from the Warriors Three that Asgard had fallen, and Norman reported that Loki was missing and Brunnhilde would not fight for Asgard.
• Norman assembled Galactic Plumbers and Thunderbolts forces to support the Asgardians, and Thor agreed to go with them in two days.
• Thor asked Captain America to use Mjolnir in battle, and Captain America accepted the request.
• Malekith praised Psyphon for conquering Muspelheim, ordered Sindr to lead the Fire Demons against Niflheim, and sent Psyphon to conquer Nidavellir for a god-killing weapon.
• Malekith questioned Loki about his ties to the Galactic Plumbers and told him his mission was simple, prompting Loki to suspect he was being sent as a spy.

Ben, Nebula, and Eunice searched Knowhere for Gamora and the Aether Particle while Ben hoped to obtain Celestial genes from the mining city’s enormous corpse. They reached the Collector’s collection room, unaware that Khyber was following them.

• Ben, Nebula, and Eunice disguised themselves and entered Knowhere, where Nebula learned the Collector might have Celestial remains and Gamora might be with him.
• Nebula led the group toward the Collector’s residence after Eunice confirmed Gamora and the Stone were still somewhere on Knowhere.
• Khyber recognized Ben despite his disguise and followed him with Jormungandr, planning to wait for an opportunity to attack.
• The Collector’s maids brought Ben, Nebula, and Eunice into a room filled with preserved specimens, and Ben was excited by the many species on display.

Ben, Nebula, and Eunice visited the Collector to seek the Reality Stone, where they found Gamora struggling with the Aether inside her and learned why she had been gathering the Infinity Stones. Gamora revealed that Thanos’s soul remained bound to her through the Soul Stone, and the chapter ended with her refusing Nebula’s offer to take over the Stones.

• The Collector tried to buy Big Chill as a collectible and revealed that Beta Ray Bill had traded ownership of his corpse for a Giant Battleship.
• Eunice asked the Collector about the ores from Knowhere, and he showed her the material containing Celestial genes but refused to sell it.
• Ben and Nebula found Gamora surrounded by Aether Particles, and Gamora’s sudden outburst caused the energy to blast through the room before the Collector contained it.
• Gamora explained that she had taken Thanos to Vormir to destroy him, but he merged with the Soul Stone and continued haunting her.
• Nebula comforted Gamora, who relayed Thanos’s apology, then offered to handle the Infinity Stones; Gamora refused and warned that gathering them for too long could cause something terrible.

Ben negotiated with the Collector over the Infinity Stones and rare alien genes, but Khyber and his fire-breathing hound Jormungandr attacked the Collection Hall. Ben and Eunice fought back as the battle threatened the Collector’s specimens, and Eunice’s heat-based attacks appeared ineffective against Jormungandr.

• Gamora explained that gathering the Infinity Stones was dangerous, while the Collector revealed that she had given him the Reality Stone in exchange for help with Thanos’s soul.
• Ben proposed trading the Soul Stone for the Reality Stone after using it to heal Looma, then offered the Collector alien genes in exchange for genes from his collection.
• The Collector accepted Ben’s gene exchange, but Jormungandr burst into the Collection Hall and attacked Ben.
• Ben froze Jormungandr, but the hound melted the ice as Khyber used the steam to ambush him with a Dark Matter Weapon.
• Eunice blocked Khyber’s strike and revealed she could hear his thoughts, while Nebula protected Gamora and the Collector fretted over his damaged collection.
• Eunice blasted Jormungandr with heat-based eye beams, but the attack seemed to have little effect.

Ben fought Khyber and Jormungandr in Knowhere while Thanos took control of Gamora and escaped using the Reality Stone. Ben defeated the fire dragon, but Khyber fled, and the Collector linked Khyber’s weapon and dragon to the Dark Elves.

• The mercenaries gathered after an explosion at the Collector’s residence and saw Jormungandr transformed into a fire dragon as it attacked Eunice.
• Khyber seized Ben and tried to cut the Little Broken Watch from his chest, but Ben escaped with Big Chill’s intangibility and froze Khyber before blasting him away as Heatblast.
• Thanos took over Gamora’s body, knocked Nebula unconscious, and escaped through the Aether Particle; Ben sent Eunice to track the Stones’ energy.
• Ben absorbed Jormungandr’s flames with the Eternal Flame and burned the dragon to ashes, while Khyber escaped into Knowhere.
• The Collector told Ben that the fire dragon came from Muspelheim and Khyber’s weapon was Dark Elf technology, leading Ben to suspect a connection between Khyber and the Dark Elves.

Ben secretly recorded Celestial genes and began trying to fuse them with Way Big's genes while waiting for Eunice to pursue Thanos. At the Galactic Plumbers space station, T'Challa urged Thor to view protecting Asgard as his responsibility rather than a question of worthiness.

• Ben deduced that Khyber had likely joined forces with Vilgax, then agreed to trade genes with the Collector after the Collector salvaged his ruined collection.
• The Collector gave Ben ore containing Celestial material, and Ben secretly recorded its genes despite claiming the watch could not decipher them.
• Ben discovered that collecting the Celestial genes had also provided a Way Big icon, and he asked Azmuth to attempt a genetic fusion that repeatedly failed.
• Nebula woke aboard Ben's spaceship, and Ben told her that Eunice was pursuing Gamora, who was controlled by Thanos.
• Thor, Steve, Spider-Man, and Black Panther tested whether anyone could lift Mjolnir, but neither Peter nor T'Challa tried to claim it.
• T'Challa told Thor that protecting Asgard was his responsibility and mission, regardless of whether he felt worthy.

Norman led the Thunderbolts and their allies through a quantum jump toward Asgard to rescue its survivors. As the ship entered the unstable wormhole, violent spatial tremors struck the passengers, and Wanda used magic to help them endure the passage.

• Norman ordered the team to bring Mjolnir aboard and explained that they would travel to Asgard to rescue its surviving warriors.
• Thor learned that Asgard's civilians had evacuated but Odin and the Queen remained, and he reflected on his past failures and vowed to protect Asgard.
• Norman activated the Particle Collider, which opened a wormhole toward the star system near Asgard.
• T'Challa piloted the ship into the wormhole after Norman and the team prepared for the jump.
• Spatial tremors disrupted the travelers, causing Sandman to break apart until Wanda used magic to help the others withstand them.

Thor and the Earth heroes fought their way through Asgard’s Dark Elf forces, only to discover that the dead enemies could revive and that Amora and Lorelei served a new ruler. The chapter left Thor confronting Skurge, who claimed Odin was dead and that Thor was not Odin’s child.

• Thor led Steve, Peter, Wanda, Quicksilver, Sandman, Black Panther, and the Warriors Three into Asgard, where they found the realm covered in black blades and apparitions.
• Wanda sensed an ambush, and the group fought through hundreds of Dark Elves, with Sandman, Wanda, Quicksilver, Peter, and the Warriors Three attacking.
• The Dark Elves revived in green flames, so Steve ordered the group to break through rather than keep fighting them.
• Amora and Lorelei attacked Wanda, and Thor demanded to know what had happened to Asgard and where Odin was.
• Amora summoned Skurge and Asgardian warriors, and Skurge declared Odin dead, named a new queen as Asgard’s ruler, and claimed Thor was never Odin’s son.

Hela took control of Asgard and enslaved its surviving warriors while Thor and his allies fought through the death forest to reach the palace. The group arrived to find the castle ruined and encountered Heimdall, Sif, and General approaching them.

• Hela enslaved the remaining Asgardian warriors, including Sif and Heimdall, and ordered them to bring Thor and his companions before her.
• Wanda, Steve, T'Challa, and the others struggled against the growing army of Dark Elf enemies, so Quicksilver and Peter scouted ahead while the rest prepared to break through.
• T'Challa proposed using his stored Kinetic Energy, Sandman's quicksand, and Thor's Energy of the Universe barriers to blast the group out of the encirclement.
• Thor formed an energy sphere around himself, Steve, and the Three Warriors as Sandman and T'Challa triggered a massive explosion that swept them toward Asgard.
• The energy sphere cracked and threw the group into the ground near the ruined castle, where Thor and the others saw Heimdall, Sif, and General approaching.

Thor discovered that Hela was his elder sister and learned she had killed Odin and Frigga, but he rejected her offer to restore Asgard through conquest and regained his power as the God of Thunder. When Mjolnir answered his call, Hela intercepted it and lifted the hammer with ease.

• Heimdall and the undead Asgardians attacked Thor, Peter, and the Warriors Three, and Heimdall pinned Thor down with cursed Black Thorns.
• Heimdall revealed that Hela was Odin’s eldest daughter and had helped conquer the Nine Realms before Odin sealed her away.
• Hela appeared, told Thor that Odin and Frigga were dead, and admitted that she had killed Odin.
• Hela urged Thor to join her in reclaiming Asgard’s power, but Thor refused and declared that he understood a king’s duty to protect his people.
• Thor called Mjolnir and summoned a storm, but Hela leaped up and caught the hammer before it reached him.

Hela wielded Mjolnir and stabbed Thor, while Wanda’s rage unleashed power that threatened to destroy Asgard. The Plumbers gained a brief opening, but Hela stopped Thor’s restored attack and shattered Mjolnir.

• Hela revealed she could wield Mjolnir, rejected Thor’s refusal to submit, and stabbed him through the chest.
• William Baker trapped Dark Elf warriors in Quicksand Hell while T’Challa ran out of stored energy, and Quicksilver reached the empty royal palace and encountered Loki.
• Amora and Lorelei taunted Wanda and threatened the Galactic Plumbers, triggering Wanda’s scarlet power to erupt across Asgard.
• Hela diverted her attention toward Wanda’s world-shaking energy, allowing Thor to stab her and the others to subdue Heimdall and Sif.
• Peter and Steve lifted Mjolnir and returned it to Thor, who recovered and attacked Hela with lightning.
• Hela caught Mjolnir and shattered it with her divine power.