Chapter Summaries

Connors transformed into Doctor Lizard and began slaughtering students and campus police at the university. Otto rushed to confront him, and Doctor Lizard attacked while challenging Otto’s claim to being a superhero.

• Connors mutated into a humanoid lizard, embraced his new form, and decided to transform all humanity into Lizard Men.
• A student discovered Connors and fled, but Connors killed the students who came to investigate and pursued others across campus.
• Campus police arrived and fired at Connors, but their bullets could not pierce his skin; Connors named himself Doctor Lizard and attacked them.
• A campus officer alerted Otto, who hurried to the scene using his Mechanical Tentacles.
• Doctor Lizard recognized Otto as Doctor Octopus, challenged his status as a superhero, and charged at him.

Otto defeated Doctor Lizard several times but failed to stop him from escaping into the sewers, prompting Tony Stark to recognize Otto needed superhero training. Doctor Lizard resolved to grow stronger while government agencies began targeting him as a possible breakthrough in their own research.

• Otto's Mechanical Tentacles repeatedly knocked Doctor Lizard back, while Otto hesitated to treat him as an enemy because he suspected a failed experiment might be reversible.
• Tony Stark contacted Otto about the campus incident, and Doctor Lizard used the force of another blow to flee into the sewer.
• Tony Stark told Otto that Doctor Lizard was Curtis Curt Connors, a biology professor, and admitted he had neglected Otto's combat training.
• Doctor Lizard hid in the sewers and planned experiments to improve his strength and regeneration so he could surpass Doctor Octopus.
• Government agencies began pursuing Doctor Lizard after his campus killings, seeing his mutation as a chance to advance research connected to Baron Strucker's seized materials.

After Tony Stark tracked Doctor Lizard’s purchases, Peter Parker searched the sewers for him while Doctor Lizard continued experiments to strengthen himself. S.H.I.E.L.D. identified Curtis Connors and sent Coulson, Black Widow, and Bruce Banner to capture him, as other official organizations also discovered his identity and deployed agents.

• Tony Stark traced Doctor Lizard’s spending and gave Peter Parker medicine that could reverse his mutation if he had not evolved further.
• Peter Parker followed Doctor Lizard into the sewer system but struggled to find him in the maze of tunnels.
• Doctor Lizard returned to his hidden sewer laboratory and resumed experiments to make himself stronger.
• Coulson told Nick Fury that Doctor Lizard was university professor Curtis Curt Connors, and Nick Fury assigned Coulson, Black Widow, and Dr. Banner to bring him back alive.
• Black Widow reassured Bruce Banner that she would persuade Connors, while other official organizations also sent personnel after him.

Bruce Banner arrived with Black Widow to capture Doctor Lizard, but his Hulk transformation and the ensuing confusion drew multiple factions into a violent standoff. After Hulk broke free and attacked the rival operatives, Peter Parker realized the green giant was not Doctor Lizard and wondered where the real target was.

• Black Widow warned Bruce Banner that other organizations were pursuing Doctor Lizard, and Bruce jumped from the jet before transforming into Hulk on impact.
• Peter Parker sensed a powerful threat from the surface and abandoned his search of the sewers, while Doctor Lizard hurried to continue his experiment.
• Multiple organizations converged on Hulk, mistook him for Doctor Lizard, and fired tranquilizer darts at him.
• Hulk killed several operatives with a single punch, then was trapped in an electrified capture net by another faction.
• Rival factions argued over who would claim Doctor Lizard, and Black Widow identified Hulk as S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel.
• Hulk tore through the capture net and charged the men, while Peter Parker realized that the real Doctor Lizard was still missing.

Hulk tore through the competing forces pursuing Doctor Lizard, and S.H.I.E.L.D. used his overwhelming victory to claim him and assert its power. General Ross demanded Hulk back and, after Nick Fury refused, ordered the military to focus on creating Gamma Warriors.

• Hulk killed the leader of one force, broke Demon Man's arm, and slaughtered Demon Man's laser-armed subordinates as his strength grew during the fight.
• Peter Parker watched from hiding, while Demon Man called the military for support and the military abandoned the operation after identifying Hulk as too dangerous to confront.
• Nick Fury rejected the other organizations' complaints and declared that S.H.I.E.L.D. was taking Doctor Lizard.
• General Ross demanded Hulk from Nick Fury, who said Bruce Banner no longer belonged to the military and was now a S.H.I.E.L.D. researcher and special consultant.
• General Ross ordered the Great Ape experiment suspended and directed his team to focus on producing one hundred Gamma Warriors as powerful as Hulk.

Peter Parker joined the fight against Hulk, using Spider-Sense, webs, and electricity before Venom merged with him. Hulk’s rage kept increasing faster than their strength, leaving Peter Parker and Venom struggling against him.

• After local police received reports of the destruction, they contacted the Avengers, and Tony Stark tried unsuccessfully to reach Peter Parker.
• Black Widow spotted Peter Parker and warned Hulk, who charged at him; Peter dodged Hulk’s punch and kicked him into a collapsing building.
• Peter Parker trapped Hulk in electrified webs, but Black Widow attacked from a fighter jet and helped Hulk break free.
• As Hulk grew angrier and stronger, Peter Parker summoned Venom and fought him, but Hulk initially overpowered the pair.
• Venom’s genes adapted during the battle, allowing Peter Parker to withstand and counter Hulk’s blows, but Hulk’s escalating rage repeatedly gave him the advantage.

Hulk overwhelmed Peter Parker and Venom, leaving Peter unable to fight, until Robet arrived to save him. Hulk recognized Robet, charged at him, then abruptly fled before they could fight.

• Black Widow watched Hulk overpower Peter Parker and Venom, while worrying that Peter’s death would provoke the Avengers against S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Black Widow contacted Nick Fury, who ordered her to fire on Hulk to distract him and give Peter a chance to escape.
• Black Widow’s attack failed to hurt Hulk, and Hulk resumed attacking Peter; Venom eventually retreated into Peter’s body after Hulk’s roar, leaving Peter helpless.
• As Hulk moved to deliver a fatal blow, Robet appeared, restored Peter’s strength, and explained that Tony had contacted him after seeing the fight.
• Hulk recognized Robet, charged toward him while growing stronger, then suddenly turned and fled.

Robet pursued and overwhelmed the rampaging Hulk after Hulk fled from Clark, then carried the fight to an uninhabited area to protect the ruined district. Robet nearly attacked Black Widow’s fighter jet, but Peter Parker stopped him and asked to handle Hulk himself later while continuing to search for Doctor Lizard.

• Hulk fled when he sensed Clark, but Robet caught up and slammed him into a deep pit.
• Clark warned Robet that their fight could destroy the already ruined district, so Robet hurled Hulk toward an uninhabited area.
• Black Widow tried to stop Robet from killing Hulk, while Peter Parker realized he had come to find Doctor Lizard and searched the ruins for the sewer entrance.
• Robet threatened Black Widow with a Ki Blast, but Peter explained that she had tried to protect him, and Robet withdrew the attack.
• Peter asked Robet to leave Hulk for him to fight later so he could keep pursuing Doctor Lizard.

Peter Parker persuaded Robet to spare Hulk, and Black Widow recovered Bruce Banner after Hulk was thrown into a wilderness. Back at S.H.I.E.L.D., Banner could no longer transform into Hulk, while Nick Fury struggled to manage the failed Doctor Lizard mission and the other organizations’ suspicions.

• Peter Parker insisted that Robet leave Hulk alive because Venom wanted another chance to defeat him, and Robet agreed.
• Black Widow searched for Hulk and found Bruce Banner in a deep pit after Hulk had withdrawn and yielded control to him.
• Bruce Banner asked Black Widow what had happened, and she told him the mission had failed and that its events had been recorded.
• Back at S.H.I.E.L.D., Bruce Banner could no longer transform into Hulk, which relieved Banner but worried S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Nick Fury faced demands from other organizations for information about Doctor Lizard, who was not in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s custody.

Peter Parker and Robet discovered that Doctor Lizard had escaped his collapsing lab, while Nick Fury devised a scheme to draw other agencies into conflict with the Avengers. When Doctor Lizard resurfaced to buy experimental equipment, Otto joined Peter Parker and Johnny Storm for a new mission to confront him.

• Robet found no sign of Doctor Lizard underground, and Clark returned to reveal that the lab was damaged but its owner and his corpse were both gone.
• Peter Parker and Robet inspected the ruined laboratory, while Doctor Lizard's recollection revealed that he had fled the collapsing space and planned to lie low while continuing his experiments.
• Nick Fury told Coulson to announce Doctor Lizard's location and mislead other agencies about Hulk's availability so they might clash with the Avengers.
• The Avengers traced Doctor Lizard through his spending, and Otto prepared to confront him with Peter Parker, Johnny Storm, and the others backing him up.
• Johnny Storm interrupted Peter Parker and offered Otto advice about handling his first mission.

The Avengers confronted several official agencies at Doctor Lizard’s sewer hideout, and Otto went in to arrest him while the Avengers kept the agencies at bay. Doctor Lizard attacked Otto with enough force to send him flying, leaving the arrest unresolved.

• Johnny Storm gave Otto advice about extraordinary incidents and mocked him when he struggled to keep up.
• Doctor Lizard continued developing a way to turn ordinary people into Lizard Men while planning to build up his followers.
• The Avengers and several official agencies arrived at Doctor Lizard’s hideout, and Peter Parker and Johnny Storm demanded that the agencies stand down.
• When official agencies sent operatives toward the ground, the Avengers killed them with Explosive Flames, and the agencies stopped intervening.
• Otto entered the sewer and confronted Doctor Lizard, who vanished from sight and struck him hard enough to send him flying despite his Mechanical Tentacles blocking the blow.

Doctor Lizard overwhelmed Otto and left him unconscious and gravely injured, but Pietro and Barry Allen rescued him while Peter Parker struck back. Robet arrived and realized Otto’s condition might require the Saiyan’s help.

• Doctor Lizard struck Otto repeatedly, overcame the Mechanical Tentacles, and left Otto unconscious and covered in blood.
• Tony Stark received the Mechanical Tentacles’ distress signal, and Pietro and Barry Allen rushed into the underground space.
• Pietro and Barry Allen attacked Doctor Lizard while he held Otto, then carried Otto away and contacted Robet for help.
• Peter Parker arrived and punched Doctor Lizard into a wall after Doctor Lizard failed to catch the speedsters.
• Robet arrived, saw Otto’s injuries, and wondered how he had ended up acting as a healer.

Robet saved Otto, whose first supernatural battle left him unable to face further danger, while Johnny Storm’s attack on Doctor Lizard accidentally spread a mutagen that transformed nearby people. Robet pursued Doctor Lizard and killed him, leaving the infected Lizard Men’s cure uncertain.

• Robet healed Otto, who woke in a panic, and concluded that Otto was not ready to fight in supernatural incidents.
• Johnny Storm attacked Doctor Lizard with Explosive Flames, triggering an airborne spread of the Lizard Men mutagen, so Robet evacuated the Avengers and warned Tony Stark to develop an antidote.
• Clark froze the surrounding district to contain the gas, while the newly transformed Lizard Men attacked the ice and Martian Manhunter subdued them mentally.
• Robet tracked Doctor Lizard to a Sewage Treatment Plant as Doctor Lizard planned to escape and expand his experiments.
• Doctor Lizard tried to stop Robet by claiming only he could reverse the transformations, but Robet killed him with a Ki Blast.

After Robet defeated Doctor Lizard, Tony Stark and Martian Manhunter restored the infected residents and protected their memories while the Avengers handled the aftermath. The Earth Dimension then grew stronger after Ancient One arranged for the Nosti Dimension to merge with it, attracting the attention of powerful beings beyond the dimension, and Ancient One appeared before Robet and Clark to explain her role.

• Robet killed Doctor Lizard and the infected official-agency Lizard Men, and Tony Stark reverse-engineered a cure that Martian Manhunter used to restore the residents.
• Tony Stark had Martian Manhunter erase the residents’ memories of becoming Lizard Men, while Steve handled the angry official agencies and Nick Fury welcomed their losses.
• The Avengers considered how to help Otto recover from his trauma, and Robet left the matter to time and the others.
• Ancient One merged the Nosti Dimension into the Earth Dimension to strengthen it and help patch its gap, but the Time Stone could not reveal the dimension’s future.
• Powerful beings beyond the Earth Dimension noticed its increased strength and began discussing cooperation and new ways to exploit it.
• Robet and Clark sensed the dimensional disturbance, and Ancient One opened a Portal and admitted that she had caused it.

Robet and Clark learned that the Earth Dimension had grown stronger without repairing its breach, and Ancient One warned that dimensional powers would soon threaten Earth before disappearing. As Robet alerted Constantine and the Avengers, Martian Manhunter revealed that Tony Stark’s parents had left Earth aboard a spaceship, and Constantine began preparing for the coming crisis.

• Ancient One told Robet and Clark that the Earth Dimension had absorbed power from the Nosti Dimension but still needed missing rule-based powers to repair its breach, then vanished after warning them of incoming dimensional threats.
• Robet warned Constantine that Ancient One had disappeared and urged him not to underestimate the danger; Constantine eagerly expanded his intelligence network and contacted Hellboy.
• Robet informed the Avengers, while Tony Stark and Martian Manhunter discussed the rising frequency of extraordinary incidents and the need to prepare weapons for them.
• Martian Manhunter told Tony Stark that he had seen Tony’s parents leave Earth in a spaceship, leaving Tony shaken by the revelation.
• Constantine began investigating the dimensional crisis and considered using Hellboy’s bloodline to draw out an opportunity.

Constantine lured Hellboy into a prepared trap and used him as bait to draw hell creatures into the Earth Dimension. After a mysterious force expelled Hellboy from the Hell Dimension, Constantine restrained the arriving demons with chains stained with the Blood of the Son.

• Constantine used a magical illusion to shake off Hellboy's colleagues and transported Hellboy's soul to the Hell Dimension.
• Hellboy grew stronger in the Hell Dimension, attracting the attention of its creatures and a mysterious observer.
• The mysterious observer expelled Hellboy back to the Earth Dimension, while hell creatures crossed through Constantine's formation after him.
• Constantine revealed that he had used Hellboy as bait, prompting Hellboy to demand help against the surrounding enemies.
• Constantine's prepared chains bound the hell creatures and burned them, and he explained that the chains were stained with the Blood of the Son.

Constantine interrogated captured hell creatures about which powers in Hell had noticed the changes on Earth, while Robet warned Kara and the others that a dimensional crisis was coming. As Robet left campus, he sensed Diana waiting above the clouds, her divine aura now strong enough to pressure him.

• Hellboy retreated from Constantine, escaped the forest, and contacted his military organization, vowing to cut ties with Constantine.
• Constantine tortured the hell creatures into answering questions about Hell’s powerful beings and who might move against Earth.
• Robet informed Kara and the others about the dimensional changes, while Otto gave Johnny Storm research materials on the Artificial Sun.
• Kara offered to train with Robet, but he told her to focus on preparing for the coming crisis.
• Robet sensed Diana in the sky and found her waiting above the clouds, radiating a powerful divine aura.

Diana returned from Themyscira with greatly increased strength, and she and Robet fought to test and refine their power as the Earth Dimension’s growth raised fears of an approaching crisis. Meanwhile, Constantine sent Hellboy back to Hell, drawing hell creatures through a new gate into a military base, where both sides hesitated over the demon soldiers.

• Diana told Robet she had found the ruins of the gods in Themyscira and used them to raise her power, then warned that a mature Earth Dimension consciousness might rule or influence life on Earth.
• Robet and Diana sparred, with Diana gradually increasing her strength and parrying his attacks while he grew stronger through the battle.
• Clark saw Robet and Diana fighting, returned to warn Lana, and arranged for the Kents and the Danvers to evacuate to Savage Island if necessary.
• The Pope sensed an ominous change, failed to reach Ancient One, and drew Faith Power from the cross as he prepared for a possible invasion.
• Constantine sent Hellboy’s soul to Hell again; after Hellboy returned to Earth, hell creatures followed through the gate and paused when they saw the demon soldiers.
• Constantine appeared at the military base and complained that his latest attempt to draw more hell creatures had attracted only a few.

Hellboy confronted Constantine after being used as bait again, then reluctantly sought him out to negotiate. While waiting in a supernatural bar, Hellboy encountered a woman pursued by a demon and uncovered a mission involving the demon, leaving him with a captive he could question and potentially use as leverage with Constantine.

• Constantine captured nearby hell creatures with his chains and taunted Hellboy, who could do nothing to stop him from disappearing.
• Hellboy told his comrades he would contact Constantine, and military leaders eventually allowed him to leave after debating the danger and their distrust of him.
• Hellboy waited for Constantine at a supernatural bar, where a terrified woman arrived and a demon claimed she was his prey.
• The demon mistook Hellboy for someone involved in a mission, prompting Hellboy to realize he had become bait again and challenge him.
• Hellboy lifted the woman and smashed the bar’s floor, collapsing the building and killing most of the supernatural beings who had stayed.
• Hellboy spared the pursuing demon so he could interrogate him and possibly use what he learned to bargain with Constantine.

Hellboy rescued a woman from a Demon, then fought off more monsters drawn to her before reuniting with Constantine. At Constantine’s hideout, the woman woke and began to learn who Hellboy was as Constantine asked why Demons were after her.

• Hellboy questioned the wounded Demon, but a power from the Hell Dimension killed it before it could reveal its plan.
• Hellboy carried the unconscious woman away, fought off a group of low-level monsters, and suspected she was important to the Hell Dimension’s scheme.
• Constantine appeared and agreed not to use Hellboy as bait, though he secretly knew their connection to the Hell Dimension had been blocked.
• Constantine took Hellboy and the woman to a separate hiding place, where he woke her with cigarette smoke.
• The frightened woman recoiled from Hellboy, and Constantine explained that he was a Demon affiliated with the Military before asking why Demons had targeted her.