Chapter Summaries

Hancock’s chaotic attempt to stop a bank robbery caused civilian casualties and left him shaken, so he flew to a forest to practice his powers. There, he interrupted Kyle’s attempt to shoot Brandon, an alien child who had killed Caitlyn’s mother.

• Hancock crashed through a bank wall, dodged the robbers’ gunfire, and accidentally left bystanders exposed to the bullets.
• Hancock killed the robbers with overwhelming force, then fled after seeing the casualties and hearing people criticize his actions.
• Hancock decided to practice his abilities away from people and flew into a forest.
• Kyle led Brandon into the woods to hunt while recalling how Brandon had killed Caitlyn’s mother after his powers awakened.
• Kyle fired his hunting rifle at Brandon, but Hancock appeared and stopped the bullet, glaring furiously at Kyle.

Hancock intervened when Kyle tried to shoot Brandon, but Brandon killed Kyle and badly wounded Hancock before destroying his home and rejecting Tori’s last appeal for his affection. After Hancock recovered, he set out to find Brandon, who demanded Caitlyn submit to him, only to hesitate when her thrown doll accidentally sent scissors into his body.

• Hancock stopped Kyle from shooting Brandon, but Brandon killed Kyle with his heat vision and attacked Hancock.
• Brandon defeated Hancock in a fight, piercing his chest with a laser, then answered Kyle’s phone and heard Tori report that Brandon had killed someone.
• Brandon returned home, destroyed the house, killed two responding police officers, and rejected Tori’s embrace when she tried to stab him with a piece of iron.
• Brandon dropped Tori from the sky and left, while Hancock revived without injuries and began searching for him.
• Brandon threatened Caitlyn and demanded that she become his slave or die, but he hesitated after her doll knocked scissors into his body.

Hancock lured the rampaging Brandon away from civilians and fought him, but Brandon’s strength overwhelmed him. Kara arrived and confronted Brandon after learning he had killed his adoptive parents, and Robet restrained Brandon before he could finish threatening her.

• Brandon attacked Hancock with his heat vision, and Hancock led him toward an uninhabited area to protect nearby people.
• Hancock turned to punch Brandon into a crater, but Brandon emerged with a powerful laser and made Hancock consider retreating.
• Brandon declared himself a god intent on conquering Earth and threatened Clark, while Kara arrived and challenged his arrogance.
• Brandon admitted he had killed his adoptive parents, enraging Kara, and began threatening her.
• Robet stomped Brandon into the ground and bound his limbs with rings of light, while Kara complained that Robet had taken the fight from her.

Robet crushed Brandon, but the Hell Dimension seized Brandon’s remnant soul amid a tremor that shook the entire dimension. Lucifer revealed that he had caused Earth’s strange misfortunes and began remaking Brandon as a future Hell Lord.

• Robet dismissed Kara’s theory that Brandon was Kryptonian and crushed Brandon’s head while Hancock watched in fear.
• Brandon’s body began regenerating, so Robet blasted it with a Ki Blast, but Brandon’s remnant soul survived.
• The Hell Dimension’s power made the Earth Dimension tremble, erased Robet’s soul attack, and carried off Brandon’s remnant soul along with millions of other souls.
• Robet recognized Lucifer’s voice and realized Lucifer had caused Earth’s random misfortunes before the dimensional disturbance cut off his observations.
• Lucifer revealed that the Hell Dimension consciousness had taken many of the souls and transformed Brandon’s remnant soul into a horned, tailed demon he intended to raise to Hell Lord level.

Earth's bad-luck incident ended after the Earth Dimension settled, though Clark and the others waited to confirm it was safe. Robet brought the amnesiac Hancock to Avengers Base to investigate his identity, where Tony Stark discovered Hancock had never heard of Iron Man or the Avengers.

• Clark stopped a runaway bus after its brakes and steering unexpectedly recovered, and he continued surveying Earth while the bus passengers thanked him and their driver.
• Robet questioned Hancock, who explained that he had woken up with superpowers and no memories, and promised to help find out who he was.
• Robet and Kara found no more bad-luck incidents, and Robet confirmed that the Earth Dimension had become calm before informing Clark and Tony Stark that the crisis was over.
• Robet and Kara returned to Hancock and took him to Avengers Base, concealing their route because they did not yet know his origins.
• Tony Stark offered to help Hancock recover his memories, but Hancock asked what the Avengers were and failed to recognize Iron Man, leaving Tony Stark dismayed.

After recovering his memories of Mary, Hancock learned that she had left to protect him and asked Robet to find her. Robet located her in Europe and took Hancock there, while Diana sensed Robet’s arrival and wondered why he had come.

• Tony Stark ordered Jarvis to scan Hancock, and the scan revealed that Hancock’s strength was still increasing.
• Jarvis uncovered Hancock’s identity and mentioned his wife, Mary, prompting Hancock to recover memories of their life together and her departure.
• Hancock told Robet and the others that Mary shared his powers, and Robet used his qi sense to locate her in Europe.
• Robet avoided explaining his hesitation to Kara, then took Hancock to Europe after Kara warned him not to expect to return.
• Hancock felt his strength draining in Europe and realized Mary was nearby, while Diana sensed Robet’s arrival and mistakenly thought he had come to see her.

Robet brought Diana and Hancock to Mary, but Diana suspected that Hancock and Mary’s powers were fading because of a curse tied to their relationship. After Hancock was injured defending Mary, Robet and Diana took them away to discuss what could be done.

• Diana joined Robet and Hancock, and Robet explained Hancock and Mary’s situation to her as they traveled to the café.
• Diana said she had never encountered powers fading this way and suspected a mysterious curse was responsible.
• Hancock rushed in to defend Mary from a man who approached her, but the man’s chair strike broke Hancock’s arm after his powers had faded.
• Mary urged Hancock to leave so he would not be hurt again, but Hancock refused to abandon her.
• Robet frightened the man with an illusion, then he and Diana took Hancock and Mary away to talk privately.

Robet observed Hancock and Mary in the wilderness to investigate the curse that stripped them of their powers whenever they stayed together. After spotting a warning sign before a dangerous accident, he brought them back to the Avengers Base, where Tony Stark noticed they still had no extraordinary aura.

• Robet took Hancock and Mary to the wilderness and proposed observing Hancock until another accident revealed something about the curse.
• Hancock refused to separate from Mary despite his worsening arm injury, while Robet and Diana watched for changes and Kara grew irritated at Robet’s absence.
• During the night, Hancock’s aura briefly collapsed before a centipede bit his injured arm and caused it to swell and turn purple.
• Robet healed Hancock and explained that he had detected an abnormal reaction just before the accident, then asked Hancock and Mary to join the Avengers in exchange for his help.
• Robet returned Hancock and Mary to the Avengers Base, where Kara confronted him and Tony Stark noticed that neither of them had an extraordinary aura.

Robet arranged a device that separated Hancock and Mary whenever Hancock's curse threatened his life, and the couple joined the Avengers. After the worldwide unlucky incidents eased, Batman remained concerned that Joker was preparing a major move in Gotham.

• Robet asked Tony Stark to make life-monitoring watches that would separate Hancock and Mary when Hancock's life aura faded, and Tony built the devices.
• The watches sent Hancock and Mary flying apart; Hancock regained his powers, survived a boulder striking his head, and healed as his aura rose.
• Hancock and Mary agreed to join the Avengers, and Tony promised to study their condition and develop improved equipment.
• Robet left Avengers Base with Kara, while Hancock and Mary concealed Diana's involvement when Tony questioned them.
• Batman learned that natural disasters had stopped but Gotham's man-made chaos continued, and he ordered criminals captured rather than intervening himself.
• Batman recalled Joker's return and inactivity during the recent disasters, and suspected that Joker was preparing a major scheme.

Joker struggled with memories and an identity that seemed to belong to someone else before Ra's al Ghul came to Arkham Asylum seeking his help. Ra's captured Joker after Joker exposed his identity and learned he was Batman, then began torturing him, unaware that the Dark Power might be dangerous to use against him.

• Joker wrestled with his identity and missing memories as his laughter spread through Arkham Asylum.
• Ra's al Ghul sent a Shadow Alien to investigate the asylum, then entered Joker's room and offered to help him recover his memories.
• Joker recognized Ra's al Ghul, evaded his shadow tentacles, and identified the power of the mask and the Dark Dimension.
• Joker read Ra's's memories and discovered that the playboy was Batman, prompting Ra's to engulf him in shadows and capture him.
• Ra's interrogated Joker in darkness and sent a black tentacle into his mouth to torture him, while Joker warned that Ra's should not have let the power merge into his body.

Joker absorbed Dark Power from the Dark Dimension and fought Ra's al Ghul, disrupting Ra's plan to steal Batman's Ikka Mask. As Joker and Ra's al Ghul clashed inside a growing domain of Dark Power, the Ikka Mask warned Batman that multiple sources of the power had appeared nearby.

• Joker used his body to absorb the surrounding Dark Power, startling Ra's al Ghul.
• Ra's al Ghul's history and plan to steal Batman's Ikka Mask were revealed as Joker attacked him and overwhelmed him with unpredictable fighting techniques.
• Joker mocked Ra's al Ghul until Ra's al Ghul unleashed Dark Power, which Joker absorbed to grow stronger.
• Joker charged Ra's al Ghul again, and their Dark Power destroyed the house as they fought within a special domain.
• The Ikka Mask warned Batman that multiple sources of Dark Dimension power had appeared nearby.

Batman learned that multiple Dark Dimension powers were active in Gotham and confronted the Joker and Ra's al Ghul, who were both wielding that power. The three-way battle left Batman struggling to protect Wayne Enterprises as the Joker and Ra's al Ghul drove the fight toward its properties.

• General Ika warned Batman that he had sensed more than one Dark Dimension power, and Batman discovered that the Joker had escaped Arkham Asylum.
• Batman and butler Finn traced the powers to Gotham, and Batman rushed there wearing the Ikka Mask.
• Batman found the Joker fighting Ra's al Ghul and realized the Joker could use Dark Dimension power without a mask.
• Ra's al Ghul revealed Batman's identity as Bruce, while the Joker said he already knew it and exposed Ra's al Ghul's plan to take Ika.
• The Joker attacked Batman and Ra's al Ghul at once, turning the confrontation into a three-way battle.
• The Joker steered the battle toward Wayne Enterprises' industrial properties, and Ra's al Ghul joined him in pinning Batman down and destroying them.

Batman struggled to stop Ra's al Ghul and Joker from destroying Wayne Enterprises while Finn sent a hollow Iron Man suit into the fight. The suit failed to subdue Joker, and Jarvis alerted Tony Stark that his rights had been infringed.

• Finn watched Batman's battle from the Batcave, worried about the damage to Wayne Enterprises, and sent an empty Iron Man suit into the fight.
• Joker continued steering the battle toward Wayne Enterprises properties and rejected Ra's al Ghul's offer to cooperate against Batman.
• The Iron Man suit confronted Ra's al Ghul and Joker, but Joker resisted its attack and Ra's al Ghul discovered Tony Stark was not inside it.
• Batman charged Ra's al Ghul while ordering the suit to hold Joker back, using his knowledge of Ra's al Ghul's mask to seek an opening.
• Jarvis received footage of the bootleg Iron Man suit and informed Tony Stark that his rights had been infringed.

Tony Stark brought Martian Manhunter and Morbius to Gotham after discovering that Joker wielded Dark Dimension power without a mask. They subdued Joker and Ra's al Ghul, while Batman's fight and Joker's destruction left Gotham's Wayne Enterprises employees dead.

• Tony Stark recognized Shadowkhan power in the video and flew to Gotham with Martian Manhunter and Morbius to investigate.
• Joker destroyed Batman's remotely controlled armor, turned its Arc Reactor into a bomb, and demolished a Wayne Enterprises building.
• Ra's al Ghul urged Batman to hand over the Ikka Mask in exchange for help stopping Joker, while Joker threatened Batman and attacked him.
• Tony Stark arrived with Martian Manhunter and Morbius, and Martian Manhunter swiftly incapacitated Joker.
• Ra's al Ghul tried to flee, but Morbius intercepted and defeated him.

Tony Stark’s team defeated Joker and Ra’s al Ghul and prepared to take them away, prompting Batman to challenge the Avengers’ authority and methods. Tony exposed Batman as Bruce Wayne and left with the prisoners, while Batman remained behind to face the consequences of his exposed identity and the Gotham attacks.

• Tony Stark watched Morbius defeat Ra’s al Ghul and remove the Alien Mask, while Martian Manhunter found Joker’s memories too chaotic to read.
• Batman objected when Tony Stark, Martian Manhunter, and Morbius prepared to take Joker and Ra’s al Ghul away, arguing that criminals should face judgment under the law.
• Tony Stark criticized Batman’s approach to Gotham’s criminals and defended the Avengers’ authority, while Ra’s al Ghul revealed that Batman was Bruce Wayne.
• Tony Stark realized Batman had impersonated him using armor, and Batman admitted it before Tony joked about licensing fees and threatened a lawsuit.
• Tony Stark left with Martian Manhunter and Morbius, taking Joker and Ra’s al Ghul while leaving Batman to deal with Gotham’s losses and his exposed identity.

The Avengers captured Joker and Ra's al Ghul and discussed Joker’s Dark Dimension power and Batman’s mask. Ra's al Ghul activated a cloned body to escape death, revived himself in a Lazarus Pit, and vowed to seek revenge.

• Peter Parker and the Avengers examined the unconscious Joker and Ra's al Ghul while Tony Stark speculated that Joker’s black markings had given him Dark Dimension power.
• Morbius revealed that Bruce Wayne was Batman, and Tony Stark decided to let Batman keep his mask while joking about suing him over his armor.
• Tony Stark ordered Joker and Ra's al Ghul placed in separate sealed rooms for interrogation.
• Ra's al Ghul pretended to be unconscious, then used his trump card and died, causing the Lazarus Pit’s power to rapidly age his body into bones.
• Ra's al Ghul awoke in a cloned body in Central Asia, entered the Lazarus Pit to regain strength, and vowed to outlast the Avengers and Batman.

The Avengers investigated Ra's al Ghul’s sudden death, then discovered that the Joker held two souls and that one had been altered with dimensional powers. Robet questioned the unmarked soul about its identity as it began to fade.

• Martian Manhunter failed to find Ra's al Ghul’s soul, and Tony Stark had Jarvis replay the footage before directing the Avengers to investigate the Joker.
• Robet arrived, examined Ra's al Ghul’s remains, and recognized the imprisoned Joker as the same Joker who had previously died while possessed by Mephisto.
• Robet and Martian Manhunter found no Hell Dimension aura on the Joker, though Robet sensed that his core ki contained more than one presence.
• Robet used an incantation to draw two souls from the Joker’s body: one with black facial patterns and one resembling the Joker’s original appearance.
• The black-patterned Joker accused the other soul of adding dimensional powers to his body, while the other denied being the Joker and began fading with a green surge.

Robet and the Martian Manhunter identified the Joker’s other soul as a Skrull who had impersonated him, prompting the Avengers to worry about Skrull infiltrators. As the Martian Manhunter searched the Skrull’s memories, Robet destroyed the Joker’s soul, and the Dark Dimension began claiming the Skrull.

• The Martian Manhunter recognized the Joker’s green soul as a Skrull and explained that Skrulls could shapeshift and copy memories, while Super Skrulls could also copy abilities.
• Robet concluded that Carol had likely been deceived by the Skrulls, and the Avengers discussed how difficult it would be to detect an impostor.
• The Skrull, tormented by the Dark Dimension’s power, tried to reach the Joker and then attempted to kill himself, but Robet restrained him and asked the Martian Manhunter to search his memories.
• The Joker regained his memories and threatened to keep the Skrull’s information from them, but Robet destroyed the Joker’s soul before he could finish speaking.
• The Dark Dimension began pulling at the Skrull’s soul after the Joker’s life aura vanished.

Robet and Martian Manhunter learned that Skrulls were operating on Earth, but the Dark Dimension seized the Skrull before they could uncover his identities. Unable to contact Captain Marvel, Robet went to confront Nick Fury at S.H.I.E.L.D.

• The Dark Dimension overpowered Robet, swallowed the Skrull's soul, and left behind a powerful force that vanished after making new arrangements on Earth.
• Martian Manhunter recovered from the encounter and told Tony Stark that over a hundred Skrulls had met the captured one, targeting influential people without extraordinary powers.
• Robet asked whether the Skrull's memories mentioned Carol, then left to contact her after learning she had a connection to Supergirl.
• Jor-El tried to reach Carol through the Quantum Communication Device, but her contact information no longer existed.
• Robet rushed to Nick Fury's S.H.I.E.L.D. office, where Fury ordered the agents, Coulson, and Rumlow to leave them alone.

Robet discovered that Carol could not be reached and suspected the Skrulls had done something to her, then warned Kara and Clark about the danger. At Avengers Base, Tony Stark and Martian Manhunter used Skrull genes to remove Venom’s weaknesses, while the team continued seeking information about the Skrulls.

• Robet checked Nick Fury’s ki, asked him to contact Carol, and left after the Quantum Pager failed to reach her.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to check on Hulk replication research and Dr. Banner, then reflected on the Avengers and the Tesseract incident.
• Robet told Kara about Carol and the Skrulls, prompting Kara to begin training harder.
• Robet warned Clark to be careful when interacting with people as Superman because Skrulls might copy his abilities.
• Tony Stark and Martian Manhunter used Skrull genes to remove Venom’s weaknesses, and Venom celebrated the successful evolution.