Chapter Summaries

As the Avengers battled Thanos’s forces, Little Spider aided T’Challa, Strange freed Banner from Ebony Maw’s Dark Dimension, and Barton lost the Infinity Gauntlet to Ebony Maw. Ebony Maw put on the gauntlet and prepared to use its four Stones, but Strange sensed an approaching threat and pulled nearby allies into the Mirror Dimension.

• Little Spider joined T’Challa’s fight and helped the Wakandans hold back the enemy forces.
• Strange broke into Ebony Maw’s Dark Dimension with Captain America guarding him and freed Banner, who emerged as Hulk and attacked the Raging Giant Apes.
• Iron Man asked Strange if this was the winning future, but Strange said none of the futures he saw included the fighter who had beaten Thanos.
• Wasp left Barton to search for her husband, and Ebony Maw seized the Infinity Gauntlet and hurled Barton into the battlefield.
• Gamora rescued Barton and warned Nebula and Quill that Ebony Maw had the gauntlet; Ebony Maw put it on, saying its four Stones would be enough for his lord.
• A red light flashed across the horizon, Ebony Maw teleported away with the Space Stone, and Strange opened the Mirror Dimension to pull nearby allies inside.

Heisenberg defeated Thanos and devastated the battlefield, then spoke with the wounded titan about his failed ideals and the meaning of his victory. As the Avengers watched, Heisenberg prepared to grant Thanos the death he requested, leaving their confrontation at its end.

• Heisenberg battered Thanos through space and drove him into Earth, creating a vast crater and killing or incapacitating most of Thanos's army.
• Ebony Maw decided Thanos was no longer worthy of the Infinity Stones and vanished with the Gauntlet.
• Heisenberg rescued the injured Thanos from the crater and discussed his past victory, his plan to reshape the universe, and his belief that only Heisenberg shared his burden.
• Wanda tried to kill Thanos, but Heisenberg restrained her and insisted she watch him die rather than take his life herself.
• The Avengers emerged from the Mirror Dimension and watched as Thanos asked Heisenberg to kill him; Heisenberg acknowledged him as a worthy opponent and blamed his defeat on failing to protect the changes he had made.

Heisenberg killed Thanos, then upgraded his Kryptonian bloodline and body before defeating Ebony Maw and recovering the Infinity Gauntlet. Captain Marvel destroyed the spatial rift threatening Earth, and the reunited Avengers celebrated as Carol asked how Thanos had died.

• Little Spider questioned Heisenberg's claim about his worthiest opponent, then fell silent under the Avengers' stares.
• Heisenberg twisted Thanos's head and killed him, then spotted Ebony Maw attacking with a spatial rift.
• Heisenberg spent Origin Matter to upgrade his bloodline and body, dodged the rift, and severed Ebony Maw's hand before killing him with Heat Vision.
• Captain Marvel arrived and used her Nova Force to shatter the spatial rift before it reached Earth.
• The Avengers celebrated as Heisenberg brought the Infinity Gauntlet to Carol, who asked how Thanos had died.

After Thanos’s defeat, Captain Marvel learned that Heisenberg had made the snap that restored Earth and Asgard, leaving the rest of the universe dead. She demanded the missing Mind Stone and Time Stone so she could snap again, but the Avengers challenged her right to act.

• Tony explained that the past Nebula’s memories had exposed the Avengers’ plans to Thanos, and Heisenberg handed the Infinity Gauntlet to Tony before flying away.
• Tony told Carol Danvers that Heisenberg had overwhelmingly beaten Thanos, and Carol realized the snap had already been made.
• Carol found two Stones missing from the Gauntlet and revealed that the dead across the Shi'ar Empire had not returned.
• Carol demanded the Mind Stone and Time Stone so she could restore the rest of the universe, while Peter, Wanda, Valkyrie, and Black Panther questioned her identity and authority.
• Captain America vouched for Carol as Fury’s old friend, but Wanda challenged her for arriving late during Vision’s death, Thanos’s snap, and the battle.

Wanda confronted Captain Marvel over her absence during Thanos’s attack and left after Captain America calmed her. Captain Marvel persuaded the heroes to help restore the vanished life across the universe, while Heisenberg retrieved Thanos’s sword, obtained a fourth-dimensional pocket, and went to Los Angeles; Captain Marvel set out to find him.

• Wanda accused Captain Marvel of abandoning Earth, but Captain America intervened, and Wanda dispersed her Chaos Power and flew away in tears.
• Captain Marvel apologized for missing Thanos’s attack and argued that Earth should use the Infinity Gauntlet to resurrect the vanished beings across the universe.
• Iron Man agreed to help borrow the remaining two Stones, and Captain Marvel realized Heisenberg had taken them with him.
• Heisenberg recovered Thanos’s double-bladed greatsword in Washington and bought a Klein Dimension Embedding Device that let him store the sword and Stones in his pocket.
• Heisenberg flew to Los Angeles to rest, and Captain Marvel learned his location from Tony and set out to find him.

After New York’s destruction, Tony focused on strengthening Earth while the Avengers arranged shelter for displaced people. In Los Angeles, Captain Marvel confronted Heisenberg at the club where he was holding hostages, and their standoff ended with him ordering her to sit.

• Tony dismissed Captain Marvel’s concerns about alien casualties and prioritized rebuilding New York and arming Earth.
• Groot and Rocket agreed to stop Thor from seeking revenge on Superman if he woke up still angry.
• Captain America asked T’Challa to shelter the heroes and alien pirates while they hunted the scattered remnants of Thanos’s forces, and T’Challa agreed.
• Heisenberg relaxed at a Los Angeles club with hostages and coerced a police officer into paying for his meal before news footage identified him as Superman.
• The news report revealed Heisenberg’s role in the Battle of New York, and the two women he had rescued celebrated him as Superman.
• Captain Marvel arrived, demanded that Heisenberg release the hostages, and said she had another matter to handle; Heisenberg ordered her to sit.

Heisenberg refused to lend Captain Marvel the Infinity Stones, arguing that Earth had earned its victory and that the universe’s survivors had not acted to reclaim their loved ones. When Captain Marvel threatened to take the Stones by force, Heisenberg fought back and seized both her hands, carrying her toward the sun.

• Captain Marvel demanded that Heisenberg lend her the Infinity Stones so she could revive the universe’s vanished people, but he refused.
• Heisenberg told Captain Marvel that he had deliberately revived only Earth’s people and argued that Earth had earned that reward through its own efforts.
• Captain Marvel threatened to take the Stones and punched Heisenberg, who caught her wrist and carried her out of the atmosphere.
• Heisenberg and Captain Marvel fought in space, but her Binary energy blocked his punches and Heat Vision.
• Heisenberg grabbed Captain Marvel’s other hand and flew toward the sun at Mach 260,000, preventing her from using her spatial-jump ability to escape.

Heisenberg defeated and killed Captain Marvel after dragging her into the sun, then displayed her body and Thanos’s on towering seats on the moon as a warning to future invaders. After returning to Earth to check on two rescued girls, he left Nick Fury determined to confront him over Captain Marvel’s death.

• Heisenberg overpowered Captain Marvel near the sun, destroyed her defenses with Heat Vision, and killed her on Mercury.
• Heisenberg carried Captain Marvel’s corpse to the moon, built more than eighty enormous seats, and placed her body on one as a warning to the universe.
• Heisenberg took Thanos’s corpse from a military base and placed it beside Captain Marvel’s, then reflected on why their approaches to peace and order had failed.
• Heisenberg returned to Los Angeles, reassured two rescued girls at the police department, and threatened the officers to keep them safe.
• Nick Fury and Hill watched footage of Captain Marvel’s death and display on the moon, and Nick Fury said he had to see Heisenberg.

The Avengers debated how to respond to Heisenberg killing Captain Marvel and agreed to focus on sending him and the Infinity Stones back to his universe. Tony then confronted Heisenberg, who explained that he killed Carol because she planned to use the Snap in a way that could threaten him and would continue trying to take the Stones.

• The Avengers reviewed Veronica’s footage and argued over Captain Marvel’s death, with Captain America condemning Heisenberg’s methods while Natasha and Barton questioned Carol’s record on Earth.
• Tony proposed preparing defenses and recalling Thor and Wanda, but Banner urged the team to prioritize developing the Quantum Tunnel and time machine to send Heisenberg and the Stones home.
• Scott agreed to contact Hank Pym, while the Avengers reacted with shock to Heisenberg using Carol’s corpse and Thanos as warnings to aliens.
• Tony went to meet Heisenberg and asked Scott to oversee the Quantum Tunnel and time-machine work, which Banner estimated could take two days with Hank’s help.
• Heisenberg left a villa after punishing its owner and son, then joined Tony in his Audi and asked him to pay the actress he had spent the night with.
• Heisenberg told Tony that Carol’s planned Snap could have erased him and that she would keep trying to take the Infinity Stones, so he considered her death necessary for his safety and Earth’s protection.

Heisenberg explained his brutal vision of justice to Tony, who was shaken enough to propose restarting the Superhero Registration Act. Wanda then rushed to Heisenberg to ask for the Mind Stone so she could revive Vision, but he refused and used the Mind Stone to calm her.

• Heisenberg told Tony that he intended to control or eliminate criminals and warned that he would leave once the Quantum Tunnel was complete.
• Tony returned to camp and told Banner that Heisenberg’s arguments had convinced him to consider restarting the Superhero Registration Act.
• Tony showed the Avengers a recording of his conversation with Heisenberg, but Wanda abruptly flew off after realizing Heisenberg had the Mind Stone.
• Heisenberg was watching a movie with a model in Los Angeles when Wanda broke into the theater and demanded the Mind Stone.
• Heisenberg took Wanda to the Hollywood sign, showed her the Mind Stone, refused to give it to her, and pressed the scepter against her chest until she calmed down.

Heisenberg tried to calm Wanda with the Mind Stone after she came seeking a way to revive Vision, but her grief and chaos magic repeatedly overwhelmed its influence. He explained that the Stone had unlocked her innate power and connected her to Chthon, then knocked her unconscious when she erupted again.

• Heisenberg used the Mind Stone to calm Wanda, who had come to ask for it so she could revive Vision, but the Stone did not make her sleepy.
• Heisenberg explained that the Mind Stone could not remain in Wanda’s universe, and Wanda lost control, destroying the Hollywood sign and attacking him with chaos magic.
• Heisenberg subdued Wanda again and told her that the Mind Stone had unlocked her innate power and connected her to Chthon, warning that each loss of control brought her closer to darkness.
• Wanda concluded that her love for Vision had come from the Mind Stone, threatened Heisenberg, and blasted him through the Hollywood Hills.
• Heisenberg tore the Mind Stone free and punched Wanda unconscious.

Heisenberg subdued Wanda after she attacked him for the Mind Stone, then killed Nick Fury when Fury approached and was mistaken for a familiar enemy. Hill reported that Wanda survived but Fury was dead, prompting the Avengers to rush the Quantum Tunnel so they could send Heisenberg home.

• Natasha contacted Fury, who said he was following Wanda and Heisenberg toward the Hollywood Hills to prevent a conflict.
• Heisenberg knocked Wanda unconscious and considered what to do with her, knowing Chthon’s influence made her dangerous.
• Fury arrived with Hill and tried to reassure Heisenberg, but Heisenberg killed him with Heat Vision after mistaking him for an enemy from his universe.
• Wanda woke and began gathering scarlet energy, but Heisenberg knocked her unconscious again and sent her toward Hill before flying away.
• Hill told the Avengers that Wanda was alive but Fury was dead, so Tony ordered the Quantum Tunnel completed that night and Rogers went to find Hank Pym.
• Natasha told Barton that Heisenberg had called himself Injustice Superman, and she concluded that the name fit.

Heisenberg returned to his own timeline, where The Ancient One chose to join his cause and favored a future shaped by his influence. In the future timeline, Thor woke and the Avengers argued over Stark’s proposed superhero registration accords, while Gamora told Stark he reminded her of her dead father.

• Heisenberg left the restored Quantum Tunnel and returned to his courtyard, where The Ancient One retrieved the Eye of Agamotto and revealed she would train Pietro and Wanda instead of Strange.
• The Ancient One chose to join Heisenberg’s Justice League, and they agreed that she would continue living and help shape the future.
• Thor woke in the future timeline, and Rocket told him that Heisenberg had really beaten him before bringing him to the Avengers camp.
• Stark presented superhero registration accords, and he and Captain America argued over whether security justified restricting heroes’ freedom.
• Thor angrily left the meeting to the Guardians of the Galaxy, and Gamora told Stark that he reminded her of her dead father.

Tony won the support of most of Earth's superheroes and named their new organization the Illuminati, while Captain America retired. Elsewhere, Heisenberg's influence continued to grow, and Thanos ordered Loki to return to Earth with the Chitauri and recover the Mind Stone.

• Valkyrie, Black Panther, Strange, and Banner backed Tony's plan, while Captain America agreed not to oppose it and left to return the Stones and Mjolnir before retiring.
• Tony proposed the name Illuminati for the new group, and the others accepted his plan.
• Daredevil advanced in the New York mayoral election as Bullseye and Eliza helped turn senators into supporters, while Crossbones headed to Europe to investigate Hydra.
• Loki returned to Thanos with the Space Stone and explained that Thor had taken the Mind Stone.
• Thanos sent Loki and the Chitauri fleet toward Earth under Supergiant's oversight and demanded that Loki recover the Mind Stone.

Odin feared that Ragnarok and an old enemy were approaching while Thor drowned his frustrations in Heisenberg’s nightclub. Heisenberg summoned Hill and Natasha to the New York Sanctum, where The Ancient One proposed that S.H.I.E.L.D. join the Justice League.

• Odin told Heimdall that he had dreamed of Fenrir and sensed an enemy from the past, while Heimdall assured him Fenrir was dead.
• Thor drank and boasted at Heisenberg Nightclub as Bullseye lamented that he could not lift Mjolnir and that Captain America could.
• Heisenberg took Barbara’s communication patch and told Hill he would clear out the agents watching his Theater, then arranged to meet Hill at Apartment 177A.
• Heisenberg told Barbara she would become his subordinate, left the nightclub, and walked to The Ancient One’s Sanctum.
• Hill and Natasha met Heisenberg at the Sanctum, where The Ancient One said Earth’s first storm was coming and S.H.I.E.L.D. should join the Justice League.

The Ancient One revealed that Loki had already launched a massive Chitauri invasion, while Hill mistakenly believed the warning described a future that could still be changed. As Odin mobilized Asgard’s army, Frigga urged him to bring Loki back and discover who had influenced him.

• The Ancient One showed Hill and Natasha Loki’s fleet near Earth, and Hill promised to mobilize S.H.I.E.L.D. and inform the United Nations.
• Heisenberg explained that the invasion had already begun, while Loki used the Cosmic Cube to obscure the watchers’ vision from Earth and Asgard.
• Heimdall warned Odin that Loki and Supergiant were leading the Chitauri into the Nine Realms, and Odin ordered Asgard’s warriors to prepare for war.
• Odin asked Frigga to help transport the army because the Bifrost was broken, and she urged him to find out who had turned Loki against them and bring their son home.
• Odin gathered more than two hundred thousand Asgardian warriors and led them to prepare for battle, promising they would return triumphant.

Odin brought Asgard’s fleet to confront Loki’s Chitauri, while Thor was summoned from Midgard to join the battle. In the New York Sanctum, Heisenberg rebuked Hill for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s role in drawing the invasion and demanded that she join his side, but Hill remained reluctant to give up the organization’s independence.

• Odin gave his warriors a brief speech, then used Gungnir to transport the Asgardian fleet toward the Chitauri near the moon.
• Thor sensed Odin’s power in a New York nightclub and was teleported away, leaving the revelers celebrating their encounter with a god.
• Heisenberg and The Ancient One watched the arriving Asgardian fleet with Hill and Natasha, while Heisenberg criticized Hill for wanting to return to S.H.I.E.L.D. during the invasion.
• Heisenberg told Hill that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s experiments with the Cosmic Cube had spread the Space Stone’s signal and provoked the wider universe, then insisted the organization join his side.
• Hill remained hesitant to surrender S.H.I.E.L.D.’s independence as Heisenberg challenged her to recognize how little the organization could do against the invaders.

Heisenberg pressured Hill and Natasha into joining him, then brought them to the Theater as Earth’s leaders sought his help against two alien fleets. He argued that the President’s offer to trade New York’s autonomy for his protection proved that humanity’s leaders treated the city as a bargaining chip.

• Heisenberg told Hill and Natasha that S.H.I.E.L.D. was too weak to act alone and demanded that they join him or leave to face Loki and the Chitauri fleet; Hill accepted, and Natasha followed.
• Heisenberg brought Hill, Natasha, Wanda, and Pietro through a portal to the Theater, where Billy’s Playboy-model surprise embarrassed him in front of his guests.
• In the Theater’s main hall, Heisenberg met Matthew, who had received a call from the Presidential Office, and the crowd cheered for Heisenberg as he took Matthew away to discuss urgent business.
• Matthew told Heisenberg that the presidential cabinet offered him the position of New York Mayor and full autonomy for the city in exchange for protecting Earth from two battling alien fleets.
• Heisenberg told Hill and Natasha that the offer showed Earth’s leaders viewed New York and its people as bargaining chips.

Heisenberg explained that he wanted Earth to face the Chitauri invasion while limiting the damage, and ordered Matthew to become New York’s mayor before the alien threat became public. As Asgard prepared for battle, a drunken Thor was knocked unconscious and hung from the flagship, while Loki departed to set his plan in motion and Supergiant led the Chitauri fleet into combat.

• Heisenberg told Matthew to ignore the presidential cabinet and secure the New York mayoralty before the Chitauri invasion became public.
• Heisenberg projected the Chitauri fleet and warned that Loki’s strategy would make Asgard powerless despite its military advantage.
• Thor arrived drunk aboard Odin’s flagship, was struck awake by Odin, and became distraught after retrieving Mjolnir and remembering that many people had wielded it.
• Odin ordered Thor hung outside the flagship and sent the Asgardian vanguard to attack.
• Loki left aboard the Cosmic Cube, instructing Supergiant to prioritize landing the Chitauri on Earth and use Odin’s concern for Midgard to weaken Asgard.
• Supergiant doubted Loki’s full motives, then used her mental control to send the Chitauri escort and fighter fleets into battle against Asgard.

Frigga confronted Loki in Asgard’s treasury, where he revealed his anguish over being loved by her while rejected by the kingdom and declared he would kill Odin but protect Asgard. Loki froze the palace and summoned a Chitauri invasion, while Heimdall struggled to defend civilians and Odin left Thor in command as he went to answer the crisis.

• Frigga found Loki in the treasury, and he accused Asgard of rejecting him while admitting her love kept him torn between revenge and forgiveness.
• Loki froze Frigga with the Casket of Ancient Winters but left her unharmed, then said he would kill Odin and protect Asgard with help from a powerful native god of Midgard.
• Loki froze the palace and used the Cosmic Cube to bring fifteen Chitauri Leviathan Class Battleships into Asgard, while Heimdall led the defense and tried to protect civilians.
• The United Nations members blamed the United States for the Cosmic Cube experiments, and nations around the world began preparing for war.
• Heimdall reported that Loki’s attack had overwhelmed Asgard’s defenses and put civilians in grave danger, while Thor fought Chitauri aboard Odin’s flagship without his hammer.
• Odin left Thor in command of the space battle and vanished with his guards to respond to the attack on the palace.