Chapter Summaries

Ian visited Heaven, reunited with Old Jonathan Kent and Martha Wayne, and recorded a message for Bruce before heading toward the contaminated Holy City. There he met Sam and Dean Winchester, learned they had been brought to Heaven for protection, and opened the ancient boxes to find the Colt and Lucifer’s Holy Sword.

• Ian found Old Jonathan Kent having tea with Martha Wayne, returned her pearl necklace, and took photos of them together.
• Ian recorded Martha Wayne’s message for Bruce and captured Old Jonathan praising him before leaving for Heaven’s contaminated Holy City.
• Ian encountered Sam and Dean Winchester, learned they had been brought to Heaven by a Black Angel, and told them their mother had become an Earthbound Spirit after Azazel killed her.
• Ian opened Sam’s box and identified the revolver inside as the God-Killing Gun, Colt.
• Ian bit open Dean’s supposedly seamless box, gained experience, and revealed Lucifer’s Holy Sword, which burst into Holy Flame in his hand.

Ian claimed the title of King of Angels and charged into Heaven’s corrupted Holy City, where he discovered the King in Yellow on God’s throne. When the King in Yellow attacked, Ian unleashed a massive explosion that blew apart the Holy City.

• Ian ignited the Sword of God, transformed his Mimicry Armor into a grotesque angelic form, and tried to convince Sam and Dean that he was a Seraph.
• A corrupting song from the Holy City overwhelmed Sam and Dean, so Ian flew ahead alone to confront the spreading pollution.
• Ian entered the fallen Holy City and used the Holy Sword’s flames to burn away its corruption and clear a path into Heaven’s hall.
• Ian freed corrupted angels from stone, then found a book that revealed itself as the Necronomicon and exposed the King in Yellow seated on God’s throne.
• Ian’s sword could not harm the King in Yellow, and when the King reached for him, Ian bit his finger and unleashed an enormous divine explosion that destroyed the Holy City.

Ian defeated the King in Yellow in Heaven, then destroyed the Necronomicon and purged its corruption from Vatican City with the Holy Sword. As Lady Death warned that the Cthulhu beings’ universe remained intact, Ian learned that Jonathan had awakened a mysterious belt and transformed to protect his family, while Lucifer identified their world as Earth-53.

• Ian blasted the King in Yellow with Odinforce-powered explosions until Michael banished them both from Heaven to the mortal world.
• Uriel secretly placed something inside Sam while arranging for Dean and Sam to reunite with Mary Winchester, and Michael watched without intervening.
• Ian used the Colt to kill the King in Yellow and destroy the Necronomicon, then swept away the released Cthulhu shadows and contamination with the Holy Sword.
• Lady Death told Ian that the Cthulhu beings’ home universe had not been destroyed and showed him fallen angels attacking Metropolis, where Jordan and Madison were fighting to protect Jonathan.
• Jonathan awoke from a vision carrying a belt, inserted his Shiva Statue, transformed into an armored hero, and destroyed the polluted creatures attacking his family.
• Lucifer watched Jonathan’s transformation on television and said that they were on Earth-53.

Lucifer discussed Heaven’s catastrophe and Ian’s mysterious origins while the Justice League purified fallen angels and dealt with Gotham’s displaced residents. After Jonathan demonstrated his magical Transformation Belt, Superman rebuilt the Kent home with his family, while Ian slipped away to Gotham and started recruiting angels for Ian’s Greatest Technology Group.

• Lucifer told Crowley that God had allowed Heaven to be contaminated, revealed that Constantine’s hidden artifact had become bubble tea in Ian’s cup, and recalled God warning him away from infant Ian.
• Batman and the Justice League purified contaminated angels in Gotham, but the powerless angels refused their help and insisted they would find their own way home.
• Clark discovered that Batman had made the Purification Fluid using diluted blood collected from Ian, then learned that Gotham residents had armed themselves, seized fighter jets, and obtained a nuclear warhead.
• Superman and Flash returned Gotham’s displaced residents and buildings, while Batman left to investigate his worsening condition and Flash warned that his own mark was draining his speed and stamina.
• Jonathan used the Transformation Belt to become Armor Hero and manipulate earth, so Superman brought him, Ian, Jordan, and Madison to help rebuild the Kent home.
• Ian escaped the construction work with Madison and went to Gotham, where he summoned a Black Angel and a White Angel to work for Ian’s Greatest Technology Group.

Superman’s family dealt with Ian’s mansion plans and a strange new home while Ian tricked fallen angels into signing labor contracts at his Gotham reemployment center. Dream God Morpheus reclaimed his sand, but grains reached Batman’s laboratory, where Bruce injected a dangerous mixture and collapsed into a disturbing dream as the Flash heard the Mysterious Boy’s voice.

• Superman sent Demon Bull Head to the Fortress of Solitude, then struggled to explain to Lois why he had rejected Ian’s mansion plans while Jordan considered dubious ways to earn money.
• Lois and Clark met real estate agent Phil Dunphy and a team of lobbyists sent by Bruce to pressure them into buying a mansion, while Jordan warned that Ian might destroy their wooden home if they refused.
• Ian opened a Gotham Angel Re-employment Center, used Madison to organize the angels, and persuaded them to sign contracts for factory work and livestreaming.
• Dream God Morpheus froze time and reclaimed his sand pouch from Ian, then gave Ian a small handful of sand that seeped into Batman’s laboratory.
• Batman injected a mixture of rainbow-colored substance and black contaminant into his carotid artery and collapsed, while the Flash escaped the isolation chamber and heard the Mysterious Boy speak to him.

Flash discovered that Batman’s condition was worsening because of Outer Universe erosion, while Dream Boy offered help in exchange for being taken home. Flash brought Superman and Ian to Batman’s underground base, and Michael arrived at the church to retrieve the angels, only to lose his glory at the Gates of Heaven.

• Dream Boy told Flash that Batman had made a reckless decision and offered to help if Flash agreed to help him return home; Flash refused to trust him at first, but his own scars faded.
• Flash left the underground base to find help and encountered Superman, who was confronting Ian for recruiting Fallen Angels into a paid atonement scheme.
• Flash told the church that Batman was near death, and Superman and Ian followed him to the underground base while Madison stayed behind with the angels.
• Michael arrived at the church and led the angels toward the fallen Gates of Heaven, but the gates would not open and his glory and wings began to fade.
• Madison handed Michael Ian’s Angel Labor Contract and offered him a team-leader position with extra Angel Roulette spins, prompting envious gasps from the angels.

Madison recruited the powerless Michael into Ian's company and brought Heaven's angels to live in Metropolis, while Uriel sealed Heaven's gates rather than answer Michael's prayers and Lucifer mocked him. At the underground base, Superman discovered Batman was fighting Slaanesh with Cthulhu contamination, then Ian suddenly became intangible and collapsed, leaving Flash alarmed and Superman oddly unsurprised.

• Michael discovered that God had stripped away his power, but an employment contract with Ian's Greatest Technology Group returned a faint trace of his glory.
• Madison assigned Michael to factory work, then Jordan and Black Lightning drove the angels to Metropolis, where Madison arranged their dormitories and introduced workplace rules.
• Michael prayed for Uriel to rescue him, while Uriel sealed the Gates of Heaven and Lucifer taunted him through a crow before deciding to invest in Ian's company for publicity.
• At the underground base, Ian failed to remove Batman's contamination, and Superman used empathy to witness Bruce battling Slaanesh with Cthulhu's corruption inside his soul.
• Superman saw a golden-armored figure on a throne ask him to destroy the Warhammer universe, then returned to reality when Flash called him back.
• Flash reported that Ian had suddenly lain down and become intangible, while Superman calmly said Ian went to sleep at that hour.

Flash discovered that Ian was drawing the universe inside Barry into himself, while Ian crossed into Marvel and unlocked a Mutation Overlord class. After collecting blood from Lizard and a second Peter Parker, Ian learned that Gwen was about to die.

• Superman told Flash about Ian’s abnormal state and tried to reach Bruce by using empathy and a vial of contaminated substance.
• Dream Boy warned Flash that Ian was invading another universe, then accidentally sent Flash to Ian as the universe inside Barry began flowing into Ian’s body.
• Ian passed through a strange void, unlocked the still-locked Mutation Overlord class, and arrived in Marvel during Lizard’s attack on Peter Parker.
• Ian subdued Lizard, drew his blood, and then collected blood from Peter Parker in an alley.
• Peter Parker told Ian that Gwen was about to die.

Ian learned that Gwen’s extraordinary DNA was disappearing because the Spider Totem was shifting her power to Peter Parker, leaving her injured and unconscious. After Lucifer’s feather only repaired her genes temporarily, Ian captured twelve mutant criminals, awakened the Mutation Overlord profession, and found Gwen awake and restored, though the chapter left the cause and permanence of her recovery uncertain.

• Peter told Ian that Gwen had been gravely injured saving a child, and New Tony explained that her extraordinary DNA was transferring to Peter Parker.
• Ian explained the Spider Totem’s apparent limit of one Spider-Man per universe and went to the Sanctum Sanctorum to see Gwen.
• Dr. Helen Cho told Ian that Gwen’s broken gene chain could leave her alive but permanently unconscious, and Lucifer’s feather briefly restored her genes before they collapsed again.
• Ian asked New Tony to locate mutants, captured twelve of them, and unlocked the Mutation Overlord profession by analyzing their blood.
• Gwen woke up feeling stronger than before, and Ian claimed that he had stopped the universe from retiring her and taking away her power.

Ian saved Gwen by granting her a mutant gene, awakening powerful abilities that she explored with him. He then turned the Sanctum into a psychiatric center, and the chapter ended with Thor crashing through its dome as Ian prepared to examine him.

• Ian used his Gene Oracle and Eternal Gift to restore Gwen, turning her into a Mutant Heroine with a Y-Gene.
• Gwen tested her new powers, discovering crystalline threads that connected with reality, let her sense her surroundings, and enabled rapid movement and multiple simultaneous attacks.
• Ian made Gwen accept a fifty-thousand-word thank-you assignment, then outfitted the Sanctum as the Imam Psychiatric Relief Center with second-hand medical equipment and a restraint-covered bed.
• Helen Cho woke and learned that Ian was an Evil God, then panicked when she saw a box of batteries beside the strange medical bed.
• Thor crashed through the Sanctum dome, and Ian dressed as a doctor and announced that he needed to test Thor’s knee-jerk reflex with his hammer.

Ian treated Thor with improvised medical tests and convinced him to train by charging batteries, until New Tony revealed a reality gap containing Morgan Stark in a simulated zombie apocalypse. Ian realized Odin and Doctor Strange were likely trapped in similar gaps, but left the rescue to the others or promised to return later.

• Ian tapped Thor’s knees with Mjolnir, restrained him on a hospital bed, and declared him recovered after Thor praised Ian’s plan for a thunder-powered electric company.
• Ian tried to recruit Thor as a battery charger, while Gwen told Helen Cho that she and Ian had known each other even longer than childhood; Helen collected Gwen’s blood but accepted Ian’s refusal to provide a sample.
• New Tony returned, and Thor remembered that he had come to Earth because Odin and Doctor Strange had vanished into a black hole on Jotunheim.
• New Tony projected a reality gap showing Morgan Stark battling endlessly respawning Zombies in a fabricated world, and Ian identified it as a dimensional crack that might also hold Odin and Doctor Strange.
• Ian said he had little time left in the Marvel Universe and vanished, leaving Thor to rely on himself and the others or wait for Ian to return.

Ian recovered in the Justice League base, absorbed the Flash’s escaped contamination, and gained a new dimension after Batman’s dream detector exploded. He entered the shattered universe inside Batman and discovered Superman and a golden-armored man trying to restrain Bruce on a Golden Toilet.

• Ian woke in the Batcave, reassured Barry that he was himself, and devoured Batman’s stored food and chemicals while asking about Bruce.
• Barry confessed that his contamination had escaped into Ian, who revealed he had absorbed 95 percent of it and thanked Barry for the boost.
• Barry modified Batman’s dream detector with help from S.T.A.R. Labs, but its hidden tactical nuke detonated, and Ian swallowed the blast.
• Ian’s Extra Dimension finished absorbing a shattered universe and expanded into a world joining a primeval forest with a modern city; Franklin Richards encountered its inhabitants and appeased Ian’s angry sun with praise.
• Ian gained Dimension Projection and used Dimension Erosion to enter the universe inside Batman, where he saw Superman and a golden-armored man restraining Bruce on a Golden Toilet.

Ian and Superman escaped the shattered Warhammer universe with Bruce, who returned fused to the Golden Throne and changed into a psyker; Ian salvaged corrupted remnants of the universe for his system to repair. Bruce began investigating his new powers as Joker attacked Gotham, while Ian went back to school and later entered Hannibal Clinic, where he was met by the smell of blood.

• Ian found Superman and The Emperor restraining Bruce, who had been corrupted by the four Chaos gods and a fifth contamination; The Emperor suppressed the corruption but warned that Bruce's soul remained fused with Destruction.
• The Emperor revealed himself as the fifth Evil God, the Dark King, and destroyed the dying Warhammer universe; Superman carried Ian and Bruce out as Ian watched its records and civilization vanish.
• Back in the Batcave, Bruce discovered that the Golden Throne had fused to him and granted him psychic powers, while Ian captured a fragment of the destroyed universe and started his system's repair process.
• Bruce saw Joker use a brainwashed Black Angel to poison Gotham and spread bizarre messages, then ordered robots to build wheels for the throne so he could pursue them.
• Ian went to school, discussed his business plans and the angels' adjustment with Madison, and then drove to Dr. Hannibal's clinic, where the opened door revealed a strong smell of blood.

Ian found Maria Sanchez murdered in Hannibal's clinic, uncovered evidence that Hannibal had fled, and was attacked by a hired sniper while waiting for police. After sending the assassin into his Extra Dimension and reporting the incident to Kate Beckett, Ian went to his factory and tricked Michael into becoming a livestreamer by claiming God wanted him to learn to love the world.

• Ian discovered Maria Sanchez's mutilated body in Hannibal's clinic, searched the emptied office, and found Hannibal's damaged phone hidden in the toilet tank.
• After police dispatch delayed responding, Ian tracked down a sniper who had been hired through the Continental Hotel and captured him in his Extra Dimension.
• Kate Beckett and her team investigated the clinic, while Ian concealed his powers and left after Beckett told him to go home.
• Madison called Ian because Michael was wrecking the factory, so Ian persuaded Michael to earn points by livestreaming for ordinary people.
• Ian coached Michael through his first livestream, where viewers tipped heavily and persuaded him to dance for more rewards.

Michael struggled with his fall from Heaven, faced Gabriel’s warning about the mortal world, and returned to livestreaming rather than risk staying there. Meanwhile, Ian investigated Dr. Hannibal’s murder, found a map to a lakeside cabin, and disposed of a bomb before returning to Kate Beckett with an implausible excuse.

• Michael smashed his livestream computer in anger, suffered an electric shock, and learned Lucifer was watching the stream and sending gifts to the Weeping Angel.
• Michael left the factory, encountered a homeless veteran who challenged him to consider whether he was guilty, and was beaten and thrown into a trash can after condemning humans.
• Gabriel appeared to Michael, revealed that Amenadiel was being mentally controlled, and warned that the human world might be part of God’s test; Michael chose to return to the factory and continue streaming.
• Ian arrived at the murder scene of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, identified Will Graham as the suspected killer, and found a map to a lakeside cabin beneath the floorboards.
• Ian discovered a bomb counting down in the kitchen, jumped out of the twentieth-floor window with it, and returned by climbing back through the window while pretending nothing had happened.

Ian helped Kate Beckett identify Will Graham’s hidden base, then learned Misha intended to take revenge on Will herself. Hoping to save his former psychiatrist Hannibal, Ian met Lady Death, confirmed Hannibal was in Hell, and set off to find its entrance.

• Ian convinced Kate Beckett that his impossible escape from the eighteenth-floor window and the bomb he had eaten were ordinary, then Kevin Ryan reported that the police had located a secluded house where Will Graham was hiding.
• Kate refused to let Ian join the raid and left with her officers, while Misha vowed to find Will herself and make him pay for her brother Hannibal’s death.
• Ian tried to recruit Misha to help treat his many supposed patients, then learned Hannibal had also cooked and done other favors for his patients.
• Ian took Misha’s money, bought flowers and a meal, and summoned Lady Death at a restaurant to ask about Hannibal.
• Lady Death told Ian that Hannibal was in Hell and that the Compass she had given him would point the way; Ian followed it and began his Hell adventure.

Ian captured Will Graham as a human offering for Hell, then took the Demon Head and drove the Hellcat to the Murder House in Los Angeles. After Mazikeen gave him Lucifer’s coin, the Hellcat opened the way to Hell and carried Ian, Will, and the Demon Head through the entrance.

• Ian used the Black Box to locate Will Graham and learned from Beckett that the police had found a surgically altered scapegoat.
• Ian found Will disguised as the gravekeeper at St. Mary's Cemetery, defeated him, and used gene-stabilizing serum to keep him alive.
• Ian stuffed Will into a sack, picked up the Demon Head, and followed Lady Death's Compass toward Hell.
• Ian discovered that the Murder House was connected to Hell, but he could not find the entrance until Mazikeen appeared and gave him Lucifer's coin.
• The coin activated the Hellcat, which smashed through a newly appeared door and carried Ian, Will, and the screaming Demon Head into Hell.

Ian hunted demons in Hell to gain power and find Hannibal, then was confronted by Valak and trapped by Trigon’s power. After Ian defeated Valak and turned him into livestock in his Extra Dimension, a Hell Duke brought him to New Gotham, where Thomas Wayne welcomed him.

• Ian drove Hellcat through the gates of Hell, fed on demons, and upgraded Hellcat while Demon Head and Demon Bull Head gained strength.
• Ian disguised himself to lure demons, collected them in his Extra Dimension, and cleared souls from their punishment cells while searching for Hannibal.
• Crowley avoided confronting Ian by blinding himself, while Ian continued through Hell and encountered Valak, who attacked him over Ian’s earlier consumption of his avatar.
• Ian resisted Trigon’s conceptual assault with absurd, unshakable logic, then cut off Valak’s wing and was knocked into a deeper layer of Hell while holding onto him.
• Ian sacrificed Valak’s hands to the Death Knight, ate the resulting black crystal, and captured Valak in his Extra Dimension to harvest his regenerating body parts.
• A Hell Duke escorted Ian through the prosperous city of New Gotham and introduced him to its ruler, Thomas Wayne.

Ian met Thomas Wayne in Hell and persuaded him to stage a horror-filled fake ordeal for a film intended to manipulate Bruce Wayne. After the shoot, Thomas revealed his soul-trading business and helped Ian settle in for the night before Ian crossed into the Marvel world.

• Ian recognized Thomas Wayne as the King of Hell, shared peach wine with him, and asked for Wayne Enterprises stock in exchange for his Indulgence.
• Thomas refused to make decisions for Bruce, so Ian proposed filming a fake story of Thomas being tortured and forced to marry The Batman Who Laughs.
• Thomas endured Ian’s staged Hell Paradise trials and threats from Trigon until Ian called cut and revealed the production; Thomas agreed to help Ian fool Bruce with the footage.
• Ian learned that Thomas ran Hell Human Resources Co., Ltd., which screened and traded souls, and Thomas offered to help him find people.
• Thomas arranged a hotel room for Ian, where Ian narrowly stopped the living massage bed from giving him an improper massage before he fell asleep and crossed into the Marvel world.

Ian returned to the Marvel Universe aboard a spaceship headed to rescue Odin, where he gained the Reverse Evolution Ray and helped Thor after an alien attack crippled their ship. Stranded on Titan with Gwen, Steve, and Thor, Ian faced Thanos as the warlord arrived and welcomed them.

• During his crossing, Ian gained a level in Mutation Overlord and chose the Reverse Evolution Ray, which combined with the power in his eyes.
• Ian arrived in a spacebound laboratory where Gwen explained that Tony had gathered thirty-six possible spawn locations into the ship to catch his return.
• Ian joined Gwen, Steve, Thor, and New Tony aboard a spacecraft traveling to rescue Odin, then Thor spotted the ship that had previously hit him and attacked it.
• A masked gunman and Rocket Raccoon fired on Ian and Thor, and the resulting explosions damaged their ship; Ian carried the wreckage and its occupants safely down to Titan.
• Ian and Thor buried New Tony's smoking computer tower, then Gwen warned that Ian might respawn inside the wreckage if he left and returned.
• Thanos arrived in a massive silver ship and welcomed the stranded Earthlings to Titan.