Recaps

After learning that K'un-Lun's Iron Fist Danny Rand was badly outmatched, Du Mu discovered that the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven would hold a martial arts tournament in just over two months. He arranged a Kamar-Taj–K'un-Lun exchange to help K'un-Lun prepare, then handed Strange a cultivation manual disguised as Tathagata Palm.

• Lei Kung revived Danny Rand with a Life Potion, and Danny recognized Du Mu as Kamar-Taj's new Sorcerer Supreme.
• Danny told Lei Kung that Du Mu had defeated Black Sky, prompting Lei Kung to thank Du Mu and offer K'un-Lun's cultivation method.
• Lei Kung explained K'un-Lun's Iron Fist succession and the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven, then revealed that their tournament would begin in a little over two months.
• Du Mu accepted a quest to help K'un-Lun win the tournament and persuaded Lei Kung to hold an exchange with Kamar-Taj, including a martial arts tournament one month later.
• Du Mu brought Kamar-Taj mages to K'un-Lun, gave them copied cultivation manuals, and told Strange that his manual was Tathagata Palm.
• Strange protested that he had come to learn magic, not martial arts.

Du Mu forced Strange to train in martial arts while Kamar-Taj and K'un-Lun exchanged cultivation methods and enchanted gear. Strange eventually sensed qi, and Danny Rand regretted not having fallen into Kamar-Taj instead.

• Strange objected to Du Mu's martial arts training, so Du Mu sent the Kamar-Taj Eighteen Copper Men to beat him into submission.
• Du Mu traded enchanted equipment to Lei Kung for Dragon Bone fragments and arranged for Kamar-Taj sorcerers and K'un-Lun disciples to train and spar together.
• Strange tried to escape his courtyard several times, but the Eighteen Copper Men caught him and beat him each time.
• Strange's harsh training helped him sense qi within a few days, astonishing Lei Kung.
• Danny Rand watched Kamar-Taj's magic and regretted that he had not fallen into Kamar-Taj instead of K'un-Lun.

Du Mu inspected Sokovia’s rapid technological development and the nearly completed lunar base, then gave the Skrulls the planet Bohert as their new home. At the Ravager-Ravagers’ headquarters, he announced plans to expand across the cosmos and renamed the organization the Dark Legion and Bohert Apokolips.

• Du Mu dismissed qi cultivation as too slow and insignificant compared with the cosmic powers he had encountered.
• Wanda reported that Wakandan technology had transformed Sokovia, while Du Mu learned that the lunar base was nearly complete.
• Du Mu and Wanda traveled with Lockjaw to the lunar base, where Talos reported that construction and system tests were finished.
• Du Mu opened a Portal to Bohert and gave the planet to Talos and the Skrulls as their new home.
• Yondu proposed targeting other Ravagers, but Du Mu framed the plan as confiscating criminals’ stolen wealth, and Nebula asked about the organization’s name.
• Du Mu announced that the group would become the Dark Legion, renamed Bohert Apokolips, and declared himself the universe’s only Dark Lord.

Du Mu expanded the Dark Legion on Apokolips and appointed G'iah among its leaders, then visited the Hive Laboratory to start a project breeding Venom symbiotes. He planned to provide two suitable hosts as templates once the offspring were ready.

• Du Mu deployed Bucky and Sokovia's forces to Apokolips while Talos relocated most Skrulls there and recruited Super-Skrulls into the Dark Legion.
• Du Mu appointed G'iah to command the Skrulls and grouped her with Bucky, Yondu, Nebula, and Max as the Dark Four Heavenly Kings.
• Du Mu traveled to the Hive Laboratory, where Baron Strucker reported that Venom's unstable memories had driven every experimental host mad.
• Du Mu ordered the Breeding Project to produce symbiote offspring and learned that their first host would need a positive, stable personality.
• Du Mu told the researchers he had two candidates in mind to serve as templates once the symbiotes reproduced.

Du Mu visited Peggy Carter with Steve and discovered that her husband was an older version of Steve Rogers from the future, who had secretly lived with her for decades. Du Mu offered to extend Peggy’s life, and Old Steve revealed his identity in hopes of accepting the offer.

• Du Mu called Steve and went with him to visit the dying Peggy Carter, where they discovered that Sharon was Peggy’s niece and a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent assigned to protect Steve.
• Steve reunited emotionally with Peggy, while Du Mu left them alone and noticed there were no photographs of Peggy with her husband.
• Du Mu spotted an old man outside Peggy’s home and recognized from his status display that he was another Steve Rogers, then chased him down.
• Du Mu challenged the old man, who tried to deny his identity before admitting he was Peggy’s husband and claiming he only resembled Steve.
• Du Mu pretended he could extend Peggy’s life, prompting Old Steve to confess that he was Steve from the future and had traveled back to 1949 to marry Peggy.

Du Mu revealed that Old Steve came from a different timeline and gave Carter Dragon Bones to extend her life, then a Fountain of Youth to restore her youth. Carter and Steve were left awkwardly facing the question of whether she would rekindle their romance while her older husband, Old Steve, still existed.

• Old Steve admitted that Du Mu’s arrival had changed this timeline and explained that he had avoided interfering because he feared altering the future.
• Du Mu persuaded Old Steve not to disappear into an ordinary life and promised to handle Carter’s situation.
• Du Mu gave Steve Dragon Bones, and Steve shouted “Hail Hydra” for Du Mu’s camera before receiving the life-extending potion for Carter.
• Carter recovered after taking the Dragon Bones, but felt awkward when Steve said they could be together again because her current husband was still alive.
• Du Mu gave Carter a drop of the Fountain of Youth, restoring her youthful appearance, and Steve asked her to accept his love.

After Carter became young again and danced with Steve, Du Mu took Old Steve to Sokovia and revealed his kingdom’s advanced technology and Hydra-controlled institutions. Old Steve learned that Wanda was also part of Hydra, leaving him convinced that resistance was futile.

• Carter’s family turned her funeral banquet into a celebration, where Steve and Carter danced while Old Steve watched jealously from a corner.
• Du Mu brought Old Steve to futuristic Sokovia, introduced him to Zemo, and explained that he ruled the country and had allied with Wakanda under Killmonger.
• At Hive Laboratory, Old Steve recognized Strucker as a Hydra officer, only for the guards to salute Du Mu with a cry of “Hail Hydra.”
• Du Mu revealed that Nick Fury led Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D. and that nearly every agent belonged to the organization, while Hill was its infiltrator.
• Old Steve considered recruiting Wanda to help the Avengers fight Hydra, but Du Mu introduced her as his secretary and another Hydra member.

Du Mu recruited Old Steve into Hydra and used him to stabilize Venom’s offspring symbiotes by exploiting his bond with Bucky. Old Steve became Captain Hydra, while Hydra established a repeatable process for producing stable symbiotes, limited by Venom’s output and Old Steve’s endurance.

• Du Mu revealed Hydra’s strength and recruited Old Steve, who agreed to join under a new identity, Shi Aimin, to protect Carter and gather intelligence.
• Strucker and Ultron began a symbiote experiment, and the offspring symbiote overwhelmed Old Steve until Du Mu mentioned Bucky.
• Old Steve regained control after learning that Bucky was Hydra’s Winter Soldier, and Du Mu promised he could meet him if he proved his worth.
• Old Steve helped Hydra neutralize offspring symbiotes’ negative emotions, and Wanda removed each stabilized symbiote so the process could be repeated.
• Strucker found that the templated symbiotes were stable and easier to bond with hosts, though Venom’s limited production and Old Steve’s need for rest restricted output.
• Du Mu gave Old Steve a Captain Hydra suit and a Vibranium shield bearing Hydra’s black-and-red octopus emblem.

Old Steve uncovered Hydra’s immense reach while remaining undercover, and Wanda used Chaos Magic to reshape the Parallax sealed inside Du Mu’s Magic White Robe. Du Mu gained control of Parallax’s fear energy, but Wanda’s emotions went out of control.

• Old Steve learned that Hydra controlled major figures and organizations across Earth and had established branches in space, so he decided the Avengers were not strong enough to confront it.
• Wanda told Du Mu about Old Steve’s plans, and Du Mu explained that Steve’s memories came from a parallel universe rather than a fixed future.
• Du Mu asked Wanda to use Chaos Magic on Parallax, and she began altering the entity inside the sealed space.
• Parallax sent fear toward Wanda, but Du Mu used an Emotional Energy Cylinder to absorb the emotions and let Wanda continue.
• Wanda remade Parallax into a source of usable fear energy, which Du Mu summoned through his Magic White Robe.
• Du Mu noticed Wanda’s Chaos Magic intensifying and saw that she had lost control of her emotions.

Wanda’s Chaos Magic trapped Du Mu in a sitcom-like fantasy where they were married, and he played along rather than risk abruptly breaking her delusion. Afterward, he decided to observe her and find a safer way to help her wake up.

• Wanda’s fear and emotional collapse sent her Chaos Magic spreading through Sokovia, and Du Mu contained it before the energy engulfed him.
• Wanda transformed their surroundings into a retro family home and treated Du Mu as her husband, while he realized she had woven a fantasy around her desire for a complete family.
• Du Mu gave Wanda the Heart of Africa for their imagined wedding anniversary, then abandoned his attempts to wake her when she returned in a revealing outfit and drew him into the fantasy.
• Du Mu played a game featuring intelligent NPCs while Wanda rested on his chest, and he chose to keep observing her rather than risk triggering a dangerous reaction by breaking her delusion.

Du Mu and Wanda lived inside the sitcom-like world created by Wanda’s Chaos Magic while Du Mu planned to make her feel unsafe enough to leave it. With Pietro’s help, he began an outrageous deception, ending by revealing himself as a supposed Viltrumite invader.

• Du Mu discovered that Wanda’s Chaos Magic had transformed the surrounding town and controlled its Hydra residents, while a barrier kept people from leaving.
• Du Mu and Wanda settled into daily life in the fictional town, and Du Mu realized that making Wanda feel unsafe could collapse her utopian world.
• Du Mu arranged for Pietro to enter the town with his free will intact, and Pietro arrived at Wanda’s house to help expose Du Mu.
• Pietro punched Du Mu through a wall and told Wanda that Du Mu was a Viltrum officer plotting to conquer Earth.
• Du Mu returned unharmed, confirmed Pietro’s claim as part of their act, and rose into the air while declaring that he would stand above the heavens.

Du Mu pretended to be Omni-Man and staged a fight to convince Wanda that he had turned against Earth, but his cruel words awakened her memories and unleashed her full power. As Wanda attacked him, Pietro evacuated the town, and Du Mu’s Protection Charm shattered, leaving him at her mercy.

• Du Mu claimed he was an alien conqueror and invited Wanda to rule Earth with him, while Pietro challenged him and began their staged fight.
• Du Mu overpowered Pietro, but Wanda used scarlet magic to stop him from crushing her brother and pleaded with Du Mu to return to their peaceful life.
• Du Mu called Wanda his pet, triggering a surge of magic that transformed the fabricated world and sent Wanda rising into the sky.
• Wanda attacked Du Mu, who defended himself with a Protection Charm and tried to explain that the whole confrontation was scripted.
• Wanda revealed that she had regained her memories and continued attacking Du Mu, while Pietro evacuated the town and its residents.
• Du Mu’s Protection Charm shattered, and as Wanda approached him, he began reciting a familiar love confession before her scarlet energy struck.

After gaining Wanda's favor, Du Mu planned a new way to collect fear energy by creating Fear Rings and recruiting bearers. He ended the chapter considering who could join his proposed Fear Corps, with Bruce ruled out because he rejected superpowers.

• Wanda and Du Mu emerged after their fight, and the system offered Du Mu Wanda's skin card when her favorability reached 95.
• Du Mu announced an indefinite Hydra ambush event against Pietro, and Steve volunteered to join in hopes of earning the Fountain of Youth.
• Zemo warned Du Mu that Chaos Magic had resonated with the Mind Stone and drawn foreign attention toward Sokovia, but Du Mu told him to deflect inquiries by pretending the country was poor.
• Du Mu used his yellow robe and tentacles to frighten death row inmates, absorbing fear energy until their minds collapsed and they became insane.
• Du Mu realized he could distribute Fear Rings and have their bearers collect fear for him, then considered Bruce as a candidate but rejected him because he opposed superpowers.

Du Mu gave Frank Castle a Yellow Power Ring, turning him into a fear-powered Punisher who terrorized New York’s underworld. He then found Blade in Eastern Europe and tried to recruit him, but Blade refused and Du Mu threatened him.

• Du Mu chose Frank Castle as the first recipient of the Yellow Power Ring, and Frank accepted it while surrounded by Jigsaw’s armed forces.
• Frank recited the ring’s oath, gained its powers, and used fear constructs to overwhelm the gangsters without killing them outright.
• Du Mu siphoned most of the fear Frank generated, and rumors spread as Frank spent three days hunting villains across New York.
• Du Mu used Hydra’s intelligence network to locate Blade in Eastern Europe and offered him a Yellow Power Ring.
• Blade questioned Du Mu’s claim that The Church belonged to the Fear Corps, and Du Mu threatened him with the Golden Desert Eagle.

Du Mu entered a new instance in a parallel Gotham and found Wayne Manor abandoned before meeting a gun-wielding Batman. The Batman was identified as Thomas Wayne, Bruce’s father, leaving Du Mu facing a very different version of the hero.

• Blade joined the Fear Corps and used Fear Power weapons to hunt vampires, while Frank continued collecting fear for Du Mu.
• Du Mu unlocked Telepathy, discovered the disturbing thoughts it could reveal, and began converting what he read into text to avoid seeing them directly.
• After a quiet stretch across his servers, Du Mu entered a new instance and emerged in a Gotham restroom before spotting Wayne Tower.
• Du Mu found Wayne Manor abandoned, dug into the Batcave, and examined a photograph of Bruce Wayne with his parents.
• A gun-wielding Batman confronted Du Mu, and the game identified him as Thomas Wayne, Bruce’s father.

Du Mu recognized Thomas Wayne as the Batman of the Flashpoint World and convinced him that he came from a universe where Bruce was still alive. After settling into Thomas’s Batcave, Du Mu showed him Bruce’s advanced armor and described his powerful friends and contingency plans.

• Du Mu identified Thomas as the Flashpoint Batman, survived his gunfire and bomb, and explained that he came from a parallel universe where Bruce was Batman.
• Du Mu showed Thomas photos and videos of Bruce, convincing him that his son was alive in another world.
• Thomas agreed to let Du Mu stay in the Batcave in exchange for copies of the photos and videos.
• Du Mu criticized the Batcave’s equipment and presented Thomas with Bruce’s advanced Batman suit from his Game Inventory.
• Du Mu told Thomas about Superman, Bruce’s contingency plans for superheroes, and his habit of preparing against even his teammates.

Du Mu uncovered how Barry’s timeline change had plunged the Flashpoint World into crisis, and Barry recovered his memories after learning he was responsible. With the Savior quest activated, Du Mu proposed recreating the accident that had given Barry his powers so he could reconnect to the Speed Force and undo the damage.

• Thomas told Du Mu about his crime empire in Gotham, where he had subdued the gangs and reduced the city’s crime rate.
• Du Mu used Ultron to investigate the altered world and learned that war between the Amazons and Atlantis had brought humanity close to collapse.
• Ultron alerted Du Mu that Barry Allen had arrived at Wayne Manor, and Barry entered the Batcave looking for Batman.
• Du Mu told Barry that his trip into the past had changed the timeline, triggering Barry’s returning memories and overwhelming guilt.
• The system assigned Du Mu the Savior quest to stop the war and save the Flashpoint World, and Du Mu suggested restoring Barry’s powers so he could change the timeline again.

Du Mu and Thomas Wayne helped Barry recover his Speed Force so he could confront Reverse-Flash and restore the timeline. After repeated lightning strikes and dangerous experiments, Barry regained his powers and appeared beside them at incredible speed.

• Du Mu introduced Barry to Thomas Wayne, who learned Barry had changed the timeline and blamed him for Bruce's death.
• Du Mu revealed that Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne, was involved and that Barry needed his Speed Force restored to oppose him.
• Barry and Thomas assembled a device to recreate the accident that had given Barry his powers, and Du Mu repeatedly struck Barry with lightning.
• After many failed attempts, Du Mu sensed that Barry's Speed Force had returned, but Barry had become too fast for them to see.
• Barry appeared beside Du Mu and Thomas, revealing that he could now move at extraordinary speed.

Du Mu, Barry, and Thomas began forming the Avengers to stop the war between Atlantis and the Amazons, recruiting Hal Jordan and rescuing Superman. They found Clark imprisoned underground, but an alarm brought armed guards into the facility.

• Barry failed to travel through time because he lacked enough Speed Force, and Du Mu warned that the war between Atlantis and the Amazons threatened the world.
• Du Mu persuaded Thomas to join by promising he could let him see Bruce, and Barry and Thomas agreed to form a world-saving team called the Avengers.
• Du Mu recruited Hal Jordan by having a Yellow Power Ring find him, and Hal joined the Fear Corps and agreed to join the Avengers.
• Du Mu and Barry infiltrated the government facility holding Clark, disabled its red lights, and gave him a Solar Flower to restore his strength.
• When guards rushed into the room, Du Mu urged Clark not to hurt them, then shot one of the guards who ordered the others to fire.

Du Mu rescued Clark and Barry, then revealed his angelic power when government forces attacked them. After warning that the world faced imminent destruction, he returned to Gotham, where Victor joined the Avengers and the president offered government support.

• Du Mu freed Clark from the underground facility, while Barry’s memories began to be overwritten by those of the current timeline.
• Military forces cornered Du Mu, Clark, and Barry on the New Metropolis coast, and Du Mu revealed himself as an Angel after his armor shielded Barry from a sniper shot.
• When the officer ordered an Anti-Meta-Human Cannon fired at Du Mu, Du Mu destroyed the warship with the Spear of Longinus and warned that the apocalypse had begun.
• Du Mu brought Clark and Barry back to Gotham, where Thomas introduced Victor Stone, also known as Cyborg, as a new member of the Avengers.
• Du Mu told Victor that the world would soon be destroyed without intervention, and Victor relayed the president’s offer of government assistance, which Du Mu rejected.

Du Mu recruited Yellow Lantern Hal and Clark into the Avengers, then split the team to find Captain Atom and stop the war between Atlantis and the Amazons. Du Mu, Barry, and Thomas reached New Themyscira, but their plane was shot down, leaving them surrounded by Atlantis soldiers as Du Mu fought back.

• Du Mu introduced Clark to his Kryptonian origins through a Superman movie, and Clark agreed to join the Avengers while asking to be called Clark.
• Hal Jordan arrived as Yellow Lantern after joining the Fear Corps and reciting its oath, bringing the Avengers' mission progress to 5/7.
• Victor reported that Atlantis was preparing a major assault on the Amazons, so Du Mu split the group: Clark, Victor, and Hal went to find Captain Atom, while Du Mu, Barry, and Thomas headed to Europe.
• Aquaman and Queen Diana ordered their forces into battle at New Themyscira, where Atlantis soldiers and Amazon warriors began a bloody fight.
• Atlantis forces attacked and crippled Thomas's plane, forcing Du Mu, Barry, and Thomas to escape before it crashed.
• Atlantis soldiers surrounded the trio, and Du Mu's runic armor blocked their shots before he cut several soldiers in half with the Spear of Longinus.

Du Mu rescued the Human Resistance from the Atlantean and Amazon armies, then defeated their forces with a rain of golden spears and healed the survivors. He introduced himself to Lois Lane as the captain of the Avengers, while Thomas remained unable to move because his feet were numb.

• Du Mu and Barry agreed to search for Wonder Woman and Aquaman, while Du Mu took Thomas into the air to look for them.
• Du Mu spotted Lois Lane and the Human Resistance surrounded by Atlantean and Amazon forces, then killed a charging Hell Beast with the Spear of Longinus.
• The Atlanteans and Amazons turned their weapons on Du Mu, but he survived their barrage and unleashed a storm of golden spears that wiped out the nearby armies.
• Du Mu used Redemption to heal the Human Resistance, and Lois asked if he was an Angel sent by Heaven.
• Du Mu introduced himself as the captain of the Avengers and pointed out Thomas, who could not move because his feet were numb.

Du Mu left the Human Resistance equipped to keep fighting and joined Barry and Thomas near the battle between Wonder Woman Diana and Aquaman Arthur. He posed as a fearsome enemy to unite them, but Diana bound him with the Lasso of Truth, and he claimed to be her father.

• Du Mu failed to recruit the Human Resistance into the Avengers, gave them Hellfire-enhanced equipment, and flew off with Thomas after Barry sent him Wonder Woman and Aquaman's location.
• Du Mu, Thomas, and Barry discussed how to stop Aquaman from detonating Captain Atom and decided to create a common enemy to interrupt the battle.
• Du Mu disguised himself as the Destroyer, Lord of Fear, and confronted Diana and Arthur as they fought over Mera's death.
• Arthur attacked Du Mu, who restrained him with black tentacles, while Diana's sword strike failed against Du Mu's golden armor.
• Diana bound Du Mu with the Lasso of Truth and demanded his identity, and Du Mu answered that he was her father.

Du Mu taunted Diana and Arthur while fighting them, revealing that his truth-defying powers and unusual abilities made him difficult to injure. He unleashed a shadow army against the Amazons and Atlanteans, then continued battling Diana and Arthur as the fight remained unresolved.

• Diana bound Du Mu with the Lasso of Truth, but he claimed to be her father and Arthur’s, convincing Arthur that he and Diana were siblings.
• Du Mu used the lasso to throw Diana into the ground, then used Arthur as a shield while Diana attacked and hurled him into the ruins.
• Diana stabbed Du Mu through the chest, but he survived by transferring his heart; he then restrained her with tentacles and spells as Amazon and Atlantis forces surrounded him.
• Du Mu spread a shadow domain across the palace and summoned a vast legion of shadow soldiers, prompting the Amazons and Atlanteans to fight them together.
• Arthur challenged Du Mu, who disarmed and kicked him aside before blocking Diana’s attacks with the Sacred Trident.
• Diana stabbed Du Mu in the throat, but he remained standing and claimed he had moved his heart into his stomach.

Du Mu defeated Diana and Arthur, stalled Arthur until his teammates rescued Captain Atom, and forced Diana to consider surrendering. Reverse-Flash then attacked Diana and Barry, but Du Mu shot him after he dodged the bullet and struck him from behind.

• Diana and Arthur fought Du Mu together, but his tentacles and trident repeatedly overpowered them.
• Du Mu revealed that Arthur had hidden Captain Atom beneath the sea to detonate a super nuclear bomb if Atlantis lost, and Arthur admitted the plan before pressing its trigger.
• The bomb did not detonate because Du Mu's teammates had rescued Captain Atom, and Du Mu forced Diana to agree to end the war.
• Reverse-Flash appeared and stabbed Diana, then knocked Barry aside when Barry attacked him.
• Du Mu fired at Reverse-Flash, who dodged the bullet but then collapsed after being struck in the back of the head.