Recaps

Du Mu fought off Gamora, then encountered Rocket and Groot as they tried to claim Quill’s bounty. The Nova Corps arrested the group, but Du Mu was cleared and released while the others were sent to prison.

• Gamora attacked Du Mu after kicking Quill and threatening him for the Orb, but Du Mu blocked her sword strikes and knocked her down.
• Rocket and Groot tried to capture Quill for the bounty, but Du Mu freed him and agreed to split the reward with them.
• Du Mu and Groot conversed while Rocket and Quill struggled to understand Groot’s language.
• Nova Corps ships arrived and arrested Du Mu, Gamora, Quill, Rocket, and Groot for the commotion.
• The Nova Corps found criminal records for everyone except Du Mu, released him, and sent the others to prison.

After returning from Xandar, Du Mu joined Peter and Harry in a battle against Electro at an Osborn Group power plant. With Peter’s help, Du Mu weakened Electro with water and captured him in a mysterious black ball, leaving the fight apparently won.

• Du Mu explored Xandar, bought high-tech goods, left his ship with the Nova Empire, and teleported back to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters.
• When Peter and Harry did not respond to his mission details, Du Mu teleported to Peter and arrived during their fight with Electro at an Osborn Group power plant.
• Harry explained that Max Dillon had escaped after being imprisoned and experimented on by shareholders, while Peter warned that Electro threatened the city’s power supply.
• Du Mu took Peter’s quest to defeat Electro, drew Electro’s attacks while flying on a broomstick, and tried unsuccessfully to hurt him with energy bullets.
• Peter drenched Electro with water, temporarily disabling his powers, and Du Mu hurled a black ball that sucked Electro inside and snapped shut.

Du Mu captured Max with a heavy Poké Ball, then brought him to Jotunheim and recruited him into X-Squad by promising recognition and revenge on the Osborn Group. After naming Max “Professor Max” and returning him to the ball, Du Mu advised Peter to beat criminals before reasoning with them, and Peter’s new approach began changing how New York’s criminals reacted.

• Du Mu captured Max in a Pure Iron Poké Ball, completing his quest and earning a Lightning Rod, which he used to stop Max’s attacks.
• Du Mu released Max in Jotunheim, where the Lightning Rod absorbed his electricity and Max learned he was far from Earth.
• Du Mu won Max’s trust by remembering him and offered him a place in X-Squad, promising to restore his reputation and punish those who had wronged him at the Osborn Group.
• Max agreed to join, Du Mu named him Professor Max, and then struck him with the Poké Ball to capture him again.
• After Du Mu explained that people listened better after being beaten, Peter began thrashing criminals before lecturing them, and several vowed to give up crime.

Du Mu assigned missions to Team X while S.H.I.E.L.D. grew busier and Steve joined its ranks. Pierce sent Du Mu to deliver Loki’s Scepter to Baron Strucker’s Sokovia facility, where Du Mu discovered Hydra planned to use it to power Chitauri weapons and experiment on people with genetic abnormalities.

• Du Mu gave Team X more daily missions, and Max, Harry, and Peter worked harder as Max gained public recognition and Harry recovered with the Life Potion.
• Director Hill recruited more agents, including Steve, who joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and took command of a strike team while Hydra spies worried he might expose them.
• Pierce ordered Du Mu to escort Loki’s Scepter to Hydra’s research facility in Sokovia, and Du Mu accepted the mission.
• Du Mu delivered the Scepter to Baron Strucker at the fortress laboratory and received a revolver as his mission reward.
• Strucker showed Du Mu Chitauri weapons and two people in biopods, explaining that Hydra intended to use the Scepter to reactivate the weapons and conduct biological experiments.

Du Mu accepted Strucker’s mission to create chaos in Sokovia while keeping Hydra’s research base hidden, then went to Novigrad seeking a way to make a major impact. After meeting a resistance leader, he revealed himself as Doom and was mistaken for a demon before the man fell to his knees and called him God.

• Strucker introduced Du Mu to Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, then tasked him with inflaming tensions in Sokovia to protect Hydra’s research base.
• Du Mu accepted the mission and traveled to Novigrad in disguise to unlock the map and consider how to create chaos.
• Du Mu learned that the Monthly Liberators were protesting government inaction and that Wanda, Pietro, and the other volunteers at Strucker’s base belonged to the resistance.
• After the protest dispersed, Du Mu approached its long-haired leader in an alley and asked whether he believed the government would protect people’s rights.
• The leader called Du Mu a demon, then dropped to his knees and hailed him as God when Du Mu revealed his magical light and sword.

Du Mu recruited Sokovian resistance members to overthrow the corrupt regime, equipping them with alien technology and rallying them through a display of holy light. He led the newly named Liberators Organization to attack a noble’s estate, where the guards’ gunfire failed to harm him.

• Du Mu persuaded the long-haired protester, later identified as Emil, to join him in overthrowing Sokovia’s corrupt government.
• At a tavern, Du Mu explained Sokovia’s noble families’ grip on power and showed Emil alien weapons and equipment, then tasked him with recruiting resistance members.
• More than thirty resistance members gathered the next day, and Du Mu’s display of holy light and speech inspired them to join his cause.
• Du Mu renamed the Monthly Liberators Resistance Organization the Liberators Organization, distributed equipment, and chose a viscount’s estate as their first target.
• Du Mu flew to the manor and crashed into its courtyard, then stood unharmed as the guards opened fire on him.

Du Mu and the Liberators crushed a Sokovian noble’s forces, expanded their campaign against the country’s ruling class, and recruited Zemo as Du Mu’s adjutant. As the government prepared to respond, Du Mu rejected a plan to target the royal family and ordered weapons distributed among the people so they could rise up themselves.

• Du Mu sent Iron Soldiers to destroy the guards at a noble’s estate, then the Liberators stormed the mansion and captured its viscount.
• Du Mu urged the Liberators to recruit more Sokovians, and rumors of their victories spread as the nobles panicked and demanded government intervention.
• Zemo joined Du Mu’s cause, offered his family’s resources, and became Du Mu’s adjutant, helping plan attacks on nobles trying to flee.
• Zemo warned that a government crackdown could endanger the Liberators’ scattered squads and proposed targeting the royal family to divert the army.
• Du Mu refused to overthrow the royals on the people’s behalf and told Zemo to distribute weapons throughout Sokovia so ordinary people could claim equality themselves.

Du Mu armed Sokovia’s oppressed civilians and built the Liberators Organization into a growing force that threatened the royal family, while Hydra prepared to begin experiments on the Scepter’s biological effects. He left Zemo to manage the revolution and traveled to Strucker’s base, where he asked Hydra to reimburse his expenses.

• Du Mu planted weapons and leaflets across Sokovia, inspiring civilians to attack the nobles and sparking armed uprisings that tied down the royal army.
• The Liberators Organization expanded as hungry civilians joined, while Du Mu brought Max to power its Iron Soldiers and introduced him to Zemo as Pikachu.
• Strucker learned that Du Mu had turned his mission to cause trouble into a nationwide revolution, then ordered Hydra to begin studying the Scepter’s biological effects.
• Zemo reported that the Liberators had surrounded the capital, and Du Mu told him to continue advancing but wait for his final order before attacking the palace.
• Du Mu went to Hydra’s research base, affirmed his loyalty to Strucker, and asked Hydra to reimburse his Sokovia operation expenses.

Wanda Maximoff awakened Chaos Magic after touching the Mind Stone, while Pietro also survived his test and gained super speed. Du Mu brought Wanda to the Liberators Organization’s headquarters, where she saw how the revolution had transformed its members, and asked him what he had done to them.

• At the Hydra research base, Wanda touched the Mind Stone, which reacted to her and awakened her Chaos Magic.
• Du Mu carried the unconscious Wanda to the medical department, then had Pietro tested; Pietro survived and gained super speed.
• After Wanda woke, Du Mu explained her new ability and had her practice it on a researcher, revealing her telepathy, telekinesis, and scarlet energy powers.
• Du Mu invited Wanda to join the Liberators Organization and showed her records of its progress toward overthrowing Sokovia’s royal palace.
• Du Mu took Wanda to the organization’s headquarters, where she saw familiar faces among its hopeful members and asked him what he had done to them.

Wanda joined the Liberators Organization and rapidly mastered Chaos Magic while Du Mu began training her brother Pietro to control his super-speed. After testing Pietro’s reflexes with a surprise gunshot, Du Mu launched a base-wide training challenge that left Pietro repeatedly ambushed and shot.

• Du Mu recruited Wanda into the Liberators Organization and began teaching her magic, but she struggled with weapons and excelled at spells.
• Wanda quickly learned magic from borrowed Kamar-Taj books, while Strucker suspended his failed enhancement experiments and focused on Pietro.
• Du Mu shot Pietro in the leg to test whether he could dodge bullets, and Wanda healed him before scolding Du Mu.
• Du Mu explained that Pietro needed to react without warning and ordered the base to shoot at him until his speed became automatic.
• Du Mu announced the Quicksilver Sacrifice Event, and Hydra Base staff used disguises and tricks to shoot Pietro repeatedly for rewards.

Du Mu ordered the Liberators Organization to overthrow Sokovia’s royal family, then led its overwhelming assault on the royal palace. Wanda’s display of power forced the defenders to surrender, and Du Mu entered the palace with her, where he shot a noble who tried to negotiate.

• Wanda accidentally nearly shot Pietro in the head, and Du Mu demonstrated a homing bullet that struck Pietro despite his speed.
• Du Mu ordered Zemo to launch an all-out assault on the capital in three days, while the Liberators Organization gathered support across Sokovia.
• Du Mu rallied the Liberators, who advanced on Novigrad with Wanda, Pietro, Max, the Night Raid Squad, and Iron Soldiers at the front.
• Wanda tore apart a royalist tank, prompting the defenders to drop their weapons and surrender.
• Du Mu and Wanda entered the royal palace, forced open its gates, and confronted the puppet king and the nobles in the main hall.
• When a noble offered to negotiate, Du Mu shot him and dismissed the remaining nobles as insignificant.

Du Mu overthrew Sokovia’s rulers, was crowned king, and gained a system achievement that strengthened his hold over the country. After he swore to lead Sokovia to prosperity, a burst of light gave the gathered people a mysterious surge of strength.

• Du Mu ordered Wanda to control Sokovia’s nobles and puppet king, then announced the end of oppression to the cheering crowds.
• The system rewarded Du Mu with experience, attribute points, and plant-themed items, and he allocated four points to his attributes.
• At a public trial, Zemo presented evidence of the former rulers’ crimes, and the crowd condemned them before they were executed.
• Zemo and the Sokovians urged Du Mu to become king, and Du Mu accepted before being crowned as Sokovia’s new ruler.
• The system awarded Du Mu the Monarch of a Nation achievement, granting permanent favorability and other bonuses within his territory.
• Du Mu swore to lead Sokovia to prosperity, and a dazzling light left the people feeling stronger while Max wondered what had happened.

After becoming Sokovia’s ruler, Du Mu secured Hydra’s research team, began rebuilding the country, and delegated government work while relaxing by the lake. Tony then called to ask for a life-curing potion, and Du Mu named a price of ten billion.

• The Sokovians hailed Du Mu as God-Monarch Doom, and his rule gave them a boost to their attributes.
• Du Mu and Strucker agreed to exchange research progress and resources, protect Sokovian citizens, and make Hydra’s members citizens of Sokovia.
• Du Mu gave Pietro a Diamond Hoe and tasked him with reclaiming farmland, which Pietro rapidly transformed into productive fields.
• Du Mu appointed Zemo prime minister and left the day-to-day rebuilding of Sokovia to him and Hydra.
• Du Mu went fishing with Wanda, using the outing to help her manage her unstable Chaos Magic, while an Automatic Fishing Rod filled his net.
• Tony called Du Mu seeking a life-curing potion, and Du Mu demanded ten billion.

Du Mu removed the shrapnel and healed Tony Stark’s chest with a Large Health Potion, completing the quest and earning Tony’s gratitude. He then discovered he could remove equipment from Tony through the teammate panel.

• Tony Stark asked Du Mu for a Life Potion to improve the odds of surgery to remove the shrapnel in his chest.
• Du Mu went to Tony’s Malibu mansion and agreed to operate on him in the underground lab.
• Du Mu used a Painkiller and Powerful Magnet to extract Tony’s Arc Reactor and the shrapnel while Tony drank a Large Health Potion.
• Du Mu cut around the old chest wound with a Watermelon Knife, and the potion healed it until Tony’s chest was whole again.
• Du Mu completed the quest, received a Plague Doctor Mask, and saw Tony’s affection rise to 95.
• Du Mu gave Tony a Nichirin Blade, then removed it through the teammate equipment panel and sent it to his Game Inventory.

Du Mu received Tony's payment and revealed to Zemo that he belonged to Hydra, appointing him to lead its Sokovian branch. At a barbecue, Du Mu fed Pietro and Zemo enchanted Asgardian meat that would keep them energized for a week.

• Du Mu returned the Watermelon Knife to Tony and told him Sokovia still blamed Stark Industries for the destruction of the country; after Du Mu vanished, Tony asked Jarvis to investigate Sokovia.
• Tony sent Du Mu the money, and Du Mu invited Wanda, Pietro, and Zemo to a barbecue while they took a break from fishing and rebuilding Sokovia.
• Du Mu revealed his identity to Zemo and told him that Hydra had chosen him to lead its Sokovian branch.
• Zemo realized he had joined the notorious organization and decided to keep working to build Sokovia, while Du Mu encouraged him to use Hydra's resources.
• Du Mu served the group alien meat, and Wanda and Pietro eagerly ate it after tasting it.
• Du Mu explained that the enchanted Ox-Horse Beast meat would give Pietro and Zemo energy for a week so they could work without sleep.

Du Mu recruited Skye onto his team and rushed her through a series of dangerous S.H.I.E.L.D. missions. After three days, Skye became a Level One agent, though the experience left her questioning her choice.

• Du Mu accepted Stark Industries' offer to fund Sokovia's rebuilding and assigned Zemo to negotiate for as much aid as possible.
• Du Mu met Skye, learned she had been part of Rising Tide, and persuaded her to join his team by promising a quick promotion.
• Coulson agreed to let Skye join Du Mu's team after Du Mu gave him Hair Growth Serum.
• Du Mu took Skye on a mission to recover a Chitauri corpse in Los Angeles and cleared the gang's hideout with a loud, rapid shootout.
• Over three days, Skye accompanied Du Mu on several missions, demonstrated her hacking skills, and was promoted directly to a Level One S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

Du Mu built Team X into an efficient S.H.I.E.L.D. mission crew with Skye coordinating through a new Exchange Mall and mission system. When Peter, Harry, and Max could not stop a stolen Rhino Mech, BT defeated it, but Peter then told Du Mu he had a really bad feeling.

• Du Mu recruited Skye as Team X’s technical scout and had her create the Exchange Mall and a mission system that rewarded members with points.
• Team X members eagerly ground missions for points, and Skye’s remote intelligence support improved their efficiency.
• A gang stole the Osborn Group’s Rhino Mech to lure Peter and Harry into a fight, and its armor resisted their attacks and Max’s electricity.
• Du Mu summoned BT, which pinned the Rhino Mech, smashed into its cockpit, and pulled out the surrendering criminal.
• Du Mu received a powerful Spider-Man Suit as a mission reward and prepared to return to Wanda in Sokovia.
• Peter stumbled toward Du Mu and said he had a really bad feeling.

Du Mu entered a special dungeon after a portal pulled Peter Parker toward it, arriving in a parallel New York where Spider-Man had been reported dead. He found three displaced Spider-Men and received a mission to send them back to their original worlds, but Peter B. Parker doubted Du Mu was one of them.

• A special dungeon portal appeared beside Peter, and Du Mu used the Spider Totem to stop its pull before entering the portal himself.
• Du Mu landed safely in a parallel New York and saw news reports claiming that its Peter Parker had died and had his identity exposed.
• Du Mu bought Spider-Man comics that recounted this world's Peter's life, then went to the Parker home in Queens.
• Du Mu met Peter B. Parker, Miles Morales, and Gwen Stacy, whom the system identified as Spider-Men from other worlds.
• The system assigned Du Mu the mission of sending the displaced Spider-Men back to their original worlds, while Peter B. grew suspicious because Du Mu lacked a recognizable Spider-Sense.

Du Mu joined the Spider-Men in Aunt May’s underground base, where several more variants gathered after traveling through a quantum Wormhole. The group wanted to find a way to reopen the Wormhole and return to their own universes.

• Du Mu put on the Spider-Man Suit, connected to the Spider-Network, and convinced Gwen, Miles, and Peter B that he was a Spider-Man.
• Du Mu introduced himself as God-Monarch Doom, king of Sokovia, and left Peter B envious of his claimed royal lifestyle.
• Aunt May welcomed Peter B, then led the group to her underground base so she could inspect Miles’s damaged Override Key.
• Du Mu and the others explored the base before their Spider-Senses alerted them to Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker, and Spider-Ham overhead.
• Peni explained that the newcomers had followed a quantum Wormhole to the base, and Spider-Man Noir said they wanted to reopen it to return home.

Du Mu learned how the Spider-Men planned to destroy Kingpin’s Super-Collider and volunteered to handle the dangerous final step, while Miles left after failing to awaken his powers. Du Mu then questioned Peter B about his universe’s heroes and spent the night gathering information.

• Miles explained that Kingpin’s Super-Collider had killed this universe’s Peter Parker, and that the Spider-Men needed to destroy it to return to their own universes.
• The Spider-Men suffered temporary spacetime rejection, and they rejected Miles’s offer to stay behind because he was inexperienced.
• Du Mu tried to train Miles by telling him to follow his heart, then proposed using his gun to provoke Miles’s powers before Peter B stopped him.
• Du Mu volunteered to destroy the Super-Collider, claimed he could return home with magic, and accepted the Spider-Men’s quest.
• Peni began building a replacement key while Miles left the secret base, and Du Mu questioned Peter B about the heroes in his 616B Server.
• Du Mu and Peter B talked through the night about Peter B’s universe, including Doctor Strange, Wolverine, and its other superheroes.

Du Mu and the Spider-Men prepared to stop Kingpin’s Super-Collider, but Kingpin’s forces attacked Aunt May’s house. Du Mu fought the Green Goblin and BT joined the battle, while the other Spider-Men faced Kingpin’s villains.

• Du Mu decided Peter B’s dangerous server was no place to visit until he had grown stronger, and Peni gave him a new Key.
• Miles returned to Aunt May’s house and revealed that his uncle, the Prowler, had tried to kill him.
• Lady Octopus and Hammerhead attacked Du Mu, then Kingpin arrived with Tombstone, Scorpion, the Prowler, and the Green Goblin.
• Kingpin ordered his villains to attack, and Du Mu took on the giant Green Goblin while the Spider-Men fought the others.
• Du Mu used his Green Goblin Suit, Glider, and Golden Desert Eagles to wound the Green Goblin, but BT slammed him into a crater and knocked him unconscious.

Kingpin called in the evil Spider-Man variants Patton Parnell and the Doomsday Spider-Man to fight the Spider-Men. Patton attacked Peter B, while the Doomsday Spider-Man turned his attention to Du Mu.

• After the Green Goblin was defeated, Peter B taunted Kingpin, who insisted the fight was still even and revealed he had reinforcements.
• Patton Parnell and the Doomsday Spider-Man arrived and revealed their monstrous and villainous natures.
• Peter B tried to persuade them to stop Kingpin's plan, but the two villains said they wanted access to other universes for their own ends.
• Du Mu told Peter B that the newcomers were corrupted versions of Spider-Man, and Kingpin urged them to kill the Spider-Men.
• Patton lunged at Peter B and began fighting him, while the Doomsday Spider-Man asked Du Mu whether he was a Spider-Man named Peter Parker.
• Du Mu introduced himself as Doom, also known as God-Monarch Doom.

Du Mu fought Doomsday Spider-Man, whose unrestrained strength threatened to overwhelm him and the other Spider-Men. After BT went to help the others, Du Mu revealed that his suit and mech had been sealing away his power—and Doomsday Spider-Man had just broken that seal.

• Doomsday Spider-Man attacked Du Mu with webbing and a powerful punch, but Du Mu dodged and blocked the blow with his Spider-Suit’s steel legs.
• BT struck Doomsday Spider-Man with its metal fist, and Du Mu tore free of the webbing and kicked him into the rubble.
• Doomsday Spider-Man got back up and pointed out that the other Spider-Men were losing ground, including Peter B against Spider-Demon Patton and Miles against his uncle.
• Du Mu ordered BT to help the others, leaving him alone with Doomsday Spider-Man.
• Du Mu explained that he used his suit and mech to seal his strength, and that Doomsday Spider-Man had broken that seal.

Du Mu used his enhanced strength and Magic Sword to defeat Doomsday Spider-Man, then joined the fight against the remaining villains. As the Spider-Men subdued their opponents, Du Mu learned that Miles had been chased outside by Prowler and began dealing with Hammerhead.

• Du Mu overwhelmed Doomsday Spider-Man, destroyed his Web-Shooters, cut off his arms, and broke both his legs before leaving him unconscious for the return mission.
• Du Mu joined the battle with BT, while Kingpin and Lady Octopus fled and the other villains continued fighting.
• Du Mu shot Scorpion Lailai in the shoulder, allowing Gwen to knock her unconscious, then learned that Miles had been chased outside by Prowler.
• Du Mu sent BT to search for Miles while the others handled the remaining villains.
• Du Mu shot Hammerhead in the leg despite Hammerhead boasting that bullets could not hurt him.

Du Mu and the Spider-Men defeated Kingpin’s remaining villains, then Du Mu saved Prowler and learned the Super-Collider had connected more than ten parallel universes. The chapter left Du Mu wondering how many other Spider-Men might still be in their universe.

• Du Mu helped the Spider-Men restrain Tombstone, then joined them in beating and paralyzing Spider-Demon Patton.
• BT brought Miles and the gravely wounded Prowler back, and Du Mu used a Potent Syringe to heal Prowler’s bullet wound.
• Miles’s grief-stricken embrace accidentally woke Prowler, and Du Mu warned that the bullet remained inside him.
• Du Mu asked Prowler about the Super-Collider, and Prowler said it had stably connected more than ten parallel universes.