Chapter Summaries

Richard offered Whitehall five Obelisks in exchange for everything he knew about the Symbiote Dragon. Whitehall explained that the dragon escaped Hydra years ago, leaving Richard to wonder why Odin had only recently raised the matter.

• Richard placed five Obelisks on Whitehall's desk, stunning him with the number of artifacts he had spent his life seeking.
• Richard explained that the Obelisks were Terrigen Crystals and offered them to Whitehall in exchange for information.
• Whitehall agreed to provide Hydra's files and recounted how the Symbiote Dragon awoke while being transported, killed its handlers, and escaped.
• Whitehall said the dragon's escape had happened years earlier and offered Richard the surviving records.
• Richard let Whitehall keep the Obelisks and told him he would owe them a future favor.

Eddie Brock and Jessica partnered with a retired veteran to intercept government transport carrying his former comrades, who had been altered by human experimentation. As the truck arrived, Eddie prepared to let Venom take the stage.

• A retired veteran told Eddie and Jessica that the government had experimented on his wounded comrades and asked them to help rescue them.
• Eddie and Jessica agreed to intercept the soldiers during a transfer, hoping Venom could restore them.
• While waiting in an abandoned building, Eddie and Venom bickered as Jessica teased them about acting like an old married couple.
• Jessica spotted the approaching truck hauling a heavy metal container, and Eddie took off his backpack and camera and called on Venom.

Eddie and Jessica defeated the mutated symbiote soldiers, but the soldiers suddenly retreated and called out to a god. A colossal dark dragon arrived and attacked Venom, leaving Jessica demanding an explanation after she saved them from its dive.

• Eddie transformed into Venom and stopped the truck, then knocked its soldiers unconscious.
• Jessica and Venom opened the container and fought the mutated symbiote soldiers inside.
• The soldiers abruptly retreated, and Venom became terrified when he understood them calling out to a god.
• A massive dark dragon descended, destroyed the container, and targeted Venom.
• Jessica carried Venom clear of the dragon's dive, then demanded to know what was happening.

Thor confronted the Symbiote Dragon, an old enemy that had returned, while Jessica and Venom escaped and learned about the God of the Symbiotes. Thor’s newfound power let him fight the dragon, but it remained confident that he could not defeat it.

• Jessica grabbed Venom and fled as the Dark Dragon attacked, but Thor struck it with lightning and intervened.
• Thor recognized the Symbiote Dragon, and the two exchanged taunts before it charged him.
• Thor stopped the dragon’s charge and smashed it with Mjolnir, then resumed fighting when it attacked again.
• Venom told Jessica and Eddie that the dragon served the God of the Symbiotes and explained the symbiotes’ origins; Eddie teased Venom for running away from home.
• Jessica took a few distant photos while Thor fought, and the Symbiote Dragon remarked that Thor could now fly without Mjolnir before questioning whether he could truly win.

The Symbiote Dragon escaped Thor and prompted the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. to prepare for a future confrontation. In the mountains, its symbiote god avatar revealed his plan to corrupt Earth, but Richard appeared and offered to help.

• The Symbiote Dragon struck Thor down, fled into the night, and warned him they would meet again.
• Thor told the Avengers about the dragon, and Stark used JARVIS to uncover records linking S.H.I.E.L.D. and the government to experiments on wounded soldiers.
• The Avengers confronted Nick Fury, who refused to take responsibility, while S.H.I.E.L.D. launched a worldwide search and the Avengers planned how to fight the dragon.
• The Symbiote Dragon landed in a mountain range and concealed itself with black mist before its avatar emerged and announced plans to corrupt Earth.
• Richard walked out of the woods, applauded the avatar, and offered to lend a hand with its plan.

Richard transformed into Nexus and destroyed Knull’s Symbiote Dragon before battling Knull’s avatar. Knull’s attacks failed to stop Nexus, who struck him into the ground.

• Knull ordered the Symbiote Dragon to attack Richard, but Richard’s transformation into Nexus let him destroy the dragon with a single punch.
• Knull warned Nexus to leave the planet, but Nexus charged and knocked Knull through a mountain in their first clash.
• Knull gathered the scattered symbiotes and unleashed waves of tentacles and darkness at Nexus.
• Knull predicted where Nexus would appear and struck his chest, but Nexus barely reacted before tapping Knull’s shoulder and driving him into the ground.

Nexus destroyed Knull’s avatar and the Symbiote Dragon, leaving Knull furious and unable to retaliate. The Avengers learned the threat was already gone after preparing to fight, while Nick Fury planned how to keep the budget.

• Nexus burned Knull’s avatar to ash before it could finish announcing its name, and Knull vowed to remember the warrior of light.
• Richard concluded that Knull remained trapped on his planet, then Nexus confirmed that no symbiote fragments remained and left the mountain range.
• Stark completed anti-symbiote armor, Thor returned with divine weapons, and Nick Fury assembled a team and secured an elimination budget.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. detected the Symbiote Dragon in a forested mountain region, but also detected Ultraman’s nearby energy signature.
• The Avengers learned that the symbiote signal had vanished and the target was already dead, frustrating Stark and the team while Nick Fury planned to justify keeping the budget.

Richard entered a lucid dream of the ruins that Dunamists visited before receiving Ultraman's power and reached the Stone Wing monument. Touching it revealed a world consumed by fire and Dark Zagi, and Richard woke wondering what the vision meant.

• Richard recognized that he was dreaming in the forest and followed the path toward the ruins.
• Richard reached the Stone Wing monument after a long walk and examined cave murals depicting ancient Dunamists fighting Space Beasts.
• Richard touched the monument, and darkness and flames destroyed the dream world as Dark Zagi appeared.
• Richard awoke drenched in sweat and recognized the dark giant as Noah's ultimate enemy.

After a troubling dream, Richard ordered Hydra to disguise a Shi'ar spacecraft so he could search space for Mephisto's superior. Meanwhile, Doom rescued his mother's soul from Hell by overpowering the badly wounded Mephisto, who was left vowing to wait for revenge.

• Richard awoke from a dream, feared Dark Zagi might be near, and teleported to Hydra's base to inspect the Shi'ar spacecraft.
• Richard ordered Hydra's engineers to disguise the ship's exterior within a week while leaving its functions unchanged.
• Doom returned from Tibet with mastery of magic and advanced technology, then went to Hell to rescue his mother.
• Mephisto turned Doom's mother into a stone statue and challenged him to get past him to claim her soul.
• Doom blasted and beat Mephisto, freed his mother's soul, and left Hell as Mephisto raged and coughed up blood.
• Mephisto decided to endure the humiliation and wait for Doom to die so he could claim his soul.

Richard took Gwen and Wanda to the opening day of Manhattan’s Ultraman-themed amusement park, where they met Tony Stark and Pepper Potts. After Wanda rejected an invitation to visit Stark’s home because she still resented him, Richard and the girls continued through the crowded park and ran into Skye.

• Richard agreed to take Gwen and Wanda to the park and used his connections to get them in through the VIP entrance.
• After lunch, Gwen recognized Stark, who was visiting with Pepper Potts and eating an Ultraman-shaped ice cream.
• Pepper revealed that Stark had enthusiastically funded the park and commissioned a three-meter-tall Ultraman statue for their living room.
• Gwen invited Wanda to visit the statue, but Wanda refused because she still blamed Stark in part for her family’s destruction.
• Richard recalled that Snake Shield had been searching for Wanda’s missing brother, Quicksilver, but had not found him.
• Richard and the girls parted from Stark and Pepper, then encountered Skye from Coulson’s team.

Richard and the girls met Skye at a park and spent the day together. Skye revealed that her mother had died, her father had lost his memories, and her real name was Daisy Johnson.

• Skye greeted Richard and explained that her S.H.I.E.L.D. teammates had all been unable to join her at the park.
• Skye joined Richard and the three girls, and they chatted together about Ultraman and their interests.
• Jessica asked whether Skye was Asian, and Skye explained that she was mixed-race, with an American father and Chinese mother.
• Skye told the group that her mother had died and her father was alive but had lost his memories and no longer recognized her.
• Skye revealed that her real name was Daisy Johnson.

Daisy met Richard and his housemates, learned about his role in creating the Ultraman films, and stayed overnight to watch the trilogy with them. Afterward, curiosity led her into Richard’s bedroom, where she noticed an unfamiliar book on his bedside shelf.

• Richard offered to buy drinks, and the girls all ordered Ultraman milk tea.
• Daisy asked Gwen, Jessica, and Wanda what Richard was like, and Jessica quickly changed her criticism into praise when Richard returned.
• Wanda showed Daisy her rare Blu-ray discs, and Daisy stayed the night with Richard’s permission.
• Daisy watched the Ultraman trilogy with the girls and asked whether people’s light could really reach Ultraman.
• Daisy noticed Richard’s open bedroom door, went inside, and spotted a book called Date A Live on his shelf.

Daisy visited Richard under the pretext of discussing his writing, but he realized she was investigating him behind Coulson’s back. Richard admitted that he was Ultraman, leaving Daisy unsure whether to believe him.

• Richard found Daisy reading Date A Live in his room and invited her to share instant noodles.
• Daisy praised Richard’s writing in To the Glorious One and discussed her analysis of his work.
• Richard challenged Daisy to explain why she had come to New York without Coulson’s knowledge.
• Daisy asked Richard whether he was Ultraman, and Richard openly confirmed it.
• Daisy doubted her guess after seeing Richard’s casual, otaku-like behavior.

After Daisy learned that Richard was Ultraman, she left New York, and Richard sensed a major threat appearing over the city. As Megaflash attacked, Richard evacuated his newspaper staff and hesitated to transform, until the Avengers arrived.

• Daisy accepted that Richard was Ultraman, promised to keep his secret, and left New York the next morning.
• Richard felt a powerful warning at his newspaper office and saw Dark Field G open in the sky, suggesting Dark Zagi was behind the threat.
• Megaflash emerged from the darkness and blasted a street with electricity as bystanders fled.
• Richard ordered his employees to evacuate and weighed whether to transform, suspecting the attack was a trap.
• A red-and-silver Quinjet bearing the Avengers emblem descended, bringing the Avengers to the scene.

The Avengers battled Megaflash, whose spatial barrier nullified their energy attacks while physical blows hurt it. After Megaflash fired on the team, a black vortex pulled it back into Dark Field G, leaving the Avengers to regroup and Richard still searching for the source of the anomaly.

• Stark identified the giant conch as the Space Beast Megaflash and led Thor and Rhodes out to confront it while the others stayed in the Avenger.
• Hawkeye, Iron Man, and Thor found that their energy attacks vanished before reaching Megaflash, and Stark deduced that its rainbow-like spatial fold blocked laser-based attacks.
• Iron Man’s missiles and Rhodes’s live ammunition damaged Megaflash, while Thor attacked it with Mjolnir, prompting it to fire a destructive beam.
• Thor intercepted Megaflash’s beam before it could hit the Avenger, but the collision blasted him backward and knocked Mjolnir from his hand.
• A black vortex opened and drew Megaflash into Dark Field G before closing, and the spatial anomaly faded.

On the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, Richard explained the Dark Field and Megaflash’s ability to nullify energy attacks, then identified the organ responsible for it. He proposed destroying that organ as a countermeasure before Megaflash returned.

• Thor said he had never encountered a creature like Megaflash, while the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. discussed the black vortex above New York.
• Stark used JARVIS to project his analysis, identifying the vortex as a subspace called the Dark Field and warning that it might be far stronger than the previous one.
• Richard arrived, named the Space Beast Megaflash, and explained that its rainbow light interfered with energy transmission, including beams and Meta Field.
• Richard examined Megaflash’s spectral and electromagnetic readings and identified a heat-concentrating organ as the source of its beam-nullification ability.
• Richard said destroying the organ would disable Megaflash’s ability, and Stark questioned how he had completed the analysis so quickly.

Richard explained how Megaflash’s beam-isolation ability worked and devised a plan to exploit a heat vent on its back. After Daisy encouraged him and offered a lucky charm, Richard embraced his responsibility to face the threat himself and resolved to confront Dark Zagi without hesitation.

• Richard used Ultra Vision to identify how Megaflash generated its beam-isolation space and explained the creature’s ability to the Avengers.
• Richard revealed a narrow heat vent on Megaflash’s back and outlined a plan to expose and destroy the ability-generating organ inside its shell.
• After the briefing, Richard reflected that Megaflash’s powers and deployment made the fight his responsibility, though he had not yet decided how to act.
• Daisy Johnson joined Richard on the Helicarrier, encouraged him, and offered him a lucky charm from her father.
• Richard returned the charm to Daisy and declared that he did not need it because he was Ultraman, resolving to face Dark Zagi directly.

S.H.I.E.L.D.’s elite team attacked Megaflash in Manhattan, using coordinated weapons and Thor’s storm to bring it down. Hulk pried open its heat vent so Iron Man and War Machine could inject the experimental drug, leaving the outcome of their decisive strike uncertain.

• Megaflash emerged over Manhattan at ten, and Iron Man attacked it with missiles and a Vibranium blade while War Machine and the Avenger fired from either side.
• The team’s flash and concussion rounds disrupted Megaflash’s vision and balance, allowing Thor to trap it in a tornado and slam it into the ground with Mjolnir.
• Thor called for Banner, and Hulk leaped onto Megaflash’s back and forced open its heat vent.
• Iron Man and War Machine fired miniature missiles carrying an experimental hormone-disrupting drug into the opening to try to disable Megaflash’s spatial isolation organ.

Megaflash’s sudden burst of speed thwarted the Avengers’ pheromone-missile plan and left the battle in New York spiraling out of control. Richard transformed into Nexus, reopened the Space Beast’s shell so Stark could strike its organs, and prepared to finish it with Cross Storm.

• Megaflash blasted itself forward with a torrent of air, evaded the missiles, and smashed through two city blocks.
• Hulk was thrown from Megaflash and buried beneath a collapsing building, while its electrical attacks damaged Avenger and drove Iron Man and War Machine back.
• Richard decided to become the Ultraman the watching world expected and transformed into Nexus with the Evolution Trust.
• Nexus struck Megaflash, mounted its back, and forced open the vents in its shell so Stark could guide two pheromone missiles inside.
• The missiles disrupted Megaflash’s internal energy and released its abilities, and Nexus crossed his arms to fire Cross Storm.

After destroying Megaflash, Nexus faced five Space Beasts summoned by Dark Field G, which surrounded him in Manhattan. Richard transformed Nexus into Red Adult Form and killed Pedron with one punch, leaving four Space Beasts to fight.

• Nexus destroyed Megaflash, while Richard sensed Dark Field G spreading and realized the battle had only begun.
• Galberos, Nosferu, Guluglaim, Gurantora, and Pedron emerged from the darkness and surrounded Nexus.
• Stark, Hawkeye, and Captain America watched the five Space Beasts close in, while Stark feared they had no way to win.
• Richard switched Nexus into Red Adult Form as Pedron launched an attack.
• Nexus struck Pedron with a golden-lit punch, blasting it apart and leaving four Space Beasts.