Chapter Summaries

Daisy fought senile Odin with Bor’s axe and the Power Stone, bringing forth Bor’s phantom in Asgard. After Bor and Odin began arguing, Daisy realized she was no longer part of the fight, while Odin had regained his senses.

• Odin broke the prisoners’ restraints and charged Daisy, but Thor grabbed his leg and slowed him down.
• Daisy overcame her hesitation and attacked Odin with a Twin-bladed Great Axe, meeting his spear thrust head-on.
• The clash summoned Bor’s phantom from the axe, and Frigga recognized him as Odin’s father.
• Odin’s strike sent Daisy flying through the palace roof and injured her arms, which her healing factor soon restored.
• Bor’s phantom left the axe to argue with Odin, and Daisy landed as Odin regained his senses and confronted his father.

Daisy brought Odin to Earth and arranged for him to live at Green Shade Garden Care Center, where Leech’s aura left him powerless but clear-headed. Stark found himself unexpectedly impressed by Odin after a long conversation.

• Bor argued with Odin about Asgard’s future, then left, and Odin sealed his divine power and fell asleep.
• Frigga asked Daisy to find a place on Earth for Odin to live, so Daisy brought the Asgardians to Green Shade Garden Care Center.
• Ancient One noticed the group at the care center, greeted Odin, and departed after realizing they were there for a stay.
• Leech’s Suppression Aura weakened the Asgardians and made Odin a frail old man, while also clearing his mind; Odin praised Leech and accepted a suite arranged by Daisy.
• Captain America and Stark visited Odin, who admired Captain America but struck up a lively conversation with Stark.
• Stark asked Daisy if Odin was really Thor’s father after finding Odin’s wisdom unexpectedly clarifying, and Daisy gave him a sidelong look.

Daisy arranged for Odin to rest, then traveled to Svartalfheim to retrieve the Aether. Malekith awakened his Dark Elves after sensing the Aether and raced toward its distant missing portion as Daisy forced her way into the barren realm.

• Odin and Stark chatted while the others cleaned Odin’s home, and Daisy discovered Uncle Ben was telling him that great power came with great responsibility.
• Daisy had a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent lure Uncle Ben away with a fake prize so Odin would not be provoked.
• Thor stayed on Earth with Odin, Loki returned to filming his play, and Frigga asked Daisy why she wanted to go to Svartalfheim.
• Malekith awakened when the Aether arrived, absorbed it, and discovered that its missing portion was elsewhere in Svartalfheim.
• Frigga found Daisy a route into Svartalfheim, where Daisy arrived in search of the Aether and Reality Stone.

Daisy confronted Malekith on Svartalfheim after he demanded the Aether and threatened to enslave her. She prepared to fight the Dark Elf army and met Algrim’s charge with a full-powered axe strike.

• Daisy saw Malekith arrive with a fleet and thousands of Dark Elf warriors on Svartalfheim.
• Malekith demanded the Aether, then threatened to give Daisy to Algrim when she asked what she would gain.
• Daisy rejected negotiation and decided to fight the Dark Elves, citing Bor’s final wish.
• Malekith ordered Algrim to attack and empowered him with a fragment of the Aether, transforming him into a towering warrior.
• Daisy drew on her strength, the Power Stone, and the Phoenix Force, then swung Bor’s golden axe at Algrim’s head.
• Algrim charged at Daisy, underestimating her despite the overwhelming energy surrounding her.

Daisy fought Malekith and the Dark Elves with Bor’s giant axe, killing their elite warrior Algrim and cutting through their forces. She learned the limits of the Dark Elves’ Miniature Black Hole Grenades while continuing to evade Malekith’s attacks.

• Algrim tried to catch Daisy’s axe barehanded, but she split him in two with a single blow.
• Malekith urged the Dark Elves to attack Daisy and struck at her with dark red Flame Impact as she killed several of his soldiers.
• The Dark Elves surrounded Daisy and threw Miniature Black Hole Grenades, which pulled nearby fighters into voids; Daisy used String-Vibration Teleportation to evade them.
• Daisy seized and threw one of the grenades, discovering that it had a long delay and a limited three-meter blast radius.
• Daisy slaughtered more Dark Elves and hurled one at Malekith, who incinerated the captive and fired three streams of dark red flame toward her.

Daisy fought Malekith and his Dark Elf forces in Svartalfheim, using the Power Stone to devastate the dimension and force the Elf King to flee. She chased after Malekith, determined to kill him before the collapsing world could explode.

• Daisy cut through the Dark Elf warriors and used one of them as a shield against Malekith's curse spell.
• Malekith fired a barrage of Aether arrows that killed many of his own Dark Elves and pierced Daisy's lower abdomen despite her attempts to evade them.
• Daisy used the Power Stone to blast through Svartalfheim's crust, triggering eruptions of magma and devastating the dimension.
• Malekith attacked Daisy with the Aether, but she continued striking the ground and sending magma toward his ships.
• Malekith fled toward a mountain peak as Svartalfheim began to collapse, and Daisy pursued him with her axe.

Daisy pursued Malekith through several of the Nine Realms before defeating and killing him in the Ancient One’s Mirror Dimension. She gathered the Aether and returned to collapsing Svartalfheim, where she inspected the Infinity Gauntlet.

• Daisy chased Malekith through Alfheim, Jotunheim, Muspelheim, and Hel, suffering injuries while cutting off one of his arms.
• Malekith fled through a spatial rift to Earth, where the Ancient One’s Mirror Dimension trapped him and Daisy.
• Daisy blinded Malekith with her axe and then beheaded him, leaving her in possession of the Aether.
• The Ancient One met Daisy after the Mirror Dimension vanished, and Daisy returned to Svartalfheim.
• Daisy observed the Dark Elves’ desperate struggle to survive as Svartalfheim collapsed, then inspected the Infinity Gauntlet.

Daisy subdued the surviving Dark Elves and organized them into a force under her command. After leaving them with Wanda, she returned to Earth, while Mr. Goblin wondered about her strange look.

• Daisy killed the Dark Elves who resisted her until about six hundred survivors surrendered.
• Daisy appointed Burton deputy commander, enhanced him with the Mind Scepter and Aether, and made him her loyal servant.
• Daisy divided the Dark Elves into combat, assassination, and technology units and brought them to the Shi'ar to monitor the Saintess Cult.
• Daisy prepared to return to Earth, noticed Goblin Chocolate might be wealthy, then teleported away with the Space Stone.
• Mr. Goblin asked Wanda what Daisy's look had meant, but Wanda continued preparing her medicine and said she did not know.

Daisy visited Ancient One at the New York Sanctum, hoping to persuade her to train Wanda, but learned that Ancient One intended to take Doctor Stephen Strange as her disciple. After discussing Daisy’s plans for New York’s underworld, Ancient One advised her to consider her goals and avoid interfering so much that events spiraled beyond her control.

• Daisy thanked Ancient One for her help against Malekith and tried to persuade her to accept Wanda Maximoff as a disciple, but Ancient One refused.
• Daisy considered the obstacles to obtaining the Time Stone and decided her pursuit of the Infinity Gems should pause.
• Ancient One took Daisy to New York General Hospital, where they watched Doctor Stephen Strange operate and saw Christine Palmer and Claire Temple tending to patients.
• Daisy told Ancient One she had tried to support an agent in unifying New York’s underworld but was unsure whether to keep intervening.
• Ancient One advised Daisy to clarify her purpose and warned that excessive involvement could push events toward an outcome she could not understand.

Daisy agreed to help Ancient One force Doctor Strange onto the path to becoming a sorcerer, and a staged accident left Strange with permanently damaged hands and mounting financial troubles. With no hope left in New York, Strange set out for the East, while Daisy trained with a two-handed axe gifted by Ancient One.

• Ancient One asked Daisy to help change Doctor Strange's state of mind, and Daisy agreed in return for Ancient One's help against Malekith.
• A dump truck forced Strange off the highway, and the crash damaged the nerves in his hands.
• Strange sought treatment from Dr. Lizard, but Dr. Lizard told him the Extremis Potion could not repair nerves that had already healed poorly.
• Strange spent his savings seeking cures, faced compensation demands and debts, and drove away the nurse who had been close to him.
• A Kamar-Taj-arranged passerby guided Strange to use his remaining money to fly east and pursue a cure.
• Daisy trained with an old mimic using the two-handed Axe of Angarrumus, which Ancient One had given her.

Daisy struggled to discover how to shape the Aether into the Reality Stone and concluded that Thanos had done so through profound understanding gained from his experiences. She left the problem unresolved, realizing that she needed to live and learn more rather than merely think about it.

• Daisy practiced dual-axe techniques with Old Repeater, who tailored a fighting style to her habits.
• Daisy searched the universe’s records for three days but found no explanation for how Thanos had solidified the Aether.
• Wanda returned to Earth with Daisy and tried using her Reality Alteration on the Aether, but it rejected her.
• Daisy theorized that Thanos had transformed the Aether because his understanding let him perceive and command what it truly was.
• Daisy compared her limited experience with Thanos’s vast life journey and recognized that she had much further to go.

Daisy visited Green Shade Garden Care Center to ask Odin whether he perceived reality differently, hoping to find a way to understand the Aether. Odin explained that greater strength allowed someone to see farther, leaving Daisy frustrated by the realization that she lacked both the knowledge and power to use the Infinity Gems effectively.

• Daisy drove past Green Shade Garden Care Center and decided to ask Odin for advice about understanding the Aether.
• Daisy arrived and interrupted Odin and Stark as they discussed Stark’s research into the Destroyer.
• Daisy asked Odin whether he and she saw the world differently, and Odin said his greater strength let him see farther.
• Daisy concluded that powerful beings could use the Infinity Gems because they had developed the ability to wield them, while she lacked both that ability and sufficient power.
• Daisy drank coffee with Stark and learned that Odin had helped him solve problems in his effort to turn the Destroyer into armor.

Daisy’s pressure on Osborn Group and the return of Danny helped fuel a wider market downturn, while she shifted her focus toward cosmic business and new products. She secured Trapster’s continued research on Super Glue and planned to seek investment from Goblin Chocolate.

• Stark dismissed Osborn Group’s new energy research and returned to Los Angeles to work on his armor.
• Daisy arranged lawsuits, negative media coverage, supply shortages, debt calls, and damaging reports to undermine Osborn Group.
• Danny returned from training, and Rand Corporation’s stock fell sharply as several major companies suffered amid growing economic panic.
• Daisy met with Peter Petruski, offered him a $500,000 personal reward and $2 million in research funding, and retained him to develop Super Glue.
• Daisy planned to seek investment from Goblin Chocolate to fund production of Super Glue and Miniature Black Hole Grenades, then saw Peter Parker working at Skye Tower.

Peter struggled to balance school, part-time work, and fighting crime while Daisy attended Coulson’s Spider-Man opera at Midtown High. When Electro caused a blackout, Daisy captured him and delivered him to one of Fury’s secret bases, leaving Fury to decide how to turn him into a warrior.

• Peter took on more part-time work to help ease the financial burden on Uncle Ben and Aunt May, and Daisy noticed his grades slipping as he juggled work and crime-fighting.
• Lorna gave Daisy an invitation to Midtown High’s Spider-Man opera, which Coulson had organized, starring Flash Thompson and written by Mary Jane.
• As Flash performed, the school theater lost power, and Daisy spotted a hooded figure draining electricity from Times Square while Spider-Man slipped away.
• Daisy informed Coulson, changed into her Wonder Woman disguise, and knocked Electro out before Spider-Man reached Manhattan.
• Daisy flew Electro to a secret chemical plant in Pennsylvania and left Fury’s people to handle him, hoping they could guide him toward becoming a warrior.

Daisy took Director Fury’s Tyrannosaurus Rex for Lorna, then reassured Lorna about her figure by claiming tall women were generally smaller-chested. Lorna attended a Victoria’s Secret event with Esme and found Daisy’s theory convincing.

• Daisy teleported into Director Fury’s secret base and learned he had completed Plan Fourteen for humanity’s survival after an apocalypse.
• Daisy asked Director Fury for the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and he gave it to her.
• Daisy brought the Tyrannosaurus Rex home, trained it, and introduced it to Lorna and the other household members.
• Lorna asked Daisy whether she would still grow, and Daisy told her that tall women generally had smaller chests than shorter women.
• Lorna and Esme attended a Victoria’s Secret event, where Lorna compared herself with Esme and decided Daisy’s theory seemed to make sense.

Lorna and Esme encountered the powerful psychic Psylocke at a fashion show, then learned she was working for Director Daisy, who hired her to find Mystique. Meanwhile, the New York blackout caused Otto Octavius's experiment to turn him into Doctor Octopus, who was quickly captured after attacking people.

• Lorna and Esme watched the Victoria's Secret show until they recognized the closing model as a powerful psychic Mutant and hurried to leave.
• Psylocke stopped Lorna and Esme, but Director Daisy arrived and explained that Psylocke was there to collect her fee.
• Daisy hired Psylocke to find Mystique for eighty thousand dollars, including her previous expenses, and offered to have the FBI revoke Psylocke's arrest warrant.
• Psylocke warned Daisy that Magneto had noticed the young girl with her, then demanded her runway payment.
• The blackout caused Otto Octavius's energy experiment to explode, fusing him with his mechanical arms and turning him into Doctor Octopus.
• Thunderbird, Ghost, and Spider-Man captured Doctor Octopus after he attacked people and tried to rob a bank.

Daisy arranged Doctor Octopus’s public trial to demonstrate that S.H.I.E.L.D. respected the law, hoping the case would reassure the public and encourage superheroes to take the rule of law seriously. The trial began with Doctor Octopus subdued in a courtroom containment cell, while reporters broadcast his capture to the public.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. handed Doctor Octopus over to the New York Police Department and arranged for a New York court to try him.
• Daisy told Norman Osborn that the law should stand above all else and that Doctor Octopus’s case would be the first of many.
• Daisy reflected that public fear of superheroes and the Superhuman Registration Act were the central threats she hoped to prevent.
• Crossbones whispered to Daisy, and she sent Baldy to represent S.H.I.E.L.D. at the trial instead of taking the stand herself.
• Doctor Octopus smashed at his transparent containment cell with his mechanical arms as the judge and reporters watched.
• After Baldy spoke with the judge, agents struck Doctor Octopus with electricity, leaving him and his mechanical arms limp as spectators cheered.

Doctor Octopus was sentenced to life imprisonment after his trial, prompting public debate over superhero regulation and responsibility. As S.H.I.E.L.D. continued operations against the remaining Skrulls, Daisy tested Spider-Man and challenged him to improve his skills.

• Doctor Octopus was convicted on fifteen charges and sentenced to life imprisonment after his mechanical arms briefly reactivated during the trial.
• Daisy spoke at a joint police and S.H.I.E.L.D. press conference, supporting superheroes while arguing they should be more professional.
• Newspapers and public figures debated superhero oversight, while Daisy observed the discussion without taking further action.
• Daisy helped the Helicarrier capture more Skrulls and returned to New York with the carrier for supplies.
• Spider-Man asked Daisy for a custom battle suit, and she criticized his amateur fighting before setting him against Thunderbird in the training room.

Daisy arranged for Thunderbird to train Spider-Man and explained that he needed to improve his judgment and balance his superhero life with his ordinary responsibilities. She urged Peter Parker to focus on studying and earning money first, while leaving professional crime-fighting to the authorities and Avengers.

• Thunderbird defeated Spider-Man twice, and Daisy told him he needed systematic training if he wanted to keep being Spider-Man.
• Daisy assigned Thunderbird to train Spider-Man, then explained that his mistakes against Doctor Octopus came from poor combat judgment and overconfidence.
• Peter Parker asked Daisy how to balance his masked identity with his ordinary life, saying he refused to endanger Uncle Ben and Aunt May by revealing who he was.
• Daisy advised Peter to become prosperous before strong, earn money to improve his family's security, and leave professional crime-fighting to the NYPD, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Avengers.
• Peter agreed that school culture discouraged studying, and Daisy began discussing her experience with school bullying.

Daisy brought Chen Xiaoyi to Attilan, where she underwent Terrigenesis and gained powers, then helped Quicksilver win the Inhumans’ support for his relationship with Crystal. As Daisy returned to Earth with Wanda, a scarred stranger fell into the sea near Greenland, killed the fishermen who rescued him, and declared that Hydra’s leader had returned.

• Chen Xiaoyi underwent Terrigenesis on Attilan and emerged with a pressure-based ability, becoming Iso.
• Daisy and Medusa discussed Crystal’s suitors, and Daisy praised Quicksilver as the better match for her.
• Daisy brought Wanda to Attilan, where Quicksilver joined them for dinner and received support from the Inhumans, including Black Bolt.
• After Chen Xiaoyi settled into life on Attilan, Daisy left her in Agent May’s care and returned to Earth with Wanda using the Space Stone.
• A fishing crew near Greenland hauled a scarred man from the sea, and he killed all seven fishermen before announcing that Hydra’s leader had returned.