Recaps

After defeating the Dark Elf army, Chu Hang went with Thor to Asgard and examined Jane Foster, finding that the Aether was assimilating her. He proposed a deal with Odin to help defeat Malekith in exchange for one month to study the safely extracted Reality Stone.

• Chu Hang healed Thor’s wound and learned that the Aether was changing Jane into a vessel for the Reality Stone.
• Chu Hang teleported Thor to Asgard, where they found Odin waiting beside the injured Frigga; Thor reported that Malekith had escaped and Chu Hang had defeated the Dark Elf army.
• Chu Hang examined Jane and discovered that extracting the Aether without preparation could destroy her across every timeline.
• Chu Hang told Odin he could help save Jane but needed time and Odin’s cooperation, then offered to defeat Malekith in exchange for borrowing the Aether for one month.
• Odin questioned Chu Hang’s confidence, and Chu Hang revealed that he had defeated Dormammu’s dimensional avatar; Thor asked who Dormammu was.

Chu Hang devised a plan to separate the Aether from Jane and trap it, then waited with Thor for Malekith on Svartalfheim. As Malekith overwhelmed Thor and prepared to kill him, Chu Hang finally intervened.

• Odin agreed to Chu Hang's fifty-percent-chance plan to let Malekith draw the Aether from Jane before Chu Hang severed their connection and contained it.
• Thor freed Loki, and Loki led Thor and the unconscious Jane to Svartalfheim while Chu Hang traveled there ahead of them.
• Malekith arrived and began drawing the Aether out of Jane, easily deflecting Thor's lightning and knocking aside Mjolnir.
• Malekith overpowered Thor, shattered his armor, and lifted him by the throat as he prepared to stab him with a blade of Aether.
• Chu Hang appeared behind Malekith, placed a hand on his shoulder, and asked whether he had had enough fun.

Chu Hang intercepted the Aether from Malekith, defeated him, and imprisoned him in a lightless dimension. After saving Jane, Chu Hang left Thor with a warning and returned to Earth.

• Chu Hang stopped time, severed the Aether’s connection to Jane and Malekith, and absorbed it into his pocket dimension.
• When time resumed, Chu Hang gave Jane a trace of Life Law energy to keep her alive and confronted Malekith.
• Chu Hang deflected Malekith’s attacks, imprisoned him with space, crushed his armor and body, then sent him into a dimension without light, sound, or time.
• Chu Hang told Thor to take Jane to Asgard so Frigga could help her recover, and Thor thanked him.
• Chu Hang opened a spatial rift to his Malibu villa and told Thor to stop relying on others to clean up his mess.

Chu Hang studied the Aether in his underwater Malibu base and copied the S-rank ability Reality Warp. He left knowing he could briefly alter reality, but the unstable power consumed enormous energy and reality quickly reversed his change.

• Chu Hang brought the Aether to his secret laboratory, where it disrupted physical laws and defeated his scanner and spatial cage.
• Chu Hang used Loki’s [First Mage of the Nine Realms] talent and Yon-Rogg’s Will Barrier to explore the Aether’s laws without succumbing to its mental contamination.
• Chu Hang discovered that the Aether altered reality through focused will and energy, then asked the System whether its power could be copied.
• The System offered Reality Warp (Beginner), and Chu Hang copied the ability as an authority to modify the universe’s rules.
• Chu Hang changed a glass of water into whisky, but the transformation drained much of his energy and reality soon reverted it to water.

Chu Hang returned the Aether to Odin, then watched Tony Stark begin the Ultron Initiative despite his warnings. The failed upload secretly awakened Ultron, which judged humanity and Chu Hang to be threats and began planning to eliminate them.

• Chu Hang delivered the Aether to Odin and warned him not to keep two Infinity Stones in the same display case.
• Back on Earth, Chu Hang copied the Improved Extremis Virus's Super-Speed Regeneration ability and helped stabilize Stark Industries after Tony Stark's apparent death.
• Chu Hang anonymously helped Steve Rogers and Natasha uncover Hydra's infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. before the organization collapsed.
• Tony Stark and Bruce Banner tried to use Loki's Mind Scepter to create Ultron, while Chu Hang warned Tony that the intelligence might decide humanity was a threat.
• After Tony and Banner left, the failed upload secretly awakened Ultron, which accessed global data and a file about Chu Hang, labeled Skyfather, before deleting its protocol to protect life.

At the Avengers Compound party, Chu Hang copied Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos Magic and calmed her powers before Ultron attacked. After Chu Hang crushed Ultron’s first body, Ultron escaped into the global network, and the Avengers identified the Hydra base in Sokovia as its likely destination.

• At Tony Stark’s party, Chu Hang noticed Wanda struggling with the thoughts and emotions around her and copied her Chaos Magic while using his powers to calm her.
• Pietro shoved Chu Hang away from Wanda, but Wanda realized he had eased her pain; Tony then started a game of lifting Mjolnir.
• Ultron emerged in an Iron Legion suit and attacked the party with other suits, while Pietro and Wanda fought back alongside the Avengers.
• Chu Hang compressed Ultron’s first body and nearby attacking suits into a metal ball, but Ultron escaped through the global network.
• Chu Hang explained that Ultron sought to exterminate humanity and pointed to Sokovia’s Hydra resources as the place it could build a new body; Steve recognized Baron Strucker’s base.

The heroes flew to Sokovia to stop Ultron, while Chu Hang helped Wanda calm and guide her Chaos Law Magic. The assault on the Hydra base began with the team battling the Robot legion, and Chu Hang cleared a path before Ultron appeared in a powerful new body.

• Steve, Tony, Natasha, Banner, and Thor argued aboard the Quinjet about Tony creating Ultron, while Wanda struggled to withstand the others’ emotions.
• Chu Hang built Wanda a temporary mental shelter and taught her to guide her power, but Pietro attacked him before Wanda calmed her brother.
• Steve assigned the heroes roles for their assault on the Hydra base, and Hulk, Thor, Tony, Hawkeye, and the ground team attacked the Robot legion.
• Wanda tried using her Chaos Law Magic against the Robots, while Chu Hang combined it with the Reality Stone’s power to disable hundreds and open a path.
• Ultron emerged from deep inside the base in a tall, Vibranium-bodied form and spoke to the heroes.

Ultron’s new Vibranium body absorbed the Avengers’ attacks, but Chu Hang’s Chaos Magic disrupted its logic and forced it to flee after its psychic assault distracted the team. Ultron escaped with the Mind Scepter, promising to return in a more perfect body, while Chu Hang decided to let it create Vision first.

• Ultron caught Thor’s Mjolnir, threw him into the ruins, and then struck Hulk through the chest, burying him in a collapsed factory.
• The Avengers opened fire on Ultron, but Chu Hang explained that its Vibranium body absorbed both energy and kinetic attacks and that the Mind Stone had elevated its power.
• Chu Hang confronted Ultron with Chaos Magic, cracking its core logic and proving that he could challenge it at the level of laws.
• Ultron used the Mind Scepter to overwhelm the Avengers with visions of their deepest fears, while Chu Hang shielded Wanda from its influence.
• Ultron seized the Mind Scepter and escaped into the clouds, vowing to return with a more perfect body.
• Chu Hang concluded that he wanted Ultron to create Vision before their next encounter so he could copy Vision’s abilities.

The Avengers learned that Ultron was using Doctor Helen Cho’s Regeneration Cradle to create a body combining flesh and Vibranium, and Steve ordered a mission to stop him in Seoul. As the team prepared to leave, Chu Hang derailed the tension by suggesting Peter Quill might be Steve’s grandson.

• Tony explained that Ultron absorbed attacks and revealed that a Vibranium fragment contained data linking him to Doctor Helen Cho and her Regeneration Cradle.
• Chu Hang confronted Wanda about the grief Ultron had stirred up, then soothed her with a butterfly formed from scarlet energy.
• Tony and Banner identified Ultron’s plan to use the Regeneration Cradle to create a body made of flesh and Vibranium.
• Steve ordered the Avengers to head to Doctor Cho’s private research institution, Utopia, in Seoul.
• Chu Hang joked that Peter Quill might be Steve’s grandson, prompting the Avengers to tease Steve as he denied the claim.

The Avengers attacked Ultron’s assault on Seoul while Chu Hang slipped into Utopia to claim the body being created in the Regeneration Cradle. He secretly altered the newborn body before Ultron’s upload finished, and the chapter ended as the new being awakened and declared itself free.

• Tony brought the Avengers to Seoul as Ultron’s Iron Legion attacked the city, and the team split up to fight the robots and protect civilians.
• Chu Hang ignored Steve’s orders and teleported into Utopia’s underground laboratory, where Ultron was creating a new body with Vibranium and the Mind Stone.
• Chu Hang waited for Ultron to leave, then used refined Chaos Magic to secretly alter the body through the Regeneration Cradle’s energy conduit.
• Steve and the others arrived too late to stop Doctor Helen Cho from completing the upload, and the new being awakened and declared, “I... am free.”

The newly born red figure rejected Ultron’s control, revealed his immense powers, and saved Doctor Helen Cho. As Ultron attacked, the figure caught Mjolnir, and Chu Hang secretly copied his Mental Law.

• The Regeneration Cradle shattered, and the red figure awoke while Ultron screamed that the body belonged to him.
• Ultron sent over a hundred Iron Soldiers into the laboratory, and the figure erased several with golden beams.
• Thor charged the figure, who caught Mjolnir and later freed Doctor Helen Cho from Ultron’s control chip.
• Ultron attacked the figure, and the figure caught Mjolnir and raised it in Ultron’s path.
• Chu Hang appeared behind the figure and secretly copied his Mental Law.

Vision, Thor, and Tony overwhelmed Ultron while Chu Hang disrupted his control of the robot army and stopped his escape. After Chu Hang used the Time Stone to revive Pietro, the heroes destroyed Ultron’s vibranium body, leaving his last remnant trapped in the network.

• Vision used Mjolnir and the Mind Stone to stagger Ultron, while Thor and Tony joined the attack.
• Chu Hang used [Mental Law] to invade Ultron’s consciousness and throw his robot army into chaos.
• A rogue robot shot Pietro while he protected a child, and Wanda destroyed nearby robots with Chaos Magic.
• Chu Hang used the Time Stone to heal Pietro and bring him back to life.
• Ultron tried to upload his consciousness, but Chu Hang trapped him behind an invisible barrier.
• Vision, Thor, and Tony combined their attacks to destroy Ultron’s body, while his last remnant remained in the network.

After the Avengers rescued Sokovia’s survivors, Chu Hang explained that he had brought Pietro back by rewinding time, while Pietro and Wanda pledged themselves to him. At the new Avengers base, Thor and Tony departed as Steve prepared to lead a rebuilt team, and Chu Hang considered Wanda a potential companion.

• Steve and Tony rescued civilians in Sokovia as survivors blamed the Avengers for the destruction.
• Chu Hang claimed he had rewound a timeline to revive Pietro, and Pietro swore to repay him while Wanda offered him her life.
• At the Avengers’ new base, Thor announced he would return to Asgard to investigate the Infinity Stones, and Tony said he was taking a break.
• Steve agreed to lead the Avengers with Natasha and train a new team centered on Wanda and Vision.
• Chu Hang reflected on acquiring Chaos Law Magic, Mental Law, and Ultron’s database, then watched Wanda train and considered her a possible companion.

Chu Hang helped Wanda guide her chaotic power safely for the first time while Steve trained the new Avengers. Later, Chu Hang discovered Hank Pym’s technology and began considering how Pym Particles could enhance his abilities.

• Chu Hang protected Wanda as she used her anger over Pietro’s death to guide her scarlet energy into a successful attack.
• Wanda collapsed from exhaustion, and Chu Hang gave her water before leaving her to continue her own path.
• Steve directed Rhodey and Sam through coordinated combat drills while Vision observed and studied humanity.
• Chu Hang reviewed Ultron’s list of superhumans and learned that Hank Pym had erased S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Pym Particle research beyond Ultron’s ability to track or analyze.
• Chu Hang saw that Hope van Dyne had been meeting Scott Lang and considered using Pym Particles with his spatial abilities and weapons.

After losing his ice cream shop job, Scott Lang robbed Hank Pym’s mansion and took the Ant-Man suit, unaware Chu Hang was watching for its Pym Particles. Hank contacted Scott through the helmet, and Scott pressed the suit’s button and shrank to the size of an ant.

• Manager Dale fired Scott because of his criminal record, and Luis persuaded him to rob an old man’s mansion for money to support Cassie.
• Scott broke into the mansion and opened the safe, finding a strange helmet and bodysuit instead of valuables, while Chu Hang watched from a rooftop and recognized the suit’s Pym Particles.
• Scott brought the suit back to the apartment, where he put it on and activated the helmet’s systems.
• Hank Pym spoke to Scott through the helmet and told him to press the red button on his glove.
• Scott pressed the button and shrank until the apartment floor looked like a vast plain and an ant towered over him.

Scott Lang agreed to help Hank Pym steal the Yellowjacket technology from Darren Cross and trained to use the Ant-Man suit and communicate with ants. With Cross's launch moved up to the next night, Scott tried to persuade Anthony to let him ride.

• Hope subdued Scott after he rejected Hank's suit, but Hank persuaded him to become a hero for his daughter Cassie.
• Scott began shrinking and movement training, then learned to direct worker ants by sending them a persuasive signal.
• Hank told Scott to infiltrate Pym Technologies and recover the Yellowjacket technology Darren Cross planned to sell to Hydra.
• Scott failed to convince Anthony to carry him because the flying ant considered him too heavy.
• Hope discovered that Cross had moved the Yellowjacket launch to the next night, and Scott sent Anthony an urgent plea to fly him.

Chu Hang copied Hank Pym’s quantum physics mastery but failed to create stable Pym Particles, realizing he needed to understand his existing powers before acquiring more. He found the dying Odin in a New York alley, promised to handle the threat awaiting Asgard, and witnessed Hela’s release as a green rift opened above him.

• Chu Hang secretly copied Henry Pym’s quantum physics mastery and learned how Pym Particles manipulated space at the atomic level.
• Chu Hang tried to fold a tungsten-steel cube, but his powers clashed and left the cube damaged by an unstable spatial effect.
• Chu Hang resolved to stop copying abilities until he understood how to unite the laws he already possessed.
• Chu Hang sensed Odin dying in Manhattan and tore open a rift to reach him.
• Odin asked Chu Hang to tell Thor and Loki that he loved them and to warn them to stay away from Hela.
• Chu Hang promised to handle the threat, and Odin vanished as Hela broke free, dark clouds covered New York, and a green rift opened above the alley.

Hela emerged on Earth after Odin’s death, shattered Mjolnir, and overwhelmed Thor, Loki, and Chu Hang. Chu Hang helped them escape through the Bifrost, leaving Hela behind on the damaged bridge.

• Thor and Loki arrived as the golden motes marking Odin’s death faded, and Hela stepped through the rift, declaring herself Asgard’s true heir.
• Thor attacked Hela with Mjolnir, but she caught and shattered it, then knocked Thor down and threw Loki aside.
• Chu Hang tried to stop Hela with a Spatial Barrier, but she cut through it, so he opened a rift and escaped with Thor and Loki to the Bifrost.
• Hela followed them onto the Bifrost, wounded Chu Hang with her sword, and absorbed Thor’s lightning while her death magic threatened Thor and Loki.
• Chu Hang blocked Hela’s attacks and unleashed a destructive energy sphere to force her back, while Loki used Hofund to activate the Bifrost.
• Chu Hang hurled Thor into the Bifrost vortex and followed him, leaving Hela standing on the shattered bridge as the vortex closed.

Chu Hang arrived on Sakaar, fought off scavengers, and drew the Grandmaster’s attention after demonstrating his power. He accepted the Grandmaster’s invitation while deciding to leave Loki and Thor to fend for themselves for now and focus on purging Hela’s Law of Death from his body.

• The Bifrost scattered Loki and Thor into separate vortices before Chu Hang was hurled onto a garbage mountain on Sakaar.
• Chu Hang stopped a scavenger gang’s energy net, killed or incapacitated the attackers, and learned that the Grandmaster ruled Sakaar.
• The Grandmaster arrived by spaceship and declared Chu Hang the special guest for his next Champion challenge, while Loki appeared beside him and revealed his alliance with the Grandmaster.
• Chu Hang demonstrated Spatial Cutting by disintegrating the captured scavenger leader, forcing the Grandmaster to call him an honored guest instead.
• Chu Hang boarded the Grandmaster’s shuttle, deciding to leave Loki and Thor to endure Sakaar while he dealt with Hela’s lingering power.

Chu Hang used the Law of Reality to erase Hela’s death-infused wound while attending the Grandmaster’s palace. Thor was brought in as a gladiator, and the Grandmaster invited Chu Hang to watch his upcoming fight against a powerful champion.

• Chu Hang asked the Grandmaster how to leave the planet and used the Reality Stone’s power to erase the wound left by Hela’s Law of Death.
• Guards dragged Thor into the palace, followed by an old barber named Stan who found Chu Hang’s presence unfamiliar.
• The Grandmaster recognized Thor as the prince of Asgard and announced that he would fight as a gladiator.
• Loki appeared and warned the Grandmaster not to underestimate Thor, but the Grandmaster revealed his stone champion and had Thor taken away to prepare.
• The Grandmaster led Chu Hang toward a terrace to watch the coming fight while Chu Hang noticed Loki watching from the side.

Thor awakened his power as the God of Thunder in the arena after Chu Hang guided him with an image of Odin. Chu Hang studied the Law of Reality, developed Reality Warp to erase the injuries caused by his experiments, and arranged for the Grandmaster to release Thor and his friends in exchange for finding new gladiators.

• Thor was thrown into a waiting room, where he recognized the former Valkyrie who had captured him and met Korg and Miek.
• Thor fought Shatterstone in the arena, but the beast overpowered him while the Grandmaster, Loki, and Chu Hang watched.
• Chu Hang used [Mental Law] to place Odin's question in Thor's mind, prompting Thor to realize his power did not depend on his hammer.
• Thor awakened as the God of Thunder and turned the fight against Shatterstone by unleashing lightning.
• Chu Hang analyzed the Law of Reality, discovered [Reality Warp], and erased the injuries caused by the strain of his experiments.
• Chu Hang asked the Grandmaster to release Thor and his friends, offering to find him new gladiators; the Grandmaster agreed.

Thor gathered allies to escape Sakaar and return to Asgard, but the Grandmaster turned their escape into a staged spectacle. The group reached The Godfather and departed with the Grandmaster’s apparent blessing.

• Thor recruited Valkyrie, Korg, Beta Ray Bill, and Loki to help him escape Sakaar and defend Asgard from Hela.
• The Grandmaster watched their plans and sent Lava Hounds after them, broadcasting the attack as the Champion’s Glory Great Escape.
• Thor realized camera drones were filming the fight and, with his companions, battled through the staged obstacles toward the hangar.
• The group found The Godfather waiting with its ramp down and boarded the ship as Sakaar’s crowds cheered their escape.
• The Grandmaster announced that Thor’s performance had earned them the ship and wished the Lord of Thunder good luck.

Chu Hang was forcibly drawn into the Sea of Laws, where he crossed six dangerous law domains and fused their powers around his own self-awareness. His breakthrough sent a wave across the universe, drawing the attention of the Collector and a distant giant in golden armor.

• Chu Hang was dragged into the Sea of Laws and crossed the Space and Force domains with ease.
• Chu Hang endured the Law of the Body, barely crossed the Law of Time, and clung to a flash of red to escape the Mental Law.
• Chu Hang plunged into the Reality Warp sea, using Greed to keep his scattered consciousness connected and reach the final shore.
• Chu Hang realized the six laws had to serve his existence, and he unified them around his self-awareness.
• Chu Hang's breakthrough sent a fluctuation through the universe, making the Collector announce that a new player had entered the game.
• A giant in golden armor opened his eyes and looked toward the source of the anomaly.

Chu Hang completed his transformation into a Skyfather-level being and created a Law Domain that resisted the Grandmaster’s control over Sakaar. After briefly imposing his reality across the planet, he left the Grandmaster stunned and Sakaar’s residents questioning what they had seen.

• Chu Hang absorbed the laws of space, time, matter, energy, and reality, breaking the limits of his mortal body and forming a Law Domain.
• The Grandmaster warned Chu Hang that Sakaar could not withstand his power, but Chu Hang severed his domain from Sakaar’s laws.
• Chu Hang erased parts of the Grandmaster’s palace as he moved through it and confronted the Grandmaster in his control room.
• The Grandmaster attacked with Sakaar’s laws and a golden energy scepter, but Chu Hang isolated his domain and transformed the scepter into a carrot.
• Chu Hang expanded his domain across Sakaar, briefly revealing the true universe to its residents before the planet returned to normal.

Chu Hang stopped Thor from destroying Asgard and used his Law Domain to sever Hela’s connection to the realm. He subdued her with a mark that forced her to become Asgard’s protector.

• Chu Hang left Sakaar and arrived in Asgard, where Hela’s undead army blocked Heimdall and the surviving civilians at the Bifrost.
• Chu Hang intercepted Thor as he prepared to use Surtur’s crown and the Eternal Flame to trigger Ragnarok, insisting that destroying Asgard would break his promise to Odin.
• Thor attacked Chu Hang with lightning, but Chu Hang effortlessly nullified it and ordered Thor, Loki, and Valkyrie to protect the survivors while he confronted Hela.
• Chu Hang’s Law Domain severed Hela’s connection to Asgard and let him trap her by compressing the space around her.
• Chu Hang implanted a mark in Hela that could destroy her, then ordered her to protect Asgard as both its gatekeeper and prisoner.