Recaps

After Kingpin and Russell left Spider-Man with four extra arms, Peter struggled to control his transformed body and continued to insist he would protect the city. Magneto told Russell that the government had opened a mutant-suppressing serum site in Times Square, and Spider-Man’s awkward attempts to get around ended with people questioning whether he was really Spider-Man as Eddie Brock approached.

• Spider-Man named his new arms Dum-E and Dummy, escaped through a window, and vowed that his altered body would not change his determination to protect the city.
• Kingpin watched Spider-Man swing away unsteadily, while Russell suggested he had done more to Spider-Man than give him four extra arms.
• Magneto showed Russell the government’s Times Square injection site and warned that its supposed treatment could become a forced purge; Russell agreed to go see it with him.
• Spider-Man lost control while trying to swing with six arms, crashed into construction debris, and struggled to climb out.
• Passersby saw Spider-Man slip from a wall and doubted his identity, while Eddie Brock hurried toward him with a camera.

Eddie Brock photographed Six-Armed Spider-Man as he struggled with his changing body and powers. After Spider-Man helped an elderly woman cross the street, she and the crowd mistook him for a monster, leaving him fleeing through Manhattan and ending alone atop a Gothic Building.

• Eddie Brock photographed Six-Armed Spider-Man falling from a wall and being pelted with food by onlookers.
• Spider-Man examined the bristly arms growing from his body and suspected Russell had caused his changes.
• Spider-Man stopped to help an elderly woman gather her apples and cross the street, but she screamed and threw an apple at him.
• Bystanders called Spider-Man a monster and shared sensational posts about him, while one man defended his attempt to help.
• Spider-Man fled across Manhattan and stopped beside a Gargoyle, wishing Bruce could talk.

Spider-Man went to Times Square to investigate a government-backed Mutant recovery clinic, where Russell and Magneto confronted the doctor running it. Russell exposed the serum as a temporary fraud, leaving the waiting Mutants to see their deformities return.

• Spider-Man considered asking Dr. Connors to help with his extra arms, then headed to Times Square after hearing about the Mutant Recovery Program.
• Russell and Magneto arrived at the clinic, and the doctor accused them of trying to destroy the medicine.
• Magneto began to manipulate the metal around the tent, but the Mutants shielded the serum and begged him to spare their hope.
• Russell used Subatomic Vision to confirm the serum suppressed Mutant genes, then altered a bottle so its liquid became clear.
• Russell called the serum fake, and the woman who had received an injection watched the scales reappear on her arm.

Russell exposed the doctor’s fake Mutant-Suppressing Serum, then demonstrated that he could alter the Mutants’ appearances and drew the attention of Mister Sinister. Mister Sinister introduced Madelyne Pryor and challenged her to fight Russell, leaving their confrontation about to begin.

• Russell forced the doctor to inject another vial, and the Mutants realized they had been deceived and attacked him.
• Magneto asked Russell to help the Mutants, and Russell explained their changes were genetic before offering to alter their bodies.
• Russell removed scales, webbing, wings, and other unwanted traits from the Mutants as onlookers filmed and shared the spectacle.
• Mister Sinister approached Russell with Madelyne Pryor and offered to trade genetic research for a drop of Russell’s blood.
• Russell challenged Mister Sinister to beat him, and Mister Sinister released Madelyne’s restraints and told her to use her full power.

Captain Marvel arrived in Times Square to confront Russell, but Jean Grey interrupted his planned fight and claimed Madelyne Pryor as her opponent. Jean and Madelyne began battling with their matching powers as Russell and Captain Marvel prepared to face each other.

• Madelyne Pryor prepared to attack Russell, while civilians fled after recognizing her resemblance to Jean Grey.
• Captain Marvel arrived and challenged Russell, who demanded that she and Madelyne fight him together.
• Nick Fury, Natasha, and Agent Coulson watched from a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier as Fury expected Captain Marvel to defeat Russell.
• Magneto warned Russell that fighting would derail their White House plan, but Russell dismissed him and summoned his power.
• Jean Grey descended in Phoenix fire and claimed Madelyne as her opponent, dividing the battlefield and leaving Captain Marvel to focus on Russell.
• Madelyne attacked Jean with Telekinesis, and Jean countered with the Phoenix Force, creating a shockwave that devastated Times Square.

Russell used Subatomic Manipulation to overpower Carol and unleash a nuclear blast as Jean fought Madelyne, devastating Manhattan. Ancient One restored the city and transported all four combatants into space so their battle could continue away from Earth.

• Jean blocked Madelyne's Telekinetic blades with Phoenix Fire while Mister Sinister watched their fight.
• Russell dismantled Carol's attack, created a miniature nuclear bomb, and detonated it, badly injuring her and alarming Nick Fury, Natasha, and Coulson.
• Carol renewed her assault, but Russell controlled her photons and gravity, cracked her armor, and struck her with an atomic-force attack.
• Madelyne attacked Jean while Russell prepared another nuclear orb, and the combatants' clashing powers threatened to destroy New York.
• Ancient One reversed Manhattan's destruction with the Time Stone and transported Russell, Carol, Jean, and Madelyne into space.

Russell fought Captain Marvel and Madelyne in space, where the universe’s extreme conditions rapidly strengthened his control over matter and his self-healing. As Carol gathered the full power of her ultimate form, the battle was poised to intensify.

• Magneto saved the mutants as the battlefield returned to normal, while Mister Sinister regretted that his machines could not observe the fight in space.
• Ancient One transported Russell, Captain Marvel, and Madelyne away from Earth to a cosmic battlefield.
• Russell dropped his microscopic defenses and let the vacuum and cosmic forces damage his body, gaining experience as he repeatedly repaired and refined himself.
• Russell realized that the boundless universe let him unleash his strength without holding back.
• Captain Marvel recovered, resolved to face Russell, and gathered the cosmic power of her ultimate form.

Carol unleashed her White Hole Binary Form and charged Russell, who created a genuine cosmic black hole to meet her attack. Their collision sent a cosmic storm through the star system, knocking Thor’s Bifrost course off track and leaving him on the Moon before he headed for Earth to find Loki.

• Carol transformed into her White Hole Binary Form and charged Russell with the full force of a white hole.
• Russell formed a cosmic black hole in his palm, enduring its tidal gravity as his body repeatedly broke down and healed.
• Russell’s black hole collided head-on with Carol’s white hole, unleashing a storm that warped spacetime and shattered distant nebulae.
• The cosmic storm knocked Thor’s Bifrost off course and slammed him onto the Moon.
• Thor saw the two fighters in the distance, then set off toward Earth to search for Loki.

Jean Grey destroyed Madelyne with the full Phoenix Force, triggering a dormant Phoenix Fragment to annihilate an inhabited planet and race toward Earth. As Russell gained strength against Captain Marvel in their cosmic battle, Nick Fury ordered Coulson to retrieve the Tesseract and considered sending the Fantastic Four to deliver it, until Thor arrived at the Helicarrier.

• Jean Grey unleashed the Phoenix Force and burned Madelyne to scarlet particles.
• A dormant Phoenix Fragment resonated with Jean's power, destroyed an inhabited planet, and sped toward Earth as its survivors pursued it.
• Nick Fury watched Russell overpower Captain Marvel and ordered Coulson to retrieve the complete Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s vault.
• Fury and Natasha Romanoff chose the Fantastic Four as their best option to carry the Tesseract through the battlefield's cosmic turbulence.
• Thor burst into the Helicarrier command center amid thunder and blue lightning.

Fury persuaded Thor to carry the Tesseract to Captain Marvel by promising S.H.I.E.L.D. would find Loki, but the Tesseract vanished from its vault. Alexander Pierce revealed that Hydra had stolen it and planned to use it to transform Steve Rogers into a controllable cosmic weapon.

• Thor refused Fury’s mission until Fury promised to find Loki within three days, then agreed to take the Tesseract to Captain Marvel.
• Coulson reported that the Tesseract had disappeared from S.H.I.E.L.D.’s supposedly secure vault, and Fury realized Alexander Pierce was responsible.
• Alexander Pierce studied the stolen Tesseract and planned to use its power to create a warrior stronger than Captain Marvel.
• A Hydra agent told Pierce that his team had captured Steve Rogers after Iron Man, Captain America, and Winter Soldier fought on a snowfield.
• Pierce chose Steve Rogers as his test subject and resolved to infuse him with the Tesseract’s power.

Alexander Pierce began transforming the captive Steve Rogers with the Tesseract’s energy to create a Hydra super-soldier. When Nick Fury called to accuse him of stealing the Tesseract, Pierce deflected the accusation and threatened S.H.I.E.L.D.’s future.

• Pierce decided to use Steve Rogers as a carrier for the Tesseract’s power and ordered preparations for the procedure.
• Pierce began a genetic reconstruction of Steve, whose cells, genes, and atoms adapted to the Space Stone’s energy.
• Pierce expected to turn Steve into a powerful weapon loyal to Hydra after brainwashing him.
• Nick Fury called Pierce and accused him of taking the Tesseract.
• Pierce blamed Fury for failing to protect Earth, threatened to recommend dissolving S.H.I.E.L.D., and ended the call.
• Fury cursed in the Helicarrier command center as Thor, Coulson, and agents watched.

Russell defeated Captain Marvel and reached a new level of Psychic Telekinesis, but a Phoenix Fragment chose him over Jean Grey and fused with his left arm. The chapter ended with the powers of destruction and rebirth coexisting within Russell as Jean watched in shock and fury.

• Russell's Black Hole power overwhelmed Captain Marvel's White Hole, swallowed her, and prompted Nick Fury to swear revenge.
• Russell absorbed the White Hole's power, and his Psychic Telekinesis advanced to level five, expanding his perception across Earth.
• A new Phoenix Fragment arrived, and Dark Phoenix Jean Grey tried to draw it to herself.
• The Phoenix Fragment veered away from Jean and struck Russell's left arm despite his attempt to block it.
• The Phoenix Fragment fused with Russell, leaving a firebird mark on his arm as its power coexisted with his Black Hole energy.

After the Phoenix Fragment merged with Russell, he accepted the danger it posed and chose to return to Earth before pursuing further training. There, Loki tried to seize control of New York, but Russell took the Mind Scepter from him and effortlessly stopped his attacks.

• Jean acknowledged that the Phoenix Force had chosen Russell, while Ancient One watched the merger and sent Mordo to bring Strange to the Sanctum Sanctorum.
• Russell recognized that the Phoenix might be cultivating him as a future host to devour, but accepted its power and resolved to grow strong enough to control his fate.
• Russell decided to return to Earth with Jean to handle the White House tournament, S.H.I.E.L.D., and other unresolved threats before training in the sun.
• Loki used the Mind Scepter to subdue New York and proclaim himself its ruler, but Russell used his Psychic Power to take the scepter from him.
• Loki attacked Russell with magic and illusions, but Russell's defenses nullified the assault as Jean watched; Loki then tried to sneak up behind Russell.

Russell captured Loki and forced him to open a wormhole for the Chitauri Fleet, then drove the invaders back and sealed the passage. Facing the fleet alone, he ordered them to tell Thanos to come see him.

• Russell subdued Loki and refused to return the Mind Scepter, while Thor arrived and apologized for his brother.
• Loki chose to serve Russell rather than return to Asgard, and Russell ordered him to summon his hidden Chitauri Army.
• Russell empowered Loki to open a wormhole without the Tesseract, allowing the Chitauri Fleet to begin its invasion of Earth.
• Loki ordered the Chitauri to obey Russell, but they ignored him and attacked New York.
• Russell used a Gravitational Field to force the Chitauri invaders back through the wormhole, then sealed it with his power.
• Russell confronted the fleet beyond the wormhole and told them to summon Thanos.

Russell destroyed the Chitauri vanguard fleet with a single breath and confronted Thanos through a projection. He revealed his knowledge of Thanos’s plan to gather the Infinity Stones and his failure to find the Soul Stone, leaving Thanos shaken and wary.

• The Chitauri leader ignored his adjutant’s warning and ordered the fleet to fire its main gun at Russell.
• Russell dissolved the laser with a breath and crippled the flagship, fleet, and many Chitauri soldiers and Leviathans.
• The Chitauri leader tried to contact Thanos, but Thanos interrupted and projected himself before Russell.
• Thanos chose not to send reinforcements or travel to Earth, instead asking Russell what he wanted.
• Russell told Thanos he knew about the plan to gather the Six Infinity Stones and erase half the universe’s living beings.
• Russell revealed that Thanos had failed to find the Soul Stone, unsettling him further.

Russell challenged Thanos to gather all six Infinity Stones and fight him, offering the Soul Stone’s location in exchange for control of the Chitauri Fleet. After taking command of the fleet and ordering Loki to coordinate the New York battle with Jim, Russell faced the arrival of the Avengers from Avengers: Endgame, who found the timeline radically changed.

• Russell told Thanos that he knew the locations of all six Infinity Stones and offered the Soul Stone’s location in exchange for the Chitauri Fleet.
• The Black Order demanded permission to attack Russell, but Thanos restrained them and sent them to verify the Soul Stone’s location before accepting the deal.
• After Thanos’s projection vanished, Russell took control of the fleet and ordered Loki to command the Chitauri Army and work with Jim to clear American forces from New York.
• Loki began directing the Chitauri troops, while Thor watched and Jean Grey remained unconcerned by the fleet.
• Captain America, Iron Man, Ant-Man, and Hulk arrived in 2012 New York through Pym Particles and found the battle unlike the history they remembered.
• Tony’s systems failed to measure Russell’s power, and Steve wondered whether the Avengers had traveled to the wrong place.

Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, and Scott Lang discovered that a temporal disturbance had sent them twelve hours early into a powerful Parallel Universe, where they sought the Infinity Stones. Steve entered Stark Tower and used the Hydra code phrase to confront Sitwell and Rumlow, leaving Scott stunned by Steve’s apparent connection to Hydra.

• Tony, Steve, Banner, and Scott realized they had arrived twelve hours before the Battle of New York and could not risk another time jump.
• The team searched records and learned they had landed in a Parallel Universe filled with Mutants and beings far stronger than those in their Main Universe.
• Tony traced the temporal disturbance to Ancient One’s use of the Eye of Agamotto and split the team to pursue the Infinity Stones.
• Steve and Scott entered Stark Tower, where they encountered Hydra agents Sitwell and Rumlow guarding an encrypted briefcase.
• Steve approached the agents, demanded the case, and said “Hail Hydra,” leaving Scott stunned.

Steve Rogers and Scott Lang stole a Cold Fusion Arc Reactor Core from Hydra, only to discover the Tesseract was missing and might be in Russell’s possession. Russell overheard their plans with global psychic awareness and appeared before them in Stark Tower.

• Steve used the Hydra code phrase to convince Sitwell he was a trusted agent, and Sitwell handed him the encrypted case.
• Pierce revealed that the real Steve was still held at a deep-space base, so Sitwell and Crossbones pursued Steve and Scott through the Emergency Stairwell.
• Steve and Scott defeated the Hydra agents, then opened the case and found Tony Stark’s Cold Fusion Arc Reactor Core instead of the Tesseract.
• Scott suspected Russell had the Space Stone, and Steve realized their plan to collect the Infinity Stones could be doomed.
• Russell used his level-five Psychic Telekinesis to hear the time-traveling Avengers’ thoughts, then teleported into the stairwell and confronted Steve and Scott.

Russell confronted Steve and Scott, exposed their mission to collect the Infinity Stones, and brought them to Tony and Banner at the Sanctum Sanctorum. Ancient One explained that the Avengers’ arrival created three possible futures, but she could not foresee how Russell would affect the timeline.

• Steve tried to distance the Avengers from Russell, but Russell declared that New York and Earth were under his management and revealed that he knew their time-travel mission.
• Steve admitted that the Avengers came from another universe to stop Thanos, and Russell learned that Thanos had destroyed the Infinity Stones after his victory.
• Russell said the Avengers could not leave because he wanted their Pym Particles, while Steve warned Tony and Banner that they had been exposed.
• Russell teleported Steve and Scott to the Sanctum Sanctorum, where Tony and Banner were waiting, and greeted them.
• Ancient One emerged and described three possible futures for the Avengers, then said she could not see through Russell because he was not bound by the rules of time.

Ancient One explained that Russell’s control over microscopic particles let him defy ordinary limits of time, then asked him to combine his power with the Time Stone to uncover dangers beyond the timeline. Russell agreed, and the chapter ended with Tony warning that the beings they sought might notice them.

• Ancient One explained to Russell and the Avengers that his dominion over microscopic particles allowed him to evade the ordinary rules of time, shocking Steve, Tony, Banner, and Scott.
• Ancient One asked Russell for help, warning that hidden watchers more terrifying than the known powers lurked in their spacetime.
• Russell and the Avengers followed Ancient One into the magically altered Sanctum Sanctorum, where Russell saw a crimson-armored figure reflected in the Mirror of Truth.
• Ancient One proposed combining Russell’s microscopic power with the Time Stone to trace future branches and reveal beings hidden outside the timeline.
• Russell agreed to channel his power into the Time Stone, and Tony warned that whatever they saw might see them in return.

Russell joined his Microscopic Particles with the Time Stone, revealing countless catastrophic futures, including Knull’s likely attack on Earth and Dormammu’s schemes. The visions exposed Kaecilius’s plans, leaving Tony and Banner questioning why Ancient One was allowing him to act.

• Russell linked his golden energy with Ancient One’s Time Stone, expanding the Orrery’s visions across parallel universes and timeline branches.
• Tony, Steve, Banner, and Scott watched apocalyptic futures that made Thanos seem like a minor threat, including one in which Knull’s Symbiote armies overwhelmed Earth.
• Ancient One considered Knull’s near-indestructibility and the risk that trapping him would leave her unable to defend Earth from other dimensional threats.
• Ancient One drew power from Dormammu, who cursed her but chose to undermine Earth through agents rather than invade while Russell’s strength remained uncertain.
• Dormammu ordered Kaecilius to infiltrate Kamar-Taj’s sorcerer branches, while Kaecilius planned to steal the complete Darkhold and resurrect his family.
• The Orrery revealed Dormammu and Kaecilius’s schemes, and Tony and Banner asked why Ancient One was not stopping Kaecilius.

Ancient One revealed that she had chosen to die at Kaecilius’s hands, while Russell examined the Time Stone and reflected on the dangers of this universe. The chapter left Peter Parker fleeing Morlun through New York and calling for Russell.

• Ancient One told Steve Rogers, Tony, Scott Lang, and Banner that the futures she had seen with the Time Stone showed her dying at Kaecilius’s hands.
• Russell understood that Ancient One viewed death as a way to escape her duty and the limits of her Timeline.
• Russell compared his control of time through the Four Fundamental Forces with the Time Stone’s power.
• Russell sensed someone calling him and used his Psychic Power to locate Peter Parker fleeing through New York.
• Peter joked with his pursuer as Morlun, one of the Inheritors, relentlessly chased him.

Black Cat arrived as Morlun cornered the weakened Spider-Man and learned that Russell’s experiment had thrown Peter’s powers into chaos. Despite Peter’s warning, she chose to protect him as Morlun prepared to attack them both.

• Morlun prepared to finish off Spider-Man, but Black Cat landed beside Peter and helped him stand.
• Peter told Black Cat that Russell had activated his dormant Mutant genes, leaving his new arms and powers unstable.
• Black Cat asked about Morlun, and Peter explained that he felt like a natural predator who wanted to eat his brain.
• Morlun said he would eat his fill despite Black Cat’s arrival, and Peter tried to shield her and send her away.
• Black Cat refused to leave, saying it was her turn to protect Peter, while Morlun resented Spider-Man.

Spider-Man and Black Cat struggled against Morlun, while Russell watched and prepared to confront the multiversal hunter. After taking Tony and Banner’s Pym Particles, Russell received an offer from Ancient One to grant him one request before her time ran out.

• Morlun attacked Spider-Man and Black Cat, but both evaded his blows and stood their ground together.
• Morlun revealed that he had hunted and killed Spider-Men across hundreds of universes and threatened to kill Black Cat first.
• Spider-Man used his last web shot to fling Black Cat away, but she returned, refusing to abandon him.
• Russell watched the fight through his mind’s eye and decided to teleport to New York to speak with Morlun.
• Russell collected Tony and Banner’s Pym Particles, leaving Tony’s suit without energy and Banner without his stored supply.
• Ancient One offered Russell one request within her power and warned him to claim it soon.

Russell asked Ancient One to train him as a sparring partner, and she agreed to fight him in the Hell Dimension. Meanwhile, Russell sent allies to save Peter Parker from Morlun, who was cornered with Felicia in New York as reinforcements converged.

• Russell asked Ancient One to be his sparring partner, and she agreed to take him to the Hell Dimension.
• Russell contacted Loki, Jean Grey, Magneto, and a Chitauri patrol ship, directing them to rescue Spider-Man and capture Morlun alive.
• Morlun cornered Peter and Felicia on a New York street, while Peter stood between them and prepared to fight.
• A group of reinforcements rushed toward Morlun, led by a devout Mutant who charged in shouting about the Om Messiah and Valhalla.