Chapter Summaries

Retsu Unohana unleashed her power against Orm’s forces after Yang Ming was gravely wounded protecting Amnesty Bay. She destroyed two Atlantean warships and began her Bankai as the last ship tried to flee.

• Orm ordered his soldiers to kill Arthur, Mera, and everyone in the fishing village, while the warship’s main cannon targeted fleeing residents.
• Retsu Unohana brought the critically wounded Yang Ming to Selene and Maggie, then returned to the docks to confront the Atlantean fleet.
• Retsu Unohana cut the first warship in half with one sword strike and appeared on the second ship.
• Retsu Unohana slaughtered the second ship’s soldiers, while Orm ordered the final warship to retreat.
• Retsu Unohana stopped the final ship from escaping and activated Bankai.

Retsu Unohana destroyed Orm’s warship and tortured him into insanity before sparing his life. She then healed Yang Ming by having Minazuki swallow him, and Yang recovered fully as the group prepared to leave the ruined bay.

• Retsu Unohana unleashed Minazuki, dissolved Orm’s warship and its Atlantean crew, and suspended Orm above a sea of blood.
• Retsu repeatedly dismembered and revived Orm until his mind broke, then dropped him at Arthur’s feet and warned the Atlanteans to stay off the land.
• Retsu summoned Minazuki and had the manta-like creature swallow Yang Ming to heal his shattered bones and severe wounds.
• After ten minutes, Minazuki spat Yang Ming out fully healed, and Selene checked him while he thanked Retsu.

Arthur chose to return to Atlantis and claim the throne to protect his father and Amnesty Bay, while Yang Ming’s clinic healed Thomas and secured a promised share of the undersea treasure. Arthur, Mera, and the broken Orm departed for the depths, leaving Yang Ming to count the promised jewels as uncertain future income.

• Mera urged Arthur to return to Atlantis and take the throne, and Arthur agreed after catching his injured father, Thomas Curry.
• Yang Ming ordered Retsu Unohana to heal Thomas’s damaged knee and back, restoring his mobility in seconds.
• Arthur knelt before Yang Ming in gratitude and promised him treasure from Atlantis’s treasury if he became king.
• Yang Ming gave Arthur his Gotham Clinic business card and agreed to accept twenty chests of jewels as payment.
• Arthur hugged Thomas and left with Mera and Orm, while Yang Ming warned Mera not to let Atlantis threaten the surface again.
• Selene celebrated the promised treasure, and Yang Ming cautioned that Arthur might not secure the throne or reach the treasury.

Odin worried that Thor’s recklessness would bring war and Ragnarok to Asgard, so the Ancient One proposed stripping Thor of his powers and banishing him to Earth near Yang Ming’s clinic. The plan left Yang Ming unknowingly marked as the target of a scheme meant to force Thor to learn humility.

• Odin complained to the Ancient One that Thor was reckless and feared he would be unfit to rule during Odin’s coming Odinsleep.
• The Ancient One showed Odin Yang Ming’s fight with Abomination and revealed that the Time Stone could not see Yang Ming’s past or future.
• The Ancient One suggested that Odin strip Thor of his powers, banish him to Earth, and enchant Mjolnir so only someone worthy could lift it.
• The Ancient One arranged for Mjolnir to land at Yang Ming’s clinic in Hell’s Kitchen so Yang Ming would take his anger out on Thor.
• Odin agreed to the plan, and the Ancient One returned to Earth.
• Yang Ming shivered while driving and wondered whether Bat Meme was plotting against him.

Odin engineered Thor’s banishment to Earth by arranging a Frost Giant attack and provoking Thor into breaking the peace, then sent Mjolnir toward Yang Ming’s clinic. Thor landed powerless in the desert, while Mjolnir destroyed the clinic in Hell’s Kitchen, leaving Jessica to wonder whether she should flee.

• Odin let Frost Giants enter Asgard’s vault, and Loki persuaded Thor to retaliate by leading Sif and the Warriors Three to Jotunheim.
• Odin rescued Thor and his companions from Laufey’s forces, then stripped Thor of his power and banished him to Earth after Thor insulted him.
• Odin enchanted Mjolnir and hurled it toward Yang Ming’s clinic in Hell’s Kitchen.
• Thor landed in the Antigua Desert without his powers, and Jane Foster’s research team approached in an RV.
• Mjolnir crashed into Yang Ming’s clinic and reduced the building to rubble.
• Jessica saw the impact site on a news broadcast, recognized it as Yang Ming’s clinic, and wondered whether she should run.

Jessica Jones found Yang Ming’s New York clinic destroyed by Mjolnir and learned S.H.I.E.L.D. would pay to rebuild it. Meanwhile, Thor arrived in New Mexico without his hammer, and Yang Ming sensed something was wrong while back in Gotham.

• Jessica Jones forced her way past the police cordon, and Phil Coulson offered S.H.I.E.L.D.’s help investigating the destruction of Yang Ming’s clinic.
• Jessica found Mjolnir in the crater, failed to lift it, and secured S.H.I.E.L.D.’s promise to cover all reconstruction costs.
• Jane Foster, Darcy Lewis, and Dr. Erik Selvig struck Thor with their RV in New Mexico and took him to town after Darcy stunned him.
• Yang Ming sneezed while checking the accounts in Gotham and worried that someone had tampered with his cash box.
• Yang Ming wondered whether Jessica’s leave was nearly over and whether the Hand’s ninjas had caused trouble at the closed New York clinic.

Yang Ming returned from Gotham to Hell’s Kitchen with Retsu Unohana and discovered that Mjolnir had destroyed his clinic. As S.H.I.E.L.D. offered compensation, Yang Ming began assessing how much he could claim for the loss.

• Yang Ming revealed his cross-universe door to Selene and Maggie, then left Retsu Unohana in charge of security as he returned to New York.
• Yang Ming and Retsu reached the cordoned-off remains of his clinic, where federal agents told him the entire street was gone.
• Retsu threatened the agents when they tried to stop Yang Ming from entering the disaster site.
• Jessica Jones emerged from the crater and said a falling object had destroyed the clinic while she was away helping her sister move.
• Yang Ming recognized the object in the crater as Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, and realized it had landed on his clinic instead of in the New Mexico desert.
• Agent Phil Coulson offered to cover the clinic’s losses, and Yang Ming challenged S.H.I.E.L.D. to pay for the supposedly valuable property.

Yang Ming secured fifty million dollars from S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange for letting it establish a temporary research base around Mjolnir. In New Mexico, Thor saw a news report showing his hammer in New York and persuaded Jane Foster to drive him there.

• Yang Ming demanded fifty million dollars from Coulson for the destruction of his clinic, while Retsu Unohana threatened S.H.I.E.L.D.'s agents when Coulson proposed inspecting the ruins.
• Coulson consulted Nick Fury, who approved the payment and asked for permission to establish a temporary containment base around the hammer.
• Yang Ming accepted the deal and added that future damage from anything falling from the sky would cost twice as much.
• Doctors sedated Thor at Antigua Town Hospital, but he later woke and recognized Mjolnir in a news report from New York.
• Thor demanded that Jane Foster take him to New York, and Jane drove off with him despite Dr. Erik's objections.

Yang Ming used S.H.I.E.L.D.’s fifty-million-dollar compensation to secure luxury mobile homes beside the crater and waited for the owner of the hammer that destroyed his home to pay further damages. Three days later, Thor arrived near the sealed site after Jane Foster’s RV broke down and rushed toward the agents guarding Mjolnir.

• Jessica celebrated the fifty-million-dollar payment, but Yang Ming refused to leave the ruins and demanded that Coulson provide three luxury mobile homes.
• Coulson ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to install the homes, while Yang Ming declared he would stay until the hammer’s owner paid for destroying his home.
• Yang Ming explained that he considered the hammer’s fall a hit-and-run and intended to make its owner, as well as Thor, pay.
• Three days later, Jane Foster’s RV broke down two blocks from Hell’s Kitchen, near the S.H.I.E.L.D. cordon around Mjolnir.
• Thor sensed his hammer and charged toward the barricade while Jane chased after him and Darcy stayed behind.

Thor breached the S.H.I.E.L.D. cordon to reclaim Mjolnir, but Yang Ming ordered Jessica Jones to stop him. Jessica beat Thor into submission, and Jane, Darcy, and Erik arrived to witness the fight.

• Thor knocked aside two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and charged through the cordon toward Mjolnir.
• Yang Ming confronted Thor and ordered Jessica to teach him a lesson.
• Jessica punched Thor in the stomach, leaving him doubled over and vomiting.
• Thor insulted Jessica and demanded that she return to her nursing station, so she pinned him down and beat him.
• Jane, Darcy, and Erik reached the crater, where they saw Jessica overpowering Thor.

Yang Ming forced the powerless Thor to confront his failure to lift Mjolnir and demanded repayment for the damage it caused to his clinic. After Thor accepted a wager that could bind him to a century of unpaid work, Yang Ming prepared to bring someone from New York who could lift the hammer.

• Jessica Jones beat Thor in the crater until Yang Ming told her to stop, and Thor failed repeatedly to lift Mjolnir.
• Yang Ming presented Thor with a fifty-million-dollar bill for the damage to his clinic and offered him work there to repay it.
• Thor insisted that only someone worthy could lift Mjolnir and accepted Yang Ming's wager: a hundred years of service if Yang Ming's chosen person succeeded.
• Yang Ming revealed that he knew who could lift the hammer and thought of someone in New York whose kindness made them worthy.

Yang Ming summoned Peter Parker to test whether he could lift Mjolnir, and Peter picked it up effortlessly, proving himself worthy while leaving Thor stunned. When Peter tried to hand it back, the hammer's weight returned and crushed Thor's hand, leaving him helpless and injured.

• Yang Ming called Peter Parker and directed him to the crater in Hell's Kitchen.
• Peter arrived and lifted Mjolnir with one hand, then casually examined and tossed it while Thor stared in disbelief.
• Peter offered Mjolnir to Thor, but when he let go, it slammed into the mud and pinned Thor's right hand.
• Peter lifted the hammer again and apologized, while Thor cradled his injured hand and silently protested the insult.

Thor signed a hundred-year contract to work for Yang Ming after failing to lift Mjolnir, while S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited Erik’s team to study the hammer. The next day, Thor began doing construction and cleaning work, and Jane approached him as he struggled to understand his new circumstances.

• Peter freed Thor’s hand from Mjolnir but lifted the hammer himself, and Yang Ming made Thor sign a hundred-year, unpaid employee contract.
• Yang Ming put Jessica in charge of Thor, who was assigned to carry bricks and perform other labor while S.H.I.E.L.D. hired Erik, Jane, and Darcy to research Mjolnir.
• Thor moved into a cramped prefabricated unit and wondered how he could regain Mjolnir’s recognition.
• The next morning, Jessica ordered Thor to haul debris while Erik’s team found no activity in Mjolnir’s magnetic field.
• Jane spoke with Thor through the fence, and he told her mortal instruments could not reveal the secrets of Odin’s magic before Jessica called him back to work.

Thor adjusted to his powerless life through hard labor and grew closer to Jane Foster, then agreed to extend his employment with Yang Ming to buy her a dress. The chapter ended with Thor accepting a hundred and ten years of service and a maid outfit in exchange for the gown.

• Thor told Jane about his adventures in the Nine Realms and promised to take her to Asgard when he recovered Mjolnir.
• Yang Ming interrupted them and took Thor, Jessica, and Retsu Unohana shopping for modern clothes.
• Retsu and Jessica modeled outfits, Yang Ming bought their selections, and Thor carried their bags around the mall.
• Thor spotted a burgundy silk gown and asked Yang Ming to advance him the money so he could buy it for Jane.
• Yang Ming demanded ten additional years of work and that Thor wear a maid outfit, and Thor accepted after hearing Erik might introduce Jane to another man.

Dave Lizewski, dressed as Kick-Ass, tried to protect Yang Ming and his companions from a gang of robbers and was beaten badly. Thor, moved by Dave’s courage despite his weakness, confronted the thugs bare-handed as Yang Ming chose to let the beating continue long enough to provoke him.

• Five armed robbers surrounded Yang Ming, Retsu Unohana, Jessica Jones, and Thor in a Manhattan alley and threatened the women.
• Dave Lizewski appeared in his green Kick-Ass costume, fell into garbage, then charged the robbers and was beaten.
• Even while badly injured, Dave grabbed the bald thug’s ankle and urged the others to escape, prompting Thor to reconsider what courage meant.
• Yang Ming told Jessica to wait before intervening, explaining that Thor seemed ready to act.
• Thor tore off his T-shirt, approached the gang, and ordered them to release Dave, declaring himself their opponent.

Thor defeated five armed thugs while protecting Dave Lizewski, and Retsu Unohana healed the critically injured boy. Yang Ming then received a mission to train Dave into a true superhero within a year, with an Ultimate upgrade to all three types of Haki as the reward.

• Thor fought off the five thugs and learned that the injured boy called himself Kick-Ass.
• Yang Ming diagnosed Dave’s severe injuries and agreed to save him in exchange for Thor working for him for ten more years.
• Retsu Unohana used her healing ability to restore Dave’s broken ribs, punctured lung, and other injuries.
• Yang Ming received the hidden Hero Mentor mission, which required him to train Dave within one year for an Ultimate upgrade to all three types of Haki.
• Yang Ming considered using Jessica, Retsu Unohana, Thor, Daredevil, and Spider-Man to help train Dave.

After Yang Ming and his companions saved Dave Lizewski, Dave nearly gave up on becoming a hero because he lacked the strength to protect anyone. Yang Ming recruited him as a trainee at the Yang Clinic, and Dave left ready to begin brutal training.

• Dave woke in the alley, recognized Yang Ming and Jessica as the powerful figures from the Harlem broadcast, and felt ashamed of his failed attempt to fight thugs.
• Thor praised Dave's courage, but Dave said courage without strength was useless and started to leave, planning to give up on being a superhero.
• Yang Ming asked Dave if he wanted to get stronger and offered to train him; Dave accepted and declared that he wanted to become a superhero.
• Yang Ming ordered Dave to train at the Hell's Kitchen ruins after school and on weekend mornings, and Dave promised not to be late.
• Yang Ming assigned Jessica and Thor to train Dave while Retsu Unohana treated his injuries with Kaido, and Dave ran home with renewed resolve.

Yang Ming began Dave Lizewski’s training by making him eat a revolting high-calorie meal before forcing him to run with heavy tires. Dave ended the day dragging the tires around Hell’s Kitchen while Thor chased him with a stun baton.

• Yang Ming, Jessica Jones, and Thor judged Dave’s frail body and agreed to postpone combat training until he gained weight.
• Yang Ming ordered Retsu Unohana to serve Dave a meal of raw beef, eggs, and strange supplements, and Dave was forced to eat it all.
• Yang Ming immediately ordered Dave to digest his meal by running ten laps while dragging four chained truck tires weighing about five hundred pounds.
• Thor followed Dave with a stun baton, shocking him whenever he slowed down as Dave screamed and kept running.

Mindy slaughtered the guards outside Kingpin's warehouse, shocking Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Frank Castle. Frank's grief over his daughter drove him to confront the person he believed had turned Mindy into a killer, and he ended the chapter demanding that a man in a parked Ford come out.

• Frank Castle, Spider-Man, and Daredevil prepared to raid Kingpin's warehouse, but Daredevil detected a child approaching the entrance.
• Mindy announced herself and used smoke grenades to kill all twelve guards outside the warehouse in ten seconds.
• Spider-Man and Daredevil were horrified by Mindy's skill, while Frank thought of his dead daughter Lisa and became enraged.
• Frank left the rooftop to confront the person who had trained Mindy, and Spider-Man and Daredevil followed him.
• Mindy turned to face Frank, who aimed past her at a parked Ford and ordered the man inside to get out.

Frank confronted Damon over raising Mindy to kill, but the standoff eased after Matt confirmed Damon's motives and reminded them they had come to raid Kingpin’s shipment. Damon and Mindy left, while Frank, Matt, and Peter entered the warehouse, where Matt sensed something was wrong.

• Frank held Damon at gunpoint and accused him of turning Mindy into a killer, while Mindy threatened Frank to protect her father.
• Peter and Matt arrived, and Mindy briefly set aside her weapons to ask Spider-Man for an autograph before Matt pointed out the bodies and the armed standoff.
• Damon explained that he had taught Mindy to fight because Frank D'Amico and Kingpin were hunting them, and Matt confirmed Damon was telling the truth.
• Frank lowered his pistol, and Damon and Mindy left after deciding their attack had already disrupted Damico's defenses.
• Frank, Matt, and Peter entered the warehouse to investigate Kingpin's shipment, and Matt stopped after sensing something was wrong.