Chapter Summaries

Frank Castle, Matt Murdock, and Peter Parker uncovered Oscorp’s illegal human experiments and faced three lizard men created with an unstable serum. The largest lizard man recognized Peter, seized him, and left Frank and Matt gravely injured as it prepared to kill him.

• Matt detected that most of the heartbeats upstairs had vanished, and the group found a blood-soaked laboratory filled with bodies.
• Peter discovered Oscorp records showing that Norman Osborn had ordered Dr. Rasa to inject three homeless men with an unfinished lizard serum.
• Three giant lizard men burst through the isolation door, shrugged off gunfire, and rampaged through the laboratory.
• Peter, Frank, and Matt attacked the monsters but could not overcome their strength and rapid healing.
• The largest lizard man recognized Peter by name, grabbed him by the throat, and knocked Frank and Matt aside.
• The lizard man prepared to bite Peter as he struggled to breathe.

Peter escaped the exploding Lizard Men and carried the critically injured Frank and Matt toward Yang Ming for help. At Yang Ming’s training ground, Dave overcame his fear and charged the jeep, but Peter crashed onto it moments before impact and asked Yang Ming to save his wounded companions.

• The unstable Lizard Men burst apart, and Peter found Frank and Matt gravely injured beneath the rubble.
• Peter webbed Frank and Matt to himself and swung toward Yang Ming’s home in Hell’s Kitchen.
• Yang Ming pushed Dave through a dangerous jeep exercise and berated him until Dave stood firm and charged the oncoming vehicle.
• Peter slammed onto the jeep’s hood, wrecking it just short of Dave, and asked Yang Ming for help while carrying Frank and Matt.

Yang Ming had Retsu Unohana heal the gravely injured Frank Castle and Matt Murdock with Minazuki, restoring their bodies and old injuries. Frank and Matt survived, but Matt’s eyes remained blind, and Yang Ming demanded a million dollars from each of them.

• Peter Parker brought the badly injured Frank Castle and Matt Murdock to Yang Ming for help after three powerful, regenerating lizard-like monsters attacked them.
• Retsu Unohana summoned Minazuki and swallowed Frank and Matt, prompting Peter to attack until Yang Ming restrained him and explained the healing method.
• Five minutes later, Minazuki spat out Frank and Matt with their injuries healed, and Frank woke ready to fight.
• Frank discovered that his old battle injuries were gone, while Matt found that his vocal cords had healed but remained blind.
• Yang Ming charged each man a million dollars, and Frank promised to pay after dealing with the monsters and Kingpin.

After Peter discovers Norman Osborn is behind the human experiments, Frank plans to kill him, but Peter insists they gather evidence and let the law judge him. Yang Ming stops their fight and proposes extorting Norman for fifty million dollars, leaving Peter, Frank, and Matt shocked by his ruthless scheme.

• Peter reveals that Norman Osborn is the mastermind behind the mutation experiments and worries about how Harry will react.
• Frank vows to kill Norman, while Peter stops him and argues they should gather evidence for the authorities instead.
• Matt cannot assure Peter that the law will deliver justice, and Peter and Frank prepare to fight over Frank's gun.
• Yang Ming intervenes, warning that Oscorp's defenses make Frank's solo attack too dangerous and reminding him and Matt that they owe the Yang Clinic money.
• Yang Ming proposes that Matt draft a legal demand for fifty million dollars, threatening to expose Oscorp's evidence and damage its stock if Norman refuses to pay.

Yang Ming convinced Dave Lizewski to pursue real power and began his brutal sword training, while Norman Osborn injected unstable serum to save his life. Norman emerged as the Green Goblin and flew into New York, intent on confronting Kingpin.

• Peter Parker, Matt, and Frank rejected Yang Ming's proposal to extort money from criminals and left his ruins.
• Dave Lizewski decided he needed power after seeing the street heroes helpless, and Yang Ming started him on sword training under Thor.
• Norman Osborn learned his illness was terminal and ordered Dr. Rasa to bring him the enhancement serum.
• Kingpin demanded compensation from Norman for the destroyed warehouse and threatened to expose Oscorp's experiments.
• Norman injected two doses of serum, gained immense strength, and became the Green Goblin.
• The Green Goblin rode his glider out of Osborn Tower and declared himself to New York.

Norman Osborn, transformed into the Green Goblin, attacked Kingpin in Fisk Tower, and the two clashed in a brutal fight. Kingpin battered Norman, but Norman prepared a high-yield incendiary bomb, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Kingpin ordered his chief financial officer to spend Osborn’s settlement on his mayoral campaign despite the gang’s losses.
• Green Goblin smashed into Fisk Tower, killed Kingpin’s eight bodyguards with Pumpkin Bombs, and challenged Kingpin.
• Kingpin caught Green Goblin’s punch and used his fighting skill to throw and pummel him.
• Green Goblin kicked Kingpin away, but Kingpin dodged his darts, seized him by the neck, and hurled him into a column.
• Norman removed his cracked mask, revealed his identity, and threatened Kingpin with a high-yield incendiary bomb that could destroy the tower’s top floor.

The Green Goblin escaped Kingpin’s exploding tower and began a deadly chase with Peter Parker through Manhattan. Peter saved a bus full of passengers, but the chapter left him battered and trapped in the Green Goblin’s glider’s path as its blades rushed toward him.

• The Green Goblin threw an incendiary bomb at Kingpin, who escaped through a hidden titanium door as the blast engulfed the top floor of Fisk Tower.
• The Green Goblin flew away from the burning tower, and Peter Parker spotted him and swung after him.
• The Green Goblin attacked Peter with Pumpkin Bombs and an autocannon, then chased him through Manhattan’s streets.
• Peter wrapped a Pumpkin Bomb in webbing and threw it away from a passenger bus, but its explosion hurled him through a clothing-store window.
• The Green Goblin confronted the injured Peter and charged at him with blades extended from his glider.

Deadpool arrived in Peter’s world, saved him from Green Goblin, and insisted they were close friends despite Peter not recognizing him. After Green Goblin blasted Deadpool with missiles, Deadpool emerged from the flames alive and regenerating.

• Deadpool crashed into a clothing store, returned his adamantium sword, and saved Peter by slicing off Green Goblin’s glider blades.
• Deadpool clung to Peter and claimed they had shared adventures across universes, while Peter denied knowing him and threw him into the checkout counter.
• Green Goblin launched two missiles at Peter and Deadpool after they ignored him.
• Deadpool let the missiles hit him, and the explosion destroyed the remaining clothing store and sent Peter into the street.
• Deadpool emerged from the ruins badly mangled but alive, regenerating while eating a burnt burrito, leaving Green Goblin stunned.

Deadpool used his extreme healing factor and reckless antics to defeat Green Goblin and save Peter Parker. After Norman Osborn fled, Peter webbed Deadpool up and took him to Mr. Yang's.

• Deadpool regenerated from his wounds, drew his swords, and taunted Green Goblin.
• Deadpool charged through Green Goblin's gunfire, caught a Pumpkin Bomb, and survived its explosion by growing new legs.
• Deadpool stabbed Green Goblin through the glider, disabled it, and beat Norman Osborn until he begged for mercy.
• Norman triggered an overload in his armor and fled into the sewers as Deadpool escaped the blast and landed in Peter's arms.
• Peter webbed Deadpool into a cocoon, then swung away toward Mr. Yang's with Deadpool in tow.

Deadpool brought Yang Ming a warning from Death: his repeated rescues of people whose deaths shaped the universe had damaged her performance and attracted her anger. Yang Ming refused to stop saving patients, blaming his system’s rewards and challenging Death to pay him more if she wanted him to close his clinic.

• Peter Parker brought a web-wrapped Deadpool to Yang Ming, and Deadpool recognized him as a fellow transmigrator before asking to speak privately.
• Yang Ming cut Deadpool free and went with him to a secluded corner, leaving Retsu Unohana to watch Peter and the others.
• Deadpool revealed that Death had sent a warning because Yang Ming’s clinic had saved people such as Dr. Yinsen and Ben Parker, whose deaths were crucial to causality.
• Deadpool said Death was being mocked by the other cosmic entities and threatened to visit Yang Ming’s clinic herself.
• Yang Ming told Deadpool to blame the system that rewarded his rescues and said he would keep saving patients unless Death offered him more than the system did.

Deadpool left the ruins after delivering Death’s message, while Yang Ming continued Dave’s brutal training. In Asgard, Loki learned Thor was working for a mortal in New York and decided to go to Midgard himself.

• Deadpool mocked Yang Ming’s attempt to shift blame to his system, then used a time machine to leave the ruins.
• Yang Ming ordered Retsu Unohana to heal Dave and told Thor to increase the training weight to a hundred-pound iron hammer.
• Loki ruled Asgard efficiently while Odin slept, but grew bored in Thor’s absence.
• Heimdall saw Thor teaching a mortal to wield a sword and working for a mortal in New York.
• Loki ordered Heimdall to open the Bifrost’s concealed passage so he could confront the mortal employing Thor.

Thor continued training Dave in the ruins while wearing a maid outfit, and his flirtation with Jane made her laugh. Loki secretly came to Earth expecting to rescue and humiliate Thor, but froze when he saw his brother happily training in the outfit.

• Thor drove Dave through another grueling workout, and Dave’s strength had visibly increased after two weeks of training.
• Yang Ming told Jessica Jones that Thor enjoyed tormenting Dave because Dave was a safe outlet for his anger at Odin.
• Jane Foster laughed at Thor’s maid outfit and cheesy pickup lines, while growing fond of him.
• Loki secretly entered Midgard, planning to mock Thor and punish Yang Ming for employing him.
• Loki found Thor cheerfully training Dave in a maid outfit and was stunned by the sight.

Loki secretly recorded Thor’s humiliating behavior, hoping to use the footage to secure Asgard’s throne, but failed to lift Mjolnir. He stayed hidden at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base and discovered Thor was courting Jane Foster, whom Loki dismissed as a mortal whose short life would make the romance foolish.

• Loki watched Thor perform in a maid outfit and recorded the footage to undermine his claim to the throne.
• Loki tried to lift Mjolnir, but the hammer stayed put and its magical recoil threw him into the crater wall.
• Loki remained invisible at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base and recorded Thor’s embarrassing fights, servant-like chores, and wardrobe mishap.
• Thor brought Jane Foster roadside wildflowers and sat with her as she laughed and listened to stories about Asgard.
• Loki watched Thor and Jane together, then mocked Thor for falling in love with a mortal woman.

Loki disguised himself as Jane Foster and nearly tricked Thor into humiliating himself for a date, but Yang Ming interrupted after recognizing the deception. Yang Ming then confronted Loki while Thor struggled to explain his awkward pose.

• Loki used the Invisibility Scepter to disguise himself as Jane Foster and flirted with Thor while he washed tires in a maid uniform.
• Loki promised Thor a date if he knelt in the mud and barked like a dog, and Thor began to comply.
• Yang Ming detected Loki's magical energy with Observation Haki and told Jessica Jones and Retsu Unohana that the apparent Jane was an Asgardian god.
• Yang Ming approached Loki and interrupted Thor just before he reached the mud, then asked about the laboratory funding and teased Thor about his crouching pose.
• Yang Ming asked whether Loki, still disguised as Jane, had said he liked Thor, and Loki shyly called Thor a good man.

Yang Ming bargained with Loki, who was disguised as Jane, over Thor’s debt and accepted a piece of uru as partial payment before demanding even more money. Loki lost his temper and attacked Yang Ming with soul-corrupting magic, but Retsu Unohana’s killing intent met the spell just before it struck.

• Yang Ming demanded that Loki pay fifty million dollars toward Thor’s debt, while Thor pleaded with him not to make things difficult for Jane.
• Loki offered a piece of uru ore, and Yang Ming dismissed its value before accepting it as a ten-million-dollar down payment.
• Yang Ming added more charges and demanded another fifty million dollars to let Thor leave, pushing Loki past his patience.
• Loki abandoned his disguise and sent soul-corrupting magic at Yang Ming.
• Retsu Unohana raised her eyes and unleashed terrifying killing intent that stopped the spell before it reached Yang Ming.

Loki’s disguise as Jane Foster was exposed, humiliating Thor and allowing Loki to threaten him with a recording. Yang Ming then confronted Loki over the crystal and his attempted murder, demanding it and ten pieces of uru as compensation.

• Retsu Unohana’s killing intent disrupted Loki’s disguise, and Yang Ming revealed that Jane Foster was Loki in disguise.
• Loki dropped the illusion and mocked Thor, who realized he had been flirting with his brother and vomited in humiliation.
• Loki revealed that he had recorded Thor’s behavior and threatened to show the footage across Asgard.
• Thor charged at Loki to seize the Memory Crystal, but Loki teleported away and left Thor unable to catch him.
• Yang Ming accused Loki of violating Thor’s image rights, stealing clinic trade secrets, and attempting murder, then demanded the crystal and ten pieces of uru.

Yang Ming had Jessica stop Loki from escaping, and she beat him until his male disguise failed and revealed Lady Loki. Thor mocked his brother, then recoiled in shock as Lady Loki wept and complained about their family.

• Loki laughed at Yang Ming's demand for uru ore, then tried to flee while magically pulling Mjolnir toward him.
• Yang Ming spotted Loki with Observation Haki and ordered Jessica to knock him out of the sky.
• Jessica punched Loki into a crater, and Thor mocked him while eating popcorn.
• Loki gathered magic and threatened to kill everyone, but Jessica interrupted him and beat him until his spells failed.
• Loki's disguise collapsed, revealing Lady Loki, who cried in the mud while Jessica and Thor stared in disbelief.

After Jessica exposed Loki’s disguise and revealed her history as Laufey’s daughter, Yang Ming demanded payment for the damage and crimes she had committed. Lady Loki failed to seduce him and, threatened with dissection, agreed to work off a two-hundred-million-dollar debt at the clinic.

• Jessica punched off Loki’s disguise, revealing a woman, and Thor demanded an explanation.
• Lady Loki revealed that Odin had hidden her identity as Laufey’s daughter and raised her as Thor’s brother.
• Yang Ming billed Lady Loki fifteen chunks of uru ore for her violations, and she tried unsuccessfully to bargain with seduction.
• Yang Ming raised the bill to eighteen chunks after Lady Loki attempted to bribe him, then Retsu Unohana threatened to dissect her if she could not pay.
• Lady Loki agreed to work off her debt and signed Yang Ming’s two-hundred-million-dollar IOU with her bloody fingerprint.

Yang Ming sent Dave to Gotham City for an internship under Batman so he could learn the skills needed to survive as a superhero. Dave and Yang Ming left through a magical pink door, while Retsu Unohana stayed behind to supervise Jessica, Thor, and Loki.

• Jessica forced Loki to scrub a truck tire while Thor mocked her, and Yang Ming threatened Loki with mounting fines until she resumed working.
• Yang Ming ended Dave’s physical training and explained that Dave lacked the practical skills to survive against criminal gangs.
• Yang Ming opened a magical pink door to Gotham City and told Dave that Batman, Bruce Wayne, would be his next mentor.
• Yang Ming refused Jessica’s request to join them and asked Retsu Unohana to keep watch over Jessica and the Asgardians.
• Dave and Yang Ming stepped through the door to Gotham, leaving Jessica behind as the door vanished.

Yang Ming brought Dave to Gotham and introduced him to his clinic apprentices, then learned that Arthur had paid for his services with a fortune in Atlantean treasure. After spotting Bruce Wayne’s partnership with Lex Luthor in the news, Yang Ming revealed that Wayne was Batman and arranged to take Dave to meet him.

• Yang Ming returned to the Gotham clinic with Dave and introduced him to Selene and Maggie as his new apprentice.
• Selene reported that Arthur had become Aquaman and delivered twenty safes filled with Atlantean treasure as payment.
• Yang Ming inspected the treasure and said he would use the money to expand the clinic and buy medical equipment.
• Yang Ming read that Wayne Enterprises had partnered with LexCorp and remarked that Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor’s alliance could be dangerous.
• Yang Ming told Dave that Batman would be his next mentor, and Selene realized that Bruce Wayne was the masked vigilante.
• Yang Ming ordered Selene to arrange a meeting with Bruce Wayne for the next day and told her and Dave to keep Batman’s identity secret.