Recaps

Kara pushed to attack Hydra’s base, and Brad encouraged her while secretly using the original sin virus to find a suitable recruit. He transformed the volatile Hydra agent Robert Hunter into a superhuman and named him Nitroman.

• Kara told Brad the Avengers had ordered them to watch Hydra’s base, but she urged him to help her attack it instead.
• Brad validated Kara’s desire to prove herself, intensifying the original sin virus inside her as she drafted a reckless plan.
• Brad used the virus spreading through the Hydra base to locate Robert Hunter, an explosive-tempered Hydra agent who had argued with his superior.
• Robert charged into Brad and kicked at him, so Brad shattered Robert’s knee and lifted him into the air.
• Brad healed Robert’s knee, altered him with genetic, technological, and magical modifications, and named him Nitroman.

Kara attacked a Hydra base without authorization, where Robert’s explosive power nearly killed her and Brad was severely burned saving her. After Kara woke in the hospital, Iron Man expelled her from the Avengers, and Tony played a recording as the others questioned his decision.

• Kara stormed the Hydra base alone and fought through its soldiers while Brad went in another direction.
• Robert caught Kara’s punch, taunted her, and struck her down, but Kara retaliated by projecting a micro black hole into his waist.
• Robert unleashed an explosion equivalent to 250 tons of TNT, and Brad arrived in time to push Kara clear before taking the blast’s full force himself.
• Kara woke in the hospital and learned that Brad was critically injured and might not survive.
• Iron Man expelled Kara from the Avengers over her unauthorized actions, and she left Avengers Tower in silence.
• Captain America questioned Tony’s harsh decision, so Tony played a recording.

The Avengers reviewed evidence of Kara's disobedience and cruelty toward Bu Lai, then voted to admit him as a full member under the codename Speed. Tony revealed that Bu Lai could recover from his severe injuries, leaving the team discussing his unusual healing and metabolism.

• Tony played a recording of Kara insulting Bu Lai and rushing into the Hydra Base against orders, then showed footage of Bu Lai following her inside.
• Captain America and the other Avengers condemned Kara's actions, while Hawkeye challenged Tony over the communicators' audio-recording function.
• Tony showed the team Bu Lai's burned body and proposed admitting him as a full Avenger under the codename Speed; the team voted in favor.
• Hank Pym asked whether Bu Lai would recover, and Tony explained that his accelerated metabolism and cellular response made him heal faster when badly injured.
• Hawkeye wondered whether Bu Lai's rapid healing meant he would age faster, prompting Tony to explain his physiology.

Brad revealed that he had secretly manipulated the Blood Cross crisis and recruited his Blood Cross Universe counterpart, Veteran Brad, to serve his plans. Veteran Brad reached the Avengers' base, where Tony remained frozen with his finger poised over the World-Ending Button because Brad had disrupted his perception of time.

• Brad returned his primary consciousness to the Main Camp and joined the symbiote research project, while his Earth-10011 counterpart feigned a grave injury.
• Brad's researchers replicated a complete symbiote after symbiote gene fragments spread through the Blood Cross Universe, while Brad secretly preserved a harmless form of Blood Cross.
• Primordial Brad revealed that he had contacted Veteran Brad, earned his trust, and guided him toward New York while he remained on the moon.
• Veteran Brad secretly visited the Avengers' base before returning Nick Fury to the Baxter Building and found Tony Stark poised to press the World-Ending Button.
• Brad's virus manipulation disrupted Tony's perception of time, leaving him motionless inside what he believed was the single second before he had to act.

Old Soldier bonded with a cloned symbiote and chose to join Brad’s agents rather than return to the Blood Cross Universe. On Earth-10011, Bu Lai learned that a dangerous Hydra supercriminal named Robert Hunter could detonate and reconstruct himself, while the Avengers remained unsure how powerful his explosions could become.

• Old Soldier bonded with the cloned symbiote, demonstrated its ability to reshape his body into a blade, and gained physical capabilities slightly beyond Captain America's.
• Old Soldier told Brad he wished to follow him, and Deadpool welcomed him to Brad’s agent squad.
• Brad explained to the other Brads that he had kept Old Soldier as a potential ally, then prepared to modify the Eye Demon Flesh using symbiote traits and magical runes.
• After recovering, Bu Lai learned he had been accepted as a full Avengers member and was assigned Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell, as his mentor.
• Mar-Vell briefed Bu Lai on Robert Hunter, a former Hydra researcher who could create massive explosions, survive them by reforming from smoke, and choose when to reconstruct his body.
• Mar-Vell warned that Robert’s blasts grew stronger the longer he charged them, and the Avengers did not know how powerful a fully charged explosion could be.

Brad planned to use Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell, as a flashpoint for the original sin virus while helping him and Frank hunt Nitroman, Robert. Brad built the Weather Wand to clear tourists from Hawaii, and Robert realized the Avengers were closing in on him.

• Brad joined Mar-Vell and Frank in pursuing Robert, who had fled to Hawaii after stealing funds from Hydra.
• Brad built the Weather Wand and demonstrated that it could change the weather, while Mar-Vell marveled at his technical skill.
• Brad began planning a supercomputer-universe project powered by a Void Quantum Computer and resources from parallel universes.
• Frank used the Weather Wand to bring an unseasonal snowstorm to Hawaii, prompting tourists to leave.
• Robert tried to buy a plane ticket but found all flights sold out and realized the Avengers were trying to isolate him.

Robert Hunter fought through Hydra’s ambush and then battled Brad, Mar-Vell, and Frank, who used a rainstorm to neutralize his explosive powers. Robert surrendered and was taken into custody after the rain stopped.

• Robert fought his way through Hydra assassins in the hotel and killed the attackers who confronted him.
• Brad attacked Robert, posing as a newly debuted superhero seeking revenge, and repeatedly struck him at super speed.
• Brad kicked Robert high into the sky, where Robert detonated himself without harming anyone on the ground.
• Frank used the Weather Wand to drench the smoke and dust, leaving Robert unable to form a body or escape.
• Robert begged to surrender, and Mar-Vell signaled Frank to stop the rain so Robert could be taken away.

After S.H.I.E.L.D. found evidence that Nitroman’s genes had been modified with Kree technology and reacted unusually with Mar-Vell’s cells, Tony Stark and Nick Fury began questioning Mar-Vell’s true purpose. As Tony grew suspicious of the Captain and the Kree Empire, Bu Lai observed that the Suspicious was nearing the moment when they could begin.

• Tony Stark visited Nick Fury, who showed him Dapa’s report on Kree gene-tuning traces in Nitroman’s tissue.
• Nick told Tony that only the two of them and Dapa knew of the findings, and Tony agreed the matter should remain secret.
• Tony and Nick discussed investigating whether Mar-Vell knew about the connection between his cells and Nitroman’s genes.
• Nick burned the report while Tony considered whether Mar-Vell had been monitoring Bu Lai and whether Nitroman’s capture had carried a message from the Kree Empire.
• Bu Lai watched Tony’s suspicion intensify and said the Suspicious would grow even more suspicious as the time to begin approached.

Brad used Richard Rider’s trial and his own encounter with Jennifer Walters to advance his original-sin plan, then secured a temporary contract with the Eye Demon. After the Eye Demon Flesh altered Earth-10011’s spacetime, Brad claimed the contracts of every Dimension Demon God had made him stronger than all Sorcerers Supreme combined.

• Richard Rider accepted responsibility for his crime at the hearing, while Brad testified and received comfort from Jennifer Walters afterward.
• Jennifer Walters took Brad to a bar, and the two spent the night together at a hotel.
• Brad identified Jennifer as the planned embodiment of lust and prepared the Eye Demon Flesh for his scheme.
• Brad offered the Eye Demon a business deal, and the Elder God accepted a temporary contract and marked him.
• The modified Eye Demon Flesh spread through Earth-10011’s spacetime, alerting the retired Ancient One to the change.
• Brad declared that he had signed contracts with every Dimension Demon God and had become stronger than all Sorcerers Supreme combined.

Brad sealed Earth-10011’s Ancient One and unleashed an infection that rewrote the universe’s living essences and memories. On Earth, Mar-Vell rushed to Negative Zone Prison 42, where an explosion triggered a collision between the Negative Zone and positive space, sweeping Earth into the resulting space-time turbulence.

• The Ancient One of Earth-10011 discovered black flesh at the center of the universe’s alternate space, infecting points of light that represented living beings.
• Brad stopped the Ancient One from destroying the flesh, bound and split her soul, and sealed her in Limbo and the Dream Dimension.
• Brad fed collected human negative emotions to the flesh, strengthening its links to the universe’s points of light.
• Iron Man confronted Mar-Vell about the Kree Empire, and Brad showed Mar-Vell a file that sent him rushing to Negative Zone Prison 42 to question Nitroman.
• An explosion destroyed the prison’s spatial stabilizer, causing the Negative Zone and positive space to collide as Brad activated the infection.
• The infection transformed beings and civilizations across Earth-10011, while Earth was swept into space-time turbulence and its inhabitants’ life essences changed.

Brad rewrote Earth-10011 into the Cancerverse, then used Mar-Vell’s terminal illness and jealousy to make him accept the Elder God’s blessing. Mar-Vell spread that blessing across Earth, triggering violent mutations among civilians as the superheroes were revealed to have fallen first.

• Brad reshaped the universe around him into the Cancerverse and ordered the Main Camp Base Brads to update its files.
• Brad learned that Mar-Vell was dying and visited him in the hospital after the timequake had altered everyone’s memories.
• Brad awakened Mar-Vell’s jealousy with the Original Sin Virus and persuaded him to become a believer in exchange for eternal life.
• Brad left the hospital as the superheroes gathered around Mar-Vell, who appeared close to death.
• Mar-Vell announced that he shared the Elder God’s blessing with everyone, causing civilians across Earth to mutate while the superheroes had already fallen.

Brad uncovered the Creator’s identity and learned that the Council of Reeds had been secretly rebuilt under the Ultimate Universe Reed Richards’s control. The Creator and his council gathered before Brad and raised his surveillance priority as Brad’s Future Sight revealed the council’s history.

• Brad seized the spacetime communicator from the corrupted Mister Fantastic and identified its hidden owner as the Creator, Reed Richards of the Ultimate Universe.
• The Creator told Brad that he had been promoted to the Council of Reeds’ second-highest surveillance priority.
• The Creator summoned Reed Richardses from across the Multiverse, and they introduced themselves as the Council of Reeds.
• Brad’s Future Sight revealed that the Creator had secretly undermined the original Council of Reeds after it rejected him.
• After Mister Fantastic of Earth-616 dissolved the council and erased its members’ memories, the Creator and Kang cut that moment from time and formed a new council under the Creator’s control.

Brad realized the supposed Creator was not the real Ultimate Reed, but an observation target of the Council of Reeds, and Doctor Doom appeared to explain the larger conflict. The chapter ended with Brad asking why the Creator had spared Doom after killing the other Dooms.

• The Creator showed Brad that he had captured Skynet and Hemen and claimed Brad was only an experimental subject in his universe.
• Brad deduced that the Creator was not Ultimate Reed because the real Reed would not waste time speaking to someone he considered insignificant.
• God Emperor Doom appeared and said Skynet and Hemen were imprisoned with him in Ultimate Reed's prison.
• Doom revealed that he had given Brad his Future Sight and explained that the Council of Reeds had once imprisoned Dooms from countless universes.
• Doom confirmed that the Creator had killed every Doom except him, and Brad asked why Doom had been spared.

Brad learned from God Emperor Doom why Earth-616’s rules kept him out and heard that Doom had secretly shaped his development to help overthrow the Creator. Furious at having his life manipulated, Brad left the Cancerverse and confronted the Watcher to demand two punches.

• God Emperor Doom explained that Earth-616’s Reed Richards and Ultimate Reed had imposed rules that blocked Brad from entering Earth-616, while Kang could enter because of his unusual connection to the main universe’s future.
• Doom described two theories about Kang and revealed that he had tracked Brad, placed magic-suppressing shackles on him, and guided his growth alongside Skynet and Hemen.
• Brad angrily accused Doom of arranging his life, but Doom argued that he had shielded Brad from Ultimate Reed’s attention so Brad could keep developing.
• Brad ended contact with Doom, left the Cancerverse, and found the Watcher’s hiding place between universes.
• Brad demanded that the Watcher let him punch him twice, and the Watcher reluctantly offered his face.

Demon Archbishop Mar-Vell sent corrupted superheroes to recruit their former comrades for the Elder Gods. Spider-Man and Logan faced attacks from friends whose minds had been taken over.

• Mar-Vell recovered his strength, revealed his allegiance to the Elder Gods, and ordered corrupted superheroes to bring others into their ranks.
• Aunt May transformed and attacked Peter Parker, who bound her with webbing before leaving to seek help from the Avengers.
• Spider-Man encountered Iron Fist, whose glowing red eyes revealed his corruption, and Iron Fist attacked him.
• Cyclops attacked Logan with a crimson energy beam after telling him to join them.
• Jean Grey and Wanda appeared with blood-red eyes and urged Logan to join them.

The Elder God's corruption spread rapidly through the Cancerverse, infecting its major heroes and threatening to contaminate the multiverse through the Web of Life and Destiny. The Master Weaver and other multiversal guardians sent warnings to Earth-616, though the Reed Council intercepted only some of them.

• Reed Richards lured the Fantastic Four to the Baxter Building and infected Johnny, Susan, and Ben after becoming corrupted himself.
• Professor X used his brainwave amplifier to restrain Jean Grey, Wanda, and the infected mutants, but a silver figure removed the amplifier and Jean corrupted him.
• Spider-Man defeated Iron Fist but was surrounded by the infected Avengers; despite resisting the Elder God's magic, he became a six-armed monster.
• Brad observed the Cancerverse's infection spreading as a diversion for a concealed operation, while Doctor Doom helped hide the real plan.
• The Master Weaver stopped the Cancerverse's corruption from spreading further across the Web of Life and Destiny and warned Earth-616's Spider-Man.
• Other multiversal guardians contacted people in Earth-616, while the Reed Council intercepted only some of their messages.

The Guardians of the Galaxy debated whether Earth had fallen to the universe-wide infection, and Star-Lord chose to seek out Thanos instead of going there. On Earth-616, Spider-Man received a warning from the Master Weaver about a multiversal crisis and traveled through a portal to ask Spider-Men from other universes about him.

• Groot threatened the Guardians and offered Rocket access to his collected treasures in exchange for an apology.
• Rocket wondered whether people on Earth had turned into monsters, and Star-Lord decided the Guardians would find Thanos rather than risk going to Earth.
• The Master Weaver warned Peter Parker that a multiversal crisis had begun in the place formerly designated Multiverse-10011.
• Peter left the Daily Bugle, went home, and found his Interdimensional Traversal Device.
• Spider-Man activated the device and leaped through a portal into the Space Tunnel.

Peter Parker from the main universe encountered Miles Morales in the Ultimate Universe and asked about the Master Weaver, whose warning he remembered despite having no memory of the Inheritors crisis. Miles suspected Peter’s memories were unusual and returned with a dimensional travel wristband, revealing that the origins of their identical devices remained unknown.

• Peter Parker emerged from a portal, collided with Miles Morales, and the two fell into a park before swinging away together.
• Peter asked Miles about the Master Weaver, and Miles was shocked that Peter remembered the name but not their past battle against the Inheritors.
• Miles recalled how the Spider-Men had defeated the Inheritors and helped Karn become the new Master Weaver.
• Miles suggested finding other Spider-Men to see whether Peter was the only one with missing memories, then left to get a dimensional travel wristband.
• Miles returned with a wristband matching Peter’s, and they realized both devices had been made by the same unknown person.

Peter Parker arrived on Earth-65 with Miles Morales, but he could not remember the Master Weaver or Silk, prompting Gwen Stacy to strike him. Peter’s memories came from 2014, and he began recounting an earlier assassination crisis involving liquid-metal robots.

• Miles Morales asked Gwen Stacy whether she remembered the Master Weaver, and Peter admitted that he did not.
• Gwen Stacy slapped Peter and angrily blamed him for forgetting Silk, who had died fighting the Inheritors.
• Peter explained that he might be from a different time period, and Miles learned that Peter’s year was 2014.
• Peter recalled investigating a wave of assassinations with Daredevil, the Punisher, and other heroes, while the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. also pursued the attackers.
• Peter described how he stopped an assassin’s teleportation with a device from Mister Fantastic, revealing that the assassins were liquid-metal robots.

Peter Parker explained how the Avengers traced the Liquid Robots to Skynet and destroyed its production facility, then realized that the pasts and futures of his universe and those of Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy had been altered. The three Spider-people traveled to the Cancerverse to investigate the multiverse crisis, where Brad watched them arrive.

• Peter recalled how the Avengers discovered that the Liquid Robots were T-1000s produced by Skynet, which had been ordered to infiltrate worlds for Hydra and eliminate anyone who resisted.
• The Avengers destroyed Skynet's metal continent after its artificial intelligence failed to provide more information.
• Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy were shocked that they had no memories of the events Peter described, and Peter concluded that time had been altered across multiple universes.
• Peter shared the coordinates from the Master Weaver with Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, and the three Spider-people opened a Portal to the Cancerverse.
• Brad watched the three Spider-people arrive on Earth in the Cancerverse and wondered whether anyone could stop Earth-616's people from leaving.

Peter, Miles, and Gwen entered a darkened Aunt May’s house in the Cancerverse and became separated in its seemingly endless interior. As Peter struggled to find his way, Brad watched him and tried to scan the Space-Time Travel Bracelet, discovering that technology from the main universe resisted his understanding.

• Miles, Peter, and Gwen identified the deserted neighborhood as Queens and went to Aunt May’s house to search for this universe’s Spider-Man.
• Gwen spotted a figure watching them from a window, and Peter smashed the glass and rushed inside, followed by Miles and Gwen.
• The house plunged the Spider-People into darkness, and Miles and Gwen lost track of Peter before moving deeper inside together.
• Peter pursued the retreating figure through an interior that seemed to stretch for thousands of meters, and his webs gave him no way to map it.
• Brad watched Peter from outside the darkness and scanned his Space-Time Travel Bracelet, realizing that main-universe technology was difficult for him to understand.

Brad deciphered the main universe’s Space-Time Travel Bracelet technology and sent Peter Parker back to the Cancerverse, while reflecting on the Creator’s control of the Multiverse. The Guardians of the Galaxy found Thanos amid the wreckage of his forces, only to discover he was still alive and had mistaken them for enemies.

• Brad recorded the Space-Time Travel Bracelet’s technology, sent Peter Parker back to the Cancerverse, and considered the Creator’s plans for the Multiverse.
• The Guardians of the Galaxy entered Thanos’s forbidden territory and found wrecked ships where demonized pirates had apparently attacked their uninfected comrades.
• The Guardians found Thanos sitting atop his damaged ship beside an alien corpse and believed he had died fighting the infection.
• Thanos revived and hurled his Glaive at the Guardians’ spaceship, but Drax knocked it away with his axe.
• Thanos recognized the Guardians and sank back into his seat, saying he had thought he missed a few.

Drax and the Guardians of the Galaxy found Thanos badly wounded after he fought the Corrupted, and they treated him while asking about the spreading threat. Thanos explained how the corruption had reached the Skrulls and his own forces, leaving the Guardians with a warning about the power behind it.

• Drax confronted Thanos, who rose from Cull Obsidian’s corpse and admitted he was wounded.
• Star-Lord asked Thanos about the corruption, and Thanos revealed that the Corrupted had come for him.
• Mantis treated Thanos while Drax allowed the Guardians to help him.
• Thanos said the Death Goddess had warned him of a universe-threatening catastrophe, and Supergiant had tracked changes among the Shi'ar and Skrulls.
• Thanos recounted that the Corrupted killed the Skrull queen, infected Supergiant, and sent a warning that they wanted the Death Goddess.
• Thanos’s forces began to succumb to corruption, and Ebony Maw became a puppet of the Elder God almost immediately.

Thanos broke free of Ebony Maw’s control and killed the corrupted members of the Black Order, but the Guardians of the Galaxy arrived as the Avengers of Vengeance and the E X-Men opened a portal to his location. Elsewhere, Peter Parker reunited with Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy in a dark, disorienting space, and they prepared to find a way out.

• Ebony Maw and the corrupted Black Order attacked Thanos, who escaped Maw’s mental control and killed Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Ebony Maw, and Cull Obsidian.
• The Guardians of the Galaxy arrived and learned that someone on Earth had ordered Ebony Maw to bring Thanos there.
• A portal opened near Thanos, revealing the Avengers of Vengeance and the E X-Men gathering on the other side.
• Peter Parker woke in a dark space and found Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy after they had searched for him using the Web-Tracking Technique.
• Peter Parker urged Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy to leave the strange space.

Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, and Peter escaped the dark house, but Peter returned through a Portal and found himself with Aunt May, apparently forgetting his friends. Meanwhile, the Guardians of the Galaxy fled with an injured Thanos as demonized pursuers chased them through space.

• Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, and Peter escaped the eerie house and decided to contact the superhero organizations in their worlds for help.
• Gwen Stacy left through her Portal, but Peter closed his Portal back to the main universe after Miles Morales called to him.
• Peter found Aunt May knitting in her room and treated his memories of Miles and Gwen as a fading dream.
• The Guardians of the Galaxy took the wounded Thanos aboard their spaceship to prevent the demonized from using him in a ritual to summon the Goddess of Death.
• Rocket Raccoon piloted the Guardians' ship as demonized superheroes, including Thor, pursued them through space.