Recaps

Brad seized Earth with Apocalypse, then unleashed the Blood Cross Virus to draw out the Watcher and force a path to Earth-616. After crossing into a new universe under an assumed identity, he released another virus while the Brads monitored the dangerous Eye Demon Flesh.

• Apocalypse conquered Earth with Brad’s help, establishing mutant rule and enslaving humanity while the Beyonder explained the differences between universes.
• Brad engineered the Blood Cross Virus in Reality 14, and it spread rapidly as infected Avengers and Inhumans attacked survivors.
• Tony Stark developed a risky global response, while Brad drew the Watcher into confronting him and discovered that the infected were opening gates between universes.
• Earth-616’s heroes arrived to suppress the virus, and Brad used the crisis to obtain information about Earth-616 and the forces threatening his body.
• Brad investigated Nothingness and the hidden power behind it, while Peril sent Quentin and Emma to retrieve a specialty from another universe.
• Primordial Brad created the Original Sin Virus and sent Doctor Strange Supreme and Transdimensional Number Four to obtain data from the Eye Demon’s dimension.
• Brad entered Universe 10011 disguised as a shipwrecked stranger, gained Richard Rider and Tony Stark’s trust, and released the Original Sin Virus.
• Number Four defeated Number One, who remained to guard the sealed Eye Demon Flesh despite fearing its corruption could spread through the hive mind.

Brad pursued a cure for his inability to use magic while Number One trained Donald, whose rebellion against Odin’s imprisonment became a threat to Asgard. After restoring his soul and forming contracts with powerful magic users, Brad returned to Earth-10011 and resumed the Hydra mission with Karla.

• Tony took Brad to Avengers Tower, where Brad fabricated an identity that convinced Mar-Vell, then recruited Wade to study the Eye Demon Flesh.
• The Avengers assigned Brad to destroy a Canadian Hydra base, and he and Karla posed as newlyweds to follow a Hydra agent.
• Brad traveled through a parallel universe seeking a way to overcome his inability to use magic, and Logan explained how enchanted bones and meteoric iron marrow had let him sense natural energy.
• Brad’s attempt to control a magical clone failed, so he sent Number One and Deadpool into Donald’s dream, where they taught Donald to fight and seek revenge on Asgard.
• Odin warned Thor and Loki about Donald before dying, and Donald escaped his Dreamland, killed Heimdall, and invaded Asgard while Doctor Strange discovered he was draining the sleeping gods’ power.
• Brad entered the Dream Dimension, where Donald extracted purple smoke from his soul, but Brad restored himself through his havoc body and Nightmare intervened.
• Apocalypse shared his history with the War Horseman, who chose to remain with the mutants and became Brad’s fourth divine form.
• Brad mastered magic, signed contracts with powerful entities, and left for Earth-10011, where he joined Karla in planting Stark’s miniature computer near a hidden signal device at the Hydra base.

Brad transformed Earth-10011 into the Cancerverse and set its corruption spreading while maneuvering among the Creator, God Emperor Doom, and the Watcher. In Earth-616, Spider-Man’s encounters with Miles and Gwen ended with Peter stranded back in the Cancerverse, while the Guardians fled with the wounded Thanos as corrupted heroes pursued them.

• Kara defied the Avengers’ orders and attacked Hydra, where Brad rescued her from Robert Hunter’s blast and transformed Robert into Nitroman.
• Tony expelled Kara and made Bu Lai a full Avenger, while Brad pursued Robert to Hawaii and helped Mar-Vell capture him.
• Brad expanded his schemes through the symbiote, Jennifer Walters, and the Eye Demon, then infected Earth-10011 and reshaped it into the Cancerverse.
• Brad confronted the Creator and God Emperor Doom, learned more about their manipulation of his life, and demanded that the Watcher let him punch him twice.
• Mar-Vell and the corrupted heroes spread the Elder Gods’ influence, while the Master Weaver warned Earth-616’s Spider-Man of the multiversal crisis.
• Peter Parker joined Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, uncovered evidence that time and memories had been altered, and followed the Master Weaver’s coordinates into the Cancerverse.
• Brad separated Peter from Miles and Gwen in the strange house, and Peter later returned to Aunt May while treating his experiences as a fading dream.
• Thanos fought off the corrupted Black Order, and the Guardians took him aboard their ship as demonized superheroes pursued them through space.

As the Cancerverse threatened the multiverse, Brad used its chaos to absorb thousands of realities and set a plan in motion. Sent to another universe as a contingency, he reached Superman’s world and settled in Gotham, where he began working with Doctor Crane.

• Mantis contacted Earth-616’s Doctor Strange, who traveled to the Guardians’ universe and restored Corrupted Strange while the Creator investigated Brad’s interference.
• Brad’s schemes drew the Creator into the Cancerverse, where the universe consumed him and began devouring other multiverses, while Doctor Strange Supreme gained control over the Eye Demon’s power.
• Robert Reynolds entered the Cancerverse, but Doctor Strange pulled him back as Brad used the crisis to begin assimilating the Magic Universe and thousands of parallel realities.
• Brad returned to Earth-9527, met Obadiah and HYDRA’s Supreme Council, and sent the War Horseman to inherit the legacy of Venom and Tony Stark’s civilizations.
• Brad gave the War Horseman a symbiote gene extract and joined with several powerful allies to send him beyond the multiverse, where an unexpected figure followed.
• Brad crossed into Superman’s universe, copied Superman’s genes, and learned from his memories that the Main Universe heroes had defeated and imprisoned him before he was sent away as a contingency.
• Brad reunited with Wade Wilson, traveled to Gotham, and took an assistant’s job with Doctor Crane.
• Batman investigated Brad’s visit to Crane’s laboratory, found no Fear Gas residue, and knocked Crane unconscious, while Brad proved immune to the toxin and offered to improve its formula.