The Thirty-Two-Act Tragedy

Su Ming understood some of the connections behind the whole matter.

Long ago, he had thought that in terms of power, after The One Above All came beings such as the Living Tribunal, the Fulcrum, the Beyonder, and the Beyonders—Omniverse-level existences.

Yet as he read more comics, he discovered there were no shortage of other immensely powerful beings, such as Those Who Sit Above In Shadow, also known as the People in the Shadows.

A secret group of ancient gods, they were also the forces behind Ragnarök.

In the Marvel Universe, they were neither human nor gods, nor were they conceptual beings. They had no origin or end, were not created, and had created nothing.

They were the God of Gods, seated in the shadows above the Omniverse. Coldly, they observed everything done by Creator Gods of every rank and level.

They could not be explained and were rarely mentioned by the gods. They possessed infinite power, transcended all logic, could casually alter the settings of the universe, and stood beyond all things that could not be defined, beyond all meaning and causality.

And to them, all that was merely one facet of their infinite power—or rather, a negligible fraction of it.

Those Who Sit Above In Shadow remained forever in the darkness. No one could see their true faces, and as a group, they had an exceptionally large number of women among them.

Going by the notion that Marvel's overwhelmingly powerful characters were all alter egos of important real-world figures, Those Who Sit Above In Shadow might represent certain departments that supervised comic publication in reality.

They normally did not appear, but if anyone attempted to stop Ragnarök, they would simply pull that person out of the dimension and imprison them in the empty darkness on the reverse side