Recaps

Su Ming and his allies uncovered the Shadow King’s abduction of Charles and Hank while preparing for Knull’s approach to Earth. After rescuing Charles and losing Hank, Su Ming gathered a team to pursue Amahl Farouk before Klyntar arrived.

• Su Ming purified the contaminated stream and led Peter and Storm to the Celestial corpse, where they found Tony Stark in his Iron Suit.
• Tony revealed he had seen through Su Ming’s deception, and Su Ming brought Howard, Maria, and Cassandra to reassure him before Tony took the group through his wormhole to Wakanda.
• Magneto fled Utopia with Jean Grey and Wolverine after Charles tried to make Jean kill Logan, and he told Su Ming that Charles was controlling the Mutants.
• Su Ming spread Voodoo Mushroom powder over Utopia to immobilize its brainwashed residents, then discovered that Charles and Hank were missing and that Hank’s laboratory equipment had been taken.
• Tony and Magneto rebuilt the Brainwave Amplifier, but Emma Frost’s scans failed to locate Hank until she detected his brainwaves in the Hoover Building alongside the Shadow King’s host.
• Su Ming’s team stormed the Hoover Building and killed Jacob Reiss’s host, but the Shadow King killed Hank, and Su Ming sent Hank’s body to Sepulk and used Charles as bait.
• Little Rich pulled the Shadow King’s shadow from Charles, and Su Ming brought the professor and Magneto to Kamar-Taj while Klyntar continued toward Earth.
• Su Ming spoke privately with Hoggoth about Knull and the Shadow King, then prepared to take Little Rich and the others to confront Amahl Farouk as Klyntar neared Earth.

Su Ming hunted Shadow King across Earth while Knull’s invasion struck New York, then sought Eternity and Infinity’s help to reach Shadow King’s true body. Eternity and Infinity merged to create the Shadow Beyond Everything, where Su Ming prepared to search for Shadow King.

• Su Ming used Peter’s dream encounter with the Leopard God to learn where Kwaku Anansi slept, then lured Shadow King into Kuqua and drove him out by destroying the host.
• Su Ming’s Disinfection Plan targeted Shadow King’s suspected hosts as Klyntar approached Earth, and Wanda shattered the Symbiote world before its survivors invaded New York.
• Su Ming helped Peter and Ororo choose Symbiotes, recruited Squirrel Girl, and fought Knull until Oshtur sealed him inside a sphere.
• Su Ming negotiated with Fury over the coming replacement for S.H.I.E.L.D., then returned to Kamar-Taj and asked Ancient One to take him to Eternity.
• Su Ming persuaded Eternity to summon Infinity, using Franklin’s tickling to secure Eternity’s agreement to their plan.
• Su Ming warned Infinity about the danger of recreating Firmament in the Far Shore, and Eternity and Infinity merged to form the Shadow Beyond Everything.
• Su Ming said Squirrel Girl could find Shadow King by treating him like a buried nut.

Su Ming gathered allies and resources to pit the Celestials against the Beyonders, using a trail of buried Dark Celestials to lure the Creator Lords to Gods’ Quarry. He opened a passage to the Beyond Realm and began the fight, ending as a Celestial’s blow sent him and Xient Star into the pink Zero Matter.

• Firmament formed from Eternity and Infinity, and Su Ming entered its shadow with Franklin and Doreen to find the revived First Firmament.
• The First Firmament created OAA and the Celestials, then gave Su Ming a tiny universe containing the black Michelin Tire Man and warned that he would someday erase humanity.
• Su Ming returned to Earth, brought Franklin and Doreen to the Harvesting Center, and used a story about the Beyonders’ treachery to win the Nuwali’s trust and reopen their trade routes.
• Su Ming arranged for the Nuwali to investigate the Celestials, discussed the Beyonders’ vulnerability to human emotions with Wanda, and gathered Doom, Dracula, Deadpool, and other allies for his plan.
• On Xient, Su Ming discovered buried Dark Celestial corpses and concluded that the Creator Lords were searching for them, then used Knull’s appearance and marked a trail to lure the Celestials after him.
• Su Ming moved Xient Star toward Gods’ Quarry, where Doom and Little Rich prepared a Zero Matter passage to the Beyond Realm while Deadpool distracted the Three Witches.
• Su Ming and his allies concealed themselves as the Creator Lords reached Gods’ Quarry, then Su Ming appeared as Knull and baited them into firing at the Zero Matter.
• Su Ming and Strangle attacked the Creator Lords with All-Black, and Su Ming was struck into the exposed Xient Star as both vanished into the pink light.

Su Ming gathered allies in the Beyond Realm, negotiated for the Constructors’ technology, and fought Beyonders and Celestials while seeking a way to reach the CCU. The arc left him bargaining with a revived Dark Celestial and concealing his role in the Xient People’s deaths.

• Su Ming reunited with Wanda and Squirrel Girl in the Beyond Realm, then followed Little Guy’s advice to seek help from the Constructors.
• Su Ming and Doctor Doom captured a Constructor’s attention, while Franklin and the others rescued another from the Original Beyonder and secured technology that pointed toward the Celestials.
• Su Ming defeated a Virus Beyonder in the Blank Zone and decided to seize the CCU rather than destroy it.
• Wanda repaired a Nuwali warship, and the crew carried Su Ming’s group across the white desert to the icy Xient Star.
• Su Ming’s team confronted the Creator Lords over the buried Dark Celestials, and Franklin destroyed the attackers before Strangle killed the last survivor.
• Su Ming had Deadpool retrieve a Dark Celestial corpse, and Wanda, Doom, and Franklin revived it after Deadpool’s jolt brought it around.
• Su Ming offered the Dark Celestial help against the Colored Celestials and learned that it had created the Xient People, while hiding that he had caused their deaths.