Chapter Summaries

The Scarlet Witch of the Cancerverse entered the Galactus Engine and surrendered, claiming she had been pretending to be mad while working as an informant against Lord Mar-Vell. After the group questioned her identity and heard her defend her marriage to Vision, Deathstroke asked where Mar-Vell was and what weaknesses he had.

• The Scarlet Witch flew into the Galactus Engine and surrendered without resisting.
• Doom judged that she was lucid and had not activated any magic.
• The Scarlet Witch said Vision was her husband and that she had been spying on Lord Mar-Vell for the group.
• Tony and the others reacted with disbelief to her marriage, then argued over Tony's comments about the women.
• Deathstroke asked the Scarlet Witch where Lord Mar-Vell was and what his weaknesses were.

Su Ming and his allies learned that Lord Mar-Vell could return through possession and that he loved Carol Danvers, then used Wanda to lure two Vindicators into a trap. Deathstroke assigned Doctor Doom to fight Mad Iron Man and Professor Xu to fight Ancient God Hulk.

• Wanda explained that Lord Mar-Vell existed within the dreams of the Many-Angled Ones and could be reborn through a physical body.
• Wanda revealed that Lord Mar-Vell loved Carol Danvers and had fused with the Carol from her universe.
• Su Ming told Tony and Wanda to lure the Vindicators to them one by one, and Deathstroke chose Hulk as their first target.
• Tony and Wanda lured Mad Iron Man and Ancient God Hulk to the group.
• Deathstroke ordered Doctor Doom to handle Mad Iron Man and Professor Xu to fight Ancient God Hulk.

Doctor Doom defeated Mad Iron Man by remotely taking control of his armor and killing him, while Xu Xian subdued Hulk after testing his strength. The chapter left Hulk unconscious but alive, and Tony planning defenses against Doom’s technology and magic.

• Doctor Doom hacked Mad Iron Man’s armor, tore off his head, and removed the tongue before presenting it to Doom.
• Tony from the 40K Universe watched the killing and decided to develop armor defenses against nanomachines and magic.
• Xu Xian used elemental magic to keep Hulk from reaching the spectators while she assessed his combat limits.
• Xu Xian used Air Manipulation to deprive Hulk of oxygen until he lost consciousness, then looked to Deathstroke to finish him.

Deadpool tried to attract Lord Mar-Vell by showing the two heads in his suitcase to the flesh creatures of New York, following Lex Luthor’s plan. Doctor Strange arrived, but Deadpool refused to hand over the case without proof that Lord Mar-Vell had sent him.

• Deadpool failed to sell the heads to the wandering flesh creatures and complained to Luthor that they could not understand him.
• Luthor explained that Deadpool’s attempts were meant to attract the Many-Angled Ones and promised to buy him an apartment in Gotham if he kept trying.
• Deadpool joked about Luthor’s relationship with Superman until Luthor detected an approaching energy signature.
• Doctor Strange emerged from a golden-ringed portal, and Deadpool recognized him despite his changed appearance and the tentacles on his back.
• Doctor Strange pointed at Deadpool’s suitcase, but Deadpool demanded proof that Lord Mar-Vell wanted it and flooded the encounter with insults and questions.

Doctor Strange entered Deadpool’s mind to reshape his thoughts, but found a spiritual world watched over by powerful beings and fell under Nurgle’s influence. He abandoned the Many-Angled Ones and embraced the Chaos Father, transforming in Nurgle’s arms.

• Doctor Strange tried to use dreamwalking to alter Deadpool’s thoughts, while Deadpool mocked his spellcasting.
• Strange entered Deadpool’s spiritual world and discovered a strange amusement park containing four terrifying beings.
• Strange recognized the rotting, loving god as Nurgle and heard him condemn the Many-Angled Ones for targeting Death.
• Strange knelt before Nurgle, forsook the Many-Angled Ones, and entered the Chaos Father’s embrace.
• Nurgle’s plague-filled fluids enveloped Strange, and the mage’s spiritual body grew plump and covered in scars.

Deadpool encountered Nurgle in his Inner World, where the Chaos God claimed Doctor Strange would become his warrior and help Wade. Strange transformed into a giant plague creature and agreed to take Deadpool to Lord Mar-Vell and help kill him.

• Little Deadpool confronted Nurgle for spending time with Strange, while Nurgle explained that Strange had fallen asleep in his Inner World.
• Nurgle told Deadpool that Strange would become his warrior because he loved the world, and Deadpool allowed Nurgle to stay near his Amusement Park.
• Deadpool awoke on the street as Strange transformed into a towering plague monster and declared that Nurgle had sent him to help.
• Luthor asked what Deadpool had done, then agreed to help when the time came and directed the group toward Lord Mar-Vell.
• Deadpool asked Strange to take him to Lord Mar-Vell and help kill him, and Strange introduced himself as Doctor Unclean.

After killing the Earth-40K Hulk, Su Ming reviewed the Vindicators’ roster and chose Thor and Jack of Hearts as the next targets. Scarlet Witch agreed to lure them in, while Su Ming reassured her that her missing husband Vision was probably undergoing maintenance.

• Professor Xu questioned why the gray Hulk had seemed weak, and Tony explained that he had been driven by love rather than anger.
• Su Ming removed Hulk’s tongue, gave his head to Doom, and asked Wanda for the Vindicators’ roster.
• Wanda revealed that the Vindicators had seventy-eight more members, and Su Ming selected Thor and Jack of Hearts to lure in and kill.
• Wanda said she could not contact Vision, and Su Ming suggested that he was shut down for maintenance.
• Carol and Daisy debated whether pies or cakes tasted better while Tony complained that the battle had ruined his appetite.
• Su Ming told Wanda he would bring more targets so the group could kill them together.

Deathstroke and his allies eliminated the Vindicators and prepared to lure out Lord Mar-Vell by destroying the Galactus Engine. Meanwhile, Deadpool traveled between dimensions with Doctor Unclean and gave his livestream audience an irreverent explanation of the Chaos Gods and the Old Ones.

• Deathstroke used the Vindicators' weaknesses to lead Carol, Daisy, and the Mages in killing the team, though the battle took nearly ten minutes and Carol received minor injuries.
• Scarlet Witch recognized that the Vindicators were the last of Lord Mar-Vell's former allies, and Deathstroke said Carol would lure him out while his cousin acted on Earth.
• Deathstroke told Scarlet Witch to destroy the Galactus Engine and make the damage look like Carol's doing.
• Deadpool rode Doctor Unclean between dimensions and told his livestream audience that the Chaos Gods embodied the collective consciousness of people beyond the Fourth Wall.
• Deadpool explained that Nurgle might prevail over the Many-Angled Ones in a contest over love, and claimed that the Old Ones and Chaos Gods loved all creatures without seeking ownership.

Thanos prepared to feed Galactus planets near the Shi'ar Empire, hoping to draw away the Shi'ar fleet while he pursued the M'Kraan Crystal and his enemies. Meanwhile, Su Ming's group set up a trap to lure Lord Mar-Vell into the Main Dimension, and Carol prepared to act as bait.

• Thanos reassured Death, then ordered the Black Order to destroy the defenses of a selected planet so Galactus could consume it.
• Thanos planned to use the distraction to reach the M'Kraan Crystal and follow the Time Stone's connection to the parallel universe where his enemies hid.
• Su Ming explained the plan to Carol: the group would sabotage the Galactus Engine, send Lord Mar-Vell a farewell message, and use Carol as bait for an ambush.
• Su Ming warned Carol that Lord Mar-Vell was a madman and that a simple, suspicious lie might draw his interest.
• Carol prepared herself, entered Binary Form, and watched as Daisy took Su Ming's arm to leave.

Lord Mar-Vell awoke to a warning that the Revenge Squad was waiting to ambush him, but Deadpool arrived with Vision and Ultron's severed heads as a supposed birthday gift. When an alarm showed the Galactus Engine exploding, Mar-Vell remembered his mission and flew off with Deadpool to meet his enemies.

• Mar-Vell awoke from Eternity's dream and learned from the Many-Angled Ones that the Revenge Squad had returned and planned to ambush him.
• Deadpool entered Mar-Vell's bedroom with a suitcase and presented Vision and Ultron's heads as a birthday gift.
• Mar-Vell praised the Many-Angled Ones and said he would turn the heads into throne decorations, while Deadpool asked for gold, jewelry, or real estate.
• An alarm showed the Galactus Engine exploding, and Mar-Vell took the heads and flew off with Deadpool to meet the Revenge Squad.

Lord Mar-Vell fled after receiving the Old Ones' power, and Deadpool and Luthor looted his spacecraft. Luthor then approached the forgotten Doctor Unclean to learn about his god.

• Lord Mar-Vell escaped, and Deadpool poured out the bloody contents of the Golden Wine Cup before keeping it as loot.
• Luthor joined Deadpool in scavenging Mar-Vell's bedroom, taking a glowing Skewed Trisoctahedron while Deadpool collected valuables.
• Luthor promised Deadpool a house in Gotham, and they discussed Bruce, Selina, and Joker's attempt to make Batwoman break his rules.
• Deadpool left using the Plot Rationality Gem and Teleportation Belt to inform his Cousin, while Luthor retched after he was gone.
• Luthor found Doctor Unclean outside the wreckage and asked him to introduce his god, whom Doctor Unclean called their benevolent father.

Su Ming’s group discovered that Luthor had brought Vision and Ultron’s heads to Lord Mar-Vell, triggering Wanda to attack him. They recruited Deadpool for Doom’s risky Old Ones ritual, and the chapter ended as Deadpool learned what they planned to do to him.

• Deadpool arrived at Cousin and watched Wanda chase Lord Mar-Vell near the wreckage of the Galactus Engine.
• Su Ming questioned Deadpool about Vision and Ultron’s heads, and Deadpool said Luthor had removed them and brought them as a token of allegiance.
• Deadpool explained that he had followed Lord Mar-Vell from Earth after meeting a faceless figure in the Dream Dimension.
• Su Ming gave Doctor Doom golden slime and Cancerverse fluid to use in a Spirit Medium Ritual on Deadpool.
• Doom warned that the ritual could cause severe pain and lasting effects, while Su Ming proposed gagging Deadpool, who said he could hear them.

Wanda relentlessly attacked Lord Mar-Vell over Vision’s death, while Carol tried and failed to calm her. As Deathstroke’s team prepared Deadpool for their plan, he ordered Tony to help Carol remove Wanda from the fight.

• Wanda attacked Lord Mar-Vell, who dodged her blows and asked why she had betrayed him.
• Carol urged Wanda to stop, suggesting that scientists might repair Vision, but Wanda rejected her and kept attacking.
• Tony told Daisy and Monica that he could not recreate Vision, while Monica rebuffed his invitation to dinner and Daisy joined in mocking him.
• Doctor Doom and Professor Xu prepared Deadpool with a strange liquid and a magic circle after Deathstroke offered him money to cooperate.
• Deathstroke announced that preparations were complete and ordered Tony to help Carol get Wanda away from Lord Mar-Vell.

Su Ming prepared Deadpool and Doctor Doom to summon the Many-Angled Ones while the others returned to the battlefield. Thanos arrived and began fighting Lord Mar-Vell, leaving Tony and Carol unsure whether he was the Thanos they knew.

• Su Ming stopped Deadpool from hurting himself, then fed him Third Umbilical Cords to ease his symptoms and increase his mystical affinity.
• Doctor Doom agreed to preside over the ritual while Su Ming and the others left him and Deadpool hidden in space.
• Iron Man reached the battlefield as Thanos kicked the witch away and confronted Lord Mar-Vell.
• Lord Mar-Vell attacked Thanos with Cosmic Energy and tentacles, and the two exchanged names as they fought.
• Tony asked Carol whether the purple Thanos was the one they knew, and Carol could only guess.

Su Ming and his allies joined Thanos, Tony, and Carol against the increasingly powerful Lord Mar-Vell. Mar-Vell began an Autopsy Ritual that might target Thanos, who believed the Time Stone would protect him.

• Thanos, Tony, and Carol struggled against Lord Mar-Vell as his tentacles and Cosmic Energy attacks overwhelmed them.
• Su Ming sent Deathstroke, Daisy, Monica, and Professor Xu into the battle to give Doctor Doom more time.
• Deathstroke deflected Mar-Vell’s energy beams and struck him, but Mar-Vell instantly regenerated and began warping the space around himself.
• Su Ming ordered everyone to retreat as Mar-Vell shattered the surrounding space and started an Immolation ritual with his brain.
• Su Ming identified the ritual as an Autopsy Ritual that might target Thanos, who claimed the universe’s Time Stone would prevent his death.

Lord Mar-Vell summoned a crowd of Old Ones and received a weapon to prove his love, while Deathstroke and his allies waited for their plan to take effect. As Mar-Vell began forming the weapon, Doom triggered the plan and the Spatial Rift ran away.

• Lord Mar-Vell summoned several Old Ones through the Spatial Rift, frightening the human heroes, and Deathstroke knocked Tony unconscious with a frying pan.
• Thanos watched the Old Ones in shock while Su Ming noticed they were crammed awkwardly into the narrow rift.
• Lord Mar-Vell knelt and asked the Old Ones for a powerful weapon to prove his love, and they dropped a clump of stardust into his hands.
• Deathstroke whispered to a miniature Doom Bot and told Doom to begin, causing the Spatial Rift to run away.

Doctor Doom diverted the Old Gods’ attention from Lord Mar-Vell and used Deadpool as the focus of a takeover ritual, with Su Ming confident that the plan would draw the gods’ interest. The rifts closed after the gods invaded Deadpool’s mind, leaving him dancing through space while the others faced the ritual’s consequences.

• Doctor Doom redirected the Old Gods’ gazes from Lord Mar-Vell to Deadpool, while Su Ming’s plan relied on Deadpool being more entertaining to the gods.
• Daisy, Carol, and Monica resisted the Old Gods’ influence, while Tony struggled and the Scarlet Witch mutated into an Eyeball Monster and flew away.
• Su Ming told the Cloak of Levitation to retrieve Vision’s floating robot head for Adjutant.
• Doctor Doom lifted Deadpool above his head and concealed himself as the Old Gods focused on Deadpool.
• Deadpool complained to the gods, then their tentacles and feelers entered his body before the rifts vanished.
• Deadpool erupted with pus and filthy water and began dancing “The Dying Swan” through space.

Su Ming used the Infinity Gauntlet to strip Lord Mar-Vell of his power and scatter his living particles across the universe, ending his threat without killing him. The battle left Su Ming turning his attention to Deadpool as his performance neared its end.

• Thanos learned that Deadpool was planning to marry and became delighted at the prospect of being left alone with Death.
• Su Ming demanded the Time Stone from Thanos and explained that he planned to reverse Lord Mar-Vell's timeline now that the Many-Angled Ones had left.
• Thanos gave Su Ming the Time Stone, and Su Ming placed it in the Infinity Gauntlet while Carol and the others attacked Lord Mar-Vell.
• Su Ming used the gauntlet to return Lord Mar-Vell to a near-death state, then broke him into particles and scattered them throughout the universe.
• Thanos asked whether Su Ming had killed Lord Mar-Vell, and Su Ming explained that each particle remained alive and could still feel pain.
• Su Ming put the Infinity Gauntlet away and watched Deadpool as his Swan Lake performance approached its end.

After stabilizing Deadpool’s condition in space, Su Ming and Doctor Doom investigated why the Cancerverse still obeyed the laws of physics. They found a magical barrier hiding Lord Mar-Vell’s former home, a crashed spaceship in New York, and prepared to search it for clues.

• Deadpool danced uncontrollably for hours while the women picnicked on the flying carpet and Doctor Doom monitored his condition.
• Doctor Doom and Su Ming agreed that the Cancerverse’s physical laws remained surprisingly intact despite the Old Ones’ influence.
• Su Ming and Doctor Doom traveled through a portal to New York to investigate Lord Mar-Vell’s home for clues.
• Doctor Doom detected a magical barrier concealing Thanos’s crashed Dark Sanctuary II, which Lord Mar-Vell had used as a home.
• Su Ming and Doctor Doom found a foul pool of sewage at the ship’s entrance and decided to enter through a breach.

Doom and Deathstroke searched Mar-Vell’s bedroom aboard the ruined spaceship, recovering records and the remains of Death. They left with clues for Doom’s search for his mother and a gold bathtub intended as a wedding gift for Deadpool.

• Strangle tracked Luthor’s scent to Mar-Vell’s bedroom, where Doom searched for records while Deathstroke examined bodies sealed behind mirrors.
• Deathstroke pulled Death’s remains from the Pocket Dimensions and collected them, while Doom suggested they might serve as spellcasting materials.
• Deathstroke told Doom that following Death’s path could help resurrect Doom’s mother, and promised to help him find her.
• Doom found the parchment they had sought, and Deathstroke confirmed it was what they needed before asking Doom to use Person-Finding Magic.
• Deathstroke collected more remains and claimed the filthy gold bathtub as a wedding gift for Deadpool, while Doom took the mirrors.