Chapter Summaries

Loki disguised himself as Thor and entered a state-run mental hospital, intending to manipulate the doctors into declaring Thor healthy. The specialists instead interpreted Loki’s answers and behavior as evidence of an extraordinary case of multiple personalities, leaving him convinced they had found several distinct identities.

• Melinda sent Thor to a free state-run mental hospital while Coulson and May saw him off.
• Loki disguised as Thor and gave the doctors the false identity of Donald Blake, a 26-year-old clinical psychologist from California.
• The specialists interpreted Loki’s confidence, accent, and claimed profession as signs of deception and multiple personalities.
• Loki awkwardly squatted to retrieve the elderly doctor’s pen, leading the doctor to suspect another personality with ankylosing spondylitis.
• The doctors concluded that Thor had at least five personalities and excitedly treated him as a once-in-a-century research case.

Loki, disguised as Thor, was declared dangerously mentally ill and committed to a psychiatric hospital, where Odin’s intervention sealed his powers. Trapped in a locked ward with Thor, the brothers were suddenly approached by a stranger who offered Thor a ride.

• Loki answered the doctors’ bizarre questions, and they concluded he had more than a hundred dangerous personalities that required lifelong treatment.
• The orderlies restrained Loki and took him to the ward after a raven revealed Odin was watching and Loki’s divine power had been sealed.
• Loki and Thor found themselves locked together in the Black House, unable to contact anyone or escape with their powers.
• A figure dancing samba broke through the ward’s wall and asked Thor if he was ready to hitch a ride.

Wade rescued Thor and Loki from the psychiatric hospital and set out to hide them in New York. He left the brothers in his care, planning to disguise Thor and keep them out of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s reach.

• Wade helped Thor and Loki escape through the hole he had blasted in the hospital wall.
• Wade and Thor recovered from the explosion, then fled as other patients scattered into the night.
• Wade helped Thor up and drove both brothers away in a stolen car, despite Thor’s failing balance.
• Wade recalled how he tracked Thor from New Mexico to the asylum and used an explosion and mass escape to cover the rescue.
• Wade decided to take Thor and Loki to New York, where he planned to give Thor a new name, hairstyle, and shave.

Kingpin discovered that his son Richard had been murdered and ordered Bullseye to kill the bodyguards who had failed to protect him. After leaving the morgue, Kingpin’s paid security guard reported his investigation to an unknown boss and prepared to cover up another guard’s murder by setting a fire.

• Kingpin examined Richard’s corpse and the body of the woman killed beside him, concluding that someone had lured his son into a trap and shot them both with a military rifle.
• Kingpin ordered Bullseye to kill Richard’s bodyguards, and Bullseye agreed for two hundred thousand dollars.
• Kingpin paid the morgue security guard ten thousand dollars and ordered him to keep quiet, watch Richard’s body, and call if anyone came to see it.
• After Kingpin left, the guard called an unknown boss to report that Kingpin had begun investigating Richard’s death.
• The guard dragged the corpse of another security guard toward the exit and said there would be a fire that night.

Daisy and Caroline prepared to open their cupcake shop, Max cup cake, while joking about their plans and recalling how they had become roommates and business partners. They found a mysterious hammer beneath the counter, unaware that it sparked with electricity after they put it away.

• Daisy and Caroline finished preparing their shop with help from Oleg, who flirted with them before leaving.
• Caroline recalled how she had met Daisy, and how they had decided to open a cupcake shop after Jane Foster lent Daisy money and Caroline negotiated the rent with Han.
• Caroline teased Daisy about her baking skills, and the two joked and played around while finishing the shop sign.
• Caroline found a mysterious square-headed hammer beneath the counter, and Daisy said she had kept it as evidence of an incident involving her toe.
• Daisy and Caroline put the hammer away and talked about using it to defend themselves, while electricity flashed across its ancient body.

Wade learned that his contract bound him to keep helping Thor until he became normal, and that abandoning the job could cost him his life. While Wade and the Thor brothers sank into different forms of decadence, their dwindling funds forced him to urge them to earn money.

• Wade tried to find another job, but Weasel showed him the contract clauses that barred him from quitting or taking other work until Thor recovered.
• Weasel warned Wade that abandoning the assignment or letting Thor die could bring a four-hundred-million-dollar penalty and a gruesome fate, leaving Wade terrified and drunk.
• Wade returned home and fell into a few days of decadence, while Thor and Loki became absorbed in hippie music and began smoking marijuana.
• Aier suggested that Wade put Thor and Loki to work because their money was running low.
• Wade tried to persuade Thor and Loki to go out and earn money, but they insisted on their love-and-peace outlook.

Wade pushed Thor and Loki to find work, and the brothers took jobs as nightclub doormen in New York. Meanwhile, Deathstroke questioned the Leopard God about Starbrand’s energy Fallout and Earth’s importance, then revealed he had come to negotiate terms.

• Wade took back Thor and Loki’s belongings and insisted they earn money for their food and lodging.
• Loki told Thor that Odin had sent them to learn from humans, and Thor agreed to find work.
• Wade brought Thor and Loki to the Peace Hotel, where they worked as doormen in new suits.
• Deathstroke asked the Leopard God about the energy burst linked to Starbrand and described the mutations spreading across Earth.
• Deathstroke argued that Earth would be central to a coming multiversal invasion and said he had come to negotiate terms with the Leopard God.

Su Ming persuaded the Leopard God to consider helping Wakanda survive by relocating its people, then explained why he opposed Starbrand’s role in the universe’s ascension. The Leopard God remained uncertain whether Su Ming’s plans were trustworthy.

• Su Ming offered to move Wakanda’s people to a safe planet in exchange for the Leopard God’s help, and the Leopard God considered the bargain.
• The Leopard God explained that the White Light Event accompanied universal ascension and that Starbrand had appeared as a Guardian to guide Earth’s evolution.
• Su Ming connected Starbrand’s emergence to the universe’s abnormal ascension after he merged another universal system.
• Su Ming said he intended to steer the multiverse toward intersecting with more Another Worlds, while Starbrand would likely sever those connections.
• Su Ming argued that the Leopard God should trust him over Starbrand’s unknown new host, and the Leopard God fell silent to think.

After consulting the Leopard God and other ancient sources about Starbrand, Su Ming recruited Monark’s disciple for a mission into space to find and contain the cosmic agent. Monark refused to go himself, so the chapter ended with Su Ming preparing to call the young Mage to join the team.

• Su Ming returned to Kamar-Taj after meeting T’Chaka and securing the Leopard God’s limited cooperation.
• Su Ming recalled that the Spider-God had shared what it knew about Starbrand but refused to discuss the universe’s crisis further.
• Su Ming told Monark he needed help locating and trapping Starbrand and asked him to travel into space.
• Monark refused because of his age and upcoming surgery, then offered Agatha’s disciple as a substitute.
• Su Ming accepted and asked Monark to call the young Mage over.

Magneto and the Brotherhood raided a secret Weapon program facility in Canada to rescue Mutants held as test subjects. After a mysterious Deadpool killed one of the facility’s creations and escaped, Magneto freed the captives and invited them to join the Brotherhood.

• Magneto killed the last scientist and had Wanda open the facility’s sealed door with her powers.
• Quicksilver reported that Mutants were imprisoned inside and that a hostile man with Adamantium blades was pursuing him.
• A red-and-black stranger shot the blade-wielding man, called himself Deadpool, and vanished before Quicksilver could catch him.
• Magneto ordered Toad to investigate Ajax and the Deadpool project, and sent Porcupine to check whether Raven had made money.
• Wanda freed the imprisoned Mutants, and Magneto welcomed them to the Brotherhood and introduced himself as Magneto.

Magneto led the Brotherhood in rescuing Mutants and drove the X-Men away, while Wanda reflected on her tangled family history and the possibility of changing Timelines. After Agatha Harkness summoned her to Kamar-Taj at the Sorcerer Supreme’s request, Wanda teleported there, wondering whether another family member had been brought back from a different Timeline.

• Magneto refused Charles’s request to take the rescued women and children to his academy, and the Brotherhood fought the X-Men until Charles ordered a retreat.
• Magneto gathered the Brotherhood onto a metal platform and carried them to their Nova Scotia base, while Charles returned to the academy with the injured X-Men.
• Wanda thought about her father’s history, her newly reunited family, and her unknown younger sister as she skipped stones by the shore.
• Agatha Harkness sent Wanda a message that the Sorcerer Supreme wanted to see her at Kamar-Taj.
• Wanda left a note and used a teleportation spell to go to Kamar-Taj, hoping the Sorcerer Supreme had brought back her mother from another Timeline.

Wanda traveled with Agatha to Kamar-Taj, where she entered the magical sanctuary for the first time. Mordo led them toward the reception room, warning that the usual passage was under modification and could send them to another dimension.

• Wanda arrived at Huaxi Village and found Agatha waiting at Kamar-Taj's gate.
• Agatha wiped blood from Wanda's nose and learned she had fought the X-Men again; Wanda said she had to help her father.
• Agatha and Wanda passed through the gate into Kamar-Taj and saw its flowering courtyard and young practitioners training.
• Mordo greeted Agatha and Wanda, then warned them to avoid the passage under renovation because it could transport them to the City of Sephiroth.
• Wanda followed Mordo and was stunned by his revealing outfit and high-heeled shoes.

Wanda met the Sorcerer Supreme at Kamar-Taj and learned that Deathstroke was taking her into space to help deal with a threat. After bringing her to Titan, Deathstroke began training her to survive its hostile environment using her own power, while planning a separate trip to deliver Magda and a fake Anya to Magneto.

• Wanda and her teacher visited the Sorcerer Supreme at Kamar-Taj, where he invited them in for tea and a discussion.
• Wanda learned aboard Deathstroke’s spacecraft that he had chosen her to help handle a threat in space, and they set course for Titan.
• Deathstroke described Titan’s atmosphere and gravity to Wanda, then began descending so she could practice surviving there without a spacesuit.
• Wanda tried to focus on the power within her as Deathstroke warned her to concentrate and left for the rear cabin.
• Deathstroke planned to travel back to the past to deliver Magda and a fake Anya to Magneto.

Su Ming and Wanda explored Titan’s ruins in search of intact technology that could help locate the Starbrand. After Cloak returned with a direction, they set out toward the most promising ruins.

• Su Ming landed on Titan and reflected on how Thanos had destroyed the planet by turning its anti-gravity technology against it.
• Wanda nervously stepped onto Titan’s surface, then grew comfortable with the low gravity and played among the ruins.
• Su Ming waited for Cloak to locate intact ruins where he might find research equipment and technology useful for locating the Starbrand.
• Su Ming gave Wanda drinks and Spicy Strips while they talked about Magneto and the sister Wanda had never met.
• Cloak returned, pointed in a direction, and indicated where Su Ming and Wanda should search.

Su Ming and Wanda explored the ruins on Titan, searching for a Deep Space Probe and other valuable technology. They found a nearly intact Healing Pod containing a dead Titan, and Su Ming planned to take both back for study.

• Strangle spotted a huge fragment of Titan with surviving buildings, and the Cloak of Levitation carried Su Ming and Wanda to the ruins.
• Wanda noticed a grave marked for Susan, and Su Ming explained that it predated Titan's destruction and that ghosts could not affect the physical world.
• Su Ming told Wanda they were searching for a Deep Space Probe and planned to salvage anything valuable, including Titan Healing Pods.
• Su Ming used Strangle's shared senses to search the ruins and found a nearly intact Healing Pod containing a Titan who had died after it lost power.
• Su Ming decided to take the Healing Pod and the corpse for study, while Wanda sensed that something was watching her.

Deathstroke stripped an Eternal corpse and its treatment pod for study before meeting Thanos at his mother’s grave on Titan. Thanos described his search for the cause of his mutation and the events that led him to kill his mother, while his deeper motivations remained unresolved.

• Wanda felt watched as Deathstroke lit a candle, removed part of the corpse’s head, and collected it for study.
• Strangle devoured the corpse and identified it as a carbon-based lifeform with altered genes it could not decipher.
• Deathstroke stored the treatment pod, then left with Wanda to search the other buildings for useful items.
• Deathstroke encountered Thanos waiting at his mother’s gravestone and asked about his search for the source of his mutation.
• Thanos said he had examined his mother’s organs after killing her but had found no clues, and the chapter recounted how his childhood trauma and sleeplessness drove his experiments.

Su Ming met Thanos and Adam Warlock on Titan while seeking equipment to locate Starbrand after the White Light Event. Thanos directed him to an old observatory, but Su Ming suspected a trap and flew away with Wanda, warning her not to trust either man.

• Thanos introduced Adam Warlock, who explained how he had been created by the Enclave and later followed Thanos through the universe.
• Adam admitted he had followed Su Ming and his companions earlier, and Su Ming dismissed his past destruction of part of Haiti.
• Su Ming asked Thanos for long-range detection equipment to find Starbrand, and Thanos marked the old Grand Observatory on a map of Titan.
• Thanos told Su Ming to leave Titan after finding his answer, and Su Ming wished him and Death an early child.
• After flying away with Wanda, Su Ming said the observatory was likely a trap and taught her not to believe anything Thanos or Adam said.

After deducing that Thanos wanted to keep them away from his plans, Su Ming hid with Wanda and decided to search for Starbrand by infiltrating Thanos’s flagship. He transformed into Thanos and told Wanda to disguise herself as Adam Warlock.

• Su Ming explained that Thanos had tried to drive them away because he and Adam Warlock were preparing something important.
• Su Ming decided not to investigate Thanos’s plans and instead focused on finding Starbrand, reasoning that Thanos had hidden another Deep Space Probe aboard the Sanctuary.
• Cloak guided Su Ming and Wanda from their hiding place, and Su Ming revealed his plan to infiltrate the Sanctuary by impersonating Thanos.
• Su Ming used Strangle to transform into Thanos and urged Wanda to imitate Adam Warlock.
• Su Ming explained that Wanda only needed to appear golden to pass as Adam among aliens who could not distinguish the Sovereign.

Thanos returned to Sanctuary II after visiting Titan and ordered the ship to jump to the lifeless Arcturus Galaxy. He asked where Gamora and Nebula were, then left the bridge with Adam, leaving Corvus Glaive to command the crew.

• Corvus Glaive recognized Thanos's approaching spacecraft and ordered the crew to teleport it aboard Sanctuary II.
• Thanos returned to the bridge, silently watched Titan, and ordered Sanctuary II to jump to the Arcturus Galaxy.
• After the ship arrived in the dead star region, Thanos asked Ebony Maw where Gamora and Nebula were.
• Ebony Maw said Gamora and Nebula were in the training room, and Thanos left the bridge with Adam.
• Corvus Glaive ordered the crew to rest while Thanos pursued his own plans.

Thanos recovered the Soul Gem on Titan but discovered that his flagship, Sanctuary I, had vanished, leaving him stranded. Meanwhile, Su Ming and Wanda searched Thanos’s ship and found Gamora and Nebula fighting prisoners in a deadly training pit.

• Thanos dug up a small sphere on Titan and recognized it as the Soul Gem, while Adam warned him that it was dangerous.
• Thanos tried to contact Corvus Glaive and learned that Sanctuary I had left orbit, stranding him on Titan.
• Su Ming and Wanda traveled through the ship disguised as Thanos and Adam, while the crew accepted them without question.
• Su Ming and Wanda found Gamora and Nebula competing against prisoners in a slaughterhouse-like training pit, with Gamora ahead on the scoreboard.