Festival of Lights · Diwali
Lynn used Wanda’s attachment to him to gain leverage against Hydra while secretly sabotaging Project Insight and drawing Steve Rogers into the fight. The Winter Soldier failed to kill Lynn, and Project Insight launched early as Fury faced Pierce’s forces.
Lynn helped stop Project Insight, stole Hydra’s intelligence, and withdrew with Wanda to Eden Manor as S.H.I.E.L.D. marked them as threats. Gwen and Natasha followed him into a growing struggle over his loyalties, while Lynn used simulations and staged injuries to keep the women from killing one another.
Lynn was taken by the TVA, where he seized control of its rules and escaped with Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom. Back on Earth, he pursued the Winter Soldier in Siberia, helped Natasha, and brokered a temporary deal between Tony and Bucky as something living stirred inside Bucky’s arm.
Lynn seized control of S.H.I.E.L.D. and used his new powers to save Gwen Stacy, then gathered Wanda and Susan as allies while confronting Fury’s attack on his factory. The arc left Sabretooth trapped and repeatedly wounded as the surviving mutants fled.
Lynn consolidated control of the Baxter Building and directed Wanda, Susan, Gwen, and Natasha to dismantle Stryker’s plans. After the women destroyed the three Sentinels, Natasha trapped Stryker in his underground base as Lynn ordered the assault to begin.
After destroying Stryker’s base, Lynn acquired the mutant database and drew the attention of the Dark Phoenix and Hela, whose power he fused into his own. He left for New Mexico to claim Mjolnir, entering a simulation with Hela while Gwen prepared to intercept a S.H.I.E.L.D. team.
Lynn used Hela’s army to defeat Odin’s vanguard in Helheim, then sacrificed himself to protect her from Odin’s attack. Back in New Mexico, Lynn survived the Destroyer’s assault and reunited with Hela, whose return brought Wanda, Susan, and Natasha into the confrontation.
Lynn used his apparent near-death to stop Hela and Wanda’s battle, then brought Hela under his control and began preparing Earth against the gods. At the Baxter Building, his women attacked the X-Men, but Jean Grey arrived in a blaze of Dark Phoenix power and confronted them.
Lynn subdued Jean Grey and Charles Xavier, then used Cerebro to seize the global mutant psychic network. He sent Hela and Wanda to claim Xavier’s School, where their clashing powers overwhelmed its defenses and Hela pinned Scott Summers as death energy spread toward the students.
Lynn brought Xavier’s School into the Negative Zone and turned its surviving mutants into a prison and power source, appointing Jean Grey as their warden. After Jean’s controlled X-Men defeated Crossbones’s team, Scott briefly broke free, but Jean erased his resistance and returned with Crossbones, leaving Lynn to judge the women’s rivalry and decide what to do with the captive agent.
Lynn exposed Hydra’s plans and sent Hela, Wanda, and Jean Grey to destroy the Helicarriers and capture Alexander Pierce. Their competing attacks turned Washington into a battlefield, leaving Nick Fury trapped among the ruins as their powers converged on Bucky Barnes.
Lynn tested Wanda, Hela, and Jean Grey, then assigned them control over Hydra’s undead forces, technology, and mutant population while secretly manipulating their rivalries. As Tony Stark activated Ultron and global networks collapsed, Lynn prepared the women for a new assessment.
Wanda’s attempt to seize Ultron allowed him to escape and exploit memories of Lynn to disrupt his subordinates before threatening Sokovia. Lynn resolved the crisis, sealed the recovered data, and turned his attention to Tony Stark’s secretly supported Anti-Deity Armor project.
Lynn's departments investigated the TVA amid jurisdictional disputes, captured its agents, and faced an attack on the Negative Zone. After Lynn repelled the attack and reorganized departmental authority, Wanda uncovered the TVA's reliance on physical time anchors, and Lynn selected a Queens subway station as the first target.
Lynn’s organization faced a TVA inspection, then a blockade and a mysterious death that exposed a hidden Battleworld project. Gwen traced the final code to her father, and the arc ended with a representative revealing Kang’s five planned Earth anchor points, including Krakoa.
After Magneto is abducted to Battleworld, Lynn sends Gwen Stacy, Hela, and Wanda to secure his release and investigate the treaty behind his extradition. The delegation finds Magneto among countless copies in Battleworld’s core engine, then gets caught between its rival factions as Gwen challenges who has authority over their mission.
Gwen Stacy’s delegation exposed Kang’s attempt to exploit Engine Three, rescued Erik Lehnsherr, and secured concessions from Battleworld. Back in the Negative Zone, Lynn confronted a hostile audit that tried to transfer Battleworld’s debts, leaving Ravonna under investigation and seeking a private meeting.
Lynn used Negative Zone procedure and Sylvie’s intelligence to resist the TVA’s attempt to seize her and erase his jurisdiction, while his team contained the pruning order and Alioth. At the Citadel, He Who Remains offered Lynn a role managing the Multiverse’s temporal waste, and a sealed TVA inspection team arrived as Gwen enforced quarantine.
Lynn turned the TVA’s scrutiny into a joint office and uncovered a Hydra conspiracy tied to Ke'er, whose final orders brought Earth-838’s Illuminati against the Negative Zone. After blocking their legal and military pressure, Lynn faced a mental attack from Charles Xavier, and Reed Richards authorized Wanda’s deployment.
Lynn turned the Illuminati’s attack on the Negative Zone into a compensation case, protected Wanda-838, and recruited Susan Storm after her failed infiltration. A summons from the Living Tribunal then prompted Lynn to demand TVA participation and financial responsibility while Susan uncovered a potentially useful precedent.