Recaps

Batman and Chen Mo confirmed that Lincoln March was not Bruce Wayne’s brother and examined evidence linking the Court of Owls to Dick Grayson’s ancestry. Chen Mo revealed what he knew about the Court and Talon, while Deadpool reappeared in Gotham and drew little attention.

• Batman confirmed through DNA that Lincoln March was not his brother, and Chen Mo joked about the failed family connection.
• Deadpool regenerated in Gotham, stole clothes from a secondhand shop, and ran through the city in ill-fitting pants.
• Back at the Batcave, Alfred assessed the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus’s damage while Batman laid out evidence from the Court of Owls case.
• Batman confronted Chen Mo about being from another universe, and Chen Mo admitted that his knowledge came from multiple, sometimes conflicting versions of events.
• Chen Mo explained that Dick Grayson’s bloodline connected him to William Cobb, a Talon from Harry Osborn’s Circus, while Batman noted that Talon might continue following old orders.
• Batman dismissed a surveillance alert showing Deadpool causing trouble and said he was not a priority.

Dick's parents tried to send him out of Gotham to escape the Court, but Talons attacked them at the train station. The chapter ended with John and Mary falling from the walkway as Dick watched helplessly.

• Chen Mo saw Barbara's messages that Dick had not returned from the Community Center and rushed to find him.
• Mary and John picked Dick up from the Community Center and drove him to Gotham Central Station, telling him to take a train to Blüdhaven.
• John and Mary fought Talons on the station's outdoor walkway while Dick tried to reach the platform.
• A Talon seized Mary, and John threw himself at the attacker to free her.
• The walkway railing broke, and John and Mary fell toward the tracks as Dick reached for them.

Chen Mo rescued John and Mary from a fall while Batman and Batgirl fought the Talons at the railway station. After the injured couple was secured, Deadpool arrived, claimed Chen Mo had made him grow back from cells, and attacked him.

• Chen Mo pulled John and Mary from the train’s path and rescued Dick from a Talon’s strike.
• Batman and Batgirl arrived, fought the Talons, and helped Chen Mo bring John and Mary onto the walkway for first aid.
• Chen Mo kept Dick away from his injured parents while the Talons continued recovering from attacks and pressing the fight.
• A red-and-black figure shot at a Talon, introduced himself as Wade Wilson, and said Chen Mo had made him grow back from cells.
• Deadpool attacked Chen Mo, who dodged his sword and knocked his wrist out of alignment; Deadpool reset it against a wall.

Chen Mo and Batman stopped the Talons at the railway station, where Chen Mo told Deadpool that the Maroni Family could no longer pay him. At Gordon’s House, Dick connected Chen Mo’s familiar movements to Spider-Man and confronted him after catching him entering through a window in his living symbiote suit.

• Chen Mo questioned Deadpool about his contract to capture Spider-Man, and Deadpool explained that the Maroni Family had hired him without paying a deposit.
• Chen Mo told Deadpool the Maroni Family’s money and business were ruined, leaving him with no chance of collecting his final payment.
• Batgirl helped get Dick and his injured parents to the hospital, while Batman restrained the remaining Talons and told Chen Mo to keep an eye on Deadpool.
• At the hospital, Dick remembered familiar movements by Spider-Man and Batgirl, then went home with Barbara to wait for Chen Mo.
• Dick noticed Chen Mo’s room at Gordon’s House and read Gordon’s note telling him to use the door, not the window.
• Chen Mo climbed into Dick’s room with Venom covering him, and Dick asked whether the living black material was why Chen Mo liked wearing black.

Chen Mo and Barbara exposed their secrets to Dick, who realized he was the only ordinary member of their three-person team. Dick chose to stay in Gotham and visit his injured parents, while Batman monitored their hospital security from the Batcave.

• Chen Mo tried to hide Venom as a puppy named Bruce, but Dick connected him to Bruce Wayne and Spider-Man.
• Chen Mo knocked Barbara's Batgirl equipment from her backpack, and Dick discovered that Barbara was Batgirl.
• Dick said he did not want to leave Gotham and asked to visit his parents, so Barbara went with him.
• At the hospital, Dick stayed beside John and Mary, wrote G on the back of his train ticket, and gently tucked Mary's hand beneath the covers.
• Batman reviewed the case files, marked Dick's case separately, and arranged a security rotation for the officers outside the hospital room.

The narrator reviewed “Brand New Day,” praising its visuals, opening, pacing, and characterization while criticizing Phoenix’s abrupt change in motivation and the subdued finale. They suggested a more decisive ending for Phoenix and imagined Venom taking a larger role in the Spider-Man story.

• The narrator rated the movie’s visuals 9 out of 10, its plot pacing 8, and its characterization around 8, giving it an overall score of 8.5.
• The narrator praised the opening’s pacing and said Phoenix’s shift in motivation felt abrupt.
• The narrator argued that Phoenix should have killed the villain, leaving Peter to find her grieving over her sister beside the corpse.
• The narrator noted that casual viewers had complained the villain took up too much screen time and sarcastically denied resenting Phoenix’s promotion in Spider-Man’s movie.
• The narrator proposed using the remnant of Venom to drive Spider-Man’s fights, inner transformation, and final battle, then wondered why Spider-Man was always covered in injuries.

Barbara and Chen Mo began patrolling Gotham together, but Deadpool interrupted them before Dick appeared as Robin and started fighting crime. Dick remained determined to find the people who threatened his family, and Chen Mo followed him from the shadows as he patrolled alone.

• Barbara told Chen Mo that John and Mary were stable, then confronted him about knowing she was Batgirl; they set out through the back door to patrol.
• Barbara and Chen Mo stopped two men robbing a grocery store, then split up to patrol their usual areas.
• Chen Mo stole an ice cream cone while swinging through the East End, then Deadpool attacked him and tried to recruit him into a cross-universe partnership.
• A masked boy kicked Deadpool away, and Chen Mo helped restrain the attacker before learning the boy was Dick, who called himself Robin.
• Dick explained that he wanted to find the people who threatened his parents and help others; Chen Mo showed him a patrol area, then secretly followed as he saved people through the night.

Chen Mo returned to Wayne Manor and got Bruce to rest after a sleepless night spent tracking the Court of Owls and worrying about Dick. Dick finished his first night of patrol and fell asleep at the hospital, proud that he had helped protect Gotham.

• Chen Mo left Deadpool webbed to a wall in the East End and swung toward Wayne Manor.
• Alfred urged Bruce to sleep after Bruce reviewed Dick's rescue and the unresolved threats beneath Gotham and Wayne Manor.
• Chen Mo arrived at Bruce's window, reported that Dick was safe in the East End, and put Venom in a sample container.
• Chen Mo convinced Bruce to stop checking his phone and rest with him and Puppy Bruce; Alfred later found them asleep together.
• Dick woke at the hospital after stopping more than thirty minor incidents, then fell asleep in his chair beside his parents.

Deadpool recovered his gear and tried to take Chen Mo away from Gotham, while Chen Mo and Batman discussed Venom and Dick Grayson's future. Their fight was interrupted as Gotham began to turn insubstantial, and days later Dick discovered a newly fitted seat and safety belts on the Batcave’s Mechanical Tyrannosaurus.

• Deadpool escaped Spider-Man’s webbing, found the Maroni Family unable to pay him, and took a claim form before seeking money and equipment from Penguin.
• Penguin gave Deadpool his red-and-black suit, weapons, and travel money, and Deadpool left to find Chen Mo.
• In the Batcave, Batman said Venom was consuming Chen Mo, and Chen Mo urged Batman to train Dick before he tried to fight crime alone.
• Chen Mo fled after learning Batman had seen his comic sketches, then met Deadpool on a bridge and fought him as Deadpool tried to take him away.
• Gotham’s surroundings began turning insubstantial beneath Chen Mo, and days later Dick asked Batman whether he could ride the Batcave’s Mechanical Tyrannosaurus.

Chen Mo and Deadpool escaped a demonic altar by working together to break their bindings, fight the monsters, and open a portal. They emerged in the Time Variance Authority, surrounded by its staff.

• Chen Mo and Deadpool found themselves bound together above a fiery altar, where a Bone-Armored Demon threatened to sacrifice them.
• Chen Mo used his Silk Launcher to pull a crossbar loose while Deadpool cut through their tendons with a blade hidden in his boot.
• Chen Mo and Deadpool broke free, destroyed the altar markings, and fought the black-robed monsters as Deadpool retrieved his guns.
• Chen Mo and Deadpool defeated or trapped the attackers, and an orange doorway opened at the back of the hall.
• Chen Mo and Deadpool rushed through the doorway and landed inside the Time Variance Authority in front of its staff.

B-15 showed Chen Mo and Deadpool the record of Deadpool’s search across universes, including his detours, Batman’s beating, and his recovery after the New York explosion. The Time Variance Authority identified Chen Mo as an unusual Spider-Totem whose movements across the Web of Life and Destiny made him responsible for creating the scene transitions Deadpool could detect.

• B-15 explained that the Time Variance Authority had used Deadpool as an external tracker after repeatedly losing Chen Mo’s coordinates.
• The recordings showed Deadpool spending four days partying in Gotham before taking the Maroni Family’s bounty, meeting Batman, and following Chen Mo’s trail to New York.
• Deadpool regrew after the explosion, escaped the recovery team through a time door, and lost his equipment at the Iceberg Lounge.
• Chen Mo challenged the Authority’s decision to use Deadpool, and B-15 said Deadpool had succeeded in finding his trail.
• B-15 showed Chen Mo’s movements across the Web of Life and Destiny and classified him as a spatial migration type Spider-Totem.

B-15 explained Chen Mo’s spatial migration ability and the TVA’s inability to monitor Gotham, then began training him to stabilize his location. When Chen Mo’s first attempt caused a spatial anomaly, everyone in the TVA vanished, leaving him alone in the empty facility.

• B-15 showed Chen Mo that his jumps between worlds left no trackable path and that he had triggered seventeen tracking failures.
• B-15 explained that Chen Mo could eventually choose destinations across universes, dimensions, and temporal branches, while Gotham remained outside the TVA’s jurisdiction.
• Chen Mo examined the TVA’s records and found that Gotham’s interior data was blank; Deadpool’s video access was then revoked after he tried to open censored footage.
• B-15 described the TVA’s new role monitoring branching timelines and began training Chen Mo to keep his position continuously recorded, with Deadpool assigned as an early-warning partner.
• Chen Mo’s calibration produced a tracking line before the room shifted and all voices stopped; B-15 and Deadpool disappeared, and Chen Mo found the TVA empty.

Chen Mo explored the deserted TVA, watched archived Marvel media, and discovered that the TVA’s records showed his original world, Earth-10086, had been destroyed by a correction that triggered a collision with another universe. He was left staring at evidence that the TVA had both saved and killed his world.

• Chen Mo searched the empty TVA and found Infinity Stones in an office drawer, but learned they were inert outside their native universe.
• Chen Mo used a screening room to watch Peter Parker’s later story and browse new Marvel media, criticizing She-Hulk and Secret Invasion.
• Chen Mo found a record suggesting Rhodey might have been replaced before Tony Stark died and grew suspicious of the TVA’s version of events.
• Chen Mo searched the terminated-world archive for the English Translation Alliance and found Earth-10086 listed as deceased.
• Chen Mo watched TVA records show hunters placing a reset device in New York, after which a correction pulse caused Earth-10086 to collide with another universe and its survivor count fell to zero.
• Chen Mo recognized Peter, Tony, and other people from his former world in the footage, then accused the TVA of destroying the world it had once saved.

Chen Mo pieced together how his two appearances on Earth-10086 formed a loop and found a six-minute window to reach the doomed world during its collision. After repeated attempts, he forced open a route but was thrown back into the TVA records room, where B-15 and Deadpool saw that thirty-one hours had passed for him.

• Chen Mo reviewed Earth-10086's destruction and realized he had first arrived there on its final day before being sent back to an earlier New York.
• Chen Mo found that the universes would briefly connect for six minutes and forty-two seconds during the collision, giving him a chance to reach Earth-10086.
• Chen Mo used his memories and spatial coordinates to repeatedly attempt a crossing, gradually increasing the calibration until Earth-10086's New York overlaid the screening room.
• Chen Mo forced the coordinates into the calibration field, but space collapsed and flung him out of the TVA screening room.
• Chen Mo fell into the records room eleven minutes after disappearing, while his player showed that thirty-one hours and eight minutes had passed.

Chen Mo confronted B-15 over the TVA’s role in Earth-10086’s destruction and demanded to return to Gotham. When B-15 prepared to open a passage, Chen Mo tried to steal her TemPad, and Deadpool caught it as TVA alarms sounded.

• Chen Mo blamed B-15 and the TVA for worsening the events that destroyed Earth-10086, while Deadpool joined his angry accusations.
• B-15 showed Chen Mo records of a failed recovery mission and explained that reopening the passage risked destroying another inhabited branch.
• Chen Mo demanded to enter Earth-10086 himself, but B-15 refused; he then settled on returning to Gotham through the TVA’s doors.
• B-15 prepared a passage to Gotham and raised the Spatial Totem research with Chen Mo, who insisted he wanted to leave without arranging a future visit.
• Chen Mo fired webbing at B-15’s TemPad and fought off the TVA hunters; Deadpool caught the device as the records room alarms lit up.

Chen Mo and Deadpool fought their way through the TVA’s Hunters as Chen Mo tried to use the TemPad to reach Earth-10086 before its destruction. When the destination remained locked, they headed for the Archives with B-15 and more Hunters in pursuit.

• Chen Mo overpowered B-15 and several Hunters while Deadpool recovered the TemPad and explained its controls.
• B-15 triggered a floor lockdown and trapped Chen Mo in Coordinate Rings, but he escaped and defeated the Hunters closing in.
• Deadpool helped Chen Mo disable the remaining Hunters, and Chen Mo took back the TemPad.
• Chen Mo opened a doorway toward New York, but it broke apart and the TemPad kept Earth-10086 locked.
• Chen Mo and Deadpool headed for the Archives while B-15 pursued them with a fresh group of Hunters.

Chen Mo and Deadpool fought through TVA Hunters while trying to reach Earth-10086, whose terminated timeline could no longer be accessed directly. Chen Mo devised a route through a living branch and opened a time door just as B-15 nearly caught them.

• Chen Mo and Deadpool evaded B-15 and her Hunters, fighting their way into the archives while Chen Mo saved a Hunter from falling.
• Chen Mo found that Earth-10086's records remained readable, but its destroyed worldline offered no time door to the day of its destruction.
• Chen Mo explained that they would enter a living branch, rewind along its timeline, and use Spatial Transference and the spider-totem to reach Earth-10086.
• B-15 and the Hunters broke into the archives as Chen Mo synced the surviving branch to his TemPad.
• Chen Mo and Deadpool opened a time door and vanished through it together, narrowly missing B-15's Time Stick.

Chen Mo and Deadpool landed in a New York overrun by zombies and fought Zombie Spider-Man, Hulk, and Zombie Doctor Strange while trying to escape. They got through a Time Door with Deadpool’s body and severed head, but Zombie Spider-Man and Hulk were still closing in as they left.

• Chen Mo and Deadpool emerged from the Time Door in a devastated New York and discovered the streets were filled with zombies.
• Chen Mo and Deadpool fought off a crowd of zombies before Zombie Spider-Man attacked and dragged Deadpool toward a bite.
• Chen Mo webbed Zombie Spider-Man to a bus, but Hulk arrived and charged them.
• Zombie Doctor Strange restrained Chen Mo and Deadpool with spell chains while Hulk attacked, and Chen Mo freed himself by kicking Zombie Spider-Man into Doctor Strange.
• Chen Mo opened a Time Door as Zombie Spider-Man and Hulk closed in, then pulled Deadpool’s body and severed head through with him.

Chen Mo and Deadpool discussed using the TemPad and Cable’s time-travel device to reach Earth-10086 and try to save it. When the TVA caught up with them in a fantasy city where Thor was king and Loki queen, they escaped through another Time Door.

• Chen Mo and Deadpool arrived in a bustling medieval city, disguised themselves in borrowed clothes, and went to a tavern.
• Chen Mo told Deadpool they needed to reach Earth-10086, and Deadpool revealed Cable’s time-travel device and proposed working together to save the world.
• Deadpool explained that his device could travel through time within a timeline, while Chen Mo’s TemPad would need to locate Earth-10086.
• Chen Mo and Deadpool saw King Thor and Queen Loki pass through the street, and Deadpool celebrated his ship being canon.
• The TVA tracked Chen Mo and Deadpool to the tavern, so Chen Mo activated another Time Door and escaped with Deadpool.

Chen Mo and Deadpool fled TVA hunters through several Spider-Man universes while using the TemPad to trace a route to Earth-10086. Deadpool sacrificed his chance to escape with Chen Mo, and Chen landed alone in the dying universe with the TemPad and Cable device.

• Chen Mo and Deadpool escaped Spider-Man 2099 and TVA hunters through a series of time doors, passing through Spider-Ham's world, Spider-Man Noir's city, and the Age of Apocalypse.
• Deadpool explained that Earth-10086 was unreachable through the TVA's transit index, and the pair followed branches of living timelines until the TemPad found its coordinates.
• Deadpool cut the TemPad strap, took the device, and appeared to surrender to B-15 so Chen Mo could be captured instead.
• Deadpool turned on B-15, returned the TemPad and Cable device to Chen Mo, and held off the hunters while Chen escaped through the time door.
• Chen Mo landed in a collapsing New York on Earth-10086, where alien ships and explosions threatened the city and the last Life Raft.

Chen Mo arrived in the middle of the alien invasion in New York, but a hacked Iron Man Armor mistook him for a target and carried him high into the sky. After escaping the armor and boarding a S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft, he exposed its Hydra crew and defeated them as the aircraft plunged toward the city.

• Chen Mo saved a taxi driver from the invasion and spotted Tony Stark fighting hacked Iron Man Armors over New York.
• Chen Mo boarded an Iron Man Armor to contact Tony, but its systems identified him as a target and carried him above the clouds.
• Chen Mo disabled the armor and broke free, then webbed himself to a damaged S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft to avoid falling.
• Chen Mo used the phrase "Hail Hydra" to expose the aircraft crew as Hydra agents and fought them inside the cabin.
• Chen Mo defeated the Hydra crew and shut the rear hatch, but the aircraft continued diving toward New York.

Chen Mo stopped a Hydra aircraft from crashing into a New York building, then fought off Tony Stark’s hacked Iron Man suits. As dozens more armored suits surrounded him, Doctor Strange rescued him through a portal and asked which side he had come from.

• Chen Mo webbed the Hydra pilot and stopped the aircraft just before it hit a glass building, then caught falling debris and glass before they could strike the crowd.
• Chen Mo fought several hacked Iron Man suits, disabling them while looking for Tony Stark, who had disappeared across the city.
• Dozens of Iron Man suits surrounded Chen Mo and attacked, forcing him to dodge their coordinated blasts as his suit was damaged.
• Doctor Strange opened a portal, pulled Chen Mo to safety with his cloak, and asked which side he had come from.

Chen Mo and Doctor Strange fought Tony Stark’s rogue Iron Man Armor swarm, trapping it inside a looping section of the Mirror Dimension. With the attack contained for now, Chen Mo showed Doctor Strange Earth-10086’s destruction records so they could plan how to save the world.

• Chen Mo told Doctor Strange about the TVA and other worlds, then argued that Spider-Man was famous and spiders were not insects.
• Doctor Strange redirected the attacking Iron Man Armor suits into a containment zone, where Chen Mo helped fight them and learned they shared targeting data.
• Doctor Strange used the Eye of Agamotto to slow the armor, but the swarm began breaking free, so he shifted the battlefield into the Mirror Dimension.
• Chen Mo and Doctor Strange exploited the armor’s shared targeting and friendly-fire precautions, then trapped the suits in a looping street and bound them with webs and magic.
• Chen Mo opened Earth-10086’s destruction records and proposed planning their efforts to save the world.

Chen Mo and Doctor Strange discovered that Earth faced both an internal explosion and an Incursion with another universe, and that destroying either Earth would doom the other universe. Doctor Strange proposed stabilizing the spatial wound and separating the worlds so both could survive, and they headed for the Convergence Point beneath New York.

• Chen Mo showed Doctor Strange the TVA termination file and explained that a Reset Device had left an explosive source inside Earth.
• Doctor Strange identified readings from another universe and explained that an Incursion would destroy both Earths and their universes when they collided.
• Doctor Strange said destroying the other Earth could save Chen Mo's universe, but Chen Mo refused to kill its inhabitants without trying another solution.
• Doctor Strange proposed that Chen Mo hold the spatial wound in place while he separated the world boundaries, then they could deal with the explosive source.
• Doctor Strange contained the rebellious suits in the Mirror Dimension, and he and Chen Mo returned to New York and headed for the Spatial Convergence Point.

Chen Mo, Tony, and Doctor Strange reached the TVA device beneath New York, which was merging Earth with another world. Doctor Strange turned against them as the device began to explode, and Tony revealed that this world had no Doctor Strange.

• Chen Mo and Tony fought rogue Iron Man armors while Doctor Strange kept others trapped in the Mirror Dimension.
• Chen Mo showed Tony the TemPad coordinates and warned that a TVA device beneath New York threatened Earth as two worlds collided.
• The group found a subway entrance where overlapping spatial coordinates made a portal unsafe, so they took a maintenance stairway and broke through a sealed wall.
• Chen Mo could not control his spatial ability near the device, and Doctor Strange tried to contain it with magic as its energy surged.
• Doctor Strange sent magical chains toward Chen Mo's Cable device, but Tony intervened and revealed that the Doctor Strange they had met came from another Earth.