Chapter Summaries

During a blizzard, Chen Mo and Oswald turned St. Joseph's Church into a shelter, saved Emilio, and found his daughter Lucia. At Wayne Tower, Bruce expanded emergency relief and discovered the Court of Owls had sentenced him to death for changing Gotham.

• Oswald forced the church manager to open the locked storeroom, distributed blankets, and ordered food, heaters, and transportation for people caught in the snow.
• Chen Mo showed Oswald that a Wayne Medical Car was stranded, so Oswald sent a snowplow and Iceberg Lounge trucks to clear the route and deliver supplies.
• When Emilio coughed blood, Oswald ordered his men to find Lucia and the creditor while Chen Mo kept Emilio alive; Oswald later told Emilio that Lucia was safe.
• The Wayne Medical Car took Emilio to the hospital, and Oswald's men brought Lucia to safety as the church continued sheltering people.
• Bruce opened more shelters, mobilized medical stations, and reviewed the rescue at St. Joseph's Church, whose capacity marker turned green.
• Bruce opened an anonymous letter bearing the Owl Emblem and learned that the Court of Owls had sentenced him to death for changing Gotham.

Chen Mo, Barbara, and Dick volunteered at the Community Center, where Dick revealed that his parents had secretly left the circus after mentioning the Court of Owls. Chen Mo told Dick to stay away from the circus and headed off to find Batman for help.

• Chen Mo and Barbara joined Dick for volunteer work at the Community Center, where Barbara organized supply deliveries and Dick entertained children while Chen Mo took photographs.
• Dick admitted he had checked his phone seventeen times while waiting for his parents, who had forbidden him from returning to the circus and then disappeared.
• Dick showed Chen Mo and Barbara his notes about suspicious activity at the circus and said he had overheard his mother mention that the Court would not wait any longer.
• Barbara said Batman had been busy investigating something, and Chen Mo told Dick to stay away from the circus and come to Commissioner Gordon's house with them.
• Chen Mo asked Dick to write down everything he remembered about his parents' departure, then left the Community Center and swung toward the rooftops to find Batman.

Bruce Wayne mapped Gotham’s emergency response while the Court of Owls’ threat lingered, then defended Wayne Manor when Talons broke in. As Batman and Chen Mo faced the attackers, Alfred released a Mechanical Tyrannosaurus from the Batcave, and Chen Mo leaped toward it.

• Bruce Wayne reviewed Gotham’s shelters and supply routes, acknowledged Cobblepot’s effective rescue work, and insisted Gotham should not have to rely on him.
• Security alerts revealed intruders at Wayne Manor, so Bruce armored up as Batman and ordered Alfred to seal passages.
• Talon attackers breached the wine cellar and fought Batman, who discovered they knew the Manor’s hidden defenses and passages.
• Chen Mo arrived at the Manor, webbed a Talon from the eaves, and saw several attackers pinning Batman near the entrance.
• Alfred released the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus, which charged the Talons as Chen Mo leaped toward its back.

Chen Mo and Batman fought off the Talons in the Batcave, with Chen using Alfred’s mechanical tyrannosaur to help stop them. After the surviving Talons escaped through an old passage, Batman tracked one toward Old Town and set out with Chen to pursue them.

• Chen rode the mechanical tyrannosaur and helped Batman fight the Talons, webbing them and keeping them away from the console and the dinosaur’s vulnerable parts.
• A Talon damaged the tyrannosaur’s left leg, but Chen steadied it with webbing while Batman pulled the attacker away and they restrained him.
• The remaining Talons retreated through the old passage, and Batman secretly placed a tracker on one of them.
• Chen told Batman that Dick had heard his parents mention the Court of Owls and had seen long crates and strange people at the circus.
• Alfred reported that the tracker was moving toward Old Town, and Batman left with Chen to pursue the Talon.

Batman and Chen Mo tracked the Court of Owls to an old waterfront building, where they found its members dead and confronted Lincoln March. After Lincoln was arrested, Batman maintained that Lincoln was not his brother, though Lincoln still believed he was a Wayne.

• Batman and Chen Mo followed a tracker to an old building and found the Court of Owls dead from poison, along with documents naming Thomas Wayne Jr.
• Lincoln March appeared, claimed he should have been a Wayne, and attacked Batman and Chen Mo.
• Batman and Chen Mo disarmed and restrained Lincoln after he cited records and memories involving Martha Wayne as proof of his identity.
• Gordon's police arrived and took Lincoln into special confinement while Batman handed over the evidence.
• Chen Mo asked whether Lincoln was really Batman's brother, and Batman said no.

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.