Recaps

Franklin warned the laboratory that multiverse-level calamities were coming from beyond the multiverse and left to join the fight, though he was unsure he could stop them. Emma Frost activated Frost City’s Ark Plan, ordering everyone to return before the city severed all contact with the multiverse in six hours.

• Franklin told Reed, Emma Frost, and the others that Knowhere was relatively safe and that he could move Frost City into his pocket dimension if necessary.
• Franklin explained that destructive beings from outside the multiverse threatened everything and admitted he was unsure he could stop them, despite joining Thor, Loki, and Jean Grey at the end of time.
• Franklin departed through a rupture in space, leaving his family and the laboratory stunned by the force of his presence.
• Emma Frost ordered Maria Hill to activate the Ark Plan and announced a citywide emergency.
• Emma Frost ordered everyone outside Frost City to return with their families and friends before all outside portals and spatial anchors were permanently shut down in six hours.

As the multiverse faced collapse, Frost City prepared to seal itself off while Barry Allen raced across universes to bring back missing personnel. The city vanished from the multiverse’s radar, leaving its residents isolated and waiting on Thor and the others.

• Barry Allen raced through multiple universes, bringing missing personnel and Mutants back to Frost City.
• Susan protected Valeria with a force field while Valeria worked on the city’s defense network.
• Erik and Doom combined their powers to build up Frost City’s steel and magic defenses.
• Emma Frost oversaw the evacuation as Betsy, Madelyne, and other residents helped secure the city.
• After six hours, Maria Hill began the countdown, and four energy pillars formed a crystalline dome around Frost City and the Terraria Continent.
• The dome severed the city’s last spatial anchor, cutting Frost City off from the multiverse.

Pharaoh Kang and his variants stole a fragment of time authority from Loki, but their celebration descended into a massacre as the Kangs turned on one another. Thor arrived and destroyed their escape portal with a strike of his axe, confronting Pharaoh Kang and the surviving variants.

• Pharaoh Kang celebrated the Kangs’ theft of Loki’s time authority and declared that their age had returned.
• A Centurion Kang attacked Pharaoh Kang, triggering a battle in which the variants slaughtered one another for the authority fragment.
• Pharaoh Kang and his core allies opened a portal and prepared to escape with the fragment.
• Thor’s axe strike destroyed the portal and annihilated space, time, and laws around it, blasting Pharaoh Kang and his allies into a broken wall.
• Thor confronted Pharaoh Kang and threatened to chop through the surviving Kangs.

Thor defeated Pharaoh Kang and the Council of Kangs, reclaimed Loki’s stolen fragment of time authority, and seized the Cosmic Cube fragment and Ultimate Nullifier. After Pharaoh Kang died without revealing who supplied the artifacts, Thor sensed Jean battling a powerful being and rushed toward the clash.

• Pharaoh Kang attacked Thor with the Cosmic Cube fragment and Ultimate Nullifier, but Thor shattered the beam and crushed Kang’s artifact-wielding arm.
• Thor collected the two artifacts and reclaimed the green-gold fragment of Loki’s time authority.
• Thor erased the other Kang variants in a lightning storm, leaving Pharaoh Kang alive long enough to ask who had supplied the weapons.
• Pharaoh Kang refused to identify the force behind the Kangs and dissolved himself to keep Thor from learning more.
• Thor sensed Jean’s Phoenix Force clashing with a vast power of negative laws and hurried toward the battle.

Reed Richards and Doctor Strange presented Earth-616 with a choice between joining a multiversal expedition and sealing itself off, while Steve Rogers urged the heroes not to sacrifice other worlds. Doctor Doom then appeared and claimed the crisis concealed a greater threat that the heroes knew nothing about.

• Reed Richards explained that parallel universes were collapsing and that a battle at the end of time would determine the multiverse’s fate.
• Doctor Strange proposed either sending an expedition to the unknown battlefield or isolating Earth-616 from the multiverse.
• Steve Rogers revealed that the Illuminati had destroyed another Earth and argued that Earth’s heroes should join the expedition rather than sacrifice others.
• Reed Richards defended prioritizing Earth-616, splitting the gathered heroes into opposing camps.
• Doctor Doom appeared, dismissed the heroes’ debate as addressing only the surface of the catastrophe, and promised to reveal its greater cause.

Doom revealed that Loki had become the god of time to save the multiverse, and he urged the heroes to divide their forces between an expedition to the end of time and defending Earth-616. As the heroes argued over their response, Doctor Strange warned that Mephisto was invading Earth and harvesting souls, and Wanda volunteered to help.

• Doom told Doctor Strange that Loki had sacrificed himself to stabilize the timelines and preserve free will after the Sacred Timeline collapsed.
• Doom explained that incursions and attacks on Loki were separate crises, then proposed sending an elite expedition to the end of time while most forces defended Earth-616.
• Spider-Man and Thor supported a rescue mission, with Thor saying he would go see Loki, while the heroes split into opposing factions.
• Doctor Strange revealed that Mephisto had breached the dimensional barrier and was harvesting human souls worldwide.
• Wanda offered to help Strange, saying that if she died, the others would no longer need to fear her.

Wanda confronted the heroes over their fear of her, while the multiversal crisis forced them to organize an expedition to the end of time and a defense of Earth. As Reed prepared to launch the Ark, Captain Britain joined the expedition with Merlin’s aid.

• Vision told Wanda that no one wanted her to die, but Wanda accused the heroes of needing her power and reminded Steve that he could no longer fight.
• Doctor Strange left through a portal to suppress Mephisto, and Reed revealed that he had built the Ark to travel across dimensions and time.
• Sam, Carol, and the others divided the heroes: the X-Men stayed to defend Earth, while Reed, Tony, Banner, Thor, Black Panther, and Spider-Man joined the expedition.
• Captain Britain, Brian Braddock, arrived on Merlin’s behalf and warned that Thor, Banner, and Wanda were compromised, then joined the expedition with his sword.
• The Ark’s landing ramp lowered as Reed’s team prepared to begin its journey to the end of time.

Thor reached Loki amid a battle between Jean Grey and a Hulk possessed by the One-Below-All, learning that the creature was a puppet threatening the multiverse’s timelines. Jean was badly wounded, and Thor realized he could not match the enemy’s power.

• Thor returned to the ruins of time and gave Loki the fragment of time authority he had taken from Pharaoh Kang.
• Loki explained that the Hulk was Bruce Banner from Earth-109527, serving as a puppet of the One-Below-All and seeking to kill him.
• Loki warned Thor about the Council of Mephisto and a council of Hulks aiming to open the Green Door inside Earth-616’s Bruce Banner.
• The One-Below-All’s Hulk struck Jean Grey through the timelines and sent her crashing near Thor and Loki.
• Thor supported the injured Jean and used the Law of Life to stabilize her, while admitting he could not fight the Hulk.

Jean Grey renewed her attack on the green monster as Thor and Loki tried to hold their position, then Franklin Richards arrived to help. Mephisto appeared at Omniverse Level, effortlessly stopped Franklin and Thor’s combined assault, and offered them a contract to spare their lives.

• Jean Grey refused Thor’s help and transformed into a colossal phoenix to attack the green monster again.
• Thor asked Loki for an artifact to strengthen him, but Loki refused and reminded him how difficult it was to remain on the throne.
• Franklin Richards emerged through a fissure and told Thor that heroes from Earth-616 were coming to help.
• Mephisto appeared, and Loki explained that he had risen to Omniverse Level by harvesting souls and devouring variants of the Red Council.
• Franklin and Thor attacked Mephisto together, but he erased their attacks with a crimson barrier and offered them a contract.

Thor and Franklin were badly injured fighting Mephisto, but Loki weakened him by erasing timelines and Hell dimensions tied to the variants he had devoured. As Jean Grey fell and the puppet Hulk charged at Loki, the battle at the end of time remained unresolved.

• Thor and Franklin attacked Mephisto together, but he turned their power into a flaming skull and struck them both down.
• Mephisto began losing the power he had gained from devoured variants, and Loki revealed that he had erased the timelines and Hell dimensions where those variants existed.
• Mephisto condemned Loki for destroying hundreds of universes, while Loki said eliminating an Omniverse Level threat justified the cost.
• Jean Grey was defeated on the other battlefield and crashed beside Thor, who used the Law of Life to help heal her and Franklin.
• The puppet Hulk charged straight toward Loki on the golden throne.

Earth-616 heroes arrived as Puppet Hulk attacked Loki, and Thor Odinson reunited with the god of time. The gathering was interrupted when Bruce Banner heard a demonic whisper.

• A blue lightning strike from another Thor sent Puppet Hulk crashing into the ruins of time before the Earth-616 heroes arrived.
• Franklin explained that Puppet Hulk served the One-Below-All and that Mephisto wanted the throne of time.
• Wanda recognized Mephisto from her universe, and Tony Stark realized Doctor Strange and Captain Marvel had failed to stop him.
• Loki told Thor Odinson that neither of them had to be defined by fate or their titles, and Odinson embraced him.
• Bruce Banner heard a demonic whisper and warned the other heroes.

The One-Below-All corrupted Bruce Banner, transforming him into a Destruction Hulk who joined the puppet Hulk and overwhelmed the heroes. With Mephisto declaring the game had begun, the battered heroes faced the two Hulks and wondered how to fight back.

• The One-Below-All whispered to Bruce Banner, exploiting his doubts and urging him to unleash Hulk.
• Thor tried to sever the psychic link with his Golden Battle Axe, but Banner transformed into Destruction Hulk and stopped the blow.
• Wanda Maximoff, Captain Britain Brian, and Doctor Doom failed to block Destruction Hulk’s punch, and he struck Earth-616’s Thor Odinson into the ruins.
• Destruction Hulk stood beside the puppet Hulk as Mephisto recovered, admired the pair, and announced that the game had truly begun.
• Earth-616’s Thor Odinson rose injured and asked his teammates what they should do next.

Thor fought the Destroyer Hulk while Mister Fantastic analyzed its power, and Loki suggested Thor could use the energy sustaining it. Thor began draining Hulk with his Law of Devouring and broke through to the Megaverse Level.

• Spider-Man and Black Panther stepped back as Mister Fantastic began analyzing the Destroyer Hulk, while Thor, Scarlet Witch, and Doctor Doom attacked it together.
• Red Label Phoenix Jean Grey transformed and launched Mephisto away, leaving Thor to face the Destroyer Hulk.
• Loki advised Thor to consider using other sources of energy, and Thor realized he could drain Hulk's power.
• Franklin trapped the puppet Hulk in a repeating loop of space, and Captain Britain Brian Braddock offered to sever Hulk's connection to its power source.
• Thor activated his Law of Devouring and absorbed the destructive energy around Hulk, breaking through to the Megaverse Level.

Thor reached Megaverse Level and joined Franklin in helping Jean fight Mephisto, while OBA-powered Hulk overwhelmed the heroes on another battlefield. Reed and Brian severed Hulk’s connection to the Green Door, allowing Doom and Wanda to subdue him and restore Bruce Banner.

• Thor deliberately compressed his power at the threshold of Megaverse Level, drained the puppet Hulk of OBA’s power, and erased Dr. Banner from the ruins of time.
• Thor and Franklin joined Jean in beating Mephisto, trapping him with the Phoenix Force and altered reality.
• OBA-powered Hulk crushed Odinson’s axe and knocked him unconscious, then broke through Doom’s and Wanda’s defenses.
• Reed discovered Hulk’s connection to the Green Door, and Brian severed it with the Sword in the Stone.
• Doom and Wanda subdued the weakened Hulk as Bruce Banner regained control, then Wanda told him to ask Odinson whether he had hurt anyone.

Odinson forgave Banner, and the heroes defeated Mephisto after cutting him off from the other Hell Dimensions, while Thor absorbed the scattered power and reached Mid Megaverse Level. Loki restored the timelines and warned that Banner still carried the Green Door to OBA; as the heroes prepared to leave, Wanda asked Thor whether he wielded Chaos Magic.

• Odinson woke, embraced Banner, and told him the rampage had not been his fault.
• Doom, Wanda, and Odinson joined Thor, Franklin, and Phoenix in attacking Mephisto, while Brian used the Sword in the Stone to sever Mephisto's links to other dimensions.
• Jean bound Mephisto and cut off his energy exchange, allowing Thor to devour the scattered Hell-origin power and rise to Mid Megaverse Level.
• Thor struck Mephisto down, and Loki restored order to the timelines before warning Banner that OBA could still tempt him through the Green Door.
• Loki told the heroes that the Green Door was inside Banner and that he could seal it temporarily, while Reed began considering ways to contain him.
• Wanda asked Loki how to master Chaos Magic, and Loki redirected her question to Thor, prompting her to ask whether he wielded Chaos Magic too.

Thor revealed that he wielded both Chaos Magic and the Phoenix Force, then helped Wanda sever her connection to Chthon and stabilize her power. The Queen of Nevers appeared to investigate Thor, whose timeline she said was blank and outside the existing narrative.

• Thor displayed Chaos Magic and the Phoenix Force, astonishing the gathered heroes, while the Odinson claimed he was stronger than Thor for now.
• Thor agreed to help Wanda master her power in exchange for her help in the future.
• Thor used the laws of Cause and Effect and Existence to trace Wanda's connection to Chthon, then severed it with the Law of Oblivion.
• Thor stabilized Wanda's Chaos Magic and developed it into a true Origin of Chaos.
• The Queen of Nevers appeared and told Thor that his story belonged to no existing narrative and that his line in the multiverse's narrative network was blank.

The Queen of Nevers freed Wanda Maximoff from her predestined tragedies, transforming her Chaos Magic and raising her power to Omniverse Level. She also gave Thor a Shard of Possibility, and Wanda agreed to join him at Knowhere.

• The Queen of Nevers rewrote Wanda Maximoff’s fate across every multiverse, making Earth-616 Wanda a living source of Chaos at Omniverse Level.
• The Queen of Nevers gave Thor a Shard of Possibility that could make the impossible possible and let him create an unobservable universe.
• The Queen of Nevers explained that she was investing in Thor because he could turn blank impossibilities into possibilities, then vanished.
• Reed identified the Queen of Nevers as a top-tier conceptual entity, and Tony, Peter, and Doom reacted to Thor receiving the shard.
• Wanda thanked Thor for freeing her from Chthon and agreed to leave Earth-616 to help him at Knowhere.

After the heroes of 616 departed, Thor learned that Loki had become the time anchor for every universe’s timelines and could not leave his post. Thor offered Loki an Eternity Crystal as a substitute, but Loki said he would need hundreds; Thor then left with Franklin, Wanda, and Jean, while Loki watched over the timelines and hoped Thor would soon reach his level.

• The heroes of 616 boarded Reed's ship and left the ruins of time, leaving Thor, Franklin, Loki, Wanda, and Jean behind.
• Thor asked how Loki had reached the Omniverse Level, and Loki explained that he had gathered the timelines severed by the Beyonders’ destruction of universes.
• Loki told Thor that he feared no one at the end of time but was bound there as the time anchor stabilizing every universe’s timelines.
• Thor offered Loki Immortus the Immortal's Eternity Crystal, but Loki said it could hold only some timelines and that he would need a few hundred crystals to replace himself.
• Thor took Franklin, Wanda, and Jean back with him after Loki assured him that Knowhere was outside the timelines’ reach.
• Loki remained on his golden throne watching the timelines and hoped Thor would reach the Omniverse Level before the coming day.