Chapter Summaries

Thor explained to the group that Spider-Man's powers came from magic and that Spider-Totems guarded the Web of Life and Destiny against the Inheritors. America Chavez arrived at Valeria's laboratory with two middle-aged women and asked Thor what she should do next.

• Thor restored Tony, Banner, and Strange after they returned to Valeria's laboratory, then told them Spider-Man's abilities came from magic.
• Thor described Neith's Web of Life and Destiny and explained that Spider-Men served as Spider-Totem guardians across the multiverse.
• Thor warned the group that the Inheritors hunted Spider-Totems, could track and drain their power, and were vulnerable to nuclear radiation.
• A spatial breach opened in the laboratory, and Thor identified the visitor as America Chavez before she emerged with two middle-aged women.
• America thanked Thor and asked him what she needed to do next.

Peter Parker returned to life and reunited with May, while Thor restored Howard and Maria Stark and Wanda and Pietro’s parents. Tony learned his parents had appeared at his Malibu home and rushed to meet them.

• Peter crawled out of his grave, and May embraced him after recognizing him as her nephew.
• May explained that another universe’s Spider-Man had revived Peter and that Kingpin and the people who killed him were dead.
• Howard and Maria Stark appeared in Tony’s underground garage, where JARVIS identified them and trained security turrets on them.
• Wanda and Pietro entered their childhood home in Sokovia and reunited with their parents, Olek and Iryna.
• Tony saw Howard and Maria on the garage surveillance footage, confirmed their identities, and learned Thor had brought them back to life.
• Tony activated the highest level of security and flew through a portal to reach his parents.

Thor persuaded America Chavez to cooperate with Valeria in exchange for help controlling her portals, then learned that her universe was Earth-2027 and had survived numerous major crises. Emma summoned Thor to Asgard’s top floor with urgent news, leaving his discussion with the Fantastic Four and Doom unfinished.

• Thor offered America Chavez help controlling her universe-travel power, and she agreed to undergo painless tests with Valeria in exchange for training.
• America left with Amalia and Elena to see the home Thor had prepared for her family.
• Thor woke Strange and demanded repayment of his hundred-million-dollar debt, and Strange left through a portal to Kamar-Taj.
• Thor asked Reed what major events their universe had endured, but Valeria listed crises including Knull’s invasion, Infinity War, the Celestials’ arrival, Galactus, and the Kang Dynasty.
• Valeria identified her universe as Earth-2027, and Johnny confirmed that it was the year 2027.
• Emma contacted Thor psychically and ordered him to come to Asgard’s top floor immediately, saying she had something important to tell him.

Emma Frost showed Thor a mind-controlling beetle linked to Annihilus, whose vast consciousness was approaching Knowhere. After Thor analyzed the beetle’s corpse, it suddenly sprang back to life and fixed its eyes on him.

• Thor teleported to Emma Frost’s office in Asgard’s palace above Frost City.
• Emma showed Thor a beetle she had removed from a citizen’s brain and explained that it controlled its host and suppressed their thoughts and emotions.
• Emma traced the beetle’s psychic link to a vast, hungry consciousness, and Betsy identified its connection to Oblivion.
• Emma revealed that the consciousness had named Annihilus and was approaching Knowhere’s coordinates.
• Thor analyzed the beetle’s corpse, then tapped its container, causing the beetle to move and stare at him.

Thor recognized that Annihilus and the Oblivion Wave had arrived to attack Frost City, and Emma Frost mobilized the city’s residents and defenders. As the swarm advanced, Thor assigned Valeria to command Alioth and gathered the Fantastic Four and Doctor Doom to help defend the city.

• Thor erased the reanimated beetle and told Emma Frost that the enemy had arrived.
• Annihilus emerged through a wormhole with the Oblivion Wave and ordered the swarm to attack Frost City.
• Emma Frost sounded the alarm and psychically ordered Frost City’s residents to defend their home.
• Thor summoned Valeria and assigned her to command Alioth, while Reed Richards, the Fantastic Four, and Doctor Doom joined the defense.
• Magneto, Polaris, Quicksilver, and the assembled heroes prepared Frost City’s wall defenses as the insect swarm approached.

Frost City’s residents fought back against the Oblivion Wave while Alioth devoured the insect swarm. When Annihilus struck down Johnny Storm, Dark Supreme Doctor Strange appeared and bound the Insect Emperor, leaving Thor to watch.

• Valeria sent Alioth into the swarm, and Magneto ordered Frost City’s cannons to fire.
• Deadpools, Spider-Man, Storm, Iceman, Rogue, Hulk, Wolverine, and other residents attacked the insects as Thor chose not to intervene.
• Johnny Storm charged Annihilus, who extinguished his flames and knocked him into a crater.
• Dark Supreme Doctor Strange emerged from the shadows, restrained Annihilus with tentacles, and slammed him into the ground.
• Thor realized he had not summoned Strange and decided to keep watching the fight.

Dark Supreme Doctor Strange overwhelmed Annihilus on the battlefield while Thor explained to Emma Frost how he had recruited Strange and assessed the limits of her and Betsy's power. The chapter ended with Strange draining and devouring Annihilus's soul.

• Dark Supreme Doctor Strange trapped Annihilus in a sealed shadow prison and swallowed his antimatter attack.
• Strange used tentacles, demonic flames, and illusions to overpower Annihilus as the X-Men and Deadpool watched.
• Thor told Emma Frost that he had restored Strange's girlfriend and recruited him, then described powerful beings across the multiverse.
• Thor assessed Emma Frost and Betsy as being around the middle to late stages of the Highfather Level, with their potential capped around the Universe Level.
• Strange pierced Annihilus with tentacles, drained his soul energy, and swallowed his broken soul.

Strange returned to Frost City with Christine Palmer, thanked Thor for restoring her soul, and reported killing Annihilus. As the X-Men fought the remaining swarm, Thor planned to recruit powerful variants into a sorcerer army, while Emma Frost claimed him and disappeared with him, leaving Betsy to slice the console.

• Strange brought Christine Palmer to Frost City's control room and thanked Thor for resurrecting her and saving her universe.
• Strange and Christine left to explore the city while Thor watched the X-Men defeat the leaderless insect swarm, including a Shiba Inu wielding a miniature Mjolnir.
• Thor imagined recruiting Storm, Iceman, Rogue, and Thor variants from across the multiverse to form a powerful sorcerer corps.
• Emma Frost confronted Thor about visiting Wanda, kissed him, declared that he was hers, and vanished with him.
• Betsy silently cut a chunk from the console where Emma had stood.

Tony Stark struggled to manage the multiverse crisis while watching Spider-Man damage Brooklyn during a fight with the Lizard. Thor proposed increasingly brutal ways to discipline Peter, leaving Tony uncertain whether to use Thor’s Pocket Universe plan.

• JARVIS told Tony Stark that his simulations had failed to stop the spacetime collapse caused by erasing the Kang variants, while Spider-Man fought the Lizard in Brooklyn.
• Tony learned the other Avengers were unavailable and went to Valeria’s laboratory, where she was dismantling Thor’s Cosmic Control Rod, then brought Thor back to Avengers Tower.
• Tony asked Thor how to teach Peter to act more responsibly, and Thor first suggested shocking him whenever he made a mistake.
• Thor offered to take Peter to study under another universe’s Peter Parker or create a Pocket Universe and traumatize him with a series of tragedies.
• Tony protested that Peter was still a kid, said he would think about it, and then asked JARVIS whether the Pocket Universe plan might be a bad idea.

Thor and the others watched as Erik entered the Days of Future Past timeline and destroyed every Sentinel by manipulating the electromagnetic origin. The elderly Erik was left stunned by the gulf between his abilities and those of his counterpart, while Valeria questioned why he had struggled against the robots.

• Tony told JARVIS to send the giant lizard's weakness to Underoos so he could end the fight quickly.
• America opened a portal to Earth-10005 after Reed coached her through focusing on a dimensional anchor.
• Erik saw Sentinels attacking Mutants at an ancient temple and flew through the portal to intervene.
• Erik immobilized the Sentinels across the battlefield and disintegrated them into atomic dust.
• The elderly Erik and the other Mutants stared in shock as Valeria asked Thor whether this universe's Magneto had never gone to school.

Valeria explained the full potential of Magneto’s electromagnetic powers to the displaced survivors, and the purple-suited Erik demonstrated perfect invisibility. Old Erik realized how much he had neglected learning, while Thor explained that Magneto’s power had an extraordinarily high upper limit.

• Erik and the surviving X-Men arrived at Valeria’s underground laboratory through America’s portal.
• Valeria criticized old Erik’s limited use of magnetism and described how electromagnetic control could manipulate light, sound, matter, living organisms, and more.
• The purple-suited Erik used magnetic-field manipulation to become physically invisible, then offered to help Valeria with her projects in exchange for her guidance.
• Reed confirmed Valeria’s theories and explained that Erik could counter the Sentinels by severing their electromagnetic connections.
• The purple-suited Erik urged old Erik to rely on reason and knowledge instead of anger, while Charles admitted that their generation had fallen behind.
• Thor told America that Magneto’s potential depended on his understanding of physics and ability to control his power precisely.

America continued training her portal-opening ability in Reed’s laboratory, while Thor considered how to keep her close. Her final blind portal brought a masked woman into the lab, and the woman recognized Thor as someone who had defied the writers’ plans.

• Valeria coached America through portal tests as Reed recorded and stabilized coordinates for the universes she reached.
• America opened portals to an animal-superhero universe, a world of female superheroes, a Hydra-ruled world, and an Asgard ruled by a frost wolf.
• A Hydra soldier charged through a portal and aimed an energy gun at America, but Valeria killed him with a portable particle cutter.
• Thor decided he needed to keep America firmly on his side once she mastered her multiverse-traveling power.
• America’s blind portal triggered alarms and brought a masked woman through a dark rift into the laboratory.
• The woman identified America and told Thor that he, like her, had refused to follow the writers’ plans.

Thor defeated Gwenpool after learning to counter her ability to manipulate comic panels, then had her confined in a specially shielded chamber. As Thor resumed America’s training and considered using her portals to reach other universes, Gwenpool began to wake.

• Thor attacked Gwenpool with lightning, but she used narrative distortions to evade his strikes.
• Gwenpool jumped between comic panels to attack Valeria, and Thor teleported Valeria, Reed, and America out of danger.
• Gwenpool trapped Thor inside a black-and-white panel, but he broke through, pulled her into it, and knocked her unconscious.
• Valeria scanned Gwenpool and found no powers or unusual biology, while Thor ordered her placed in an energy suppression chamber protected by spatial and narrative laws.
• Thor told America to continue her combat test and considered using her portals to explore other universes.
• Gwenpool's finger twitched, and she opened her eyes inside the isolation chamber.

Thor trapped Gwenpool in an isolation chamber and used the Law of Narrative to force her into a Magical Girl Starlight outfit, leaving her furious and powerless. He then ordered America to continue her training by opening a door.

• Gwenpool tried to escape and use her narrative powers, but the chamber blocked her connection to the narrative layer.
• Thor threatened Gwenpool with daily outfit changes and let Valeria choose a costume for her.
• Valeria selected a pink-and-white Magical Girl Starlight outfit, and Thor imposed it on Gwenpool through the Law of Narrative.
• Gwenpool screamed and struggled to tear off the outfit, but it instantly repaired itself whenever it was damaged.
• America watched Thor's treatment of Gwenpool and resolved not to upset him.
• Thor ordered America to open a door, and she struck the air with her glowing fist.

Shayera Hall, rejected by both Thanagar and Earth after exposing her homeworld’s invasion plan, lived in isolation in Metropolis. When a strange portal appeared on her rooftop, she chose to enter it, where a tall figure awaited her.

• Shayera left a convenience store and endured children throwing stones and sand at her while passersby avoided her.
• She climbed to her rooftop, drank beer, and watched Superman and John Stewart fly off with a magical golden cheetah, then remembered Diana accusing her of betraying Earth.
• After night fell, Shayera prepared to return to her room when a glowing, star-shaped portal opened nearby.
• Shayera considered alerting the Justice League but remembered she had removed her communicator’s core chip, then drew her Nth Metal warhammer.
• Shayera stepped through the portal and saw a tall figure standing on the other side.

Thor and his team captured Shayera Hol and examined her Nth Metal while overpowering her. Thor revealed he knew her past as a Thanagarian spy and Justice League member, leaving her broken by the reminder that both worlds had rejected her.

• Shayera entered the laboratory and found Thor, Reed, America, and Valeria examining her with scanners.
• Thor stopped Shayera’s escape, pinned her to the floor, and let Valeria and Reed analyze her wings and Nth Metal war hammer.
• Shayera attacked Thor, but he stood unharmed while the impact shattered her right arm and sent her into a wall.
• Thor identified Shayera as a Thanagarian lieutenant, spy, and Justice League founder, then recounted her betrayal and painful rejection by Earth and Thanagar.
• Shayera asked how Thor knew her secrets, and she fell to her knees after he called her abandoned by two worlds.

Thor studied America’s ability to cross universes, then forced open a portal between the Marvel and DC universes. He encountered Lucifer Morningstar on the other side and recognized him as an overwhelming threat.

• Valeria and Reed examined the unconscious Shayera while Valeria questioned Thor about how much he knew about other universes.
• Thor analyzed America’s spatial ability and ordered her to open a portal to Shayera’s universe.
• Thor crossed into Metropolis, marked a spatial coordinate, and returned to the laboratory before America closed the portal.
• Thor used his laws of space and power to tear open a portal across the multiverse barrier, despite Reed’s warnings.
• Thor saw Lucifer Morningstar through the portal, unleashed his power, and recognized him as the man in the DC Universe second only to God and Michael.

Lucifer warned Thor not to forcibly open portals into the DC Universe or bring Loki and Franklin Richards there, then closed the rift. Thor repaired the laboratory and healed Shayera, while she resolved to warn the Justice League about the threat posed by him and Lucifer.

• Lucifer told Thor that forcibly crossing universes had drawn attention from powerful beings and warned him not to bring Loki or Franklin Richards into the DC Universe.
• After Lucifer closed the portal, Thor restored the damaged laboratory with the Law of Time and healed Shayera with the Law of Life.
• Dark Gwenpool struggled to make sense of Thor's power and the connection between the Marvel and DC universes.
• Thor told Valeria that Lucifer was among the most powerful beings in his universe, and Shayera decided to return to the Justice League with the information.
• Thor told America she could still open portals as long as she did not bring him along to cause destruction, then asked Reed to replace Valeria's broken tablet.

Thor showed Shayera the Justice League’s first battle on a holographic screen, revealing that he could view events from her universe. Valeria realized Superman and Shayera were real, while Shayera remained trapped in Thor’s laboratory.

• Thor turned the lab floor beneath Valeria into mud, then Reed gave her a new tablet and she joined him in studying Shayera’s Nth Metal warhammer.
• Thor created a holographic screen and played footage of the Justice League’s first battle as America watched beside him.
• Shayera asked Thor to send her home, but he reminded her that Earth, John Stewart, and Thanagar had all rejected her.
• Shayera recognized the battle footage as real history and demanded to know how Thor could see it; he knocked her down and told her to keep watching.
• Reed and Valeria studied the footage, and Valeria exclaimed that Superman existed and Shayera was his teammate.

Thor revealed that Shayera's world was an animated universe and that comics and movies reflected projections of the multiverse, leaving America and Shayera shaken by the discovery. Valeria instead became eager to research the DC Universe and began dismantling Shayera's war hammer, while Thor wondered about Franklin and Loki hiding their power.

• Valeria returned with DC Comics data and found that Shayera was not listed among the Justice League's big seven.
• Thor told Shayera that her world was an animated universe, and she collapsed after recognizing the events on screen.
• Thor explained that comics and movies reflected multiversal projections, prompting America to question whether her life was real.
• Reed connected Deadpool's fourth-wall-breaking behavior to knowledge of being in a story, and Thor confirmed it was one of Deadpool's abilities.
• Valeria said Franklin was sealing his own power, leading Thor to suspect that Franklin and Loki had discovered a hidden truth and concealed their strength.
• Valeria rushed to dismantle Shayera's war hammer for research, while Thor watched and considered the revelation.