Chapter Summaries

Darkseid attacked Cronus, forcing the Old Gods to unite against him while Parademons swarmed Themyscira. With the Justice League badly injured, Batman considered how to respond and went to ask Thor for help, leaving the story with Batman confronting him on a fishing boat.

• Darkseid struck Cronus with his Omega Beams, and Ares, Hades, and Cronus turned their attention to him as their battle began.
• Parademons poured through Boom Tubes onto Themyscira, forcing the Amazon Warriors and Titan giants to fight together.
• At the Watchtower, Batman decided the Justice League should help the Titans, ordered other members to protect civilians, and asked Diana whether she could contact Zeus.
• Doctor Fate and Zatanna said they might banish Hades but could not handle Ares or Darkseid, while Batman disappeared from the room.
• Batman appeared on Thor's fishing boat in the Maldives and told him they needed to talk.

Thor refused Batman’s request for help unless Diana came to beg him, while Darkseid overwhelmed Themyscira’s defenders. Diana swallowed her anger and went to Thor, asking him to help.

• Batman arrived on Thor’s boat and asked what Thor wanted in exchange for helping the Justice League.
• Thor demanded that Diana come and beg him, so Batman teleported back to the Watchtower with his answer.
• Batman showed Diana that Darkseid was gaining ground against Cronus, Hades, and Ares as Parademons overwhelmed the defenders.
• Diana agreed to go to Thor despite her anger and humiliation.
• Diana appeared on Thor’s boat and asked him to help them.

Thor rejected Diana’s plea for help, humiliated her into backing down, and then flew off in Asgardian armor to face the invasion. At the Watchtower, the League watched Darkseid’s forces devastate Earth as a global thunderstorm erupted, revealing the scale of Thor’s power.

• Thor said Diana’s request was insincere, and her anger nearly drove her to attack him.
• Thor dodged Diana’s punch, dunked her in the sea, and warned he would not help if she kept glaring at him.
• Thor told Shayera to watch Galatea, summoned his armor and hammer, and flew away.
• Diana returned to the Watchtower, where the League watched Themyscira fall and Parademons attack cities around the world.
• A severe storm covered the globe, and John Stewart and Wally West reacted to the display of Thor’s power.

Thor intervened in the battle over Themyscira, eradicated Darkseid and the remaining Titans and Old Gods, and healed the wounded Amazons. He left after telling Hippolyta he had only helped Diana, as the storms cleared across the world.

• At the Pentagon, Amanda Waller abandoned plans to control or target Thor after witnessing his power.
• Thor's lightning saved heroes and civilians around the world by wiping out Parademons.
• Thor challenged Darkseid to endure one hammer strike and erased him with Mjolnir after overpowering his Omega Beams.
• Thor's seven-colored lightning dragon erased Ares, Cronus, and the surviving Titans, while Hades escaped to the Underworld.
• Thor healed the wounded Amazons, told Hippolyta he had helped Diana, and departed as the global storm vanished.

Kara sought help understanding a crystal sphere Thor had casually created after telling her it could make her a powerhouse. The Justice League’s magic experts identified it as a pocket dimension, revealing the extraordinary nature of Thor’s creation.

• Kara showed Oliver a miniature world in a crystal sphere and demonstrated that she could turn coal into a giant diamond, but she remained confused about Thor’s challenge.
• Oliver called Wally West and left him to investigate the sphere with Kara.
• Wally’s attempts to study the sphere failed, so he brought it with Kara to the Watchtower.
• Zatanna and Doctor Fate reacted gravely to the sphere, and Doctor Fate identified it as a pocket dimension casually made by a top-tier existence.

Batman questioned Kara about Thor’s pocket dimension, and Doctor Fate and Zatanna confirmed it was stable and safe. As the League debated the danger posed by Thor’s reality-altering power, Oracle urgently reported that Thor had caused big trouble.

• Batman confronted Kara and questioned her for hiding the pocket dimension, while Wally defended her and set the crystal ball on the table.
• Zatanna sensed pure creative power and a strong seal in the crystal ball, and Doctor Fate confirmed the dimension was stable, small, and nearly impossible to collapse.
• Batman considered Thor’s ability to create a world a threat beyond the League’s known classifications.
• Superman entered and urged Batman not to be so wary, but Batman invoked the Justice Lord Superman incident as a warning.
• Oracle contacted the conference room and urgently told Bruce that Thor had caused big trouble.

Thor announced a global hunt for seven Asgardian artifacts, promising an unconditional wish to whoever gathered them all, then revealed their powers and eligibility conditions to the Justice League. He left the League facing a worldwide scramble and singled out Batman, framing the artifacts as a challenge to his contingency plans.

• Thor appeared at a live press conference with Galatea and Shayera Hol, silenced a reporter, and announced that he would scatter seven divine artifacts across Earth.
• Thor promised that whoever gathered all seven artifacts could make one wish, then sent them flying in seven directions around the world.
• Thor, Galatea, and Shayera appeared in the League's conference hall, where Thor displayed each artifact's conditions and powers.
• Thor teased Batman that the artifacts were global backup plans that could let anyone challenge him, then vanished with Galatea and Shayera.
• The League remained stunned as the artifact rules lingered before them and Batman silently watched the golden runes.

Batman organized the Justice League to locate seven reality-altering artifacts scattered across Earth after Thor released them, while The Question warned that the artifacts were bait meant to provoke Batman. Batman acknowledged the trap but insisted on finding them, declaring that he would not back down even if Thor was a god.

• Wally, John Stewart, Clark, Diana, and the others discussed the artifacts’ dangers as Batman ordered Oracle to monitor the globe and dispatched League members to search for them.
• Batman assigned J'onn and John to profile potential artifact bearers and sent Diana, Doctor Fate, and Zatanna to locate the artifacts through magic.
• Barbara relayed Alfred’s invitation to dinner at the manor, and Batman said he would try to attend despite the crisis.
• The Question argued that Thor had planted the artifacts as bait to manipulate Batman and stir global chaos.
• Batman stored the artifact text in the League’s database and insisted that the League had to secure all seven artifacts.
• The Question warned Batman that pursuing the artifacts would play into Thor’s plan, but Batman called Thor’s actions a declaration of war and refused to back down.

Thor explained that he had created the seven divine artifacts on a whim and would grant a wish if someone gained all their recognition. A mysterious man appeared on the island, and Thor identified him as Jehovah, the creator of their universe.

• Thor told Galatea and Shayera that he had made the divine artifacts to give Batman something to do and had never expected anyone to collect them all.
• Thor said he would grant the wish of anyone recognized by all seven artifacts, unless they wished to destroy the multiverse.
• Shayera sensed someone behind Thor and raised her warhammer as a suited man appeared holding a sphere that contained the cosmos.
• Thor recognized the man as an existence beyond any power he had encountered, lowered Stormbreaker, and named him God, Jehovah, the creator of their universe.

Thor met the Creator of the DC Universe, who revealed that he had been watching Thor’s actions and offered him a glimpse of the law of existence. After the Creator disappeared, Thor opened a portal to Frost City in the Marvel Universe, and the Creator allowed them to pass.

• The Creator identified Thor’s powers and his seven-object test, then told him that living beings chose their own paths rather than following an outsider’s script.
• Thor used his Comprehension to study the Creator’s laws, and the Creator left him with the law of existence to comprehend.
• Thor thanked the Creator, who said he had appeared because Thor was interesting and might help him create a similar being.
• The Creator vanished, and Galatea and Shayera recovered from their shock as Thor explained that he was far stronger than them.
• Thor opened a portal to Frost City, sensed the Creator’s approval, and invited Galatea and Shayera to come with him.

Thor brought Shayera and Galatea to Frost City, where its strange mix of futuristic technology, superheroes, and dinosaurs astonished them. He offered Galatea a chance to stay and find her own path, then introduced Madelyne Pryor as a mentor who could help her decide.

• Thor led Shayera and Galatea through Frost City and showed them its unusual inhabitants and attractions.
• Galatea saw the golden palace of Asgard and met several of Frost City's familiar residents as Thor gave them a tour.
• Thor asked Galatea whether she wanted to return to her old life as a Cadmus weapon or stay and be herself.
• Galatea admitted that she did not know, so Thor offered to find her a mentor with similar experiences.
• Madelyne Pryor arrived, agreed to mentor Galatea, and asked Thor for a reward.

Maria Hill reflected on her place in Frost City after leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. and took Peter’s advice to do what she wanted. Emma Frost then unexpectedly gave her a day off, leaving Hill unsure how to spend it.

• Maria Hill described her exhausting work as Emma Frost’s secretary-general and her adjustment to Frost City’s strange residents and powerful inhabitants.
• At Peter’s hot dog stand, Peter asked Hill what she planned to do and advised her to do what she wanted.
• Hill returned to her apartment and received a message from Emma Frost granting her the next day off.
• Hill looked at her hot dog and wondered what she should do with her free day.

Thor transformed the wasteland outside Frost City into a Terraria-inspired region filled with biomes, monsters, and crafting materials. Emma Frost organized the new area as an attraction for the city, while she decided to accompany Thor on his next trip.

• Thor used the Laws of Reality, Creation, and Existence to shape six biomes, a dungeon, an inland sea, an underground jungle, hell, and floating islands outside Frost City.
• Thor explained that monsters would drop materials for crafting equipment and summoning bosses, and Emma Frost tested the idea by killing a blue slime.
• Emma Frost requested a guide to the monsters and bosses, then planned to limit adventurers and collect a thirty-percent tax on their materials.
• Valeria studied the slimes and asked to dissect Thor, but he refused, so she flew toward the dungeon to investigate more creatures.
• Emma Frost questioned Thor about the two women he had brought back, then said she would join him on his next trip and leave Maria Hill in charge of Frost City.

Thor set the Terraria dungeon’s boss difficulty and Emma Frost organized its entry limits, taxes, currency, and rare-ore collection. In Frost City, Deadpool harassed Galatea until she stabbed him twice.

• Thor made the early Terraria bosses Surface Level, Hardmode bosses Highfather Level, and the Moon Lord Universe Level.
• Emma Frost ordered Maria Hill to limit dungeon entry to five hundred people daily, collect a thirty-percent city tax, peg Frost currency to dungeon coins, and send rare ores to Valeria’s lab.
• Maria Hill left Peter Parker’s food stand for Asgard while Peter reflected on life in Knowhere and served General Ross.
• Deadpool pestered Galatea in the street as Madelyne watched, until Galatea seized his sword and stabbed him twice in the chest.

Madelyne sent Deadpool flying after he taunted her, and he crashed into the Dungeon Guardian pursuing Valeria on the Terraria Continent. Betsy and Emma tested the Guardian’s defenses while Thor watched, and Valeria left through a portal to fetch a planet destroyer cannon.

• Galatea stabbed Deadpool repeatedly, and Madelyne told her to ignore him until Deadpool insulted her and she hurled him into the sky with telekinesis.
• Valeria fled the Dungeon Guardian on her hoverboard, firing weapons that barely damaged it, and led it toward Thor.
• Deadpool fell from the sky and smashed into the Dungeon Guardian, breaking apart on its bones.
• Emma and Betsy attacked the Dungeon Guardian, dealing only three damage per hit, while its charges failed to harm Emma’s Star Diamond Body.
• Valeria complained that Thor’s boss was overpowered, then threatened to bring a planet destroyer cannon and went through a spatial portal.

Valeria and Reed Richards joined Thor in Terraria, where Valeria’s weapons helped Emma Frost defeat the Dungeon Guardian. Thor then tested time differences between universes, and Reed theorized that the DC Universe belonged to a separate multiverse; Thor invited Reed and Valeria to investigate it firsthand.

• Valeria brought Reed Richards and Susan Stone through the portal, then deployed an arsenal against the Dungeon Guardian after Thor called her weak.
• Emma Frost shielded herself in her Star Diamond Body while Valeria’s weapons battered the Dungeon Guardian until it shattered and dropped a Bone Key.
• Emma Frost gave the Bone Key to Reed and Valeria, who studied it and the miniature Dungeon Guardian it summoned.
• Thor opened portals to the DC Universe and Marvel parallel universes, finding that two months had passed on DC Earth during a day and a half in his universe.
• Reed proposed that the Marvel and DC Universes belonged to separate larger multiversal sets and that Thor’s presence had stabilized their connection.
• Thor invited Reed and Valeria to visit the DC Universe with him, and Valeria eagerly accepted the prospect of studying a different multiverse.

The Justice League tested seven ancient artifacts, and J'onn J'onzz unexpectedly earned the recognition of all of them. As the heroes questioned what that meant, a pale blue portal opened in the Watchtower and a tall figure began to step through.

• Batman explained the artifacts' conditions and said none of the League members had been recognized by all seven.
• Superman, Wonder Woman, Wally West, John, and Batman each tested the artifacts, but none could activate every one.
• J'onn J'onzz lifted and activated all seven artifacts, leaving the League astonished and Batman suspicious.
• Wally wondered how long Thor had been away from Earth, and a pale blue portal opened in the conference room as a tall figure stepped through.

Thor brought the Fantastic Four and their allies to the Watchtower, where Valeria seized control of its systems and tensions rose between the newcomers and the Justice League. He revived Martian Manhunter’s wife and daughter, but a woman then accused him of taking her clients for the second time.

• Thor arrived and asked Martian Manhunter what wish he wanted granted.
• Reed Richards, Valeria, Emma Frost, Betsy, and Susan Storm stepped through the portal, and Valeria took control of the Watchtower network.
• Emma Frost probed the Justice League members’ minds, prompting Martian Manhunter to block her and Diana and Betsy to prepare for a fight.
• Thor used four laws to resurrect Martian Manhunter’s wife, M'yri'ah, and daughter, K'hym, who reunited with him.
• A woman’s voice accused Thor of snatching away her clients for the second time.

Death of the Endless confronted Thor for resurrecting two people who had been dead for a long time, but offered to overlook future resurrections if he granted her a request. She asked him to take her to the Marvel Universe, and Thor eagerly agreed.

• Death appeared before Thor and the gathered Justice League and Marvel heroes, revealing that she knew he had resurrected the dead.
• Thor addressed her as Lady Tetiyu and said God had permitted him to change certain established realities.
• Death warned Thor that resurrecting people who had been dead for a long time disrupted the universe's order and said this was the second time he had poached her clients.
• Martian Manhunter offered to take the blame, but Death told him he could not bear it.
• Death proposed that Thor take her to the Marvel Universe in exchange for overlooking his future resurrections, and Thor immediately agreed.

Thor arranged for Batman to host his companions and offered to resurrect Bruce Wayne’s parents, then chose to travel with Death Tetiyu to the Flashpoint universe. The two vanished from the conference room, leaving Batman to grapple with the possibility of seeing his parents again.

• Thor asked Death Tetiyu to come with him, and she agreed to stay by his side while she investigated why he had received a special exemption.
• Thor asked Batman to find places for his companions and offered to upgrade his technology or resurrect his parents; Batman was left stunned by the offer.
• Thor told Emma Frost, Betsy, Mister Fantastic, Valeria, and Susan that their trip across universes was postponed and warned them not to cause trouble.
• Death Tetiyu told Thor to choose their next destination, and he selected the Flashpoint universe.
• Death Tetiyu opened a pitch-black vortex, and she and Thor disappeared from the conference room.