Chapter Summaries

Thor showed the Justice League footage of a doomed universe and offered its survivors a choice between helping build Frost City or settling in another universe. Before Batman could announce their decision, Thor was called back to the Watchtower, leaving Barry’s unspoken request to resurrect his mother unresolved.

• Thor told the Watchtower team that Superman’s poor judgment had led to Earth’s destruction and projected a complete record of the war against Darkseid’s forces.
• Thor informed the survivors that their universe had collapsed in his battle with Darkseid’s true body, and that the Darkseid they had fought was only an avatar.
• Thor offered the survivors a choice between moving to Frost City to help build it or settling in a similar universe guarded by another Justice League.
• Barry and Kara chose to go with Thor, while Barry hesitated to ask him to resurrect his mother; Thor considered creating a contribution system that could eventually grant such requests.
• Thor left after J’onn reported that Batman had finished watching the footage, and Batman arrived with the survivors to announce they had decided and ask where Thor was.

The Justice League debated whether to accept survivors from another universe, and Thor offered to settle them in Frost City after the team voted against helping them directly. As Thor left, Bruce thanked him for resurrecting his parents, and Thor replied with a joke that insulted the League.

• Bruce argued that the survivors should not be accepted, while Clark defended them and John Stewart, Wally, and Diana criticized their universe's Justice League.
• Bruce warned that the public might fear alternate versions of the heroes because of the Justice Lord incident, and the team voted five to one against taking in the survivors.
• Clark asked Thor to find the survivors a place to live, and Thor offered them work in his expanding territory, Frost City.
• Bruce thanked Thor for resurrecting Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne, and Thor joked that the League could not assemble one complete set of parents.
• Wally asked whether Thor had just insulted everyone in the conference room.

Thor brought more than thirty survivors to Frost City, where Emma assigned them jobs to help build and run the city. After Thor promised to resurrect Emma's deceased Hellions, Emma kissed him and vanished to reunite with them, and Tetiyu asked Thor how he would repay her for stopping Death from confronting him.

• Thor brought the survivors through a portal into Frost City, where they gaped at its advanced technology, floating Asgard, and everyday dinosaurs and unicorns.
• Thor reunited with Magneto and Lorna, who described losing her Terraria party to the Dungeon Guardian and returning with a pet shark.
• Emma arrived and assigned Superman, Martian Manhunter, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Shazam to construction; Batman to city management; and the others to delivery, the marine park, the botanical garden, or magic shows.
• Thor explained Frost City's contribution-point rewards to Emma and offered to resurrect her deceased students, the Hellions Squad.
• Emma kissed Thor, transformed into diamond particles, and left for her office to reunite with the Hellions.
• Tetiyu told Thor she had talked Death out of confronting him and asked how he would repay her.

At the end of time, Loki and Franklin confronted Tetiyu over her presence in the multiverse and her connection to Thor. After she left unharmed, Loki revealed that a coming crisis may make Thor the key to the multiverse’s fate.

• Franklin brought Tetiyu to the World Tree after Loki asked to speak with her.
• Loki warned Tetiyu that he could revoke her right to remain in his multiverse if she threatened it or Thor, while Franklin also insisted she could not harm Thor.
• Tetiyu said she had no intention of harming Thor and wondered why he was special, since she had encountered many other versions of him.
• Tetiyu vanished, and Franklin left after Loki said a new multiversal crisis was coming and Thor might be its key.
• Alone beneath the World Tree, Loki said he would hold out for Thor until the curtain fell as a bright timeline extended toward an unknown direction.

Thor learned that Franklin and his brother Loki could protect him from Death, then decided to join the Dark Nights: Metal conflict to obtain its metals. He left Kara to keep Valeria away from research and returned to his cabin, where he found Betsy, Dazzler, Rogue, Magik, Li Qianhuan, and Kitty Pryde partying.

• Death Tetiyu told Thor that Franklin and Loki had warned her not to harm him, and explained that their power made them capable of protecting him.
• Thor decided to go to the DC Prime Universe and collect or study the metals from the Dark Nights: Metal Event.
• Thor asked Kara to watch Valeria for a month and gave her Trigon's avatar as a reward if Valeria behaved.
• Thor left Death Tetiyu and went to his private cabin on Knowhere, hoping for some quiet after his kiss with Emma.
• Thor found Betsy, Dazzler, Rogue Anna, Magik Illyana, Li Qianhuan, and Kitty Pryde gathered in his cabin and asked why they were throwing a party there.

Thor returned to find Rogue, Magik, and the others partying at his home, then watched a report about the Avengers’ Christmas gathering in the Prime Universe. After Scott Lang’s ill-timed remark jinxed the party, Tony Stark headed through a portal to confront a giant sea serpent threatening a cargo ship.

• Thor found the visitors partying in his home and realized Emma Frost had sent them there.
• Rogue Anna showed Thor a live broadcast of the Avengers’ Christmas party in the Prime Universe.
• Tony Stark teased Peter Parker about his romantic interests and announced that Scott Lang had won their bet.
• Scott celebrated Christmas being peaceful, prompting JARVIS to report a giant sea serpent rising from a wormhole beneath a crude-oil tanker.
• Tony activated the Mark 138 Godkiller armor and opened a portal to the Atlantic, threatening Scott before heading into the storm.

Tony Stark used the seven-hundred-meter Anti-Celestial Armor to battle and defeat a giant sea serpent in the Atlantic, then took its head and body through a portal. The livestream ended with the stormy ocean empty, leaving Thor and the girls stunned by Tony’s new armor.

• Tony Stark jumped from a golden portal toward the Atlantic, and Stark Industries satellites assembled the Anti-Celestial Armor around him before he hit the sea.
• The Anti-Celestial Armor punched a giant sea serpent back beneath the waves, then fought it while JARVIS piloted the armor.
• The serpent damaged the armor with electricity, poisonous mist, and massive water attacks, prompting Tony to activate a golden magical shield.
• Tony formed a giant Sword of Vishanti and severed the serpent’s head with one slash.
• Tony carried the serpent’s head and body through a golden portal, and Thor turned off the livestream after the girls watched in stunned silence.

Thor welcomed Betsy and the girls at his cabin, learned that Alison Blaire had become Frost City’s biggest singer, and found Betsy waiting to discuss a very different kind of business with him. The chapter ended with Betsy kissing Thor and pushing him backward.

• Thor learned that Valeria had given the girls a tablet to watch Stark’s internal livestream.
• Thor discovered that Betsy often brought the girls to his cabin while he was away, then sent them home for the night.
• Li Qianhuan told Thor that Alison Blaire had become Frost City’s hottest singer, and Thor praised Alison’s success.
• After the girls left, Thor began to raise a deal concerning the survival of every species in the universe.
• Betsy asked how long Thor would stay, made a suggestive seafood remark, kissed him, and pushed him backward.

Thor toured Frost City and spoke with Wanda, who thanked him for resurrecting her parents and asked for reassurance about their relationship. After Thor promised she would always have a place in his heart, Wanda proposed they try to have a child, and Thor carried her away to begin.

• Thor explored Frost City's residential, commercial, arena, and ecological districts after its expansion for the mutants from Genosha.
• Thor found Wanda beneath the transplanted World Tree and learned she had been looking for him to thank him for bringing her parents back to life.
• Wanda told Thor she knew about his other relationships and asked him to promise she would always have a place in his heart.
• Thor assured Wanda he had chosen her and that he had turned down Madame Hydra, and Wanda used Chaos Magic to confirm he was telling the truth.
• Wanda admitted she feared becoming like destructive versions of herself from parallel universes, and Thor warned that having children might be difficult for him.
• Wanda insisted they try harder to have a child, and Thor carried her away from the botanical garden.

Doom Supreme and his villains watched the heroes of Earth-199999 and chose to invade a damaged timeline first. They sent Demonic Phantoms, Corrupted Nanobots, and vanguard fleets toward Earth-199999 to keep its heroes occupied as the group departed through a portal.

• Young Thanos claimed Iron Man as his target, while Mystique, in her Dark Phoenix form, claimed the Sorcerer Supreme and the host of Chaos Magic.
• Doom Supreme judged Earth-199999’s heroes too strong for a direct confrontation and ordered the group to attack a damaged universe instead.
• King Killmonger detected a nearby timeline with fewer than one in ten heroes remaining, and Doom Supreme opened a portal to it.
• Doom Supreme ordered Ghost Green Goblin to release Demonic Phantoms and Black Skull to release Corrupted Nanobots against Earth-199999.
• Young Thanos sent several vanguard fleets toward Earth-199999, and Doom Supreme, Dark Phoenix, King Killmonger, Black Skull, Young Thanos, and Ghost Green Goblin entered the portal.
• Demonic Phantoms and swarms of nanobots surged toward Earth-199999 as the portal closed behind the villains.

The Avengers discovered that Victor von Doom had sent the sea serpent through a portal, then detected a massive invasion of Earth by nanobots, fleets, and demon phantoms. Thor arrived to confront the attackers, but Rhodey revealed that this was their Thor, not the Thor they had been expecting.

• Tony Stark analyzed the dead sea serpent and concluded that someone had deliberately opened and closed the portal that brought it to Earth.
• Valeria identified the portal as one commonly used by her godfather, Victor von Doom, and described his mastery of science and magic as rivaling the best.
• The Avengers learned that Wanda was visiting Thor on Knowhere, easing their worries until JARVIS detected invasions from space and the spirit realm.
• Steve Rogers ordered everyone to prepare for battle as the invading forces advanced on Earth.
• The Bifrost brought a potbellied Thor into space to face the attackers, and Rhodey pointed out that he was their Thor, not the other Thor they had discussed.

The Avengers split up to fight a cosmic invasion of nanobots and demonic spirits, while Fat Thor battled the enemy fleets in space. Jane Foster and War Machine joined him as the battle intensified.

• Tony Stark explained that the invading Fat Thor was the original Thor from another universe, while the other Thor was an upgraded version.
• Tony Stark and Strange traveled through a portal and attacked the demon phantoms with magic.
• Natasha Romanoff, Jane Foster, Vision, and War Machine left Avengers Tower to join the fighting, while the ground-based heroes remained behind.
• Fat Thor destroyed thousands of nanobots but was nearly struck from behind by an outpost ship until Jane Foster destroyed its cannon with Mjolnir.
• Jane Foster reunited with Fat Thor, told him to focus on the battle, and teased him about his belly as War Machine joined the assault.

At Frost City, Kara reported that Valeria had gone missing, and Thor suspected the child had escaped to Wanda’s Earth. Wanda sensed a dangerous disturbance there, so she and Thor traveled through a portal to investigate.

• Wanda asked Thor how he had made ancient sea predators coexist, and Thor credited Arthur and Mera with keeping them calm.
• Kara told Thor that Valeria had escaped while bathing, and Thor teased her before ordering her to bathe with the child in the future.
• Wanda sensed a dangerous disturbance on her Earth and told Thor she needed to return.
• Thor suspected Valeria had traveled to Wanda’s universe and opened a portal to Kamar-Taj.
• Wanda and Thor went through the portal, and Kara vanished from the ocean park afterward.

Thor stopped Tony Stark and Strange’s battle against demonic phantoms, then went to Avengers Tower to retrieve Valeria after learning she planned to combine Doomsday’s and Amazo’s abilities. He confiscated her escape devices and sent her through a portal to an apartment, leaving the Avengers stunned.

• Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos Magic erased the demonic phantoms, and Thor asked Tony Stark where Valeria was before vanishing to find her.
• Valeria tried to escape Avengers Tower using a cross-dimensional teleportation protocol, but Thor grabbed her and disabled the teleportation.
• Thor confiscated Valeria’s watch and hair-clip computer, then told the Avengers she and Reed had researched combining Doomsday’s and Amazo’s abilities.
• Peter Parker explained that Doomsday adapted to whatever killed it and Amazo could copy Metahuman abilities, alarming the heroes.
• Thor opened a portal and threw Valeria through it, where a black-haired figure in a black T-shirt caught her.

The Avengers returned after fighting Demonic Phantoms and nanobots, and Thor identified Doctor Doom as connected to the Masters of Evil League. He discovered that the League had targeted the universe where he had lived his first life and vanished to confront the threat.

• Tony Stark thanked Thor for resurrecting Howard Stark and his wife, while Thor asked why Tony's universe kept facing strange threats.
• Tony told Thor that Valeria had revealed her godfather, Victor von Doom, opened the portal that sent the sea serpent to the Atlantic.
• Thor explained that the Masters of Evil League hunted heroes across universes, backed by the Red Council of 615 Mephistos.
• Banner suggested the League might have found an easier universe to attack, and Thor traced the portal's magic to the universe where he had lived his first life.
• Thor told Steve Rogers there was a small problem in his universe and disappeared, leaving the Avengers shocked.

Steve Rogers and his team fought through a city overrun by undead skeletons, but the enemies overwhelmed them. Amadeus Cho transformed into Hulk and carried the surviving team to safety as the skeletal horde continued to consume the city.

• Kraven the Hunter warned Steve Rogers that danger was nearby, and Cyclone Lei Ling sensed enemies closing in from every direction.
• The team fled through the ruins but found themselves surrounded by countless undead skeletons.
• Steve Rogers, Kraven, Luna Snow, Cyclone, Moonstone, White Fox, and Amadeus Cho fought the skeletons, but the endless horde began to overwhelm them.
• After Steve ordered Amadeus Cho to get the others out, Amadeus transformed into Hulk and cleared a path with a powerful shockwave.
• Hulk carried the survivors across the rooftops while Moonstone and Cyclone guarded them from the air, and Steve lamented the ruined world.

After escaping the city, the exhausted survivors hid in a mountain forest, where grief and tension sparked a confrontation between Steve Rogers and Moonstone Kara Sofen. Kraven the Hunter made them a meal, and Luna Snow’s song briefly soothed the group, reaching Steve as he sat apart.

• Amadeus Cho reverted from Hulk to human form after carrying the survivors to safety in the forest.
• Luna Snow despaired over their flight, and Cyclone Lei Ling rebuked Moonstone Kara Sofen when she mocked her.
• Steve Rogers erupted in anger and threatened Kara, but White Fox Ami Han and the others stopped them before a fight began.
• Amadeus asked Steve to keep quiet so they would not attract the skeletons, and Steve withdrew to sit alone.
• Kraven the Hunter made fish soup, and the survivors gathered around the fire to eat.
• Luna Snow hummed a gentle melody that quieted the group, while Steve’s shoulders trembled as he listened from a distance.

Amora, Angela, Valkyrie, Lorelei, and Heimdall hid in a cave in ruined Vanaheim and mourned Thor and Loki, with Heimdall confirming that Thor had died ending Ragnarok. Their grief was interrupted when Ghost Green Goblin, Killmonger, and Black Phoenix Mystique cornered them.

• Valkyrie complained that they had no wine while Amora warned her that Hela's undead skeletons filled the conquered lands.
• Angela asked whether Thor and Loki were dead, and Amora recounted how Hela had killed Loki during Ragnarok.
• Amora said she cared about Thor but valued her own life more, while Angela reminded her of their past connection.
• Lorelei suggested Heimdall use his sight to check on Thor, and Heimdall confirmed Thor had died and returned to Valhalla.
• Amora sensed someone approaching, and Ghost Green Goblin flew into the cave with Killmonger and Black Phoenix Mystique, threatening the five survivors.

Killmonger, Ghost Green Goblin, and Black Phoenix Mystique overwhelmed the five Asgardians in a battle that left them helpless and on the verge of death. Just as the Masters of Evil League prepared to finish them off, a man’s voice sounded from the sky.

• Amora told Lorelei to help her hold off Black Phoenix Mystique while the others dealt with Killmonger and Ghost Green Goblin.
• Ghost Green Goblin’s Hellfire bomb began the fight, and Killmonger engaged Heimdall as the combatants burst out of the collapsing cave.
• Ghost Green Goblin used Penance Stare to incapacitate Valkyrie, while Angela, Heimdall, Amora, and Lorelei were driven back by their attackers.
• Within ten minutes, Ghost Green Goblin bound Angela, Killmonger broke Heimdall’s knee, and Black Phoenix Mystique pinned Amora and Lorelei with the Phoenix Force.
• As the three attackers prepared to kill the fallen Asgardians, an unfamiliar man called out from the sky, noticing several familiar auras.

Thor returned to Vanaheim and effortlessly defeated the Masters of Evil, destroying Black Phoenix Mystique and killing Ghost Green Goblin after crippling him. He greeted the stunned Asgardians and mocked them for losing to three weak opponents.

• Thor emerged through a portal, ignored Ghost Green Goblin's Pumpkin Bombs, and crushed him into a crater with one hand.
• Thor struck Killmonger with golden lightning, burning through his Vibranium Suit and killing him.
• Black Phoenix Mystique challenged Thor with the Phoenix Force, but Thor summoned a golden phoenix that annihilated her Dark Phoenix and erased her.
• Thor's golden phoenixes killed Mystique, and he collected the dispersed Phoenix Force.
• Thor finished the recovering Ghost Green Goblin with Oblivion Divine Lightning, then greeted the five stunned Asgardians and teased them for losing to three small fry.