Chapter Summaries

Thor encountered Cancerverse Strange and his grotesque allies while rushing to answer Wanda’s distress signal. He erased Cancerverse Thor with one swing of his axe, leaving Strange shaken as the four-armed Hulk remained at his side.

• Thor stopped outside Universe 199999b when Cancerverse Strange and a group of corrupted heroes blocked his way.
• Cancerverse Strange revealed a four-armed Hulk whose body held many negative laws, and Thor wondered whether Mephisto or Kang was involved.
• Cancerverse Strange said his group’s god was cooperating with them and became enraged when Thor mentioned the Many-Angled Ones.
• Thor casually swung his axe and erased Cancerverse Thor, including his war hammer, without leaving a trace.
• Cancerverse Strange lost his confidence in their plan while the four-armed Hulk remained expressionless.

Thor stayed behind to fight the Cancerverse forces, using Four-Armed Hulk to study its negative laws before erasing him. He tracked a watcher to a Kang variant, who surrendered and blamed Immortus.

• Thor sensed a force targeting the universe and decided to delay rescuing Wanda and the others while he dealt with the Cancerverse heroes.
• Four-Armed Hulk charged Thor, who fought back and analyzed the negative laws wrapped around Hulk's attacks.
• Cancerverse Strange ordered the other heroes to retreat after realizing Thor was using Hulk as research material.
• Thor erased Four-Armed Hulk with a speck of golden lightning after absorbing and mastering most of its negative laws.
• Thor sensed someone watching from several universes away, appeared in a room full of instruments, and confronted a Kang variant.
• The Kang variant dropped to his knees and pleaded for his life, claiming Immortus had made him do it.

Thor identified Immortus as the likely mastermind behind the threatened destruction of Universe 199999b and decided to secure the Eternity Crystal before confronting him. He traveled to Frost City and asked Jean Grey for help.

• Thor recognized the kneeling Kang variant’s device as a sneak attack and erased him with a clap.
• Thor concluded that Immortus planned to use the Eternity Crystal to erase Universe 199999b and eliminate Loki’s claim to the throne of time.
• Thor decided to gather reinforcements and opened a portal to Frost City.
• Thor found Rachel Summers playing with a small phoenix beside Jean Grey and Red Label Phoenix.
• Thor told Jean Grey that he needed her help.

Jean Grey agreed to accompany Thor and help protect Frost City as he pursued the Eternity Crystal in Limbo. Thor broke through Limbo’s attempt to seal the portal, and he and Jean arrived before Immortus and his army, where Immortus taunted Thor with the crystal.

• Jean Grey agreed to help Thor keep others safe while he dealt with a dangerous enemy.
• Thor traced the erased Kang variant’s timeline echo to Limbo and sensed the Eternity Crystal there.
• Thor forced open a portal despite Limbo’s attempt to seal it, and Jean Grey followed him through.
• Thor and Jean Grey arrived before Kang’s Damocles Base and its Time Legion.
• Immortus revealed the Eternity Crystal and challenged Thor to take it if he could survive.

Thor defeated Immortus after resisting the Eternity Crystal’s attempt to erase his existence and native universe. He seized Immortus’s time artifacts and learned that Loki had fallen under the attention of an unknown group, leaving Immortus to call out to them for help.

• Thor realized Immortus was using the Eternity Crystal to erase Thor’s native universe and thereby erase him.
• Thor anchored his existence and universe with his laws, overpowering the Eternity Crystal’s erasure.
• Thor erased Immortus’s mechanical legions and Damocles fortress with the Law of Oblivion, then struck Immortus down with chaos lightning.
• Thor seized Immortus and took the Eternity Crystal, a silver time sphere, and several time-based devices.
• Immortus told Thor that Loki had sat on the throne as the god of time and had fallen into “their” sight, then shouted into the void for help.

The Time-Keepers arrived in Limbo, abandoned Immortus, and watched as Thor erased him and claimed the Eternity Crystal. As Thor and Jean Grey prepared to leave, a strange wave swept through Limbo and shook the foundation of the multiverse.

• Ast, Zanth, and Vorth entered Limbo and declared that Immortus had violated his contract and deserved death.
• Thor mocked Immortus and erased him with the Law of Destruction, while Immortus warned that “they” were almost there.
• Thor took the Eternity Crystal and considered using it with Valeria’s help to free Loki from his burden at the end of time.
• Thor turned to leave with Jean Grey, but a fundamental crack and strange wave swept through Limbo, shaking Thor, Jean, and the Time-Keepers.

As the multiverse’s timelines began collapsing, Thor realized Loki at the end of time was in danger and tried to go help him. The three Time-Keepers blocked his way, intending to seize Loki’s authority over time, and attacked Thor as he prepared to fight them.

• Thor saw the multiverse’s timelines collapsing and realized Loki was the target of a threat connected to Immortus’s final words.
• Thor tried to open a portal to the end of time so he could aid Loki, but Ast, Zath, and Vorth appeared and stopped him.
• Ast declared that the Time-Keepers would take time’s authority from Loki and refused to let Thor pass.
• Thor grew furious at the guardians’ attempt to exploit Loki’s danger, while Jean sensed his killing intent and readied the Phoenix Force.
• Ast, Zath, and Vorth joined their powers and launched a gray-white torrent of time at Thor.

Thor confronted the three Keepers and exposed their secret attempt to erase the Scarlet Witch and her children, then held them off so Jean Grey could escape to the end of time and help Loki. The chapter ended with Thor wielding the Golden Battle Axe and challenging the Keepers to fight.

• Thor laughed at the Keepers’ attack and accused them of hiding behind timelines to secretly target the Scarlet Witch and her children.
• The Keepers flew into a rage, and Ast intensified their assault with three torrents of time.
• Thor summoned the Golden Battle Axe and told Jean Grey to go to the end of time and help Loki.
• Jean Grey broke through the Keepers’ time blockade and escaped through a rift.
• Thor blocked the Keepers’ attack with his axe and challenged them to battle.

Thor defeated the three Time-Keepers and rushed toward the end of time after sensing a disturbance at Loki’s golden throne. Meanwhile, Valeria arrived in Frost City and warned Emma that the multiverse was finished.

• Thor used the golden battle-axe to hold back the Time-Keepers’ torrent of time and sensed a tremor coming from the golden throne at the end of time.
• Thor tricked Ast into attacking, froze him with “Space freeze,” and erased him with the axe.
• Zath and Vorth fled, but Thor killed Zath with “Annihilation” and swallowed Vorth with “Devour.”
• Thor tore open a rift to the end of time and plunged through it with his battle-axe.
• Valeria crashed into Emma Frost’s garden in Frost City, grabbed Emma, and warned her that the multiverse was finished.

Emma and the assembled heroes discovered that a force of ghastly whiteness was erasing universes, leaving them only seventy-two hours before everything was destroyed. Franklin revealed that someone had gone to confront it, and the group could only wait for the result.

• Emma brought Valeria to the core laboratory and ordered the city placed on full combat alert.
• Valeria, Reed, and Doom found that the expanding white force was erasing universes and that neither science, magic, nor the Infinity Stones could stop it.
• The holographic display showed the multiverse rapidly turning black and gave a survival countdown of seventy-two hours.
• Doom urged Valeria to retreat with him to Latveria, but she refused to leave the city she had built.
• Franklin arrived and told everyone that someone had gone to fight the force, so they could only wait to see what happened.

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.