Chapter Summaries

Tony Stark confronted Carl Creel, the Absorbing Man, after finding a Manhattan street full of petrified people. As Tony struggled against Creel and his petrifying hammer, Thor and Loki arrived with an army from the Nine Realms, and Thor attacked before Tony could stop him from letting Creel touch Mjolnir.

• Tony Stark found a Manhattan neighborhood filled with stone statues and located a terrified survivor hiding in an alley.
• Carl Creel, the Absorbing Man, arrived and petrified the survivor with Destroyer's Hammer before Tony attacked him.
• Jarvis identified Creel and reported that he could imitate materials he had touched, but could not analyze the hammer's petrifying magic.
• Creel smashed Tony's shield and sent him crashing to the ground, but Tony retaliated with his Gustav Cannon and began melting Creel's metal body.
• Thor and Loki arrived through a void vortex, and Thor announced that he had brought an army from the Nine Realms.
• Thor threw Mjolnir at Creel despite Tony's urgent warning not to let Creel touch the hammer.

Thor, Loki, and Iron Man fought Absorbing Man, who used Destroyer's Hammer to absorb Mjolnir and grow stronger. Thor was knocked out, and Loki’s magic and daggers failed to harm their opponent.

• Thor charged Absorbing Man with Mjolnir while Iron Man warned him not to let the enemy touch the hammer.
• Absorbing Man used Destroyer's Hammer to trap Mjolnir and absorb its Uru Metal, transforming his body into silver armor.
• Thor hesitated without Mjolnir, but refused to abandon the weapon and faced Absorbing Man barehanded.
• Absorbing Man struck Thor with Destroyer's Hammer and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Iron Man asked Loki to summon Odin, but she said Odin was bedridden after the Sorcerer Supreme defeated him.
• Loki attacked with enchanted daggers and magical duplicates, but her blows only sparked against Absorbing Man's steel body.

Luke arrived in Manhattan and defeated Absorbing Man with a single punch after the Mystic Arts Masters trapped the battlefield in the Mirror Dimension. He left Mjolnir intact, while Iron Man, Loki, and Strange stared at the devastation.

• Loki failed to damage Absorbing Man, who smashed the street with Destroyer's Hammer and knocked Thor unconscious.
• Iron Man and Loki realized Hulk and Red Skull's Daughter were approaching, and Iron Man prepared to cover Loki's retreat while she rescued Thor.
• Mystic Arts Masters opened gateways across Manhattan, and Luke emerged after returning from Kamar-Taj.
• Luke enlarged himself with Hoggoth's Ancient Body and punched Absorbing Man, destroying him and much of the surrounding city.
• Luke left Mjolnir behind, while Strange, Loki, and Iron Man reacted in shock to his power.

Luke defeated Absorbing Man and learned that Serpent Kur had withdrawn the Hammer Worthy, while the armies of the Nine Realms gathered for the coming battle. After seeing Thor buried in rubble and hearing that the other Thor was drifting in orbit, Luke doubted Asgard’s prophecy and wondered how the final battle could follow its script.

• Luke destroyed Absorbing Man with one punch and told Strange that a melee mage could handle any foe by punching harder.
• Luke reassured Iron Man that Manhattan would return to normal when the Mirror Dimension spell ended.
• Serpent Kur sensed trouble, then used ghostly green flames to retrieve the remaining Hammer Worthy and Destroyer’s Hammer.
• Strange and the Kamar-Taj mages dug Thor out from under the rubble as Luke questioned whether he could fulfill the prophecy to kill Serpent Kur.
• Iron Man showed satellite footage of Fat Otaku Thor sending Hulk into orbit, and Luke wondered how the coming battle could match Asgard’s prophecy.

After the battle with the Hammer Wielders, Luke gathered the heroes and prepared them for a final assault on Serpent Kur in Antarctica. He forged enchanted assault rifles for the coming war, then challenged Tony Stark to prove his courage by jumping into a blazing furnace to enchant his Iron Suit.

• Luke brought the unconscious Thors back from space, and Loki slapped both of them awake; Fat Otaku Thor immediately asked how Loki was.
• Luke told Iron Man and the others that Serpent Kur's realm was rising in Antarctica and that their armies would attack in two days.
• Luke arranged for dwarven artisans to forge enchanted weapons from Asgard's armory, then demonstrated an Odin-blessed AK74 to Iron Man.
• Luke explained that the Avengers would need enchanted weapons to destroy Serpent Kur's undead army and promised unlimited ammunition for their assault rifles.
• Tony asked Luke to enchant his Iron Suit, and Luke told him to put it on and jump into a blazing furnace.

Iron Man endured the fiery baptism and received an enchanted suit before Luke assembled the armies of the Nine Realms, Kamar-Taj, and the Avengers in Antarctica. Serpent Kur unleashed Nibelungen’s Undead Army, and the two forces collided in battle.

• Iron Man jumped into the steel furnace and emerged with an enchanted Iron Suit after receiving the gods’ blessing.
• Luke ordered the enchanted weapons distributed and armed the Avengers and Asgard’s legions for the coming war.
• Strange led Kamar-Taj’s Mystic Arts Masters in opening portals for the armies of Jotunheim, the Flame Kingdom, Asgard, and Vanaheim to arrive in Antarctica.
• Odin saw the allied armies approach Serpent Kur’s palace and noticed that two Thors stood among them.
• Serpent Kur summoned Nibelungen’s Undead Army and the recalled Hammer Worthy, and they charged into battle against the allied forces.

Heimdall and Luke watched the battle against Serpent Kur’s Army of the Dead as the two Thors and Iron Man cut through its ranks. When Serpent Kur sent the remaining Hammer Worthy after the Thors, Luke sensed a powerful presence hidden inside the Fear Itself Realm.

• Heimdall stayed behind in Asgard and hoped Thor could break the fate of Ragnarok.
• The two Thors and Iron Man carved through the Army of the Dead across the Antarctic ice fields.
• Luke declined to intervene, saying whoever killed Serpent Kur would be the child of prophecy.
• Serpent Kur sent the remaining Hammer Worthy to attack the two Thors.
• Luke sensed a violent aura inside the Fear Itself Realm and saw a tall figure floating within ghostly green flames.

Thor and Fat Otaku Thor fought the Worthy of the Hammers, but their side was overwhelmed as the Avengers failed to intervene. Luke sensed a powerful hidden opponent and contacted the Vishanti, while the mysterious man in the Fear Itself Realm remembered that he was Sentry.

• Thor chose to fight the owner of Annihilator's Hammer, but Nerkodd and the new owner of Destroyer's Hammer joined in and forced him into a stalemate.
• Fat Otaku Thor attacked Hulk, but Hulk's strength and Skirn's Hammer sent him crashing into an iceberg.
• Strange watched the Avengers struggle against the Army of the Dead and urged Luke to intervene, while Serpent Kur blocked anyone from helping the two Thors.
• Luke sensed that the concealed figure's power rivaled or surpassed Odin's and contacted the Vishanti for assistance.
• The man in the Fear Itself Realm remembered his name as Robert Reynolds, rejected that identity as weak, and declared himself the invincible Sentry.

Luke investigated the unknown ninth Hammer Worthy and learned that Robert Reynolds, a dead criminal tied to a suspicious energy experiment, was Serpent Kur’s chosen host. The Sentry then appeared in the Fear Itself Realm, announcing himself as invincible and making the battle far more dangerous.

• Luke asked Iron Man to obtain the crash sites and host records for the Fear Itself Hammers, but found no match for the mysterious Hammer Worthy.
• Superman contacted the Vishanti and negotiated higher payment and promises in exchange for fighting Serpent Kur and the unknown enemy.
• The Vishanti identified Serpent Kur’s ninth Hammer Worthy as Robert Reynolds.
• Iron Man found that Reynolds had criminal records and had supposedly died in an explosion at Norson Laboratory three months earlier.
• Luke connected Reynolds to the laboratory’s dangerous human-enhancement research as the Fear Itself Realm shook and Serpent Kur’s palace crumbled.
• A golden figure appeared and proclaimed, “I am the Sentry, the invincible Sentry! The powerful Sentry!”

Serpent Kur revealed Sentry as the ninth host of a Fear Itself Hammer and his final weapon against the Nine Realms, while Luke identified him as Robert Reynolds and prepared to face him. Sentry’s unstable mind drove him to crush a Hammer Worthy, shatter Soul Eater’s Hammer, and turn his attention toward Kur.

• Serpent Kur told Odin that Sentry was the ninth host of a Fear Itself Hammer and his final trump card for destroying the Nine Realms.
• Luke identified Sentry as Robert Reynolds, believed dead after an explosion at Norson Laboratory, and learned his power was still increasing.
• Luke revealed that Sentry was roughly his equal in raw strength and readied himself as his Stellar Energy began to boil.
• Robert Reynolds struggled with green Fear God-force and a dark shadow in his mind, then viewed everyone around him as ants.
• Sentry crushed a Hammer Worthy and shattered Soul Eater's Hammer with his bare hand.
• Serpent Kur ordered Sentry to kill Thor, but Sentry called Kur an ant.

Serpent Kur attacked Sentry with the ninth Fear Itself Hammer, but Sentry caught the blow and revealed overwhelming strength. As the Void gained control of Sentry, he struck Serpent Kur into the ice and sent him plunging into the sea.

• Serpent Kur attacked Sentry with his war hammer after Sentry called him an ant.
• Spider-Man photographed the battle and learned from Iron Man that the blond powerhouse was named Sentry.
• Sentry caught Serpent Kur's hammer and dismissed the God of Fear as weak.
• The Void gained the upper hand in Robert Reynolds' consciousness, and Sentry warned Serpent Kur that no one could order him around.
• Sentry struck Serpent Kur with the ninth Fear Itself Hammer and drove him through the ice into the deep sea.

Luke and Spider-Man watched Sentry battle Serpent Kur, until the God of Fear revealed his enormous World Serpent form. After Kur poisoned and swallowed Sentry, the battle was left in peril.

• Spider-Man showed Luke a blurred photo of Sentry, and Luke said the outcome depended on how much of his power Sentry could use.
• Sentry hammered Serpent Kur into the seafloor, but Kur emerged in his gigantic World Serpent form and fixed his attention on Sentry.
• Kur charged, and Sentry struck his head hard enough to break his scales and spill poisonous blood into the sea.
• Kur sprayed Sentry with poisonous gas, badly injuring him and driving him to flee.
• Kur pulled Sentry into his jaws and swallowed him.

After escaping Serpent Kur’s stomach, the Sentry’s pain brought his destructive Void personality to the surface, and he decided to destroy Earth. Luke, the Sorcerer Supreme, confronted him and was challenged to explain how he would stop him.

• Serpent Kur’s venom dissolved the Sentry’s legs, but the Sentry’s power and regeneration let him tear his way out through the World Serpent.
• The Sentry’s agony triggered his Void personality, which killed Serpent Kur with a single devastating blow.
• The Void Sentry decided to destroy Earth while Robert Reynolds was unconscious.
• Luke appeared behind the Sentry and identified himself as this universe’s Sorcerer Supreme.
• After comparing their strength, the Sentry mocked Luke and asked what he would use to stop him.

Superman and Sentry fought across the world and into space, trading devastating blows as their bodies rapidly healed. The battle continued beyond Earth, with Superman no longer holding back and Sentry growing crazier and stronger.

• Luke attacked Sentry with a powerful punch, but Sentry caught it and survived despite severe injuries.
• Luke anticipated Sentry's headbutt, struck him first, and blasted him with Heat Vision, sending them hurtling through the atmosphere as they fought repeatedly.
• Superman and Sentry battled from Antarctica to Australia and Paris, where Sentry crashed through the Eiffel Tower before charging back at Luke.
• Iron Man tracked the fight by satellite while Thor watched helplessly, and Superman and Sentry's battle left the others unable to intervene.
• Sentry drove Superman out of Earth's atmosphere and destroyed a Stark Industries satellite, then charged at him again as Luke prepared to unleash his full strength in space.

Superman defeated the Sentry in a brutal battle in space, but the Sentry transformed instead of dying. Luke recognized the emerging entity as the Void and braced for a new threat.

• Luke and the Sentry fought across space, trading devastating injuries as they tested each other's endurance.
• Luke provoked the Sentry into attacking again, then used his Bio-Force Field to delay him and crush his head.
• Luke recovered from the Sentry's Heat Vision and blasted the headless body, believing the Sentry was dead.
• The Sentry absorbed Superman's energy and transformed as red appendages and black tentacles emerged from his body.
• Luke sensed the danger and identified the entity as the Void.

The Void took control of the Sentry and overwhelmed Luke with his immense power, forcing them into a battle that destroyed Pluto. Still fighting, Luke pursued the Void across the universe until they reached the Sun.

• The Sentry transformed into the Void, whose attacks badly injured Luke.
• Luke endured the Void’s barrage, counterattacked, and sent him crashing onto Pluto.
• Luke and the Void exchanged devastating blows that shattered Pluto.
• The two fought across the universe, smashing asteroids as they pursued each other at great speed.
• Luke and the Void reached the Sun while their battle continued.

Superman and Void fought near a star, and Luke dragged them both into its core in a desperate attempt to defeat his nearly indestructible enemy. Void unleashed a gamma-ray burst, and the chapter ended with the star convulsing and both combatants presumed dead.

• Void recognized that Superman had chosen the star as their battlefield, while Luke absorbed its energy to recover.
• Luke used Tenth Metal to sever Void’s limbs and wound him, but Void exploded and rapidly reassembled himself.
• Luke grappled Void and forced him down through the star’s atmosphere toward its core.
• As the star’s heat vaporized them, Void struggled to escape and declared they would both die.
• Void unleashed a gamma-ray burst inside the star’s core, and the resulting stellar storm subsided after a long time, leaving both fighters presumed dead.

After a near-fatal battle with Void, Luke recovered in the Netherworld and began strengthening his body with Tenth Metal. Lady Death and Eternity then approached him with a request tied to a higher-level wager, and Luke asked what opportunity they meant.

• Luke survived Void’s stellar-energy explosion and used soul light to heal his badly burned body in the Netherworld.
• Luke told Princess Ahmunet to help manage and rebuild the neglected Netherworld, and said he might send her to Mephisto to learn.
• Luke blamed Agamotto for the costly battle and infused Tenth Metal into his body to improve his durability and speed up his recovery.
• Lady Death appeared to Luke and explained that Vishanti had mentioned him to Eternity.
• Eternity and the other Cosmic Entities offered Luke a mission involving a higher-level wager, and Luke asked what opportunity they meant.

Barry pursued the Speed Force to travel back in time and save his mother, while Luke agreed to join the five Cosmic Entities in responding to a multiversal crisis. Barry’s reckless journey created an opportunity for a group beyond the wall.

• Barry ran along the Nullarbor Plain, haunted by Reverse-Flash’s taunts and the memory of his mother’s death.
• Barry stopped in anguish, then resolved to outrun time and undo his regret by reaching his mother.
• Barry accelerated into the Speed Force, broke through time’s limits, and entered a space-time tunnel headed for the past.
• Luke heard Eternity’s explanation and accepted the five Cosmic Entities’ invitation to help with the multiversal crisis.

After gaining the Super Kryptonian template, Luke returned to Antarctica and swiftly defeated Hulk and the remaining Hammer Worthy before dragging Serpent Kur from the sea. Thor and Fat Otaku Thor beheaded Serpent Kur, survived the prophecy’s seven steps, and Luke flew off toward his next journey.

• Luke used his lottery draw to obtain the Super Kryptonian H'el template and gained new powers, including Ice Breath.
• Luke returned to Antarctica, pinned Hulk down, shattered his hammer, and froze the remaining Hammer Worthy.
• Luke found Serpent Kur beneath the sea, fought him, and dragged him before Thor and Fat Otaku Thor.
• Thor and Fat Otaku Thor beheaded Serpent Kur and staggered seven steps before collapsing.
• Loki helped both Thors rise, and Heimdall declared that the prophecy had been broken.
• Luke left the celebrating Asgardians and flew off to begin another journey.