Recaps

Yelena, Walker, Ava, and Bob struggled to escape Valentina’s forces, while Su Zhou decided their team needed a leader and called Bucky to join them. After an explosion began the breakout, Su Zhou flew toward the fight to watch how the team performed.

• Yelena, Walker, Ava, and Bob climbed out of the elevator shaft, then found Valentina’s CIA and military troops surrounding the exit.
• The four argued over how to escape and agreed that Ava would find a vehicle, Yelena would set off an explosion, Walker would fight the soldiers, and Bob would stay with Yelena.
• Su Zhou brought Antonia out of the Heaven Dimension and told her to wait nearby in case the team needed help escaping.
• Su Zhou called Bucky, told him Valentina’s crimes and witnesses were at his location, and warned that an army was involved; Bucky agreed to bring heavy weapons.
• An explosion sounded from the mountaintop, and Su Zhou covered himself in dark energy and flew toward the fight.

Yelena and Walker escaped Valentina’s forces with Bob’s help, while Antonia joined the chase and Bob revealed his extraordinary powers. Bob then lost consciousness midair and struck the ground with a blast of energy, leaving Su Zhou wondering whether this version differed from the comics.

• Yelena and Walker defeated the assault troops, disguised themselves in their uniforms, and escaped in Ava’s armored personnel carrier with Bob.
• Bob drew the soldiers’ attention so Walker and Yelena could drive away, but a squad pursued them in Humvees.
• Antonia destroyed two pursuing Humvees with arrows and told the others to keep driving.
• Bob shrugged off a barrage of bullets, began flying, and faced Su Zhou above the clouds.
• Bob lost consciousness and crashed near Yelena’s group, releasing energy that overturned their vehicle and the last Humvee.
• Su Zhou sensed Sentry and Void within Bob and wondered whether this version differed from the comics.

Su Zhou discovered that Sentry’s powers came from reality alteration amplified by a mutated Super Soldier Serum, then returned to New York and found Urd and the other Valkyries incapacitated from overeating. He left them in the park to meet visitors in the Dark Dimension, where Strange arrived with Clea and called out to Dormammu, unaware that Su Zhou ruled the dimension now.

• Su Zhou realized Sentry could permanently alter his own reality, and that the mutated serum had magnified both his powers and the darkness inside him.
• Su Zhou returned to New York and found Urd and the other two Valkyries too full to move after overeating.
• Urd refused to return to the Heaven Dimension because the Valkyries there would challenge her, and she reaffirmed the corps’ loyalty to Su Zhou.
• Su Zhou sensed visitors in the Dark Dimension, left the Valkyries in the park, and found Strange with Clea.
• Strange announced that he had come to bargain with Dormammu, and Su Zhou told him Dormammu was dead and that he ruled the Dark Dimension.

Su Zhou met Strange and Clea in the Dark Dimension, learned why they had come, and sent them away as Urd reported a dangerous surge of dark energy over New York. He identified the figure as Void and discovered that Antonia, Yelena, and their allies had come to save Bob, only to be beaten by him.

• Su Zhou told Strange that the power he had accepted had attracted an evil Cthulhu god, and Strange explained that he and Clea had come looking for Dormammu and the Dark Dimension.
• Clea said they had no intention of fighting Su Zhou, and he let them stay behind as he answered Urd’s emergency call.
• Urd reported a black-cloaked figure spreading dark energy over New York and dragging people into the darkness.
• Su Zhou recognized the figure as Void, the dark personality inside Bob, and went to Antonia after sensing she was in New York.
• Su Zhou received Antonia’s memories and learned that Red Guardian and Bucky had helped her group after Valentina sent pursuers, and that they had gone to save Bob before he beat them up.

Valentina’s plan to use Bob against the newly formed team spiraled into a disaster when Bob’s implanted bomb unleashed Void, who began slaughtering people. Su Zhou confronted Void and pulled part of the Dark Dimension onto Earth to contain their battle, then called on Strange for help.

• Bob brutally defeated Yelena, Bucky, Antonia, Walker, Red Guardian, and their teammate at the Sentry Watchtower, but refused Valentina’s order to kill them.
• Mel detonated the bomb planted in Bob’s brain, and Void took control, turning Valentina’s disposal squad and an armed helicopter’s crew into shadows.
• Yelena and the others rescued civilians from the helicopter crash, then watched as Void fought Urd and the other two in the sky.
• Su Zhou arrived, told the team he would handle Void, and attacked him with a black-flamed greatsword.
• Su Zhou enclosed himself and Void in a dark sphere containing part of the Dark Dimension, then called for Strange to summon his Cthulhu-like ally.

Su Zhou and Sentry fought in the Dark Dimension, where Su Zhou’s powerful equipment let him injure Sentry and prevent his wounds from healing. The chapter ended with Sentry asking about Su Zhou’s dark side, and Su Zhou revealing that Sentry was already standing inside it.

• Sentry’s attack overwhelmed Strange’s golden shields, but Strange stayed in the fight with help from the Dark Dimension’s energy.
• Su Zhou equipped himself with Uru armor, the Infinity Gauntlet and Six Infinity Stones, a vibranium shield, and an Adamantium Blade.
• Su Zhou joined the battle and used his shield and blade to knock Sentry off balance and draw blood.
• Su Zhou’s Dark Energy ignited Sentry and kept his wounds from healing as they battled in the air.
• Sentry asked why he could not sense Su Zhou’s dark side, and Su Zhou said Sentry was standing inside it.

Su Zhou used the Phoenix Force to tear Void away from Bob, then attacked them both despite Void threatening that Bob would die too. As the Phoenix Force began consuming Bob, Void struggled to protect him, while Strange and Clea discussed the danger facing their universe.

• Su Zhou recognized that Sentry relied on instinct and that Bob's instability allowed Void to emerge.
• Su Zhou unleashed the Phoenix Force inside the Dark Dimension, frightening Strange and Clea as the flames surrounded them without harming them.
• Strange and Clea discussed parallel worlds colliding, their responsibility for the crisis, and whether to tell Su Zhou about Galactus and God Emperor Doom.
• Su Zhou used the Phoenix Force to wrench Void out of Bob, but Void continued controlling Bob's body.
• Void threatened that destroying him would kill Bob, so Su Zhou targeted both of them and began burning away Bob's flesh.
• Void released his shadow power to shield Bob, but it could not match the Phoenix Force as Su Zhou refused to negotiate.

Su Zhou separated Void from Bob, cleared the shadows from New York, and sent Bob to Yelena and the others. Valentina publicly introduced them as the New Avengers, leaving the group exposed and bound to her while Su Zhou pressed Strange and his wife to speak.

• Su Zhou tore Void away from Bob, then threw Bob through a portal for Urd to catch and gathered the shadows covering New York into the Dark Dimension.
• Urd delivered the unconscious Bob to Yelena and relayed Su Zhou’s advice to keep him supervised and treat his mental illness.
• Antonia and the others confronted Valentina, but she led them into a press event and introduced them as the New Avengers.
• Yelena realized Valentina had trapped them in the public eye and demanded that Valentina answer to them from then on.
• Bucky worried that Valentina’s announcement would set the New Avengers against Sam’s team, while Su Zhou watched from the Dark Dimension and asked Strange and his wife what they wanted to say.

After Strange and Clea explained how Galactus had eaten Earth and how God Emperor Doom ruled Battleworld, Su Zhou learned that the Demon Bazaar was a route to other dimensions. He became eager to visit it and seize the realms of Hell Lords to expand the Dark Dimension.

• Strange and Clea told Su Zhou that Galactus had devoured Earth after the Fantastic Four chose to flee rather than fight.
• Strange explained that God Emperor Doom had merged surviving parallel universes into Battleworld and defeated powerful opponents.
• Strange recognized Su Zhou's Phoenix Force and learned that it had helped him defeat Dormammu and Void.
• Su Zhou considered how Battleworld's expansion might resolve the collapse between universes, but remained uneasy about an unexplained problem.
• Strange said the Demon Bazaar was the route they had used to reach the Dark Dimension, and Su Zhou demanded to go there immediately.

Su Zhou traveled through the Demon Bazaar with Strange and Clea, learned about the powerful Hell Lords who controlled it, and discovered that his Gate of Hell skill could lead to the dimension’s core. After the trio left for the universe where Galactus could eat Earth, several Hell Lords began plotting to seize the Dark Dimension.

• Strange warned Su Zhou not to provoke the Hell Lords in the Demon Bazaar, where Cyttorak, Chthon, and Shuma-Gorath kept the peace by deterring one another.
• Su Zhou asked whether Strange’s forehead eye belonged to Shuma-Gorath, and Strange explained that it was an avatar mixed with Chthon’s power.
• Su Zhou realized his Gate of Hell skill could open a path to the Demon Bazaar’s core, but he postponed trying to claim it because the three powerful Hell Lords might be there.
• Strange, Clea, and Su Zhou left the Demon Bazaar and headed for the universe where Galactus could eat Earth.
• Several Hell Lords mistook Su Zhou for Dormammu, identified Clea as Dormammu’s daughter, and plotted to take the Dark Dimension from him.

Su Zhou confronted Galactus’s Silver Surfer after discovering that Galactus had consumed nearly half of Earth, along with its water, atmosphere, and all life. He defeated her and took her severed surfboard, then challenged Galactus directly.

• Su Zhou and Strange found Earth devastated, with Galactus absorbing what remained near New York.
• The Female Silver Surfer warned Su Zhou and his companions to leave, but Su Zhou attacked her with Dark Energy.
• Su Zhou cut off the Silver Surfer’s arm and then defeated her in a prolonged fight, severing her surfboard.
• Strange reassured Clea that Su Zhou could face Galactus as Su Zhou prepared to challenge him.

Su Zhou confronted Galactus over his plan to devour Earth and learned that Galactus consumed energy to keep Abraxas sealed. When Galactus rejected a deal and attacked, Su Zhou drew on the Dark Dimension and transformed to fight him, while Strange and Clea took shelter there.

• Su Zhou saw Galactus's true form as a swarm of mechanical insects and warned him against devouring Earth and other worlds.
• Su Zhou revealed that Galactus's energy consumption kept Abraxas sealed and offered to ignore him if he spared Earth.
• Galactus refused to give up Earth and attacked Su Zhou with a mountain-sized fist.
• Su Zhou told Strange to take Clea to the Dark Dimension, where Clea questioned why Strange had not corrected Su Zhou when he called her his wife.
• Su Zhou summoned dark energy, transformed into a giant winged shadow with a greatsword, and prepared to fight Galactus.

Su Zhou fought Galactus, first burning away parts of his mechanical-insect body and then using the Phoenix Force to invade his mind. Galactus recognized traces of Eternity and the Mission Dimension in Su Zhou before Doctor Doom appeared and was accused of bringing Galactus to Earth.

• Su Zhou struck Galactus with a black-flame greatsword, burning many mechanical insects, but Galactus replenished his losses by absorbing the flames.
• Su Zhou infused his sword and wings with the Phoenix Force and charged into Galactus, targeting his consciousness rather than the insect swarm.
• Su Zhou entered Galactus's mental world and failed to alter his memories, then chatted with him while shaping holy energy into weapons.
• Galactus recognized Eternity's aura in Su Zhou and also sensed the Mission Dimension.
• A psychic force pulled Su Zhou back to his body, where he saw Doctor Doom and asked if he had brought Galactus to Earth.

Su Zhou learned that neither Doctor Doom nor the Female Silver Surfer had deliberately brought Galactus to Earth, and he suspected a Mister Fantastic research project had drawn them there. After Doom invited him to join the coming Secret Wars, Su Zhou realized the final Secret Wars had not happened yet.

• Doctor Doom denied bringing Galactus to Earth and said he had come to investigate a signal of parallel worlds merging.
• Galactus explained that the Female Silver Surfer had followed the strange signal to Earth, prompting Su Zhou to suspect Mister Fantastic’s research had caused it.
• Su Zhou imagined the Fantastic Four fleeing Earth and later traveling through parallel universes, while he reasoned that Galactus and Doctor Doom were likely being kept alive for future stories.
• Su Zhou pulled his dark sword out of Galactus, absorbed the released Dark Energy, and asked Doctor Doom why he had come.
• Doctor Doom invited Su Zhou to join his faction and take part in the next Secret Wars, leading Su Zhou to realize the final Secret Wars had not happened yet.

Su Zhou questioned Doctor Doom after the battle, learning that Doom’s mother’s soul had escaped Hell for Heaven and that the Beyonders had been defeated. The encounter ended when Su Zhou exposed the figure before him as a Doombot.

• Doctor Doom teleported Galactus and the Female Silver Surfer away, then agreed to answer Su Zhou’s questions on Earth.
• Su Zhou saw Doom’s Tony Stark face and asked whether his mother’s soul was in Doom’s Hell Dimension.
• Strange showed Su Zhou memories revealing that Cynthia had escaped to Heaven after Doom offered his soul to Mephisto.
• Doom confirmed that the Beyonders had been defeated and Battleworld had formed, then asked how Su Zhou knew about them.
• Su Zhou guessed that Doom had obtained Tony Stark’s body through a mind swap, and realized the figure before him was a Doombot.

Su Zhou confronted a Doombot, learned how Doctor Doom had pulled him out of Galactus’s mental world, and heard Doom’s plan to rebuild Battleworld from the remains of destroyed universes. When Doom proposed bringing dimensional demon gods and Hell Lords into Battleworld, a second Doombot ambushed Su Zhou, who prepared to fight both.

• Su Zhou identified the Doctor Doom before him as a soulless Doombot by sensing that it had no flesh and blood.
• The real Doctor Doom appeared and explained that he had used a healing spell to call Su Zhou’s consciousness back, bypassing the Phoenix Force because it considered him an ally.
• Doctor Doom told Su Zhou that the multiverse was still collapsing and that he was using Molecule Man’s power to gather universe fragments and rebuild them into Battleworld.
• Doctor Doom invited Su Zhou to help bring dimensional demon gods and Hell Lords, along with their Hell Dimensions, into Battleworld.
• A second Doombot attacked Su Zhou from behind, but Su Zhou blocked its blast and vowed to tear both Doombots apart.

Su Zhou fought Doctor Doom’s two Doombots, but Doom’s soul escaped through a spatial rift after one Doombot detonated and destroyed Earth. With Strange reporting an unfamiliar forbidden spell, Su Zhou decided to find targets to drain for power and draw prizes.

• Su Zhou inferred that Doctor Doom planned to conquer Hell Dimensions and chose him as a stepping stone, while Doom believed Su Zhou was a Kamar-Taj sorcerer with exploitable weaknesses.
• Su Zhou sent the Phoenix Force after the Doombot controlled by Doctor Doom, while the second Doombot’s energy beam briefly stalled the Phoenix’s attack.
• Doctor Doom abandoned the Doombot as a streak of white light, but Su Zhou attacked the empty machine with a dark-energy greatsword.
• The second Doombot detonated itself, destroying Earth and tearing open spatial rifts that Doctor Doom used to escape.
• Strange told Su Zhou he had sensed an unfamiliar forbidden spell, and Su Zhou identified it as a high-tech magic bomb designed to rupture space.
• Su Zhou decided to find people to drain for power and draw prizes.

Su Zhou planned to provoke a war among the Hell Lords to strengthen his Dark Dimension and prepare to face God Emperor Doom. Strange and Clea warned him of the danger, but Su Zhou set out to use himself and his dimension as bait.

• Su Zhou left Strange and decided he needed to grow strong enough to confront God Emperor Doom.
• On the way to the Demon Bazaar, Su Zhou told Strange and Clea he would impersonate Dormammu and fight the Hell Lords to expand the Dark Dimension.
• Clea agreed that Su Zhou's disguise could work but warned that a Hell Lord war would draw in other powers and leave Earth and Kamar-Taj out of it.
• Su Zhou revealed he intended to use his dimension as bait, drawing every Hell Lord into a chaotic battle so he could seize the Gate of Hell and the Demon Bazaar's largest Hell fragment core.
• Strange accepted that Su Zhou had made up his mind and wished him luck.

Su Zhou disguised himself as Dormammu and entered the Demon Gathering, where he tried to pose as a vulnerable amnesiac. Mephisto claimed to be his big brother, and Su Zhou played along while deciding that Mephisto was a promising target.

• Su Zhou went to the Demon Gathering in a cloak of Dark Energy while Strange and Clea waited in the Dark Dimension to help if needed.
• Su Zhou headed for the Hell Lords’ meeting place, where they gathered to compete for control of Hell’s largest fragment and the name Satan.
• A red demon recognized Su Zhou as Dormammu and asked which human he had possessed.
• Su Zhou claimed an intruder had stolen his memories and said he had come to find his big brother.
• Mephisto introduced himself as Su Zhou’s best big brother, and Su Zhou embraced him while accepting the claim.

Mephisto brought the amnesiac Su Zhou to the Hell Council and explained its vote over who would become Satan and control the largest Hell Dimension. After learning that voting for another Hell Lord exposed an alliance, Su Zhou asked Mephisto who he should vote for, and Mephisto asked whether he knew Hela.

• Su Zhou pretended to trust Mephisto while planning to attract more Hell Lords’ attention and use their rivalry to protect himself.
• Mephisto told Su Zhou that the Hell Council was about to convene and led him through the Demon Bazaar.
• Mephisto explained that the Hell Lords would vote on who inherited the title of Satan, though their repeated meetings had never settled the matter.
• Mephisto advised Su Zhou to vote for himself, explaining that giving another Lord a vote would reveal an alliance and make its members targets.
• Su Zhou asked Mephisto who he should vote for, and Mephisto asked whether he knew Hela.

Su Zhou used his supposed amnesia to get Mephisto to promise to introduce him to Hela at the Hell Council. When Mephisto learned that Doctor Doom had supposedly stolen Su Zhou’s memories, he panicked about his dimension’s coordinates and tried to leave, but Su Zhou caught and restrained him.

• Su Zhou explained that the Hela Mephisto knew was a different version from the Hela being raised in Asgard, and claimed he could not remember what she looked like.
• Mephisto asked Su Zhou to attend the Hell Council and sound out Hela, promising to introduce them.
• Su Zhou claimed Doctor Doom had beaten him and stolen part of his memories, and Mephisto recognized Doom as an enemy.
• Mephisto worried Doom might have stolen the coordinates to the Hell Dimensions and asked whether Su Zhou knew the coordinates to his own dimension.
• Mephisto tried to leave and return to change his dimension’s coordinates, but Su Zhou grabbed him and threatened him for breaking their agreement.

Su Zhou forced Mephisto to take him to the Hell Council instead of returning to his own dimension. There, Su Zhou recognized Mephisto’s son, Blackheart, and Mephisto called him over to meet his uncle.

• Su Zhou discovered Mephisto’s hidden mark and placed Dark Energy on him to track him, threatening war if Mephisto fled.
• Mephisto abandoned his attempt to return to his dimension and persuaded Su Zhou to attend the Hell Council with him.
• Mephisto used a teleportation array to bring Su Zhou to a vast gathering of Hell Lords.
• Su Zhou took the seat Mephisto had chosen and found himself able to see Cyttorak, Chthon, and Shuma-Gorath at the head of the table.
• Su Zhou asked whether the figure beside Mephisto was Blackheart, and Mephisto called his son over to meet his uncle.

At the Hell Council, Su Zhou posed as an amnesiac Dormammu and swiftly established his strength by attacking Blackheart. After Hela introduced herself and invited him to her dimension, Mephisto warned that she only wanted his body.

• Blackheart reluctantly insulted Su Zhou, prompting Su Zhou to pin him to his seat with a flaming black sword.
• Su Zhou warned Blackheart that he would kill him if he moved before the meeting ended, and the other Hell Lords took renewed interest in him.
• Mephisto admitted that Blackheart’s provocation had been arranged to test Su Zhou’s abilities, then backed down when Su Zhou threatened him with another sword.
• Su Zhou noticed the dark-green woman and accepted her telepathic request to communicate.
• Hela introduced herself as Asgard’s Goddess of Death and invited Su Zhou to visit her dimension.
• Mephisto told Su Zhou not to go because Hela only wanted his body.

Su Zhou uncovered Hela’s attempt to manipulate him and attended the Hell Council, where Mephisto passed him the floor after a long round of Satan-candidate speeches. Su Zhou began his address by challenging any Hell Lord with a grudge to a fight to the death and calling Mephisto his big brother.

• Su Zhou revealed that he had invaded Hela’s mind, seen through her scheme, and found the Hel Dimension; he promised to visit after the Hell Council.
• Mephisto explained that the Hell Lords would give speeches before voting, and the candidates took turns promising to make Hell great again.
• Cyttorak, Chthon, and Eye Demon Shuma-Gorath watched Su Zhou, making him ready himself to escape or fight.
• Mephisto finished his speech and handed the floor to Su Zhou, who had prepared nothing.
• Su Zhou challenged any Hell Lord who held a grudge against him to a fight to the death and described Mephisto as his big brother.

Su Zhou won over the Hell Lords, who promised to vote for him as the next “Satan,” but he accidentally wrote his own name while playing Dormammu. Eye Demon Shuma-Gorath then offered to trade the title of “Satan” for the mysterious thing within Su Zhou.

• The Hell Lords enthusiastically invited Su Zhou to visit their realms and promised to vote for him as the next “Satan.”
• Mephisto questioned Su Zhou about what the others had said, and Su Zhou told him they had called him a liar.
• Eye Demon Shuma-Gorath began the vote, and Su Zhou wrote his own name on the parchment before remembering he was playing Dormammu.
• Shuma-Gorath asked Su Zhou about Strange and the power Strange had taken, then said it did not matter to him.
• Shuma-Gorath asked what the unknowable thing within Su Zhou was and offered the largest Hell Dimension in exchange for it.