Chapter Summaries

Alex and his allies struggled to stop Thanos as the Mind Stone turned Hulk against Alex and forced them to unleash the Void. The Void badly injured Thanos, but Thanos activated three Infinity Stones and prepared to fight back.

• Thanos trapped Apocalypse, Doctor Doom, and Magneto with the Mind Stone, and Alex used the Time Stone to free them.
• Hulk struck Alex under Thanos's illusion, destroying Alex's energy body, while Hulk's next punch sent Thanos flying.
• Alex told Sentry to release the Void after Apocalypse and the others lured Hulk away from the battlefield.
• Sentry relinquished control of Robert Reynolds's body, allowing the Void to emerge and attack Thanos.
• The Void mangled Thanos's arm with one punch, but Thanos restored it and activated three Infinity Stones.

Void ambushed Thanos but was driven mad by the Mind Stone and fled, leaving Alex alone to face Thanos. Alex attacked anyway and was blown apart, then transformed into a Black Hole that trapped Thanos at the cost of his Origin Soul.

• Void seized Thanos by the throat, then abandoned him to chase Alex after Alex urged him to kill Thanos.
• Void failed to catch Alex, turned back toward Thanos, and fought him as Thanos used the Mind Stone to corrupt his mind.
• After hours of evading Void and manipulating his mind, Thanos drove Void to collapse and flee.
• Thanos demanded Alex submit, but Alex charged and was blasted apart by Thanos's attack.
• Alex transformed into a Black Hole and trapped Thanos, risking his Origin Soul as the Black Hole began to wear Thanos down.

As his Origin Soul ran low while trapping Thanos in a Black Hole, Alex received the Reality Stone from Thor and used it to attempt a killing blow. Thanos survived by blocking the manifested spear with the Space Stone, leaving Alex’s best chance to kill him gone.

• Alex’s Origin Soul dwindled as he kept Thanos trapped in the Black Hole, and Thor contacted him after finding him in the Solar System.
• Thor delivered the Reality Stone, which Odin had found in the Dark Forbidden Zone, and Alex absorbed it and embedded it in the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Alex sent Thor to deal with Hulk and Sentry before they could endanger Earth.
• Alex manifested a golden spear with the Reality Stone and struck Thanos in the forehead.
• Thanos blocked the spear with the Space Stone, and Alex dismissed the attack, frustrated that Thanos had survived.

Alex fought Thanos while trying to protect Earth from the destruction caused by their clash, and used the Reality Stone to conceal the Solar System in a mirror world. Thanos revealed that the Reality Stone had been consuming Alex’s soul, leaving Alex gravely weakened, so Alex threatened to detonate his Stones and destroy them both.

• Alex and Thanos clashed, and Alex realized their battle’s shockwaves were threatening Saturn and the Solar System.
• Alex used the Reality Stone to create a convincing mirror Solar System, then kept fighting Thanos while pretending to be furious.
• Thanos threatened Earth and claimed the Death Goddess would eventually be his, while Alex struggled to understand why Thanos seemed certain he could kill him.
• Thanos struck Alex apart, and Alex discovered that the Reality Stone had consumed nearly half his soul, reducing his strength to less than a tenth of its peak.
• Alex realized Thanos had seen through the illusion and waited for the Reality Stone to weaken him, then began activating his two Stones to make them explode.
• Thanos warned that the explosion would destroy Earth and the Solar System, but Alex insisted they would all die together rather than let Thanos take the Stones.

Alex held Thanos at bay by threatening to destroy the Reality and Time Stones, but the strain left him with only ten days to find another way to stop Thanos. After learning that the Soul Stone might help him defeat Thanos, Alex kept its location secret, unaware that Thanos had already read the group’s minds and left to find Adam.

• Thanos retreated when Alex threatened to make the Infinity Stones explode, then hid nearby while Alex maintained the threat.
• Alex slowly headed toward Earth, and Black Bolt, Thor, and the others met him and learned he could hold out for at most ten days.
• Reed, Tony, Hank, and the other scientists could not devise a way to control the Stones, so the group searched for another plan.
• Peter Parker suggested finding the final Soul Stone, and Alex said it could give him the strength to defeat Thanos.
• Thanos used the Mind Stone to probe the group’s thoughts, learned the Soul Stone was with Adam, and left to find him.
• Charles announced that Thanos was gone.

Alex used the Soul Stone to trap Thanos in its miniature universe after securing the Reality Stone through Rogue’s borrowed abilities. The two began a fierce battle there, while the superpowered people remained safe aboard their ship near Earth.

• Charles revealed that Thanos had probed everyone’s minds and learned Adam’s location, so Alex left to find Adam first.
• Charles explained that he had altered the others’ memories to help Alex mislead Thanos, but Thanos revealed he had stayed behind to watch them.
• Charles’s illusion made Thanos believe he had seized the spaceship, while Alex appeared with the Time, Reality, and Soul Stones.
• Alex explained that Rogue had absorbed Charles’s, the Tao Yu Brothers’, and Alex’s abilities, allowing Alex to use the Reality Stone without Thanos noticing.
• Thanos destroyed an apparent Earth and spaceship, but Alex revealed the scene was an illusion and that they were inside the Soul Stone’s miniature universe.
• Alex blocked Thanos from escaping with the Space Stone, and they began fighting inside the miniature universe.

Alex fought Thanos inside the sealed universe, surviving long enough to copy the powers of Thanos’s Infinity Stones and turn the battle around. He stripped Thanos of the Stones, erased him completely, and returned to the original world.

• Thanos used the Space, Mind, and Power Stones to trap Alex, destroy his summoned army of souls, and repeatedly blast his body apart.
• Alex endured Thanos’s attacks while copying the powers of the three Stones, then stopped Thanos’s punch and sent him flying.
• Alex disabled Thanos and dismembered him before pulling the three Infinity Stones from his chest.
• Alex set the Stones into his Infinity Gauntlet and erased Thanos, including his soul.
• Alex left the sealed universe and returned to the original world.

Alex fought and killed the Living Tribunal, but the resulting collapse of reality led O-A-A to appoint him as the new Living Tribunal. He restored the omniverse, then returned to Earth, where his power helped usher in an era of peace.

• The Living Tribunal tried to judge Alex, but Alex reversed time and attacked him; the Tribunal removed the Time Stone from Alex's Infinity Gauntlet.
• Alex copied power across the omniverse, gained Merlin's help, and eventually copied part of the Living Tribunal's power before killing him.
• Merlin told Alex that the Living Tribunal's death had caused all realities to collapse, and O-A-A appeared and appointed Alex as the new Living Tribunal.
• Alex restored the realities with a wave of his hand and told Merlin he planned to return to Earth and treat the title as just a title.
• Alex later killed villains who threatened the omniverse, bringing peace while he lived comfortably on Earth with his women.