Recaps

Su Chen shattered Mjolnir, defeated Thor, and struck him with a reality-erasing power as the Bifrost carried him back to Asgard. Heimdall treated the badly wounded Thor and watched Su Chen on Earth, but Su Chen sensed the spying and forced Heimdall to look away.

• Thor tried to rise and attack Su Chen, but the Bifrost enveloped him and carried him away.
• Su Chen snapped his fingers and inflicted a powerful annihilating attack on Thor before the Bifrost vanished.
• Su Chen sensed the Bifrost's spatial passage and wondered about the wider world beyond Earth.
• Heimdall caught the gravely wounded Thor in Asgard and urged him to recover his courage without Mjolnir.
• Heimdall watched Su Chen and considered relying on the Destroyer while Odin slept.
• Su Chen detected Heimdall's observation, and Heimdall's eyes burned until he stopped watching.

Su Chen learned that Asgard had sent Thor and warriors to kill him, then captured the stranded warriors and resolved to destroy Asgard. Mutants seized S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility and the Tesseract, while Su Chen woke to a growing mutant power and uncertainty about what to do next.

• Su Chen used telekinesis and mind-reading to capture the Asgardian warriors and learned about Asgard, Thor, Odin, and their mission to kill him.
• Su Chen suspected Odin’s attempt to prevent the Twilight of the Gods had created the grudge that might bring it about, and vowed to wipe out Asgard.
• Juggernaut led Mutants in an assault on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, where they overwhelmed the remaining personnel and took control.
• Mutants found laser weapons powered by the Tesseract and celebrated its potential as the foundation of their new dynasty.
• Su Chen woke at the Triskelion after General Stryker had died in the global reality fluctuations, and felt lost as Mutants began building a new power on the east coast.

After choosing to build an interstellar empire, Su Chen strengthened his hold over the mutant factions and became intrigued by Reed's research into parallel universes. The reality alteration caused by his rampage also set new threats and upheavals in motion across Earth.

• Su Chen decided to live for himself and make conquering the stars his goal, then told Mindy to stay by his side as his friend.
• Mindy reported that the mutants had repelled S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attacks, while Multiple Man said they were tracking the agency's remnants; Su Chen left the matter to his subordinates.
• Su Chen learned that Electron had found Reed's research on parallel universes in the Baxter Building, and Su Shan joined him in investigating it.
• The reality alteration weakened Earth's Sanctums, giving Kaecilius an opening to target them and prepare for Dormammu's arrival.
• Black Bolt ordered the Inhumans to spread Terrigen Mist and demand an explanation from humanity, threatening to destroy its cities if they refused.
• Ms. Hill became the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. after agents delivered an old pager to her at the secret base N-51.

Director Hill’s team confirmed that Nick Fury’s pager could broadcast a powerful signal into space, while Valeria planned to build a device to reveal Earth’s coordinates. As the X-Men struggled after more students joined Number One Mutants, Legion arrived demanding to know where Professor Charles was and killed a Mutant who answered him.

• A science team confirmed that Nick Fury’s old pager sent a powerful signal into space, and Valeria decided to build a device that would broadcast Earth’s coordinates.
• Captain America Steve questioned whether Iron Man Tony was truly dead, prompting Director Hill to suspect that Hydra scientist Arnim Zola might be involved.
• The X-Men realized that students were leaving to join Number One Mutants and feared that their location would be exposed.
• David Charles Haller, known as Legion and Professor Charles’s son, arrived in hospital pajamas and demanded to know where his father was.
• When a Mutant told Legion that Professor Charles was dead, Legion killed him.

David left the X-Men after Iceman told him where to find his father, then hunted them as ordered by Galler. Meanwhile, Su Chen learned that Magneto was resisting the annexation of the Brotherhood of Mutants and went to confront him on the Brotherhood’s island.

• David’s ruthless personality threatened the X-Men, but Iceman persuaded him to seek his father by going to the capital to find Su Chen.
• David revealed that Galler had ordered him to take half the X-Men’s lives, then chased them as they fled.
• Emma Frost told Su Chen that Magneto had refused to surrender the Brotherhood of Mutants, and Su Chen decided to address the resistance.
• The chapter described the irreconcilable differences between Magneto and Professor Charles and Magneto’s resentment of Su Chen’s success.
• Su Chen arrived on the Brotherhood’s island with Emma Frost and other Mutants, where Magneto asked if Su Chen had come to kill him.

Magneto challenged Su Chen to a fight, offering the Brotherhood of Mutants’ allegiance if he died, while warning that Earth hid terrible threats. Su Chen overwhelmed Magneto and walked toward his fallen body, but a woman flew toward them before the confrontation was resolved.

• Magneto recalled his mother’s murder and refused Su Chen’s demand to surrender, instead challenging him and promising the Brotherhood would submit if Magneto died.
• Su Chen effortlessly neutralized Magneto’s magnetic attacks, including iron spikes and an attempt to manipulate the iron in his body.
• Magneto hurled a metal building at Su Chen, who destroyed it with a punch and sent the debris back at Magneto with Telekinesis.
• Su Chen broke through Magneto’s energy barrier and struck him, sending him flying over a hundred meters and leaving the Brotherhood convinced the battle was decided.
• Su Chen walked toward Magneto’s fallen body as the Brotherhood members held back, and a woman flew toward them.

After Wanda pledged herself to Su Chen, he formed the Mutant faction Utopia and learned of the Sentinel project and the West Coast Avengers. Utopia began preparing to conquer the West Coast, while Electron warned that Tony Stark might have survived by uploading his consciousness.

• Wanda asked Su Chen to spare Magneto and offered her allegiance, then summoned a tsunami to prove her power before Su Chen stopped it.
• Su Chen left Magneto behind, gathered the Brotherhood of Mutants aboard an aircraft carrier, and named his faction Utopia, with Emma Frost as Queen and himself as king.
• Utopia learned that the West Coast Avengers were forming and that the military had developed Sentinels using stolen Mutant genes, prompting Su Chen to announce a campaign to conquer the world.
• Mutants discovered Tony Stark's Iron Man armors being mass-produced at Stark Industries, along with his plan to create an Iron Legion and an adaptive artificial intelligence.
• Electron warned Utopia's leaders that Tony might have survived by uploading his consciousness to a network, despite his decaying body being found.

The Mutant Electron discovered a massacre in Yorktown City, where David Haller was killing Mutants and had crushed a pilot in a shrunken Iron Man Armor. Su Chen confronted David, who demanded that Su Chen return the old man, and their battle began with David healing from Su Chen’s attacks.

• The Mutant Electron searched the network for traces of Tony Stark and found footage of a man in hospital pajamas slaughtering Mutants in Yorktown City.
• David killed Mutants along the riverside, crushed a pilot trapped in a shrunken Iron Man Armor, and threatened to kill everyone present.
• Su Chen emerged from a ripple in space, and David accused him of taking the old man and attacked him with mud and water.
• Su Chen absorbed David’s elemental attack, caught and crushed his wrist, then hurled him through several buildings.
• David healed his injuries, praised Su Chen, and called on the other personalities in his mind to meet their new family member.

Su Chen fought David, whose Legion abilities unleashed hundreds of attacks and whose personalities sought to absorb Su Chen’s consciousness. After David froze time and tried to reach through Su Chen’s body to crush his heart, Su Chen moved and punched at him despite the time stop.

• David revealed demonic souls surrounding him and launched a barrage of attacks using many abilities at once.
• Su Chen adapted to the assault, absorbed its energy, and punched David in the face, but David transferred the damage to a stray dog.
• Mutants watched the battle devastate the city as David’s many personalities emerged and Emma Frost saw them surrounding him.
• David stopped time and tried to reach through Su Chen’s body to crush his heart.
• Su Chen moved despite the time stop and raised a fist to strike David.

Su Chen overcame David’s ability to stop time and continued extracting the personalities in his mind, leaving David helpless. The watching mutants saw Su Chen win as he seized David again.

• Su Chen resisted David’s time stop and walked toward him.
• The watching mutants declared that Su Chen had won and marveled at David’s sudden defeat.
• David cried out as Su Chen seized him and extracted a mass of conscious personalities from his mind.

Su Chen defeated David and learned that Professor Charles might have survived by placing his consciousness in a host. Utopia then attacked Worthington Pharmaceuticals on Alcatraz, where its Helicarrier began destroying the facility as the mutants moved to rescue those held there.

• Su Chen took David's remaining consciousnesses and personalities, killed him, and erased his existence.
• Su Chen told Emma Frost that David believed Professor Charles was still alive, and Emma promised to search for him.
• Electron revealed that Worthington Pharmaceuticals had developed a drug that could suppress mutants' X-Genes, prompting Utopia to target the company on Alcatraz.
• Utopia's Helicarrier appeared above Alcatraz and bombarded the island's defenses and surrounding ships.
• Emma Frost declared that Worthington Pharmaceuticals would be wiped from history as Utopia began its effort to rescue detained mutants.

Su Chen stopped Goliath the Giant from destroying the Helicarrier, then knocked him down at Alcatraz. As Su Chen turned to face Human Torch, another attacker struck him and revealed himself as a god of Earth.

• Goliath the Giant attacked the Helicarrier, but Su Chen restrained his arm with Telekinesis and repeatedly slapped him.
• Goliath grew larger and broke free, but Su Chen struck him from behind and sent him crashing to his knees in the sea near Alcatraz.
• Human Torch flew toward Su Chen, who fired a beam of ice power at him.
• A figure enveloped in white light hit Su Chen and sent him flying, then announced that he was a god of Earth.

Su Chen’s evolving powers eroded Hercules’s divine energy and let him overpower the god of strength. He brutalized Hercules across a mountain range and city, while Goliath and S.H.I.E.L.D. watched in horror.

• Hercules charged Su Chen through a row of skyscrapers, but Su Chen kicked him away as his genes awakened energy and divine power erosion.
• Hercules’s divine light faded near Su Chen, and Su Chen blocked his charge, punched him into a crater, and seized him by the neck.
• Su Chen carried Hercules high into the sky and hurled him into a mountain range, causing a huge collapse.
• Goliath watched in shock as S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Hill regretted organizing the attack and feared Hercules would not survive.
• Hercules tried to heal and escape, but Su Chen restrained him with Telekinesis, dragged him along the ground, and threw him through several buildings as another ability awakened.

Su Chen killed Hercules with evolved energy tentacles, then faced Human Torch’s life-burning Supernova attack. As the firestorm reached extreme heat, Su Chen’s evolving resistance produced an ice counterattack that froze the surrounding miles.

• Su Chen crushed Hercules into the rubble and pierced his body with energy tentacles that bypassed his divine defenses.
• Su Chen killed Hercules and taunted Human Torch and Goliath, who hesitated after seeing his power.
• Human Torch charged at Su Chen and created a million-degree firestorm by circling him at tremendous speed.
• Su Chen’s fire resistance evolved, and he unleashed ice energy that froze everything within several miles in an attack he called Ice Age.

Su Chen overcame Human Torch’s Supernova Explosion by developing Ice Manipulation, then helped defeat Goliath with Wanda and Emma Frost. At the N-37 Secret Base, Hank Pym and Scott Lang planned to explore the Quantum Realm for a way to counter Number One Mutants, while the battle on Alcatraz ended with Worthington Pharmaceuticals’ headquarters overrun.

• Su Chen developed immunity to fire and awakened Ice Manipulation, freezing much of the forest and part of the city while stopping the collapse of space.
• Goliath fled the battle near Alcatraz, but Scarlet Witch Wanda confronted him and Su Chen exposed and wounded him after he shrank.
• Emma Frost took control of Goliath and explained that his suit used Pym Particle technology, connecting his team to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• At the N-37 Secret Base, Hank Pym and Scott Lang discussed using the Quantum Realm to develop time travel or reach a parallel universe for help against Number One Mutants.
• The battle on Alcatraz ended, and Worthington Pharmaceuticals’ headquarters was completely overrun.

Su Chen confronted Kaecilius as Dormammu’s followers attacked the Yorktown City Sanctum, then entered the Dark World to stop the ritual and rescue the trapped Sanctum mages. Kaecilius welcomed him into the realm and warned that he would not be able to leave.

• Emma Frost told Su Chen that the Mutants in the laboratory were safe and that agents were investigating two suspected S.H.I.E.L.D. facilities in the western desert.
• Dark energy erupted around the Yorktown City Sanctum, as Kaecilius’s ritual began destroying the surrounding area and trapping Sanctum mages in a corrupted Mirror Dimension.
• Kaecilius told Su Chen to join Dormammu, but Su Chen erased the distance between them and struck him, destroying what proved to be a duplicate.
• Su Chen entered the Mirror Dimension, which Kaecilius had transformed into a Dark World, and Kaecilius warned him that he could not escape.

Su Chen absorbed the Dark Dimension’s corrupting energy, collapsed its projection, and killed Kaecilius and seven of Dormammu’s followers. He remained under the influence of dark emotions as his Reality Warping grew stronger.

• Kaecilius tried to corrupt Su Chen with the Dark Dimension’s power, but Su Chen absorbed the energy and turned the Sanctum sorcerer’s white magic against him.
• Su Chen devoured the dark energy until the projected domain collapsed, returning everyone to the street outside the Sanctum.
• Su Chen erased the distance between himself and Kaecilius, then struck him with a blow that burst most of his body apart.
• As Dormammu’s followers charged, Su Chen stopped time by erasing its concept and killed all seven when time resumed.

Su Chen fought Dormammu’s will after it possessed Kaecilius and attacked him in Yorktown City. Enraged by Dormammu’s threat against his family, Su Chen destroyed Kaecilius’s body, extinguishing Dormammu’s manifested will.

• Dormammu’s will took control of Kaecilius, and his followers bowed while the surviving sanctum mages feared Earth’s protections would fail.
• Dormammu sent dark monsters after the mages and attacked Su Chen, but Su Chen caught his wrist and hurled him through buildings.
• Dormammu threatened Su Chen’s family, provoking Su Chen to attack him with a barrage of punches.
• Su Chen’s blows tore Kaecilius apart and formed a vast crater, extinguishing Dormammu’s will.
• The surviving sanctum mages stood stunned by the destruction.

Su Chen slaughtered Dormammu’s followers, read the sanctum mages’ memories, and confronted Baron Mordo and Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One. Ancient One revealed that she intended to undo Su Chen’s alterations to reality, prompting him to ask whether she would also restore the enemies he had erased.

• Su Chen killed Dormammu’s attacking followers by slicing them apart and erasing their lives.
• Su Chen assaulted the sanctum mages’ minds, read their memories about Kamar-Taj’s Three Sanctums, and left them brain-dead.
• Baron Mordo confronted Su Chen, and Ancient One emerged and used time magic to restore the fallen sanctum mages.
• Ancient One said she would undo Su Chen’s interference with reality and restore the timeline.
• Su Chen asked Ancient One whether restoring reality would bring back enemies such as Wolverine, Shadowcat, and General Stryker.

Su Chen rejected the Ancient One’s demand to undo his changes to reality, and the Ancient One trapped him and the Kamar-Taj mages in the Mirror Dimension. Su Chen exploited the unstable space to kill several mages, while Baron Mordo watched his growing strength.

• The Ancient One demanded that Su Chen let go of his hatred and allow his alterations to reality to be undone, but Su Chen refused and challenged her.
• The Ancient One activated the Mirror Dimension, and the Sanctum mages folded the city around Su Chen to restrict his movement.
• Su Chen manipulated space to pull four Sanctum mages beside him and killed them with energy tentacles.
• Su Chen detected an invisible mage’s ambush and knocked him away with an energy tentacle.
• Su Chen crushed a magical blade, stabbed its wielder with a fragment, and left Baron Mordo alarmed by how much stronger he had become.

Su Chen resisted the Ancient One’s magic and the Time Stone, then overwhelmed her with his attacks. As the Mirror Dimension began to collapse, the injured Ancient One realized she could barely weaken him.

• The Ancient One bound Su Chen with magical chains, but his rising magic resistance let him shatter them.
• Su Chen erased the distance between them and attacked, but the Ancient One used the Eye of Agamotto to reverse time and undo his punch.
• The Ancient One tried to rewind Su Chen’s age, but he resisted the Time Stone and charged through her magical barriers.
• Su Chen struck the Ancient One and sent her crashing through buildings while the Sanctum mages watched in shock.
• Su Chen continued attacking the Ancient One, and the Mirror Dimension began to collapse as her injuries worsened.
• The Ancient One found that the Time Stone could only turn Su Chen’s strength back to what it had been three days earlier, leaving him effectively unharmed.

Su Chen exposed that the Ancient One had been absorbing Dormammu’s power to prolong her life, turning the Sanctum mages against her. He then used her own arguments about protecting Earth to demand that she banish herself, leaving the Ancient One and Baron Mordo furious.

• Su Chen revealed that the Ancient One had secretly absorbed Dormammu’s power and suggested it explained Kaecilius’s betrayal.
• The Ancient One admitted she had used the dark power to extend her life so she could keep protecting Kamar-Taj and Earth.
• Baron Mordo and the Sanctum mages condemned the Ancient One’s choice, and some began to lose faith in her.
• Su Chen mocked the Ancient One for criticizing his reality-altering actions and demanded that she banish herself for Earth’s safety.
• The Ancient One and Baron Mordo reacted with anger at Su Chen’s accusation and ridicule.

After the Ancient One failed to glimpse Su Chen’s future, she apologized and restored the Yorktown City Sanctum, but Su Chen killed Baron Mordo before time magic could take him away. Later, at his new residence in Yorktown City, Su Chen planned to expand his forces and sent Emma Frost to arrange for Mutants to study magic at Kamar-Taj.

• The Ancient One used the Time Stone to examine Su Chen’s destiny but found his future shrouded and was forced out by a powerful rejection.
• The Ancient One admitted she had been wrong, restored the damaged Sanctum and surrounding streets, and sent the crimson-robed figures back to Kamar-Taj.
• Su Chen killed Baron Mordo with a flying blade as the Ancient One’s time magic was about to remove him.
• At his Yorktown City residence, Su Chen gave Emma Frost Sling Rings and ordered her to select young Mutants to train at Kamar-Taj.
• Su Chen discussed building a larger scientific team to develop the Tesseract and repurpose the Sentinels, while Su Shan asked him if she could learn magic.

Su Chen agreed to let Su Shan and Mindy learn magic while insisting Su Shan keep up with her schoolwork. Meanwhile, Captain Marvel returned to Earth and discovered a Terrigen Mist outbreak killing Mutants, marking the Inhumans’ emergence.

• Su Chen promised to arrange a sorceress to teach Su Shan magic and agreed that Mindy could learn alongside her.
• Su Chen refused to let Su Shan discard her textbooks, and Emma Frost watched their affectionate exchange.
• Director Hill reported that Mutants had captured two S.H.I.E.L.D. bases, while the agency prepared to mass-produce Sentinels.
• Captain Marvel Carol returned to Earth in response to Nick Fury’s pager and flew toward the West Coast.
• Carol found a city engulfed in Terrigen Mist that poisoned Mutants, and she realized the Inhumans had begun to emerge.

Carol discovered Kree genetic sequences and biochemical technology in the Terrigen Mist, while Maximus unleashed the mist on two cities to awaken Inhumans and kill Mutants. Su Chen entered the mist-shrouded mountain city and, seeing an unusual horned figure ahead, continued toward it.

• Carol scanned carbonized figures and found that their genes resembled the Kree’s and that the mist matched former Kree biochemical technology.
• Maximus ordered Terrigen Mist spread across two cities, seeking revenge on Mutants and a foothold on Earth for the Inhumans.
• The mist killed Mutants and humans with latent X-Genes while carbonizing others into cocoons for Inhuman awakening.
• Su Chen arrived alone in the mountain city, entered the mist unharmed, and passed a dying Mutant who called him Supreme.
• Su Chen used his vision to see through the mist and noticed a horned figure walking a hundred meters away.