Recaps

Su Chen used his newly acquired spatial powers and immense strength to overwhelm the Silver Surfer, who repeatedly recovered from devastating injuries. The chapter left Su Chen closing in on the Silver Surfer after identifying the surfboard as the source of his power.

• Su Chen's punch shattered the Silver Surfer, but the Silver Surfer quickly reformed from mercury-like energy.
• Su Chen used Space Cutting to split the Silver Surfer in half, then used Space Formatting to break apart his head.
• The Silver Surfer recovered again and attacked with Cosmic Energy, but Su Chen absorbed the blasts and returned the energy against him.
• The Silver Surfer tried to escape with a spatial jump, but Su Chen blocked him and pointed out that his surfboard sustained his power.
• Su Chen erased the distance between them and launched another powerful punch at the Silver Surfer.

Su Chen destroyed Silver Surfer and learned that the other Heralds of Galactus were approaching Earth, while Loki plotted revenge from Asgard. Meanwhile, Utopia confronted Phoenix-powered Cyclops Scott, and Su Chen arrived to face him.

• Su Chen shattered Silver Surfer’s board and defeated him, while Captain Marvel Carol and the reporters announced the victory.
• Carol warned Su Chen that Galactus and the other Heralds were still a threat, and Emma Frost relayed a warning that meteors were nearing the Solar System.
• Su Chen learned that new Phoenix Hosts might target him, and he said he would deal with them after protecting Earth.
• In Asgard, Loki used the Mind Stone Scepter to control Heimdall and began plotting revenge against Su Chen and Earth.
• Cyclops Scott emerged from a burned village with a fragment of the Phoenix Force, and Scarlet Witch Wanda, Quicksilver, and Utopia’s Mutants confronted him.
• Su Chen appeared before Scott, suppressed his power, and pulled him toward himself with a terrifying field.

Su Chen killed the second Phoenix Host and prepared for Galactus’s arrival as Namor, corrupted by the Phoenix Force, sent an enormous tsunami toward Yorktown City. Su Chen went out to stop the waves while Captain Marvel Carol offered to help.

• Su Chen disintegrated Charles’s younger brother, the second Phoenix Host, after learning that Galactus and three heralds would reach the Solar System in an hour.
• The prophetic painter showed Galactus consuming life energy, suffered a divine punishment, and revealed that Namor was the third Phoenix Host and planned to unleash a tsunami.
• Namor stirred the ocean into an epic-level tsunami aimed at Yorktown City, prompting coastal alarms and panic among its residents.
• Su Chen arrived above the coast as the tsunami approached, and Captain Marvel Carol flew alongside him and offered to smash it.
• Su Chen told Carol not to come near him and said he would handle the tsunami himself.

Su Chen froze the tsunami and killed Namor, the third Phoenix Host, before sensing the remaining Heralds of Galactus arriving. As Earth braced for the invasion, Stardust and two other Heralds entered the Solar System, with Stardust tasked with preventing anyone from escaping.

• Su Chen unleashed his freezing power, stopping the tsunami and freezing the surrounding sea for dozens of miles.
• Su Chen used the Space Stone to pull Namor from beneath the ice, then destroyed him with molecular disintegration.
• Su Chen sensed that the remaining Phoenix Hosts were coming, while Captain Marvel Carol noticed his eagerness for the battle ahead.
• S.W.O.R.D. detected multiple unidentified objects entering the Solar System, and air-raid sirens sounded across Earth as people spent time with their families.
• The last three Heralds of Galactus arrived, and Stardust prepared to stop survivors from escaping Earth and erase traces of its civilization.

Su Chen fought Herald Tyrant while the Heralds of Galactus devastated Earth, and Tyrant’s devastating axe blow split a continent and the Pacific Ocean. Su Chen survived the attack and regenerated, but his fury surged as he prepared to continue the battle.

• Stardust destroyed Earth’s satellites and damaged a city with a cosmic beam while the other Heralds descended.
• Firelord attacked Earth, and Captain Marvel Carol intercepted his beam before battling him.
• Su Chen confronted Herald Tyrant and struck the giant hard enough to stagger him.
• Enraged, Tyrant unleashed an axe strike that split a continent and the Pacific Ocean, leaving Su Chen badly mangled.
• Su Chen’s body regenerated his severed hands and other injuries as rage overwhelmed him.

Su Chen evolved to withstand Herald Tyrant’s physical power, then defeated him with a devastating dive. Herald Stardust arrived and attacked, but Su Chen struck him; Stardust reformed his energy body and unleashed a barrage as the chapter ended.

• Su Chen’s genes strengthened his bones, skin, and muscles, allowing him to rise from the fissure and punch Herald Tyrant, knocking him to the ground.
• Su Chen plunged from over ten thousand meters and blasted Herald Tyrant into a cloud of blood mist.
• The Utopia faction members, including Emma Frost, the White Queen, and Su Shan, cheered as Herald Tyrant cried out in pain.
• Stardust sensed Herald Tyrant’s agony, teleported from outer space to Earth, and attacked Su Chen with a powerful beam.
• Su Chen appeared behind Stardust and blasted apart nearly half his body, but Stardust reformed from cosmic energy and fired beams across the battlefield.

Su Chen stopped Stardust’s black hole and absorbed his cosmic attacks, then struck and injured Tyrant, who quickly regenerated. After Tyrant threatened Su Chen’s family and Stardust pointed to the devastation around them, Su Chen decided to use the sun against the Heralds.

• Stardust opened a black hole to devour Earth, but Su Chen used the Space Stone to close the rift and restore the surroundings.
• Stardust attacked Su Chen with cosmic energy, which Su Chen absorbed before firing it back at Tyrant and Stardust.
• Su Chen crossed the distance and punched Tyrant, drawing blood, but Tyrant regenerated and said he could endure a prolonged fight.
• Stardust taunted Su Chen with the destruction around them, while Tyrant threatened his family.
• Su Chen decided to make the sun the Heralds’ burial ground and began releasing the Space Stone’s power.

Su Chen dragged the Heralds of Galactus Stardust and Tyrant toward the Sun’s core, while Ancient One and Captain Marvel Carol fought Firelord in the Mirror Dimension. The battle on Earth continued as earthquakes shook Yorktown City.

• Su Chen teleported Stardust and Tyrant into space and adapted to the vacuum.
• Su Chen drove Tyrant toward the Sun, then grabbed Stardust and dragged him after Tyrant.
• Ancient One pulled Firelord and Carol into the Mirror Dimension and used the Time Stone to weaken Firelord.
• Carol activated Binary Mode and attacked Firelord while Ancient One struggled to maintain her spell.
• The Heralds vanished from Earth, while earthquakes continued to rattle Yorktown City.

Su Chen dragged Herald Tyrant and Herald Stardust into the sun, where both Heralds were destroyed as his body adapted to the extreme conditions. After absorbing the sun’s flares and growing stronger, Su Chen left the sun to prepare a gift for the approaching Galactus, who arrived in the Solar System hungry.

• The Mutant Prophet warned that Su Chen had dragged the two Heralds of Galactus into the sun, while Emma Frost rejected the idea that he could die there.
• Su Chen held Herald Tyrant and Herald Stardust captive as he teleported them deeper into the sun, adapting to its heat and solar flares.
• Herald Tyrant’s life signs vanished, and Su Chen hurled the nearly destroyed Stardust into the sun’s core, annihilating him.
• Su Chen’s body gained greater strength and resistance, and he absorbed the solar flares and sunspots around him.
• Su Chen left the sun, while Galactus descended into the Solar System and said he was hungry.

Su Chen ambushed the hungry Galactus with a massive solar flare, then endured Galactus’s counterattack as his body absorbed the energy and evolved into an Energy Particle Body. The chapter ended with Galactus noticing Su Chen’s transformation and preparing to test his new power.

• Su Chen surprised Galactus with a solar flare that badly damaged his energy armor and disrupted electronics across Earth.
• Galactus realized Su Chen had killed his heralds and attacked him with fists and powerful energy beams.
• Su Chen absorbed Galactus’s attacks, healed, and awakened the Energy Particle Body.
• Su Chen’s aura transformed as he floated in space, and Galactus challenged him to prove his strength.

Su Chen used his evolving energy-particle body to overwhelm Galactus, whose hunger and loss of energy armor left him unable to withstand the attacks. The chapter ended with Su Chen brutally pummeling Galactus until the giant could no longer resist.

• Su Chen shattered Galactus's energy armor with a powerful punch and stabbed him twice with energy swords.
• Galactus blasted Su Chen with cosmic energy, but Su Chen absorbed it and grew increasingly immune to the attacks.
• Su Chen unleashed the absorbed energy as beams and swords, pierced Galactus's eye, and severed his right hand with Space Cutting.
• Galactus asked how Su Chen had grown so powerful, and Su Chen said Galactus had helped him evolve.
• Su Chen restored his physical strength and struck Galactus with repeated punches until Galactus went rigid and stopped resisting.

After Su Chen destroyed Galactus, Captain Marvel Carol killed the weakened Firelord, ending the invasion of Earth. The world celebrated Su Chen as its savior, while Loki remained in control of Asgard but had yet to complete his mission.

• Su Chen confirmed that Galactus was dead and prepared to return to Earth to shape its future order.
• Firelord lost the power Galactus had given him, and Captain Marvel Carol killed him as Ancient One's Mirror Dimension neared collapse.
• Captain Marvel Carol and Ancient One recognized that the invasion was over, though Earth had suffered catastrophic damage.
• S.W.O.R.D. announced the crisis's resolution, and people across the world cheered for Su Chen as reporters showed the devastation.
• Emma Frost reflected on Su Chen's transformation from a Mutant extremist into Earth's savior.
• Loki held the throne of Asgard with the Mind Stone Scepter and a Chitauri army, but he had not completed his mission.

Loki unleashed the World Serpent to reclaim power, but Su Chen killed it and exposed Loki’s involvement. After returning to Yorktown City and declaring Earth’s crisis over, Su Chen announced that Earth’s first interstellar campaign would target Asgard.

• Loki went alone to the Mariana Trench and used the Mind Stone Scepter to control the World Serpent, sending it to destroy the world.
• Su Chen returned from space and struck the World Serpent, then killed it with Space Cutting attacks.
• Loki fled after Su Chen detected him, and Su Chen warned that their next meeting would mark Asgard’s fall.
• Su Chen returned to Yorktown City, received praise from humans and Mutants, and declared Earth’s crisis resolved.
• Su Chen announced that Earth would begin colonizing the universe and make its first campaign against Asgard.

After Galactus’s defeat, Su Chen turned public anger toward Asgard and brought Utopia members to Wakanda, seeking its Vibranium and the Phoenix Host T’Challa. When Wakanda attacked the intruders, Su Chen absorbed its weapons and dismantled its defenses, leaving the hidden kingdom exposed.

• A week after the battle with Galactus, Utopia publicized Jormungand’s corpse and blamed Asgard, stoking calls for revenge.
• Captain Marvel Carol worried that Su Chen was binding humanity to a war, while Ancient One warned that Thanos sought the Infinity Stones held by Carol and Su Chen.
• Su Chen, Emma Frost, and other Utopia members arrived near Wakanda, intending to seize its Vibranium and investigate T’Challa’s Phoenix power.
• Wakanda’s security forces detected the breach and fired concealed railguns at the visitors.
• Su Chen absorbed the beams, destroyed the railguns with Reality Warping, and shattered Wakanda’s force-field barrier.

Su Chen conquered Wakanda, killed its Phoenix Host, and seized its vibranium, then authorized Utopia’s latest Sentinels after a month of recovery on Earth. In Asgard, Loki remained under pressure from Thanos to obtain the Infinity Stones and feared facing Su Chen.

• Su Chen’s aircraft carrier appeared over Wakanda, and Utopia’s forces began occupying the city.
• Black Panther T'Challa attacked Su Chen, who killed him and destroyed the Phoenix Force he had taken from his mind.
• Emma Frost and Utopia’s psychic mutants subdued the Wakandans and seized the vibranium vein.
• A month after Earth’s doomsday crisis, Su Chen authorized deployment of Utopia’s newly tested Sentinels.
• In Asgard, Loki suppressed opposition, controlled Odin with the Mind Stone, and faced a one-week deadline from Thanos’ forces to obtain the Infinity Stones.

Loki's rule on Asgard came under attack as Earth's expeditionary army tore open a rift in the sky and deployed vibranium Sentinels. The first wave overwhelmed Asgardian soldiers and defenses, leaving the invasion in full swing.

• Loki heard a distant blast and learned that Asgard was under attack, suspecting the attackers had come from Earth.
• Earth's expeditionary army arrived through a Space Stone rift and dropped a wave of crates over Asgard.
• Asgardian soldiers destroyed the unmanned transports, but sixty-six vibranium Sentinels emerged from the falling crates unharmed.
• The Sentinels absorbed Rune Magic and released the stored energy in a devastating wave that hurled soldiers aside and damaged Asgardian buildings.
• The Sentinels attacked with laser beams, metal spikes, and a copied Asgardian flame ability, setting a soldier ablaze.

Loki unleashed the Destroyer against the Sentinels invading Asgard, and its beam shattered one of the Vibranium machines. The chapter explained that the Destroyer had been forged by Earth’s gods to fight the Cosmic Celestials, and Loki expected it to stop the invasion.

• The Sentinels absorbed attacks and used copied Asgardian abilities while more machines poured through the open wormhole.
• The Chitauri commander threatened to report Loki’s failure to Thanos and suggested the Sentinels could become a new legion.
• Loki announced that Asgard’s ultimate weapon would appear and ordered the Destroyer to attack the Sentinels.
• The Destroyer’s beam shattered a Sentinel, and Loki declared that the machine would defeat the invading robots.
• The chapter described the Destroyer’s origins and the Cosmic Celestials’ power, which had once forced Odin to refrain from interfering with Earth.

Su Chen arrived with Utopia’s army and stopped Loki from collapsing the spatial wormhole before blasting the Destroyer into Asgard. The Destroyer rose from the ruins largely intact as Loki ordered it back into the fight.

• Loki ordered the Destroyer to attack the Sentinels and tried to collapse the wormhole using the Mind Stone Scepter.
• Su Chen suppressed the spatial fluctuations with the Space Stone and taunted Loki, while Asgardians began to fear that Ragnarok had come.
• Su Chen unleashed a powerful beam that struck the Destroyer and hurled it through Asgard’s buildings.
• Asgardians reacted with shock and resentment at Earth’s invasion and the strength of its forces.
• Loki ordered the Destroyer to rise, and it emerged from the rubble with only a few dents in its uru metal armor.

Su Chen defeated Loki’s Destroyer with one punch, then faced Odin after the Sentinels encountered him. Odin’s Gungnir attack failed to stop Su Chen, and the chapter ended as Odin threw the weapon and Su Chen challenged its Reality Warping.

• Loki urged the Destroyer to kill Su Chen, and it charged at him with the power of the gods.
• Su Chen destroyed the Destroyer with one punch, leaving Loki stunned as the Sentinels resumed advancing.
• Odin used Gungnir to cut two Sentinels in half and unleashed the Odinforce against Su Chen.
• Su Chen brushed aside Odin with a slap, sending him flying and damaging his armor and Gungnir.
• Odin threw Gungnir at Su Chen, and Su Chen challenged him for using Reality Warping.

Su Chen defeated Odin, Loki, and the invading Chitauri forces in Asgard, then set out to claim the realm’s treasures. As he entered the treasury, cracks in a mural above the great hall revealed a hidden layer behind it.

• Su Chen redirected Gungnir into Odin’s heart, and Odin collapsed as the spear’s core shattered.
• With Odin dead, the Sentinels resumed their slaughter of Asgard’s soldiers and the Chitauri army, adapting their attacks as they fought.
• Su Chen ignored Loki’s Mind Stone Scepter, seized him, and crushed the Casket of Ancient Winters; the resulting freeze killed Loki and the Chitauri legion commander.
• Su Chen declared that he would pursue the Celestials and Thanos, then entered Asgard’s treasury to search for its treasures.
• Cracks spread across the mural above Asgard’s great hall, revealing black patterns beneath it.

Su Chen explored Asgard’s vault and collected two Sorcerer Supreme artifacts before Hela appeared and revealed herself as Odin’s daughter and successor. Hela claimed the throne and took the Eternal Flame to build an army, while Su Chen waited to see her full power.

• Su Chen identified and took the Orb of Agamotto, then examined the Eternal Flame, the Tablet of Life and Time, missing treasures, and the Warlock’s Eye.
• Su Chen sensed a powerful death aura spreading through the vault and hall, then encountered Hela, who introduced herself as Odin’s daughter and asked if he had killed her father.
• Hela described how Odin had sealed her in Hel and said she had taken the throne because he could not kill her.
• Su Chen ordered the Sentinels back into standby mode and let Hela continue speaking, hoping she would reveal her full power.
• Hela entered the vault, took the Eternal Flame, and said a king should have an army of her own.

Hela resurrected her ancient legion and Fenris with the Eternal Flame, then demanded that Su Chen submit to her. Su Chen overwhelmed her and threatened to use the Mind Stone Scepter to destroy her will, leaving Hela forced toward her knees.

• Hela poured deathly aura into the Eternal Flame, resurrecting her buried Asgardian legion and awakening Fenris.
• Hela offered Su Chen a reward for helping her and demanded that he kneel and submit.
• Su Chen repeatedly tore Hela apart, but she regenerated by drawing power from Asgard and claimed she was immortal.
• Su Chen activated the surrounding Sentinels and warned that he could destroy Asgard, though he wanted its Uru metal.
• Su Chen presented the Mind Stone Scepter and threatened to turn Hela into a puppet by destroying her mind.
• Su Chen ordered Hela to kneel and submit, and her knees began to bend despite her resistance.

After Hela submitted to Su Chen, Utopia mined Asgard’s rich resources and organized its forces into the Sentry Legion and the Legion of the Dead. During the night, the true Goddess of Death manifested through Hela and offered Su Chen power and authority in exchange for serving her.

• Hela accepted Su Chen’s gift and became his conscious, loyal slave, opening the Asgard continent to Utopia.
• Emma Frost reported that Utopia had discovered abundant resources on Asgard and established the Sentry Legion and Hela’s Legion of the Dead as its main forces.
• Su Chen rested in the palace with Hela and the White Queen, but Hela’s power suddenly surged during the night.
• The true Goddess of Death revealed herself through Hela and told Su Chen that his strength and victory over Galactus had drawn her interest.
• The Goddess of Death offered Su Chen immense power and authority if he agreed to serve her and carry out one task.

The Goddess of Death failed to persuade or defeat Su Chen and withdrew, while Thanos prepared to act personally with the Power Stone. Heimdall escaped the fallen Asgard to tell Thor the news, and Thor resolved to seek the Power of the Runes of Ruun to avenge his family.

• The Goddess of Death asked Su Chen to kill half the universe’s life, but he rejected her offer and asserted he could conquer the universe without her help.
• The Goddess of Death considered attacking Su Chen but withdrew after judging that she might not defeat him and could provoke him to develop a counter to her power.
• Thanos learned that the Chitauri Army had been wiped out and revealed that he had obtained the Power Stone, deciding to act himself.
• Heimdall awakened in Asgard, saw its destruction, and used the Bifrost to reach Thor on Xandar.
• Heimdall told Thor that Asgard, Odin, and Loki had fallen, and Thor vowed to avenge them by seeking the Power of the Runes of Ruun.

After the Frost Giants infiltrated Asgard’s treasury, Su Chen ordered Hela to prove her strength and loyalty by finishing her old war against them. Hela destroyed the Frost Giant race and returned to Asgard with Laufey’s head, while Su Chen chose to spare the other giants in Jotunheim.

• Frost Giants entered Asgard’s treasury through a secret passage seeking the Casket of Ancient Winters, but the Sentinels killed them.
• Su Chen asked Hela to prove her strength and loyalty by attacking the Frost Giants, and she rallied the Legion of the Dead.
• Hela led the Legion of the Dead through Jotunheim and wiped out the Frost Giant tribes.
• Laufey offered to surrender, but Hela killed him and declared that Su Chen wanted no enemies left alive.
• Hela returned with Laufey’s head and offered to destroy the remaining giants, but Su Chen refused, saying it would cost too many resources.