Recaps

Su Chen defeated Thanos, took the Power Stone and Soul Stone, and gathered all six Infinity Stones in his own gauntlet. After learning Thanos planned to sacrifice half the universe to the Goddess of Death, Su Chen snapped his fingers, leaving Thanos and the Outriders Legion facing an unknown fate.

• Su Chen killed Ebony Maw after Supergiant sacrificed herself to save Thanos, leaving Thanos without any surviving subordinates.
• Thanos's damaged gauntlet shattered, and Su Chen took the Power Stone and Soul Stone before Thanos could reach them.
• Su Chen placed the stones into his gauntlet, and the Ancient One brought him the Time Stone to complete the set of six.
• The six Infinity Stones spread Su Chen's consciousness across the universe and strengthened his body, soul, and mental power.
• Su Chen learned Thanos intended to offer half the universe's lives to the Goddess of Death, then snapped his fingers as Thanos sat down in despair.

After Thanos and the Outriders Legion vanished, Earth celebrated its victory while Ego expanded his assimilation across the universe and set his sights on Earth and its Infinity Stones. Ego traveled there in a humanoid body, where S.W.O.R.D.’s defenses detected and attacked him, but he remained unharmed as the next defensive line activated.

• Thanos and the Outriders Legion disintegrated, leaving Su Chen as the only person able to remember Thanos.
• Earth celebrated Thanos’s defeat, with Utopia and its forces standing as a new defense against threats from space.
• Ego expanded his assimilation across Earth-616 and decided to travel to Earth for its Infinity Stones before assimilating the planet.
• Ego created a humanoid body and headed toward Earth, noticing that the villain’s aura had vanished along the way.
• S.W.O.R.D. detected Ego near Earth and fired on him, but he neutralized the attack as the orbital satellites opened their weapon bays.

Ego’s avatar invaded Earth, but Su Chen destroyed it and learned that Ego was preparing another expansion across the universe. Captain Marvel warned Su Chen that Ego might target surviving worlds such as Earth and Xandar, then invited him to join the Nova Corps on Xandar.

• Ego’s avatar deflected Earth’s attacks until Su Chen arrived and destroyed its energy circulation, severing its connection to Ego’s main body.
• Ego grew furious on his planet and resumed expanding, while contacting the Elders of the Universe to coordinate their plans.
• Captain Marvel told Su Chen that the Nova Corps had found Ego’s true planetary avatars and warned that Earth and Xandar might face another invasion.
• Su Chen promised to meet the threat, then answered his sisters’ questions about aliens after his call with Captain Marvel.
• Captain Marvel invited Su Chen to Xandar to stand with the Nova Corps against Ego.

Su Chen traveled to Xandar with Su Shan and Hit-Girl, where he demonstrated his strength to the Nova Corps and discussed facing a threat with Captain Marvel. As an alarm announced powerful intruders approaching the planet, Su Chen sensed that Ego had returned in a stronger, divided form.

• Su Chen took Su Shan and Hit-Girl on a weeklong spaceship journey to Xandar.
• A Nova Corps commander doubted Su Chen's strength and tried to bump into him, but Su Chen sent him crashing into a building with a casual sweep of his arm.
• Captain Marvel introduced Su Chen as the founder of the Utopia Alliance, who had wiped out the Chitauri and the Outriders Legion, and explained that he possessed a power stronger than their equipment.
• An alarm reported that intruders had destroyed Xandar's outer defense perimeter, and Su Chen sensed several powerful, repulsive auras approaching.
• The commander asked where Su Chen was as Captain Marvel recognized the attack as the worst-case scenario involving Ego.

Su Chen destroyed Ego’s planetary clones around Xandar, then learned that Ego belonged to the Elders of the Universe. With the true body still missing, Su Chen and the Nova Corps set out for Knowhere to question the Collector.

• Su Chen activated Rune Supreme state and destroyed Ego’s clones by striking their planetary cores with blue-white beams.
• Ego withdrew his true body from the star system and resolved to hide until he grew stronger.
• Captain Marvel reported that the Nova Corps had found information about the Elders of the Universe, and the commander shared it with Su Chen.
• The commander proposed finding Ego’s brothers, and Su Chen chose the Collector as his first lead.
• The Nova Corps assembled a fleet and headed for Knowhere to confront the Collector, alarming local forces connected to him.

Su Chen overwhelmed the Nova Corps’ opponents on Knowhere, captured the Collector, and used the Mind Stone and Soul Stone to learn Ego’s location. Ego had already fled, so Su Chen killed the Collector and turned his attention to the Grandmaster, who learned the Collector had disappeared.

• Su Chen left the Nova Corps’ command ship and slaughtered the forces defending Knowhere, while the Nova Corps followed orders to clean up the battlefield.
• Su Chen confronted the Collector, sealed his opened cages with the Aether, and used the Mind Stone and Soul Stone to extract information from him.
• Su Chen teleported with the Collector to one of Ego’s hiding places but found that Ego had already escaped.
• Su Chen killed the Collector and declared that the Grandmaster would be his next target.
• The Nova Corps received a new target, while the Grandmaster on Sakaar was told that the Collector had disappeared.

After Xandar and Su Chen defeated Ego’s avatars and the Collector disappeared, the Elders of the Universe gathered on Sakaar and decided to confront Su Chen. Su Chen arrived and offered them a choice, but when they attacked, he turned the Gardener to stone.

• Ego hid after Su Chen and Xandar destroyed his planetary avatars, while the Collector disappeared during Xandar’s attack on Knowhere.
• The Grandmaster summoned Sakaar’s champions and gathered the Elders of the Universe, where Carina Tivan identified Su Chen as the force behind Ego’s defeat and her father’s fall.
• The Elders agreed to help Ego confront Su Chen, and Xandar’s corps commander worried about the assembled power while trusting in the Supreme.
• Su Chen arrived on Sakaar, defeated Beta Ray Bill and other fighters, then counted eleven Elders before him and offered them two choices.
• The Elders launched a coordinated attack, but Su Chen stopped the Gardener’s vines and turned him into a stone statue.

Su Chen petrified the Elders of the Universe on Sakaar, leaving Grandmaster as the only one able to move. After overpowering Grandmaster’s Cosmic Energy, Su Chen returned the energy that sustained him to the universe, ending the fight with Grandmaster’s consciousness vanishing.

• Su Chen used the Reality Stone to petrify the Elders of the Universe and trapped Runner despite his speed.
• Grandmaster survived because he was immune to aging and disease, and he attacked Su Chen with Cosmic Energy.
• Su Chen matched Grandmaster’s energy, and their clash tore through Sakaar, destroying the planet’s gravity and its wormholes.
• Su Chen overwhelmed Grandmaster with his greater supply of Cosmic Energy and passed through his body.
• Su Chen returned the Cosmic Energy that formed Grandmaster to the universe, causing Grandmaster’s consciousness to vanish.

Su Chen assembled the Six Infinity Stones and used the Infinity Gauntlet to wish for Ego and everything connected to him to be annihilated. The wish began to take effect, leaving Ego's fate unresolved.

• Su Chen watched the Grandmaster disintegrate and called for Ego to come out, but Ego stayed hidden.
• Su Chen returned to Ancient One and decided to use the Infinity Stones to destroy Ego and his clones.
• Ancient One gave Su Chen the Time Stone and secured the sanctum with golden threads.
• Su Chen placed all six Infinity Stones in the golden gauntlet, causing beings across the universe to feel his immense presence.
• Ego sensed the assembled stones and realized Su Chen had gathered them.
• Su Chen snapped his fingers and wished for Ego and everything connected to him to be utterly annihilated from the universe.

Su Chen’s damaged gauntlet tore a hole between universes, drawing the attention of another Earth’s Avengers. They sent Spider-Man, Peter Parker, through to investigate, and he began scouting while transmitting footage and receiving instructions from Avengers Tower.

• Ego’s body and extensions disintegrated as the universe rejected him, while Su Chen’s gauntlet cracked after releasing its power.
• Su Chen and the dwarf king discussed the gauntlet’s limits, and Su Chen sensed that some power had escaped.
• The tear revealed another Earth, where its Avengers gathered to study the breach and chose Spider-Man as a scout.
• Spider-Man crossed through the tear, landed in a remote area, and began recording the unfamiliar Earth.
• Spider-Man’s signal reached Avengers Tower, where the team watched his footage and told him to continue exploring.

Spider-Man discovered that the heroes of this universe had mostly died, while S.W.O.R.D. detected starships near the wormhole and a Hulk from another universe. The Avengers mistook the wormhole for a deliberate attack and prepared for war, while Su Chen questioned how the Hulk could be alive.

• Spider-Man connected to Earth's network and found that the counterparts of many superheroes, including Thor and Dr. Banner, were dead, with their deaths linked to Su Chen.
• S.W.O.R.D. detected starships near the wormhole and was shocked when Dr. Banner emerged, prompting its acting head to refer the situation to Su Chen.
• Captain America warned the other-universe Avengers to prepare for battle after Mister Fantastic and Doctor Strange concluded that their universe had deliberately opened the wormhole.
• Captain America declared war as the Avengers armed themselves, while the Utopia Alliance remained unaware of their suspicions.
• Su Chen questioned reports that the Hulk was alive and examined footage of the slender figure detected by the starships.

On Xandar, Captain Marvel explained that Su Chen used the six Infinity Stones to erase Ego and assured the planet’s ruler that he would not become another threat. The ruler remained somewhat wary but welcomed the prospect of Su Chen as an ally in maintaining peace.

• The legion commander and Xandar’s ruler watched Ego’s exposed planets collapse and vanish, realizing Su Chen had erased them all.
• Captain Marvel told Xandar’s ruler that Su Chen would never become another Ego, despite the power he had displayed.
• Captain Marvel revealed that Su Chen had used the six Infinity Stones and explained that others had brought them to him through their attempts to target Earth.
• Captain Marvel argued that Su Chen retaliated against those who harmed the people he protected and had never invaded a place without cause.
• Xandar’s ruler said her worries had eased and expressed hope that Xandar could gain Su Chen as a powerful ally.

Captain Marvel learned that a mysterious force made up of people who were already dead had appeared near Earth, so she left Xandar to return. Su Chen confronted Dr. Banner at the wormhole between universes, and Banner transformed into Hulk as the chapter ended.

• Captain Marvel told the Ruler that the Supreme could not discuss an alliance because he was handling a strange incident on Earth.
• Su Chen used the Space Stone to reach the wormhole, where Earth’s ships had gathered and a Vibranium ring had sealed the opening.
• The Avengers identified Su Chen as a powerful ruler from another universe and prepared to face him.
• Su Chen confronted Dr. Banner, rejected his accusation of invasion, and threatened to send him back through the wormhole.
• Dr. Banner transformed into Hulk, who roared at Su Chen and threatened to tear him apart.

Su Chen fought the Hulk, discovered that the supposedly dead behemoth had grown several times stronger, and struck him with a beam of annihilating Cosmic Energy. Iron Man sealed the wormhole with the Möbius Satellite, trapping the Hulk and Spider-Man in the other universe while the beam badly wounded superheroes there.

• The Hulk charged Su Chen and knocked him back, but Su Chen remained unharmed and realized the Hulk’s strength had multiplied several times.
• The Hulk prepared to attack again, and Su Chen fired a blue-white Cosmic Energy beam that swept across the Hulk and continued toward the wormhole.
• Iron Man activated the Möbius Satellite, which assembled around the wormhole and sealed it into a one-way loop, trapping the Hulk and Spider-Man on the other side.
• The beam passed through the wormhole before it closed and erased parts of several superheroes in the other universe.
• Iron Man defended sealing the wormhole, warning that Su Chen’s energy could pierce through Earth and that letting him reach their universe would have been worse.

Su Chen investigated the sealed wormhole after his attack killed Hulk, but neither his senses nor the Space Stone could detect what lay beyond it. Meanwhile, Captain Marvel concluded an alliance between the Utopia Alliance and Xandar, then returned to Earth with Alpha Flight to help guard the planet and investigate the wormhole.

• Su Chen ordered Utopia and S.W.O.R.D. to guard the sealed wormhole and aim every available weapon at it if it reappeared.
• Su Chen discovered that the Space Stone could not detect or reach beyond the blades sealing the wormhole, though his energy beam had struck people on the other side.
• Captain Marvel and Xandar's ruler agreed to form an alliance with the Utopia Alliance.
• Captain Marvel returned to Earth with Xandar personnel and Alpha Flight, assigning the team to protect Earth and investigate the wormhole.

Su Chen went to Asgard and asked Hela about reaching the Realm of Death, then considered rewriting the universe’s boundary between life and death with the Infinity Gauntlet. The Goddess of Death took over Hela’s body and warned that Su Chen was facing a problem he could not immediately resolve.

• Captain Marvel learned from S.W.O.R.D. that Su Chen had gone to Asgard after his return.
• Su Chen found Asgard transformed by its alliance with Earth and learned from Hela that she had conquered the other seven realms in less than a hundred days.
• Su Chen asked Hela how to reach the Realm of Death, and she explained that entering it required death and that changing the boundary between life and death could collapse the universe.
• Su Chen produced the damaged Infinity Gauntlet and said he could rewrite the rule, but Hela warned that this would also let the dead return more easily.
• The Goddess of Death took over Hela’s body, said Su Chen seemed unsettled by a problem he could not resolve immediately, and Su Chen raised the Infinity Gauntlet in response.

Su Chen followed the Soul Stone to the place where the Goddess of Death had told him he could meet her and learn about the return of the dead. He entered the black mist at the boundary between life and death, where his body began transforming into energy particles.

• The Goddess of Death's manifestation began to fade and sent Su Chen information directing him to the boundary between life and death.
• Hela explained that the Goddess of Death feared Su Chen breaking the barrier between life and death and weakening her divine authority.
• Three days later, Su Chen traveled to the planet where Thanos had obtained the Soul Stone, while Captain Marvel and S.W.O.R.D. continued monitoring the wormhole.
• The Soul Stone emerged from Su Chen's chest and guided him past a silent masked figure to a cliff above a dark mist.
• Su Chen entered the mist as the Soul Stone's orange light led him downward, and his body began transforming into energy particles before he reached solid ground.

Su Chen encountered the enemies he had killed in a void created by the Goddess of Death, who explained that they had been kept there instead of entering the Realm of Death. She revealed that the eternal confinement was a punishment Su Chen would approve of, then said she had made the place for him because he had contributed so many lives to her.

• Su Chen reached a clearing in the black mist and recognized David, Ego, Thor, Malekith, and other enemies he had killed.
• The dead threatened Su Chen, but the Goddess of Death appeared and stopped them from fighting in her fragile void.
• The Goddess of Death explained that the void existed between life and death and was connected to the Soul Stone and the Realm of Death.
• The Goddess of Death said Su Chen's defeated enemies were trapped in the void, including a white-haired man who had lost a bet with her.
• Su Chen approved of the enemies' eternal confinement, and the Goddess of Death said she had created the secluded place because he had contributed the most lives to her.

The Goddess of Death proved that Su Chen’s defeated enemies remained imprisoned in the Realm of Death, then explained that his use of the Infinity Gauntlet had opened a passage to another universe. Su Chen learned that the Ultimate Universe held powerful Avengers and another alliance, and welcomed the prospect of facing them as the Utopia Alliance’s next challenge.

• The Goddess of Death showed Su Chen that all the enemies he had defeated, including the Hulk, were imprisoned in her realm and could not have escaped.
• The Goddess of Death explained that energy leaked from Su Chen’s use of the Infinity Gauntlet had broken the barrier between universes and opened a passage.
• The Goddess of Death told Su Chen that the other universe was called the Ultimate Universe and had powerful Avengers and another alliance on Earth.
• Su Chen said the Utopia Alliance could face the Ultimate Universe’s strength and that he was excited to use the new enemy to grow stronger.
• The Goddess of Death hinted that the bad news she had planned to give Su Chen might instead be good news.

Su Chen learned that universes were converging toward a final Infinity Universe and decided to take the fight to the Ultimate Universe using the key he already possessed. The Goddess of Death offered him a share of her authority if he conquered every universe, but Su Chen rejected the offer.

• The Goddess of Death explained that the multiverse was changing and universes would collide until only one vast Infinity Universe remained.
• Su Chen welcomed the coming conflicts, while the Goddess of Death anticipated receiving the lives taken in the wars.
• The Goddess of Death said the fragile barrier and Su Chen's key could let him enter the Ultimate Universe before its forces attacked.
• Su Chen decided the Utopia Alliance should prepare for another war and remembered to account for the different environment there.
• The Goddess of Death offered to share her authority with Su Chen if he made her Realm of Death the only one, prompting Thanos to wail in the mist.
• Su Chen declined the offer.

Su Chen returned from the Realm of Death with a method for strengthening Asgard’s undead army, then ordered Asgard to send its resources to Earth and prepared the Utopia Alliance for a conflict involving another universe. He revealed the sealed passage’s significance to the Alliance, whose members began to grasp the scale of the opportunity and danger ahead.

• Su Chen rejected the Goddess of Death’s offer and left the Realm of Death, declaring that he wanted to rise above death.
• Su Chen returned to Asgard, where Hela told him she had received a method for strengthening the undead apart from the Eternal Flame.
• Su Chen ordered Hela to close routes from Earth to Asgard and use the Bifrost to ship all available resources from Asgard and the other seven realms to Earth.
• Hela asked for the undead army to fight alongside the Utopia Alliance’s Sentry Legion, and Su Chen promised they would be among the first to fight.
• Su Chen summoned the Utopia Alliance’s key members and explained that the sealed passage led to another, apparently stronger universe.
• Su Chen said the Alliance’s ambitions now extended beyond the stars, while its members considered the implications of contact with another universe.

Su Chen ordered the Utopia Alliance to prepare for a confrontation with the Ultimate Universe, while Captain Marvel and the others committed to intensive training. In the Ultimate Universe, Nick Fury faced an Avengers team shaken by Su Chen’s attack.

• Su Chen told Captain Marvel that the Utopia Alliance would maintain its alliance with Xandar but did not need to rely on it.
• Su Chen warned that their counterparts in the Ultimate Universe might be stronger, prompting Captain Marvel and other members to pledge to train harder.
• Su Chen ordered the Utopia Alliance to mobilize its forces and devote its resources to battle preparations, giving them half a month before launching an attack.
• In the Ultimate Universe, Nick Fury confronted the Avengers after Iron Man sealed the wormhole and Su Chen’s strike left nearly ten heroes unable to fight.

After a wormhole attack injured and killed Avengers, Iron Man and Mister Fantastic analyzed its residual energy and found it closely matched Galactus’s. The team decided to seek help from their former allies while Iron Man prepared to update the Anti-Galactus Armor.

• American Captain Marvel and Nick Fury struggled to plan against Su Chen because they knew almost nothing about him or his abilities.
• Iron Man and Mister Fantastic returned with an analysis showing the energy that struck the Avengers was 98 percent similar to Galactus’s Cosmic Energy.
• The Avengers recalled how they had previously driven Galactus away with the Anti-Galactus Armor and help from another alliance.
• Iron Man warned that Su Chen might have abilities beyond the energy they had analyzed and said they should take precautions.
• American Captain Marvel and Nick Fury agreed to contact their other alliance, while Iron Man left to inspect and update his Anti-Galactus Armor.

Nick Fury met with powerful decision-makers who wanted to divide the resources of the other Earth, while Captain America traveled west to seek out a young man with glasses. The young man objected to Captain America's place with the Avengers, and the chapter left their discussion unresolved.

• Nick Fury warned the decision-makers that the other Earth could have weapons and unknown powers, but they insisted the Avengers should secure it for them.
• Captain America changed into ordinary clothes, left his shield behind, and took a train to the western United States.
• Captain America met a young man with glasses in a cornfield and said the danger lay beyond the strange passage.
• The young man complained that Captain America always brought bad news and said he belonged more with their side than with the Avengers.

Captain America and Clark agreed to cooperate across the two Earths, hoping to ease the conflict between their alliances and prepare for Galactus. Back on Su Chen’s Earth, news of the Ultimate Earth set the population and the Utopia Alliance in motion to claim it.

• Captain America told the young man about the other Earth, and they discussed how contact between the worlds could ease the conflict between their alliances.
• The young man agreed to cooperate with Captain America and said he would gather his people to decide which Earth each alliance would claim.
• The young man looked forward to facing Galactus and hoped his alliance would quickly reopen the wormhole.
• At the Utopia Alliance headquarters, Mutants organized for the expedition as news of the Ultimate Earth spread across Su Chen’s Earth.
• Earth’s people eagerly prepared to claim the Ultimate Earth, so the Utopia Alliance imposed rules to restore order and established a large command center.