With a snap of his fingers Thanos fulfills the purpose he was resurrected by Mistress Death for by killing half of the living beings in the entire 616 Marvel Universe. Thanos' unprecedented feat of mass murder for Death's acceptance is unrewarded, as she now deems herself unworthy of Thanos with his Infinity Gauntlet. Feeling spurned, Thanos creates a "perfect" female companion for himself, Terraxia, and invites the remaining universe to challenge him.

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Thanos is confronted by what is left of Earth's heroes. Goaded by Mephisto, Thanos attempts to impress Mistress Death by limiting his infinite abilities, giving the heroes a fighting chance. He then proceeds to kill them all in brutal and inventive ways.

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Thanos is then confronted by Galactus and the abstract cosmic entities of the Marvel Universe, but even they fall before his Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos begins to supplant Eternity, his consciousness swelling beyond the 3rd Dimension, when Nebula manages to snatch the Gauntlet from his distracted hand. As Thanos comes back to his senses, Nebula slips on the Infinity Gauntlet, usurping his control over all aspects of the universe.

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In order to defeat Nebula who is mad with power from years of abuse, the resurrected remaining half of Earth's heroes team-up with Thanos. In the chaos of battle, the Gauntlet is flung from Nebula's arm and Adam Warlock gains control, ending the conflict.

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In order to be an unbiased and just God, Adam Warlock expels himself of all good and evil, but this isn't enough for the approval of Eternity. The Living Tribunal decrees that the Infinity Gems cannot be used in unison. In an attempt to stop the Infinity Gems to falling under anyone else's control, Adam Warlock uses his omniscience to determine the best members to form The Infinity Watch.

Adam Warlock forms the Infinity Watch to safeguard the Infinity Gems. He keeps his Soul Gem, gives Gamora the Time Gem, Pip the Space Gem, Drax the Power Gem, Moondragon the Mind Gem and gives the Reality Gem to someone in secret. Due to suffering brain death at the hands of Moondragon in his past life, Drax's intelligence is greatly decreased in his current form leasing him to swallow his Power Gem. Warlock then declares that he requires solitude to come to terms with his loss of godhood and abandons the team who then go their separate ways.

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Adam seeks out the guidance of his adopted father, The High Evolutionary, but finds that he was driven mad after witnessing the birth of a Celestial. The High Evolutionary is then attacked by soldiers known as Them, and in desperation Adam instinctively steals ones soul with his Gem and is overwhelmed by the new memories. Meanwhile, an armoured being called The Omega captures all known members of the The Infinity Watch one-by-one.

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Through his victims memories, Adam learns that "Them" are actually people from the doomed Counter-Earth who were saved by The Omega and remade for the purpose of getting revenge on The High Evolutionary. Adam, using his Soul Gem, seeks the holder of the Reality Gem's guidance who gives him the information that the Watch are being held captive in a ship orbiting Earth.

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After a long battle with The Omega's second in command, he is umasked and revealed to be Triax, an old foe from Counter-Earth. The Omega then reveals himself as The Man-Beast who has used the Infinity Gems to create an Infinity Thrall to get revenge on Adam Warlock and The High Evolutionary.

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Warlock is greatly overpowered by the Infinity Thrall until he lures it to the engine room of the ship, tricking the mindless creature into attacking the power source, destroying the ship and disbanding the Infinity Thrall. The Man-Beast and Triax escape and the Infinity Watch are saved as the ship crashes to the Earth.

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Adam Warlock awakens from a nightmare involving his evil half The Magus to find they have been marooned on Monster Island, ruled by The Mole Man. The Mole Man offers the Island as a base of operations for The Infinity Watch in return for their protection.

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Suddenly, the holder of the Reality Gem is revealed to be Thanos who arrives with a dire warning.

When Adam Warlock had control of the Infinity Gauntlet he purged himself of all good and evil in order to remain an unbiased supreme being. Somehow, the evil of his soul splintered off and combined with the disembodied essence of The Magus from a dead timeline.

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The newly resurrected Magus, determined to get revenge on Warlock and Thanos, collects five Cosmic Cubes in order to render Eternity catatonic and create doppelgängers of all the heroes of Earth, keeping them occupied.

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Thanos notices the energy of the Cosmic Cubes and discovers Magus, deciding it best to warn Adam Warlock. The Infinity Watch and Galactus make a plan to awaken Eternity to petition The Living Tribunal to allow the Infinity Gems to be used in unison again in order to have the power to stop the Magus and his collection of Cosmic Cubes. Galactus takes Gamora to use as a scalpel to perform cosmic surgery on Eternity.

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Earths heroes defeat the doppelgängers and form their own plan to have Quasar use The Ultimate Nullifier to erase both Magus and himself. Meanwhile Dr. Doom and Kang The Conquerer form an uneasy alliance in order to take the Cosmic Cubes as their own. Both groups set out, following the energy of the Cosmic Cubes to The Magus' domain.

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The heroes encounter The Infinity Watch on their way and jump into battle when they see Thanos among them. In the confusion The Magus captures Adam Warlock with his complete but incompatible Infinity Gauntlet, retreating to his base.

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The Magus and Warlock are then attacked by Kang and Dr. Doom. Doom betrays Kang and takes control of the Cosmic Cubes, demanding Magus' Gauntlet. Suddenly, thanks to Galactus and Gamora's work, The Living Tribunal decrees the Gems can be used in unison again and The Magus' Infinity Gauntlet regains its power. The Magus easily defeats Doom and Quasar equipped with The Ultimate Nullifier. Thanos is confronted by and defeats his doppelgänger, absorbing his essence and filling a void felt since he held The Infinity Gauntlet.

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Thanos confronts The Magus and gives Adam Warlock an opportunity to grab hold on the Infinity Gauntlet. As Warlock and Magus both hold the Gauntlet, struggling for control, Adam releases the forces of a combined Eternity and Infinity. Because Thanos had swapped the Reality Gem with a fake, they are able to overpower The Magus long enough for Adam to steal his soul with his Soul Gem, rendering himself catatonic.

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Later, it is revealed that the Cosmic Cubes were stolen by Adam Warlock's good, taken form as The Goddess. Eternity then declares that The Living Tribunal has given him the authority to decree that the Infinity Gems will never again be used in combination again, no matter the threat to the universe.

Adam Warlock and the Avengers succeed in getting The Mole Man and Monster Island recognized by the United Nations.

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The Infinity Watch is attacked by minions of Count Abyss, a cosmic conquerer without a soul who seeks the Soul Gem in its place. The Watch are helpless against them until Warlock uses his Soul Stone to install their minds with truth, defeating them. Count Abyss then appears before them threatening Warlock's life if he doesn't hand over the Soul Gem. Adam refuses and Count Abyss disappears.

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Later, a strange man with amnesia appears on Monster Island's shore. Adam decides to take the mysterious man in after he is given the name Maxxam from a symbol on his costume. Gamora warns that her Time Gem has shown her a vision of Maxxam standing over Adam's defeated body, but her warnings are ignored.

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Silver Surfer, still mourning the death of his beloved Shalla-Bal, is contacted by Adam Warlock with the message that Shalla-Bal is still alive. The Silver Surfer teams with The Infinity Watch to track her soul to the realm of Mephisto. The Silver Surfer offers his soul for hers, but Adam Warlock uses his Soul Gem to battle Mephisto within his hell dimension, an spect of his demonic soul. The Soul Gem's mastery over the soul proves to also have control over Mephisto's realm, leading to the release of Shalla-Bal's soul for The Infinity Watch and The Silver Surfer's immediate departure. The Silver Surfer now owes Adam Warlock a great dept.

Thor develops Warrior's Madness and is persuaded by his Mind Valkyrie to turn against Odin and Beta Ray Bill. When Beta Ray Bill confronts Thor he is left badly beaten.

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The Silver Surfer finds Beta Ray Bill floating in space and the two, along with Terrax, Morg, Gladiator & Ganymede, get captured by the mysterious Tyrant who uses them as living batteries. When imprisoning Jack of Hearts he is able to detonate his containment suit setting the others free only for them all to be easily defeated by Tyrant before Galactus shows up using their secret shared history to strike a temporary truce by Tyrant keeping his herald Morg captive. 

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Beta Ray Bill departs to assist with Thor's madness with Silver Surfer promising to help, but first he heads to help the secret son of the late Mar-Vell learn the truth of his legacy. Meanwhile Ganymede takes the injured Jack of Hearts to a remote planet to heal. She reveals she is the last of an ancient race of warriors successfully bred to defeat the returned Tyrant.

The Goddess, a being made of all the good expelled by Adam Warlock when he held the Infinity Gauntlet, appeared and stole the Magus' 5 Cosmic Cubes at the end of the Infinity War. She continued to collect 30 Cosmic Cubes to form a Cosmic Egg in order to instantly indoctrinate every religious or spiritual hero in the 616 Marvel Universe and bring them to her Paradise Omega.

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The Goddess perceives Thanos as her greatest threat and sends an immediate attack but he is saved by Adam Warlock. The two are confronted by Mephisto who offers information on the new threat in exchange for a single Cosmic Cube. Thanos agrees and takes responsibility for the deal with the devil.

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Thanos teams the remaining earth heroes and with Silver Surfer who freed himself of The Goddess' control. Silver Surfer breaks through the barrier to Paradise Omega where a holy war breaks out among the two groups of heroes. The indoctrinated defend the Goddess as she prepares for "rapture" to rid the universe of all evil.

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Thanos combines his mental powers with that of Professor X and attacks The Goddess with an illusion of her desires right before she engaged the Cosmic Egg. This projected her intentions of using the will of all her followers to override the Cosmic Egg's failsafes in order to rid the universe of all sentient life as the only way to fully expel evil. This breaks her followers faith and ruins her plans just as Thanos, Professor X and Adam Warlock attack her on the spiritual plane where the Cosmic Egg can't protect her. Adam Warlock steals her soul back into his Soul Gem to be reunited with The Magus.

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Thanos uses the Cosmic Egg to undo the Goddess' damage and send Earth's heroes home, then orders the Egg to destroy itself. Thanos delivers a Cosmic Cube to Mephisto who brags about mortals not knowing their true power before realizing it has been completely drained of its energies.

Now free from the influence of The Goddess, Thor continues his fit of Warrior's Madness personified by his Mind Valkyrie goading him to lay waste to all 9 Realms. Sif and Beta Ray Bill try desperately to talk him down before Odin finds out, as Warrior's Madness is a death sentence in Asgard, but Thor lashes out and strikes Sif down when he sees Bill. They are easily defeated and only saved from death by The Silver Surfer, who battles Thor as his board carries Bill and Sif to Asgard.

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Thor pummels Silver Surfer to the planet below and is about to kill him when Adam Warlock and Pip The Troll arrive. Warlock has learned of Thor's Mind Valkyrie and wishes to assist in curing him in order to gain another powerful hero in his dept. Thor battles and badly beats Warlock and Silver Surfer before Surfer's board returns to enable them to flee. Silver Surfer is unnerved to learn that Adam Warlock can now control his board due to the their souls encounter in Mephisto's realm.

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Pip retreated to Monster Island to get the Infinity Watch to save Warlock. Drax demands to be taken to Thor immediately, still angry from their battle in the Infinity Crusade. The Infinity Watch appear before Thor and Drax immediately attacks. Moondragon attempts to attack Thor's Mind Valkyrie but it results in the Valkyrie taking physical form outside of Thors mind.

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During the battle Thor hits Drax in the gut and he pukes up his Power Gem. Thor seizes it and gains unlimited power fueled by his Warrior's Madness. Pip desperately grabs the others and retreats to find Warlock.

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The Watch find Warlock and Silver Surfer at Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum. They head to Asgard to stop Thor. When they finally catch up to him Thor with his Power Gem proves unstoppable. In a desperate act, Pip teleports himself, Silver Surfer, Thor and his Valkyrie to Thanos' base of operations.

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A surprised Thanos takes pleasure in the new challenge of battling a mad Thor with the Power Gem. Silver Surfer defeats The Mind Valkyrie and Thanos uses the distraction to temporarily retreat to retrieve a massive gun that is fired at Thor, containing him in a stasis cube. After a failed attempt to remerge The Mind Valkyrie with Thor she dissipates and Thanos and the heroes decide to take Thor to Asgard.

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They arrive and are forced to defeat Heimdall. Odin sends all of Asgard to attack thinking Thanos has taken Thor captive. Odin enters the battle himself and Thanos jumps at the opportunity to test his power one-on-one. Thanos and Odin battle on even ground in an enormous display of cosmic power. Thanos muses that they both manage their massive power reserves by storing them in personal pocket dimensions. Odin appears to gain the upper hand but Thanos still stands and refuses to back down. Sif and Beta Ray Bill stop the fight to explain the situation to Odin.

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Odin is unable to cure Thor and is about to execute him when Dr. Strange explains that he will need to cut the madness out with the precision of a scalpel. Odin enters Thor's mind and together they are able to expel the Mind Valkyrie once and for all, freeing Thor of his Warrior's Madness. Odin thanks everyone, including Thanos.

Bored and seeking a challange, Thanos enlists an assortment of villains to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Tyrant.

 

Using Ganymede to locate his base, Terrax, Legacy, Jack of Hearts & Ganymede are used to distract Tyrant while Thanos pillages his computers for information,  discovering that Tyrant is secretly the spawn of Galactus. Armed with this knowledge Thanos challenges Tyrant to one on one combat, the prize a stolen battery orb. Thanos survives Tyrants assault before claiming victory by cleanly escaping with the prize.

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During the confrontation Morg flees back to Galactus where he nearly kills Fire-Lord & Airwalker before being subdued by Silver Surfer who was filled in on events by Legacy.

In return for stealing one of his energy spheres, Tyrant steals Thanos' Soul Gem and uses it to scatter Thanos, Silver Surfer & Legacy through alternate realities and enslave & empower Jack of Hearts.

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Thanos is able to navigate his way back to the Reality Gem with Silver Surfer were they face Tyrant. Thanos kills the enslaved Jack of Hearts, enraging Surfer who then impales Tyrant with is board. Surfer takes the Reality Gem and turns down its promise of a perfect reality where he had a family with Shalla-Bal to use the Gem to resurrect Jack of Hearts and return it to Thanos.

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Thanos rips Tyrant in half to make sure he's dead, but Tyrant secretly still lives...

Thanos uses his Reality Gem to bring Captain Mar-Vell back from the dead out of respect for his old foe, but Mar-Vell convinces him it is a mistake and against his character.

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The Man-Beast, disguised as US Senator Munson, mind controls the Avengers and orders them to kill Adam Warlock. The Avengers attack Monster Island. Due to his synthetic nature Vision was unaffected by Man-Beast's control and explains the situation. Captain America, Vision and Warlock appear to the United Nations and Warlock battles the Man-Beast before Congress. Warlock is about to kill Man-Beast but is stopped by Captain America who decides Man-Beast will be sent to a prison for super-powered criminals. 

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Count Abyss sends Maya to seduce Adam Warlock with a love potion. Both drink and fall madly in love. Warlock and the Infinity Watch discover the truth and learn that the potion cannot be broken using magic. Count Abyss attacks and captures Maya, leaving Warlock desperate to get her back even knowing he's under a spell.

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Warlock learns of Count Abyss' origin using his Eternity Orb and forms a plan. Pip teleports The Infinity Watch to Count Abyss' fortress but they are easily defeated. Count Abyss rips the Soul Gem from Warlock. Distracted by his prize, Warlock is able to wrest it back. Before Abyss can continue the battle Warlock offers to give him what he wants, then gifts him the noble soul of 

Kray-Tor. With the soul Abyss gains a conscience. Disoriented, Warlock is able to banish Abyss to another dimension, stealing back Kray-Tor's soul at the last moment. Returned to Soulworld Kray-Tor is traumatized from the experience.

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Though the love potion is never broken Warlock and Maya part ways and have to live with the heartbreak. When they return to Monster Island Warlock begins hallucinating a mysterious figure, leading the team to worry for his mental health.

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Dr. Strange, in a dark distorted new form, attacks the Infinity Watch in order to collect the Infinity Gems, but loses interest when Warlock shows him it has been decreed the Gems cannot work together in unison.

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Warlock is approached by the ghost of Firelord. The Infinity Watch get caught up in a battle with Domitian where Moondragon is badly damaged. Domitian is defeated and Firelord's soul is returned to his body. He now owes Warlock a great debt.

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With Moondragon in critical condition Maxxam petitions to guard the Mind Stone, hoping it will restore his memories. Gamora objects and a fight breaks out between the two. Adam takes Maxxam's side in the argument and this pushes Gamora to quit the team. Maxxam gains her Time Gem. When he places the Gem on his head his memories are unlocked. 

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Thanos takes his Reality Gem in hand and decides he will again acquire ultimate power and sets a new plan in motion. Gamora travels to California to join Force Works but is intercepted by Thanos who offers her to rejoin him.

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Maxxam attacks Warlock but is incapacitated by Moondragon's mental attack. It is revealed Maxxam comes from a future where The Magus has slaughtered most of the universe. Before they can decide what to do Monster Island is hit with tidal waves resulted from the event Atlantis Rising. Pip evacuates the team but Warlock remains to deal with Maxxam as the island is assaulted by crashing waves. Warlock reaches to remove Maxxam's Time Gem when suddenly all the Infinity Gems vanish without a trace. Moments before Maxxam snaps Warlock's neck Moondragon is able to project Maxxam's victory into his mind. Maxxam returns to his future unknowingly sparing Warlock. 

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The Infinity Watch is disbanded. Adam Warlock begins his journey to recover the Infinity Gems alone, as Thanos and Gamora unite for the same cause.

Tyrant sends his robotic minion to Galactus' Worldship to herald his arrival for their final confrontation. It is revealed that when creating Tyrant Galactus based his power on the bio-energy of all the planets in the universe, leaving Tyrant weakened every time Galactus feeds. This ensured that Tyrant would eventually turn on Galactus and may have been subconsciously planned to ensure his own eventual death.

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Morg fears Tyrant may get the upper hand and tortures Airwalker until he gives him the location of the Ultimate Nullifier. 

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Tyrant arrives and attacks Galactus revealing that he as adapted his ability to be powered by bio-energy to absorb Galactus' attacks, gaining the upper-hand. Morg interrupts, equipped with the Ultimate Nullifier, stopping everyone in their tracks. Morg threatens to nullify Tyrant when Tyrants robotic herald fuses to the Nullifier and Morg, attempting to control its energies and Morg's mind. Morg overpowers the robot but loses control of the energy after killing Tyrant through nullification. Galactus tries to contain the energies but is seemingly lost along with Morg & Airwalker.

Argus, a god from the Ultraverse, summons Thor to his universe to assist in a battle. When he sends Thor home he is followed by the energy vampire Rune. Secretly, Loki also passed over to the Ultraverse. 

 

When Rune arrives to the 616 Marvel Universe he immediately detects the Infinity Gems and steals them from the Infinity Watch. The Living Tribunal tasks The Silver Surfer with retrieving them, but in battle with Rune the Infinity Gems are lost in a portal back to his home reality.

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Loki learns that the Infinity Gems have arrived to the Ultraverse and sets on a journey to collect them from the various "Ultras". Meanwhile, The Black Knight arrives alone after following Sersi through a portal to where she wouldn't be able to harm anyone with her corrupted powers. Somehow they ended up in the Ultraverse and were split up. The Black Knight is found by and later teams up with The Ultraforce.

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Loki collects all of the Infinity Gems and forms an Infinity Sword, while Sersi is contacted by a mysterious voice guiding her on a secret mission. The Grandmaster learns of the events of the Ultraverse and challenges Loki to a Contest of Champions. If Loki wins he will get hidden knowledge of a secret 7th Infinity Gem and if the Grandmaster wins he gets his Mind Gem back. Loki agrees and a contest between the heroes of two universes begins.

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The Grandmaster wins the contest but the victory is cut short when Sersi approaches Loki and combines with his Infinity Sword to become Nemesis, the original cosmic being who was split into the Infinity Gems. The voice guiding Sersi was the secret 7th Infinity Gem, the Ego Gem. In a fit of rage Nemeis destroys both universes to combine them into a single new universe.

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In this new universe The Black Knight finds a variant of the Ebony Blade. Nemesis has lost her creativity and her mind is fractured after being split apart for an eternity. The new universe is only a sketch that quickly collapses as the heroes from the three universes unite to attack Nemesis. The Black Knight with his new Ebony Blade are able to split Nemesis' Infinity Crown down the Ego Gem, breaking the Gems apart again. The released creative force recreates the Marvel Universe as it was and reboots the Ultraverse from the ground up.

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Rune has been defeated by Annihilus and is banished in the Negative Zone before a portal opens freeing him to return to the 616 Marvel Universe. Meanwhile, Adam Warlock's cocoon is discovered in the Ultraverse on Saturn and has been there for thousands of years. He resurrects without a memory and embarks on a journey leading to a confrontation with Gemini, an artificial being of which he is almost genetically identical.

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Adam Warlock's memories return. He searched his universe for the missing Infinity Gems until finding a portal to the Ultraverse that sent him thousands of years to the past, before the Gems arrived. There he encountered and was killed by Rune. Now complete, Adam Warlock exorcises Gemini's evil half and returns to the 616 Marvel Universe.

 

Meanwhile, Venom has been framed for draining the life out of innocent people. It is revealed the portal that brought Rune back to the 616 Marvel Universe was from the invasion of the Planet of the Symbiotes and resulted in Rune gaining a symbiote of his own. Rune and Venom battle but Rune is freed of his symbiote and proceeds to eat it, transforming himself into a new form before being sent back through the portal to his home universe.