Billion die screaming. Presumably. The multiverse is collapsing thanks to a cascading flaw and Earths keep crashing into each other and the only way to save an Earth is to blow up the other Earth. Such is the dilemma posed by circumstances to the secret superhero rulers of the world, the Illuminati, who are also Avengers, ad it's only a question of time before they have to blow up a planet full of people for the greater good. leave it to Hickman to work the big idea mechanics with the same ruthless skill as the moral mechanics. Mircaleman on a Stepledonian scale.