Avengers: Armageddon#2(2026)

The Red Hulk continues to lead his army of Hulks on their invasion of Symkaria. Their invasion is interrupted by the arrival of the Avengers and Fantastic Four. Meanwhile U.N. Secretary-General Riani tries to talk Russian Minister Milyukov to convince the Russian government to join the military coalition opposing Ross. Milyukov claims that his country is focused on protecting their borders before joining the coalition. Just as he ends his call with Riani, Milyukov meets with the Winter Guard. Ross and his Hulks engage the Four and Avengers, but he is left very surprised to see David Colton among the heroes - something which "the machine" did not foresaw Colton's presence. But what surprised and shocked Ross more is that Colton is now more powerful. Colton launches Ross out of the battlefield, sending him to crash through a mountain and smashing him into the ground. Ross, realizing he needs to reassess Colton’s new power, moves their battle to Kronlia where he expects Colton will hold back his enormous strength in a populated city of 300,000. But Colton quickly made Ross wrong. Colton brutally crashes into Ross and leaves a trail of destruction with no regard to collateral damage or casualties. The Avengers and Four have subdued the Ross' Hulk army, but mainly due to the Hulks being surprisingly weaker and cannot even regenerate from their injuries. The Black Panther realizes something is wrong. Captain Marvel and Iron Man reach Kronlia where they see the destruction left by Colton’s battle with Ross, and proceed to save civilians caught in their battle. Just as Ross rants to Colton that he is "spreading democracy" just like Colton used to believe, Colton catches Ross' fist and launches themselves out of the city and into a forest, where Colton viciously pummels Ross until the Winter Soldier stops him by cocking his gun at Colton. Colton sees Ross, very bloodied and unconscious, having returned to his human form. But Colton prepares to resume to beatdown Ross before Stark suddenly pushes him away. Stark tries to talk down Colton, telling him that he does not have the right to kill Ross before chiding him for being reckless for what he did in Kronlia. Colton responds by ripping Stark's reactor out and lambasts Stark, Bucky, and Danvers that he understands for what it is like for carrying the guilt of the people he indirectly killed in Kronlia. But he did it to save more lives if the heroes hadn’t left Ross alive. Colton then skewers the Avengers for being "weak" before flying away. Stark, Bucky and Danvers receive radio contact from Sam Wilson that the Hulk army is neutralized. Bucky and Stark backtrack to find Ross, but the rogue general has disappeared. While the Avengers were occupied with Colton, the Winter Guard had captured Ross and taken him to Russia. The Avengers and Four are busy rescuing survivors from Ross and Colton's battle. Danvers grimly comments to Reed Richards that the situation is more dire with not only the United Nations "up in arms" but Ross missing and Colton having gone AWOL with powers similar to that of the Sentry. Stark travels to Ross' base of operations to find clues for where Ross may have escaped to. He finds U.N. soldiers waiting for him. Their commander bitterly tells Stark that his men were winning against Ross’ Hulks until the superheroes interfered; he accused Stark and his allies for "looking for glory" and their actions had brought more people dead. Stark replies that whatever he is feeling towards him and his team, the heroes are "feeling ten times worse." Stark moves into Ross’ tent and has F.R.I.D.A.Y. to scan the room and finds an unknown object giving off multiversal energy. F.R.I.D.A.Y. deduces that it is a prognostication machine used for seeing the future. Interested, Stark activates the device to see what Ross had seen.