Contents: Absorbing Man (I) and Absorbing Man (II). Absorbing Man and Standard encounter sets. One modular encounter set (Hydra Patrol).

Setup: Discard cards from the encounter deck until an environment is discarded. Put that card into play and shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck.

Forced Response: After resolving step one of the villain phase, place 1 delay counter here.

Forced Interrupt: When an environment enters play, discard each other environment card in play.

If this stage is completed, the players lose the game.