Declan to break them out. Black Bolt soon realizes that Declan had other plans for him and tries to escape with Sammy, but encounter Auran and the Inhumans who were sent by Maximus. Medusa and her ally Louise Fisher arrive and rescue Black Bolt. Later, the group reunites with Karnak and Gorgon, but Locus, one of Maximus' agents sent to locate the Royal Family, dies from a previous wound. Before passing, she tells Black Bolt that he is capable of becoming a better king. Black Bolt begins to express a desire to kill his brother, but Medusa calms him. Along with Louise, they both reunite with Crystal and Lockjaw with the rest of the family. Black Bolt reveals that he was well aware of his brother's betrayal in advance and that Triton was also in on it. The family returns to Attilan and after a failed parley in which Declan is taken back by Maximus, Black Bolt confronts his brother only to learn that he cannot kill him as Attilan will be destroyed in a failsafe plan. He learns from Karnak that Maximus cannot stop his own failsafe and the Royal Family is forced to evacuate all of Attilan's citizens. With only himself and Maximus left, Black Bolt confronts his brother and learns that he forged a signature for a lobotomy that angered him so much that it caused him to kill his parents, something which Maximus did not anticipate. Black Bolt knocks him out and traps him in the underground bunker by finally uttering "Goodbye, brother", and causing the entrance to be barricaded. He escapes to Earth and leads his family and people to a new home. Mount reprises the role as Black Bolt in the 2022 feature film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, depicted as a member of the Illuminati from the alternate universe labelled Earth-838. Black Bolt is depicted with a tuning fork attached to his mask. Prior to the events of the film, after he and the rest of the Illuminati had managed to kill the 838-Thanos using the Darkhold provided by the 838-Strange, Black Bolt executed Strange on the Illuminati's vote after his research into methods of defeating Thanos via "dreamwalking" into other universes with the Darkhold had led to the destruction of another universe via an "incursion". When Wanda Maximoff invades the Illuminati headquarters, Reed Richards attempts to talk her down by