Recaps

Lin Xu traveled between Sakaar, Asgard, and other universes while preparing for a coming confrontation with Dark Strange. As Strange’s conflict with Dormammu’s forces reached the Hong Kong Sanctum, Lin Xu defeated Kaecilius and agreed to consider Hamir’s business proposal.

• Lin Xu visited Charles’s grave, returned to the Avengers Compound, and learned that Hulk had gone to Sakaar.
• Lin Xu traveled to Sakaar with Steve, Bucky, and Natasha, challenged the Grandmaster, and reunited Banner with Natasha before bringing them all back to Asgard.
• Lin Xu learned that Loki needed help finding Deadpool, followed Deadpool into another universe, and then brought him back to Asgard.
• Lin Xu consulted Doctor Strange and Gaia about Dark Strange, then sought Carrie White’s remains to make armor for Hulk and chose Steve to wield Mjolnir.
• The Ancient One told Lin Xu that Dark Strange prevailed in every future she had seen, while Lin Xu wondered whether he could escape his role in the timeline.
• As Dormammu’s power surrounded Earth, Lin Xu took command at the Hong Kong Sanctum while Kaecilius attacked Kamar-Taj and fled toward the city.
• Lin Xu intercepted Kaecilius at the Hong Kong Sanctum, struck him down with Mjolnir, and sent his frozen body through a portal.
• Hamir asked Lin Xu to fund a milk tea shop near the Hong Kong Sanctum, and Lin Xu agreed to hear his suggestion.

Lin Xu helped end the demon gods’ assault, then traveled between timelines and fought Dark Strange at the cost of Steve, Xiao Wang, Lao Wang, and another Strange. Stranded in a world with Tony and Clark, he later went to Los Angeles to work with John Constantine while Tony and Victor von Doom searched for him.

• Lin Xu traded Hela’s predicted death date to Mephisto for Cynthia von Doom’s soul, then left her to choose whether to see Victor.
• The Ancient One died after naming Strange the next Sorcerer Supreme, and Lin Xu helped Strange drive Dormammu and Chthon from Earth.
• Lin Xu attended the Ancient One’s funeral, while Tony Stark took a Super Soldier Serum and vanished through the Time Watch into another universe.
• Lin Xu learned that Christine’s death had left Strange incomplete and helped him prepare to confront Dark Strange with a dimensional-sealing formation.
• Dark Strange attacked the formation, and Lin Xu destroyed him with the Spirit of Vengeance and his remaining Odinforce, killing Steve, Xiao Wang, Lao Wang, and another Strange before collapsing space swallowed Lin Xu.
• Tony and Lin Xu woke in the Kents’ 1992 world, where Tony recruited Clark to help build a way across the Multiverse barrier and Lin Xu began teaching him martial arts.
• Stephen restored the drowned New York and returned Lao Wang and Captain America to Lin Xu’s main universe, where Steve told the Avengers that Lin Xu had sacrificed himself.
• Lin Xu reached Los Angeles, befriended John Constantine, and joined him and Father Hennessy in investigating the demon possessing actor Anthony at Ravenscar Asylum.
• Tony used the Quantum Tunnel to search for Lin Xu while Victor von Doom offered Tony technology or magic in exchange for help finding him, and at the hospital, John identified the demon’s power as coming from Beelzebub.