Recaps

Ultron’s creation plunged the Avengers into a crisis that ended with his defeat, Vision’s awakening, and Allen’s intervention to save Sokovia. As Allen drew Tony and the others into Azerath’s war and pursued his own plans, the Inhuman population grew and Hydra rebuilt its influence, leaving governments facing escalating unrest.

• Allen stopped accelerating time across the universe as Ultron awakened through the Mind Stone, attacked the Avengers, and escaped across the internet with the Mind Scepter.
• Allen refused to save the Avengers from the crisis he blamed on Tony Stark, while Ultron joined forces with Wanda and Quicksilver and fought the Avengers for Vibranium.
• Tony Stark and Bruce Banner created Vision, and after Vision killed Tony on awakening, Ancient One reversed time until Tony and Banner suppressed Ultron’s influence in Vision.
• Allen revived Quicksilver, stopped Ultron’s energy bomb, and swallowed a nuclear warhead in a black hole as Tony and the Avengers saved Sokovia.
• Tony, Wanda, Quicksilver, and Vision entered Azerath through Advent, where Tony helped the Night Elves fight the Burning Legion and learned he had fathered a child there.
• Wanda and Quicksilver trained with Allen while Tony studied Sky City’s technology, and Terrigen exposure awakened thousands of Inhumans as Daisy took charge of her village.
• Grant Ward assassinated prominent figures on Red Skull’s orders, and Red Skull used the Inhuman crisis to rebuild Hydra and recruit people with powers.
• Allen confronted Clara’s group after they kidnapped the French President, then helped Daisy’s teenage Inhumans escape before French forces arrived and advised the commander that such incidents would increase.

Allen helped expose the Inhumans, shaped the Avengers’ response to government control, and guided Stephen Strange toward magic while building his wider plans. As Steve and Tony’s staged conflict forced political concessions, Allen began dating Wanda and ordered Edna Bevin to retrieve the Darkhold safely.

• Daisy and Allen publicized Afterlife, drawing widespread support for Inhumans, while Allen supplied the village and persuaded Tony Stark to support Daisy’s media campaign.
• Allen confronted Jiaying over her revenge, altered her memories, and sent Carl to help her reexperience the outside world.
• Tony completed God, Allen’s soul-born creation, and Allen erased Tony’s memories of dangerous knowledge as Tony brought Selene home to Pepper.
• Allen and the Ancient One pushed Stephen Strange to confront his failures as a doctor, then brought him to Kamar-Taj to study magic.
• After the Sokovia Accords threatened the Avengers, Tony disbanded the public alliance, and Allen formed Humanity's Shadow with Steve Rogers, Tony, Red Skull, and Daisy.
• Allen helped Steve and Tony stage a restrained conflict that pressured the government to reopen its case against Ross, while warning Steve to protect Bucky from Zemo and T’Challa.
• Allen went on a first date with Wanda, though he briefly left his body during their movie to observe the Azerath Universe, then made up for it with dinner and a kiss on her cheek.
• Allen defeated Artoria in a sword sparring match and ordered Edna Bevin to send undead to retrieve the Darkhold without touching or opening it.

Allen manipulated Ross’s trial and the resulting crisis to force political concessions, while preparing for Dormammu’s invasion after Ancient One’s death. After Stephen Strange drove Dormammu from Earth, Allen led an assault on the Dark Dimension and began a prolonged campaign to erode it.

• Allen sealed the Darkhold away, returned to Earth, and enlisted Grant Ward to set Ross’s trial in motion with a serum that would transform him into a Red Giant.
• Allen exposed Kirsten Bartlein’s crimes and arranged for him to confront Ross, where Kirsten’s Old God cells transformed him and triggered a battle that ended with Ross killing him.
• Tony Stark negotiated the Avengers Alliance’s return and authority in exchange for helping the government contain Ross, while other nations revealed their own battleships.
• Allen offered Ross a serum and protection for Betty in exchange for targeting the interest groups behind the government, and Ross accepted Lena’s terms.
• Tony Stark examined Allen and learned how his engineered body and unusual energy suppressed his sexual responses, while Allen began training Wanda in Chaos Magic.
• Kasilas and Dormammu attacked Earth’s sorcerers, and Ancient One died after naming Stephen Strange the new Sorcerer Supreme.
• Stephen Strange trapped Dormammu in a time loop and forced him to leave Earth, then Allen, Artoria, and Sakura attacked Dormammu in the Dark Dimension.
• Allen’s forces eroded part of the Dark Dimension as Wanda searched for Dormammu’s vessel, and Vilnalasath destroyed advancing forces to prevent the war from becoming a prolonged stalemate.

Allen defeated Dormammu, intervened in Asgard’s succession, and helped Thor trigger Ragnarok while Thanos began collecting the Infinity Stones. The arc ended with Thanos’s forces attacking Earth as its defenders prepared to resist without being able to contact Allen.

• Allen used conflicting energies to disrupt Dormammu, destroyed the object sustaining his control, and compressed the Dark Dimension into a Singularity before Ancient One departed.
• Allen learned that the government was building the Ark and that Hydra was seizing power, while Wanda revealed that Chthon was calling to her through dreams.
• Allen and Artoria found Odin near death, then stayed away as he died and Hela emerged to claim the throne.
• Allen and Artoria fought Hela until she agreed to rule Asgard under Allen’s conditions, while Allen left Thor and Loki to face their own trials on Sakaar.
• Allen helped Thor awaken his lightning power, won Sakaar from the Grandmaster, and gave the planet to Loki.
• Thanos acquired the Space Stone from Loki and began gathering the remaining Infinity Stones, while Allen warned his forces to avoid civilian casualties.
• Thor and his allies released Surtur, who destroyed Asgard, and Allen rescued Hela and helped Frigga rebuild the realm around a surviving World Tree branch.
• Ebony Maw attacked Earth for the Time Stone as Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian pursued Vision’s Mind Stone, and Tony, Doctor Strange, Mordo, Quake’s Inhumans, and Quicksilver prepared to defend the planet.