Recaps

Chang Wei and Tony defeated Hulk and later restrained Abomination, but Hydra abducted Samuel Sterns and broke Blonsky out to build its forces. As Tony recovered from palladium poisoning with the Chang Wei Element, Hydra’s reach and a new threat from Ivan Vanko remained ahead.

• Chang Wei used his Gravity Generator to defeat Hulk, took control of the Columbia University operation from General Ross, and brought Bruce Banner and Samuel Sterns into War God Industries’ orbit.
• Blonsky forced Samuel to inject him with Hulk’s blood, became Abomination, and rampaged through the city until Tony and Chang Wei subdued him and took him into their custody.
• Hulk’s blood transformed Samuel into a super-intelligent being, and White Skull’s Hydra agents took him and his research away.
• Hydra broke Blonsky out of Tony’s villa, but White Skull defeated him and made him submit before Hydra began preparing an Abomination Legion.
• Tony, Chang Wei, and Bruce Banner organized their response to Hydra, while Chang Wei’s unexplained formulas gave Professor Connors a new direction for his lizard-gene experiments.
• Tony’s palladium poisoning worsened, but Chang Wei recommended the Chang Wei Element, which lowered Tony’s blood toxicity after he installed a new reactor.
• Justin Hammer secretly obtained Power Armor for reverse-engineering, but the suits self-destructed and killed engineers, prompting the military to end its cooperation with Hammer Industries as Ivan Vanko watched Tony with resentment.

Ivan Vanko and several vampire factions discovered Dragon Balls while Hydra captured Michael and used his blood to create powerful virus hybrids. The arc left Lucien leading Hydra’s Tyrant Werewolves, Selena searching for a stolen Dragon Ball, and Ivan flying toward another one in New Jersey.

• Ivan Vanko found the One-Star Ball, traveled to America, and persuaded Justin Hammer to fund his Power Armor research in exchange for help surpassing Tony Stark.
• Selena found the Two Star Ball and decided to gather the Dragon Balls to free vampires from their weakness to sunlight, while Deacon Frost and Nisha also discovered Dragon Balls.
• Ivan Vanko built a Dragon Ball radar, stole Deacon Frost’s Four-Star Ball, and forced Selena to seek Deacon’s help in America.
• Lucien tried to use Michael’s blood to transform the werewolves, but Blonsky’s Devil Soldiers defeated him and took both Lucien and Michael to a Hydra base.
• Hydra used Michael’s Perfect Blood to create embryos and study virus fusions, producing Mutated Organism 004 and transforming Lucien into a Tyrant Werewolf.
• Lucien joined Hydra to gain power against the Vampires and turned a hundred Hydra personnel into Tyrant Werewolves.
• Kraven suppressed the werewolves’ calls for revenge as Selena learned Ivan had stolen Deacon Frost’s Dragon Ball.
• Ivan Vanko upgraded his armor after detecting another Dragon Ball and flew toward New Jersey when his radar picked up a third.

Selena’s Dragon Ball expedition drew Marcus into a war with the Werewolves, while Ivan Vanko built an army of Mechanical Soldiers and seized more Dragon Balls. After Chadnomar unleashed the Reaper Virus on New York, Tony and Chang Wei hunted the Reapers through the city’s streets and sewers, and the arc ended with Odin sending Mjolnir to New Mexico.

• Ivan Vanko destroyed Selena’s jet and attacked her, but Mysterious Person stopped him, healed Selena, and let her escape before Vanko’s armor regained mobility.
• Selena returned to the Vampire clan, where Marcus absorbed Amelia’s memories, learned about the Dragon Ball, and led the Deathwalkers against the Werewolves, who killed Kraven with ultraviolet bullets.
• Ivan Vanko partnered with Justin Hammer to mass-produce Mechanical Iron Soldiers, then used his hidden army to raid Makinos’s stronghold, kill Makinos, and take another Dragon Ball.
• After Makinos’s death, Chadnomar unleashed Reaper Variants on New York, and Tony, Chang Wei, and Bruce Banner investigated the virus and began using ultraviolet lights to drive the creatures from hiding.
• Tony tracked the Reapers to a warehouse and then the sewers, while Chadnomar adapted to ultraviolet light and gained immunity after Mysterious Person injected him with Perfect Blood.
• Tony, Chang Wei, and Banner led the Iron Legion into the sewers, where Chadnomar fought back before Tony and J.A.R.V.I.S. pursued and destroyed him, leaving Tony to recover his remains for research.
• Odin sent Mjolnir through the Rainbow Bridge to New Mexico and placed a restriction on those who tried to lift it.

Chang Wei, Tony Stark, and S.H.I.E.L.D. investigated Mjolnir, uncovered Hydra's attack, and defended the base from Loki’s Frost Giants. Thor’s allies urged him to return to Asgard as a mysterious giant descended toward Earth.

• Crowds failed to lift the fallen hammer in New Mexico, and Coulson established a research facility while scientists studied its impossible weight and electromagnetic signals.
• Tony Stark, Chang Wei, and Banner examined the hammer, identified it as Mjolnir, and learned that its runes carried Odin’s worthiness enchantment.
• Thor reached the S.H.I.E.L.D. base but could not lift Mjolnir, while Hydra agents attacked and Chang Wei’s invisible drones wiped out the assault team.
• Loki tried to retrieve Mjolnir, confronted Chang Wei and Tony, then secretly persuaded Laufey to attack Thor and Asgard.
• Loki led Frost Giants through a hidden passage to attack the human base, where their magic and weapons overwhelmed soldiers, the Iron Legion, and Hulk.
• Chang Wei used electromagnetic energy to capture and defeat the Frost Giants, freed Tony from magical ice, and ordered the survivors imprisoned for study.
• Loki activated the Destroyer Armor as Sif and the Warriors Four reunited with Thor and urged him to return to Asgard, while Loki secretly imprisoned Heimdall.
• A new Rainbow Bridge energy wave reached Earth, and satellite reconnaissance revealed a massive figure descending through the storm.