Recaps

Connors fed on Fukushima’s nuclear fuel, transformed into a giant monster, and survived escalating US attacks by absorbing a nuclear bomb. His uncontrolled meltdown devastated the region, but an ordered life signal and growing heart beneath the sea showed that the disaster was not over.

• Tony upgraded the MK Space Weapon’s Launch Device with new cooling and heat-dissipation systems while Connors fought Norman and fled New York.
• Connors reached Fukushima, tore into the damaged reactors, and consumed radioactive water and nuclear fuel, transforming into a nearly hundred-meter-tall creature.
• General Michael Angelerra sent aircraft to attack Connors, while Kenji Kobayashi warned that strikes near the buried reactor cores could spread contamination.
• Connors survived the air assault, destroyed the attacking aircraft with its Particle Beam, and resumed feeding on the reactor ruins.
• A GBU-57 bomb collapsed the reactor site, but Connors’s energy surged, so Angelerra ordered Raven to drop a B83-1 nuclear bomb under the Meltdown protocol.
• Connors absorbed the nuclear blast through its dorsal fins, but neutrons triggered a fission chain reaction in its body and caused a catastrophic meltdown.
• Connors unleashed a massive Devastating Breath across the island nation, then staggered into the sea and sank as its burning body broke apart.
• Radioactive fallout and ocean currents threatened widespread ecological damage, while Tony learned that Connors’s submerged heart was still pulsing faster and J.A.R.V.I.S. raised the predicted energy release to fifty-eight million tons of TNT.

Tony Stark and Chang Wei contained Connors in a deep-sea cocoon, prompting Tony to build a heavily guarded fortress and accept S.H.I.E.L.D. oversight. Connors secretly regenerated, while Norman Osborn pursued the fortress, which detected a giant organism closing in.

• Tony Stark followed Chang Wei’s instructions to restrain Connors’s runaway core, and Chang Wei sealed Connors in a deep-blue cocoon while stabilizing the damaged ocean.
• Tony and Pepper launched the Abyssal Citadel project to build a powerful containment facility, while Fury struggled to secure oversight amid public and political pressure.
• Fury brought Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, and Brock Rumlow to inspect the facility, then assigned them security and monitoring duties despite Tony’s objections.
• Chang Wei revealed he had not completely frozen Connors, who survived on the seafloor and rebuilt himself by feeding on deep-sea life and hydrothermal vents.
• Tony imposed strict contamination controls on the security team, and his surveillance increasingly frustrated Rumlow while Natasha recognized Tony’s psychological tactics.
• Tony welcomed Bruce Banner to the deep-sea base to examine Connors, as J.A.R.V.I.S. detected a large object nearby but classified it as non-threatening.
• Norman Osborn detected Connors’s faint signal, consumed radioactive materials and nuclear weapons to grow stronger, then headed toward Tony’s base.
• Tony and Banner examined Connors’s contained fifty-million-ton nuclear reaction, and Poseidon’s Eye detected an unknown giant organism approaching at 85 knots.

Norman Osborn attacked Neptune’s Eye, where Hulk, Connors, and Godzilla’s power collided in a destructive fight. The base collapsed, the survivors struggled in battered escape pods, and Chang Wei intervened as Steve Rogers’s pod began to break apart.

• Norman Osborn breached Neptune’s Eye, and Bruce Banner transformed into Hulk to draw him away from the base.
• Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, and Brock Rumlow escaped in Seahorse pods while Tony Stark fled in his armor as Neptune’s Eye collapsed.
• Norman attacked Connors at the Heart of Poseidon, breaking Chang Wei’s Gravity Freeze and absorbing the Heart’s energy and Connors’s flesh.
• Connors secretly recovered by eating discarded flesh, while Hulk adapted to the deep sea and grew powerful enough to fight Norman.
• Hulk tore apart Norman’s armor as Connors revived Godzilla’s body, and the battle sent shockwaves and dangerous waves toward the coast.
• Tony emerged from the sea and learned that the fighters’ battle approached the force of a tactical nuclear explosion, while the escape pods faced the storm.
• Tony plunged back into the sea to find Rumlow, as Chang Wei located Steve’s failing pod and said the ordeal would push Steve’s evolution.

Steve and Rumlow underwent transformations in the deep sea and fought while Steve tried to protect Natasha and Clint. Tony joined Steve in hauling Natasha’s failing escape pod toward safety, while Hulk continued fighting Connors and Osborn in the Mariana Trench.

• Chang Wei’s tainted substances triggered a violent mutation in Steve, whose Super Soldier Serum forced the competing influences of Gamma energy, the Green Goblin Serum, and Godzilla genes into a balance.
• Steve transformed into a deep-blue giant, escaped his collapsing pod, and rescued Natasha and Clint from the deep-sea vortex as Chang Wei considered choosing Rumlow as his opponent.
• Rumlow transformed, attacked Steve’s group, and shattered Clint’s pod, leaving Steve and Rumlow to fight while Natasha remained trapped in her damaged escape pod.
• Steve wounded Rumlow with a kick and survived their brutal exchanges, then awakened Godzilla Power and collapsed the seafloor around him with Earth Crusher.
• Rumlow broke free and charged Steve, who caught Natasha’s pod and shielded it despite his severe injuries and the petrifying backlash spreading through his body.
• Tony and J.A.R.V.I.S. found Steve holding Natasha’s pod, and Tony helped him tow it upward as Steve fought the competing forces inside his body.
• When a fracture opened in Natasha’s pod, Steve plugged the breach with his arm while Tony overloaded his armor and pushed toward the Safe Zone, which was at least seven minutes away.
• Hulk continued fighting Connors and Norman Osborn in the Mariana Trench as Connors feared Hulk’s continual regeneration and growth, and Norman became the weakest link in their battle.