Recaps

He-El coordinated the operation to capture twenty-one generals while secretly waiting for Loki to open a wormhole, confident that his preparations would keep Loki trapped. Tony Stark arrived at the conference room and asked whether the Mind Disruptor worked on both Mind Suggestion and people under Mind Control.

• He-El ordered his team to monitor the generals and prepare to capture them simultaneously at 02:00.
• He-El reasoned that Loki would use his borrowed forces to attack Earth before leaving with the Cosmic Cube, and prepared instruments to hold the wormhole when it appeared.
• He-El watched live screens of the twenty-one generals while pretending to be gravely concerned about the operation.
• Tony Stark entered the conference room, saw the surveillance screens, and asked whether the Mind Disruptor affected people under Mind Control as well as Mind Suggestion.

He-El explained the Mind Disruptor’s limits to Tony Stark and realized Tony had tested Pepper Potts with it. He-El concluded that Pepper showed no reaction because Pepper was Loki in disguise, while Tony learned that the device would have no effect on Loki.

• Tony Stark asked He-El whether the Mind Disruptor countered both Mind Suggestion and Mind Control, and He-El confirmed that it did within Loki’s frequency range.
• He-El reviewed Vivian’s surveillance footage and saw Tony return home, move unmanned Iron Man suits, visit Pepper Potts, and leave the office visibly angry.
• Tony asked whether anyone could have avoided Mind Suggestion, and He-El explained that only people isolated from others for long periods might have escaped it.
• He-El inferred that Tony had tested Pepper with the Mind Disruptor and concluded that Pepper was Loki because the device had not affected her.
• Tony asked what it meant if the Mind Disruptor had no effect, and He-El told him that would identify the person as Loki.

He-El coordinated a worldwide operation to capture twenty-one generals whose minds had been controlled, giving the teams thirty minutes before they could launch nuclear missiles. Several teams captured their targets quickly, while He-El directed the struggling teams and ordered Spider-Man to seize Defense Minister Vyacheslav Marvin.

• He-El ordered the teams to begin their simultaneous operation after Nick Fury cut off the generals' networks and created distractions at military bases.
• Punisher Frank Castle used He-El's equipment to restore a general's clarity and lead him out of White Sands Missile Range.
• Natasha and Hawkeye captured their targets, and He-El redirected them to support Team Fourteen in Okhotsk.
• He-El coached several teams through setbacks, giving them directions to reach their targets and avoid unnecessary firefights.
• He-El discovered that Peter Parker had been waiting in an attic while Vyacheslav Marvin and a female officer were in bed, then ordered him to knock them both out and bring them back.

He-El coordinated teams capturing military generals across several bases, while Kingpin, Iron Man, and Falcon completed their missions. T'Challa captured Adolph Ramos after he launched eight nuclear missiles, and He-El told Nick Fury to intercept them.

• Spider-Man knocked out the secretary of defense and a female captain, then carried them aboard the cloaked ship.
• He-El ordered Team Sixteen and Black Panther to assault the Iowa base after Adolph Ramos sealed himself in an underground shelter.
• Kingpin used infrasonic audio and mind-controlled thugs to capture the Kentucky base's general with minimal damage.
• Iron Man captured the general at Twentynine Palms, and Falcon returned with Air Force General Odo Strauster.
• T'Challa captured Adolph Ramos, who had already launched eight nuclear missiles and could not stop them.
• He-El told T'Challa to return with Ramos and asked Nick Fury to intercept the missiles.

He-El and S.H.I.E.L.D. intercepted eight nuclear missiles launched from Iowa toward the world’s other nuclear powers. With the missiles destroyed, He-El thanked the team and said the battle was not over.

• Eight nuclear missiles launched from the Army Ballistics Experimental Military Base in Iowa toward the other nuclear powers.
• Tony Stark learned that the missiles were headed for major cities and flew to stop one while taking the captured general toward the Helicarrier.
• He-El told Tony that seven other missiles had launched and that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s upgraded interception system had locked onto them.
• Tony turned back after He-El assured him the interception system would handle the missile.
• At Nick Fury’s command, the Helicarriers launched interceptors and destroyed all eight nuclear missiles, causing huge explosions and panic in nearby cities.
• He-El thanked the team for completing their missions and invited them to relax while warning that the battle was not over.

He-El and S.H.I.E.L.D. brought the generals back after intercepting eight nuclear missiles launched by Adolph Ramos under Mind Control. The generals learned that Ramos alone had launched the missiles, and they began to grasp the potential catastrophe they had narrowly avoided.

• He-El joined Nick Fury and Hill to meet the generals and discuss stopping Loki’s influence over the world and Congress.
• Secretary of Defense Vyacheslav Marvin angrily confronted Nick Fury after waking up in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
• Adolph Ramos feared that his eight nuclear missiles had destroyed major cities and asked how many missiles had been launched.
• Nick Fury told Ramos that eight missiles had been launched, and Ramos realized he had been the only general to fire them.
• The generals reacted with shock and dread as they realized the missiles had targeted major cities in nuclear powers.

Generals argued over whether to launch more nuclear missiles after the first eight had been fired, while Nick Fury and He-El dealt with the captured commanders. Nick revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. had already intercepted all eight missiles, leaving the generals stunned.

• Radical and dove faction generals argued over whether to launch more missiles or seek allies before escalating the war.
• Nick Fury watched the twenty-one captured generals argue while He-El sat calmly nearby.
• General Ross left the argument to speak with He-El, who told him to wait for Nick Fury's explanation.
• Nick Fury announced that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s interception system had destroyed all eight nuclear missiles in the sky.

Nick Fury told the generals that S.H.I.E.L.D. had intercepted all the nuclear missiles and revealed that Loki had controlled the country’s leaders and influenced the entire world. He-El urged General Ross and the others to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D. against the threat, while Tony Stark quietly slipped away from the celebration party.

• Nick Fury told the generals that S.H.I.E.L.D. had intercepted all eight nuclear missiles, and the generals feared its capabilities.
• Department of Defense Secretary Vyacheslav Marvin asked how many people had been controlled, and Nick Fury revealed that Congress, politicians, and the fake president Evans were under Mind Control.
• Nick Fury added that the entire world had been subjected to psychic suggestion, shocking the generals before they realized the crisis affected everyone.
• General Ross asked He-El how they could stop the person behind the control, and He-El told him S.H.I.E.L.D. needed the generals’ cooperation to stabilize the situation and face a possible alien invasion.
• Tony Stark quietly slipped away from the celebration party.

He-El learned that Tony Stark had left the Helicarrier and asked Vivian to find Pepper Potts and help him. Tony concluded that the Pepper he had encountered was Loki in disguise and prepared to attack Stark Industries, where Loki was posing as Pepper.

• Vivian alerted He-El that Tony Stark had left the Helicarrier's celebration party, and He-El asked her to monitor him and help if needed.
• He-El told Vivian to search for Pepper Potts and provide Tony with her location.
• Tony asked JARVIS where Pepper was and learned she was at Stark Industries.
• Tony reasoned that the woman he had embraced was Loki's true body, because the Mind Disruptor had produced no reaction.
• Tony ordered JARVIS to deploy the Iron Man drones in combat mode above Stark Tower, and the camouflaged armors flew toward Stark Industries.

Tony Stark entered Stark Tower in the Zero Gravity II Armor, prompting Happy to suspect something was wrong and warn Pepper Potts to flee. Pepper dismissed his concerns until Tony entered her office and aimed the armor’s weapons at her.

• Tony Stark returned to Stark Tower in Zero Gravity II and asked Happy to let him in so he could see Pepper Potts.
• Happy refused to open the door until Tony showed his face, so Tony ordered JARVIS to disable surveillance and prevent Happy from reaching Pepper’s office.
• JARVIS shut down the surveillance feeds and locked down elevators and stairwell doors, trapping Happy and other security guards.
• Happy called Pepper and urged her to escape, warning that Tony had arrived in armor and was acting strangely.
• Pepper told Happy that Tony was fine and expected him to show off his new armor, but Tony entered her office and aimed his weapons at her.

Tony Stark mistook Pepper Potts for Loki and trapped her in a Stillness field, demanding to know what had happened to the real Pepper. The confrontation ended with Tony firing at her and blasting apart her left hand, leaving him frozen as she bled against the window.

• Pepper Potts confronted Tony Stark after he aimed the Zero Gravity II Armor’s weapons at her.
• Tony revealed that armors outside Stark Tower had sealed the floor in a Stillness field and accused the person before him of being Loki.
• Pepper realized Tony did not recognize her and insisted that she was Pepper Potts.
• Tony demanded to know where Pepper was and warned the impostor that the Stillness field was her only chance to escape.
• Pepper threw documents at Tony, and he fired a Beam Cannon that blasted apart her left hand and hurled her into the window.

He-El refused General Ross’s request to accelerate mass production of the Gene Serum, explaining the cost and danger of the process while giving him equipment blueprints. He-El and Ross reaffirmed their partnership, and Vivian located Pepper Potts at Stark Industries.

• General Ross urged He-El to make Gene Serum sooner, but He-El said producing even one vial required costly, single-use gamma equipment and extensive research.
• He-El offered Ross blueprints for the equipment and explained that rebuilding it would take years and billions of dollars.
• Ross asked whether the next year's Gene Serum could provide a three-hundred-year lifespan, and He-El said it could.
• He-El told Ross he planned to turn human consciousness into a quantum state, convincing Ross that he wanted immortality and easing Ross's suspicions.
• He-El promised that future advances in Earth's materials might help Ross make more Gene Serum, and the two reaffirmed their partnership.
• Vivian told her master that Pepper Potts was in the president's office at Stark Industries.

He-El learned that Loki had impersonated Pepper Potts, while Tony Stark mistook the real Pepper for Loki and severed her arm. Tony rushed her to a Regeneration Cradle, where He-El revealed that Tony had been deceived.

• Vivian’s analysis showed that Loki had impersonated Pepper Potts from April 12 until Tony tested her with the Mind Disruptor.
• He-El saw Tony blast off the real Pepper Potts’s left arm and left his meeting with General Ross to help.
• Tony told He-El what he had done, and He-El sent a Manta Ray spacecraft carrying a Regeneration Cradle to Stark Industries.
• Tony froze Pepper’s wound, placed her in armor, and met He-El’s spacecraft in the night sky.
• Tony placed Pepper in the Regeneration Cradle, and He-El told him he had been had.

Loki agreed to open a spatial passage to Earth for Thanos’s Chitauri army, while secretly treating the Cosmic Cube as leverage. Thanos saw through Loki’s schemes and ordered Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf to retrieve the Mind Scepter and Cosmic Cube after the passage opened.

• Loki delighted in tormenting He-El before Ebony Maw drew him into a mental illusion of an Asgardian banquet, which Thanos shattered.
• Ebony Maw asked whether Loki had obtained the Cosmic Cube, and Loki confirmed that he had.
• Loki asked whether the Chitauri forces were ready, and Ebony Maw said they would enter Earth through a passage opened with the Cosmic Cube.
• Loki agreed to open the passage and disappeared from the illusion, believing the Cosmic Cube gave him leverage over Thanos.
• Ebony Maw warned Thanos that Loki had his own agenda, and Thanos ordered Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf to retrieve the Mind Scepter and Cosmic Cube from Earth.

He-El launched a global operation to lift Loki’s Mind Suggestion from humanity using modified satellites, while teams prepared to contain unrest. The suggestion was lifted, causing widespread accidents and revealing that people had been manipulated into opposing He-El.

• He-El reassured Tony Stark that Pepper Potts would recover and explained that Loki’s Mind Control could amplify people’s emotions.
• Tony Stark decided to join the operation, while He-El briefed Nick Fury and teams on targeting politicians and the 538 electors.
• He-El ordered Vivian to activate five modified satellites that broadcast infrasound across the globe.
• The infrasound lifted the Mind Suggestion within seconds, but dizzy and nauseated people caused crashes and other disasters around the world.
• Political leaders repealed policies aimed at He-El, while people online realized they had been controlled and governments were urged to restore order.

He-El coordinated a worldwide operation to free Congress members, politicians, and electors from Loki’s Mind Control, then scrambled heroes to stop controlled aircraft carriers from attacking Washington and other countries. Tony Stark reported that Loki had escaped, and He-El watched Evans at the Capitol podium as if they had seen each other.

• Spider-Man and more than thirty teams used Mind Disruptors and earpieces to free targets across Congress and other locations.
• He-El learned that ten aircraft carriers had deployed their weapons toward Washington and other nations, and ordered the freed defense secretary to contact other countries.
• He-El sent Bruce Banner, Natasha, Hawkeye, and T’Challa to disrupt carriers and restore their controlled commanders.
• He-El ordered Thor to wait above the Pacific and prepare to intercept any nuclear missiles launched.
• Tony Stark said Loki had escaped after Tony trapped a duplicate, while He-El watched Evans at the Capitol podium.

Congressional delegates nominated Frit Evans, Yolanda Priscus, and He-El as presidential candidates while conscious legislators realized Loki’s controlled candidates could take the presidency. The candidates began their required speeches, with Evans stepping up to the podium after Yolanda Priscus.

• Andreas Waxman entered the Capitol chamber and recognized both mind-controlled legislators and others who had regained their senses.
• Republicans nominated Vice President Frit Evans, and Democrats nominated Secretary of State Yolanda Priscus, surprising the conscious legislators who had expected He-El to be nominated.
• Andreas Waxman realized the conscious legislators lacked enough votes to stop one of Loki’s controlled candidates from becoming president.
• The Civilization Party nominated He-El, prompting the conscious legislators to plan to secure votes through the Electoral College.
• Yolanda Priscus gave a brief campaign speech, and Evans stepped onto the podium with a playful smile.

Evans watched the presidential nomination meeting unfold as the Senate President repeatedly called for He-El, who had not yet arrived. Just as the third confirmation was about to disqualify him, a legislator’s bizarre striptease delayed the vote, and He-El entered the chamber.

• Evans delivered a brief speech, then yielded the podium to the Senate President.
• The Senate President called for He-El to confirm his candidacy and issued the first and second confirmations when He-El did not appear.
• Awakened legislators grew anxious and urged He-El to hurry as the deadline approached.
• Congressman Andreas Waxman danced on the conference table, distracting the chamber and preventing the Senate President from striking the gavel a third time.
• Evans told the Senate President to proceed, but He-El entered the chamber and apologized for being late.

He-El arrived at the Senate and secured his place as a presidential candidate, promising to address unemployment, the budget deficit, and healthcare. After the Senate named the three candidates, Loki, speaking through Evans, challenged He-El to a contest of control during the election.

• Andreas Waxman stopped resisting security, shook He-El's hand, and pledged support after He-El promised him benefits.
• He-El took the podium and announced his presidential candidacy, promising to tackle unemployment, the national deficit, and healthcare costs.
• He-El received scattered applause as senators under Mind Control considered using laws to seize his property and technology.
• The chairman announced Frit Evans, Yolanda Priscus, and He-El as the three presidential candidates.
• Evans praised He-El's campaign speech, and He-El reminded Loki that he had never beaten him in a fight.
• Loki challenged He-El to compete in the election and demanded that He-El's agents leave the aircraft carrier.

He-El stopped five nuclear missiles launched by Loki-controlled aircraft carriers while hiding the full extent of his defenses. Loki revealed that he had also taken control of other generals, and He-El withdrew his allies as the presidential election contest continued.

• Evans threatened to launch nuclear missiles and began the attack after He-El rejected his challenge.
• Nick Fury reported five missiles heading toward different countries, and He-El coordinated Thor and Tony Stark to destroy two while Vivian's aircraft intercepted the other three.
• Evans revealed that more generals were under his control and threatened further launches from sea and land.
• He-El ordered Black Widow, Hawkeye, Black Panther, and Hulk to withdraw from the aircraft carriers.
• Hulk continued smashing the carrier after being wounded, and Evans left while welcoming the next stage of the election contest.

He-El delivered a presidential campaign speech promising a fairer society, shared controlled nuclear fusion, and humanity’s expansion into space. After the crowd and foreign leaders reacted enthusiastically, a reporter asked whether a conspiracy had caused the worldwide Mind Suggestion targeting him.

• He-El promised housing, education, healthcare, meaningful work, scientific progress, and a more just society.
• He-El pledged to share controlled nuclear fusion with other countries and lead humanity beyond Earth.
• Crowds and people watching around the world cheered for He-El, while foreign leaders reacted with surprise and praise.
• A reporter asked He-El how confident he was that he could fulfill his promises, and he said they would be achieved one hundred percent.
• A reporter asked whether a vast conspiracy organization had caused the Mind Suggestion targeting He-El, and the crowd fell silent awaiting his answer.

He-El told the public that aliens had targeted him to stop humanity’s advance into space, concealing the real danger of Loki controlling nuclear weapons. As the crowd rallied behind him, Nick Fury reported that the Cosmic Cube had been found, and He-El left to help.

• He-El claimed that aliens had caused the Mind Suggestion to prevent his fusion energy from taking humanity into space.
• The crowd believed his explanation, condemned the aliens, and loudly pledged its support for He-El.
• He-El reassured reporters that he would lead humanity into a new era, drawing further cheers.
• Nick Fury contacted He-El and said the Cosmic Cube had been found and the situation was tricky.
• He-El ended his speech, boarded a spacecraft, and left to join Nick Fury.

He-El continued his presidential campaign while preparing safeguards against Loki’s Mind Control. He met Bruce Banner at Stark Industries’ Ark Reactor Building to investigate what Loki had left behind.

• He-El learned that the Strong Infrasound Reflector Panels would be ready by October 20 and ordered Vivian to continue work on them and the Quark-Model Armor.
• He-El traveled in the cloaked Manta Ray spacecraft to Stark Industries’ Ark Reactor Building, where Loki had chosen a mature reactor.
• Bruce Banner told He-El that Hulk had swum across the Pacific, ridden a shark, and left Banner waking up at the North Pole hugging a polar bear.
• He-El and Bruce walked toward the Ark Reactor Building and agreed to study the new thing Loki had left behind.

He-El, Nick Fury, Tony Stark, and Bruce Banner discovered that Loki had hidden the Cosmic Cube beneath Stark Industries' Ark Reactor, where its unstable energy could destroy Earth. He-El explained that they had to let the Cube open a wormhole and prepare to face an alien invasion to reclaim it.

• He-El entered the Ark Reactor with Bruce Banner and learned from Nick Fury that a radar had detected the Cosmic Cube there three days earlier.
• Nick Fury explained that Loki's realistic illusion had concealed the Cube while his presidential campaign distracted S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Tony Stark and Bruce Banner assessed the Cube's danger, and He-El warned that an unstable cycle could form a black hole or unleash beams capable of destroying Earth.
• He-El told Nick Fury to coordinate an evacuation within twenty kilometers, while clarifying that the area would be their battlefield rather than the limit of the disaster.
• He-El said they had to let the Cosmic Cube open its wormhole and release its energy before reclaiming it, and warned the others to prepare for an alien invasion.

He-El and Loki’s opposing forces fought to influence electors as the presidential campaign plunged the country into chaos. He-El publicly urged his supporters to stop using violence in his name, then wondered whether he was becoming like a certain mustached rejected art student.

• Stark Industries evacuated the area around the Ark Reactor, while General Ross and Nick organized a military lockdown.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. searched for four missing aircraft carriers and worked to free Mind Controlled personnel at military bases.
• He-El’s international allies and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents worked to secure electors, while Loki’s network repeatedly Mind Controlled them again.
• Electors’ reversals sparked public confusion and violent protests, and He-El intervened to save an elector from a mob.
• He-El publicly called on his supporters to respect others’ free will and avoid violence.
• He-El reflected that his approach felt like that of a certain mustached rejected art student.