Recaps

Odin questioned Stephen Strange about He-El and learned that He-El wanted the Reality Stone to upgrade Earth’s foundational materials. Fearing the power this would give humanity, Odin resolved to keep the Stone from He-El, but Iron Man suddenly appeared with a gray-skinned prisoner.

• Odin reinforced the guards around the armory and vault as he escorted Stephen Strange toward the laboratory.
• Odin asked Stephen what kind of person He-El was, and Stephen praised him as a great man and pioneer of humanity.
• Odin reflected on He-El’s influence and feared that humanity could become a formidable power under his leadership.
• Odin asked why He-El wanted the Reality Stone, and Stephen explained that He-El intended to elevate Earth’s foundational materials.
• Odin decided He-El must not obtain the Reality Stone, but Iron Man blasted through a wall with a gray-skinned prisoner pinned beneath his feet.

Tony Stark broke out of his confinement and joined Odin and Stephen Strange as the Dark Elves attacked Asgard and sought the Reality Stone. He learned that the Stone had been extracted from Vivian, and followed them toward its location, doubtful it could be recovered.

• Tony Stark burst through a wall and stopped a scaled prisoner during the prison riot, then complained to Odin about being confined and forgotten.
• Stephen Strange greeted Tony Stark with relief, while Odin thanked him coldly for saving his guards.
• Tony Stark teased Odin about recording his thanks, then followed Odin and Stephen Strange down the corridor.
• Stephen Strange explained that the Dark Elves had broken out of the prison, destroyed the shield's energy core, and were targeting the Reality Stone.
• Tony Stark learned that Odin had extracted the Reality Stone from Vivian and regretted that Earth would likely lose it.

Odin waited in Asgard’s laboratory as the Cosmic Cube forced the Reality Stone to separate from Vivian, while Tony Stark and Stephen Strange questioned how Odin would protect it. Before Odin could answer, Thor crashed through the laboratory wall after being struck by the Cursed Warrior.

• Tony Stark saw the Cosmic Cube bombarding Vivian and reflected on Earth’s inability to protect powerful cosmic artifacts without He-El.
• The goateed dean said the Reality Stone was beginning to separate from Vivian and that the first extraction attempt could happen in about ten minutes.
• Odin ordered the laboratory staff to report any abnormalities in Vivian, and the goateed dean said there had been none.
• Stephen Strange and Tony Stark asked Odin how he would safeguard the Reality Stone, and Odin considered his options.
• Thor was blasted through the laboratory wall by the Cursed Warrior and rose to face him.

Thor and Tony Stark fought Algrim, the Dark Elves’ Curse Warrior, in the laboratory but struggled to hurt him. Odin halted the clash when Malekith appeared, dragging Frigga by the hair and confronting him.

• Thor crashed through the laboratory wall after Algrim overpowered him, and Tony Stark prepared to attack the Curse Warrior.
• Tony fired his Repulsor Ray, but Algrim swatted the blast aside with his bare hand and charged him.
• Thor threw Mjolnir into Algrim’s fist, staggering him, and Tony blasted Algrim through several walls, but Algrim quickly stood again.
• Odin ordered the fighting to stop and demanded that the Dark Elves bring out their leader.
• Malekith appeared with Frigga in his grip and taunted Odin about growing old.

Malekith invaded Asgard and seized Frigga, forcing Odin to surrender the Reality Stone in exchange for her safety. As Malekith prepared to leave with the Stone, a figure emerged through a Space Bridge and caught Vivian, demanding to know who had touched her.

• Malekith entered the palace with Frigga as his hostage and demanded the Aether, the Reality Stone.
• Odin stopped Thor and agreed to trade Vivian, who contained the Reality Stone, for Frigga's release.
• Malekith released Frigga and extracted the Reality Stone from Vivian while Odin prevented the others from attacking.
• Malekith gathered the Stone and began retreating with Algrim, leaving Frigga on the ground.
• A Space Bridge opened beneath the falling Vivian, and a demonic figure caught her and asked, "Who touched her?"

He-El arrived in his terrifying Quark Armor after Malekith took the Reality Stone, leaving Odin, Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, and Thor stunned by the armor’s power and appearance. He-El sent the damaged Vivian to the Manta Ray Mothership to reset, then confronted Malekith as he tried to retreat.

• He-El appeared in his three-meter-tall Quark Armor, shocking Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Thor, and Odin.
• He-El told the trembling Vivian to prepare for a reset and continue the mission, then sent her to the Manta Ray Mothership to recover.
• Malekith, having obtained the Reality Stone, ignored He-El and prepared to leave Asgard.
• He-El advanced on Malekith, who ordered Algrim to kill him.
• He-El vanished, reappeared before Malekith, and reached for his head.

He-El blasted Malekith with his arm cannon, then swatted the Cursed Warrior Algrim into the Dark Elf Mothership. He pursued Malekith to claim the Reality Stone, and Odin followed to stop him.

• He-El fired his arm cannon at Malekith, blasting open Asgard's palace and tearing through the sky, but Malekith survived by using the Reality Stone.
• Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Thor, and Odin reacted to the cannon's immense power and the destruction it caused.
• The Cursed Warrior Algrim charged He-El, who struck him with antigravity and hurled him through the palace and into the Dark Elf Mothership.
• He-El flew after Malekith to pursue the Reality Stone, and Odin followed after telling Thor to take care of his mother.

As He-El battled Malekith and Odin in Asgard’s skies, Tony Stark prepared to help him claim the Reality Stone for Earth. Stephen Strange opposed the plan, and the chapter left Tony and Stephen at odds over whether He-El should obtain it.

• Tony Stark decided to fly up and help He-El fight Malekith and Odin so Earth could gain the Reality Stone.
• Stephen Strange prepared to join the aerial battle but declared that He-El must be stopped from obtaining the Stone.
• Tony Stark halted Stephen and demanded to know why he opposed He-El’s plan.
• Stephen Strange remained determined to stop He-El despite understanding Tony’s faith in his friend.
• Tony and Stephen’s disagreement deepened over whether the Reality Stone should be used to advance Earth’s technology.

Thor found Frigga badly injured but alive after Odin flew off to pursue He-El, while Loki appeared to have escaped the Jail. As Thor, Tony Stark, and Stephen Strange argued over who owned the Reality Stone, Odin and He-El’s battle escalated above Asgard.

• Thor found Frigga unconscious but alive and handed her over to the gods in the laboratory for care.
• Thor suspected Loki had escaped the Jail and was searching for a chance to save Frigga, but he chose not to pursue him.
• Thor joined Tony Stark and Stephen Strange and insisted the Reality Stone belonged to Asgard because Bor had sealed it on Earth.
• Tony Stark argued that Asgard had already received the Cosmic Cube, while Thor claimed Odin had sealed that on Earth too and began to say Earth was under Asgard’s rule.
• Odin roared He-El’s name as a massive crimson energy blast descended toward him.

He-El used a Supernova Energy Emitter to stop Odin’s pursuit, but Odin shattered its blast into unstable energy that devastated Asgard before destroying the weapon. Odin then pursued He-El again, who had reached Malekith.

• He-El assembled the Supernova Energy Emitter and fired its quasi-supernova cannon at Odin and Asgard.
• Odin charged through the blast, scattering it into unstable, meteor-like energy that rained across Asgard.
• Thor, Tony Stark, and Stephen Strange tried to destroy the falling energy as explosions injured warriors and damaged the ground.
• Odin hurled Gungnir into the emitter space station, destroying it and ending the cannon’s attack.
• Odin pursued He-El into the explosion while He-El arrived near Malekith.

He-El tried to seize the Reality Stone from a badly burned Malekith, but Malekith used the Stone to hide and force the Convergence to begin early. He-El disrupted Malekith’s attempt and nearly caught him before Odin intervened, leaving the three in a standoff.

• He-El entered Asgard’s weightless stagnant layer and approached Malekith, who survived the arm-cannon blast with the Reality Stone sustaining him.
• He-El reached for Malekith and the Reality Stone, but Malekith dispersed from sight and mocked him while hiding through altered perception.
• Malekith used the Reality Stone to accelerate the Convergence and make it begin devouring the Nine Realms.
• He-El shattered the region’s Space Strings, disrupted Malekith’s vortex, and exposed his location before moving in to seize him.
• Odin’s Gungnir flew at He-El, forcing him to evade, and Odin caught the spear and confronted him.

Odin confronted Malekith and He-El above a devastated Asgard, refusing to ally with Malekith while the Reality Stone accelerated the Convergence. As Malekith continued opening the vortex, Odin attacked him and moved to face He-El as battle resumed.

• Malekith urged Odin to join forces against He-El, hoping to eliminate him before the Convergence began.
• He-El said he was prepared to fight them both and warned that Malekith planned to use the Reality Stone to devour the Nine Realms.
• Odin pointed Gungnir at Malekith and ordered him to stop, prioritizing the threat to Asgard and the Nine Realms.
• Malekith kept using Aether to accelerate the Convergence, causing images of the realms to appear and overlap.
• Malekith gathered Aether around himself as Odin attacked him with Gungnir and advanced toward He-El, reigniting the battle above Asgard.

He-El fought to seize the Reality Stone while Odin battled him and Malekith tried to trigger the Convergence. The chapter ended with He-El and Odin exchanging thousands of blows inside a gigantic fireball above Asgard.

• Odin and Malekith's followers prayed as Malekith struggled to survive Odin's and He-El's attacks, with the Aether consuming his life.
• Malekith retreated toward spatial turbulence, intending to use the Reality Stone to trigger the Convergence and restore a dark age.
• He-El pursued Malekith through spatial strings and slapped him out of the Aether's shadow space, then blocked his attempts to hide again.
• Odin attacked He-El before he could seize Malekith, and He-El struck Gungnir with his armored finger, creating a massive particle-fission fireball.
• He-El and Odin exchanged thousands of blows inside the fireball, sending shockwaves down toward Asgard.

He-El fought Odin in Asgard and tried to stop Malekith from reaching the Convergence vortex. He discovered too late that the Malekith he captured was a Reality Stone-made Stand-in, and the Convergence began with the real Malekith inside the vortex.

• He-El and Odin battled across Asgard's skies, and He-El blasted Odin into the lower atmosphere with a concentrated energy beam.
• He-El found Malekith trying to enter the Convergence vortex and knocked him back out with spatial waves.
• He-El grabbed and crushed Malekith, but the body dissolved into dark-red gas, revealing it was a Reality Stone-made Stand-in.
• He-El froze and shattered the gas, then saw the real Malekith inside the Convergence vortex, where Malekith declared the return of the Dark Elves' age.
• Malekith's Reality Stone currents surged, and the Convergence began at an accelerated pace.

The Convergence caused the Nine Realms to collide, threatening to destroy them as Asgard and Jotunheim appeared over Earth. As Asgard plunged into darkness, Thor tried to calm its civilians while He-El and Odin pursued Malekith through the overlapping realms.

• Asgard's sky showed Vanaheim and then Jotunheim, whose freezing landscape spread across the heavens as the realms began moving toward a destructive collision.
• Tony Stark warned that the merging masses would annihilate Earth, Asgard, and the Nine Realms.
• Earth's people saw Asgard descending overhead, and Nick Fury mobilized S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers while preparing rescue and combat operations.
• Jotunheim's cold swept across Earth, and Svartalfheim plunged Asgard into darkness.
• Thor reassured Asgard's frightened civilians, while Tony Stark said the Convergence could not be stopped unless the three fighters decided the victor.
• He-El charged after Malekith through the overlapping realms, and Odin followed to attack Malekith.

As Malekith unleashed the Convergence from the center of overlapping space, the Nine Realms descended into panic and chaos while the heroes struggled to reach him. Tony Stark told Nick Fury that He-El was charging toward Malekith, leaving him as the realms’ apparent hope.

• Malekith laughed as the Nine Realms appeared across their skies and declared that no one could reach him at the center of the Convergence.
• Surtur, Hela, and the people of the Nine Realms reacted to Malekith’s return, while panic and lawlessness spread across Midgard.
• Nick Fury struggled to coordinate Earth’s response and finally contacted Tony Stark through a communicator.
• Tony Stark told Nick Fury that he, Thor, and Stephen Strange could neither find Malekith nor stop the upheaval.
• Tony Stark pointed out He-El charging through the layered spaces toward Malekith.

As the Convergence threatened the Nine Realms, He-El crossed the stars to confront the disaster while Odin obtained the Space Stone and teleported directly to Malekith. Odin confronted Malekith at the Convergence, leaving the realms watching as the King of the Gods prepared to defend them.

• Nick Fury ordered a broadcast telling Earth that He-El was trying to stop the disaster, and the announcement calmed the frightened population.
• Odin told Thor to send him the Cosmic Cube, and Thor used Mjolnir to launch it toward his father.
• Odin caught the Cosmic Cube as its casing broke apart and absorbed the Space Stone's power.
• Odin used the Space Stone to cross space and appear before Malekith at the Convergence.
• Odin rebuked Malekith for attacking the Nine Realms as the Dwarf King and other beings watched his arrival.

Odin used the Space Stone to pursue Malekith through the Convergence and defeated his dark matter dragon on Vanaheim. As Malekith struggled to accept his loss, a voice reminded him that the Aether could reshape reality, and he realized he could use it to turn Odin into a goat.

• Malekith accelerated the Convergence and fled through overlapping space, but Odin used the Space Stone to reach him and pursue him.
• Odin followed Malekith to Vanaheim, where Malekith spent his life force to form a dark matter dragon and attack him.
• Odin destroyed the dragon with Gungnir and blasted off Malekith's left arm, leaving Malekith shocked by his defeat.
• A voice told Malekith to use the Aether to turn Odin into a goat, and Malekith realized he had misunderstood the Reality Stone.

He-El raced toward Malekith to secure the Reality Stone before Odin, while Malekith used his dying wish to try to turn Odin into a Dark Elf. He-El arrived as Malekith’s wish began taking effect and drove a metal hand through him.

• He-El learned Malekith had been defeated and ordered Vivian to prepare for a dangerous full-speed traversal to reach him before Odin claimed the Reality Stone.
• Vivian warned that the traversal would cripple most of the Quark Armor’s systems, but He-El activated it anyway.
• Malekith realized the Reality Stone’s true power and offered up his life, soul, and will to make one final wish.
• Malekith used the Reality Stone to try to turn Odin into a Dark Elf as the world seemed to stand still.
• He-El arrived behind Malekith and thrust a sharp metallic hand through his back and chest.

Odin and He-El struggled to act after Malekith used the Reality Stone to transform Odin into a Dark Elf, leaving both weakened and racing to seize the Stone. Vivian fused with the Reality Stone, but Odin restored himself and hurled Gungnir at her.

• Malekith used the Reality Stone to suppress Odin’s Asgardian bloodline and transform him into a Dark Elf as He-El remained immobilized after piercing Malekith.
• He-El reconnected with Vivian and ordered her to fuse with the Reality Stone.
• He-El withdrew his hand from Malekith, whose skeletal body was consumed by the Reality Stone.
• Vivian redirected the Reality Stone’s crimson energy and began fusing with it.
• Odin unleashed his King of Gods power to break Malekith’s transformation and restore his appearance.
• Odin crashed to the ground and threw Gungnir at Vivian.

He-El took Odin’s Gungnir strike in the Quark Armor while Vivian completed her fusion with the Reality Stone. Odin then attacked Vivian, but she reformed from metallic liquid and dark red gas and flew toward He-El, leaving Odin sensing imminent danger.

• Vivian continued fusing with the Reality Stone as He-El refused to let her stop and face Gungnir.
• He-El caught Gungnir with both hands, but the spear drove him three hundred kilometers away and pinned the powerless Quark Armor in a mountain crater.
• Odin recalled Gungnir and swept it through Vivian, apparently cutting her in half.
• Vivian’s body transformed into metallic liquid and dark red gas, then reformed as she looked coldly at Odin.
• Vivian flew toward He-El, and Odin raised his right hand to use the Space Stone to stop them reuniting.

Odin used the Space Stone to keep Vivian from reaching He-El, then pursued her to the Andromeda Galaxy near Xandar and tried to seal her again. Vivian resisted by using the Reality Stone to guide the sun’s gravity, and the chapter ended as she unleashed that power against Odin.

• Odin used the Space Stone to disrupt Vivian’s approach to He-El, then banished her a million light-years away.
• Odin saw He-El trapped in the disabled Quark Armor and pursued Vivian through a spatial rift.
• Odin found Vivian near Xandar and demanded that she surrender the Reality Stone in exchange for He-El’s life.
• Vivian refused Odin’s demand and retreated toward the sun while using the Reality Stone to understand its gravitational field.
• Vivian increased her control over the sun’s gravity and shouted “Collapse!”

Vivian used the Reality Stone to trigger a supernova in Xandar’s sun, forcing Odin to evacuate the planet before pursuing her back to Vanaheim. There, she escaped Odin’s Mobius Space Ring by transforming into a spatial string and merged into the Quark Armor, as a heartbeat-like pulse stopped the universe.

• Vivian used the Reality Stone to create a singularity and accelerate the star’s decay until it began going supernova.
• Odin used the Space Stone to teleport Xandar more than a hundred thousand light-years away, then pursued Vivian to Vanaheim.
• Odin trapped Vivian in a Mobius Space Ring as she tried to merge with the Quark Armor.
• He-El explained that space and reality were foundational rules, and Vivian became a spatial string to escape the ring.
• Vivian returned to mist and merged into the Quark Armor as a pulse seemed to stop the universe.

He-El used the Reality Stone and gathered vast pseudo-dark matter energy in Vanaheim, frightening beings across the Nine Realms as it formed enormous mechanical wings around him. His Quark Armor revived in black and gold, and he declared that Midgard would henceforth be called Earth.

• The Convergence’s ongoing overlap shook Vanaheim and alarmed beings in Alfheim, Helheim, and on Earth.
• Nick Fury, Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, and Thor watched the dark wings form as Tony speculated that they were made from pseudo-dark matter.
• Stephen Strange sensed that He-El had obtained the Reality Stone, and Tony trusted that He-El’s actions would keep Earth safe.
• Odin found the space around He-El difficult and costly to control as pseudo-dark matter energy poured into his Quark Armor.
• He-El’s armor shed its worn exterior, revived in black and gold, and lit up with crimson eyes.
• He-El declared that there would be no more Midgard or Middle Realm, only Earth.

He-El seized the Reality Stone and declared that Earth would break away from Asgard’s rule and become an independent realm, prompting the people of Earth to rally behind him. Odin confronted He-El in Asgard and called for his Warriors as tensions threatened to erupt into war.

• He-El emerged in his Quark Armor at the center of the Convergence and declared that Midgard would be known as Earth, no longer part of the Nine Realms under Odin’s rule.
• Beings across the Nine Realms reacted with shock, while Nick Fury wondered whether He-El’s motives were truly to help Earth.
• Bruce Banner, Natasha, Hawkeye, and people across Earth voiced their support for He-El as Tony Stark prepared to stand with him.
• Stephen Strange questioned whether Earth was going to war with Asgard, and Tony Stark affirmed that he would support He-El if war began.
• He-El stepped into Asgard’s skies, where Odin confronted him and summoned Asgard’s Warriors.