Recaps

Hela entered Asgard’s palace and attacked Loki, who was disguised as Odin, before claiming the throne as hers. Loki offered to hand Asgard over to her, but Thor challenged Hela to a final battle to decide who would rule.

• Hela threw two black spikes at Loki, who fell from the throne and revealed his disguise.
• Hela dismissed Loki’s claim to sit in Odin’s place and criticized Odin for ending his conquests.
• Hela declared that Asgard’s throne had always belonged to her and offered Loki a ministerial post.
• Thor rejected Loki’s plan to yield Asgard to Hela and demanded that she defeat him before she could rule.
• Hela accepted Thor’s challenge and said that if he lost, he would become one of her generals.

Captain Marvel Carol Danvers attacked the Avengers at Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D.'s extraterrestrial contact facility, believing Nick Fury's secret information showed that evil members of the team were committing atrocities. She overwhelmed the Avengers, leaving them scattered and injured as the fight continued.

• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers crashed into the plaza and confronted the Avengers, whom she believed were hiding crimes involving alien forces.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers blasted Tony Stark through the perimeter wall and kicked the Hulk into the Triskelion Twin Towers.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers scattered T'Challa's kinetic-energy attack with a photon blast and sent him flying into the lake.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers caught Steve Rogers's shield and threw it back, hurling him toward the plaza wall.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers's glowing defense repelled Clint Barton's arrow and knocked Natasha Romanoff into Clint Barton, leaving them both down.

Captain Marvel Carol Danvers defeated the Avengers at S.H.I.E.L.D. and took Steve Rogers and Tony Stark to the Himalayas safe house. Hill organized the rescue and search while He-El prepared to travel to Asgard to gather the Infinity Stones.

• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers attacked the Avengers and sent Hulk, T'Challa, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, and Steve Rogers flying.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers recognized Steve Rogers, grabbed him, and blasted Tony Stark before taking both men toward the Himalayas safe house.
• Hill ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to treat the injured, retrieve T'Challa, and track Captain Marvel Carol Danvers's movements.
• Unable to reach Nick Fury, Hill reported the attack to He-El, who told her to find Carol's trail.
• He-El opened a Space Bridge to Asgard and stepped through, saying it was time for the Infinity Stones to gather.

Hela defeated Thor in a duel for Asgard’s throne, leaving Loki’s plans to control the succession in ruins. As Thor accepted that he would have to serve as Hela’s general and help defend Asgard from Thanos, Chaos Magic erupted from Wanda’s meditation room.

• Hela fought Thor until he was exhausted and defeated him before the Asgardian gods, establishing her claim to Asgard’s throne.
• Loki realized that Hela’s victory in a public duel gave her stronger legitimacy than simply having Odin name her king.
• Hela told Thor he would serve as Asgard’s general and lead its army until he could defeat her.
• Stephen Strange and Loki brought the injured Thor to his palace, where Loki explained that he would have to transform into Odin and pass the throne to Hela.
• Thor said he would work with Hela to resist Thanos and protect Asgard, while Stephen Strange said Wanda’s Chaos Magic might soon destroy the Mind Stone.
• Chaos Magic surged from the meditation room, and Stephen Strange and Loki hurried toward it.

Captain Marvel Carol Danvers attacked Tony Stark and Steve Rogers after returning to Earth as Nick Fury’s secret backup, then accused the Avengers of running criminal businesses. The chapter left Tony and Steve denying the allegations and trying to understand who had misled her.

• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers blasted Tony Stark into a crater outside Nick Fury’s Himalayan safe house and brought the badly injured Steve Rogers to him.
• JARVIS identified Carol Danvers as a former Air Force pilot who had entered Earth from outer space and searched for information on the Avengers.
• Carol revealed that Nick Fury had kept her as secret backup and said she had returned to avenge his death.
• Carol accused Steve of leading the Avengers’ dealings in human trafficking, human experimentation, and organ sales.
• Tony Stark and Steve Rogers denied that the Avengers were involved in any such crimes and struggled to make sense of her accusation.

Captain Marvel Carol Danvers returned to Earth believing Nick Fury had ordered her to destroy the Avengers, but Tony Stark and Steve Rogers argued that He-El had planted false information. Tony realized He-El had been watching them and had deliberately let them go to Asgard.

• Carol told Tony Stark that Nick Fury had accused members of the Avengers of trafficking people, modifying humans, and selling organs, and had asked her to destroy the team.
• Tony questioned how Nick had sent the information, and Carol explained that it had come through her special pager.
• Tony showed Carol Nick's final letter to him and said He-El had likely misled her, while Steve warned her not to act rashly against He-El.
• Carol decided to verify Nick's message privately, but Tony realized He-El knew about the letters and their actions and had deliberately let them go to Asgard.

Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos Magic surged out of control as Stephen Strange awakened her consciousness and Loki urged them to use the power to destroy the Mind Stone. Just as Wanda directed the magic at the Stone, a light appeared and a massive armored hand seized it.

• Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos Magic erupted from the Soul Furnace, injuring Pietro Maximoff and threatening to consume Wanda and destroy Asgard.
• Stephen Strange projected his soul into the Chaos Magic and spent days in the Soul Dimension before awakening Wanda’s consciousness.
• Wanda told Stephen Strange, Loki, and Pietro Maximoff that she could not immediately control the torrent of Chaos Magic and needed to vent it.
• Loki pulled the Mind Stone from the Soul Furnace, and Stephen Strange sent it toward Wanda so she could destroy it with her Chaos Magic.
• A curtain of light appeared beside the Mind Stone, and a massive dark armored hand reached through and seized it as Chaos Magic struck the hand.

He-El’s armored hand appeared in Asgard and absorbed Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos Magic, leaving Stephen Strange, Loki, and Pietro Maximoff stunned. As the energy was drawn into the hand, Wanda began to gain control of her power, and ripples spread across the light screen connected to He-El’s arm.

• He-El’s massive dark armored hand blocked Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos Magic and absorbed it through its dragon-like scales.
• Loki recognized the hand that had once seized him and trembled in terror.
• Stephen Strange suspected He-El had anticipated their actions and arranged events to draw them into a trap.
• Pietro Maximoff worried about Wanda while questioning whether He-El’s influence had truly made the world worse.
• Wanda watched the hand absorb her Chaos Magic, which began to come under her control.
• Ripples spread across the light screen connected to He-El’s armored hand.

Stephen Strange, Wanda Maximoff, Loki, and Pietro Maximoff tried to stop He-El from taking the Mind Stone through the Space Bridge, but their attacks failed to dislodge his armored hand. After their combined assault disrupted the opening, He-El emerged through it and rebuked Stephen Strange's knowledge of space.

• Stephen Strange tried to open a portal to sever He-El's armored hand, while Wanda Maximoff used Chaos Magic to destabilize the Space Bridge and Loki attacked the hand with his strongest magic.
• Loki and Pietro Maximoff failed to damage or move the hand, so Stephen Strange urged Wanda Maximoff to keep it pinned while they attacked the light screen.
• Pietro Maximoff hurled the Soul Furnace toward the light screen, and Loki struck it with an icy pillar of light as Wanda Maximoff restrained the hand.
• The explosion tore open the meditation chamber's roof, disrupted the Space Bridge, and knocked Wanda Maximoff down; Pietro Maximoff caught her.
• Stephen Strange's portal shattered as the light screen swelled and He-El emerged, telling Stephen Strange that his knowledge of space was insufficient.

He-El appeared in Asgard wearing his upgraded Quark II Armor and reclaimed the Mind Stone after Stephen Strange’s teleportation circle failed. He-El said he was collecting the Infinity Stones to cleanse the Omega Effect curse, while Strange accused him of killing the Ancient One unnecessarily.

• He-El used the Space Bridge to disperse Stephen Strange’s teleportation circle, then emerged in Asgard wearing the Quark II Armor with the Mind Stone in hand.
• Stephen Strange, Loki, Pietro Maximoff, and Wanda Maximoff reacted with fear as He-El appeared, and Asgardian gods gathered in the sky.
• Hela mounted a winged horse and led Asgardian gods toward Thor’s palace after seeing He-El.
• Stephen Strange demanded to know why He-El was collecting the Infinity Stones, and He-El recalled asking him and the Ancient One how to lift a curse.
• He-El said the Ancient One and Odin had watched and opposed him, then embedded the Mind Stone in his armor and began adapting to the power of two Infinity Stones with Vivian.

He-El tried to seize Loki to obtain the Space Stone, while Stephen Strange and Wanda Maximoff struggled to stop him. Hela intervened and asked whether He-El had come to Asgard to cooperate with her.

• He-El used Loki's biological magnetic field to drag him toward himself, and Stephen Strange and Wanda Maximoff tried to pull Loki back.
• Stephen Strange bound Loki with a golden whip and opened a portal, but He-El crushed the portal and maintained his control over Loki.
• Stephen Strange urged Wanda Maximoff to shield Loki with Chaos Magic, but He-El triggered Loki's energy to break free of both restraints.
• Hela descended, pressed a hand onto Loki's shoulder, and forced him to the ground.
• Hela asked He-El whether he had come to Asgard to cooperate with her.

Hela offered to join forces with He-El and make Asgard her dowry, horrifying Loki and the others. He-El seized Loki from Hela and revealed that the Space Stone was not on him.

• Hela asked He-El to cooperate with her and proposed expanding their power beyond the Nine Realms, with Asgard as her dowry.
• Loki angrily protested Hela's plan, while Stephen Strange considered using the Time Stone against He-El.
• He-El crossed the space between them and grabbed Loki's head before Hela could pull him away.
• He-El's power severed Hela's connection to Loki, and he pulled Loki into his grasp.
• He-El declared that the Space Stone was not on Loki.

He-El discovered that Loki had given the Space Stone to Thanos, leaving Thanos with three Infinity Stones and setting up a confrontation on Earth. Stephen Strange realized Loki’s attempt to use Thanos against He-El had undone their efforts to keep the Stones apart.

• He-El scanned Loki and confirmed the Space Stone was not on him, concluding that Thanos had it.
• He-El considered the danger of Stephen Strange using the Time Stone to create parallel universes and decided to wait until he had gathered the other five Stones before taking it.
• He-El seized Loki and demanded to know where the Space Stone was as Stephen Strange, Wanda, Maximoff, and Pietro Maximoff watched in alarm.
• Loki admitted that he had given the Space Stone to Thanos, who would soon come to Earth to destroy He-El.
• Stephen Strange realized that Loki had hoped to use Thanos against He-El, but feared that Thanos’s three Stones would leave them unable to resist.

He-El revealed that he had deliberately let Thanos obtain the Space Stone, setting him on a path to collect more Infinity Stones. He allowed Stephen Strange to leave with the others and urged Hela to abandon Asgard before departing through the Space Bridge.

• He-El threw the battered Loki before Stephen Strange and explained that Loki’s actions had not exceeded his expectations.
• Stephen Strange realized He-El had intentionally left the Space Stone for Thanos so Thanos would gather three Stones and pursue the Reality Stone.
• He-El told Stephen Strange to leave and said he wanted the Time Stone only after collecting five Infinity Stones.
• Stephen Strange knocked Loki unconscious, then took Loki, Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, and Thor through a portal out of Asgard.
• He-El told Hela to abandon Asgard if she wanted to pursue war and conquest with him, then left through the Space Bridge.

Stephen Strange brought Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Loki, and Thor to Nick Fury's safe house after He-El took the Mind Stone from Asgard. There, the Avengers learned Thanos already had the Space Stone, and Strange concluded that He-El had been guiding their choices all along.

• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers searched for information about Nick Fury, the Avengers, and He-El while deciding whether to trust Tony Stark and Steve Rogers.
• Stephen Strange opened a portal to the safe house, where Wanda Maximoff brought the unconscious Loki and Pietro Maximoff carried the sleeping Thor.
• Stephen Strange told Tony Stark and Steve Rogers that He-El had come to Asgard and taken the Mind Stone.
• Pietro Maximoff and Wanda Maximoff revealed that Loki had given the Space Stone to Thanos while they were at Xandar, leaving the Time Stone as the only one in their possession.
• Tony Stark treated Steve Rogers as he struggled with his injuries and the news that Thanos had obtained two Infinity Stones.
• Stephen Strange said He-El had let them leave Asgard and concluded that their actions had followed He-El's plan.

Stephen Strange told the Avengers that He-El had orchestrated their actions and was waiting for Thanos to come to Earth. Tony Stark realized He-El had likely monitored them through the Iron Man Armor and ordered JARVIS to destroy the Nano Armor and its own code.

• Stephen Strange explained that He-El had planned their choices and failures, including Loki giving the Space Stone to Thanos.
• Wanda Maximoff asked how He-El could monitor them without triggering her Chaos Magic, and Stephen Strange admitted he could not find the source.
• Tony Stark suspected He-El was watching them through the Iron Man Armor and ordered JARVIS to remove the nanomachines from his body.
• Tony Stark concluded He-El had altered JARVIS's underlying code to monitor them despite its defenses.
• Tony Stark gave JARVIS his final command, and the Nano Armor flew above the Himalayas and detonated before JARVIS destroyed its own code.

After JARVIS sacrificed himself in the destruction of Tony Stark’s nanomachine armor, Tony gathered the Avengers to prepare for He-El and Thanos. The group resolved to arm themselves and seek military support, while Carol Danvers shut down her wrist computer to prevent He-El from monitoring them.

• Tony Stark explained that He-El could easily monitor their electronic devices, so Carol Danvers and the others shut down or destroyed theirs.
• Tony Stark urged everyone to prepare for the final battle, though he admitted he had no specific plan.
• Stephen Strange and Steve Rogers suggested they might have to ally with either Thanos or He-El against the other.
• Tony Stark said they first needed to protect Earth from Thanos’s forces and secure the military as allies.
• Steve Rogers planned to contact General Ross and enlist the Crimson Giant Corps, while Pietro Maximoff questioned whether He-El would prepare Earth for Thanos’s invasion.

Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Steve Rogers, and the others discussed the threats posed by He-El, Thanos, and a possible Asgardian alliance, then began preparing Earth for war. Thor vowed to protect the Nine Realms and hinted that he would need Stephen’s Time Stone before falling asleep again.

• Tony Stark and Stephen Strange warned that He-El had a powerful private Crimson Giant force and that Earth needed to prepare for both He-El and Thanos.
• Steve Rogers said the Guardians of the Galaxy were gathering allies across the universe, while Stephen revealed that Hela had wanted to marry He-El and offer Asgard as her dowry.
• Thor awoke briefly and said he would return to Asgard to persuade Hela not to support He-El, then promised to protect Asgard, Earth, and the Nine Realms with his life.
• Stephen Strange planned to gather the sorcerers, Steve Rogers planned to take control of S.H.I.E.L.D. and approach General Ross, and Tony Stark decided to destroy his Iron Man suits and build one without networked systems.

Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, and Natasha Romanoff began their plan to take control of S.H.I.E.L.D. by capturing Hill and removing her communications gear. Hill woke in a storage room surrounded by the three, unsure what had happened and looking for a way out.

• Stephen Strange sent Steve Rogers through a portal into a S.H.I.E.L.D. restroom, while Tony Stark went home to draw He-El's attention away from the operation.
• Clint Barton met Steve Rogers in the restroom and helped disguise him before they went to meet Natasha and Hill.
• Hill spotted the disguises and warned Natasha, but Natasha struck Hill while Clint Barton and Steve Rogers blocked her escape and knocked her unconscious.
• Natasha removed Hill's communications devices and weapons, changed her clothes, and helped move her in a cleaning cart to a storage room.
• Natasha splashed water on Hill's face, waking her to find Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, and Natasha Romanoff guarding her.

Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, and Steve Rogers told Hill that Nick Fury was dead and that He-El had killed him, then sought her help in opposing He-El. Hill believed them and pointed out that she already controlled S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Natasha Romanoff apologized to Hill and explained why they had brought her to an isolated storage room without electronics.
• Natasha Romanoff told Hill that Nick Fury was dead, and Clint Barton and Steve Rogers confirmed the news.
• Hill recalled her work with Nick Fury, accepted that he was probably dead, and asked who had killed him.
• Natasha Romanoff revealed that He-El had killed Nick Fury, and Hill said she believed them.
• Steve Rogers asked Hill to take control of S.H.I.E.L.D., but Hill replied that she already controlled it unless He-El personally intervened.

Hill revealed that she could command S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Avengers told her Thanos was preparing to attack Earth for the Reality Stone. They decided to mobilize S.H.I.E.L.D. for the coming invasion, despite uncertainty about whether He-El would interfere.

• Hill explained that He-El's authority and the policies left by Nick Fury allowed her to command S.H.I.E.L.D.'s international agents unless He-El issued orders himself.
• Clint Barton reported that nations were building spacecraft and lunar bases but had made no preparations for Thanos's attack.
• Clint Barton told Hill that Thanos had the Soul Stone, Power Stone, and Space Stone and would soon target the Reality Stone held by He-El.
• Natasha Romanoff warned that He-El might treat Earth as expendable in his pursuit of the Infinity Stones.
• Hill agreed to put S.H.I.E.L.D. on alert and prepare its weapons and enhanced warriors for Thanos's army.
• Steve Rogers said they needed to win General Ross's support for Earth's defense.

The Avengers discussed warning General Ross about Thanos’s coming invasion and using his forces to defend Earth, but S.H.I.E.L.D. could not safely contact him at Area 51. Steve Rogers decided to arrange an open meeting with Ross.

• Steve Rogers proposed warning General Ross so his forces could prepare to defend Earth against Thanos.
• Hill explained that Area 51 was too heavily guarded for S.H.I.E.L.D. to contact Ross safely, and that the agency lacked access to his schedule.
• Natasha Romanoff offered to infiltrate Area 51, but Clint Barton and Hill recognized the danger to her.
• Steve Rogers rejected a covert approach and decided to arrange a meeting with General Ross openly.

General Ross received a private call from Steve Rogers, who asked to meet and discuss joining Ross’s army. After arriving at the Earth United Government’s presidential office, Ross learned that He-El intended to make him the government’s second president.

• Steve Rogers called General Ross’s private secretary and asked to speak with Ross about an important matter.
• Steve Rogers told Ross he wanted to meet and discuss joining his army, and Ross agreed to arrange a brief meeting later.
• General Ross arrived at the Earth United Government building and went to see He-El.
• He-El poured Ross tea and told him that he intended to make him the second president of the Earth United Government.

He-El chose General Ross to become the second president of the Earth United Government as humanity prepared to expand into space. He then revealed that an alien legion was preparing to attack Earth and ordered Ross to lead its united armies.

• He-El told General Ross he intended to make him the second president of the Earth United Government.
• General Ross was stunned and feared he was unfit for the presidency, but he accepted that he would carry out He-El's orders.
• He-El explained that Ross's decisive character suited the role and that he wanted humanity to keep expanding beyond Earth.
• He-El revealed that an alien legion was preparing to attack Earth and ordered Ross to command the united armies of Earth's nations.
• He-El told Ross to win the coming war as the achievement that would welcome him into the presidency.

Steve Rogers warned General Ross that He-El was luring Thanos to Earth for the Infinity Stones and risking humanity, but Ross rejected the accusation and defended He-El’s leadership. Ross revealed that He-El had already ordered preparations for the invasion and chosen him as the next president of the Earth United Government.

• Steve Rogers warned General Ross that an alien legion intended to attack Earth and asked him to prepare the nations’ armies.
• General Ross questioned why Steve had not informed He-El and suspected a rift between the president and S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Steve told Ross that He-El was using Earth to lure Thanos and seize his Infinity Stones, regardless of the danger to humanity.
• General Ross defended He-El’s contributions to Earth and criticized Steve and other superheroes for seeing only the risks in his plans.
• General Ross revealed that He-El had already ordered him to prepare for the invasion and planned to make him the Earth United Government’s second president.