Recaps

Tony Stark returned to New York and learned that Pepper Potts was pregnant. Concerned that He-El could monitor or control his technology, Tony began dismantling his Iron Man suits to build armor He-El could not control.

• Pepper Potts welcomed Tony Stark home, treated his cheek, and told him she had contacted He-El after hearing he had been attacked.
• Pepper Potts revealed she was pregnant, and Tony Stark reacted with shock before tenderly listening at her belly.
• Tony Stark grew worried about something and went to the underground workshop, telling Pepper Potts to rest.
• Tony Stark dismantled the electronic components in his Iron Man Armors, leaving the mechanically operated Mark III and Mark IV intact as the basis for a suit He-El could not control.
• Pepper Potts found Tony Stark working among the dismantled suits and invited him upstairs for dinner and rest.

Hank Pym prepared to rescue his wife, Janet van Dyne, from the Quantum Realm while resisting Hope van Dyne’s demand to join him. Hope brought Tony Stark to help, and Hank revealed he had been expecting him and had new Pym Particles ready.

• Hank Pym used He-El’s released formulas to stabilize Pym Particles and built Hank Capsule Group while waiting for the right time to rescue his wife.
• Hope van Dyne confronted Hank Pym in the company’s hidden Canadian base and insisted she would take part in the mission to save her mother.
• Hope introduced Tony Stark, who offered the Avengers’ help and asked Hank for assistance with a grim hurdle.
• Tony Stark learned Hank had received no final letter from Nick Fury but had been warned years earlier to stay prepared.
• Hank Pym showed Tony the new Pym Particles and said they would enter the Quantum Realm together after Tony returned.

Hela weighed He-El’s offer against her attachment to Asgard while Thor and Loki tried to keep Asgard from joining him. As Thor and Frigga began persuading Asgard’s generals to evacuate, Hela realized what she intended to do.

• Thor and Loki urged Hela not to bring Asgard under He-El’s command, but Hela mocked their warnings and pointed to the defeats suffered by He-El’s opponents.
• Thor left the palace and told Loki he feared Hela would join He-El; they went to Frigga to plan an evacuation and preserve Asgard’s people and forces.
• Thor, Loki, and Frigga began persuading Asgard’s generals to leave with them.
• Hela sensed their efforts from the throne hall and realized what she should do.

Stephen Strange sought Kamar-Taj’s help against He-El and Thanos, but the elders distrusted him and learned from him that Baron Mordo had died. After Strange explained He-El’s ties to Dormammu and offered to become Sorcerer Supreme, the elders chose Wong instead.

• Stephen Strange argued with five Kamar-Taj elders after they refused to oppose He-El and decided to wait for Baron Mordo’s return.
• Stephen Strange told the elders that He-El had killed Baron Mordo, and their spells confirmed Mordo’s life and soul had vanished.
• The elders demanded an account of Mordo’s death, and Stephen Strange explained He-El’s dealings with Dormammu and his role in the events.
• Stephen Strange offered to become the new Sorcerer Supreme and lead Kamar-Taj against He-El, but the elders ignored his offer.
• The five elders nominated and unanimously chose Wong as Sorcerer Supreme, leaving Stephen Strange speechless.

Stephen Strange gathered Kamar-Taj, Asgardian, and cosmic forces at Kamar-Taj to prepare for He-El and Thanos. Thor prepared to destroy Asgard if Hela joined He-El, and the chapter ended with Thanos’s fleet emerging near the moon.

• Wong explained that Kamar-Taj’s elders had made him Sorcerer Supreme, and Stephen Strange recruited the sorcerers to unite against the coming threat.
• Bruce Banner arrived from Canada and said Tony Stark was making final adjustments to a new Iron Man Armor.
• Thor led Frigga, Loki, and most of Asgard’s people through a portal to Kamar-Taj, then concluded that Hela had chosen to side with He-El.
• Thor prepared to unleash Surtur with the Eternal Flame to destroy Asgard if Hela became an enemy.
• Stephen Strange opened a portal to Knowhere, and the Guardians of the Galaxy and a vast fleet of allies arrived at Kamar-Taj.
• Star-Lord Peter Quill warned the group that Thanos had arrived in the Solar System, as Thanos’s fleet emerged from a spatial node beyond the moon.

Thanos's mothership and its fleet entered the Solar System, prompting General Ross to coordinate Earth's defense from Area 51. As New York began evacuating and Earth's space-based weapons prepared to fire, Thanos's forces attacked Earth's outer defenses first.

• Thanos's mothership emerged from behind the Moon, and General Ross ordered the Shenzhou Supercomputer to calculate its route.
• The supercomputer identified Manhattan as the fleet's destination, so General Ross ordered General Andres Evra to evacuate New York within three hours.
• General Andres Evra directed the evacuation as soldiers, aircraft, rescue carriers, and volunteers moved civilians out of New York.
• General Ross designated the northeastern Atlantic coast as the battlefield and ordered nations to aim their space-based weapons at the approaching fleet.
• Before Thanos's mothership reached Earth's prepared target point, it opened fire on Earth's first defensive wall in space.

Thanos’s destroyers destroyed Earth’s space-defense weapons from beyond their range, leaving Marshal Ross and humanity powerless to strike back. Ross ordered a new defense as the fleet advanced toward Earth’s atmosphere.

• Thanos’s destroyers opened fire from beyond the Space Weapon wall’s range and blasted Earth’s orbital defenses into fragments.
• General Ross ordered all Space Weapons to launch, but the enemy intercepted the missiles before they could reach the fleet.
• People around the world watched the explosions and relied on He-El’s preparations as news of the invasion spread.
• Marshal Ross ordered heavy cannons to prepare along the fleet’s route and instructed them to fire when the enemy entered the stratosphere.
• Marshal Ross deployed fighter groups, artillery, rocket forces, submarines, and the Crimson Giant Corps and Super Soldier Combined Force to defend Earth.
• Thanos’s destroyers cleared the way for the mothership, shielded it, and began entering Earth’s atmosphere.

As Thanos’s fleet entered Earth’s atmosphere, Captain Marvel Carol Danvers volunteered to attack the mothership while Star-Lord Peter Quill rallied the forces gathered at Kamar-Taj. The defenders prepared to join the battle, and Commander Ross ordered the military to open fire as the mothership descended.

• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers agreed to break through Thanos’s mothership and destroy its engines, while Star-Lord Peter Quill led the other gathered forces toward New York.
• Star-Lord Peter Quill promised the pirates and mercenaries loot from Thanos’s warships, prompting them to cheer and prepare to fight.
• Thor asked Stephen Strange to send the Asgard warriors to battle, and Stephen Strange said the sorcerers would portal them there when Thanos launched his ground assault.
• Steve Rogers watched Thanos’s fleet enter Earth’s magnetosphere and told his allies they could act.
• Thanos’s mothership descended through the atmosphere, and Commander Ross ordered the military to open fire.

Marshal Ross ordered a massive human artillery barrage against Thanos's mothership, and Earth launched a desperate air and ground assault. The mothership remained protected as the battle spread across New York, but Captain Marvel Carol Danvers arrived just as its main cannon aimed at the Earth United Government president's office.

• Marshal Ross ordered Western Hemisphere nations to fire their heavy cannons, and Barbados and Ecuador pierced Thanos's mothership with specialized shells without striking vital systems.
• Marshal Ross ordered an attack as Thanos's destroyers targeted the artillery bases and human fighter jets launched nuclear attacks against them.
• Thanos's forces landed in New York, where Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and ground troops fought the invaders.
• Hill sent four Helicarriers against the mothership, but its destroyers and gun ports destroyed them amid heavy losses to Earth's aircraft.
• Thanos's mothership aimed its Star Annihilator Cannon at the Earth United Government president's office, and Captain Marvel Carol Danvers arrived on the battlefield.

Captain Marvel Carol Danvers tore through Thanos’s mothership but was blasted into space by Thanos wielding three Infinity Stones. Star-Lord Peter Quill and Drax called for an attack on Thanos, while Rocket Raccoon led the arriving support fleet against the destroyers.

• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers struck the rear of Thanos’s mothership and tore through it toward the command room, destroying systems along the way.
• Thanos sensed two Infinity Stones in the Earth United Government’s Presidential Office as warnings reported the damage to his ship.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers broke into the command room and charged at Thanos, who struck her with the power of three Infinity Stones.
• Thanos blasted Captain Marvel Carol Danvers through the mothership and sent her into space.
• Star-Lord Peter Quill and Drax urged an attack on Thanos, but Rocket Raccoon led the support ships against the destroyers instead.

Thor, Loki, Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, and their forces joined Earth's desperate battle against Thanos after deciding they could not wait for He-El to appear. Their arrival reinforced Steve Rogers and the other defenders in New York as Earth's forces faced devastating losses.

• Thor urged Stephen Strange to join the fight before Thanos could fire the Star Annihilator Cannon, and Loki and Bruce Banner supported him.
• Stephen Strange agreed to lead the Kamar-Taj sorcerers into battle, while Frigga and the Asgardian warriors prepared to fight.
• Marshal Ross ordered more forces into combat and directed Earth's army to support S.H.I.E.L.D. agents against Thanos's ground troops.
• Ebony Maw blasted Steve Rogers toward exposed rebar while he fought Corvus Glaive, but Thor caught him through a portal.
• Asgardian warriors and Kamar-Taj sorcerers emerged through portals, while Crimson Giants and superpowered Warriors assembled around the battlefield.

As the battle for New York began, Earth’s heroes and their allies split up to fight the Black Order and attack Thanos’s mothership before its Star Annihilator Cannon could fire. The fighting escalated across the city and in the sky, while Thanos and He-El had yet to appear.

• Loki, Frigga, Wong, and the Asgardian army and Kamar-Taj sorcerers emerged through portals as Stephen Strange tried to reach Thanos’s mothership, but Ebony Maw blocked him.
• Steve Rogers urged Thor to lead the Asgardians and Guardians of the Galaxy against the mothership’s charging Star Annihilator Cannon, while the forces on the ground fought the Black Order’s armies.
• Thor led the pegasus knights into the aerial battle, and Stephen Strange began fighting Ebony Maw with spells and golden whips.
• Earth’s fighters, the Avengers, and the Black Order’s forces clashed across New York as skyscrapers collapsed amid explosions and smoke.
• Peter Quill urged Rocket Raccoon to take the Guardians’ ship into Thanos’s mothership, and Rocket fired a Space-Blooming Missile that the defending destroyers intercepted and destroyed.

The Guardians of the Galaxy and their allies disabled Thanos’s destroyer shield with electronic radiation and attacked his mothership. Thor and Drax the Destroyer confronted Thanos aboard it as Thanos ordered the Star Annihilator Cannon fired, even though the mothership would lose balance and crash.

• Rocket Raccoon ordered the reinforcements to bombard the destroyers after electronic radiation dust disabled their shield and systems.
• Rocket Raccoon led the Guardians of the Galaxy’s ship through a breach in Thanos’s mothership, and Thor followed inside.
• Drax the Destroyer charged toward the command room, and Thor propelled him forward before they found Thanos.
• Thanos caught Thor’s Mjolnir and restrained Drax the Destroyer, absorbing Thor’s lightning as he held them off.
• Thanos ordered the artificial intelligence to use the remaining engine energy to charge and fire the Star Annihilator Cannon despite the risk that the mothership would crash.

Thanos used the Space Stone to turn Thor’s lightning against Destroyer Drax, then struck Thor through the mothership and sent him flying toward the ionosphere. As the Star Annihilator Cannon reached only 93% charge, the mothership’s AI reported that engine damage had slowed it while the Guardians of the Galaxy flew toward the command room.

• Thanos redirected Thor’s lightning through a spatial passage and blasted Destroyer Drax through the command room into the mothership’s steel walls.
• Thor broke free, hurled Mjolnir at Thanos, and forced him to withstand a powerful blow enhanced by the Power Stone.
• Thanos used the Space Stone to appear before Thor and punched him through the command room ceiling and the mothership toward the ionosphere and magnetosphere.
• Thanos asked the mothership’s AI about the Star Annihilator Cannon’s charge and learned it had reached 93%.
• The mothership’s AI reported that the destroyed third and fourth engines had slowed charging, while the Guardians of the Galaxy flew toward the command room.

The Guardians of the Galaxy attacked Thanos aboard his mother ship, but he used the Space Stone to trap them inside a severed section of the ship and began crushing it. As the space closed around them, Drax the Destroyer sprang back into the fight and struck at Thanos’s Infinity Gauntlet.

• Star-Lord Peter Quill fired his modified blaster at Thanos while Rocket Raccoon, Groot, and Mantis prepared to support him.
• Rocket Raccoon warned Quill that Thanos would not be easily killed, and Quill planned to switch his blaster to maximum power after an initial attack.
• Thanos emerged from the smoke, sensed Mantis’s location with the Space Stone, and cut the Guardians’ section of the mother ship away from the rest.
• Thanos pulled the severed space toward the outer stratosphere and began compressing it, trapping Star-Lord Peter Quill, Mantis, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot inside.
• Drax the Destroyer leaped out from deep within the ship and swung at Thanos’s right hand and the Infinity Gauntlet.

The Guardians of the Galaxy interrupted Thanos’s attempt to trap them and fought to rescue Drax from his attack. As Drax flew back toward the fight, Thor encountered Captain Marvel Carol Danvers on his return from space.

• Drax struck Thanos’s Infinity Gauntlet, breaking the Space Stone’s hold and freeing the Guardians as a severed section of the mothership fell away.
• Thanos beat Drax down, but Star-Lord Peter Quill and Rocket Raccoon drew his attention while Groot pulled Drax to safety.
• Mantis slapped Drax awake, and Groot gave him a flight device so he could return to the fight.
• Thor encountered Captain Marvel Carol Danvers as he flew back from space.

Thor and Captain Marvel Carol Danvers joined the fight against Thanos in the mothership’s command room, where the heroes tried to restrain him and disrupt the Infinity Stones’ energy. Despite their attacks, Thanos ordered the charged Star Annihilator Cannon to fire.

• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers hurled Thor toward the mothership, and he sped into its command room with her following close behind.
• Destroyer Drax grabbed Thanos’s hand while Thor struck his Infinity Gauntlet, but Thanos’s defenses withstood their attacks and the team’s gunfire.
• Rocket Raccoon prepared a cannon to make the energy inside Thanos go berserk while Thor and Destroyer Drax held his hands.
• The mothership’s artificial intelligence announced that the Star Annihilator Cannon was charged, and Mantis failed to stop Thanos with Mind Blast.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers attacked Thanos from behind as Rocket Raccoon fired, but Thanos ordered the Star Annihilator Cannon to fire.

Steve Rogers and the Avengers left the ground battle to stop Thanos’s Star Annihilator Cannon before it could fire. They set out for the mothership in T’Challa’s Vibranium assault craft, with Stephen Strange promising support.

• Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, and Natasha Romanoff realized they had to reach the Star Annihilator Cannon while General Ross’s forces handled the Black Order on the ground.
• T’Challa joined the Avengers and left his Wakandan warriors to fight the alien soldiers.
• Steve Rogers contacted Marshal Ross, who promised that humanity’s fighters and ships would clear a route to Thanos’s mothership.
• T’Challa brought out a pen-shaped Vibranium assault craft, and Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, and T’Challa boarded it.
• Stephen Strange told Steve Rogers that he had arranged support as the craft passed his fight with Ebony Maw.

Humanity struggled to break through Thanos's destroyer blockade, and T'Challa's assault craft finally opened a path through the shields protecting the Star Annihilator Cannon. Thor and Captain Marvel Carol Danvers returned to the command room just as the cannon fired.

• Marshal Ross ordered fighter groups to attack the elite destroyer fleet shielding the Star Annihilator Cannon, but their nuclear missiles failed to break its shields.
• T'Challa's Vibranium-prowed assault craft pierced the shield after fighters bombarded it from four directions, and General Ross ordered the fighters to surge through the opening.
• Human pilots sacrificed themselves in close-range attacks on the destroyers, leaving Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, and T'Challa horrified by the losses.
• Thor entered the command room in a bolt of lightning, and Captain Marvel Carol Danvers arrived in a streak of white light.
• The Star Annihilator Cannon fired before anyone could stop it.

As Thanos's Star Annihilator Cannon fired toward Manhattan, Stephen Strange called on Wanda Maximoff to stop it with the Chaos Magic she had been saving to fight He-El. Wanda prepared to unleash the stored power as the beam streaked toward the Presidential Office Building.

• Stephen Strange fought Ebony Maw and asked Wanda Maximoff to stop Thanos's Star Annihilator Cannon.
• Pietro Maximoff carried Wanda Maximoff to the Presidential Office Building rooftop, where she questioned whether to spend her stored Chaos Magic on the cannon instead of He-El.
• Stephen Strange told Wanda Maximoff they could not risk relying on He-El to protect Earth, and she agreed to act.
• Pietro Maximoff raced away to guard Wanda Maximoff as Thanos's Star Annihilator Cannon fired toward the Presidential Office Building.

Wanda Maximoff used Chaos Magic to shield the presidential office from Thanos's Star Annihilator Cannon, enduring devastating injuries as she held it back. Pietro Maximoff rushed toward her in horror, and a huge metal hand suddenly rose from the presidential office.

• Thanos fired the Star Annihilator Cannon toward the United Nations' presidential office, leaving the battlefield and Earth's command center stunned.
• Wanda Maximoff formed a massive Chaos Magic shield around the presidential office and blocked the cannon's beam.
• The cannon's sustained impact badly injured Wanda Maximoff, but she struggled to stay conscious and maintain the shield.
• Pietro Maximoff saw Wanda Maximoff's bloody condition and rushed toward her, afraid to break her shield and kill her.
• A huge, dark metal hand rose from the presidential office.

He-El rescued Wanda Maximoff from the Star Annihilator Cannon beam and destroyed the cannon aboard Thanos's mothership with a dark matter particle beam. The chapter ended with the cannon vanishing from the sky while the heroes recognized He-El had acted.

• Wanda Maximoff exhausted herself using Chaos Magic to hold back the Star Annihilator Cannon beam and collapsed as Pietro Maximoff watched in horror.
• He-El caught the unconscious Wanda Maximoff and shielded them both from the beam with a repulsive force from his armored hand.
• He-El fired a dark matter particle beam through the Star Annihilator Cannon and pierced Thanos's mothership.
• T'Challa recognized the beam as He-El's dark matter particles, while Stephen Strange realized He-El had intervened and worried about his power.
• The Star Annihilator Cannon vanished, leaving only He-El's thread-like dark particle beam in the sky.

He-El destroyed Thanos's mothership and saved Wanda Maximoff, prompting humanity to celebrate him as its protector. Pietro Maximoff received his injured sister and thanked He-El, while Marshal Ross left Area 51 to join the battle.

• Humanity and the personnel at Area 51 cheered as He-El stopped the Star Annihilator Cannon, though they vowed to become strong enough to protect him themselves.
• Marshal Ross ordered a portal opened and went to the battlefield to fight alongside He-El, leaving the command staff to continue their preparations.
• He-El swept his dark-matter beam across Thanos's mothership, triggering explosions and cutting the vessel in half.
• Pietro Maximoff pleaded with He-El to spare Wanda, and He-El reassured him before using gravity to carry her to her brother.
• He-El told Pietro that Wanda was severely injured, and Pietro received her and thanked He-El through his tears.

Thanos repelled the heroes attacking him aboard his mothership, but a dark matter beam disabled its cannon and split the vessel apart. As the mothership exploded and fell, Thanos escaped the command room and locked eyes with He-El below.

• Thanos used the Infinity Stones to blast Captain Marvel Carol Danvers, Thor, Destroyer Drax, and Rocket Raccoon away, while Star-Lord Peter Quill caught Rocket Raccoon.
• Mantis warned the others to flee the mothership, and Groot pulled Star-Lord Peter Quill and Rocket Raccoon away as Captain Marvel Carol Danvers went to help Destroyer Drax.
• A dark matter particle beam pierced the Star Annihilator Cannon and cut through the mothership, setting off explosions that caused the vessel to break apart.
• Thanos teleported to the prow of the falling mothership and looked down at He-El, who looked back at him.

Hela arrived through the Rainbow Bridge and chose to stand with He-El, apparently giving up her connection to Asgard and the immortality it granted. Thor watched his sister abandon Asgard for He-El and burned with anger, while the Avengers recognized that Hela had made her choice.

• Hela emerged from the Rainbow Bridge beside He-El, and Steve Rogers realized something was wrong.
• Clint Barton joked about Steve Rogers's backside, while Natasha Romanoff said Hela was drawn to He-El's power and achievements.
• Stephen Strange suspected Hela had acted on her own because He-El did not need her to win.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers carried Thor and Destroyer Drax clear of the falling mothership as Thor saw Hela walk toward He-El.
• Thor realized Hela had severed her ties to Asgard and angrily condemned her for abandoning its people and followers.