Recaps

Nick Fury’s final letters led the Avengers to join forces with Thor, Loki, and Stephen Strange against He-El while He-El steered them toward the Infinity Stones. As the group departed for Xandar and the Power Stone, Hela appeared at He-El’s presidential office and offered him an alliance.

• Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, and Bruce Banner received Nick Fury’s letters warning them that He-El had killed him and was pursuing the Infinity Stones.
• Stephen Strange brought Wanda Maximoff and Pietro Maximoff to Asgard, where he exposed Loki disguised as Odin and learned that the real Odin had vanished with Gungnir.
• He-El ordered the Avengers to promote Earth as a Nine Realms trade hub and secretly planned to lure the psychic-wave sender into attacking.
• The Avengers met in Asgard, compared Fury’s warnings, and joined Stephen Strange, Thor, Loki, Wanda, and Pietro in opposing He-El.
• Stephen Strange showed the group visions of their original future, including Thanos’s victory and Asgard’s destruction, and they agreed to protect Asgard’s people from Hela.
• Thor and Loki proposed going to Xandar for the Power Stone, while Loki planned to impersonate Odin and delay Hela as the others departed.
• Hela fought through the guards at He-El’s presidential office, and He-El confronted her after his soldiers were injured.
• Hela told He-El she admired his ambition and offered to join him, bringing Asgard as her dowry so they could conquer the Nine Realms and expand beyond them.

Thanos attacked and devastated Xandar to claim the Power Stone, but the Avengers and Guardians nearly removed his Infinity Gauntlet before Ebony Maw intervened and Thor arrived. After Thanos escaped and turned toward Asgard, the heroes regrouped while Hela advanced on the palace and Thor confronted her.

• Hela offered to marry He-El and share his throne, but he told her she would have to earn the chance to stand beside him.
• The Guardians learned Gamora had gone with Thanos, followed a shifted Nova Corps distress signal, and headed for Xandar.
• Thanos destroyed Xandar’s defenses and led his forces in a massacre to seize the Power Stone.
• The Avengers and Guardians fought Thanos on Xandar, and Mantis briefly helped them restrain him as they tried to remove his Infinity Gauntlet.
• Ebony Maw disrupted the attempt, but Thor arrived and attacked Thanos, who then escaped with the Black Order as Xandar’s core destabilized.
• Loki gave Thanos the Space Stone in exchange for targeting He-El, while Stephen Strange showed the Guardians the future and Tony Stark urged them to join the fight.
• The Avengers returned to Earth, where a glowing figure crashed into S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Washington base, while Hela defeated Asgard’s palace guards and Thor confronted her.

He-El took the Mind Stone from Asgard and revealed that he had anticipated the heroes’ moves while preparing for Thanos. As Earth’s leaders mobilized against an alien invasion, General Ross accepted He-El’s offer to become president and backed his plans despite Steve Rogers’s warning.

• Hela defeated Thor in a public duel and claimed Asgard’s throne, while Stephen Strange and Loki rushed to contain Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos Magic.
• He-El seized the Mind Stone through the Space Bridge and arrived in Asgard, where he overpowered the others and confronted Hela about working together.
• He-El confirmed that Thanos held the Space Stone and said he would wait to take the Time Stone until he had gathered five Infinity Stones, then left Asgard as Stephen Strange evacuated the others.
• At Nick Fury’s Himalayan safe house, the heroes learned that He-El had anticipated their choices and monitored them through Tony Stark’s armor and JARVIS, so Tony destroyed the armor and JARVIS’s code.
• Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, and Steve Rogers planned defenses against both He-El and Thanos, while Steve, Clint Barton, and Natasha Romanoff brought Hill into their effort to ready S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Hill agreed to prepare S.H.I.E.L.D. for Thanos’s forces, and Steve Rogers decided to approach General Ross openly for support.
• Steve Rogers arranged a meeting with General Ross, while He-El separately offered Ross the presidency and ordered him to command Earth’s united armies against an approaching alien legion.
• Steve Rogers warned Ross that He-El intended to use Earth to lure Thanos and seize his Stones, but Ross defended He-El and revealed that he had already accepted the presidential role.

Earth’s forces and allies fought Thanos’s invasion, but his Star Annihilator Cannon threatened to destroy the presidential office until Wanda Maximoff and then He-El stopped it. As He-El faced Thanos, Hela arrived at his side, and Thor realized she had abandoned Asgard.

• Tony Stark learned Pepper Potts was pregnant, then dismantled the electronic components of his Iron Man Armors to prepare a suit He-El could not control.
• Hank Pym developed stable Pym Particles and agreed to help Tony Stark, while Hope van Dyne insisted on joining the mission to rescue her mother.
• Thor and Loki tried to persuade Hela not to join He-El, then began evacuating Asgard’s people with Frigga as Stephen Strange’s offer to lead Kamar-Taj was rejected in favor of Wong.
• Thanos’s fleet arrived at Earth, and General Ross organized evacuations and defenses as the invaders broke through the orbital weapons and landed in New York.
• Captain Marvel Carol Danvers attacked Thanos’s mothership while the Avengers, Asgardians, sorcerers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Earth’s forces fought the invasion across New York and in the air.
• Thor, the Guardians, and Captain Marvel fought Thanos aboard his mothership, while Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, and T’Challa attempted to reach the Star Annihilator Cannon.
• Wanda Maximoff shielded the presidential office from the cannon’s beam until she collapsed, and He-El caught her, destroyed the cannon, and cut Thanos’s mothership in half with a dark matter beam.
• Thanos faced He-El as the mothership fell, while Hela arrived beside He-El and Thor condemned her for abandoning Asgard and its people.