Recaps

Luke captured Hive, negotiated Asgard’s wartime support, and helped repel Malekith’s Dark Elf Alliance with Xenomorphs and Light Luke. The Queen of Heaven died, and the arc ended as Light Luke unleashed the Mystic World against Malekith while Algrim emerged from the Black Stain.

• Pierce used a Reversal Crystal against the Inhumans, but Hive attacked the battlefield and infected agents before Master Mage Wang arrived and Luke’s Bifrost removed Hive.
• Luke trapped Hive with Nemegates and sealed him for research, then studied the parasites controlling S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and developed a Brood Subspecies that Quiet destroyed in a test fight.
• Thor asked Luke for help against Malekith, and Luke agreed to supply Asgard with war machines, a backup Bifrost device, and access to his Bifrost in exchange for resources and payment.
• Loki led escaped Raft prisoners in an attack on Hebron, but Luke’s forces defeated them, the Dark Warrior was cast into the Abyss, and Thor and Loki agreed to pay Luke compensation.
• Malekith recovered the Aether and ravaged Alfheim and Vanaheim, prompting Odin, Luke, Nick, Mephisto, and their allies to arrange military aid and sign agreements for the Nine Realms.
• Hogun and the Asgardians deployed Brood Subspecies eggs against the Dark Elf Alliance, and thousands of Xenomorphs attacked enemy camps as Odin and Thor confronted Malekith.
• Light Luke fought the Queen of Heaven, overcame her powers, and killed her with Holy Light Spears, ending her hold on the Divine Authority of War.
• Laufey attacked Odin as Malekith faced Light Luke, who resisted the Aether and opened a passage to the Mystic World, from which Algrim rose.

Luke and his allies dealt with the aftermath of Nidavellir’s corruption, recruited Ancient One as an Energy Bank guardian, and faced the rise of Stephen Strange as Sorcerer Supreme. Across the galaxy, Rettari’s Mech-Gods fought over the Cosmic Stone and trapped the conflict in a time-loop dimension, while Strange warned Nick Fury that New Energy was endangering the mages.

• Algrim’s return unleashed black energy across Nidavellir, corrupting angels and transforming the planet as Malekith, Odin, and others fled its destruction.
• Odin considered asking Luke to help the dwarves, while Earth’s defenders fought creatures brought by the Convergence and Hebron’s machines aided evacuations.
• Luke and Mephisto proposed charging for Abyssal Energy cleanup and storage, while Luke persuaded Odin to negotiate with the surviving angels and prepare to seal the contamination.
• Kaecilius stole the Book of Energy, summoned Dormammu, and used an Anti-Magic Field to defeat Ancient One before Strange drove Dormammu away and became Sorcerer Supreme.
• Luke rehired Ancient One as an Energy Bank guardian and planned to approach Dormammu after Abyssal Energy threatened his control of the Dark Dimension.
• Star-Lord’s team escaped Kyln Prison and reached Knowhere, where Rettari fought the Black Order, seized the Cosmic Stone, and formed a Mechanical Giant.
• Rettari’s giant devastated Knowhere and opened a Dimensional Void that trapped Ronan and others in a repeating data loop, which Captain Marvel explored before warning the gathered factions.
• Strange refused to train S.H.I.E.L.D. agents but offered work for younger mages, warned Nick Fury that New Energy could consume mages, and urged him to buy Luke’s equipment.

Luke built a multiverse trading network and brought Nightmare into a partnership, while the heroes confronted Dormammu’s Abyss and Thanos’s invasion of another universe. After the battle stranded Captain Rogers in a new world, he clashed with Batman as Scarecrow gained fear-powered abilities.

• Luke gathered Strange, Odin, Ancient One, Mephisto, and Nick Fury to propose multiverse trading posts, then arranged for Strange to recruit Nightmare as a partner.
• Nightmare accepted Luke’s plan to connect his dimension to Paradise, and Nick Fury organized a large-scale virtual game that let users generate nightmare and fear energy.
• Luke and Ancient One warned the alliance that Dormammu’s attempt to contain Abyssal Energy could spread it, then Mephisto negotiated a contract that Dormammu signed.
• Clea brought Dormammu’s request for help to the alliance, and Luke, Mephisto, and the others arranged terms to contain the Abyss.
• Strange brought Captain Rogers, Natasha, Stark, Banner, Thor, Rocket, and their companions to Luke’s world, where Luke offered to teach Stark and Banner to recreate Cosmic Stones.
• Thanos attacked the visitors’ universe, and Stark used the Data Dimension’s power to lead a prolonged battle before Luke opened a passage for reinforcements.
• The heroes defeated Thanos with the Sealing Pillar, but Captain Rogers became stranded in another universe, where he began building a signal transmitter and encountered Batman.
• Jonathan Crane gained powers from his Scarecrow mask and Fear Toxin, then attacked Batman with Poison Gas and used fear energy to overwhelm him.

Steve Rogers and Bruce Wayne confronted Gotham’s rising Emotional Energy, but the crisis widened when Thanos began collecting the Lantern Beasts. After Thanos assembled the spectrum’s power and the heroes stopped him with Barry Allen’s Stillness Force, Doomsday claimed the dangerous glove before they could decide what to do with it.

• Steve Rogers reached Wayne Manor, explained Emotional Energy to Bruce Wayne, and warned that Gotham’s corruption could empower more villains and expose Batman’s identity.
• Rogers and Bruce confronted Scarecrow, while Hal Jordan’s Green Lantern Ring arrived and joined them against Sinestro, who later deployed devices that formed a hidden Beacon Tower.
• Thanos arrived, defeated the heroes, captured Parallax, and went on to destroy Oa and take the Green Lantern Battery, prompting Bruce to organize an alliance against him.
• Hal recruited Diana, Aquaman, and Barry Allen as Thanos sent Atrocitus and the Red Lanterns to Earth, and the heroes fought them while Bruce used Tranquil Blue to suppress their rage.
• Thanos threatened to kill half of Earth’s intelligent life unless the Lantern Beast was surrendered, so the alliance attacked his fleet with the Green Lantern Corps and Lex Luthor’s Doomsday.
• Thanos defeated the heroes, took Carol Ferris’s Violet Lantern Furnace, and collected the Predator Beast, but his snap restored the fallen fighters and granted them White Lantern power.
• Barry used the Stillness Force to trap Thanos in a White Cocoon and remove the gauntlet, while the group debated its fate and Doomsday put it on before anyone could stop him.