Recaps

Ben returned to New York, built Primus Technology, and faced the consequences of secretly poisoning Stromm while Peter fought Kingpin’s forces. As Ben pursued a deal with Tony Stark and prepared Primus for the Stark Expo, Ivan Vanko seized control of Hammer Industries’ robots and Rhodey’s armor, leaving Peter and others fighting to protect the crowd.

• Ben returned to New York, helped Peter defeat Stromm, and secretly planted a neurotoxin disc in him before sending Peter to expose the Green Goblin’s capture.
• Ben expanded Primus Technology and prepared a levitating car for the Stark Expo, while Peter and Daredevil fought Kingpin’s forces during Stromm’s courthouse escape.
• Peter refused to activate the controller Benny gave him, but Benny later triggered the hidden toxin himself, and Stromm died in Kingpin’s custody.
• Ben gave Tony Stark Corrodium to replace the palladium poisoning him, then refused Nick Fury’s invitation to join the Avengers and asked him for the Cosmic Cube.
• Ben and Norman joined forces to acquire Hammer Industries, while Peter attended the Stark Expo with Gwen and Benny brought Felicia to Primus’s protected pavilion.
• Ivan Vanko took control of Rhodey’s Iron Patriot armor and Hammer’s robots, and Peter, Ben, Harry, Tony, and Steve moved to protect the panicked crowd.

Ben formed the Galactic Plumbers with Peter and Harry, then worked with Nick Fury, Steve Rogers, and Tony Stark to expose Hydra inside S.H.I.E.L.D. The arc left Steve and Peter attacking a Hydra base while Ben prepared to bring Hydra down and build a human-led replacement for S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Ben and Peter stopped Kraven and his allies from using them to lure out Spider-Man, but Ben killed Kraven and urged Peter to accept that villains had to face consequences.
• Ben revealed his alien transformations and founded the Galactic Plumbers, appointing Peter and Harry as junior members.
• Nick Fury told Peter that Hydra had killed his parents and tried to recruit him into the Avengers, but Peter chose to focus on helping people in New York.
• Ben, Peter, and Harry agreed to make Hydra their first Earth mission, and Ben warned Nick Fury that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Ben showed Steve that Hydra had spread through S.H.I.E.L.D. and told him Bucky was alive and had killed Howard Stark as the Winter Soldier.
• Ben recruited Tony to help expose Hydra and revealed his plan to use Project Insight and upgraded Helicarriers against Hydra, alarming Tony with the scale of his power.
• Ben and Tony launched a cyberattack that let Steve uncover Hydra evidence, while Nick Fury assembled the Avengers and Steve took Peter to attack a Hydra base.
• Peter and Steve breached the base as Ben infected the Helicarrier control system, then Ben told Norman that S.H.I.E.L.D. should fall with Hydra and proposed H.A.M.M.E.R. as a model for a replacement.

Ben and the Avengers exposed Hydra’s takeover of S.H.I.E.L.D. and defeated Pierce’s forces, leading Norman to establish H.A.M.M.E.R. Ben then prepared Earth for the approaching Chitauri while Loki reunited with a destitute Thor and Kingpin targeted Walter Hardy.

• Ben captured the Winter Soldier and helped Steve reject Pierce’s attempt to recruit him, while Hydra branded the heroes traitors and attacked them.
• Ben rescued the detained Avengers, and Tony learned that Bucky had killed his parents while under Hydra’s control.
• Pierce unleashed Hulk against the fugitives, but Ben defeated him and recruited Bruce Banner to help fight Hydra.
• Ben exposed Pierce and Project Insight, and Norman joined the heroes as they rallied against Hydra’s attack on New York.
• Ben took control of the helicarriers, and the heroes’ allies and Iron Warriors forced Hydra’s agents to surrender.
• Norman became director of H.A.M.M.E.R., while Ben took the Tesseract and failed to reach an agreement with Alien X’s personalities.
• Loki warned Ben that the Chitauri were coming, and Ben began preparations for Earth’s defense while helping Walter Hardy reunite with Felicia.
• Loki found Thor near death and took him to a hospital, while Kingpin ordered his gang to kidnap Walter Hardy.

Felicia took Kingpin’s place as the Black Cat Queen while Ben and the Avengers prepared for the Chitauri invasion. The battle ended with the War Lord defeated, Loki transformed by Mjolnir, and Ben arriving in Jotunheim as Looma faced the Black Order.

• Connors and Banner developed an improved Super Soldier Serum, and Felicia used it to defeat Kingpin’s gang before teaming up with Benny to take Kingpin down and claim his territory.
• Ben helped Felicia defeat Kingpin and presented her to the criminal underworld as the Black Cat Queen while the Avengers struggled to contain the ensuing gang war.
• Ben captured Venom, learned that the Chitauri invasion was days away, and worked with Tony and H.A.M.M.E.R. to prepare Earth’s defenses as the Avengers launched into space.
• Loki warned Ben that activating the Planetary Shield would spring Thanos’s trap, but later activated it to destroy a Chitauri Beast before the Black Order captured him.
• The War Lord crashed into Manhattan, where the heroes fought him until Hulk killed him, while Loki became Thor Loki after Mjolnir answered him.
• Loki defeated Ebony Maw with Mjolnir, while Looma fought Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive on Jotunheim and revealed that the Black Order intended to kill Ben.
• Ben appeared behind Corvus Glaive as Looma welcomed him, while Loki returned to Earth and tried to restrain Hulk with Mjolnir and help from the green Symbiote.