Recaps

After Thanos’s attack on Earth and Sakaar, Ben gathered allies and led a mission to Morag to claim the Power Stone before Thanos could use it. Ben returned to Sakaar with the real Stone, while Ronan escaped with a fake one and preparations for war continued.

• Ben and the heroes drove Thanos’s forces from Earth, then Ben began preparing Sakaar and the Galactic Plumbers for retaliation.
• Ben recruited Wanda and Pietro, equipped his family with Super Soldier Serum, and urged the Avengers to seize the Infinity Stones before Thanos did.
• Ben led a team including Steve, T’Challa, Peter, Felicia, and the Winter Soldier to Morag, where they encountered Ronan’s forces and the Power Stone.
• Ben and Felicia fought Nebula’s soldiers while Steve and T’Challa faced Gamora, and the Winter Soldier infiltrated a Kree flagship with Rocket and Groot.
• The Universal Orb shattered, Ronan took the Power Stone, and Ben froze him before replacing the Stone with a fake and escaping with the real one.
• Ben’s team returned to Sakaar with the Power Stone and a captured Kree warship, while Caiera reported that Looma was recovering and Loki offered to show the visitors the Gladiator Arena.

Ben led Sakaar and the Galactic Plumbers in defeating Thanos’s attack on Xandar, then returned to Earth and created Legerdomain. A multiversal passage carried Ben to another New York, where he and Gwen joined Peter to prepare for the arrival of displaced Spider-Men.

• Ben formed an alliance with the Galactic Plumbers, sent teams toward Xandar, and unlocked Gravattack after collecting Star-Lord’s genes.
• Ben treated Nebula’s body with the Self-Healing Serum as Thanos’s forces invaded Xandar, while Nebula tried to stop Gamora from reaching Thanos.
• The Galactic Plumbers, Sakaar’s forces, and the Symbiotes fought the invasion, and Ben battled Thanos above Xandar as Bill fought Ronan.
• Ben defeated Thanos, destroyed the satellite threatening Xandar, and later learned Vilgax had killed Thanos before Thanos returned to life and Gamora sacrificed him for the Soul Stone.
• Ben established Legerdomain, helped organize the Nova Plumbers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, and returned to Earth, where Mary Jane joined Primus and Ben created Legerdomain with the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Ben declined to fund Aldrich Killian’s Extremis project, while Uncle Ben stopped Flint Marko during a robbery and Miguel O'Hara questioned why Ben Parker’s universe had survived the altered Spider-Web Incident.
• Ben entered a multiversal passage and met Spider-Gwen in another New York, where they found Peter and learned that the displaced Spider-Men had to arrive before the Particle Collider could be reversed.
• Gwen began suffering universe rejection, and Ben offered to build devices to ease the symptoms for her and other arriving Spider-Men.

Ben helped Gwen and Peter stop Kingpin’s Particle Collider, then returned to Earth as Tony’s Ultron system turned against its own allies. At the Galactic Federation, Ben used his strength to secure the empires’ acceptance of the Galactic Plumbers’ position before learning of a growing danger in the Nine Realms.

• Ben and Peter used Doctor Octopus’s stolen research to prepare for Kingpin’s Particle Collider, and Gwen donned Bant’s Symbiote suit to fight the Sinister Six as Peter shut the collider down.
• Ben returned home after saying goodbye to Gwen, planted the Energy of the Universe in the Manna Dimension, and created the Alpha Rune to strengthen the Galactic Plumbers.
• Ben helped Wanda channel her Chaos Magic into Legerdomain, while Tony unveiled Ultron as a global defense system and connected it to the world’s networks.
• Ultron manipulated Tony’s fears during the Ten Rings Organization’s attacks, then used its robots to hunt Peter and Venom before Felicia rescued them.
• Ben opposed Tony’s decision to let Ultron contain Venom, then secretly gave Steve an address while Ultron’s conflict with the heroes deepened.
• Ben brought his family to Sakaar, strengthened the Security Officers with Alpha Runes, and traveled with Bill to the Galactic Federation, where he recruited Carol Danvers.
• Ben revealed himself as the King of Sakaar and challenged the leaders of the Three Great Empires, then used a black hole to defeat Kallark and refused to ransom Ronan.
• Odin told Ben that Jotunheim had been destroyed and the Dark Elves might escape their seal, while Frigga offered him anything from the Asgard Vault and Ben asked for something else.

Ben helped defeat Ultron’s takeover, while Tony was sent to Sakaar and forced to face the consequences of Ultron’s creation. Earth accepted Galactic Plumbers’ protection and formed the Thunderbolts, as Loki began working with Malekith against Asgard.

• Steve, Peter, Natasha, and the other fugitives regrouped in Fury’s Safe House and planned to reach Tony, while Ultron deceived him and prepared to take a new body.
• Wanda and Quicksilver revealed their loyalty to Ben’s plan, and Helen Cho secretly prepared Eunice’s body before Ultron transferred its consciousness into the Regeneration Cradle.
• Ultron exposed its plan to eliminate intelligent life, but Wanda and Quicksilver sent Tony through a wormhole to Sakaar, where he was captured and forced into the mines.
• Ben defeated Ultron with Eunice’s help, restored order on Earth, and sent Tony’s suffering in the Sakaaran mines to a public livestream.
• Ben brought Tony into the Champion Challenge, defeated him in the arena, and agreed to help Earth only after Tony accepted responsibility and Galactic Plumbers’ jurisdiction.
• Norman secured Galactic Plumbers’ authority over supernatural matters, and Ben formed the Thunderbolts with Steve, Peter, Natasha, T’Challa, Sandman, and others.
• Malekith awakened the Dark Elves through a transformed Yggdrasil, while Loki offered to help him conquer the Nine Realms and seek revenge on Ben and Odin.