Recaps

Dane secured Asgard’s friendship, pursued the Eternals’ secrets, and intervened as Loki opened a portal for the Chitauri. The invasion devastated Manhattan, and Dane arrived in Clinton with the Mind Scepter as the Avengers sought a way to close the portal.

• Dane helped Thor defeat Laufey, restored Thor’s power by returning Mjolnir, and secured Odin’s agreement to friendly relations with Umbrella.
• Dane captured Ajak and learned Tiamut’s location, then began altering his genes to absorb cosmic energy.
• Loki stole the Cosmic Cube, escaped S.H.I.E.L.D., and opened a portal over New York for the Chitauri invasion.
• Umbrella evacuated Clinton underground while Atlas deployed its troops, and the Avengers joined the fight against the Chitauri.
• Hive possessed Thor and turned him against the Avengers as the Chitauri sent Leviathans through the portal.
• The Avengers learned Loki’s Scepter could close the portal, and Dane agreed to lend it in exchange for access to the Cosmic Cube.
• Dane arrived in Clinton with the Scepter, redirected Atlas and the Astartes, and destroyed attacking Chitauri with a giant energy palm.

Dane acquired the Mind Stone, Reality Stone, and Cosmic Cube while defeating the Chitauri, capturing the Dark Elves, and confronting Xu Wenwu. As Dane investigated the Eternals and Jessica’s powers, Nick Fury was ambushed and learned that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. from its earliest days.

• Dane destroyed the Chitauri mothership with the Cosmic Cube, burned Hive to ash, and revived Thor before taking the artifacts away.
• Dane recruited Jessica into the Avengers, welcomed Banner to Umbrella, and began exploring the Eternals’ abilities while Makkari and Druid searched for their missing companions.
• The Eternals met Grav, who revealed Skrull infiltration of American institutions, before Dane attacked and captured several of them.
• Dane developed telekinesis through the Mind Stone, while Steve’s Avengers fought Xu Wenwu and Dane killed Wenwu, reclaiming the Ten Rings.
• Dane helped Jane Foster become host to the Aether, then led Umbrella’s forces to defeat the Dark Elves and seize their surviving people and technology.
• Malekith removed the Aether from Jane, but Dane forced him to surrender it and added the Reality Stone to his collection.
• Skrull impostors posing as Natasha and Hawkeye shot Nick Fury, and Steve, Natasha, and Hawkeye set out to rescue him.
• Nick woke in an old S.H.I.E.L.D. base and learned from Arnim Zola that Hydra had been embedded in S.H.I.E.L.D. from the beginning before smashing Zola’s computer.

Dane helped bring down Hydra and pursued scientific projects while new conflicts unfolded around the Ten Rings and Wakanda. After entering the Quantum Realm to find Janet, he defeated Kang’s forces and insisted on confronting Kang despite Janet’s warnings.

• Arnim Zola revealed Hydra’s plan to use Project Insight to eliminate perceived threats, and Agent Hill alerted the Avengers that the Nick Fury at the Triskelion was a Skrull impersonator.
• Otto Octavius’s fusion experiment created a dangerous miniature sun, which Jessica shut down by smashing the console after Dane restrained Otto.
• Dane and Cortana helped the Avengers rescue Nick Fury, but Alexander and the fake Nick launched Project Insight and sent four Helicarriers into action.
• The Avengers fought Hydra as Steve exposed its infiltration, while Dane seized control of the Helicarriers and destroyed Hydra’s shipyards, facilities, and data.
• Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. were dismantled after Steve made classified files public, while Dane began developing a synthetic body and quantum brain for Cortana.
• Shangqi became leader of the Ten Rings, Xu Xialing seized influence within the organization, and the Golden Daggers captured Bucky.
• Dane entered the Quantum Realm to search for Janet, defeated attacks by Kang’s Legion, and found Janet, whom he controlled to learn about the realm.
• Janet warned Dane that Kang was killing people while searching for him, but Dane rejected her advice to hide and showed her a machine resembling Hank’s shrinking device.

Dane defeated Kang and brought Umbrella’s power to bear in the Quantum Realm, while Steve’s search for Bucky drew Wakanda into a conflict with America. As Wakanda faced invasion and formed a tentative link with Talokan, Dane learned that Thanos was hunting the Infinity Stones and the Ten Rings faced a struggle for control.

• Dane trapped Kang in the expanding Time Sphere, took it for himself, and made Kang’s industrial world Utopia the base for Umbrella’s expansion.
• Dane freed Janet and sent her home, while Steve followed Klaw’s lead into Wakanda and fought T’Challa before surrendering.
• Xu Xialing activated Bucky with Hydra’s trigger words, prompting an American invasion of Wakanda that T’Chaka placed under T’Challa’s command.
• Wakanda repelled the Marines, Erik rose to lead its border forces, and Namor offered him an alliance with Talokan.
• Okoye helped Steve leave Wakanda, and Steve and Natasha found Bucky at a Golden Daggers bunker, where he admitted Xu Xialing had controlled and framed him.
• Dane backed Sokovia’s diplomatic support for Wakanda as Erik led forces against mercenaries, Talokan warriors, and Wakandan troops clashed, and America sought United Nations backing for war.
• T’Chaka ordered T’Challa to investigate Talokan, while Thor warned Dane that Thanos was hunting the Infinity Stones and that Loki had escaped Asgard.
• Antonia located the Ten Rings’ headquarters, where Xu Xialing confronted Shangqi and he fled when her Japanese warriors moved to protect her.