Recaps

Du Mu followed Thor to Puente Antiguo and used Hydra’s secret greeting to take Agent Sitwell’s car and wallet. When Sif and the Warriors Three arrived to bring Thor back to Asgard, they revealed that Loki had lied about Odin’s death, leaving Thor stunned.

• Coulson released Thor into Selvig’s care and assigned Du Mu to keep an eye on him.
• Du Mu recognized Sitwell as a Hydra member, used the Hydra greeting to demand his car and wallet, and drove to Puente Antiguo.
• Du Mu found Thor eating pizza with Jane and her companions, told them he was assigned to watch Thor, and joined their meal.
• Sif and the Warriors Three arrived and said they had come to take Thor back to Asgard.
• Sif explained that Odin was in the Odinsleep and that Loki had deceived Thor, who then wondered whether Loki had really killed millions of Frost Giants.

Du Mu and Thor learned that Loki was controlling the Destroyer, which attacked them in New Mexico. As the group struggled to damage the armor, BT arrived and blasted it with a Plasma Railgun, but the Destroyer remained largely intact.

• Du Mu told Thor that Loki was adopted and was the son of Laufey, King of the Frost Giants.
• After Coulson warned that an armored attacker was approaching, the system identified the Destroyer as a boss and the group went to face it.
• Thor recognized the Destroyer and insisted Loki would not hurt him, but quickly changed his mind after Du Mu suggested handing him over.
• The Destroyer blasted a crater into the road, then knocked the Warriors Three aside when their attacks failed to harm it.
• Sif pinned the Destroyer to the ground with her spear, but it turned its body and nearly hit her with an energy beam.
• BT struck the Destroyer twice with a Plasma Railgun, but its silver armor showed only scattered scorch marks.

Du Mu used a Powerful Magnet to bring Thor’s Hammer to BT, which wielded it to overpower the Destroyer. BT kept hammering the Destroyer while Thor watched in distress.

• Loki ordered the Destroyer to kill Du Mu, and Du Mu used BT to dodge its energy beam and attack it at close range.
• The Destroyer forced the Titan Greatsword from its armor and blasted BT’s shield, prompting Du Mu to seek a stronger weapon.
• Du Mu used the Powerful Magnet to draw Mjolnir to him, then had BT wield the hammer because the machine was not alive.
• BT declared itself Thor and knocked the Destroyer down with Mjolnir.
• BT pinned the Destroyer and repeatedly struck its head with Mjolnir, while Thor worried about his hammer.

Du Mu provoked Loki into unleashing the Destroyer’s full power, but BT used Thor’s Hammer to destroy it from within. Du Mu gained the Illumination spell, unlocked energy, and leveled up, while BT ended the battle by claiming to be the God of Thunder.

• Du Mu taunted Loki about being a Frost Giant and urged him to claim Jotunheim instead of Asgard.
• Loki ordered the Destroyer to attack Du Mu, and BT blocked its powerful energy beam with Thor’s Hammer.
• BT drove the hammer into the Destroyer’s open head, causing its core energy to explode and defeat it.
• Du Mu received experience, rewards, and the Illumination spell, which unlocked his energy bar, then distributed his new attribute points.
• Thor praised BT for defeating the Destroyer, and BT pointed Thor’s Hammer at him and called himself the God of Thunder.

Du Mu accompanied Thor to Asgard, where they discovered Loki had let the Frost Giants in and planned to destroy Jotunheim with the Bifrost. Thor tried to stop him, but Loki defeated Thor and the Warriors Three while Sif fought on.

• Thor asked Du Mu to have BT take Mjolnir to Asgard, and Du Mu accepted the quest.
• Thor, Du Mu, BT, and the Asgardian Warriors traveled to Asgard through the Bifrost, completing Du Mu's quest and unlocking the Asgard map.
• Heimdall told Thor that Loki had let the Frost Giants into Asgard and that they were heading for Odin's chambers.
• Loki told Thor he had killed Laufey and planned to destroy Jotunheim, but Thor tried to persuade him to stop.
• Loki blasted Thor unconscious and sent the Warriors Three flying, while Sif dodged his attacks and fought back.
• Heimdall told Du Mu that Loki had cut off Sif's beloved hair three hundred years earlier, explaining her grudge.

Du Mu fought Loki after Loki defeated several Asgardians, while Sif was knocked into a hall wall. Loki unleashed the Casket of Ancient Winters, but Thor reclaimed his hammer and regained his powers, ending the chapter with a dramatic declaration.

• Sif attacked Loki over her old grudge, but Loki used an illusion to strike her with Gungnir and send her crashing into the wall.
• Loki turned on Du Mu, who dodged his energy beam and revealed he had looted Loki’s daggers.
• Loki surrounded Du Mu with illusionary copies, but Du Mu used Fiery Eyes of Truth and blinded Loki with Illumination before defeating him in a weapon fight.
• Loki transformed into his Frost Giant form and activated the Casket of Ancient Winters, sending a spreading wave of freezing cold across the hall.
• Du Mu called BT to carry him out of the ice, while Thor’s Hammer flew to Thor and restored his wounds and divine power.
• Thor transformed in a burst of lightning and declared himself the God of Thunder, leaving Loki convinced his brother’s brain was broken.

Thor stopped Loki from destroying Jotunheim by destroying the Bifrost, leaving Du Mu stranded in Asgard for now. After Thor took Loki away to face trial, Du Mu explored Asgard and asked Sif where its treasury was.

• Loki activated the Bifrost toward Jotunheim and froze Hofund and the control pedestal, making the bridge impossible to shut down.
• Du Mu used a Powerful Magnet to disarm Loki of Gungnir, and Thor shocked Loki into submission.
• Thor and Du Mu evacuated the others before Thor smashed the Bifrost, whose energy tore open a Wormhole that swallowed the bridge and the Hall of Teleportation.
• Thor took Loki away to stand trial, while Sif gave Du Mu a pass to explore Asgard.
• Du Mu wandered through Asgard, marveling at its advanced technology and gold buildings, and asked Sif where the treasury was.

Du Mu stayed in Asgard, learned that Odin had sentenced Loki to a hundred years in the dungeon, and recovered the Casket of Ancient Winters and Gungnir before attending a feast in the Golden Palace. He left the Warriors Three passed out after they challenged him to drink from his Infinite Wine Bottle.

• Asgardian guards led Du Mu to a palace that Asgard gave him for permanent use.
• Thor told Du Mu that Odin had awakened and sentenced Loki to a hundred years in the Asgardian Dungeon.
• Thor spotted the Casket of Ancient Winters and Gungnir in Du Mu’s room and took the treasures back.
• Thor invited Du Mu to a feast in the Golden Palace, where Du Mu traveled with the Warriors Three to the banquet hall.
• The Warriors Three challenged Du Mu to a drinking contest and passed out after drinking from his Infinite Wine Bottle.

Du Mu received basic magic instruction from Frigga at the Golden Palace and learned that his natural magical talent was rare. Thor later found him and complained that his attempt to reconcile with Loki had failed, before Du Mu distracted him with food.

• Du Mu placed a teleportation anchor in Asgard and met Frigga while wandering through the Golden Palace banquet hall.
• Frigga offered to teach Du Mu magic in return for helping Thor, and Du Mu accepted.
• Frigga explained how magic energy worked and warned that people who borrowed power from Dimensional Demons had to repay it at a price.
• Frigga taught Du Mu basic magic techniques and encouraged him to develop his own path.
• Thor told Du Mu that Loki still had not admitted he was wrong, then Du Mu forced a leg of lamb into Thor's mouth.

Du Mu returned from Asgard, learned that the Hand had placed a bounty on him, and decided to claim it himself. He arrived at a Hand gathering in Hell’s Kitchen as a supposedly captured target, where the bounty hunters surrounded Murakami and Madame Gao with overwhelming firepower.

• Du Mu reported Thor and Loki’s family dispute to Nick Fury, who kept him in New York and warned him that the Hand had offered two million dollars for information or his capture.
• Du Mu checked the bounty notice and decided to earn the reward himself.
• Murakami told Madame Gao that the Hand had captured the unidentified man who had broken into its building and planned to use him as a warning to others.
• A masked bounty hunter delivered the bound Du Mu to the abandoned factory and demanded payment from Murakami.
• When Murakami’s people moved to attack, the bounty hunter summoned a dozen armed associates, including men aiming RPG Rocket Launchers at the Hand members.

Du Mu escaped Murakami and Madame Gao by exploiting the bounty on his own head with help from S.H.I.E.L.D. agents posing as masked bounty hunters. After Murakami stopped posting new bounties, Du Mu left with a 13-million-dollar reward, while the agents revealed their earlier outrage over Stark Industries had been genuine.

• Madame Gao ordered her men to retreat, and Murakami transferred money to the masked team, who left after confirming payment.
• Murakami confronted Du Mu over his identity and the stolen ledger, but Du Mu kicked him between the legs and escaped the factory.
• Murakami posted a larger bounty, and the masked team returned with Du Mu, repeating the capture whenever he escaped to claim the reward again.
• The masked men revealed they were S.H.I.E.L.D. agents hired by Du Mu, and Murakami eventually stopped posting bounties after Du Mu's reward reached 13 million dollars.
• The agents told Du Mu they had lost money on Stark Industries stock and thanked him for the work before they parted ways.

Du Mu received a mission from Nick Fury to watch over the newly thawed Captain America, Steve Rogers, until he woke up. He arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s New York branch and found Steve unconscious in a staged 1940s hospital room, where Steve's bizarre evaluation hinted at a possible Hydra connection.

• Nick Fury assigned Du Mu to guard Steve Rogers, whom S.H.I.E.L.D. had found frozen in the Arctic after nearly seventy years.
• Nick Fury asked Du Mu what he had done to Bruce Banner and Betty Ross after S.H.I.E.L.D. found them freezing and starving in Iceland, and Du Mu said he had helped them fulfill a wish.
• Coulson questioned whether Du Mu had enough clearance to guard Captain America, but Nick Fury vouched for Du Mu's strength and loyalty.
• Du Mu reached S.H.I.E.L.D.'s New York branch and saw Steve lying unconscious in a hospital room designed to resemble the 1940s.
• Du Mu read Steve's evaluation, which included the phrase "Hail Hydra," and wondered whether Captain America was secretly Captain Hydra.

After waking from a seventy-year coma, Steve Rogers mistook S.H.I.E.L.D. for Hydra and fought Du Mu before Nick Fury explained what had happened. Steve accepted that the world had changed, but remained disoriented by his new life.

• Du Mu returned to Steve's World after learning Steve was about to wake up.
• Steve escaped the staged setting and attacked the agents, but Du Mu blocked the exit and fought him off.
• Steve called Du Mu an evil Hydra member, while S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrived and cut off his escape.
• Nick Fury introduced himself as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s director and explained that Steve had slept for nearly seventy years.
• Nick Fury showed Steve the changed world, and Steve believed the explanation but looked dejected.
• Du Mu tried to comfort Steve by joking that waking up to a Black boss was hard to accept, irritating Nick Fury.

After Steve learned how much had changed while he was frozen, Du Mu took him on a tour of the 21st century and brought him to the Captain America Memorial Hall. Steve left the visit more embarrassed and unsettled when Peter mistook an old magazine for evidence of Steve’s private habits.

• Nick Fury assigned Du Mu to show Steve around the 21st century and keep an eye on him.
• Du Mu told Steve that Peggy had married and grown old, and that Steve’s former home had become part of a memorial hall.
• Du Mu drove Steve around and explained modern American culture while Steve talked about Bucky and how he had sacrificed himself to stop Red Skull’s plane.
• Du Mu took Steve to the Captain America Memorial Hall, where Steve objected to an exhibit claiming traces of him remained on Bucky’s magazine.
• Peter arrived to research Captain America for a school report and photographed the magazine, believing Steve had used it.

Du Mu advised Peter to tell Mary Jane that he was Spider-Man, while Steve explored modern New York and learned about his embarrassing wartime publicity career. After seeing Spider-Man stop a shootout, Steve declined a night out, and Du Mu arranged a place for him to stay using S.H.I.E.L.D. funds.

• Peter told Du Mu that Mary Jane was dating his best friend, Harry Osborn, and asked for advice about revealing his secret identity.
• Du Mu urged Peter to come clean, and Peter decided he wanted Mary Jane to love Peter Parker rather than only Spider-Man.
• Steve and Du Mu saw exhibits about Steve’s wartime performances, including the tight uniform that had drawn crowds to see him.
• Du Mu drove Steve around New York, where Steve tried to help during a shootout before Spider-Man swiftly subdued the robbers.
• Steve refused Du Mu’s offer to show him New York nightlife, so Du Mu arranged a place for him to stay using S.H.I.E.L.D. funds.

Du Mu received a mission from Nick Fury to apprehend Norman Osborn as the Green Goblin. Meanwhile, the Green Goblin abducted Mary Jane and forced Peter to choose between saving her and rescuing a gondola full of children on the Queensboro Bridge.

• Steve declined Nick Fury’s invitation to join S.H.I.E.L.D., and Nick arranged a place for him to stay in Brooklyn.
• Du Mu completed the Veteran’s Return mission and received a blood-stained pencil as a reward.
• Nick Fury assigned Du Mu the mission of apprehending Norman Osborn, whom S.H.I.E.L.D. suspected was the Green Goblin.
• Peter called Mary Jane to tell her the truth, but the Green Goblin answered and revealed that he had kidnapped her.
• The Green Goblin held Mary Jane over the Queensboro Bridge while a gondola full of children hung from a snapped cable, forcing Peter to choose whom to save.

Du Mu intervened when the Green Goblin attacked Peter on the Queensboro Bridge, appearing in matching Osborn Group armor and challenging the Green Goblin to an aerial fight. While Peter remained trapped beneath the bridge with Mary Jane and the children, Du Mu used magic-powered bullets to wound the Green Goblin.

• Peter saved Mary Jane and stopped the cable car from falling, but the Green Goblin attacked him while he hung helplessly in midair.
• Du Mu arrived in a copy of the Green Goblin's armor and glider, then identified himself as the Green Goblin.
• The Green Goblin recognized Du Mu as the thief who had stolen equipment from the Osborn Group and attacked him with bullets and missiles.
• Du Mu dodged the Green Goblin's attacks and destroyed the tracking Pumpkin Bombs with his Golden Desert Eagles.
• Du Mu shot through the Green Goblin's armor and told him the bullets worked by magic, while Peter remained stuck beneath the bridge.

Du Mu confronted the Green Goblin on the Queensboro Bridge, rejected his offer to team up, and defeated him. He left with the unconscious Green Goblin on the glider while the crowd cheered and mistook Du Mu for a new Hobgoblin.

• Du Mu revealed himself to the Green Goblin, who recognized him as Dr. Doom and accused him of stealing from the Osborn Group.
• Norman briefly regained control and raged at Du Mu, but the Green Goblin took over again and offered to join forces against Spider-Man.
• Du Mu refused the Green Goblin's offer, and the Green Goblin charged him on his glider.
• Du Mu shot the Green Goblin, knocked him off the glider with a Muay Thai elbow, and pinned him on the bridge.
• The Green Goblin threatened the crowd, but Du Mu grazed his head with a shot and knocked him unconscious with the armor's knockout gas.
• Du Mu flew away with the Green Goblin on the glider as the crowd cheered and Peter remained hanging nearby.

After defeating the Green Goblin, Du Mu claimed a Gantz Suit and traveled to Asgard to find a worthy opponent for testing its power. Thor took him to the Gladiator Arena, where Du Mu spotted Volstagg fighting as Fandral and Hogun cheered him on.

• Du Mu completed the Evil Goblin mission, received a Gantz Suit and other rewards, and tested the suit's strength-enhancing effect.
• Du Mu decided to seek a strong opponent and teleported back to his palace in Asgard.
• Thor found Du Mu and, after hearing he wanted an opponent weaker than Thor, suggested the Gladiator Arena.
• Du Mu followed Thor to the arena on his glider and saw Volstagg fighting while Fandral and Hogun cheered from the stands.

Du Mu entered Asgard’s Gladiator Arena and quickly climbed the rankings by defeating Asgardian fighters and taking their gear. Thor asked him to help contact Jane on Earth, but his video message mostly discussed Loki, leaving Jane’s situation unresolved.

• Thor explained the Gladiator Arena’s rules, and Du Mu signed up after learning that only melee weapons were allowed.
• Du Mu defeated Skurge in his first match, took his battle-axe, and went on to win several more matches while claiming his opponents’ equipment.
• Du Mu traveled between Earth and Asgard to complete missions and fight in the arena, earning a reputation that made some fighters surrender rather than risk being publicly stripped.
• Thor asked whether Du Mu could teleport someone with him, then explained that he wanted to return to Jane on Earth but could not because the Bifrost was destroyed.
• Du Mu offered to deliver a video message, and Thor recorded one that focused largely on his troubles with Loki instead of asking Jane how she was.

Du Mu defeated Asgard’s top Gladiator Arena fighters, including Sif, and claimed the championship. After winning ten consecutive matches, he received a piece of Uru Metal from Odin.

• Du Mu defeated Fandral and Hogun, who used unfamiliar weapons to avoid surrendering the ones they treasured.
• Du Mu beat Volstagg and then overpowered Sif, who surrendered to avoid being struck again.
• Sif announced that Du Mu had to win ten matches in a row to earn the King of Gods’ reward and a place on the Monument of History.
• Du Mu secured ten consecutive victories and became the newest champion of the Asgardian Gladiator Arena.
• Odin sent Du Mu an ornate box containing a piece of Uru Metal.

Du Mu learned how to use the Uru Metal but chose to save it, then accepted Frigga’s quest to keep Thor in the Healing Hall after Loki escaped. He incapacitated Thor with A-Miao’s Dark Matter dish and received two items, including the mysterious Spoon Killer.

• Du Mu received Uru Metal from Thor’s father and decided to save it for future equipment.
• Du Mu learned that Loki had escaped the dungeon after stabbing Thor, and he went to the Healing Hall.
• Frigga asked Du Mu to persuade Thor to stay and recover, giving him a quest.
• Thor told Du Mu that Loki had tricked him with an illusion while pretending to repent, then tried to leave and pursue him.
• Du Mu fed Thor A-Miao’s Dark Matter dish, causing Thor to collapse and completing the quest.
• Du Mu received the Spoon Killer and a Chicken Leg as rewards.

Du Mu returned to Earth and visited Stark Tower in a disguise, where rumors of Stane’s ghost caused a stir. He met Gwen Stacy, learned she had been fired from the Osborn Group after he disappeared, and arranged for her to guide him to Midtown High School.

• After learning Loki had escaped Asgard and could not be tracked, Thor grew despondent, and Du Mu teleported back to Earth.
• Du Mu hot-wired a car, drove to Stark Tower, put on his Stane disguise, and wandered through the building using Tony Stark’s access card.
• Stark Industries employees panicked at seeing Stane, so Tony called Du Mu and told him to remove the disguise and accept a guide from Pepper Potts.
• Du Mu discovered that his guide was Gwen Stacy, who explained that Norman Osborn had fired her after Du Mu disappeared from the Osborn Group.
• Du Mu learned Gwen attended Midtown High School and asked her to guide him there; after he arranged ten times her usual pay and a research internship, Gwen agreed.

Du Mu activated Midtown High School’s fast-travel point and learned that Harry Osborn suspected the Green Goblin of stealing the Osborn Group’s research. Harry revealed that one Green Goblin was his father, while the other was the suspected thief, leaving Du Mu startled by the mistaken accusation.

• Du Mu and Gwen explored Midtown High School, where Du Mu activated its map point.
• Du Mu spotted Peter with Harry Osborn and heard that Peter’s friend was tangled in a complicated romance involving two identities.
• Harry apologized to Gwen for her firing after an Osborn Group researcher and research results went missing.
• Harry said Norman Osborn was one of the Green Goblins seen at the Queensboro Bridge, while the other was the real thief.
• When Gwen asked who stole the research, Harry accused the Green Goblin, and Du Mu reacted in surprise.

Harry concluded that his missing father had become Hobgoblin to stop the Green Goblin, while Du Mu knew his theory was wrong. When Doctor Lizard attacked Midtown High and charged at Peter’s group, Du Mu knocked him down with one powerful knee and stayed behind to face him.

• Harry claimed Hobgoblin was his father and said he suspected the Green Goblin had harmed him.
• Harry grew angry at the Green Goblin, while Du Mu tried to calm and comfort him.
• Doctor Lizard, identified as Curt Connors, burst through a restroom wall and sent students and staff fleeing.
• Doctor Lizard charged at Peter’s group, and Peter prepared to act without exposing his Spider-Man identity.
• Du Mu struck Doctor Lizard with a powerful knee, knocking him down and surprising Peter, Gwen, and Harry.
• Du Mu told the others to leave and said he would handle Doctor Lizard, raising Gwen’s, Peter’s, and Harry’s affection scores.