Recaps

Dilos helped stop the poisoned-fog attack on Gotham, then trained the Superpowered Guard Team as public debate over Mutants intensified. After footage from Smallville sparked protests and a hearing for Smith, Dilos prepared to argue for Mutant rights himself.

• Dilos gave Selene spatial rings for carrying dragons, then visited Smallville with Qin Jiayin and trained Clark in martial arts and vital energy.
• Cassandra warned Dilos that danger and loss lay ahead, and Dilos agreed to help Sam Lane in exchange for support on Mutant legislation.
• Dilos rescued Tony Stark from Obadiah Stane, then went to Gotham and destroyed the microwave emitter spreading poisoned fog.
• Dilos released antidote across Gotham, killed Joker through his own accomplices, and helped S.H.I.E.L.D. and Batman’s allies combat the League of Assassins and other criminals.
• Qin Jiayin and the Superpowered Guard Team rescued victims across Gotham while Dilos shut down a reservoir and drew the remaining poisonous fog out of the city.
• Dilos and his team gained public attention for their rescues, then trained in gravity chambers as Dilos’s strength and the team’s martial arts improved.
• Videos of Dilos in a Smallville crater fueled anti-Mutant protests, and Dilos offered to take Smith’s place at a hearing to demand fair rights for Mutants.

Dilos exposed the persecution of mutants at the Capitol hearing and won widespread support for their rights. As Megatron plotted to seize the Tesseract and Dilos uncovered Kryptonian history, Dilos developed a powerful biofield and headed to confront Hulk.

• Dilos found Kara Zor-El inside a Kryptonian spacecraft and learned from its message that she had been sent to Earth as a child.
• Dilos upgraded Thundercracker with the AllSpark and Vibranium, then broke through his own limits alongside Qin Jiayin before they attended the Capitol hearing together.
• At the hearing, Dilos challenged the accusations against mutants, demonstrated his power, and exposed evidence of deadly experiments, including William Stryker’s experiments on his son Jason.
• Dilos’s speech won the audience’s support and transformed public opinion, while Megatron identified Dilos as an obstacle to his planned conquest of Earth.
• Dilos tracked down Dek-Sel and learned that Jor-El’s experiments and political control had helped bring about Krypton’s civil war and destruction.
• Dilos studied Kryptonian technology and developed a biofield that let him fly at extreme speeds and dramatically amplify his strength.
• After testing his powers over the Pacific, Dilos learned that Hulk was fighting the military at Culver University and chose to confront him alone.

Dilos destroyed Hulk’s independent consciousness, then developed a soul and learned to return it safely to his body with the Ancient One’s help. After treating her dark-energy corruption, he began a dangerous genetic enhancement that ended with him confronting a newly born parasitic consciousness.

• Dilos defeated Hulk by cutting apart Hulk’s consciousness, whose fragments Bruce Banner absorbed as Hulk died and Banner was reborn.
• Dilos offered Bruce Banner and Betty Ross research positions and a way to keep Banner’s mutated genes dormant, then set them up in a laboratory.
• Dilos and Dr. Connors developed a new enhancement serum, while Piotr’s progress and the creation of the Department of Mutant Affairs advanced Dilos’s wider plans.
• Dilos strengthened his consciousness until it became a powerful golden soul, then met the Ancient One after his soul emerged from his body.
• Dilos followed the Ancient One’s guidance to compress his soul and reunite it with his body, then visited Kamar-Taj and helped her eradicate the dark energy corroding her.
• Dilos and Dr. Connors prepared and administered the new serum, sealing Dilos inside a black cocoon as foreign genes began altering him.
• As Dilos endured days of bodily reconstruction, he gained new control over radiation and energy, entered a strange inner world, and faced an identical newly born parasitic consciousness.

Dilos strengthened his body and powers, helped contain the Phoenix Force within Jean, and expanded his influence through new technology and the Hope Solution. The arc left Tony considering Dilos’s vision for changing the world after receiving plans for an improved Arc Reactor.

• Dilos rewrote and strengthened his genes, escaped his cocoon, and tested his new abilities, including a Refined Gold form capable of immense strength.
• Dilos discovered the Phoenix Force was worsening the cracks in Dark Phoenix’s restraints, then worked with Charles and Ancient One to seal the fragment and destroy Dark Phoenix’s consciousness.
• Dilos built an artificial sun and used its energy to temper his body and soul, greatly increasing his strength and gaining new control over cellular energy.
• Dilos and Bruce and Betty introduced the Hope Solution, which spread widely, earned Dilos enormous revenue, and improved public opinion of him and Mutants.
• Dilos recruited Skye for the Mutant Affairs Department after exposing Miles’s sale of mutant information, and he treated altered humans including Mike Peterson.
• Dilos offered Tony a modified Arc Reactor to address his palladium poisoning and left him plans for an improved version after urging him to help reform the world’s culture, laws, and beliefs.