Recaps

Richard helped Kamar-Taj trap Dormammu, then captured Blackheart and forced Mephisto to return Sara and Lucas Kaecilius’s souls. The arc left Richard planning to attack the Dark and Hell Dimensions and unite HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D. against alien threats.

• Richard entered the abandoned Crimson Dimension, became its master, and helped The Ancient One and Kaecilius seal the rift Dormammu had opened.
• Richard defended The Ancient One’s use of the Dark Force, and Mordo accepted her sacrifice while Natasha broke with Nick Fury over Dreykov.
• Richard recruited John Garrett and Professor Jennings into his group after exposing Grant Ward’s failed undercover mission.
• Richard and the sorcerers trapped Dormammu, destroyed three hidden clones, and captured a cleansed avatar before Richard expanded the Crimson Dimension.
• Richard recruited Johnny Blaze and Carter Slade, then lured Blackheart to Venganza and captured him after Johnny used the Penance Stare.
• Richard brought Blackheart into the Dimensional Void and forced Mephisto to trade Sara and Lucas Kaecilius’s souls for his son.
• The Ancient One secured Sara and Lucas’s souls, while Richard revealed he had kept a Blackheart avatar and planned campaigns against the Dark and Hell Dimensions.
• Richard planned to unite HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D. against alien forces just as the White Queen told him Tony Stark was calling.

Richard confronted threats on Earth, exposed Skrull infiltration, and rescued the Barton family before leaving to pursue his alter egos across other worlds. After surviving a bioengineered apocalypse and dismantling the Assassin Brotherhood’s corrupt leadership, he befriended beings on the Source Planet of Life and continued his journey.

• Richard tested Tony Stark’s Anti-Richard Armor, warned him about the dangers of disrupting sorcerers’ energy, and agreed to introduce him to young recruits.
• Richard gathered his followers with Tony, exposed the HYDRA connections of their enemies, and learned that agents posing as FBI personnel had seized his laboratory.
• Richard killed a Skrull impersonating Captain Steven and revealed to Tony and his guests that millions of Skrulls lived among humans, prompting Tony to begin work on a detector.
• Richard and Natasha confronted Clint about Laura, discovered that the Skrull Avina had replaced her, and rescued Laura from captivity in Lima before bringing the Barton family to the Red Room.
• Richard departed Earth and found his alter ego fused with a dead tree, then saved Levi and Delassa from monsters and helped them destroy the canyon’s signal towers and nuclear research facility.
• Richard secured a virus sample and traveled to another world, where he killed his alter ego Richard Bledsoe and confronted the Assassin Brotherhood, killing Sloan after learning how he had corrupted it.
• Richard let Wesley return to his world after exposing Sloan’s crimes, while Wesley shot Mary and Barry before leaving his apartment.
• Richard met Grandpa Tree and Feny on the Source Planet of Life, received a fruit that let him speak with local life, and left through a portal to seek another alter ego’s spirituality.

Richard and Old Li freed Source Star from the Thing of Ultimate Evil and forged a Human Sovereign Banner from its lingering spirits. Back on Earth, Richard rescued Vivian, learned of Skrull infiltration through Maria Hill, and placed her in command of the Red Room.

• Richard and Old Li revealed their past and devised a planet-wide Purification Array to free Source Star from the sealed evil.
• At the Centennial Spirit Festival, the beast clans sacrificed lives to reinforce the seal, and Richard rescued Old Tree’s remnant soul as he and Old Li won the clans’ support.
• Richard and Old Li activated the array, purified the Thing of Ultimate Evil, and liberated Source Star with help from its lingering spirits.
• Richard and Old Li forged a Human Sovereign Banner, then Richard returned to Earth and found Richard Mac murdered at Behemoth Manor.
• Richard protected Vivian from Blut’s threats as Duncan accepted a mission, killed Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, and turned against the company that had sent him.
• Duncan killed Hild and Alexei during the hotel attack, while Richard destroyed their helicopter and took Vivian to the Sky Fortress.
• Richard learned from Tony Stark that Skrulls had infiltrated Earth, then Maria Hill sought his help after suspecting Nick Fury had been replaced.
• Richard told Maria about the Skrull threat and appointed her commander of the Red Room, with Melina leading research and Natasha and Hawkeye forming combat squads.

Richard consolidated his Crimson believers, rescued and transformed the Widows, and helped Tony take in Wanda and Pietro as the Skrull conflict escalated. He then traveled to Source Star to clear its dungeons and bosses, freeing the Mother of Source Star, but discovered that he and Clone No. 1 could not log off before the world restarted.

• Richard expanded the Red Room and began building the Crimson Believer Conversion Pool, while Adele defied Baron Strucker’s betrothal decree and joined Shay and Kenneth in a plan to capture him.
• Shay and Kenneth helped Adele seize Baron Strucker, and Grant Ward’s team rescued Wanda and Pietro from his research base as Richard transformed three Golden-Haired Giant Apes into his followers.
• Richard rescued Christine, Vivian, Hawkeye, and the injured Widows from Skrull attacks, then used the conversion pool to heal and transform nine captives into Crimson believers.
• Richard met Wanda and Pietro, learned they blamed Tony Stark for their parents’ deaths, and sent them to Tony, who considered adopting them.
• Talos failed to stop Kinsley and Gravik from turning against Earth, while Nick Fury exposed Skrull spies within S.H.I.E.L.D. and forced them to retreat.
• Old Li arrived at Kamar-Taj and explained that the Source Star had been swallowed and its people transformed, prompting Richard to travel there and help the Mother of Source Star break the world’s connection to the Illusory World.
• Richard and his clones gained powerful abilities, cleared dungeons and field bosses, and defeated the Giant Whale King, who asked Richard to uncover the Source Star’s secret.
• The system announced that Richard and Clone No. 1 had cleared the game world and would restart it, but they could not find a way to log off as the Mother of Source Star declared herself free.