Recaps

Luke established Earth’s place among the Nine Realms, confronted the Dark Elves, and built a base to direct trade and diplomacy. He gained new allies and powers while Dormammu’s threat and Stephen Strange’s coming story took shape.

• Loki named Luke ruler of Midgard, which Luke renamed Earth, and Luke subdued the Frost Giant king before offering the realms trade and warning them against threatening Earth.
• Odin formally made Luke an Outer Prince, declared Earth an ally of Asgard, and named Thor and Loki to lead Asgard’s armies and succeed him.
• Luke defeated Malekith’s forces and helped protect Asgard, while Thor destroyed the Dark Elves and Odin prepared to hunt Thanos and Surtur.
• Luke granted Galacta permission to live on Earth and hired her to help protect the planet, then extracted a Devouring Source from her Cosmic Tapeworm and created a Shadow Devourer Soldier.
• Luke seized foreign spies and military personnel, summoned representatives to an island, and established an Earth Federation with impression scores, trade plans, and access to portals.
• Luke secured Wakanda’s friendship by offering to capture Ulysses Klaue in exchange for vibranium, while Kaecilius joined Dormammu’s plan to attack the Three Sanctums.
• Luke expanded his powers by sending asteroids into the Shadow World, while Tony befriended Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers and told Luke about the injured Stephen Strange.
• Luke admitted he cared about Galacta but remained unsure how he felt, as the Ancient One planted Pangborn’s records to draw a doctor toward the mystery of his recovery.

Luke expanded Kamar-Taj’s weapons and the Nine Realms Trade Station before helping Stephen and the sorcerers resist Kaecilius’s attacks. The fight against Dormammu ended with Galactus arriving, while Galacta returned to face the remaining avatars and Luke agreed to stop extracting her devouring source.

• Luke tested enchanted weapons, produced thousands of Self-Charging Energy Crystals, and helped open a Trade Station connecting the Nine Realms.
• The Ancient One trained Stephen through astral projection, and Stephen later joined Kamar-Taj as a healer and defender.
• Kaecilius attacked the London Sanctum, killing Mordo and badly injuring Wong, whom Luke and Chinese soul specialists saved.
• Luke and the Ancient One confronted Dormammu as Tony, Stephen, Megatron, Captain Yang, and the Shadow Legion defended the remaining Sanctums from Kaecilius and the monsters pouring through his Dimensional Gate.
• Luke, the Ancient One, Tony, and Galacta fought Dormammu and the other Dimension Lords, while Luke drew Dormammu out of his Dark Dimension and depleted his source energy.
• Galactus consumed the Dimension Lords and gave Luke Dormammu’s reinforced Dark Dimension, while Galacta returned the Space Stone and the Ancient One returned the Time Stone.
• Galactus revealed that the Cosmic Tapeworms were his and Galacta’s children, so Luke agreed to stop extracting Galacta’s devouring source, and Galacta then flew off to deal with the remaining avatars.

Luke helped Johnny Blaze defeat Mephisto, rescued Happy, and aided Tony and Captain America in dismantling Hydra. He restored Mordo, secured Wakanda's vibranium trade, and ended the arc as an enormous Dark Dimension approached Earth.

• Luke realized he had complete control over Dormammu's arriving Dark Dimension, then helped the Security Council understand the threat posed by Dimensional Demon Gods.
• Luke and the Ancient One recruited Johnny Blaze and Carter to defeat Blackheart, while Luke took Hell's authority from Mephisto and Galactus consumed the Hell Dimension.
• Luke and Tony traced Happy's disappearance to AIM's island facility, rescued him, and stopped Killian's attempts to abduct Pepper and attack Tony.
• Natasha and Fury uncovered signs of Hydra's infiltration, while Rumlow betrayed Captain America during the Arctic mission and Luke's forces rescued Captain America and his allies.
• Luke told Tony that Hydra had killed Howard, and Tony joined Captain America and his allies in defeating Hydra aboard the Helicarriers and exposing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s database.
• Luke introduced Wanda and Pietro to Kamar-Taj, restored Mordo using Corvus Glaive's weapon, and demanded that Mordo work for a thousand years in return.
• Luke and Galacta captured Ulysses Klaue and delivered him to T'Chaka, who agreed to trade vibranium for access to the Trading Station.
• Luke acquired one ton of vibranium per month, tested the Samurai Soldier's abilities, and discovered that his Dimensional Demon God Form had grown stronger as the Ancient One sensed a vast Dark Dimension nearing Earth.

Luke defeated Dormammu, helped launch the vampire hunt, and began a relationship with Galacta while Tony created Ultron and gave JARVIS a living body. After Luke captured the Hand’s leaders and confronted Beast, Beast escaped toward Earth, where Captain America’s team found his victims and pursued him through a collapsing chamber.

• Luke absorbed Dormammu’s dark space into the Shadow World, while Silver Surfer encountered warships that black energy could rebuild.
• Luke backed Tony’s plan for Ultron, stopped Aili from turning Jane into a vampire, and joined the campaign to hunt vampires.
• The heroes trapped the vampires with shields and cleared their caverns, while Tony began developing modular robots and Luke helped Galacta prepare for a date.
• Luke and Galacta confessed their love and kissed at Tony’s banquet, where Tony also proposed to Pepper and Luke lifted Mjolnir.
• Tony used the AllSpark to awaken Ultron and give JARVIS a body, then discovered Doctor Zola had escaped into Hydra’s network and gave Megatron the task of training Ultron.
• Luke helped Punisher expose the Hand’s drug operation, rescued Karen with Galacta and Spider-Man, and offered Peter Parker a student sponsorship.
• Luke captured the Five Fingers and confronted Beast, but the Ancient One marked Beast and pursued him into Dimensional Space as Luke followed.
• Beast fled toward Earth and attacked Daredevil’s group, while Captain America’s team found Elektra, Iron Fist, and the children Beast had used as vessels before he escaped through cracks in a shaking chamber.