Recaps

Lu Qi established Earth’s place among the Nine Realms, built an Earth Federation, and recruited Galacta to help protect the planet. As he expanded his powers and prepared for threats like Dormammu, his ties to Galacta and Kamar-Taj deepened, while the story pointed toward Stephen Strange’s future.

• Loki named Lu Qi Earth’s representative and new Lord of the Nine Realms, and Lu Qi asserted Midgard’s independence before the other rulers.
• Odin made Lu Qi Asgard’s Outer Prince, appointed Loki his successor, and gave Earth a route to trade with the Nine Realms through spatial rifts.
• Lu Qi and Thor fought off Malekith’s attack on Asgard, and Lu Qi later helped defeat Malekith and his Cursed Warrior before agreeing to help Odin pursue larger threats.
• Lu Qi allowed Galacta to stay on Earth, learned that she had been protecting it from extradimensional threats, and hired her to help defend the planet in exchange for food and Dark Energy Crystals.
• Lu Qi captured agents and military officers spying on him, then announced an Earth Federation that would reward or penalize countries and connect the planet to interrealm trade routes.
• Lu Qi met with T’Chaka and Okoye, offered to capture Ulysses Klaue in exchange for Wakanda’s friendship, and sought a steady supply of Vibranium.
• Lu Qi unlocked the Shadow Devourer Soldier, worked with Kamar-Taj on magical weapons, and learned that Kaecilius had summoned Dormammu, who ordered him to seek Lu Qi’s dimension.
• Lu Qi harvested asteroids into the Shadow World, then brought Galacta to Kamar-Taj, where he admitted to Tony that he cared about her and learned about Stephen Strange’s injured hands.

Lu Qi and Earth’s allies fought Kaecilius’s assault on the Sanctums and Dormammu’s invasion, drawing on the Shadow Legion and the Infinity Stones. Galactus ultimately consumed the Dark Dimension’s remaining energy, while Mephisto escaped and Lu Qi went to Kamar-Taj with The Ancient One to find Mordo’s soul.

• Lu Qi expanded the armory, established Earth’s Trade Station, and helped Stephen begin learning magic at Kamar-Taj.
• Kaecilius attacked the London Sanctum, killing Mordo and gravely injuring Wong, but Lu Qi and Chinese spiritual healers restored Wong’s soul.
• The Ancient One gave Lu Qi the Time Stone as Kamar-Taj’s mages defended the remaining Sanctums against Kaecilius and Dormammu.
• S.P.E.A.R. forces and the Shadow Legion fought Kaecilius’s followers at the Hong Kong Sanctum, while Galacta, Megatron, and Shadow Legion troops entered the Dark Dimension to cut off the expanding portal.
• Dormammu followed Lu Qi into the Material World and destroyed the Hong Kong Sanctum, but The Ancient One used the Time Stone to battle him as Lu Qi prepared a vast reserve of energy.
• Lu Qi, The Ancient One, Tony, and Galacta fought Dormammu and the other Dimension Lords, with Lu Qi using his Shadow World to hold back Dormammu’s Dark Dimension.
• Lu Qi exhausted Dormammu’s source until he became a black crystal, but Galactus had to consume the collapsing Dark Dimension’s remaining energy to protect Earth.
• Galactus returned the Dark Dimension and announced he would stay on Earth, while The Ancient One said Mephisto had escaped and Lu Qi went with her to Kamar-Taj after learning Mordo’s soul was there.

Lu Qi helped Johnny Blaze break free of Mephisto, destroyed Hell’s Dimension, rescued Happy, and aided Tony in defeating Hydra. After Wakanda agreed to trade Vibranium, a massive Dark Dimension pressed against Earth’s defense formation, leaving its arrival unexplained.

• Lu Qi and The Ancient One awakened Johnny Blaze’s Ghost Rider power, recovered the Contract of San Venganza, and helped Johnny and Carter defeat Blackheart and Mephisto’s forces.
• Lu Qi, The Ancient One, and Galactus destroyed Hell’s Dimension, and Lu Qi absorbed its remains into his Dark Dimension.
• Lu Qi and Tony rescued Happy from AIM, defeated Killian, and then joined Captain America and Fury in stopping Hydra’s Helicarriers and exposing S.H.I.E.L.D.’s compromised leadership.
• Tony learned that Bucky had killed Howard and Maria Stark, but ordered Bucky to protect his parents rather than die, while Lu Qi promised to explain the rest after the battle.
• The Ancient One restored the Sanctums with Stephen, creating Earth’s defense formation, and Wanda and Pietro stayed at Kamar-Taj to train despite their anger at Tony.
• Lu Qi helped Mordo merge with Corvus Glaive’s weapon, restoring Mordo’s body, and required him to serve for a thousand years in return.
• Lu Qi brought Ulysses Klaue to Wakanda and secured T’Chaka and T’Challa’s agreement to trade one ton of Vibranium each month for private access to the Trading Station.
• After testing the Samurai Soldier, Lu Qi sensed a massive Dark Dimension pressing against Earth’s defense formation, and The Ancient One wondered whether he had caused it.

Lu Qi helped defeat the vampires, began a relationship with Galacta, and oversaw Tony’s creation of Ultron and JARVIS’s living body. While the Hand’s schemes brought the Beast back toward Earth, Captain America’s team confronted him underground as the chamber began to collapse.

• Lu Qi controlled Dormammu’s dark energy and merged his dark space into the Shadow World, while Silver Surfer fought a fleet whose wreckage reassembled around him.
• Lu Qi and Tony planned Ultron, and Lu Qi led Earth’s powers in trapping and destroying the vampires with the help of Thor, Captain America, Natasha, and Barton.
• Lu Qi confessed his love to Galacta, who accepted his Black Rose, while Tony proposed to Pepper at the banquet.
• Tony awakened Ultron with the AllSpark, and JARVIS gained a living body before revealing that Doctor Zola had attacked him through the internet.
• Lu Qi and Tony tested Ultron’s legion against the Shadow Legion, then sent Ultron and the AllSpark to Megatron for training.
• Lu Qi and Galacta helped Punisher investigate the Hand, and Lu Qi interrupted the Five Fingers’ meeting before the Ancient One pursued the Beast into Dimensional Space.
• The Beast escaped toward Earth while Punisher brought the injured Daredevil to Captain America’s team, which found Iron Fist and Elektra facing the Beast underground.
• The Beast used possessed children and ninjas to hold off Captain America’s team, then escaped through cracks in the wall as the chamber began to collapse.