Recaps

Yang Ming joined Hulk in overpowering Abomination, protecting the medical station and killing the villain before collapsing from the strain of his power. Hulk fled, and Yang Ming lost consciousness as Jessica and Peter rushed to help him.

• Frank warned that an apartment building was collapsing, and Peter and Jessica rescued a paralyzed old man while George refused the military’s demand to withdraw.
• Yang Ming opened the Eight Gates and coated his limbs in Armament Haki, then teamed up with Hulk to batter Abomination.
• Abomination hurled a fuel tanker toward the medical station, but Yang Ming kicked it into the Hudson River before it could hit anyone.
• Yang Ming used Conqueror’s Haki to stop Abomination’s escape and pierced his heart, then tore off his head to ensure he was dead.
• Hulk backed away from Yang Ming and leaped out of sight, while Yang Ming deactivated his powers and collapsed as Jessica and Peter ran to him.

After Yang Ming defeated Abomination, General Thaddeus Ross tried to seize him, but Jessica Jones, Frank Castle, Matt Murdock, Peter Parker, the NYPD, and Harlem’s civilians stood in his way. With news helicopters filming the standoff, Ross withdrew with Abomination’s corpse, and the others carried Yang Ming out of Harlem.

• Thaddeus Ross arrived by helicopter and ordered his soldiers to take Yang Ming and Abomination’s corpse, but Jessica, Frank, Matt, and Peter blocked them.
• George Stacy led New York police officers through the military cordon and confronted Ross over his attempt to arrest Yang Ming.
• Harlem civilians returned and formed a human wall in front of Yang Ming’s allies, insisting Ross would have to take them over their dead bodies.
• Ross saw news helicopters broadcasting the standoff and ordered his troops to withdraw with Abomination’s corpse.
• George agreed to handle the surveillance footage, and Jessica, Frank, Matt, and Peter escorted the unconscious Yang Ming away from Harlem.

After seeing Spider-Man fight in Harlem, Dave Lizewski decided to try becoming a superhero and bought a green wetsuit and basic protective gear. Meanwhile, Damon McCready and Mindy used the turmoil after the Harlem battle to target Frank D'Amico's men, and Mindy delivered a warning as Hit-Girl.

• Dave watched footage of Spider-Man and a black-coated man fighting Abomination and decided to become a superhero despite having little money or equipment.
• At school, Dave noticed Peter Parker's bruises and painful gait, then learned his green wetsuit was on its way.
• Damon and Mindy studied the aftermath of the Harlem disaster and planned to exploit the disruption to strike at Frank D'Amico's organization.
• Mindy changed into her Hit-Girl costume and defeated three of D'Amico's enforcers in a laundromat.
• Mindy told one enforcer to warn Frank D'Amico that someone was coming to collect an old debt, then left with Damon.

After the Harlem disaster, public outrage cost Ross his command, but he secretly continued pursuing the Super-Soldier Program by preserving Sterns. Yang Ming woke at his clinic to find the vigilantes hailed as heroes and received a reward for killing Abomination, which he planned to draw after sending Jessica away.

• Newspapers and protesters condemned the military over Harlem, while the public praised Yang Ming and the other vigilantes.
• Pentagon officials suspended the Super-Soldier Replication Program and stripped Ross of his command pending an investigation.
• Ross visited the Pentagon's biological lab, where Sterns's gamma-altered brain was evolving, and ordered scientists to keep him alive and study his brain waves.
• Yang Ming woke after sleeping for twenty-four hours, and Jessica showed him the protests and news coverage celebrating the vigilantes.
• Jessica told Yang Ming that Matt and Frank had left and that Spider-Man had gone to school; Yang Ming then received an S-rated mission reward and decided to get Jessica out before drawing a character.

Yang Ming used his mission reward to summon Retsu Unohana, the former First Kenpachi, after sending Jessica on paid leave. Unohana healed Yang Ming and asked what he wanted her to do in this new world.

• Yang Ming gave Jessica three days of paid leave, and she prepared medicine, food, and instructions before leaving the clinic.
• After Jessica had gone, Yang Ming activated his system reward and summoned Retsu Unohana.
• Retsu Unohana awoke in Yang Ming’s clinic, recognized that she had been brought to an unfamiliar world, and questioned him about it.
• Yang Ming explained that she had been summoned to help him, while Unohana criticized his injuries and healed him with Kaido.
• Unohana asked Yang Ming whether he wanted her to save lives or fight and kill.

Yang Ming brought Retsu Unohana to his Gotham clinic and hired her to handle surgery and special security. Unohana unsettled Selene with a brief display of skill, then began learning the clinic alongside Maggie as Yang Ming returned to his work.

• Yang Ming opened a portal and brought Retsu Unohana from Hell's Kitchen to his Gotham clinic.
• Selene and Maggie welcomed Yang Ming back, and Maggie reported that she had memorized her assigned anatomy material.
• Yang Ming introduced Retsu Unohana as the clinic's new surgeon and special security hire, prompting Selene to challenge the appointment.
• Retsu Unohana demonstrated how easily she could reach Selene's hidden dagger and warned her about her poor fighting posture.
• Yang Ming sent Selene to prepare a room, while Maggie offered to show Retsu Unohana the clinic's operating and supply rooms.
• Retsu Unohana asked Yang Ming what role he played in the clinic, and he called himself a conscientious boss who paid wages and overtime on time.

With business at the Black Clinic declining, Yang Ming decided to close it temporarily and take Selene, Maggie, and Retsu Unohana on a road trip to Amnesty Bay. He chose the Maine fishing town to avoid Batman and quietly explore a possible connection to Atlantis.

• Retsu Unohana examined the clinic’s surgical instruments, criticized a scalpel’s blunt edge, and put on a white coat.
• Yang Ming announced that the clinic would close the next morning for an all-expenses-paid road trip, while Selene questioned whether he was fleeing someone.
• Yang Ming rejected Selene’s suggestions of Miami, Star City, and Metropolis, then picked Amnesty Bay; Maggie and Retsu welcomed the chance to see the ocean.
• Yang Ming gave Selene money to rent a spacious, powerful seven-seat SUV and sent Maggie and Retsu to buy trip supplies.
• After the others left, Yang Ming revealed that he had chosen Amnesty Bay to avoid Batman and potentially make contact with Arthur Curry’s world and Atlantis.

Yang Ming, Selene, Maggie, and Retsu Unohana traveled from Gotham to Amnesty Bay to find a guide. At the town’s tavern, Retsu stepped forward to challenge Arthur Curry after his hundredth consecutive arm-wrestling victory.

• Selene drove the group from Gotham to Amnesty Bay in a heavily modified Ford Raptor.
• Yang Ming paid a boy to lead them to Old Jack’s tavern, the busiest place in town.
• At the tavern, Arthur Curry defeated Old Tom and completed a hundred straight arm-wrestling victories.
• Yang Ming suggested that Retsu Unohana take a turn against Arthur, and she removed her white coat and approached the table.
• The tavern fell silent as the patrons noticed Retsu and wondered whether she intended to challenge Arthur.

Yang Ming’s team met Arthur Curry at a tavern, where Retsu Unohana defeated him in an arm-wrestling match and Yang Ming hired him as their guide. Arthur accepted the job and led them north along the coast to find clean lodging.

• Retsu Unohana challenged Arthur Curry to an arm-wrestling match and pinned his arm through the tavern table despite his full strength.
• Arthur laughed off his loss, treated the tavern to drinks, and met Yang Ming and his clinic team.
• Yang Ming offered Arthur ten thousand dollars to guide the group for three days, and Arthur accepted, thinking of his father Thomas Curry’s needs.
• Arthur criticized the team’s Ford Raptor, then joined Selene in the front while Yang Ming, Maggie, and Retsu Unohana sat in the back.
• Arthur directed Selene to drive north along the coast, saying he would take them somewhere clean to stay.

Yang Ming and his companions settled into cabins beside the Curry family lighthouse in Amnesty Bay, where Thomas and Arthur served them a seafood dinner. After arranging a boat trip for the next morning, Yang Ming and the others ended the evening enjoying the meal and trading barbs with Arthur.

• Arthur brought Yang Ming and his companions to his father Thomas Curry's home and arranged for them to stay in the empty guest cabins.
• Retsu Unohana expertly prepared a black grouper with her scalpel, unnerving Arthur before she went to help Thomas cook.
• Thomas served a seafood stew made with fresh lobster and grouper, and the guests praised the meal.
• Yang Ming asked Arthur to take them out on the water the next day, and Arthur agreed to meet them at the docks at seven.

Yang Ming listens as Thomas Curry worries that Arthur has sacrificed his future to care for him, while Retsu Unohana reflects on the bond restraining Arthur’s savage power. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor prepares to take Elysium to Gotham, bringing Elias Thorne along despite Thorne’s doubts about the drug.

• Thomas tells Yang Ming that Arthur refuses to leave Amnesty Bay because he fears Thomas cannot manage alone, and Thomas wishes his son would go choose a life elsewhere.
• Arthur finishes preparing the fishing gear for the next morning and warns Thomas not to tamper with the faulty generator.
• Retsu Unohana tells Yang Ming that Arthur’s bonds restrain his savage power and that losing them could turn him into a beast.
• Lex Luthor berates his researchers over Elysium’s ninety-seven-percent purity and gives them forty-eight hours to perfect the drug.
• Lex Luthor decides to bring Elysium to Gotham and orders Elias Thorne to accompany him to a welcoming reception there.
• Thorne recalls Harleen Quinzel’s accusation that Elysium chemically castrates society, but agrees to travel with Lex Luthor.

Luthor ordered a dependence-inducing compound added to mass-produced medication, while Bruce Wayne hosted a banquet where Jack Napier recognized his benefactor’s identity. Dr. Elias Thorne became intrigued by both Bruce’s hidden nature and Jack’s fear, ending by asking Jack whether he was afraid of himself.

• Luthor ordered the type B neurodependency compound added to mass-produced medication so Gotham’s people would become dependent on it.
• Bruce welcomed Jack Napier to Wayne Enterprises at a banquet, and Jack realized Bruce Wayne was the man who had helped him in the East End.
• Bruce privately told Jack that his help repaid him for half a loaf of bread and a life, and asked him to care for Janet and their baby.
• Elias Thorne noticed signs that Bruce’s drunken playboy persona concealed combat training and deep trauma.
• Thorne approached Jack at the banquet and asked whether he was afraid of himself.

Thorne discovered the dangerous madness beneath Jack Napier’s mild exterior and told Lex Luthor that Gotham was full of fascinating people who might complicate his Elysium plans. The next morning, Yang Ming’s group went fishing with Arthur, and Yang Ming ended the trip’s opening haul by promising to catch a massive bluefin tuna.

• Thorne questioned Jack about how he relieved stress, and Jack said he dreamed of becoming a comedian.
• Thorne told Lex Luthor that Gotham was a treasure trove of talented people and might resist or catalyze the spread of Elysium.
• Yang Ming, Selene, Maggie, and Retsu Unohana boarded Arthur’s battered fishing boat at Amnesty Bay.
• Selene became severely seasick, but Retsu Unohana used a small reiatsu-assisted treatment to cure her nausea.
• Arthur dived into the sea and hauled a net full of fish aboard, showing off his strength and control over them.
• Yang Ming assembled his fishing rod and declared he would catch a seven-hundred-pound bluefin tuna for dinner.

Yang Ming tried to prove his fishing skill off Amnesty Bay, but repeatedly caught ocean trash and tiny prey instead of the promised tuna. After Selene and the others mocked him, he broke his expensive rod and raged at the sea.

• Yang Ming bragged about his fishing gear and cast for a massive bluefin tuna while Selene, Arthur, and Retsu Unohana doubted him.
• Yang Ming hooked a barnacle-covered tire, kicked it back into the sea, and insisted his line had held up well.
• Using Observation Haki, Yang Ming found signs of life but hauled up a rotten fishing net with a tiny mantis shrimp caught in it.
• Yang Ming spent an hour catching junk, then landed a tiny fish as Selene mocked him for being skunked.
• Yang Ming snapped his rod in half and furiously cursed the fish in the sea.

Mera warned Arthur Curry that Orm was preparing to wage war on the surface, but Arthur refused to help until the sea abruptly drained and a tsunami raced toward Amnesty Bay. Yang Ming sent Retsu Unohana and the others toward high ground as Arthur charged to save his father, and the wave reached the town.

• Selene teased Yang Ming over his failed fishing trip while Arthur brought their catch ashore, and Retsu Unohana sensed something approaching from the sea.
• Mera arrived and told Arthur that Orm had arranged an attack to win King Nereus's alliance and planned to become Ocean Master, but Arthur rejected her plea to stop him.
• The ocean drained away from Amnesty Bay, stranding sea life on the exposed seabed, and Yang Ming used his haki to stop fishermen from rushing to collect it.
• Yang Ming recognized the receding water as a tsunami warning, ordered Retsu Unohana to take Maggie and Selene to high ground, and learned from Mera that Atlantean warships were driving the currents.
• Arthur raced toward the Lighthouse to save his father as a towering wall of water surged toward Amnesty Bay and engulfed the town.

Yang Ming forced open the seventh of the Eight Gates and destroyed the tsunami threatening Amnesty Bay with one punch, then collapsed from his catastrophic injuries. As Retsu Unohana began healing him, Ocean Master surfaced with three warships and challenged the land dwellers.

• Mera tried to escape the tsunami while Arthur rushed to save his father, and Yang Ming chose to stay and protect Amnesty Bay.
• Yang Ming forced open the first six gates despite his body tearing apart, then opened the seventh as the tsunami reached the docks.
• Yang Ming combined Armament Haki with Daytime Tiger and punched through the destruction-class tsunami, scattering it into seawater and debris.
• Yang Ming collapsed, and Retsu Unohana caught him and used Kaido to keep him alive.
• Three Atlantean warships surfaced and aimed their ion guns at Yang Ming as Ocean Master, Orm, threatened Amnesty Bay.

Retsu Unohana unleashed her power against Orm’s forces after Yang Ming was gravely wounded protecting Amnesty Bay. She destroyed two Atlantean warships and began her Bankai as the last ship tried to flee.

• Orm ordered his soldiers to kill Arthur, Mera, and everyone in the fishing village, while the warship’s main cannon targeted fleeing residents.
• Retsu Unohana brought the critically wounded Yang Ming to Selene and Maggie, then returned to the docks to confront the Atlantean fleet.
• Retsu Unohana cut the first warship in half with one sword strike and appeared on the second ship.
• Retsu Unohana slaughtered the second ship’s soldiers, while Orm ordered the final warship to retreat.
• Retsu Unohana stopped the final ship from escaping and activated Bankai.

Retsu Unohana destroyed Orm’s warship and tortured him into insanity before sparing his life. She then healed Yang Ming by having Minazuki swallow him, and Yang recovered fully as the group prepared to leave the ruined bay.

• Retsu Unohana unleashed Minazuki, dissolved Orm’s warship and its Atlantean crew, and suspended Orm above a sea of blood.
• Retsu repeatedly dismembered and revived Orm until his mind broke, then dropped him at Arthur’s feet and warned the Atlanteans to stay off the land.
• Retsu summoned Minazuki and had the manta-like creature swallow Yang Ming to heal his shattered bones and severe wounds.
• After ten minutes, Minazuki spat Yang Ming out fully healed, and Selene checked him while he thanked Retsu.

Arthur chose to return to Atlantis and claim the throne to protect his father and Amnesty Bay, while Yang Ming’s clinic healed Thomas and secured a promised share of the undersea treasure. Arthur, Mera, and the broken Orm departed for the depths, leaving Yang Ming to count the promised jewels as uncertain future income.

• Mera urged Arthur to return to Atlantis and take the throne, and Arthur agreed after catching his injured father, Thomas Curry.
• Yang Ming ordered Retsu Unohana to heal Thomas’s damaged knee and back, restoring his mobility in seconds.
• Arthur knelt before Yang Ming in gratitude and promised him treasure from Atlantis’s treasury if he became king.
• Yang Ming gave Arthur his Gotham Clinic business card and agreed to accept twenty chests of jewels as payment.
• Arthur hugged Thomas and left with Mera and Orm, while Yang Ming warned Mera not to let Atlantis threaten the surface again.
• Selene celebrated the promised treasure, and Yang Ming cautioned that Arthur might not secure the throne or reach the treasury.

Odin worried that Thor’s recklessness would bring war and Ragnarok to Asgard, so the Ancient One proposed stripping Thor of his powers and banishing him to Earth near Yang Ming’s clinic. The plan left Yang Ming unknowingly marked as the target of a scheme meant to force Thor to learn humility.

• Odin complained to the Ancient One that Thor was reckless and feared he would be unfit to rule during Odin’s coming Odinsleep.
• The Ancient One showed Odin Yang Ming’s fight with Abomination and revealed that the Time Stone could not see Yang Ming’s past or future.
• The Ancient One suggested that Odin strip Thor of his powers, banish him to Earth, and enchant Mjolnir so only someone worthy could lift it.
• The Ancient One arranged for Mjolnir to land at Yang Ming’s clinic in Hell’s Kitchen so Yang Ming would take his anger out on Thor.
• Odin agreed to the plan, and the Ancient One returned to Earth.
• Yang Ming shivered while driving and wondered whether Bat Meme was plotting against him.

Odin engineered Thor’s banishment to Earth by arranging a Frost Giant attack and provoking Thor into breaking the peace, then sent Mjolnir toward Yang Ming’s clinic. Thor landed powerless in the desert, while Mjolnir destroyed the clinic in Hell’s Kitchen, leaving Jessica to wonder whether she should flee.

• Odin let Frost Giants enter Asgard’s vault, and Loki persuaded Thor to retaliate by leading Sif and the Warriors Three to Jotunheim.
• Odin rescued Thor and his companions from Laufey’s forces, then stripped Thor of his power and banished him to Earth after Thor insulted him.
• Odin enchanted Mjolnir and hurled it toward Yang Ming’s clinic in Hell’s Kitchen.
• Thor landed in the Antigua Desert without his powers, and Jane Foster’s research team approached in an RV.
• Mjolnir crashed into Yang Ming’s clinic and reduced the building to rubble.
• Jessica saw the impact site on a news broadcast, recognized it as Yang Ming’s clinic, and wondered whether she should run.

Jessica Jones found Yang Ming’s New York clinic destroyed by Mjolnir and learned S.H.I.E.L.D. would pay to rebuild it. Meanwhile, Thor arrived in New Mexico without his hammer, and Yang Ming sensed something was wrong while back in Gotham.

• Jessica Jones forced her way past the police cordon, and Phil Coulson offered S.H.I.E.L.D.’s help investigating the destruction of Yang Ming’s clinic.
• Jessica found Mjolnir in the crater, failed to lift it, and secured S.H.I.E.L.D.’s promise to cover all reconstruction costs.
• Jane Foster, Darcy Lewis, and Dr. Erik Selvig struck Thor with their RV in New Mexico and took him to town after Darcy stunned him.
• Yang Ming sneezed while checking the accounts in Gotham and worried that someone had tampered with his cash box.
• Yang Ming wondered whether Jessica’s leave was nearly over and whether the Hand’s ninjas had caused trouble at the closed New York clinic.

Yang Ming returned from Gotham to Hell’s Kitchen with Retsu Unohana and discovered that Mjolnir had destroyed his clinic. As S.H.I.E.L.D. offered compensation, Yang Ming began assessing how much he could claim for the loss.

• Yang Ming revealed his cross-universe door to Selene and Maggie, then left Retsu Unohana in charge of security as he returned to New York.
• Yang Ming and Retsu reached the cordoned-off remains of his clinic, where federal agents told him the entire street was gone.
• Retsu threatened the agents when they tried to stop Yang Ming from entering the disaster site.
• Jessica Jones emerged from the crater and said a falling object had destroyed the clinic while she was away helping her sister move.
• Yang Ming recognized the object in the crater as Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, and realized it had landed on his clinic instead of in the New Mexico desert.
• Agent Phil Coulson offered to cover the clinic’s losses, and Yang Ming challenged S.H.I.E.L.D. to pay for the supposedly valuable property.

Yang Ming secured fifty million dollars from S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange for letting it establish a temporary research base around Mjolnir. In New Mexico, Thor saw a news report showing his hammer in New York and persuaded Jane Foster to drive him there.

• Yang Ming demanded fifty million dollars from Coulson for the destruction of his clinic, while Retsu Unohana threatened S.H.I.E.L.D.'s agents when Coulson proposed inspecting the ruins.
• Coulson consulted Nick Fury, who approved the payment and asked for permission to establish a temporary containment base around the hammer.
• Yang Ming accepted the deal and added that future damage from anything falling from the sky would cost twice as much.
• Doctors sedated Thor at Antigua Town Hospital, but he later woke and recognized Mjolnir in a news report from New York.
• Thor demanded that Jane Foster take him to New York, and Jane drove off with him despite Dr. Erik's objections.

Yang Ming used S.H.I.E.L.D.’s fifty-million-dollar compensation to secure luxury mobile homes beside the crater and waited for the owner of the hammer that destroyed his home to pay further damages. Three days later, Thor arrived near the sealed site after Jane Foster’s RV broke down and rushed toward the agents guarding Mjolnir.

• Jessica celebrated the fifty-million-dollar payment, but Yang Ming refused to leave the ruins and demanded that Coulson provide three luxury mobile homes.
• Coulson ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to install the homes, while Yang Ming declared he would stay until the hammer’s owner paid for destroying his home.
• Yang Ming explained that he considered the hammer’s fall a hit-and-run and intended to make its owner, as well as Thor, pay.
• Three days later, Jane Foster’s RV broke down two blocks from Hell’s Kitchen, near the S.H.I.E.L.D. cordon around Mjolnir.
• Thor sensed his hammer and charged toward the barricade while Jane chased after him and Darcy stayed behind.