Recaps

Thor breached the S.H.I.E.L.D. cordon to reclaim Mjolnir, but Yang Ming ordered Jessica Jones to stop him. Jessica beat Thor into submission, and Jane, Darcy, and Erik arrived to witness the fight.

• Thor knocked aside two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and charged through the cordon toward Mjolnir.
• Yang Ming confronted Thor and ordered Jessica to teach him a lesson.
• Jessica punched Thor in the stomach, leaving him doubled over and vomiting.
• Thor insulted Jessica and demanded that she return to her nursing station, so she pinned him down and beat him.
• Jane, Darcy, and Erik reached the crater, where they saw Jessica overpowering Thor.

Yang Ming forced the powerless Thor to confront his failure to lift Mjolnir and demanded repayment for the damage it caused to his clinic. After Thor accepted a wager that could bind him to a century of unpaid work, Yang Ming prepared to bring someone from New York who could lift the hammer.

• Jessica Jones beat Thor in the crater until Yang Ming told her to stop, and Thor failed repeatedly to lift Mjolnir.
• Yang Ming presented Thor with a fifty-million-dollar bill for the damage to his clinic and offered him work there to repay it.
• Thor insisted that only someone worthy could lift Mjolnir and accepted Yang Ming's wager: a hundred years of service if Yang Ming's chosen person succeeded.
• Yang Ming revealed that he knew who could lift the hammer and thought of someone in New York whose kindness made them worthy.

Yang Ming summoned Peter Parker to test whether he could lift Mjolnir, and Peter picked it up effortlessly, proving himself worthy while leaving Thor stunned. When Peter tried to hand it back, the hammer's weight returned and crushed Thor's hand, leaving him helpless and injured.

• Yang Ming called Peter Parker and directed him to the crater in Hell's Kitchen.
• Peter arrived and lifted Mjolnir with one hand, then casually examined and tossed it while Thor stared in disbelief.
• Peter offered Mjolnir to Thor, but when he let go, it slammed into the mud and pinned Thor's right hand.
• Peter lifted the hammer again and apologized, while Thor cradled his injured hand and silently protested the insult.

Thor signed a hundred-year contract to work for Yang Ming after failing to lift Mjolnir, while S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited Erik’s team to study the hammer. The next day, Thor began doing construction and cleaning work, and Jane approached him as he struggled to understand his new circumstances.

• Peter freed Thor’s hand from Mjolnir but lifted the hammer himself, and Yang Ming made Thor sign a hundred-year, unpaid employee contract.
• Yang Ming put Jessica in charge of Thor, who was assigned to carry bricks and perform other labor while S.H.I.E.L.D. hired Erik, Jane, and Darcy to research Mjolnir.
• Thor moved into a cramped prefabricated unit and wondered how he could regain Mjolnir’s recognition.
• The next morning, Jessica ordered Thor to haul debris while Erik’s team found no activity in Mjolnir’s magnetic field.
• Jane spoke with Thor through the fence, and he told her mortal instruments could not reveal the secrets of Odin’s magic before Jessica called him back to work.

Thor adjusted to his powerless life through hard labor and grew closer to Jane Foster, then agreed to extend his employment with Yang Ming to buy her a dress. The chapter ended with Thor accepting a hundred and ten years of service and a maid outfit in exchange for the gown.

• Thor told Jane about his adventures in the Nine Realms and promised to take her to Asgard when he recovered Mjolnir.
• Yang Ming interrupted them and took Thor, Jessica, and Retsu Unohana shopping for modern clothes.
• Retsu and Jessica modeled outfits, Yang Ming bought their selections, and Thor carried their bags around the mall.
• Thor spotted a burgundy silk gown and asked Yang Ming to advance him the money so he could buy it for Jane.
• Yang Ming demanded ten additional years of work and that Thor wear a maid outfit, and Thor accepted after hearing Erik might introduce Jane to another man.

Dave Lizewski, dressed as Kick-Ass, tried to protect Yang Ming and his companions from a gang of robbers and was beaten badly. Thor, moved by Dave’s courage despite his weakness, confronted the thugs bare-handed as Yang Ming chose to let the beating continue long enough to provoke him.

• Five armed robbers surrounded Yang Ming, Retsu Unohana, Jessica Jones, and Thor in a Manhattan alley and threatened the women.
• Dave Lizewski appeared in his green Kick-Ass costume, fell into garbage, then charged the robbers and was beaten.
• Even while badly injured, Dave grabbed the bald thug’s ankle and urged the others to escape, prompting Thor to reconsider what courage meant.
• Yang Ming told Jessica to wait before intervening, explaining that Thor seemed ready to act.
• Thor tore off his T-shirt, approached the gang, and ordered them to release Dave, declaring himself their opponent.

Thor defeated five armed thugs while protecting Dave Lizewski, and Retsu Unohana healed the critically injured boy. Yang Ming then received a mission to train Dave into a true superhero within a year, with an Ultimate upgrade to all three types of Haki as the reward.

• Thor fought off the five thugs and learned that the injured boy called himself Kick-Ass.
• Yang Ming diagnosed Dave’s severe injuries and agreed to save him in exchange for Thor working for him for ten more years.
• Retsu Unohana used her healing ability to restore Dave’s broken ribs, punctured lung, and other injuries.
• Yang Ming received the hidden Hero Mentor mission, which required him to train Dave within one year for an Ultimate upgrade to all three types of Haki.
• Yang Ming considered using Jessica, Retsu Unohana, Thor, Daredevil, and Spider-Man to help train Dave.

After Yang Ming and his companions saved Dave Lizewski, Dave nearly gave up on becoming a hero because he lacked the strength to protect anyone. Yang Ming recruited him as a trainee at the Yang Clinic, and Dave left ready to begin brutal training.

• Dave woke in the alley, recognized Yang Ming and Jessica as the powerful figures from the Harlem broadcast, and felt ashamed of his failed attempt to fight thugs.
• Thor praised Dave's courage, but Dave said courage without strength was useless and started to leave, planning to give up on being a superhero.
• Yang Ming asked Dave if he wanted to get stronger and offered to train him; Dave accepted and declared that he wanted to become a superhero.
• Yang Ming ordered Dave to train at the Hell's Kitchen ruins after school and on weekend mornings, and Dave promised not to be late.
• Yang Ming assigned Jessica and Thor to train Dave while Retsu Unohana treated his injuries with Kaido, and Dave ran home with renewed resolve.

Yang Ming began Dave Lizewski’s training by making him eat a revolting high-calorie meal before forcing him to run with heavy tires. Dave ended the day dragging the tires around Hell’s Kitchen while Thor chased him with a stun baton.

• Yang Ming, Jessica Jones, and Thor judged Dave’s frail body and agreed to postpone combat training until he gained weight.
• Yang Ming ordered Retsu Unohana to serve Dave a meal of raw beef, eggs, and strange supplements, and Dave was forced to eat it all.
• Yang Ming immediately ordered Dave to digest his meal by running ten laps while dragging four chained truck tires weighing about five hundred pounds.
• Thor followed Dave with a stun baton, shocking him whenever he slowed down as Dave screamed and kept running.

Mindy slaughtered the guards outside Kingpin's warehouse, shocking Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Frank Castle. Frank's grief over his daughter drove him to confront the person he believed had turned Mindy into a killer, and he ended the chapter demanding that a man in a parked Ford come out.

• Frank Castle, Spider-Man, and Daredevil prepared to raid Kingpin's warehouse, but Daredevil detected a child approaching the entrance.
• Mindy announced herself and used smoke grenades to kill all twelve guards outside the warehouse in ten seconds.
• Spider-Man and Daredevil were horrified by Mindy's skill, while Frank thought of his dead daughter Lisa and became enraged.
• Frank left the rooftop to confront the person who had trained Mindy, and Spider-Man and Daredevil followed him.
• Mindy turned to face Frank, who aimed past her at a parked Ford and ordered the man inside to get out.

Frank confronted Damon over raising Mindy to kill, but the standoff eased after Matt confirmed Damon's motives and reminded them they had come to raid Kingpin’s shipment. Damon and Mindy left, while Frank, Matt, and Peter entered the warehouse, where Matt sensed something was wrong.

• Frank held Damon at gunpoint and accused him of turning Mindy into a killer, while Mindy threatened Frank to protect her father.
• Peter and Matt arrived, and Mindy briefly set aside her weapons to ask Spider-Man for an autograph before Matt pointed out the bodies and the armed standoff.
• Damon explained that he had taught Mindy to fight because Frank D'Amico and Kingpin were hunting them, and Matt confirmed Damon was telling the truth.
• Frank lowered his pistol, and Damon and Mindy left after deciding their attack had already disrupted Damico's defenses.
• Frank, Matt, and Peter entered the warehouse to investigate Kingpin's shipment, and Matt stopped after sensing something was wrong.

Frank Castle, Matt Murdock, and Peter Parker uncovered Oscorp’s illegal human experiments and faced three lizard men created with an unstable serum. The largest lizard man recognized Peter, seized him, and left Frank and Matt gravely injured as it prepared to kill him.

• Matt detected that most of the heartbeats upstairs had vanished, and the group found a blood-soaked laboratory filled with bodies.
• Peter discovered Oscorp records showing that Norman Osborn had ordered Dr. Rasa to inject three homeless men with an unfinished lizard serum.
• Three giant lizard men burst through the isolation door, shrugged off gunfire, and rampaged through the laboratory.
• Peter, Frank, and Matt attacked the monsters but could not overcome their strength and rapid healing.
• The largest lizard man recognized Peter by name, grabbed him by the throat, and knocked Frank and Matt aside.
• The lizard man prepared to bite Peter as he struggled to breathe.

Peter escaped the exploding Lizard Men and carried the critically injured Frank and Matt toward Yang Ming for help. At Yang Ming’s training ground, Dave overcame his fear and charged the jeep, but Peter crashed onto it moments before impact and asked Yang Ming to save his wounded companions.

• The unstable Lizard Men burst apart, and Peter found Frank and Matt gravely injured beneath the rubble.
• Peter webbed Frank and Matt to himself and swung toward Yang Ming’s home in Hell’s Kitchen.
• Yang Ming pushed Dave through a dangerous jeep exercise and berated him until Dave stood firm and charged the oncoming vehicle.
• Peter slammed onto the jeep’s hood, wrecking it just short of Dave, and asked Yang Ming for help while carrying Frank and Matt.

Yang Ming had Retsu Unohana heal the gravely injured Frank Castle and Matt Murdock with Minazuki, restoring their bodies and old injuries. Frank and Matt survived, but Matt’s eyes remained blind, and Yang Ming demanded a million dollars from each of them.

• Peter Parker brought the badly injured Frank Castle and Matt Murdock to Yang Ming for help after three powerful, regenerating lizard-like monsters attacked them.
• Retsu Unohana summoned Minazuki and swallowed Frank and Matt, prompting Peter to attack until Yang Ming restrained him and explained the healing method.
• Five minutes later, Minazuki spat out Frank and Matt with their injuries healed, and Frank woke ready to fight.
• Frank discovered that his old battle injuries were gone, while Matt found that his vocal cords had healed but remained blind.
• Yang Ming charged each man a million dollars, and Frank promised to pay after dealing with the monsters and Kingpin.

After Peter discovers Norman Osborn is behind the human experiments, Frank plans to kill him, but Peter insists they gather evidence and let the law judge him. Yang Ming stops their fight and proposes extorting Norman for fifty million dollars, leaving Peter, Frank, and Matt shocked by his ruthless scheme.

• Peter reveals that Norman Osborn is the mastermind behind the mutation experiments and worries about how Harry will react.
• Frank vows to kill Norman, while Peter stops him and argues they should gather evidence for the authorities instead.
• Matt cannot assure Peter that the law will deliver justice, and Peter and Frank prepare to fight over Frank's gun.
• Yang Ming intervenes, warning that Oscorp's defenses make Frank's solo attack too dangerous and reminding him and Matt that they owe the Yang Clinic money.
• Yang Ming proposes that Matt draft a legal demand for fifty million dollars, threatening to expose Oscorp's evidence and damage its stock if Norman refuses to pay.

Yang Ming convinced Dave Lizewski to pursue real power and began his brutal sword training, while Norman Osborn injected unstable serum to save his life. Norman emerged as the Green Goblin and flew into New York, intent on confronting Kingpin.

• Peter Parker, Matt, and Frank rejected Yang Ming's proposal to extort money from criminals and left his ruins.
• Dave Lizewski decided he needed power after seeing the street heroes helpless, and Yang Ming started him on sword training under Thor.
• Norman Osborn learned his illness was terminal and ordered Dr. Rasa to bring him the enhancement serum.
• Kingpin demanded compensation from Norman for the destroyed warehouse and threatened to expose Oscorp's experiments.
• Norman injected two doses of serum, gained immense strength, and became the Green Goblin.
• The Green Goblin rode his glider out of Osborn Tower and declared himself to New York.

Norman Osborn, transformed into the Green Goblin, attacked Kingpin in Fisk Tower, and the two clashed in a brutal fight. Kingpin battered Norman, but Norman prepared a high-yield incendiary bomb, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Kingpin ordered his chief financial officer to spend Osborn’s settlement on his mayoral campaign despite the gang’s losses.
• Green Goblin smashed into Fisk Tower, killed Kingpin’s eight bodyguards with Pumpkin Bombs, and challenged Kingpin.
• Kingpin caught Green Goblin’s punch and used his fighting skill to throw and pummel him.
• Green Goblin kicked Kingpin away, but Kingpin dodged his darts, seized him by the neck, and hurled him into a column.
• Norman removed his cracked mask, revealed his identity, and threatened Kingpin with a high-yield incendiary bomb that could destroy the tower’s top floor.

The Green Goblin escaped Kingpin’s exploding tower and began a deadly chase with Peter Parker through Manhattan. Peter saved a bus full of passengers, but the chapter left him battered and trapped in the Green Goblin’s glider’s path as its blades rushed toward him.

• The Green Goblin threw an incendiary bomb at Kingpin, who escaped through a hidden titanium door as the blast engulfed the top floor of Fisk Tower.
• The Green Goblin flew away from the burning tower, and Peter Parker spotted him and swung after him.
• The Green Goblin attacked Peter with Pumpkin Bombs and an autocannon, then chased him through Manhattan’s streets.
• Peter wrapped a Pumpkin Bomb in webbing and threw it away from a passenger bus, but its explosion hurled him through a clothing-store window.
• The Green Goblin confronted the injured Peter and charged at him with blades extended from his glider.

Deadpool arrived in Peter’s world, saved him from Green Goblin, and insisted they were close friends despite Peter not recognizing him. After Green Goblin blasted Deadpool with missiles, Deadpool emerged from the flames alive and regenerating.

• Deadpool crashed into a clothing store, returned his adamantium sword, and saved Peter by slicing off Green Goblin’s glider blades.
• Deadpool clung to Peter and claimed they had shared adventures across universes, while Peter denied knowing him and threw him into the checkout counter.
• Green Goblin launched two missiles at Peter and Deadpool after they ignored him.
• Deadpool let the missiles hit him, and the explosion destroyed the remaining clothing store and sent Peter into the street.
• Deadpool emerged from the ruins badly mangled but alive, regenerating while eating a burnt burrito, leaving Green Goblin stunned.

Deadpool used his extreme healing factor and reckless antics to defeat Green Goblin and save Peter Parker. After Norman Osborn fled, Peter webbed Deadpool up and took him to Mr. Yang's.

• Deadpool regenerated from his wounds, drew his swords, and taunted Green Goblin.
• Deadpool charged through Green Goblin's gunfire, caught a Pumpkin Bomb, and survived its explosion by growing new legs.
• Deadpool stabbed Green Goblin through the glider, disabled it, and beat Norman Osborn until he begged for mercy.
• Norman triggered an overload in his armor and fled into the sewers as Deadpool escaped the blast and landed in Peter's arms.
• Peter webbed Deadpool into a cocoon, then swung away toward Mr. Yang's with Deadpool in tow.

Deadpool brought Yang Ming a warning from Death: his repeated rescues of people whose deaths shaped the universe had damaged her performance and attracted her anger. Yang Ming refused to stop saving patients, blaming his system’s rewards and challenging Death to pay him more if she wanted him to close his clinic.

• Peter Parker brought a web-wrapped Deadpool to Yang Ming, and Deadpool recognized him as a fellow transmigrator before asking to speak privately.
• Yang Ming cut Deadpool free and went with him to a secluded corner, leaving Retsu Unohana to watch Peter and the others.
• Deadpool revealed that Death had sent a warning because Yang Ming’s clinic had saved people such as Dr. Yinsen and Ben Parker, whose deaths were crucial to causality.
• Deadpool said Death was being mocked by the other cosmic entities and threatened to visit Yang Ming’s clinic herself.
• Yang Ming told Deadpool to blame the system that rewarded his rescues and said he would keep saving patients unless Death offered him more than the system did.

Deadpool left the ruins after delivering Death’s message, while Yang Ming continued Dave’s brutal training. In Asgard, Loki learned Thor was working for a mortal in New York and decided to go to Midgard himself.

• Deadpool mocked Yang Ming’s attempt to shift blame to his system, then used a time machine to leave the ruins.
• Yang Ming ordered Retsu Unohana to heal Dave and told Thor to increase the training weight to a hundred-pound iron hammer.
• Loki ruled Asgard efficiently while Odin slept, but grew bored in Thor’s absence.
• Heimdall saw Thor teaching a mortal to wield a sword and working for a mortal in New York.
• Loki ordered Heimdall to open the Bifrost’s concealed passage so he could confront the mortal employing Thor.

Thor continued training Dave in the ruins while wearing a maid outfit, and his flirtation with Jane made her laugh. Loki secretly came to Earth expecting to rescue and humiliate Thor, but froze when he saw his brother happily training in the outfit.

• Thor drove Dave through another grueling workout, and Dave’s strength had visibly increased after two weeks of training.
• Yang Ming told Jessica Jones that Thor enjoyed tormenting Dave because Dave was a safe outlet for his anger at Odin.
• Jane Foster laughed at Thor’s maid outfit and cheesy pickup lines, while growing fond of him.
• Loki secretly entered Midgard, planning to mock Thor and punish Yang Ming for employing him.
• Loki found Thor cheerfully training Dave in a maid outfit and was stunned by the sight.

Loki secretly recorded Thor’s humiliating behavior, hoping to use the footage to secure Asgard’s throne, but failed to lift Mjolnir. He stayed hidden at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base and discovered Thor was courting Jane Foster, whom Loki dismissed as a mortal whose short life would make the romance foolish.

• Loki watched Thor perform in a maid outfit and recorded the footage to undermine his claim to the throne.
• Loki tried to lift Mjolnir, but the hammer stayed put and its magical recoil threw him into the crater wall.
• Loki remained invisible at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base and recorded Thor’s embarrassing fights, servant-like chores, and wardrobe mishap.
• Thor brought Jane Foster roadside wildflowers and sat with her as she laughed and listened to stories about Asgard.
• Loki watched Thor and Jane together, then mocked Thor for falling in love with a mortal woman.

Loki disguised himself as Jane Foster and nearly tricked Thor into humiliating himself for a date, but Yang Ming interrupted after recognizing the deception. Yang Ming then confronted Loki while Thor struggled to explain his awkward pose.

• Loki used the Invisibility Scepter to disguise himself as Jane Foster and flirted with Thor while he washed tires in a maid uniform.
• Loki promised Thor a date if he knelt in the mud and barked like a dog, and Thor began to comply.
• Yang Ming detected Loki's magical energy with Observation Haki and told Jessica Jones and Retsu Unohana that the apparent Jane was an Asgardian god.
• Yang Ming approached Loki and interrupted Thor just before he reached the mud, then asked about the laboratory funding and teased Thor about his crouching pose.
• Yang Ming asked whether Loki, still disguised as Jane, had said he liked Thor, and Loki shyly called Thor a good man.