Recaps

Yang Ming guided Billy through the consequences of his new powers and helped him defeat Sivana, then returned to Gotham to open a school for vulnerable students. After the students survived brutal training and a Court of Owls attack, Jason, Dick, and Tim competed for influence and led their classes into a basketball tournament.

• Yang Ming confronted Billy about the harm he caused, guided him to make amends, and helped him face his mother before Billy returned to the Vasquez family.
• Sivana attacked Freddy at school, but Yang Ming and Billy defeated the demons and removed the Eye of Sin from Sivana.
• Yang Ming returned to Gotham, where Bruce Wayne had built Gotham Hope Academy, and prepared to defend the school against the Court of Owls.
• Jason, Dick, and Tim arrived at the academy and began a month of harsh military training, where their rivalries and leadership skills took shape.
• During a forest survival assessment, the Court of Owls attacked the students and revealed an underground laboratory where it had experimented on orphaned children.
• Yang Ming defeated the Talons and captured Hound, while Jason, Dick, and Tim helped rescue students and all three thousand students completed the assessment.
• Jason, Dick, and Tim became class representatives and led their classmates through academic and practical challenges, with Class 021 and Class 023 tying for first place.
• After basketball semifinals, Class 022 defeated Tim’s Class 023, setting up a final between Jason’s Class 021 and Dick’s Class 022.

Peter’s search for Felicia led him to Kingpin’s serum experiments and a rescue with Yang Ming, while the Mandarin escaped with Kingpin. After Felicia regained control of her transformation, Gwen bonded with the alien Venom and struggled to keep it from eating people.

• Dick defeated Jason’s team with a buzzer-beating three-pointer, and Bruce agreed to train him after Yang Ming urged him to take Dick as a successor.
• At Empire State University, Peter met Felicia Hardy in photography class, and she discovered he was Spider-Man after he saved her from a fall at the water tower.
• Peter and Felicia swung across Manhattan, but Peter stopped their near-kiss because he remembered Gwen, and mercenaries soon kidnapped Felicia and her parents.
• Kingpin forced Walter Hardy to recreate the Super Soldier Serum, transformed Felicia into Black Cat, and ordered her to steal a stone tablet from the museum.
• Peter and Nightlight confronted Felicia during the theft, but she escaped with the tablet, and Peter asked Yang Ming to help rescue her parents.
• Yang Ming and Peter confronted Kingpin’s operation, rescued Walter and Anastasia, and fought Kingpin after he injected himself with the serum.
• The Mandarin rescued Kingpin, while Felicia’s mother accepted her changed appearance and Walter helped her regain control of the serum’s transformation.
• A meteorite brought Venom to Earth, and it bonded with Gwen, who resisted its urge to eat people before encountering masked robbers at a convenience store.

Peter and Gwen uncovered Norman Osborn’s illegal serum trials and stopped his transformed Lizard Warriors, while Harry learned the truth about his illness and refused Norman’s serum. As hostile Symbiotes came to New York seeking Venom, Peter, Gwen, and Lightning were surrounded and forced into a rooftop fight.

• Gwen and Peter discovered each other’s identities while rescuing civilians from the Lizard Warriors, then chose to protect the wounded as Benjamin, Pete, and Chris escaped into the sewers.
• Peter, Gwen, Felicia, and Yang Ming rescued Dr. Connors and the researchers from Oscorp, defeated Norman’s transformed attack, and brought Norman to the Clinic to be arrested.
• After Norman received a life sentence, Harry found his father’s hidden laboratory, learned his heart defect left him less than a year to live, and rejected the serum and life-support system.
• Klyntar agents and hostile Symbiotes tracked Venom to Earth, while Lightning and Shriek traveled to New York and Absolute Slaughter’s group began hunting Venom.
• Harry asked Peter for Spider-Man’s blood as a possible treatment, but Peter refused to provide it and promised to keep looking for a safer way to help.
• Crimson Thorn attacked Yang Ming’s clinic, escaped after he defeated her, and prompted him to warn Peter that coordinated Symbiotes were hunting Venom.
• Lightning questioned Gwen about her bond with Venom, but Absolute Slaughter and her hunters ambushed the laboratory, forcing Peter, Gwen, and Lightning to escape using noise and fire.
• Absolute Slaughter chased Peter, Gwen, and Lightning across New York, and Lightning took Blade Hunter’s scythe strike before Skull Crusher attacked Peter and Gwen on a rooftop.

Yang Ming and his allies stopped the Life Foundation from sending Earth’s coordinates to the Corrupt Hive, then faced Ebony Maw’s invasion after he stole the Tesseract. The Chitauri assault devastated New York, but Yang Ming sent a tactical nuclear bomb into deep space, leaving Thanos with the Tesseract and Earth still in danger.

• Yang Ming and the heroes rescued Harry from Drake’s experiments, and Yang Ming halted Harry’s heart condition while Drake escaped.
• Harry became Nightcrawler and joined Peter’s team against Kingpin, whose warehouse explosion led Peter and his allies to form the Defenders.
• The Defenders learned that the Life Foundation’s rocket would reveal Earth to the Corrupt Hive, and they stopped its launch by removing the Ring-Shaped Launcher and sabotaging the rocket.
• Yang Ming killed Absolute Slaughter and freed Holt, while the rocket exploded and the Klyntar symbiotes later departed Earth.
• Thanos sent Ebony Maw to retrieve the Infinity Stones, and Maw took the Tesseract while controlling Barton and Selvig.
• Yang Ming and the Defenders uncovered signs of Hydra activity as Ebony Maw stole iridium and used Stark Tower’s Arc Reactor to open a portal for the Chitauri.
• The heroes fought the Chitauri and Ebony Maw, but Supergiant seized the Tesseract and escaped as the wormhole closed.
• Yang Ming sent the incoming nuclear bomb through a portal into deep space, saving Manhattan, while Thanos watched Supergiant return with the Tesseract.