Recaps

Shendu and Freddy joined forces with Ebony Maw to open portals across Blue Star, bringing alien armies to New York. The passage was closed, but Freddy and Jason stole the Mind Scepter and summoned Groudon and Kyogre into the world.

• Old Man identified the Ox Talisman for Coulson as a source of immense strength and warned that all twelve talismans could turn someone into the Fire Demon.
• Chiu Lan attacked New York, but Old Man and Frank used an exorcism to banish him while Shendu watched from the crowd.
• Loki and Ebony Maw emerged through the Tesseract portal, and Loki controlled Barton with the Mind Scepter as he escaped S.H.I.E.L.D. with Doctor Holger.
• Ebony Maw and Loki gathered materials and deployed climate weapons across Blue Star, while Shendu and Freddy agreed to help Thanos bring his army through a portal.
• Shendu attacked the Helicarrier for its Talismans, and Ebony Maw’s forces brought it down toward New York before Krillin and Tien Shinhan cut it apart and prevented a citywide crash.
• Shendu killed Ebony Maw, took the Tesseract, and opened portals across Blue Star, but heroes and allies shut down several teleportation points before the invasion reached New York.
• Shendu opened the remaining portals over New York, and Tony coordinated defenses as alien armies poured into the city, and Old Man recovered the Mind Scepter and closed the passage.
• Freddy and Jason ambushed Old Man and took the Mind Scepter, then summoned Groudon and Kyogre, whom Krillin recognized as Blue Star’s native gods.

The Future Group sought a way to restore those lost to Thanos’s snap while Jiang Xiang and the factions confronted the danger of interfering with another universe. On Blue Star, Arthur, Strange, and Tony uncovered a Philosopher’s Stone–driven outbreak and a summoning ritual beneath Raccoon City as Hydra resurfaced within S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Tony learned that Groudon and Kyogre’s battle was devastating the West Coast, while a team from another universe arrived on Blue Star in 2009 and began searching for Infinity Stones.
• Jiang Xiang revealed that he and his allies had killed Thanos, then refused to casually lend the Infinity Stones and explained the risks of removing them from the universe.
• Fat Thor and Rocket Raccoon found Barton stranded after Natasha sacrificed herself for the Soul Stone, and Odin sent them to seek help from the Sorcerer Supreme on Blue Star.
• Jiang Xiang offered the Future Group three ways to restore the vanished population, and Future Tony and Future Steve chose the Dragon Balls, and meanwhile, the factions agreed to revive the Containment Foundation’s operations.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. found Arthur at the ice field, but Strange drank a mysterious potion and gained a third eye and two pale arms after encountering an unknown presence.
• Tony and Krillin investigated Raccoon City and discovered that the Philosopher’s Stone was tied to Rayquaza, while Arthur and Strange fought a Virus King and uncovered a summoning ritual beneath the ruins.
• Jiang Xiang used Rayquaza, Kyogre, and Groudon to counter foreign power, as Hydra resurfaced within S.H.I.E.L.D. and Arthur and Strange warned Tony that Rayquaza was expected to descend.

As the Superhuman Registration Act divided the heroes, Hydra maneuvered to gain power and provoke unrest while Tony and Steve clashed over Bucky. The stretch ended with Nick Fury and Natasha cornered by Kingpin and his transformed followers as his secret project drew attention.

• Doctor Zola helped restore Hydra’s standing and promoted the Superhuman Registration Act while Steve faced a lawsuit over the Avengers Squad’s break-in at Baron Zemo’s home.
• Arthur and Rayquaza defeated the Virus King’s outbreak, and Arthur replaced his body with the weakened virus before disappearing.
• Tony and Steve debated registration as the Avengers Squad split over government control, and Steve later left the team after Tony took custody of Bucky.
• Doctor Zola activated the enhanced Winter Soldier, who attacked Steve before Tony captured him and recognized him as Bucky, the man who killed his parents.
• Hydra and the Foundation negotiated for positions in the Registration Act administration while new Superhumans awakened around the battle of Kyogre and Groudon.
• Jiang Xiang visited Asgard, killed the Three Sisters of Fate, and received a prophecy about Ragnarok from the World Tree.
• Hydra stoked resistance to registration and tried to exploit concern for Bucky, while Steve confronted Doctor Zola about his plan to use the United States as a testing ground for mechanical ascension.
• Nick Fury and Natasha confronted Kingpin in a secret chamber, where Kingpin and his followers transformed and left S.H.I.E.L.D.’s team at a disadvantage.

Natasha’s death drew Barton toward revenge as Asgard endured a Dark Elf invasion, Odin’s death, and Sylvie’s rise as God King. When the nine planets aligned, the barriers between the realms fell and invasions began across Blue Star, while Sylvie led Asgard’s army against the Dark Elves.

• Natasha died from her wounds, and Green Mood bound her soul and offered her a choice between joining the Soul Society and reincarnation.
• Barton drank the Ultra Divine Water, survived its transformation, and learned that Kingpin had killed Natasha.
• Jane became host to the Aether, and the Dark Elves attacked Asgard with a cursed warrior before the future Thor killed Kurse and Jiang Xiang removed the Aether from Jane.
• Yhwach appeared before Almus, who awakened the Aether and summoned more than a hundred Kurse to renew the war against Asgard.
• Odin transferred his power to Sylvie and died, while Jiang Xiang learned that Odin had faked his death to release power and avert a greater crisis.
• The Nine Realms’ forces sent a vanguard to Blue Star, and Doctor Strange used a King's Trial Stone to send one of Jiang Xiang’s avatars into a trial as Jiang Xiang secretly emptied their supply warehouses.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents searching for a spatial node entered a strange forest, where Doctor Strange killed the team after Amon opened a building that accelerated the Nine-Star Alignment.
• The nine planets aligned and invasions began across Blue Star, while Sylvie led Loki, the Warriors Three, and tens of thousands of Asgardian veterans through a portal to fight the Dark Elves.