Recaps

Harry reached the maze’s Portkey and was carried into Voldemort’s resurrection ritual, but Grindelwald and the Great Liches trapped the Death Eaters while Hermione destroyed Voldemort. Su Ming bargained with Death to restore Lily and another woman, then took Hermione as his apprentice before the story shifted to Tony Stark’s capture.

• Draco found Harry grieving over a photograph, and Snape later examined Harry after Draco feared he might harm himself.
• Harry told Dumbledore he believed James had framed Snape and stolen Lily, then resolved to make amends to Snape.
• Hermione and Harry competed in the Ten-School Tournament, and Hermione used the maze’s route and a Portkey to ensure Harry reached the final task first.
• Wormtail used Harry’s blood to resurrect Voldemort, but Grindelwald summoned Great Liches who trapped Voldemort and the Death Eaters while Hermione destroyed Nagini and later killed Voldemort.
• Su Ming arranged for Dumbledore and Grindelwald to reunite, obtained the three Deathly Hallows, and summoned Death through the Council of the Sky’s magical network.
• Su Ming survived Death’s one-hour wager, then Harry awoke in the infirmary and reunited with Lily while Hermione became Su Ming’s apprentice.
• Su Ming showed Hermione Kamar-Taj, then returned to Wilson Manor as a report said Doctor Reed Richards’s team might have been lost in a supernova.
• Tony Stark’s convoy was ambushed after he demonstrated his missile, and Cassandra’s masked soldiers captured him and left him in a basement with a crude pacemaker.

Tony announced that he was Iron Man while Frank became the Punisher and Thor was exiled to Midgard. Wade tried to teach Thor how mortal life worked, but their work on Tony’s yacht was interrupted by an attack from thousands of gorillas, which Su Ming linked to newly awakened superhumans.

• Tony escaped Cassandra in his armor, returned to New York, shut down Stark Industries’ weapons division, and defeated Obadiah in the Iron Monger armor before announcing, “I am Iron Man!”
• Frank’s evidence against Billy was rejected, and after Daredevil captured Billy, Frank killed him and escaped.
• Odin stripped Thor of his power and inheritance after Thor provoked the Frost Giants, then exiled him to Midgard with Mjolnir.
• Wade accepted Su Ming’s contract to befriend Thor and teach him the hardships of mortal life, then helped Thor understand money and work through a string of encounters.
• Tony hired Wade and Thor to perform Riverdance aboard his yacht, where Thor struggled with rehearsals and learned that superheroes could earn money through endorsements.
• Tony’s yacht party was interrupted by thousands of gorillas in floating spheres, and Thor charged into the sea while Wade tried to distract the attackers.
• Su Ming told Howard that he had not foreseen the attack, deduced that a male psionic user controlled the gorillas, and connected their arrival to radiation that could awaken superhumans across Earth.

Thor lost his powers and was taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, while Wade rescued him and Loki and put them to work. Su Ming investigated Starbrand’s emergence, secured limited help from the Leopard God, and brought Wanda to Titan to search its ruins for useful technology.

• Hawkeye fought Tony Stark after destroying apes attacking Tony’s yacht, while Coulson and Mockingbird escaped with Thor aboard a cloaked Quinjet.
• Charles Xavier explained that the Fantastic Four’s Cosmic Energy-altered DNA could give their descendants dominant X-Genes, and agreed to let Black Bolt test samples in Attilan.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. tested Thor and collected hundreds of thousands of hammers, but Thor could not identify Mjolnir until Loki freed him and Wade later blasted him out of an asylum.
• Daisy and Caroline opened their cupcake shop and kept a mysterious square-headed hammer that flashed with electricity.
• Wade made Thor and Loki work as doormen at the Peace Hotel, while Su Ming negotiated limited cooperation from the Leopard God and learned Starbrand was linked to universal ascension.
• Magneto rescued imprisoned Mutants and refused to hand them over to Charles, leading the Brotherhood and X-Men to fight before Charles ordered a retreat.
• Agatha brought Wanda to Kamar-Taj, where Su Ming chose her to help locate Starbrand and took her to Titan to explore its ruins.
• Su Ming and Wanda searched Titan for a Deep Space Probe and found a nearly intact Healing Pod containing a dead Titan, while Wanda sensed something watching her.

Su Ming and Wanda infiltrated Thanos’s forces and followed the Starbrand’s trail back to Earth, where Su Ming enlisted Jean Grey and Emma Frost to locate its host. They found the host in Eight-Ball, whose uncontrolled power threatened a woman in a Boston apartment building.

• Su Ming and Wanda infiltrated Sanctuary II disguised as Thanos and Adam Warlock, where they witnessed Gamora and Nebula’s brutal contest and learned Thanos was searching for Starbrand.
• Thanos’s forces found the dead creature that had launched the energy wave, and Su Ming discovered its Starbrand mark before continuing the hunt for its next host.
• Thor tried to live as an ordinary New Yorker while a rooftop fight among Punisher, Wade, Daredevil, Bullseye, and Hawkeye unfolded, then a giant Fin Fang Foom appeared off New York.
• Su Ming and Wanda watched Tony battle Fin Fang Foom, then Su Ming left the fight to the heroes and sought help locating Starbrand.
• Jean Grey refused Su Ming’s request to search minds, and Su Ming warned Charles that Phoenix could not continue like this before leaving with Wanda.
• Su Ming and Wanda reached Massachusetts Academy, where Su Ming destroyed a Sentinel attack and Emma Frost used an imitation Brainwave Amplifier to locate the Starbrand host.
• Eight-Ball terrorized a woman on her balcony while ignoring the Starbrand symbol on his chest, then unleashed Cosmic Energy that destroyed part of the building.