Recaps

Gwen Stacy attacked Coulson and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who approached Lynn in the desert, keeping them away from him while he endured agony in the simulated spacetime. At Helheim, Hela removed the Death Force from Lynn and dragged him toward her Underworld hall as her captive, while Lynn secretly considered his plan successful.

• Gwen Stacy watched over Lynn and prepared to stop anyone who came near him.
• Coulson led a S.H.I.E.L.D. convoy toward the crater, but the vehicles’ electronics failed as the agents approached.
• Gwen Stacy ambushed the agents, incapacitated them, and threatened Coulson when he came within ten paces of Lynn.
• At Helheim, Hela drew the Death Force out of Lynn and formed a chain around his neck.
• Hela dragged Lynn toward her Underworld hall and declared that his life and soul belonged to her, while Lynn secretly smiled that she had taken the bait.

Lynn was dragged before Hela in Helheim and taunted her about her undisciplined army and lack of military skill. Hela attacked him in a rage, leaving Lynn dangling by the throat as he continued to mock her.

• Hela ordered Lynn to kneel and called him her pet, but he sat down and criticized her throne and undead troops.
• Lynn warned that Odin's army would arrive soon and explained how its formations and weapons would defeat Hela's berserkers.
• Hela realized Lynn had identified her army's weakness, but became furious when he called her a stupid blade and a rabid dog who could not rule.
• Hela rushed at Lynn, grabbed him by the throat, and lifted him off the ground while threatening to tear out his tongue.
• Despite struggling to breathe, Lynn refused to beg and sneered at Hela.

Lynn confronted Hela while she strangled him, using intimacy and taunts about her abandonment and loneliness to make her lower her defenses. Just as Hela released him, Odin's vanguard arrived in the Underworld.

• Hela lifted Lynn by the throat, but he stopped struggling and cupped her face despite her tightening grip.
• Lynn mocked Hela's army and reminded her that Odin had abandoned her in the Underworld for thousands of years.
• Lynn told Hela that killing him would leave her with no one in the Nine Realms who could understand her, and she hesitated as her weapon dissolved and her grip loosened.
• War drums sounded across the Underworld, causing Hela to release Lynn and turn toward the horizon.
• Lynn collapsed onto the obsidian floor and gasped for air as a golden beam appeared, signaling Odin's vanguard had arrived.

Lynn took command of Hela’s Underworld army and annihilated Asgard’s vanguard with traps and terrain, leaving Hela fascinated by his strategic skill and increasingly possessive of him. In New Mexico, a powerful blond man tore through S.H.I.E.L.D.’s perimeter and headed for Mjolnir despite the agents’ gunfire.

• Lynn persuaded Hela to give him control of the Underworld army and used her power to command its forces.
• Lynn lured Asgard’s troops into traps, collapsing the ground beneath its shield formation, drowning its Pegasus riders in the death swamp, and sending berserkers after its mages.
• Lynn’s forces killed Asgard’s vanguard in less than half an hourglass, and Hela became enthralled by his command of the battle.
• In New Mexico, Coulson learned that a blond man had forced his way into the exclusion zone while Ghost-Spider kept S.H.I.E.L.D. agents at bay.
• The blond man ignored gunfire and charged through the rain toward Mjolnir in the Meteorite Crater.

While Lynn remained focused on his contest with the Goddess of Death, Gwen Stacy attacked Thor for disturbing him and nearly killed him. A powerful energy surge then tore through the storm clouds and descended toward the desert, interrupting her.

• Thor pushed through S.H.I.E.L.D.'s gunfire and tried to lift Mjolnir, but it did not move.
• Gwen Stacy kicked Thor away from Mjolnir and attacked him with an electrified dagger and a series of punishing blows.
• Gwen Stacy pinned Thor in the mud and pressed her dagger to his throat, preparing to kill him for disturbing Lynn.
• A powerful surge of energy tore open the storm clouds and descended toward the desert, triggering Gwen Stacy's Spider-Sense and stopping her attack.

In Helheim, Lynn rejected Hela’s offer of eternal life and divine power, insisting he would remain mortal and fight for her. Hela’s possessiveness intensified, but Odin arrived with Asgard’s main army before she could act on it.

• Lynn coughed up blood in Helheim after the force striking him in the real world weakened his simulated body, while Hela approached him after defeating Odin’s vanguard.
• Hela offered Lynn the origin of death and Underworld Divine General Armor, promising to transform him into her immortal possession.
• Lynn slapped away Hela’s gift and declared that he would stay mortal and personally kill Odin for her.
• Hela became more obsessively possessive, gripping Lynn and warning that he had no right to die without her permission.
• Odin tore through Helheim’s death barrier and arrived with Asgard’s main army.

Odin attacked Helheim and crushed Hela’s undead army, leaving her isolated before he prepared to strip her of her divine power and seal her away. As Odin’s judgment neared, Lynn forced himself out from behind a pillar.

• Odin arrived at the Underworld Palace with Asgard’s army and accused Hela of crossing the line.
• Odin ordered his forces to fire, and Asgardian cannons and infantry slaughtered Hela’s undead legion.
• Hela attacked the flying ships with Night Sky Swords, but Odin’s shield stopped them and he declared her alone and defeated.
• Odin aimed Gungnir at Hela and announced he would strip her divine power and seal her in Helheim.
• Lynn dug his bloodied hand into the floor and forced himself out from behind the pillar.

Lynn endured Odin’s divine pressure and stood between the God-King and Hela, denouncing Odin for using her to conquer the Nine Realms and then branding her a traitor. Hela’s attachment to Lynn intensified as Odin turned Gungnir’s killing force toward him.

• Lynn forced his way through fleeing Ghouls and dragged Hela behind him, shielding her from Odin’s pressure.
• Lynn called Odin a hypocrite and accused him of discarding Hela after she conquered the Nine Realms for him.
• Hela was moved by Lynn’s sacrifice and tightened her grip on his hand as he promised to be her shield.
• Lynn challenged Odin and condemned Asgard’s glory as a cover for plunder and deceit.
• Odin, enraged, redirected Gungnir’s deadly power toward the space between Lynn’s brows.

As Odin prepared to strike Lynn and Hela in the simulated Underworld, Lynn held firm and readied his Substitute Death Skill, but his Spider-Sense warned him of danger in the real world. A massive War Armor arrived in the New Mexico desert and locked onto Lynn’s defenseless body.

• Lynn refused to let Hela push him away and insisted he would shield her from Odin’s attack.
• Hela embraced Lynn and broke down in tears, becoming terrified of losing him.
• Lynn secretly prepared to trigger his Substitute Death Skill and endure the pain to make his sacrifice convincing.
• Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him of danger beyond the simulated space-time, and his vision shifted to the real world.
• A lightning strike brought a huge War Armor crashing into the desert, overturning S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicles before it opened its faceplate and targeted Lynn.

The Destroyer Armor attacked S.H.I.E.L.D.’s forces and turned its weapon on the unconscious Lynn as he remained trapped in Helheim’s simulation. Gwen abandoned her cover and threw herself over Lynn as the beam surged toward them.

• Coulson ordered his agents to fire on the Destroyer Armor, but their bullets could not penetrate its defenses.
• The Destroyer unleashed its beam, vaporizing agents and carving a magma trench through the desert.
• The Destroyer targeted Lynn, who remained unresponsive while facing Odin in the simulation.
• Gwen rushed toward Lynn and threw herself over him as the Destroyer’s beam erupted.

Lynn was trapped between the Destroyer’s attack in the real world and Gungnir’s strike in Helheim, unable to move as Gwen and Hela tried to protect him. Both attacks reached him at once, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Gwen abandoned her attack on Thor and shielded Lynn from the Destroyer’s Omnidirectional Destruction Beam with an electrified web.
• Gwen’s Web Shield began to fail as the beam burned her, but she held on and told Lynn that no one could take him from her.
• In Helheim, Lynn shielded Hela from Odin’s Gungnir and told her that only he was worthy of dying for her.
• Hela tried to take the Divine Punishment in Lynn’s place, but Gungnir struck him as Gwen’s shield shattered and the Destroyer’s beam swallowed them.

Lynn shielded Hela from Odin’s full-powered Gungnir strike in Helheim, enduring fatal destruction to save her. As his body turned to ash, the Substitute Death Skill activated and began calculating his simulation rating.

• Hela tried to push Lynn out of the way of Gungnir, but he seized her wrist and hurled her into the Death Marsh.
• Odin sent Gungnir at Lynn, who stood his ground and took the divine strike head-on.
• Lynn’s body was destroyed by the blow, and the system activated the Substitute Death Skill with Hela as the target.
• Hela rushed to Lynn and wept as he used his remaining strength to comfort her and declare that Odin could not touch her.
• Lynn’s charred body disintegrated into ash, which drifted across Hela’s face and dispersed into the darkness.

After earning an SSS rating for breaking Hela’s psychological defenses, Lynn plundered her Death Force affinity and awakened its power in the real world. As the Destroyer’s beam threatened to kill him and Gwen Stacy, Lynn’s Death Force emerged and shielded them, leaving him transformed and ready to face the danger.

• The simulation ended with Hela’s Yandere Personality awakening progress at 100%, earning Lynn an SSS rating and the Death Force affinity physique.
• Lynn’s consciousness returned to New Mexico as the Destroyer’s beam burned through Gwen Stacy’s web shield and severely burned her back.
• Lynn absorbed Death Force while his other powers clashed with it, then used his will and Space Stitching Technique to contain the energies within his body.
• Gwen Stacy clung to Lynn and declared that she would rather die with him than let anyone take him away.
• As the Destroyer’s beam was about to engulf them, black mist erupted from Lynn and split the beam around them.
• Lynn opened his eyes, now filled entirely with churning black death energy, while he held Gwen safely in his embrace.

Lynn returned to his body as Gwen Stacy clung to him beneath the Destroyer Armor’s Destruction Beam, and he used concentrated death energy to shield them. After saving Gwen and sealing her fading vitality, Lynn turned toward the armor and raised his hand against its beam.

• Gwen Stacy held Lynn and tried to protect them both with her last bioelectricity as the Destruction Beam struck.
• Lynn rose from the sandpit and split the Destruction Beam with black death energy, leaving himself unharmed.
• Lynn forced death energy into Gwen Stacy’s wounds to stop her vitality from draining, and she passed out in his arms.
• Lynn locked his gaze on the enormous Iron Man Armor and gathered the black mist around his right arm.
• Lynn spread his fingers and pressed his hand toward the Destruction Beam.

Lynn crushed the Destroyer Armor’s plasma beam with his bare hand and saved the badly burned Gwen Stacy by stabilizing her with death force. As the Destroyer prepared to fire again, Lynn charged toward it in a fury.

• Lynn caught the Destroyer Armor’s plasma beam in his palm, crystallized it with death energy, and shattered it, forcing the armor backward.
• Thor watched Lynn’s feat in disbelief, while Coulson reported to Nick Fury that Lynn had crushed the beam with his hand.
• Lynn laid the unconscious Gwen Stacy on the sand and used death force to seal her injuries and preserve her life.
• Lynn covered Gwen with his coat, then turned his killing intent toward the Destroyer Armor as it prepared another attack.
• Lynn called the Destroyer Asgardian scrap metal and charged at it like a bolt of black lightning.

Lynn brutally dismantled the Destroyer Armor while protecting the unconscious Gwen Stacy. In Asgard, Odin recognized Hela’s death force in the power that destroyed the Destroyer and discovered that his seal on Helheim had cracked.

• Lynn met the Destroyer’s attack head-on, froze its Uru joints, and ripped off its right arm.
• Lynn disabled the Destroyer’s left arm, tore open its faceplate, and dismantled its armor before crushing its Energy Core.
• Coulson watched in shock as Lynn defeated the Destroyer, while Thor lowered his head in fear.
• Lynn carried the unconscious Gwen Stacy away from the battlefield after briefly staring down Coulson and Thor.
• Odin awoke after sensing his imprint on the Destroyer had been erased by power he recognized as Hela’s death force.
• Odin detected that the ancient seal in Helheim had cracked.

Lynn destroyed the Destroyer, wounded Thor, and disappeared with the gravely injured Gwen Stacy, leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. unable to intervene. In Asgard, Odin sensed death power on Earth and discovered that the seal imprisoning Helheim had begun to crack.

• Lynn crushed the Destroyer's remaining head while using death energy to keep Gwen Stacy alive.
• Thor charged Lynn, who impaled him with a piece of Uru metal and warned him to tell Odin to keep Asgard's weapons off Earth.
• Coulson tried to contact Lynn about medical treatment for Gwen Stacy, but Lynn destroyed his Communicator and vanished with Gwen.
• Odin sensed that the Psychic Brand inside the Destroyer had been consumed by death power and recognized Hela's force in it.
• Odin sensed the ancient seal at the bottom of Asgard cracking open, and a huge fissure began to form.

Odin discovered that Hela was breaking free of his seal after sensing Lynn’s death, and his attempt to stop her failed. Hela shattered the seal, became more powerful, and set out to reclaim Lynn as her King Consort.

• Odin awoke after the Destroyer’s destruction and sensed Hela’s presence through the severed mental link.
• Odin saw that the seal imprisoning Hela in the Underworld Abyss was cracking as she burned her divine soul over Lynn’s death.
• Hela rejected Odin’s attempt to reinforce the seal, and her blood corroded his Odinforce, shattering his divine consciousness and leaving him wounded.
• Odin ordered the Bifrost sealed and the army readied for battle as Hela sensed Lynn’s scent and became enraged by another woman’s presence.
• Hela shattered the seal, formed black spiked armor and a crown, and announced that she had found her King Consort.

Hela broke free of the Underworld Abyss seal and discovered that Lynn was alive on Earth, but she also sensed women surrounding him. She set her sights on reaching him, furious and jealous.

• Hela relived Lynn's apparent death, raged against Odin, and vowed to bring Lynn back and keep him by her side.
• The One-Eyed Commander led Asgardian guards into the Underworld to suppress Hela, but she killed them with a Death Shockwave and Night Sky Swords.
• Hela emerged from the Abyss and sensed Lynn's Death Force Affinity pulsing on Midgard, realizing he was still alive.
• Hela detected Chaos Magic, the Negative Zone Matrix, bioelectric charge, and several women near Lynn, including a woman she perceived in his arms.
• Hela denounced the women as bitches and slashed at the space before her with her Night Sky Sword.

Lynn sensed Hela breaking through space and pursuing him to New Mexico, while he deliberately held the injured Gwen close to provoke Hela’s jealousy. As Hela’s arrival chilled the desert and overwhelmed Thor, a warning at the Baxter Building alerted Susan and Wanda to the approaching threat, and Wanda prepared to confront the woman coming for Lynn.

• Lynn felt his soul bond with Hela flare and saw her slaughter Asgard’s defenders before opening a spatial rift toward his location.
• Lynn held the gravely injured Gwen close, intending to intensify Hela’s jealousy and later subdue her.
• A growing black vortex brought deadly cold and pressure to New Mexico, forcing Thor to his knees as Lynn calmly awaited Hela.
• At the Baxter Building, an alarm reported a world-ending energy source approaching and spatial coordinates being locked.
• Wanda sensed the death-filled presence heading toward Lynn, destroyed the coffee table with her Chaos Magic, and vowed to stop the intruding woman.

Wanda, Susan, and Natasha detected a deathly force targeting Lynn in New Mexico and crossed a spatial rift to reach him. As Lynn protected the badly burned Gwen Stacy, an enormous shadow emerged from a rift in the sky above him.

• Wanda lost control of her chaos magic after sensing a distant presence targeting Lynn, destroying the Baxter Building's roof and top floor.
• Susan and Natasha identified an unknown deathly energy surge over New Mexico and learned that it had locked onto Lynn.
• Susan opened a dangerous spatial rift using the Negative Zone Energy Matrix, and Natasha, Wanda, and Susan entered it to reach Lynn.
• In New Mexico, Lynn crushed the Destroyer Armor's Energy Core and used death energy to keep Gwen Stacy alive.
• A cold spread across the desert as the storm clouds shattered, and a pale bare foot stepped out of an enormous rift above Lynn.

Lynn held the injured Gwen Stacy as he faced Hela’s impending arrival in the New Mexico desert, while Wanda, Susan, and Natasha crossed dimensions to defend him. After crushing the Destroyer’s Energy Core, he stood at the center of their converging powers as Hela’s shadow covered the sky.

• Lynn sensed Wanda unleash a cross-dimensional Chaos Magic attack from New York and detected Susan and Natasha preparing to reach him.
• Lynn approached the Destroyer’s wreckage and ripped out and crushed its Energy Core while Thor and Coulson remained incapacitated by the cold and pressure of death.
• Susan opened an Azure Space Rift, Wanda’s scarlet Chaos Magic storm arrived, and Natasha’s hidden murderous intent locked onto the area.
• Lynn held Gwen tighter and faced the Abyss rift as Hela’s vast shadow enveloped the desert.

Lynn held the gravely wounded Gwen Stacy as Hela emerged through a fissure in the sky above New Mexico, her deathly power crushing everyone nearby. Hela found Lynn and recognized him as the man she had come across dimensions to possess.

• Lynn used death energy to keep Gwen Stacy's fading vitality inside her burned body.
• A massive fissure opened above Mjolnir, and its deathly pressure crushed Coulson, Thor, Susan, Wanda, and Natasha.
• Lynn stood his ground, resisting the pressure with the Dark Phoenix Mark and Chaos Magic as Hela descended from the fissure.
• Hela surveyed the others with contempt before turning her gaze to Lynn.
• Hela recognized Lynn as the man who had taken Divine Punishment for her in the Underworld and fixed on him with a sick, possessive obsession.

Hela unleashed her death energy across the desert, incapacitating S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and severely injuring Thor while overpowering Susan and Wanda. Lynn remained unharmed and confronted Hela as she approached him, but Wanda attacked just as Hela reached for his cheek.

• Hela's death-energy wave knocked Coulson and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents unconscious, crushed armored vehicles, and sent Thor crashing into a concrete support.
• Hela dismissed Thor and attacked Wanda with Night Sky Swords, forcing Wanda to defend herself while Susan struggled to maintain her shield and Natasha hid in the ruins.
• Lynn stood unharmed amid Hela's death energy while holding the wounded Gwen Stacy, and Hela recognized him from their past in the Underworld Palace.
• Hela descended to Lynn, ignored Gwen, and reached toward his face, declaring that no one would take him away again.
• Wanda unleashed a powerful Scarlet Energy attack at Hela and screamed for her to take her hands off Lynn.

Hela unleashed her full death power, crushing everyone around her while Lynn remained standing beside her with Gwen Stacy in his arms. Hela’s obsession with Lynn intensified, and she prepared to proclaim him hers.

• Wanda attacked Hela with scarlet energy, but Hela froze and annihilated the attack with a wave of death energy.
• Hela’s unleashed power overwhelmed Coulson and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, forced Thor to his knees, and incapacitated Susan, Natasha, and Wanda.
• Lynn endured Hela’s pressure without bending, using his resistance to intensify her fixation on him.
• Hela withdrew her death energy and touched Lynn’s cheek, then leaned close as she prepared to declare her ownership of him.