Recaps

Solomon told Ying Nan he wanted to meet Ta Lo’s Divine Dragon and offered to destroy the Soul-Eating Beast behind the Dark Gate in exchange. When Ying Nan refused and ordered him to leave, Solomon decided to wake the dragon himself.

• Solomon identified Ta Lo’s unusual beasts as ordinary animals and revealed he had sensed a powerful Divine Dragon sleeping beneath the lake.
• Ying Nan refused to let Solomon approach the Divine Dragon, explaining that its power sustained the seal on the Dark Gate.
• Solomon offered to destroy the Soul-Eating Beast and its minions, but Ying Nan doubted his strength and suspected he might be deceived by the monster.
• Ying Nan said the Divine Dragon could not be awakened except during a world-ending crisis and again demanded that Solomon leave.
• Solomon laughed and said he could wake the Divine Dragon himself, then planned to greet it with a method it would understand.

Solomon released his divine aura in Ta Lo, awakening the Divine Dragon and frightening the people and creatures around him. He offered to destroy the Soul-Eating Beast behind the Dark Gate, but the wary dragon doubted it could be killed, and Solomon prepared to prove his strength.

• Solomon unleashed his restrained power, making the Ta Lo creatures and warriors prostrate themselves in fear.
• Solomon's aura reached the sacred lake and awakened the ancient Divine Dragon, which flew out to face him.
• The Divine Dragon sensed Solomon's overwhelming strength, while Solomon inspected the dragon and marveled at its appearance.
• Solomon told the Divine Dragon he had come to see it and offered to eliminate the Soul-Eating Beast behind the Dark Gate.
• The Divine Dragon warned that the beast was nearly indestructible and that opening its seal could cause a catastrophe.
• Solomon said he would take the liberty of proving himself and asked the Divine Dragon to forgive the offense.

Solomon proved he could overpower the Primordial Divine Dragon, who then led him to the sealed Dark Gate and opened it. The Soul-Eating Beast and its swarm emerged, and Solomon discovered that his newly acquired Divine Dragon Power could counter their energy-based bodies.

• Solomon seized control of the Primordial Divine Dragon, copied Divine Dragon Physique, and released him unharmed.
• The Primordial Divine Dragon acknowledged Solomon’s strength and led him to the Dragon-Scale Gate sealing the Dark Gate.
• The Primordial Divine Dragon opened the gate, releasing the Soul-Eating Beast and thousands of Soul-Eating Monsters.
• The Primordial Divine Dragon attacked the monsters while Solomon tried to control them with his psychic power.
• Solomon found that psychic control passed through the creatures and realized Divine Dragon Power could damage their energy bodies.

Solomon trapped the Soul-Eating Beast and its swarm in a spatial prison, then burned them away with rule-powered divine flames. After the beast was annihilated, Solomon gained its dark soul-eating physiology.

• The Soul-Eating Beast abandoned its fight with the Primordial Divine Dragon and charged at Solomon with its swarm.
• Solomon froze the surrounding space and compressed the beast and more than ten thousand Soul-Eating Monsters into a small cube.
• The Soul-Eating Beast mocked Solomon’s ordinary flames and claimed they could not kill it.
• Solomon empowered his flames with rule power and Divine Dragon Power, turning them into platinum divine flames that erased the Soul-Eating Beast.
• Solomon received the dark soul-eating physiology after defeating the beast.

After Solomon destroyed the Soul-Eating Beast, he declined the Primordial Divine Dragon’s invitation to leave Ta Lo and stayed there to rest for a few days. Meanwhile, S.H.I.E.L.D. tracked Loki to Stuttgart and sent Captain America and Natasha to capture him.

• Solomon’s combined attributes reached level 8, and he gained Dark Soul-Eating Physiology after defeating the Soul-Eating Beast.
• The Primordial Divine Dragon thanked Solomon, refused to leave Ta Lo, and promised to aid him if he called for help.
• The Primordial Divine Dragon returned to the lake to recover, while Ying Nan and the villagers welcomed Solomon and hosted him in Ta Lo.
• At S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier, Nick Fury briefed Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner on Loki’s theft of the Tesseract and his control of Barton and Dr. Selvig.
• An agent reported that Loki had appeared in Stuttgart, and Nick Fury ordered Captain and Natasha to capture him.

Tony Stark and Steve Rogers captured Loki, but Thor intervened and fought them until they agreed to work together and bring Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier. Loki was imprisoned and questioned by Nick Fury while the others watched him from the monitoring room.

• Captain America, Steve, and Tony subdued Loki in Stuttgart and escorted him aboard the Quinjet.
• Thor arrived in a storm, seized Loki, and fought Tony in the forest until Steve intervened.
• Thor, Tony, and Steve stopped fighting and agreed to return Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier together.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents locked Loki in a transparent prison cell, where he mocked Nick Fury during questioning.
• Tony, Steve, Thor, Black Widow, and Dr. Banner watched Loki on the surveillance feed from the conference monitoring room.

Tony and the Avengers’ argument over S.H.I.E.L.D.’s secret Tesseract weapons project was interrupted when Loki’s forces attacked the Helicarrier. After the battle left Coulson dead and the Helicarrier wrecked, Tony began to question whether accepting Solomon’s offer could have prevented the loss.

• Tony secretly hacked S.H.I.E.L.D.’s database with JARVIS and discovered the Phase Two weapons project, sparking an argument among the Avengers and Nick Fury.
• Hawkeye and armed mercenaries attacked the Helicarrier, destroying its number-three turbine and sending the ship into a violent tilt.
• Dr. Banner transformed into Hulk and rampaged through the Helicarrier, while Thor fought him until Hulk leapt out after a S.H.I.E.L.D. fighter.
• Loki tricked Thor into a detention cage, stabbed Agent Coulson with his scepter, and escaped as he dropped Thor from the Helicarrier.
• Tony saw Coulson’s bloodstained Captain America cards and wondered whether Solomon could have saved him, causing Tony’s resolve to waver.

Tony realized Loki planned to open a portal over New York using the Arc Reactor at Stark Tower, but Solomon arrived there before the Avengers and confronted Loki. When Loki tried to brainwash him with the Mind Stone Scepter, Solomon struck Loki with overwhelming mental power.

• Tony calmed down with Steve's help, deduced that Loki was targeting Stark Tower, and flew toward Manhattan in his damaged armor.
• Dr. Selvig prepared the Tesseract on Stark Tower's rooftop as it began charging, while Loki waited inside for the Avengers.
• Solomon appeared in the living room, poured himself wine, and told Loki he had come to watch the show rather than stop him.
• Loki grew suspicious of Solomon and thrust the Mind Stone Scepter toward his heart to brainwash him.
• Solomon attacked Loki's mind before the scepter could touch him, leaving Loki frozen and unresponsive.

After defeating Loki, Solomon took the Mind Stone from his scepter and endured its overwhelming mental force long enough to draw on its Chief God-level power. He embedded the stone in his Nth Metal Bracelet, which appeared to contain it safely.

• Solomon acquired frost giants physiology and Asgard Sorcery after defeating Loki, then took Loki’s Mind Stone Scepter.
• Solomon crushed the scepter’s blue casing and exposed the Mind Stone.
• Solomon resisted the Mind Stone’s mental force by converting his 158 strands of cosmic rule power into Mind Stone rule.
• Solomon briefly drew on the stone’s power and found it exceeded his own mental strength by more than a hundredfold, but stopped when the strain increased.
• Solomon pressed the Mind Stone against his Nth Metal Bracelet, which reshaped itself into a socket and embedded the stone.

Solomon took the Mind Stone from Loki and watched as Tony returned to confront him. Loki, terrified of Solomon and unable to shut down the portal, abandoned his plans and secretly fled.

• Solomon removed the Mind Stone from Loki's scepter, mounted it on his Nth Metal bracelet, and returned the empty scepter to Loki.
• Tony arrived at the tower, failed to break through the Tesseract's force field, and found Solomon waiting in the living room.
• Solomon told Tony he would not help unless Tony admitted defeat and called for him, and Tony agreed to ask if the crisis became desperate.
• Loki considered surrendering, but Tony demanded he shut down the portal, which Loki could not do without the Mind Stone.
• Loki used an illusion and invisibility to slip away, while Solomon noticed his escape and let him go.

Tony tried to stop the Tesseract with his Mark VII armor, but Solomon explained that the Space Stone’s shield could not be breached by ordinary attacks. The portal opened over New York, the Chitauri invaded, and as Tony charged into battle, Solomon secretly sent Rule Power into the Tesseract.

• Tony revealed his Mark VII armor and blasted Loki’s illusion, learning from Solomon that Loki had already escaped.
• Tony’s attack on the Tesseract’s spatial shield failed, and Solomon told him the Space Stone’s power was fully active.
• Solomon identified Loki’s scepter as having once contained the Mind Stone, and Tony ordered JARVIS to search for Loki and the scepter.
• The Tesseract opened a huge wormhole over New York, through which Chitauri forces poured from a vast alien mothership.
• Tony flew up to fight the invading Chitauri while Solomon secretly directed a wisp of Rule Power into the Tesseract.

Tony fought the Chitauri advance force as the alien army poured through the wormhole, but Solomon’s barrier protected Manhattan’s civilians from their attacks. With the Chitauri massing above the shield and Tony unable to handle them alone, he faced the choice of asking Solomon for help and conceding their bet.

• Tony fired missiles at the Chitauri, but many enemies broke past him and descended toward Manhattan’s streets.
• Solomon raised a transparent golden barrier over Manhattan that blocked the Chitauri’s energy beams and surviving attacks.
• Tony saw Solomon on Stark Tower and realized that he had created the barrier.
• Steve and Natasha arrived in a Quinjet, and Tony explained his bet with Solomon and the cost of asking him for help.
• Steve urged Tony to call on Solomon, but Tony resisted because he would lose Stark Tower and have to work for him.
• Tony watched the Chitauri army and its Leviathans gather above the barrier and realized he was the only Avenger equipped to fight them in the air.

Solomon secretly amplified the Space Stone’s portal, revealing a vast Chitauri fleet that plunged New York and the world into despair. Tony admitted defeat and asked Solomon to save Earth, and Solomon began covering himself with the Nth Metal from his Mind Stone bracelet.

• Solomon touched the Space Stone, causing the portal to expand until the alien fleet was visible across the sky above New York.
• New Yorkers, the Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., and people around the world watched in terror as the enormous Mothership and alien army were revealed.
• Tony regretted not admitting defeat to Solomon sooner, believing the invasion had become impossible to stop.
• Solomon appeared beside Tony and asked whether he would admit defeat, then promised it was not too late.
• Tony admitted defeat and begged Solomon to save Earth, and Solomon activated the Nth Metal in his bracelet.

Solomon annihilated the Chitauri forces pouring through the portal, then entered their mothership and faced an envoy of Thanos. The envoy begged him to spare them and promised to withdraw their forces.

• Solomon transformed into a black battle suit and wiped out the Chitauri soldiers and Leviathans over New York in an instant.
• Solomon absorbed the dead Chitauri souls, raising his Mental Attribute by one level-4 unit, then charged through the portal after the remaining forces.
• Solomon destroyed the Chitauri troops and escort fleet in space, leaving only their main mothership intact.
• Solomon appeared inside the mothership's command room, where the envoy bowed and pleaded for mercy on behalf of Lord Thanos.

Solomon destroyed the Chitauri command crew and fleet, then returned to Earth after his mental attribute reached level 8. On Stark Tower, he stopped Hulk with ease and calmed him until he changed back into Dr. Banner.

• Solomon dismissed the Other’s threat, devoured the souls in the command room and more than a million Chitauri soldiers, and gained the Mind Intimidation ability.
• The Chitauri souls raised Solomon’s mental attribute to level 8 and gave him four new strands of rule power.
• Solomon left the Mothership, which exploded behind him as he returned through the spatial passage to Earth.
• Solomon landed on Stark Tower beside Tony and the reunited Avengers, where Hulk charged and Solomon caught his punch with one hand.
• Solomon called Hulk by name, struck the top of his head, and calmed him with mind power until he reverted to Dr. Banner.

Solomon claimed the Tesseract and Space Stone, closing the portal over New York, then transported the Avengers to his penthouse and announced plans for Vought International. He offered Tony, Hawkeye, and Black Widow places in the company and promised to make the two agents Supes, leaving Natasha asking whether he could give ordinary people powers like Captain America.

• Solomon took the Tesseract from its device, collapsing the portal above New York, then shattered the cube and secured the Space Stone beside the Mind Stone.
• Solomon used the Space Stone to bring the Avengers to his penthouse and declared the building Vought Tower, ordering Tony to arrange its new name and logo.
• Tony accepted defeat and agreed to hold a global press conference announcing Vought International and inviting Supes to join, with Iron Man as its first superhero.
• Solomon offered the others a chance to join Vought and warned Hawkeye and Black Widow Natasha that they would have to sever their ties with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Solomon said he could make Natasha and Hawkeye into Supes, and Natasha asked whether he could grant ordinary people powers like Captain America.

Solomon invited several people, including Loki, to join Vought International after the battle, and told Loki that he would one day save countless lives. Thor objected, insisting that Loki must stand trial in Asgard and that he would take the Tesseract with him.

• Solomon told Solomon and Steve that his Compound V could turn ordinary humans into true Supes and invited them to consider joining Vought International.
• Solomon invited Thor and Dr. Banner to join the company, but Thor refused because he wanted to find Loki and take him to Asgard for trial.
• Solomon used the Mind Stone to locate Loki and opened a portal that brought him into the living room, where Loki immediately surrendered.
• Solomon invited Loki to become a superhero and predicted that Loki would eventually save more lives than everyone else present combined.
• Thor insisted that Loki must return to Asgard to face trial and demanded that Solomon hand over the Tesseract so it could be sealed away.

Solomon stopped Thor from taking Loki and the Space Stone, then used the Mind Stone to immobilize him and caught Mjolnir with his bare hand. After suppressing Odin’s Rule Power inside the hammer, Solomon defeated Thor and gained his Asgardian physiology and Power of Thor.

• Solomon told Thor that Loki and the Space Stone were his spoils, and Thor insisted on taking them by force.
• Thor prepared to attack Solomon, but Solomon used the Mind Stone to freeze him in place.
• Mjolnir broke free from Thor and flew at Solomon, who caught it with his bare hand.
• Solomon used his Rule Power to suppress the power inside Mjolnir and tossed the hammer aside.
• Solomon defeated Thor and gained Asgard Physiology and the Power of Thor.

Solomon copied Thor’s and Hulk’s abilities, then gave Loki the choice to join Vought International or return to Asgard as a prisoner. Loki chose to stay, but Captain America and Tony challenged Solomon over Loki’s crimes and the deaths he had caused.

• Solomon released Thor from mind control, and Thor retrieved Mjolnir but stayed quiet after seeing Solomon’s power.
• Solomon probed Bruce Banner’s consciousness, suppressed Banner and Hulk, and acquired gamma physiology.
• Solomon’s rule power rose to 173 strands after copying Thor and gaining power from the Chitauri and other abilities.
• Solomon offered Loki a place at Vought International or a return to Asgard, and Loki chose to stay.
• Solomon warned Loki not to betray him and ordered him to remain in the building awaiting orders.
• Captain America objected to Loki escaping punishment, and Tony reminded Solomon that Loki had killed Agent Coulson.

Solomon left the Avengers to meet the Ancient One in the Mirror Dimension, where she confronted him about disrupting the future. After learning that his changes had prevented the universe’s coming catastrophe in most timelines, the Ancient One could not deny that the future was safer.

• Solomon told the Avengers that Nick Fury was trying to resurrect Coulson and that Loki’s delivery of the Mind Stone offset his crimes.
• Solomon departed the Avengers’ gathering by folding space and entering the Mirror Dimension outside Stark Tower.
• Solomon met the Ancient One, whose physical attributes were ordinary despite her extraordinary mental and energy power.
• The Ancient One told Solomon that he was absent from the futures she had seen and that his arrival had changed the universe’s course.
• The Ancient One admitted that Solomon’s changes had prevented the coming universal catastrophe in most futures she could observe.

Solomon agreed to wait before claiming the Eye of Agamotto and arranged to visit Kamar-Taj to study its magic. Back at Stark Tower, Banner offered to join Vought International and asked Solomon to erase the Hulk, but Solomon warned that doing so might also destroy Banner’s ability to transform.

• The Ancient One refused to give Solomon the Eye of Agamotto yet, promising to pass it to him when he was ready.
• Solomon asked to study Kamar-Taj’s books and spells, and the Ancient One welcomed him.
• The Ancient One dismissed the Mirror Dimension, returning Solomon to Stark Tower, where Natasha, Hawkeye, and Steve had already left.
• Thor continued trying to persuade Loki to return to Asgard, while Banner stayed at the tower in hopes Solomon could help him.
• Banner agreed to join Vought International and asked Solomon whether he could cure his condition.
• Solomon said he could erase Hulk’s consciousness but warned Banner that it might also remove his ability to transform.