Recaps

Lynn rescued Yinsen and helped Tony Stark survive Obadiah Stane, but learned that using his reality-altering ability damaged his memory and consciousness. With a safeguard prepared at Kamar-Taj, Lynn resumed studying magic and helped Tony bring Bruce Banner there to confront his relationship with Hulk.

• Lynn joined the Ancient One at Kamar-Taj, then traveled to Afghanistan and Sokovia, where he rescued Yinsen from the cave and brought Wanda and Pietro to study magic.
• Lynn helped Tony escape Afghanistan, reunited him with Yinsen, and introduced him to the New York Sanctum, while Tony promised to arrange Lynn’s identity and housing.
• Lynn saved Tony by replacing his missing Arc Reactor, then helped Pepper Potts and fought Iron Monger until his power disintegrated the armor and left him unconscious.
• Tony concluded that Lynn’s power rewrote physical information at the cost of his brain, and Lynn confronted his memory loss and blackouts before asking the Ancient One for help.
• The Ancient One and Tony prepared a memory-deletion safeguard that would limit Lynn’s power-related overload, and Lynn returned to Kamar-Taj to study magic properly.
• Lynn told Tony where to find Bruce Banner and warned that Samuel Sterns’s attempted cure could worsen Banner’s condition, so Tony brought Banner to Kamar-Taj.
• Lynn explained that Banner could learn to accept and integrate Hulk, then offered to consult the Ancient One and arrange a room for him at Kamar-Taj.

Lynn helped Tony overcome his palladium poisoning, brought Ivan Vanko into an uneasy partnership, and warned Coulson about threats to come. The arc ended with Loki stealing the Tesseract, and Lynn agreeing to fight alongside S.H.I.E.L.D. without joining Fury’s command.

• Lynn warned Tony that Howard had left something in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s files, and Tony went to find it after refusing to hand over his armor at a congressional hearing.
• At the Monaco race, Lynn warned Tony about Ivan Vanko, who attacked him with electrified whips before Tony defeated him and visited him in detention.
• Lynn told Tony that Howard had left him his life’s work, and Tony used Howard’s Expo model to discover a new element that Lynn transformed into a stable reactor core.
• Lynn offered Vanko a choice between revenge and proving his family’s intelligence, and Vanko accepted a contest with Tony before joining him in the lab.
• Lynn warned Coulson about Thor and the Destroyer, a Chitauri invasion, and Serpent S.H.I.E.L.D., while asking Coulson to keep his final secret confidential.
• Tony gave Lynn an apartment in Stark Tower, and Lynn brought Banner there to work at Stark Industries while warning him about the coming alien invasion.
• Lynn asked Tony to develop a Regeneration Cradle that could grow and preserve tissue, and Tony contacted Dr. Helen Cho about the project.
• Coulson told Lynn that Loki had stolen the Tesseract and taken control of Hawkeye and Professor Selvig, and Lynn brought Vanko and Banner to Stark Tower to brief Tony.

Lynn and the Avengers fought Loki’s Chitauri invasion, and Lynn’s copied Mind Stone pushed him into a dangerous loss of control. After the battle, Lynn and Tony confronted the harm caused by Stark weapons, while the Ancient One allowed Lynn to study the Time Stone under strict limits.

• Tony, Ivan, Banner, and Lynn joined S.H.I.E.L.D.’s effort to recover the Tesseract, while Lynn objected to Coulson’s surprise introduction of Steve Rogers.
• Tony and Rogers captured Loki in Stuttgart, but Thor intervened before agreeing to return Loki to the Helicarrier for questioning.
• Lynn copied the Mind Stone’s physical form, then rescued Natasha during Hulk’s rampage and later carried the injured Coulson to safety.
• Lynn deduced that Loki would attack Stark Tower, and he led the defense of Manhattan as the Chitauri poured through the wormhole.
• Lynn implanted the copied Mind Stone and used an immense magic array to immobilize and destroy Chitauri forces, but the strain and memory loss made his behavior increasingly brutal.
• Tony sent a nuclear missile through the wormhole, Natasha closed it with Loki’s scepter, and Tony caught Lynn as his powers faded.
• Natasha stayed with Lynn during his recovery, while Tony and Ivan determined that the gem had boosted Lynn’s processing speed and caused his temporary personality changes.
• Lynn and Natasha visited Tony’s seaside villa to see the new armor lineup, then traveled to Kamar-Taj, where Tony apologized to Wanda and Pietro for the weapons that killed their parents.
• Lynn showed the Ancient One his imitation Mind Stone, and she permitted him to study the Time Stone under strict conditions.

Lynn helped Tony survive Killian’s attack and undergo surgery to remove the shrapnel from his chest. After Fury was reported dead and Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. was exposed, Lynn helped Fury and Steve plan a counterattack against Project Insight.

• Lynn and Natasha camped in Iceland, where they grew closer, until Tony called to report Happy’s injury and attacks on Stark.
• Lynn guided Tony to Rose Hill to investigate the attacks, but Killian’s forces captured him before JARVIS sent a charged suit to rescue him.
• Tony defeated Killian, then underwent surgery with Lynn’s protection and Dr. Wu’s help to remove his shrapnel and Arc Reactor.
• Natasha learned that Fury had been ambushed and declared brain-dead, then joined Steve, Coulson, and Hill in investigating Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• The group decrypted Fury’s drive, found Zola’s underground data center, and escaped its destruction before hiding at Sam’s home.
• Lynn warned the team that Sitwell carried tracking devices and explained how Project Insight used data to target Hydra’s enemies.
• The team found Fury alive in Ohio, and Fury revealed that replacement chips could stop the Helicarriers from carrying out Project Insight.
• Fury accepted Lynn’s plan to seize the Helicarriers and replace their chips, while Steve assigned the team roles for the final counterattack.