Recaps

Rimuru explained why T-1000 liquid metal was unsuitable for Megatron, despite its powerful self-healing ability. After Megatron called in the Decepticons for upgrades, Rimuru chose Starscream and Barricade to go first.

• Megatron coveted Ratchet's self-healing liquid-metal body and showed Rimuru that he wanted the same upgrade.
• Rimuru warned Megatron that extreme cold, heat, and strong acids could disable or destroy liquid metal, making it a poor match for Megatron's fighting style.
• Ratchet felt briefly disappointed that his new body still suited support work, then accepted his strengths and regained his composure.
• Megatron gave up on the liquid-metal upgrade and complained that Rimuru had brought up his embarrassing time frozen beneath Hoover Dam.
• Megatron called the Decepticons to line up, but they crowded the laboratory until Rimuru sent them back outside.
• Rimuru kept Starscream and Barricade behind to be upgraded first.

Rimuru continued upgrading the Transformers before Nick Fury arrived with the Flerken in exchange for the agent serum. Rimuru brought the orange cat into the laboratory, where the Transformers grew fond of it, though Ironhide kept his distance.

• Rimuru began tailored combat upgrades for Starscream and Barricade while the Autobots waited their turn.
• Black Dragon alerted Rimuru that Nick Fury had arrived alone at the surface base with a Flerken.
• Nick Fury handed Rimuru the orange cat and asked him to keep it safe, while Rimuru promised to deliver S.H.I.E.L.D.'s agent serum.
• Rimuru returned to the laboratory with the Flerken and asked Black Dragon to buy cat supplies.
• The Transformers gathered around the cat, which climbed over them, while Ironhide avoided it because it reminded him of a Chihuahua that had peed on his leg.

Steve Rogers visited Rimuru after finishing a mission against Hydra remnants and asked him to deliver custom-made silicone models to Wanda. Steve thanked Rimuru for helping him reunite with Peggy, but Rimuru realized his interventions might have cost Steve the chance to spend a full lifetime with her, leaving Steve confused by Rimuru’s sudden guilt.

• Ironhide grew wary of the Flerken and Rimuru after seeing them swallow objects many times their size.
• Steve arrived after leading teams to clear Hydra bases and capture undercover agents.
• Rimuru teased Steve about visiting Peggy, and Steve said their occasional meetings were enough to make up for the past.
• Steve gave Rimuru two custom-made silicone models for Wanda and asked him not to cause conflict with Pietro.
• Steve thanked Rimuru for the recovery potion that let him share a long-awaited dance with Peggy, and Rimuru wondered if he had changed Steve’s future ending for the worse.
• Rimuru grew guilty as he considered Peggy’s limited lifespan, while Steve became unsettled by the sudden change in his expression.

Rimuru offered Steve two ways to preserve Peggy Carter beyond her natural lifespan, but Steve insisted that Peggy must choose for herself. Steve hurried to find her, while Rimuru reflected that his actions had already changed Steve’s fate.

• Rimuru explained that he could create a virtual replica of Peggy or preserve her soul and give it a new body.
• Steve reacted with shock and hope, but said Peggy had to decide whether she wanted either form of continued existence.
• Rimuru agreed to respect whatever Peggy and Steve chose.
• Steve hurried toward town to speak with Peggy about their future.
• Rimuru watched Steve leave and wondered how his intervention had altered the predetermined course of fate.

Rimuru delivered Steve’s gift to Wanda, warned her to be wary of Kaecilius, and asked the Ancient One why his cultivation had stalled. The Ancient One explained that his absorbed powers were holding him back, leaving Rimuru to reckon with the need for proper cultivation.

• Rimuru decided to give Steve a chance to choose eternity, then returned to his routine at the underground base.
• Rimuru brought Steve’s two silicone models to Kamar-Taj, where Pietro angrily tried to throw them away until Wanda stopped him and asked to keep them.
• Wanda told Rimuru that her Chaos Magic was becoming more controlled under the Ancient One’s guidance, and he praised her progress.
• Rimuru warned Wanda to keep her distance from Kaecilius, explaining that he would become dangerous, and Wanda trusted his advice.
• Rimuru asked the Ancient One why he could not advance, and she said the external powers he had absorbed were mixed and impure, preventing his foundation from transforming.

Rimuru helped restore Cybertron and was asked by Optimus Prime to repair Metroplex’s damaged transformation gears. At Metroplex’s fortress, Rimuru also found Sentinel Prime living peacefully in retirement, while his search for Trypticon came up empty.

• Rimuru spent his days upgrading Transformers and watching Cybertron rebuild in his virtual dimensional planet.
• Optimus Prime told Rimuru that Metroplex’s Spark and body had been restored, but his damaged transformation gears left him stuck in base form.
• Rimuru eagerly followed Optimus Prime to Metroplex and marveled at the enormous fortress.
• Rimuru searched Cybertron for Trypticon but found no trace of him.
• Rimuru met Sentinel Prime, who explained that he had chosen to retire on the rebuilt Cybertron after the war ended.

Rimuru examined Metroplex’s badly damaged transformation gear and promised to repair it in his laboratory. When he asked for plans to build a headquarters, Optimus Prime offered him Metroplex as a mobile base, and Rimuru agreed to take him while leaving him on Cybertron for now.

• Rimuru inspected Metroplex’s cracked, jammed transformation gear and reassured Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime that he could repair it.
• Rimuru joked about Metroplex’s carbon emissions, and Sentinel Prime and Optimus Prime explained that Cybertronians produced no exhaust during normal operation.
• Rimuru proposed taking the transformation gear to his laboratory for careful repair, and Optimus Prime entrusted the work to him.
• Rimuru asked Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime for Titan construction plans so he could build a headquarters for his forces.
• Optimus Prime offered Rimuru Metroplex, explaining that the Titan was no longer needed on peaceful Cybertron and would otherwise remain dormant.
• Rimuru accepted Metroplex as his mobile base but decided to leave him on Cybertron until he found a suitable place for him.

Rimuru set aside the difficult repairs to Metroplex’s transformation gear and watched news reports smear Spider-Man before an alert revealed that a Life Foundation spacecraft had crashed in Malaysia after an unknown life-form breached its hull. He turned his attention to the crash, where the story left him examining the ship’s recordings and surveillance logs.

• Rimuru returned to his laboratory with Metroplex’s transformation gear and discovered that repairing its damaged runes, circuits, and Spark-linkages would take careful work.
• Rimuru put off the repairs and watched a New York news broadcast praise Spider-Man before the Daily Bugle’s coverage attacked Peter Parker as a public danger.
• Rimuru reflected on Jameson’s contradictory habit of smearing Spider-Man while protecting him from people who wanted to hurt him.
• Black Dragon alerted Rimuru that the Life Foundation’s Life One had crashed in the Borneo rainforest after an unknown life-form broke through the spacecraft’s hull.
• Rimuru stopped eating sunflower seeds and studied the spacecraft’s flight recordings, crash footage, and internal surveillance logs.

Rimuru investigated Eddie Brock’s background and went to San Francisco to meet him after the Venom Symbiote bonded with him. He found Eddie barely conscious and learned that the new host’s only immediate superhuman effect was overwhelming hunger, then offered him chocolate.

• Rimuru asked Black Dragon to gather intelligence on Eddie Brock and learned about his journalism career, failed relationship with Anne Weying, and losses after exposing the Life Foundation.
• Rimuru decided to visit San Francisco, passed through a portal, and found Eddie convulsing on the floor while Venom struggled to bond with him.
• Venom sensed Rimuru’s overwhelming power and hid inside Eddie, suppressing his presence rather than risking a confrontation.
• Eddie weakly asked Rimuru to call an ambulance, and Rimuru teased him before asking how the Symbiote had changed him.
• Eddie said he had gained no superhuman strength and felt only an intense hunger, so Rimuru offered him a chunk of special dark chocolate instead of beef.

Rimuru used chocolate to calm Venom and discovered that the Symbiote could be controlled through its appetite. He offered Venom unlimited chocolate and help overcoming its weaknesses in exchange for behaving, leaving Eddie and Venom ready to follow him.

• Eddie devoured Rimuru's special chocolate, recovering as it soothed Venom's hunger and agitation.
• Venom spoke up demanding more chocolate, then became fearful when it sensed Rimuru's overwhelming power.
• Rimuru promised Venom more chocolate and help with its weaknesses if it stopped eating people and causing trouble.
• Venom accepted Rimuru as its new master and vowed to behave, leaving Eddie stunned by its sudden change of allegiance.

Rimuru visited Eddie to explain that he was hunting Riot, a powerful Symbiote, and planned to stop Carlton Drake’s human experiments before Riot could reach him. He admitted he wanted a live Symbiote to study and improve his technology, leaving Eddie questioning the double standard.

• Eddie recognized Rimuru as a powerful Stark Industries shareholder and asked why he had come to his apartment.
• Rimuru said he was targeting Riot rather than Venom, and Venom admitted that Riot was a formidable warrior he could not defeat.
• Rimuru explained that Symbiote strength depended on compatibility with a host and wondered why Eddie and Venom performed so poorly in fights.
• Rimuru said he could not track Riot’s route from Malaysia and decided to target Carlton Drake, whose human experiments made him Riot’s intended host.
• Rimuru revealed that he wanted a live Symbiote to study for his technology, prompting Eddie to question how that differed from Drake’s experiments.

Eddie challenged Rimuru over the ethics of using Symbiotes for research, but Rimuru explained why targeting the murderous Riot differed from Drake’s experiments on innocent people. Rimuru then sent Eddie’s evidence to Nick Fury, who ordered the Life Foundation’s San Francisco headquarters sealed and authorized lethal force against Carlton Drake if he resisted or fled.

• Eddie accused Rimuru of applying a double standard by condemning Drake’s experiments on people while planning to experiment on Symbiotes.
• Rimuru argued that Drake had tortured innocent humans, while he intended to use the murderous Riot as research material; Eddie accepted the distinction, and Venom agreed that Riot was the bad one.
• Eddie asked whether they should raid the Life Foundation or expose its crimes, and Rimuru instead requested the evidence Eddie had gathered undercover.
• Rimuru had Black Dragon Gillvalis archive and transmit Eddie’s photos and recordings to Nick Fury, then warned him that dangerous Symbiotes had reached Earth.
• After reviewing the evidence and footage of Venom, Nick Fury ordered a task force to seal off the Life Foundation’s San Francisco headquarters and authorized them to shoot Carlton Drake if he resisted, fought back, or fled.

Rimuru cut short Fury’s excuses about returning the 2,000 T-1000s after learning that his automated electric car factory had finally been approved. He offered Eddie a million-dollar job promoting the cars, then tasked Venom with luring Riot into a trap.

• Fury dodged Rimuru’s demand to return the 2,000 T-1000s by citing S.H.I.E.L.D.’s staffing pressures and announcing approval for Rimuru’s car factory.
• Eddie secretly took notes on Rimuru and Fury’s conversation, then learned he had been blacklisted as a journalist and would be monitored by S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Rimuru offered Eddie a million-dollar annual salary and benefits to promote the electric cars, and Eddie eagerly accepted.
• Rimuru explained the danger of Venom forming a Codex and attracting Knull, and decided to keep Eddie and Venom close.
• Rimuru ordered Venom to use the Symbiotes’ telepathic link to lure Riot into a trap, promising Venom unlimited magic chocolate.

Rimuru forced Riot toward a trap by announcing an accelerated spacecraft launch, then celebrated the approval and unveiling of his futuristic electric car. Tony Stark watched the launch and tried to revive his father’s hover-car project, but found it could not work on ordinary roads.

• Rimuru told Nick Fury to conceal Drake’s arrest and announce an early spacecraft launch to lure Riot into revealing itself.
• Rimuru celebrated the approval of his electric-car technology and unveiled a futuristic mass-produced vehicle at a global press conference.
• The press compared Rimuru to Howard Stark, prompting Tony Stark to resent being overlooked and decide to finish his father’s hover-car project.
• Tony examined the hover-car blueprints and concluded that electromagnetic levitation required magnetic roads while jet propulsion would destroy ordinary roads.

Tony's attempts to solve the hovercar problem failed, so he asked Rimuru for antigravity principles. Rimuru produced a Cybertronian levitation craft and data, leaving Tony shocked by the Transformers' technological level.

• Tony's simulations showed that electromagnetic and jet-propelled levitation were impractical for civilian use, reminding him of Howard Stark's unfinished hovercar dream.
• Tony decided to ask Rimuru for antigravity formulas so he could adapt and implement the technology himself.
• Rimuru realized he lacked Earth's antigravity formulas but could access Cybertronian levitation technology through Black Dragon.
• Rimuru retrieved Cybertronian levitation data and brought out a hovering reconnaissance craft for Tony to inspect.
• Tony recognized the craft as Transformers technology and realized how far their engineering surpassed Earth's.

Tony spent three days adapting Cybertronian antigravity technology into a basic model for a small crewed vehicle, then returned to Stark Industries to test it. Rimuru expected Earth’s political and economic order to block civilian hovercars, but shifted his attention when Riot’s agitation exposed his location ahead of the spacecraft launch.

• Tony studied Cybertronian spatial technology for three days and completed a basic antigravity engine model suited to Earth's conditions.
• Tony thanked Rimuru, left for Stark Industries, and planned to begin physical prototype tests.
• Rimuru concluded that civilian hovercars would face resistance from politicians, capital, and the public, but decided not to warn Tony.
• Black Dragon Gillvalis detected Riot's agitated energy and locked onto his location as the interstellar spacecraft launch approached.
• Rimuru contacted Eddie and told him to bring Venom so they could intercept Riot.

Rimuru and Venom found Riot at the empty rocket launch site, where Rimuru’s Black Flame Lightning badly wounded it and its host. Riot tried to parasitize Rimuru, but he stopped it with high-frequency ultrasound and left it asleep on the ground.

• Rimuru and Venom located Riot inside the launch site and saw it had abandoned its original child host for a middle-aged man.
• Riot realized the rocket was gone and that Rimuru and Venom had trapped it, so it transformed and tried to flee.
• Rimuru stopped Venom from attacking and struck Riot with Black Flame Lightning, critically injuring Riot and its host.
• Riot abandoned its dying host and lunged at Rimuru, hoping to parasitize him.
• Rimuru used high-frequency ultrasound to put Riot to sleep, then approached it and teased it about sleeping in a public place.

Rimuru captured Riot after defeating him and then urged Eddie to pursue Anne again. Eddie remained unsure whether he should interrupt her new life, while Rimuru and Venom encouraged him to apologize and win her back.

• Riot regained consciousness, begged Rimuru to spare him, and then claimed his defeat was unfair.
• Rimuru subdued Riot with repeated War Stomps, sealed him in a reinforced vacuum glass jar, and stored him away.
• Rimuru teased Eddie about whether he had won back Anne, and Eddie admitted he was hesitant because another man was pursuing her.
• Rimuru encouraged Eddie to approach Anne, apologize sincerely, and tell her how he felt.
• Venom joined Rimuru in urging Eddie to win Anne back.

Eddie awkwardly tried to make amends with Anne but could not tell her he wanted to get back together, leaving her to believe he only acted out of guilt. Rimuru decided to ask Tony Stark to coach Eddie before Anne’s other suitor could win her over.

• Eddie agreed to look for Anne, weighed down by guilt over how he had hurt her and ruined their future together.
• With Venom coaching him, Eddie spent two days bringing Anne thoughtful gifts, apologizing, and showing her careful attention, but he never asked to start over.
• Anne grew confused and disappointed, mistaking Eddie’s restraint for proof that he no longer wanted their relationship.
• Rimuru realized Eddie’s fear and insecurity could cost him his remaining bond with Anne, so he decided to find him a relationship coach.
• Rimuru called Tony Stark and asked him to teach Eddie how to pursue Anne and express his feelings; Tony was baffled by the request.

Rimuru brought Eddie to Tony Stark for help rebuilding his confidence and winning Anne back. Tony exposed Eddie’s guilt-driven hesitation and began planning a sincere confession, leaving Eddie more determined to pursue a future with Anne.

• Rimuru offered Tony anti-gravity vehicle data in exchange for coaching Eddie, and Tony agreed.
• Tony criticized Eddie’s hesitant behavior and explained that his apologies and kindness had buried his true feelings for Anne.
• Eddie admitted that his past mistakes made him feel undeserving of asking Anne to reunite.
• Tony urged Eddie to distinguish atonement from love and warned that Anne’s lack of clarity could let another suitor step in.
• Venom encouraged Eddie to pursue Anne, and Eddie began to overcome his self-doubt.
• Tony proposed a customized plan to clarify Eddie’s feelings to Anne and help them start over.

Rimuru watched Tony teach Eddie how to win Anne back, but Tony’s flirtation advice and stories of his past threatened to turn Eddie into a playboy. Tony insisted his methods had restored Eddie’s confidence and proposed getting him practical experience, leaving Rimuru regretting that he had brought Tony in.

• Tony gave Eddie a detailed romance lesson and added pickup tricks from his own past, while Venom eagerly absorbed every tip.
• Tony and Venom demonstrated their methods on a passing woman until Rimuru threatened to tell Pepper and Tony stopped.
• Eddie became fascinated by Tony’s stories, and Rimuru feared the lesson was steering him away from faithfully winning Anne back.
• Rimuru stopped the lesson and confronted Tony, who claimed his stories had reduced Eddie’s guilt and boosted his confidence.
• Tony said Eddie needed practical experience with a woman he did not know, and Rimuru regretted putting Anne at risk.

Tony trained Eddie to overcome his guilt and confess his love to Anne, while Rimuru considered warning Anne’s new boyfriend, Dan Lewis, with a staged collision. Eddie reconciled with Anne before Rimuru could act, leaving Dan unbothered and Tony irritating Rimuru with his boasting.

• Rimuru stopped Tony from teaching Eddie womanizing tricks, and Tony instead coached Eddie to face his mistakes and express his feelings honestly.
• Eddie regained confidence in pursuing Anne, while Venom encouraged him to go for it.
• Rimuru saw Dan Lewis growing closer to Anne and decided to have Optimus Prime scare him with a controlled collision.
• Eddie confessed his love and apologized to Anne, who revealed through her reaction that she still loved him, and the two reconciled.
• Rimuru and Tony watched Eddie and Anne kiss; Rimuru abandoned his plan for Dan and considered sending Ironhide next time, then thought Tony deserved to be run over instead.

Eddie and Anne reconciled, and Tony returned to his anti-gravity engine research while Rimuru went back to the super electric car factory. As the factory neared completion, Rimuru identified its understaffed legal department as a serious risk and made building a stronger legal team his next priority.

• Eddie and Anne reunited, while Tony watched from nearby and declared his romantic coaching a success.
• Tony told Rimuru to keep his help to Eddie secret and threatened to expose embarrassing photos if Rimuru betrayed him.
• Tony drove back to his laboratory to resume anti-gravity engine research, and Rimuru headed to the electric car factory.
• The factory's construction and departments advanced steadily, while Eddie tested the first-generation prototype and studied its features for sales.
• Rimuru recognized that the legal team could not handle the disputes and regulatory risks of future expansion, so he decided to build a top-tier legal department.

Rimuru hired Anne Weying to lead a specialized legal team and establish a legal framework for the emerging electric vehicle industry, protecting his factory from regulatory and antitrust risks. Anne accepted and began preparing industry rules and negotiating with government and business.

• Rimuru recognized that the lack of electric vehicle laws and the risk of antitrust action could threaten his factory and its technology.
• Rimuru decided to recruit Anne Weying rather than rely on Tony's general-purpose legal team.
• Anne learned how Rimuru had helped Eddie face his feelings and thanked him for bringing them back together.
• Rimuru offered Anne authority over the company's electric vehicle legal affairs and industry regulation efforts.
• Anne accepted the position and formed a dedicated legal team at the factory.
• Anne's team began researching industry law and negotiating rules with government and business.

Anne built a legal framework for the electric vehicle industry with Rimuru’s guidance, but capital filed an antitrust suit before the rules took effect. Anne defeated the suit, the new regulations were enacted, and Rimuru prepared to expand Super Electric Vehicles across the market.

• Anne worked with government departments to draft electric vehicle regulations and compliance standards, while Rimuru reviewed and finalized them.
• An alliance of established automakers and Wall Street private equity firms sued the Super Electric Vehicle Company, demanding access to key patents, a breakup, and a massive fine.
• Rimuru handed the complaint to Anne, who used the company’s government filings, Stark Industries’ support, and patent disclosures to rebut the plaintiffs in court.
• The court dismissed every claim, finding that the company had not engaged in malicious monopoly, and ordered the plaintiffs to pay legal costs.
• Government departments accelerated and enacted a comprehensive set of regulations for the Super Electric Vehicle sector, completing Anne’s legal framework.
• Rimuru reviewed the new laws and prepared to launch Super Electric Vehicles across the market.