Recaps

Rimuru launched three mass-market electric vehicles at the Stark Expo and challenged the traditional automotive industry’s faith in fuel-powered cars. As the audience embraced the new technology, he began considering using the AllSpark to turn the EVs into electric Transformers.

• Rimuru held the Super Electric Vehicle Company’s global launch at the Stark Expo, with Pepper Potts presiding.
• Rimuru unveiled three civilian EVs priced for commuters, families, and high-end SUV buyers, while postponing the luxury supercar series.
• Rimuru mocked the inefficiency and high maintenance costs of internal combustion cars and argued that ordinary people wanted affordable, low-hassle transportation.
• The crowd cheered Rimuru’s speech, and viewers began to see electric vehicles as the start of a new era.
• Rimuru imagined using the AllSpark to animate his company’s EVs as Transformers that could attack enemies with high-voltage electricity.

Super Electric Cars became a nationwide sensation and transformed the automotive market, while Rimuru focused on repairing Metroplex’s Transformation Cog. He successfully restored it with advanced liquid metal, but was left facing the challenge of finding and legally securing a suitable place for Metroplex.

• Super Electric Cars won over consumers with their range, low running costs, and smart features, and demand sent their factory and stock price soaring.
• Investors, entrepreneurs, and established automakers rushed to enter the electric-car market as the industry scrambled to respond.
• Rimuru withdrew to his laboratory and used liquid primordial cells from the Riot Symbiote to create a self-healing liquid metal without the Symbiote’s weaknesses.
• Rimuru used the new material to reconstruct Metroplex’s damaged Transformation Cog, restoring it to the condition of a brand-new component.
• Rimuru held off on reinstalling the cog because he still needed a secure, sufficiently large site and legal approval to house Metroplex.

The Tesseract opened a portal in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s underground base, allowing Loki to arrive and take control of Hawkeye. The T-1000 Terminators then overwhelmed Loki, leaving Nick Fury determined to keep them as the base faced the risk of an energy explosion.

• Nick Fury learned that the Tesseract had activated and was leaking an unknown energy.
• Loki emerged from a portal with the Mind Stone Scepter and ignored Nick Fury's demand to surrender.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents fired on Loki, but their bullets failed to hurt him, and he quickly overpowered them.
• Loki used the Mind Stone Scepter to control Hawkeye as Nick Fury tried to protect the Tesseract.
• T-1000 Terminators arrived and beat Loki down, while Nick Fury resolved to keep them and considered the potential damage useful for securing more funding.

Loki was overwhelmed by six T-1000s in the underground laboratory, but escaped after blasting them apart and using the Mind Stone Scepter to control S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel. With the base nearing collapse, he led his captives away and left Agent Hill behind as the alarms blared.

• Six T-1000s surrounded Loki, battered him, and pinned him with hardened liquid-metal restraints.
• Loki blasted two T-1000s apart with the Mind Stone Scepter, but watched them reassemble and return to the fight.
• Barton warned Loki that the director was stalling and the base was about to explode, so Loki fired more blasts to clear his way.
• Loki controlled the remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and Dr. Selvig, then used the Tesseract's energy fluctuations to lead them out of the laboratory.
• Loki encountered Agent Hill as the underground base began to collapse, then disappeared into its passageways with his controlled men.

After Loki escaped with the Tesseract, Nick Fury launched the Avengers Initiative and recruited Rimuru to help defend Earth. Rimuru agreed in exchange for permission to study the Tesseract after the war, while eagerly anticipating Thor’s arrival and planning to build Metroplex’s city form as a base.

• Agent Hill failed to stop Loki, who escaped the collapsing base with Dr. Selvig and controlled agents.
• Nick Fury declared an emergency and summoned Steve Rogers, Bucky, Tony Stark, Dr. Banner, Natasha, and Rimuru to join the Avengers Initiative.
• Fury told Rimuru that dozens of T-1000s had been destroyed in the base disaster, but Rimuru recognized the claim as an attempt to conceal their recovery and keep them.
• Rimuru agreed to fight for Earth in exchange for short-term access to the Tesseract after the war, and Fury accepted with restrictions.
• Before leaving, Fury asked about Daju and petted the orange cat, then returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. to prepare the Avengers for battle.

Rimuru arrived at the Helicarrier after arranging for the Autobots and Decepticons to support the Battle of New York, where Natasha confronted him over the grim Life Foundation cleanup he had helped trigger. He offered her Extremis in exchange for joining him as a personal secretary on a Hawaii vacation after the war, and she accepted despite worrying about Nick Fury’s reaction.

• Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes boarded the Helicarrier, followed by Natasha Romanoff, Tony Stark, and Dr. Banner.
• Rimuru contacted the Autobots and Decepticons to prepare them to support the coming battle, then landed on the Helicarrier.
• Natasha confronted Rimuru about her gruesome Life Foundation cleanup mission, and Rimuru offered to help her complain to Nick Fury.
• After Steve and Bucky joined them, Rimuru reminded Natasha that Extremis could heal her scar and offered her a dose in exchange for accompanying him to Hawaii as his personal secretary.
• Natasha accepted the offer but worried that Nick Fury would not let her leave S.H.I.E.L.D.; Rimuru assured her he would handle him.

S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier entered stealth mode as the team prepared to track Loki, and Banner joined the operation in high spirits. Loki tried to force a crowd to submit, but Steve Rogers intervened just as Loki attacked a defiant old man.

• Steve Rogers paid Nick Fury ten dollars after losing their bet about the Helicarrier, while Rimuru and Agent Hill watched.
• Nick Fury assigned Dr. Banner to help locate the Tesseract and track Loki, and Banner praised Rimuru's anti-gravity engine technology.
• Tony Stark stayed quiet as he thought about Bucky's return and the interruption of his anti-gravity engine research.
• Dr. Banner went to Nick Fury's private laboratory, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents reported a facial-recognition match for Loki.
• Loki used the Mind Stone Scepter to pressure a crowd into submission, but a white-haired old man refused to bow.
• Loki attacked the old man, and Steve Rogers blocked the blast with his Vibranium Shield.

Rimuru abruptly landed on Loki and rode his neck, tugging at his helmet horns while Tony encouraged him and mocked the Asgardian. Loki struggled furiously but could not dislodge Rimuru, leaving the invasion scene turned into a public humiliation as he threatened the mortals around him.

• Rimuru dropped onto Loki's neck and began pulling at his helmet horns while berating him for their earlier encounter.
• Tony Stark arrived in his Iron Man Armor, saw Rimuru riding Loki, and cheered him on while comparing Loki to a stallion.
• Steve Rogers, the civilians, and the agents stared in stunned disbelief as the battlefield's tension gave way to the absurd spectacle.
• Loki surged with divine power and struggled to throw Rimuru off, but Rimuru clung on and tugged harder.
• Loki roared that the Midgardians had dared to humiliate a god and threatened to destroy the square.

Steve restrained Loki and the team took him back to the Helicarrier, while Rimuru eagerly anticipated Thor’s arrival. A thunderclap and Thor’s appearance confirmed that the next encounter had begun, though Steve suspected Loki had allowed himself to be captured.

• Steve pinned Loki down, and Loki’s Asgardian armor vanished as he stopped resisting.
• Tony and Rimuru teased Loki, who silently vowed revenge and feared Rimuru’s mention of Hulk.
• The team escorted Loki aboard the Quinjet, and Rimuru anticipated Thor joining the Avengers.
• A thunderclap made Loki tense, leading Steve to suspect Loki had deliberately surrendered.
• Thor landed on the Quinjet and moved to strike Tony, but Rimuru called out and stopped him.

Thor recognized Rimuru, then seized Loki and took him to a wilderness cliff to confront him about his survival and invasion of Midgard. Tony, Rimuru, and Steve followed and watched the brothers’ heated family argument, which left Thor frustrated and Loki unwilling to change.

• Thor stopped his attack when he recognized Rimuru, then grabbed Loki and flew away with him.
• Rimuru explained Thor’s identity to Steve and Tony, and Tony followed the brothers while Rimuru invited Steve to watch.
• Thor confronted Loki at a wilderness cliff, demanding to know why he had invaded Midgard after Asgard had mourned him as dead.
• Loki mocked Thor and rejected his concerns as the brothers argued over their past and Loki’s ambitions.
• Tony recorded the quarrel from the air while Rimuru and Steve watched from behind a rock, seeing the gods bicker like ordinary brothers.

Rimuru ended Thor and Loki’s confrontation by inviting Thor to drink baijiu, while Loki was taken into custody aboard the Helicarrier. In detention, Loki manipulated the team and provoked Banner, leaving suspicion and unease among the Avengers.

• Rimuru reassured Thor, dismissed the damage Loki had caused, and invited him to try Moutai.
• Thor seized Loki and accompanied Rimuru and Tony back to the Helicarrier, where S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers restrained and escorted Loki to a cell.
• Loki cooperated with his arrest while privately believing the Helicarrier’s layout and defenses matched his plans to begin the Battle of New York.
• Banner felt uneasy at Loki’s expression, while Nick Fury warned Loki not to attempt an escape.
• Loki taunted the Avengers through the interrogation chamber, targeted Banner to stir Hulk’s anger, and planted suspicion among Steve, Tony, Natasha, Bucky, and the others.

As the team analyzed Loki’s plans aboard the Helicarrier, Rimuru hoped the coming crisis would help him secure land for Metroplex and turned the tense meeting into a drinking party. Thor and Tony enjoyed Rimuru’s Moutai while Steve, Bucky, Natasha, and Banner refused, leaving the group’s discussion of Loki’s threat underway.

• Rimuru gave Thor an enormous goblet of Moutai, and Thor’s first gulp made him cough and blush.
• Thor recovered and began sipping the liquor slowly while Steve, Natasha, Bucky, and the others analyzed why Loki had stolen the Tesseract and allowed himself to be captured.
• Tony asked Rimuru for a glass, tasted the Moutai, and praised its flavor.
• Steve, Bucky, Natasha, and Banner refused to drink because of the mission and the risks alcohol posed.
• Thor and Tony continued drinking and chatting as the serious briefing became a relaxed gathering.

Tony explained Loki’s plan to use iridium to stabilize a portal for an alien invasion, while the team uncovered S.H.I.E.L.D.’s secret Tesseract weapons project. Trust collapsed in the command center, and Fury blamed Asgard, leaving Thor bewildered and accused.

• Tony explained that Loki had stolen iridium to stabilize a portal and bring an alien army to Earth.
• Tony and Banner analyzed Loki’s scepter while Rimuru played a video game with a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and Fury assigned Coulson to watch Thor.
• Tony and Banner questioned Fury’s secrecy, and Steve investigated S.H.I.E.L.D.’s classified files.
• Tony uncovered the Phase Two Project, and Steve confronted Fury about using Tesseract energy to develop weapons.
• The team accused Fury as Loki’s scepter amplified their anger, but Fury blamed Asgard and Thor protested that he had been on Earth for less than a day.

Nick Fury defended using the Tesseract to arm Earth, but the Avengers’ argument grew dangerously hostile as the Mind Stone amplified their negative emotions. Rimuru blocked the interference and calmed the group, then asked whether everyone had recovered.

• Nick Fury argued that Earth needed Tesseract-powered weapons to defend itself against threats from beyond the stars.
• Steve, Tony, Banner, and Thor condemned Fury’s plan, while Natasha tried to calm the escalating dispute.
• Coulson noticed the group’s anger was abnormal and told Rimuru about the strange arguments.
• Rimuru realized Loki’s Scepter was releasing mental interference and that Hawkeye could soon lead an attack on the Helicarrier.
• Rimuru blocked the Scepter’s radiation and gave Nick Fury, Thor, Tony, Steve, and Natasha medicine that eased their agitation.
• Rimuru asked the now-calm group whether everyone had settled down.

After the Mind Stone’s influence was exposed, the Avengers’ argument ended just as Loki’s attack struck the Helicarrier. Rimuru’s Terminators silently eliminated Hawkeye’s raiding squad, while Natasha and Banner fell through the damaged deck and Banner began transforming into Hulk.

• Rimuru confronted the Avengers over their infighting, and they realized Loki’s Scepter had intensified their suspicions and anger.
• The Tesseract’s energy trace located it at Stark Tower, but an explosion disabled Engine Three and threw the Helicarrier into chaos.
• Rimuru gave Coulson a recovery potion as Fury received Hill’s report, while Tony and Steve headed for their armor and shield.
• Natasha and Banner fell through a blown-out floor, and Rimuru sensed that the T-1000 Terminators had already defeated Hawkeye’s attackers.
• Rimuru reached the damaged lower deck and found Natasha injured and Banner losing control as he began transforming into Hulk.

Rimuru calmed Banner, healed Natasha, and sent her to confront Hawkeye with a belt, while he headed to watch the engine repairs. Loki escaped the Helicarrier after stabbing Coulson, leaving Natasha grieving and angry.

• Rimuru used a paralyzing sleep breath to calm Banner and helped Natasha recover from her injury.
• Rimuru gave Natasha a Septwolves belt and told her to use it against the controlled Hawkeye, then went to watch the repairs at engine three.
• Natasha encountered Loki and Hawkeye in the corridor and fought Hawkeye while Loki interfered with illusions and the Mind Stone.
• Coulson confronted Loki, who stabbed him through the chest with the Mind Stone Scepter.
• Natasha knocked Hawkeye unconscious, but Loki escaped, leaving Coulson critically wounded.

Nick Fury discovered that Rimuru had secretly given Coulson a recovery potion and decided to fake Coulson’s death to unite the divided Avengers. As Coulson was carried away under a white sheet, Rimuru remained unaware of the emergency while watching Tony repair the Helicarrier’s engine.

• Natasha reported Coulson’s critical injuries and called for Rimuru, who could not hear because he was out of communication range.
• Nick Fury reached Coulson and learned about the recovery potion hidden in his jacket.
• Fury planned to stage Coulson’s death so the Avengers would set aside their divisions and unite against Loki.
• Coulson pretended to die, and Fury told Natasha and the arriving Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that Coulson had been killed in action.
• The agents carried Coulson away beneath a white sheet, and his eyelashes trembled once they were out of sight.
• Rimuru finished watching Tony repair the engine and prepared to leave.

After the Helicarrier attack, Rimuru used Nick Fury’s staged account of Coulson’s death to bargain for land for an Avengers base, and Fury agreed to a concealed city-sized site. The group regrouped for the pre-battle briefing, while Steve and Tony accepted that Rimuru could not save Coulson.

• The Helicarrier stabilized after the fighting, and Natasha went to check on Hawkeye while Rimuru thought about food.
• Nick Fury showed Rimuru bloodstained autograph cards and claimed they had been found in Coulson’s jacket, but Rimuru recognized Fury’s attempt to stir the Avengers’ resolve.
• Rimuru demanded land for an Avengers base and revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. had copied his technology and that Fury had used the Tesseract to make weapons partly to guard against him.
• Fury agreed to a site about the size of a medium-sized city after Rimuru promised to conceal it from satellites and radar.
• Fury asked Rimuru to wake Banner and gather everyone for a pre-battle briefing, and Rimuru dispelled Banner’s paralyzing sleep.
• Steve asked whether Rimuru could have saved Coulson, and Rimuru denied being able to do so, leaving Steve and Tony to accept Coulson’s death and focus on the coming battle.

Tony identified Stark Tower in New York as the stage for Loki’s planned invasion, and the Avengers united and headed there. They arrived too late to stop Selvig’s device, whose blue shield protected it as panic spread below.

• Tony deduced that Loki planned to open a portal over New York from Stark Tower and conquer Earth before a worldwide audience.
• Steve rallied the Avengers, and Banner, Natasha, Thor, and the others prepared to fight while Rimuru remained relaxed.
• Fury sent the Avengers to Manhattan in the Quinjet, then admitted to Hill that he had used Coulson’s staged death to unite them.
• Tony reached Stark Tower and found the mind-controlled Dr. Selvig activating the portal device.
• Tony fired at the device, but its blue energy shield blocked the blast as people below noticed the commotion and began to panic.

Loki’s attack triggered the Tesseract’s portal, bringing the Chitauri Army to New York as Thor, Tony, and the arriving Avengers fought to respond. Rimuru abandoned his spectator’s role when Chitauri fighters headed for his electric vehicle factory.

• Tony taunted Loki until Loki lost his temper, threw him from the rooftop, and Tony activated his new armor.
• The Tesseract opened a vast portal, and the Chitauri Army poured through to attack New York.
• Thor confronted Loki on the rooftop, but Loki’s boosted, slippery fighting style pushed Thor onto the defensive.
• Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Banner arrived in a damaged Quinjet after Loki blasted it with his scepter.
• The Chitauri capital warship descended over New York, and Rimuru spotted fighters heading toward his factory and prepared to fight.

Rimuru destroyed the Chitauri leviathan warships with a casual attack, leaving the Avengers relieved but Nick Fury and the World Security Council alarmed by the destruction his power could cause. Fury insisted the situation was under control and warned that Rimuru would be far more dangerous as an enemy.

• Rimuru combined Black Flame Lightning with Kamar-Taj magic and destroyed the Chitauri leviathan warships above New York in one attack.
• The Avengers relaxed after seeing Rimuru eliminate the ships, then realized how disastrous Loki controlling him could have been.
• Nick Fury ordered Hill to contact Rimuru, but she said he had no communicator; Fury then told her to reach Tony and ask him to intervene.
• The World Security Council confronted Fury over the apparent nuclear-scale destruction in New York and challenged his claim that the situation was under control.
• Fury defended Rimuru as an ally and warned the council that they would not have time to question him if Rimuru were their enemy.

Rimuru deployed his Terminator army to rescue civilians and overwhelm the Chitauri ground forces, then summoned the Transformers to seize control of the skies. The Avengers watched as Optimus Prime, Megatron, and their forces destroyed the Chitauri ships and cut off the enemy reinforcements.

• Tony delivered Fury's urgent message, and Rimuru stopped his indiscriminate bombardment while the Chitauri portal continued pouring out troops.
• Rimuru surveyed the battlefield, saw the heroes and civilians under pressure, and ordered Black Dragon to deploy Terminators to New York.
• The Terminators overwhelmed the Chitauri ground forces and evacuated the remaining civilians, but could not reach most enemies in the sky.
• After confirming the danger zone was clear, Rimuru ordered Black Dragon to deploy the Transformers army.
• Optimus Prime and Megatron led the Autobots and Decepticons in destroying Chitauri fighters and warships, securing the skies and stopping reinforcements from reaching the city.

Rimuru’s Transformers and Ultimate Nullifiers overwhelmed Loki’s Chitauri army while Thor subdued Loki. Fearing Rimuru’s power, the World Security Council secretly ordered a nuclear strike on New York, but Nick Fury and the T-1000s stopped the attack before it could reach the city.

• Rimuru’s mechanical forces slaughtered the Chitauri across the battlefield as Thor pinned down and beat Loki.
• The World Security Council bypassed Nick Fury and ordered two nuclear-armed fighters to launch toward downtown New York.
• Hill alerted Fury to the unauthorized takeoff, and Fury ordered the T-1000s and Helicarrier defenses to intercept the fighters.
• Nick Fury destroyed one fighter with a cannon, while T-1000s tore apart the second and secured its nuclear warhead.
• Nick Fury condemned the Council’s decision and feared that Earth’s shortsighted leaders posed a greater danger than alien invaders.

Rimuru watched the Transformers defeat the Chitauri and abandoned his plan to profit from a nuclear strike after realizing Fury had stopped it. As the Avengers cornered Loki on Stark Tower, Hulk smashed him across the rooftop while Rimuru recorded the scene.

• Rimuru watched the Transformers wipe out the Chitauri at the portal and considered, then rejected, renting out the living Transformers.
• Rimuru waited for the World Security Council to launch a nuke, then realized Nick Fury had prevented the strike and vowed to demand compensation from Fury.
• Rimuru turned his attention to Stark Tower, eager to record Hulk's famous confrontation with Loki.
• Loki tried to escape as the Avengers surrounded him, then provoked Hulk by declaring himself a god.
• Hulk grabbed Loki by the leg and repeatedly smashed him into the rooftop, leaving him dazed and subdued.
• Rimuru recorded the beating and watched the footage with satisfaction.

After Dr. Selvig revealed that Loki's Scepter could close the portal, the Avengers and their allies searched the battlefield for it. Eddie and Venom emerged with the scepter, leaving the heroes on guard against the strange creature.

• Dr. Selvig told the Avengers that Loki's Scepter could activate the portal's failsafe, but the scepter had been lost in the battle.
• Loki claimed he did not know where the scepter was, and Thor stopped Hulk from attacking him after judging that he was telling the truth.
• Tony ordered the Avengers to search the battlefield, while Rimuru sent the Terminator legion and the Transformers to look through the rubble.
• Eddie and Venom emerged from the ruins holding Loki's Scepter, prompting the Avengers to take fighting stances.
• Natasha recognized Venom's appearance as a painful reminder of her encounter at the Life Foundation.