Recaps

Lynn used Soldier Boy’s battlefield victories and Steve Rogers’s transformation to build competing heroic legends while secretly pursuing his own influence and wealth. The arc ended with Steve publicly choosing to fight alongside his unit, beyond Lynn’s control.

• Lynn summoned Soldier Boy, used their disciplinary link to restrain him, and persuaded him to fight for the Allies in exchange for fame and worship.
• Lynn guided Soldier Boy through victories at Saint-Mère Town and used publicity to shape his heroic image, while recruiting Professor Pyg to Hydra.
• Lynn helped Dr. Erskine find Steve Rogers and proved Steve’s courage through the flagpole and grenade tests, securing support for the Super Soldier Program.
• Steve became a super-soldier, but a Hydra assassin killed Erskine, and Lynn secretly stole Erskine’s notebook while concealing the loss from the others.
• Lynn made Steve Captain America, organized his war bond tour, and secretly used Howard Stark’s research and the publicity venture to pursue his own financial plans.
• Soldier Boy grew resentful of Captain America’s fame, then agreed to attack Bella after Lynn framed the puppet town as a chance to prove himself.
• Lynn expanded Foresight through pharmaceutical and industrial ventures, increased penicillin production, and secretly diverted most of the medicine for future profit.
• Lynn helped turn public opinion against Senator Brandt, then urged Steve to choose his own path, and Steve declared that he wanted to fight alongside his unit.

Lynn Morris built influence through the Captain America campaign, the Patriot Foundation, and his growing Foresight empire while turning Soldier Boy and Human Torch against Hydra. As Hydra’s Perfect Beings overwhelmed the Allies and Steve fell unconscious, Lynn stabilized Steve and sent Soldier Boy and Human Torch to attack Hydra’s plants with Foresight weapons.

• Lynn proposed the Captain America Patriot Foundation, helped Howard Stark stabilize the Super Soldier Serum, and received five vials in exchange for a stake in Stark Industries.
• Lynn persuaded Steve Rogers to embrace his public mission, then went to Europe with Peggy Carter and won Soldier Boy’s cooperation by promising him a stage against Hydra.
• Lynn directed Soldier Boy’s assault on Hydra’s Giant complex, copied its research archive, and used the victory to boost Soldier Boy’s public image.
• Lynn recruited Phineas Horton to create Jim Hammond, who imprinted on Lynn and emerged publicly as the Human Torch before joining Steve’s patriotic tour and rescue missions.
• Lynn led the Office of Strategic Psychological Warfare and used raids and Foresight Holdings to seize companies’ assets, while helping Horton solve Hammond’s energy problem with Howard Stark’s circuit design.
• Red Skull ordered Zola and Valentin to create programmable life forms, but the PZ-21 beings formed a hive consciousness, declared they needed no god, and caused a catastrophic energy surge.
• Hydra’s Perfect Beings devastated the Allied fronts, Steve fell unconscious, and Red Skull ordered his forces to converge on Soldier Boy and Human Torch as Lynn told Phillips the game had begun.
• Lynn stabilized Steve in Foresight’s Cradle, secured wartime supply-chain access for Foresight, and ordered Soldier Boy and Human Torch to attack Hydra’s perfect-form plants with new weapons.

Lynn Morris engineered Steve Rogers’s final mission, expanded Vought into entertainment and intelligence, and built a controlled superhero system. By the end, he had spread Compound V across the country and set S.H.I.E.L.D. and Senator Kelly’s investigators against each other in a staged crisis.

• Soldier Boy and Human Torch destroyed Hydra’s Fenrir Giant Wolf, while Lynn revived Steve Rogers with Rebirth and Steve chose to return to the Howling Commandos.
• Lynn summoned Motoko Kusanagi and Selina Kyle, then sent Selina to steal Hydra’s research as Vought purged compromised staff and established its Manhattan headquarters.
• Soldier Boy humiliated Steve, and Bucky Barnes fell from Zola’s train, and Steve later confronted Red Skull, who vanished with the Tesseract, before Steve crashed the Valkyrie into the ice to save New York.
• Lynn staged Steve’s state funeral, declined to join S.H.I.E.L.D., and expanded Vought into Hollywood and broadcasting while Soldier Boy and Human Torch became advertising stars.
• Lynn took the perfected serum for himself, assembled Vought’s covert leadership, and introduced Starlight and Guardian through staged attacks that Vi helped stop.
• Lynn approved mass production of Compound V and arranged its release into Chicago’s water supply, causing powers to awaken as Vought promoted a registration and management system.
• Lynn used Ada Wong to steer Senator Robert Kelly toward a false Hydra investigation, while Peggy Carter’s S.H.I.E.L.D. team and the FBI entered Hannibal’s trap at an Illinois steel mill as disguised reporters filmed the firefight.

Lynn and Vought manipulated metahuman fears, using Adrien Dubois as the Deconstructionist to push public support toward sweeping registration powers. Yasuo killed Adrien and joined Vought, while Howard and Maria’s deaths left Lynn responsible for Tony; four years later, Vought encountered Vers and learned Skrulls had infiltrated Earth.

• After the Illinois livestream discredited Senator Robert Kelly, Congress passed the Metahuman Registration and Management Act and appointed Lynn director of Vought’s new bureau.
• Lynn and Hannibal turned Kyle into Vought’s first manufactured hero, Vulcan, while Hannibal chose Adrien Dubois to become a destructive supervillain.
• Hannibal cultivated Adrien as the Deconstructionist, and Vought used his attacks and staged encounters to frighten the public and undermine metahuman groups and street heroes.
• The Deconstructionist killed members of the Awakened Mutual Aid Society, defeated vigilantes and Avengers, and altered the Metropolitan Museum of Art as support for mandatory regulation surged.
• Howard warned Lynn about spies, shared his inventions and assets, and asked him to protect Tony before the Winter Soldier killed Howard and Maria.
• Yasuo reached the Empire State Building, defeated the Deconstructionist, and watched him die after his family’s memories returned.
• Vought presented Yasuo as its recruit, while Lynn took charge of Stark Industries and promised to protect the grieving Tony, who questioned the explanation for his parents’ crash.
• Four years later, Vers arrived in Los Angeles hunting Skrulls, and Lynn ordered Vought to help her find them while monitoring S.H.I.E.L.D.