Recaps

Luke left Marlena to begin his campaign in Italy, sending Alessandro to prepare for the Allied landing while he and Dum Dum Dugan infiltrated Rome under Nazi identities. He reached Venice Square and prepared to launch the first strike against Mussolini’s government the next day.

• Luke promised Marlena he would return after his name spread across Sicily, then left to pursue his plans.
• Luke told Alessandro that the Allied forces would land the next afternoon and urged him to seize the opportunity to gain influence.
• Luke and Dum Dum Dugan sailed to Rome, where Luke posed as Captain Steiner, a Berlin Envoy carrying orders from Hitler.
• Luke and Dugan entered Rome after presenting Luke’s forged documents to the guards.
• Luke stood before Venice Palace and declared that the first shot in Italy’s conquest would be fired there the next day.

As Hydra’s energy weapons weakened the Allied Nations, Luke led a raid on Mussolini’s headquarters in Rome. He captured Mussolini and announced that Rome was under their control.

• Colonel Phillips criticized the Strategic Scientific Reserve’s losses and lack of intelligence on Hydra, then learned from Peggy Carter that Luke’s team had captured a naval camp near Sicily and would support an Allied landing.
• Luke and Dum Dum Dugan entered Venice Palace while Jimmy, Kenneth, and Mafia gunmen launched a diversion in Venice Square.
• Kenneth and the gunmen fought off Rome’s guards with a Maxim machine gun as Luke made his way through the palace.
• Luke defeated the Hydra soldiers guarding Mussolini and reached the dictator’s conference room.
• Mussolini’s bullets failed to harm Luke, who captured him and brought him onto the balcony.
• Luke declared that Rome was under their control and that there would be no more dictators or fascists.

Colonel Phillips received confirmation that Luke Cavill and the Howling Commandos had captured Rome and taken Mussolini alive, sending the news across the Allied Nations. In Venice Palace, Luke held his ground while weighing the capture as a political bargaining chip, and his growing reputation completed several missions and earned him rewards.

• Colonel Phillips learned from a telegram that Luke Cavill had captured Italy and taken Mussolini alive, then ordered the news sent to Allied leaders.
• The radio operator reported that the King of Italy had removed Mussolini and that Allied officials were arguing over who would claim Italy.
• Dum Dum Dugan told Luke about the casualties, the royal family’s takeover, and the British and American dispute over the victory.
• Luke decided to offer the capture of Mussolini and Rome to President Roosevelt, then told Dugan to contact the White House and await their medals.
• Luke’s rising reputation completed multiple side missions, earning him a Bane Skill Card and a chance to draw a Superman Template.

After completing his war-hero tasks and gaining a new achievement, Luke tested his Superman abilities before a new quest revealed a Mutant was hiding in the palace. He confronted the intruder, who vanished after mentioning Sebastian Shaw.

• Luke reviewed his completed side-quest rewards, gained the Legendary figure achievement, and saved his Superman Template draw for the day he received his medal.
• Luke failed to use Heat Vision but discovered that a European broadsword could not cut his skin.
• A main quest appeared, requiring Luke to collect genetic fragments from five Mutants and offering Leech Serum as a reward.
• Luke sensed a hidden presence in the palace, struck the balcony with a powerful punch, and sent a scar-faced thin man crashing into the wall.
• Luke asked whether Sebastian Shaw had sent the man, and the intruder recognized Shaw before vanishing with an optical-camouflage effect.

Luke recalled Sebastian Shaw's discovery of Magneto's X-Gene, then defeated Chameleon and suited up before heading toward gunfire in the Venice Palace. In the dungeon, the Howling Commandos struggled against Hydra's mutant attackers.

• Luke reflected on Sebastian Shaw's experiments on young Magneto and his discovery of the X-Gene.
• Chameleon attacked Luke with a dagger, but Luke's skin resisted it and he snapped the weapon before throwing Chameleon from the balcony.
• Luke put on a Kryptonian nanotech combat suit bearing a golden sun insignia and headed toward the dungeon.
• The Howling Commandos fought a steel-skinned man, a teleporting red mutant, a toxin-releasing woman, and Hydra's enhanced warriors in the Venice Palace dungeon.
• Dugan called for Kenneth to bring the Maxim, while Manelli warned that even Captain Cavill might not be able to face the attackers.

Luke confronted Red Devil Azazel after Azazel’s enhanced warriors attacked the dungeon where the Howling Commandos held Mussolini. The fight ended with Luke grabbing Azazel’s tail and launching an uppercut.

• Sniper Jimmy, Manelli, and Dugan fired at the metal-bodied warrior guarding the dungeon, but his body healed immediately and their shots did little.
• Luke arrived outside the dungeon, where enhanced Hydra warriors were hurled through a wall and killed by the impact.
• Red Devil Azazel ordered his allies to take Mussolini to Berlin and teleported out to confront Luke.
• Azazel learned Luke was the Allied hero called Superman, then dodged Luke’s charge and tried to stab him with a dagger held by his tail.
• Luke let the dagger strike his neck, grabbed Azazel’s tail, and drew back his fist for an uppercut.

Luke overwhelmed the Mutants guarding the dungeon and left the burly Steel Body fighter dead after a brutal fight. The Howling Commandos watched in shock as Luke continued deeper into the dungeon with Mussolini.

• Luke knocked out Azazel with an uppercut, then carried the Red Devil toward the dungeon while warning him not to resist.
• A toxin-releasing woman attacked Luke, but he dispersed her gas and knocked her unconscious with one blow.
• Luke broke the Red Devil’s legs and confronted the burly Steel Body fighter as Dugan and Manelli watched in disbelief.
• Luke traded blows with the Steel Body fighter, sent him through a wall, then pounded him into the ground until his metal body stopped reforming.
• Luke crushed the Steel Body fighter’s chest to finish him off while the Howling Commandos retreated with Mussolini.

Red Skull rejected Hitler’s authority and focused Hydra on the Valkyrie Project, dismissing the Allied Superman and Sebastian Shaw’s Mutants. At Auschwitz, Shaw learned that several of his Mutants had disappeared and vowed to confront Superman.

• After learning that Italy had fallen and his forces had failed to rescue Mussolini, Red Skull blamed Sebastian Shaw and dismissed the Allied Superman as a fabrication.
• Red Skull told Dr. Zola that Hydra no longer needed to obey Hitler or rely on Shaw, and declared the Valkyrie Project its priority.
• At Auschwitz, Sebastian Shaw reflected on how he had tortured prisoners to awaken Mutant abilities and used organ transplants to gain powers himself.
• A subordinate told Shaw that Ilena had lost her psychic links to Chameleon, Steel Shell, and the others.
• Shaw blamed Hydra for the loss and vowed to meet Superman after seeing the Allied Nations’ newspaper praise him as the conqueror of Italy.

Luke displayed Mussolini as a captive in Venice Square and was celebrated by Italians as their liberator. After an evening reception at Venice Palace, Colonel Phillips told Luke that he had become the youngest general in American history.

• Colonel Phillips and Peggy Carter arrived in Venice Square as Italian guards surrounded Venice Palace.
• Luke brought Mussolini onto the balcony, and the gathered civilians cheered Luke and demanded Mussolini's removal.
• Colonel Phillips congratulated Luke on his actions and said the President planned to award him a medal.
• Luke attended a reception at Venice Palace, where Italian princes, ministers, and elites honored him.
• Colonel Phillips told Luke that Italy's royal family had objected to his being made a colonel, so he had been promoted to general.

Luke learned that Allied Command had promoted him to brigadier general after Italy pressured the Allies to recognize his capture of Rome. At a banquet in Venice, he spoke with Carter, then left to visit Miss Isa, while Carter suspected his flirtatious manner was an act.

• Colonel Phillips told Luke that Allied Command had promoted him to brigadier general after negotiations with Italy over his capture of Rome.
• Luke offered to hand Mussolini over to Italy and give Dwight Eisenhower credit for capturing Rome and occupying Sicily.
• Luke told Carter he planned to recommend Steve Rogers for transfer to his command when he and the Howling Commandos went to New York.
• Carter questioned Luke about the Italian women pursuing him, and Luke joked that he regretted turning down an invitation to a woman's room.
• Luke left Carter to visit Miss Isa, and Carter wondered why he was acting like a frivolous playboy.

Luke returned to Sicily as a brigadier general and offered Alessandro a choice between staying or following him to North America. In New York, Luke settled at the Waldorf Hotel with Marlena and began planning to use the Mafia to invest in Las Vegas gambling, hotels, and security.

• Luke returned to Palermo, where Alessandro and the Sicilian Mafia welcomed him as a war hero.
• Luke warned Alessandro that the Mafia would decline as Italy regained stability and offered him the choice of staying in Sicily or going to North America.
• Alessandro chose to follow Luke, bringing about three hundred men with him across the ocean.
• Luke returned to New York with the Howling Commandos and moved into a Waldorf Hotel tower suite, where Marlena joined him.
• Luke explained that he intended to use the Mafia's influence to invest in Las Vegas's gambling, hotel, and security industries.

Luke received the Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt and asked to return to the battlefield. A week later, he freed Steve Rogers from his war-bond tour and invited him to Europe, where they left together to celebrate.

• President Roosevelt presented Luke Cavill with the Medal of Honor at the White House and asked what reward he wanted.
• Luke told Roosevelt he wanted to return to the battlefield and help end the war, then posed for a photograph with a Daily Bugle reporter.
• Luke visited Steve Rogers backstage at the Broadway Theater and found him miserable about being used to sell war bonds.
• Luke invited Rogers to join him in Europe, revealing that he had already persuaded Senator Brandt to approve it.
• Rogers accepted Luke's invitation, and the two left the theater together to celebrate.

Luke drew and equipped the Magic Superman template, gaining magical abilities and resistance. The next morning, after learning that Bucky was listed among the casualties of a crushing Allied defeat, Rogers joined Luke in planning a two-man rescue mission.

• Luke used his drawing opportunity and obtained the Superdemon, or Magic Superman, template.
• Luke equipped the template, tested his ability to draw in magical elements, and created a ball of fire.
• Luke and Rogers learned that the 107th Infantry Regiment had suffered a crushing defeat and that Bucky appeared on its casualty list.
• Carter warned that Allied Command would not approve a rescue and urged Luke not to risk becoming a prisoner.
• Luke proposed that only he and Rogers rescue Bucky, and Rogers saluted and agreed to go.

Luke and Rogers parachuted into Austria to rescue Bucky and Allied prisoners from Hydra’s Klausburg base. After reaching the base, Luke sent Rogers to find the prisoners and set out to locate Red Skull and the Tesseract.

• Carter explained that Hydra’s Klausburg base held two military factories and hundreds of defenders, and she joined Luke and Rogers on their rescue mission with Howard Stark piloting their plane.
• Howard flew the group through heavy fog and artillery fire, and Rogers and Luke jumped from the plane with Carter’s transceiver.
• Rogers opened his parachute at a safe altitude, while Luke waited until just above the ground before opening his chute and cutting its cords.
• Luke and Rogers crossed the forest and spotted Klausburg’s heavily defended Hydra base, equipped with advanced weapons and electrified fences.
• Luke ordered Rogers to rescue the captured soldiers while he searched the base for Red Skull, Dr. Zola, and the Tesseract.

Luke launched a direct assault on Hydra’s secret base to draw attention while Rogers infiltrated it in disguise to find the captured soldiers and Bucky. As Rogers searched the base, Red Skull saw Luke advancing through the flames on the surveillance feed.

• Rogers asked Luke how they could infiltrate the heavily guarded Hydra base, and Luke rushed out to attack it instead of making a quiet plan.
• Luke smashed into a supply truck, lifted it, and hurled it at the giant tank guarding the base entrance, crushing the tank and triggering an alarm.
• Luke told Rogers to search the prison for the captured soldiers and Bucky while he drew Hydra’s attention.
• Rogers disguised himself in a Hydra guard’s uniform, entered the military factory, took a blue energy block, and headed toward the prison.
• Red Skull watched the surveillance feed and saw Luke moving through the flames toward the base.

Red Skull planned to use the Tesseract-powered Valkyrie missiles to destroy cities and establish a Hydra Empire, but an overwhelmingly powerful intruder attacked the military factory. Red Skull escaped with the Tesseract, intent on activating Valkyrie from Hydra’s Alpine base.

• Red Skull told Dr. Zola that the Axis Powers were doomed and declared his plan to build a Hydra Empire with the Valkyrie Project.
• Dr. Zola revealed that Valkyrie missiles could destroy New York, Berlin, London, and Moscow.
• An armored intruder stormed the factory, defeating Hydra guards and shrugging off gunfire.
• The intruder snapped a tank’s cannon barrel and flipped the tank, driving the remaining Hydra soldiers into despair.
• Red Skull initiated the factory’s self-destruct sequence and fled with the Tesseract, vowing to destroy Superman with Valkyrie.

Luke fought through Hydra’s base while Rogers rescued captured soldiers and searched for Bucky. When Hydra’s monstrous enhanced warriors attacked, Luke defeated them with ease, leaving Rogers questioning whether he was really a Super Soldier.

• Luke withstood Hydra gunfire and energy blasts, defeated the base’s defenders, and headed for the military factory.
• Luke met Rogers with the rescued prisoners, and Rogers said Bucky had been taken for human experiments but was missing from the isolation ward.
• Luke told Rogers to lead the prisoners out while he continued searching for Bucky.
• Four monstrous Hydra enhanced warriors arrived, and one shattered Rogers’s shield as Rogers tried to protect Luke.
• Luke tore through the enhanced warriors, stunning the prisoners and prompting Rogers to wonder whether he was a Super Soldier at all.

Luke and Rogers returned to camp after destroying Hydra’s base and rescuing captured Allied soldiers, though Red Skull escaped with the Tesseract and Dr. Zola. Colonel Phillips welcomed Luke’s victory, and Carter greeted him with a quiet “Welcome back.”

• Colonel Phillips learned that Luke and Rogers were missing and blamed Carter for their disappearance.
• Carter brought back reconnaissance photographs showing Hydra’s base had been destroyed, but Phillips scolded her and feared Luke was dead.
• Luke and Rogers returned with rescued Allied soldiers, captured energy weapons, and Hydra tanks, earning cheers from the camp.
• Luke told Phillips that some soldiers needed medical treatment and said he would explain his reckless rescue operation to Allied Command.
• Luke revealed that Red Skull had escaped with the Tesseract and Dr. Zola before the base exploded.
• Carter stopped Luke and welcomed him back.

Luke visited Howard Stark at the Strategic Scientific Reserve base, discussed Howard’s ambitions and business troubles, and took a Vibranium shield for Steve Rogers. He recognized Wakanda as a source of the rare metal and left considering a visit there.

• Luke returned to the Strategic Scientific Reserve base and traded jokes with Howard Stark about Peggy Carter and Howard’s attempts to court her.
• Luke told Howard that Stark Industries had won aircraft contracts from Lockheed Martin, prompting Howard to dismiss the company’s complaints and caution Luke against getting involved.
• Luke spotted a silver shield and asked to take it for Steve Rogers, and Howard explained that it was made of rare Vibranium.
• Luke recognized that Wakanda held vast Vibranium deposits and considered visiting the hidden nation.

Luke reassured Rogers that Bucky had likely been transferred elsewhere and teased him about his lack of romantic experience. At the soldiers’ celebration, Luke’s jokes made Rogers spray his whiskey while the tavern laughed.

• Luke told Rogers that Hydra had moved prisoners to other locations and that Bucky was probably transferred, possibly to Baron Strucker’s custody.
• Luke teased the embarrassed Rogers about being hugged and kissed by a woman, then reflected on Strucker’s ties to Hydra and the Nazi Party.
• Luke and Rogers attended a celebration at a tavern, where Dugan and the soldiers cheered Luke as a war hero.
• Luke joked that a blonde woman had her eye on Rogers and asked whether Captain America planned to surrender his chastity that night.
• Rogers sprayed his whiskey, apologized to the bartender, and cursed Luke after he slipped away.

At a soldiers’ ball, Luke joked with Dugan, Howard, and Steve about courting women while Howard’s attempt to charm Carter failed. Carter reserved Luke as her dance partner, and the two finally danced together.

• Luke explained to Dugan why sweet talk worked better than bluntly propositioning women, while Howard joined them at the bar.
• Howard tried to invite Carter to dance but returned in under a minute after she rejected him, and the others drank to their bets.
• Howard moved on to pursue another woman, while a blonde woman drew Steve onto the dance floor.
• Carter told Luke she had claimed he already had a dance partner reserved and challenged him to say whether he would use directness or sweet talk.
• Luke invited Carter to dance, and she accepted as the ball neared its end.

Luke learned that Red Skull planned to destroy major cities, including New York, within twenty-four hours, and prepared to lead a mission against Hydra’s headquarters in the Alps. Rogers and the Howling Commandos joined him as Carter left without saying what she had wanted to tell him.

• The morning after their night with Margie, Rogers awkwardly confirmed her name while Howard teased Luke about Carter.
• Colonel Phillips told Luke and the officers that Red Skull planned to attack cities including New York, London, and Berlin within twenty-four hours.
• Howard warned that Schmidt’s mysterious power could destroy the East Coast, and Phillips said the President had asked Luke to stop Hydra.
• Luke asked Rogers to guide him to Hydra’s headquarters in the Alps, and Rogers agreed to go with him.
• Dum Dum Dugan and the Howling Commandos volunteered for the mission, and Luke ordered them to prepare to leave in two hours.
• Carter left the operations room without voicing what she had wanted to say to Luke.

Luke prepared to attack Hydra’s Alpine headquarters while Rogers and the Howling Commandos held off its soldiers. Red Skull’s dream of ruling the world was interrupted by Luke’s assault, and he fled with the Tesseract to launch the Valkyrie Project early.

• Luke told Rogers he would lead the assault on Hydra’s base while Rogers protected the Howling Commandos, and said Bucky might have been transferred to a German laboratory.
• Red Skull rallied Hydra followers around the Valkyrie Project and planned to bomb Allied and Axis cities into submission.
• An explosion and alarm announced that Luke had broken into the base, prompting Red Skull to curse Erskine and order his troops to resist.
• Red Skull took the Tesseract and boarded an aircraft, telling Dr. Zola to accelerate human experiments so he could become stronger than Luke.
• Red Skull placed the Tesseract in the aircraft’s central hub and prepared to begin the Valkyrie Project ahead of schedule.

Luke pursued Red Skull aboard the Valkyrie aircraft and refused to be swayed by his offer to rule the world together. The chapter ended with Luke approaching as Red Skull threatened to detonate the twenty-one missiles, while Luke seemed eager to test his durability.

• Luke left Captain America and Colonel Phillips to fight the Hydra soldiers while he raced after Red Skull’s aircraft.
• Luke leaped onto the aircraft, entered it, and saw that its Valkyrie Missiles were labeled for cities including New York and Chicago.
• Red Skull tried to persuade Luke to join Hydra, describing his discovery of Odin’s Vault and his ambition to make humanity kneel.
• Luke rejected Red Skull’s offer and demanded that he hand over the Tesseract.
• Red Skull threatened to detonate all twenty-one Valkyrie Missiles, but Luke advanced toward him with eager anticipation.

Luke defeated Red Skull, seized the Tesseract, and watched as its energy opened a passage that consumed Red Skull. He returned toward base with Dr. Zola, aware that an unseen presence had noticed him.

• Luke knocked Red Skull down, destroyed the Valkyrie Missiles detonator, and took the Tesseract from its device.
• Red Skull fired at the Tesseract's casing, releasing its energy, while Dr. Zola offered to explain how to extract its power.
• Luke held the Tesseract as its energy opened a passage to the Nine Realms, and Red Skull rushed into it and was consumed.
• Luke placed the Tesseract in a briefcase, and Dr. Zola agreed to tell the Allied forces that Red Skull had been defeated and thrown from the plane.
• Luke asked Dr. Zola to fly them back and sensed that an unseen gaze had turned toward him.