Marvel recap: the story so far

No. 01 · 2008 · Film

Iron Man recap

Tony Stark, a billionaire weapons maker, is ambushed in Afghanistan after demonstrating his Jericho missile and wounded by shrapnel. The Ten Rings hold him in a cave and order him to build the missile; instead, with fellow captive Ho Yinsen, he builds an electromagnet to keep the shrapnel from his heart, powered by a small arc reactor, and a crude armored suit. Yinsen dies covering the escape. Back home, Tony announces that Stark Industries will stop making weapons, which angers his partner Obadiah Stane. He builds a sleek new suit, uses it to attack the Ten Rings in the village of Gulmira, and finds that Stark weapons are being sold to terrorists under the table. Pepper Potts uncovers proof that Stane arranged it all, including the ambush. Stane tears the arc reactor out of Tony's chest and puts on his own giant armor, the Iron Monger.

How Iron Man ends

Tony, running on his old reactor, fights Stane on the roof of Stark Industries, and Pepper overloads the building's large arc reactor, killing Stane. At a press conference the next day, Tony is supposed to read a cover story prepared by S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson; instead he tells the world, "I am Iron Man."

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the post-credits scene, Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D., is waiting in Tony's house. He tells Tony he is not the only superhero in the world and that he has come to talk about the Avengers Initiative.

No. 02 · 2008 · Film · optional

The Incredible Hulk recap

Bruce Banner hides in Brazil, working at a bottling plant, practising breathing techniques to keep the Hulk down and searching for a cure with an online contact called Mr. Blue. A drop of his blood ends up in a bottle, and General Thaddeus Ross tracks him down with a team that includes Emil Blonsky, a soldier who wants a real fight. The Hulk escapes. Banner returns to Culver University and finds Betty Ross, the general's daughter, and Blonsky, now boosted with a version of the super soldier serum, attacks the Hulk again and is badly beaten. Banner and Betty reach New York, where Mr. Blue turns out to be Dr. Samuel Sterns, whose treatment seems to work. Ross captures Banner. Blonsky forces Sterns to give him Banner's blood and becomes the Abomination, tearing through Harlem, while a drop of the blood falls into a cut on Sterns's head.

How The Incredible Hulk ends

Banner jumps from Ross's helicopter to change into the Hulk on purpose and defeats the Abomination, choking him with a chain before sparing him at Betty's plea. The Hulk flees. Weeks later, in British Columbia, Banner is seen beginning to control the change. In the final scene, Tony Stark meets General Ross in a bar and tells him a team is being put together.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene; the Tony Stark meeting with General Ross plays just before the credits.

No. 03 · 2010 · Film

Iron Man 2 recap

Six months after revealing that he is Iron Man, Tony refuses the Senate's demand to hand over his suit, while the palladium core in his arc reactor slowly poisons him. In Russia, Ivan Vanko, whose father worked with Howard Stark before being deported, builds his own reactor and electric whips and attacks Tony at the Monaco Grand Prix. Rival arms dealer Justin Hammer breaks Vanko out of prison to build an army of drones. Tony, believing he is dying, makes Pepper CEO, gets drunk in his suit at his birthday party and fights James Rhodes, who flies off with a spare suit for the military. His new assistant, Natalie Rushman, is really Natasha Romanoff, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Nick Fury gives Tony his father's old belongings, and Tony finds a new element hidden in Howard's model of the Stark Expo and builds it to replace the palladium.

How Iron Man 2 ends

At Hammer's presentation at the Stark Expo, Vanko takes control of the drones and of Rhodes's suit, now called War Machine. Natasha gives control back to Rhodes, and Tony and Rhodes destroy the drones and beat Vanko, who blows himself up. Tony and Pepper kiss. Fury's assessment says Tony is fit to consult for the Avengers Initiative but not to join it.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the post-credits scene, Agent Coulson arrives at a crater in the New Mexico desert, where a large hammer lies in the ground. It leads directly into Thor.

No. 04 · 2011 · Film

Thor recap

On the day he is to be crowned king of Asgard, Thor leads his brother Loki and his friends on a reckless raid on Jotunheim after Frost Giants break into Asgard's vault. Odin strips Thor of his powers and banishes him to Earth, sending his hammer Mjolnir after him with an enchantment that only someone worthy can lift it. In New Mexico, scientist Jane Foster, her mentor Erik Selvig and her intern Darcy Lewis run into Thor with their van. S.H.I.E.L.D. seals off the hammer's crater, and Thor fights his way in but cannot lift it. Loki learns he is a Frost Giant whom Odin took as a baby, and when Odin falls into a deep sleep, Loki takes the throne and tells Thor their father is dead. Sif and the Warriors Three come to bring Thor home, and Loki sends the Destroyer after them. Thor offers his own life to spare the town, the Destroyer strikes him down, and he is worthy again.

How Thor ends

Mjolnir flies back to Thor, his powers return, and he destroys the Destroyer. On Asgard, he stops Loki's plan to wipe out Jotunheim by smashing the Bifrost bridge, which cuts him off from Jane. Loki lets go and falls into the void. Odin wakes, and Thor admits he is not ready to be king.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the post-credits scene, Nick Fury shows Selvig a glowing cube, the Tesseract, and asks him to study it. Loki, alive and unseen by Fury, stands beside Selvig and is controlling him.

No. 05 · 2011 · Film

Captain America: The First Avenger recap

In 1942, Steve Rogers, a sickly young man from Brooklyn, keeps trying to enlist. Dr. Abraham Erskine picks him for a super soldier program run by Colonel Chester Phillips and Agent Peggy Carter, and Erskine's serum and Howard Stark's machine turn him into a peak human, moments before a Hydra agent kills Erskine. Rogers is put on stage selling war bonds as Captain America until he learns that the unit of his best friend, Bucky Barnes, has been captured; he goes behind enemy lines alone and frees hundreds of men. Hydra's leader, Johann Schmidt, the Red Skull, has found the Tesseract and uses its power for advanced weapons. Rogers forms the Howling Commandos and raids Hydra bases across Europe. On a mission to capture Hydra scientist Arnim Zola from a train, Bucky falls into a ravine and is presumed dead.

How Captain America: The First Avenger ends

Rogers boards the Red Skull's bomber, which is heading for American cities. The Skull grabs the Tesseract and vanishes in a beam of light, and the cube drops into the Arctic. Unable to land safely, Rogers crashes the plane into the ice while talking to Peggy on the radio. Howard Stark later recovers the Tesseract. Rogers wakes in a room made to look like the 1940s, realises it is a fake, runs out into modern Times Square and learns from Nick Fury that he has been asleep for almost 70 years.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the post-credits scene, Rogers is pounding a punching bag when Fury arrives with a mission to save the world. It is followed by a teaser trailer for The Avengers.

No. 06 · 2012 · Film

The Avengers recap

Loki arrives on Earth through the Tesseract, takes control of Clint Barton (Hawkeye) and Erik Selvig with his scepter, and steals the cube; in return for the Tesseract, an alien army called the Chitauri will give him Earth. Nick Fury gathers Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff and Bruce Banner. They capture Loki in Stuttgart, and Thor arrives to take his brother home. On S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying helicarrier, the team bickers while Loki's plan plays out: Barton attacks the ship, Banner turns into the Hulk, Thor is dropped from the sky in a cell, and Loki escapes after killing Agent Coulson. Coulson's death finally unites the team. Selvig opens a portal above Stark Tower in Manhattan, and the Chitauri pour through. Natasha frees Barton from Loki's control, and the six heroes fight side by side for the first time.

How The Avengers ends

The World Security Council fires a nuclear missile at Manhattan. Tony carries it through the portal into space, where it destroys the Chitauri mothership, and he falls back to Earth just as Natasha closes the portal with Loki's scepter. The Hulk smashes Loki into the floor. Thor takes Loki and the Tesseract back to Asgard, and the team goes separate ways, with Fury sure they will come back when needed.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, the Other tells his master that attacking Earth would be to court death, and the master turns and smiles: it is Thanos. In the post-credits scene, the exhausted Avengers eat shawarma together in silence.

No. 07 · 2013 · Film

Iron Man 3 recap

After the battle of New York, Tony suffers panic attacks and cannot stop building new suits. A terrorist called the Mandarin sets off bombs across the United States; one injures Happy Hogan, and Tony threatens the Mandarin on television, which brings helicopter gunships down on his Malibu house. Tony escapes in a damaged suit to rural Tennessee and, with help from a boy named Harley, investigates. The bombs are people treated with Extremis, a regenerative formula made by Aldrich Killian, a scientist Tony once brushed off, and some subjects explode. The Mandarin turns out to be Trevor Slattery, an actor Killian hired as a front. Killian kidnaps Pepper and injects her with Extremis, and plans to kill the president using Rhodes's armor, now called the Iron Patriot.

How Iron Man 3 ends

Tony and Rhodes storm an oil rig to save Pepper and the president, and Tony summons all his remote-controlled suits. Pepper, given strength by Extremis, kills Killian. Tony cures her, destroys his suits as a gift to her, has surgery to remove the shrapnel near his heart and throws his old arc reactor into the sea, saying he is still Iron Man.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the post-credits scene, it turns out Tony has been telling the whole story to Bruce Banner, who fell asleep partway through.

No. 08 · 2013 · Film

Thor: The Dark World recap

Thor restores peace across the Nine Realms while Loki sits in an Asgardian prison for his attack on New York. In London, Jane Foster slips through a gap between worlds and absorbs the Aether, an ancient weapon belonging to Malekith, ruler of the Dark Elves, who wakes to use it to plunge the universe into darkness during the Convergence, a rare alignment of the realms. Thor brings Jane to Asgard. The Dark Elves attack, and Thor's mother Frigga dies protecting Jane. Odin wants to wait for Malekith to come back, so Thor frees Loki to help him smuggle Jane out. On Svartalfheim, Malekith draws the Aether out of Jane, and Loki is apparently killed saving Thor.

How Thor: The Dark World ends

In Greenwich, as the realms align, Thor, Jane, Selvig and Darcy use Selvig's gravity devices to fight Malekith across shifting worlds, and Malekith is crushed by his own ship. Thor turns down the throne of Asgard to stay with Jane. In the last scene, Loki is alive and sitting on the throne disguised as Odin.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Sif and Volstagg hand the Aether to the Collector, explaining that keeping two Infinity Stones in Asgard would be unwise; after they leave, the Collector says, "One down, five to go." In the post-credits scene, Thor returns to Jane in London and kisses her, while a frost beast left over from the battle runs loose in the city.

No. 09 · 2014 · Film

Captain America: The Winter Soldier recap

Two years after New York, Steve Rogers works missions for S.H.I.E.L.D. in Washington. Nick Fury shows him Project Insight, three new helicarriers built to strike threats before they act, and is then gunned down by a masked assassin, the Winter Soldier. Before he seems to die, Fury gives Rogers a flash drive, and senior official Alexander Pierce brands Rogers a fugitive. With Natasha Romanoff and Sam Wilson, a veteran who flies with a wing pack, Rogers finds Arnim Zola preserved as a computer and learns that Hydra has been growing inside S.H.I.E.L.D. since the war. Insight's helicarriers will use an algorithm to kill millions of people Hydra sees as threats. The Winter Soldier turns out to be Bucky Barnes, captured and brainwashed by Hydra decades ago.

How Captain America: The Winter Soldier ends

Rogers, Sam and Maria Hill swap the targeting chips so the helicarriers destroy each other, while Natasha dumps S.H.I.E.L.D.'s and Hydra's secrets online and Fury, alive after faking his death, kills Pierce. Rogers refuses to fight Bucky and falls into the Potomac; Bucky pulls him out and walks away. S.H.I.E.L.D. is dismantled, and Rogers and Sam set out to find Bucky.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Hydra's Baron von Strucker holds Loki's scepter and keeps two powered twins, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, under study. In the post-credits scene, Bucky visits the Captain America exhibit at the Smithsonian and sees a memorial to himself.

No. 10 · 2014 · Film

Guardians of the Galaxy recap

In 1988, young Peter Quill's mother dies and he is abducted from Earth by Ravagers led by Yondu. Twenty-six years later, Quill steals an orb on the planet Morag that Ronan the Accuser, a Kree fanatic working for Thanos, wants. Gamora, Thanos's adopted daughter, is sent to take it, while bounty hunters Rocket and Groot want the price on Quill's head. All four are arrested on Xandar and meet Drax, who wants Ronan dead for killing his family. They break out of prison together and take the orb to the Collector on Knowhere, who reveals it holds an Infinity Stone, the Power Stone. A drunken Drax calls Ronan to Knowhere, and Ronan takes the stone, sets it in his hammer and heads for Xandar to destroy it.

How Guardians of the Galaxy ends

The Guardians attack Ronan's ship with the Ravagers and the Nova Corps. When it crashes, Groot wraps the others in his branches and dies saving them. Quill grabs the stone, and the team shares its power to survive and destroy Ronan. Quill hands Yondu a fake orb and gives the real stone to the Nova Corps. He opens his mother's last present, a second mixtape, and learns his father is not human. A cutting from Groot grows into a sapling.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, the regrowing baby Groot dances in a pot while Drax watches. In the post-credits scene, the Collector sits in his wrecked museum with Cosmo the space dog and Howard the Duck.

No. 11 · 2015 · Series · optional

Marvel's Daredevil recap

In season 1, Matt Murdock, blinded as a boy by a chemical spill that sharpened his other senses, opens a law firm in Hell's Kitchen with his best friend Foggy Nelson and their first client, Karen Page, who becomes their secretary. At night he fights crime in a black mask. The crime behind his cases leads to Wilson Fisk, who plans to rebuild the neighborhood with dirty money and falls for gallery owner Vanessa Marianna. Fisk kills reporter Ben Urich, Foggy discovers Matt's secret and their friendship breaks, and Matt gets a red armored suit. In season 2, Frank Castle, the Punisher, slaughters the gangs who killed his family; Daredevil fights him, then Nelson and Murdock defend him in court. Matt's ex, Elektra Natchios, pulls him into a war with the Hand, an ancient ninja order. Elektra dies saving Matt and the Hand take her body, the firm falls apart, and Matt tells Karen who he is. In season 3, after The Defenders, an injured Matt is nursed back to health by nuns at the orphanage where he grew up, one of them Sister Maggie, his mother. Fisk trades information with the FBI to move from prison to a hotel, and has Benjamin Poindexter, an unstable FBI marksman, dress as Daredevil to commit crimes and turn the city against Matt. FBI agent Ray Nadeem records a confession about Fisk before he is killed.

How Marvel's Daredevil ends

The series ends at Fisk and Vanessa's wedding, where Matt fights Poindexter and then beats Fisk without killing him. He forces a deal: Fisk goes back to prison quietly and leaves Matt's friends alone, and in return Vanessa is not charged for the murder she ordered. Poindexter is left in surgery with a broken spine, and Matt, Foggy and Karen plan a new firm together. Netflix ended the show after season 3, and Daredevil: Born Again picks up the same characters.

No. 12 · 2015 · Film

Avengers: Age of Ultron recap

The Avengers raid a Hydra base in Sokovia and recover Loki's scepter, meeting two enhanced twins, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff. Wanda plants a vision in Tony's head of his friends dead. Tony and Bruce Banner find an artificial mind inside the scepter's gem and try to use it for a global defense program called Ultron, but Ultron wakes up, decides humanity is the threat and escapes into the internet. Recruiting the twins, who blame Tony for their parents' deaths, Ultron gets vibranium from arms dealer Ulysses Klaue. Wanda gives the team terrifying visions, and the Hulk rampages through Johannesburg until Tony stops him in a giant suit. The team hides at Clint Barton's secret family farm. They steal a new body Ultron was building, and Tony and Banner upload the JARVIS program into it; Thor powers it with lightning, and Vision is born, carrying the Mind Stone.

How Avengers: Age of Ultron ends

Ultron lifts the city of Sokovia into the sky to drop it like a meteor. The Avengers and the twins, now on their side, evacuate the people with help from Fury's helicarrier; Pietro dies saving Barton, and Wanda tears out Ultron's core. Tony and Thor blow up the city before it falls, and Vision destroys Ultron's last body. The Hulk flies off alone. Tony and Barton retire, Thor leaves to look into the Infinity Stones, and Steve and Natasha train a new team: Rhodes, Sam, Wanda and Vision.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Thanos takes an empty Infinity Gauntlet from a vault and says, "Fine, I'll do it myself." There is no post-credits scene.

No. 13 · 2015 · Film

Ant-Man recap

Scott Lang, a burglar just out of prison, wants to be part of his daughter Cassie's life but cannot keep a job. Hank Pym, a scientist who once worked as the shrunken hero Ant-Man for S.H.I.E.L.D., has been pushed out of his company by his former protege Darren Cross, who is close to recreating Hank's shrinking formula for a weapon called the Yellowjacket. Hank lures Scott into stealing his old suit, then recruits him to steal the Yellowjacket instead, while Hank's daughter Hope van Dyne, angry that her father will not let her wear the suit, trains Scott to fight and control ants. Hank reveals that Hope's mother, Janet, vanished into the Quantum Realm while shrinking to stop a missile. Scott tests his skills by stealing a device from the Avengers' base and fights Sam Wilson.

How Ant-Man ends

Scott and his friends sabotage Cross's company, but Cross takes the Yellowjacket suit and threatens Cassie. Scott shrinks past the safe limit to get inside Cross's suit and destroy it, killing Cross, and is lost in the Quantum Realm before finding his way back. His success gives Hank hope that Janet is alive.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Hank shows Hope a new Wasp suit he and Janet had been building and offers it to her. In the post-credits scene, Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson have Bucky Barnes held in a vise, and Sam says he knows a guy who could help: Scott. The scene is from Captain America: Civil War.

No. 14 · 2015 · Series · optional

Marvel's Jessica Jones recap

In season 1, Jessica Jones, a super-strong private investigator in Hell's Kitchen, drinks to cope with trauma. Kilgrave, a man who controls people with his voice and once held her as a captive under his control, returns and forces a student, Hope Shlottman, to kill her parents. Jessica tries to prove that mind control is real to free Hope, with help from her adoptive sister Trish Walker, a radio host, while falling for Luke Cage, whose wife she killed while under Kilgrave's control. In season 2, Jessica investigates IGH, the company that experimented on her after the car crash that killed her family, and finds her mother Alisa alive, super-strong and violent. Trish becomes obsessed with getting powers of her own and ends the season by shooting Alisa dead. In season 3, Trish has powers from an IGH procedure and becomes a vigilante, while Jessica hunts Gregory Sallinger, a brilliant serial killer with no powers. After Sallinger murders Trish's mother Dorothy, Trish starts killing criminals.

How Marvel's Jessica Jones ends

The series ends with Jessica stopping her sister. Trish kills Sallinger while he is being moved to court, and Jessica exposes her and lets her go to the Raft prison. Jessica considers leaving for Mexico but hears Kilgrave's voice urging her to abandon everyone, and decides to stay in New York. Jessica returns in Daredevil: Born Again season 2.

No. 15 · 2016 · Film

Captain America: Civil War recap

A mission in Lagos led by Steve Rogers ends with Wanda Maximoff accidentally killing civilians, and the United Nations responds with the Sokovia Accords, which would put the Avengers under UN control. Tony Stark, shaken by Sokovia, supports them; Steve refuses. A bombing at the signing in Vienna kills King T'Chaka of Wakanda and is blamed on Bucky Barnes. His son T'Challa, the Black Panther, hunts Bucky, and Steve gets to Bucky first. Helmut Zemo, a Sokovian who lost his family in the Ultron battle, triggers Bucky's Hydra programming using a set of code words. Learning that Zemo is headed to a Hydra base in Siberia where other Winter Soldiers are kept, Steve recruits Sam, Wanda, Clint and Scott Lang. Tony's side, with Natasha, Rhodes, Vision, T'Challa and a teenage Peter Parker, fights them at a German airport. Rhodes is paralysed in the battle.

How Captain America: Civil War ends

In Siberia, Zemo has killed the other soldiers and shows Tony footage of Bucky murdering Tony's parents in 1991. Tony attacks Bucky, and Steve fights Tony, disabling his suit before leaving his shield behind. T'Challa stops Zemo from killing himself and hands him over. Steve breaks his allies out of the Raft prison and sends Tony a letter and a phone in case he is ever needed.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Bucky chooses to go back into cryosleep in Wakanda until his programming can be removed, with T'Challa's protection. In the post-credits scene, Peter Parker, home in Queens, finds that a Stark gadget in his web-shooter projects a spider signal.

No. 16 · 2016 · Series · optional

Marvel's Luke Cage recap

In season 1, Luke Cage, given unbreakable skin and great strength by a prison experiment, sweeps hair at Pop's barbershop in Harlem and wants to be left alone. When Pop is killed in a shooting ordered by club owner Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes, Luke takes on Cottonmouth and his cousin, councilwoman Mariah Dillard, with Detective Misty Knight on the case. Mariah kills Cottonmouth, and Willis Stryker, called Diamondback, Luke's half brother, arrives with special bullets that can pierce his skin. In season 2, Luke is a celebrity in Harlem. John McIver, called Bushmaster, a Jamaican with his own powers, wants revenge on Mariah because her family stole his family's business and killed his parents. Misty gets a bionic arm after losing hers. Mariah grows more ruthless and orders a massacre, and her daughter Tilda turns against her.

How Marvel's Luke Cage ends

Season 2 ends with Mariah poisoned in prison by Tilda and dying, but not before signing Harlem's Paradise club over to Luke. Luke takes over the club and finds himself deciding how to run Harlem, close to the gangsters he fought. Netflix cancelled the show after season 2, and Luke appears again in the season 2 finale of Daredevil: Born Again.

No. 17 · 2016 · Film

Doctor Strange recap

Stephen Strange, an arrogant neurosurgeon, destroys his hands in a car crash. When Western medicine fails him, he travels to Kathmandu and finds Kamar-Taj, where the Ancient One and her student Mordo teach him the mystic arts. Strange learns fast and reads forbidden texts, including the Book of Cagliostro, and learns to use the Eye of Agamotto, which holds the Time Stone. Kaecilius, a former student, has stolen pages from the book to summon Dormammu, a being from the Dark Dimension who wants to absorb Earth. Kaecilius attacks the sanctums that protect Earth in London, New York and Hong Kong. Strange defends the New York sanctum with the Cloak of Levitation, and Kaecilius kills the Ancient One. Before dying, she tells Strange she has been drawing power from the Dark Dimension to live longer, which disgusts Mordo.

How Doctor Strange ends

In Hong Kong, Strange uses the Time Stone to reverse the destruction, then goes into the Dark Dimension and traps himself and Dormammu in a time loop, dying again and again until Dormammu agrees to leave Earth and take Kaecilius with him. Mordo, disillusioned, walks away. Strange returns the Eye to Kamar-Taj and takes over the New York sanctum.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Strange meets Thor, who is looking for Odin with Loki, and agrees to help. In the post-credits scene, Mordo takes the magic from Jonathan Pangborn, the man Strange went to for help, saying there are too many sorcerers.

No. 18 · 2017 · Series · optional

Marvel's Iron Fist recap

In season 1, Danny Rand, thought dead for 15 years after a plane crash in the Himalayas, returns to New York as the Iron Fist, a warrior trained in the mystical city of K'un-Lun. He tries to reclaim his family's company from Ward and Joy Meachum, the children of his father's partner Harold, who secretly works with the Hand. Danny falls for Colleen Wing, a martial arts teacher who turns out to be a member of the Hand, and Claire Temple helps him. He learns that Harold arranged his parents' deaths, and Ward kills Harold. In season 2, after The Defenders, Danny protects Chinatown. His old friend from K'un-Lun, Davos, who believes he should have been the Iron Fist, teams up with Joy and Mary Walker, a woman with multiple personalities, and steals the power of the fist from Danny in a ritual.

How Marvel's Iron Fist ends

The series ends with Colleen taking on the Iron Fist. Danny realises Colleen is better suited to carry it, so they take it back from Davos and Colleen defeats him, becoming the new Iron Fist and staying to protect Chinatown. Danny and Ward travel to Asia, where Danny has found a way to channel the chi through pistols. Netflix cancelled the show after season 2.

No. 19 · 2017 · Film

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 recap

The Guardians are hired by the Sovereign to defend some batteries, but Rocket steals a few, and the Sovereign's fleet chases them until a mysterious figure destroys it. He is Ego, Peter Quill's father, a living planet who takes human form. Quill, Gamora and Drax go to Ego's world with his empath companion Mantis, while Rocket and baby Groot fix the ship and are captured by Yondu's mutinous Ravagers. Yondu, who has refused to deliver Quill to Ego for years, is deposed; Rocket, Groot and Yondu break free with the help of Kraglin. Gamora fights her sister Nebula, who wants her dead, and the two make an uneasy peace. Ego reveals his plan: he planted seedlings on countless planets to remake the universe in his image, needs Quill's power to activate them, and gave Quill's mother the brain tumor that killed her.

How Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ends

The Guardians blow up Ego's core with a bomb that Groot places, and Quill fights his father with his own Celestial power. Ego dies, the planet collapses, and Yondu gives his only space suit to Quill and dies in space, after Quill accepts that Yondu was the real father who raised him. The Ravagers honor Yondu with a funeral of fireworks.

Post-credits scenes

There are five scenes. Kraglin practises with Yondu's whistling arrow and hits Drax. Stakar Ogord, a Ravager leader, reunites with his old team. Ayesha, the Sovereign's leader, creates a new being, Adam, to destroy the Guardians. Peter scolds a teenage Groot about his messy room. Finally, Stan Lee keeps talking to Watchers who are leaving him behind.

No. 20 · 2017 · Film

Spider-Man: Homecoming recap

Eight years after the battle of New York, salvage contractor Adrian Toomes loses his cleanup job to a government agency and starts building weapons from alien scrap, flying in a winged suit as the Vulture. Months after Civil War, Peter Parker, 15, goes back to school in Queens, waits for a call from Tony Stark and patrols as Spider-Man under the watch of Happy Hogan. Peter stumbles onto Toomes's weapons deals and keeps getting in over his head; his best friend Ned learns his secret. Peter tracks Toomes to a ferry, where a weapon tears it in half and Tony has to save everyone, and Tony takes back the suit. Peter goes to the homecoming dance with his crush Liz and discovers her father is Toomes. Toomes works out Peter's identity and lets him go with a warning.

How Spider-Man: Homecoming ends

Peter, in his homemade suit, stops Toomes from hijacking a plane carrying Avengers equipment as it moves to the new base. The plane crashes on Coney Island, and Peter saves Toomes from the wreck and leaves him for the police. Tony offers Peter a place in the Avengers and a new suit; Peter turns it down to stay a neighborhood hero. Tony returns the suit, and Aunt May walks in on Peter wearing it.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Mac Gargan asks Toomes in prison about Spider-Man's identity, and Toomes says he does not know. In the post-credits scene, Captain America, in an old school video, gives a talk on patience and admits that sometimes it leads to nothing.

No. 21 · 2017 · Series · optional

Marvel's The Defenders recap

Months after their own series, Matt Murdock, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Danny Rand are drawn into the same mystery. An earthquake rocks New York, and the Hand, led by Alexandra Reid and four other fingers, all ancient and extending their lives with a substance from the bones of a dragon, is trying to dig under the Midland Circle building. Their weapon is Elektra, resurrected as the Black Sky with no memory of Matt. The four heroes meet in a fight inside Midland Circle and grudgingly team up, hiding out in a Chinese restaurant. The Hand need Danny, the Iron Fist, to open a door under the building. Elektra kills Alexandra and takes over the Hand.

How Marvel's The Defenders ends

The heroes decide to destroy Midland Circle with explosives while the Hand open their door. Matt stays behind to fight Elektra and keep her there, and the building collapses on them. Matt is presumed dead, but he wakes in the care of nuns, setting up Daredevil season 3. Danny stays to protect the city in Matt's place.

No. 22 · 2017 · Film

Thor: Ragnarok recap

Thor returns to Asgard and exposes Loki, who has been posing as Odin. They find Odin on Earth with help from Doctor Strange; Odin dies, and his firstborn, Hela, goddess of death, is freed from her prison. She crushes Mjolnir and knocks both brothers out of the Bifrost. Hela takes Asgard and raises an undead army. Thor crashes on Sakaar, a junk planet ruled by the Grandmaster, where a drunken Asgardian warrior, Valkyrie, sells him to fight as a gladiator. His opponent is the Hulk, who has been on Sakaar for two years. With the help of Korg, Valkyrie and eventually Loki, Thor escapes with the Hulk and Banner, while a revolt breaks out. Heimdall, meanwhile, hides the people of Asgard from Hela.

How Thor: Ragnarok ends

Thor and his team return to Asgard and fight Hela on the bridge. Thor loses an eye but finds he never needed the hammer to call lightning. Unable to beat Hela, Thor has Loki wake Surtur, the fire demon, who destroys Asgard and Hela with it. The surviving Asgardians leave on a ship, and Thor, now king, plans to take them to Earth.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Thor and Loki talk about going to Earth, and an enormous ship, Thanos's Sanctuary II, appears in front of them. In the post-credits scene, the Grandmaster, deposed by the revolt, tells his former subjects that the result is a tie.

No. 23 · 2017 · Series · optional

Marvel's The Punisher recap

In season 1, Frank Castle, presumed dead, works construction in disguise after killing the gangs who murdered his family. Micro, a former NSA analyst who faked his own death, draws him back out with evidence that Frank's family was killed because of Operation Cerberus, a heroin smuggling scheme by Frank's old commanding officer, William Rawlins, in Afghanistan. Homeland Security agent Dinah Madani investigates the same operation. Frank's war buddy Billy Russo, now the head of a private military company, turns out to have been part of the scheme. Frank kills Rawlins and smashes Billy's face into a mirror. In season 2, Frank protects Amy Bendix, a young grifter hunted by John Pilgrim, a religious enforcer working for a powerful family, while Billy, scarred and with memory loss, escapes from hospital and builds a gang of veterans.

How Marvel's The Punisher ends

The series ends with Frank killing Billy Russo, shooting him in his hideout, and then going after the Schultz family who sent Pilgrim, killing the parents and sparing Pilgrim so he can care for his sons. Madani gives Frank a way to work for the government, and in the final scene he massacres a criminal gang. Netflix cancelled the show after season 2, and Frank returns in Daredevil: Born Again.

No. 24 · 2018 · Film

Black Panther recap

After his father's death, T'Challa returns to Wakanda, a hidden African nation built on vibranium, to be crowned king. He tries to capture arms dealer Ulysses Klaue in South Korea with his ex, Nakia, and his general Okoye, but Klaue is freed by Erik Stevens, an American black ops soldier called Killmonger. Erik is T'Challa's cousin: his father, N'Jobu, was a Wakandan prince killed by T'Challa's father T'Chaka for helping Klaue steal vibranium, and young Erik was left behind in Oakland. Erik arrives in Wakanda with Klaue's body, claims the throne by right of combat and throws T'Challa over a waterfall. As king, Erik plans to ship Wakandan weapons to oppressed people worldwide. The Jabari tribe saves T'Challa's life.

How Black Panther ends

T'Challa returns, and with Shuri, Nakia, Okoye and the Jabari, fights Erik and the border tribe. In the vibranium mine, T'Challa stabs Erik, who chooses to die rather than be imprisoned, watching a Wakandan sunset. T'Challa decides to end Wakanda's isolation and opens an outreach center in Oakland.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, T'Challa tells the United Nations that Wakanda will share its knowledge with the world. In the post-credits scene, Bucky wakes in Wakanda, where Shuri has been helping him, and children call him the White Wolf.

No. 25 · 2018 · Film

Avengers: Infinity War recap

Thanos takes the Power Stone from Xandar and the Space Stone from Loki aboard the Asgardian refugee ship, killing half the Asgardians, Heimdall and Loki, and leaving Thor for dead. His children attack New York for the Time Stone, and Tony Stark, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man end up on Thanos's ship heading into space. The Guardians rescue Thor, who goes with Rocket and Groot to make a new weapon, Stormbreaker. Thanos takes the Reality Stone from the Collector and sacrifices his daughter Gamora on Vormir for the Soul Stone. On Titan, Tony, Strange, Peter and the Guardians almost pull the gauntlet off Thanos, until Quill learns Gamora is dead and attacks him. Strange, who has seen 14 million futures and only one win, gives up the Time Stone to save Tony. Thanos comes to Wakanda for the Mind Stone in Vision's head, and the Avengers make their stand.

How Avengers: Infinity War ends

Wanda destroys the Mind Stone, killing Vision, but Thanos reverses time with the Time Stone and pulls it out. Thor arrives too late and strikes Thanos in the chest instead of the head. Thanos snaps his fingers, and half of all life turns to dust, including Bucky, T'Challa, Wanda, Sam, Groot, most of the Guardians, Strange and Peter. Thanos wakes on a quiet planet and watches the sunrise.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the post-credits scene, Nick Fury and Maria Hill see the dust spreading in Atlanta. As Fury turns to dust, he sends a signal on a modified pager, which shows the insignia of Captain Marvel.

No. 26 · 2018 · Film

Ant-Man and the Wasp recap

Scott Lang is under house arrest for fighting in Civil War, with three days left. After he has a dream about Janet van Dyne, Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne, now fugitives, kidnap him and build a tunnel into the Quantum Realm to find Janet. Black market dealer Sonny Burch wants their technology, and a phasing woman called Ghost keeps stealing their shrinking lab. Ghost is Ava Starr, whose father, a former partner of Hank's, caused the accident that left her in constant pain; she wants to take Janet's quantum energy to heal herself, helped by Hank's old colleague Bill Foster. Scott must keep slipping home before the FBI agent watching him notices. Janet briefly takes over Scott's body to give them coordinates.

How Ant-Man and the Wasp ends

Hank goes into the Quantum Realm and brings Janet back, while Scott and Hope fight off Burch and Ghost. Janet uses her quantum energy to ease Ava's pain, and Ava and Bill leave. Scott makes it home in time to end his house arrest.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Scott enters the Quantum Realm to collect healing particles for Ava, and Hank, Janet and Hope turn to dust outside, leaving him trapped. In the post-credits scene, a giant ant plays the drums in Scott's empty house while an emergency broadcast is on the television.

No. 27 · 2019 · Film

Captain Marvel recap

In 1995, Vers is a Kree soldier with energy powers and no memory of her past, trained by Yon-Rogg. She is captured by Skrulls, shapeshifters at war with the Kree, who dig into her memories, and she crashes on Earth. With a young S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Nick Fury, she follows her memories to Dr. Wendy Lawson, a scientist who was really Mar-Vell, a Kree working on a lightspeed engine. Her best friend from the Air Force, Maria Rambeau, and Maria's daughter Monica tell her she is Carol Danvers, a pilot who was thought killed with Lawson. The Skrull leader, Talos, reveals that the Skrulls are refugees and Mar-Vell was helping them. Carol remembers that she absorbed the engine's energy, powered by the Tesseract, when Yon-Rogg shot it, and the Kree took her.

How Captain Marvel ends

Carol frees herself from the Supreme Intelligence's control and unlocks her full power, destroying Kree bombers and sending Ronan's fleet away. She beats Yon-Rogg and sends him home with a warning. She leaves Earth to help the Skrulls find a new home and gives Fury a modified pager. Fury drafts the Avengers Initiative, named after Carol's Air Force call sign.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, in 2018 after the Snap, the remaining Avengers are watching the pager when Carol appears and asks where Fury is. In the post-credits scene, Goose the cat, who is a Flerken, coughs up the Tesseract onto Fury's desk.

No. 28 · 2019 · Film

Avengers: Endgame recap

Three weeks after the Snap, Carol Danvers rescues Tony and Nebula from space. The Avengers find Thanos on a farm planet, but he has destroyed the stones, and Thor beheads him. Five years later, Scott Lang escapes the Quantum Realm, where only five hours have passed, and suggests time travel. Tony works out how to do it, Bruce Banner has merged his mind with the Hulk, and Thor is drunk and depressed in New Asgard. The team splits up to take the stones from the past: New York in 2012, Asgard in 2013, and Morag and Vormir in 2014. Natasha sacrifices herself on Vormir for the Soul Stone. Tony and Steve go to 1970 for the Tesseract and Pym particles, and Tony speaks to his father. A past Thanos learns of the plan through Nebula's implants and swaps in his own past Nebula. Banner uses a new gauntlet to bring everyone back, and the 2014 Thanos destroys the Avengers base.

How Avengers: Endgame ends

Steve wields Mjolnir and every returning hero arrives through Strange's portals for a battle with Thanos's army. Thanos gets the gauntlet, but Tony takes the stones and snaps his fingers, dusting Thanos and his army, and dies of the strain. After Tony's funeral, Steve returns the stones to their times and chooses to stay in the past with Peggy, returning as an old man to give Sam Wilson his shield. Thor leaves with the Guardians and makes Valkyrie king of New Asgard.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene, only the sound of hammering on metal, like Tony building his first suit in the cave.

No. 29 · 2019 · Film

Spider-Man: Far From Home recap

Eight months after the Blip, the world mourns Tony Stark, and Peter Parker goes on a school trip to Europe, planning to tell MJ how he feels. In Venice, a water monster attacks, and a man in a cape and helmet fights it: Quentin Beck, who says he is from another Earth where these Elementals killed his family. Nick Fury recruits Peter to help. Peter decides Beck is the right person to inherit EDITH, Tony's sunglasses that control Stark's global satellite and drone network, and hands them over. Beck is a fraud: a former Stark engineer whose team stages the monsters with drones and holograms. MJ finds a projector, and Peter learns the truth. In Berlin, Beck traps Peter in an illusion and leaves him to be hit by a train. Peter goes to Happy for help in the Netherlands.

How Spider-Man: Far From Home ends

In London, Beck stages a giant Elemental to cover drone attacks on Peter's friends. Peter uses his spider sense to beat the illusions, takes back EDITH, and Beck is killed by one of his own drones. Peter and MJ start dating.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, a doctored video from Beck, broadcast by J. Jonah Jameson, accuses Spider-Man of murder and reveals that he is Peter Parker. In the post-credits scene, Fury and Maria Hill turn out to have been the Skrulls Talos and Soren, while the real Fury is on vacation aboard a Skrull ship in space.

No. 30 · 2021 · Series

WandaVision recap

Wanda Maximoff and Vision, who died in Infinity War, live as newlyweds in Westview, New Jersey, inside what looks like a sitcom, moving through the decades from 1950s black and white to the 2000s. Outside, S.W.O.R.D., run by Tyler Hayward, studies an energy field around the town. Monica Rambeau, back from the Blip, is pulled inside, playing a neighbor, and thrown out when she mentions Ultron. Jimmy Woo and Darcy Lewis help her investigate. Wanda gives birth to twins, Billy and Tommy, and her brother Pietro turns up, played by a different actor. Vision learns that the townspeople are trapped and controlled by Wanda, and that he cannot leave the town without falling apart. Wanda built the whole place out of grief after S.W.O.R.D. dismantled Vision's body. Her neighbor Agnes is really Agatha Harkness, a centuries-old witch who walks Wanda through her past and names her the Scarlet Witch, a being of chaos magic. Hayward rebuilds Vision's original body as a white, weaponised Vision.

How WandaVision ends

Wanda beats Agatha by using her own runes against her and locks her in the town as the nosy neighbor Agnes. The two Visions fight, and Wanda's Vision talks the white Vision into restoring his memories; it flies away. Wanda takes down the field, losing Vision and the boys, and leaves Westview. In a final scene, she studies the Darkhold in a remote cabin and hears her sons calling for help, which leads into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

No. 31 · 2021 · Series

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier recap

Six months after the Blip, Sam Wilson hands Steve's shield to a museum, and the government gives it to a new Captain America, John Walker. Bucky Barnes, pardoned and in therapy, tries to make amends for the Winter Soldier's killings. A group called the Flag Smashers, led by Karli Morgenthau, wants a world without borders after the Blip's chaos, and its members have been given a new super soldier serum. Sam and Bucky break Helmut Zemo out of prison to track down the serum's maker and go to Madripoor, where Sharon Carter is hiding. Sam meets Isaiah Bradley, a Black super soldier the government imprisoned and experimented on for decades. Walker takes the serum, and after his partner Lemar is killed, he kills a Flag Smasher with the shield in public. He loses the title, and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine recruits him. Sam takes back the shield and gets a new suit from Wakanda.

How The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ends

Sam debuts as Captain America in New York, stopping the Flag Smashers from attacking a council that votes on resettling refugees. Karli is shot dead by Sharon. Sam makes a public speech asking leaders to do better, and Isaiah Bradley is given a place in the Captain America museum exhibit. Sharon is pardoned and returns to the CIA, secretly still the criminal Power Broker. The story continues in Captain America: Brave New World.

No. 32 · 2021 · Series

Loki recap

This is the first season. The 2012 Loki, who escaped with the Tesseract during Endgame, is arrested by the Time Variance Authority, which removes, or prunes, branches that stray from the Sacred Timeline set by the Time-Keepers. Agent Mobius recruits him to hunt a variant who is killing TVA soldiers. The variant is Sylvie, another Loki. Stranded with her on the dying moon Lamentis, Loki falls for her. He learns that TVA workers are variants with their memories wiped and that the Time-Keepers are androids. Loki is pruned and lands in the Void, where other Lokis live and a storm creature called Alioth eats everything. Sylvie follows, and together they enchant Alioth, which opens the way to a citadel at the End of Time.

How Loki ends

The citadel belongs to He Who Remains, a man from the 31st century who built the TVA to end a war between his own variants across the multiverse. He offers Loki and Sylvie a choice: take over, or kill him and let his worse variants loose. Sylvie sends Loki back to the TVA and kills him, and the timeline branches out of control. Loki finds that Mobius does not know him and that the TVA now honors a statue of He Who Remains. Season 2 continues the story.

No. 33 · 2021 · Film

Black Widow recap

In 1995, young Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova live as a family in Ohio with Alexei Shostakov, the super soldier Red Guardian, and Melina Vostokoff, all Russian agents. The cover ends and the girls are sent to the Red Room. In 2016, after Civil War, Natasha is on the run and receives a package from Yelena: vials of red gas that frees Widows from the Red Room's chemical mind control. The masked Taskmaster attacks. Natasha finds Yelena in Budapest and learns Dreykov, the Red Room's leader, is alive; Natasha thought she killed him in the bombing that also took his daughter. The sisters break Alexei out of a Siberian prison and go to Melina, who reports them to Dreykov, but she is on their side. Taskmaster is Dreykov's daughter, Antonia, alive and controlled. A pheromone keeps Natasha from striking Dreykov, so she breaks her own nose.

How Black Widow ends

On the Red Room, a facility hidden in the sky, Natasha frees Antonia with the gas, and Yelena releases it into the air to free the other Widows. Dreykov dies as the facility falls apart, and Natasha and Yelena escape. Natasha takes a jet and leaves to free her friends from the Raft, leading into Infinity War.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the post-credits scene, set after Endgame, Yelena visits Natasha's grave. Valentina Allegra de Fontaine tells her Clint Barton is responsible for her sister's death, setting up Hawkeye.

No. 34 · 2021 · Series · optional

What If…? recap

This is the first season of an animated anthology narrated by the Watcher, a being who observes the multiverse and does not interfere. Each episode changes one event: Peggy Carter takes the super soldier serum and becomes Captain Carter; Yondu takes T'Challa instead of Peter Quill, making him a beloved Star-Lord; someone murders the Avengers before the team forms; Doctor Strange loses Christine Palmer and tears his universe apart trying to save her; a quantum virus turns heroes into zombies; Killmonger saves Tony Stark in Afghanistan to work his way into Wakanda; Thor grows up an only child and throws a party on Earth. In the eighth episode, Ultron wins Age of Ultron, takes all six stones, wipes out life and then sees the Watcher and attacks him across universes.

How What If…? ends

The Watcher breaks his oath and gathers the Guardians of the Multiverse: Captain Carter, Star-Lord T'Challa, Strange Supreme, Killmonger, Gamora, party Thor and the Black Widow of Ultron's world. They upload Arnim Zola's mind into Ultron's body, Killmonger turns on them to take the stones, and Strange Supreme seals Killmonger and Zola in a pocket dimension he guards forever. The Natasha from Ultron's world moves to a universe that lost its own Natasha, and Captain Carter learns her Steve Rogers is alive inside a Hydra suit.

No. 35 · 2021 · Film

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings recap

Xu Wenwu, a warlord who has lived a thousand years with the power of the ten rings, gives them up for Ying Li, a guardian of the hidden village of Ta Lo. When she is killed by his enemies, he takes them up again and trains their son Shang-Chi as an assassin. Years later, Shang-Chi lives in San Francisco as Shaun, a valet, with his best friend Katy. Ten Rings fighters attack him on a bus to steal the pendant his mother gave him. In Macau, he finds his sister Xialing running a fight club, and Wenwu captures them both. Wenwu believes Li is alive and trapped behind a sealed gate in Ta Lo, and he plans to destroy the village to free her. Trevor Slattery, the actor who once played the Mandarin, now Wenwu's prisoner, and his creature friend Morris lead them to Ta Lo, where their aunt Ying Nan explains the voice is the Dweller-in-Darkness, a demon that feeds on souls.

How Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ends

Wenwu attacks the gate and soul eaters escape. Shang-Chi beats his father in a fight, and Wenwu saves his son from the Dweller, gives him the rings and dies. Shang-Chi, Xialing, Katy and the Great Protector, a dragon, kill the Dweller-in-Darkness.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Wong brings Shang-Chi and Katy to Kamar-Taj, where, with Bruce Banner and Carol Danvers on video, they learn the rings are sending a signal to someone unknown. In the post-credits scene, Xialing takes over the Ten Rings and trains women in its ranks.

No. 36 · 2021 · Film · optional

Eternals recap

Seven thousand years ago, the Celestial Arishem sent ten immortal Eternals to Earth to protect humans from predators called Deviants, with orders never to interfere in human conflict. They split up after 1521. In present-day London, Sersi, who lives with the eternally young Sprite and dates Dane Whitman, is attacked by a Deviant. With her ex, Ikaris, she finds their leader Ajak dead and inherits her link to Arishem. Sersi learns the truth: Earth is an egg for a new Celestial, Tiamut, and the return of half of life in the Blip has given it enough energy to hatch, destroying the planet in an event called the Emergence. The Eternals are machines built to make it happen. The team regathers Kingo, Phastos, Druig, Makkari, Thena and Gilgamesh, who is killed by the Deviant leader Kro. Ikaris admits he killed Ajak to protect the Emergence, and Sprite sides with him.

How Eternals ends

Sersi joins the others' power in the Uni-Mind and turns Tiamut to stone in the Indian Ocean, stopping the Emergence. Ikaris flies into the sun out of guilt, and Sersi makes Sprite human. Arishem then takes Sersi, Kingo and Phastos into space to judge humanity through their memories.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Thena, Makkari and Druig meet Eros, Thanos's brother, and his companion Pip. In the post-credits scene, Dane Whitman opens a box holding the Ebony Blade, and a voice, Blade's, asks if he is sure he is ready.

No. 37 · 2021 · Series

Hawkeye recap

At Christmas in New York, Clint Barton, deaf in one ear, wants only to get home to his kids. Kate Bishop, a young archer who idolised him since she saw him in the battle of New York, finds his old Ronin suit at a black market auction, and the Tracksuit Mafia comes after her. Clint trains her as they fight the gang, whose leader, Maya Lopez, a deaf fighter, wants revenge on Ronin for killing her father. Kate suspects her mother's fiance Jack Duquesne. Yelena Belova arrives, hired to kill Clint, whom she blames for Natasha's death. The person behind the gang is Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, and Kate's mother Eleanor turns out to be working with him.

How Hawkeye ends

At a Christmas party at Rockefeller Center, Clint convinces Yelena that Natasha chose to sacrifice herself. Kate fights Fisk and beats him, Eleanor is arrested, and Maya confronts Fisk and a shot is heard, though he survives in Echo. Clint gets home for Christmas with Kate and burns the Ronin suit.

No. 38 · 2021 · Film

Spider-Man: No Way Home recap

After Mysterio reveals Peter Parker is Spider-Man, Peter is charged and then cleared, but his life collapses: he, MJ and Ned are rejected by MIT. Peter asks Doctor Strange to make the world forget his identity. Peter keeps changing the spell as Strange casts it, and it breaks, pulling in people from other universes who know Spider-Man is Peter Parker: Doctor Octopus, the Green Goblin, Electro, Sandman and the Lizard. Strange wants to send them home, where most will die, but Peter decides to cure them first. Norman Osborn's Goblin personality takes over, betrays them and kills Aunt May, who reminds Peter that with great power comes great responsibility. Ned and MJ accidentally bring two other Peter Parkers, the Spider-Men of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, into this world.

How Spider-Man: No Way Home ends

At the Statue of Liberty, the three Spider-Men cure the villains, and the older Peter stops Peter from killing the Goblin. With the multiverse breaking through, Peter asks Strange to make everyone forget that Peter Parker exists. Strange casts the spell, the visitors return home, and MJ and Ned no longer know him. Peter lives alone in an apartment and sews a new suit.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Eddie Brock is pulled back to his own universe from a bar in Mexico, leaving a small piece of the Venom symbiote behind. A post-credits teaser previews Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

No. 39 · 2022 · Series · optional

Moon Knight recap

Steven Grant, a gift shop worker in London, loses time in blackouts and wakes up in strange places. He shares a body with Marc Spector, an American mercenary who serves as the avatar of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu. Arthur Harrow, Khonshu's former avatar, now leads a cult devoted to the goddess Ammit, who would judge people for crimes before they commit them, and he wants a golden scarab to find her tomb. Marc's wife, Layla El-Faouly, joins the hunt in Egypt. Harrow shoots Marc, who wakes in a psychiatric hospital that turns out to be the Duat, the afterlife, guided by the hippo goddess Taweret. Marc and Steven relive Marc's childhood: his younger brother Randall drowned, his mother blamed Marc and abused him, and Steven was created as an escape.

How Moon Knight ends

Steven sacrifices himself for Marc, and Marc goes back for him, and Taweret returns both to life. Layla briefly becomes Taweret's avatar, and Khonshu and Ammit fight as giants over Cairo while Moon Knight beats Harrow. Marc and Steven think they are free of Khonshu, but a third personality, Jake Lockley, still serves Khonshu and kills Harrow.

No. 40 · 2022 · Film

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness recap

America Chavez, a teenager who can travel between universes but cannot control it, is chased into New York by a monster, and Doctor Strange and Wong save her. Strange asks Wanda Maximoff for help, but Wanda, corrupted by the Darkhold, has been sending the monsters: she wants America's power to reach a universe where her sons Billy and Tommy are alive. Wanda attacks Kamar-Taj, and America accidentally takes herself and Strange to Earth-838. There, the Illuminati, a council of Mordo, Captain Carter, Black Bolt, Maria Rambeau as Captain Marvel, Reed Richards and Professor X, hold Strange responsible because their own Strange caused a disaster across universes. Wanda takes over her Earth-838 self and kills most of the Illuminati. Strange and America look for the Book of Vishanti, but Wanda destroys it and seizes America.

How Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ends

Strange enters the corpse of a dead Strange to get to Wanda, and America finally controls her power and sends Wanda to Earth-838, where the boys are terrified of her. Wanda brings down Mount Wundagore on herself, destroying the Darkhold in every universe. Strange returns home with a third eye from the Darkhold's influence, and America stays to train at Kamar-Taj.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, the sorceress Clea tells Strange he has caused an incursion and takes him into the Dark Dimension to fix it. In the post-credits scene, the pizza vendor whom Strange cursed to punch himself is finally freed from the spell.

No. 41 · 2022 · Series

Ms. Marvel recap

Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old Pakistani American in Jersey City, writes Avengers fan fiction and wants to go to AvengerCon. A bangle that belonged to her great-grandmother gives her the power to make hard light constructs. Najma and her son Kamran, members of the Clandestines, beings from another dimension, the Noor, who were exiled to Earth, want the bangle to open the veil and go home. The Department of Damage Control hunts Kamala. On a trip to Karachi with her mother, Kamala learns about her family's past during the Partition in 1947 and that her great-grandmother Aisha was one of the Clandestines. Kamala travels back to the Partition, and Najma sacrifices herself to close the veil.

How Ms. Marvel ends

Back in Jersey City, Damage Control hunts Kamran, and Kamala, her friends and the community protect him at the school and help him escape. Her father explains her name means "marvel", and she takes the name Ms. Marvel. Her friend Bruno tells her that her genes contain a mutation. In the final scene, the bangle glows and Kamala swaps places with Carol Danvers, leading into The Marvels.

No. 42 · 2022 · Film

Thor: Love and Thunder recap

Gorr, a starving believer, watches his daughter die and finds his god Rapu laughing at his followers. He takes the Necrosword, which kills gods, and swears to kill them all. Thor, travelling with the Guardians, answers a distress call and follows Gorr to New Asgard, where he finds Jane Foster wielding the rebuilt Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor. Jane has stage four cancer, and the hammer's power drains her body. Gorr kidnaps the Asgardian children. Thor, Jane, Valkyrie and Korg go to Omnipotence City to ask Zeus for help, Zeus refuses, and Thor steals his thunderbolt. In the Shadow Realm, Gorr wants Thor's Stormbreaker, which can open the path to Eternity, a being that grants a wish.

How Thor: Love and Thunder ends

Thor frees the children and gives them powers to fight Gorr's shadow monsters. Jane joins Thor at Eternity's altar as Mighty Thor one last time, and Thor persuades Gorr to wish his daughter back rather than destroy the gods. Jane dies in Thor's arms, and Gorr dies after giving his daughter, Love, to Thor, who raises her.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Zeus, alive, sends his son Hercules to kill Thor. In the post-credits scene, Jane arrives in Valhalla and is welcomed by Heimdall.

No. 43 · 2022 · Series · optional

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law recap

Jennifer Walters, a Los Angeles lawyer, gets some of her cousin Bruce Banner's blood in a car crash and becomes She-Hulk, keeping her own mind. After a superpowered attack in court goes viral, she loses her job and is hired to run the superhuman law division at a new firm. Her cases include parole for Emil Blonsky, the Abomination, who has become a meditating guru; a sorcerer who annoys Wong; an influencer, Titania, who trademarks the name She-Hulk; and a supervillain costume dispute that brings her into court against Matt Murdock, whom she later dates. An online hate group, Intelligencia, led by Todd Phelps, wants her blood. At an awards gala, the group posts a stolen private video of her, and she transforms in rage and is arrested.

How She-Hulk: Attorney at Law ends

In the finale, Jennifer stops the show from turning into a standard battle and walks out of her own series into Marvel Studios to argue with the writers and K.E.V.I.N., an AI that runs the studio, to get a better ending. The battle is removed, Todd is arrested, Bruce returns from space with a son, Skaar, and Jennifer brings Matt Murdock to a family barbecue.

No. 44 · 2022 · Series · optional

Werewolf by Night recap

After the death of the monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone, his widow Verussa gathers hunters at Bloodstone Manor to compete for the Bloodstone, a gem with power over monsters. The prize goes to whoever kills a monster released into the grounds. Ulysses's estranged daughter Elsa Bloodstone joins to claim it. One hunter, Jack Russell, is secretly a werewolf and has come to free the monster: his friend Ted, the plant creature Man-Thing. Jack and Elsa agree to help each other, and they get Ted out of the maze, but Verussa captures them.

How Werewolf by Night ends

Verussa uses the Bloodstone to force Jack to turn into a werewolf, and he kills the other hunters while sparing Elsa. Ted burns Verussa with his touch. Elsa claims the Bloodstone and the manor, and Jack and Ted leave together.

No. 45 · 2022 · Film

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever recap

T'Challa dies of an illness his sister Shuri could not cure. A year later, Queen Ramonda leads Wakanda while other nations try to take its vibranium. An American machine built to find vibranium locates some at the bottom of the Atlantic, and the team is killed by Namor, king of Talokan, an underwater people. Namor demands that Wakanda hand over the machine's inventor, an MIT student named Riri Williams, or he will attack. Shuri and Okoye find Riri, but the Talokanil capture Shuri and Riri, and Namor shows Shuri his kingdom. Nakia rescues them, and Namor attacks Wakanda in revenge, killing Ramonda. Shuri recreates the heart-shaped herb, becomes the new Black Panther and sees Killmonger in the ancestral plane.

How Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ends

Wakanda lures Namor to a ship at sea and battles the Talokanil. Shuri fights Namor on a beach, wounds him and offers peace instead of killing him, and he yields. Riri goes home, and Shuri goes to Haiti, where Nakia has been living, and burns her funeral robes to mourn her brother.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Nakia introduces Shuri to her young son, Toussaint, who reveals his Wakandan name is T'Challa: he is T'Challa's son. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 46 · 2022 · Series · optional

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special recap

At Christmas on Knowhere, which the Guardians have bought, Kraglin tells how Yondu once ruined Peter Quill's Christmas as a boy. Mantis and Drax decide to cheer Quill up, still missing the original Gamora, by finding him the perfect gift on Earth: his childhood hero, the actor Kevin Bacon. In Hollywood, they get into trouble, frighten Bacon, and kidnap him and fly him to Knowhere.

How The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special ends

Quill is upset that they kidnapped Kevin Bacon, but Bacon agrees to stay for the Christmas party and sing. Mantis tells Quill that she is his half-sister, since they share a father, Ego, and the two celebrate together.

No. 47 · 2023 · Film

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania recap

Scott Lang enjoys his fame, while his daughter Cassie, now 18, has built a device to send signals into the Quantum Realm with Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne. Janet panics and tries to turn it off, and all five are pulled into the realm, which is full of civilizations. Janet reveals that during her years there she met and trapped Kang the Conqueror, an exiled variant of He Who Remains, by destroying the power core of his time machine. Kang now rules the realm and needs Hank's shrinking particles to fix the core. His henchman M.O.D.O.K. turns out to be Darren Cross. Scott retrieves the core in a probability storm full of copies of himself. Kang captures Cassie and threatens her to force Scott's help.

How Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ends

The realm's freedom fighters rise up, Hank brings an army of super-evolved ants, and M.O.D.O.K. switches sides and dies. Scott and Hope push Kang into the exploding power core, and Scott gets home with Cassie. Scott enjoys his life but is troubled by Kang's warning about what comes next.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Immortus, Rama-Tut and the Centurion lead a council of Kang variants that knows the exiled Kang is dead. In the post-credits scene, Loki and Mobius watch Victor Timely, another Kang, giving a show in 1901, leading into Loki season 2.

No. 48 · 2023 · Film

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 recap

On Knowhere, the gold-skinned Adam Warlock attacks the Guardians and badly wounds Rocket. A kill switch implanted in Rocket's body by Orgocorp stops them from healing him. Flashbacks show Rocket's past: the High Evolutionary created him in experiments to make a perfect society, and Rocket's friends, the animals Lylla, Teefs and Floor, were killed. The Guardians go to Orgocorp's headquarters to steal the switch's passkey, joined by the 2014 Gamora, now a Ravager, who does not know Quill. They follow the High Evolutionary to Counter-Earth, a copy of Earth with animal people, which he destroys. Nebula saves Rocket's life, and Rocket, near death, meets Lylla in a vision and is told it is not his time.

How Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ends

The Guardians rescue the children and animals held on the High Evolutionary's ship. Rocket beats the High Evolutionary but spares him. Quill nearly dies in space and is saved by Adam. The team splits up: Quill returns to Earth to see his grandfather, Gamora returns to the Ravagers, Mantis goes off alone, Nebula and Drax stay to raise the children on Knowhere, and Rocket leads a new team of Guardians.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Rocket, Groot, Kraglin, Cosmo, Adam and Phyla, one of the rescued children, fight a monster as the new Guardians. In the post-credits scene, Peter Quill eats breakfast with his grandfather, and a title says the Legendary Star-Lord will return.

No. 49 · 2023 · Series · optional

Secret Invasion recap

Nick Fury returns to Earth after years on a space station when a faction of Skrull refugees, led by Gravik, starts bombing and infiltrating governments to start a war between the United States and Russia and take Earth. Gravik, disguised as Fury, kills Maria Hill. Talos's daughter G'iah spies inside Gravik's group, and Fury works with MI6 agent Sonya Falsworth. Fury's wife, Varra, is also a Skrull. Gravik builds a machine that gives Skrulls the powers of heroes using the Harvest, DNA collected after the battle with Thanos. Talos is killed. James Rhodes turns out to have been a Skrull, Raava, for years, and the real Rhodes is held captive.

How Secret Invasion ends

Fury trades the Harvest to Gravik but gives a copy to G'iah, who gains super powers and kills Gravik. The real Rhodes is freed, but President Ritson declares war on all Skrulls on Earth. Fury leaves Earth with Varra, and G'iah and Sonya Falsworth work together.

No. 50 · 2023 · Series

Loki: Season 2 recap

This is the second season. After He Who Remains' death, Loki starts time slipping, jumping between the past, present and future, and the Temporal Loom, the machine that turns raw time into timelines, starts to fail under the new branches. With the help of Ouroboros, a TVA engineer, Loki learns to control his slipping. Sylvie lives a quiet life in 1982 Oklahoma, and Ravonna Renslayer, with Miss Minutes, searches for Victor Timely, a variant of He Who Remains in 1890s Chicago. Victor is brought to the TVA to fix the Loom, and it explodes, killing him and wiping out the TVA. Loki learns to travel back through time at will and relives events for centuries, trying every way to save everyone.

How Loki: Season 2 ends

Loki realises the Loom cannot survive infinite timelines. He walks to it, destroys it and takes hold of the timelines himself, sitting on the throne at the End of Time and holding them together in the shape of a tree. The TVA now watches over Kang variants, Mobius visits his variant's life on Earth, and Sylvie remains in 1982.

No. 51 · 2023 · Film

The Marvels recap

Dar-Benn, a Kree leader, uses a Quantum Band, the twin of Kamala Khan's bangle, to tear jump points in space and steal resources for the Kree homeworld, Hala, which has been dying since Carol Danvers destroyed the Supreme Intelligence. When Carol, Monica Rambeau, now a S.A.B.E.R. astronaut with light powers, and Kamala use their powers at the same time, they swap places. They team up from Kamala's family home in Jersey City. Dar-Benn attacks a Skrull refugee planet and then Aladna, where people speak in song and Carol is married to Prince Yan. Dar-Benn gets both bands and opens a large tear to steal Earth's sun for Hala.

How The Marvels ends

Dar-Benn dies as she overloads the bands. Carol restores Hala's sun, and Monica closes the tear with her powers, trapping herself on the other side. Kamala returns home.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, Monica wakes in another universe where her mother, Maria Rambeau, is the hero Binary and Hank McCoy, the X-Man Beast, treats her. In the post-credits scene, Kamala visits Kate Bishop to recruit her for a new team and mentions Cassie Lang.

No. 52 · 2023 · Series · optional

What If…? Season 2 recap

This is the second season of the animated anthology narrated by the Watcher. Nebula joins the Nova Corps and solves a noir mystery on Xandar; Peter Quill is raised by Ego and attacks Earth in the 1980s; Happy Hogan gets Hulk powers at a Christmas party attacked by Justin Hammer; Tony Stark crashes on Sakaar and races the Grandmaster; Captain Carter fights a brainwashed Steve Rogers in a Hydra Stomper suit; a Mohawk woman, Kahhori, gains powers from the Tesseract and fights Spanish conquistadors; Hela is stripped of her power, trains in China and joins the Ten Rings; and Captain Carter helps the heroes of 1602, a medieval-styled universe, and returns a displaced Steve Rogers to his time.

How What If…? Season 2 ends

In the finale, Captain Carter and Kahhori find Strange Supreme feeding beings called universe killers into a forge to rebuild his lost universe. They free the captives and stop him, and Strange gives himself up to the collapsing forge. The Watcher takes Kahhori home, shows Carter Strange's restored universe, where Christine Palmer lives again, and agrees to show Carter more of the multiverse before taking her home.

No. 53 · 2024 · Series · optional

Echo recap

Maya Lopez, a deaf Choctaw woman raised by her father, a gangster for Wilson Fisk, lost her mother in an accident as a child, and Fisk raised her as his niece after her father was killed. After shooting Fisk at the end of Hawkeye, she returns to Tamaha, Oklahoma, to take over his network in the region, reconnecting with her grandmother Chula, her cousin Bonnie and her uncle Henry, and running into Daredevil along the way. Flashbacks show Choctaw women across the centuries, Maya's ancestors, with special powers. Fisk survived, and he comes to Oklahoma to bring Maya back, threatening her family.

How Echo ends

At a powwow, Maya and the women of her family use their shared ancestral power, and Maya reaches into Fisk's mind and shows him his childhood trauma, breaking his hold. Fisk leaves. In a mid-credits scene, Fisk watches the news about the New York mayoral election and decides to run, leading into Daredevil: Born Again.

No. 54 · 2024 · Series · optional

X-Men '97 recap

This continues the 1990s X-Men cartoon in its own continuity. After Professor X's apparent death, the X-Men learn he left the school to Magneto. Cyclops and Jean Grey have a baby, Nathan, but the Jean in the house turns out to be a clone, Madelyne Pryor, made by Mister Sinister, and the real Jean returns. Nathan is infected with a techno-organic virus and sent to the future to be cured. The mutant island of Genosha is destroyed by a giant Sentinel, killing thousands, including Gambit. The X-Men learn the attack was led by Bastion, a human and Sentinel hybrid, with Mister Sinister's help. Magneto, enraged, sets off a global electromagnetic pulse, while Bastion releases new Sentinels made from humans with nano-technology.

How X-Men '97 ends

The X-Men split between those who fight Bastion and those who join Magneto on his asteroid fortress, Asteroid M. Professor X returns from space to stop Magneto, Bastion is defeated, and the X-Men stop the asteroid from crashing into Earth. A time anomaly scatters them: Cyclops and Jean land in a far future with an adult Nathan, while Professor X, Magneto, Rogue and others land in ancient Egypt and meet a young Apocalypse. A second season is in production.

No. 55 · 2024 · Film

Deadpool & Wolverine recap

In 2018, Wade Wilson uses Cable's time device to save his girlfriend Vanessa, then tries to join the Avengers and is turned away. Six years later, he has retired as Deadpool and sells cars. At his birthday party, the Time Variance Authority takes him. Mr. Paradox, a TVA agent, offers him a place on the Sacred Timeline but explains that Wade's universe is dying because its anchor being, Logan, died in 2029, and that he plans to speed it up with a machine called the Time Ripper. Wade steals a TemPad and searches the multiverse for a replacement Wolverine, finding a variant Logan whose own world was destroyed. Paradox sends them to the Void, a dumping ground ruled by Cassandra Nova, Charles Xavier's twin, who kills Johnny Storm. Wade and Logan escape with Laura and a resistance of forgotten heroes, and Cassandra uses Paradox's means to reach Wade's world and take the Time Ripper.

How Deadpool & Wolverine ends

Wade and Logan destroy the Time Ripper together, which kills Cassandra, and survive by sharing the burden. Hunter B-15 arrests Paradox and confirms Wade's universe is safe. Logan stays in Wade's world as its new anchor, and Wade's friends gather, with Logan urging him to reconcile with Vanessa.

Post-credits scenes

During the credits, a montage of behind-the-scenes footage from Fox's Marvel films plays. In the post-credits scene, an unseen clip from the car ride shows that Johnny Storm really did say the crude insults about Cassandra that Deadpool repeated before she killed him.

No. 56 · 2024 · Series · optional

Agatha All Along recap

Three years after WandaVision, Agatha Harkness is still trapped in Westview as Agnes, until a teenage boy known only as Teen breaks the spell and asks her to take him down the Witches' Road, a series of trials that rewards witches who survive with what they want. Agatha builds a coven: Lilia Calderu, a seer who experiences time out of order; Jennifer Kale, a potion maker whose powers were bound; Alice Wu-Gulliver, a protection witch under a family curse; and Sharon Davis, a neighbor with no powers. Rio Vidal, the Green Witch, follows them; she is Death and Agatha's former lover. Alice and Sharon die on the road. Teen is Billy Maximoff, Wanda's son, whose soul took over the body of a dying teenager, Billy Kaplan. Agatha reveals she made a deal with Death to save her own son Nicholas years ago.

How Agatha All Along ends

The road turns out to be fake, made real by Billy's power and Agatha's song. Death comes for Billy, and Agatha gives her own life by kissing Rio and dying in her arms. Agatha returns as a ghost and joins Billy to search for his twin brother, Tommy.

No. 57 · 2024 · Series · optional

What If…? Season 3 recap

This is the third and final season of the animated anthology narrated by the Watcher. The Hulk fights a giant gamma monster alongside Mech Avengers; Agatha Harkness becomes a Hollywood star in the 1930s to steal an Eternal's power; the Red Guardian stops the Winter Soldier from killing Howard and Maria Stark; Howard the Duck and Darcy Lewis marry and have an egg that hatches into a human-duck child, Byrdie; Riri Williams fights Quentin Beck in a world split apart by the Emergence; and Shang-Chi and Kate Bishop hunt the Hood in an 1872 Western. The Watcher, who keeps breaking his oath, is put on trial by other Watchers, and Captain Carter leads a team to help him.

How What If…? Season 3 ends

In the finale, Infinity Ultron gives his life to help the Watcher escape, and Captain Carter sends the group to Strange Supreme's universe, dying in the process. Strange Supreme strips the three judging Watchers of their power, and they agree to learn by watching over life there. As the group mourns Carter, the Watcher invites Kahhori, Byrdie and Storm to join him in watching the multiverse.

No. 58 · 2025 · Series · optional

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man recap

This animated series is set in its own universe. A battle between Doctor Strange and an alien symbiote opens a portal at Peter Parker's high school, and a spider that comes through bites him, giving him his powers. Peter, a 15-year-old at Midtown High, takes an internship with Norman Osborn instead of Tony Stark, and Norman becomes his mentor in being Spider-Man. Peter befriends Norman's son Harry and fellow interns including Nico Minoru. He fights the Scorpions gang and their leader Mac Gargan, crosses paths with Daredevil and Otto Octavius, and tries to steer his friend Lonnie Lincoln away from the 110th Street gang. Lonnie is exposed to a strange substance and grows stronger, the start of his path to becoming Tombstone. Norman's lessons push Peter close to killing Gargan before he pulls back.

How Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man ends

Norman reveals to the interns that their work fed Project Monolith, a gateway to space, and opens it despite Strange's warning, releasing the symbiote. Strange uses the Eye of Agamotto and lands at the moment of Peter's bite, and he closes the portal, though a piece of the symbiote gets through. Harry launches his own young scientists' group, W.E.B. In the final scene, Aunt May visits Peter's father, Richard Parker, in prison. Season 2 is due in January 2027.

No. 59 · 2025 · Film

Captain America: Brave New World recap

Thaddeus Ross is now president of the United States and sends Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, and Joaquin Torres, the new Falcon, to stop the mercenary Sidewinder in Mexico. At a White House summit about adamantium, a metal found on Celestial Island, the remains of the Celestial Tiamut, several men, including Isaiah Bradley, are triggered by a song to try to assassinate Ross, and later remember nothing. Sam clears Isaiah's name by following the trail to Samuel Sterns, the scientist exposed to Bruce Banner's blood years ago, whom Ross secretly held to help win the election. Sterns, now a genius with gamma powers, escapes. Ross admits he has been taking pills Sterns made for his failing heart, which have been exposing him to gamma radiation. Sterns mind-controls American pilots to attack Japanese ships, and Torres is hurt stopping them.

How Captain America: Brave New World ends

At a press conference, Ross learns his secret is out, and his anger turns him into the Red Hulk, who wrecks part of the White House. Sam fights him and reminds him of his daughter Betty, and Ross changes back. Bradley is cleared, the treaty is signed, and Sam invites Torres to the Avengers. Ross resigns and goes to the Raft prison, where Sam and Betty visit him.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no mid-credits scene. In the post-credits scene, Sterns, in prison, warns Sam that other Earths exist and that an attack from them is coming.

No. 60 · 2025 · Series · optional

Daredevil: Born Again recap

In season 1, Bullseye, Benjamin Poindexter, kills Foggy Nelson in an attack on Matt Murdock and Karen Page, and Matt almost kills him. A year later, Matt has retired as Daredevil and practises law with Kirsten McDuffie, while Wilson Fisk is elected mayor of New York on an anti-vigilante platform and his wife Vanessa runs his criminal business. Matt defends the vigilante White Tiger, Hector Ayala, who is acquitted and then murdered. A serial killer, Muse, abducts Angela del Toro, and Matt puts the suit back on to save her; therapist Heather Glenn, Matt's girlfriend, kills Muse. Fisk forms an Anti-Vigilante Task Force of corrupt police. Matt learns Vanessa hired Poindexter to kill Foggy, and takes a bullet meant for Fisk. Fisk declares martial law and jails his opponents. In season 2, six months later, Matt works underground with Karen and allies including Jessica Jones. Fisk tightens his grip on the city with a free port at Red Hook and weapons from a CIA man, Mr. Charles. Vanessa is wounded in an attack by Poindexter and dies, and Fisk grows more violent.

How Daredevil: Born Again ends

Season 2 ends with Matt revealing in court that he is Daredevil to win Karen's case, while his supporters surround the courthouse. Matt, Jessica and Angela fight through the task force, and Matt persuades Fisk to accept exile from New York. The task force is disbanded, Jessica reunites with Luke Cage and their daughter, and Heather puts on Muse's mask. Matt is then arrested for his actions as Daredevil. Season 3, the last, is planned for March 2027.

No. 61 · 2025 · Film

Thunderbolts* recap

Yelena Belova, depressed after Natasha's death, does black ops work for CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Sent to a secret vault to kill a thief, she meets John Walker, Ava Starr (Ghost) and Antonia Dreykov (Taskmaster), all sent to kill each other so Valentina can erase evidence of her illegal O.X.E. projects; Ava kills Antonia. With them is a confused man named Bob, the only survivor of an experiment to create a super soldier called the Sentry. They escape with help from Alexei Shostakov, while Bucky Barnes, now a congressman, investigates Valentina, who faces impeachment. Bob gains enormous power, turns on the team and becomes the Void, his dark side, which swallows the people of New York in shadows, trapping them in rooms of their worst regrets.

How Thunderbolts* ends

Yelena lets the Void take her and finds Bob inside his own memories of an abusive childhood. The team follows her in and helps Bob face his darkness, which breaks the Void's hold and frees the city. Valentina presents the team to the press as the New Avengers, but Yelena now has leverage over her.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, the team argues over their images on a cereal box. In the post-credits scene, 14 months later, the New Avengers are in a dispute with Sam Wilson over the name, when they detect a ship from another dimension entering Earth's orbit, bearing the Fantastic Four's logo.

No. 62 · 2025 · Series · optional

Ironheart recap

Riri Williams is expelled from MIT and returns to Chicago, still grieving her best friend Natalie and her stepfather Gary, killed in a drive-by shooting. To fund her suit, she joins a gang of thieves led by Parker Robbins, known as the Hood, who wears a magic cloak. She builds an AI for her suit by mapping her own brain, and her grief turns it into a digital copy of Natalie. The gang's heists turn deadly, and Riri learns that Parker's gang killed one of their own. Zeke Stane, son of Obadiah Stane, sells her parts and later turns against her. With help from former Kamar-Taj students, Riri learns Parker's cloak is a dark artifact, and Parker turns the gang on her. Riri builds a new suit with magic, losing the AI in the process.

How Ironheart ends

Riri defeats Parker by tricking him with a hologram and pulling off the cloak, leaving him powerless. Parker's source of power is Mephisto, who appears and offers Riri a deal; she accepts in exchange for keeping her loved ones safe, and Natalie returns, while Mephisto's marks spread on Riri's arm. In a mid-credits scene, Parker asks Zelma Stanton for help finding magic.

No. 63 · 2025 · Film

The Fantastic Four: First Steps recap

On Earth-828 in a 1960s retro future, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm are celebrated heroes four years after cosmic rays gave them their powers. Reed and Sue announce Sue is pregnant. The Silver Surfer arrives and announces that Galactus, a planet-eating giant, has chosen Earth. The team flies into space to bargain and is captured by Galactus, who wants their unborn child, whose cosmic power could end his hunger. Sue gives birth in space as they escape past a neutron star, and they return with baby Franklin. The public turns against the family when they refuse to trade Franklin for the planet. Reed builds teleportation bridges to move Earth away, Sue rallies the world to build them, and the Surfer, whom Johnny learns is Shalla-Bal, a woman who serves Galactus to save her own world, destroys them.

How The Fantastic Four: First Steps ends

The team uses Franklin as bait to lure Galactus to the last teleporter, while Harvey Elder, the Mole Man, evacuates New York underground. Sue pushes Galactus into the portal with her powers, and Shalla-Bal, persuaded by Johnny, sends him through as it closes. Sue dies from the strain and is revived by Franklin. The world celebrates the team's fifth anniversary.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the mid-credits scene, four years later, Sue reads to Franklin and returns from fetching a book to find him with a cloaked man holding a metal mask: Doctor Doom, setting up Avengers: Doomsday. There is no separate post-credits story scene.

No. 64 · 2025 · Series · optional

Eyes of Wakanda recap

This animated anthology follows the Hatut Zaraze, Wakanda's secret agents, who travel the world to recover stolen vibranium. In 1260 BC Crete, Noni, a former Dora Milaje warrior, lets herself be captured to stop a rogue agent called the Lion, who has been abducting people and threatens to share Wakandan technology. During the Trojan War, the agent B'Kai fights alongside Achilles under the name Memnon and kills him to keep a vibranium relic secret. In 1400s China, the agent Basha steals vibranium from a statue in K'un-Lun and is followed home by Jorani, an Iron Fist, who takes it back. In 1896, during the battle of Adwa in Ethiopia, the agent Kuda and Prince Tafari try to recover a vibranium axe.

How Eyes of Wakanda ends

A woman in armor stops Kuda and Tafari: the last Black Panther, from 500 years in the future, where Wakanda was destroyed by an alien enemy because of its isolation. She has come to make sure the axe is left in the world so a future king will see outsiders as allies. They return it, and the series ends years later with Erik Killmonger about to steal the axe from a London museum, the moment from Black Panther.

No. 65 · 2025 · Series · optional

Marvel Zombies recap

This four-episode animated series continues the zombie universe from What If...?. Five years after a virus turned most heroes into zombies, Kamala Khan, Kate Bishop and Riri Williams search for a cure in a ruined New York. Zombie Carol Danvers kills Kate, and Riri sacrifices herself. Blade Knight rescues Kamala and brings her to survivors including Yelena, Alexei and Melina; a horde serving the zombie queen Wanda destroys their base. Kamala's group joins Shang-Chi's survivors, who survive a zombie Namor and lose Yelena, and reach New Asgard, which turns out to be feeding its people zombie flesh from the Queen of Sokovia, Wanda. The heroes escape into space, where the Nova Corps has quarantined Earth.

How Marvel Zombies ends

Sorcerers of Kamar-Taj rescue the group and reveal that Bruce Banner has absorbed the energy of the Infinity Stones to keep it from destroying Earth. Wanda attacks with her army and a zombie Thor, and most of the heroes die. Wanda takes the energy and persuades Kamala to help her remake the world. Kamala wakes in an apparently normal world with Riri and Kate, until reality flickers and Riri tells her none of it is real. Three two-episode specials continuing the story are planned.

No. 66 · 2026 · Series · optional

Wonder Man recap

In this eight-episode satire, a rule called the Doorman Clause keeps people with superpowers out of the Hollywood film business. Simon Williams, a struggling actor with secret ionic powers, sneaks into the audition for a remake of an old superhero film, Wonder Man, by director Von Kovak. There he meets Trevor Slattery, the actor who once played the Mandarin, back in Hollywood after his time as a prisoner. The Department of Damage Control arrests Trevor and offers him a deal: spy on Simon, whom they consider dangerous. The two become friends as they help each other through self-tapes, a family party, a run-in with drug dealers and callbacks at Kovak's mansion, and both are cast. One episode tells the story of DeMarr Davis, the Doorman, whose fall led to the clause.

How Wonder Man ends

Trevor admits his deal to Simon, and Simon's powers destroy the film set. Trevor takes the blame and is sent to a Damage Control prison, and the film is finished without him. Simon gets into the prison by posing as a filmmaker and breaks Trevor out, and the two fly away together.

No. 67 · 2026 · Film

Spider-Man: Brand New Day recap

Four years after Doctor Strange's spell made the world forget Peter Parker, Peter works alone as Spider-Man in New York, keeping away from MJ and Ned, who do not know him. He clashes with Frank Castle, the Punisher, over a reckless chase. A telepath who jumps between bodies helps Mac Gargan escape custody, and Yelena Belova reports attacks on Damage Control sites by someone looking for "V-Max". Peter's powers begin to change, giving him organic webs and sharper senses, and when he loses control and badly beats Gargan, Bruce Banner helps him build an inhibitor. The telepath possesses MJ and nearly kills her, then takes over Banner, setting off a savage Hulk that Peter has to subdue. The telepath is Jean Grey, searching for her sister Sara, whom Damage Control has secretly taken.

How Spider-Man: Brand New Day ends

At a Damage Control facility on Roosevelt Island, Jean finds Sara's cell and freezes everyone around her in rage. Peter takes off his inhibitor, stops her from killing the facility's director, and reaches her by sharing a memory of Aunt May. Castle fires at Jean, Peter shields her and is badly wounded, and Jean keeps him alive. Peter wakes in hospital, vows at May's grave to stop doing everything alone, and runs into Ned, who completes their old handshake and says his name.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. In the post-credits scene, Ned's Spidey Tracker app shows Spider-Man in New York, then glitches and places him in outer space, followed by a title saying Spider-Man will return.