Marvel Heroes: Tales of the Knights is an anthology limited TV series based on Marvel Comics, and airing exclusively on Disney+. It is a spin-off/prequel for Spider-Man and the New Avengers, set in Iago PUC's Marvel Heroes franchise.
Premise[]
Set in the universes of Spider-Man's fellow Knights of the Multiverse, Tales of the Knights focuses on the Knights' early adventures and battles. The miniseries consists of twelve episodes split in six arcs: each of the first five set in one of the four universes, and consisting of three episodes, with the sixth consisting of more crossovers:
- The first arc focuses on untold details of the universe of Etheria, and some of the discoveries made by Princess Adora / She-Ra and her fellow Princesses of Power.
- The second arc focuses on the universe of the Jedi Order, showcasing details and secrets of Luke Skywalker's missions and errands.
- The third arc focuses on Sonic the Hedgehog and the Freedom Fighters in their adventures and antics in Mobius.
- The fourth arc focuses on Optimus Prime and the Autobots, along with some untold secrets following their arrival on Earth.
- The fifth arc focuses on Peter Parker / Spider-Man still undergoing a series of secret adventures since becoming the Fifth Knight of the Multiverse.
- The sixth arc focuses on more of Peter's encounters with his fellow Knights in their unseen errands and battles.
Episodes[]
- See also: Quotes
| No | Title | Disney+ Synopsis | ||
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| 1 | “The Wild Child” | Adora discovers a jungle child who is destined to be a Princess. | ||
| A few months after earning the Sword of Protection and defecting from the Galactic Horde to the Etherian Rebellion, Adora is adjusting well to her duties as princess of Grayskull and as Etheria’s protector She-Ra. During which, she and Catra end up having visions of other specimens which survived the Horde's onslaught. Under Queen Angella's guidance, Adora and Catra go find the specimens, with Adora (riding her steed Swift Wind) being tasked to find one in the Whispering Woods. After battling a number of Horde troopers, Adora and Swift Wind encounter an infant child named Allegra, who has been raised by animals in the jungle since her parents fell prey to the Horde. Learning that Allegra was the Princess of a kingdom which the Horde conquered, Adora decides to protect her. Battling another wave of Horde troopers sent by Empress Despara after Allegra, Adora / She-Ra and Swift Wind eventually discover Allegra's special ability to communicate with animals, which Allegra uses to summon a pack of wolves to drive the troopers away. Amazed by Allegra's talent (and touched by her fondness for her “big sister”), Adora decides to raise her in Grayskull with the blessings of her fellow Princesses and Angella. Adora is later reunited with Catra, who returns with her new pet and companion Melog. | ||||
| 2 | “Cat Days” | Catra forms a bond with a feline creature in Krytis. | ||
| At the same time Adora is tasked to find an unknown specimen in the Whispering Woods, Catra is tasked to do the same in Krytis, which was also once conquered and invaded by the Horde. Accompanied by Entrapta and Scorpia, Catra travels to Krytis, where they fight off a squadron of Horde troopers who are trying to but failing to escape Krytis. While Entrapta and Scorpia stay and guard the ship, Catra notices that the forest is filled with realistic illusions, and manages to see through them to make their way forward. She soon encounters the source of the illusions: Melog, a magical cat-like creature and the last of its kind, who befriends Catra after seeing memories of her past, including when she defected from the Horde with Adora, Entrapta and Scorpia to the Rebellion. After they overcome some more Horde troopers, and drive them away, Catra and Melog are confronted by the Horde's current captain and Catra’s former teacher Shadow Weaver, who tries to sway Catra back to the Horde so she can be “redeemed and re-educated”. With help from Melog, however, Catra overcomes Shadow Weaver’s influence, and defeats her, forcing her to retreat. Melog watches as several falling stars are reborn into more members of its species before choosing to be with Catra, who then returns with Entrapta and Scorpia. Back in the Grayskull Castle, Catra reunites with Adora as they also look after Allegra, who also becomes fond of Melog. | ||||
| 3 | “Fire and Ash” | Adora and Catra discover they have a clone who is the leader of Eternia’s vikings. | ||
| As they aid the Princesses in freeing more kingdoms from the Horde’s dominance, Adora and Catra begin to envision themselves with the Throatcutters, the vikings of Eternia who are also against the Horde, but are not allies to the Etherian Rebellion. Seeking to investigate further, Adora / She-Ra and Catra leave Allegra and Melog to Scorpia’s care, and go investigate. Arriving in Eternia, they are confronted by Anala, the new ruler of the Throatcutters following the death of their king Kulf[1]. Adora and Catra briefly clash with Anala when she mistakes them for Horde enforcers until their fight ends in a stalemate, with Adora and Catra realizing that Anala is their hybrid clone, who was created by Horde Prime as an alternative host body. Anala reveals she has been hunting Horde troopers who abducted half of her people as ordered by Hordak, who believes the Throatcutters’ savagery will aid the Horde in turning the tide against the Rebellion. She-Ra and Catra agree to help Anala free her people, and drive the Horde away. They manage to infiltrate the ship carrying the prisoners, and free them before decimating the Horde androids, and defeating Shadow Weaver, who is subsequently scarred by Anala. She begrudgingly spares Shadow Weaver to prove she is not the weapon Horde Prime sought for. As the Shadow Weaver and her troops retreat, Anala expresses her gratitude for Adora and Catra, but refuses to join the Rebellion out of belief that other Princesses would not approve of the Throatcutters’ violent ways. Adora and Catra return to Etheria, with Angella assuring them that Anala and her people will find their way to achieve peace, whether they need the light of the Rebellion or not. | ||||
| 4 | “Intertwined Lovers” | Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade endure their first mission together. | ||
| After another training session with his fellow Padawans in the New Jedi Academy, Luke Skywalker is tasked by his master Obi-Wan Kenobi in undergoing a new mission on behalf of the Republic: to save alien animals which are being illegally experimented on by Kul Teska in Geonosis. He is also joined in this mission by Mara Jade, the Padawan with whom he trained the most during his first year in the Academy. Arriving at Geonosis, Luke and Mara infiltrate Teska's facility, as Luke learns more of Mara’s ability to communicate with animals through the Force, which she uses to free a female mutated Loth-cat named Amethyst, who becomes telepathically bonded with her. As they save the animals from captivity and each other of the perilous traps, Luke and Mara grow more open to each other about their hidden feelings, but fear they might be disrespecting the Jedi Code. Through an astral projection, Obi-Wan encourages Luke and Mara that their fates are intertwined, just like the ones of Luke's parents Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala. With their spirits lifted, Luke and Mara resume their mission, eventually confronting Teska. During the issuing fight, Mara learns that she can control the element of fire through the Force, and Luke learns of his lightsaber’s capability to duplicate itself, and the pair use these new traits to defeat Teska, who is subsequently arrested by the Republic’s troopers. With the blessings of their masters Obi-Wan and Yaddle, Luke and Mara officially start their romantic relationship. | ||||
| 5 | “The Fallen Jedi” | Luke and his colleagues reluctantly work with two former Jedi to stop Death Watch. | ||
| Five years ago, young Jedi Padawan Gallen Marek fell to the Dark Side of the Force when his secret lover Juno Eclipse was presumed killed by Jedi Knight Sha'a Gi, whom he killed before defecting to the Sith Empire, taking the alias of “Starkiller”. After fighting his former masters for two years, Starkiller eventually learned that Juno was still alive and forced to work for the Sith Empire by her father Admiral Eclipse, who had also framed Gi for her murder. Starkiller eventually fought back, but failed to save Juno, who sacrificed herself to stop her father from trying to destroy Kalos, after which Starkiller fled from the Empire. In the present day, Luke and his fellow Padawans (Mara, Ahsoka Tano, Cal Kestis and Ezra Bridger) are tasked with finding a Youngling whose connection with the Force was discovered on the planet Arvala-7. Arriving there, Luke and his team are confronted by Starkiller, who is now apprenticed by former Jedi Asajj Ventress and is also seeking the Youngling. The Padawans and the rogue Jedi fight until they reach a stalemate, as Ventress and Starkiller reveal they seek to find and protect the mysterious Youngling from the Sith Empire and the Death Watch, led by Sith exile Darth Maul. Luke and his fellow Padawans reluctantly agree to work with Starkiller and Ventress, and they continue tracking down the Youngling. During which, Luke learns more about Starkiller’s past while Mara and Ahsoka learn more about what Ventress has been through since she left the Sith Empire following Count Dooku’s betrayal of her. Arriving closer to the Youngling’s location, the Padawans and rogue Jedi confront Maul and the Death Watch along with a group of Inquisitors sent by Darth Vader. As the Padawans and the rogue Jedi fight the invaders off, Ahsoka and Ezra located the Youngling: Grogu, a toddler of the same species as Yaddle and the deceased Master Yoda, and protect him from being attacked by the Inquisitors, as Grogu surprisingly uses the Force to call upon the animals of Arvala-7, who subdue the Inquisitors and Death Watch assassins, and force them to retreat. Luke and Starkiller are likewise able to defeat Maul, although Starkiller (seeing a vision of Juno projected by Grogu) is persuaded to spare Maul, and move on. Ventress and Starkiller allow Luke and his friends to take Grogu with them, and part ways. The team returns to the Jedi Temple of Coruscant, where Grogu is welcomed by Obi-Wan and Yaddle. | ||||
| 6 | “Family Bloodlines” | Luke goes on a mission alongside his twin sister Leia, and neither are alone in it. | ||
| Years ago, Luke was born along with his twin sister Leia. Anakin and Padmé predicted that Leia would be connected to the Force as much as Luke would be, while deciding that her path should be the same as Padmé’s. After Anakin and Padmé sacrificed themselves to destroy Darth Sidious, Luke and Leia were sent to be raised by different families in their parents’ home-planets: Luke was to be raised by his uncle Owen Lars and aunt Beru in Tatooine, while Leia would be raised by Padmé’s loyalists, including Gungan general Jar Jar Binks in Theed, Naboo, going by her mother’s surname Amidala. In the present day, Leia has been living up to her duties as princess of Theed, while secretly learning the ways of the Force with the Jedi, including most closely Shaak Ti and Yaddle. During which, Leia senses her friend Wicket W. Warrick of the Ewok Tribe is in danger, and settles to help him, with Luke and Jar Jar joining her. Arriving at Endor, the three learn it is being targeted by the forces of the Sith Empire, who were sent by Grand Moff Tarkin to mine Endor’s molten core, and use it to power up a weapon which Tarkin plans to build to destroy entire planets. Leia is able to sense Wicket, who has infiltrated the mining field to try and sabotage it on his own, and goes to help him while Luke and Jar Jar work to distract the Empire's troopers. During which, Luke and Leia begin communicating with each other through a Dyad, a Force power centered on two Force-sensitive beings who have an unbreakable bond. With encouragement from the Force Ghosts of their parents, Luke and Leia master their Dyad, allowing them to defeat the Inquisitors, destroy the mining machine, and save Endor, foiling Tarkin's plot. As Wicket is brought back to the Ewok Village, Endor is reported to be under the Republic’s protection and support, and Tarkin is demoted by Vader for his failure, Luke and Leia continue their usual duties, while still connected by their Dyad. | ||||
| 7 | “The Half-Breed” | Sonic, Shadow and Silver learn the origins of Tails’s half-sister Sophie. | ||
| After defeating a group of Jackal Squad enforcers in the Starfall Islands, Sonic the Hedgehog, Amy Rose, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Silver the Hedgehog, and Shadow the Hedgehog overhear that Yacker is organizing a Wisp Festival at the Sheep Village, which all Freedom Fighters join. Only Tails’s half-sister Sophie declines due to the Sheep's troubled past with the Jackal Squad. As Tails goes to comfort his sister, Sally Acorn decides to tell Sonic, Shadow and Silver about Sophie's past through a Master Emerald-powered virtual reality; Sophie is a Jackal/Fox hybrid, daughter of Tails’s mother and a female Jackal born from a Birth Matrix in a citadel inhabited by an all-female population which exists in a dimension outside time and space[2]. Sophie was raised by her jackal mother, who feared she would be treated as an outcast in the fox village due to being a hybrid of both breeds, as many Mobians were in fear of the Jackal Squad's bloodlust. Growing up after her jackal mother was discovered and killed by Squad enforcers, Sophie learned that her fox mother gave birth to her half-brother Tails, but could not meet him out of fear of other foxes' negative reaction. Back in present, Sonic, Shadow and Silver, sympathetic to Sophie, meet her and assure her that either she is born like others or different from them, she will be accepted not just for who or what she is, but also for what she does, lifting her spirit. Just then, the group overhear that the Jackal Squad and their leader Infinite are conspiring to attack the Sheep Village, and Sonic and Sophie settle to stop them. As Sonic duels with Infinite, Sophie fights and defeats the enforcers, using her Star Portal projection abilities to send them to Prison Island, where they are arrested by G.U.N. under Shadow's orders. Sonic likewise defeats Infinite, destroying his Phantom Ruby, and forcing him to retreat. Sophie earns more of the sympathy of the sheep (including fellow Freedom Fighter Lanolin, who assures her that there are still jackals who are not like Infinite and his Squad[3]) and their gratitude, with Sonic watching pleased. | ||||
| 8 | “The Fastest Thing Alive” | The Freedom Fighters join a racing tournament which hides a mystical secret. | ||
| One month after earning the sword Chaos Claw, Sonic stops his archenemy Doctor Robotnik from attempting to ravage his childhood friend Princess Elise’s nation of Soleanna, forcing him to retreat, but not before Sonic finds an emblem which fell from Robotnik’s possession, as Elise and Tails identify it as an artifact connected to an ancient Mobian civilization known as Babylon. Next day, Sonic and his fellow Freedom Fighters join the EX World Grand Prix, a racing tournament where participants ride high-tech anti-gravity vehicles known as Extreme Gears, although they also meet heavy competition with the thieving Babylon Rogues (consisting of Jet the Hawk, Wave the Swallow and Storm the Albatross), whom Sonic learns are descendants of the Babylonians. The Freedom Fighters eventually proceed with the contest, as rivalries between Sonic's team (consisting of himself, Tails and Knuckles) and the Rogues intensify; in particular between Sonic and Jet, although both sides also clash against the robots of MeteoTech's Crimson Tower, which were created by Robotnik to race for him. During a final race taking place in Babylon Garden, Sonic and Jet are confronted by the MeteoTech robots’ leader SCR-HD, who has taken over the Crimson Tower, and plans to obtain the Babylonians’ treasure, seeking to use its power to eliminate all organic life. Sonic and Jet eventually put aside their differences, and combine their efforts to defeat and destroy SCR-HD. Sonic's team and the Rogues eventually uncover the Garden’s treasure chest. Robotnik returns and demands them to give him the treasure, but passes out in confusion upon discovering the treasure is only a carpet. Using the Key to Babylon Garden, Jet manages to make the carpet fly, revealing the magic carpet to be an early form of Extreme Gear. Team Sonic and the Babylon Rogues go their separate ways, with Jet promising to race Sonic again one day. | ||||
| 9 | “Sparks of Life” | Sonic and Amy Rose discover a colony of Chao/Wisp hybrids while fighting the Deadly Six. | ||
| Sonic and Amy are enjoying a romantic date night in Angel Island which is soon interrupted by the invasion of the Deadly Six, a group of villainous Zeti from the Lost Hex consisting of Zazz, Zenana, Master Zik, Zomom, Zor and their leader Zavok who plan to obtain the Master Emerald. Sonic and Amy fight back against the Six, who are soon driven away by a swarm of Chao/Wisp hybrids known by the Zeti as the “Sparks”. As they chase the Six in the Lost Hex in order to uncover and stop their plan, Sonic and Amy are met with peaceful Zeti Zora, who reveals that the Sparks were born centuries ago after a brief union between Mother Wisp and the Chao’s omnipotent god Chaos with the blessings of Tikal the Echidna. After an encounter with a colony of Sparks in the Tropical Coast, the couple soon encounter several of Robotnik’s robots having been stolen and fallen under the Six’s control, and fight them off to free the captured Flickies, although they get separated in the fight, with Amy ending up inside the Six’s robot factory. As Sonic rushes to save her, Amy encounters and befriends a female Pink Spike Spark who got lost from her flock during Zavok’s capture of them, and names her “Star”. As Sonic saves and reunites with Amy, they overhear Zavok's plan to use the captured Sparks’ power to drain the Master Emerald’s energies, and terraform Mobius with a weapon built with the Eclipse Cannon’s technology. Advised by Zora that the machine will also overload and destroy the Lost Hex, Sonic and Amy settle to stop Zavok and the Six. As Sonic and Zavok fight in the latter’s Mech Dragon, Amy, Star and Zora work on sabotaging the machine, defeating the other members of the Six, and freeing other Sparks in the process. Sonic is likewise able to defeat Zavok, and steer the Mech Dragon into the core of the machine, destroying it, and saving both Mobius and the Lost Hex, as Zora banishes the Six to Mobius’s forbidden zone. As Zavok and the Six vow revenge, Zora continues guarding the Lost Hex alongside the residing Sparks, while Sonic and Amy (who adopts Star as her companion) return home to continue their date. They also watch a flock of Sparks flying free around Mobius. | ||||
| 10 | “Convoy” | Optimus Prime tests a newly discovered Cybertronian device.. | ||
| After arriving on Earth through a signal by Bumblebee, Optimus Prime (who recently earned the Star Saber) and his fellow Autobots begin discussing a plan to establish a citadel on Earth as shelter. During which, Optimus discovers an Energon-powered beacon coming from a distance. Travelling there alongside his second-in-command and Conjunx Endura Elita-One, Optimus intercepts the beacon, which leads him and Elita to a cave where they discover a colony of Micromasters, human-sized pet-like Cybertronians with weapon-based alternate modes. As Elita forms a close bond with owl-like Micromaster Spotlight, Optimus also discovers a Cybertronian gear which was once built by Zeta Prime on Earth eons ago, and becomes connected with it through the Matrix of Leadership. As he and Elita pick their vehicle modes, Optimus (noticing the uses human have for trucks) gives the Cybertronian gear the form of a truck trailer, and takes it to the Autobot's headquarters, where Ratchet and Wheeljack determine that the gear can access Earth's database, which the Autobots use for their advantage. They also discover coordinates to the ancient Cybertronian Keys to the Allspark. As the Autobots split up in search for the Keys, Optimus and Elita rush to one in the deserts of Egypt, where they discover a log from Alpha Trion revealing that Megatronus Prime had built the Star Harvester, a Cybertronian weapon designed to harvest Energon by siphoning the energy of suns, inside one of the pyramids. They track down the Harvester, which is soon activated with the Key by Megatron, who plans to use the Harvester to terraform Earth into a new version of Cybertron. Not willing to sacrifice Earth for Cybertron, Optimus and Elita fight and defeat Megatron as Spotlight retrieves the Key, sabotaging and delaying the Harvester long enough for Optimus (using Zeta's gear as a jetpack and weapon arsenal) to destroy the Harvester, as Megatron retreats. Optimus and Elita rebuild the pyramid, and take the Key with them. The Autobots soon convert their ship into an Autobot city they rebrand as "New Iacon", accepting Earth as their new home, and vowing to protect it from the Decepticons. | ||||
| 11 | “The Mold of Man and Machine” | The origin of Izabella Morgan's Bioformer project is revealed | ||
| Four years have passed since Optimus and the Autobots first arrived on Earth, and built their city New Iacon. G.I. Joe Academy student Izabella Morgan, who learned of and befriended the Autobots while trying to cope with the recent death of her friend Ursula Attinger, has been secretly working on the Bioformers, genetically-engineered human-made Cybertronian bodies, designed to serve as remotely controlled vessels for human minds. With help from Ratchet and Wheeljack, Izabella builds her first successful Bioformer code-named “Talonstrike”, which she first pilots to help the Autobots stop an attack on New Iacon by the Terrorcons, and to stop a Cobra squadron from obtaining the Prometheus 2000, a weapon developed by G.I. Joe head agent Theodore Galloway of Sector 7 which Izabella had insisted to shut down, as her act as Talonstrike reveals the Cybertronians' existence to the G.I. Joe troopers. As Captain William Lennox and Sergeant Robert Epps are sent to keep monitoring Izabella, and General Travis Colton settles to negotiate an alliance with Optimus and the Autobots, Izabella continues working on her Bioformer project (which Galloway views as a menace) with eventual help from Lennox, Epps, and the All-Star Gang, a group of sports-loving teenagers (consisting of Jack Witwicky, Tessa Yeager, Suzy Wang, Shane Dyson, and Mike Gibson) who had also met and befriended some of the Autobots, as they also work on their own Bioformers. Meanwhile, Optimus and Bumblebee continue fighting the Terrorcons, including their leader Scourge, who had learned of and taken interest in the Prometheus 2000. Galloway and his patrol continue standing against the Cobra forces, until his unit's engineer Doctor Biggles-Jones reveals himself as a double-agent working for Cobra who then uses the Prometheus 2000 to level the Sector 7 base, exposing the weapon's location to the Terrorcons. As Optimus and his Autobot forces and Colton and his troops rush to stop both the Terrorcons and Cobra agents, Izabella, Lennox, Epps, and the All-Star Gang (all donning their Bioformers) join the battle. Optimus and Izabella / Talonstrike defeat Scourge and destroy the Prometheus 2000, while others drive away the Terrorcons and Cobra agents, forcing them to retreat. As Sector 7 is discontinued and Galloway is demoted for his failure, the G.I. Joe leaders praise Izabella (whose Bioformer project is now supported by the agency) and the All-Star Gang (who are accepted as new Academy cadets), and Optimus accepts Colton's offer for an alliance between the Autobots and the G.I. Joe agency. | ||||
| 12 | “Speed Spark” | The first season of the New Iacon 5000 begins. | ||
| Few months after G.I. Joe supported Izabella's Bioformer project and an alliance was forged between humans and Autobots, Optimus agrees that New Iacon should celebrate this moment by hosting the first season of the New Iacon 5000, a racing event similar to the Iacon 5000 in Cybertron. Both Autobots and Bioformer users (including rival NASCAR racers Trent "Thunderbolt" DeMarco and Terrence "Twister" Bolivia, and scheming brothers Martin and Roland Simmons) begin participating, including Bumblebee, Mirage and Jazz. Encouraged by Chromia and Arcee, Izabella also participates, creating and donning the sports-exclusive Bioformer Hotwheel. Martin and Roland plan to cheat with help from a reluctant Claire Presser so they can win the prize money, and be rewarded as headboys of Benjamin Franklin Pierce High School, despite aware of the risks. Unbeknownst to them, Elita is secretly keeping them in check through Spotlight, with Izabella becoming more aware of their schemes. As the race begins, Bumblebee, Mirage and Jazz compete to relive their old days in the original Iacon 5000, as well as to test Izabella, while DeMarco and Bolivia mainly focus on eliminating each other, and Martin and Roland (in their Bioformers Over-Run and Run-Over respectively) attempt to win using numerous cheating methods, but others easily avoid them thanks to Izabella secretly warning them. Martin and Roland attempt to eliminate Izabella, but she easily outwits them, and wins the race, earning other racers' respect. As Martin and Roland are expelled from the BFP High School and sentenced to do community service, DeMarco and Bolivia make peace with other and become partners in the G.I. Joe troops. Though she is also expelled for aiding the Simmons brothers, Claire is not held accountable by the Autobots and others for helping them. Instead, she is given a scholarship in the G.I. Joe Academy under Izabella's suggestions, for which they become friends. | ||||
| 13 | “The Knight's Gambit” | Spider-Man inspires a new group of chess-themed heroes to rise up. | ||
| Years ago, Celeste Frost was left an orphan after her parents (an Inhuman with shape-shifting powers and control over elements, and mutant pacifist Emma Frost) sacrificed their lives to stop one of the Heralds of Galactus from destroying New York, after which Celeste was raised by Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto and his division of the X-Men. Celeste has since found solace with a stuffed lion named the King, who she learned is sentient and super-powered. In present day, Peter Parker / Spider-Man is fighting a group of mercenaries working for a criminal mastermind only known as Mister Sinister, before encountering three individuals named Bishop, Knight and Rook, who help him apprehend the mercenaries for interrogation before vanishing. Peter then encounters Magneto, who reveals the individuals he met are members of the Royal Mate Squad, a new group of chess-themed superheroes whom Peter inspired to rise up since he exposed the truth about Norman Osborn's crimes[4]. The group is led by Celeste (who is dubbed the "Queen") and the King, who is the reincarnation of 1940's chess grandmaster Magnus Lewis, and enforced by "Pawns". Magneto also reveals that Bishop, Knight and Bishop are among the metahuman clones created by the Jackal who escaped Oscorp during the Goblin Queen's rampage. Deducing that Mister Sinister is hunting the Oscorp clones, Peter / Spider-Man (followed by his girlfriend Mary Jane Watson / Jackpot and best friend Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel) and Magneto settle to find and protect the Squad from Mister Sinister. The group find the Squad fighting against Scarlet Spider, a spider-powered mutant who happens to be another clone of Peter, and believes himself as the "real Peter Parker". Scarlet fights Peter until he makes contact with the sword Phoenix Talon, which reveals a vision of the truth. Disillusioned, Scarlet flees, as Peter and the others decide to directly find and confront Mister Sinister. Tracking him down and confronting him in his lair, Spider-Man and the group learn that Mister Sinister is Dr. Nathaniel Essex, a scientist from Magnus's time who suffered a physical mutation in his attempt to achieve immortality, and seeks the clones' power to reverse the process. As Jackpot, Ms. Marvel, Magneto and the Squad fight against Essex's Sentinel units, Spider-Man and Celeste fight against Essex himself in a prototype of Osborn's Green Goblin suit. Using their chess-related strategy with help from Pawns (which can be "promoted" to stronger beings) and a reformed Scarlet, Spider-Man and his group destroy the Sentinels and defeat Essex, who is then depowered by Spider-Man with Phoenix Talon, but still keeping his inhuman appearance. As Essex is imprisoned, and the remaining clones are taken to S.H.I.E.L.D., Scarlet remains uncertain of his fate until Magneto (renaming him Kaine after a chess grandmaster from his time) offers him a place in Island M. Peter, Mary Jane and Kamala depart on good terms with the Squad, Magneto and Kaine, who dedicates his time to learn more about chess with Magnus and Celeste. | ||||
| 14 | “Of Spiders and Cats” | Peter teams up with new friends to stop the new Hobgoblin. | ||
| Supervised by Ezekiel Sims, Peter / Spider-Man trains alongside fellow New Avenger Marcus Allan / Lion King, Excalibur Amazon member Ava Ayala / White Tiger and Marcus's girlfriend Shanna Del Rey / Snow Tiger (who recently lost her mother during the Goblin Force incident in New York[5]), as they battle Doctor Octopus. He soon senses the presence of two more foreign spider-people in New York. Tracking them down through Phoenix Talon, Peter encounters Miguel O'Hara, a futuristic-looking and Mexican version of Spider-Man, and Mattie Franklin / Spider-Girl. Miguel reveals that he came from the year of 2099, and is traveling in time to stop the Hobgoblin from unleashing a virus which will ruin the world in the future. Initially skeptical of this since Harry Osborn died days ago, Peter believes it after sensing that another individual has donned the mantle of Hobgoblin, and he and his group set out to investigate, as Shanna hopes to find her father, who has gone missing sometime after Osborn's arrest. Aided by Marcus's tracking skills, Peter and the group seek and confront the new Hobgoblin, who is revealed to be Jason Philips, a former enforcer of Wilson Fisk / Kingpin's mob who defected from him after stealing Oscorp's Goblin technology, as he seeks to create the perfect army of super-soldiers with the Goblin formula which Osborn once produced. Knowing that the substance will mutate humans into mindless monsters like it recently happened to Shanna's father (who died in the process), Spider-Man and the group fight him and some of his activated horde of Goblin monsters. The fight intensifies when Doctor Octopus (who is also seeking the Goblin formula for his personal vendetta on Osborn) appears and fights both heroes and Hobgoblin over it, as Mattie is given time to hack the Oscorp terminal. Empowered by Phoenix Talon, Peter and Miguel defeat and immobilize Hobgoblin and Doctor Octopus while others defeat the Goblin monsters, which Mattie disables with a kill switch. Using Phoenix Talon, Peter destroys the source of the Goblin virus, averting the dystopian future. As Doctor Octopus and Philips are arrested in the Raft, Shanna moves to the Avril Mansion and joins the New Avengers, and Mattie is invited by Ava to join the Excalibur Amazons. Peter and Miguel share good compliments each other before the latter is recruited by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) to help handle more omnipotent threats. | ||||
| 15 | “The Line Between Reality and Fiction” | Flash Thompson’s attempt to become famous puts everyone in danger. | ||
| [6]As Captain Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy are reported to be hunting fugitive alien warlord Mojo, Peter and his friends attend a newly-opened fanclub dedicated to Kamala, who recently had publicly revealed that she is SlothBaby, a famed internet blogger who writes fan-fiction novels about superheroes; her most prized work being Captain Marvel and her One Hundred and One Flerkens. When the Daily Bugle announces that copies of Kamala's fanfics are being sold in books, and Captain Marvel and her One Hundred and One Flerkens is being adapted in a motion picture, Midtown High School jock Flash Thompson becomes jealous of Kamala's rising popularity, as he is approached by movie director Moe Jones, who has a proposition for him which he and his classmates (minus a skeptical Sha Shan Nguyen) accept. Next day, Peter / Spider-Man continues fighting crime until he is met by alien robot Torgo, who is helping Captain Marvel and the Guardians on the hunt for Mojo, whom Torgo detected on Earth. The two are soon met with Sha Shan, who tells them that Midtown High's students have not showed up since Jones came to them. Sneaking on Jones's facility to investigate, Spider-Man and Torgo discover that the students are being put in a virtual reality where Thompson is the superhero Captain Thunderbolt and is battling mad scientist Dr. Chaos (played by Phil Urich), although the progress is also slowly draining the students off their life force, as Jones is revealed to be actually the human avatar of Mojo, who seeks to drain the students' life force enough to create the perfect fighting machine out of Thompson's Captain Thunderbolt character. Knowing that Thompson's character must be defeated in the virtual world to foil Mojo's plans, Peter enters the virtual world with Kamala hacking the systems to rewrite the script, freeing Phil by having his character Dr. Chaos commit suicide. In the virtual world, Peter emerges as the god-like Phoenix King, and defeats and annihilates Captain Thunderbolt, freeing the students from Mojo's trance. Enraged, Mojo takes control of a mech robot of Oscorp technology, only for Peter (who suits up as Spider-Man) and Torgo to naturally defeat him. As Mojo is imprisoned by the Nova Corps in the Kyln, Peter and Kamala earn praise for helping Spider-Man and Torgo, while Thompson (who ungratefully berates at the two for ruining his chance for fame) is shunned by most of the students for putting them in danger. Torgo decides to reside on Earth, as he, Captain Marvel and the Guardians help with the production of Captain Marvel and her One Hundred and One Flerkens, to Kamala's delight. Back in the Avril Mansion at night, Peter watches as Kamala reads a copy of one of her novels as a bedtime story for Ben Parker Stacy, Bailey Briggs, Collin Avril-Allan and Cassie Lang. | ||||
| 16 | “Multiversal Rush” | Peter draws inspiration from other Knights' universes to prepare for a water race. | ||
| The board of education of Horizon Academy announces that the students are invited to participate in Poseidon's Odyssey, a tournament of water-themed sports events funded by Atlantean king Namor, which other schools of New York are also invited to participate in one week. Assigned to participate in the Dolphin Rush (a water skiing race event where contestants ride personalized water vehicles), Peter decides to participate in the racing tournaments of the universes of his fellow Knights of the Multiverse to help practice: the Alicorn Ride in Etheria, the Mos Espa Podrace in Tatooine, the Extreme Gear Grand Prix in Mobius, and the New Iacon 5000. In all of them, Peter is inspired into building his racing vehicle for the Dolphin Rush: a robotic dolphin controlled by a pair of bracelets which are pulled by the robot through an electromagnetic pulse, with Peter also riding a personalized surfboard. Namor inspects the vehicle, and approves it. In the day of the tournament, Peter (who is going solo in the race) is put to compete against others who are in teams of two, including Thompson (who is paired with student teacher Rowan Flynn) and his old rival Duncan Matthews, who is paired with Osborn Academy student Alistair Smythe; Peter is also aware of Smythe's plans to use cheating methods in the race so he can win the prize, and clear his name out of involvement with the Vulture Trio and Osborn's schemes[7]. The race begins as Thompson and Matthews mainly try to sabotage each other, while Smythe attempts to cheat using booby traps (which Peter's friends secretly expose to Namor through their drones). Using his training during the other universes' racing events, Peter performs well in the event and naturally wins the race, humiliating Thompson and Matthews, while Smythe is disqualified and returned to prison. Impressed by Peter's performance, Namor changes the rules of the Dolphin Rush event; participants will now ride replicas of Peter's vehicle, as he teaches them how to ride them. | ||||
| 17 | “Visionary Men” | Tony Stark, Scarlet Witch and Vision settle to explore the Sacred Multiverse while forming new alliances. | ||
| As Peter and his friends continue participating in Poseidon's Odyssey, Tony Stark / Iron Man acknowledges how well Peter was inspired by the culture and events of his fellow Knights' universes, and decides to embark on a trip of his own for inspiration, with Vision and Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch accompanying him. Using a dimensional device powered by the energy of Peter's sword Phoenix Talon, Stark, Wanda and Vision venture into the Sacred Multiverse. First stopping at the Etherians' universe, they encounter married princesses Netossa and Spinnerella, who are on to rescue a clan of aliens who were captured by Horde troopers to be brainwashed by control chips. Fighting the troopers, they succeed when Vision manages to control the ship, and Wanda warps the aliens home. In the Jedi Knights' universe, Stark, Wanda and Vision venture into the junk planet of Raxus Prime, where Wanda senses an unnatural force. They clash with Jedi outcast Kazdan Paratus, but earn his trust when Wanda appeases his mind, and the group help him drive away Sith Empire forces seeking to conquer the planet. Later in the Mobians' universe, Stark, Wanda and Vision encounter Tails, and collaborate with him in saving animals from E-101 Beta, a robot from Robotnik’s E-100 series who went rogue. They manage to take down Beta and rescue the animals he captured. Later on the Autobots' Earth, Stark, Wanda and Vision encounter Wheeljack and Izabella, who are searching for resources in an abandoned Decepticon ship. They stumble upon Shockwave and his worm-like Decepticon pet Driller, but manage to defeat it after Wanda hexes Shockwave, tricking them both into leaving to Pluto. Returning to their dimension, Wanda and Vision continue teaching students at Avengers Academy, while Stark shares about his experience with Peter. Meanwhile, Watcher known as the Analyst observes the events until he is attacked by a sorcerer variant of Otto Octavius, causing shards of the observatory to spill into the multiverse. | ||||
| 18 | “A Superior Menace” | The Knights deal with a variant of Doctor Octopus who threatens theirs and other universes. | ||
| After a battle against a prototype of the Super-Adaptoid, Peter / Spider-Man, Gwen Stacy / White Widow and Stark / Iron Man discover one of the shards of the Watchers' observatory, and resolve to investigate the crisis. They are also met with Peter's fellow Knights of the Multiverse and their comrades (She-Ra, Kowl and Bow, Luke, Chewbacca and Din Djarin, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles, and Optimus, Maximal leader Kong Prime, and Dinobot leader Grimlock), who reveal to have discovered that the Octavius variant (who dubs himself "Doctor Superior") has captured the Analyst for his personal goals. Sneaking into Doctor Superior's hideout in the Sanctum Infinitum, the group free the Analyst, who reveals that this Octavius variant became the Sorcerer Supreme instead of Stephen Strange after losing his universe's Anna Maria Marconi, who he constantly tried to resurrect through all sources, including the Darkhold, inadvertently destroying his own universe in the progress. Seeing other universe killers and righteous heroes from across the multiverse who were captured and imprisoned, they learn that Doctor Superior has also built the Forge, a magical construct which he intends to use to restore his destroyed universe by feeding all of his captives to it. The Knights eventually break the prisoners free, as a battle between the displaced heroes and villains begins. Enraged, Doctor Superior arrives to try and commence his plan, only for Peter and the Knights to fight him at the Forge, holding him off while Stark, Gwen and the others battle the rampaging villains with eventual help from the alternate heroes, including a Sorcerer Supreme Glimmer and Ms. Fantastic, who help return the displaced heroes and villains to their universes without memories of the event, although most of the villains whose universes were erased are sent to the Void. The Knights continue battling Doctor Superior, who progressively mutates into a hideous humanoid monster and attempts to drain the Knights off their life forces, but their light proves too much for him. So they overwhelm and defeat Octavius, and use the swords' power to destroy the Forge. Fed off from Doctor Superior's persistence, Peter decides to warp him into another universe where Anna Maria is alive, as she recoils from Doctor Superior in fear of his mutated appearance. Realizing the error of his ways, Doctor Superior relents, and brings down the Sanctum Infinitum with himself, as the Knights, Sorcerer Supreme Glimmer and Ms. Fantastic warp everyone to the Analyst's Watcher Observatory. With the threat over, the heroes return to their dimensions in the exact moment when they left, as Peter and his friends vow to be prepared for whatever threat comes to the Multiverse. | ||||
External links[]
- ↑ Alana’s origin story is revealed in Multiverse Underworld episode “A Scorched Heart”
- ↑ identified off-screen as the Utopian Parallel, the homeworld of America Chavez
- ↑ referring to the Renegade Jackals (Razor, Ada, Watcher, Screwball, Dynamo, and Butch), who first appear in Multiverse Underworld episode "Howling Phantoms"
- ↑ as depicted in Spider-Man and the New Avengers episodes "Legendary Universes, Part 4: The Power Within" and "Rise of a Knight"
- ↑ as depicted in Multiverse Underworld episode “Nightmare in Green”
- ↑ set after The Book of Spider-Man episode "Zero to Hero, Part 2"
- ↑ as depicted in Spider-Man and the New Avengers episode "A New Horizon"
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| Video games | Marvel Heroes: Battle for the Sacred Multiverse | Gwenpool Into the Wild Motor Galaxy | |