Recaps

Lin Xu and John discovered that a demon possessing Anthony had been sent by a black-robed servant of Darkseid to target Lin Xu. After tracing the demon’s past, Lin Xu stopped before the forbidden technique revealed more, then collected payment from Hennessy for the exorcism.

• John explained that Beelzebub’s power had appeared outside its usual connection to Sabbac, while Lin Xu trapped the demon crawling out of Anthony.
• The demon threatened that its master would settle accounts with the Old Gods, then burned to ash before Lin Xu could question it.
• Lin Xu used the Tears of Oshtur to view the past and saw a black-robed figure order the demon to lie low in Los Angeles and later appeal to Darkseid for help eliminating him.
• Lin Xu recognized Darkseid as the figure behind the attack, while John warned that Lin Xu was now in serious trouble.
• Lin Xu demanded payment from Hennessy for the exorcism, and John joined him in collecting a commission, leaving Hennessy with only $28.50.

After Anthony’s demon was driven out, Lin Xu went with John to Papa Midnite’s bar to ask about a man in black robes. Lin Xu entered in full divine gear and killed a fallen angel who threatened him, leaving the bar’s angels and demons terrified.

• Hennessy confirmed that the demon had been driven out of Anthony, and the group left the hospital room as Anthony lay unconscious.
• Lin Xu asked John to take him to Papa Midnite’s bar, and Hennessy explained John’s history with Papa Midnite before accepting Lin Xu’s 14 dollars to guide them.
• Hennessy left at the entrance, while Lin Xu sensed the many angels and demons inside and entered in his Crimson Cloak, Hoggoth’s Bone Armor, and other divine gear.
• Lin Xu’s power caused the bar’s angels and demons pain, and he confronted an angel whose wings were turning black.
• Lin Xu kicked and impaled the angel after it threatened him, killing it and leaving its abandoned corpse on his weapon.

Lin Xu questioned Papa Midnite about a black-robed woman and learned she had stolen some of Beelzebub’s power from the Rock of Eternity, then introduced himself as Vishanti. At Kent Farm, Tony struggled to teach Clark calculus and later read a 1991 comic about the Infinity Gauntlet.

• Lin Xu showed Papa Midnite the black-robed figure, but Papa Midnite could not identify her.
• A demon said the woman had stolen some of Hell’s power from the Rock of Eternity thirty years earlier, and Lin Xu learned it was Beelzebub’s power and that she called herself a Fury.
• Lin Xu warned the demon he would be staying in Los Angeles and named himself Vishanti before leaving with Constantine.
• Tony tutored Clark in calculus, but Clark could repeat the lessons without applying them to new problems, leaving Tony determined to improve his thinking skills.
• Tony read The Infinity Gauntlet and was surprised by its portrayal of Thanos and Iron Man’s death.

Tony searched for this world’s superheroes and the Interstellar Research Institute, while Bruce Wayne traveled to Los Angeles to pray for his parents. At Notre-Dame Cathedral, Gabriel gave Bruce the address of the Kamar-Taj Exorcism Agency, and Bruce asked Alfred to take him there.

• Tony found that Barry Allen and Arthur Curry were children, then looked up Bruce Wayne and searched for the Interstellar Research Institute, 61982.
• Bruce Wayne and Alfred arrived in Los Angeles, and Alfred gave Bruce a cross before they went to Notre-Dame Cathedral.
• A worshipper recognized Alfred as a former agent and let Bruce enter the prayer hall alone.
• Gabriel told Bruce that his prayers were insincere and gave him the address of the Kamar-Taj Exorcism Agency as his lifeline.
• Bruce handed the address to Alfred and asked him to take him to the agency.

Lin Xu met Bruce Wayne, who sought advice on changing Gotham, and proposed strategies for using Wayne Capital to reshape the city and address its underlying problems. Lin Xu declined to teach Bruce himself but offered to introduce him to someone.

• Lin Xu made bobo chicken with Hennessy, and John joined them for dinner after being sent out of the kitchen for smoking.
• Bruce Wayne arrived at Lin Xu's office in a custom Rolls-Royce Silver Spur with Alfred.
• Lin Xu recognized Bruce and used Telepathy, but Bruce's dark mind overwhelmed his mental power.
• Bruce said he wanted to change Gotham, and Lin Xu argued that charity and public safety treated symptoms rather than causes.
• Lin Xu outlined four strategies for Gotham, then said education and employment were the root problems.
• Bruce asked Lin Xu to teach him, but Lin Xu said he could introduce him to someone instead.

Bruce considered Lin Xu’s advice and prepared to pursue political control while meeting another contact, as Gabriel decided to visit Lin Xu. In the main Marvel universe, Adrian brought Lin Xu’s clothes to the Avengers Compound, where Doctor Doom urged Tony to send them both into the Quantum Realm to search for Lin Xu.

• Bruce asked Alfred to pursue political reform and speak with Falcone while he went to meet the person Lin Xu had introduced.
• Constantine split his payment with Lin Xu, and Gabriel observed the exchange before deciding to meet Lin Xu.
• Adrian brought Lin Xu’s clothes to the Avengers Compound and learned that Tony was arguing with Thaddeus Ross over Lin Xu’s shares.
• Doctor Doom told Tony that he and Adrian should enter the Quantum Realm to find Lin Xu, and Adrian interrupted to ask whether his boss was still alive.

Lin Xu played Go with Constantine and then Gabriel, who visited to question him about his origins and views on humanity. Lin Xu compared the human world to a game of Go, leaving Gabriel contemplative and Constantine wondering who the players were.

• Lin Xu used an offline copy of F.R.I.D.A.Y. to beat Constantine at Go ten times and win his forty dollars.
• Gabriel played Lin Xu to a triple ko draw, then offered him a Cherubim Feather that could grant intelligence to inanimate objects.
• Lin Xu suspected Gabriel had noticed F.R.I.D.A.Y. and tried to provoke him, but Gabriel said he had come to ask questions.
• Gabriel asked about Lin Xu's power, origins, and whether he would change the human world, and Lin Xu compared humanity to the balanced Go game.
• Gabriel left looking dazed, and Lin Xu told Constantine that God and Lucifer were the players, joking that the loser had opened a bar.

Lin Xu hid Gabriel’s seraph feather, but it vanished while he slept, and he woke to discover the Spirit of Vengeance was gone too. He confronted Gabriel at Notre-Dame Cathedral, where the angels mistook him for Vishanti and bowed to him.

• Lin Xu concealed the seraph feather in Hoggoth’s Bone Armor, then fell asleep while practicing Telepathy.
• Tony sent Doom and Adrian into the Quantum Realm with Lin Xu’s old clothes as a tracker, and Doom used the quantum information to help Adrian call out to Lin Xu.
• Adrian became delirious in the Quantum Realm, so Doom brought him back to 2023, where Peter Parker recognized Adrian as Toomes and Doom demanded Tony’s help.
• Lin Xu woke, found the feather and Spirit of Vengeance missing, and opened a Mystic Portal to Notre-Dame Cathedral to confront Gabriel.
• The angels greeted Lin Xu as Vishanti, and he discovered that he had grown wings.

After the Vishanti’s magic transformed the Spirit of Vengeance and a cherub’s feather into his power, Lin Xu gained a six-winged angelic body and discovered its authority over other angels. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne found Clark Kent in Smallville and brought him to Kent Farm to seek help with Gotham, where Tony refused him.

• While unconscious, Lin Xu’s magical protections fought the Spirit of Vengeance and the cherub’s feather, and the Book of White Magic converted both into his power.
• Lin Xu beat Gabriel, tested his new wings, and discovered his metal attribute let him strip angels below archangel rank of their status.
• At Smallville School, Bruce Wayne found Clark Kent and said an exorcism-agency owner named Angke had sent him to Clark’s teacher for answers.
• Clark left with Bruce, peppered him with questions about Angke and demons, and rode with him to Kent Farm.
• Bruce introduced himself to Tony and asked for help with Gotham, but Tony refused.

Bruce Wayne tried to persuade Tony, who was staying with the Kents as Howard Potts, to teach him after discovering that Jonathan could move Mjolnir while Bruce could not. Tony agreed to consider helping if Bruce retrieved item 61982 from S.T.A.R. Labs, while Lin Xu went to Midnight Daddy’s Bar to inspect its angels and demons.

• Tony sent Clark back to his room, then refused Bruce’s handshake and introduced himself as Mr. Potts.
• Bruce mistook Tony’s directions to Jonathan for mistreatment and challenged him to move Mjolnir, but the hammer would not budge for Bruce.
• Jonathan easily slid Mjolnir across the workbench, convincing Bruce that Tony might be able to help him.
• Tony agreed to consider teaching Bruce if he obtained item 61982 from S.T.A.R. Labs.
• Lin Xu entered Midnight Daddy’s Bar, ordered the angels, demons, mixed-bloods, impure-bloods, and humans into separate groups, then struck an impure-blood who stood in the wrong place.

Lin Xu stripped several angels of their angelic powers and announced a strict policy against angels secretly having children with demons or humans. In 2023, Adrian woke up after a dangerous trip through the Quantum Realm and told Doom and Tony that Lin Xu was alive in the DC Universe.

• Lin Xu stripped the rebellious angels of their wings and power, then introduced himself as Vishanti, the Judicial Angel, and warned others to turn themselves in or face death.
• Lin Xu left the bar, pleased that his new disciplinary rule might help him avoid political trouble in Heaven, while Luke decided to turn himself in.
• Tony told Doom that Adrian would die if he attempted another quantum contact, and Doom asked when Adrian would wake so he could learn what happened on the other side.
• Adrian woke and told Doom that Lin Xu had said he had transmigrated to the DC Universe and was teaching young Superman alongside Tony.
• Adrian greeted Tony and said he had found his boss, prompting Doom to explain that Lin Xu was Stark Industries' second-largest shareholder and Tony to question how that had happened.

Tony learned that Lin had crossed the multiversal barrier and contacted Strange to discuss how it could have happened. In the DC Universe, Lin and Constantine processed hundreds of angels who chose mortal lives, while Gabriel began explaining Heaven’s shift in power after Lucifer fell.

• Tony connected Lin’s disappearance to the Quantum Tunnel and asked Doom who Lin had fought; Doom said it was the evil Sorcerer Supreme.
• Strange secretly took a book about an oblivion spell, then left Kamar-Taj after Tony told him Lin had crossed the multiversal barrier.
• Constantine interviewed angels seeking to leave Heaven while Lin stripped away their angelic power, and several hundred chose to become mortal.
• Lin gained thirty percent more angelic power and said he could now trade blows with Dark Strange even without the dimension-sealing array.
• Gabriel congratulated Lin and explained that Lucifer had once managed angelic discipline before Michael monopolized power after Lucifer fell.

Lin Xu learned why Michael avoided confronting angels corrupted by desire and began considering whether his new angelic power could let him reach Heaven. Meanwhile, Bruce and Tony received high-tech equipment and researchers at the Kent Farm, where Tony eagerly engaged them in scientific discussion and sent Bruce to pick up Clark.

• Gabriel warned Lin Xu that powerful angels corrupted by desire became demons, and cautioned him against investigating angels’ desires too deeply.
• Lin Xu sent Gabriel through a Mystic Portal and wondered whether his angelic power could enable him to open a Dimension Portal to Heaven.
• Wayne Enterprises trucks delivered equipment to the Kent Farm, where Bruce welcomed Lucius Fox and researcher Silas Stone.
• Tony greeted Lucius and Silas warmly, asked Silas about his family, and invited both scientists to discuss academic questions.
• Bruce asked Tony about his promised help, but Tony postponed their discussion and told Bruce to pick up Clark.

Lin Xu entered Heaven, where Michael revealed that Lin Xu was God’s newly acquired son and gave him an Ancient Angelic Body. Michael said Tony might find a way to return Lin Xu to his own universe in ten or twenty years, so Lin Xu left Heaven for the mortal world.

• Lin Xu reached Heaven’s Star Palace and tried to leave after learning it was forbidden ground, but Michael summoned him inside.
• Michael revealed that he was a multiversal being and taught Lin Xu the Ancient Angelic Body, allowing Lin Xu to grow to Michael’s height.
• Michael called Lin Xu his seventh brother and explained that God had paid a high price to bring him to Heaven.
• Michael said Tony was working on a way to send Lin Xu home, but warned that he would not risk sending Lin Xu back himself because God might beat him.
• Michael attributed Heaven’s oppressive atmosphere to Lucifer’s lingering aura, while Lin Xu suspected Michael’s explanation differed from Gabriel’s.
• Lin Xu declined Michael’s offer to build him a palace and returned to the mortal world.

Lin Xu returned to Earth convinced that God had brought him there, while Michael and Lucifer argued over their father’s plans and Lin Xu’s role in them. In Smallville, Tony advised Bruce on using WayneTech to create jobs and improve conditions in Gotham, and Bruce began to see how he could put the plan into action.

• After Lin Xu left Heaven, Michael and Lucifer discussed Lin Xu’s connection to their father’s plans and Lucifer’s regret over losing his freedom.
• Lin Xu returned to Earth, confirmed his suspicion that God had brought him there, and changed his crimson cloak into Asgardian-style armor and back into a suit.
• Constantine told Lin Xu that more angels had arrived to turn themselves in, and Lin Xu sent him away.
• In Smallville, Tony argued that people’s environments shaped them and urged Bruce to address poverty in Gotham by moving WayneTech factories there and creating stable jobs.
• Tony advised Bruce to fund worker training, nearby schools and hospitals, and a WayneTech Expo, while managing wages and school access to prevent competition from other income groups.
• Bruce understood Tony’s plan, and Tony felt smug after spending two hours explaining it.

Tony was warned by Barbatos to stay out of Gotham, then told Lin Xu about the threat. Lin Xu decided to leave his Judicial Angel duties and go sea fishing, confident Michael had heard his complaint.

• Barbatos appeared to Tony in a vision and warned him not to interfere in Gotham.
• Tony woke in a burned room after his serum turned him into lava during a nightmare, and Bruce explained that he had been on fire for hours.
• Lin Xu closed the Kamar-Taj Exorcism Agency for the day and invited Constantine to go sea fishing.
• Tony called Lin Xu and revealed that Barbatos had threatened him after he advised Bruce.
• Lin Xu implied that Michael should intervene, and Constantine's cigarette turned into a chopstick and then a dagger.
• Lin Xu hurried Constantine out to go sea fishing, declaring that no one, not even Jesus, would stop him from taking the day off.

Michael and Lucifer went after Barbatos after learning Lin Xu had been using Michael as a weapon, while Lin Xu and Constantine spent hours fishing without much success. In the Marvel Universe, Strange explained that Lin Xu’s appearances were linked to Time Convergence and proposed a way to bring him back, asking who Lin cared about.

• Michael told Lucifer that Lin Xu was using him as a weapon, and Lucifer joined Michael in confronting Barbatos in the Dark Multiverse.
• Lin Xu and Constantine rented a yacht and fished for over five hours, but Constantine was the only one to catch anything.
• Tony found no records of Lin Xu and concluded his ordinary identity was fabricated, while Strange said his forbidden spell had revealed three skipped points in Asgard’s past.
• Strange connected those gaps to Lin Xu’s appearances and called the phenomenon Time Convergence, suggesting Lin and his enemy could cross beyond the multiverse.
• Strange took out Kof-Carl's Ruins and asked whether anyone knew whom Lin cared about.