Recaps

Chang Wei and Hulk helped Thor defeat the Destroyer Armor, but Hydra then attacked Tony Stark’s base and stole the Frost Giants. As the Avengers formed, Chang Wei entered The Boys world and built the Black Ops Division to challenge Vought, leaving Vought under pressure from a public campaign against its Superheroes.

• The Destroyer Armor withstood the U.S. military’s weapons and battled Hulk, whose strength and healing grew until Chang Wei called him away and the armor pursued them.
• Thor sincerely admitted his arrogance, regained Mjolnir, and destroyed the Destroyer Armor, after which Chang Wei and Tony Stark took its wreckage to study.
• White Skull renamed Hydra the World Serpent and sent Blonsky, Obadiah, and Lucien to attack Tony Stark’s base and seize the Frost Giants.
• Blonsky and his allies defeated the Iron Man suits, freed and abducted the Frost Giants, and left Tony Stark with a destroyed base.
• Nick Fury thawed Steve Rogers and recruited him to lead the Avengers, while Chang Wei created Benjamin and then traveled to The Boys world.
• Chang Wei established the Black Ops Division under the Department of Defense and ordered recruiters to enlist Superheroes whom Vought had rejected.
• Edgar investigated the Black Ops Division and sought to influence the government, while Madelyn reported Vought’s plan to integrate Superheroes into the military.
• Chang Wei used a brainwashed Captain America incarnation to lead The Boys against Vought, whose public image and business model suffered as Madelyn suspected a leak and Homelander watched her.

Homelander’s rivalry with Captain America escalated into a confrontation with Chang Wei, and Vought’s efforts to protect him collapsed into imprisonment and public scandal. As Vought promoted Starlight to replace him, she secretly recorded Deep’s harassment and brought the evidence to the Black Ops Division, leaving her uncertain how Vought would retaliate.

• Homelander attacked the Black Ops Division headquarters, but Captain America defeated him and helped recapture the prisoners Homelander had freed.
• Homelander sought Compound A from Chang Wei, who beat him and ordered his arrest, prompting the Black Ops Division to charge him with multiple crimes.
• Vought used Doppelganger to impersonate Homelander and secure his release, while Chang Wei demanded Compound Five and Vought struggled over whether to surrender it.
• Edgar urged Homelander to accept a deal, but Madelyn comforted him and persuaded him to turn himself in as Vought prepared to defend him.
• The Black Ops Division took custody of Homelander and kept him isolated, while Vought’s campaign to restore its image promoted Starlight as the newest member of The Seven.
• Deep sexually harassed Starlight and threatened her place on The Seven, so she secretly recorded him boasting about Vought’s corruption and abuse of power.
• Starlight brought the recording to the Black Ops Division, whose agents arrested Deep and released the evidence, while Vought’s leaders faced public backlash and Starlight feared retaliation.

Billy Butcher’s team stole evidence of Vought’s Compound Five experiments as Vought faced terrorist attacks and political upheaval. Homelander was released to confront Dark God’s forces, but Sebastian Shaw and the others quickly overwhelmed Vought’s heroes.

• Billy Butcher recruited Frenchie and Mother's Milk to investigate Vought, and the three stole Compound Five from Mercy Hospital with the help of a laser-firing baby.
• Vought ordered Xuanse to hunt Butcher’s team, while Dark God’s superhuman terrorists kidnapped Madelyn and targeted Sage Grove Center.
• After The Train killed Hughie’s girlfriend and Vought covered it up, Hughie joined Butcher’s team, which captured Invisible Man and exposed its fight with Vought to the authorities.
• Chang Wei sent Sebastian Shaw and Dark God’s other followers to attack Sage Grove Center, where they freed superpowered patients and rallied them to rebel against Vought.
• Vought secured Homelander’s release at a retrial, and he vowed to find Madelyn and defeat the terrorists.
• Homelander led Queen Maeve, Xuanse, The Train, and Starlight against Sebastian Shaw’s group, but Shaw defeated him while White Queen, Red Devil, Torrent, and Sam overpowered the other heroes.

Sebastian Shaw’s defeat of Homelander ignited a superhuman crisis that crippled Vought and forced the government to empower the Black Ops Division as The Administration. As Captain America and The Boys battled Dark God, Captain America confronted Shaw’s beliefs and fought him, but Shaw gained the upper hand with gravity.

• Sebastian Shaw defeated Homelander and The Seven, then publicly vowed to seize Compound Five and make it available to everyone, sending Vought’s stock and reputation into freefall.
• With Homelander badly injured and unable to face the spreading superhuman violence, Edgar recovered Soldier Boy from the Russians and persuaded him to challenge Sebastian Shaw.
• Juggernaut attacked Vought Company, overwhelmed Soldier Boy and Homelander, and survived Soldier Boy’s Energy Cannon, worsening the crisis across America.
• After terrorists threatened Wall Street, the government passed the Black Ops Division Act, giving the division authority over superhumans and establishing it as The Administration.
• Chang Wei ordered The Boys into action, and Captain America Steve led the team in a public operation against superhuman terrorists while Homelander watched resentfully.
• Sebastian Shaw led Dark God’s terrorists in an assault on The Administration’s headquarters, where Captain America and The Boys fought them before Captain America faced Shaw.
• Captain America challenged Shaw’s claims that superhumans should rule, defending equality and human dignity against Shaw’s arguments about race and natural selection.
• Sebastian Shaw attacked Captain America, absorbed energy, and used gravity to pin him into the ground as Captain America struggled to break Shaw’s energy cycle.