Chapter Summaries

Rorschach recovered a weapon that could permanently destroy Brainiac and obtained Krypton’s coordinates and destruction records from Jor-El. He then focused on Lex Luthor, while Brainiac secretly sought a way to identify Homelander’s weakness.

• Jor-El gave Rorschach a crystal that could kill Brainiac permanently when driven into his body.
• Rorschach asked Jor-El for Krypton’s coordinates and records of its destruction, and Jor-El provided them.
• Rorschach left the Fortress of Solitude and focused on cooperating with Lex Luthor to remove kryptonite toxins while waiting for Brainiac to reappear.
• Lex Luthor used his resources to capture meteor freaks, collect meteor rocks, and build secret laboratories while also searching for a way to deal with Rorschach.
• Brainiac, posing as Professor Finn, told Lex Luthor he needed a biological sample from Homelander to investigate what made him stronger and find a way to kill him.

Rorschach exposed Brainiac’s identity and killed him with Jor-El’s crystal, then injured Lex Luthor to force his cooperation. A month later, Lex reported finding twenty meteor freaks, and Rorschach ordered him to extract meteorite energy matching theirs.

• Rorschach confronted Brainiac and revealed that Jor-El’s crystal could kill him permanently.
• Brainiac tried to flee, but Rorschach trapped him and drove the crystal into his chest, killing him.
• Rorschach severed Lex Luthor’s left hand and warned him against plotting against Superman.
• A month later, Lex reported that he had found twenty meteor freaks, mostly around Smallville.
• Rorschach ordered Lex to extract kryptonite energy identical to the energy within meteor freaks.

Rorschach helped Clark Kent experience flight, then rushed to Lex Luthor’s research base after hearing it had been infiltrated. He discovered that Green Arrow and The Flash were behind the attack and entered the base as The Flash’s victims lay unconscious.

• Clark Kent asked Rorschach why he still could not fly, and Rorschach took him on a flight to show him what it felt like.
• Clark gained faint insights from the flight, but Rorschach heard an alert that Lex Luthor’s research base had been infiltrated and left to investigate.
• Rorschach heard Oliver and Barry discuss clearing the base and realized they were Green Arrow and The Flash.
• Rorschach ignored Lex Luthor’s call, entered the base, and found its occupants unconscious from The Flash’s attack.

Rorschach confronted The Flash outside Luthor’s base and proved far faster, knocking him unconscious before Green Arrow could finish opening the security door. Green Arrow learned that Barry had been attacked just as Rorschach arrived behind him.

• Green Arrow hacked Luthor’s security system while The Flash waited for him to open the door.
• Cisco warned the heroes that someone was approaching, and The Flash went to Entrance Three to stop Rorschach.
• The Flash attacked Rorschach, but Rorschach grabbed him and outran him even after he increased his speed.
• Rorschach revealed that he knew The Flash was Barry and knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Cisco alerted Green Arrow that Barry had been attacked, and a sonic boom sounded behind Green Arrow.

Rorschach defeated Green Arrow after learning he had attacked the Smallville laboratory to stop human experiments, then took him and The Flash back to his home. He planned to use Green Arrow's talents to help synthesize kryptonite.

• Green Arrow confronted Rorschach and explained that he had attacked the laboratory because Lex Luthor conducted human experiments at facilities across the country.
• Rorschach said the Smallville laboratory was different, but declared that Green Arrow would pay for invading his territory.
• Green Arrow's poison-gas and electric arrows failed to affect Rorschach, who knocked him unconscious.
• Rorschach used telekinesis to carry Green Arrow and The Flash out of the base, where Lex Luthor asked to settle old scores with Green Arrow and was refused.
• Rorschach took the two heroes home, intending to use Green Arrow's abilities to help artificially synthesize kryptonite.

Rorschach explained to Clark Kent that he had brought Green Arrow and The Flash to his house to propose a partnership, then told Oliver Queen and Barry Allen about Lex Luthor's experimental base. Oliver and Barry remained uncertain but were inclined to believe that the facility treated meteor freaks differently from Luthor's other labs.

• Clark Kent visited Rorschach to ask about Oliver Queen and offered to help, and Rorschach said he wanted to work with Oliver.
• Barry Allen woke up beside Oliver Queen, and the two realized their unknown Speedster attacker had only knocked them unconscious.
• Barry told Oliver that the attacker was a new Speedster from outside Central City, and they decided to hear what he wanted.
• Rorschach returned and proposed a partnership with Oliver and Barry.
• Oliver asked whether Lex Luthor worked for Rorschach, and Rorschach explained the experimental base's purpose.
• Oliver and Barry doubted Rorschach's account but judged the base's treatment of meteor freaks to be unlike Luthor's other facilities.

Rorschach forced Oliver to cooperate by demonstrating that he could seize the Green Arrow team at will, then asked Barry about Savitar. He planned to use Queen Inc.’s resources to synthesize meteorite and steal Savitar’s Speed Force.

• Oliver challenged Rorschach over the illegal detention of the meteor mutants, but Rorschach vanished before answering his threat.
• Rorschach brought John Diggle, Dinah, Thea, and Felicity to Oliver and then made them disappear, showing Oliver that he could endanger the Green Arrow team.
• Oliver agreed to help Rorschach synthesize meteorite using Queen Inc.’s resources and accepted a hard drive containing the technical materials.
• Rorschach asked Barry to tell him about Savitar because he planned to steal Savitar’s Speed Force.

Rorschach learned from Barry that Savitar was a powerful Speedster from Earth-2 and decided to travel to Central City to steal his speed. Before leaving Smallville, Rorschach asked Clark Kent to lend him the Fortress of Solitude so Jor-El could help him gather Kryptonian fragments.

• Barry told Rorschach that Savitar ruled Earth-2 and could run at least three thousand meters per second.
• Rorschach sent Barry and Oliver away, then decided to leave Smallville and go to Central City after handling Oliver's affairs.
• Rorschach told Clark Kent he wanted to gather all the Kryptonian fragments, alarming Clark with talk of moving Krypton to Earth.
• Rorschach asked to use the Fortress of Solitude and Jor-El's help, and Clark agreed.

Rorschach used the Infinity Gauntlet to connect with Jor-El and locate Kryptonian fragments across space. He gathered them into a mountain outside the Fortress of Solitude, leaving Clark Kent and Jor-El stunned by his power.

• Rorschach asked Jor-El whether he could identify Kryptonian fragments, then revealed he could help Jor-El scan the universe.
• Rorschach summoned the Infinity Gauntlet and used its six stones to connect himself to Jor-El and take control of his capabilities.
• Rorschach scanned the space around Krypton's coordinates and gathered the Kryptonian fragments into a mountain in the Arctic.
• Jor-El questioned Rorschach about the power that had taken control of him, while Clark Kent stared in shock at the mountain.
• Rorschach looked at the fragments with satisfaction, seeing them as raw materials for batteries that would make him stronger.

Rorschach left Smallville after collecting the Kryptonian fragments and traveled toward Central City. There, Team Flash debated working with him against Savitar, until Rorschach arrived and offered Dr. Harrison a chance to rescue his daughter.

• Rorschach moved the conspicuous mountain into a remote mountain range and concealed the Infinity Gauntlet in a dimensional storage item.
• Rorschach said goodbye to Clark Kent and left Smallville, promising he might return.
• Rorschach stopped in Star City to finalize his cooperation with Oliver, then headed to Central City.
• Cisco Ramon and the others reviewed Rorschach's record, while Barry Allen refused to cooperate with someone he considered an executioner.
• Dr. Harrison insisted he would use any means to save his daughter from Savitar, and Rorschach arrived at S.T.A.R. Labs offering to help.

Rorschach arrived in Central City and offered to help Barry’s team deal with Savitar, though Barry was wary of working with him. After the team agreed to cooperate, Rorschach asked Dr. Harrison to steal Savitar’s speed, leaving the others uncertain about helping him gain more power.

• Rorschach appeared in Central City and told Barry that he had come to deal with Savitar.
• Dr. Harrison welcomed Rorschach, and Barry agreed to cooperate on the condition that no one died, though Rorschach refused to guarantee it.
• Rorschach claimed he could run at five thousand meters per second, astonishing Barry and the others.
• Caitlin proposed that Rorschach join the trip to Earth-2 to rescue Dr. Harrison’s daughter, and Rorschach agreed.
• Rorschach asked Dr. Harrison to steal Savitar’s speed, prompting Barry’s team to hesitate, and then asked Dr. Harrison to choose whether to help him.

Rorschach recruited Dr. Harrison to build a device for stealing Savitar’s speed, then led him and Barry’s team to Earth-2 to find Savitar. After arriving, Rorschach asked Barry to run through the city to draw Savitar out.

• Rorschach used telekinesis to restrain Barry and persuaded Dr. Harrison that he could defeat Savitar and save Dr. Harrison’s daughter.
• Dr. Harrison spent half a month obtaining equipment and built the Speed Siphon, a button-like device designed to capture Savitar’s speed.
• Rorschach took Dr. Harrison to S.T.A.R. Labs, where Barry, Cisco, and Caitlin joined them in traveling through the energy vortex to Earth-2.
• After failing to hear anything suspicious with his super hearing, Rorschach asked Barry to run around the city to attract Savitar’s attention.

Rorschach found Savitar in Earth-2’s Central City and raced him while Barry watched, unable to keep up. Rorschach matched Savitar’s top speed with ease, then left Savitar exhausted and vanished.

• Barry agreed that Savitar might learn he was on Earth-2, then sped through Central City to find him.
• Rorschach used his super-hearing to locate Savitar and raced to Central City, while Cisco, Dr. Harrison, and Caitlin marveled at his speed.
• Savitar caught up to Barry and taunted him, but Rorschach appeared beside them and attached the Speed Siphon to Savitar with telekinesis.
• Rorschach kept pace as Savitar accelerated to his top speed of 4,500 meters per second, while Barry fell far behind.
• Savitar stopped, exhausted, and Rorschach taunted him before vanishing.

Rorschach tracked Savitar to his hideout and helped Dr. Harrison rescue his daughter, Jesse, and another prisoner. Savitar was left behind, determined to surpass Rorschach someday.

• Rorschach reassured Dr. Harrison that he would rescue his daughter and secretly kept Savitar under surveillance with his super senses.
• Rorschach led Dr. Harrison, Barry, Cisco, and the others to Savitar’s base at an abandoned factory.
• Savitar appeared and threatened to kill Jesse unless Rorschach left, while Barry pursued him briefly.
• Rorschach used telekinesis to lift and throw Savitar, then blocked him as Dr. Harrison and the others freed Jesse and the other prisoner.
• Rorschach told Savitar to keep trying to surpass him and left with the rescued group, while Savitar vowed to become faster than him.

After defeating Savitar, Rorschach harvested his speed while overseeing experiments for Lex Luthor and Oliver Queen, becoming far stronger over the next several years. Once the experiments were complete, Rorschach opened a passage with the Infinity Gauntlet and returned to the Marvel world.

• At S.T.A.R. Labs, Dr. Harrison thanked Rorschach for reuniting him with his daughter, and Rorschach said he would leave but expected to meet everyone again.
• Rorschach injected the speed he had stolen from Savitar and found that it increased his speed by about three hundred meters per second.
• Over the next six months, Rorschach supervised experiments in Central City, Star City, and Smallville while harvesting another four thousand meters per second from Savitar.
• After a year, Lex Luthor purified the toxins from the kryptonite, and Rorschach absorbed his stockpile, raising his strength to thirty thousand tons and his speed to twenty thousand meters per second.
• Four years later, Oliver Queen completed the process of synthesizing kryptonite from Kryptonian fragments, using Lex Luthor's research.
• Rorschach gathered the technical data from Oliver Queen and Lex Luthor, opened a spatial passage with the Infinity Gauntlet, and returned to the Marvel world.

Rorschach returned to his world after six years and reunited with Iron Man and his old allies in Krakoa. The mutants welcomed him as their king, while Iron Man hinted that they would meet again soon.

• Iron Man rushed to investigate Rorschach's arrival and questioned whether he was the Homelander from their world.
• Charles, Erik, Hank, Mystique, and other Krakoa leaders arrived and recognized Rorschach through a signal Hank had detected.
• Iron Man accepted that Rorschach was their Homelander, then said they would meet again soon before flying away.
• Rorschach asked the mutants what Iron Man meant, but Charles said they would explain after returning to Krakoa.
• Rorschach boarded the Blackbird with the mutants, and Krakoa's leaders and members greeted him with cheers as their king.

Rorschach returned to Krakoa, where the mutant leaders told him that Doctor Strange and America had entered their universe and been captured. Charles invited Rorschach to join the Illuminati’s planned trial, as the group prepared to confront threats from the multiverse.

• Rorschach returned to Krakoa and reunited with its leaders at a welcome feast.
• Charles assured Rorschach that Krakoa was safe, while Erik revealed that they had captured two visitors from another universe.
• Hank identified the visitors as the sorcerer Stephen Strange and a girl named America.
• Rorschach recognized the situation as resembling Doctor Strange 2 and suspected that the Scarlet Witch would become a threat.
• Charles and Erik told Rorschach that they had founded the Illuminati with Stark to address multiversal dangers.
• Charles invited Rorschach to attend Strange and America’s trial, and Rorschach left with him.

Rorschach accompanied Charles to the Illuminati’s secret base, where Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange warned them that Wanda had destroyed Kamar-Taj and was pursuing Miss America. The base’s alarms then showed Wanda charging toward them.

• Rorschach used his speed to bring Charles to the Illuminati’s secret base before the Blackbird jet could take off.
• Rorschach met Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Reed Richards, and Black Bolt, then took an observer’s seat.
• Iron Man had the Illuminati bring in Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange, who warned that Wanda would find them and destroy the base as she had Kamar-Taj.
• Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange explained Wanda’s identity and her pursuit of Miss America, alarming the Illuminati.
• The base’s warning alarms sounded, and Iron Man displayed a screen showing Wanda charging toward them.

Wanda, controlled by the Alternate Dimension Corrupted Scarlet Witch, arrived to capture America, and the Illuminati prepared to confront her. Tony Stark attacked first, but Wanda instantly destroyed his Iron Suit and hurled him toward a pillar, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange warned the Illuminati that Wanda had pursued him and America across the multiverse and urged them to protect America.
• Doctor Strange and the Illuminati dismissed Strange's fear and trusted that Homelander could stop Wanda.
• Tony Stark suited up and flew out to confront Wanda while Mister Fantastic told Charles to stay behind.
• Rorschach and the Illuminati arrived after Tony's negotiations with Wanda had broken down.
• Wanda used red Magic Energy to shatter Tony Stark's Iron Suit and flung him headfirst toward a pillar.

Wanda overwhelmed the Illuminati, killing Tony Stark and erasing Black Bolt’s mouth with her reality-warping magic. Rorschach finally intervened and struck Wanda down, but she broke free of his telekinetic hold and attacked him.

• Wanda killed Tony Stark, but Doctor Strange opened a portal and Black Bolt caught him as he emerged.
• Mister Fantastic tried to reason with Wanda, then warned that Black Bolt could kill her with his voice.
• Wanda made Black Bolt’s mouth disappear, shocking the Illuminati and alarming Charles.
• Rorschach used telekinesis to restrain Wanda after she prepared to attack Black Bolt.
• Wanda burst free with an explosion of Red Mist and sent red magical attacks toward Rorschach.
• Rorschach moved at super speed and knocked Wanda to the ground.