Recaps

He-El absorbed the Speed Force and compared it with Doomsday as a possible purpose for his genetic foundation. After subduing The Flash, he began investigating how to create cells that could store and produce Speed Force, then secretly placed a psychic projection inside him.

• He-El absorbed a limited but immense quantity of Speed Force and wondered whether his genes were meant to carry it or Doomsday.
• The Flash heard the Speed Force call He-El “The Nonexistent One” and erupted with greater power in anger.
• The Flash broke out of The Jail, but He-El stopped him with a biological magnetic field and knocked him unconscious again.
• He-El examined The Flash’s cells and his own, finding that his genes had begun developing traits for storing Speed Force.
• He-El halted his calculations when exploring the Speed Force overwhelmed him, then sent a psychic projection into The Flash using some of his stored Speed Force.

Lex Luthor’s magical eye revealed the hidden inscription in a tomb near Baghdad, and he summoned the sealed Black Adam. Luthor greeted him as a potential ally against the Kryptonian Emperor.

• Thaddeus Sivana led Lex Luthor’s expedition to a tomb forty-five miles north of Baghdad, where the team found ancient treasures but no visible source of magic.
• Luthor felt pain in his right eye, which transformed and let him see a magical dimension and the hidden writing on a blank wall.
• Luthor read that Black Adam had been sealed until someone capable of destroying him appeared, then found the word needed to open the tomb: “Shazam.”
• Luthor spoke “Shazam,” and the wall exploded, revealing Black Adam amid silver lightning.
• Luthor looked up at Black Adam and told him, “I'm here to help you deal with him!”

As the Nameless Zone descended into chaos, Martian Manhunter spoke with Joe, who urged him to rescue the Flash first so the Speed Force could activate a weapon against He-El. Martian Manhunter headed for LexCorp Tower to hear Joe out.

• Martian Manhunter saw looting and violence spreading through Middleton as cities and corporations struggled to maintain order.
• Joe contacted Martian Manhunter through his iPhone 6 and insisted that he save the Flash rather than Superman.
• Joe explained that He-El needed Superman's Codex and would keep Superman alive, while the Flash's Speed Force could activate Amazo, a weapon capable of killing He-El.
• Joe directed Martian Manhunter to LexCorp Tower in Metropolis, where he promised to reveal everything and gain his trust.
• Martian Manhunter flew toward LexCorp Tower, reflecting on Lex Luthor's efforts to preserve order and save millions of people.

He-El investigated Superman’s potential for dimensional ascension while his Speed Force research remained stalled. When The Flash vanished and the Speed Force researchers collapsed, He-El detected psychic interference and confronted a green phantom of the Martian Manhunter holding The Flash.

• He-El used the Celestial Magnifying Glass to study Superman’s body, but found no clear explanation for his dimensional ascension.
• He-El reflected on the limits of his Speed Force research and hoped studying Superman might provide new inspiration.
• A researcher reported that the Speed Force team had collapsed and The Flash had disappeared from the isolation chamber.
• He-El searched the department with multiple forms of vision but could not see the presence he sensed watching him.
• He-El found traces of a psychic attack in a researcher’s brain activity and struck toward the watcher with his psychic power.
• A green phantom of the Martian Manhunter appeared, wrapped around The Flash, with pain-filled red eyes.

The Martian Manhunter possessed The Flash and rescued him from He-El, then used his intangibility to escape He-El’s attacks. He-El studied the ability and developed a way to see through it before ordering the Space Bridge shut down and Sacrifice sent to Mars to activate the Star Annihilator Cannon.

• The Martian Manhunter possessed The Flash and led him out of the superconducting isolation chamber at the Fortress of Solitude.
• He-El attacked the Martian Manhunter with Mind Blast, but the Martian Manhunter resisted and fled through the Arctic Mountains in an intangible state.
• He-El used the psychic projection inside The Flash to analyze the Martian Manhunter’s ability and reverse-engineered Psychic Dimensional Boundary Sight.
• He-El spared the researchers at the Speed Force Research Department and ordered the Space Bridge shut down.
• He-El ordered Sacrifice to go to Mars and activate the Star Annihilator Cannon.

Martian Manhunter went to rescue Superman, while The Flash helped Jor-El enter Amazo’s body. Jor-El awakened in the body, killed Professor Ivo, knocked The Flash unconscious, and left the laboratory.

• Martian Manhunter returned to LexCorp Tower and joined The Flash and Jor-El in the Amazo Laboratory.
• Jor-El explained that he planned to use Amazo’s power to stop He-El, even if doing so meant sacrificing himself.
• Martian Manhunter decided to rescue Superman despite Jor-El’s warning, then saw a battleship projection showing the Sacrifice racing toward the space beyond Mars.
• The Flash agreed to help Jor-El, and he used the Speed Force to activate Amazo’s atomic cells.
• Jor-El awoke inside Amazo’s body, killed Professor Ivo, and knocked The Flash unconscious with his biokinetic field.
• Jor-El left the laboratory, leaving The Flash unconscious on the floor.

Sacrifice aimed its Star Annihilator Cannon at Mars, prompting Martian Manhunter to attack He-El at the Fortress of Solitude. He-El overwhelmed him with a powerful Mind Blast, and Martian Manhunter woke in a crater to see the cannon still targeting his homeland.

• Sacrifice assembled its Star Annihilator Cannon and aimed it at Mars, while people on Earth realized He-El might destroy the planet.
• Martian Manhunter flew to the Fortress of Solitude and lunged at He-El, enraged by the threat to his homeland.
• He-El struck Martian Manhunter with a Mind Blast that shattered his right hand, forced his arm bone through his shoulder, and blasted him into a distant mountain.
• He-El told the guards and researchers to resume their work, then walked toward the injured Martian Manhunter.
• Martian Manhunter recovered enough to use Far Vision and saw Sacrifice's cannon aimed at Mars, then screamed in horror.

Martian Manhunter begged He-El to spare Mars, but He-El refused and watched as the Sacrifice’s Star Annihilator Cannon tore the planet apart. Martian Manhunter was left blind and trembling as the destruction of his homeland was imprinted on his mind.

• Martian Manhunter struggled to kneel before He-El and pleaded for him to spare Mars, offering to return The Flash and stop opposing him.
• He-El refused to heed Martian Manhunter’s pleas and told him to look at the stars and bear the consequences of his actions.
• The Sacrifice fired its Star Annihilator Cannon, drilling through Mars and driving the planet’s core out into space.
• The cannon split Mars in two, devastating the subterranean world and killing countless Martians.
• Martian Manhunter’s eyes ruptured, leaving him blind as he collapsed and trembled in the crater.

After the Marshal-class Battleship Sacrifice destroyed Mars, Bruce woke at Wayne Manor and learned that Kryptonian forces had defeated the Justice League and erased the country’s government and military. As Bruce tried to rise despite his injuries, Alfred and Zatanna insisted he rest, while the story left him confronting the scale of the catastrophe.

• The Sacrifice destroyed Mars with its Star Annihilator Cannon, leaving Earth’s leaders terrified of the Kryptonians’ power.
• Bruce woke at Wayne Manor with his chest wrapped in bandages, and Alfred helped him sit up and recover.
• Alfred told Bruce that the Justice League had been defeated, twenty thousand soldiers had been killed, and the surviving heroes had been captured, scattered, or taken for repairs.
• Alfred explained that five hundred thousand Kryptonian soldiers had destroyed the country’s government, military, and bases in ten minutes, while Gotham’s prominent families formed the Gotham Autonomous Alliance.
• Bruce was shocked to learn the country was gone and tried to get out of bed, but Alfred held him back as Zatanna entered and told him to lie down.

Zatanna awakened Bruce and angrily confronted him for risking his life against the Kryptonians, while Alfred explained the dire state of the Justice League and Atlantis. Bruce considered recruiting more forces, but Nimu Inwudu refused to help after her Tarot cards repeatedly foretold that she would become pregnant.

• Zatanna used magic to wake Bruce, then stormed out after he insisted someone had to stand against the Kryptonians.
• Alfred told Bruce that the Kryptonian Emperor had destroyed Mars with the Star Annihilator Cannon.
• Alfred explained that Orm had imprisoned Arthur and taken his throne, while Superman and The Flash were captive, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman had gone to seek aid, and Steel Bone was still being repaired.
• Bruce considered using Steel Bone's Mother Box to lure Steppenwolf as a last resort and asked Nimu Inwudu for help.
• Nimu Inwudu said The Flash was key to confronting the Emperor, then refused to help after her Tarot readings repeatedly predicted pregnancy.

Hal Jordan asked the Guardians of the Universe for help against He-El and the Kryptonian army threatening Earth, but they sent him away while they assessed the danger. The Guardians recognized the invasion as a possible bid for cosmic domination, and Scarface insisted no Kryptonian could surpass Doomsday, whose flesh remained sealed beneath Oa Star.

• Hal Jordan showed the Guardians of the Universe a recording of He-El’s invasion and asked them to help defend Earth.
• The Guardians sent Hal away to discuss battle plans, so he contacted Thaal Sinestro and the other Green Lanterns for support.
• After Hal left, the Guardians accessed the fuller recording through his Green Lantern Ring and debated whether Superman had been a Kryptonian advance scout.
• The Guardians concluded that the Kryptonian army might seek to conquer Earth and use it to begin another campaign for cosmic domination.
• Scarface recalled her hatred of Kryptonians and declared that none could be stronger than Doomsday, whose flesh was sealed beneath Oa Star.

The Guardians of the Universe recalled how Krypton had reduced the Seven Lantern Corps to the Green Lantern Corps and agreed to send a major force to Earth to eliminate He-El and the Kryptonian army. Scarface, Ark, Hal, Thaal Sinestro, and other Green Lanterns set off for the Solar System, with orders to coordinate with the Olympian Pantheon and keep Earth safe.

• The Guardians remembered how Krypton had defeated the Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet Lantern Corps until only the Green Lantern Corps remained.
• Scarface proposed leading a force to Earth to kill He-El, and the Guardians approved her mission while warning that he might pose a threat like Doomsday.
• The Guardians decided to send one million troops from each planet under their authority, create eight million temporary Green Lantern Rings, and keep the fighting in space to protect Earth.
• The Guardians assigned Ark to accompany Scarface and instructed them to seek help from the Olympian Pantheon, whose divine power and magic could injure Kryptonians.
• Scarface, Ark, Hal, Thaal Sinestro, and the Green Lanterns Hal had summoned opened a green transit passage and traveled toward the Solar System.

After arriving in the Solar System and seeing Mars split apart, Scarface, Ark, Hal, and the Green Lanterns planned a hidden counterattack against the Kryptonians. They left two million troops ready to lure the Kryptonian army into space and concealed six million on Mars, then Ark and Scarface went to the Olympian Pantheon’s Divine Realm.

• Hal, Scarface, Ark, Sinestro, and dozens of Green Lanterns arrived and found Mars divided into two drifting continents covered with Martian corpses.
• Scarface tried to attack the Kryptonian battleship near Earth, but Ark stopped her and urged the Guardians to find the Kryptonian forces and avoid a premature strike.
• Scarface ordered the Green Lanterns to search the Solar System and rescue surviving Martians, while Ark was to hide eight million troops on Mars.
• Ark and Scarface agreed to reveal two million troops in space, with Hal leading the effort to lure the Kryptonian Emperor and army away from Earth.
• The Green Lanterns split up, and Ark and Scarface concealed the troops before heading to the Olympian Pantheon’s Divine Realm.

The chapter recounts how the gods’ faith spread to Krypton and sparked the Ancient Universe War, which devastated pantheons and cosmic powers before ending in Krypton’s defeat and Doomsday’s imprisonment. Afterward, Zeus and the Green Lantern Corps carried out the God-Annihilation Movement, gathering divine authority under the Olympian Pantheon and bringing peace until Scarface and Ark entered its Divine Realm.

• The gods spread their faith to Krypton, enraging the Kryptonians and prompting them to wage war across the universe.
• The Kryptonians battered the pantheons and cosmic forces, while Darkseid fought them and was eventually beaten by Doomsday for more than ten thousand years.
• The universe’s forces joined in a final offensive and took over a million years to reduce Doomsday to flesh and blood and seal it away.
• After the war, Zeus proposed the God-Killing Plan and allied with the Green Lantern Corps to assassinate the other pantheons.
• Zeus and the Olympian Pantheon openly attacked the remaining gods, gathered divine authority under their rule, and ended the God-Annihilation Movement.
• The universe remained peaceful until Scarface and Ark entered the Olympian Divine Realm.

Scarface and Ark confronted Hera over the Olympian Gods’ failure to notice the Kryptonian invasion of Earth. Hera panicked at the news, then relaxed after learning the invasion force numbered only five hundred thousand, before Apollo appeared and dismissed the Kryptonians as wandering curs.

• Scarface and Ark arrived at Olympus’s council palace, where Hera received them while the King of the Gods and the chief gods remained absent.
• Scarface accused Hera and the Olympian Pantheon of neglecting their alliance with the Green Lantern Corps and failing to protect Earth.
• Hera claimed the Olympian Gods had remained steadfast allies, but Scarface revealed that Kryptonians had destroyed Mars, occupied the North Pole, and wiped out a country on Earth.
• Hera and her attendants panicked at the news, then reviewed Scarface’s Green Lantern Ring information and learned that He-El led only five hundred thousand Kryptonian soldiers.
• As Hera tried to excuse Olympus’s failure, Apollo appeared atop his pillar and called the Kryptonians wandering curs.

Apollo agreed to lead Olympus’s forces against the Kryptonians, but Artemis awoke and insisted on joining him. Hera appointed Athena commander of the expedition, and the gods prepared their legions to leave the Divine Realm.

• Apollo told Hera he would represent Olympus and exterminate the Kryptonians, and Hera ordered him to lead a five-hundred-thousand-strong magic legion.
• Apollo dismissed Scarface and Ark’s concerns, insisting that Olympus had grown stronger and the Kryptonians were no threat.
• Artemis emerged from her pillar and told Hera she would join Apollo on the expedition.
• Hera appointed Athena commander over Apollo, Artemis, their magic legions, and the Amazon Warriors, then promised a feast to celebrate their victory.
• Athena emerged as Olympus’s representative while Apollo and Artemis went to summon their legions.

He-El detected an army of more than a million creatures emerging from Heaven near Mount Olympus and investigated the hidden magical realm. He realized the gods were already searching for him in the Solar System and found evidence that the Guardians of the Universe had used a transit passage near Mars.

• He-El received a report of spacetime distortions above Mount Mytikas and went to the command room to investigate.
• He-El used String Sight with Zero to map a realm attached to Earth and found signs that more than a million creatures had emerged from Heaven half an hour earlier.
• He-El considered entering Heaven to study its magic and prepared to use weapons to force open its gate if necessary.
• Zero reported no outsiders in the Solar System, but He-El suspected they were already there and searched the surrounding space.
• He-El used String Sight again, found evidence of the Guardians of the Universe's transit passage near Mars, and vanished from the command room.

Sinestro searched the Moon for enemy lifeforms, but He-El ambushed and controlled him, then transformed his Green Lantern Ring into a mechanical assistant called Little Green. After learning from Sinestro's memories that the Guardians had brought eight million Green Lanterns and recruited the gods of Mount Olympus against him, He-El sent Little Green back to assist Sinestro.

• Sinestro detected at least five million lifeforms on the far side of the Moon and flew toward them.
• He-El ambushed Sinestro, took control of his mind, and maintained their concealment after Sinestro lost consciousness.
• He-El removed Sinestro's Green Lantern Ring and used the AllSpark and his mental power to transform it into Little Green.
• Little Green told He-El it could control the ring's functions and help a wearer create constructs more easily, then answered Hal's communication in Sinestro's voice.
• He-El searched Sinestro's memories and learned that the Guardians had arrived with eight million temporary Green Lantern Rings and had gone to Mount Olympus to recruit the gods.
• He-El ordered Little Green to return and assist Sinestro.

He-El prepared New Krypton for war against the Green Lantern Corps and the gods' magical army, ordering the children under twelve evacuated through a gateway to another universe. After the children reached safety, He-El learned that the universe they had been sent to was the Three-Body Problem Universe.

• Sinestro scanned the Moon with his Green Lantern Ring, found no living creatures, and departed without discovering the hidden Green Lantern Corps.
• He-El issued wartime orders, assigning Kal-El to lead the Kryptonian Army and the seven Marshal-class Battleships to plan an attack on the concealed Green Lantern Corps.
• Ciri reported that the Biological Research Department was mass-producing battlefield medicines and treatments, while New Krypton's leaders set about preparing for war.
• He-El addressed the assembled children, explained that their parents were going to war to secure their future, and opened a gateway to another universe for their evacuation.
• A Soniel General-class Cruiser returned with thirty thousand Kryptonian soldiers, and He-El learned that the refuge universe was the Three-Body Problem Universe.

He-El expanded New Krypton's logistics operations in the Three-Body Problem Universe and ordered Soniel to approach the Trisolaran Civilization peacefully, wary of drawing the attention of dangerous civilizations. After Soniel returned to continue the work, the first major conflict began on Earth as Amazons assembled to attack the Fortress of Solitude.

• A second Traversal Vortex formed in He-El's consciousness, and he designated one as a permanent passage to the Three-Body Problem Universe.
• Soniel reported that New Krypton had taken over Earth's governments, started building a Proton Dyson Sphere, and planned to make the Trisolaran Civilization its subject.
• He-El ordered Soniel to show goodwill to the Trisolarans so they would not expose Earth's location to civilizations capable of using Two-Dimensional Foils.
• Soniel embraced He-El's peaceful approach and returned to the Three-Body Problem Universe to continue the logistics effort.
• A report reached He-El that more than five hundred thousand Amazon warriors had gathered at the North Pole to attack the Fortress of Solitude and rescue Superman.

Diana led five hundred thousand Amazon Warriors to the Fortress of Solitude while Green Lantern Hal explained his plan to draw He-El into a fight. He-El discovered that Jor-El carried a backup of the Codex, but chose to focus on the coming battle and ordered Kal-El to evacuate the researchers and abandon the fortress.

• Diana arrived at the Arctic Mountains with the Amazon army, and Hal told her he believed He-El would not harm Earth.
• He-El watched Diana and Hal from the command room and sensed that Jor-El was hiding in the Arctic ice with a backup of the Codex.
• He-El summoned Kal-El, who reported that the Kryptonian Army was ready to deploy.
• He-El ordered Kal-El to evacuate the Arctic Fortress's researchers, abandon the Fortress of Solitude and Kal, and prepare to fight the Amazons.
• Kal-El insisted that he would recover the Codex, but He-El said it was already within his grasp and ordered the army to sweep away the Amazon Warriors.

The Valiant Marshal-class Battleship attacked the Amazon Legion with miniature cruise missiles, while the warriors underestimated the weapons and followed their commander's orders to evade them. The missiles exploded around the legion, killing more than one hundred and fifty thousand Amazon warriors and leaving Diana horrified.

• The Valiant Marshal-class Battleship flew toward the North Pole and launched more than thirty thousand miniature cruise missiles at the Amazon Legion.
• The Amazon Legion commander dismissed the missiles as crude arrows and ordered her five hundred thousand warriors to spread out and evade them.
• Diana recognized the danger and screamed for the Amazon warriors to activate their magic shields and shoot down the missiles.
• The missiles landed beside the warriors and detonated, tearing through their armor and killing more than one hundred and fifty thousand Amazon warriors.
• Diana froze in terror as the bombardment turned the North Pole battlefield into a slaughterhouse.

Valiant regretted using only miniature cruise missiles against the Amazons and escalated his attack, while Diana rallied the survivors to face the battleship’s overwhelming firepower. The chapter ended with the Amazon Legion charging as Valiant aimed his weapons at them and the Fortress of Solitude.

• Valiant launched fifty thousand more miniature cruise missiles, but Diana caught them in the Lasso of Truth’s vortex and hurled them back toward his ship.
• Diana ordered the surviving Amazon Warriors to reform, protect the wounded, and prepare magical barriers while Green Lantern Hal rescued the injured.
• Valiant transformed above the Fortress of Solitude, revealing a vast array of weapons aimed at Diana and the Amazon Legion.
• Green Lantern Hal warned Diana that the attack would be suicidal and offered to handle Valiant, but the Amazons refused to retreat.
• Diana raised the Sword of the God of Fire and ordered the Amazon Legion to charge.

Diana led the Amazon Legion in an assault on the Valiant, but Kal-El and the battleship destroyed the legion while evacuating the Fortress of Solitude’s researchers. Green Lantern Hal challenged the Kryptonians in the name of the Green Lantern Corps, and Kal-El accepted as the Valiant rose into space.

• Diana charged the Valiant with the Amazon Legion, which endured artillery and missile bombardment before particle beams shattered its magic shields and killed thousands.
• Diana reached the battleship and attacked with the Sword of the God of Fire, but Kal-El killed her Pegasus and hurled her into the Arctic Mountains.
• The Valiant’s missiles devastated the scattered Amazon warriors, while the battleship evacuated the Fortress of Solitude’s researchers and then ceased fire.
• Diana emerged from the crater to find the Amazon Legion wiped out, and Green Lantern Hal demanded that Kal-El’s master appear.
• Hal summoned the Green Lantern Corps and declared that its two million members would fight to keep Earth from the Kryptonians.
• As the Valiant rose into space, Kal-El identified himself as New Krypton General Kal-El Zod and accepted the Corps’ challenge.

After the Amazon Legion was devastated in battle with Kal-El's forces, Hal and Wonder Woman searched the Fortress of Solitude and discovered that someone had secretly taken Superman. They found no further clues before the Green Lantern Corps called Hal to join the battle in space.

• Hal watched Kal-El board the Valiant and regretted bringing the Amazon Legion into the war after its warriors were devastated by the bombardment.
• Wonder Woman vowed to avenge the Amazons, but Hal persuaded her to search the Fortress of Solitude before pursuing the Kryptonians.
• Hal detected that someone had dug a fresh tunnel into the Fortress and taken Superman while the Kryptonians were fighting.
• Wonder Woman and Hal followed the tunnel for over ten kilometers to an ice field, where they found signs of a hidden observer but no trace of Superman.
• Ark ordered Hal to leave Earth and join the extermination battle, and Hal used his ring to take Wonder Woman into space toward the Valiant.