Zeus was not dead yet.
Back then, He-El had ordered the Olympian Gods to gang up on Zeus, and Zeus had been beaten into a miserable state.
They had originally intended to kill Zeus outright.
But later, they considered that Zeus knew of the Olympian Gods' collective betrayal and might guess that they had found hope of breaking away from their original bodies and becoming independent.
If the Zeus of this universe died, he would return to the original Zeus. Whether his memories or anything else, all of it would become nourishment for the original body of the universe.
For all the Olympian Gods to betray Zeus was an utterly absurd matter in any universe.
All the Olympian Gods were one whole. From their original bodies onward, they had been a single pantheon. Only by working together flawlessly as one could they deal with powerful enemies like Darkseid and compete with other pantheons.
In other universes, nothing as absurd as all Twelve Olympians betraying Zeus and the entire pantheon had ever occurred.
It was easy to guess what sort of enormous benefit could drive them to betray the Olympian Pantheon.
There was only one answer.
A chance at independence.
A chance to avoid being absorbed by their original bodies.
Therefore, to keep the original Zeus from learning that the Olympian Gods had a chance to break away from their original bodies, the Olympian Gods, with He-El's permission, carefully and seriously imprisoned Zeus.
The Olympian Gods had no way of knowing how furious the original gods of the Olympian Pantheon would become if they learned that these gods had a chance to escape being discarded and become independent beings.
The original bodies of the Olympian Pantheon would absolutely never permit them even the slightest chance of breaking free.
They would definitely