Recaps

He-El escaped Krypton’s destruction, arrived on Earth, and survived humanity’s attempts to capture and kill him. After declaring his plan to conquer the world, he drew the United States into launching a nuclear attack.

• He-El awakened aboard the drifting ship, exposed Jor-El’s betrayal, and used a hidden key to replace Joe-Jor-El’s consciousness with Zero before traveling through a vortex to Earth.
• He-El fell onto Anchorage Base, where researchers discovered his extraordinary strength and resilience, while the leaders of twenty-one nations voted to dismember him and divide his body.
• He-El awoke during the dissection attempt, killed Tongus, and fought through the military forces attacking Anchorage Base, destroying Gipsy Danger and killing many soldiers and pilots.
• He-El found Ciri after she escaped confinement, told her he planned to conquer Earth, and ordered Marshal Stacker to prepare a press conference while he created Dawn to infiltrate the world’s networks.
• He-El’s video exposed the leaders’ plan to exploit him, prompting public debate and political apologies, while the United Nations sent representatives to Anchorage Base to placate him.
• At the press conference, He-El announced his intention to conquer Earth and build an empire, demonstrated his power by crushing Knifehead, and detected three approaching nuclear missiles.
• The United States president’s faction debated resistance as other countries refused to join a nuclear strike, but the president ultimately pressed the launch button repeatedly.

He-El conquered Earth, built a new order, and experimented with psychic powers while the Humanity Self-Rescue Heroes Association failed to stop him. After Ciri joined him, He-El left Earth and reached the Starry Sky Explorer with her after a 190-day journey.

• He-El survived three nuclear strikes, conquered Alaska and the United States, and demanded that world leaders surrender authority.
• He-El killed Kevin and the reporters, then examined his genes with Ciri and developed telepathy and psychic abilities.
• Jupiter and the Humanity Self-Rescue Heroes Association organized resistance, while Edward Yorton attacked He-El through the Dreaming dimension and was absorbed by him.
• He-El established his rule over Earth and ordered scientists to build the Crystal Core Energy Aggregation Accelerator as the Association continued plotting against him.
• The Precursors drew Ciri toward their Lantern Goldfish Monster, but He-El rescued her, prepared her to study them, and said he would leave Earth with her in four and a half years.
• Jupiter presided over He-El’s coronation, then learned he planned to leave with Ciri and confronted him but could not bring herself to attack.
• He-El and Ciri left Earth as Light Points, and Jupiter stayed behind to face humanity’s needs without him.
• He-El carried Ciri through space for 190 days, reached the Starry Sky Explorer, and passed Zero’s Level Zero verification.

He-El reached Krypton, defeated Brainiac 7, and later took control of the AllSpark, forcing Megatron and the Decepticons under his power. After the Autobots and Decepticons clashed at Hoover Dam, He-El formed a vast golden barrier that began cooling Nevada and Arizona.

• He-El found Krypton destroyed, gathered supplies from its ruins, and fought off Brainiac’s molecular drones before discovering Kandor City and the Stellar-class Engine on a former Kryptonian moon.
• He-El broke into Brainiac 7’s base, destroyed its core, and restored control of the facility and its drones, then used the Traversal Vortex to seek sunlight and help with his plans.
• Harold brought He-El to Area Seven, where Tom Banachek showed him Megatron and the AllSpark, which He-El recognized as altered to create Decepticons.
• Frenzy reached the AllSpark as Decepticons attacked Area Seven, and He-El used his knowledge of its spatial structure to take control of the cube.
• He-El killed Sam and fourteen soldiers, overpowered Bumblebee, and used the AllSpark to restore Megatron and erase Quintessa’s control code.
• Megatron submitted to He-El, while Starscream and the Autobots arrived at Hoover Dam and fought over the AllSpark until Optimus Prime and Megatron agreed to retreat.
• He-El spread his biological magnetic field across part of Earth’s troposphere and formed golden barriers that absorbed sunlight, prompting warnings that Nevada and Arizona could face an ice age.

He-El completed the Sevenfold Golden Barrier, defeated Quintessa, and gathered powerful technology while confronting the limits of his Kryptonian body. Back aboard his mothership, he began investigating Kryptonian genetic imprints and preparing to revive Kandor City's people as Zero started transforming the ship.

• Harold exposed the officials’ role in launching protons, while Optimus Prime explained that He-El’s seven barriers could focus sunlight into a devastating beam or charge the AllSpark.
• He-El created Black Suit as his guardian, destroyed General Adolf’s army, and began completing the Golden Barrier as the world darkened and Earth’s rotation stopped.
• Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime opposed He-El as Sentinel Prime summoned Cybertron, but He-El shut down the Space Bridge and destroyed the Star Harvester’s beam before The Fallen could use it against the barrier.
• Quintessa shattered the completed barrier and attacked He-El, but his defenses overcame her weapons, and he subdued her after she awakened Unicron and Earth retreated from waking.
• Megatron praised He-El’s resolve, and He-El gathered Quintessa’s cells and Cybertronian technology before taking the Star Harvester and Energy Converter for his mothership.
• He-El met Ciri, supplied her with Quintessa’s cells for research, and used the AllSpark to turn Zero into a Transformer that would become the mothership.
• He-El’s attempts to restore Kandor City prisoners to their original size caused their genes to collapse, leading him to discover a psychic Thought Imprint in Kryptonian genes and build a database to replace their genetic information.
• He-El tested the replacement on Chester, ordered Zero to preserve him for observation, and instructed Zero to begin transforming the completed mothership design.