Recaps

He-El defeated Thanos and the heroes, forcing Stephen Strange to use the Time Stone to travel back and kill him in the past. Their return revealed that He-El’s existence had spawned countless Parallel Universes, whose versions of him converged on the original He-El.

• He-El sent Pietro Maximoff away with Wanda Maximoff, cleared the battlefield, and joined Marshal Ross as Thanos arrived in New York.
• Tony Stark saved the battlefield from Sanctuary II, but He-El’s Quark Armor and technology overwhelmed the assembled heroes as Thanos attacked with the Infinity Stones.
• He-El countered the heroes’ assaults, trapped Captain Marvel Carol Danvers’s photon sphere, controlled Drax, and used Tony’s stasis field to limit spatial movement.
• He-El flattened Thanos into two dimensions, took the Power, Soul, and Space Stones, and burned away the foil containing Thanos.
• Stephen Strange used the Time Stone to age Thor into a form greater than Odin’s, but He-El defeated Thor and demanded the Time Stone while Tony and Stephen watched from another dimension.
• Stephen Strange activated the Time Stone and traveled with Tony Stark to the Afghan desert, where Tony killed He-El by shrinking and taking his heart.
• He-El revealed that he was a Parallel Universe copy and warned that countless versions of himself would appear along the timeline, so Stephen returned Tony and himself to their proper timeline.
• The universe shook as heroes saw visions of their counterparts, countless He-El silhouettes appeared in Earth’s skies, and one reached through time and space to the original He-El.

He-El freed himself from the Omega Effect curse, defeated the Parallel Universe He-Els, and returned to New Krypton with his forces and captured enemies. His people welcomed him back as emperor, ending their harsh wartime regime.

• He-El used all six Infinity Stones to remove the Omega Effect curse, survived their backlash, and pulled Gungnir from his chest as the Parallel Universe He-Els gathered around him.
• He-El killed Super-Gene He-El and vaporized the attacking clones with Heat Vision, then absorbed Dark Dimension Overlord He-El and King of Gods He-El.
• Cosmic Emperor He-El threatened Earth with his invading army, but He-El summoned his own legions and defeated him inside a Traversal Vortex.
• He-El left Earth with Hela, while the Avengers were left wondering whether he was still their superhero.
• The Avengers answered Stephen Strange’s call to stop a clone from opening the Dark Dimension and spreading the curse.
• He-El returned through a vast Traversal Vortex to New Krypton with Hela, Athena’s Divine Legion, Zero’s Mechanical Corps, Scarface’s Seven Lantern Corps, and Aizen’s Death Legion.
• He-El lifted New Krypton’s martial law, ended its century of grueling work and rationing, and announced six-hour workdays and three days off each week.
• He-El went to the Moon with Hela, Father Izaya, Athena, Kal-El, and New Krypton’s other leaders as his people celebrated his return.

He-El returned to New Krypton and prepared it for war against the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance, while Scarface delivered his demand for surrender and demonstrated his power. As both sides assembled forces, He-El strengthened New Krypton’s armies and visited its allied realms, where he reunited with his son in the Shinigami World.

• He-El reviewed the Alliance’s forces beyond the Oort Cloud and ordered General Kal-El, Father Izaya, Athena, and others to capture Lobo Rob.
• He-El welcomed Hela to New Krypton and admitted Scarface’s Seven Lantern Corps, then sent Scarface to demand the Alliance’s surrender.
• He-El gathered support from the Shinigami World and gave Savitar and Reverse-Flash a vast Speed Force Crystal, while ordering Zero to use the AllSpark to strengthen the Mechanical Corps.
• The Alliance’s Stellar-class leaders debated attacking New Krypton, then learned that Athena, Father Izaya, Kal-El, and their forces had captured Lobo Rob.
• Scarface announced He-El’s return and offered the Alliance a chance to surrender, but the Guardians sealed the meeting venue and tried to contain her.
• He-El possessed Scarface, overcame the Guardians’ attack, and escaped with her before giving her five redesigned lantern rings and orders to rebuild the Seven Lantern Corps.
• He-El had Zero organize captured warships into thirty fleets and begin creating mechanical Guardians, then toured Earth and the Divine Realm as New Krypton prepared for war.
• He-El visited Aizen in the Shinigami World, where his son by Rangiku Matsumoto attacked him before Aizen and the captain-level Shinigami intervened.

He-El prepared New Krypton for war against the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance, securing the Zeroers’ support and assembling his forces. At Oa Star, New Krypton’s armies engaged the Alliance while He-El killed and subdued its attackers, then turned his attention to the thirty powerhouses on Oa Star.

• He-El threw the Prince into Hell to find Rangiku, then reviewed New Krypton’s forces and learned that Oa Star wanted to contact him.
• The Guardians of the Universe proposed a war on Oa Star, and He-El accepted while declaring he would kill the Alliance’s stellar-class powerhouses.
• The Guardians decided to release the sealed Volthoom, while He-El brought four surrendered powerhouses before him and gave Brainiac time to decide whether to join the Mechanical Clan.
• He-El negotiated with the Zeroers, trading an electron sphere containing knowledge of other universes for weapons, an Inner Universe, and their help in the war.
• New Krypton’s forces arrived at Oa Star, where Kal-El, Athena, Father Izaya, Aizen, and the other commanders presented their armies before He-El emerged with the Mechanical Corps and the Quantum Ghost War Base.
• He-El ordered the war base to charge its Quasar Flare as the Guardians’ mechs intercepted Alliance champions and New Krypton’s armies engaged the enemy forces.
• He-El invited the Alliance’s stellar-class powerhouses to attack him together, then killed several attackers with Heat Vision when they charged or tried to flee.
• After He-El killed a Guardian and rejected one attacker who refused to kneel, sixty-five of the eighty attackers pledged loyalty, and He-El looked toward the thirty powerhouses on Oa Star.