Recaps

He-El restored the Kandor Kryptonians, won their support, and turned Zero’s fleet into a force for building New Krypton. As the Kryptonians awakened their powers and Zero set course for Earth, Batman and world leaders began preparing for an approaching alien threat.

• He-El used the AllSpark to restore seven million Kryptonians, showed them footage of Krypton’s destruction, and revealed Jor-El’s actions before Kyra-El challenged his account.
• He-El defended his record and promised a new society, then put the choice between restoring the Council system and creating New Krypton to a vote that the crowd overwhelmingly decided in his favor.
• He-El sealed Kyra-Jor-El underground, rejected General Tyler Wicks’s demand for military privilege, and unveiled Zero’s fleet, which Zero transformed into a vast army of Transformers.
• He-El imprisoned Tyler Wicks and his officials, appointed Kal-El-Zod to command the military, and began organizing New Krypton while assigning Ciri and the science corps to research genetic talents.
• He-El used yellow-sun radiation to awaken the soldiers’ powers and fought Kal-El, then activated the powers of the wider population and restored order as residents adjusted to their abilities.
• He-El recalled Zero’s resource-gathering fleet, sent the Kryptonians into hibernation, and ordered Zero to leap toward the Solar System, though Zero vanished into Andromeda.
• Alfred showed Bruce a faster-than-light trail through the Oort Cloud, and Bruce anonymously warned Earth’s governments before setting out to contact the Justice League.
• Chris reported the spacecraft evidence to the defense minister, who alerted A.R.G.U.S. and called for a war conference, while Batman warned Aquaman Arthur, who agreed to meet the Justice League.

He-El defeated the Justice League, confronted Jor-El over Krypton’s fate, and used the Codex to pursue New Krypton’s expansion. After destroying the United States and conquering Earth, he turned to the Speed Force to power Jor-El’s creations and strengthen his plans.

• He-El attacked the Hall of Justice, gravely wounded Superman, and defeated the Justice League as Batman and the other heroes tried to stop him.
• He-El took Superman and The Flash to the Fortress of Solitude, where he confronted Jor-El over the Codex, Krypton’s destruction, and his choice to save only his son.
• He-El revealed that seven million Kryptonians had survived in Kandor, and Jor-El’s recorded interrogation led them to condemn him for abandoning Krypton’s people.
• Kara reunited with He-El at the Fortress, while he ordered Kal-El to lead five hundred thousand soldiers in destroying the United States.
• Kal-El’s forces devastated the country, which became the radioactive Nameless Zone, as the surviving heroes sought allies and ways to oppose He-El.
• He-El chose Australia as New Krypton’s territory on Earth and sent Major Van-Ze’s forces through a vortex to conquer another Earth as a logistical base.
• Soniel’s forces took control of Earth’s networks, and Christine announced New Krypton’s conquest at the United Nations while addressing the Trisolarans.
• He-El’s researchers studied Superman and The Flash, and He-El forced Barry to run until the Speed Force overwhelmed the laboratory and he absorbed it.

He-El destroyed Mars, prepared New Krypton for war, and sent the Amazons and Green Lantern Corps into a disastrous confrontation. The arc left the Amazon Legion shattered, Superman missing, and Hal and Wonder Woman heading into space to join the fight.

• He-El stopped The Flash’s escape, while Lex Luthor opened Black Adam’s tomb and Martian Manhunter set out to rescue The Flash for Jor-El’s plan to use Amazo.
• He-El ordered Sacrifice to destroy Mars, and the Star Annihilator Cannon split the planet apart while Martian Manhunter watched its people die.
• Bruce learned that Earth’s government and military had fallen, while the Guardians organized a massive Green Lantern force and sent Scarface and Ark to seek Olympus’s aid.
• He-El discovered the Green Lantern Corps’ presence near Mars, seized Sinestro’s ring, and learned that the Guardians were recruiting the gods for war.
• He-El opened a refuge passage to the Three-Body Problem Universe, ordered Kal-El to defend the Arctic Fortress, and prepared New Krypton for the approaching Amazon army.
• Valiant’s missile barrage killed more than 150,000 Amazon warriors, and Kal-El and the battleship wiped out the remaining Amazon Legion after Diana led a counterattack.
• Hal summoned the Green Lantern Corps and challenged Kal-El, while Diana and Hal found evidence that someone had taken Superman through a hidden tunnel before Ark ordered Hal to join the battle in space.

He-El defeated the gods and Guardians of the Universe, then led New Krypton toward control of Earth. The arc ended with He-El and Ganthet negotiating Earth’s defenses and New Krypton’s territory as Zeus’s demand was interrupted by an unseen speaker.

• Athena sealed Earth behind a protective barrier as Apollo cut the Kryptonians off from sunlight, but Radiance and Mercy’s weapon devastated Mars and killed millions of Green Lantern Corps soldiers.
• He-El defeated Apollo, Athena, Artemis, Ark, and Scarface in the Asteroid Belt, survived their attempts to trap and exhaust him, and carried the captives back toward Earth.
• The Green Lantern Corps and the Divine Legion fought Kal-El’s Kryptonian army, but He-El returned with their leaders defeated, killed Hal and Wonder Woman, and left the Corps trapped.
• Luthor told Batman that the Kryptonian Emperor had killed Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, while the awakened Flash said he would travel back in time to Krypton.
• He-El began draining the captive Guardians and gods, spared Athena after she offered her knowledge, and learned from her about Doomsday and the Third Cosmic War.
• Ganthet offered He-El a star system in exchange for peace, but He-El killed Ark, threatened Scarface, and demanded to know where Doomsday was sealed.
• Steppenwolf emerged from Victor Stone’s Boom Tube as He-El agreed to negotiate Earth’s protection, then demanded Doomsday and Australia for New Krypton before Zeus’s threat was interrupted by an unseen speaker.