Chapter Summaries

He-El survived Athena’s divinely enchanted cross sword, healed his wounds, and overwhelmed Apollo in a series of brutal attacks across the Asteroid Belt. After declaring that he would rule destiny, He-El smashed Apollo through Ceres and continued pummeling him amid the shattered planet.

• He-El corroded Athena’s cross sword with his psychic power, destroyed it, and crushed Athena’s neck before she teleported away.
• Athena, Ark, and Scarface planned to strike He-El’s cell nuclei, while He-El removed the rotting flesh around his heart and formed a replacement heart.
• Apollo charged He-El, but He-El won their fist clash and declared that Apollo was 11.4% weaker than him.
• He-El used Instant Transmission to repeatedly strike Apollo across the Asteroid Belt, then punched him out of the solar fireball surrounding him.
• He-El drove Apollo through the Asteroid Belt and into Ceres, shattered the dwarf planet, and continued attacking Apollo amid its debris.

He-El overwhelmed Apollo and battled Ark, Apollo, Athena, and Scarface across the Asteroid Belt, revealing that he was stronger than each of them. As Scarface trapped him in an Illusory Triangle Maze, the fight continued amid the destruction of Vesta and countless meteors.

• He-El battered Apollo across hundreds of millions of kilometers, prompting Scarface to travel to the battlefield and Ark to charge in and free him.
• Ark and Apollo fought He-El while he compared their strength and declared himself stronger than Apollo, Ark, Athena, and Scarface.
• The combatants ravaged the Asteroid Belt, and Scarface used psychic power and Athena's magic to swing Vesta at He-El.
• He-El seized control of Vesta, compressed it into a diamond planet, and hurled it at Ark and Apollo.
• Ark shattered the diamond planet, whose fragments reflected He-El's Heat Vision into a cage that Apollo escaped by unleashing a solar flare.
• Scarface formed an Illusory Triangle Maze and sent it down upon He-El.

Scarface trapped He-El in the Illusory Triangle Maze while Athena weakened him, allowing Artemis to strike him with a Solar System-powered gravity arrow. He-El was battered into the Kuiper Belt and appeared dead, but Apollo sensed that he was still alive.

• Scarface trapped He-El in the Illusory Triangle Maze, but he broke through its first imaginary world and realized the later worlds might also be false.
• Athena cast a curse that weakened He-El, and Artemis fired a golden arrow powered by the gravity of the Solar System’s planets.
• He-El woke as the maze collapsed, but its lingering distortions left him too weak to escape the incoming arrows.
• Artemis’s arrows drove He-El past Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus before knocking Neptune’s core loose and hurling him into the Kuiper Belt.
• Scarface declared He-El dead and Athena warned that his remaining psychic power needed to be sealed.
• Apollo sensed that He-El was still alive.

He-El used spatial openings in every cell to draw limitless energy from stars across the universe, then overwhelmed Apollo and destroyed the Sun Chariot. After Artemis rescued Apollo and Ark summoned a Green Lantern construct, He-El began pulling the entire Kuiper Belt into motion with his Black Suit.

• He-El activated Psychic Dimensional Boundary Sight and filled every cell with openings that drew energy from across the universe.
• Apollo charged He-El in the Sun Chariot, but He-El destroyed the chariot and attacked Apollo with a miniature black hole.
• The black hole tore off Apollo’s arm before Artemis struck Apollo clear and destroyed the black hole with a golden arrow.
• Ark ordered Scarface to wear the Green Lantern Ring, while Artemis aimed at He-El and Athena hid.
• He-El summoned the Black Suit and used the Kuiper Belt’s electromagnetic field to pull the entire belt into a rapid spin.

He-El turned the Kuiper Belt into a faster-than-light accelerator, trapping Ark, Apollo, Artemis, Athena, and Scarface inside as its debris accelerated toward light speed. The group fought back, but He-El blasted Ark and Apollo away just as Artemis’s accelerated arrows returned toward him.

• He-El accelerated the Kuiper Belt and formed walls that prevented escape or mental teleportation.
• Athena warned that they were trapped, and Artemis identified He-El’s plan to exhaust them with high-energy debris.
• Ark proposed killing He-El and stopping the stellar ring, while Artemis fired arrows into the Kuiper Belt’s direction of movement.
• Ark, Apollo, and Scarface attacked He-El as he intercepted Scarface’s battleship and swept the others with Heat Vision.
• He-El blasted Ark and Apollo seventy million li away, while Artemis’s arrows completed a circuit and shot toward him at over 0.3 times the speed of light.

He-El overwhelmed the Golden Barriers and arrows, then wounded Artemis and defeated her and Apollo with his Heat Vision. As Ark recognized that He-El could not be beaten in the accelerator, Scarface’s fear of Kryptonians caused her Green Lantern Ring to manifest a monstrous creature.

• He-El multiplied the Golden Barriers to stop the golden arrows, then gathered the arrows and accelerated them toward Artemis.
• The arrows pierced Artemis, and Apollo rushed to her aid before attacking He-El with a massive solar-core flare beam.
• He-El’s larger Heat Vision swallowed Apollo’s beam and left Apollo and Artemis unconscious and charred.
• Ark despaired at the odds of defeating He-El in the accelerator, while Scarface recalled the terror of Kryptonians from the Ancient Cosmic War.
• Scarface screamed as her Green Lantern Ring manifested a huge, spiked green creature.

Scarface lost control while using her psychic power and Green Lantern Ring to manifest a giant Doomsday, which battled He-El in the Kuiper Belt. He-El repeatedly damaged Doomsday, and Ark joined the fight as the chapter ended with him questioning whether Scarface’s creation could match He-El.

• Scarface manifested a thousand-meter Doomsday that disrupted the Kuiper Belt Superluminal Particle Accelerator with its gravity.
• Ark urged Scarface to control her mind, while He-El recognized Kryptonian genetic information in Doomsday.
• Doomsday adapted to the passing matter spheres and threw one at He-El, who deflected it back and blasted through her head.
• He-El grew to Doomsday’s size and exchanged powerful blows with her, disrupting the particle flows and space around them.
• Doomsday fired green Heat Vision at He-El, but his red beam overwhelmed it and destroyed her head before she began regenerating.
• Ark hurried to join Scarface’s Doomsday against He-El and wondered whether even her creation could match him.

He-El defeated Scarface's Doomsday and incapacitated Apollo, Artemis, Ark, and Scarface, then intercepted Athena as she tried to escape. He-El dragged the unconscious group toward Earth, leaving Athena unconscious again after her inexplicable outburst.

• Ark sneak-attacked He-El but was batted between He-El and Doomsday until he was gravely injured and knocked unconscious.
• He-El tore apart Doomsday and used a Mind Blast to put Scarface into a deep coma, ending the battle.
• He-El stopped the Kuiper Belt Superluminal Particle Accelerator and released the spatial blockade around the Kuiper Belt.
• Athena tried to escape toward Earth, but He-El caught her and struck her until she surrendered and feigned unconsciousness.
• He-El tied Apollo, Artemis, Ark, and Scarface together with Athena's hair and dragged them toward Earth, carrying Athena by the ankle.
• Athena changed her skirt into trousers, prompting He-El to knock her unconscious with a Mind Blast and continue toward Earth.

The New Krypton Legion fought the Green Lantern Corps and Divine Legion near Earth, but communications disruption and weakening magic left He-El’s forces at a severe disadvantage. The chapter ended with the Legion losing ships and soldiers in a battle they could not turn around.

• The Green Lantern Corps disrupted Kryptonian communications and equipment, destroying thousands of mechanical escort ships before Marshal-class Battleship Mercy retaliated and was destroyed.
• The Divine Legion weakened the Kryptonians, allowing the Green Lantern Corps to kill five hundred thousand soldiers until Marshal-class Battleship Valiant attacked the divine soldiers and fell.
• Marshal-class Battleships Radiance and Sacrifice scattered the Divine Legion, giving Kryptonian soldiers room to recover and resume fighting.
• The Green Lantern Corps continued splitting up and encircling the Kryptonian forces as Honesty and Radiance led the remaining soldiers into battle.
• The Green Lantern Corps blocked the warships’ attacks and sent squads aboard them, causing ship after ship to self-destruct while the New Krypton Legion faced defeat.

Kal-El and the scattered Kryptonian forces were being overwhelmed by Wonder Woman, the Divine Legion, and the Green Lantern Corps. When He-El defeated the gods and returned with the Guardians of the Universe in his grasp, Apollo’s Destiny Rejection failed, allowing the Kryptonians to absorb sunlight and turn the battle around.

• Wonder Woman and the Green Lantern Corps battered Kal-El while the Divine Legion’s magic weakened him and the Kryptonian army remained cut off from communications.
• Wonder Woman bound Kal-El with the Lasso of Truth, severed his arm, and drove the Kryptonians trying to rescue him into a deadly fight.
• The Kryptonians suddenly regained the ability to absorb sunlight, and the Divine Legion realized Apollo’s Destiny Rejection had failed because the Sun God had been defeated or incapacitated.
• Kal-El absorbed sunlight, tore free of the lasso, and blasted Wonder Woman into a shattered warship with his Heat Vision.
• He-El emerged carrying a tangled mass of Guardians of the Universe and gods as the Kryptonians celebrated his return.

He-El crushed Hal Jordan and captured his Green Lantern Ring after easily shattering the Green Lantern Corps’ combined attack. With the Corps trapped and Hal dead, Wonder Woman launched a grief-fueled attack on He-El.

• Sinestro urged Hal to retreat, but Hal rallied the Green Lantern Corps and led their combined will in a charge against He-El.
• He-El swatted apart Hal’s green construct, crushed Hal’s body into a sphere, and imprisoned his fleeing Green Lantern Ring.
• He-El examined the universe after sensing something change at Hal’s death, but found only Hal’s will dissolving into the universe.
• Sinestro failed to open a transit passage because He-El had sealed off the starry region, trapping the Green Lantern Corps.
• Wonder Woman attacked He-El with the Sword of the God of Fire, driven by grief over her fallen Amazon sisters and Hal.

He-El crushed Wonder Woman Diana after defeating the Green Lantern Corps and three Olympian gods, but Zeus appeared through Diana to bargain for their return. He-El rejected Zeus’s terms, killed Diana, and provoked the King of Gods as Olympus was engulfed by a storm.

• He-El snapped Diana’s Sword of the God of Fire and crushed her neck as she attacked him in despair.
• Zeus spoke through Diana, found Apollo, Athena, Artemis, and the Guardians of the Universe defeated, and offered He-El a place for Krypton under Olympus’s protection.
• Zeus demanded that He-El return the three gods and Diana to Olympus, but He-El refused and blasted Diana’s head apart with Heat Vision.
• He-El discarded Diana’s corpse, and a violent storm gathered over Olympus as Zeus cried out against the Kryptonian.

Luthor and Black Adam discussed joining forces against the Kryptonian Emperor, while Batman confronted Luthor in his underground laboratory over The Flash. The Flash awakened and announced that he would travel back in time to Krypton to prevent the Emperor from ever existing.

• Black Adam agreed to work with Luthor to protect Kahndaq, though he admitted he was no match for the Kryptonian Emperor.
• Luthor and Black Adam went to the underground laboratory, where Batman stood beside an unconscious, distressed Flash.
• Luthor showed Batman footage proving that The Flash had helped Joe-El before Joe knocked him unconscious, and claimed he had saved him.
• Luthor told Batman that Green Lantern and Wonder Woman had been killed by the Kryptonian Emperor, and Batman believed him.
• The Flash woke, said the Speed Force warned that the Emperor must not exist, and declared he would travel back in time to Krypton.

After the war, New Krypton counted its casualties, secured its prisoners, and began repairing its forces while He-El planned a future conquest through the stable portal to the Three-Body Problem Universe. He-El used the Planetary Turbine to wear down two Guardians of the Universe and three Olympian gods, then spared Athena when she agreed to surrender Olympus's knowledge and explained that gods valued life above power.

• New Krypton recorded its losses, treated injured soldiers, put most prisoners to sleep, and began repairs and defensive preparations.
• He-El ordered Zero to prepare the Three-Body Problem Universe as a future battlefield and training ground once New Krypton had established itself on Earth.
• He-El ordered the Planetary Turbine to drain the power of two Guardians of the Universe and three Olympian gods without letting them die outside.
• Athena awoke under the particle impacts and offered He-El divine power, magic, authority, and Olympus's knowledge in exchange for stopping them.
• Athena explained that gods valued life above power, and He-El removed her from the Planetary Turbine while leaving the other four to be worn down.

The Guardians of the Universe reviewed He-El’s victory and planned to draw him away from the Solar System, while Athena recorded divine magic for New Krypton. Athena offered a decree to cure a hundred thousand cursed soldiers, then explained to He-El that she feared the inevitable fate of a god.

• The Guardians of the Universe studied footage of He-El defeating Ark, Scarface, and their allies, and discussed his spatial abilities and vulnerability to having his energy supply cut off.
• The Guardians of the Universe decided to offer He-El a star system outside the Solar System, and one Guardian volunteered to visit and sound him out.
• Athena recorded divine magic aboard the Zero Universe Mothership after He-El spared her from the Planetary Turbine.
• Professor Jinda reported that a hundred thousand Kryptonian soldiers suffered incurable magical curses, and Athena offered a divine decree that would dispel them.
• He-El ordered Professor Jinda to use Athena’s decree, and Athena offered to help with future problems involving divine magic.
• Athena told He-El she was trying to forget her inevitable fate, and He-El asked her what it meant to be a god.

Athena told He-El how Krypton’s war against the gods and the Seven Lantern Corps became the Third Cosmic War, and how Krypton created Doomsday as its ultimate weapon. She revealed that the universe’s forces eventually reduced Doomsday to a piece of flesh, but she did not know where it was sealed; He-El sensed the Guardians of the Universe approaching and told her to hide.

• Athena explained that the gods fought over The Source and the universe’s authority before a god spread faith to Krypton.
• Athena recounted how Krypton’s war against the gods expanded after the Seven Lantern Corps intervened, drawing nearly every power in the universe into the Third Cosmic War.
• Athena said Krypton created Doomsday to end the war, but the universe’s forces feared its growing power and besieged Krypton until the conflict ended.
• Athena revealed that the universe’s technology and powerful beings spent more than a million years wearing Doomsday down to a nearly indestructible piece of flesh.
• He-El asked where Doomsday had been sealed, and Athena said Zeus and the Guardians of the Universe had chosen its location.
• He-El sensed that the Guardians of the Universe were coming and told Athena to hide.

He-El demanded Doomsday’s flesh from Ganthet in exchange for sparing the captured Guardians, but Ganthet refused to reveal its location. He-El ended the negotiation by threatening Earth.

• Ganthet offered He-El a resource-rich star system in exchange for five lives and an end to the war, but He-El rejected the offer and claimed Earth as his.
• He-El summoned the near-dead Ark and demanded Doomsday’s flesh, then crushed Ark to death when Ganthet said Doomsday was inaccessible.
• He-El brought in Scarface and threatened to kill her unless Ganthet revealed where Doomsday was sealed.
• Ganthet refused to yield, saying Doomsday’s importance outweighed any Guardian’s life, so He-El imprisoned Scarface and threatened Earth.

At STAR Labs, Victor Stone's Mother Box destabilized and opened a Boom Tube as Silas Stone failed to save him. Steppenwolf emerged on Earth, intent on attacking the Kryptonian, but noticed a divine barrier around the planet.

• Victor Stone's mechanical body began rejecting the Mother Box, and Silas Stone rushed to his laboratory as Victor's condition worsened.
• Silas and the STAR Labs researchers tried to stabilize Victor, but their equipment failed and a Boom Tube began opening.
• Victor lost consciousness as a particle vortex formed around him, and Cai Ruian evacuated the staff while carrying Silas from the laboratory.
• Steppenwolf emerged from the Boom Tube, summoned his Earthbreaker Axe, and declared his return to Earth.
• Steppenwolf sensed a divine magical barrier surrounding Earth and wondered whether the planet was where the weak gods slept.

Ganthet explained that Earth connected the Positive Matter Universe and the Antimatter Universe, making its safety essential to both, and recruited He-El to help guard it. He-El accepted that he could not risk losing Earth and agreed to cooperate, despite having killed Zeus’s daughter.

• He-El threatened to destroy Earth, but Ganthet explained that Earth’s destruction would cause the Positive Matter Universe and the Antimatter Universe to annihilate each other.
• Ganthet told He-El that Darkseid sought Earth to pursue the Anti-Life Equation and would remain his enemy if he stayed.
• He-El realized that losing Earth would jeopardize the Traversal Vortex’s ability to reach other universes, so he declared that he would not leave.
• Ganthet proposed contacting Zeus, removing Earth’s magical protective barrier, and signing a three-party agreement to guard Earth.
• He-El agreed as long as Zeus did not object to He-El having strangled his daughter, and Ganthet said she had only been a tool for Zeus’s desires.

Ganthet negotiated with He-El and Zeus over Earth’s defense, Scarface’s return, and New Krypton’s settlement. He-El and Ganthet reached an agreement, but Zeus threatened New Krypton, and an unidentified voice mocked him.

• Ganthet rebuked Zeus for Olympus neglecting its duty to protect Earth, and Zeus fell silent.
• He-El arrived at the negotiations as Ganthet proposed Solar System defenses, Green Lantern forces in the United States, and life resources for Scarface.
• He-El demanded Doomsday, then offered to accept basic Will Technology in exchange for Scarface without becoming Earth’s guardian.
• He-El promised to confront Darkseid and demanded that Australia become New Krypton; Ganthet agreed.
• Zeus demanded that He-El return three Olympian Gods and threatened New Krypton, but an unseen speaker mocked him.