Chapter Summaries

Jino sat atop a tower on Themyscira when Diana approached him and asked about humans. He described humanity as neither good nor bad, while Diana admitted that life on the island sometimes bored her.

• Jino considered the Mother Box and Ares valuable, but saw that he had no points left.
• Diana climbed to the tower and approached Jino, remembering how he had demonstrated his power at the banquet.
• Jino recognized Diana as Hippolyta’s daughter, and she asked him to tell her about humans.
• Jino said humans were neither good nor bad, and Diana admitted she was bored with staying on Themyscira.

Jino told Diana about World War I and explained why he would not intervene, leaving her troubled by the war and Ares’s influence. He caught Diana after she jumped from the High Tower, then followed her to the Fountain of Paradise, where she entered the water and asked why he was still dressed.

• Jino described World War I’s devastation, and Diana wondered whether Ares had caused it.
• Jino explained that he was not a god and did not intend to interfere in the war.
• Diana asked whether they would let humans kill one another, but Jino said humanity could be driven toward evil by a small push.
• Diana invited Jino to bathe in the Fountain of Paradise, and he encouraged her to jump from the High Tower, promising to catch her.
• Jino used his force field to slow their fall and gently caught Diana before they reached the ground.
• Diana undressed and entered the pool, then asked Jino why he was not taking off his clothes.

Jino and Diana grew closer while bathing in a pool, where Diana discovered the differences between them and asked for his opinion of her. After she learned the war was in Germany, Jino agreed to help her stop Ares, and Diana revealed a possible source of weapons.

• Diana teased Jino into undressing, then screamed and fell into the water when she saw his unusually large body.
• Diana asked whether all men were built like Jino, and he told her he was three or four times bigger than them.
• Diana asked Jino what he thought of her, and he called her very beautiful and pretty.
• Diana learned the war was in Germany and asked Jino to help her defeat Ares; he agreed and asked how she planned to do it.
• Diana remembered that Zeus's divine artifacts were stored in a High Tower in a side hall of her mother's palace.

Jino helped Diana sneak into the High Tower to retrieve the Lasso of Truth, using a magical Batman puppet to lure away the Amazonian guards. Diana reached the tower and claimed the lasso, then began preparing to change into her battle dress as the guards were expected to return.

• Jino created a magical Batman puppet that taunted the Amazonian guards and drew all twelve away from the High Tower.
• Diana leapt across the ravine and landed safely on the ledge outside the tower, where Jino appeared behind her.
• Diana entered the hall and took the Lasso of Truth, which drifted into her hand.
• Jino tossed Diana a shield, and Diana noticed a red-and-blue battle dress in the inner room.
• Diana asked Jino to turn around while she changed, and Jino warned that the guards would soon return.

Jino took Diana from Themyscira to London and taught her to gather intelligence before acting against Ares. After Diana concluded that German general Ludendorff was Ares, Doctor Maru continued developing poison gas for the general.

• Jino flew Diana from Themyscira to London, where she was shocked by the polluted, impoverished city.
• Jino told Diana to gather intelligence before fighting, then took her to a bar to learn about the war.
• Jino drove off two drunks who harassed Diana, and she learned that Ludendorff was leading the German invasion.
• Diana decided that Ludendorff was Ares and that killing him would end the war.
• Doctor Maru begged the general for more time to create poison gas that would kill anyone who inhaled it.

Jino and Diana observed the final battle between Germany and the United Kingdom and discovered that Ludendorff planned to use poison gas that could penetrate gas masks. After the gas attack began, Jino sent Diana down to confront him, and she charged into the artillery camp demanding that Ares atone.

• Jino stopped Diana from helping a child and urged her to focus on stopping the war.
• Ludendorff revealed to German generals that Doctor Maru had created poison gas capable of penetrating gas masks.
• Jino and Diana watched German troops stage a retreat that drew the British Army out of its trenches.
• German artillery fired shells that released poison gas across the battlefield, killing soldiers on both sides.
• Jino located Ludendorff and dropped Diana into the artillery camp, where she crashed through the guns and attacked him.

Diana defeated Ludendorff, whom she believed to be Ares, but Jino questioned whether the general could really have been the God of War. A mysterious old man then emerged from the smoke and introduced himself as the true Ares.

• Ludendorff fought Diana and reached for a drug that could enhance his strength, but Diana caught him with the Lasso of Truth.
• Diana pulled Ludendorff down and killed him with the Godkiller Sword, then declared that she had killed Ares.
• Jino appeared and asked Diana whether she had considered that Ares might have been too weak to die so easily.
• Ares emerged from the smoke, praised Jino's intelligence, and introduced himself to Diana as the God of War.

Ares attacked Diana with stolen thunder power and tried to make her submit by threatening Jino. Jino revealed that he had planned to use Ares as Diana’s sparring partner, then prepared to confront the God of War himself.

• Diana attacked Ares with the Lasso of Truth, but he unleashed thunder that blasted her across the battlefield.
• Ares revealed that he had taken Zeus’s thunder power and offered Diana a place at his side if she submitted to him.
• When Diana refused, Ares threatened to kill Jino, then realized the blond youth had been unharmed by his earlier explosion.
• Jino explained that he had intended for Ares to help Diana gain combat experience and asked why Ares was so determined to die.

Jino effortlessly defeated and killed Ares, then claimed Zeus’s divine artifact as a souvenir. After telling Diana that Ares was dead, Jino admitted he did not dislike her when she pressed him about his feelings.

• Ares attacked Jino with lightning, but Jino’s Bio-Force Field blocked it without harming him.
• Jino struck Ares, dragged him across the Earth at super speed, and killed him with Heat Vision.
• Jino found Zeus’s lightning artifact in the crater and kept it as a souvenir rather than using it for power.
• Jino told Diana that Ares was dead, and Diana celebrated his defeat.
• Diana used the Lasso of Truth to ask Jino what he thought of her, and he said he did not dislike her.

Jino returned from the past to his manor and received a photograph from Diana, then went to see her. In Gotham, Batman captured the Joker, while Bruce Wayne found an old photograph that raised questions about Jino Luthor’s age.

• Jino returned to his manor, received a letter containing a photograph from Diana, and decided to visit her.
• Batman defeated the Joker’s plan to plunge Gotham into chaos and handed him over to the SWAT officers.
• Alfred showed Bruce Wayne an old photograph from World War I featuring Jino Luthor beside a young woman.
• Bruce wondered whether Jino Luthor had lived from World War I to the present.

Bane accepted Ra's al Ghul’s mission to destroy Gotham and kill Batman, while Jino proposed to Diana that they unite the world’s superheroes against threats to Earth. Jino named their planned alliance the Justice League.

• Bane recalled his brutal upbringing and his rise to power before vowing to destroy Gotham and kill Batman.
• Ra's al Ghul sent Bane to reclaim what he had lost in Gotham.
• Jino visited Diana in London, where they watched a news report about Joker being sent to Arkham Asylum.
• Jino asked Diana what she thought about bringing superheroes together to face threats to Earth.
• Jino named the proposed alliance the Justice League and declared that where he stood was justice.

Jino discovered a Kryptonian message in a cave and learned that General Zod was arriving on Earth. Zod broadcast a threat demanding Jino Luthor, also known as Carl-El, surrender within twenty-four hours or he would destroy the planet.

• Jino found Clark in a Metropolis bar, then returned to Smallville alone.
• Singer detected energy fluctuations in a cave, and Jino took Kara there to see a glowing Kryptonian message that read, “We have arrived.”
• A droplet-shaped spacecraft entered lunar synchronous orbit and then descended toward Earth.
• Jino allowed an unknown signal to reach the world, and General Zod identified himself in a global broadcast.
• Zod demanded that Jino Luthor surrender within twenty-four hours or face the destruction of Earth, while Clark watched the broadcast in Metropolis.

After General Zod identified Jino Luthor as the Kryptonian he wanted, governments and the public turned against Jino while Clark and Kara reacted to the crisis. As police raided Luthor Manor, Jino remained determined to face Zod rather than flee.

• The president and military officials argued over whether to hand Jino Luthor to the aliens or fight them, and Amanda suggested contacting him.
• Bruce learned that Jino was an alien, while Clark realized Zod had mistaken Jino for the last Kryptonian and rushed toward Washington D.C. to protect his friend.
• Kara called Jino her cousin and urged him to flee, but Jino insisted they should face their difficulties head-on.
• Lana Lang, Chloe, and Pete heard that someone had exposed Jino's information for a reward and drove toward Luthor Manor.
• Police and SWAT officers searched Luthor Manor after a court approved a warrant, while Old Butler Jack hoped Jino had escaped.

Jino Luthor killed the SWAT officers who attacked his home, while Clark went to the White House and revealed that he was the alien on Earth. On the Kryptonian ship near the Moon, General Zod ordered Faora to retrieve Clark and the Codex of Life.

• SWAT officers stormed Luthor Manor and fired on Jino Luthor and Kara, but the bullets stopped before reaching them.
• Jino used his Bio-Force Field to crush the attacking officers, then confronted the surviving captain.
• Clark broke into the White House conference room, disarmed the guards, and told the officials to contact the aliens because he was the one they sought, not Jino.
• General Zod learned from Faora that Clark was in Smallville, Metropolis, Kansas, and ordered her to bring him back for the Codex of Life.

Faora arrived at Luthor Manor to summon Jino to General Zod, but he overpowered her and defended the manor from her attack. After Jino destroyed the vehicles Faora hurled at the manor, he used his speed to confront her and reached for her breathing mask.

• Faora arrived at Luthor Manor and ordered Jino to return to General Zod's command and help rebuild Krypton.
• When Faora tried to seize him, Jino caught her wrist and threw her through trees and hills.
• Faora retaliated by hurling hundreds of vehicles toward Luthor Manor, alarming Lana Lang, Chloe, and Pete.
• Jino used Heat Vision to destroy the incoming vehicles in midair, sending burning debris onto the lawn.
• Jino used his speed to reach Faora as she prepared to throw another vehicle, then raised his hand toward her breathing mask.

At the Pentagon, a general ordered an assault on both Jino Luthor and the alien forces in Smallville after losing contact with the spacecraft. Meanwhile, Jino overwhelmed Faora until she awakened Heat Vision, then offered her a choice between submission and death.

• The Pentagon received reports that the Metropolis Police Department had attacked Jino Luthor, disappeared, and that aliens were fighting in Smallville.
• The general ordered the Army and Air Force to attack both sides and authorized lethal weapons, despite Clark’s attempt to stop him.
• Jino repeatedly defeated Faora in the wheat field while mocking her and testing how quickly she developed Kryptonian powers.
• Faora’s rage triggered Heat Vision, but Jino blocked it effortlessly and advanced toward her.
• Jino told Faora to submit or die.

Jino defeated Faora and challenged her faith in General Zod’s plan to rebuild Krypton, claiming that he should rule the Kryptonians instead. Faora questioned her beliefs and knelt, agreeing to submit if Jino could lead Krypton back to its peak.

• Jino subdued the exhausted Faora and demanded that she choose between submitting and dying.
• Faora refused to betray General Zod, but Jino argued that Zod’s plan to rebuild Krypton would repeat the mistakes that had destroyed it.
• Jino declared that he should lead the Kryptonians, then used his Bio-Force Field to crush the fighter jets overhead.
• Faora reconsidered her beliefs and knelt before Jino, saying she would submit if he could restore the Kryptonians to their peak.

Jino learned that Clark had been mistaken for the Kryptonians’ target and taken aboard their ship, while Faora remained at Luthor Manor. Martha and Jonathan Kent arrived at the manor and begged Jino to bring Clark home, and he promised he would.

• Faora told Jino that General Zod had ordered her to find him, but Zod’s message then revealed that Jino was not the target and ordered Faora back to the ship.
• Singer informed Jino that the military had identified Clark Kent as the alien target and that Clark had been taken away.
• Zod recognized Clark as Jor-El’s son, and Kryptonian warriors escorted Clark onto their ship as it left Earth.
• Martha and Jonathan Kent came to Luthor Manor and pleaded with Jino to bring Clark back.
• Jino helped Martha to her feet and promised that he would bring Clark home.

Clark was captured by General Zod and taken to the Kryptonian warship on the Moon, where Krypton’s atmosphere left him helpless. He trusted Jino would rescue him, and Jino arrived and sent Zod crashing onto the lunar surface.

• Clark was brought aboard Zod’s warship on the Moon and collapsed after breathing Krypton’s air.
• Zod beat Clark and demanded the key to the Codex of Life, but Clark insisted he did not know what it was.
• Clark declared that Jino would come to save him, while Zod claimed Faora had already been sent to kill his friend.
• Faora returned to the warship, and Jino appeared there in casual clothes beside the battered Clark.
• Jino struck Zod with overwhelming force and sent him through the warship’s bulkhead onto the Moon.

Jino defeated General Zod on the moon, destroyed it in the fight, then reassembled it and claimed the Kryptonian warship. In Gotham, Batman used his reinforced back and a Batarang to defeat Bane and cut off his Venom supply.

• Zod and Jino identified each other, and Zod attacked with Heat Vision after absorbing sunlight.
• Jino overpowered Zod, drove him through the moon, and killed him as the moon shattered.
• Jino gathered the moon fragments with his Bio-Force Field and restored the moon, then turned his attention to the nearby Kryptonian Warship.
• Bane tried to break Batman's spine, but Batman's reinforced back shattered Bane's knee instead.
• Batman cut the green Venom tube behind Bane's head with a Batarang, then approached the weakened villain with a rope.