Chapter Summaries

Luthor and Deathstroke seized Atlantis’s Doomsday Device and fired it at New Themyscira, but Aquaman stopped them before they could kill Atom Captain. Meanwhile, Barry, Thomas, and Cyborg reached the imprisoned Kryptonian, who cowered in fear as they tried to help him.

• Luthor and Deathstroke infiltrated the Mobile Fortress, found Atom Captain powering the Doomsday Device, and redirected it toward the Amazons.
• Wonder Woman warned the Amazons, but the blast destroyed the surface warships and devastated New Themyscira; Aquaman survived and returned to the fortress.
• Aquaman’s trident pierced Luthor before he could shoot Atom Captain, while Deathstroke stood by in the surrounded chamber.
• Barry used the Speed Force to defeat the guards at the secret base, and Cyborg uncovered evidence that scientists had cloned Kryptonian cells to create monstrous hybrids.
• Barry, Thomas, and Cyborg found the imprisoned Kryptonian, who screamed and hid from them when Cyborg tried to touch him.

Kal lost control of his Heat Vision during the rescue, then fled after seeing the soldiers he had injured. As the group learned that the Amazons supposedly had over a hundred thousand casualties, Lois told the Rebel Army that the Amazons could not have that many people.

• Kal's Heat Vision cut through the attacking soldiers, and he flew away in horror after Barry helped him regain control.
• Barry told Cyborg about his dream and argued that Dane Davis might exist outside the United States, but Cyborg found the story absurd.
• Cyborg reported that Lex Luthor had used a secret weapon to attack New Themyscira, where Wonder Woman had faced the assault outside its magical barrier.
• Thomas questioned how the Amazons could have suffered over a hundred thousand deaths, and Barry noted that they did not have that many people.
• At the Rebel Army base, Lois declared that the Amazons could not have that many people, and Trickster asked how they had done it.

Lois Lane infiltrated Amazon-controlled territory to investigate the sealed Hera Temple and discovered Wonder Woman Diana beside a mysterious cocoon. Diana captured Lois and brought her before the Amazons’ leaders, where Lois learned Steve Trevor had once come looking for her.

• Lois told Trickster that the Amazons sacrificed living prisoners to resurrect their dead, then decided to return to Amazon territory to gather intelligence.
• Lois disguised herself as an Amazon and entered the sealed Hera Temple, where the interior expanded into a vast magical space.
• Lois found Diana in a divine hall beside a huge cocoon, but Diana approached and captured her.
• Diana brought Lois before Artemis and the other high-ranking Amazons, identifying her as the woman they had been searching for.
• Artemis asked Lois about Steve Trevor, and Lois grieved when she realized he had come looking for her before sacrificing himself.

Diana received Dane, a humanoid weapon created by Gaia, and ordered him to teach the Atlanteans a profound lesson while reserving Aquaman’s death for herself. Dane vanished and returned almost immediately, and Aquaman then learned that Atlantis had been attacked by an unknown force.

• Artemis explained to Lois that the gods had given the Amazons a weapon to counter Atlantis’s devastating weapon, and the cocoon began to shake.
• The cocoon opened, revealing a handsome man who identified himself as Dane and said Gaia had created him as a weapon.
• Diana asked Dane whether he would obey her, then ordered him to teach the Atlanteans a profound lesson while insisting she would kill Aquaman herself.
• Dane disappeared and returned in Atlantis-style armor, saying he had measured the lesson himself, while Diana wondered what he had done.
• Orm rushed to Aquaman and reported that an unknown force had attacked Atlantis, prompting Aquaman to demand details about the attackers and the damage.

Aquaman and Orm returned to Atlantis after an unknown attacker destroyed half the city, and surveillance footage revealed the attacker had come from New Themyscira. The Kingdom Council covered up the disaster, while Aquaman planned to move the Doomsday Device into Amazon territory.

• Aquaman learned that a single, unidentified attacker had devastated half of Atlantis and damaged the kingdom’s reputation.
• An Atlantean technician secretly resolved to destroy the Doomsday Device when the right opportunity arose, believing it threatened both Atlantis and the world.
• Aquaman and Orm teleported to Atlantis, saw the destruction, and watched surveillance footage showing the attacker obliterate half the city with a single explosive strike.
• Aquaman traced the attacker’s route to New Themyscira and concluded that the Amazons were responsible for controlling him.
• The Kingdom Council criticized Aquaman but sealed news of the disaster to protect Atlantis’s standing among the Seven Seas.
• Aquaman told Orm they would transport the Doomsday Device into Amazon territory, where concentrated attacks could open a breach in the magical barrier.

Aquaman planned to exploit the weakness in New Themyscira’s shield, while Waller tasked Cyborg, Batman, and The Flash with stopping Atlantis’s devastating weapon. After Lois’s intelligence revealed that Dane Davis had become an Amazon weapon, Barry pushed to meet him, and Thomas prepared a dirty bomb as a contingency.

• Aquaman ordered Orm to have Black Manta watch disloyal council members and kill any who betrayed them.
• Amanda Waller confronted Cyborg and Batman over their actions at a secret base, then tasked their team with destroying Atlantis’s weapon and ending the war.
• Cyborg relayed Lois Lane’s report that the Amazons had created a weapon against Aquaman’s Doomsday Device, and Barry recognized the weapon as Dane Davis.
• Barry persuaded Thomas and Cyborg to seek a meeting with Dane, while Thomas privately asked Waller for a dirty bomb to use against the Amazons if negotiations failed.

Dane rejected Diana’s plan to exterminate Atlantis and recognized that her war could destroy the world, so he switched sides and arranged for Lois Lane to contact humanity. He freed Lois from house arrest on New Themyscira and gave her a phone that could reach him, leaving her to escape despite the guards outside.

• Dane questioned how far Diana intended to expand the war, and she said she planned to absorb women into the Themyscira system, cull inferior men, and exterminate Atlanteans.
• Dane concluded that Diana’s hatred and plans threatened the world, and he decided to change sides rather than support the Amazons.
• Dane told Lois Lane that he opposed Diana’s plans and released her to carry his goodwill to the human world.
• Dane charged Lois’s phone and enabled it to receive a signal and access the internet despite the barriers and destroyed communications infrastructure.
• Lois worried that guards would stop her from escaping, and Dane asked whether she was joking.

Dane freed Lois from Amazon territory under the cover of Hades’ Helmet of Invisibility and revealed that Atlanteans had entered New Themyscira. Aquaman’s assault on the Amazons began, but Artemis and Circe discovered that he had weakened and prepared to alert Diana.

• Dane led Lois past the Amazon patrols and directed her to the Rebel Army before returning toward Diana’s residence.
• Dane sensed Atlanteans entering New Themyscira and suspected Poseidon and Ares were involved in the war.
• Aquaman led Atlantean forces toward the Amazons, but Circe’s magic disabled their fighter craft while their armor remained functional.
• Aquaman used echolocation to locate the hidden Amazons, then struck them with lightning from Poseidon’s Trident and sparked Artemis’s attack.
• Artemis fought Aquaman and noticed that his strength had diminished, while Circe confirmed his vulnerability by testing him with a curse.
• Circe resolved to inform Diana that Aquaman had weakened.

Diana fought Aquaman, but he used a colossal sea monster to turn the battle against the Amazons. Dane saved Circe from Aquaman’s trident and confronted a group of intruders led by Thomas, while Thomas tried to keep Dane talking and hide their plan to bring in a dirty bomb.

• Diana attacked Aquaman, but he summoned a sea monster that overwhelmed the Amazons and helped the Atlanteans kill many of them.
• Circe summoned mythical beasts to distract the sea monster, then Dane caught Aquaman’s trident before it could strike her.
• Dane wielded the Trident of Poseidon to knock Aquaman away, then flew off after Circe sensed dangerous intruders entering New Themyscira.
• Thomas’s group located Aquaman’s weapon, but Dane arrived in a meteor-like impact and confronted them.
• Thomas checked that the dirty bomb had not yet reached the island and decided to stall Dane while Cyborg began a friendly conversation.

Dane revealed to Cyborg, Thomas, and the Flash that the gods were driving the war and warned that divine agents might have infiltrated humanity. Thomas agreed to cooperate with Dane, who left the group with clues for identifying Ares’s influence.

• Cyborg shared Alexander Luthor’s intelligence with Dane, who asked whether humans had attacked Themyscira and declined to reveal everything he knew.
• Thomas argued that the war made little sense as a conflict of interests, and Dane secretly sent Shazam to another world before revealing that the gods were behind the war.
• Dane warned Thomas that the gods might also be manipulating humanity and that Shazam’s divine power could make him vulnerable to their influence.
• Thomas proposed cooperating with Dane, who agreed their interests aligned but refused to provide direct assistance.
• Dane warned that Ares was involved and advised Thomas to investigate people whose behavior had changed sharply around the war’s outbreak.

The Joker took control of the dirty bomb that Amanda Waller had ordered Rick Flag to detonate inside New Themyscira, while Rick and Peacemaker stayed committed to the mission. After learning how to activate the bomb manually, the Joker prepared to leave before Rick could tell her where to set it off.

• The president received black matter from a gigantic armored being and became its envoy, accepting its command for endless war.
• Amanda Waller ordered Rick Flag to detonate the dirty bomb after delivering it, and Rick’s deputy revealed the order to the Suicide Squad.
• Peacemaker sided with Rick, while Deadshot and the other squad members turned against the plan and prepared to flee.
• The Joker crossed the magical barrier with the bomb, and the Suicide Squad members left while Rick and Peacemaker remained behind.
• Rick and Peacemaker taught the Joker to activate the bomb manually, but she set off before Rick could tell her the intended detonation site.

Joker detonated A.R.G.U.S.'s powerful dirty bomb on New Themyscira, and Dane used the Flash's frozen-time window to save several people before the blast destroyed the island. In Ireland, Diana demanded that Circe resurrect the fallen Amazons, but their argument reignited over the divine materials the ritual required.

• Joker revealed the dirty bomb to Thomas, Cyborg, and the Flash, then detonated it as she confronted Thomas.
• The Flash entered the Speed Force, and Dane teleported him, Cyborg, and Thomas away before carrying Lois, Diana, and Circe out of the blast zone.
• The bomb devastated New Themyscira, killing the Amazons and triggering a vast explosion and shockwave.
• In Ireland, Diana confronted Dane about failing to stop the attack and ordered Circe to rebuild the altar and resurrect her sisters.
• Circe said the ritual required a divine artifact, and Diana accused her of deliberately provoking her.

Dane brought Diana and Circe through the Rock of Eternity to the Lesser Divine Realm, intending to claim Mount Atlas as a new base for the Amazons. After Diana and Circe subdued Hespera, Calypso, and Anthea, an Orc army attacked, and Diana chose to fight it herself.

• Diana attacked Circe for mocking her, but Dane caught Diana's sword and sealed Circe's magic until she completed her task.
• Dane opened the Rock of Eternity and used its staff to create a passage to Mount Atlas, revealing that the Lesser Divine Realm was sealed by an anti-magic barrier and held three goddesses.
• Diana declared that she would requisition the realm, then bound Calypso with the Lasso of Truth while Circe used magic to enthrall Anthea and Dane restrained Hespera.
• Calypso called for the Orc army to attack, and Diana knocked her unconscious after securing her with the lasso.
• When the Orcs charged, Diana ordered Dane to stand down and prepared to face them herself.

Dane restored the Tree of Life and magic to the Lesser Divine Realm, then confronted Diana when she planned to use humans as sacrifices to resurrect Amazons. Diana reluctantly accepted his alternative of using the Trench, while Circe tried to ease the tension between them.

• Dane used the scepter to break the Lesser Divine Realm’s barrier and restore the Tree of Life, allowing magic and vitality to return.
• Diana subdued the beast soldiers, and Circe resurrected an Amazon warrior using one as a sacrifice.
• Diana said she planned to seize humans for more sacrifices, but Dane condemned her and threatened to close the realm’s barrier again.
• Diana yielded after Dane challenged her treatment of human lives and asked what else could serve as sacrifices.
• Dane proposed using the Trench, whose members had human souls despite becoming monsters, and Diana accepted the idea for now.
• Circe privately calmed Diana and later found Dane unmoved by the dispute.

After Aquaman died in the nuclear blast, King Orm claimed the Trident of Poseidon and became Atlantis’s acknowledged king. Meanwhile, humanity found Atom Captain in an intact Atlantean warship, and radioactive fallout began damaging several undersea kingdoms.

• A week after the blast, King Orm led Atlanteans to search New Themyscira for the Trident of Poseidon, while unrest over Aquaman’s death and the war threatened his rule.
• The Sea Clan found the trident, and an Atlantean who tried to touch it without royal blood was burned to ash.
• King Orm grasped the trident, gained its power and connection to the Sea Clan, and declared himself the true king as the Atlanteans acclaimed him.
• Humanity’s investigation team found evidence that Atlanteans had searched the island first, then discovered an intact Atlantean warship containing Atom Captain and their ultimate weapon.
• Radioactive fallout degraded the seawater and harmed the Fisherman’s Kingdom and the Kingdom of Xebel, while Atlan refused King Ryku and King Nereus’s request for a meeting.

King Orm seized power in Atlantis, killed King Ryku, and secured King Nereus’s silence before launching a war against the human world. After the Sea Clan devastated Metropolis and Gotham, Batman’s team prepared a decapitation operation, but Cyborg could not locate the target.

• King Ryku challenged Orm’s claim to the throne and proposed asking Poseidon to resurrect Arthur.
• Black Manta killed King Ryku, and Nereus agreed to support Orm’s account that humans had killed him.
• Two months after the nuclear explosion on New Themyscira, Atlantis and its allies declared war and flooded Metropolis and Gotham.
• The Sea Clan defeated human forces and kept half of both cities underwater as a bridgehead.
• Thomas surveyed the drowned Gotham as Cyborg reported that he could not find the target, and Thomas asked about Amanda Waller.

Thomas and the superhuman team investigated the divine envoy behind the growing war and attacked Orm’s command ship, only to discover that the apparent target was a decoy. Giant squid trapped the team, and Shazam was driven away from Batman by ion beams as the others were captured.

• Thomas and Cyborg argued over the dirty bomb’s detonation and the danger posed by King Orm, while their search for the divine envoy remained stalled.
• The Flash reported that Orm was stationed near Metropolis, so Thomas led the team aboard a stealth submarine to investigate.
• A giant squid attacked the submarine, and Shazam left the vessel and killed it before the team continued toward Orm’s command ship.
• The submarine rammed the command ship, and The Flash found only a few guards and an apparently waiting Orm, prompting Batman to suspect a trap.
• Captain Cold froze the figure on the throne, and Shazam shattered it along with the fake Trident of Poseidon.
• Giant squid seized the team and shook the ship underwater; Captain Cold was swallowed, Batman was knocked unconscious, and ion beams hurled Shazam away from him.

Orm defeated Shazam’s team through a carefully planned ambush, then began using Orichalcum to raise sea levels and bring the world’s land under his rule. In the Lesser Divine Realm, Dane told Diana that Ares had been traced to the human world, leaving her questioning how he could have escaped Tartarus and entered the war.

• Shazam charged Orm, but Orm overpowered him underwater; Shazam escaped after Orm’s trident tore into his back.
• Orm revealed that he had lured the metahuman squad into a trap, then ordered the captured heroes imprisoned for a public execution.
• Atlantis announced the execution, while the war continued and Lois Lane noticed sea levels rising near Metropolis.
• Dane explained to Circe that Orm was using Orichalcum to melt polar ice and flood the land, seeking to rule the entire world.
• Dane told Diana that his people had found traces of Ares in the human world, and Diana questioned how Ares could have escaped Tartarus.

Dane questioned Circe about Ares’s power and concluded that Ares might be working with Hades to gain War Qi from the human world. Meanwhile, Orm prepared to execute the captured superhumans in Metropolis and revealed Batman’s identity as Thomas Wayne to the public.

• Dane asked Circe about the battle between Zeus and Ares, and she said Ares’s war-fueled power had not reached its limit.
• Circe questioned how Ares could absorb War Qi while imprisoned in Tartarus, and Dane suspected he had joined forces with Hades.
• Orm’s forces repelled the human fleets, while Orm grew more proficient with the Trident of Poseidon and strengthened his standing among the allied army.
• Orm taunted the captured superhumans and blamed Thomas for helping the Flash escape, then ordered the prisoners taken to the execution platform.
• Black Manta removed Batman’s cowl during the worldwide broadcast, exposing Thomas Wayne’s identity and shocking Commissioner Gordon and Gotham’s former residents.

Thomas endured Black Manta’s public torture without surrendering, preserving humanity’s resolve, until The Flash rescued him from execution. Kal-El arrived to help free the other prisoners, but Black Manta killed several captives before escaping into the sea.

• Orm used Thomas’s execution to display his power to the United Council Hall and intimidate humanity, while Thomas mocked Black Manta through the torture.
• After a council member urged Orm to end the humiliation, Orm ordered Black Manta to kill Thomas, but a sonic boom distracted the executioners.
• The Flash rescued Thomas from the execution rack and told him he had brought a helper.
• Kal-El appeared and blocked Black Manta’s ion beams, then tore Cyborg free from his restraints.
• Black Manta killed three prisoners with his beams and escaped into the ocean as Kal-El turned to pursue him.
• Cyborg urged Kal-El to free the remaining prisoners and learned that Barry had rescued Batman.