Chapter Summaries

Andrew defeated the deputy leader, ended the Cult’s rule, and took control of the world before preparing to draw out other Multiversal Entities. In New York, Homelander began searching for the hidden Space Channel so he could find and attack Andrew, who learned of the plan from Translucent.

• Andrew exposed the deputy leader’s emotions and the Priest’s death, winning the crowd’s support for restoring emotions and ending the Cult.
• Andrew defeated the deputy leader in a Gun-fu duel, killed him with a curved bullet, and ordered the Anti-Emotion Drugs destroyed.
• Andrew handed control of the Gathering Place to the former Resistance leader and Mary, promoted John Preston to deputy leader, and conquered the remaining cities.
• Homelander recruited a space-sensing Ability User to locate the Space Channel and planned to attack Andrew with Stormfront, The Seven, and his special squad.
• Translucent warned Andrew that Homelander intended to harm him, then asked whether A-Train was also one of Andrew’s people.

Translucent considered joining Andrew's Compound Ability experiments, while Homelander assembled a new team to confront an approaching Spatial Vortex. Andrew's Shadow Clone posed as John at the vortex and warned that another world would invade unless Homelander's side surrendered.

• Translucent asked Andrew to make him stronger, and Andrew offered him a place as a test subject for his Compound Ability research.
• Over ten days, people continued crossing between New York and the Doomsday World as authorities captured newcomers and developed Gun-fu and Werewolf technology.
• The Seven gathered with Homelander's new allies, including Kenji, Cindy, a Cloaked Man, and a Middle Eastern Ability User, while Starlight Annie sent Andrew their appearances.
• The Cloaked Man sensed a Space Channel near a Manhattan park, and Homelander led his team there by helicopter with Stormfront.
• Andrew's Shadow Clone, disguised as John, guarded the Spatial Vortex and warned that the other world would invade unless they surrendered and injected the Anti-Emotion Drug.
• Stormfront told Homelander that a camera was livestreaming, and Homelander asked where it was so he could destroy it.

Andrew staged a worldwide confrontation to build Soldier Boy’s reputation and draw out other Multiversal Entities, while Homelander and The Seven tried to defend their world. After Andrew outmaneuvered the heroes and provoked the crowd, Homelander entered the Spatial Vortex and was teleported to the moon.

• Stormfront and Homelander addressed the worldwide livestream and challenged Andrew, who claimed the title Gun God and dodged Homelander’s attacks.
• Andrew wounded Stormfront with a bullet that pierced her lightning defenses, then evaded Homelander’s Lasers and fired bullets that curved toward him.
• Starlight Annie, The Deep, Black Noir, Cindy, and other Ability Users arrived as The Boys watched the livestream and Marvin persuaded them not to interfere.
• Andrew claimed his world was invading to save people from their emotions, enraging the public, while Cindy and Black Noir attacked him.
• Homelander rushed through the Spatial Vortex to pursue Andrew Wang, but Andrew’s tampering teleported him to the moon.

Andrew continued fighting the superheroes in New York’s park, turning them against one another and defeating Black Noir while the public feared the Doomsday World would invade. Just as Andrew was about to kill Black Noir, Soldier Boy appeared, leaving Himiko and The Boys wondering how he could be alive after Boss had killed him.

• Andrew absorbed Stormfront’s lightning with a bullet, knocked her down, and wounded Translucent when he tried to attack from behind.
• Andrew used Psychic Bullets to control Cindy, Kenji, and the Middle Easterner, who turned on the other superheroes.
• Kenji, the Middle Easterner, and Cindy fought their former teammates while Himiko, Frenchie, Marvin, and Hughie stayed back after Andrew assured Himiko that Kenji would be fine.
• Andrew defeated Black Noir, shattered his limbs, and offered to save him in exchange for his soul; Black Noir accepted without knowing Andrew was both his attacker and his benefactor.
• The President abandoned plans to launch a nuclear missile after learning his conversation with a general had been broadcast live, and New Yorkers fled the city amid traffic jams.
• Soldier Boy appeared in the park and mocked Black Noir and the superheroes, prompting Hughie to point out that Boss had already killed him.

Andrew, disguised as Soldier Boy, defeated Gun God and drove him back through the Spatial Vortex, winning public acclaim and drawing the attention of Vought and the government. After restoring Kenji, Cindy, and the Middle Easterner, Andrew confronted Stormfront and Homelander, then sensed Cloaked Man making a move.

• Black Noir fainted at the sight of Soldier Boy, while Stormfront and the public were shocked to see him alive.
• Soldier Boy blocked Gun God's attacks, blasted him away with nuclear energy, and threw him into the Spatial Vortex as the public cheered.
• Edgar ordered Madelyn to bring Soldier Boy back to Vought, while the president considered recruiting him for the Superhuman Affairs Department.
• Andrew, posing as Soldier Boy, warned Gun God that nuclear missiles were aimed at the area, then secretly let the Mechanical Parrot control the Space Channel as the vortex disappeared.
• Andrew restored Kenji, Cindy, and the Middle Easterner, confronted Stormfront, and then faced Homelander after he returned through the vortex.
• Andrew noticed Cloaked Man's movement and challenged him, but Homelander stepped between them and claimed Cloaked Man was one of his people.

A meteor sent by the Crimson Demon God Cyttorak threatened New York, and Homelander failed to stop it as his attacks only made it stronger. Andrew Wang used the fear of New York’s citizens to create a huge black hole that swallowed the meteor, leaving the city saved and the public cheering for him.

• Andrew clashed with Homelander, then noticed a flaming meteor heading toward the park as the Cloaked Man revealed Cyttorak had sent it as a declaration of war.
• The Cloaked Man rejected Homelander as his master and exploded, sealing the space so Andrew could not send the meteor to another world.
• Homelander attacked the meteor with punches and lasers, but it absorbed his force and grew larger, forcing him to consider evacuating New York.
• Andrew said someone else could stop the meteor, and Andrew Wang appeared in the sky as Homelander restrained himself from attacking him on camera.
• Andrew Wang gathered the city's fear into his power, opened a black hole, and swallowed the meteor as the public celebrated his rescue of New York.

After destroying the meteor, Andrew confronted Cyttorak’s challenge, took the unconscious Black Noir, and began posing as the dead Soldier Boy. He learned about Payback from Black Noir and offered Himiko a chance to meet her brother Kenji in a dream, while Vought plotted to lure Soldier Boy back.

• Andrew destroyed the meteor, exchanged words with Cyttorak, and left with the unconscious Black Noir as Homelander fumed and handled the aftermath.
• Edgar and Madelyn discussed Vought’s past role in Soldier Boy’s disappearance and planned to gather Payback so they could recruit him.
• Andrew revealed to Black Noir that he had killed the real Soldier Boy and ordered Black Noir to help him impersonate him.
• Andrew learned that Himiko’s brother Kenji had become a terrorist working for Homelander, then offered Himiko a dream meeting to try to persuade him to change sides.
• Himiko rushed off to sleep, but Andrew realized Kenji would also need to be asleep before he could connect them.

Andrew learned Billy’s Laser Eyes and Hughie’s Teleportation, while Billy and Hughie prepared to capture Vought CEO Edgar. Andrew met with Madelyn, who offered to bring Soldier Boy back to Vought and presented the captured members of Payback.

• Andrew had Billy and Hughie inject temporary Compound Five, then learned their abilities by observing them use them.
• After Andrew left, Billy recruited Hughie to help capture Edgar, hoping to uncover the truth about Compound Five and expose Vought.
• Andrew and Black Noir found a phone left by Countess Crimson, and Madelyn invited Andrew to meet her after gathering Payback’s members.
• Black Noir warned Andrew that Vought secretly held powerful Ability Users and had a way to deal with Homelander.
• Andrew turned down an immediate meeting with the president’s assistant and went to Madelyn’s seaside villa instead.
• Madelyn offered to restore Soldier Boy’s fame if he rejoined Vought, then revealed that A-Train had brought the bound Countess Crimson, Mindstorm, The Bomb Twins, and Gunpowder.

Andrew agreed to rejoin Vought International under terms that let him refuse assignments and avoid promotional appearances, then dealt with the captured traitors and joined Black Noir for a presidential dinner. Meanwhile, Edgar approved Andrew’s terms and prepared his smiling-mask bodyguard to join The Seven.

• Madelyn offered Andrew the captured Countess Crimson and the others as a gift, and Andrew agreed to return to Vought International if he could reject assignments and skip commercial events.
• Andrew demanded that Madelyn remove the hidden cameras and pay him a ten-million-dollar signing bonus; A-Train revealed the cameras, and Madelyn agreed to pay.
• Andrew learned the captured group’s abilities, sent everyone except Mindstorm to Queen Maeve in the Wasteland World as laborers, killed Mindstorm, and left with Black Noir for the president’s dinner.
• Madelyn reported the deal to Edgar, who agreed to Andrew’s terms and considered using Black Noir as a spy while asking Madelyn to placate Homelander.
• Edgar told his smiling-mask bodyguard that he would join The Seven in a few days, once Edgar had arranged a replacement bodyguard.

After Billy and Hughie’s attack on Edgar failed, Edgar named his powerful bodyguard Hunter and assigned him to join The Seven and hunt them. Andrew disciplined Billy and Hughie, assessed his gains from the Ripped Apocalypse world, and agreed to experiment on the injured Translucent, who began to worry about the risks.

• Billy and Hughie attacked Edgar in Vought’s parking garage, but Edgar’s bodyguard overpowered them and wounded Hughie before they escaped by Teleportation.
• Edgar ordered a team to investigate the attackers and approved his bodyguard’s request to join The Seven and hunt them; the bodyguard chose the name Hunter.
• Back at the basement, Marvin confronted Billy and Hughie for acting without the team, and Andrew ruled that Marvin would control all temporary Compound Five.
• Andrew heard Billy’s account, decided not to go to war with Vought yet, and returned to the Ripped Apocalypse world to review his gains and plan its development.
• Translucent asked Andrew to make him stronger, and Andrew agreed to prepare a Compound Ability experiment, leaving Translucent alarmed by the prospect of being a test subject.

Translucent agreed to Andrew’s experiment while Homelander accepted Soldier Boy joining Vought and removed The Deep from The Seven. Andrew declined a government superhero department and instead urged the president to establish a logistics organization for superheroes, laying groundwork for Nathan to take over later.

• Translucent agreed to Andrew’s experiment, while The Deep worried that he and Translucent would be replaced in The Seven.
• Madelyn persuaded Homelander to accept Soldier Boy joining Vought, and Homelander chose to fire The Deep while keeping Stormfront and A-Train.
• Homelander overheard Madelyn blaming Edgar and suspected she had concealed her role in Soldier Boy’s return, but he left without confronting her.
• Andrew and Black Noir met the president, who offered Andrew a deputy director position in the planned Superhuman Affairs Investigation Department.
• Andrew argued that superheroes would be needed to face future disasters and suggested the government create a logistics organization to serve and influence them.
• Andrew declined to manage the organization, intending for the framework to be taken over later by Nathan, whom he wanted as a partner.

Andrew recruited Nicky to help face coming disasters and revealed that her alternate personality, Jessica, had superhuman strength and was tied to her ex-husband DL’s crimes. Nicky asked Andrew to suppress Jessica, but he said Jessica had to remain until Nicky could control the Ability herself.

• The president questioned the Secret Service about Andrew Wang, but they had found no detailed information about him.
• Andrew sent Black Noir to find Nicky in New York and explained that he wanted her as a teammate, not as a romantic companion.
• Nicky refused Andrew’s recruitment, saying she had no Superpower and was divorced from her wanted ex-husband, DL.
• Jessica took control of Nicky’s body and rejected Andrew’s offer, so Andrew pinned her down and used Mind Control Fear to make her retreat.
• Andrew showed Nicky footage of Jessica and revealed that Jessica had robbed Linderman and caused DL to become wanted.
• Nicky begged Andrew to eliminate Jessica, but he said she had to learn to control her Ability herself if she wanted Jessica suppressed permanently.

Andrew recruited Nicky and DL to his team after promising to resolve their problems, and DL revealed his Phasing ability. Meanwhile, Linderman and Angela prepared to sacrifice New York to advance Nathan’s political career, while Soldier Boy’s return boosted Vought’s popularity and Homelander faced a plea from The Deep.

• Andrew offered Nicky a high salary, help finding DL, and support for her reputation and son, and Nicky agreed to join if Jessica stayed suppressed.
• Andrew sensed DL hiding nearby and contacted him; DL returned home, accepted Nicky’s explanation, and demonstrated his Phasing ability.
• DL agreed to join Andrew’s team, and Andrew assigned Black Noir to train him and Nicky while Madelyn arranged help with their problems.
• Linderman learned that Isaac was missing and discussed the New York destruction plan with Angela, who now supported it because she believed Peter would survive exploding.
• Peter continued clearing nuclear radiation and believed he had mastered his Nuclear Explosion Ability well enough not to endanger New York.
• Soldier Boy officially joined Vought and drew a cheering crowd, while Homelander returned to The Seven’s hall and found The Deep begging him not to fire him.

Homelander expelled The Deep, welcomed Hunter as a new member of The Seven, and secretly strengthened his death abilities by slaughtering people. Meanwhile, Andrew and his team remained relatively idle until God Andrew found that Chthon and the other cosmic beings had blocked his ability to send information to his clones.

• Homelander rejected The Deep's pleas, expelled him from The Seven, and warned the remaining members to improve their strength and exposure.
• Hunter joined The Seven after professing his devotion to Homelander, though he secretly intended to kill him.
• Homelander manifested Death's Eye and began traveling to the Middle East and Africa to kill people and develop his death abilities.
• In October 2020, Andrew discussed his team's training and lack of work with Nicky and DL, while Black Noir continued recovering from his nightmares.
• God Andrew detected a new world approaching the Black Robe Ability Universe, but Chthon and the others surrounded him with white fog to block his communications with his clones.

Andrew discovered that the merging world was The Sorcerer's Apprentice and modified Translucent so he could turn his body to steel. He located Dave and watched as Maxim confronted him, then chased him with dogs conjured from a photograph.

• Andrew painted a vision of The Sorcerer's Apprentice and learned that its world would merge into the Main World.
• Andrew gave Translucent an iron body ability, letting him turn his skin to steel, and told him to train toward transforming his whole body.
• The Artificial Intelligence located Dave in New York, and Andrew went to find him.
• Maxim confronted Dave at home and demanded the doll that held Morgana.
• Dave fled after throwing hot water at Maxim, who summoned four huskies from a photograph to chase him as Andrew watched invisibly.

Andrew entered the Dragon Ring’s mental space and forced its lizard dragon guardian to give him Merlin’s magic and explain the ring’s energy system. He tricked the dragon into a demon king pact that made it his subordinate, then learned that magic rings relied on rare gems whose supply on Earth had been exhausted.

• Andrew entered the Dragon Ring’s mental space and fought the lizard dragon with his abilities.
• Andrew offered to help Merlin’s reincarnation defeat Morgana in exchange for Merlin’s magic and the ring’s energy system.
• The lizard dragon agreed to a pact, but Andrew revealed hidden clauses that made it his pet and used Soul Punishment to subdue it.
• The lizard dragon explained that Merlin’s Magic Book contained a lethal fear-absorbing spell and that the ring worked as a medium for manipulating the Material World.
• The lizard dragon said magic rings required naturally occurring magic gems, and Earth’s supply of those gems had run out.

Andrew learned the Lizard Dragon’s magic and branded Merlin’s Magic Array onto his soul almost instantly, then demonstrated wandless casting. As the Lizard Dragon answered Balthazar’s summons, Andrew went after Maxim, while Balthazar and Dave headed to retrieve the doll and Maxim found its trail in the past.

• The Lizard Dragon explained that Merlin had transformed his soul with a Magic Array, leaving Dave as Merlin’s reincarnation and placing protective trump cards within him.
• Andrew learned the Lizard Dragon’s magical knowledge, branded the Magic Array onto his soul, and created a Plasma Ball through wandless magic.
• Balthazar summoned the Lizard Dragon after escaping Maxim, and Andrew promised to help Merlin’s reincarnation and revive the dragon before setting off to find Maxim.
• Balthazar tried to persuade Dave to learn magic, but Dave refused at first; he agreed to help retrieve the doll and became increasingly interested as Balthazar explained magic on their drive to Flushing Chinatown.
• Maxim used a spell outside an old antique shop to view the past and saw an elderly Asian woman pick up the doll, when Andrew’s voice suggested using technology to examine the past.

Andrew defeated Maxim Horvath and bound his soul to him, forcing him to become his servant. After hearing why Maxim betrayed Merlin, Andrew ordered him to keep competing with Balthazar for the doll, while Maxim warned that releasing Morgana could lead her to summon the undead and destroy the world.

• Andrew overwhelmed Maxim with magic, trapped him in the Mirror Space, and made him acknowledge Andrew as his master.
• Andrew bound Maxim’s soul to him and brought him back out of the Mirror Space.
• Maxim explained that he had betrayed Merlin to win Veronica, joining Morgana after Merlin stopped him from dueling Balthazar.
• Andrew promised to clone an eighteen-year-old Veronica for Maxim, then ordered him to continue competing with Balthazar for the doll.
• Maxim warned Andrew that releasing Morgana would let her cast Rebellion, summon an undead army, and destroy the world.

Andrew recruited Peggy after discovering her aptitude for Music Magic, but left her to decide whether to join S.W.O.R.D. Meanwhile, Maxim and Balthazar fought over the Black Prison until superheroes arrived, while Dave faced Maxim’s lizard dragon.

• Andrew learned that Morgana planned to resurrect dead sorcerers as undead and told Maxim to continue his search while avoiding harm to innocents.
• Andrew discovered Peggy secretly filming him, tested her aptitude, and found that she could learn Music Magic.
• Andrew invited Peggy to join S.W.O.R.D. and left her a Gem Bracelet so she could contact him after deciding.
• Maxim and Balthazar fought in Chinatown over the Black Prison, which contained Morgana and other imprisoned evil sorcerers.
• Maxim sent a lizard dragon after Dave, and Balthazar urged Dave to use magic against it.
• Superheroes arrived in response to reports of the fight.

Maxim defeated the superheroes and escaped with the Black Prison, leaving Balthazar to begin Dave’s urgent magical training. Soldier Boy stopped them after learning that magic users were connected to an approaching disaster.

• A-Train arrived to help, but Maxim stopped his attempt to burn the Lizard Dragon and trapped him with magic; Balthazar saved A-Train from flying glass.
• The Thing knocked the Lizard Dragon back, but Maxim used a mirage to trick Balthazar, steal the Black Prison, and escape after Dave cast a Fireball.
• Maxim badly injured the superheroes who pursued him and blasted Balthazar into a mirror before fleeing with the Black Prison.
• Balthazar drove out of the mirror and told Dave he would train him to become a qualified magic user overnight.
• Soldier Boy stopped Balthazar and Dave, saying he wanted to investigate the coming disaster, while Dave revealed that an old witch might destroy the world.