Recaps

Kratos and the Spartan defenders held out against Asgard’s overwhelming army until Heisenberg and the Olympian gods arrived to lead a counterattack. As the Greek heroes prepared to join the battle, Heisenberg called on every Greek to raise a hand and choose whether to fight.

• Kratos defeated Sigrun after a brutal two-hour battle, then fought Orlune as Thermopylae fell and Sparta’s reinforcements faced the Einherjar.
• Wounded by Orlune, Kratos roared at Ares and Zeus for abandoning the battlefield, and the remaining defenders looked to the sky for their gods.
• Heisenberg arrived with the Olympian gods and ordered their forces to charge, while Athena healed Kratos and confronted Orlune.
• Odin sent Asgard’s gods into battle, and Heisenberg broadcast the fighting at Thermopylae across Greece to summon its heroes.
• Heracles, Leonidas, Chiron, Theseus, Achilles, Odysseus, and Perseus prepared to fight as Heisenberg invited every Greek to join the battle.

Heisenberg’s forces joined the battle at Thermopylae, where Athena fought Orlune and Baldr overwhelmed Hades. When Baldr charged Heisenberg, Heisenberg struck him with a hand transformed into mistletoe, finally making the invulnerable god feel pain and sending him crashing into the earth.

• Heisenberg raised Gungnir and used the Bifrost to bring warriors across the battlefield, where Leonidas led the Spartans into the enemy ranks and Kratos cleared the area around Athena and Orlune.
• Athena repeatedly wounded Orlune while watching the other battles, and Baldr beat Hades unconscious after Hades failed to hurt him.
• Baldr charged toward Heisenberg, and Odin let him go so Baldr could test Heisenberg’s strength despite Frigga’s warning.
• Aphrodite stepped between Baldr and Heisenberg, and Heisenberg acknowledged her loyalty before moving to confront Baldr himself.
• Heisenberg transformed his right hand into mistletoe and slapped Baldr, causing him to feel pain for the first time and crash into the earth, shattering the land for three hundred kilometers.

Heisenberg spared Baldr after Frigga begged for her son's life, then faced Odin, who revealed his hatred of Frigga and challenged him over their shared connection to Gungnir and the World Tree. Their spears clashed, leaving Odin pierced through the heart while Heisenberg caught Odin's Gungnir in his bare hand.

• Heisenberg revived the unconscious Baldr and recalled how his invulnerability had driven him into a life of reckless violence.
• Frigga appeared before Heisenberg, knelt, and pleaded for Baldr's life, offering her service in return.
• Heisenberg spared Baldr but threw him toward Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hades, telling Frigga that Baldr would still face punishment.
• Frigga gave Heisenberg her rune and joined the three Greek gods fighting Baldr, while Odin emerged and declared that he would strip Frigga of her power and banish her.
• Odin claimed Heisenberg was another version of himself, but Heisenberg said he had killed another Odin and would kill him too.
• Heisenberg and Odin threw their Gungnirs at each other; Odin was pierced through the heart, and Heisenberg caught Odin's spear with his bare hand.

Heisenberg caught Odin’s fate-bound Gungnir, turned it against him, and drove the Norse gods from the battlefield. After the Greeks celebrated their sudden victory, Heisenberg called the gods together and proposed an immediate counterattack on Asgard.

• Heisenberg caught Odin’s Gungnir, altered its runes with Phoenix Fire, and repeatedly hurled it alongside his own spear, piercing Odin for over fifteen minutes.
• Odin used the World Tree growing from his chest to locate his followers and escaped with all the Norse heroic spirits through the Bifrost.
• The Greek warriors and gods realized the Norse had vanished, then cheered as Heisenberg raised his flaming Gungnir.
• Heisenberg summoned the Greek gods and announced that they should counterattack Asgard immediately, asking who supported or opposed the decision.

Heisenberg secured the Greek gods’ support for his plans to overthrow Zeus and invade Asgard, promising Hades a future role as lord of Olympus’s sky. Hestia chose to serve civilians rather than fight, while Heisenberg stripped Demeter of her divine position and sealed her beneath a mountain for five hundred years.

• Hera, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Aphrodite, and Hades pledged themselves to Heisenberg, while Hera stopped Hephaestus from objecting.
• Heisenberg declared that Zeus should suffer the same torment he had inflicted on Prometheus and offered Hades the sky of Olympus in exchange for his allegiance.
• Hades accepted Heisenberg’s offer and submitted the underworld to him.
• Hestia asked to protect families and comfort mortals instead of joining the war, and Heisenberg allowed her to do so.
• Heisenberg condemned Demeter for hesitating, shrank her into his palm, stripped her of her divine position, and sealed her beneath a mountain at Greece’s border for five hundred years.

After Heisenberg defeated Demeter and restored order in Greece, Leonidas and Kratos vowed that Sparta would join the counterattack on Asgard. In Valhalla, Odin’s humiliating defeat led to a furious confrontation with Thor, who challenged Odin’s right to rule.

• Heisenberg sealed Demeter beneath a Five-Finger Mountain, ordered the gods to return mortals to their lands, and called them to Olympus to plan a counterattack on Asgard.
• The gods restored a select group of fallen heroes, including Marathon, while Thermopylae’s survivors began clearing the battlefield and Greece returned to order.
• Leonidas proposed easing restrictions on the Helots so Sparta could rebuild its forces, and Kratos declared that he would join Heisenberg’s expedition to Asgard.
• Leonidas and Kratos vowed that Sparta would avenge its losses and fight alongside Heisenberg against Asgard.
• Odin returned the Asgardian gods to Valhalla, where Thor angrily confronted him, learned that Asgard had lost, and mocked him for losing Gungnir.
• Thor challenged Odin’s right to remain King of the Gods and summoned lightning through Mjolnir.

After Asgard’s defeat by Heisenberg, Thor challenged Odin for the throne, but Tyr stopped their confrontation and urged the gods to unite. Odin then confronted Baldr and Frigga over their roles in the defeat and ordered Frigga exiled to Midgard, prompting Sigrun and the Valkyries to plead for him to reconsider.

• Thor seized Mjolnir and challenged Odin, but Tyr intervened and warned that he would take control of Valhalla if they continued their internal conflict.
• Odin backed down from fighting Thor and admitted Tyr was right that Asgard needed to regroup after its defeat.
• Odin blamed Baldr and Frigga for disrupting his chance to observe Heisenberg; Baldr dismissed the accusations and left to recruit warriors across the Nine Realms.
• Frigga defended kneeling to Heisenberg to protect Baldr and accused Odin of causing Baldr to lose his protective runes.
• Odin ordered Heimdall to strip Frigga of her divine power and exile her to Midgard, but Sigrun and the other Valkyries begged him to rescind the order.

After the Valkyries persuaded Odin to spare Frigga, he forced her to surrender her Vanir Magic and leave Asgard by threatening Baldr. Frigga arrived in Midgard with Kohorn, won Jörmungandr’s permission to stay, and met Laufey, who welcomed her as a fellow witch.

• Sigrun and the other Valkyries urged Odin to reconsider Frigga’s punishment, and Odin abandoned his death sentence.
• Odin threatened Baldr’s life, so Frigga created a book containing Vanir Magic and gave it to him before departing for Midgard.
• Frigga and Kohorn encountered Jörmungandr at the Lake of Nine Realms, and Frigga convinced the serpent that she disliked Thor.
• Frigga searched for a home in Midgard and approached a Frost Giant woman whose protected forest caught her attention.
• The Frost Giant introduced herself as Laufey and offered to show Frigga a beautiful place to settle.

Heisenberg transformed Olympus’s council chamber and gathered the chief gods to announce his rule over their world. The gods took their new seats as he declared that Prometheus would join them and that Olympus now belonged entirely to him.

• Heisenberg brought Hera to Olympus’s council chamber, reshaped Zeus’s throne into a shared seat, and told Hera her gift had greatly increased his power.
• Aphrodite and the other chief gods arrived and took their places around Heisenberg’s redesigned council table; Ares and Poseidon remained absent.
• Athena offered to fetch Ares and Poseidon, but Heisenberg refused and said they might not be qualified to sit at the table.
• Heisenberg announced that Prometheus would sit opposite Athena and that he would support Prometheus’s vengeance against Zeus.
• Heisenberg formally declared that their world belonged entirely to him.

Heisenberg led the gods to the Caucasus Mountains to confront Zeus, declaring that he would defeat him and take control of Olympus. After the gods sided with Heisenberg and he named Prometheus the future god of justice and order, Heisenberg invited Zeus to unleash his final attack while he stood still.

• Hades, Artemis, and Apollo offered to join Heisenberg against Zeus, but Heisenberg said the fight would be his alone and promised Hera he would spare Zeus's soul.
• Heisenberg brought the gods to the Caucasus Mountains, where Zeus and Prometheus were still fighting.
• Hades and Athena blocked Zeus when he charged at Heisenberg, and the gathered gods made clear that they had chosen Heisenberg.
• Heisenberg named Prometheus Olympus's future god of justice and order, then told him Zeus would be handed over for punishment after their fight.
• Zeus attacked Heisenberg, but six radiant flames blocked the blow without stirring the air.
• Heisenberg challenged Zeus to use every remaining power against him while he stood motionless.

Zeus gathered enough power to threaten all of Greece and Olympus, forcing the gods to defend their lands as the world began to burn. After Athena warned that Zeus meant to destroy everything rather than merely attack Heisenberg, Heisenberg killed Zeus, though he admitted he had broken his promise not to attack.

• Zeus summoned a vast storm of lightning that descended across the Greek world, heating the air and endangering mortals and gods alike.
• Athena raised a barrier over Athens, Ares shielded Sparta, and Poseidon retreated to protect only his undersea temple as the gods struggled to withstand the storm.
• Athena realized Zeus’s attack was not collateral damage but an attempt to destroy Greece, Olympus, and the world, and she warned Heisenberg.
• Heisenberg understood that Zeus had chosen destruction over defeat and accused him of trying to deny Heisenberg his spoils.
• Zeus laughed and declared that Heisenberg would inherit a world of nothingness, so Heisenberg struck him and turned him into blood mist.
• Heisenberg acknowledged that he had broken his promise to let Zeus unleash his full power.

Heisenberg defeated Zeus and took control of Olympus, then ordered Athena to aid the survivors and prepare the Greek world for his rule. He announced plans to restore life, connect Olympus to his divine kingdom, and make the gods choose between joining his coming war or rebuilding Greece.

• Heisenberg dismissed Zeus as unworthy of respect, erased his remains, and kept Zeus's divine lightning for Thor.
• Heisenberg arrived in Athens, where civilians emerged from hiding and gathered at Athena's temple for help.
• Athena recognized Heisenberg's victory and offered to remove Zeus's statues, but he told her to give the people hope and address their needs.
• Heisenberg ordered Athena to have Hades recover the souls killed in the invasions and promised to replenish Greece's plants, animals, and crops with aid from his divine kingdom.
• Heisenberg said Olympus would gradually merge into his divine kingdom and gave the gods ten Olympus days to aid their people before choosing between preparing for war or restoring Greece.
• Heisenberg returned to his divine kingdom with his daughter, which was about to undergo its second great expansion.

Heisenberg summoned his far-flung allies to the divine kingdom for a major operation, reuniting with old companions and discovering that Billy had stayed behind to care for the Opera House. As his forces gathered, Clark arrived with Son Goku, whom Heisenberg welcomed and promised would someday see the extent of his power.

• Mogo scolded Heisenberg for staying away, and he called his allies across countless worlds to assemble for a major operation.
• Kid Flash arrived first, followed by Crossbones, Bullseye, and Daredevil, who explained how they had adapted and trained together.
• Heisenberg learned that Billy had remained in New York to protect the Opera House, so he urged Billy to seek power and live a life beyond serving him.
• Billy and Mogo talked while Heisenberg's forces gathered, including Hela's team, the Kryptonians, Atlantis, and the Amazons.
• Clark arrived with Son Goku, introduced him as a friend, and apologized for inviting him without asking.
• Heisenberg welcomed Son Goku and told him that he was far stronger than Buu.

Heisenberg welcomed Goku to the Divine Kingdom and stopped him from challenging him, then gathered with his subordinates as more explorers arrived. Bruce reported his plans for managing Earth, but Diana’s arrival interrupted him with questions about Zeus and the operation.

• Goku challenged Heisenberg to a match, but Heisenberg suppressed his rising transformation and directed him to spar with Clark and the others instead.
• Heisenberg asked Fiona to let the gathered forces rest, but she insisted that the Kryptonians needed to remain vigilant and said they were satisfied with life on New Krypton.
• Bruce Wayne arrived, and Heisenberg greeted him warmly before asking about Earth’s problems.
• Bruce described his plan to provoke and forcibly resolve conflicts on Earth, then establish his authority for the next generation.
• Arthur arrived and excitedly described a pirate-filled ocean world before Bruce reminded him that he had left Earth; Arthur said his parents were living in the Divine Kingdom.
• Diana arrived and asked Heisenberg whether the operation concerned Greek mythology and whether he had killed Zeus, leaving Bruce visibly uncomfortable.

Heisenberg revealed that he had destroyed Zeus after Zeus tried to destroy the world, then rallied the divine kingdom’s explorers to aid the devastated Greek world. He ordered them to bring food, animal young, and plant seeds to help its hundreds of billions of civilians survive.

• Heisenberg told Diana and the eavesdroppers that Zeus had tried to destroy the world, so he had erased Zeus’s existence despite promising Hera to preserve his soul.
• Arthur and The Flash blurted out their interest in Greek goddesses and their romantic lives, while the assembled heroes and villains joked together.
• Heisenberg encouraged his followers to build families in the divine kingdom, and little Kara asked him to wait until she grew up before marrying.
• Bach reported that all 3,424,765 explorers had assembled at Infinity Plaza, and Heisenberg addressed them.
• Heisenberg explained that Zeus’s final attack had devastated the Greek world, leaving it nearly without animals, plants, food, or tools.
• Heisenberg ordered the explorers to transport food, animal young, and plant seeds from other worlds to the Greek world.

Heisenberg and Hera discussed training and the coming war while members of the Divine Kingdom raided the Pokémon world for Pokémon and trainers. The captives were brought back to the Divine Kingdom, where they were sorted alongside creatures from other worlds as Thor claimed to have tamed Groudon.

• Hera urged Heisenberg to let most of his warriors train with Sparta, but Heisenberg insisted they had powerful weapons and deserved to fight.
• Clark and Goku carried off Charizard and Mew, while Hela's Regin and other members of the Divine Kingdom captured Pokémon across the Pokémon world.
• Red, Ash Ketchum, Giovanni, Cynthia, and other trainers tried to stop the raid but were defeated, and Fiona ordered the trainers captured as well as the Pokémon.
• Loki took Pikachu and challenged Ash Ketchum to come rescue his friends, prompting Ash to follow the captors through the Infinite Gate.
• Fiona brought Cynthia to a sorting area filled with creatures from many worlds, where Shellos and others were assigned to groups and Hong Mao and Lan Tu were treated as animals.
• Thor knocked Groudon down and declared that he had tamed him, leaving Lan Tu resigned to her capture.

Heisenberg stopped Thor from beating Groudon and decided to keep the captured Pokémon in his divine kingdom instead of sending them to the Greek world. He welcomed Ash, Cynthia, Steven, Lance, and Giovanni, then made Pikachu his employee and took him to the Greek world, where he planned to give him Zeus’s divine authority.

• Heisenberg arrived in the zoo district, stopped Thor from beating Groudon, healed Groudon, and ordered that no more Pokémon be sent to the Greek world.
• Heisenberg explained to Thor that he liked the Pokémon, and Thor flew through the Infinity Gate to retrieve those already sent away.
• Ash Ketchum confronted Heisenberg over the kidnapping, while Heisenberg recognized Cynthia and told her and the other newcomers they could stay and grow stronger in his kingdom.
• Giovanni asked whether they would have to pay for the power Heisenberg offered, and Heisenberg said they owed him nothing.
• Heisenberg proposed that Pikachu work for him in exchange for protecting Pokémon and granting Pikachu special power; Pikachu agreed, and Heisenberg took him to the Greek world.

Heisenberg made Pikachu his companion and gave him Zeus’s former lightning divine authority, transforming him into a far more powerful Pokémon. In Athens, Athena learned that Pikachu had inherited Zeus’s power and accepted Heisenberg’s joke that the electric mouse was the new Zeus.

• Heisenberg comforted Pikachu and said he would stay by his side while gaining strength and seeing what became of Ash Ketchum and the others.
• Heisenberg infused Pikachu with Zeus’s lightning divine authority, rebuilt and strengthened his body, and helped him absorb the power in about two minutes.
• Pikachu tested his new lightning powers as Heisenberg arrived in Athens, where Athena and White Dragon watched Barry Allen slowly fuse with Hermes’s speed divine authority.
• Athena sent White Dragon to help Tohru receive animals and plants from Heisenberg’s divine kingdom, then held Pikachu when he jumped into her arms.
• Heisenberg pulled Pikachu away from Athena and named him Zeus; when Athena recognized Zeus’s familiar lightning, Heisenberg explained that the divine authority had chosen Pikachu as its new heir.

Heisenberg left the Greek world after naming Pikachu its new God of Thunder and entrusting Athena with Greece's affairs and the coming war against Asgard. He entered the United States with Pikachu and met Elena, who invited them to ride with her family, though Heisenberg's knowing smile hinted that he had plans of his own.

• Heisenberg named Pikachu the new God of Thunder, while Barry Allen absorbed Hermes's divine authority and gained the ability to manipulate speed.
• Heisenberg told Athena to manage Greece, organize supplies and preparations for the counterattack against Asgard in eight days, and consult Hera in his absence.
• Heisenberg took Pikachu to the Rocky Mountains, where they had a snowball fight before setting off for the United States.
• Heisenberg reached Whitefir and met Elena, who recognized Pikachu, introduced herself, and asked to pet him.
• Elena explained that her parents thought Heisenberg might be stranded and offered him a ride in their station wagon; Heisenberg accepted with a meaningful smile.

Heisenberg encountered Elena, a girl who tried to extort him while driving him toward the city, then rejected her plea for help after recognizing her story as a setup. He recalled Clark’s account of entering The Boys’ world, where Vought and its superheroes turned against him for acting independently, leaving Heisenberg reflecting on the world’s frightening corruption.

• Elena offered Heisenberg a ride to the city while her parents stayed by Whitefish Lake, and she tried to lure him into an extortion scheme on the road.
• Heisenberg stopped Elena from lowering her waistband, exposed that she lacked a driver’s license, and warned her to keep driving after producing a gun.
• At a city gas station, Elena claimed her guardians exploited her and other girls, and begged Heisenberg to help her escape.
• Heisenberg decided Elena was lying, left her a hundred dollars, and walked away while her uncle and aunt discussed framing him for kidnapping.
• Heisenberg remembered Clark describing how Vought, The Seven, and other authorities branded him a supervillain after he began doing good deeds in The Boys’ world.
• Clark told Heisenberg that he had injured Marathon during a hunt and could not decide how to confront heroes who had saved lives while committing many evils.

Heisenberg checked into a hotel with Pikachu and watched news about Homelander and The Seven’s search for new members. After deciding to rest before taking control of Vought International, he fell asleep with Pikachu, unaware that a video of them was going viral and would soon draw The Seven’s attention.

• Heisenberg brought Pikachu to a hotel, where people filmed the popular little Pokémon.
• Heisenberg watched Homelander deny that Superman was his clone and claim he was weaker than the real thing.
• A talk show discussed Vought’s recruitment, with experts predicting Homelander would replace the injured Captain Marathon.
• Heisenberg considered meeting Starlight, then decided to rest before moving against Vought International.
• Videos of Heisenberg and Pikachu spread online, and their popularity soon prompted The Seven to move.

Homelander admitted to Madelyn that Superman had terrified him and fled to Antarctica, while Vought sent Queen Maeve to take Pikachu from Heisenberg. Heisenberg stopped her, learned Vought wanted to acquire Pikachu and recruit him, and asked where the promised supermodels were.

• Madelyn confronted Homelander about his fear of Superman, and Homelander confessed that the fight had left him badly injured and frightened.
• Homelander flew to Antarctica after telling Madelyn he would refuse to carry out justice until Vought uncovered Superman's secrets.
• Queen Maeve entered Heisenberg's hotel room, found Pikachu unaffected by sedative gas, and picked him up to take him away.
• Heisenberg woke, used his powers to stop Queen Maeve, reclaimed Pikachu, and challenged her justification for the theft.
• Queen Maeve explained that Vought wanted Pikachu for the president's daughter and hoped to study and reproduce him, then revealed that Vought had planned to send Heisenberg more than sixteen supermodels.
• Heisenberg asked Queen Maeve where the supermodels were.

Heisenberg restrained Queen Maeve, then slept with her as a body pillow before agreeing to visit Vought International with her. Meanwhile, Homelander was selected to join The Seven, Annie celebrated her hopes of becoming Starlight, and Madelyn worried about Maeve’s disappearance; the chapter ended with Maeve waking Heisenberg and preparing to take him to Vought.

• Heisenberg used his powers to control Queen Maeve, then told her to rest beside him while he slept.
• Annie and her mother watched Homelander win the vote to join The Seven and celebrated Annie’s hopes of becoming Starlight.
• Madelyn worried that Queen Maeve had not returned from her mission and ordered her subordinate to contact The Deep.
• Queen Maeve woke beside Heisenberg, and he told her to shower before taking him around Vought International.

Heisenberg went with Queen Maeve to Vought International, where he confronted Madelyn and demanded to join The Seven. He killed Translucent to create what he thought was an opening, while Madelyn revealed that The Seven already had a vacancy and Homelander was racing back from Antarctica.

• Queen Maeve warned Heisenberg that Homelander was dangerous, but agreed to take him to Vought International.
• Heisenberg, Queen Maeve, and Translucent teleported into Madelyn's office, interrupting her discussion about Pikachu and the company’s plans.
• Madelyn secretly activated her distress signal to summon Homelander, and Heisenberg told her how long he would take to arrive.
• Madelyn apologized for Vought’s attempt to take Pikachu and asked Heisenberg what he wanted; he demanded a place in The Seven.
• Heisenberg turned Translucent into a cloud of blood mist, but Madelyn said The Seven already had an opening.

Heisenberg confronted Madelyn about Fireman’s death, then demonstrated his dominance by overpowering Homelander and gouging out his eyes. He had Queen Maeve gather The Seven for him, while the newly recruited Homelander was sent to buy food and liquor for the meeting.

• Heisenberg pressed Madelyn about Fireman’s death, and Queen Maeve explained that Homelander had killed him after Fireman mocked his loss to Superman.
• Heisenberg offered to teach Homelander a lesson, then summoned him into Madelyn’s office and caught his punch by the neck.
• Heisenberg gouged out Homelander’s eyes, threw him to the floor, and demanded that Madelyn arrange his induction into The Seven.
• Heisenberg asked Queen Maeve to introduce him to Vought and gather The Seven, then requested braised pig trotters, liquor, and banquet dishes.
• Queen Maeve called The Seven’s assistant, who gave the new Homelander the job of buying food for his seniors instead of sending him to fight crime.