Recaps

Leon helped Kara awaken her Kryptonian powers, then took her to confront Zod about Kal-El’s death. Kara attacked Zod, while Leon absorbed the Kryptonian warriors and took their ship; Kara was losing to Zod when Leon flew to intervene.

• Leon helped Kara control her newly awakened Super Hearing and taught her to fly with her Biological Force Field.
• Leon took Kara to Zod’s ship, where Zod admitted that Kal-El had died during an attempt to extract the Life Codex from his DNA.
• Zod revealed that the Life Codex was inside Kara and ordered her sacrifice for Krypton, prompting Kara to attack him and drive him into space.
• Leon sealed the ship with his Blacklight virus and absorbed its Kryptonian warriors, increasing the Blacklight Clone’s genetic level.
• Leon took the Kryptonian ship and flew toward Kara and Zod, who had turned the fight around and gained the advantage over Kara.

Kara lost her battle with Zod, but Leon appeared in time to save her and defeat him. After Kara awoke, Zod urged her to rebuild Krypton and then suddenly moved to act.

• Kara repeatedly attacked Zod but was overwhelmed when he struck her in the abdomen and knocked her unconscious.
• As Zod closed in to kill Kara, Leon appeared, snapped his blade, caught Zod’s punch, shattered his hand, and knocked him out.
• Kara awoke beside Leon near the Sun and saw that Zod had been captured and healed.
• Zod told Kara that he regretted Kal-El’s death but still believed she had to rebuild Krypton as her duty.
• Zod suddenly sprang into action and extended a blade from his armored left arm, while Leon noticed his movement and held back.

Kara accidentally killed Zod, then agreed to lend Leon the Life Codex after he explained his plans and proved he could regenerate from death. The chapter left Leon preparing to borrow the Codex, with Kara trusting him despite the danger to her life.

• Kara deflected Zod's attack, causing his blade to pierce his own brain, and watched his body burn in the sun.
• Leon gave Kara a Kryptonian Battle Suit and urged her to find Lex Luthor, the bald man who had imprisoned her.
• Leon told Kara he wanted the Life Codex to study Kryptonian genes and explained that he could regenerate if his experiments went wrong.
• Leon demonstrated his ability by disintegrating himself and then returning to life, astonishing Kara.
• Kara accepted Leon's assurance that he would extract the Life Codex gently and agreed to lend it to him.

Leon returned to Earth with Kara and confronted Lex Luthor, who remained composed despite Kara’s escape and the Kryptonians approaching Earth. Kara confronted Luthor over her imprisonment, and he laughed as he marveled that she had stayed sane and grown more rational after years of isolation.

• Kara told Leon she would accompany him and stop him if he used the Life Codex like Lex Luthor.
• Leon took Kara back to Earth and located Luthor in his office, where concealed lamps were ready to bathe Kryptonians in red sunlight.
• Luthor welcomed Leon and Kara calmly, then told Kara to return to her room and claimed he had been protecting her.
• Kara grabbed Luthor by the collar and accused him of being a liar and schemer who could not win her forgiveness with false kindness.
• Luthor laughed and praised Kara for remaining rational after years of solitary confinement and painful tests.

Kara confronted Lex Luthor, but he weakened her with Red Sun lamps until Leon destroyed the mansion and killed Luthor with a powerful breath. Leon then reunited with Tony, who was examining LuthorCorp files and learned that Kara was Supergirl.

• Kara threatened Lex Luthor, but he activated hidden Red Sun lamps that stripped her of her powers.
• Leon shielded Kara and exhaled a storm that shattered the lamps, destroyed the mansion, and left Luthor as a skeleton.
• Leon took Kara away, and he explained that Luthor’s death could help bring the war between Atlantis and the continent to an end.
• Leon found Tony in Metropolis, where Tony was examining LexCorp files containing genetic data researched from Kara’s blood.
• Leon introduced Kara as Kara Zor-El, also known as Supergirl, and told Tony he had already dealt with the Kryptonians.

Leon and Tony discussed Kara’s arrival on Earth and the Life Codex, which was now inside her. After Tony warned that Leon’s actions in Metropolis had made it unsafe to linger, the trio left for Gotham.

• Tony showed Leon and Kara footage of Kara’s pod landing at a Luthor Family estate and the mercenaries’ bullets failing to pierce her skin.
• Tony explained that he and JARVIS had identified the world as similar to Flashpoint and traced Kara’s arrival to Kansas.
• Leon told Tony that the Life Codex was inside Kara after he rescued her from her enemies.
• Tony suggested they leave because Leon had killed the president in the White House and remained near Metropolis.
• Tony flew off, and Leon and Kara followed him toward Gotham.

Leon and Tony discussed their quiet stay in Gotham before Barry Allen and Bruce Wayne arrived to recruit them into rebuilding the Justice League. Barry revealed that he had changed the timeline by saving his mother, but Leon told him the Kryptonians had already been dealt with and that Clark Kent was dead.

• Leon and Tony watched Gotham and discussed their progress extracting the Life Codex while Tony complained that the peaceful city left him bored.
• Kara told Leon, Tony, and the others that Batman and the Flash had come to see them.
• Barry introduced Bruce Wayne as Batman and said they had discovered that Leon had killed Luthor, but promised they would not report him.
• Barry said he had come from the future and identified Leon as Superman, Kara as Wonder Woman, and Tony as Cyborg.
• Barry explained that saving his mother with the Speed Force had changed the world and urged them to unite against the Kryptonians.
• Leon told Barry that he and Kara had already dealt with the Kryptonians and that Clark was dead, leaving Barry confused.

Bruce urged Barry to return to his parents, and Barry left Gotham to do so. Several days later, Leon and Tony completed their improved Life Codex extraction device and extracted the Codex from Kara, revealing it as a black skull.

• Bruce asked Barry whether he had become Batman in Barry's future and learned that Barry's parents were still alive.
• Bruce told Barry to go home and reunite with his parents, then drove away and left Barry in Gotham.
• Barry decided to return to his parents and used the Speed Force to leave Gotham.
• Leon and Tony finished the Life Codex extraction device several days later and began the procedure on Kara with JARVIS's help.
• Leon and Tony's shockwaves drew golden particles from Kara's cells into a sphere, which vanished to reveal a black skull above her head.

Leon used the Life Codex’s Kryptonian genetic templates to experiment on his own DNA, enduring repeated bodily collapses before raising his genetic level from 1,000 to 1,001. He kept the Codex to continue researching, while Kara chose to leave with him and trusted his promise to help rebuild Krypton.

• Leon examined the Life Codex and used its Kryptonian genetic templates to simulate changes to his own genes.
• Leon’s body repeatedly broke apart and regenerated, alarming Kara and Tony as they searched for a way to help him.
• After hundreds of regenerations, Leon recovered and announced that his genetic level had risen from 1,000 to 1,001.
• Tony scolded Leon for frightening them and left to rest after Leon said he planned to keep researching his genes.
• Leon asked to keep the Life Codex, and Kara agreed, deciding to leave with him and accepting his promise to help rebuild Krypton.

After completing the Life Codex work, Leon left Kara in Gotham and went to Themyscira to honor a promise to Diana, whom he had been away from for ninety years. Diana continued waiting at the cliffs, uncertain whether Leon would arrive that evening.

• Leon and Kara left Tony's World Ring and returned to the hotel in Gotham.
• Leon told Kara he had a promise from ninety years ago and departed alone to see Diana.
• Diana waited on Themyscira's cliffs while Queen Hippolyta urged her to come to dinner.
• Diana insisted Leon had not forgotten her, though her long wait had left her hopeful and resentful.

After ninety years apart, Diana continued waiting for Leon on Themyscira until he returned and caught her as she jumped from a cliff. They reunited passionately, and Leon and Diana spent the night together.

• Diana remembered Leon and waited for him, while Hippolyta warned her not to let her longing become an obsession.
• Diana jumped from the cliff to go fishing after her divine power stunned a vast number of fish.
• Leon appeared and caught Diana in his arms, astonishing Hippolyta.
• Hippolyta left Leon and Diana alone, and Diana kissed Leon while telling him she had known he would return.
• Diana reproached Leon for leaving her waiting for ninety years, and Leon comforted her before they spent the night together.

Leon woke beside Diana after their night together, while Hippolyta kept watch nearby and the Amazons wondered about the island’s tremors. Diana and Leon hurried back toward the buildings, where Diana realized the warriors were discussing the noise they had made, and Leon planned to help her become stronger.

• Hippolyta watched over Leon and Diana after stopping the Amazons from investigating the island’s tremors.
• Leon woke, dressed Diana, and told her Hippolyta had been waiting for them.
• Diana and Leon ran toward the island’s buildings, and Diana tried to sneak back to her room.
• The Amazons discussed the shaking that had lasted for hours, and Diana blushed when she realized it had come from her and Leon.
• Leon reassured Diana that Hippolyta had kept the others away and decided he would take Diana with him to help her grow stronger.

Diana decided to leave Themyscira with Leon, despite her embarrassment over her mother witnessing the night before. Hippolyta accepted Diana’s choice, gave her the Godslayer Sword, and allowed Leon to visit the island freely before the pair departed for the human world.

• Diana panicked when she realized Hippolyta had watched over her and last night’s events, while the Amazon Warriors greeted Leon enthusiastically after he emerged.
• Diana chased the Warriors away from Leon, then followed Hippolyta with him to the temple.
• Hippolyta acknowledged that Diana was determined to leave Themyscira and asked Leon to protect her.
• Hippolyta gave Diana the Godslayer Sword and told her to gather her belongings and show Leon the island.
• Diana toured Themyscira with Leon, shared memories of her childhood, and dined with the Warriors.
• With Hippolyta’s approval and permission for Leon to return, Diana and Leon left Themyscira for the human world.

Leon flew Diana from Themyscira to Gotham, showing her the clouds and the human world along the way. After Kara found them, she told Leon that Tony had been searching for him all night.

• Leon flew slowly with Diana across the Atlantic and showed her how the clouds felt and changed color.
• Leon tried to teach Diana to fly, but she did not learn before they continued to Gotham.
• Leon descended over Gotham with Diana, who marveled at the city and asked whether their future home would be like it.
• Kara met Leon above Gotham and said Tony had been looking for him for an entire day.
• Kara recalled waiting at the hotel for Leon, while Tony dismissed her concern and JARVIS searched unsuccessfully for Leon.

Kara spent the night and following day anxiously waiting for Leon, then saw him return to Gotham carrying and kissing Diana. When Kara confronted him in tears, Diana comforted her and scolded Leon as a bad guy.

• Kara worried through the night and day about Leon's absence, while Tony and JARVIS stopped her from leaving the hotel to search for him.
• Leon finally returned to Gotham with Diana in his arms, and Kara saw Diana kissing him.
• Kara flew to Leon and asked why he had disappeared for an entire day, while tears streamed down her face.
• Diana wiped Kara's cheek, asked what Leon had done to upset her, and offered to scold him with Kara.
• Diana glared at Leon and thought her mother had been right that men were big pig trotters.

Leon recounted his past to Diana and Kara, but when they pressed him about his many relationships, he blamed Tony for shaping his outlook on women. The chapter ended with Tony and JARVIS accepting Leon’s fabricated story as a real accusation.

• Tony interrupted Leon’s conversation with Diana and Kara and urged them to ask which one of them Leon would choose.
• Diana and Kara said Leon had rescued them, then asked why he had become involved with so many girls.
• Leon sighed and claimed Tony had raised him after his adoptive parents died and exposed him to his string of girlfriends from an early age.
• Leon said those childhood experiences had inspired him to care for women everywhere, and Diana and Kara believed him.
• Tony felt guilty, and JARVIS told him that he had been severely derelict in his family duties.

Leon exposed Tony’s past with Diana’s Lasso of Truth, then spent a peaceful day in Gotham with Diana and Kara. He suddenly sensed the DC Universe’s timeline restarting and realized Barry was responsible.

• Leon used the Lasso of Truth to make Tony confess to his past relationships and his guilt over neglecting Leon.
• Diana and Kara believed Leon’s account, and Leon sent Kara to her room before taking Diana into his own.
• Tony lamented his humiliation to JARVIS and asked it to find him a graveyard plot near Gotham.
• Leon took Diana and Kara shopping in Gotham, where they explored human customs and tried on clothes.
• Leon sensed the past and future being undone, recognized the temporal laws reconnecting, and concluded that Barry was restarting the world.

As Barry's actions began rebooting the world, Leon gathered his companions and explained that the existing timeline and its memories would be erased. He moved Themyscira into his Inner World and headed to find Batman and the Flash.

• Leon realized the timeline was already breaking apart and decided he could not stop the reboot, so he gathered Diana, Kara, and Tony.
• Leon explained that Barry had changed the past and that the reboot would reshape the world and erase their current lives and memories.
• Leon brought Tony and Kara into his Inner World, then traveled with Diana to Themyscira.
• Queen Hippolyta agreed to let Leon take the Amazons after confirming that another Themyscira would appear after the reboot and that their departure would not leave Earth unprotected.
• Leon pulled Themyscira into his Inner World and set off for Gotham and Central City to find Batman and the Flash.

Leon told Batman about the reboot, then helped Barry Allen by taking his mother out of the world until the reboot ended. He flew to the Rock of Eternity and confronted the aging Wizard Shazam about finding an heir.

• Batman refused Leon's offer to escape the reboot and chose to remain behind, while Leon joked with him about drinking vodka.
• Leon told Barry that his future self had rebooted the world, and Barry entered the Speed Force to ask why.
• Barry returned and explained that Darkseid had destroyed Earth, forcing his future self to reboot the universe despite being unable to save his mother.
• Leon took Mrs. Allen into the Inner World and warned Barry to tell his future self not to alter the tomato-can evidence and trigger another reboot.
• Leon flew to the Rock of Eternity, where he asked the aging Wizard Shazam if he wanted an heir.

Leon entered the Rock of Eternity to bring Shazam an heir, but Shazam mistook him for a prospective successor and rejected him after sensing his impure thoughts. The chapter ended with Shazam questioning why Leon did not want the power for himself.

• Leon used a portal spell to enter the Rock of Eternity and told Shazam he had come to bring him an heir.
• Shazam assumed Leon wanted to inherit his power and inspected him as a candidate.
• Shazam sensed Leon's thoughts about Diana and declared that Leon was too impure to become his heir.
• Leon clarified that he had come to bring Shazam an heir rather than become one, and Shazam asked why he refused the role.

Leon brought Diana and Kara to Wizard Shazam as possible successors, but Shazam refused to give his power to a demigoddess or an alien. After learning that Darkseid would destroy Earth before he found a successor, Shazam chose Leon instead, and they invoked the Staff of the Gods together.

• Leon summoned Diana and Kara and asked Shazam whether they qualified to inherit his power.
• Shazam rejected both women because his power could only be passed to humans, and Leon warned him that the world was about to reset after Darkseid's attack.
• Leon explained that Shazam's power could grant Kara magic or help Diana become a True God, but both women sincerely declined it in favor of the other.
• Shazam recognized the women's pure hearts, reconsidered Leon's qualities, and declared him the next Shazam.
• Leon refused the role, but Shazam insisted on his principle and joined Leon in holding the Staff of the Gods as they shouted, “Shazam!”

Leon inherited Shazam’s divine power and learned that its strength depended on his will, though it added little to his already immense power. He then shared the power with Diana and Kara, whose inheritance triggered very different reactions.

• Wizard Shazam named Leon his successor and passed the powers of six gods and the divine staff to him.
• Leon assessed the limits of his new power and realized that Shazam’s divine strength could be divided among multiple heirs.
• Shazam urged Leon to pass the power on, and Leon invited Diana and Kara to inherit it.
• Diana and Kara shouted “Shazam” together and each received a share of the divine power.
• Kara noticed energy within her body and a new lightning emblem on her suit, while Diana rose into the air as lightning spread across her skin.

Diana became a True God and Kara discovered that her divine power let her resist Kryptonite. As Earth shattered at the end of the World Reboot, Leon left the DCEU with Shazam, who insisted on joining him so Leon could eventually confront Darkseid.

• Diana transformed after Zeus's divine power merged with her, and Shazam warned her not to threaten humanity.
• Kara found that Shazam's power slowed Kryptonite's effects and let her keep flying while holding it.
• As the World Reboot ended and Earth began to break apart, Leon sent Diana and Kara to his Inner World.
• Leon prepared to leave, but Shazam grabbed him and demanded to accompany him to help ensure Darkseid was dealt with.
• Leon agreed to take Shazam along, and they vanished as the Rock of Eternity was swallowed by the shattering space.

The World Reboot left Themyscira stranded in Leon’s Inner World, where Hippolyta and the Amazons discovered the immense scale of his avatars. Leon then traveled with Shazam through another world toward the rebooted DCEU, but found he could only reach a much later point in time.

• Hippolyta and the Amazons saw Themyscira floating on Leon’s blood-red sea and heard him warn them to stay there until things settled outside.
• The Amazons realized the distant white pillars were the legs of Leon’s colossal avatar, leaving Hippolyta wondering what Leon truly was.
• Leon’s Blacklight Clone appeared as a Husky before Tony, Diana, and Kara, then liquefied and burrowed underground to train.
• Tony imagined using a shape-shifting clone, but Leon told him the ability came from a World Consciousness and could not be learned.
• Leon brought Shazam to the Superman & Lois world and explained that they would use it to return to a point after the reboot.
• Leon crossed toward the DCEU after its Universe Bubble stabilized, but discovered he could travel only to a much later time.

Batman led a battered group of survivors across Kahndaq’s desert to find Black Adam, the last hope of saving the world from Darkseid. After Joker taunted Batman about his dead loved ones and blamed him for the world’s destruction, Batman revealed Harley Quinn had died in his arms and vowed to kill Joker someday before leading the group onward.

• Batman’s group hid beneath the sand as armed, locust-like creatures flew overhead, then resumed their journey toward nearby ruins.
• Cyborg urged Batman to hurry, while Mera accused him of running from revenge for Arthur’s death; Batman said they were seeking Black Adam because Barry was dead and Diana had left that lead.
• Joker mocked Mera and taunted Batman about his dead family, Lois, and the people lost because of his choices.
• Batman told Joker that Harley Quinn had died in his arms and vowed to kill him slowly when the time came, then continued into the desert.