Recaps

Batman and the Resistance explored an ancient ruin in search of Black Adam, where Mera discovered a crown capable of summoning a demon to Earth. Batman took the crown as a possible weapon and led the group onward to search for more clues.

• Batman led the Resistance into the ruins, while Mera read inscriptions about a sealed corrupting power and a crown.
• Mera, Doctor Fate, Ryan Choi, Deathstroke, Joker, and Cyborg discussed hope as they followed Batman deeper into the ruins.
• The chapter showed Earth’s cities abandoned and crawling with human-turned-Parademons, while Superman watched from his throne in Metropolis and searched for Batman.
• Mera found the crown and read that it could summon a demon lord to Earth, possibly destroying the world.
• Batman reasoned that taking the crown and dying would summon the demon, kept it as an option, and sent the group to continue searching for clues.

Batman and the resistance team awakened Black Adam to help fight Superman, but Black Adam’s escape alerted a huge Parademon horde and brought Superman to them. Superman brutally defeated Black Adam, forcing Batman to order a retreat and seek another way to stop him.

• Batman and Mera found an inscription naming Shazam, and speaking the name awakened Black Adam.
• Mera told Black Adam that Kahndaq had fallen to Parademons, prompting him to burst through the cave ceiling.
• Black Adam killed nearby Parademons with lightning, but millions more swarmed toward the group, so Batman urged everyone to retreat.
• Superman arrived and punched Black Adam into a crater, then fought through his lightning attacks and overwhelmed him with a barrage of blows.
• Superman pierced Black Adam with Heat Vision, and Batman ordered Cyborg and Doctor Fate to create an escape route.

Batman and six allies hid inside a lead-lined stone chamber while Superman searched the ruins, but Doctor Fate’s illusion was the only thing keeping them concealed. Superman began to suspect the remaining wall and focused his heat vision on it, leaving the group’s fate uncertain.

• Cyborg dug an escape tunnel while Doctor Fate built a lead-lined stone chamber, and the seven hid between two walls.
• Superman arrived, ordered Black Adam taken to Apokolips, and searched the chamber before following Cyborg’s tunnel underground.
• After Mera relaxed, Superman returned and began smashing apart the stone chamber.
• Doctor Fate signaled Ryan Choi to help the group crouch, and his illusion concealed them when Superman broke through the wall above them.
• Superman suspected the remaining wall was wrong and turned his glowing red gaze toward it.

Superman attacked Batman and the heroes hiding in the ruins, killing Cyborg and incapacitating Doctor Fate while wounding Mera and Atom. Just as Batman faced Superman’s Heat Vision, a red-clad stranger and an old man appeared, and the stranger transformed into a black-suited figure who recognized Superman as a Kryptonian.

• Batman prepared to leave the illusion and confront Superman, but Cyborg’s malfunctioning machine gun fired at him and exposed the heroes’ hiding place.
• Superman killed Cyborg with a punch and snapped Doctor Fate’s neck before turning toward the other heroes.
• Deathstroke, Atom, and Mera attacked Superman, but he countered with Heat Vision and wounded Mera and Atom while seizing Deathstroke.
• Batman charged Superman with Kryptonite, but Superman aimed Heat Vision at him as Batman prepared to sacrifice himself and return from Hell.
• A red-clad man and an old man suddenly appeared, and the man in red shielded Batman from Superman’s Heat Vision before transforming into a black combat suit.
• Superman called the stranger a Kryptonian, and the stranger called him Henry Superman.

Leon arrived in a devastated Earth and found Henry Superman fighting Batman and the others, then discovered Darkseid had controlled Superman and turned humanity into Parademons. Leon intercepted Superman’s attack and took him away from the ruins, leaving Batman to wonder whether this was the Leon Barry had mentioned.

• Leon assessed Henry Superman and realized Batman and the Justice League were on the verge of fighting him, with the Sabbac Crown in Batman’s hand.
• Leon learned that Darkseid had controlled Henry Superman, who immediately attacked him at super speed.
• Leon slowed his perception, scanned Earth, and discovered it had fallen to Darkseid, with most humans transformed into Parademons.
• Leon caught Henry Superman’s punch, gave Zhou Divine Spring Water to the old wizard, and blasted out of the ruins with Superman.
• Joker taunted Batman about another Superman, and Batman stood up, pocketed the crown, and watched the old man who had arrived with Leon.

The old Wizard Shazam used the life-giving liquid Leon had given him to heal several injured heroes, while Leon and Henry Superman fought a devastating battle that moved from Earth into space. Leon eventually knocked Henry Superman unconscious and carried him back toward Earth.

• The old Wizard Shazam healed Atom and Mera with drops from Leon’s jade bottle, while deciding Doctor Fate and Cyborg did not need the liquid.
• Batman, Deathstroke, Atom, and Mera left the ruins to watch Leon and Henry Superman clash, but the fighters soon took their battle beyond Earth.
• On the moon, Leon and Henry Superman exchanged attacks, and Leon said Henry ranked second among his opponents, behind Dormammu.
• Leon and Henry Superman fought from the moon toward Mars as Henry’s strength continued to rise and Leon enjoyed the contest.
• Leon knocked Henry Superman unconscious, called him no worse than Dormammu, and flew back toward Earth carrying him.

Batman and his allies made a desperate stand against the Parademon army surrounding Kahndaq while Leon fought the other Superman. Leon descended after apparently winning and erased the Parademons with Heat Vision, leaving Batman wary of his overwhelming power.

• As billions of Parademons closed in, Batman, Atom, Mera, Deathstroke, Joker, and the old wizard prepared to fight rather than flee.
• The group used Atom as a defensive bridgehead while Batman and the others fought, but their injuries mounted and the Zhou Divine Spring Water ran low.
• Batman asked the old wizard for more medicine as Joker lay badly wounded, and two beams of Heat Vision suddenly tore through the Parademons.
• Leon descended from the sky and swept his Heat Vision across Kahndaq, destroying the tens of millions of Parademons surrounding them.
• Batman recognized Leon Stark as extraordinarily powerful and considered how dangerous he would be if someone controlled him.

Leon reunited with Batman’s resistance, learned that Barry had died and that the rebooted world’s history had diverged, and heard how Superman’s rise and death led to Darkseid’s invasion. Batman ended his account with Luthor opening another Boom Tube, beginning a new disaster.

• Leon erased the remaining Parademons from Earth, then joined Batman’s team at a temporary desert camp and asked them to share what they knew.
• Batman told Leon, Tony, and the others that Superman had killed Barry after Barry tried to draw him away from the Resistance.
• Leon realized Barry had changed the past because Barry’s father had been cleared using surveillance footage, and Batman described a world where the Red Alliance had become a global power.
• Batman recounted how the Kents raised Superman in the Red Alliance, how he became a hero, and how Batman and Luthor nearly killed him before Doomsday killed them both.
• Batman explained that Superman’s resurrection defeated Steppenwolf, but Luthor later opened another Boom Tube with a Mother Box.

Batman recounted how Luthor’s plan to control Superman with the Anti-Life Equation instead brought Darkseid to Earth, where Lois and Harley Quinn died and Superman was enslaved. Darkseid conquered Earth and drained its core to obtain the Equation, leaving the listeners to confront the scale of the catastrophe.

• Batman explained how Luthor assembled Doctor Poison, Orm, and Black Manta, killed Diana, and used the Mother Box to activate the Anti-Life Equation.
• Batman revealed that Darkseid emerged through the Boom Tube and took the part of the Anti-Life Equation Luthor had deciphered; Tony and Leon discussed resisting its control.
• Batman said Luthor tried to turn Darkseid against Superman, but Darkseid invaded Earth and targeted Lois as Superman’s weakness.
• Darkseid killed Lois with his Omega Beams and Harley Quinn died in Batman’s arms; Superman’s grief let Darkseid control him.
• Darkseid killed heroes, transformed nearly all Earthlings into Parademons, and sent ships to drain Earth’s core while Superman guarded the planet.

Leon proposed attacking Apokolips, but Batman persuaded the survivors to rebuild Earth before seeking revenge. Leon then revealed that his Krypto had the Speed Force and could change the past.

• Leon urged the group to attack Apokolips, while Batman argued they should defend Earth and restore humanity using preserved gene banks.
• Mera rejected Batman’s rebuilding plan and demanded revenge for Arthur, but Batman convinced her to wait until they had revived Earth.
• Leon explained to Tony that Darkseid’s presence was only an avatar and that Leon believed he could resist the Anti-Life Equation.
• Leon revealed that Krypto could use the Speed Force, and the dog raced around the group carrying their weapons and Batman’s cowl.
• Batman, Cyborg, Doctor Fate, and the others stood up in surprise as Leon explained that Krypto had awakened the Speed Force through Barry Allen’s genes.

Leon and Batman assembled a desperate team to attack Darkseid on Apokolips, while Krypto stayed behind on Earth as the last hope of resetting the world. Leon opened a portal to Apokolips, and the newly named Avengers launched their assault.

• Leon revealed that Krypto possessed the Speed Force and could travel through time and change the past, giving Batman and the others hope of restoring Earth.
• Batman formed a seven-member squad and planned to attack Apokolips, but Leon, Tony, Diana, and Kara insisted on joining him.
• Tony and Batman agreed to unite their fighters as the Avengers, and Leon left Krypto behind on Earth.
• Leon revealed that he had traced Earth's energy transmission to Apokolips and opened a portal to the enemy world.
• Leon crossed through first, and Tony led the Avengers into battle as Batman followed through the portal.

Leon launched a devastating attack on Apokolips and faced Darkseid, while Tony and the others fought the tyrant’s forces. Batman donned Tony’s armor, renamed it the Hellbat Armor, and joined the battle as Leon and Darkseid’s clash continued.

• Leon froze Apokolips’s city and shattered it with his landing, while Diana shielded Batman and the others from the resulting shock wave.
• Batman’s group flew through the burning landscape and found Darkseid facing Leon; Darkseid’s Omega Beams pushed back Leon’s Heat Vision.
• Desaad and Granny Goodness attacked the group, and Granny summoned swarms of Parademons.
• Tony activated the Fungus God Armor and sent mycelium through the Parademon swarm, forming a giant that devoured them.
• JARVIS equipped Batman with the Anti-Superman Armor, and Batman renamed it the Hellbat Armor.

Batman and the Bat team fought Darkseid’s forces while Leon battled Darkseid, resisted the Anti-Life Equation, and prepared to face another attack. Darkseid planned to kill Leon by combining the Equation’s control with his Omega Beams.

• Batman used the Hellbat Armor to knock Desaad away and kill Granny Goodness, while Doctor Fate and Cyborg led the Bat team to intercept the Parademons and Kara and Diana flew toward Darkseid.
• Leon evaded Darkseid’s tracking Omega Beams, struck him with a devastating punch, and made the beams hit Darkseid in the abdomen.
• Darkseid summoned the Anti-Life Equation, which briefly overwhelmed Leon and sent him falling toward the magma.
• Leon resisted the Equation’s control with his willpower and taunted Darkseid, who prepared to combine the Equation with the Omega Beams to kill him.

Leon resisted the Anti-Life Equation and fought Darkseid beneath Apokolips’s magma while Diana, Kara, Batman, and Tony supported him. Leon emerged holding a ball of white light, and the others continued attacking Darkseid as Batman declared that he would pay for his slaughter.

• Leon faced Darkseid’s Omega Beams, but Diana blocked them with her bracelets and Kara knocked Darkseid’s head aside, stopping the beams.
• Leon told Diana and Kara to stay back, then overpowered Darkseid and drove him into the magma.
• Batman defeated Desaad, while Tony returned in the Fungus God Armor after absorbing hundreds of thousands of Parademons.
• Leon burst out of the magma holding a ball of white light, and Tony, Diana, and Kara struck Darkseid in succession.
• Batman followed the battered Darkseid and said it was time to pay for his slaughter.

Batman attacked Darkseid with Tony's Fake Planet-Destroying Cannon, then revealed he had obtained Apokolips Armory intelligence and planned to use Hell Spores. Leon sent everyone else away and stayed behind to face Darkseid alone.

• Batman fired the Fake Planet-Destroying Cannon into Darkseid at close range, and Leon rescued him before they fell into the lava.
• Batman explained that he had accessed the Apokolips Armory with JARVIS and cracked the activation code for the Hell Spores, while JARVIS revealed Batman had planted surveillance and countermeasure viruses in him.
• Darkseid survived the attack and vowed that neither Batman nor the destruction of Apokolips could kill him.
• Leon asked Batman whether he had gathered enough intelligence, then opened portals to send the others away.
• Leon let Batman fall toward the lava and remained behind to speak with Darkseid alone.

Leon killed Darkseid and returned to Earth, where the Batman Squad prepared to reset the timeline by sending Krypto into the past with a Data Disk. Leon and his Blacklight Clone departed as the Clone entered the Speed Force and ran upstream through time.

• Leon struck Darkseid with a devastating punch that destroyed him and shattered Apokolips.
• Leon returned to Earth, where the Batman Squad celebrated Darkseid’s death and planned to send Krypto back in time.
• Batman gave Krypto a Data Disk containing everyone’s information and told him to deliver it to Barry for safekeeping in the Speed Force.
• The Batman Squad chose to remain behind and accept the reset, while Leon took Earth’s Anti-Life Equation fragments into his Inner World.
• Leon and his Blacklight Clone left Earth, and the Clone entered the Speed Force to run upstream through time as the Bat Team urged Krypto to run.

Barry’s father was acquitted after Barry secretly changed the supermarket footage, and Barry reunited with Bruce Wayne. But Barry realized the world had not returned to its original order when Bruce mentioned the Red Alliance, and Leon called him into the Speed Force’s Time Bowl.

• Barry’s father was cleared of suspicion after surveillance footage showed him looking up in the supermarket, and Barry remembered that he had caused the footage to capture his father’s face.
• Barry left the courthouse and embraced Bruce Wayne, then invited him to eat together as they had planned before the World Reboot.
• Bruce mentioned that Japan had joined the Red Alliance, making Barry realize that the world’s order had not reverted as he expected.
• Leon called Barry into the Speed Force’s Time Bowl, and Barry said goodbye to Bruce before entering the Speed Force realm.

Barry learned that Darkseid had conquered Earth in the future after Barry changed his father's fate, then returned with intelligence for the Justice League. Leon completed the restart and reunited with his allies as their forces prepared for the final battle.

• Barry entered the Time Bowl and received a Data Disk from a talking Husky, which carried Leon's warning about Darkseid's future conquest of Earth.
• Barry watched the Bat Team's recordings and studied their intelligence about Luthor, the Anti-Life Equation, and Apokolips before exhausting himself and leaving the Time Bowl.
• Barry woke at Wayne Manor and joined the Justice League as they reviewed the Data Disk; Batman listed their next steps, including building Hellbat Armor.
• Leon returned from the Speed Force as the restarted Earth was restored, then reunited with Diana and the others.
• Leon saw the Red Alliance, Atlantis, Themyscira, and the Justice League assembled for the final battle against Darkseid.

Leon, Tony, Kara, and Diana watched Earth's forces launch their invasion of Apokolips while discussing Batman's preparations and the Hellbat Armor. They followed the army through the Boom Tube as the battle began, with Batman and Cyborg heading for the armory and the other heroes advancing on Darkseid.

• JARVIS identified Batman's Hellbat Armor and reported that the Justice League had built it while preparing for war against Darkseid.
• Leon refused to join the battle, saying it was Earth's war and that Batman had challenged Darkseid, while allowing Tony, Kara, and Diana to help if they chose.
• Cyborg opened a one-way Boom Tube, and Earth's armies entered Apokolips as Leon and his companions slipped in with them.
• Earth's forces fought swarms of Parademons, while Darkseid waited in his temple and Batman split the heroes into two groups.
• Batman and Cyborg went to the Apokolips Armory as the other heroes headed for Darkseid, and Tony remarked on the lack of a battle cry.

Batman and the heroes fought Darkseid on Apokolips, and Leon rescued Batman before his planned sacrifice could kill him. Earth won the battle, and as everyone celebrated, Kara told Leon she wanted to try the Earth reproduction ritual with him.

• Darkseid attacked the heroes with Omega Beams, while Batman held him off in the Hellbat Armor so the others could retreat.
• Batman planned to sacrifice himself and use the Hell Spores to send Darkseid into a black hole, but Leon and a golden-armored Wonder Woman saved him.
• The Hell Spores exploded and hurled Darkseid into the black hole, destroying the Parademons as Cyborg returned Earth's troops home.
• Batman announced Earth's victory to the waiting crowd, and the survivors celebrated while Diana spoke with the other Wonder Woman and Tony waited to discuss Batman's armor.
• Kara told Leon she wanted to try the Earth reproduction ritual with him, and Leon said he would take her to his world.

Leon and Kara walked the morning beach after the victory celebration, where they met Henry Superman and Lois. Kara revealed that Henry Superman was her cousin, and recognizing that he was safe and happy helped her let go of her fixation on protecting Kal-El; she left with Leon.

• Leon took a tired Kara out of the Inner World and walked with her along the coast after the celebration.
• Leon greeted Henry Superman and Lois, joked with them, and thanked Henry for his praise and gratitude.
• Leon introduced Kara Zor-El as Henry Superman's cousin, and Henry was excited to learn he had another family member.
• Kara and Henry Superman briefly discussed Krypton, and Kara reminded him to be a good father.
• Kara left with Leon, having let go of her lingering obsession with Kal-El after seeing Henry safe and happy.

Leon completed his remaining tasks in the DCEU by returning Barry Allen’s mother and confirming that Billy had inherited the wizard’s power, then brought his companions back to Marvel. He left the story in Stark Mansion’s underground garage, where he sensed powerful beings watching his return.

• Leon called Barry out, returned Mrs. Allen to him, and suggested that Barry bring his father to reunite with her.
• Leon met Billy, confirmed that the boy had received the old wizard’s power, and took a photo with him.
• Leon and his companions said goodbye to the Justice League before he opened a dimensional passage back to Marvel.
• Leon returned with Kara, Diana, and Tony to the underground garage of Stark Mansion, arriving at the moment they had left.
• Leon sensed powerful beings observing him, then reflected that his abilities were weakened in the DC Universe because he had not comprehended its laws.

After bringing Diana and Kara to the Marvel Universe, Leon explained his home, wealth, and role in protecting Earth and other dimensions. He then offered Diana several options for relocating Themyscira, leaving its new home undecided.

• Leon brought Diana and Kara to his villa and discussed whether they would live there or move to the city.
• Diana offered to sell Themyscira's jewelry to support Leon, and Kara volunteered to earn money as a mover.
• Leon clarified that the villa belonged to the Stark household, and JARVIS explained Leon's wealth, organizations, and accomplishments to Diana and Kara.
• Diana asked whether her mother and the Amazons were safe, and Leon confirmed they were still in his world.
• Leon suggested relocating Themyscira to a Pacific island, Kamar-Taj's Small World, or a World Ring.

Leon gave Diana and Kara World Rings, then brought them to Kamar-Taj’s small world and placed Themyscira in its lake. He accelerated time in his Inner World to ten thousand times its normal speed so his Legend Clone would develop faster.

• Leon offered Diana and Kara World Rings, but they initially tried to return them because they felt the gifts were too valuable.
• Diana and Kara accepted the rings after Leon insisted, then each moved hers to her ring finger.
• Leon opened a portal to Kamar-Taj’s small world and showed Diana and Kara its moonlit landscape.
• Diana chose the lake as a new home for Themyscira, and Leon placed the island there and joined it to the lake’s crust.
• Leon used the Time Stone and Space Stone to accelerate time in his Inner World to ten thousand times normal speed.
• The Blacklight Clone calculated that the Legend Clone would be ready in three days outside the Inner World.

Diana brought her mother, Hippolyta, up to date on Darkseid’s defeat and proposed settling Themyscira in Leon’s Small World. After Hippolyta agreed with strict isolation terms, Leon showed the Amazons the world and its trained fire dragons, ending at the Mage Academy’s Floating Island.

• Diana told Hippolyta how Darkseid destroyed their world and how Leon defeated him and restored it, then proposed moving Themyscira into the Small World.
• Hippolyta refused at first, but agreed to the move after Diana explained what had happened to the other Wonder Woman, on the condition that only the island’s warriors could enter or leave.
• Leon tamed the fire dragons with a few pats, and Diana, Kara, and the Amazon warriors mounted them for a tour.
• Leon showed the Amazons the Small World’s varied regions and explained that the Mage Academy would not disturb Themyscira.
• At the Floating Island, Old Wang asked Leon why he had taken Rooney and the other dragons out again and asked who Diana and Kara were.