Recaps

Roland, Night Dragon, and Cassandra traveled from Hong Kong to Singapore, where Barbara joined the No-Holds-Barred Fighting Tournament and defeated Lu Wen. Barbara suspected Lu Wen was involved in something strange, but the clue she took from her belongings turned out to be an ordinary schoolbook.

• Lady Shiva knocked Night Dragon unconscious with one strike, and Roland healed his fractured jaw.
• Wang Bo Xi learned that Lady Shiva would compete in Singapore and questioned a Bat Training Camp trainee about her unusual “student” tattoo.
• Barbara sparred with Hao Mei, then accepted a match against Lu Wen in Singapore.
• Cassandra advised Barbara through Night Dragon during the match, helping Barbara exploit Lu Wen’s openings and win.
• Barbara pointed out Lu Wen’s “student” tattoo and suspected her aggression was drug-related, so she investigated her belongings.
• Barbara showed Roland and Cassandra a blue schoolbook she had taken from Lu Wen, and they explained that it was normal for a Chinese teenager to carry one.

Cassandra and Kara investigated Lu Wen after she attacked them alongside a student, then teamed up with Batman’s student Wang Bo Xi to trace an experimental cognitive-enhancing drug to a Shanghai cram school. They confronted the school’s white-haired Teacher, who took the drug and attacked them, and Cassandra quickly subdued her.

• Cassandra and Kara confronted Lu Wen and a student, who attacked them with brass knuckles and a crowbar before Cassandra knocked them out.
• Wang Bo Xi tried to escape with Mechanical Robin, but Cassandra destroyed the robot and Kara stopped him; he revealed he was investigating the students’ use of banned drugs.
• Cassandra, Kara, and Wang Bo Xi learned the students had taken an experimental cognitive enhancer and discovered an email promoting the Last Chance Cram School.
• Robin traced the drug’s inventor, Neil Barry, and helped identify the cram school in Shanghai as their next lead.
• Kara flew Cassandra and Wang Bo Xi to the school, where Teacher drank a test-tube substance and charged at them.
• Cassandra caught Teacher and threw her to the ground as Wang Bo Xi prepared to fight.

Cassandra and Kara helped capture the teacher behind a drug-fueled exam-cramming group, then joined Roland and Wang Bo Xi for a Singapore vacation. At the No-Holds-Barred Fighting Tournament, Night Dragon and several others won quickly, and Roland wondered who the Bane-like fighter was.

• Cassandra subdued the teacher, and Wang Bo Xi interrogated her before police took her away.
• Kara and Cassandra returned to Singapore and told Roland and Barbara about the teacher’s organization and its student members.
• Roland, Cassandra, and Kara visited Sentosa Island, then spent several days playing mahjong with Wang Bo Xi.
• Roland and Kara watched the No-Holds-Barred Fighting Tournament while Barbara competed, and Night Dragon knocked out a sumo wrestler with one punch.
• Cassandra, Lady Shiva, Wang Bo Xi, and a Bane-like man also defeated their opponents in one move, and Roland wondered who the man was.

At an international fighting tournament, Wang Bo Xi faced Abomination, who turned out to be Feng Rongpei using Bane’s venom, while Cassandra Cain easily defeated Night Dragon. Roland then learned that Batman was investigating a mastermind in Gotham who had kidnapped Poison Ivy and Bane, and hurried back to help.

• Wang Bo Xi used his agility to defeat a judo master, while Barbara Gordon surrendered immediately when matched against Lady Shiva.
• Cassandra Cain sent Night Dragon flying with one move, and Wang Bo Xi later fought Abomination, who revealed himself as Feng Rongpei, a former Bat Training Camp trainee empowered by venom.
• Wang Bo Xi pulled the venom tubes from Abomination but was thrown out of the ring before his opponent collapsed, losing the match.
• Roland called Batman about venom being smuggled into China, and Batman said Bane was under someone’s control while he investigated a Gotham supervillain who had kidnapped Poison Ivy and Bane.
• After Batman returned to the Batcave, Roland teleported there and announced that he would help fight crime.

Roland and Batman used Jester as bait to lure Joker and White Rabbit into a trap beneath ACE Chemicals, where Roland subdued Joker but White Rabbit escaped. Batman traced Poison Ivy’s clues, while White Rabbit reunited with her identical double and revealed how she could appear in two places at once.

• Batman told Roland that Joker had escaped Arkham with White Rabbit, who had used a madness-inducing drug and kidnapped Poison Ivy and Bane.
• Roland and Batman decided to lure Joker out by having Jester pose as a monstrous enemy, and Roland created a huge demon shell called Absolute Joker.
• Joker believed Jester had become a dangerous monster, injected himself with Venom, and followed him into a hole beneath ACE Chemicals.
• Batman found a leaf hidden in Poison Ivy’s copy of Ten Tips for Happy Puppy, while Roland and Jester waited underground for Joker and White Rabbit.
• Roland stopped Venom-enhanced Joker, but White Rabbit vanished after delivering a cryptic Alice in Wonderland clue.
• White Rabbit appeared in a hotel room beside her identical double, and the two joined together as someone knocked at the door.

Roland captured White Rabbit and brought her to Arkham Asylum, then returned to the cathedral, where Arella arrived to warn that Trigon was coming. As Arella began recounting how she became Trigon’s bride, she recognized a different version of Trigon and stopped in confusion.

• Roland captured White Rabbit after Bane failed to rescue her, and Batman sent her to Arkham Asylum.
• Roland and Mayor Kate decided White Rabbit would face the sentence she deserved, despite concerns about her influential family.
• Back at Roland Cathedral, Jason agreed to take Raven, Astra, and Donna out to deal with Gotham’s new supervillains.
• Arella appeared at the cathedral, thanked Roland for caring for Rachel, and warned that Trigon was coming to invade their dimension.
• Roland brought Raven back to hear Arella’s account of joining a cult and becoming Trigon’s bride.
• Arella stopped her story and stared in confusion when she saw the Teen Titans Go Trigon.

Arella recounted how Trigon deceived and abandoned her, and Raven reunited with her mother while preparing to confront the Trigon of her Universe. On Raven’s birthday, the Justice League gathered to celebrate and stand ready as Trigon appeared before her.

• Arella explained that her Trigon seduced and abandoned her, and that Azarath took her in before Raven was born.
• Raven reassured Arella and said she would deal with Trigon, while Roland planned to gather allies for the coming battle.
• Raven took Arella around Gotham, where Teen Titans Go Trigon asked Arella to give him a chance and she rejected him.
• Roland assembled the United States Justice League and other allies at Roland Cathedral for Raven’s birthday and the expected fight.
• Trigon appeared before Raven and criticized her for refusing to rule the Universe with him, provoking Teen Titans Go Trigon.

Raven and the heroes fought Trigon while Roland and Batman prepared their decisive attacks. Trigon survived being battered and consumed, leaving Raven to hint that another father was moving in.

• Raven confronted Trigon as the Justice League and Teen Titans attacked, but he easily repelled their initial strikes.
• The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Raven joined forces against Trigon while Roland and Batman watched and waited.
• Batman donned the Hellbat Armor, empowered by the heroes and blessed by Sariel, while Roland prepared a compressed tornado strike.
• Roland shattered Trigon's arms, Superman battered him, and Batman joined the attack, leaving Trigon's body pulverized.
• Raven's tentacles devoured Trigon's remains, but Superman revealed that Trigon had survived in miniature form.
• Raven looked at the Pendant on her mother's chest and remarked that another father was moving in.

Constantine revealed that Demons had placed a high bounty on his soul after he used Dead Servant to lure Demons into possessing him and then tricked them into signing contracts. He explained that one Demon had stolen his heart and now rented it back to him, leaving him desperate to find a solution.

• The Teen Titans Go Trigon showed affection for Arella, enraging Trigon, while Superman said he knew a place where Trigon could be banished.
• Roland warned Constantine that Demons had put a high bounty on his soul, and Constantine revealed he had used Dead Servant to lure Demons into signing contracts they would never collect on.
• Constantine recounted how a Demon disguised as a Serpent bit him during an exorcism and stole his heart after its blessing caused his lungs to swell and burst through his chest.
• Constantine explained that the Demon now rented his altered heart back to him at a steep price, and the others refused to get involved in his troubles.
• Constantine asked Batman for help finding a way out, but Batman mistakenly assumed he wanted to borrow money.

Roland tried several ways to help Constantine recover his heart from Satan, but none worked, and Doctor Fate offered to investigate the spell. After the heroes shared a meal, the Flash realized that a Lex Luthor from another universe might have tampered with his memories.

• Roland proposed that Constantine threaten Satan, storm Hell, negotiate, or ask Heaven for help, but Michael's argument with Lord Morningstar left Jeanne d'Arc unable to make her request.
• Roland contacted a demon in Hell, who refused to negotiate with Satan and warned everyone that Constantine was widely hated.
• Doctor Fate offered to take Constantine back and study the spell controlling his heart, while Etrigan and others prepared to leave Gotham City.
• Roland invited the remaining heroes to eat barbecue, and Raven offered to pay for the meal before Arella said she would stay with her daughter.
• Teen Titans Go Trigon settled into family life with Arella and discussed Rachel's education, while Trigon watched helplessly from Superman's hand.
• The Flash suspected that a Lex Luthor from another universe had altered his memories, and Batman urged him to go to the Batcave for tests.

Roland and Superman discovered that a robot had replaced their universe’s Lex Luthor, while Batman used the Mobius Chair to uncover a multiversal scheme involving missing Luthors. The chapter left them learning that one Luthor’s universe had become a battlefield, where a grieving Luthor explained how his attempt to restore a dead Superman had brought other Luthors to him.

• Roland and Superman confronted Amazo, who had replaced Lex Luthor, and sent his remains to Cyborg to extract his memories.
• Cyborg’s playback revealed that a Luthor from another universe had ordered Amazo to impersonate the Roland Universe’s Luthor, while the real Luthor remained missing.
• Batman concluded that Barry’s confused memories might relate to changes in another universe and suspected that Luthors were disappearing across parallel worlds.
• Batman sat in the Mobius Chair and learned that one Luthor had been drawing Luthors from other universes into a battlefield.
• Alexander Luthor arrived in the other Luthor’s universe, where the gaunt Luthor described how Superman had died after humanity chose doom and how his attempt to bring Superman back had failed.

The Justice League arrived in a ruined world and rescued Final Knight, who recounted how the world had become a wasteland and Mogo’s death had left Green Lantern Rings in unworthy hands. At Coast City, Lex Luthor attacked them as an Orange Lantern, and Superman faced his summoned corps.

• The Flash carried the group to Final Knight, who described a dreamlike false life and the wasteland that remained after Gotham was destroyed; Joker agreed to join them and share what he knew.
• The group fled a Speed Force Storm and reached Coast City, where Joker explained that Brainiac had drained and killed Mogo, causing the Green Lantern Rings to fall to Earth.
• Ring-controlled corpses attacked, and Roland and Batman destroyed them and took several damaged rings.
• Lex Luthor appeared as an Orange Lantern and summoned orange constructs of the Justice League and Larfleeze.
• Superman shielded the others and fought the Orange Lantern Corps alone.

Superman fought Orange Lantern Luthor while Batman’s group entered a hidden refuge beneath Coast City and learned how the world had fallen. The survivors planned to flee to the Netherworld as Omega threatened to use the Anti-Life Equation on all life on Earth, while Roland considered exploiting the refuge’s hundred thousand souls in Hell.

• Orange Lantern Luthor used stolen Green Lantern power to summon Parallax, but Superman overpowered him and told Batman’s group to leave the battle area.
• Roland caught Poison Ivy and Vixen as they emerged from concealment, and they led Batman’s group to the underground refuge of Gemworld.
• Wasteland Diana explained that Gemworld sheltered about a hundred thousand people and told the Final Knight that the people, not the villains, had brought down the heroes.
• Wasteland Diana recounted how the people turned on Luthor and the heroes, then described Omega’s defeat of the survivors and his amplified Anti-Life Equation.
• Wasteland Diana invited the newcomers to join the survivors’ retreat to the Netherworld, and Roland considered carving out territory there or using the souls to start a business.

Wasteland Diana invited the visitors to join her in the Netherworld after Final Knight struggled to accept that their world could not be saved. Roland found Jonathan Kent, who had been transformed into a little boy and mistaken for a Luthor, and Final Knight agreed to go to Hell before eventually returning to reclaim his world.

• Wasteland Diana explained that Final Knight was a ghostly echo created by Bruce Wayne’s Memory Machine and urged him to accept that their world no longer had a Batman or Wonder Woman.
• Wasteland Diana gave Final Knight Batman’s suit and equipment, then announced that she would open a gate to the Netherworld the next day; Roland and Wonder Woman agreed to go with her.
• As Superman fought Orange Lantern Luthor, another armored Luthor arrived, and Roland searched the ruins for beds.
• A little boy fell through a black doorway, and Roland discovered he was Jonathan Kent, transformed by timeline changes after Damian’s plan involving Lizzie’s time machine.
• Jonathan decided to stay and observe the wasteland, while the group settled down to sleep near the ruins of the Hall of Justice.
• Final Knight told Wasteland Diana he would accompany her to Hell but still intended to leave afterward and take back their world.

Roland led the group into Hell, where Wasteland Diana secured a fief for herself and a hundred thousand refugees, while Satan refused to return Constantine’s heart. Back on the surface, The Flash entered the Speed Force Storm and pulled several Flashes out as Superman continued fighting the Lex Luthors.

• Roland entered Hell first, encountered Demon Azgalo, and persuaded him that the group was only scouting before Satan arrived in a convertible.
• Satan explained Hell’s political system and offered Wasteland Diana a chance to obtain a fief by accepting the Hell Court’s authority; Batman spoke with Owlman while Diana considered the offer.
• Roland asked Satan to return Constantine’s heart, but Satan refused and threatened war if Roland kept pressing him.
• Wasteland Diana became a marchioness with a fief for herself and a hundred thousand refugees, and Raven secretly brought back a few Hell souvenirs before the group returned to the surface.
• The Flash spotted several Flashes inside the Speed Force Storm, ran into it, and pulled them free while Superman fought more than a dozen Lex Luthors.

Jay Garrick joined the heroes as they fought several powerful Luthors across a ruined world, while Superman battled Shadow Luthor. After Roland's group met their world's Luthor, he explained that killing other Luthors granted power and memories, and revealed the origins of anti-crisis and crisis energy.

• The Flash rescued Jay Garrick, whose lightning reached people destined to become Flashes, while he and the Flash realized they had different memories of meeting each other.
• Shadow Luthor attacked the heroes, revealed his identity, and fought Roland until Superman intervened with a strange power and battled him using the power of AC.
• Roland's group fled to the coast, where they fought a mermaid Luthor and an armored Luthor; Roland and Cyborg used an Emperor-class Titan to destroy the armored attacker and earned redemption value.
• Roland spotted an Invisible Jet following them, and the Luthor from their world emerged and said he had been killing powerless Luthors to gain their power and memories.
• Luthor explained the seven cosmic forces and their counterparts, describing anti-crisis energy as the positive force that constructs universes and crisis energy as the negative force born from living beings' fear and anger.
• Luthor said Perpetua had stockpiled the seven hidden energies, and Shadow Luthor had gained crisis energy by releasing her.

Roland and the others went to Waller Fortress, where Roland killed the regenerative beastman Luthor and Lex revealed that he had wanted the fortress’s supercomputer. They used the computer to investigate the Luthor war, while Lex explained how two other Luthors had become monsters.

• Lex Luthor told Roland that a deranged beastman Luthor was at Waller Fortress and asked him to help kill it.
• The group found the fortress overrun by deformed beastmen, and Roland used his Red powers to fight them off.
• Lex used Jonathan Kent as bait, and Roland defeated the beastman Luthor by destroying it with psionic flames after its head regenerated.
• Lex admitted that he had brought them to Waller Fortress to obtain its supercomputer, and Roland and Batman said they wanted to end the Luthor war rather than let one Luthor absorb the rest.
• Lex and Batman connected the supercomputer to surviving satellites and began gathering intelligence on the other Luthors.
• Lex explained that the Orange Lantern Luthor had turned Superman into a killer, while the Rot’s invasion had driven the beastman Luthor insane.

Luthor on the Brink of Death contacted Batman and the others to help prevent a Luthor who combined all the others from emerging, then recounted how he tried to survive a kryptonite-induced terminal illness. After Superman took him to Kandor, the Phantom Zone, and the future for treatment, no one had found a cure, and Luthor remained critically ill.

• Luthor on the Brink of Death contacted Batman and said he wanted to stop someone from combining every Luthor into one.
• Luthor on the Brink of Death explained that a kryptonite experiment had caused his cells to decay rapidly, leaving him only days to live.
• Superman took Luthor on the Brink of Death to the Fortress of Solitude, where Kryptonian scientists examined him and failed to find a cure.
• Superman brought Luthor on the Brink of Death to the Phantom Zone, where Luthor saved him from Zod and the prisoners.
• Superman took Luthor on the Brink of Death to meet the Legion of Super-Heroes and Brainiac 5, but their efforts also failed to treat his illness.

A dying Lex Luthor from another world asked the heroes to join forces against powerful threats, and they identified Omega at Wayne Tower as their first target. The group reached Gotham and met the aged Bruce Wayne, who revealed himself as Omega, while Roland’s antics left the team wondering who would fight him.

• The dying Lex Luthor finished recounting how Wonder Woman’s magic had only delayed his illness, then proposed joining forces with the heroes.
• Batman shut down the communication and gathered the team behind Raven’s Magic barrier to discuss their suspicions about Lex’s hidden agenda.
• Lex arrived in a life-support pod and showed the group a map marking Superman, Shadow Luthor, Orange Lantern Luthor, and Omega.
• The group chose to investigate Omega at Wayne Tower, where they defeated Scarecrow after Roland unnerved him and Wonder Woman beheaded him.
• Omega emerged as an aged Bruce Wayne wearing red Bat-Armor and carrying Darkseid’s head on a Kryptonite Spear.
• Roland provoked Omega with jokes, so Batman and Final Knight attacked him while Wonder Woman dragged him away, leaving the others to face Omega without their strongest fighters.

Batman, Roland, Wonder Woman, and their allies pursued Omega and defeated him before he could unleash the Anti-Life Equation. They reached the survivors’ hidden base, where the Final Knight learned that Tim and others had died, while Jason discovered another version of himself had died too.

• Batman fought Omega and resisted the Anti-Life Equation, while Luthor on the Brink of Death countered it with the Life Equation.
• Omega escaped to Wayne Tower, and Roland led the group after him; Roland and Wonder Woman cleared the Parademons blocking their path.
• The Final Knight fought Omega, but The Flash rescued him from the Kryptonite Spear, and Wonder Woman vaporized Omega as he activated the Bat-Signal.
• Roland brought the group to the Owl Cave, where Gordon, Barbara, Dick, and the others explained how Omega had controlled Gotham and how Tim had died fighting him.
• Jason found his suit in a glass case and asked how he had died again, while the group mistook Dick’s daughter for Lex Luthor’s child.

Roland and his allies chose to confront the Luthor who had combined Blue Beetle’s scarab with the power of Anubis to become the Scorpion King. Wonder Woman began fighting him while Roland watched closely, intent on claiming the finishing blow himself.

• The middle-aged Dick asked whether Roland and his allies had defeated Omega, and Roland hinted that he might have a way to bring the dead back after they dealt with the Luthors.
• Roland took the team from the Owl Cave to Waller Fortress, where Luthor on the Brink of Death identified the Scorpion King as their next target.
• Luthor on the Brink of Death explained how the Scorpion King Luthor had taken Ted Kord’s scarab and fused it with Anubis’s bracelet to create the Scorpion Amulet.
• Roland brought the team to the Scorpion King’s location and agreed to let Wonder Woman fight him one-on-one while he stood by for the finishing blow.
• The Scorpion King emerged from the sand and threatened the newcomers, and Wonder Woman immediately attacked him with a barrage of weapons.
• Roland used Observation Haki to track the battle and called out tactical advice, frustrating Wonder Woman as she fought.

Roland’s group eliminated more Luthors, then confronted Shadow Luthor as he tried to recruit the surviving versions of himself to help Perpetua remake the Multiverse. Superman struck Shadow Luthor after exposing his fear, and the group prepared to attack while Luthor on the Brink of Death suspected Roland of pursuing his divine power.

• Roland killed the Scorpion King before Wonder Woman could, then Wonder Woman said she could control the God of War’s power without the Lasso of Truth.
• Over the next two days, Roland killed Luthors from three more universes and gained Whitesnake and Made in Heaven by offering the souls of 36 utterly wicked people.
• One year earlier, Perpetua told Lex Luthor that he was destined to help return the Multiverse to its intended path of destruction.
• Shadow Luthor urged the surviving Luthors to become apex predators and help him destroy worlds that believed in heroism, but Amazo Luthor and Scientist Luthor attacked him instead.
• Roland’s group joined Superman and the remaining Luthors as Shadow Luthor fought back, and Superman mocked Shadow Luthor’s choices before punching him.
• Luthor on the Brink of Death ordered everyone to attack Shadow Luthor and then accused Roland of seeking his Amazon divine power.

Shadow Luthor summoned the Crime Syndicate and fought the heroes and alternate Luthors while explaining his resentment toward a world where human achievement seemed insignificant beside gods. After Scientist Luthor and Superman weakened him, Shadow Luthor trapped Superman in an illusion and turned on the others.

• The dying Luthor concealed himself inside his life-support pod while Shadow Luthor summoned the Crime Syndicate to face the heroes.
• The Flash fought Johnny Quick, Cyborg battled the power-ring wielder and Grid, Wonder Woman fought Sea King and Ultraman, and Roland joined Raven and Jason against Superwoman.
• Scientist Luthor identified Shadow Luthor's Martian pyrophobia and learned that Shadow Luthor had once saved Earth, joined the Justice League, and resented the multiverse restoring the Crime Syndicate.
• Shadow Luthor urged villains across the multiverse to embrace their natures, revealed seven crisis-energy seats made from the corpses of former Legion of Doom members, and attacked Superman and the Luthors.
• Scientist Luthor detonated his miniature black hole, allowing Superman to tear apart Shadow Luthor's body, but Shadow Luthor used Mayavan to trap Superman in an illusion and prepare to attack the others.

Luthor on the Brink of Death and the others defeated Shadow Luthor, freed Martian Manhunter, and sent the Luthors back to their universes. A week later, Roland activated a machine and used Made in Heaven to accelerate time across the universe.

• Luthor on the Brink of Death explained how Brainiac had given him Superman's powers and left him fatally ill, then joined the fight against Shadow Luthor.
• Roland distracted Shadow Luthor with Oreos, letting the group destroy his body and the thrones that empowered him.
• Superman recovered and defeated Shadow Luthor, purged the Crisis Energy, and freed Martian Manhunter.
• Roland took Orange Lantern Luthor's ring, which chose him as its bearer, and declared that he would save the world.
• A week later, Roland used Lex Luthor's machine to accelerate time throughout the universe with Made in Heaven.

Roland used Made in Heaven to accelerate time to the end of the universe, creating a subtly different parallel universe without completing a full reboot. After returning home, he realized he had forgotten to help the Flash recover his memories.

• Roland explained that accelerating time affected nonliving things but not living creatures, and that he planned to stop before the universe fully rebooted.
• The universe reached its end, and Roland explained to the Final Knight that a new, slightly different parallel universe would begin.
• The reboot left characters in altered circumstances: Swamp Thing found evidence that someone had hacked satellites, Abin Sur and Hal Jordan questioned their memories, and Lex Luthor and Superman left the Fortress of Solitude together.
• The Speedsters emerged from the Speed Force Storm, and Wally remembered Barry sacrificing himself, though Barry had no memory of dying.
• Roland returned to his universe and admitted he had forgotten that he had crossed worlds to help the Flash recover his memories.