Recaps

Nightwing accepted Deathstroke's commission to help repair his relationship with Rose Wilson and recruited the Justice League, whose plan began after class. At a villa, they rescued a younger Rose from a monster, but it escaped, leaving them to protect her from the figures hunting her.

• Deathstroke offered Nightwing a year's mercenary earnings to help with Rose, and Nightwing accepted the commission.
• Nightwing recruited the Justice League to help with his plan, and Raven agreed while the others prepared to join after class.
• In history class, Traci Thirteen read a Tarot card that warned Jason the mission might involve unpleasant illusions.
• Rose Wilson, wearing Deathstroke's suit, rescued a younger Rose from a monster as Nightwing and the Justice League attacked it.
• The monster escaped, and the younger Rose told the group that Murderer and his Slaughter Squad had been hunting her.
• Rose asked the Justice League to protect the child.

Rose and the others discovered they were trapped in a Dream Space where their memories and histories had been altered, while Raven confronted a fake Demon Trigon. Raven identified the shared dream and demanded to know who had brought them there.

• Rose questioned Little Ross and learned that Murderer wanted to use her as a bridge from Insomnia to the Waking World.
• Little Ross attacked Rose, claiming Rose was the bridge, and the group fought monsters as Beast Boy faced a grotesque version of himself.
• Nightwing realized their memories and perceptions were illusions, then was killed by an owl-masked attacker; Green Arrow also turned on Roy.
• Raven confronted Demon Trigon on his planet, rejected his offer, and fought him with magic.
• Raven revealed that Soul Chains had connected the group and asked who had brought them into the Dream Space.

After Batman died in a bombing, Damian sought help from the League of Assassins and began brutally killing criminals who claimed responsibility for Batman’s death. In the Batcave, Batman confronted him, but Damian realized he was facing a nightmare rather than his father.

• Raven attacked Demon Trigon inside the shared dream while worrying about the others.
• Damian and Batman searched a mass grave at Triangle Docks, where a bomb killed Batman and injured Damian.
• Weeks later, Damian asked Talia and Ra's al Ghul to help find Batman's killer, and Ra's urged him to become the next Batman.
• Damian hunted down and killed criminals who claimed to have killed Batman, despite Alfred warning him that Batman would condemn the murders.
• Damian confessed his guilt to a priest he mistook for Father Roland, then returned to the Batcave and faced a nightmare version of Batman.
• Damian overpowered the nightmare Batman and recognized that his imagined father was far weaker than the real one.

Damian escaped Batman’s dream trap while Roland and his allies investigated the global nightmare and learned that John Dee had hidden the Nightmare Stone in an enemy’s dream. The group found Dee dead in Arkham Asylum, where his corpse offered to help them find the Stone after killing a few Robins.

• Damian recognized that the Batman in his dream was an illusion and defeated him, warning that the real Batman might be in danger at Roland Cathedral.
• Sandman told Roland that Doctor Destiny’s Nightmare Stone had spread dreams across the world and could turn dreams into reality.
• Roland, Cain, and Batman’s projected soul met Deadman, who explained that a spell connected the Dreaming and the World of the Dead and could make dream deaths real.
• Roland connected John Dee to Roderick Burgess, who had captured Dream and taken his magical implements, then summoned Merlin to help.
• Roland’s group found John Dee dead in Arkham Asylum, where Dee’s corpse revealed that he had hidden the Nightmare Stone in an enemy’s dream.

Roland and his companions confronted Insomnia, a dream construct searching for the Nightmare Stone, while Deadman uncovered clues about his hidden memories. Insomnia tried to frighten Hal Jordan with nightmares, but Hal overcame them and pursued Insomnia through the dream realm.

• Insomnia attacked Roland and his companions, but Roland bound him while Deadman searched his mind and learned about the Nightmare Stone, the Lazarus Rain, and Insomnia's hidden happy memories.
• Insomnia escaped toward the Nightmare Realm and threatened to watch the heroes' nightmares, but a green light from Coast City interrupted him.
• Insomnia trapped Hal Jordan in a dream of his father's funeral, but Hal summoned his Green Lantern Ring and broke free.
• Insomnia shifted Hal through memories of Carol, Abin Sur, and the Guardians, but Hal rejected each nightmare and realized they represented choices he had faced.
• Hal recited the Green Lantern oath, struck Insomnia, and chased him through the dream realm with a chainsaw created by his ring.

Green Lantern pursued Insomnia into The Flash’s dream, where The Flash uncovered The Trickster’s Sage Force plot to make Central City happy and plunge it into chaos. After The Trickster severed The Flash’s legs, The Flash overcame his terror and kept moving with his hands, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Green Lantern chased Insomnia into The Flash’s dream, where The Flash rescued a boy from Old Man Cicada and brought the cultists to Iron Heights.
• The Flash found Central City unnaturally peaceful, learned Captain Cold was supposedly unknown, and discovered The Trickster had taken Kristen’s boyfriend’s place in her photograph.
• The Trickster used the Sage Force and a happiness machine to control the city, while Warden Wolfe confessed that he had abused and erased The Trickster’s identity.
• The Flash escaped the machine’s influence, but Captain Cold froze him after The Trickster’s power affected him; The Trickster later captured The Flash and displayed the city’s chaos.
• The Trickster cut off The Flash’s legs, but The Flash rejected his fear and continued moving on his hands with Speed Force lightning.

The Flash and Green Lantern escaped Insomnia’s dream trap, while Deadman entered the Sleepless Knight’s nightmare and uncovered Christopher’s grief-driven hatred of the Justice League. Deadman realized Christopher’s memories came from a world that did not fit the current timeline, and Superboy-Prime appeared just as Christopher’s nightmare versions of the heroes emerged.

• The Flash and Green Lantern escaped Insomnia’s dream realm, and Superman explained that magic had stopped time while the Justice League awakened.
• Superboy-Prime coached Deadman to seize his chance to become more prominent, then Deadman confronted the Sleepless Knight and entered his body to inspect his dream.
• Deadman witnessed Christopher lose his family in an attack by the Murder Machine and later kill survivors while vowing revenge on the Justice League.
• Christopher summoned monstrous versions of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, and Deadman questioned how Christopher’s memories could come from the Flashpoint World.
• Superboy-Prime appeared beside Deadman, who demanded to know how he had entered the nightmare.

Roland, Batman, Cain, and Sandman searched the Between for the Nightmare Stone while Deadman and Superboy-Prime confronted Insomnia. Deadman rejected Insomnia’s fabricated family, and Insomnia returned to his own family before Deadman announced that the crisis was over.

• Sandman led Roland, Batman, and Cain through the Between toward the Nightmare Stone as they sensed its power in a dark forest.
• Insomnia created an imaginary family for Deadman, but Deadman rejected the dream because his friends needed him.
• Superboy-Prime used a dream family inspired by The Incredibles to overpower Insomnia and told him that his family had been resurrected after the Death Metal event.
• Deadman confronted Insomnia and chose to stop being a spectator, asking Superboy-Prime to send Insomnia back where he belonged.
• Insomnia returned to his home and tearfully reunited with his three children.
• At Arkham Asylum, Batman identified the corpse as Christopher Lucas, and Deadman appeared to tell the others that it was already over.

After Batman accidentally died in a fall, Joker lost his purpose and imagined a life as an ordinary Wayne Enterprises employee, where he rose through the ranks, married, and had a child. He woke in Arkham Asylum and learned that his fellow inmates had heard him sleep-talking about Batman.

• Batman slipped on the rain-soaked rooftop and fell to his death while Joker and his henchmen watched in shock.
• Joker and his henchmen robbed a bank, attacked a uranium ship, and built a bomb, but Joker soon lost interest in crime.
• Joker applied to Wayne Enterprises as John Caesar and became a valued employee, eventually receiving a promotion from Jester Wayne.
• Joker disrupted an office gathering with a rant, then adjusted to managing his team and joked with them at a project celebration.
• In Crime Alley, Joker was attacked by Mob members and reunited with Gaggy, whom he urged to find a meaningful life.
• Joker's dream of an ordinary life ended when he woke in Arkham Asylum, where Solomon Grundy, Maxim Zeus, Bane, and Scarecrow teased him about his sleep-talking.

After the nightmares ended, the heroes faced Doomsday, whose history tied him to Krypton and the Green Lantern Corps. As the group debated ways to stop him, Sandman offered to use a dream to bring him onto their side.

• Damian learned that Superboy-Prime had set him up, and Sandman promised Earth a year of sweet dreams.
• Superboy-Prime sensed Doomsday approaching, and Superman intercepted him over Metropolis before taking him to the Pacific Ocean.
• Green Lantern and Sinestro explained that Bertron’s team had created Doomsday on ancient Krypton, where repeated deaths made him adapt to whatever killed him.
• The heroes learned that Doomsday had slaughtered Kryptonians and Green Lanterns before a Guardian sent him into a rift in the universe.
• Doomsday revived after Green Lantern and The Flash attacked him, adapting to their attacks, while Superman and The Flash proposed sending him to the end of time.
• Sandman offered to weave a dream that might turn Doomsday to their side, and Green Lantern questioned whether the plan would work.

Destiny saw that Death worried about Dream and warned her to stay away from Earth, remembering the Dead Servant who loved her. Meanwhile, Doomsday experienced a series of dreams in which he shared ordinary adventures with heroes across the world.

• Destiny summoned Death, who said she feared she might have to take Dream away if his situation continued.
• Destiny reacted to the thought of the Dead Servant loving Death and told her to stay away from Earth for a while.
• Doomsday dreamed of working on Superman’s farm, then investigating murders with the Flash and comforting Green Lantern.
• Doomsday and Roland cared for an abandoned baby named Roger, prompting Roland to notice their family-like bond.
• Doomsday dreamed of adventures with Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Batman, and Aquaman.

Doomsday remained under control but joined Conner and Superboy-Prime in driving the Kent family into a financial crisis. To earn food, they went to Roland, who tried to learn the miracle of the loaves and fishes and discovered that a little boy had to hand him the food for the miracle to work.

• Doomsday woke from a dream, resisted the urge to attack his friends, and went with Superman to get food.
• A week later, Lois found that Conner, Superboy-Prime, and Doomsday had spent the Kent family’s savings and ordered them to get jobs.
• Conner, Superboy-Prime, and Doomsday set off for Gotham to seek work from Tim, Batman, and Roland, while Doomsday hoped Roland Cathedral would provide meals.
• Roland refused to feed Doomsday at the cathedral, then decided to learn the miracle of the five loaves and two fish.
• Roland traveled with Doomsday to the Church of the Miracle of the Loaves in Israel and experimented with Holy Power.
• Roland teleported a little boy over to hand him the food, and his attempt to reproduce the miracle worked.

Roland confronted Starro the Conqueror, a powerful alien psionic who had come to Earth after sensing Roland. After defeating and capturing Starro, Roland decided to guide him rather than kill him, while Batman took one of the starfish duplicates.

• Roland and Doomsday returned to Gotham, where the heroes were watching a horror movie with Rose Wilson.
• A dark cloud gathered over Gotham, and Roland recognized the approaching alien as Starro the Conqueror.
• Starro released mind-controlling spores and attacked Roland with an energy beam, but Roland reversed the spores and smashed Starro apart with his fists.
• Roland used a Psychic Scream to incapacitate Starro and packed the unconscious duplicates into a box.
• Batman asked Roland for a duplicate, and Roland gave him one while keeping Starro and the other starfish for himself.
• Roland refused to kill Starro, saying he believed the conqueror could be guided, and Batman warned him not to let the situation get out of hand.

Roland gathered heroes at his cathedral to hear the Time Trapper explain how a transformed Darkseid conquered another universe and how a tournament could create an Omega King to challenge him. The gathering ended with the warning that victory required the heroes to fight without mercy.

• Tim questioned Jarro becoming a Robin, and Batman offered to let Tim call him Dad.
• Roland invited Batman and other battle-hardened heroes to Roland Cathedral to hear a message from Doomsday.
• The Time Trapper showed the heroes how Darkseid became an all-consuming cosmic force and conquered his universe despite countless attempts to stop him.
• The Time Trapper explained that a Heart of Apokolips would hold a tournament to choose a champion who could become the Omega King.
• The Time Trapper warned that the heroes would have to defeat one another without mercy to make the Heart powerful enough to challenge Darkseid.

The Time Trapper brought Roland and his allies into the Omega Universe, where Booster Gold objected to their arrival and the two worlds’ heroes began sizing each other up. As the visitors prepared for war, Roland’s Batman urged the Omega League to resist the coming takeover.

• Green Lantern questioned why Roland had left Superman and Aquaman behind, and Roland explained that he had forgotten Aquaman.
• Booster Gold protested the Time Trapper’s decision to bring Roland’s powerful allies, while the visitors revealed their formidable abilities and frightened him.
• The Flash freed the Omega Universe’s Barry from the time stop, prompting the Time Trapper to cancel it and leave the two groups to talk.
• The two Batmen and Supermen discussed their counterparts, while the Roland Universe’s heroes explained why some of their allies had stayed behind.
• Roland claimed to be the smartest person in his world, and Batman told the Omega League to prepare for war and try to keep their universe out of Roland’s hands.

Earth’s heroes prepared for the approaching tournament by evacuating the planet and making plans to confront its dangers. As the evacuation continued, heroes from the Omega and Roland universes chose their own preparations for the coming battle.

• Superman and Batman discussed the danger of villains entering the tournament, while Roland offered to help stop them.
• The heroes reached an agreement with world leaders, and Superman promised that Earth would not suffer the fate of his destroyed home.
• Cyborg announced a complete planetary evacuation, with major companies building arks using modified Brainiac technology.
• Batman of the Omega universe and Batman from the Roland Universe agreed to cooperate against illegal teaming.
• Diana, King of the Gods, offered Wonder Woman a share of her divine authority, while the Emperor-class Titan invited Cyborg to follow the Omnissiah.
• Superman equipped himself with sun-powered gauntlets he had forged in the Fortress of Solitude.

More than a hundred heroes entered the Scartaris Nexus and fought through the Heart of Apokolips’ first trial. The second challenge began with sixteen hidden items, and Hal Jordan and The Flash each drew power rings to themselves.

• Booster Gold fired an Omega Beam that briefly stopped the Heart of Apokolips, whose visions vanished as the heroes reached the arena gates.
• Batman and Roland joined forces, while Francis and his master unleashed Hell Reincarnation Sword, and the heroes charged through the Parademons to pass the first trial.
• The Heart of Apokolips announced that contestants had to find sixteen items hidden among the old gods’ remains, and that anyone without an item when time ran out would die.
• Hawkman and Cyborg sensed items, while Lex Luthor mapped the arena and spotted the power rings flying toward Hal Jordan of the Roland Universe.
• Hal Jordan drew the power rings to himself, and The Flash summoned a Speed Force Ring to his finger.

As the multiverse melee continued, Francis and Shatterpressure took Venom from Lobo while Jason’s Homies fought Starro’s controlled heroes. The competitors claimed fifteen of the sixteen items, leaving Superman and Lex Luthor still fighting as Jason, Red Hood, and Roy prepared to leave the arena.

• Lobo injected himself with Venom after Starro tried to steal it, but Shatterpressure ripped the Venom out and passed it to Francis before she and Francis chased Lobo.
• Jason’s Homies army fought Starro-controlled heroes on an icefield, and Jason took Blue Beetle while searching for his next-round ticket.
• Roy joined Jason and Red Hood, learned that the Omega world’s Arsenal had died, and saw photos of his daughter Lian.
• Jason, Roy, and Red Hood discussed the possibility that Red Hood had a daughter named Xiao Yue in this universe, though Roy quickly backed away from the claim.
• Fifteen items were claimed by competitors from the Roland and Omega Universes and by three mysterious figures, while the final item remained unfound and Superman continued fighting Lex Luthor.
• Roy headed for the spectator stands with a white feather, while Jason said he had his own way to get an item.

Superman and the other contestants advanced through the Heart of Apokolips’ tournament, while Roland revealed he had secretly claimed Booster Gold’s wrist detonator. The Flash’s victory sent Batman to the Absolute Universe, where he reunited with his living mother, Martha.

• Superman used the Kryptonite Spear on himself to claim the Omega Sanction, and the Heart of Apokolips eliminated contestants who had no items.
• Roland revealed that he had taken Booster Gold’s wrist detonator at the start, allowing him to remain in the contest.
• Superman defeated Lex Luthor, and Absolute Batman killed Joker to win their matches.
• The Flash defeated Batman after Roland arranged their matchup, while Darkseid refrained from entering the battle.
• The Flash sent Batman to the Absolute Universe, where Batman saw that Martha was alive and wished her a happy Mother’s Day.

Wonder Woman of the Roland Universe defeated Absolute Superman in the tournament, then teamed up with Absolute Wonder Woman against Absolute Batman and Superman of the Omega Universe. The battle left Wonder Woman stunned when Absolute Wonder Woman revealed that her mother had taught her Circe’s transformation magic.

• Roy complained that the tournament format had set Wonder Woman up for a difficult match, but she insisted she would defeat Absolute Superman.
• Wonder Woman fought Absolute Superman and destroyed him with Zeus’s Thunderbolt Staff and Divine Might Like a Prison.
• The Heart of Apokolips announced a two-on-two match pairing Wonder Woman and Absolute Wonder Woman against Absolute Batman and Superman of the Omega Universe.
• Wonder Woman and Absolute Wonder Woman rode Pegasus and separated Superman from Absolute Batman, while Absolute Wonder Woman transformed Pegasus into a nine-headed serpent with her Lasso of Sacrifice.
• Absolute Wonder Woman said her mother had taught her the transformation magic, leaving Wonder Woman wondering how an archenemy could become a mom.

Roland fought Darkseid in a prolonged battle that revealed them as opposing forces shaping reality. After Roland defeated him, Darkseid warned that an Absolute Crisis would sweep across the infinite Multiverse, and Roland killed him with the Spear of Longinus.

• Wonder Woman defeated Superman and Absolute Batman before Roland and Darkseid entered the ring for the main event.
• Green Lantern attacked Darkseid, while the Flash tried to affect him with the will of Love's Fragrant Aura, but Darkseid ignored them and charged Roland.
• Roland blocked Darkseid's mass attack with a gigantic sacred figure and shattered the illusory Spears of Longinus.
• Roland and Darkseid continued fighting across different worlds for days as their battle took on the scale of opposing realities.
• Roland gained control of the fight and defeated Darkseid, who warned him that battles across the infinite Multiverse were fueling Omega Energy and an Absolute Crisis.
• Roland told Darkseid they would fight again and drove the Spear of Longinus into his head.

Green Lantern defeated the Flash, then surrendered to Roland, leaving five contestants in the arena. The tournament was interrupted when two Batmen arrived with their families, and the Omega Universe’s Batman reunited tearfully with Absolute Martha.

• Green Lantern wore down the Flash with defensive, wide-area attacks and won their fight.
• Green Lantern surrendered when Roland entered the arena, leaving Roland, both Wonder Women, the Roland Universe’s Flash, and Harley Quinn as the five remaining contestants.
• The arena shattered, and the Omega Universe’s Batman arrived with Alfred Wayne and the Bat Family while the Roland Universe’s Batman appeared with Absolute Martha.
• Absolute Martha embraced the tearful Omega Universe’s Batman, while he stopped his Red Hood from asking her a troubling hypothetical about a son being killed.
• Roy learned that the little white-haired girl was his daughter, then declined Kara’s suggestion that he spar with Cassie.

Roland refused to leave Apokolips unclaimed and announced he would make it a colony, but Martha’s praise softened him enough to end the argument. After the Heart of Apokolips shattered and everyone returned to the real world, Roland assigned the gathered heroes their tasks.

• Roland refused the Omega Batman’s proposal to stop fighting and declared that he would keep the victory’s spoils, then clarified that he planned to make Apokolips a colony.
• Wonder Woman suggested a beauty trap, and Martha praised Roland for resolving the crisis and being a good friend to Bruce, leaving him embarrassed and agreeable.
• The Heart of Apokolips shattered, returning everyone to the real world, where Superman and Aquaman from Roland’s universe arrived to help.
• Roland ordered the Teen Titans to return the evacuees, Superman to lead the Justice League in clearing Darkseid’s remaining Omega Effect, and Thomas to keep Martha company.

Cyborg stopped a bank robbery in Gotham but was frightened by a child's reaction and returned to Wayne Manor discouraged. There, Roland proposed turning Gotham into a tourist destination to undermine its reputation as the crime capital.

• Cyborg from the Omega Universe stopped a brick-like robot from robbing a bank and handed it over to the police.
• A girl called Cyborg scary and said Robin was cooler, leaving Cyborg disheartened.
• Cyborg returned to Wayne Manor, where the heroes from different worlds discussed their lives in Gotham.
• Roland proposed building an antique-style tourist district with food stalls to change Gotham's image, and the Roland Universe's Batman recognized the idea as resembling the Nanjing Confucius Temple.