Recaps

Jason returned Batman’s soul to a clay body, reuniting him with the Batfamily, while Batman healed Barbara’s spine with a medical robot. Batman then told Roland that Diana’s messages suggested a major interstellar war was approaching.

• Jason caught Batman’s departing soul and placed it in the clay he carried, creating a miniature Clay Batman as the original Batman regained consciousness.
• Red Hood refused to forgive Batman and withdrew into the Space Pod, while Red Robin invited the others to the Batcave and offered to train Tim.
• Alfred welcomed Clay Batman back, and Nightwing and Barbara joined the Batfamily in celebrating his return.
• Batman used a trauma-treatment robot to heal Barbara’s spinal injury, and she surprised Commissioner Gordon by walking toward him.
• Batman told Roland that Diana’s cryptic messages and rising divine power suggested an approaching interstellar war.

Red Hood gave a young thief money and a gun, then joined Roland and Jason in confronting Joker before leaving him to die in an explosion. Back home, Roland learned that the Joker Virus had been infected by his body and transformed into the harmless Roland Virus, while Deadpool arrived with Constantine after a disastrous lung transplant.

• Red Hood caught a child trying to break into his Space Pod, gave him cash and a gun, and taught him how to shoot.
• Nightwing brought Red Hood an apple pie, and Red Hood invited him to become a partner in crime.
• Alfred gave The Flash pastries, and Jason, Batman, and Roland returned home in the Space Pod, leaving Red Hood behind.
• Red Hood broke Joker's bones and walked away, and Roland's planted bomb killed Joker in an explosion.
• Roland inhaled green gas from the blast, and Batman later discovered that the Joker Virus had become a stable, apparently harmless Roland Virus inside him.
• Deadpool arrived with Constantine, explaining that his lung transplant had worsened Constantine's cancer and left him near death.

Roland tried to protect Constantine from Satan and the other two Kings of Hell, while Jason and a white raven devoured a demon’s soul at Roland Cathedral. The three Kings joined forces to destroy Trigon’s avatar, and Raven then discovered that her father’s presence had vanished.

• Roland refused Satan’s demand to take Constantine and showed him Astra’s doll being seized and consumed by Jason and a white raven.
• Satan confronted Roland, but Roland challenged him and revealed that the Second and Third of the Fallen had also come to claim Constantine’s soul.
• Roland stirred the three Kings of Hell into a dispute over Constantine, then threatened to kill him to force them to act.
• The three Kings of Hell attacked Trigon’s arriving avatar together and destroyed it with a blast of their combined power.
• At Roland Cathedral, Raven sensed her father approaching, but after a distant beam of destruction appeared, his presence disappeared.

Roland and his friends prepared to celebrate the Spring Festival while Clark struggled with his breakup and interviewed Lex Luthor, who praised Clark and blamed Superman. Kara cheered Clark up at home and gave him an idea for how to reconnect with Lois before the gathering.

• The Three Kings of Hell cured Constantine and agreed not to interfere with the demons inside Roland Cathedral, while Deadpool complained that they had not treated him too.
• Raven, Jason, and Kara learned that Raven's father had been driven away, and Roland teased Jason with an embarrassing photograph as incentive to study.
• Roland confirmed that his test results were clear and invited his friends and family to a New Year meal at Roland Cathedral.
• Perry assigned Clark to interview Lex Luthor, who praised Clark while ranting about Superman and Lois; afterward, Clark and Lois avoided each other's eyes at the Daily Planet.
• Kara invited Clark to the Spring Festival meal, and Clark eagerly praised her after she whispered an idea about Lois to him.

Roland’s New Year’s celebration brought together heroes, villains, and their families at the church. The festivities ended when Clark found an injured boy named Damian Wayne, whom Roland identified as Bruce’s son.

• Roland organized the church’s New Year’s decorations, feast, fireworks, and red envelopes as Clark, Lois, Bruce, Selene, and their companions arrived.
• Roland and Bruce handed out red envelopes to the children, while Harley Quinn accepted Astra as her goddaughter and went to see her pets.
• The adults discussed their families, and Deadshot said he hoped to remarry his ex-wife and bring his daughter to the school.
• Clark called Roland over after finding an injured Asian boy near the church, and Roland healed his external wounds.
• The boy introduced himself as Damian Wayne, and Roland told a stunned Bruce that Damian was his son.

Ra's al Ghul was summoned to Earth-22, where his dying counterpart sent him away with Damian and Hawkman's notebook as a deadly Batman closed in. Back at Roland Cathedral, the group learned the Dark Knights could not reach their Universe and began studying the notebook's account of Barbatos and the Dark Multiverse.

• Ra's al Ghul vanished from his mansion after hearing a voice call to him, and Lady Shiva and David Cain set out to find Cassie.
• On Earth-22, Ra's al Ghul met his dying counterpart, who gave him Damian and Hawkman's notebook and warned him that Batman had gone insane.
• Earth-22 Ra's al Ghul sacrificed himself with a tactical nuke to hold off the monstrous Robins, while Ra's al Ghul escaped with Damian and saw the terrifying Batman.
• Damian told Bruce and the others that Diana, Superman, and the Flash were dead, and Bruce took him to rest.
• Roland confirmed with Lucifer that the Dark Knights could not reach their Universe, then returned to the group as they began reading Hawkman's notebook.
• The notebook described Nth Metal, the Dark Multiverse, and Barbatos, the Nightmare God also known as the god Set.

Roland and Clark uncovered Hawkman's warning about the Batman Who Laughs and learned that Ra's al Ghul had gone missing, while Cassandra was being prepared to lead the League of Assassins. Ra's survived and found Hath-Set's tomb, as Cassandra was tricked into accepting the League's leadership.

• Roland and Clark read Hawkman's fragmented account of the Batman Who Laughs, but decided to focus on their own universe for now.
• Clark deduced that Ra's al Ghul or Talia had saved Damian, and Roland learned from Lady Shiva that Ra's was missing and Cassandra was being arranged to take over the League of Assassins.
• Roland checked with his demonic contacts and learned that Ra's was not in Hell, while Ra's discovered Hath-Set's tomb and its connection to Barbatos and the Judas Tribe.
• Ra's considered his Human Cleansing Plan but decided to return to the League of Assassins and make plans there.
• Lady Shiva tricked Cassandra into attending a New Year gathering, restrained her, and presented her as the new leader of the League of Assassins.

Cassandra struggled with becoming leader of the League of Assassins, while Bruce helped Damian settle into life in Gotham and obtain legal identity papers. The chapter ended with Bruce taking Damian to the Iceberg Lounge for lunch.

• Cassandra told Roland that she never wanted to lead the League of Assassins, and he helped her decide how to use the position on her own terms.
• Cassandra suspended the League's assassination assignments and ordered its assassins, including David Cain, to volunteer at the Martha Foundation.
• Bruce reassured Damian that he would save Damian's father, then demonstrated his strength by shattering a distant tree with a punch.
• Bruce took Damian to Gotham City Hall, where Kate arranged Damian's identity documents and welcomed him as her nephew.
• Bruce drove Damian around Gotham and stopped at the Iceberg Lounge, where he said they could eat and see the seals.

Bruce showed Damian around Gotham, introducing him to its reformed criminals and unusual community projects. They visited Roland Cathedral, where Roland revealed an eccentric plan involving The Flash and a modified hypnosis hat, and Damian learned that former villains taught at the church’s school.

• Bruce and Damian visited Penguin, who explained that Poison Ivy had threatened his legitimate development project, and Bruce described how Penguin had become more respectable.
• Bruce and Damian volunteered at a nursing home alongside League of Assassins members, where Cassandra explained that she had organized their service work.
• Bruce showed Damian Roland Cathedral and its landmarks, including Ares’s corpse and Miriel, before Roland discussed testing a plan with The Flash and using a modified Mad Hatter hat.
• Damian saw Deadshot and Mr. Freeze with their children and learned that they taught at Roland Cathedral’s school, which served homeless children.

Damian toured Roland Cathedral with Bruce and met its unusual residents before settling into life in Gotham. The next morning, the Joker Virus emerged from Damian and infected Bruce, who took Joker from Arkham to confront the infection.

• Damian saw Jason repairing a classroom wall and learned that Red Hood was a Jason from another universe.
• Bruce and Damian met Blue Devil and Clayface, and Bruce agreed to fund their superhero movie.
• Bruce showed Damian the Emperor-class Titan, then Roland served Damian vegetable soup for dinner.
• Bruce went on patrol with Man-Bat while Damian stayed home, and Damian slept soundly.
• The Joker Virus left Damian and entered Bruce, who told Roland he was infected and drove to Arkham for Joker.
• Joker recognized the infection and angrily demanded that whoever was inside Batman's head get out.

Batman tested whether the Joker Virus still controlled him by confronting his inner demon in a mirrored room, then agreed to stay at Roland Cathedral while Damian made his first ordinary friend. Batman left the chapter confident he had defeated the threat mentally, though he still planned to check the virus inside him.

• Batman released Joker after testing his reaction and concluded the monster was not Joker.
• Roland prepared a mirrored room for Batman, while Astra introduced Damian to Little White, a demon who calmed him with music.
• Batman faced his fears and hatred in the mirrors, manifested The Batman Who Laughs, and defeated the inner demon, shattering the mirrors.
• Batman chose to undergo a check for the Joker Virus before returning to Damian.
• Damian hugged Batman and said he wanted to stay longer at Roland Cathedral because he had made a friend for the first time.

Roland and Batman traced the Mother Box to S.T.A.R. Labs, where its activation gravely injured Victor Stone and began a worldwide crisis as the other Mother Boxes responded. Steppenwolf invaded Themyscira, Wonder Woman confronted him, and the heroes set out to join the battle, with Batman riding in his new Bat-Seat on The Flash’s back.

• Roland and Batman identified S.T.A.R. Labs as a likely source of the Mother Box, while Batman explained their plan to use Element X against Barbatos.
• Silas Stone’s scientists activated the Mother Box at S.T.A.R. Labs, causing an explosion that left Victor Stone near death and his body covered in white metal.
• Batman, Roland, and Jason arrived at the ruined laboratory, while Aquaman secured Atlantis’s Mother Box and Hippolyta prepared Themyscira for battle.
• The Mother Box summoned Steppenwolf and his Parademons to Themyscira, where Wonder Woman struck Steppenwolf with her chariot.
• The Flash reported the invasion, and Batman mounted his Eighth Metal Bat-Seat on The Flash while Superman carried Roland and Jason toward the fighting, leaving the injured Victor behind.

After Steppenwolf’s defeat, Wonder Woman and Superman planned a superhero alliance while Batman investigated Victor Stone’s transformation. Just before they founded the Justice League, Roland revealed that the Teen Titans had already registered the name and claimed it for themselves.

• Superman defeated Steppenwolf on Themyscira, and Wonder Woman kept the Mother Box to protect it.
• Wonder Woman and Superman agreed to form an organization with Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern, and Aquaman to fight Darkseid.
• Bruce discovered that the Mother Box had fused with Victor Stone, and he and Superman secretly planned to found the Justice League.
• Roland gathered Nightwing, Garfield, Raven, Donna, and Kara at the Kent farm to plan their own superhero organization.
• At Wayne Manor, Roland interrupted the League’s founding meeting with a video showing that the Teen Titans had registered the Justice League name first.
• Batman found a bug in his tie and realized Nightwing had used his surveillance tricks against him.

The Justice League members argued over the name dispute, then Nightwing's new team formed a plan to rob Lex Luthor. Their first mission ended with them taking gold from Lex while battling his robots and Bizarro, leaving Superman concerned about Lex's connection to the clone.

• Batman proposed using the Flash to undo the name dispute, but the League rejected the idea and accepted Roland's suggestion to use the United States Justice League name.
• Nightwing invited Superman to join his team, but Superman alerted Batman, who went to Blüdhaven and beat Nightwing.
• Kara, Cassandra, Donna, Nightwing, Raven, and Garfield set out to rob Lex Luthor, with Cassandra providing intelligence from the League of Assassins.
• The team fought Lex Luthor's robot army and Bizarro while Cassandra captured Lex, who agreed to give them forty kilograms of gold.
• Raven overwhelmed Bizarro with magic, and the team left with the gold after Lex asked them to spare him.
• Superman watched Lex and Bizarro return to the laboratory and began thinking about Lex Luthor.

Batman and Superman discussed finding Steppenwolf and building a spaceship, while Roland’s Justice League unexpectedly acquired an alien shuttle and rescued Princess Koriand'r. After she woke and introduced herself as Starfire, she kissed Nightwing to learn his language.

• Superman and Batman agreed to prioritize hunting Steppenwolf while Batman built a ship and Superman gathered scarce materials.
• Roland urged the Justice League to target Vandal Savage, but the team chose to hunt Steppenwolf instead.
• Princess Koriand'r escaped the Daxamite slave-traders aboard a shuttle, which was knocked off course and plunged toward Earth.
• Kara and Raven caught the shuttle near Roland Cathedral and rescued the unconscious Koriand'r, while Roland claimed the ship as a gift and ordered it studied.
• Koriand'r woke, identified herself as Starfire, and kissed Nightwing to absorb his language knowledge.

Nightwing and Starfire prepared to use her shuttle to hunt Steppenwolf, while Superman captured two Daxamite slaver ships that came for Starfire. Batman recruited Cyborg to hack a captured ship and offered him help as he struggled with his transformation.

• Starfire agreed to let Nightwing and the others use her shuttle, but declined to join them and began teaching Nightwing how to fly it.
• Superman and Batman arrived seeking an interstellar ship, and Batman decided they would go with Nightwing after he learned to pilot Starfire's shuttle.
• Two Daxamite ships arrived to capture Starfire, and Superman defeated their crews and towed the ships back to Earth.
• Batman brought Cyborg to hack a captured ship, reassured him that he was still human, and offered to train him or introduce him to Roland.

Victor joined the Justice League after Kara recruited him aboard the captured alien ship, while Batman discovered the League’s absurd code had mostly been written by Nightwing and Roland. The team chose to investigate a request from Deadpool, and Garfield spent the night with Jason before waking beside Cerberus.

• Victor found the alien ship’s tracking system and agreed to help Batman use Steppenwolf’s blood to locate him, but Superman took the ship to pursue Steppenwolf while Nightwing was being beaten by Batman.
• Kara invited Victor to join her Justice League, and she showed Batman the League’s code, which required members to follow Father Roland’s advice unless they could beat him.
• Nightwing learned that he had written most of the League’s code and later discussed finding an archenemy with the team, while Jason suggested they check the League’s website for requests.
• Nightwing accepted an adolescent-counseling request from Wade, whom Jason identified as Deadpool, after the team found the message on their website.
• Garfield stayed at Jason’s place, mistook Cerberus for an ordinary dog during the night, and woke to discover the three-headed hellhound beside him.

Deadpool asked Nightwing and the others to stop his nephew Grant Wilson from carrying out a H.I.V.E. assassination mission, but Grant refused to listen. Roland advised them to eliminate H.I.V.E. so Grant would have no mission to complete.

• Jason introduced Garfield to the church’s unusual demon pets and lavish breakfast, while Garfield chose the superhero name Beast Boy.
• Nightwing led the team to Manhattan, where Deadpool asked them to help with his rebellious nephew, Grant Wilson.
• Deadpool explained that H.I.V.E. had enhanced Grant’s brain and ordered him to kidnap Beast Boy’s family, but he had locked Grant up before he could act.
• Nightwing, Donna, and Raven each tried to change Grant’s mind, but he remained determined to become an assassin like Deathstroke.
• The group called Roland for advice, and he told them to wipe out H.I.V.E. so Grant could not complete his mission.

Nightwing and the Titans attacked HIVE to stop the organization from targeting Beast Boy’s parents, while Dead Servant supplied weapons and joined the mission. The Titans defeated several HIVE villains, but HIVE’s master threatened Roland and the children at Roland Cathedral.

• Dead Servant armed the team and drove them toward HIVE, while Nightwing asked Tim to locate the organization and assigned opponents to the Titans.
• Raven’s psychic attack knocked out The Brain, but a phantom of Demon Trigon appeared and fought her outside the plane.
• Nightwing fought Doctor Light, Beast Boy fought Mammoth, Donna interrupted Shimmer, and Cyborg overwhelmed Gizmo and Mammoth.
• Raven returned after defeating Trigon’s avatar, and HIVE’s master revealed that he knew about Roland Cathedral and threatened Roland and the children there.

Hive's master sent three enhanced killers to attack Roland Cathedral, but they were killed by the League of Assassins after they tried to take Cassandra hostage. The Justice League covered for Deadpool as he dealt with Hive's master, and the military took over Hive.

• Hive's master ordered the killers to harm children, but Roland revealed they had been sent to Hell, and Deadpool threatened to kill Hive's master while the Justice League pretended not to see.
• The three killers approached Roland Cathedral, mistook Jason talking to flowers for mental illness, and were frightened by Astra, Little White, and Cerberus.
• The killers tried to sneak away from Roland and Jeanne d'Arc, then chose Cassandra as a hostage when she returned with the League of Assassins.
• The League of Assassins killed the three attackers, and Cassandra ordered her followers to clean up and hide the bodies.
• The Justice League withdrew from Hive after the military took over, and Nightwing and Beast Boy wondered what had happened to the killers.

Superman defeated Steppenwolf, discovered that Lex Luthor had created Conner Luthor from their genes, and failed to persuade Conner to leave with him. After Zeus threatened to strip Diana of her divinity unless she pursued the God of War position, Diana and Roland’s group set out to confront him, and Zeus learned that they had fought their way up Mount Olympus.

• Dead Servant convinced Deathstroke that Grant had a father complex and advised him to bond with Grant by playing baseball.
• Superman defeated Steppenwolf on an asteroid, while Batman and Cyborg watched and helped him return to Earth.
• Superman and Kara confronted Lex Luthor and met Conner Luthor, who rejected both men before flying away after saving a schoolgirl.
• Hermes told Diana that Zeus wanted her to use her beauty to obtain the God of War position and would strip her divinity if she refused.
• Diana summoned Roland, Raven, Jason, and Jeanne d'Arc, and Roland used a mind-controlling hat to recruit Hermes to their cause.
• Zeus and Hera discussed their plans as Zeus's eagle warned them that a group had fought their way up Mount Olympus.

Roland and Wonder Woman led their allies in a battle against Zeus on Mount Olympus, while Zhu Bajie reassured Marcus that the missing Billy would return. After Roland’s time-stopping attack devastated Olympus, Zeus yielded the divine throne to Wonder Woman.

• Roland led the heroes up Mount Olympus, where they confronted Zeus and his defenders.
• Zhu Bajie told Marcus that Billy would return soon and warned that the age of the Old Gods was ending as the age of the New Gods began.
• Superman fought Atlas, Wonder Woman battled Apollo, and Batman engaged Perseus as the heroes attacked Zeus.
• Roland entered his second stage of Blood Rage, stopped time, and struck Zeus with a devastating wind attack that destroyed the Temple of Olympus.
• Zeus surrendered the throne to Wonder Woman, who said she had wanted to challenge him regardless of the God of War’s influence.

Wonder Woman took control of Olympus and gathered its divine artifacts as the heroes prepared to face Darkseid. After meeting Hephaestus, she asked whether the Mother Box could serve as fusion material for a powerful weapon.

• Wonder Woman forced Zeus and Hera to surrender their divine offices and leave Olympus, while Batman deduced that the gods were fleeing Darkseid.
• Apollo gave Wonder Woman his artifacts and departed, and the heroes collected the remaining spoils, including a little sun that had eaten the Solar Chariot’s sun.
• Wonder Woman accepted artifacts from most of the gods, while Hephaestus chose to stay and welcomed her and her companions.
• Roland brought Hephaestus the Throne of Hephaestus with the Flash trapped in it, and Hephaestus freed the Flash and recounted how he had won recognition and Aphrodite as his wife.
• Wonder Woman asked Hephaestus about forging a large weapon from the collected artifacts, and she offered the Mother Box as possible fusion material.

The heroes discussed what weapon to forge from the Mother Boxes and settled on Batman’s Hellbat armor, with Batman planning to recruit Mister Terrific to help design it. Roland returned to Gotham with the others and told Superman that he was preparing a trap to defeat the Dark Knights all at once.

• Hephaestus said he could forge weapons from the Tenth Metal, Element X, and the Mother Boxes, and the group considered armor, a fighter jet, and Roland’s idea for a combining Mecha.
• Batman proposed making his Hellbat armor first, and he offered to find Mister Terrific while The Flash agreed to help with the designs.
• Zauriel explained Michael Holt’s tragic past and how the Lord had inspired him to become Mister Terrific; Batman revealed that Holt had sold him Holt Holdings.
• Roland took Hermes’s hat and flag, then the group boarded the Solar Chariot, which Jason powered with Apollo and launched recklessly into the sky.
• After Superman picked them up and brought them to Gotham, Roland told him that he planned to trap and defeat the Dark Knights in one attack.
• Roland asked Superman for the contact information of the Miss Universe Pageant winner, saying it was part of the plan.

Roland and Nightwing assembled Teen Titans from parallel worlds to rescue the Robins’ captured versions of Rachel, then prepared to recruit more allies. Their attempt to combine three Cyborgs’ power unexpectedly summoned Darkseid, whom Teen Titans Go Robin immediately knocked back to Apokolips.

• Roland met the Teen Titans Go and TT Robins at Roland Cathedral as they completed forms requesting help rescuing their versions of Rachel from Trigon.
• Roland proposed asking for the Philosopher’s Stone as payment, while Nightwing planned to prepare for the dangerous mission against Trigon.
• Nightwing took the Robins to the Teen Titans Go universe’s Batcave, where its security system welcomed him as Jason Todd and he copied Batman’s files before leaving with equipment.
• Nightwing, the Robins, and their allies prepared to recruit more Teen Titans, and Cyborg joined the Aircraft’s fusion alongside both other Cyborgs.
• The three Mother Boxes opened a Boom Tube and brought Darkseid to Earth, but Teen Titans Go Robin struck him with his staff and sent him back to Apokolips.