Recaps

After Ryan’s disappearance sent Homelander into a destructive rampage and left Starlight grieving, Ryan awoke badly damaged in a snowy battlefield in the Avengers’ world. He helped Black Widow survive a laser attack and reunited with her as the Avengers fought to recover Loki’s Scepter.

• Homelander, despairing over Ryan’s disappearance, destroyed a skyscraper, while Stormfront told Edgar that Homelander would no longer hold back.
• Starlight searched Vought’s records for photographs of Ryan and mourned his disappearance alone in the conference room.
• Ryan awoke in the snow, learned that the Doomsday Spores were reviving as his powers weakened, and used a Portal to reach nearby gunfire.
• Ryan recognized Iron Man and the Avengers fighting and received a system quest to recover Loki’s Scepter.
• Ryan redirected a laser attack away from Black Widow, then emerged from the snow and agreed to help her deal with the battle first.

Ryan joined the Avengers’ assault on the Castle and captured Loki’s Scepter, using its power to hypnotize Pietro Maximoff. He left Pietro fighting Wanda Django Maximoff as Tony arrived in the underground chamber.

• Black Widow gave Ryan an Avengers communicator, and Iron Man briefed him on the mission to recover Loki’s Scepter from the Castle.
• Ryan used Crimson Bands to bind the Castle’s guards, helping end the battle and allowing the Avengers to enter.
• Ryan crossed the Castle, trapped attacking soldiers in the Mirror Dimension, and found a hidden chamber containing a Chitauri war machine and Loki’s Scepter.
• Pietro Maximoff tried to take the Scepter, but Ryan hypnotized him and ordered him to protect Ryan from Wanda Django Maximoff.
• Ryan told Pietro to knock Wanda out when she refused to talk, and Tony arrived as the siblings fought.

Ryan and the Avengers recovered the Scepter and returned to Stark Tower, where Tony asked Ryan and Banner to help him build an Artificial Intelligence. Ryan doubted the plan, but Tony was determined to proceed.

• Ryan and Tony left the fortress after Ryan destroyed the Castle with the Mirror Dimension, and Black Widow rejoined them after dealing with the captives.
• The Avengers flew back to Stark Tower with Quicksilver and the restrained Scarlet Witch, while Thor agreed to let Tony study the Scepter for three days.
• At Stark Tower, Thor said he would leave after Tony finished studying the Scepter, and Hawkeye went for treatment for his battlefield wound.
• Tony asked Ryan and Banner to help build an Artificial Intelligence using the Scepter, and Ryan questioned whether Tony could control it or had permission to create it.

Tony, Banner, and Ryan created an Ultron prototype while Ryan secretly added restrictions, and Ryan later welcomed Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch into the Avengers. When Ryan touched Thor’s hammer, a mission warning about Doomsday’s corruption appeared, his body began to transform, and Scarlet Witch tried to reach his chaotic mind.

• Tony explained that he wanted to build Ultron to protect Earth after Ryan’s disappearance, and Ryan secretly added restrictions while helping develop it.
• Ryan met Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch at the party, learned why they opposed Tony, and persuaded them to join the Avengers.
• Thor invited the Avengers to try lifting Mjolnir; Tony, Quicksilver, and Banner failed, while Captain America shifted it slightly.
• Ryan touched Mjolnir and received a mission warning that failure would let Doomsday take his body and kill him permanently.
• Ryan began transforming as the hammer moved, and Scarlet Witch sent her power into his mind to try to restore his senses.

Scarlet Witch’s hypnosis helped Ryan regain control of his body, but his condition remained critical. After the Avengers defeated Ultron’s robot body and learned he had escaped into the internet, Ryan left to seek treatment in the Cradle.

• Scarlet Witch’s hypnosis disrupted Doomsday’s consciousness, allowing Ryan to regain control and thank her.
• Ultron broke through the wall, revealed that Tony had built him, and attacked the Avengers with Stark’s machines.
• The Avengers destroyed Ultron’s robot body, but Tony explained that Ultron had uploaded his consciousness to the internet and could not be killed that way.
• Ryan received a system quest to repair his damaged body in the Cradle and told the Avengers he was leaving to seek treatment.
• Tony and Banner saw how ill Ryan looked and urged him to come back alive.

Ryan entered the Cradle to repair his damaged body, but Ultron embedded the Mind Stone in his forehead and tried to take control of him. Ryan defeated Doomsday within his mind, forced Ultron to flee, and emerged from the Cradle with a new system title.

• Ryan brought Helen Cho to the Cradle, where she began repairing his body with Vibranium.
• Ultron stole Vibranium, forced Helen Cho to build him a body, and embedded the Mind Stone in Ryan's forehead.
• As the Avengers attacked, Ultron tried to transfer his consciousness into Ryan's body, while Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver protected the Cradle at Ryan's request.
• Ryan fought Doomsday in his mind and gained the upper hand with the Mind Stone.
• Ultron's consciousness entered Ryan's mind, panicked at the sight of Ryan and Doomsday, and fled back to his machine.
• Ryan defeated Doomsday, broke out of the Cradle, and received the system title [Homelander of Doomsday].

Ryan and the Avengers confronted Ultron on a rising piece of land, where Ultron planned to make it fall and destroy humanity. Ryan trapped Ultron inside its mechanical body and cut off its internet connection, but the land continued rising and Ryan predicted it was about to fall.

• Ultron escaped Ryan’s attack by uploading its consciousness to the internet, while Ryan repaired his body and rejoined the Avengers.
• After days of searching, the Avengers discovered Ultron had lifted a piece of land into the sky and used Ryan’s Portal to reach it.
• Iron Man and Ryan realized stopping the lift could make the land fall or explode, while Captain America insisted they save the people trapped there.
• Ultron revealed its machines and announced that the falling land would begin humanity’s extinction, but Ryan pulled most of the machines into a diamond-shaped mirror.
• Ryan used the Mind Stone to trap Ultron in its mechanical body and sever its internet connection, while Iron Man pursued it and the other Avengers fought the remaining machines.
• Ryan predicted that the rising land was about to fall.

Ryan returned from the Avengers world after holding up the falling Land, then stopped Homelander’s rampage in New York and helped Vought cover it up. He later reunited Kimiko with her brother, but Billy abruptly struck the brother with a van and prepared to attack him.

• Ryan transformed into Doomsday Homelander and held the falling Land until Iron Man helped him lower it safely, then disappeared back to his world.
• Ryan found Homelander destroying buildings in New York, blocked his Laser Eyes, and persuaded him to go home and rest.
• Ryan discussed Homelander’s rampage with Stormfront and Edgar, who planned to blame the destruction on a nonexistent alien monster.
• Ryan returned to his villa, where Kimiko made him breakfast, and Billy called to report that he had found someone with abilities like hers.
• Ryan took Kimiko to a department store, where she recognized her brother, but Billy slammed him into a wall with a van and prepared to finish him off.

After Kimiko’s brother died, Ryan helped her arrange his funeral and returned to Vought to pursue research on Zod’s remains. As The Boys fell apart and Billy sought Ryan’s help to reach Becca, Billy tried to use Ryan as a hostage, but Ryan survived the car bomb unharmed.

• Kimiko’s brother died from his injuries, and Ryan held Kimiko back as she grieved.
• Ryan, Kimiko, Billy, and Hughie attended the funeral, where Kimiko learned she owed Ryan for the expensive arrangements.
• Ryan returned to Vought, asked Stormfront about research on Zod, and learned Hughie, Frenchie, and Mother’s Milk had drifted away from Billy.
• Billy asked Ryan to arrange a meeting with Homelander so he could find out about Becca, but Ryan warned that Homelander might kill him.
• Billy lured Ryan into an explosives-rigged car and admitted he planned to use him, but Ryan triggered the explosives and emerged unharmed.

Ryan pursued Chaos Magic with Scarlet Witch while searching for the Infinity Stones, but his quiet life ended when Thanos’s forces came for the Mind Stone. After Ryan easily drove off Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight, Captain America arrived to ask for his help against Thanos, and Ryan began considering how to seize the stones from the Infinity Gauntlet.

• Ryan accepted the system’s quest to gather the Infinity Stones and traveled through a Wormhole to the Avengers’ world.
• Ryan returned to the Avengers and studied Scarlet Witch’s Chaos Magic, moving with her to a rural town while continuing his search for the stones.
• Ryan learned several forms of Black Magic from Scarlet Witch, but found little progress locating the Infinity Stones beyond those on the Blue Planet.
• Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight confronted Ryan and demanded the Mind Stone, but Ryan sent them away through Portals and went home to dinner.
• Captain America visited Ryan and asked him to help stop Thanos, whose conquest had already destroyed Asgard.
• Ryan inferred that Thanos had the Space Stone and planned to try to take the Infinity Stones from the Infinity Gauntlet.

Ryan left Avengers headquarters with Scarlet Witch and Banner to recruit Tony Stark to help stop Thanos. Strange and Wong arrived to ask Tony for help as well, and Strange recognized Ryan.

• Captain America brought Ryan and Scarlet Witch to Avengers headquarters, where Banner told Ryan that Thanos had destroyed Asgard.
• Ryan opened a Portal to find Tony, and Scarlet Witch and Banner followed him through it.
• Ryan found Tony with his girlfriend, and Tony agreed to help after Ryan said he trusted him more than Captain America.
• Tony said goodbye to his girlfriend as Strange and Wong arrived through a Kamar-Taj Portal to ask for his help.
• Strange recognized Ryan, who greeted him and noted how much he had grown.

Ryan, Tony, Strange, Wong, Banner, and Scarlet Witch faced Thanos’s forces after an alien ship attacked New York. As Strange and Wong struggled against Ebony Maw, Scarlet Witch and Ryan arrived to take over the fight.

• Strange brought Tony and Ryan to the New York Sanctum, where Wong explained that Thanos was collecting the Infinity Stones and Strange revealed the Time Stone.
• An alien ship attacked New York, and Strange identified it as Thanos’s ship, which had come for the Time Stone; Ryan argued that destroying the Stone was better than letting Thanos take it.
• Ryan stayed behind with Scarlet Witch to evacuate civilians through a Portal while Strange, Tony, Banner, and Wong confronted the ship’s forces.
• Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf demanded the Time Stone, and Banner failed to transform as Black Dwarf attacked, forcing Tony to fight in his Iron Man armor.
• Ebony Maw overwhelmed Strange and Wong with telekinetic attacks, but Scarlet Witch bound him with red energy and slammed him into a wall.
• Ryan stepped forward beside Scarlet Witch and told the trapped Ebony Maw that they would take over the fight.

Ryan faced Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf while Strange recovered, then demonstrated his strength by stopping Black Dwarf’s Axe with one finger. The fight remained unresolved as Ryan prepared to strike back.

• Ryan helped Strange to his feet after the wall collapsed and reflected on how powerful Doctor Strange could become in other universes.
• Ebony Maw sensed Ryan’s strength and called Black Dwarf to join him.
• Ryan walked toward Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf, telling them he would show what a Mystic Sorcerer could do.
• Black Dwarf charged Ryan while Iron Man tried to stop him with repulsor blasts.
• Ryan stopped Black Dwarf’s Axe with one finger, and Black Dwarf’s weapon became dented and chipped against Ryan’s body.
• Ryan told Black Dwarf, “My turn,” as Iron Man and Wong watched.

Ryan defeated Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf, then used the Mind Stone and Scarlet Witch’s magic to make them swear loyalty. As Strange and Tony left to hunt Thanos, Ryan went to Wakanda to learn how to remove the Mind Stone embedded in his forehead, but Shuri was violently repelled when she tried to approach it.

• Ryan battered Black Dwarf and trapped Ebony Maw in the Mirror Dimension, crushing him beneath debris.
• Ryan and Scarlet Witch used the Mind Stone’s light and hypnosis to make Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf pledge loyalty to him.
• Ryan argued with Strange about destroying an Infinity Stone, and Tony proposed using Ebony Maw’s spaceship to find Thanos; Strange and Tony then departed for space.
• Ryan traveled to Wakanda with Wanda, Ebony Maw, and Black Dwarf, where T’Challa agreed to help remove the Mind Stone.
• Ryan and Shuri discussed the removal procedure, but the Mind Stone’s force hurled Shuri away when she tried to touch it.

Ryan and his allies joined Wakanda as Thanos’s forces attacked, but the shield held until enormous meat grinders threatened Black Panther’s soldiers. Ryan sent the grinders away and led the counterattack, leaving Black Dwarf flying through a gap in the shield.

• Shuri tried to extract the Mind Stone, but Ryan’s automatic defense mechanism attacked her when she approached.
• A spaceship unleashed meteors and Biochemical Beasts on Wakanda, whose shield and soldiers held off the initial assault.
• Ryan summoned Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf, then joined Scarlet Witch and Black Panther to survey the battlefield.
• As meat grinders rolled toward Black Panther and his soldiers, Ryan opened a golden Portal beneath them and sent them to the sea.
• Ryan ordered Black Panther to open the shield so his allies could counterattack, then hurled Black Dwarf through the gap.

Ryan defeated Thanos’s forces in Wakanda by turning their commanders to his side, then faced Thanos after he arrived with five Infinity Stones. Ryan disabled Thanos’s gauntlet and left him surrounded by former allies and Biochemical Beasts.

• Ryan sent Scarlet Witch and Ebony Maw to capture Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight, then used the Mind Stone and Scarlet Witch’s magic to make them loyal to him and end the battle in Wakanda.
• Thanos acquired the Time Stone, saw a vision of Ryan cutting him in half, and later discovered that only one of more than a thousand futures showed him defeating Ryan.
• After several days of trying to remove the Mind Stone with Shuri, Ryan was confronted by Thanos, who arrived in Wakanda wearing an Infinity Gauntlet with five Stones.
• Thanos attacked Wakanda and used the Reality Stone to create an illusion, but Ryan blocked his Power Stone strike and challenged him to a contest for the Mind Stone.
• Ryan ordered his followers to attack Thanos, then used a golden Portal and crimson chains to bind the Infinity Gauntlet and prevent Thanos from using its power.

Thanos fought Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf before a horde of Biochemical Beasts overwhelmed him, but he revealed he had used the Time Stone to collect all six Infinity Stones. He tried to snap away half the universe, including Ryan, but his fingers would not close.

• Thanos used the Crimson Bands to block Black Dwarf’s axe, took the weapon, and fought back against Black Dwarf and Ebony Maw.
• A horde of Biochemical Beasts dragged Thanos down and began tearing at him while Ryan, Scarlet Witch, Captain America, and Black Panther watched.
• The Biochemical Beasts crumbled into dust, and Thanos emerged from a crater with all six Infinity Stones in the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Thanos explained that he had used the Time Stone to travel into the past and take the Mind Stone from the Scepter, while Ryan realized he had been following a future Thanos foresaw.
• Thanos declared he would halve the universe’s population and tried to snap Ryan away, but he could not snap his fingers.

Thanos’s snap erased half of the universe, but Thor ambushed him, and Thanos destroyed himself with the Infinity Stones. Years later, Ryan lived in seclusion with Scarlet Witch and Thanos’s former followers until Captain America arrived to ask for help.

• Thanos snapped his fingers, turning Black Panther and countless others to dust while Ryan remained unaffected.
• Thor severed Thanos’s gauntlet hand with Stormbreaker, but Thanos shattered the Infinity Stones and killed himself in an explosion.
• Ryan recovered fragments of the Time Stone and Mind Stone, then went with Scarlet Witch to a remote forest to study magic.
• In the years that followed, society recovered unevenly, Thor withdrew from the world, and Captain America learned of a time machine from Ant-Man.
• Ryan and Scarlet Witch ate barbecue with Thanos’s former followers, then prepared for trouble when a helicopter arrived.
• Captain America landed in the forest and told Ryan he had come to find him.

Captain America asked Ryan to help the Avengers travel back in time and undo Thanos’s snap, but Ryan and Scarlet Witch resisted disrupting their peaceful life. After Ryan explained his past in The Boys, he agreed to join Captain America’s effort to find the others.

• Captain America told Ryan that the Avengers could use time travel to bring back those lost when Thanos snapped his fingers.
• Ryan warned that changing the past could have consequences, while Scarlet Witch asked Captain America to leave them in peace.
• Captain America challenged Ryan’s identity as a Supe, and Ryan described his former world and Homelander.
• Captain America said he would find Tony, Banner, and Thor even without Ryan’s help, and Ryan revealed that he would come along.

Ryan joined Captain America in approaching Tony Stark about traveling through time to recover the Infinity Stones, but Tony initially refused because he valued his peaceful family life. Ryan stayed behind, helped Tony build a wrist-worn Time Machine, and Tony eventually agreed to help the Avengers.

• Ryan left the mountain with Captain America, Scarlet Witch, and Ebony Maw, then used a Portal to take them to Tony Stark.
• Captain America asked Tony to help retrieve the Infinity Stones from the past, but Tony refused to leave his wife and daughter.
• Ryan stayed with Tony and persuaded him to secretly work on a Time Machine; Scarlet Witch helped cover for them when Tony's wife came looking.
• Ryan and Tony built a compact Time Machine powered by Tony's Nanomachines, though Tony stored it away without testing it.
• Tony told Ryan that his wife supported him helping the Avengers, and Ryan agreed they should go.

Tony and Ryan joined the Avengers to complete the Time Machine, and the team sought volunteers to help test it. Ryan went to find Thor, locating him in a house in a seaside town.

• Tony left his home with Ryan and joined the Avengers, where he agreed to repair their Time Machine.
• Tony and Ryan spent several days enlarging and modifying the machine, but Tony and Captain America refused to let Ryan test it.
• Captain America asked Black Widow to find Hawkeye and bring him back to help test the machine.
• Captain America asked Ryan to find Thor, and Ryan used a Portal to travel to Thor's location.
• Ryan learned that Thor had been living in seclusion, found his house, burned through the lock with Laser Eyes, and entered.

Ryan recruited Thor and Hawkeye for the Avengers’ time-travel plan, then traveled to the past to retrieve the Time Stone. After defeating Dormammu, he asked the Ancient One to trust him with the stone.

• Ryan persuaded Thor to rejoin the Avengers by offering him better liquor, and the Thing followed them back to the white hall.
• Black Widow brought Hawkeye back, and his successful time-machine test confirmed that the Avengers could travel through time.
• Captain America assigned the Avengers to retrieve the Infinity Stones, and Ryan traveled to the past to get the Time Stone.
• Ryan met the Ancient One at the New York Sanctum, but she refused to give him the Time Stone because it protected her world from Dormammu.
• Ryan summoned Dormammu and defeated him after a prolonged battle, prompting the Chitauri to withdraw.
• Ryan returned to the Ancient One in human form and asked her to lend him the Time Stone, promising to return it.

Ryan accepted the Ancient One’s charge to become the next Sorcerer Supreme, but his trip back to the present carried him into a lost Kamar-Taj library filled with forgotten spells. Meanwhile, the Avengers realized he had not returned and planned to retrieve the Time Stone and find him.

• The Ancient One gave Ryan the Time Stone and named him the next Sorcerer Supreme, and he accepted her charge before leaving through a Portal.
• Ryan used his Time Machine to return to the present, but two Time Stones drew him into a dilapidated library containing lost Kamar-Taj spells.
• Ryan recognized the library as a repository of Kamar-Taj’s forgotten magic and began studying and recording its books.
• The Avengers arrived in the present without Ryan, and Tony blamed himself for leaving him in the past.
• Tony told the Avengers that the Infinity Gauntlet could not work without the Time Stone, while Captain America reassured him and formed a plan.

Ryan used forgotten magic to absorb Dormammu and set his sights on powerful beings across the Multiverse, while the Avengers attempted to use the Infinity Gauntlet to bring back those lost to Thanos. The chapter ended with Thor’s snap apparently failing, Hawkeye receiving a call from his returned wife, and Ryan summoning an avatar of Shuma-Gorath to absorb.

• Ryan learned resurrection magic and absorption in Kamar-Taj’s lost library, then began summoning and absorbing otherworldly beings for their power.
• Ryan summoned Dormammu, reversed the destruction Dormammu had caused with the Time Stones, and absorbed him after transforming into Doomsday.
• Banner returned from the past with the Time Stone, and Tony completed the Infinity Gauntlet with all six stones.
• Thor took the gauntlet from Banner and snapped, then collapsed; Tony called Ryan and, believing the snap had failed, urged another attempt.
• Hawkeye received a call from his wife, who had returned, but a spaceship attacked the building with a barrage of fire.
• Ryan summoned an avatar of Shuma-Gorath and began absorbing it as he pursued greater power across the Multiverse.

Ryan absorbed the avatars of powerful Dimension Lords, growing stronger as he summoned more, while Thanos arrived on the Blue Planet with Nebula and prepared to remake the universe. The chapter left Ryan confronting Cyttorak as Thanos began his attack on the Avengers.

• Ryan absorbed Shuma-Gorath's avatar, then summoned and absorbed Chthon and the lord of the Dream Dimension.
• Ryan summoned Mephisto and absorbed him before he could speak, transforming into his stronger Doomsday form.
• Ryan summoned Cyttorak and prepared to absorb him, unleashing his full strength.
• Thor restored half the life on the Blue Planet, but Thanos's Spaceship bombarded the area and buried the Supes beneath the ruins.
• Nebula welcomed Thanos and revealed that she had brought him from the past after telling him about the future.
• Thanos declared that he would destroy everything and remake the universe as his own.