Recaps

Ryan returned from the past to the battlefield, defeated Thanos’s hope of using the Infinity Gauntlet, and absorbed the six Infinity Stones. After ignoring the Watcher’s disapproval, Ryan snapped his fingers and declared, “I am Homelander.”

• The Hulk used the Infinity Gauntlet’s Stones to batter Thanos, but the gauntlet began trembling before he could finish him off.
• After absorbing Cyttorak’s power, Ryan met the Vishanti, absorbed the power they offered, and traveled back to the present with the Time Stone and Mind Stone.
• Ryan returned to the ruined battlefield, where the heroes and Biochemical Beasts fell silent and the Hulk welcomed him back.
• Ryan passed the heroes and reunited with the Scarlet Witch before reaching the Hulk and the defeated Thanos.
• Ryan absorbed all six Infinity Stones and drew power from across the Multiverse through a Magic Circle.
• Ryan ignored the Watcher, snapped his fingers, and declared that he was Homelander.

After snapping his fingers, Ryan grew bored with his immense power and returned to The Boys, where he found the world deserted and ruined. He traveled one year back in time to discover what had happened and received a new task warning that the merging of worlds would end in destruction.

• Ryan used the Infinity Stones to affect the universe, then decided to return to the quiet life he remembered in The Boys.
• Ryan traveled through a Portal and found The Boys reduced to a lifeless, ruined world that had aged by about a year.
• Ryan concluded that his reckless use of the Time Stone had disrupted the timeline and used it again to travel back one year.
• Ryan arrived in the past, flew toward the Seven Tower, and received the task The Merging of Worlds, which warned that the merger would end in destruction.

Ryan accepted a mission to stop Steppenwolf, settled into a quiet routine as the worlds merged, and encountered Batman after destroying a Parademon. Batman later brought Ryan to meet Barry Allen, whose speed he exposed with a Batarang.

• Ryan accepted the mission to stop Steppenwolf from finding the Mother Boxes and learned from A-Train that the DC universe and his world were merging.
• Ryan visited Becca, spent time with Homelander and Starlight, and settled into a peaceful routine.
• Ryan found and destroyed a Parademon, then met Batman, who asked him to help save the world; Ryan refused and drove away.
• Wayne took Ryan to an abandoned factory, where they examined a red suit and waited for Barry Allen.
• Wayne threw a Batarang at Allen, who dodged it and revealed his super speed.

Ryan and Wayne recruited Allen to help save the world, then traveled to a harbor to find Arthur Kurr. Ryan’s powers remained mysterious to Wayne as they began their search.

• Allen revealed that he drew on the Speed Force and used super speed to grab pizza, but Ryan could perceive and keep pace with him.
• Wayne asked Allen to join the effort to save the world, and Allen agreed immediately.
• Ryan told Allen to push Wayne’s car, and Allen used his speed to get the car to a helipad in an instant.
• Wayne told Ryan that Arthur Kurr was the son of Atlantis’s queen and a lighthouse keeper, and that he could control water and talk to fish.
• Ryan spotted Kurr from Wayne’s photo and told Wayne to ask how many powers he had.

Ryan and Wayne confronted Steppenwolf in Atlantis, where Ryan defeated him and stopped his attack on the Mother Box. Ryan then separated the merging worlds and returned to Becca’s home, where he reunited with her and Starlight before the Heart of the Universe called him.

• Ryan and Wayne went to a bar to recruit Kurr, but Kurr refused and left when Parademons appeared near the port.
• Kurr returned to Atlantis and attacked Steppenwolf after finding the Atlantean guards slaughtered and the Mother Box taken.
• Ryan appeared in Atlantis, destroyed the attacking Parademons, pulled Steppenwolf from his escape beam, and defeated him with the Reality Stone.
• Ryan and Wayne returned to the city, and Ryan separated DC from The Boys before flying back to Becca’s home.
• Becca welcomed Ryan inside, where he found Starlight in the kitchen, and the Heart of the Universe called to him.