Chapter Summaries

Ryan defeated Zod, but Zod released Doomsday as a final weapon. A nuclear strike empowered Doomsday, and after its blast devastated New York, Homelander could find no trace of Ryan.

• Starlight watched Ryan defeat Zod and felt relieved that he had returned, while the ship’s weapons failed to stop him.
• Zod released Doomsday, which killed him and leaped after Ryan into the sky.
• Ryan fought Doomsday and tried to bind it for transport to the Mirror Dimension.
• A military rocket carrying a nuclear warhead exploded near Ryan after Doomsday flung him away and interrupted his Portal.
• The blast transformed Doomsday, which destroyed much of New York with a wave of energy and sent Homelander flying.
• Homelander searched the ruined city for Ryan but found no trace of him.

Homelander attacked Doomsday but Ryan saved him with magic and then faced the monster alone. Ryan used the Mirror Dimension and his Bio-Force Field to defend himself and protect civilians, but Doomsday continued its assault and fired eye beams at him.

• Homelander unleashed his Laser Eyes at Doomsday, but the monster countered with a beam that nearly killed him.
• Ryan saved Homelander with Hoggoth's Ancient Body, then told him to leave while he dealt with Doomsday.
• Ryan blocked Doomsday's airborne punch with the Mirror Dimension, which shattered after several seconds.
• Ryan considered trapping Doomsday in the Mirror Dimension but worried it could evolve a way to escape.
• Doomsday attacked the city and killed a civilian, while Ryan caught vehicles carrying people and protected them with his Bio-Force Field.
• Doomsday fired beams from its eyes at Ryan after he taunted it about throwing things.

Ryan trapped Doomsday in an endless fall through Portals, saving the city for now, but warned the Seven Tower that the monster could eventually escape. After the team discussed the danger and the Nuclear Bomb, Stormfront suggested a possible way to deal with Doomsday.

• Ryan redirected Doomsday’s laser beams through Portals, then trapped him in a loop of free-falling through Portals after failing to find Kryptonite.
• Ryan announced that the region was safe, and the public celebrated him as the hero who had saved the world.
• At the Seven Tower meeting, Ryan told the team that Doomsday was still alive and would eventually return; he also learned that Edgar was handling the Nuclear Bomb incident.
• Starlight asked Ryan to meet her at a hotel, but he rebuked her and told her to focus on protecting the world, so she left humiliated.
• Homelander told Ryan he had worried about him, and Stormfront interrupted their conversation with a possible way to deal with Doomsday.

Ryan rejected Stormfront’s suggestion to exile Doomsday into space, while Stormfront analyzed the monster’s threat and Homelander began to show a growing desire for power. Ryan’s attempt to rest at Vought International was interrupted by Starlight and then Stormfront, who arrived with a chart of Doomsday’s recorded abilities.

• Ryan told Stormfront that sending Doomsday into space would only delay the threat, and she left to consult others about plans.
• Ryan agreed to attend Translucent’s funeral and parted from Homelander, whose attitude seemed to Ryan to be changing.
• Starlight used a spare key to enter Ryan’s lounge and tried to persuade him to sleep with her, but Ryan pushed her away when Stormfront arrived.
• Stormfront showed Ryan a chart comparing Doomsday’s recorded abilities with Homelander’s and reported that the monster’s measurements were multiples of his.

Ryan discovered Doomsday had escaped and warned the others, but the monster attacked during Translucent’s funeral. After Doomsday mortally wounded Ryan, the system began a forced world transfer as both bodies vanished.

• Ryan found Doomsday missing from the Portals and told Edgar that it had escaped, then went to Translucent’s funeral.
• Ryan and Starlight revealed Doomsday’s escape to the funeral guests, prompting them to flee as Homelander confronted Ryan.
• Doomsday crashed through the Vought International tower, struck Homelander, and attacked Maeve before Ryan sent Starlight away and kicked it into the Mirror Dimension.
• Doomsday escaped the Mirror Dimension, impaled Ryan with a bone spur, and fought him as Homelander rushed to help.
• Ryan and Doomsday fell to the street with their necks twisted, and the system initiated a forced world transfer as both bodies disappeared.

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.