Chapter Summaries

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.

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.