Recaps

Yongye claimed the Golden Trident, drew Arthur into spying on the Justice League, and expanded his influence through Wanda, Pietro, and Natasha. While Diana and the heroes investigated him, Selina’s attempt to attack him failed, and Yongye gained Batman’s intelligence network.

• Yongye emerged from the God-Burying Abyss with the Golden Trident and Atlanna, who told Arthur she had agreed to serve him for three years in exchange for her rescue.
• Yongye pressured Arthur into spying on the Justice League by threatening Atlanna’s safety, and Arthur agreed to cooperate.
• Yongye gained the Still Force, returned to Manhattan, and sent Pietro and Wanda to Lower Manhattan, where they rescued civilians and confronted Tony over their parents’ deaths.
• Yongye publicly backed Wanda and Pietro, then condemned Tony and Steve, and afterward he sent Pietro undercover to the Avengers Alliance and began teaching Wanda as his apprentice.
• Yongye gave Natasha the Square Hammer, which matched Thor’s Mjolnir in their sparring, while Hippolyta ordered Diana to investigate Yongye and kill him if he served Darkseid.
• Superman and Batman suspected Yongye was controlling the women around him and discussed breaking his hold, while Catwoman decided to approach Yongye herself.
• Selina Kyle interviewed for a job with Yongye, repeatedly delayed her planned attack, and fell asleep after he eased her old injuries, and Sharon told her she had passed.
• Bruce warned Selina that Yongye had made her hesitate, and Yongye gained Matatabi’s chakra core and Batman’s intelligence network after Bruce’s defenses collapsed.

Yongye formed The Boys, sent them to stop Kaecilius, and defeated Dormammu with a Spirit Bomb. He then framed Batman through his Minato disguise and unleashed Doomsday on Metropolis, where Superman fell and other heroes arrived to fight.

• Yongye announced The Boys as an independent team and invited heroes to fill its two open seats, prompting Diana to apply.
• Yongye sent Diana and the other women of The Boys to London, where they defeated Kaecilius’s followers and captured him while the Ancient One survived.
• Yongye exposed the Ancient One’s staged injury, then gathered energy from people around the world and hurled a Spirit Bomb through the rift to drive Dormammu away.
• Yongye obtained a new Eye of Agamotto containing the Time Stone, while the Ancient One warned him that the invasion was not over.
• Yongye’s Minato disguise destroyed a Manhattan building and blamed Batman, leading Batman to flee as The Boys fought Gotham’s criminals and the public turned against him.
• Yongye used the Anti-Life Equation to command Doomsday, then appeared as Minato and joined Superman in battle before retreating and leaving Doomsday to rampage through Metropolis.
• Doomsday impaled Superman and advanced through the city, while Yongye gained access to Fusang’s divine network and let the battle continue.
• Thor and Tony Stark arrived to fight Doomsday, and Natasha struck his knee with the Square Hammer, cracking his armor.

Yongye let Doomsday devastate Fusang after Americans voted to send it there, then defeated it himself and used the crisis to pressure Takamagahara. The arc left Yongye disguised as Minato Namikaze, having sent Nōhime away with demands for the gods.

• Natasha, Thor, Tony, Diana, Wanda, Daisy, and Batman repeatedly failed to stop Doomsday as it destroyed cities across the United States, while Yongye returned and announced that the public could vote to send it to Fusang.
• After the poll overwhelmingly favored the transfer, Yongye moved Doomsday to Fusang, transformed into a Super Saiyan, and kicked it through an Alternate-Dimension Portal.
• Yongye opened a Super Blind Box containing Justice Buster armor after Batman broke down while listening to Selina’s encounter with Yongye, then gave Selina Two-Tails’ Chakra and watched her fight Nōhime.
• Nōhime told Yongye that Takamagahara wanted Doomsday moved, but Yongye rejected her offer and demanded that she bring him Himiko, Tamamo-no-Mae, and Kaguya-hime.
• Diana told Yongye that Doomsday had devastated Fusang and asked him to join the Justice League’s assault, but he refused and warned her that she would have to cross her personal boundaries.
• Yongye disguised himself as Minato Namikaze and met Nōhime near Doomsday in the Fusang Alps, where he used her desire for information to make her submit.
• Yongye ordered Nōhime to ask Takamagahara for a pure Heroic Spirit and repeated his demands for Tamamo-no-Mae, Himiko, and Kaguya-hime before she flew away.

Yongye let Doomsday ravage Fusang, killed Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and declared that The Boys would police the gods while Takamagahara backed away from confrontation. As Hela conquered Asgard, the Avengers fled to Earth and Tony decided to make Yongye deal with her.

• Yongye let Doomsday escape the Justice League and continue destroying Fusang, then declared himself the villain when he could not be its savior.
• Yongye killed Susanoo-no-Mikoto with the Wind of Nothingness, donned the Golden Cloth, and told Lois Lane that The Boys would police the gods.
• Amaterasu forbade Takamagahara’s gods from acting against Yongye and ordered Omoikane to investigate his power and Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s death.
• Diana and Kikyo sought information from Yongye, but Tamamo-no-Mae intervened, and Yongye later recruited Kikyo to help punish Takamagahara and Minato while eliminating Doomsday.
• Natasha asked Yongye to deploy The Boys after Hela returned and Asgard fell, but Yongye refused to help rescue Stephen Strange or answer Natasha’s request.
• Hela defeated the Avengers’ assault in Asgard and injured Pietro, forcing Tony, Thor, Steve, and Natasha to retreat.
• Tony provoked Hela by telling her Yongye would capture her, then escaped with the others and told Thor he intended to make Yongye suffer.