Recaps

Su Ming formed an alliance against the Beyonders, unleashed the Exterminators, and used their stolen energy to empower the Celestial Destroyer. As the Celestial fought CCU, Death agreed to help Deathstroke stage humanity’s apparent death and draw CCU into despair.

• Su Ming explained the universe’s layered structure to the Black Celestial and offered to help the Dark Celestials reach the fourth floor if they joined him against the Beyonders.
• Su Ming assembled the team to fight CCU, recruited the imprisoned Exterminators, and used Deadpool’s plan to enlarge Celestial Destroyer so he could command them.
• The Exterminators invaded the town and drained energy from Beyonders, while Su Ming fed Celestial Destroyer a Megaverse and the team searched for the Beyonders’ Reproduction Center.
• Deadpool fought an Ivory King, and Su Ming’s team captured the Ivory Kings and converted their Beyonder Energy into power for Celestial Destroyer.
• Franklin exposed CCU’s true body among the Cosmic Cubes, and Celestial Destroyer shattered CCU’s constructed world and trapped him in the Dark Void.
• Su Ming sent Deadpool and the Grand Duke to attack CCU with Nuwali weapons, while he arranged for Death to join the fight and undermine CCU’s will to survive.
• Death asked Deathstroke for the Book of Destiny, learned that Dream of a Thousand Cats had taken it, and agreed to help him frighten CCU by making the team appear dead.
• Death removed Deathstroke’s soul from his body, and Wanda gave it a solid shell so he could take Death to TVA headquarters and have Gin record their planned performances across different Time Points.

Su Ming used memories, deception, and his allies to defeat the Beyonders and the Colorful Celestials in the Beyond Realm, then settled its affairs and returned to Earth. He began organizing a great voyage into space while Zheng Xian warned him that the Eternals might oppose humanity.

• Su Ming entered a recorded Timeline with Death and devised a plan to overwhelm CCU with repeated memories of his human selves and their deaths.
• Su Ming and Deadpool distracted CCU and the Celestial Destroyer, and Su Ming’s memories made CCU remember his past and collapse the Beyonders’ forces.
• After CCU died, Su Ming returned to the Beyond Realm and arranged for the Nuwali to manage the zoos in exchange for a golden planet.
• Su Ming and his allies fought the Colorful Celestials, using Squirrel Girl’s squirrels, Deadpool’s Plot Continuity Gem, and a transformed Deadpool to break their minds.
• The defenders defeated the Colorful Celestials, and Su Ming assigned the Little Guy to become the Beyond Realm’s main system before leaving with Death.
• Su Ming told Hoggoth about Infinity, Eternity, and First Firmament, then took Death to Mumbai and Kamar-Taj, where Ancient One supported his Great Cosmic Voyage Plan.
• Su Ming told Zheng Xian that S.P.E.A.R. would send fifty thousand people toward Alpha Centauri, and Zheng Xian warned that the Eternals might threaten humanity.
• Death wanted to try ordinary human food, so Zheng Xian invited Su Ming and Death to eat hotpot after warning Su Ming to distinguish among the Eternals’ factions.

Su Ming launched a public space program that used lotteries, affordable spacecraft, and the promise of profit to draw humanity into space. As the first expeditions prepared to depart, he hosted the Justice League, supported Diana through her conflict with Zeus, and consulted the Ancient One about threats tied to the wider universe.

• Deathstroke brought Doom to Satana to ask about his mother, and Death confirmed that Cynthia von Doom was alive but extremely far away.
• Deathstroke launched a lottery and spacecraft campaign, using prizes and the low-priced Droplet-X1 to spur public interest in space travel.
• Shuri joined Professor Xu’s expedition to Alpha Centauri, while Su Ming prepared a Latverian expedition to Gliese 581 and planned routes for future colonies.
• Deathstroke explained his profit-driven approach to space exploration to the Justice League, then sent Gwenpool to show several members around 40K Earth.
• Diana confided in Su Ming about her anger at Zeus but refused to kill her father, choosing instead to stay hidden until he disappeared again.
• Gwenpool led several Justice League members on a drunken Las Vegas outing, and Su Ming agreed to compensate a zoo after they brought a tiger back to his villa.
• Su Ming invited the Ancient One to the spaceship launch, and she examined the spheres holding Knull and the Shadow King before advising him about the Eternals and the Dark Celestials.
• The Adjutant showed Su Ming footage of Frigga and Sif livestreaming in the Amazon rainforest, while Loki waited for Frigga to finish packing.

Deathstroke investigated Zeus’s plans and uncovered a conspiracy involving self-replicating nanomachines that turned people into Chameleons. After a murdered woman identified another Deathstroke as her killer, he took his team to Heaven to find the missing dog’s soul and pursue the imposters.

• The Adjutant brought Su Ming and his companions to Belterra, where they watched Loki claim an ecological habitat device as her prize.
• Deathstroke left Belterra for Earth-0, learned from Constantine that Zeus planned to marry Hippolyta, and questioned Hephaestus, who knew nothing about the plan.
• Deathstroke investigated a shooting at GCPD and discovered that the dead Clayface was an Imposter, while the real Clayface was at the Hall of Justice.
• Luthor found that self-replicating Nanomachines made from Clayface Plasma and carbon-based metal could turn people into Chameleons, and the Adjutant warned Batwoman about a trap.
• Deathstroke tested Jonathan Kent and found no signs that he or his parents were replacements, then exposed a fake Krypto that turned into sludge.
• Deathstroke explained the Nanomachine threat to the heroes, then secretly took Wally, Donna, Shazam, and Bobo to ask Death about the killer.
• Death told Deathstroke that another Deathstroke had murdered the old woman, and Su Ming began checking possible counterparts across the remaining Parallel Universes of Multiverse 1.
• Deathstroke hired Gabriel in Los Angeles and followed him into Heaven, where red-eyed angels attacked and Gabriel prepared to lead the team through Eden toward the Fifth Heaven.