Recaps

Druid turned the Eternals against Ikaris and unleashed Hex Colossi, while Su Ming’s group stopped his attempt to destroy the Eternals’ backups. As Earth’s heroes dealt with the remaining threats, Blank struck Superman and made him vanish.

• Ikaris failed to wake Kro, but Deathstroke’s song jolted Kro awake, and Loki’s attempt to reverse Thor’s transformation failed.
• Druid used footage of Ikaris with Kro to remove Ikaris from leadership, while Su Ming’s group entered the Council Hall and Thanos killed an Eternal who threatened them.
• Druid sent Hex Colossi around the world, and Wanda destroyed one as Barry and Aquaman, Arthur, and other heroes moved to stop the attacks.
• Su Ming revealed that Kro had been manipulated to target Ikaris and that the Rebirth machine restored dead Eternals, while Druid destroyed Ikaris’s consciousness backup.
• Deathstroke, Thanos, and the others pursued Druid to Olympia, where Thanos killed him, but Druid had already set Kro against Ikaris and Thena.
• Thena told Deathstroke that Kro had poisoned Ikaris and that she had killed Kro after remembering their children, then returned to Olympia to lead the Eternals.
• Su Ming left Earth-40K’s heroes to handle the remaining Hexes and turned to the Uni-Mind as Deathstroke learned Blank had planned attacks on both Earths.
• Mother attacked Superman, drained his strength by blocking the sun, and made him vanish as Blanked, leaving Superboy, Lois, Martha, and Krypto unaware of what had happened.

Deathstroke and his allies investigated Superman’s erasure and the wish-granting Blank, while fighting repeatedly resurrecting Mothers and searching for the missing Death. After they captured Adam Warlock, Thor revived Joel Haraldsson in Asgard, where Joel began recounting his battle against Eadwald Olafsson.

• Deadpool discovered that Batman and the Justice League had forgotten Superman, and Deathstroke concluded that Superman had been killed and erased from memory and history.
• Death warned Deathstroke that she could not sense the thieves who had taken her body, while the team found that Earth-0’s Sun had become a hollow ring of fire.
• Deathstroke investigated Superman’s apartment with Carol and Hela, and Poison Ivy used The Green to confirm that plants still remembered Superman and sketched his attacker as a creature of earthworms and rotten wings.
• Deathstroke connected Superman’s disappearance to the wish-granting Blank, recovered Zorn’s memories of Superman, and joined Lucifer to investigate wishes that came true for faithless people.
• A Child-faced Giant Maggot attacked Batman, and Lucifer and Deathstroke’s group learned that the creature was a resurrecting Concept Manifestation connected to Blank’s use of Death and a Death Seed.
• Deadman led Thanos and Deadpool to underwater ruins, where they found Death held in a Magic Circle and fought Adam Warlock, who blamed Deathstroke and Deadpool for his lost chance at power.
• Thanos knocked Adam unconscious after Deadpool lured him into explosions, and Deathstroke had Chewie contain Adam while Lucifer continued fighting the endlessly returning maggot.
• Thor revived Joel Haraldsson in Asgard, and Joel recounted how Eadwald Olafsson’s ice monsters had slaughtered his people before their final confrontation among the gods.

Deathstroke gathered allies and used the Dreaming to infect dreams with the Anti-Life Equation while seeking a way to find Death. As Blank’s multiverse approached, the group watched it collide with the Hand of the Void’s forces and split up to confront the Ancient Remnants threatening humanity.

• Deathstroke heard Loki’s discoveries about Blank, then gathered the Doom Patrol and brought Tracy and Zorn into the group.
• Deathstroke led the team into the Dreaming, where he spread the Anti-Life Equation through dream bubbles and left Daniel to deal with the infected dreams.
• Deathstroke brought the group to a New Guinea safehouse and recruited Ezekiel to locate Death using her personal belongings.
• After Ezekiel’s first lead failed, Deathstroke moved the group through Sepulk and into hiding as Blank’s multiverse changed course toward them.
• Deathstroke concluded that Blank and the Hand of the Void would clash, and Adjutant showed their armies fighting across the multiverse boundary.
• Deathstroke’s group traveled toward the battlefield, where Hela identified the soulless white creatures as Blank Elementals.
• Batwoman reunited with Barry and Arthur as they fought the Ancient Remnants, and she used Tenth Metal to free Arthur from Mother’s influence.

Su Ming led his team into Blank’s trap, where they used the Anti-Life Equation and Deadpool’s grotesque presence to reach the Goddess of Death. After Jack removed the Death Seed and Death reunited with Deadpool, Deathstroke killed Ebony Maw, and Su Ming explained his plans for Asgard’s survivors.

• Barry kept the Golden-Armor Giant occupied while Batwoman’s team waited for Deathstroke to resolve the Mothers’ immortality.
• Su Ming’s group entered a strange white universe, then followed a black-skull marker into the world where Su Ming’s former self had died.
• Su Ming spread the Anti-Life Equation through his old world, infecting nearly every life-form and exposing the enemies’ hidden base.
• Thanos attacked a black-robed figure as bait while Su Ming’s team entered the base, where Deadpool’s appearance and smell incapacitated their reviving enemies.
• Thanos charged into the Goddess of Death’s chamber, tore her from her restraints, and fought a black-robed attacker while Jack began repairing the Death Seed.
• Su Ming learned that the young fighter was Thanos and Death’s son, Zane, while Jack removed the Death Seed and Deadpool reunited with Death.
• Deathstroke killed Ebony Maw after refusing to betray Thanos, then joined his companions to watch Thanos fight Zane.
• Su Ming explained that he had sent Hela’s brothers to Asgard’s ruins to investigate Blank and show Loki what rebuilding Asgard would require.