Chapter Summaries

A Vought director tried to cover up the deaths at The Seven’s headquarters and prepare the company’s new Clone Supermen to replace the original team. Homelander agreed to let the director kill The Seven’s manager rather than lose money, while continuing to dream about buying a state after retirement.

• A Vought director arrived with masked Clone Supermen and ordered reporters to surrender their footage and accept payment.
• The director reflected that Vought planned to use the clones to replace The Seven, whose members had become dangerous liabilities.
• After learning that Lamplighter and Saturn Hunter had killed each other, the director changed his plan and prepared to eliminate The Seven after the reception.
• Homelander told the director that he wanted to protect The Seven’s manager, but then told him to kill her rather than deduct the company’s losses from his money.
• Homelander continued to imagine buying Texas or Mississippi after retirement, unaware that the company managed his finances for him.

Vought International held a press conference that denied Lamplighter’s death and unveiled Clone Superman as a powerful new bodyguard for wealthy clients. Homelander grew angry over the competition, while Su Ming watched, knowing Vought’s connection to Darkseid would bring it into conflict with Deathstroke.

• The director announced Lamplighter’s retirement and ignored Saturn Hunter’s death, while Vought denied that the charred bodies were theirs.
• The director introduced Clone Superman as an alien who could create unlimited duplicates and claimed each one surpassed Homelander and Queen Maeve.
• Wealthy attendees showed interest as Vought priced Clone Superman’s protection at one hundred million dollars per year.
• Homelander decided to protest the launch with The Seven, then noticed Black Noir had disappeared during the presentation.
• Su Ming dismissed Vought’s sales pitch as he considered its ties to Darkseid, then declared it was his turn to draw.

Su Ming used Strangle to make a Clone Superman appear to have killed a Vought International board member, triggering panic and a fight between Homelander and the clones. As he watched the chaos unfold, Su Ming explained that he wanted control of this Earth for its distinctive stories, which would help him rebuild his Marvel Multiverse.

• When the auditorium lights came on, the crowd saw a headless board member in a Clone Superman’s arms, and Strangle returned to Su Ming after devouring the man.
• The horrified attendees fled as Homelander attacked the Clone Supermen, believing they had killed the board member.
• Adjutant told Su Ming she had posted edited Vought press conference highlights online and pushed the footage onto trending lists.
• Su Ming ordered Adjutant to upload footage of the Clone Superman eating the board member and restore deleted reports and photos under the reporters’ names.
• Su Ming told Adjutant that Earth’s unique stories would provide diverse templates for his planned Marvel Multiverse, and they began watching their own press conference.

At Starlight’s press conference for her new job with Sky Dome Group, she explained why she wanted to be a real Superhero, while Su Ming and Adjutant watched the event alongside the battle against Homelander. Polaris then asked the crowd whether people would discriminate against Superhumans or experiment on them, and their confident denials left her laughing at how welcoming this Earth seemed for Mutants.

• Adjutant projected the press conference for Su Ming and Deathstroke to watch as Starlight answered reporters’ questions about joining Sky Dome Group instead of The Seven.
• Starlight said she wanted to help people and uphold justice as a real Superhero, rather than pursue entertainment or fame.
• Su Ming told Adjutant to leave some of Vought International’s lesser Superheroes for Annie to train against, and Adjutant predicted Annie might become an Anti-Hero.
• A reporter asked Polaris whether her magnetic powers were innate or caused by modifications, and she said she had been born with them.
• Polaris asked whether people would discriminate against Superhumans or experiment on them, and the reporters and spectators insisted they would not.
• Polaris burst into laughter after realizing that this Earth seemed like a paradise for Mutants.

The Adjutant and Su Ming discussed using faith from Mutant-worshipping parallel worlds as energy to extend Teacher Yao’s life. Homelander’s corpse then crashed into the ruins of Vought Tower, where the clone Supermen waited for orders.

• The Adjutant realized that parallel worlds could be used to cultivate Mutant superheroes, and Su Ming explained that he hoped to convert faith into bargaining chips.
• Su Ming said he wanted to use those bargaining chips to extend Teacher Yao’s life and preserve Earth-40K’s strongest Mage.
• Homelander’s battered corpse fell from outer space through Vought Tower after clone Supermen beat him to death.
• Su Ming noted that A-Train had been killed by Bobo and Cloak and Black Noir had been sent to Luthor, leaving Desaad without the company he had secured for his master.
• The clone Supermen stood among the ruins and corpses, smiling in the sunlight as they waited for a command.

Su Ming confronted Desaad at the ruins of Vought International, but Desaad escaped through a Boom Tube to an isolated point in Earth’s Cretaceous Period where his cloning factory was located. Su Ming killed the Clone Supermen and planned to use their bodies to shape public opinion.

• Su Ming waited among Vought International’s ruins as Desaad arrived and demanded to know who had ruined his plan.
• Su Ming revealed himself, but Desaad ordered the Clone Supermen to hold him off and escaped through a Boom Tube.
• The Adjutant used the seized Father Box to trace Desaad’s destination to Earth’s Cretaceous Period and locate his cloning factory with Anti-Ladybug.
• Su Ming and Strangle fought the Clone Supermen, killing them as Su Ming ordered Polaris and Starlight to bring the bodies to the media.
• The Adjutant advised Su Ming to preserve some Clone Superman heads so the Survivors could identify them, and Su Ming saved one in his pouch.

After Cloak killed A-Train in a grisly chase, Su Ming praised its strategy and discussed hunting down the future members of The Boys. He waited in Vought Tower’s ruins for Lorna and Annie, who arrived by blue light.

• Bobo and Cloak returned through the sewers and found Deathstroke surrounded by headless bodies, with Strangle holding A-Train’s head.
• Deathstroke fed Cloak Infinity Stones, and Cloak explained that it had tricked A-Train into running into its transparent fabric and snapping his neck.
• Su Ming praised Cloak’s tactics and suggested it should give future prey more hope before killing them.
• Bobo said he had located the future members of The Boys, and Su Ming said he planned to kill them without disturbing their corpses or souls.
• Su Ming waited for someone as firefighters and reporters approached, then welcomed Lorna and Annie when they arrived by blue light.

After the battle, Su Ming left Polaris and Starlight behind to enjoy the fame and protect the city while he and Bobo pursued Desaad into the Cretaceous Period. The Adjutant locked onto Desaad’s timeline and teleported them away.

• Polaris explained that she was delighted by the friendly reception and the chance to become a star, while Su Ming gave her Clone Superman heads to build her reputation.
• Su Ming asked Polaris to comfort Starlight and protect her from the anti-superhuman group operating in the city, promising Luthor would help if needed.
• Polaris offered to join the hunt for Desaad, but Su Ming refused and said he would take only Bobo to the Cretaceous Period.
• Su Ming teased Bobo about traveling across time and joked that he would find the ape male companions after their mission.
• The Adjutant locked onto the time point and teleported Su Ming and Bobo through the Spider Web.

Deathstroke and Bobo waited in the Cretaceous Period for the Adjutant to restore surveillance, discussing Darkseid's advancing research and Bobo's memories of Jim. Once the enemy base was located, Deathstroke and Bobo headed into a cave to confront Desaad.

• Deathstroke checked communications with the Adjutant while he and Bobo drank beneath a ginkgo tree in the Cretaceous Period.
• Bobo recalled his dead friend Jim and declined Deathstroke's offer to make a Synthezoid replica of him.
• The Adjutant restored surveillance, marked Desaad's location, and activated the Father Box anti-Boom Tube Teleportation device.
• Deathstroke flew with Bobo to a nearby underground cave that served as the enemy base.
• Deathstroke entered the cave with Bobo, saying he planned to chop Desaad into pieces and feed him to the dinosaurs.

Su Ming and Bobo fought through Desaad’s cloned forces in a cave, with Su Ming effortlessly turning their attacks back on them. Su Ming concluded that the clones were a trap and continued deeper into the cave.

• Su Ming and Bobo identified red-and-black ladybugs on the cave walls before cloned Supermen attacked with Heat Vision, which Su Ming reflected back at them.
• Bobo questioned Su Ming about his tactics against Superman, and Su Ming described a virus he could use against Superman and his family.
• Hundreds of cloned Deathstrokes fired rockets at Su Ming, who stopped the barrage with the Force and sent the rockets back at them.
• Strangle swept through the surviving clones as Su Ming and Bobo continued onward through the cave.
• Su Ming reasoned that Desaad knew his combat abilities and that the clones were part of a trap.

Su Ming and Bobo pursued Desaad into the underground trap, where Desaad had cut off their communications and arranged a threat that could endanger both the planet and the hostages. Su Ming revealed that he had prepared for the trap and continued toward the bomb with a backup route in mind.

• Bobo reasoned that Desaad had lured Su Ming into a trap, and Su Ming confirmed that their communications with the Adjutant had been cut.
• Su Ming explained that Desaad had forced him to choose between retreating and leaving Polaris and the other hostages at risk, or pursuing him into danger.
• Su Ming and Bobo continued flying deeper underground as Su Ming described how a Planet Bomb and the Boom Tube's limits could threaten the hostages and the planet.
• Su Ming said he intended to dismantle the bomb and revealed that he had a Doorway as a backup escape route.
• Su Ming told Bobo that Luthor had stayed outside the multiverse because he suspected the Earth was a trap, and that Su Ming had prepared countermeasures in advance.

Su Ming, Deathstroke, and Bobo found a miniature Artificial Sun deep underground, which Su Ming suspected was a Planet Bomb powered by Omega Energy. They faced the bomb without knowing how to disarm it, while Su Ming assured Bobo he would keep him alive.

• Bobo asked Deathstroke how deep the cavern went as they fought through waves of clone Supermen and clone Deathstrokes.
• Deathstroke said Desaad had likely studied him but had not anticipated that the Time Variance Authority’s resources could trap them together at this Time Point.
• Su Ming explained that Desaad’s loyalty to Darkseid likely drove him to set a trap rather than retreat from Deathstroke.
• Bobo used Strangle’s sound waves to scout ahead, and the group reached the end of the cavern.
• Su Ming and Deathstroke identified the enormous, heatless fireball as a likely Omega-powered bomb that could trigger explosive combustion.
• Bobo worried the bomb could destroy them, and Su Ming promised he would survive, joking about buying him a lavish urn if he died.

Su Ming used the threat of destroying the Fire Pit to force Desaad’s clone to negotiate, while making clear he would sacrifice the future humans on Earth if necessary. He left Desaad’s intentions uncertain as he stalled for time.

• Su Ming drew on his powers and raised the Nightfall Greatsword before the Fire Pit, prompting Desaad’s blue-faced clone to appear and ask to talk.
• Su Ming rejected the clone’s authority and attacked him with spatial turbulence, leaving him injured before he could explain that Darkseid wanted reconciliation.
• Su Ming taunted Desaad by threatening to detonate the Fire Pit and dismissing the lives of the future humans as an acceptable sacrifice.
• Su Ming explained that he valued his own survival over strangers and mocked Desaad as an inferior clone and a discarded pawn.
• Su Ming considered whether Desaad was truly negotiating or merely stalling while searching for a way to escape.

Su Ming killed two Desaad Clones while pretending to threaten the fireball, then revealed that he had secretly sent it through the Spider Web to another universe. He exposed a ladybug as Desaad’s listening device and challenged the hidden original to come out.

• Su Ming cut down a Desaad Clone before he could self-destruct, and Bobo criticized Apokolips Clones for shouting slogans before dying.
• A second Desaad Clone proposed a truce, but Su Ming killed him and fed both Clone heads to Strangle.
• Bobo discovered that the fireball had been replaced by a glowing Japanese love-hotel sign, and Su Ming explained that the Adjutant had moved the real fireball through the Spider Web.
• Su Ming revealed that he had cut open space with his energized weapon and sent the fireball away, while the sign had been planted to fool Bobo.
• Su Ming identified a ladybug as Desaad’s listening device, explained how he had noticed it, and called on the original Desaad to reveal himself.

Su Ming and Bobo tracked Desaad to an underwater Apokolips base on Cretaceous Earth. Su Ming destroyed its shield and flooded the city, calling out Desaad as the base collapsed.

• Su Ming and Bobo left the cave after Desaad’s beetle detonated, and Adjutant confirmed psychic communication could not be used to open The Doorway.
• Su Ming guessed Desaad was hiding on the seafloor, and Cloak followed an energy reading toward an underwater base.
• Su Ming enclosed Bobo in a protective shell so he could descend underwater, where they found an Apokolips-style city beneath an energy shield.
• Su Ming reflected a Heat Vision attack and found that the base’s Omega Energy source and clone Supermen posed little threat.
• Su Ming punched through the shield, unleashing seawater that devastated the underwater city, then called out to Desaad.

Deathstroke confronted Desaad beneath the sea and discovered that the New God was far stronger than his Clones. Desaad tried to seize Bobo to escape, but Bobo’s distraction gave Deathstroke the opening to pierce Desaad through the chest with Tenth Metal.

• Desaad emerged from the ruins and attacked Deathstroke, whose lightsaber clash with him leveled the trench and destroyed the remaining buildings.
• Desaad blamed Luthor for the Clones’ weakness and secretly fired Omega Energy at Deathstroke, but Strangle countered with a barrage of weapons.
• Deathstroke recognized that Desaad was trying to stall for time, while Bobo cheered from inside his protective eggshell.
• Desaad charged at Bobo, hoping to take him hostage, but Deathstroke stabbed him through the chest from behind with a Tenth Metal sword.
• Deathstroke praised Bobo for distracting Desaad, and Bobo returned the gesture with his black thumb.

Su Ming killed Desaad and learned that Darkseid was hiding in a “Schrödinger Universe,” though he lacked the coordinates to reach it. Back in the modern era, Su Ming ordered the Sky Dome Group to take over the Earth and control its Superheroes and Supervillains.

• Su Ming killed Desaad, took his head and battle axe, and had Strangle retrieve the corpse while Bobo celebrated the victory.
• Su Ming read Desaad’s memories and learned that Darkseid occupied a boxed multiverse that might be empty when observed, but he had no way to enter it.
• Su Ming erased the battle’s remaining traces and returned with Bobo to the modern era after finding no proof that Merlin was connected to Darkseid.
• Su Ming ordered the Adjutant to return them to Sky Dome Group headquarters and directed the Spider Web girls to manage the takeover without Miss Gin.
• Su Ming told the Adjutant to kill uncontrollable or badly behaved Superheroes and Supervillains while keeping some lesser figures as decorations.

After defeating Vought’s Clone Superman on another Earth, Su Ming returned to Earth-0 with recovered technology and Desaad’s corpse, then joined the Justice League to discuss the traitor in the Hall of Justice. He asked Batman for what they had learned from Desaad and why Cyborg had not returned.

• Su Ming watched the media cover the destruction of Vought Tower and let Polaris remain on that Earth while the company collapsed, ordering Queen Maeve kept asleep until she could be returned.
• The Adjutant reported that Compound V, cloning equipment, and related technology had been recovered, while Desaad’s corpse and Liquid Metal Robot wreckage had been handed to Luthor.
• Su Ming returned to Earth-0, sent Bobo with Desaad’s head to Wayne Manor, and told Luthor he had killed Desaad after clearing out a trap.
• Su Ming reunited with Harley and Poison Ivy before leaving several hours later for a Justice League meeting.
• Batwoman said the Hall of Justice’s Main AI had betrayed the League and that she had dealt with it; Su Ming recommended overwriting Brother Eye and asked about Desaad’s information and Cyborg’s absence.

After the Justice League meeting, Su Ming invited the heroes to eat in the Spectre Universe and discussed Barry's ideas about Darkseid's universe. The group prepared to go, while Su Ming learned he could not reach Wonder Woman because Hippolyta had removed Paradise Island's signal towers.

• Barry wondered whether the New Gods could find Darkseid's universe by entering it through touch, and Su Ming suggested asking Mister Miracle.
• Superman declined Su Ming's invitation so he could continue working, while Aquaman accepted and asked the others to join them.
• Hawkgirl explained that J'onn was on Thanagar, then left to switch shifts and cook for Shaun.
• Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Black Canary, and Superboy-Prime agreed to accompany Su Ming and Aquaman to the Spectre Universe.
• Su Ming tried calling Wonder Woman, but Barry explained that Hippolyta had torn down Paradise Island's signal towers, so Su Ming joked about sending her to a doctor.

After Diana argued with Queen Hippolyta over whether she should leave Earth-0, the group gathered for dinner and assigned themselves leads to find Darkseid. They agreed to rest while investigating, with Diana planning to seek information from the Bana-Mighdall Amazons.

• Diana and Donna told Su Ming and the others that Diana had argued with Queen Hippolyta, who wanted her to leave Earth-0 and lie low.
• Oliver suggested Diana move to the Spectre Universe, but Diana and Bobo explained why she refused to abandon the Amazons or move Paradise Island.
• Su Ming listed four leads for finding Darkseid: Cyborg's Mother Box, Grail, Desaad's memories, and Constantine's disappearance.
• Barry took interest in investigating Desaad's memories, while John and Bobo discussed Cyborg and Mister Terrific's absence.
• Diana volunteered to seek information about Grail from the Bana-Mighdall Amazons, and the group assigned its other investigations.
• Su Ming told everyone to rest and report any discoveries to him through Adjutant.