Recaps

Solomon used Compound V to strengthen Vought’s Mutants and Cerebro to locate others, while Raven and Erik underwent the experiment. Shaw’s allies stole doses and took the serum themselves, leaving Azazel newly transformed in an unfamiliar conference room.

• Solomon recruited Hank to develop Cerebro and Compound V, and Hank joined the research despite recognizing Hirna as a test subject.
• Hirna survived Compound V, gained immense strength and defensive scales, and persuaded many Mutants to undergo the experiment.
• Raven joined Vought and took Compound V, which evolved her shapeshifting so she could copy other Mutants’ powers, while Solomon proved she could not copy his abilities.
• Erik took Compound V, gained greater strength and control over magnetism, and agreed to delay his revenge against Shaw.
• Solomon used Cerebro to locate Mutants across the United States as Shaw sent Emma Frost and Azazel to steal Compound V from Vought.
• Shaw injected Compound V and gained greater powers, then gave doses to Emma Frost, Riptide, and Janus before Janus demonstrated his enhanced control of storms.
• Azazel injected Compound V and endured more than an hour of uncontrolled teleportation before discovering that his body and senses had improved.

Solomon brought new mutants into Vought and pushed Darwin through brutal training as Shaw’s plan drove the United States and Russia toward nuclear war. Vought intervened in Cuba before the fleets could destroy each other, and the confrontation with Shaw’s forces began under a global broadcast.

• Solomon claimed a connection to the Neyaphem patriarch and promised to care for Azazel, while Azazel returned to Shaw’s submarine and kept their encounter secret.
• Solomon defeated Logan and Victor, invited them to join Vought, and then found Pietro Maximoff and offered Magda help awakening and training her children’s powers.
• Solomon awakened Wanda with Compound V, then trained Darwin through dangerous tests that strengthened his attributes and unlocked teleportation and a sound-nullifying field.
• Charles and Moira uncovered Shaw’s plan to provoke nuclear war over Cuba, while Alex joined Vought and gained greater control over his plasma powers.
• Raven revealed that she could copy mutant abilities, and Vought trained its growing team as the Cuban standoff approached, and a mysterious live broadcast showed the fleets facing off.
• After the Weihai continued toward the blockade line and the American fleet struck it, missiles from both sides froze in midair when a Vought mutant intervened.
• Raven and Erik exposed Shaw’s submarine, but Shaw absorbed a missile barrage and survived, and Vought’s fighters confronted him as Riptide sent tornadoes against them.
• Raven attacked Riptide, Erik pinned him with steel wreckage, and Azazel teleported above Charles’s jet to target him.

Darwin and the mutants survived Shaw’s destruction, and Solomon brought several former enemies into Vought as the company launched a global superhero business. Solomon then recruited Bolivar Trask and secretly turned William Stryker against Vought, while postponing his confrontation with Apocalypse until he had grown stronger.

• Charles suspected Vought had manipulated the conflict as Azazel attacked him, but Darwin stopped Azazel and fought him aboard the jet before teleporting everyone away from its explosion.
• Darwin returned to the island as the White Queen overwhelmed the mutants, but Pietro broke her psychic storm, and Raven and Alex Summers killed her, and Shaw unleashed a devastating energy blast that Darwin shielded Pietro from.
• Shaw revealed his plan to destroy humanity, but Homelander overwhelmed and overloaded him, causing an explosion that vaporized the island and sent a tsunami toward the fleet, and Homelander stopped the wave and invited mutants to join Vought.
• Darwin and the other survivors reunited, and Solomon offered the White Queen, Azazel, Riptide, and Charles places at Vought after admitting he had secretly rescued some of them and let Darwin endure the blast to strengthen his adaptation.
• Vought staged interviews portraying Erik as a hero, while Moira negotiated a billion-dollar nationwide superhero contract and the United States agreed to promote Vought even as officials secretly pursued countermeasures.
• Solomon ordered Vought to recruit mutants worldwide, have Charles and the White Queen use Cerebro to locate them, and give Charles Compound V, and he also recruited Bolivar Trask to develop mutant detectors and suppressors rather than mechanical heroes.
• Solomon injected William Stryker with Compound V, activated his dormant X-Gene, and rewrote his mind to obey Shaw, mass-produce Supes, and attack Vought, and he then gave Stryker more vials and left Apocalypse asleep until he could grow stronger.

Solomon strengthened Vought’s grip on the world, imposed newborn Supe injections, and used Cerebro to harvest abilities from thousands of Supes. He then entered the DC world and found Clark Kent, whose suppressed powers began awakening when Solomon attacked him.

• Solomon tested Trask’s Suppression Collar on Emma Frost, Charles, and Erik, but each overwhelmed it with their powers.
• Solomon discovered Homelander had secretly used the last dose of original Compound V, subdued him, and ordered him to surrender it and help impose newborn injections.
• Solomon pushed the Supe Cultivation Act into effect and ordered Homelander to enforce it, despite objections from Starlight and Queen Maeve.
• Solomon tested original Compound V on condemned Supes, but every subject died, so he abandoned further trials in The Boys world.
• Solomon used Cerebro to locate and harvest the abilities of ten thousand Supes, gaining new powers including Precognition and cellular rebirth.
• Solomon arrived in Gotham, encountered Batman, and traveled to Kent Farm to find Clark Kent.
• Solomon stayed with Martha Kent while waiting for Clark, then walked with him into a cornfield after revealing he knew about the spaceship.
• Solomon attacked Clark and entered his mind, but Clark resisted, beginning to awaken his suppressed Kryptonian abilities.