Recaps

Thor arranged special training for Barry and Kara in the Batcave, temporarily cutting Barry off from the Speed Force and ordering them to last ten moves against Thomas Wayne. As Thor and Tetiyu left, Tetiyu warned that the universe’s future would remain tragic, while Diana continued to rage below.

• Barry questioned Thor’s claim that Batman could become more dangerous than the heroes by gaining their powers, then asked how they would stop the conflicts involving Themyscira and Atlantis.
• Thor insisted that they eat first, and the group held dinner in the Batcave while Diana remained bound and gagged.
• After dinner, Thor told Barry that heroes had to master their own powers and created a time-distorted training area where ten years would pass for every minute outside.
• Thor severed Barry’s connection to the Speed Force and told him and the awakened Kara to last ten moves against Thomas Wayne.
• Thomas immediately attacked Barry as Thor and Tetiyu left, and Tetiyu warned Thor that the universe’s future would still be tragic.

Thor restored Barry Allen’s Speed Force and sent Kara to absorb a yellow sun’s energy for a hundred years so she could gain the power to kill Zod. Barry then received a call from his mother, Nora Allen, reporting an attack before the call ended in an explosion, and he vanished in a burst of golden lightning.

• Tetiyu told Thor that Bruce Wayne was investigating nth metal, and Thor realized the Prime Universe was approaching the Dark Nights crisis.
• Thomas Wayne returned to the Batcave with an injured Barry and Kara, and Barry dodged Thor’s thrown apple with exceptional fighting instincts.
• Thor restored Barry’s Speed Force and took Kara to a yellow sun, where he accelerated time so she could absorb its energy for a hundred years.
• Nora Allen called Barry and warned that people from Atlantis and Themyscira had come to kill them before an explosion cut off the call.
• Barry roared in anguish, burst into golden lightning, and disappeared while Thomas Wayne looked on.

Barry Allen arrived in war-torn Central City and saved Nora Allen from a group of Amazon Warriors, disabling them without killing them. Nora recognized his silhouette and asked if he was Barry.

• Nora Allen rescued an injured little girl and carried her through Central City's ruins.
• Nora drew an Amazon Warrior away from the girl, but several warriors surrounded her and prepared to kill her.
• Barry Allen sped in and shattered the warriors' wrists, stopping their attack without killing them.
• Nora recognized Barry's familiar silhouette and asked if he was really there.

Barry Allen reunited with Nora and stopped the Atlantean and Amazon assault on Central City, but General Zod arrived with a fleet and demanded that Diana be handed over. As Kryptonians fell toward the city, Thomas Wayne flew up alone to confront them while Barry and the others were ordered to evacuate civilians.

• Barry revealed himself to Nora, reunited with her, and carried her and an injured girl to Thomas Wayne for safety.
• Barry crippled the Atlantean and Amazon attackers across Central City, then disarmed Arthur Curry and broke his limbs to stop him.
• General Zod took over electronic screens worldwide and gave the world twelve hours to surrender Diana, threatening Central City with destruction.
• Dozens of Kryptonians leapt from Zod's spaceship and fell toward Central City.
• Thomas Wayne, wearing a yellow Batsuit with wings of light, charged toward the Kryptonians while Barry, Shazam, and Cyborg prepared to evacuate civilians.

Thomas Wayne fought General Zod while Barry Allen, Shazam, and Cyborg evacuated civilians and battled the remaining Kryptonians in Central City. Thomas fell back to Earth gravely wounded and told Barry it was his time.

• Barry Allen ordered Cyborg and Shazam to evacuate the civilians and trust Thomas Wayne.
• Thomas killed or wounded most of the Kryptonian vanguard with his Kryptonite sword and Yellow Lantern constructs.
• General Zod attacked Thomas, absorbed the Sun's power, and grew stronger when Thomas's fear energy struck him.
• Barry used a Kryptonite dagger to disable the Kryptonians while Shazam and Cyborg were overwhelmed.
• Zod knocked Thomas into a crater, where Thomas urged Barry to take over.

General Zod overwhelmed Barry Allen and the heroes, but Barry wounded him with a Kryptonite dagger before being left helpless. Just as Zod prepared to kill Barry, Kara Zor-El arrived and sent Zod crashing underground.

• Zod ordered the surviving Kryptonians to evacuate their wounded and search for Kara Zor-El, then attacked Barry and Thomas Wayne with Heat Vision.
• Cyborg and Shazam attacked Zod, but Zod tore Cyborg apart and beat Shazam back into Billy Batson.
• Barry rescued Billy and fought Zod, but Zod froze one of Barry’s legs and broke the other after Barry stabbed him with a Kryptonite dagger.
• Zod pulled out the dagger and began healing as he approached the immobile Barry, while Nora Allen and people around the world watched in despair.
• Kara Zor-El struck Zod from the sky, driving him deep underground, then told Barry to stand back and leave Zod to her.

Kara confronted General Zod over Carl's death, defeated him, and destroyed the Kryptonian spaceship. Thor healed Barry and the others, then explained that Kara had grown so powerful after spending a hundred years basking in the Sun.

• General Zod emerged from the crater and revealed that Carl had died, prompting Kara to attack him.
• Kara struck Zod three times, then vaporized him with her Heat Vision.
• Kara destroyed the Kryptonian Spaceship with her Heat Vision, erasing Krypton's final threat.
• Thor and Death Tetiyu appeared beside Barry, and Thor healed Barry, Thomas Wayne, Billy Batson, and Cyborg.
• Thor told Barry that he had made Kara bask in the Sun in space for a hundred years.

Barry Allen confronted the cost of undoing his altered timeline, said goodbye to Nora, and returned to his original world after Thomas Wayne killed Reverse-Flash. He delivered Thomas’s letter to Bruce, then discovered that Thor had brought Nora to his apartment.

• Thor explained that Reverse-Flash’s siphoning of the Speed Force would prevent Barry from resetting the timeline, while Nora revealed she already knew the truth about her fate.
• Reverse-Flash arrived in the Batcave, but Kara froze him, and Thomas Wayne shot him when Barry hesitated to kill him.
• Barry said goodbye to Nora and ran to restore the timeline as his created world collapsed; Thor, Kara, and Death Tetiyu disappeared.
• Barry returned to Gotham, delivered Thomas’s letter to Bruce Wayne, and then vanished again.
• Barry arrived home in Central City and found Nora waiting in his apartment, saying Thor had brought her there.

On a ruined Earth, Barry Allen stopped Raven from killing herself and asked her to help him use time travel to undo the apocalypse. Raven agreed to anchor him as he attempted to travel two years into the past and prevent the disaster.

• Raven tried to stab herself by the Thames, but the maimed Barry Allen caught her wrist.
• Barry told Raven that Superman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, and the other Justice League members had died, and that he intended to reset the timeline rather than save the ruined world.
• Barry explained that he had survived Darkseid's attack and built a Cosmic Treadmill from salvaged parts, but his failed attempts to reach the necessary speed had cost him his legs.
• Barry asked Raven to use her otherworldly soul as an anchor to keep him from losing himself in time, and Raven agreed to help him.

Barbara Gordon and Kate Kane used their last Kryptonite bullet to kill two Doomsday monsters, but five more surrounded them. A mysterious figure in Superman’s red cape saved them with super-breath, leaving the women wondering whether Superman had returned.

• Barbara Gordon and Kate Kane split up, killed the pursuing Parademons, and worked together to lure two Doomsday monsters into the Kryptonite bullet’s path.
• Kate Kane fired their last Kryptonite bullet through one Doomsday monster’s skull and into the other’s heart, killing both.
• Five more Doomsday monsters appeared, surrounding the exhausted Barbara Gordon and Kate Kane as they prepared to fight to the death.
• A figure in a red cape arrived, froze the five Doomsday monsters with cold breath, and shattered them with a second breath.
• Kate Kane and Barbara Gordon recognized the figure’s cape and asked whether Superman had returned.

Kara learned that her cousin Kal-El and the Justice League had vanished after a disastrous attack on Apokolips, leaving Earth devastated and near collapse. Thor warned that Darkseid had become Universe Level and revealed that Death Tetiyu would have to agree before he could reverse time and resurrect Earth's dead.

• Kara asked Kate and Barbara about Kal-El, and Barbara told her that the Justice League had been wiped out and Earth was being drained by machines.
• Kara prepared to head to Apokolips, but Thor warned her that Darkseid had become Universe Level and controlled the captured Justice League.
• Barbara realized the Justice League might still be alive, while Thor dismissed Kate and Barbara as too weak to rescue them.
• Kara asked Thor to save the people who had died on Earth, and Thor said Death Tetiyu would have to agree.

Thor explained that Tetiyu could not reverse the deaths of everyone on the planet, but he resurrected Jason Todd and James Gordon. With Dick Grayson already revived by Damian, Barbara called for the survivors to gather their forces and go to Apokolips to rescue the Justice League.

• Tetiyu told Kara, Kate, and Barbara that restoring the planet's dead required an equivalent exchange, and Thor said he lacked authority as an outsider to arrange it.
• Kate asked Thor to bring back Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, and Commissioner Gordon, and Thor resurrected Jason and Gordon.
• Barbara reunited with her father and explained what had happened, while Jason asked what they would do next.
• Thor told Kate that Damian had already brought Dick back to life.
• Barbara announced that they would gather Earth's remaining forces and go to Apokolips to bring the Justice League back.

Barry failed in his thirty-eighth attempt to use the Cosmic Treadmill, breaking his right arm and being dragged clear by Raven. As Raven’s father Trigon interfered with her attempt to find Constantine, Barry carried her on his back and headed into the darkness toward him.

• Barry drove himself toward tearing the space-time barrier on the Cosmic Treadmill, but his right arm snapped and Raven pulled him from the torrent before the machine shut down.
• Barry tried to begin a thirty-ninth attempt, but Raven stopped him and urged him to seek a mechanical prosthetic; he said Lex Luthor controlled the working advanced technology.
• Raven proposed finding Constantine, and Barry agreed after she explained she could track him by his magical presence.
• Trigon sensed Raven’s plan and attacked her through their mental connection, preventing her from casting a teleportation spell.
• Barry told Raven to climb onto his back, and he dragged them both toward Constantine’s location using his remaining left arm.

Barry and Raven reached Constantine at an abandoned London bar, where Barry asked him to create another Flashpoint. After Constantine learned what Barry remembered and realized Batman had used magic to prevent him from saving Zatanna, Batwoman’s group arrived with Thor, Death, and Kara from the Flashpoint Universe.

• Barry and Raven crashed into Constantine’s bar, and Constantine used magic to set Barry’s broken arm so the Speed Force could heal it.
• Barry asked Constantine to help create another Flashpoint, then let him read his memories.
• Constantine saw Barry’s Flashpoint memories and realized Batman had magically prevented him from intervening when Zatanna was killed.
• Barry said he was willing to risk the world’s destruction, and Constantine agreed that Batman’s allies were all mad.
• Batwoman, Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon, Red Hood, Death, Thor, and Kara arrived at the bar.
• Thor went to Barry, reminded him that he had promised they would meet again, and asked how Barry had ended up so badly injured.

Barry abandoned his plan to create Flashpoint and proposed taking the group to Apokolips to kill Darkseid, trusting Kara's overwhelming strength. The others remained shocked by the plan as Barry declared their new objective.

• Barry thanked Thor for saving his mother but said he had still failed to protect her, then introduced Thor, Death, and Kara to Raven and Constantine.
• Constantine charged at Kara in anger over Superman's actions, but an invisible barrier stopped his fist, and Kara said she would settle the score with her cousin.
• Raven asked whether Barry still planned to create Flashpoint, and Barry firmly rejected the original plan.
• Barry explained that Kara was far stronger than other Kryptonians and recalled how she had effortlessly defeated Zod and his army.
• Barry announced that the group would go to Apokolips and kill Darkseid.

Barry proposed going to Apokolips to kill Darkseid, and Thor restored Barry’s missing lower body before bringing Zatanna back to life. After reuniting with Zatanna, Constantine joined Barry’s plan and vowed to fight Superman and Batman as well.

• Constantine called Barry’s plan to attack Apokolips suicidal, but Thor regenerated Barry’s lower body and repaired his uniform with a wave of his hand.
• Thor snapped his fingers and brought Zatanna back, stunning Constantine as he recognized her.
• Constantine embraced Zatanna and apologized for running away, while she tried to explain that she had cast a compulsion spell on him.
• Constantine blamed Bruce Wayne for manipulating them, then bowed to Thor in thanks for restoring Zatanna.
• Constantine agreed to go to Apokolips with Barry to kill Darkseid and said he also wanted to beat Superman and Batman.

Lois Lane tried to recruit Harley Quinn for a rescue mission, but lost their fight and failed to persuade her. Thor arrived with a large group of allies and challenged Harley to join his “Dead Man’s Lottery” on Apokolips, taunting her as a coward.

• Lois Lane fought Harley Quinn to win her help rescuing controlled Justice League members from Apokolips.
• Harley Quinn used electric devices hidden in her glove and boot to defeat Lois Lane.
• Harley Quinn refused Lois Lane’s request and offered free drinks to the gathered criminals instead.
• Barry Allen, Bat-family vigilantes, Zatanna, Constantine, and others arrived at Harley Quinn’s office with Thor.
• Thor invited Harley Quinn to his “Dead Man’s Lottery” on Apokolips and challenged her to prove she was not a coward.

Thor effortlessly defeated Harley Quinn when she attacked him, then revealed he had planned to bring her to a Deadman Lottery on Apokolips. Harley demanded to know her role, and Damian Wayne said Thor could bring Pamela back to life.

• Harley Quinn attacked Thor with a sledgehammer and electric gauntlets, but he disintegrated the hammer and absorbed her electricity.
• Thor stopped Harley from reaching him and held her suspended by the forehead as Captain Boomerang asked who he was.
• Barry Allen identified Thor as a god, while Harley tried and failed to provoke him with psychological taunts.
• Thor told Harley he had prepared a place for her in the Deadman Lottery on Apokolips but called her too weak and boring.
• Harley demanded to know her role and proposed a one-on-one bet, but Thor refused because she was too weak.
• Damian Wayne told Harley that Thor could bring Pamela back to life.

Thor brought Poison Ivy back to life for Harley Quinn and removed Trigon’s avatar from Raven’s crystal. He then gave everyone present an enchantment to lend them his thunder power for the mission against Apokolips.

• Harley Quinn demanded that Thor resurrect Poison Ivy, and Thor restored Pamela Isley to life with vines and flowers.
• Harley reunited with Poison Ivy, while Thor teased Constantine about King Shark and left the room’s onlookers stunned.
• Lois Lane introduced herself to Thor and began to discuss the plan to attack Apokolips, but Thor recited its details and criticized the group’s fighting strength.
• Raven offered to help, and Thor pulled Trigon’s avatar from her forehead crystal and trapped it in a crystal ball for his laboratory.
• Thor invoked Odin and enchanted everyone present with his divine thunder power, prompting Constantine to boast that he could now beat Clark.

Barry Allen used his merged Speed Force and divine lightning to destroy Apokolips' Congo harvester and raced toward the North Sea. Thor brought the others to the Lex Luthor Building, disabled its defenses, and hurled Harley Quinn through a high window to start the assault.

• Barry Allen rejected Lois Lane's plan and said he would destroy the three planetary transformers himself.
• Barry flew to the Congo Basin, lured Apokolips' bioweapons toward him, and destroyed the harvester and its defenders in seconds.
• Thor teleported the group to the Lex Luthor Building, where his divine shields blocked the automated defenses' attack.
• Captain Boomerang used his empowered boomerang to destroy several robot guards, and Thor disabled the building's remaining defenses with a snap.
• Harley Quinn clung to Thor and demanded to join the fight, so he threw her through the building's reinforced glass wall.

Thor transported the heroes to Lex Luthor's penthouse, where they fought through Doomsdays and robots before Luthor surrendered and revealed he was Lois Lane's source inside Apokolips. Luthor opened a Boom Tube for the heroes to pursue Darkseid to Oa, while Thor stayed behind and watched Apokolips burn.

• Thor transported the group to Luthor's penthouse, where Harley Quinn and the others battled waves of Doomsdays and robot guards.
• Damian Wayne attacked Luthor, but Lois Lane stopped him and revealed that Luthor was the Sleeper who had supplied her with information about Apokolips.
• Luthor confirmed that Darkseid was heading for Oa and the Central Power Battery, and said he was the only person on Earth able to open a Boom Tube to Apokolips.
• Luthor gave the Bat Family and League of Assassins Kryptonite weapons, and Barry Allen arrived after destroying three machines.
• Thor and Death stayed behind, while Kara changed her mind and joined the others as Luthor opened a Boom Tube and sent the heroes through.
• Thor warned Luthor not to scheme against him, then watched a live image of Apokolips engulfed in flames.

Batman detected the survivors’ arrival on Apokolips and warned Darkseid of an abnormal fluctuation in probability. As the heroes faced an army of their captured allies, Kara charged straight at Superman, determined to fight her cousin herself.

• Batman reported the unauthorized Boom Tube and the presence of a Kryptonian to Desaad, who summoned Apokolips’s forces to meet the invaders.
• Batman sensed that the plan was going too smoothly and warned Darkseid about abnormal probability fluctuations.
• The survivors fought Parademons and Doomsdays after arriving on Apokolips, while Constantine learned their borrowed power would last until Thor was defeated.
• Superman and the captured heroes appeared alongside Darkseid’s commanders, confronting the survivors as an army.
• Kara told her teammates to leave Superman to her and charged at him.

Kara arrived on Apokolips and overwhelmed Superman, whose mind briefly cleared before she punished him for serving Darkseid and sent him flying away. She then turned her attention to Steppenwolf and Kalibak, who were fighting Shazam and the Flash.

• The survivors fought Darkseid’s controlled forces across Apokolips as Barry confronted Kalibak and Damian fought Kanto.
• Kara punched Clark hard enough to break his control temporarily, and he remembered that Darkseid had twisted his will after defeating him.
• Kara condemned Clark for betraying Krypton’s teachings and devastating Earth, then beat him down before he could fight back.
• Clark tried to persuade Kara to join him against Darkseid, but she seized him and hurled him beyond the horizon.
• Kara turned toward Steppenwolf and Kalibak and charged at them as Shazam and the Flash fought them.

Kara swiftly defeated Steppenwolf and Kalibak while Constantine and Zatanna freed the controlled heroes, who then beat the brainwashed Superman. Batman arrived in the Mobius Chair and attacked the heroes, but the Bat Family pulled him from the chair and began beating him as Constantine rushed to join them.

• Kara broke Steppenwolf's wrist and knocked him unconscious, then disarmed Kalibak and left him unconscious in seconds.
• Constantine and Zatanna used the Lasso of Truth's power to free the controlled heroes, including Hal Jordan and Arthur Curry.
• Clark returned to the battlefield, where Constantine bound him and the heroes beat him for the harm he had caused while controlled.
• Lois told Clark to focus on calming his comrades, then returned to fighting Parademons with him beside her.
• Batman appeared in the Mobius Chair and attacked the heroes, but the Bat Family overwhelmed him, dragged him from the chair, and pinned him down.
• Constantine ran toward the Bat Family, shouting that he still had a score to settle with Batman.

Constantine beat the freed Bruce Wayne before Batman headed into the Apokolips fortress to find Victor. On the battlefield, Kara protected Diana from Darkseid’s Omega Beams and charged into battle with him.

• Constantine used the Lasso of Truth to bind Batman and punched him while the Bat Family watched.
• Batman regained control, ordered the others to focus on Victor, and went deeper into the fortress with the Bat Family following.
• Constantine returned to fighting lesser enemies as Wonder Woman Diana battled Parademons and Doomsdays.
• Darkseid targeted Diana with Omega Beams, but Kara stepped in and absorbed the blast.
• Kara countered with Heat Vision that struck Darkseid, then charged him as Green Lantern Hal Jordan helped Diana.
• Kara’s star-powered punch met Darkseid’s massive palm, unleashing a shockwave that pulverized the surrounding battlefield.