Chapter Summaries

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.

Kara fought Darkseid in a brutal clash but was badly wounded when he exploited her straightforward fighting style. Shazam and the other heroes joined the battle to keep Darkseid occupied, while Damian killed Kanto and Arthur and Mera continued fighting Parademons.

• Kara and Darkseid traded devastating blows, but Darkseid seized her arm, struck her abdomen, and slammed her into a crater.
• Clark charged Darkseid to protect Kara, but Darkseid brushed him aside and sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Shazam struck Darkseid with divine lightning, giving Kara time to rise from the crater and rejoin the fight.
• Constantine, Zatanna, Harley Quinn, Raven, and the League of Assassins attacked Darkseid together, helping Kara hold him at bay.
• Damian ambushed and killed Kanto while the others focused on Darkseid.
• Arthur and Mera fought Parademons, and Arthur remarked that they were getting old as Mera continued attacking with her mechanical serpent tail.

Thor watched the battlefield with Lex Luthor and Death as the heroes fought Darkseid, then left when Darkseid detected him and began teleporting to Luthor Tower. The tower’s screen turned to static as a universe-shaking boom sounded.

• Lex Luthor watched Supergirl punch Clark out of Apokolips’s brainwashing and realized the heroes had become far more powerful than he understood.
• Thor switched the screen to Cyborg’s torture aboard a warship, where the Bat Family subdued a brainwashed Batman.
• Darkseid unleashed a shock wave that blasted Kara and the other heroes away, then fixed his gaze on Luthor Tower.
• Thor stood up and told Death to stay behind as he vanished to meet Darkseid.
• The screen filled with static, and an earth-shattering boom resounded across the universe.

Thor rescued the surviving heroes from Apokolips, then fought Darkseid’s avatar after it unleashed power from its true self. After erasing a vast region of the universe with his strike, Thor opened a portal to take the refugees somewhere safe.

• Thor transported Kara, Shazam, Constantine, and the Bat Family into his personal space.
• Darkseid told Thor he had interfered with his search for the Anti-Life Equation and attacked with Omega Beams fueled by his true self’s power.
• Thor used Stormbreaker to cut through the void and collide with the Omega Beams, creating an expanding emptiness that erased everything it touched.
• Death appeared and praised Thor, then explained that all forms of death ultimately fell under her jurisdiction.
• Darkseid’s avatar lost its borrowed power and vanished, and Thor opened a portal to another city so he and Death could settle the refugees.

Thor returned to the Watchtower and discovered Reed and Valeria were researching a way to combine Doomsday’s and Amazo’s abilities. Fearing they would create a multiverse-threatening monster, he ended their work and prepared to send them back to their own universe.

• Thor heard Reed and Valeria discussing research that would combine Doomsday’s adaptive evolution with Amazo’s power replication.
• Thor confronted Reed and Valeria, smacked Valeria on the head, and warned them that their research could create an unstoppable threat.
• Thor brought Susan to the laboratory, where she learned about the project and scolded Reed and Valeria.
• Thor shut down the holographic display and ordered Reed and Valeria to pack up and return to their universe.
• Thor dragged Reed and Valeria out of the laboratory to arrange their return, while Susan and Death followed.

Thor caught Reed and Valeria attempting to combine Doomsday and Amazo with nano-neural bridging technology, then sent them back through a portal and barred Valeria from the lab. He told the Justice League he had brought survivors from another universe and asked whether they needed any of them.

• Thor dragged Reed and Valeria through the Watchtower, embarrassing Valeria in front of Wally, John, J'onn, and Wonder Woman.
• Thor told Emma and Betsy that Reed and Valeria planned to create an evolving, nearly unkillable creature by combining Doomsday and Amazo.
• Thor sent Reed back to his universe and ordered Valeria kept out of the lab for a month, or two if she complained.
• Emma and Betsy returned through the portal with Susan, and Reed followed them back to his universe.
• Thor went to the Justice League meeting room and asked Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Wally, John, and J'onn whether they needed any of the survivors he had brought back from another universe.
• Clark reacted with surprise.