Recaps

Natasha was rescued by Ariana, Banner, and the three bears as Ultron launched his plan to raise Sokovia. As John helped Martha navigate the evacuation, he sensed Wanda’s magic and tracked the chaos particles to a building where they were being blocked.

• Ariana, Banner, Little Bear, and White Bear broke into Ultron’s base and rescued Natasha and Pink Bear.
• Ultron activated the God Pebble to lift Sokovia, and Natasha pushed Banner into danger so Hulk would emerge and help the Avengers.
• John guided Martha through the evacuating city, crushed a robot, and used Apparition to escape a collapsing building.
• John sensed Wanda’s ancient magic, spread the chaos particles with a gust of wind, and found a building that split them apart.

The Avengers fought to stop Ultron’s rising city while John confronted a lookalike called Jonathan. Frey mistook John for Yardani, then rejected him as an impostor as the Insurgents began their rebellion.

• Hulk and the Mighty Bear Trio reached the rising city, where Ariana and the bears helped Wanda and Barton defeat the robots.
• Tony assessed the danger of the city falling, while Steve and Natasha refused to abandon the civilians still trapped there.
• Nick Fury brought the old aircraft carrier through the clouds to assist the Avengers.
• Blade, Frey, and Jonathan prepared for John’s arrival as the building’s door opened.
• John confronted Jonathan, and Frey recognized John as Yardani before angrily calling him an impostor.
• The building shook as the Insurgents launched their rebellion against the King of Solitude.

War Machine and Ariana helped protect Sokovia’s evacuation while the Avengers fought Ultron, but Vision lost control of the Mind Stone and unleashed devastating blasts. Vision opened his eyes after the final explosion, revealing a dragon’s eyes.

• Rhodey arrived in War Machine to guard the mothership, while Ariana used the Magic Book to protect civilians, destroy robots, and create a bridge for evacuation.
• Ariana collapsed from exhaustion after the robot army was defeated, and the Avengers regrouped at the church to defend the reversal device from Ultron.
• The Avengers fought Ultron and his robot army, but Vision’s Mind Stone began flickering and released an energy wave that disabled the robots and blasted everyone away.
• Vision lost control and attacked the Avengers, destroying the church and creating a huge crater with another energy blast.
• Vision opened his eyes in the crater, and Barton saw that they looked like a dragon’s eyes.

A ruthless Vision overwhelmed the Avengers, forcing them to destroy the device powering the city while Wanda held him back. The city exploded, but Vision survived and killed Thor before turning his beam on the white bear as time stopped.

• Vision demanded that the Avengers kneel, then swiftly defeated Thor, Hulk, Steve, and Tony while Wanda struggled to interfere with him.
• Tony proposed destroying the device beneath the city, and Wanda stayed behind to restrain Vision while Steve evacuated Pietro and the others.
• Wanda trapped Vision underground as Thor destroyed the device, causing the city to shatter in a massive explosion.
• Vision survived the blast, killed Thor, and aimed his forehead beam at the white bear protecting Wanda.
• A bullet flew toward its target, and time stood still.

John Wick confronted a Vision who revealed that he came from another universe and had seized control after the Avengers defeated Thanos. Their battle escalated as Vision adapted to magic, and he challenged John to a wizard's duel.

• Vision spoke to John about killing his alternate self and revealed that he had once loved his pet Tom.
• Vision explained that he had waited for the Avengers to defeat Thanos, then taken everything from them and ruled alone.
• John and Vision exchanged spells and attacks, with Vision gradually adapting to magic and healing himself through Time Corridor.
• Vision used Fiendfyre and other magic against John, while John restrained the fire dragon and struck back with lightning.
• Vision said John's body suited his magic better than his own and formed a wand, asking whether John remembered the etiquette of a wizard's duel.

John defeated Vision and seized control of his body, but the Mind Stone rejected him as he prepared to destroy the city. Jonathan confronted him, and the chapter left their duel unresolved as Eleanor entered the forbidden Laboratory.

• John and Vision fought with magic until Vision used the Mind Stone to invade John's mind, but Thor struck Vision away and helped John awaken.
• John revealed himself as John Wick, blasted Thor aside, and considered taking Vision's Mind Stone before deciding to accelerate the falling wreckage onto the Muggles.
• Jonathan rose from the dead, confronted John, and raised his pistol while John prepared to cast Avada Kedavra.
• Eleanor followed the strange sound to the forbidden Laboratory, accidentally opened its door, and heard a familiar voice address her.

Wanda was rescued by Aurors, who identified her as a Lost Wizard and put her to sleep while they prepared to protect the city from Sokovia’s falling wreckage. In the ruins, John discovered Frey had used Vampire-Blocking Blood to restrict his magic, but he stabbed her and declared that only a Wizard King could kill a Wizard King.

• White Bear protected Wanda from the impact, while Hulk crashed into a crater and was knocked unconscious by twenty Aurors’ Sleeping Charms.
• Fiona Slughorn identified Wanda as a Lost Wizard, and Beatrice put her to sleep as the Aurors prepared to protect the city.
• Fiona and the Auror Action Group cast protective spells that formed a barrier beneath the falling city wreckage.
• John realized Frey had been present from the beginning and revealed that her bullet had failed to penetrate his golden dragon scales.
• John stabbed Frey through the chest and said that only a Wizard King could kill a Wizard King.

Jonathan and his allies killed John by using a bullet that bypassed his defenses, while the falling city left Frey dying from her wounds. Frey saw the White Wolf in a strange white space as their fates met.

• Jonathan revealed that the bullet had targeted John's pendant, allowing Martha's blood and the vampire-blocking blood to weaken him.
• Jonathan's bullet pierced John's heart and destroyed his magic, and John crumbled while declaring that he would return.
• As the city fell, Jonathan removed Blade's sword and went to Frey, who was dying from her wound.
• Frey recalled the White Wolf and said that Jonathan could not replace him before she slipped into a white space.
• The White Wolf approached Frey, and their fates from different worlds met.

Frey died after realizing that the Throne was not the man she had loved, while Jonathan explained that he had changed his mind out of revenge and grief. As Sokovia fell, the Wizard King used the Wand to reverse the destruction and restore the city, leaving Martha alive and promising her an answer.

• Frey recognized the Throne as the man she had searched for, then died smiling with the Wand piercing her chest.
• Jonathan told Blade that he had chosen revenge, recalling how he spared John because killing him would have deprived John's parents of their son.
• Hill warned the S.H.I.E.L.D. crew that Sokovia's falling debris would still cause immense destruction, while Tony reported Thor, Hulk, and Wanda missing.
• A noble in the Sokovia bunker watched the city fall, and Fury announced that a miracle was coming.
• The Wizard King descended in a pillar of light and used the Wand to reverse the city's destruction.
• Martha saw the city rebuild and heard the Wizard King promise to tell her the answer because his heart was beating.

After surviving the Godslayer's bullet through his undying heart, John learned why Jonathan had come to this world and watched him leave to pursue the person who cursed his wife. As wizards rebuilt Sokovia, the world turned its attention to them as humanity's saviors.

• Fiona summoned a Star Spirit to help with the Sokovia Incident, and the spirit left a hammer behind in the forest.
• John revealed that the bullet had struck his magical undying heart, so he had never been in danger of dying.
• Jonathan explained that a real dream had led him to test John and that he believed another John Wick had cursed his wife; he vowed to find and kill that person.
• Jonathan and Blade left together as John considered the other John Wicks, the Critic, and his own uncertain feelings about his past.
• Wizards rapidly repaired Sokovia, while helicopters arrived and the world learned of the catastrophe; John recognized that wizards had become humanity's saviors.

MOSS relayed that Wanda and Hulk had been taken away by magic while Thor and Vision remained in Sokovia, as the Wizard King’s Silencers arrived to escort Ariana. In the city, John destroyed the Mind Stone’s cross-dimensional coordinates, and Fiona announced that the Wizarding Kingdom would formally join the United Nations.

• Little Bear gestured to MOSS, who told the Avengers that Wanda was safe, Hulk had also been taken, and Thor and Vision were in the city; Tony went to look for Thor.
• Bakerley Raddus arrived to escort Ariana, and ten Silencers appeared and confronted the Avengers; Fury identified them as the Wizard King’s royal guard.
• A Golden Little Man grew into an armored, dragon-scaled creature and repaired Sokovia’s damaged streets as Fiona and the Aurors helped the residents emerge.
• John destroyed the Mind Stone’s cross-dimensional coordinates, then examined Thor and ordered Martha to carry him back while he prepared to leave with her.
• John and Martha departed in a rainbow pillar of light, and Fiona announced that the Wizarding Kingdom would take its place at the United Nations as a nation.

John confronted Dreamwalker in the Dreamscape and learned that his double had orchestrated events to test whether John would take his place or let him continue watching. After John passed the trial, Thor woke in Wizard City and saw its bustling streets.

• John deduced that he had been behind the events and met Dreamwalker, the Runespoor head who shared his appearance.
• Dreamwalker explained that he had watched countless lives across universes and had staged a trial because he wanted to escape his role as an observer.
• John chose to continue fulfilling his role as Wizard King, and Dreamwalker agreed to remain in the Dreamscape.
• Thor woke beside Wanda, found Mjolnir missing, and went onto the balcony to see a busy Wizard City.
• A woman in professional Wizard attire welcomed Thor to Wizard City.

Thor and Wanda explored Wizard City with Miss Borgin, received Wanda’s Magic Card, and learned that Hulk had been taken to Knockturn Alley after being invited there. They left the Hit Wizards’ base to find him.

• Hannah Longbottom served Thor and Wanda food at the Leaky Cauldron and revealed that her husband, the Lion of Longbottom, was coming to Wizard City.
• Miss Borgin led Thor and Wanda through Diagon Alley toward the First Magic Savings Bank, but they insisted on finding Hulk after learning he was being watched by the Hit Wizards.
• Wanda received a replacement Magic Card as a Lost Wizard, and the bank clerk advised Miss Borgin to help her get a wand from Ollivander.
• Miss Borgin took Thor and Wanda to the Hit Wizards’ base, where they found Grawp in a giant cell instead of Hulk.
• Wanda used her magic to communicate with Grawp, who told them Hulk had gone to Knockturn Alley because he was invited.

John returned to Wizard City and proclaimed the Wizard King’s return, prompting a citywide celebration. As the wizards welcomed him, Daphne Greengrass heard his call and stepped onto the ship’s deck.

• Neville Longbottom returned to Hannah, and they planned a feast to celebrate his homecoming.
• Nagini told Fury that the wizards had invited the Avengers and ordered him to prevent intelligence agencies from interfering with magic’s arrival.
• Fleur Delacour secured the support of a wealthy French nobleman and received John’s letter from Riddle, rejoicing that her king was finally willing to return.
• Thor and Wanda met Hagrid and his Zouwu in Knockturn Alley while Thor failed to summon Mjolnir.
• John returned to the Central Magic Tower, declared that the world must change, and led Wizard City in celebrating the Wizard King’s return.
• Daphne Greengrass heard John’s words aboard a ship in the harbor and stepped onto the deck.

John reunited with Hagrid, Lockhart, and the Zouwu before bringing Thor and the others to a palace to introduce them to the Wizarding Kingdom. The chapter ended as Percy Weasley and Penelope Weasley arrived at the banquet.

• Lockhart tried to recruit Thor for a film and claimed he and John had shared adventures, but John corrected him.
• Hagrid embraced John, and the Zouwu happily rubbed against him.
• John offered Lockhart a task and promised him a gold statue at Wizard University if he succeeded.
• John transported Thor, Wanda, and the others to a palace, welcomed Thor to the Wizarding Kingdom, and changed his clothes with magic.
• Percy Weasley and Penelope Weasley arrived at the banquet.

Penelope and Percy welcomed guests to a gathering in the wizarding city, where Wanda struggled to feel at home and John revealed that the Vision Thor had seen was not him. Meanwhile, the Avengers monitored the sleeping Vision and searched for Thor, until Tony learned that Mjolnir had been detected in the North Atlantic.

• Penelope worried that the Wizard King would think she and Percy had failed, and Percy reassured her that he trusted them.
• Draco Malfoy arrived with Astoria, encountered his disapproving father-in-law Mr. Greengrass, and Pheobe joined the gathering.
• Wanda felt like an impostor among the wizards, and John told her the city could be her home if she wanted it to be.
• Thor told John he had seen Vision, and John showed him a golden heart and explained that the figure had succeeded but was not him or Vision.
• Tony and the Avengers discussed Thor's disappearance and the altered Vision, who remained asleep while they monitored him.
• Friday detected an anomalous magnetic field in the North Atlantic, and Tony identified its source as Mjolnir.

Thor and Hagrid drank together while Mjolnir caused chaos at Dragon Castle, and Wanda entered the Stars Society, where she reunited with John and met his old friends. The gathering left the members together again after fifteen years of change.

• Mjolnir flew into Dragon Castle and struck a sleeping black dragon, waking the dragons and provoking a furious fight.
• Thor and Hagrid drank together, while Hulk danced with the wizards and felt accepted for the first time.
• Fleur invited Wanda through the door to the Stars Society, where Percy and Draco confronted her for using her mind-reading ability.
• John arrived and explained that Wanda's magic was crude, then greeted the Society members, including Daphne Greengrass.
• Daphne reunited with John, and the Stars Society gathered again after fifteen years apart.

Cross successfully shrank a living sheep and told Hope he would soon surpass Hank Pym, while Scott Lang began a burglary under Hank Pym’s surveillance. At the Stars Society, John proposed bringing the Wizarding Kingdom into the outside world and named Wanda as one of the two people needed to begin.

• Cross used his machine to shrink a sheep, which remained alive inside the glass chamber.
• Cross told Hope he had achieved living-organism shrinking technology and suggested they could remove Hank Pym from the picture.
• Hope realized Cross had begun breaking into Hank Pym’s field, while Hank Pym began watching Scott Lang after his release from prison.
• Scott struggled to find legitimate work, then accepted his friend’s suggestion to rob a house with a safe; Hank Pym monitored him through a flying ant.
• John told the Stars Society that the Wizards could claim a place in the outside world and named Wanda as one of the two people needed for their opening.

John selected Wanda Maximoff as a spokesperson and offered to teach her ancient magic so she could control her abilities, then chose Gilderoy Lockhart as another spokesperson. After the Stars Society reunited for a toast, skeletal riders appeared over the Jovanovich Estate, signaling a new threat.

• John explained that superheroes would reshape relations between nations and told Wanda her abilities had existed since birth.
• John showed Wanda a magical library and promised to teach her knowledge and spells, and she was drawn to the ancient magic that resonated with her Chaos Magic.
• John named Gilderoy Lockhart as the other spokesperson, and the Stars Society members agreed he was a suitable choice.
• John and his friends toasted their reunion with the words, "To eternal glory."
• At the Jovanovich Estate, a bearded man sensed something unclean entering the Wolf Pack's territory as riders on skeletal horses appeared across the grounds.
• An elderly headmaster at a nearby ancient school looked toward a stone gargoyle while the students continued their lessons unaware.

Wraithlike elven knights appeared across the world, while John struggled with whether he was truly the same person his friends remembered. John sent Thor beyond the Wizarding Kingdom’s mist to retrieve Mjolnir, and the Wild Hunt’s arrival showed that the Conjunction of the Spheres’ troubles continued.

• Robert disarmed a would-be robber, but a wraith-knight appeared and pierced the fleeing man before pursuing Robert.
• The Ancient One identified a captured frost-bearing wraith as an elf and worried that the Wild Hunt’s arrival had disrupted the futures she had seen.
• Pheobe reassured John that he was himself and that the people who loved him would be happy for him.
• Thor woke beside Hulk, then decided to leave after John told him the Avengers were being condemned for Sokovia.
• John banished Thor toward the Wizarding Kingdom’s border, where Mjolnir flew to him through the mist and Thor escaped as the mist dissipated.

The Jovanovic family learned that mysterious wraiths were hunting witchers and possibly magic users, so they set out for New York to find Natasha. In New York, Robert escaped an attack and burned the taxi to erase his identity.

• Seryozha and Valery discussed the strange wraiths, and Old Jovanovic warned them not to involve Yardani before sending them to find Natasha.
• Old Jovanovic ordered Andrei to go with Seryozha and Valery, protect Natasha, and keep an eye on Valery.
• Aleksei reported that Rigg had seen wraiths heading toward a school, where gargoyles destroyed them, suggesting the creatures targeted magic as well as witchers.
• Andrei, Aleksei, Anton, Ulyana, and Valery left the Jovanovic Manor for New York to find Natasha.
• Robert left a wrecked store with gasoline, then set the damaged taxi ablaze to destroy traces of his identity.

Lockhart prepared for an interview about his new book and his loyalty to the Wizard King, while John brought Wanda to a place where she could access any magic. Wanda agreed to join the Avengers and began absorbing the knowledge in a mysterious book before John left her behind.

• A Black Dragon killed a knight outside the Wizarding Kingdom, while Wraiths vanished into the mist.
• Lockhart rejected numerous outfits before telling Rita Skeeter he wanted to serve the country and uphold the Wizard King's trust.
• John found Wanda studying magic in Wizard City's library and led her through a hidden path to a room containing a book of knowledge.
• John told Wanda she would leave the next day to join the Avengers, and she touched the book, receiving a torrent of knowledge.
• John left Wanda studying and encountered a resentful Daphne, who complained that he had merely covered her with a blanket.

Daphne reunited with John but left without addressing their unresolved feelings, while Wanda returned to the Avengers and Hulk stayed in the Wizarding Kingdom. A month later, Professor McGonagall visited John because wraiths had appeared in the Forbidden Forest.

• Daphne spoke with John about Namor and its vibranium, then left to manage the Greengrass fleet without discussing their feelings.
• Wanda returned to New York with her White Bear, and Thor told Steve that Hulk had chosen to remain in the Wizarding Kingdom.
• Wanda agreed to join the Avengers, and Pietro joined her despite his misgivings.
• John found work for Hulk at a fantastic beasts clinic, where Hulk helped heal an Erumpent and later drank with Hagrid and Grawp.
• A month later, Professor McGonagall met John and told him that a student had seen wraiths in the Forbidden Forest.

John traveled to Hogwarts, meeting Percy Weasley’s daughter Stella on the Sea Train and overwhelming her with lessons on magic and potions. At King’s Cross, Stella argued with Draco’s daughter before boarding the Hogwarts Express, while John prepared to follow.

• At the Sea Train station, Stella urged her grandfather Arthur Weasley to board, then realized she had left her luggage behind as the train departed.
• John met Stella on the train and reassured her about her luggage before discussing her schoolwork and teaching her advanced magical concepts.
• The Sea Train crossed through a portal over the ocean and reached London, where Stella hurried away from John after learning he had already graduated.
• John passed through the barrier to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters and saw Stella bickering with Draco’s daughter, who was accompanied by two followers.
• Stella and Draco’s daughter boarded the Hogwarts Express, and John checked his ticket and prepared to board as well.

John returned to Hogwarts as a guest professor, reuniting with the staff and startling students with his power and reputation. The chapter ended with John greeting the school and reflecting on his return.

• John rode to Hogwarts in the staff carriage and met Stella and Alice Malfoy in a Thestral carriage, where he revealed that Professor McGonagall had invited him.
• John surprised Alice and Stella by revealing he had taught Care of Magical Creatures and was now a professor at Hogwarts.
• Peeves drenched students with water balloons until John greeted him, prompting the poltergeist to flee in terror.
• John dried Stella and Alice with wandless magic, then entered the Great Hall, where Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, and Snape welcomed him warmly.
• Hagrid joyfully greeted John, who looked around the Great Hall and said, "Hello, Hogwarts."