Recaps

Hela revived her Death Legion and set out to conquer the Nine Realms, but Heimdall stole the Bifrost sword and began rescuing Asgardians. On Sakaar, John encouraged Thor’s fights and planned a Super Dimensional Portal while warning Loki of a greater danger.

• Hela took the Tesseract from Odin’s Vault as a gift for John, then used the Eternal Flame to revive her warriors and Fenris.
• Hela led her army toward the Bifrost, discovered its sword was missing, and ordered a search for Asgardians who had refused her summons.
• Heimdall, who had stolen the sword, helped fleeing Asgardians evade Hela’s Undead Soldiers and hoped Thor would return to stop her.
• Loki accused John of using Hela’s war to benefit Wizards, but John warned him that the power behind Loki’s attack on Earth posed a greater danger.
• John crushed the Sakaar Simulated Celestial Sphere and discussed using wormhole gravity to alter time with the Grandmaster.
• John planned to turn Sakaar into a transit hub with a Super Dimensional Portal while Thor continued his Hundred-Man Slaying.

John bought Sakaar from the Grandmaster by promising to turn its Combat Arena into the finest in the universe, then activated the planet’s wormholes to begin renovations. Loki learned the Grandmaster had sold Sakaar and, as the planet began to shake apart, John faced the possibility that his plan would destroy it.

• John persuaded the Grandmaster to sell him Sakaar by offering a stable passage that would bring willing fighters from countless worlds to the Combat Arena.
• The Grandmaster signed John’s parchment and gave Topaz back to him, then returned to watch Thor fight.
• Loki tried to poison the Grandmaster while flattering him, but learned that John had bought Sakaar and reacted with despair.
• Loki realized the shaking came from Sakaar itself as John activated every wormhole and unleashed immense gravitational forces.
• John concluded that he had to open the wormholes successfully or Sakaar would break apart and be dragged into different worlds.

John stabilized Sakaar by containing its spacetime energy, then accelerated time on the planet and experienced Time Flash. Meanwhile, Thor won his hundredth Combat Arena battle and earned his freedom, leaving Sakaar to face the war threatening Asgard.

• John used magic, the Infinity Gems, and the Dark Dimension to hold Sakaar together and absorb excess spacetime energy from its wormholes.
• John made Sakaar a fixed transit point between worlds, then accelerated its time using his ownership of the planet and the Grandmaster's power.
• Thor fought his hundredth battle bare-handed and defeated the Red War God with his thunder power.
• Thor earned freedom after his unprecedented hundred-win streak, but chose to leave Sakaar and return to Asgard to help end the war between the Odinsons.

John’s uncontrolled Time Flash carried him to the Land of Eternity, an Upside-Down City resembling a future Wizard City, where he met Johanna and learned that the city was governed by different versions of himself. Meanwhile, a Council of John Wicks discussed his arrival and the Dimensional Portal, leaving John with questions about the many versions of himself and his fate.

• John used a Dark Dimension Projection Field to stop Time Flash and broke out into a futuristic city beyond Sakaar and Earth.
• John encountered a man resembling his half brother, then saw a fortune-teller’s crystal ball shatter when she saw him.
• Johanna recognized John, warned him to avoid the Council, and led him away from the Magic Tower.
• A Council of John Wicks met in the Magic Tower and called John’s arrival an opportunity connected to the Dimensional Portal.
• Johanna told John that the city existed because of him, identified it as the Land of Eternity, and revealed that she was another John with the power of prophecy.

John learned that the Upside-Down City was a realm created by his Time Flash, ruled by alternate versions of himself who wanted to enter reality. After escaping Dawnlight and the council, John brought Johanna to the Alchemy Department, hoping to find a way to end Time Flash as his prophetic ability stirred.

• Johanna explained that the Upside-Down City held two inverted cities ruled by Dawnlight and Dusk, and that its residents had fled the curse of losing their loved ones.
• Johanna revealed that she was a Seer whose visions began after John arrived, and John concluded that his Time Flash had brought the uncertain city into existence.
• Johanna warned that the John Council wanted John to end Time Flash so their city could become part of reality, and Dawnlight arrived to recruit him.
• John Apparated Johanna away, while Dawnlight surrendered to Time Variance Authority agents and welcomed them to the Upside-Down City.
• John and Johanna reached the Alchemy Department, where John hoped to find a way to end Time Flash and asked Johanna for help.

John entered the Alchemy Department in Upside-Down City and used its energy source to transfer a vast prophecy through Johanna, strengthening her prophetic abilities. After escaping the approaching Dusk and a time-stopping phenomenon called the cat, they reached Eternal Night City, where John began searching for the Potions Department and a way to counter Time Flash.

• John found the Mobius Strip device in the Alchemy Department and drew out its gem, the city's energy source.
• John asked Johanna to keep everything she saw secret, then used her to transfer a vast prophecy into the energy device.
• Dusk noticed the energy source's disturbance and flew toward the Alchemy Department, so John led Johanna out through a staff passage.
• The cat's white light spread from the Magic Tower and stopped residents in place, prompting John to carry Johanna from the daylight city into the night city.
• John and Johanna landed in Eternal Night City and went to a Japanese restaurant, where John refused the chef's fish.
• John suspected Johanna might be hiding the extent of her abilities and resolved to look for the Potions Department and a way to deal with Time Flash.

John explored Eternal Night City with Johanna and met Johnny Silver Hand and Catfoot while searching for the doorless Potions Department building. Meanwhile, Dusk discovered that someone had tampered with the city’s core, and the chapter ended with him leaving after a tense encounter with Silver Mask.

• John wondered why Eternal Day and Eternal Night were separated, then saw that Night City’s residents embraced cybernetic bodies and a futuristic lifestyle.
• Johnny Silver Hand warned John about John Constantine and led John and Johanna to Catfoot, who knew the location of the doorless building.
• Johnny Silver Hand asked John for a resurrection potion, and John warned him that bringing back the dead could turn someone into a monster.
• Catfoot agreed to guide John and Johanna toward the Potions Department, while preparing the magical gear he had stolen from Olympus.
• Dusk emerged from the Alchemy Department and told Silver Mask that an unknown power had entered the city’s core.
• Dusk nearly struck Silver Mask with his greatsword, questioned him about his mysterious existence, and then left.

Dawnlight was taken to the Time Variance Authority for judgment, while John opened the hidden Potions Department beneath Upside-Down City and directed Johnny Silver Hand to its underground contents. At the Magic Tower, Silver Mask began the Council of Johns’ migration without Dusk, who had chosen to act as a guardian.

• Dawnlight entered the TVA courtroom calmly, dismissed the crooked-nosed officer’s threats, and asked him whether he dreamed.
• Catfoot used his miniature computer to breach the barrier to the Mysterious Doorless Building, where John recognized the hidden Potions Department.
• John opened the wall and told Johnny Silver Hand that what he sought was stored underground, then explained that he alone had successfully awakened the dead.
• Johnny Silver Hand and Catfoot left to find the underground contents, while John prepared to deactivate Time Flash and depart Upside-Down City.
• Silver Mask noticed Dusk’s absence and said Dusk’s choice showed why he was the Lionheart Emperor; the council members then began their migration.

The John Council entered the Time Variance Authority to challenge another council, while John reached the source of Time Flash and faced Dusk, the Lionheart Emperor. After their duel, Dusk left to lead the Upside-Down City’s people as John took the gem and Time Flash’s distortion peaked.

• Dawnlight told Silver Mask that the John Council had failed to find their target, then led the council into the Time Variance Authority to challenge another council.
• John reached the Ouroboros and took the gem that could end Time Flash, but Dusk arrived and challenged him to prove whether his love of battle and sword came from John.
• Dusk gave John the Sword of Gryffindor and introduced himself as John Wick, founder of the Lion Dynasty; John answered with his own titles as Wizard King.
• Dusk and John fought, and Dusk pierced John while John’s golden blood shattered the Holy Sword.
• Dusk left to lead the Upside-Down City’s people, and John picked up the gem as Time Flash’s distortion reached its peak.

John returned from the Upside-Down City to Sakaar, where Thor had won a hundred battles, and helped him prepare to return to Asgard. As Thor arrived to rescue Heimdall’s people and confront Hela, the siblings finally faced each other in the Golden Palace.

• John triggered a Big Bang that erased the Upside-Down City, then reappeared on Sakaar as Thor celebrated his hundredth victory.
• Thor asked John for a way back to Asgard, and John opened a wormhole and advised him to find a pilot.
• Thor chose Valkyrie to pilot a privately sponsored spaceship, while John planned to visit the Collector after learning about him from Grandmaster.
• Hela searched for Heimdall and led her soldiers toward his hiding place as Heimdall warned Thor that his people were in danger.
• Thor agreed to help Heimdall, sent Valkyrie to move the people to the Bifrost, and went to confront Hela.
• Hela returned to the Golden Palace and found Thor seated on the throne with Gungnir.

Thor challenged Hela for the throne of Asgard, but Hela’s divine power and Asgard’s favor left him in danger. A restless Twilight Sword alerted John to Ragnarok, prompting him to wonder whether the cataclysm could be prevented if one of its central figures disappeared.

• Thor spoke with Hela about Odin’s treatment of her and proposed settling their dispute over the throne without involving Asgard in a war.
• Hela agreed to duel Thor for the throne, and the two began fighting with Gungnir and the Night Sky Sword.
• Thor wounded Hela, but her injuries healed because Asgard had chosen her; Hela disarmed him and destroyed one of his eyes.
• Thor unleashed his full power, and a massive bolt of lightning struck Asgard’s Golden Palace.
• On the Silver Hand 2017, Paluru discovered that the Twilight Sword powering the ship was struggling to break free and reported it to John.
• John recognized the sign of Ragnarok and wondered whether it would still occur if one of its central figures failed to appear.

Thor, Loki, and their allies tried to evacuate Asgard while fighting Hela, then set Ragnarok in motion by restoring Surtur with the Eternal Flame. Surtur rose to destroy Asgard as Hela watched in disbelief.

• Thor rallied to protect the Asgardians, but Hela blocked their escape and demanded that they submit to her; Heimdall and the people stood with Thor.
• Loki arrived with freed slaves and a spaceship, and Thor told him they had to bring about Ragnarok rather than keep trying to prevent it.
• Thor and Valkyrie fought Hela to hold her back while Loki went to Odin's Vault for Surtur's crown.
• Loki placed Surtur's crown in the Eternal Flame, reviving the Fire Giant.
• Surtur grew taller than the Golden Palace, summoned his Twilight Sword, and stunned Hela as he prepared to destroy Asgard.

Thor, Hela, and the Asgardians fought Surtur as he brought Ragnarok to Asgard, while the missing Twilight Sword left him without his intended weapon. As Hela fell into space, John appeared and declared that fate should bow to him.

• Surtur discovered that his Twilight Sword was missing and attacked Asgard, while Thor and Valkyrie tried to escape him.
• Hela wounded Surtur and fought beside Thor, but Surtur destroyed the Bifrost and devastated Asgard with a blast of fire.
• Thor escaped aboard the spaceship with Valkyrie as Hela rallied Fenris and her undead legion to make a final stand for Asgard.
• Hela declared that she and her warriors would charge against their fate, and Heimdall told Thor that she loved the Asgard in her own heart.
• Surtur defeated Hela and sent her falling toward the universe, but John stopped her fall and said fate should bow to him.

John challenged fate by unleashing the Casket of Ancient Winters against Surtur, defeating him with the White Wolf’s apocalyptic power. He then transformed into a golden dragon with the Twilight Sword and prepared to fight the White Wolf, while Asgard lent its strength to his defiance.

• John confronted Surtur with the Twilight Sword and opened the Casket of Ancient Winters, covering Asgard in snow and unleashing the White Frost prophecy.
• John’s prophecy brought eerie rain, black birds, and reanimated corpses to Asgard as ice and fire consumed the land.
• The White Wolf fought Surtur, extinguished his flames, and brought him crashing down across Asgard.
• John drove the Twilight Sword into the ground, drew in Surtur’s scattered flames, and transformed into a golden dragon wielding the enlarged sword.
• John challenged the White Wolf, and Hela sensed Asgard’s power supporting the outsider as he called for battle.

John defeated White Wolf and helped Asgard recover, while Hela chose to rebuild the realm as its queen. Asgard began nurturing a new life from John’s blood and scales, and the chapter ended with a sleeping figure in the Wizarding Kingdom twitching a finger.

• John fought White Wolf across Asgard, using the Twilight Sword after Surtur became part of it.
• John drove White Wolf into a star and used All Magic Ends to destroy it, ending the storm and returning to Asgard.
• John declined Hela’s invitation to help rebuild Asgard, and Hela declared she would establish a new Asgard of her own.
• John revealed that the Lionheart Emperor’s wound still hurt him and noticed that life was forming from his scales and blood.
• Fenris guarded the new life, and Hela named it Jörmungandr.
• A sleeping figure in the Magic Tower sensed the clash with Fate, and its finger twitched.

John traveled to Nidavellir and asked King Eitri to forge a new sword from the broken Twilight Sword, intending to use it as a power source for his spaceship. Eitri accepted the request in exchange for Muspelheim ore and welcomed John into the dwarves’ workshop.

• John chose Nidavellir as the place to make a new spaceship power source and followed Dreamwalker’s Star Map there.
• John reached Nidavellir and met King Eitri, explaining that he came from Earth and wanted a weapon that could supply energy.
• John gave Eitri the fragments of the Twilight Sword and asked him to use them as the foundation for a new sword rather than repair the old one.
• Eitri agreed to forge the sword after seeing John’s Muspelheim ore, which the dwarves could not obtain themselves.
• Eitri hosted a feast for John and listened as he recounted his travels, including his visit to Alfheim.

John visited Knowhere after leaving Nidavellir, where Eitri had reforged the Twilight Sword as Dusk and John had memorized the Dwarves’ crafting techniques. At the Collector’s museum, John offered Hvergelmir’s Spring Water and an alchemical music box in exchange for the Magic Compendium, but the deal remained unresolved.

• Eitri reforged the Twilight Sword with uru, and John named the glowing blade Dusk.
• John left Nidavellir for Knowhere to visit the Collector.
• The Collector showed John his private collection of creatures, artifacts, and books.
• John found the Magic Compendium and asked the Collector to trade it to him.
• The Collector rejected Hvergelmir’s Spring Water as insufficient, so John presented an alchemical music box.

John used a demon as an offering to find Hell’s coordinates, then arrived there with Paluru and attacked the realm with the Dusk Sword. Hell’s ruler banished John to the mortal world, where he emerged in a forest without Paluru and encountered a large dog and a group of children.

• The Collector traded John the Magic Book for the music box and Hvergelmir's Spring Water, and John left Knowhere.
• John studied the Magic Book, used a demonic mosquito and the poisonous river water in a ritual, and found Hell’s coordinates through the Bifrost.
• John and Paluru arrived in Hell, where John confirmed their destination after a woman insulted him.
• John drove the Dusk Sword into the floor, unleashing stored Bifrost energy through the building and toward the demons.
• Beelzebub and Hell’s ruler reacted to John’s attack, and the ruler banished him through the barrier into the mortal world.
• John emerged in a forest without Paluru and noticed a large dog and children nearby.

John encountered Adam, a child whose wishes could shape fate, in a parallel-universe United Kingdom and began arranging a place to stay with Adam and his friends. Meanwhile, a white angel and a black demon sensed that Adam’s meeting with the Hellhound had changed the world’s fate.

• Adam wished for a clever little dog, and his name for it, Doggy, transformed the enormous Hellhound into a small dog.
• John recognized Adam as a child of fate and introduced himself to Adam and his friends as Mr. Wick.
• John offered the children money and snacks in exchange for their help finding him somewhere to stay, then realized he was in a different version of the United Kingdom.
• John decided the children would need to take him somewhere bigger and showed them a piece of gold.
• In a bookshop, a white angel and a black demon sensed that Adam’s meeting with the Hellhound had changed the world.

John explored the unfamiliar world and met Crowley and Aziraphale at an antiquarian bookshop, where he bought a book about the Garden of Eden. He concluded that he was in a parallel universe divided into Hell, the human world, and Heaven, while Crowley had been tasked with finding a wizard.

• Crowley learned that a wizard had burned down Hell's facilities and that Hell wanted him to find the wizard, whose servant was an unhatched Dragon Egg.
• John sold gold for money, bought bicycles for Adam and the children, and arranged to meet them the next day.
• John visited an unlocked bookshop and used magic to retrieve its remote while checking television channels and browsing religious books.
• Aziraphale and Crowley entered the shop, and John recognized Crowley as someone who looked like Barty.
• Crowley gave John a book about the Garden of Eden, which John bought for one thousand pounds.
• After leaving the shop, John sensed that the book carried a strange scent and identified the world as a parallel universe with Heaven, Hell, and the human world.

Crowley warned Aziraphale that John was dangerous, while John identified the setting as Heaven’s young-created universe and spent time with Adam and the other children. In the woods, a woman following a family Book of Prophecy spotted John while searching for signs of the approaching apocalypse.

• Crowley told Aziraphale that John was dangerous because he had broken into Hell, destroyed Crowley’s office, and showed no reverence for God; Aziraphale agreed to trust Crowley’s judgment.
• John concluded that he was in the Heaven Dimension and grew curious about Adam’s role in the coming end of the world.
• John joined Adam and the other children’s game, refusing to play the witch-burning executioner and arguing against burning people.
• The children debated whether Mrs. Henderson was a witch, then settled on playing a witch interrogation while Peppa tried to cast John as the witch.
• A woman searching the woods with a pendulum and her family’s Book of Prophecy spotted John as she investigated the predicted end of the world.

John Wick met Anathema Device while she searched for Satan’s son, then discovered Agnes Nutter’s prophecy book could address him across time. After Aziraphale and Crowley brought Anathema home, John appeared in their Bentley and read a prophecy that named him the Wizard King.

• John Wick met Anathema Device in the woods and pointed her toward Adam and the other children, whom she believed might lead her to Satan’s son.
• John tested alchemy in the woods, turning stones into gold, then used an Extrasensory Spell to map the area.
• Anathema rode into Aziraphale and Crowley’s Bentley, and Aziraphale healed her and repaired her bicycle with miracles.
• Aziraphale and Crowley took Anathema home, where she forgot her Book of Prophecy and blamed the strange events on a head injury.
• John appeared in the back of the Bentley and read Agnes Nutter’s prophecy, which greeted the Wizard King and described him riding with the angel and demon.

John made a bargain with Aziraphale and Crowley to find the child behind the Doomsday War in exchange for direct passage to Heaven and help rescuing Paluru from Hell. He returned to Anathema with her prophecy book and offered to discuss finding the Son of Satan.

• John revealed that he knew Aziraphale and Crowley were an angel and a demon, then asked them about God and the Doomsday War.
• John criticized God's treatment of humanity and offered to find the child and prevent the world's destruction.
• Aziraphale agreed to let John go to Heaven while alive if he stopped the apocalypse, and Crowley reluctantly agreed to help retrieve Paluru from Hell.
• John left Aziraphale the prophecy book and returned to the village where Adam lived.
• John entered Anathema's house, identified her missing book, and proposed that they discuss finding the Son of Satan.

Anathema met John and sought his help stopping the Doomsday War, but she had no plan for dealing with the Son of Satan. The next day, she befriended Adam without realizing he was the boy she sought, and his awakening powers brought Atlantis to the surface.

• John visited Anathema, demonstrated his magic, and asked how she planned to stop the Son of Satan, but she had no answer.
• John returned to the woods and read a prophecy declaring that the world's choice rested in the Wizard King's hands.
• Anathema broke down over losing her family's prophecy book, and Adam offered to help her find it.
• Anathema and Adam talked about her aura-reading ability and the strange man in the woods, while Adam's powers continued to awaken.
• Adam read Anathema's magazines and fell asleep; by Saturday, a cruise ship sailed into Atlantis as it rose above the water.

John recognized that chaos particles were gathering around Adam, whose fate as Satan’s son was awakening, and took him away to teach him how to use his reality-altering power. Adam sent a signal that began the final battle, but John’s manipulation left him horrified by what he had done to his friends.

• John visited Adam’s father, learned that he would still love Adam even if Adam destroyed the world, and then went to Anathema to ask how she would deal with Satan’s son.
• Anathema resolved to stop Adam, but John took Adam and his friends to the Forest Base before she could intervene.
• John silenced and restrained Adam’s friends, then guided Adam into removing their mouths when Adam found them annoying.
• Adam’s chaos power surged against John, who redirected the particles into the ground as storms and monstrous creatures appeared around the world.
• John urged Adam to resent his parents and treat his friends as toys, while Adam insisted that he only wanted to stay in Pigback Woods.
• Adam sent a signal to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, then restored his friends’ mouths, making them claim they were friends while their false smiles distressed him.