Recaps

Thanos brought John to Vormir to seek the Soul Stone, while John challenged Thanos’s belief that eliminating poverty would create a harmonious universe. They encountered Red Skull, who revealed that obtaining the Soul Stone came at a steep price.

• Thanos asked why John was unafraid, and John explained that Wizards sought an Ideal Land but argued that human nature and class divisions would undermine it.
• John warned Thanos that wiping out half of life would not end injustice, leaving Thanos conflicted about his plan.
• Thanos said John could have become his successor, then led him off the ship onto barren Vormir.
• Red Skull appeared and identified John as the son of Watson Wick, explaining that his curse made him know everyone who arrived.
• Thanos asked where the Soul Stone was, and Red Skull warned him that obtaining it required a steep price; Thanos said he was prepared.

John confronted Thanos on Vormir after Red Skull revealed that obtaining the Soul Stone required sacrificing the person one loved most. John forced Thanos into a duel by threatening Gamora, and the battle began with Thanos overpowering John's magic as John silently counted down.

• Red Skull explained that the Soul Stone demanded a soul for a soul, and Thanos realized he would have to sacrifice the person he loved most.
• John considered Odin's abandoned quest for the Stones and asked Thanos whom he loved; Thanos answered, "Gamora."
• Thanos accused John of altering the universe's fate and prepared to kill him, but John threatened to kill Gamora if Thanos left Vormir.
• John challenged Thanos to a duel, and Thanos caught John's first spell with the Reality Stone before advancing through his continuing attacks.
• John silently counted down Thanos's life as the duel continued.

John defeated Thanos on Vormir by revealing that he had secretly replaced the Power Stone with a poisonous counterfeit and had been luring Thanos into using it. After Thanos fell into the abyss, John turned to Red Skull and called him Grindelwald.

• Thanos used the Infinity Stones to overpower John as Red Skull watched the battle on Vormir.
• Thanos’s repeated use of the Power Stone made him sluggish and caused pain to spread through his body, while John kept getting back up.
• When Thanos tried to crush John’s throat, John seized his wrist and explained that the power came at a price.
• The counterfeit Power Stone burst, and Thanos realized John had replaced the real stone and poisoned him with Vimur River Water.
• John took the three stones from Thanos’s gauntlet and pushed him into the abyss.
• John confronted Red Skull and asked whether he should call him Red Skull or Grindelwald.

John confronted Red Skull on Vormir and learned that the Soul Stone’s curse protected him, then left without taking the stone. With John and the other heroes stranded on Titan after Thanos abducted him, Tony and Ivan began planning a search for a way home while Harry led wizards in helping police fight crime on Earth.

• Red Skull told John that Grindelwald had helped create Hydra and asked how he was doing; John said Grindelwald was imprisoned and decided not to attack Red Skull because the Soul Stone’s curse protected him.
• The heroes stranded on Titan tended their injuries as Tony and Ivan agreed to put aside their grudges and consider exploring the planet for a usable spaceship.
• Delfi blamed herself for her limited help, but Wanda comforted her; Steve then led a team of superheroes to search Titan for a way home.
• Harry helped the New York police arrest superpowered criminals as Aurors around the world began assisting local authorities in the superheroes’ absence.

John left Titan with the Space Stone and told the Collector and Grandmaster that Thanos could never obtain the Soul Stone, while learning that Earth’s growing population could trigger a Celestial’s birth. After a month-long journey, the stranded heroes returned to Earth and found John waiting at the Avengers Compound.

• John traveled to Sakaar, where he told the Grandmaster and Collector that Thanos lacked someone he loved and could never claim the Soul Stone.
• John traded the Collector a plot of land on Sakaar for information about the Celestials, including the population threshold that could trigger a newborn Celestial’s emergence.
• John visited Asgard, saw Hela’s undead army rebuilding it, and then headed back toward Earth.
• On Titan, the heroes found abandoned ships, built a working vessel, and began their journey home without Thor, who had left with Loki.
• After a month in space, the heroes landed outside the Avengers Compound and saw John waiting to welcome them.

After the battle, John explained that Thanos had taken the Infinity Stones, while the surviving heroes and allies prepared to return to their duties. Thaddeus Ross pressed John for the stones, and the chapter ended with human greed beginning to stir around their power.

• John told Tony and the others that Thanos had taken the Infinity Stones and that Stephen could not track him across the universe.
• Guardian and the Children of Miracle left, and Delfi returned John's Ring before he praised her courage.
• The heroes and allies departed, while Nebula followed Gamora and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Thaddeus Ross confronted John about the Infinity Stones, but John warned him that the United States lacked the power to act against him.
• Mycroft received word of the events and reflected on the growing interest in the Infinity Stones.

Stephen learned that wizards and other allies had helped contain threats while the superheroes were away, while Watson defended his role in keeping the underworld orderly despite Mycroft urging him to retire. Back in the Wizarding Kingdom, John investigated hidden dimensional threats, tested the Infinity Stones against his body’s limits, and realized the world was nearing the population threshold for a Celestial’s birth.

• Stephen learned that Harry Potter and the Aurors had helped Kamar-Taj and other groups drive out or imprison most of the otherworldly threats.
• Tony heard how the Wizarding Kingdom had become a major force against superpowered crime, while Watson explained to Mycroft that he had used underworld intelligence to remove dangerous villains.
• Mycroft urged Watson to retire before the underworld turned against him, but Watson stayed because he believed his children still needed protection from the world’s evil.
• John reviewed reports of hidden beings from other dimensions and ordered the dragon to destroy ships spying on the Wizarding Kingdom.
• John inserted the Space, Mind, and Reality Stones into the Limited Gauntlet, discovered that his body could not safely handle more power, and suspected his unusual blood was the cause.
• John saw that the population was nearing the threshold for the Celestial’s birth and considered seeking a solution from the Eternals.

John sent Gilgamesh and Thena to investigate the Eternals’ former worlds, hoping they would uncover the truth about their mission and Thena’s strange memories. After Thena confronted John over his knowledge, she and Gilgamesh departed aboard his spaceship while Ikaris watched them leave.

• Gilgamesh told John that the Eternals’ mission was to protect life from extinction-level disasters, and Thena privately revealed that unfamiliar memories had shown her resistance against a Celestial.
• John gave Gilgamesh a spaceship and suggested that visiting former worlds might help Thena uncover the source of her memory confusion.
• Gilgamesh accidentally hurled the spaceship far away, so John, Thena, and Gilgamesh spent two and a half hours retrieving it before Thena launched it properly.
• Thena confronted John at swordpoint about his knowledge of her memories, but John said he wanted to help her find out whether they were real.
• Gilgamesh trusted John and reassured Thena, then left with her aboard the spaceship a few days later as Ikaris watched them depart.

John planned to use Stormbreaker to cut open a Celestial Seed and investigate its weaknesses. Meanwhile, Thor reunited with Frigga, helped Odyssey think about ruling, and departed with his family to rebuild Asgard, while Tos earned a new name and chose the Twin Blades.

• John brought a Celestial Seed to Silver Hand Manor and decided he needed Stormbreaker to open it.
• Thor reunited with Frigga in Vanaheim, where she welcomed Loki and spoke with him about Odin and their family.
• Thor sparred with Odyssey and advised the new God King to consider his people before starting wars.
• Thor used Stormbreaker to take Frigga and Loki to rebuild Asgard, while Freya remained in Vanaheim.
• After the allied forces disbanded, Tos earned the name Kratos and chose the Twin Blades from the spoils.

Thor asked John to secure land and legal status for the Asgardians in Norway, and John negotiated their settlement in exchange for borrowing Stormbreaker. John then used the axe to break open the Celestial Seed and began analyzing the Celestial life-form inside, leaving Silver Hand Manor overrun by chaotic growth.

• Thor arrived in Norway and learned from Valkyrie that the Asgardians faced obstacles securing land and legal status.
• Thor asked John for help, and John agreed in exchange for borrowing Stormbreaker.
• Percy negotiated with Norway, while the Asgardians received special documents issued by the Wizarding Kingdom.
• John struck the Celestial Seed with Stormbreaker until its runes cracked and the seed split open.
• John analyzed and separated the Celestial genes into more than a hundred reagent bottles as escaping energy threw Silver Hand Manor into chaos.

John sent newly mutated plants to Professor Sprout for study while the Potions Department found they could improve potion-making. Deviants reappeared around the world, and John and Wenwu investigated their connection to the ten rings as Wenwu considered reconnecting with his children.

• John sent samples of the mutated plants to Hogwarts, and Professor Sprout joined Wizard University to cultivate them.
• Professor Tonks became Hufflepuff’s new House Head and taught Transfiguration, while the Potions Department reported that some mutated plants outperformed existing potion ingredients.
• Guardian and Delfi encountered a Deviant at an Arctic research station, fought it, and retreated after seeing more approach.
• Wenwu captured a Deviant after his ten rings reacted to it, and John suspected that the rings and Deviants shared a creator.
• Wenwu told John that he had been hearing indistinct voices, then agreed to look for an opportunity to speak with Shang-Chi and Xu Xialing.

Deviants reappeared around the world, and Dax rescued Robert and an injured woman from one in New York. After the Avengers and the Superhero Oversight and Management Authority discussed the ancient threat, the global crisis remained unresolved.

• Robert rescued Miss Black from a Deviant, but the monster chased their car and caused it to crash.
• Robert used the car's spilled gasoline to set the Deviant ablaze, but it survived and dragged him toward its jaws.
• Dax arrived as Night Ghost, cut Robert free, and killed the Deviant with vibranium blades and explosive bouncy balls.
• The wounded Robert and Dax discovered the Deviant could still move after being pierced, and Robert sent Miss Black to seek medical care.
• Penelope and the Superhero Oversight and Management Authority told the Avengers that Deviants were appearing worldwide and ancient murals linked them to the fall of Ancient Babylon.

Thena told Gilgamesh that the Celestials used the Eternals to guard worlds until they could harvest the life there to birth new Celestials. As the Silver Hand 2017 returned to Earth, the pair resolved to contact the other Eternals, but learned that Ajak was dead.

• Thena and Gilgamesh found the world they had visited reduced to wreckage, and Thena recognized it as the site where a Celestial had emerged.
• John studied a Deviant, concluded that Deviants and Eternals had similar structures, and ordered the Star Spirit Guardians to watch for more attacks.
• MOSS informed John that a Deviant had attacked Robert in New York, where Dax arrived in time to help.
• Thena and Gilgamesh returned to Earth and decided to contact the other Eternals, while considering whether Ajak might have known the Celestials' secret.
• Thena and Gilgamesh learned that Ajak was dead.

Dane asked Sersi to move in with him, but she refused because she feared the pain of outliving him. When a Deviant attacked the Eternals, Ikaris intervened, and John marked the creature before realizing he had been discovered.

• Dane asked Sersi to move in with him, and she refused while concealing her Eternal identity.
• A Deviant attacked Sersi, Sprite, and Dane, and Sersi trapped it by transforming the ground into quicksand.
• Sersi and Sprite fled from the escaping Deviant, but it caught up with them after Sprite used illusions to confuse it.
• Ikaris arrived and drove the Deviant away, but the creature healed its injuries with an ability resembling Ajak's.
• John marked the Deviant with his wand and realized that someone had discovered him.

John met Sersi and the other Eternals after helping conceal them from the police, then experimented with Celestial Genes on plants at Silver Hand Manor. His test created Deviants capable of absorbing his blood, and Thor arrived with Frigga to retrieve Stormbreaker as smoke drifted from the manor.

• John revealed himself to Sersi, Dane, Ikaris, and Sprite, explained that he had been following a Deviant, and introduced himself as Wick.
• John told the Eternals that he knew Gilgamesh and suggested they might someday seek his help, then vanished after questioning Sersi about Sprite.
• At Silver Hand Manor, John discovered that a Deviant corpse was regenerating toward the separated Celestial Genes and suspected the genes could strengthen Deviants.
• John fed a piece of Celestial Genes to a mutated garden plant, which transformed into a Deviant that attacked him and absorbed his blood before he destroyed it with Blasting Curses.
• John repeated the experiment with a restrained plant and killed the resulting Deviant with the Killing Curse.
• Thor arrived at the manor with Frigga to retrieve Stormbreaker, remarked that the manor smelled smoky, and entered as the gate opened.

John learned that Odin had forged the Destroyer Armor to defend against the Celestials and considered how to strengthen himself against them. Meanwhile, the Eternals regrouped after Ajak’s death and discovered that a wizard had cured Thena.

• Thor reunited with Stormbreaker and found John examining a monster’s corpse in the damaged garden, where John said he had been conducting an experiment.
• John discussed his research on Deviants and Eternals with Thor and Frigga, who revealed that Odin had created the Destroyer Armor to face the Celestials.
• Sersi, Sprite, and Ikaris told Kingo that Ajak was dead, and Kingo agreed to rejoin them in searching for their companions.
• Kingo brought the group to Australia, where they found Gilgamesh and learned that Thena was free of mahd wy’ry.
• Thena said a wizard had cured her, leading Sersi to wonder whether John was responsible.

The Eternals learned that a Celestial was gestating beneath Earth and would destroy the world when it emerged, while Sersi contacted Arishem to hear the truth. John prepared to stop the coming destruction before Hagrid’s wedding, but absorbing celestial genes failed to break his personal limits.

• At Gilgamesh’s feast, Thena revealed that the Eternals’ mission was a lie and that a Celestial was growing beneath Earth.
• Sersi tried to contact Arishem, and Gilgamesh suggested she stop forcing the connection and listen.
• Gilgamesh and Thena considered asking Druig to put the unborn Celestial to sleep as a way to stop its emergence.
• Sersi opened herself to her surroundings and finally heard the truth from Arishem.
• John received Hagrid’s wedding invitation and decided to solve the Celestial crisis before the wedding.
• John absorbed celestial genes, gained the ability to alter a living plant’s growth, and realized the power had not overcome his bodily limits.

John offered to help New Asgard build an economy by exporting its artisans’ handcrafted goods, but a worldwide earthquake signaled the coming birth of a Celestial. As the Eternals prepared to stop the Emergence, John tracked a Deviant to the Amazon Rainforest, where the creature was approaching Druig’s tribe.

• John advised Thor to organize Asgard’s artisans and offered to connect them with buyers through a business deal, with the Malfoy family handling export discussions.
• Loki nervously welcomed John and knelt before him, while Thor told Frigga that John had nearly killed Loki.
• A worldwide earthquake began, and John recognized it as an Emergence Omen; he tracked a Deviant toward the Amazon Rainforest and suggested Thor help protect New Asgard.
• Sersi and the other Eternals sought Druig’s help in stopping the Emergence, but he was angry that they had followed Arishem’s mission for seven thousand years.
• Thena thanked Gilgamesh for always protecting her, and Deviants crept toward Druig’s peaceful tribe.

The Eternals fought a powerful Deviant leader who drained Ikaris and nearly killed Thena, but John saved Thena with his golden blood. After the battle, John asked the Eternals to work with him and offered them a deal, leaving Sersi identified as their new leader.

• Ikaris, Kingo, Sersi, and Sprite fought off Deviants attacking the camp while a powerful Deviant leader ambushed Ikaris and drained some of his energy.
• Gilgamesh and Thena battled the leader, but he healed himself and the other Deviants before draining Thena and gaining intelligence from Ajak's memories.
• John appeared and drove the leader away, then used his golden blood to restore Thena after explaining that she needed a powerful life force.
• The Eternals gathered around the recovered Thena and questioned John, while Ikaris watched him closely.
• John asked who led the Eternals, pointed out that the group regarded Sersi as their leader, and proposed a deal with them.

John negotiated with the Eternals to help stop the Emergence, which was due within seven days, and asked for Sersi’s sphere so he could study Celestial technology. As the Eternals went to recruit Phastos in Chicago, John challenged Sprite to consider whether she would give up immortality to live a mortal life.

• John introduced himself to the Eternals as the Wizard King and joined their discussion about the approaching Emergence.
• Sersi persuaded Druig to rejoin the Eternals, and they agreed to seek Phastos’s help in putting the Celestial to sleep.
• John offered the Eternals his assistance and asked for Sersi’s sphere, while warning that he would oppose them if they blocked him from dealing with the Celestials.
• The Eternals set out for Chicago to find Phastos, and Gilgamesh thanked John for saving Thena again.
• Sprite asked John why he could heal Thena and why she had been made unable to grow up; John asked whether she would give up immortality for a short life.

The Eternals tried to stop Tiamut’s emergence, but Ikaris betrayed them and killed Druig, shattering their plan. As Tiamut began to rise, John revealed he was changing Kamar-Taj’s protective magic to capture the Celestial, and prepared to act.

• Phastos brought the Eternals to the Domo, where they planned to combine their energy through Druig and put Tiamut to sleep.
• Ikaris attacked John, but John defeated him, restrained him, and exposed Ikaris’s role in Ajak’s death.
• John spoke with Gilgamesh about the coming battle, then told him he would kill the Celestial if necessary as the Emergence began.
• Phastos linked the Eternals’ energy to Druig, but Ikaris broke free, killed Druig, and fought Makkari and Gilgamesh as Tiamut emerged.
• Sersi prepared to approach the volcano, while John revealed he had altered Kamar-Taj’s protective magic to capture Tiamut and declared the battle underway.

John trapped the emerging Celestial Tiamut in Kamar-Taj’s reversed barrier and used the Reversal Equation to weaken him. With the world’s dimensional defenses compromised, John had twenty-four hours to deal with Tiamut, who awakened enough to ask him why.

• Stephen recognized that John was turning Kamar-Taj’s outward barrier into a shrinking cage and ordered sorcerers and wizards to prepare for battle.
• John used Ouroboros and the Reversal Equation to compress Tiamut, while Gilgamesh, Thena, and Phastos restrained Ikaris.
• John raised the sealed Celestial from the seabed and warned that the world had twenty-four hours before dimensional lords could invade.
• Dreamwalker projected a replacement barrier around Earth, and John thanked him before returning to his body.
• John reclaimed the Eternals’ communication orb from Sersi and restored it to its original form.
• John entered the golden sphere and found the weakened Tiamut, who had developed enough intelligence to ask, “Why?”

John confronted Tiamut, who revealed that he had entered John's life as the system and grown alongside him. John rejected Tiamut's claim that he had created the Wizard King and destroyed him, leaving Tiamut's power to pass through his body without finding any trace of his former influence.

• John explained that Tiamut had been weakened by Kamar-Taj's barrier, the Wizard King's masterpiece, and the Reversal Equation, and refused to let him sacrifice Midgard for a Celestial's birth.
• As Tiamut's armor broke apart, John saw that the Celestial's face was identical to his own.
• Tiamut revealed that he had become the system that guided John from childhood and that his power had grown alongside John's magic and fantastic beast abilities.
• John realized Tiamut's consciousness had fueled his growth, but insisted that the Wizard King had made Tiamut what he was, not the other way around.
• John accelerated the Reversal Equation and destroyed Tiamut despite his warning that the Celestials would retaliate.
• John let Tiamut's radiance pass through him and found no trace of the Celestial's former presence in his body.

Demons and other dimensional monsters poured into the world after Kamar-Taj’s barrier vanished, but coordinated forces turned the invasion into a deadly trap. After John destroyed Tiamut and freed Ikaris, Arishem appeared to confront him.

• A demonic infant emerged from a cow in Florida, and Harry killed it with Sectumsempra while protecting the farmer’s family.
• Dimensional creatures attacked across the world as wizards, sorcerers, heroes, and Thor fought back; Dreamwalker’s opening trapped the invaders and let defenders kill them in concentrated waves.
• After twenty-three hours, John emerged from the golden sphere as Tiamut’s corpse sank beneath the ocean, and he told the Eternals that the Reversal Equation had died with the Celestial.
• John allowed Phastos to release Ikaris, who warned that Arishem knew what had happened, and John challenged Arishem to come find him.
• Arishem appeared through six enormous openings in the sky, and the Eternals were lifted into the air against their will.

Arishem took the Eternals from Earth, but John claimed the right to be recognized as a Celestial and persuaded Arishem to spare them from judgment over their failed mission. Arishem still summoned John to face Eternity’s judgment and returned the Eternals to the World Forge, while John’s allies gathered to demand answers.

• Arishem seized the Eternals and declared that their memories would be judged to determine Earth’s fate.
• John confronted Arishem and argued that his birth fulfilled the purpose of the Celestial Seed, winning recognition as a Celestial.
• Arishem spared the Eternals’ mission failure but said Eternity would judge John and Earth, then took the Eternals to the World Forge; Ouroboros secretly reached Thena.
• John returned to the Indian Ocean, where Thor, Stephen, and Tony arrived and demanded an explanation.
• Thor summoned the Bifrost and took John and the others to a tavern in New Asgard.