Chapter Summaries

After learning that Tony Stark and Iron Man existed in his world, John Wick rescued a red-haired woman from two gangsters outside his home. The woman had planned to use the rescue to approach him, but John gave her money and told her to go home, leaving her surprised by his response.

• John Wick watched a news report about Iron Man stopping an attack at a Monaco race and realized his world was more dangerous than he had thought.
• John remembered his magical achievements at Hogwarts and worried about future threats, including the beings he called gods and the Purple Potato.
• John recalled that his father had invested in Hammer Industries and began opening a letter from his uncle when someone rang the doorbell.
• John opened the door and found two gangsters threatening a red-haired woman, then scared them away by warning them about a boxer across the street.
• The woman thanked John and claimed she had been kidnapped, but John gave her money and told her to go home, confounding her plan to approach him.

Natasha Romanoff failed to get information from John and reported that he had vanished, while John escaped to his family’s Manhattan home through the Floo Network. There, he encountered The Ancient One, who greeted him as the Wizard King.

• Natasha Romanoff tried to draw John out by returning to his door, but he took back the money and shut her out again.
• Natasha found John's house empty, then fought the two pimps who had returned and reported her failed contact with the target.
• John used the Floo Network to travel from London to his family's home in Manhattan.
• John found that his parents and younger sister were away, then saw a golden ring portal appear.
• The Ancient One stepped through the portal and greeted John as the Wizard King.

The Ancient One explained Kamar-Taj’s duty to protect Earth from other dimensions and warned John Wick that overlapping worlds had disrupted the future. She asked the Wizard King to help safeguard the next Sorcerer Supreme, and John insisted on an equivalent exchange.

• The Ancient One described the differences between sorcerers and wizards, including why sorcerers guarded against the Dark Dimension.
• The Ancient One told John that she had sought help from Dumbledore but had instead been directed to the Wizard King.
• The Ancient One showed John the Infinity Stones, the three Sanctums, and how Kamar-Taj protected Earth from invading dimensions.
• The Ancient One revealed that two world overlaps ten years earlier had made the future unpredictable and asked John to help protect the next Sorcerer Supreme.
• John connected the world overlaps to the Conjunction of the Spheres and told the Ancient One that he expected a fair exchange for his help.

John and the Ancient One made a deal: she gave him knowledge about dark energy in exchange for his help as an ally. After she left, John discovered his sister’s connection to a woman he had rescued, while Tony tracked down his target and prepared to act.

• The Ancient One recognized John’s controlled Obscurus and revealed that she also used dark energy, so John offered to trade his knowledge for her methods of handling it.
• The Ancient One accepted John’s offer and gave him a notebook of magical knowledge, including instructions for drawing energy from the Dark Dimension.
• John spoke with the Ancient One about age and loss before she returned to Kamar-Taj through a portal.
• John explored his family home, found a photograph of his sister Ariana Wick with the red-haired woman he had rescued, and wondered how they knew each other.
• Tony Stark used JARVIS to locate his target in Manhattan, put on his armor, and launched from Long Island.

John investigated the strange activity at his family’s home, then fought Tony Stark when Iron Man broke in. After learning Tony suspected the Wick family of conspiring against him, John disarmed the Armor and left Tony naked.

• John searched the house, cast an Intruder Detection Charm, and used the Elder Wand to reveal footprints showing that several visitors had entered and searched the home.
• The detection charm alerted John to an intruder, and he repelled Iron Man with a Shield Charm before restraining him with Object-Grasping Magic.
• John and Tony exchanged attacks as JARVIS identified John and Tony accused him of being tied to the Wick Group.
• Tony explained that he had come to eliminate a suspected threat to his friends, believing John’s father was involved in a plot against him.
• John used Expelliarmus to strip away Tony’s Armor, revealing that Tony was naked underneath.

Tony Stark accused Watson Wick of arranging an assassination attempt, but John defended his father and used magic to restrain Tony and investigate the claim. After they reached a truce, John asked Tony for information about his family, while Tony was left thinking about the attacker's matching reactor and his own palladium poisoning.

• Tony told John that Watson Wick led the Underground Alliance, had ties to Yuri Orlov, and had ordered the attack in Monaco.
• John used Legilimency and concluded Tony genuinely believed Watson was responsible, but insisted his father had not arranged the assassination.
• Tony angrily revealed that he was dying from palladium poisoning, and John threatened him with his Wand after Tony jabbed a finger into his chest.
• Tony changed into clothes while John wondered whether the agents seen in London and at the Wick home belonged to the same organization.
• John repaired the wrecked home with Reparo and asked Tony for Watson's files and information about where his family had gone, not for money or Iron Man technology.
• John reminded Tony that the Russian attacker had a reactor like his, leaving Tony troubled by the attacker's accusation and his own palladium poisoning.

John saved Tony Stark from palladium poisoning with a potion and a Magic Crystal, and Tony returned home to find Nick Fury and Natasha Romanoff waiting for him. Fury discovered Tony's poisoning had vanished and questioned where he had been, while Natasha suspected the Manhattan assassination was connected.

• As Tony neared death from palladium poisoning, John poured him a potion that stopped the shrapnel and replaced his reactor core with a Magic Crystal.
• John used magic to fit Tony's armor back onto him, and Tony flew home with a USB Drive for John.
• Nick Fury and Natasha Romanoff searched for Tony after he disappeared and Fury learned S.H.I.E.L.D. had been hacked.
• Tony returned home, rejected Fury's invitation to join the Avengers Initiative, and fired Natasha, who explained she had been sent to observe him.
• Fury found that Tony's palladium poisoning had disappeared and asked where he had been; Tony said he had gone to Manhattan and fought a man with a chopstick.
• Natasha wondered whether Tony's trip to Manhattan was connected to the assassination.

John discovered that his father’s investments and history connected him to several major organizations, then refused Nick Fury’s request for cooperation. After Fury warned that the Ten Rings might target John, he began considering the threat to his family.

• Justin Hammer spoke with Mr. Wick about Ivan Vanko and learned that a major Hammer Industries shareholder knew about the scientist.
• John reviewed S.H.I.E.L.D. files, discovered that Phil Coulson had been undercover among Watson Wick’s subordinates, and found no records of the old conflict between Stark and his father.
• Nick Fury and Natasha visited John, and John confronted them about S.H.I.E.L.D. agents entering his home and refused to cooperate.
• Fury told Natasha to keep watch on John because the Ten Rings might target him while searching for Watson Wick, then assigned her to prioritize Tony Stark’s case.
• After Fury and Natasha left, John removed his Disillusionment Charm and reflected on the Ten Rings and his parents’ safety.

John spent his vacation drawing attention by visiting a bakery, where he met May and Peter and used a pencil to frighten off a gang that threatened them. He left May and Peter shocked by how violently he handled the men.

• John drove without a license to Kowalski Bakery and bought all three of Peter's favorite shaggy monkey rolls.
• May asked John to trade one roll for Peter's rhino bread, and John agreed in exchange for her asking rather than demanding.
• A gang led by a bald man confronted John over scaring one of their members and threatened to take his car.
• John took a pencil from May's pocket, pinned the bald man's hand to the car, and drove the gang away.
• May and Peter recoiled in shock at John's sudden brutality.

John survived a car bomb planted by a man working for Simon, protected May and Peter, and pursued the bomber to a fried chicken shop. He used a snake-filled illusion to make the clerk reveal Simon’s involvement and began confronting him about his murders.

• John pulled a bloody pencil from the bald man’s palm, then left with May and Peter in the car.
• A bomb exploded as John started the car, but he escaped with Apparition and shielded May and Peter from the blast and flames.
• John spotted the bomber and took May and Peter along while following him, using magic to disguise their clothes.
• At the fried chicken shop, John noticed a million dollars hidden beneath May’s chair and identified the clerk as the bomber.
• John trapped the clerk in an illusion of snakes, and the clerk named Simon as the man who paid him to plant the bomb.

John interrogated a bomber with magic, then was questioned by the FBI about his father, Watson Wick. He sought information about Simon at his father’s hotel and headed for Hell’s Kitchen, where he found the bald thug he had frightened earlier and asked him for a ride.

• John used a Boggart illusion to frighten the clerk who had bombed the car, then let May and Peter eat while he learned about Hell’s Kitchen and Simon.
• The FBI brought John to the Police Station, questioned him about his father and the car bombing, and let him leave when they had no grounds to hold him.
• John visited his father’s hotel, paid the bartender for information about Simon, and learned Simon’s address.
• John tried several taxis to reach Hell’s Kitchen, but every driver refused to take him there.
• John found the bald thug he had stabbed with a pencil and asked him to drive him to Hell’s Kitchen.

John arrived in Hell's Kitchen and went to the Hell's Angel Bar, where a blind man named Matt intervened when John tried to enter without a Bliss Brand. Matt brought him to a law office, where Matt and Fudge explained that the brand was a slave license created by bar owner Simon, leaving John determined to go after Simon.

• John entered Hell's Kitchen and told Ferdinand to wait while he headed to the Hell's Angel Bar.
• A guard named Jack stopped John from entering because he lacked a Bliss Brand, and Matt arrived to claim John was his friend.
• Matt led John to his law office, where Fudge questioned why he had brought John there.
• Matt explained that John had claimed to have a Bliss Brand, and Fudge revealed it was a slave license that let anyone abuse its bearer.
• John learned Simon used the marks to attract customers to his bar and grew more determined to confront him.

Matt and Fudge explained how Simon’s Bliss Brand operation exploited women, and John offered them a substantial fee for help with his own problem. John bribed his way into the Hell and Heaven Bar with Matt, used magic to get past a guard, and revealed that he was looking for Simon because Simon employed the man who had blown up his car.

• John read a document at Matt and Fudge’s law office and learned that Matt was trying to stop Simon’s forced Bliss Branding of women.
• John offered Matt and Fudge a substantial fee to handle his trouble, and Matt agreed to take him to the bar.
• John bribed Jack and another guard to let them enter the Hell and Heaven Bar.
• John and Matt headed upstairs, where John used a Confundus Charm to make a bodyguard let them pass.
• John asked a guard for Simon and told him that Daredevil was there.

John and Matt confronted Simon over the bombing of John’s car and the Bliss Brand case, but Simon’s attack forced Matt to fight alongside John. Afterward, Matt realized his suspicions about John had been a misunderstanding that may have exposed his identity as Daredevil, just as Simon’s men arrived.

• John entered Simon’s office with Matt and demanded to know why Simon had blown up his car.
• John intimidated Simon into naming the Ten Rings and writing down the address of the people behind the attack.
• John urged Matt to act against Simon over the Bliss Brand case, but Matt initially refused to kill him.
• Simon triggered a hidden alarm, and John killed him while Matt and John took on the gunmen in the corridor.
• Matt accused John of knowing he was Daredevil, but John explained that Daredevil had been his school nickname.
• Matt realized he had revealed his identity to John as more of Simon’s men approached.

John returned to Hell Paradise to save Matt, then used his Wand to defeat everyone there and erase the old woman’s resistance. After asking Matt to manage the police trouble, John arranged dinner service at the club.

• Matt escaped Simon’s office with John’s help, but the assassin cornered him on the dance floor and stabbed him.
• John killed the assassin with a pencil, gave Matt back his cane, and stopped the music.
• John asked Matt to handle the police trouble, then jumped to the second floor and disarmed the gunmen with his Wand.
• John crushed or incapacitated the guests and gunmen, then overcame the old woman’s magical resistance with Obliviate.
• John borrowed Matt’s phone and ordered dinner service for Hell Paradise.

John and Matt tracked Simon’s address to a church, where they uncovered a plot against John Wick. After Matt subdued the hidden attackers, John captured their priestly leader and forced him to promise answers.

• John met Hume, who arranged the removal of the bodies and agreed to leave Hell Paradise unregistered with the hotel.
• John and Matt followed the address from Simon, rescued Ferdinand from robbers, and took his truck.
• Matt changed into his Daredevil costume, and Ferdinand drove John and Matt to a church in Hell’s Kitchen.
• John confronted a priest while Matt searched the church, and the priest revealed his intent to assassinate Wick by calling his men to attack.
• Matt defeated the church’s hidden attackers, and John exposed the priest’s Ten Rings tattoo and threatened him until he agreed to talk.

John used magic to control a Ten Rings priest and sent him to target the mastermind behind the attack on his father. After leaving the terrorists for the police and taking the church’s gold, John returned home with Matt and found Nick Fury waiting.

• The priest revealed that the Ten Rings had worked with an unknown High Table member to attack John’s father, and John used the Imperius Curse to send him after the mastermind with a message from Wick.
• John and Matt left the Ten Rings members for the police, and John took the gold hidden beneath the church confessional after Matt refused his share.
• John called the police, gave Ferdinand a gold bar as payment, and left the church with Matt.
• FBI agents arrived at the church, found nine Ten Rings members hanging alongside their weapons, and suspected John Wick might be involved.
• John returned home with Matt and found Nick Fury waiting in the Wick family living room.

John sparred verbally with Nick Fury, then persuaded Matt Murdock to become his lawyer through an equal exchange. Meanwhile, Tony discovered a new element that could replace palladium and began rebuilding his laboratory as Agent Coulson arrived to say goodbye.

• John traded threats and insults with Nick Fury, who warned him that the Ten Rings were dangerous before leaving his card.
• John offered Matt money to work for the Wick family, but Matt refused because of Watson Wick’s criminal power and the excessive fee.
• John and Matt agreed that Matt would become John’s lawyer and occasional assistant, and Matt took a portion of the cash as payment.
• John told Ferdinand to pick him up the next night, then destroyed a camera watched by Natasha at Stark Industries.
• Tony used Howard’s model to discover a new element that could replace palladium, praised his dead father, and began overhauling his laboratory.
• Agent Coulson entered Tony’s laboratory to say goodbye.

Tony Stark completed a new element reactor while Ivan Vanko prepared to attack him with Hammer’s Iron Soldiers. John Wick offered a 120-million-gold bounty on the Ten Rings’ leader, then headed toward New York’s Ecological Park after seeing Iron Man pursued through the city.

• Tony Stark used his father’s research to create a new element and completed a reactor that ended his palladium poisoning.
• Ivan Vanko improved his reactor, rejected Justin Hammer’s demand for a demonstration, and prepared the Iron Soldiers for action.
• John hired Ferdinand as his driver for ten thousand a month and took him to the New York Continental Hotel.
• John offered 120 million in gold for the leader of the Ten Rings, spilled the deposit across the hotel lobby, and publicly announced the bounty.
• John saw Iron Man pursued by an armored suit and unmanned Iron Soldiers, learned they were heading toward the New York Ecological Park, and told Ferdinand to drive there.

At the Stark Expo, John rescued May and Peter from the rampaging Iron Soldiers before heading to the New York Ecological Park, where Ivan Vanko confronted Tony and Rhodey. Ivan trapped both armored heroes with his upgraded electric whips, but they fired energy blasts at each other as he flew away from the coming explosion.

• Natasha pinned Justin Hammer, learned where Ivan Vanko was, and headed to Hammer Industries while John passed the chaos at the expo.
• John used Accio to bring Peter to May, then arranged a taxi to take them home.
• John and Ferdinand arrived at the New York Ecological Park as Iron Soldiers flew inside, and Ferdinand stayed with the car.
• Natasha rebooted War Machine's armor, allowing Tony and Rhodey to fight the Iron Soldiers together.
• Ivan arrived in his armor and fought Tony and Rhodey; his Five-Strike Lightning Whip disabled both suits with electromagnetic interference.
• Tony and Rhodey fired energy blasts at each other, and Ivan flew away as the resulting explosion threatened to engulf him.