Chapter Summaries

John learned that the Ten Rings had helped the Russians testify against Wilson Fisk, and Wenwu asked him to teach Shang-Chi to use his inherited abilities. As Shang-Chi grew close to Peter and Ned, he stood up to their school bully and waited with them for the bully’s older brother and his group to arrive.

• John told Wenwu that Shang-Chi was doing well and had made friends in New York.
• Wenwu said the Mandarin was an impostor and offered the Ten Rings’ resources if John would teach Shang-Chi to use his mother’s abilities.
• Shang-Chi joined Peter and Ned for their daily LEGO building and learned that Jim had been bullying Peter at school.
• Jim attacked Peter and Ned after school, but Shang-Chi lifted Jim against a fence and warned him to leave his friends alone.
• Jim returned with his older brother and several helpers, while Shang-Chi, Peter, and Ned stood together by the trash cans.

John supported Shang-Chi, Peter, and Ned after they fought a bully, then stood up for Peter and May when the bully’s parents and the school tried to blame them. After John threatened and injured the parents, they moved away, and May suggested Peter would like John as his godfather.

• Shang-Chi, Peter, and Ned told May they had beaten up Jim after he bullied Peter, and John praised them for defending their friend.
• John reassured May and Peter, encouraged Shang-Chi to accept May’s hug, and praised the boys’ courage and friendship.
• May and John went to Peter’s school, where Jim’s parents demanded an apology and medical compensation while the head of discipline sided with them.
• John broke Jason Jim’s nose and arm, threatened Jim’s parents, and warned them to leave Peter and his friends alone.
• Jim’s family moved out of the city after learning who John Wick was, and May said Peter would like John as his godfather.

After Kingpin’s fall, Dax struggled to balance his FBI work with his secret identity as Night Ghost while Ray secretly recommended him to investigate the vigilante. John spent time with Robert, now known as the Equalizer, before attending the Iron Soldiers’ delivery at Hammer Industries, where he anticipated an impending battle in New York.

• The FBI focused on Kingpin’s criminal operations, and Ray was promoted to team leader as the investigation into the Wick family eased.
• Ray analyzed Night Ghost’s methods and secretly recommended Dax to a team investigating the vigilante, while assuring Dax he trusted him.
• John played chess with Robert, who had become known as the Equalizer for helping people who had suffered injustice.
• John attended the Iron Soldiers’ delivery at Hammer Industries, where General Ross announced the military’s plan to introduce the machines into service.
• John suggested testing the Iron Soldiers in New York and anticipated that they would soon face an alien threat.

John oversaw Ivan's Fighter Armor preparations and warned Matt that an alien invasion was coming. He gave Matt a custom combat suit, leaving Matt unsettled by John's generosity and power.

• John checked Ivan's completed Second-Generation Fighter and urged him to prepare for dangers beyond Earth, while Ivan showed him Weapon Box models and a custom Fortress.
• In April, the new energy system began operating as John visited Nelson and Murdock and teased Fudge, Peggy, and Matt.
• John admitted to Matt that he knew Night Ghost and defended his lethal approach to protecting Hell's Kitchen.
• John warned Matt that New York would soon face an alien invasion and gave him a custom bulletproof suit made by Taran Industries.
• Matt called John the most frightening person of all as he struggled with his mixed feelings about him.

Fury questioned whether John Wick could be trusted and decided S.H.I.E.L.D. needed a fuller assessment of him. John tested Shang-Chi in a brutal spar, uncovered his hidden magical power, and offered to teach him to control it.

• Fury discussed John Wick's unexplained connection to Thor's arrival and hesitated to recruit him, so he decided to learn more about him.
• John found Shang-Chi training and arranged for him to lead Peter's morning workouts in exchange for a rent discount.
• John challenged Shang-Chi to spar and beat him until Shang-Chi's hidden power erupted and cracked the room's walls.
• John used Levicorpus to knock Shang-Chi unconscious, then explained that he had concealed magical potential rather than forming an Obscurus.
• John introduced himself as Mr. Wick and offered to teach Shang-Chi how to control his dangerous energy.

John trained Shang-Chi and Peter, while Fury searched wizard entry records and learned of the feared Snake Lady. The Ancient One warned John that the future had become uncertain, and the chapter ended as the Tesseract activated at Project Pegasus.

• John made Shang-Chi and Peter run before explaining that physical training prepared them to defend themselves against close-range attacks.
• Fury visited the Department of Magic Affairs and searched wizard entry records with Darcy, but found no record of John.
• Darcy told Fury that anyone entering New York outside the official process would have to go through the Snake Lady, then drove Fury away when he demanded her address.
• The Ancient One told John that changes to the future had obscured its previously clear path and asked him to preserve peace until a new Sorcerer Supreme appeared.
• The Tesseract released a rising surge of energy at Project Pegasus, and Fury, Hill, and Coulson arrived as the situation worsened.

The Tesseract opened a portal that brought Loki to Earth, where he seized the Tesseract and controlled S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. As John prepared for an approaching storm in New York, Loki used the Casket of Ancient Winters and began searching for a mysterious core while planning to rule.

• Fury ordered the facility evacuated and went to the underground laboratory as the Tesseract released uncontrollable energy.
• The Tesseract formed a portal, and Loki appeared, attacked the agents, took control of Barton, and pursued Fury, who had grabbed the Tesseract.
• John spoke with Orlov, May, and Ferdinand, arranged time off and a Miami vacation for Ferdinand, and prepared amulets as he sensed an approaching storm.
• Loki established a temporary base, used his blood to activate the Casket of Ancient Winters, and sensed a core somewhere on Earth.
• Loki resolved to find the core and rule, believing the Casket would help him challenge Thanos and prove himself a better monarch than his father.

John prepared for an impending alien war by protecting his property and warning Ivan and Dax to get ready. Natasha escaped captivity after learning Barton was under enemy control, then received orders to find the Big Guy while Coulson planned to approach John.

• John cast Protego Totalum over his laboratory and residence, then told Ivan that aliens would soon bring a war to New York.
• John warned Dax about the coming invasion and urged him to protect himself, while Dax resisted his urge to kill a pigeon.
• Natasha escaped her captors after Coulson told her that Barton was under enemy control.
• Coulson ordered Natasha to find the Big Guy and said he would speak to Stark and approach John, asking whether John would help.

Steve struggled with recovered memories of a childhood disaster and an unknown black-haired man before Fury recruited him to help recover the Tesseract. Meanwhile, Coulson sought John's help against Loki, but John refused, and Natasha arrived at the Wick home to join Hattie and John as the Avengers crisis approached.

• Steve remembered a white-haired figure saving him and Bucky during a disaster in New York, then woke from his memories and destroyed a punching bag.
• Fury told Steve that Loki had stolen the Tesseract and asked him to help save the world; Steve noticed a vague memory of a black-haired man.
• Coulson asked John to help deal with Loki's magic, but John refused and told MOSS to electrify the doorbell if Coulson returned.
• Coulson sent Natasha to John's home after she had persuaded Dr. Banner to help track the Tesseract.
• Natasha met Hattie in the elevator, picked the Wick home's lock, and entered with Hattie to face John.

Natasha tried to recruit John to help S.H.I.E.L.D. recover the stolen Tesseract, but he refused to join the agency and hinted that another group of superheroes could act. Aboard S.H.I.E.L.D.’s airborne carrier, the team located Loki at a gala in Germany and prepared to capture him.

• Natasha told John that Loki had stolen the Tesseract and asked him to use his magic to help stop the threat.
• John agreed to help only as Natasha’s boss, Miss Natalie, but refused to go to S.H.I.E.L.D. and gave Hattie a bracelet to excuse his vacation.
• Natasha returned alone to the aircraft carrier, where she met Steve and Banner as the carrier rose from the sea.
• Fury asked Natasha where John was, and she said he was as individualistic as Stark.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. used facial recognition to find Loki at a gala in Germany, and Fury ordered a team to capture him.

Loki used a gala in Stuttgart to help Barton steal the final component needed for the portal machine, then revealed his ambition to rule Earth and the Nine Realms. After Steve, Natasha, and Tony captured him, Thor arrived and carried him off, while John teleported away with Natasha.

• Loki caused chaos at the Stuttgart gala and used the host’s retinal scan to help Barton open the laboratory’s final locked door.
• Loki forced the guests to kneel and declared that he would conquer Earth and eventually the Nine Realms.
• Steve intervened when Loki attacked a defiant old man, and he and Natasha fought Loki until a red-suited figure blasted him and he was captured.
• Thor landed on the aircraft, struck Tony aside, and flew away with Loki as Tony pursued them.
• John appeared aboard the aircraft, and Natasha handcuffed herself to him and demanded that he take her to the ground.
• John snapped his fingers and teleported away with Natasha, leaving the pilot aboard the aircraft.

John watched Tony and Thor fight until Steve stopped them, then reunited with Thor and accompanied the group as they captured Loki. Loki recognized John Wick and watched him with growing interest.

• Natasha threw up after John transported her, and John kept the handcuff key before throwing it away.
• Tony and Thor fought fiercely until Steve arrived and struck Thor with his shield.
• John protected Natasha with an Armor Projection when Thor's clash with Steve unleashed a shock wave.
• John reunited with Thor and introduced him to Tony, Steve, and Natasha, while Thor spoke respectfully of the Wizard King.
• Thor explained that he needed the Tesseract to take Loki back to Asgard, and the group brought Loki aboard the plane.
• Loki watched John's blood trail point toward him and quietly greeted him as John Wick.

John Wick joined the Avengers aboard S.H.I.E.L.D.'s airborne carrier, unnerved Fury, and confronted Loki before the team’s internal tensions and a sabotage attack triggered the Hulk’s emergence. The carrier was left in chaos as the Hulk charged at Natasha.

• John freed Natasha’s handcuffs with magic, helped Steve recover memories of his dream, and met Banner while discussing Loki’s plans with the team.
• John threatened to drop Loki from the airborne prison, rejected his offer of an alliance, and told Fury that power determined whether civilizations survived.
• Fury warned John about humanity’s past encounters with overwhelming threats, and John vanished from the carrier before Coulson reported that someone had hacked S.H.I.E.L.D.’s system.
• Tony exposed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s plan to make weapons from the Tesseract, and the Avengers argued while the Mind Stone Scepter influenced them.
• Barton sabotaged the carrier’s engine with an arrow, the explosion disrupted the argument, and Banner transformed into the Hulk and charged at Natasha.

The Avengers fought to regain control of the helicarrier after Loki’s agents sabotaged its engines, while Natasha and Barton clashed in the Restricted Area. Natasha reunited with John just as they learned Coulson had died.

• Thor attacked Hulk after believing Hulk had killed Natasha, and Fury ordered a pilot to draw Hulk away.
• Barton and Loki-controlled agents attacked the helicarrier’s central control system, disabling another engine as Fury fought to hold them back.
• Natasha woke after an Armor Projection saved her from Hulk’s punch, then ran toward the Restricted Area.
• Tony and Steve repaired an engine, and Tony survived a fall when his flight systems restarted.
• Natasha fought Barton until John’s intervention freed him from Loki’s control; Natasha knocked Barton unconscious and took John’s sandwich.
• Natasha and John heard that Coulson had been injured and pronounced dead.

After Coulson’s death, John challenged Fury over the value S.H.I.E.L.D. placed on its fallen agents and spoke with Natasha about why he had protected her. Steve gathered Barton and the others to pursue Loki, while Fury used the bloodstained cards to motivate the Avengers.

• Fury showed Steve and John Coulson’s bloodstained Captain America cards and urged the Avengers to unite, while John questioned who had the authority to define a hero.
• John asked Fury whether he would remember the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who died, then left after Fury stayed silent.
• John told Natasha that he had protected her because she was his assistant and had once helped his sister, and he described Loki as an arrogant man desperate for approval.
• Steve arrived to recruit Barton, who agreed to fly after Loki and seek revenge for the deaths caused while he was controlled.
• Agent Hill told Fury that Coulson’s cards had been in his locker, not his jacket, and Fury admitted he had used them to motivate the Avengers.
• Fury watched a plane and Iron Man Armor fly past and realized the Avengers had found Loki.

Loki opened the portal for the Chitauri invasion and tricked Tony and John with illusions, then froze John with the Azure Box and took the Mind Stone Scepter. As the aliens attacked Manhattan, Ivan and General Ross’s Iron Soldiers moved to fight them.

• Loki met John at Taran Industries and revealed that his Chitauri army was about to arrive.
• Tony confronted Loki’s illusion at Stark Tower, but the portal opened and the Chitauri poured into New York.
• John saw through Loki’s illusions and fought him, but Loki used the Azure Box to freeze John and reclaim the Mind Stone Scepter.
• Ivan attacked the Chitauri in Manhattan with his electrified whips.
• General Ross ordered the Iron Soldiers deployed, and they flew toward New York.

As the Chitauri invasion devastated New York, Thor fought Loki while Matt, Dax, and Robert defended civilians. Fifty Army Iron Soldiers arrived and unleashed heavy fire on the Chitauri, shifting the battle in the city's favor.

• Thor confronted Loki on Stark Tower and fought him after Loki refused to shut down the Tesseract.
• Matt rescued a family in Hell's Kitchen and directed them to shelter at Satan's Mansion.
• Dax freed Matt from rubble and continued toward the Chitauri, eager to fight.
• Robert saved a child from a Chitauri soldier, sent the child and mother to safety, and took the alien's weapon.
• Steve, Natasha, and Barton watched a Chitauri warship emerge as their aircraft crashed.
• Fifty Army Iron Soldiers deployed antiaircraft guns and attacked the Chitauri forces over New York.

Ivan joined the battle and destroyed a Chitauri warship while Loki tricked Thor and escaped with the Mind Stone Scepter. John freed himself from Loki’s ice and went to find help, as Banner transformed into Hulk to confront the warship Tony had lured toward the Avengers.

• Ivan used the Fighter and its weapons to destroy a Chitauri warship and attack the Chitauri Soldiers.
• Loki feigned remorse, stabbed Thor, froze his legs with the Casket of Ancient Winters, and escaped aboard an aircraft.
• John absorbed the ice that had trapped him, discovered a mark linked to another Casket of Ancient Winters, and vanished to find help.
• Banner arrived on a motorcycle after the Avengers gathered, and Steve urged him to get angry as Tony led a warship toward them.
• Banner transformed into Hulk, and Super-Stretch Pants kept him covered as he prepared to face the warship.

John joined the Avengers’ fight against the Chitauri, outfitted Hulk with stretchy pants, healed Thor, and deployed a fortress to attack the invading ships. He then found Loki and began a fight after blasting Loki’s craft from the sky.

• Hulk destroyed a Chitauri warship with one punch, and John gave him stretchy pants that made the two friends.
• John healed Thor’s wound, then deployed a massive assembled fortress that fired on a Chitauri warship.
• John gave Natasha a bracelet to operate the fortress and left to find Loki, while Hattie returned to the Taran Building.
• Loki watched his invasion meet resistance from the Avengers, Iron Soldiers, and arriving military forces.
• John blasted Loki’s flying craft, and Loki crashed to the ground before John challenged him to see whether a god could die.

Dax and Matt survived a Chitauri assault and were taken to Taran Industries for treatment while the battle continued across the city. John confronted Loki and answered Loki’s freezing magic with the Eternal Flame.

• Dax killed a Chitauri soldier who was about to attack Matt, and Matt helped him escape the ruined building.
• Robert drove Dax and Matt to Taran Industries, where Hattie took them to the medical department.
• Ivan destroyed a Chitauri warship with missiles, and Thor and Hulk fought after climbing from the wreckage.
• The Avengers discussed closing the portal, and Natasha used Steve’s shield to leap onto a Chitauri craft.
• John fought Loki’s magic with spells and a Shield Charm, then summoned Gubraithian Fire against Loki’s freezing attack.