His superior, Viggo Tarasov, promised to allow John to quit if he first completed an "impossible task": killing all of Tarasov's enemies in a single night. Having succeeded, John retired and lived peacefully for just over five years.
When John wanted to retire from the hitman life to settle down with his soon-to-be-wife, Helen, Tarasov head Viggo (played by the late, great Michael Nyqvist), gave him an impossible task: kill all of his enemies in a single night.
In John Wick: Chapter 2, the main antagonist, Santino D' Antonio, wanted John to kill his own sister, Gianna D' Antonio, in Rome, Italy so that he could get her seat at the High Table (the global secret assassin organization of the John Wick universe).
John Wick (Keanu Reeves) was born Jardani Jovonovich in Belarus. He was an orphan, and was taken in by the Tarasov Russian Mafia where he was raised as an assassin.
Throughout the movies we see that John just wants to be able to remember his wife. So by cutting off his ring finger, he metaphorically severed his last connection to his wife, and moved his devotion and fealty of that drive to grieve and remember to the High Table.
Anger and Revenge: John's determination in going after his target is both his greatest strength and his weakness as he often refuses to stop pursuing them, even when it would be in his interest to do so, or even wait for a better opportunity to strike.
Later that night, John is visited by another assassin named Santino D'Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio). He presents John with a marker that John gave him when he was completing the task which allowed him to leave his former life behind.
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Appearances. Helen Wick was the wife of the ex-hitman, John Wick. Helen's death serves as the catalyst to John's return to the world of assassinations, and she appears in several flashbacks and photographs. She is the posthumous overarching protagonist of the John Wick film series.
In John Wick, the all-black suit is a recurring motif, a visual shorthand that tells us when John is at his most lethal. It first appears as he begins his reentry into the criminal underworld, and when he eventually dispatches his chief target, he returns to the comfort – and normality – of his pyjamas.
Sofia is shown to be mad at John for bringing trouble to her Casablanca Continental, since he is excommunicado. By bringing up the marker, she's obligated to help him against her benefit, possibly fearing that her daughter being kept in hiding may be compromised.
Another possible reason for allowing John to live could be Winston's personal disdain for the High Table, considering the council intended to remove him from his position despite his loyalty for over 40 years.
In 2020 130g of Cocaine was attempted to be smuggled into Italy addressed to Santino D'Antonio. Santino's last meal was a porter house steak flavoured with duck fat, which he claimed "makes all the difference."
Aurelio explained that he did it because Iosef stole John Wick's car and killed his pet puppy Daisy (which was a posthumous present from Helen) for fun. Viggo was shocked by this revelation and ended the call, realizing that John is intending to kill his son in revenge for his dog's death.
John is not only the best character in the trilogy, but one of the best and coolest assassins in the action genre. Keanu is exceptional as John Wick, performing all the action himself, making Reeves the real life John Wick.
He lets himself get stabbed in order to end the fight with neither man dying. He returns to being a professional. He leaves Vigo with a wrecked empire, beaten half to death, stabbed, son killed, and sitting in the rain (and some pee).
The dog does not have a given name. This is perhaps because John doesn't want to become emotionally attached as he did with Daisy. Despite this, they seem to have a good relationship as the dog is seen following him and licking his face repeatedly in Parabellum.
Perkins is a major antagonist in the 2014 action film John Wick. She is a ruthless assassin who targeted her ex-colleague John Wick under orders from her boss Viggo Tarasov. She was portrayed by Adrianne Palicki, who also played Sydney Manning in Criminal Minds.
John Wick is a fictional character created by Derek Kolstad, and the titular protagonist of the neo-noir action thriller film series John Wick, portrayed by Keanu Reeves.
For most of Wick's bladed encounters, he relies upon a Filipino martial art known as Arnis. Wick favors a straight-bladed knife, like the double-edged automatic knife he takes on assignment in John Wick: Chapter 2, but many of his enemies wield the iconic karambit dagger.
John Wick 3 ends with Reeves' character being betrayed by Winston (Ian McShane), the owner of The Continental, which presents some interesting possibilities going forward. Despite being shot, it seems John Wick will be ready for more of the high-octane action the series has become known for.
In the very first John Wick movie, the titular assassin was compared to a mythical Russian creature called 'Baba Yaga'. The boogeyman, Viggo Tarasov explains, is a force too great to be reckoned with and they stupidly kill his dog!
After John has a $14 million bounty placed on him and is made excommunicado from the Continental Hotel, Winston gives John a Marker.
Gold Coins are used as a currency for services in the underworld, instead of paper money or credit card, as these coins are mostly untraceable by the banks or authority. The coins are used mostly in the Continental Hotel chains for various underworld services but other underworld services can also be paid by the coins.
The puppy, named Daisy, was a gift from Wick's wife. The significance of the puppy is that she was a gift from Wick's late wife, who died of leukemia. The dog was left behind so that Wick wouldn't be alone once she passed.