John Wick

Jonathan Wick, also known as Baba Yaga, Jardani Jovonovich, John Wick and The Boogeyman, is the titular main protagonist from the John Wick series.
== Charactah Account ==
At a young age, Jonathan Wick was taught various martial arts and marksmanship and grew to be the best of the best. The mere mention of his name echoed fear onto others, calling him "The Boogeyman". He met a woman who eventually became his wife and wanted to retire. In his new retirement, his wife died from a sudden illness but she gifted him a dog to help with grieving. A few days later, on one fateful night, the son of John's former boss decided to steal his car, beat him up, and murder the aforementioned pet. All the pain and anger he felt sent John on a rampage fueled by vengeance, leaving trails of bodies in his wake and digging himself deeper into the organized crime he wanted to leave so long ago.
Despite his skills, John preferred to avoid fights if he could. He was skilled at getting people to back down without resistance and would often let people go when they do and he was able to avoid allowing conflicts to escalate any further as seen when he was able to call a truce with Abram Tarasov and when he allows Zero's students to live after beating them in a fight. His friendly and professional personality allowed him to maintain contacts within the assassin community who were willing to come to his aid when needed. His strong sense of honor also meant he made a point of not allowing innocent people to get caught in the crossfire of his work.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* John Wick
=== Movies ===
* Ballerina
* John Wick
* John Wick: Chapter 2
* John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
* John Wick: Chapter 4
=== TV Series ===
* The Continental: From the World of John Wick
=== Video Games ===
* Fortnite
* John Wick Chronicles
* John Wick Hex
* John Wick: The Impossible Task
* Payday 2
== Trivia ==
* John asking Winston for "guns. Lots of guns" in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is a reference to Keanu Reeves' character Neo in The Matrix. Neo asks for "guns. Lots of guns" before invading a heavily protected government building to rescue Morpheus who was played by Laurence Fishburne who plays the Bowery King in the John Wick series.
* The movie name was supposed to be named Scorn but Keanu loved the name John Wick so much the directors agreed to change it.
* Jardani translates to John from Romany, and "Wick" is the phonetic pronunciation of the final four letters of his birth name.
* Two John Wick skins and Pickaxes were available in the video game Fortnite during Season 3 and Season 9.
* Jardani is the Caló form of John (Caló is a language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani)
* Wick's back tattoo "Fortuna Fortes Juvat" means Fortune Favors The Bold.
* Wick shows a lot of traits that clearly indicate that he was once a Marine: using M-16 variant weaponry; driving Ford Mustang and tendency to shoot his enemies two times in the chest and one in the head, which is part of Table 2 Marine marksmanship training.
* Wick's file at the end of John Wick: Chapter 2 and the beginning of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum lists his height as 6'1" with brown hair and brown eyes.
* Wick's drink of choice appears to be bourbon as he drank Blanton’s The Original Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey while being stitched up by The Continental doctor in the first film. Cassian also questioned if Wick was still a bourbon drinker when the two chose to get a drink in the Continental after crashing through the window during their fight, which Wick confirmed.
* Wick's signature watch is a Manero AutoDate, designed by Carl F. Bucherer, and his suit is designed by Luca Mosca.
* John keeps a photo of himself with Helen in the New York Public Library, concealed in Russian Folktale by Alexander Afanasyev (1864).
* John's native language is presumably Belarusian.
* Wick's nickname "Baba Yaga" came from a witch of slavic folklore, known for eating children and living in a hut standing on chicken legs.
* John Wick might have been based on retired United States Navy SEAL, Marcus Luttrell. After being the only survivor of Operation Red Wings, Luttrell returns home with PTSD, but his dog kept his sanity safe. However, two bandits shot his dog, which makes Luttrell hunt them down in revenge.
* John Wick wore his watch on the inside to prevent a glare flash that could give away his position.
* John Wick could also be based on the novel "Shibumi", the novel tells a story of an retire assassin who once killed someone using a pencil.
* John Wick's official fate is up for interpretation, per co-writers Michael Finch and Slay Hatten. Finch says, "''What I will say is that we never actually see him dying, We see a [grave] plot. What happened in between is up for interpretation.”'" However, producer Erica Lee says in an interview that he is. Keanu Reeves also expresses uncertainty when asked, stating that "I don’t know, I guess I’m going to have to lean on never say never. I mean, I wouldn’t do a John Wick film without [director] Chad Stahelski. We’d have to see what that looked like… It feels right that John Wick finds peace."
* In an interview, director Chad Stahelski confirms that John deliberately chose not to kill Caine and sacrifice himself so that Caine could live for his daughter, something bigger than both of them.
* John Wick's name was inspired by Derek Kolstad's grandfather "John F. Wick", founder of Wick Buildings.
* John Wick can be seen as the personification of Death. This is indicated by the fact that he always wears a black suit and kills people. Furthermore, in the opening of John Wick: Chapter 4, four horsemen were seen in the desert. This can symbolize the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, of which John could be considered the horseman of death.
* The director’s comments explain why Wick’s story has arrived in so many parts; as does The Odyssey. Odysseus, like Wick, was also a fearsome warrior who gave up in arms in pursuit of a life of peace and was unwantingly dragged back into his old way of life.
* John may be an analogy to Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy: Inferno. As John travels the circles of Hell in the underworld by facing different challenges in order for him to be free from the High Table.
** It also a reference to the Director's quote to John: "The path of paradise begins in Hell."
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* John Wick at The John Wicki
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