John Wick

"'Winston, tell them. Tell them all. Whoever it is, whoever they are, I'll kill them... I'll kill them all.""―John Wick to Winston"Johnathan "John" Wick (born Jardani Jovonovich) is a legendary hitman and a mutant (although he doesn't know this) with the ability of an amazingly high pain tolerance as well as an enhanced Human Condition (Enhanced Speed, Strength, Durability, etc). John previously worked for the Tarasov Mob until his retirement. He retired in order to spend time with his wife, Helen Wick, who later died of cancer. 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. Following his wife's death, John came out of retirement after Viggo's son, Iosef Tarasov, murdered his dog, Daisy (who was gifted to John posthumously by Helen to help him grieve), and stole his car during a home invasion. John then went out of his way to return from retirement and get revenge on the Tarasov Mob family by killing Iosef, then Viggo for attempting to stop Wick and then finally shutting down Abram Tarasov's section of the mob to retrieve his car.

After this event, John went back to his home with his car and a new unnamed dog who he'd found along the way. John planned to go back into retirement once again after justice had been served. However, Santino D'Antonio arrives at his house afterward, asking him to pay his debt. When John refuses, the Italian destroys his house with a grenade launcher. John later realised he had to fullfill his debt, otherwise, his life would be forfeit. John then confronts Santino in a museum and the Italian tasks him to kill his sister, Gianna D'Antonio.

Wick travels to Rome to complete the task, however Santino then places a bounty of $7,000,000 bounty on hiss head. This causes John, now filled with rage, to kill Santino on Continental grounds, causing Winston (the man who runs the New York City Continental Hotel) to dub him 'excommunicado' by order of the High Table. John is given an hour before a bounty of $15,000,000 on his head, a bounty nearly everyone in New York wishes to collect via killing Wick, none of them having any luck. John reaches out to the Director and requests her help in getting safe passage to Casablanca; The Director reluctantly helps. In Casablanca, John meets Sofia Al-Azwar. He asks her to honor her marker by helping to direct him to the Elder, the only person above the High Table, which she does.

Wick reaches the Elder eventually and the Elder agrees to forgive John on condition that he assassinate Winston and continue to work for the High Table until his death. To show his commitment, John severs his ring finger and offers his wedding ring to the Elder.

John arrives back in New York City at which point an Adjudicator of the High Table arrives. However, due to Winston refusing to give up his office and John refusing to kill Winston,  the Adjudicator "deconsecrates" the Continental, revoking its neutral ground status. This causes a large battle which is resolved when Winston and the Adjudicator make a deal to allow Winston to keep his power. Wick initially refuses to re-join, but after another confrontation he reluctantly agrees to server under the High Table, taking his old mantle of an Assassin back.

Johnathan currently still works as an assassin for the Continental, being their most successful and powerful assassin in history, still having the most kills on record in history as well as using his unknown abilities to allow him to finish jobs with little to know damage and double the effectiveness.

Childhood
Jardani Jovonovich was born in Belarus. He became a Ruska Roma orphan under the tutelage of The Director and brought to North America. He developed various martial arts skills, and briefly spent some time in a Mexican village which was blown up by Calamity's men as revenge for his thievery. Jovonovich later adopted the name "Johnathan Wick," or "John Wick" for short as the anglicized form of his birth name.

Military career
John is shown to have a tattoo across his back reading "Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat" ("fortune favors the bold"), which would imply that he was once in the United States Marine Corps 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, but this has yet to be confirmed. If he was, it was likely he was a Special Ops soldier, given his extensive knowledge of security surveillance and being able to strategically plan things very well.

Career as a Hitman
Years after leaving the Ruska Roma, John became a professional assassin who earned the nickname "The Boogeyman" for his unparalleled hyper-lethality. He joined the Continental, a hotel catering exclusively to criminals. His reputation for peerless efficiency and reliability earned him considerable respect and fear within the criminal underworld, ultimately making him an almost legendary figure, known to the leaders of virtually all criminal organizations as someone never to be crossed.

John eventually joined a Russian criminal organization known as the Tarasov Mob, becoming one of the main executors of its leader, Viggo Tarasov, who valued and respected John's exceptional abilities, and once saw John kill three men in a bar with a single pencil. During this time, Wick developed relationships with various other criminals working for the High Table, the highest known power in the international criminal underworld, comprised of delegates representing each controlling mafia family. However, John also made a considerable array of enemies - unsurprising, given his profession - including Ms. Perkins, Cassian or Sofia Al-Azwar. During this time, he helped Sofia rescue her daughter from the mob, and consequently received a blood oath marker from her, symbolizing her debt to him.

John also met a woman named Helen, with whom he fell deeply in love and later married. John decided to leave the uncertain life of an assassin to be with her. When he approached Viggo Tarasov about retiring, the latter reluctantly agreed to let him leave, but on the condition that he completed an "impossible task": kill every one of Tarasov's rivals in a single night, ensuring his enemies would be completely destroyed before any could mobilize and retaliate.

Completing this task was not considered possible for even John Wick to do alone, and so he sought the help of Italian syndicate leader, Santino D'Antonio, who provided additional manpower and equipment in exchange for John giving him a marker -- a decision that would ultimately come back to haunt them both. Upon completing the task, Wick was released from Viggo's service, and allowed to retire to a quiet life as a law-abiding citizen.

John and Helen lived peacefully for five years, before Helen's death from cancer, shortly before the events of John Wick.

Revenge
Following the death of his wife, John has remained withdrawn from the world of organized crime, instead choosing to spend his days driving his prized car and caring for his dog Daisy, who was left to him by Helen. All of this changed when a brash Russian gangster named Iosef (who was later revealed to be Viggo Tarasov's son) tries to buy his car at a gas station, but John refuses. An upset Iosef later leads his gang in an assault at John's house during which he attacks the hitman, kills Daisy, and steals his car, leaving him unconscious.

Aware that John will come to take revenge, Viggo tells the protagonist and tries to advocate peace for his son but John silently refuses, forcing him to send a group of assassins to kill his former associate. Succeeding in killing all of them in a brutal fight, Wick chases Iosef in a nightclub but the security team of Viggo's son prevents him from killing the gangster. Viggo, in an attempt to protect his son from John's wrath, sends several assassins, including Marcus and Ms. Perkins, to eliminate him. However, the ultimate result of the conflict is the death of both Iosef and Viggo, along with Marcus (killed by Viggo for attempting to assist John) and Ms. Perkins (killed by Continental Hotel staff for violating their rules). John then adopts a pit-bull who is set to be euthanized before returning home.

With his vengeance against the Tarasovs accomplished, John recovers his car from Abram Tarasov, Viggo's brother. Wanting peace, he allows Abram to live in exchange for a truce. He then returns to his retirement with his new dog.

The D'Antonio Job
However, Santino D'Antonio arrives at his house afterward, asking him to pay his debt. When John refuses, the Italian destroys his house with a grenade launcher. John later goes to the Continental Hotel where he is confronted by Winston, the owner of the Continental, who tells him to fulfill his debt, otherwise, his life is forfeit. John then confronts Santino in a museum and the Italian tasks him to kill his sister, Gianna D'Antonio, who's been selected to represent their family at the High Table so he can assume her throne. Reluctantly, John accepts, knowing he must, and he travels to Rome where he uses gold coins to get an armored suit, as well as weapons.

When John arrives at Gianna's ascendance party in Roman ruins, she tells that she knows what her brother has done and slits her own wrists to maintain what little agency she has left. John, who only shoots her after she's dead, finds that completing his mission has made him Santino's next target. He then fights his way through a rigorous assault by Ares, Santino's right-hand woman, and her cohorts. After escaping the ambush, he is forced to fight Cassian as well and the two men crash at the Continental Hotel of Rome. In the bar, John apologizes for killing Gianna, while Cassian vowed revenge.

Santino places a $7.000.000 bounty in John Wick's head. A lot of hitmen attempted to kill John, including Cassian. But John kills them all, except Cassian who is left alive for professional respect. John Wick arrives at the Bowery King where his wounds are treated. And then John convinces the Bowery King to help him kill Santino, who provides him with a gun with seven bullets and information about Santino's location. John manages to kill most of Santino's henchmen and leaves Ares badly injured, while Santino escapes at Continental Hotel. The Italian demands Winston to revoke John Wick's membership, but he decided and tells him that Continental is his kingdom and John hasn't broken any rules yet. At the same time, Winston tells Santino that he has privileges in the Continental. However, John arrives and finds Santino. Winston tells Wick to walk away, but the assassin ignores his warnings and kills Santino inside the Continental before returning home.

The next day, John is asked to come to a park where Winston informs John that his bounty has been doubled by the Camorra and The High Table and is now international. He is informed that he is now excommunicado, however, John is provided 1 hour to prepare.

At first, John casually walks away from Winston but after hearing cell phone after cell phone ring, John realizes the danger he is in and the urgency to prepare for what comes next. Wick and his dog start to run.

Hunted
Less than an hour after the events of the second film, John Wick is now a marked man on the run in Manhattan. Before he is labeled "excommunicado" as a result of his killing of Santino D'Antonio, Wick travels to the New York Public Library and retrieves two concealed items – a marker medallion and a crucifix. Then he is injured following a fight with a giant assassin named Ernest, who tries to kill him early. Wick leaves to be treated by a doctor, but his 1-hour grace period is up and his excommunicado begins before the doctor can finish. Wick patches the injury up on his own and leaves but is pursued by a gang into an antique warehouse which leads to a bloody fight between Wick and the gang involving antique weaponry.

John reaches out to the Director, the head of the Ruska Roma, with the crucifix and requests her help in getting safe passage to Casablanca. The Director reluctantly helps, as John is a former protégé and is from Belarus, knowing that this act will violate her peace treaty with the High Table.

In Casablanca, John meets Sofia Al-Azwar. He asks her to honor her marker by helping to direct him to the Elder, the only person above the High Table, to request atonement for his misdeed. Sofia takes John to Berrada, her former boss, who tells John he may find the Elder by wandering through the desert until he cannot walk any longer. In exchange, Berrada asks for one of Sofia's dogs; when Sofia refuses, he shoots the dog, which is saved by a bulletproof vest. In retaliation, Sofia wanted to kill Berrada but at John's warning, she only wounds him. Sofia and John fight their way out of the kasbah and drive into the desert, where she leaves him.

Collapsing in the desert, John is brought to the Elder. John says that he is desperate to live to "earn" the memory of the love he once had with his wife. The Elder agrees to forgive John on condition that he assassinate Winston and continue to work for the High Table until his death. To show his commitment, John severs his ring finger and offers his wedding ring to the Elder.

John arrives back in New York City and is pursued by a Japanese ninja named Zero and his students, who nearly kill John before he reaches the protection of the Continental. Charon reminds Zero that no "business" can be conducted on hotel property, lest he has declared excommunicado himself. John meets with Winston, who encourages him not to die as an enslaved killer but as a man who loved and was loved by, his wife.

An Adjudicator of the High Table arrives, but Winston refuses to give up his office and John refuses to kill Winston, leading the Adjudicator to "deconsecrate" the Continental, revoking its neutral ground status. The Adjudicator notifies Zero and sends heavily armed and armored High Table enforcers as a backup. The first wave cuts down the lightly armed and unarmored Continental security like chaff, but John adapts to their armor quickly and dispatches of them with some effort. between waves, Charon equips the both of them with Benelli M4 shotguns and Fiocchi AP slugs, thus dispatching the second wave in short order. He is ambushed by Zero and his students, but kills all but the two chief students and fatally wounds Zero.

The Adjudicator agrees to a parley with Winston, who explains his rebellion as a "show of strength" and offers fealty to the High Table. After John arrives, the Adjudicator questions what should have done with him. Winston draws a pistol and shoots John several times in the coat, which is of course, ballistic. John, just before being pushed from a rooftop, eventually submitted. He knew he'd die (or thought he would, still being unaware of his mutation) from such a drop, so he decided to stay with the continental, making sure he completes all of his tasks and staying with the Continental until he's able to get out, back into retirement.

Personality
Due to his harsh background and being rigorously trained for his childhood and adulthood by the director, John could be described as a very serious and stoic individual who rarely speaks more than is necessary (preferring actions over words) with a strong sense of obligation. As a professional assassin and hitman, John is highly confident in his abilities and reputation, being greatly respected and feared by many criminal organizations and other assassins alike. Despite this, he has a strong moral code as well as honor which is unique among his colleagues according to Zero as John never willingly drags innocents people to his job or threatens them during it. In spite of his professionalism, he is also friendly and develops strong friendships with many other dangerous people like Marcus and even the director of Continental Hotel Winston. His good side is also seen after meeting Helen, John was willing the end his carrier as a killer and live a normal happy life with her which Winston referred to as impossible.

However, John is a man who is worth his reputation as Boogeyman for his lethality as he never failed on his missions. Despite his calm and collected behavior, once he angered or taken by vengeance, he will stop at nothing until he kills his target no matter who or what stands in his way. After a puppy from his wife, which was the last posthumous gift from her not to be alone, was killed and his car stolen, John set out on a journey for revenge which he success but make other problems for himself on the future events.

Physical Appearance
John Wick is a siz foot one inch, 192 pound man with brown eyes and black long-ish hair. His facique is quite lean, however his mutations allow him to stay this way along with dealing major damage. Although John has worn a selection of suits before, the main suit he wears currently is a custom tailored, black, Italian styled, two button, tapered trouser, tactical lined suit. With this suit, John wears a black tie and black brogue shoes along with either a white or black suit shirt.

Powers

 * Enhanced Human Condition: John is a man who keeps himself in great shape and maintains a strict level of training. His strength, durability, speed, agility, stamina, and reflexes are in top conditioning for a man of his age.
 * Enhanced Human Strength: While his strength is not as great as his other attributes, he is still very strong. He can easily lift and overpower bigger opponents, easily restrain humans and break their bones, as well as effortlessly break through hardened glass and snap necks.
 * Enhanced Human Durability: Considering his physical condition, John's body is very durable as he was able to survive (despite being critically injured) from falling off the Continental Hotel while colliding with other objects before landing flat on the concrete floor. Another example was shown when despite being stabbed and shot multiple times, he didn't lose any of his strengths.
 * Enhanced Human Speed: Although it took him a while to run from Central Park to Times Square, John is still remarkably fast in his actions. His striking speed is swift, as he can keep up with younger opponents with minimal effort, and he is an extremely quick draw with his sidearms.
 * Enhanced Human Agility: John is also extraordinarily agile in his movements. He can perform elaborate, aerodynamic martial arts techniques and do combat rolls very swiftly.
 * Enhanced Human Stamina: John has a tremendous amount of stamina which allows him to run for great distance and fight for a considerable amount of time with multiple skilled opponents a walk away victorious. Even after being injured or tired, John needs a minimal break only to recover and can move a fight again. He can fight at his peak until he falls from wounds or complete exhaustion.
 * Enhanced Human Reflexes: During John's successful attempt to retrieve his car from Abram Tarasov's chop shop, he dodges a car going at least 40 mph in eight-tenths of a second. Without his fast reflexes, he would have possibly died. Also, at the Continental Hotel (during his pursuit of Iosef Tarasov), Marcus shoots John's pillow in order to alert him to a threat. It takes him only 1.2 seconds to understand the shot's purpose, correctly assess the situation, and react effectively.
 * High Pain Tolerance: Despite his mastery of martial arts and firearms, John is injured frequently but demonstrate nearly inhuman tolerance to pain, rarely notices beyond checking his wounds for bleeding. During his final fight with Viggo, John allows Viggo's knife to re-enter an already existing stab wound; this causes a considerable amount of pain but allows him to win the fight by breaking Viggo's arm while simultaneously avoiding creating any new wounds. He also cut his own ring finger showing only medium pain, and then had the wound burned shut, and he reacted to that with even lesser reaction.

Abilities

 * Master Assassin: John Wick, as a former Marine and hitman known as Baba Yaga, is a legendarily driven and revered assassin. During his time with the Tarasov Mob, he completed a task deemed impossible by Viggo Tarasov, with the prolific amount of people he killed having laid the foundation of the organization. Wick is famous for once killing three men in a bar with just a pencil. Following the death of his wife, John has killed hundreds of people with an assortment of firearms, knives, wires, explosives, cars, books, axes, horses, swords, and motorcycles. John has killed people during his home invasion, when he attacked the Red Circle, when he attacked Viggo's church, when he attacked Iosef's compound, when he attacked Viggo at the helipad dock, when he retrieved his car from Abram Tarasov, when he escaped Rome after infiltrating Gianna's party, when he was pursued by assassins after a bounty was placed on him, when he attacked Santino's gala at the museum, when he escaped from New York, when he and Sofia went to Berrada, when John returned to New York, and during the war at the Continental Hotel. Some of the people he has killed include Victor, Nicholai, Kuzma, Kirill, Gregori, Ivan, Alexander, Iosef Tarasov, Avi, Viggo Tarasov, Gianna D'Antonio, Violin Assassin, Ares, Santino D'Antonio, Ernest and Zero, who called him "incredible" and a "master of death." Furthermore, Winston has stated that hunting is what John does best, and that the Baba Yaga is the last thing many men ever see.


 * Master Marksman: Being a former Marine and war veteran, it is safe to say that John knows his way around a variety of pistols, rifles, and shotguns as well as being able to precisely eliminate targets from a long distance (as seen in his raid on the Tarasov Safehouse) while remain his training to maintain his accuracy. John is able to effortlessly blend his marksmanship with his hand to hand skills, being able to swiftly use grappling moves combined with precision shots to take on large groups of organized gunmen. He shot The Doctor just below his floating rib, avoiding his large intestine as well as accurately below his shoulder. He can accurately and precisely gun down multiple enemies in a timely manner, almost never missing his opponent. Wick achieved 49 headshots in the first film and 104 headshots in the second film. His accuracy is over 80% in each film. He is also skilled in throwing things like knives with deadly accuracy and force.
 * Master Martial Artist: John is incredibly skilled martial artist with training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, judo, jujutsu, sombo, aikido, aiki-jitsu, gun-jitsu, car-fu, and shinobi-iri. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch or simply outlast his opponents, even being capable of taking on multiple enemies at once. John is able to adapt to his opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to negate their strengths as seen when he faced Zero and his students. He also sometimes uses a dirty move like hitting below the belt.


 * Knife Mastery: Through his training in the US Marines, John is highly skilled in the use of knives and other melee weapons. In the fight with Cassian on the train, John engaged him in a prolonged knife fight. He was also shown to be proficient in the use of swords during his fight against Zero. He is also able to throw knives and other bladed weapons with expert precision and lethal force. He was able to throw many knives at assassins in a very short amount of time and hit them with each one and is even able to hit one of them to the head with lethal force with a tomahawk thrown from across a long distance.


 * Weapon Improvisation: In addition to his impressive skills with firearms, knives and other standard weapons, John is very good at using whatever is in his immediate area as an offensive weapon, as seen when he dispatched two men with a couple of pencils, when he killed a much larger opponent with a book, and when he used a belt to fend off two master knife-fighters.


 * Stealth Mastery: John is extremely skilled at breaking into secure locations and escaping without being noticed and he is able to memorize complicated architectural layouts easily.
 * Intimidation: Due to his efficiency as an assassin and the determination with which he pursues his goals, John is widely known and feared within the Assassin community. People who know his reputation are extremely cautious about provoking his wrath. Despite that, he is often underestimated by various of his colleagues and even some higher classes look down on him.
 * Gifted Intellect: John was shown to be a very intelligent and wise man who could think about various things even in the critical moments and can easily make his ways out of most problems.
 * Master Tactician: As a master hitman, John is highly capable of casing out, planning and executing assassinations. He is also very spatially aware in combat situations, making use of the environment, weapons held by dead enemies and even, legendarily, pencils.
 * Expert Driver: During his "retirement." John drove his vintage Mustang 69 on a racing track as a hobby, allowing him to keep his skills behind the wheel sharp. He is able to kill enemies with vehicles, delivering sideswipes, reverses and head-on collisions to deal with devastating damage.
 * Skilled Physician: He appears to have some knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, as well as basic medicine and first aid, as he finished The Doctor's stitches on his stab wound. He stabbed Cassian in his aorta so the latter would keep the blade in place or else he would die from bleeding out.
 * Multilingualism: John is shown to be fluent in several languages, including English, Russian, Italian, Hebrew, American Sign Language, Arabic, Japanese, and Indonesian. He uses these skills a number of times when conversing with friends and enemies alike.
 * Affable Demeanor: Despite his skills, John prefers to avoid fights if he can. He is skilled at getting people to back down without resistance and will often let people go when they do and he is 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 allows him to maintain contacts within the assassin community who are willing to come to his aid when needed. His strong sense of honor also means he makes a point of not allowing innocent people to get caught in the crossfire of his work.
 * Luck: Although it may arguably not be a "skill," John is saved 3 times in the first and second movies. Marcus saves him by sniping his pillow and Viggo's guard in a building and in the second movie he is saved by Winston, due to their past friendship, normally, Winston would immediately kill anyone who breaks the Continental rules.
 * Indomitable Will: Once John sets his mind on a goal, he will not stop until that task is complete, no matter what obstacles get in his way. His level of focus has earned him a legendary status in the assassin community. To be with the love of his life Helen, John completed a task that was deemed impossible, but his desire to retire and live with Helen led him to find the strength to complete this task.

Weaknesses

 * Vengeance: Wick can't sate his need for revenge and stop himself from killing the people who took things from him, which led to all of his problems in the 3 films and the death of a close friend.
 * Bullets and Mortality: Although John Wick is feared as the legendary hitman, he is still susceptible to bullets, wounds and other injuries. Additionally, at this point, nothing has confirmed that John Wick will not eventually die of old age, if not killed by another method.
 * Overconfidence: John Wick is overconfident of his reputation, which can be seen when he seeks help from "The Bowery King," and again when he asks Winston to inform his would-be assassins that he will kill anyone who comes after him.
 * Anger: 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. When Santino hides in the Continental, rather than wait for him to leave or pursue another method of revenge, John murders him on the grounds and is then forced to go on the run for breaking the rules of the hotel.

Clothing

 * John's Suit: Although John has worn a selection of suits before, the main suit he wears currently is a custom tailored, black, Italian styled, two button, tapered trouser, tactical lined suit. The suit jacket and trousers can take impacts from bullets with zero penetration, even when close up, and minor penetration from close up shotgun blasts. The suit is also resistance to knives. With this suit, John wears a black tie and black brogue shoes along with either a white or black suit shirt.

Guns

 * Heckler & Koch P30L
 * Glock 26
 * Walther P99
 * Glock 17
 * Glock 34
 * CZ P-09
 * Smith & Wesson SW1911SC "E-Series"
 * Kimber Warrior
 * SIG Sauer P320
 * Kimber Super Carry
 * Bond Arms Texas Defender
 * Walther PPQ
 * Glock 19X
 * Walther CCP
 * Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
 * TTI STI 2011 Combat Master
 * Glock 19
 * Remington 1875
 * Coharie Arms CA-415
 * TR-1 Ultralight
 * Kel-Tec KSG
 * Benelli M4 Super 90
 * Benelli M2 Super 90
 * SIG-Sauer MPX Copperhead
 * TTI SIG-Sauer MPX Carbine
 * Desert Tactical Arms Stealth Recon Scout

Blades

 * A Selection of Combat Knives

Vehicles

 * 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429

Family

 * John's Mother †
 * John's Father †
 * Helen Wick † - Wife
 * The Director † - Adoptive Mother
 * Daisy † - Dog
 * Unnamed Dog

Friends

 * Continental
 * Winston - Friend
 * Charon
 * Aurelio
 * Marcus †

Enemies

 * Tarasov Mob
 * Viggo Tarasov †
 * Iosef Tarasov †
 * Abram Tarasov
 * Santino D'Antonio †

Frenimies

 * Continental
 * The Adjudicator
 * The Elder

Trivia

 * Jardani translates to John from Romany, and "Wick" is the phonetic pronunciation of the final four letters of his birth name.
 * The "impossible task" Viggo gave John was to kill all of Viggo's enemies in one night, something he succeeded in doing.