![]() Winston, however, gives John one hour to flee before the excommunicado becomes active and the bounty on his head is doubled and offered globally by The High Table. John breaks the rule by killing Santino on the hotel premises, forcing Winston to declare him " excommunicado", meaning that he has been thrown out of the Continental without any way to call on it again for help. John, after massacring hordes of assassins, eventually finds Santino in the Continental, where no bloodshed is permitted. Santino places a $7 million bounty on John's head, after which John enlists assistance from the Bowery King. Santino sends his bodyguard Ares and Gianna's former bodyguard Cassian after John, but ultimately John kills Ares and wounds Cassian. John reluctantly travels to Rome and fulfills the oath, only to realize that Santino is targeting him to tie up loose ends. John refuses, and Santino retaliates by destroying his house. Wick's hopes of returning to retirement are ruined by Camorra crime boss Santino D'Antonio, who demands he complete his blood oath and assassinate Santino's own sister, Gianna D'Antonio, allowing Santino to take her place at The High Table. ![]() John retired and settled down with Helen, his reputation now legendary, and the two lived happily together for five years.Īfter taking revenge on the Tarasovs, John retrieves his prized car from Viggo's brother, Abram, and forms a truce with him. John eliminated all of Tarasov's major rivals, thus enabling him to become one of New York's most powerful crime bosses. ![]() In order to accomplish his goal, Wick requested assistance from crime boss Santino D'Antonio and subsequently ended up owing him a blood oath called a "marker". Hoping to leave his past as a contract killer behind him and pursue a normal life, he met with Viggo Tarasov, boss of the Tarasov mob, who agreed to grant him his freedom if he could carry out what was described as an "impossible task", implying that Wick was not expected to survive the mission. His prowess was such that he once single-handedly killed three men in a bar with a pencil.Įventually, John fell in love with a woman named Helen. He was later nicknamed " Baba Yaga", being further described as the man one would send to "kill the Bogeyman". John eventually became the top enforcer for the New York Russian crime syndicate, becoming a feared and ruthless hitman that people describe as "a man of focus, commitment, and sheer will". Upon release, he was manipulated into joining the underground crime world operating out of the Continental Hotel chain. After leaving the Ruska Roma organization, he was arrested for an unspecified crime and incarcerated. Under the Director's supervision, John was trained as a hitman and learned skills including martial arts, firearms and other weaponry, tactical driving, infiltration, escapology, and more. ![]() At one point, he was recruited by a Ruska Roma organized crime group and trained by its leader, a woman known as "the Director", in New York City. It is revealed in the John Wick comic book mini-series that he spent a significant portion of his adolescence in El Sauzel, Mexico. He was orphaned at a young age before being taken in by an old friend of his father, who would eventually become John's mentor. John was born Jardani Jovanovich ( Russian: Джордани Йованович, Belarusian: Ярдані Яванавіч) in Padhorje, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union on September 12, 1964.
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