The John Wick NFT
“People keep asking if I’m back. And I haven’t really had an answer. But now, yeah, I’m thinkin’ I’m back!“
- John Wick
John Wick’s Story
Jonathan “John” Wick (birth name: Jardani Jovonovich (Джарданы Джовонович)) is the titular protagonist of the John Wick film series.
Over the course of his career, John Wick has earned himself a widespread reputation as one of the world’s most dangerous and extremely capable professional assassins. His extraordinary exploits, formidable skill set, lethal precision, and his unwavering focus and determination to complete his tasks have solidified his status as both a legendary and infamous figure within the international criminal underworld, known and feared by many as the Baba Yaga (Баба-Яга) or The Boogeyman.
He previously worked for the Tarasov Mob until his retirement. He retired in order to spend time with his wife, Helen Wick, who later passed away from an unidentified illness. 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. He succeeds in his quest by killing Iosef and eventually Viggo, before reacquiring his car from Viggo’s brother Abram Tarasov.
Unfortunately, his “impossible task” forced him to swear a blood oath to Camorra boss, Santino D’Antonio, who ruined his chances of returning to retirement by compelling him to assassinate his sister, Gianna, allowing him to take over their family’s legacy. Once John killed Gianna in Rome, he finds himself at odds with numerous assassins hired by Santino, who wanted to tie up loose ends. After several confrontations, John successfully returns to New York and elects to murder Santino in the Continental’s lounge, where no assassinations are allowed.
This act led the New York Continental’s manager, Winston Scott, to revoke John’s membership in the Continental, rendering him excommunicado. Due to their friendship, he gave John an hour to flee for his life. Through his old allies in the Ruska Roma as well as the assistance of Sofia Al-Azwar, John met The Elder, the head of the Table, who agreed to forgive his sins and nullify his excommunicado status if he executed Winston.
Although he initially agreed to the task, he was ultimately convinced by Winston to live as the man that his wife loved rather than the Boogeyman. After killing dozens of assassins of the High Table, John was betrayed by Winston, who shot him to regain his place among the Table, causing John to fall off the Continental. John survived the fall and was taken to the Bowery King’s lair, where he agreed to join forces with him so they can take down the High Table.
After killing the Elder, John was convinced by Winston to take a smarter path and use the High Table’s own rules against them. John made a deal with his sister Katia to be reinstated into the Ruska Roma and then challenged Vincent Bisset de Gramont to a duel under the High Table’s rules in which John will earn his permanent freedom from the High Table. Although mortally wounded by his old friend Caine, John killed Vincent and wins the duel and his freedom, subsequently dying in peace. Winston and the Bowery King buried John next to his wife with the epitaph “Loving Husband,” something that John previously requested of Winston in the event of his death.
He was portrayed by Canadian actor Keanu Reeves.
"He once was an associate of ours. They call him Baba Yaga."
"The Boogeyman?"
"Well, John wasn’t exactly the Boogeyman. He was the one you sent to kill the fucking Boogeyman."
- Viggo Tarasov and Iosef Tarasov
Main Field 1: John Wick’s Personality
Due to his harsh background and being rigorously trained for his childhood and adulthood by The Director and his career in the Marines, John could be described as a very serious and stoic individual who rarely spoke more than necessary (preferring actions over words and being described as someone who never wasted words) with a strong sense of obligation. As a professional assassin and hitman, John was highly confident in his abilities and reputation, being greatly respected and feared by many criminal organizations and other assassins alike. Despite this, he had a strong moral code as well as honor which was unique among his colleagues according to Zero as John never willingly dragged innocent people to his job or threatens them during it. In spite of his professionalism, he was also friendly and develops strong friendships with many other dangerous people like Marcus and even managers of Continental Hotels, like Winston and Koji Shimazu. His good side was also seen after meeting Helen, John was willing the end his career as a killer and live a normal happy life with her, which Winston referred to as impossible.
However, John was a man who is worth his reputation as The Boogeyman for his lethality as he never failed on his missions. Despite his calm and collected behavior, once angered or taken by vengeance, he would 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 was successful but also created other problems for himself on future events.
Despite his skills, John prefered 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.
Main Field 2: John Wick’s Skills and Abilities
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Peak Human Condition : John Wick, as a former hitman, had peak human physicality for a man of his age. He was very athletic, and his strength, durability, speed, agility, stamina, reflexes, and threshold for pain are in top condition. Despite being older than a majority of those who were after him, John always proved to be superior to them in terms of condition with Caine being his only equal and Zero coming close behind.
- Peak Human Strength : John was very strong, although it was not his greatest attribute. He could easily overpower and restrain larger opponents, knock out fully grown men and women with a single strike, break their necks and bones with relative ease, and effortlessly break through hardened glass. He was also able to throw Killa around with some difficulty, despite Killa being bigger than him.
- Peak Human Durability : John was highly resilient and sturdy by human standards. He was able to survive multiple gunshot wounds, stabbings and blunt force trauma without feeling much of an effect. His greatest feats of durability were when he survived falling off the Continental Hotel and when he survived falling numerous stories in Killa’s nightclub in Berlin, as well as surviving multiple falls in Paris, especially down the stairs leading to Sacré Cour.
- Peak Human Speed : John was extremely fast, especially for a man of his age. He was able to outrun younger opponents, and in combat he could move too fast for them to react.
- Peak Human Agility : John was agile in his movements, being able to perform and incorporate various jumps and rolls in his fighting style with ease.
- Peak Human Stamina : John had tremendous amounts of stamina. He was able to fight for considerable amounts of time and run for great distances while showing little or no signs of fatigue. Even when he was injured or tired, he required little time to recover. As noted by Zero, he managed to defeat all of his students despite being exhausted, injured, and outnumbered.
- Peak Human Reflexes : John possessed great reflexes. He had displayed incredibly fast reaction time, as he was able to evade bullets and melee attacks during combat with relative ease even from multiple opponents. During his pursuit of Iosef Tarasov, Marcus shot his pillow in his hotel room in order to alert him to the threat of Ms. Perkins, and it only took him 1.2 seconds to understand the shot’s purpose, correctly assess the situation, and react accordingly. During his successful attempt to retrieve his car from Abram Tarasov’s chop shop, he dodged a car going at least 40 mph in eight-tenths of a second.
- High Pain Tolerance : Despite his mastery of martial arts and firearms, John was frequently injured, but demonstrated nearly inhuman tolerance to pain, being able to shrug off physical blows, cuts and bullet wounds with ease, only checking his wound for bleeding. During his final fight with Viggo Tarasov, John allowed Viggo’s knife to re-enter an already existing stab wound, which caused a considerable amount of pain but allowed him to win the fight by breaking Viggo’s arm while simultaneously avoiding creating any new wounds. In addition, when cutting off his own ring finger and having the wound cauterized, he showed little pain and the injury did not seem to affect him at all later on.
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Master Assassin : John Wick, as a former hitman known as the Baba Yaga, was a legendary 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 became famous for once killing three men in a bar with just a pencil, much to the amazement of the Tarasov brothers. Following the death of his wife, John had massacred hundreds of people with an assortment of weapons on his crusade of vengeance. He had 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, during the war at the Continental Hotel, when he visited the deserts of Morocco a second time, when the Osaka Continental was invaded by several men working for the Marquis de Gramont, when he infiltrated Killa’s nightclub in Berlin, when he was being pursued in the Arc de Triomphe by several assassins who wished to claim his bounty of $40 million, and during his way to Sacré-Coeur for his duel with the Marquis. Some of the people he killed included Viggo, Victor, Nicholai, Kuzma, Kirill, Gregori, Ivan, Alexander, Iosef Tarasov, Avi, Yama, Ares, Santino D’Antonio, Ernest and Zero, who called him “incredible” and a “master of death.” Upon making a full recovery in roughly half a year, John succeeded in killing many powerful members of the High Table, including Killa Harkan, the Marquis de Gramont, and even the Elder. Furthermore, Winston stated that hunting is what John does best, and that the Baba Yaga was the last thing many men ever saw. Despite being immensely stealthy, his preferred “tactic” seemed to be simply using his combat and gunplay skills to kill everyone he encountered until he reached his target and killed him/her with a headshot.
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Master Marksman : Being a highly trained assassin, John was extremely proficient with variety of firearms, including pistols, revolvers, 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). John was 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 could accurately and precisely gun down multiple enemies in a timely manner, almost never missing his opponents. Wick achieved 49 headshots in the first film and 104 headshots in the second film. He was also skilled in throwing projectiles like knives and even a tomahawk on one occasion with deadly accuracy and force. John would occasionally throw his firearms at his enemies when he ran out of ammunition. During his final duel with Caine, John lost, but in the final round, he never fired his gun at his friend who thanked him, suggesting that John likely would’ve killed Caine if he had actually taken the shot.
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Master Martial Artist : John was an incredibly skilled martial artist and hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style consists of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Jujutsu, Sambo, Aikido, Karate, and Krav Maga. He could quickly outmaneuver, outmatch or simply outlast his opponents, even being capable of taking on multiple enemies at once. John was 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 made use of dirty tactics such as striking the groin, gouging the eyes or even biting.
- Knife Mastery : John was highly skilled in wielding and throwing knives. During knife fights, he tended to slam his hand against the pommel of his knife to drive the blade into his opponents. He notably stabbed The Bowery King in the neck, but his knowledge is so great that he gave him the choice to keep pressure on the wound and survive. As mentioned earlier, during his final duel with Viggo, he willingly let himself be stabbed so that he had Viggo’s arm in a position to break it and then stab the latter. Inside a train, he demonstrated further anatomical knowledge when he found an angle to direct a knife toward Cassian’s chest, before driving it straight into his opponent’s aorta. He also used Ares’ own push dagger to kill her. In a knife shop, he demonstrated expertise with throwing bladed weapons. John also shows skill in the use of swords during his fights with Zero and his students.
- Sword Mastery : Though he did not use swords or other bladed weapons often, John possessed a good level of experience with them, which allowed him to survive dangerous encounters. He mostly held them in a reverse grip to add speed to his swings and was skilled enough to fight reasonably well with Zero, a master martial artist and swordsman in his own right, before killing him. However, his swordmanship skills were ultimately inferior to Caine and Koji Shimazu.
- Nunchaku Mastery : Despite his usage being somewhat crude, John demonstrated proficient skill with nunchakus, with him being able to deliver hard, precise strikes, use them to disarm his enemies and combine them effectively with his grappling skills.
- Improvised Weapon Mastery : In addition to his impressive skills with firearms and bladed weaponry, John was 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 Ernest with a book, when he used a belt to fend off The Shinobi, and even once using horses in a stable to defeat his enemies. During his fight to get to Sacré Cour, John disassembled his pistol and used the deconstructed parts to kill several of his opponents. John could also throw a playing card with enough force and accuracy to cut someone with it, which was evidenced when he cut Killa across the side of the neck with a playing card and then hurled it at one of Killas men with enough force to cut him across the face.
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Stealth : John was extremely skilled at breaking into secure locations and escaping without being noticed and he is able to memorize complicated architectural layouts easily. When he first stabbed The Bowery King in an alley, the latter admitted that he did not hear the assassin approach. John showed his mastery of stealth during his fight with Zero, as he was able to successfully sneak away once he had knocked Zero down.
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Intimidation : Due to his efficiency as an assassin and the determination with which he pursues his goals, John was widely known and feared within the assassin community. People who know his reputation are extremely cautious about provoking his wrath. John frequently used this to his advantage by using his reputation to instil fear into his enemies.
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Gifted Intellect : John was shown to be a very intelligent individual who could outsmart his enemies even under extreme stress and can easily think his way out of dangerous situations.
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Master Tactician : As a master hitman, John was 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. Though John was a master tactician, he had a tendency to go for straightforward tactics, as before Winston’s assistance against the High Table, his plan was to simply go after each of the High Table members and kill them. During his final duel, John was able to kill Vincent Bisset de Gramont whose arrogance did not allow him to realize that John didn’t fire his gun, leaving himself open to a headshot.
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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 was able to kill enemies with vehicles, delivering sideswipes, reverses and head-on collisions to deal with devastating damage. The best example of his level of skill was during his car chase and conflict with Chidi and dozens of men hired by the Marquis in the Arc de Triomphe.
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Expert Motorcyclist : John was a very talented motorcyclist who could evade enemies and even engage in combat while cycling.
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Skilled Equestrian : John was able to easily mount and ride a horse through the city to evade enemies, even lowering himself to hang off the side and using the horse as cover while riding with little difficulty. John was also able to ride a horse through the desert in Morocco easily, able to keep up with Elder’s men.
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Skilled Physician : John appeared 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.
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Multilingualism : John was shown to be fluent in several languages, including English, Russian, Italian, Hebrew, American Sign Language, Arabic, Japanese, Indonesian, and Cantonese. He used these skills a number of times when conversing with friends and enemies alike, such as when he said “Sampai jumpa” (“be seeing you”) to the Shinobi.
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Indomitable Will : Once John set his mind on a goal, he would not stop until that task is complete, no matter what obstacles got in his way. His unparalleled level of focus and determination had 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. Despite the increasing danger of his war against the High Table, John’s resolve never wavered and he continued to fight his way to his desire to be free of the Table.
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Parkour Mastery : Intuitive understanding and application of all basic Parkour moves (roll, precision jump, lazy/speed vault, wallrun, cat leap etc.). Easily/Immediately assess which move is the fastest and safest, to avoid injuries. This could tie in with the anatomy knowledge and superhuman reflexes etc. Recognize risk potential, awareness of surroundings, overcome dangerous obstacles like barbed wire, making far jumps/deep drops (if necessary), while taking the least amount of damage possible.
Main Field 3: Whatever Captain deems to make The John Wick NFT complete
"John is a man of focus, commitment and sheer will"
- Viggo Tarasov
The above is the original outline for the project. I have realigned it with the new NFT submission format using the one and only ChatGPT ;)
Thanks to Captain @Captain_Nemo for this epic creation 
Also thanks to the super team of mods @Dr_Manhattan and @Rosechalice for nudging me in the right direction on how to format the submission correctly 
Finally, thanks to a wonderful team of John Wick afficionados in my group chat 
Here, I present to you:
