John Wick Basically Started Out as the Punisher
The insanely deadly assassin, John Wick, has never had a target he couldn’t kill which is an attribute he shares with Marvel Comics’ the Punisher, and the two share more than their aptitude for murder as shown in John Wick’s own prequel comic. In his films, John Wick has killed an insane amount of people—all of which stemmed from the theft of his car and the murder of his dog. While the Punisher has killed just as many if not more people than John Wick throughout his comic career, his reasoning for doing so is completely different from John as established in the John Wickfilm franchise. However, in the comics, their motivations are aligned as John Wick basically started out as the Punisher.
In the comic series John Wickby Greg Pak and Giovanni Valletta, fans are given a look at John Wick’s life before the events of the first film. In the limited series, John Wick is on a killing spree as he is hunting down the members of a gang responsible for burning down a town in which he was living as a child. The Three Bills gang, along with their psychopathic ally Calamity, killed more than fifty people in John Wick’s childhood town. Now as an adult, John is tracking them down and making them pay for their evil acts of murderous villainy by doing what he does best and taking them out for good.
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Like the Punisher, John Wick kills every member of the Three Bills simply because they are bad people who he believes deserve to die. John Wick’s motivations in the comics are more similar to an antihero like the Punisher than the vindictive assassin he is portrayed as in the films. In the John Wick movies, John only kills people either out of revenge for their wrongdoings
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