John Wick Prequel Confirms Destroying the Continental Is His Destiny

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While John Wickdeclaring war on the Continental as well as the High Table, the entire criminal enterprise the hotel represents, was received by fans as a major twist ending for John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, the series’ prequel comic reveals that it shouldn’t have been. Since the first film, John Wick has been shown as being an outsider who follows the rules only to the extent of his own moral compass and internal code. As revealed in the prequel comic, John Wick has always been that way since he was a child, a personality trait that inevitably leads him to his conflict with the Continental. 

In the five-part prequel comic series John Wickby Greg Pak and Giovanni Valletta, John is hunting down a group of assassins who were responsible for destroying his hometown as a boy and killing those closest to him. During this personal murder mission, John Wick comes across a Continental Hotel where he is approached by a Russian mob boss named Maria who offers him a position within the Russian crime syndicate as its personal assassin. John Wick declines her offer, saying that he is just a freelance killer who is currently on a job that is personal. While John Wick is eventually forced to join Maria leading to his employment under the first film’s antagonist Viggo Tarasov, his initial reluctance speaks to where he would find himself by the end of the third film. 

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When fans were introduced to the Continental, they were shown a world of immoral decadence as those who kill people for money live it up in the safety and luxury within their headquarters. The excess shown within the Continental is the opposite of what John Wick stands for. In the prequel comic, it is revealed that