John Wick

John Wick is a fictional character created by American screenwriter Derek Kolstad and portrayed by Canadian actor Keanu Reeves. He is the titular protagonist of the American media franchise John Wick. In the franchise's film series, he is introduced as a legendary Belarusian-American ex-hitman who left the criminal underworld after falling in love with and marrying a woman named Helen. While suffering from a terminal illness, Helen made arrangements for a puppy to be delivered to John in order to serve as his companion after her death. Days after her funeral, a Russian-American mobster — the son of John's former mafia boss — takes an interest in John's car after seeing it a gas station and is angered when John refuses to sell it to him. That night, he leads a group and breaks into John's house, assaulting him and killing his puppy before stealing his car. The attack sets John on a path of revenge, returning him to the violent lifestyle that he had left behind and eventually bringing him into conflict with the international organization of assassins of which he was once a part.