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Iosef threatened John at the gas station. John immediately recognized the threat, answered him in Russian and remained completely unfazed. Yet he went home unprepared and failed to protect Daisy. He destroys everyone responsible for Daisy’s death, except the one person whose failure made her death possible in the first place: himself.

It’s often said that John Wick kills all these people over a dog. It’s not about a dog. It’s about his own guilt. He directs that guilt outward, trying to cope with his own failure through revenge. That’s why his revenge becomes all-consuming.