#wickverse

So, the whole time, they're hitting you over the head with the theme: CHOICE.

After Eve's dad dies, in the police station, the old white guy tells her she can choose to meet her dad's family. She CHOOSES to meet them.

When John and Eve meet? He says, "It's your choice" and there's literally a whole metaphor about open/closed locked/unlocked doors and how she can still choose a civilian life. She CHOOSES to become an assassin.

Tatiana leaves the Ruska Roma and Eve doesn't fault her for it, though Eve CHOOSES to stay.

Eve CHOOSES to pursue information about her dad's killers -- even after she sees that Tatiana is successful and happy living outside the Ruska Roma.

After the Director tries to dissuade her, Eve CHOOSES to keep looking for information.

When Eve next meets John, he tells her she gets to choose. He (a man) actively and explicitly gives her (a woman) a choice, and then respects that choice, even if it's not what he wanted her to choose.

The POINT is that Eve doesn't just do this for revenge. It's also because she wants to give Ella a choice. Ella's dad wanted her to have a normal life, Ella's grandfather wants her to be a killer. The point isn't that Ella SHOULD be one thing or the other. The point is that Ella should get to CHOOSE.

John, Eve, and Tatiana got to choose. And that's why the Ruska Roma is better than the Hallstatt cult.

Lena (Eve's sister), Eve's mom, and Ella's mom didn't get to choose. And that's why the Hallstatt cult is bad. That's why Eve needs to stop them.

But the movie centers the importance of a woman's right to choose. So, of course, men hate it, it's made 1/3 of the profits it needs to break even, and it will never get a sequel.

We can all agree that the John Wick series has a pretty amazing world. It’s almost exactly like ours except with a sprawling and thriving underworld. And since I’ve been writing Fics recently that involve this world I thought that it would be appropriate if I made a master-post explaining my view on it and all it’s interworkings.

Important Vocab Words:

The Arrangement: The word used to refer to the underworld in its entirety. The Continental is only one small part of the Arrangement, as is everyone associated with it.

The System: Word used to refer to how everything functions. Example: The System keeps the warring gangsters in line.

The High Table: The enforcers of the The Arrangement’s rules. Without the Table the System would collapse quickly.

Adjudicators: The High Table’s messengers. They are sent to fix difficult situations and hand out punishments if one member breaks the rules. They can also be peacemakers, but their main function is to be a supervisor and punisher.

Administrators/Operators: People who call in actions taken by Continental Mangers, Adjudicators, or others putting out contracts. Akin to call center workers. Deconsecrate/Reconsecrate Continental grounds and Excommunitcate members who have broken the sacred rules.

The One Above The Table: A man able to grant favors/pardons without the High Table’s interference or objection. Can presumably change the rules of The Arrangemnent whenever he likes.

Now with the Vocabulary down, we can proceed to the Hierarchy. Basically how all the “characters” stack up rank wise.

The One Above The Table

The High Table

Adjudicators

Managers

Administrators

Operators

Depending on how skilled they are, an assassin/hitman/bodyguard can be a higher or lower rank. Zero is well respected and would be considered more worthy than an operator and such, but John would be considered higher than Zero because of his reputation.