John Wick: Chapter 2: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about John Wick: Chapter 2. Pick one to read it.

• Deadly Euphemismin 559 titlesJohn's gun shopping plays out as if he is attending a wine tasting, complete with sommelier, to stock up for a "party" with John's requests being phrased like wine descriptions.Read →
• Sequel Escalationin 320 titlesThe first film primarily deals with John Wick fighting the local Russian mob in New York. The second movie pits him against an international guild of master Assassins.Read →
• Apathetic Citizensin 489 titlesWhere the first film had bystanders respond appropriately to extreme violence in their midst, this film launches the tradition of John Wick operating in a mystical underworld where only the most egre…Read →
• World of Symbolismin 121 titlesJohn Wick: Chapter 2 is chock-full of symbolism in every scene, usually relating to classical mythology and religion, befitting the movie's concept of this shadowy underworld of assassins being quasi…Read →
• Truce TrickeryRare · in 15 titlesOne of the known rules of the criminal underworld is that the Continental hotel chain is a Truce Zone: "no business may be conducted on Continental grounds."Read →
• Call-Backin 5,276 titlesAres tells John (in sign language): "Be seeing you, John". Those were also Viggo's last words in the previous film.Read →