How legendary is John? When he shows up in Rome, the manager of the Roman Continental is worried he might be there to killthe Pope.
What's more hilarious is John's expression that screams "Jeez man,that'swhat you were afraid of? Don't you know me better?" when he hears this.
He then immediately orders John be given one of the hotel's finest rooms. One wonders what John's accommodations might have been had he said yes.
Abram Tarasov tells the exact same story his brother told in the first movie:
Tarasov: He once killed three men in a bar with... Mook: A pencil, I know, I've heard the stories.. Tarasov: With a fucking PENCIL. Who the fuck can do that?!
Abram's face as he's listening to what's going on in his warehouse.
John has Aurelio come over to inspect the damage inflicted on his Mustang during the opening chase scene. After going into detail on how the engine, chassis, and axle have gone FUBAR, Aurelio muses.
Aurelio: What do I think? ...I can fix this.
John asks when he can expect it back.
Aurelio: It'll be ready Christmas... 2030.
The windshield is caved-in, with almost no portion that isn't shattered and John had to drive it by leaning out the missing driver side door.
Aurelio: And I don't know if you've noticed, but you've got a crack in your windshield.
Rather fitting when you think of the fact that John loves dogs.
Retrieving the Mustang inflicted so much damage and mayhem that one may wonder if it was even worth the hassle and he should have bid his time to get it back by other means, but then he opens the glove box to show us that he wasn't really there for the car, just the special card from his late wife he wanted back.
Then later when Santino blows up his house, his guns are still buried under concrete plus the rubble from the house and that he is revealed to literally have one gun left in storage (a Glock 26). It's An Aesop with a dose of Black Comedy: "Don't leave your guns in places where they can be unreachable in times of crisis."
Jimmy the policeman shows up again when Wick's house gets burnt down. His reaction? "You working again?" When Wick just walks off, Jimmy again demonstrates more wisdom than about 99% of the criminal underworld with a succinct "Well, shit."
Seeing that John's entire house is on fire, Jimmy asks "...Gas leak?"
The best part is that their conversation is almost identical to the first movie, except for the "Well, shit."
The reaction shot of Consummate Professional Charon staring at John's dog, and the dog staring back.
Especially because the look on the Sommelier's face is just so happy that John seems to be playing along with the winetasting act.
"I would like... a tasting."
Becomes even funnier if you know what a sommelier does in Real Life.note Recommending wines for restaurant diners. Making it better, the Sommelier is wearing a tastevin around his neck (a small silver cup used to judge the color and taste of a wine), meaning he actually is a sommelier.
During a pause in the catacombs shootout, John slaps his (bulletproof) suit. At least half a dozen bullets audibly fall out.
Yet another during the Catacombs shootout, John is engaging a pair of mooks, only to run out of ammo and switch to his pistol as a third rounds a corner. In a hilarious bit of choreography, all three of them drop to the ground at the exact same time.
Extra hilarious, because this was exactly how the conversation with Viggo went. These crime bosses really shouldn't call John to justify their dickishness.
In a related incident, the cosmic levels of Oh, Crap! written on Santino's face when he spots John Wick a few meters away from him during the climax is also something to behold.
In a semi-meta example, while John is making his escape from Gianna's suites, his path inadvertently leads him to burst on-stage in the midst of a live concert - and he immediately guns down a guard in his path. The crowd bursts into cheers, thinking it's All Part of the Show - likely emulating the audience's reaction to the beginning of an extended action set-piece.
When John starts gunning down his pursuers in the middle of the crowd, he once shot two targets behind him. In a blink-and-you-miss-it moment, one civilian in a bob hat tries to check and lift them up, as if they just passed out unconscious.
The first post-fight scene between Cassian and John. They were tossing and tumbling all over the place, going blow for blow, and getting in some good shots, and then they settle down and have a couple of drinks with each other.
Even better, they know one another so well they order drinks for each other; Bourbon neat for John, gin on the rocks for Cassian.
The lead up to this is just as good; watching the two realize that their fight accidentally threw them into the local Continental, the looks on both their faces just scream, "Of all the hotels we had to crash into, we crashed into this one?!"
After Cassian leaves, John notices Ares was also there, watching their conversation. "Be seeing you, John", she gestures. "Not if I see you first", he replies.
After being forced to stop fighting, John and Cassian both meekly walk to the bar, limping heavily. Cassian in particular rubs his neck in pain with an embarrassed look on his face.
One of the assassins who comes collecting for John's bounty is an enormous Sumo wrestler. The guy keeps whaling on John despite taking multiple bullets through the torso, and only goes down when John blasts him from the top of his head. Then, when John tries to catch his breath, the guy starts moving again, forcing John to put another round through his head.
Especially hilarious when you see the briefest "Are you freaking kidding me?!" look flit over John's face right before he administers the second shot.
During part of Cassian's pursuit of John in New York, the two walk parallel to each other in a subway station terminal (John on a lower level, Cassian on an upper level) and try to act casual while also shooting at each other with their hidden guns. Since they are both using silencers, no one else in the station notices as they pelt the walls with bullets.
"Please notify MTA security of any suspicious activity." Spoken over the loudspeaker while John is cutting another assassin's throat right outside a full metro train.
An earlier fistfight between John and Cassian features the two taking a slapstick-esque tumble down a lengthy flight of stairs.
Cassian and John are in a subway car, each glaring at the other. They wait for it to empty out as much as it can before they engage in a knife fight with the few passengers left just staring in utter silence. The car pulls into the station and as soon as the door opens, every passenger runs out.
Right before the train pulls up, Cassian and John share a brief stare down across the platform. The automated service message requests that guests report any suspicious activity as John rips his knife from another assassin's corpse.
Similarly, it's hard not to chuckle when the train station announces "End of the line" just as John finishes off the fight with Cassian and leaves him (presumably) to die.
In a Call-Back to the first film, John once again runs out of ammo while in the middle of killing someone. This time he sighs, uses his empty shotgun to pin the mook to floor, loads another shell, and then kills him.
John runs up to a homeless man and requests an audience with The Bowery King before hiding himself under the hobo's blanket. The guy gives a look that screams "wait, what just happened, was that actually John Wick" before quickly rushing to hide John more.
Pretty much every scene with The Bowery King counts, as his Large Ham tendencies are a perfect contrast to Wick's more stoic demeanor.
After John asks The Bowery King for weapons to fight against the army of assassins on his trail, the King decides to accede to John's request for a gun.
And only seven bullets for it, for the seven million dollars on John's head. When the time comes to finally use it, John spends all seven bullets in about two seconds and then glances at the gun as if he only just remembered then the limit he was working with.
There's a moment in the ensuing chase where he runs out of ammo. So he just throws his gun at the enemy mook to stun him.
During his pursuit of Santino through the art gallery, Santino is trying to withdraw with a little grace as he throws dozens of mooks at John to buy time for him to get away. Between shots of John mowing down dozens of men at a time, it keeps cutting back to Santino, looking over his shoulder as the gunfire continues and looking increasingly worried and annoyed as it sinks in how screwed he is.
Ares' failed attempt to taunt John. "Be seeing you." "Sure."
The Bait-and-Switch element of the first few scenes can be extremely funny in the right light. We're introduced to Viggo's brother gearing up for John, referencing manyother movies where the sequel's main villain is hell-bent on Avenging the Villain of the first. However, this trope is immediately defied upon John finding Abram, and the plot goes on to be entirely different.
In the trailers and promotional material
To promote the second movie, they sponsored a parody trailer called "Dog Wick". It's the John Wick movie, but if John and his dog switched roles.
The ad that played before the Super Bowl parody the ads for the movie it was competing against.
Text: This Valentine's Day weekend, slip into something a shade darker.
The viral website "Continental Quarterly" (a magazine for hired killers) is amusing due to maintaining the casual tabloid tone when dealing with things such as gruesome murder. One highlight is Winston commenting Ms. Perkins died "of an acute headache."
The best part is that at the end, John finds a mook's cell phone, only to discover that the original $7 million contract has been upped to $150 bazillion... by Cassian.
A Tribute to Those Killed by John Wick hosted by Abram Tarasov and attended by assassins not killed by John Wick. Who knew one of the unfortunate victims saw a red panda being born in captivity and one of the men who was killed by a pencil was ironically also an artist?note Fridge Brilliance in that this is why there was a pencil handy for John to use in an altogether unlikely place.
who recommends them like they're bottles of fine wine. What really sells it is John asking for a knife.John: Dessert?