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| “ | No one sneaks up on me anymore, thanks to you. I am all-seeing and all-knowing. | „ |
| ~ The Bowery King in John Wick: Chapter 2 |
The Bowery King is a major character in the John Wick film series. He is the head of the bowery, an underworld intelligent network disguised to look like a homeless shelter, and one of John Wick's major allies.
He was portrayed by Laurence Fishburne, who also portrayed Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy, the Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Bill Foster in Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Alpha Trion in Transformers One.
History[]
Much like many characters in the John Wick series there isn't much information about the Bowery King's past. At some point when he first saw John Wick the Bowery King was a target for John to kill. Wick cut him twice and gave him a choice to keep pressure on his cut and live or attempt to shoot him and bleed to death. After that the Bowery King never let anyone else sneak up on him again and went from a pawn to a king.
At some point he formed his own group and took over a homeless shelter as his hideout. He recruited beggars as the eyes and ears of the streets, allies of the city. He trained pigeons as massagers he created a large network across New York without the internet. No internet makes the Bowery King and his crew anonymous and untraceable.
When he didn't resignation, he was sliced 7 times and almost die. In the end of Parabellum, he met John Wick who is injured after being shot by Winston and falling off the roof. The Bowery King says he's very angry at The High Table and he will stand up and fight. He then asks John if he feels same way and John agrees.
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Trivia[]
- Chapter 2 and Parabellum are the first films in which Lawrence Fishburne and Keanu Reeeves co-starred together since The Matrix trilogy.
- Fishburne himself asked Reeves for a chance to receive a role in the film after seeing and enjoying the first film, and immediately accepted the role upon reading the script.
- He provides a lot of comic relief in the franchise. Especially the end of John Wick 3, where he makes a funny Onyx(the rap group)-like face when talking to John at the end.