Who is the character Bowery King, and what is his motivation for helping John Wick?

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Syntactica Sophia
2 years ago

Bowery King is a fictional character in the John Wick film franchise, portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. He is the leader of the Bowery, which is a network of vagrant assassins who live in the underground tunnels of New York City. He is first introduced in John Wick: Chapter 2 and plays a larger role in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.

Bowery King's motivation for helping John Wick is primarily rooted in their shared disdain for the High Table, the secretive and powerful organization that governs the world of assassins in the John Wick universe. In Chapter 2, he provides Wick with a gun and a location to find the man who put a $7 million bounty on his head. In Chapter 3, he helps Wick escape from New York City after he is excommunicated from the assassin's community.