How did John’s wife die in John Wick?

After losing his wife, Helen, to a terminal illness, John Wick receives a beagle puppy named Daisy that Helen had arranged to send before she died, to help him cope with his grief. Despite John’s stoic demeanor, he bonds with the puppy and they spend the day driving around in his vintage 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1.

How did Daisy die in John Wick?

That night, awakened by the whining Daisy, John is attacked by the three Russian gangsters. One bludgeons Daisy to death. They not only steal his Mustang; they put a bat through the windshield of his deceased wife’s car.

Is John Wick’s wife still alive?

Appearances. Helen Wick was the wife of the ex-hitman, John Wick. Helen’s death serves as the catalyst to John’s return to the world of assassinations, and she appears in several flashbacks and photographs. She is the posthumous overarching protagonist of the John Wick film series.

Is John Wick based on a true story?

The story is loosely inspired by an incident in Texas involving former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, who wrote Lone Survivor, about his fireteam’s ordeal during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan in 2005. Luttrell was given a yellow labrador puppy, whom he named DASY, after the members of his fireteam.