John Wick's Total Kill Count Up to 'Ballerina' Film Spinoff

There’s no shortage of carnage in the ‘John Wick’ spinoff ‘Ballerina,’ a franchise renowned for its brutal fight scenes. Baba Yaga, the skilled assassin known as John Wick, isn’t the only one adding to the kill count. This time, Eve the ballerina, played by Ana de Armas, is on a mission to seek vengeance for the death of her father, and she’s doing more than bloody pirouettes on-screen.

Before we get to the guns, grenades, and ice skates used to kill anyone in Eve’s way, let’s break down the math on John Wick’s body count up until now.

As of ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’, the hitman has killed a total of 439 people, according to Screen Rant. The first film, ‘John Wick’, features 77 on-screen deaths by him. Then it rose to 128 kills in ‘John Wick: Chapter 2’, and John only took out 94 people in ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.’

While we are still tallying up the numbers of victims at the hands of John Wick during his brief appearance in ‘Ballerina,’ but he’s easily inching to 500 kills. The spinoff takes place at the theater of the Ruska Roma between events of ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’ and ‘John Wick: Chapter 4,’ focusing on Eve’s personal origin story with a similar motivation to get even, except she’s not getting payback over someone killing her puppy like John Wick.

All this for a puppy?" -The Director of Ruska Roma

We see Ana de Armas’ character go through intense training in traditions at the Ruska Roma as she’s told to “fight like a girl” – meaning “adapt, cheat, and improvise to win” because as her teacher explains, she will always be at a disadvantage against bigger men. Eve fights just like that, giving John Wick fans the same intense, gritty killings they are used to seeing as she fights against an entire town of civilians - literally. From the riveting gun shop scene with Frank to the showdown with her mentor, John Wick himself, Eve’s rebellion against outside forces, like The Chancellor, is starting a war, we think she can finish.

This isn’t done until you’re dead" – Eve

In Eve’s battle scenes, she uses fire to fight fire and even occasionally dinner plates to cause concussions, which leads us to believe this ballerina will stop at nothing to send a message to a new cult of enemies. Directed by Len Wiseman, the cast stars Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Norman Reedus, Ana de Armas, and Anjelica Huston.

As we saw when John Wick became an outlaw and was excommunicated from the High Table (by gruesomely being branding across his back) for killing on Continental Hotel grounds, he’s still respected in the criminal underworld and is still called in desperate times. Now, with a new character in the franchise like Eve, who bears a “Luxe en tenebris” tattoo (Latin for "light in darkness"), fans will be pleasantly surprised to follow a fresh chapter in the John Wick universe.