John wick chapter 2 and its connection with payday (SPOILERS)

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If you have seen john wick 2 you will know that at the end john is considered excommunicado by the continental and he also has a gigantic bounty on his head. He has nowhere to run now and is basically screwed at this point. But what if i told you that it would make sense that john would run to crime net and joined the payday gang. What do you guys think?

[uNorthodoX]

Wouldn't make sense for him to go back and rescue charon with the PD gang

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Originally posted by uNorthodoXgj:

Wouldn't make sense for him to go back and rescue charon with the PD gang

Yeah, that's the big hole of the story.

[uNorthodoX]

The plothole is Wick joined the PD gang after the events of the first movie (Read the crime net bios), and the events of the second movie happened like a short period of time from the first (He hasn't even named his dog yet) Wick couldn't have done all those heists in the gang or hell even be a part of the gang in that timeframe

[lexilogo]

Considering the entire John Wick series has happened within a matter of weeks thus far I think it makes sense that John Wick 3 would also happen within that timeframe- So I think it's yet to be seen if the John Wick universe is truly 100% incompatible with Payday or if the series is going to end in such a way that Payday 2 could make sense within it.

[Strider]

Originally posted by uNorthodoXgj:

The plothole is Wick joined the PD gang after the events of the first movie (Read the crime net bios), and the events of the second movie happened like a short period of time from the first (He hasn't even named his dog yet) Wick couldn't have done all those heists in the gang or hell even be a part of the gang in that timeframe

I'd like to interpret it as if John had joined the gang after the events of the 2nd movie to seek refuge from being hunted down. It certainly would make sense that way. As for the stuff with the continental coins and such, I suppose he still has friends and connections in the network?

[Todd House]

Originally posted by Strider:

Originally posted by uNorthodoXgj:

The plothole is Wick joined the PD gang after the events of the first movie (Read the crime net bios), and the events of the second movie happened like a short period of time from the first (He hasn't even named his dog yet) Wick couldn't have done all those heists in the gang or hell even be a part of the gang in that timeframe

I'd like to interpret it as if John had joined the gang after the events of the 2nd movie to seek refuge from being hunted down. It certainly would make sense that way. As for the stuff with the continental coins and such, I suppose he still has friends and connections in the network?

Well, in the beginning of John Wick 2, the Continental's "receptionist", after he ban John from the Continental, says he will give him a time frame of vantage "even thought I shouldn't".

And if you see the Continental Heists screen background, you see that the guy giving the Payday Gang those contracts is also this "receptionist".

So it's possible that this guy sympathizes with John, so he extended John's Continental Perks to the rest of the gang.

Also, in the John Wick DLC trailer, we can see that he managed to get into the gang via Chains, and it's implicity they know each other. So maybe Chains is also a "associate" of the Continental, and that explains why we can use the coins even with Wick banned from it.