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The Elder is not a man you find. He can only choose to find you. You wish to speak with him? Go to the edge of the desert, look up. Canis Minor. The dog that followed Orion through the sky. You follow the brightest star. Walk until you are almost dead. Then, keep walking. When you are on your last breath, he will find you. Or he will not.
~ Berrada about the Elder.
Cast aside your weakness and reaffirm your fealty to the Table.
~ The Elder
The choice is yours. Die here and now, or continue to live and remember through death.
~ The Elder to Winston.
The only way John Wick will have peace, now or ever, is through death.
~ The Elder

The Elder is the overarching antagonist of the John Wick franchise. He is a mystical crime boss who resides in the desert and is also the one figure ranked above the authority of the High Table. Following Santino D'Antonio's death at the hands of John Wick, the Elder forces John to join his organization as a penance, but John Wick rebels when he is ordered to assassinate his friend Winston Scott.

The Elder in Chapter 3 - Parabellum is portrayed by Saïd Taghmaoui, while his successor in Chapter 4 is portrayed by George Georgiou.

History[]

On the run from the High Table following his killing of Santino D'Antonio, an Italian mob boss and one of the organization's members, John Wick travels to the desert and follows the Canis Minor constellation to find the Elder in order to seek penance. After passing out from dehydration, John Wick is found by some of the Elder's men and brought to his tent, where the Elder has John presented to him.

After John wakes up, the Elder asks him why he wishes to live, to which John replies that it is because he wishes to remember his late wife Helen. The Elder tells him that he may be allowed to continue living if he pledges himself to personally serve the High Table and has a board with a knife on it handed to John for John to cut his own finger off as a sign of loyalty.

After John mutilates his ring finger and gives his wedding ring to the Elder, the Elder instructs John to kill Winston, who had refused to show fealty to the High Table and give up his position as manager of the Continental. John reluctantly accepts the mission and is led into a room in the Elder's tent where a new suit is waiting for him to help him carry out the task.

At some point in between the third and fourth films, the Elder retired, taking John's ring with him, and was replaced by a new Elder, who was later killed by John.

Trivia[]

  • The Elder is based on the Old Man on the Mountain, the historical leader of the Hashashin Order.
  • It is revealed that they are not the same character as the Elder tells John Wick that his ring is gone "like the Elder before me”, which implies that The original Elder may have retired.

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Viggo Tarasov | Iosef Tarasov | Avi | Kirill | Victor | Gregori | Abram Tarasov

D'Antonio Crime Family
Santino D'Antonio | Ares | Gianna D'Antonio | Cassian

High Table
The Elder | The Adjudicator | Zero | The Shinobi | Winston Scott | Berrada | Marquis de Gramont | Caine | Chidi | Killa Harkan | The Harbinger | Myrmidons | Koji Shimazu | Akira Shimazu

Others
Ms. Perkins | Calamity | Hex | Edgar Wu | Osborn | The Harbor Master | Ernest | Tracker | Cormac O'Connor | Hansel and Gretel

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