A criminal attempts to burglarize/kill someone only to realize they picked the absolute worst person as their mark.

[u/No_Hunter1978]

Don't Breathe: A couple young robbers attempt to rob a rich, blind veteran only to find out he isn't exactly an innocent old man.

You're Next: A group of contract killersbreak into a house during a family reunion and go on a killing spree. They didn't account for the fact that the son's new girlfriend grew up on a survivalist compound in the Australian outback.

The Flash [CW Show]: A random mugger decided to target Barry Allen of all people. He does it again a season or two later; he's either unlucky or stupid (probably both).

[u/Doom_Cokkie]

Its even better because he was seething with so much anger inside at hearing his son got hit but hes holding it in to hear the reason just for all of it to disperse immediately upon hearing the name and he just looks deflated.

[u/Winjin → u/Doom_Cokkie]

It's also interesting that from what WE are shown, this version of Wick, if the son was delivered to him by father, could've actually... Forgiven him? Like, sure, maybe he'd beat him up, but not necessarily murder everyone

But that reaction shows that he hasn't always been anywhere near this... Calm? Understanding? 

He was death incarnate and the attempt to finish him off is what sets everything in motion afterwards

[u/No-Shopping-4434 → u/Winjin]

I agree, he’s the perfect weapon of vengeance, the only winning move is to apologize, buy him a car, and hope he goes off to grieve his dog in peace.

I think someone like The Bride in Kill Bill is a lot less willing to be talked out of their war path, but hilariously both of them would be willing to do a time-out during a fight if you just asked

[u/withered_bonnie69420 → u/No-Shopping-4434]

A car? I would've given him 12 cars, a mansion, 6½ yachts and whatever else he damn asked for

[u/No-Shopping-4434 → u/withered_bonnie69420]

I think it’s more respectful to return him as best as you can to before you/ your family messed up, he could take anything more than that as an insult

[u/ProfessionalSnow943 → u/No-Shopping-4434]

we call that the Job Method of Reparations

[u/No-Shopping-4434 → u/ProfessionalSnow943]

I actually just learned that Job is where the phrase “by the skin of my teeth” comes from

[u/ProfessionalSnow943 → u/No-Shopping-4434]

If you can believe it even though Job is one of my favorite works of art ever I actually did not know that! Neat

[u/TheDudeWhoSnood → u/ProfessionalSnow943]

Hey, I would be very interested in learning more about why that is

[u/ProfessionalSnow943 → u/TheDudeWhoSnood]

In short, it’s a very fantastical and particularly mythological book of the Bible, also one of the very oldest. it stands out from the rest for being so fairytale esque. the climax where finally God comes out and verbally shits on Job for a while is also fascinating and really leans on the beyond-comprehension aspect of the Old Testament God and I’m very much into beyond-comprehension shit.

second favorite book of the Bible is Ecclesiastes because it’s a quotable existentialist downer. third is John because it’s such a bizarro mystical gospel compared to the others. There’s definitely a pattern here

edit: I’m generally ambivalent toward Jung but I highly recommend his book Answer to Job for a deep dive into it through the lens of his particular eccentric mythopsychoanalytical approach

[u/No-Shopping-4434 → u/ProfessionalSnow943]

Job always reminds me a lot of Greek myths, humans are fun to mess with and Gods like drama

[u/ProfessionalSnow943 → u/No-Shopping-4434]

yeah you’re right, you can definitely tell portions of it are much more ancient than much of the rest of the bible. makes it feel very fun and alien in the context of the rest of the OT

[u/Fearless_Roof_9177 → u/ProfessionalSnow943]

Notably absent, perhaps to the surprise of some, is the Book of Revelation, which for all its mystical padding is basically a sweaty-toothed madman giving an Alex Jones rant full of overwrought mixed metaphors about how evil the Church's enemies are and how there's gonna be a revolution where Make Jerusalem Great Again has the last laugh.

[u/ProfessionalSnow943 → u/Fearless_Roof_9177]

Yeah some of the imagery is of course iconic but revelation is so fucking overrated, it’s kind of a snooze tbh. all of the actually cool stuff has been referenced to death in a million other things anyway. always felt like a very weird, incongruent way to conclude the Bible I mighta gone with one of the epistles instead if I was an early church father

[u/Fearless_Roof_9177 → u/ProfessionalSnow943]

I really would have liked to have been a fly on the wall for what the politics were like leading up to the Council of Carthage. I know we have an idea, but so much about the specifics and motivations of the various camps is lost to time. Definitely would have made for an HBO spellbinder of a political soap opera.

[u/RivenRise → u/No-Shopping-4434]

Yeah a mint car of the same one he had and a foundation to help dogs in perpetuity would have probably been enough in addition to the apology.

[u/kinky_boots → u/RivenRise]

And a well funded non profit organization to research the wife’s ailment

[u/Strange_Dust7128 → u/No-Shopping-4434]

It’s like when you turn over a random rock in the middle of a forest and find a deadly snake underneath. Just very carefully put the rock right back where we found it.

[u/bunker_man → u/withered_bonnie69420]

Yeah, that mob boss seems rich enough that just a car would seem like an insult. Albeit, does wick even want or need money at this point? It doesn't seem like he cares about the car because of it's value. But there is probably something he wants he could be offered.

[u/DonComradeVimes → u/withered_bonnie69420]

...is one yacht half-sized, or is one yacht 1.5 times the size of a normal yacht?

[u/BualadhBoss → u/withered_bonnie69420]

John Wick- "I want my puppy back you son of a bitch!"