×

We use cookies to help make LingQ better. By visiting the site, you agree to our cookie policy.

image

The Infographics Show, John Wick vs Neo - Which Keanu Reeves Character Would Win? (John Wick & The Matrix Movies)

John Wick vs Neo - Which Keanu Reeves Character Would Win? (John Wick & The Matrix Movies)

It's the ultimate Keanu showdown, Neo vs John Wick.

Young Keanu vs Old Keanu.

But rest assured, one of these two- Neo or John Wick- is going to be a Sad Keanu by the

time this fight is over.

Now lets run down our two contestants, and see what the tale of the tape tells us.

Neo, or The One, or simply Thomas A. Anderson to his landlord, was a programmer working

for a run-of-the-mill software company.

By night however he was a prolific hacker who infiltrated company and government networks

in order to sell off the secrets stashed there.

One day he came across something known as 'The Matrix', but Neo was unable to find any

definite answer on what this was.

He believed that whatever this matrix was, it was tied to his own feeling that there

was something wrong with the world.

In a quest for answers, Neo undertook a search for one of the world's most dangerous terrorists,

a man known simply as 'Morpheus'.

His search leads him to make contact with Trinity, or Carrie-Anne Moss with a leather

fetish, and this encounter inevitably leads him to Morpheus and his discovery that all

reality is nothing but a digital construct created by intelligent machines.

The purpose of 'The Matrix' was to give human minds something to occupy themselves with

while machines harvested the bio-electrical energy of their physical bodies, which makes

absolutely zero sense but that's ok because cool gunfights.

Soon Neo is embracing his newfound identity as a freedom fighter- even if this is a fight

to free people from a normal life in pleasant modern-day Earth and awaken them to a post-apocalyptic

hellscape where machines are constantly trying to rip them to pieces.

Oh, and everybody eats goo soup- which we're pretty sure is dead people by the way because

did you see a single farm outside of The Matrix in any of the movies?

Yeah, we didn't think so.

So Neo literally becomes a god in between the first and second movies and at that point

the Wachowskis realize that you can't have a protagonist become godlike at the start

of a trilogy because then nothing is a challenge to him, and the entire Matrix series pretty

much goes off the rails at that point.

What's important to us though is Neo's powers, as that will be what John Wick will be contending

with.

First, inside The Matrix Neo is practically God.

With his ability to edit the very source code of the matrix, Neo can twist and spin reality

as he wishes, dodging bullets, explosions, and destroying hostile AIs with but a touch.

He can fly, we're pretty sure he can teleport, and he has the strength of a hundred men.

Or a thousand.

Or a million- there's literally no limit to his power because the matrix is his sandbox.

On top of godlike physical and mental abilities within the matrix, Neo is also an extremely

skilled martial artist, given the fact that he can learn any martial art by simply downloading

it directly into his brain.

This means that Neo has mastered every fighting style that has ever been digitally recorded,

which is pretty much all of them.

He's also an expert on every weapon ever conceived by man- as long as someone made a WikiHow

on using it, of course.

He knows every language posted on the internet, every single science, and all memes ever created,

because he can just instantly download the information to his brain.

This makes Neo a dangerous opponent even outside of the matrix, because while he can't bend

reality to his will outside the matrix, he still knows literally everything ever.

There's a popular myth that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something- for

neo it takes a fraction of a second, and unlike your ability to 'totally pwn 360 no scope'

noobs on call of duty, Neo's knowledge actually has useful applications in the real world.

So if John Wick thought this fight would be easier outside the matrix, think again.

John Wick is basically Neo without the godlike powers and a beard.

Growing up in the former Soviet Union- or a small Mexican village depending on if you

think movies or comic books are canon- John was destined to become a top assassin.

Unlike most protagonists, John Wicks' exact backstory is a bit vague, but it's believed

that at some point he joined the US Marines, likely early on in his life, before being

groomed to become an assassin and work for the Continental, a club for all the cool assassins,

no nerd assassins allowed.

John's reputation quickly grew as he took on more and more dangerous assignments, earning

the nickname of “The Boogeyman”.

John would eventually join up with a Russian outfit known as the Tarasov Mob, becoming

its leader's top hitter.

John worked for many years until one day he met a girl named Helen and fell in love with

her.

Wishing to live a quiet, civilian life, John Wick asked his boss to release him from his

service.

A deal was struck- John would have to accomplish one impossible task and then be free to live

his life as he wished: write just one good episode of The Mandalorian- err, we mean,

kill all of Viggo Tarasov's rivals in just one night.

With a little help from his friends, John managed to accomplish the feat and soon he

was living the simple life with his beloved Helen, until tragically cancer claimed her

life.

Helen left John with a farewell gift though, a small beagle named Daisy.

When Viggo Tarasov's son ends up killing Daisy, John went super-sayian and killed literally

everybody ever.

John is much like Neo, a martial arts expert, skilled in Barizilian jiu-jitsu, judo, jujutsu,

sombo, aikido, and aiki-jitsu.

He's also very skilled with blades and knows his way around practically any firearm in

the world, making him a deadly opponent.

So how do the two stack up in a fight?

For our first round we're taking things to the matrix, where obviously Neo is going to

have all the advantages.

Neo can simply dodge Wick's attacks all day long if he wanted, but why not torment Wick

and defeat him not just physically but psychologically.

Much like one of the first mods to hit Steam for Xcom 2, Neo can simply mod the matrix

so that his own gun shoots beagle puppies at John Wick instead of bullets.

A beagle moving at several hundred feet per second is still a deadly weapon, and one that

will for sure make John Wick absolutely lose his (bleep).

Sadly, there's literally nothing Wick can do in the matrix against Neo- but what about

the real world, surely he has the advantage there, right?

Well, you might want to pump your brakes before you think a real world fight between Neo and

Wick would end with a Wick victory.

Remember how earlier we made it clear that Neo basically has the sum knowledge of humanity

in his brain thanks to his ability to download everything?

Well, Wick may be a martial arts and gun expert, but Neo's own proficiency is lightyears ahead

of Wick's.

Sure, Wick has real world experience- but Neo has something even better: simulated experience.

While jacked into the matrix, or a training digital construct, Neo can gain a form of

super intelligence known as speed intelligence.

This means that Neo is basically able to framejack his mind so that he experiences time in any

digital world at hundreds or even thousands of times faster than time flows in the real

world.

So while John Wick has been a top assassin for thirty years or so, Neo could have been

practicing for this fight for tens of thousands of years, simply by jacking into a training

program and framejacking his brain.

Experience is firmly on Neo's side, because John Wick will have lived only one lifetime

as a super assassin, while Neo will have lived thousands of lifetimes in his digital training

world, which is capable of fully simulating every single aspect of real life.

Such accurate and detailed simulations means that Neo's fake, virtual experience is just

as effective as Wick's real-world experience.

Wick's one advantage over Neo is his physical fitness though, as Neo doesn't have to be

as physically fit as Wick when most of his fighting is in the matrix.

You might think Wick's reflexes are better than Neo's, because of his real-world experience,

but reflexes are based on electric impulses, which can be fully replicated by a computer

in a simulation- so both Wick and Neo are on par here.

Physically, Wick is stronger than Neo without a doubt- but that matters little if Neo can

resolve a fight at a distance using his tens of thousands of simulated years of gunfight

experience to destroy Wick.

To make matters worse, Neo also has the ability to affect the electronic systems of machines

in the real world through some poorly understood method, or just bad plot writing, so Neo could

use that power to destroy or interfere with any electronics Wick may be using.

If the fight came down to hand-to-hand combat, Wick may have a shot at victory thanks to

his superior physical strength and stamina.

However, Neo has mastered every martial art that was ever digitally recorded, and many

of these martial arts are designed for weaker opponents to defend themselves from physically

stronger opponents.

Once more, given his thousands of years of experience in simulated martial arts fights,

even Wick's superior strength may not be enough to overcome Neo's god-like skill set.

In the end, we're declaring Neo a winner, because when your brain is literally a supercomputer,

it's like playing at life with cheat codes enabled.

But, Neo and Wick have one opponent that neither can defeat- and that's Keanu Reeves.

Not only are both Neo and Wick constructs in Keanu's head, mere fictions in his imagination,

but Keanu is basically the best at everything IRL.

Seriously, he's the nicest guy in Hollywood by far, the most respectful, and he learned

every single martial art and gun skill that he really needed to know for both The Matrix

and John Wick movies.

Keanu has been an undercover Chuck Norris this whole time, because the true master always

keeps his strength secret.

Now go watch You Versus John Wick to find out all the ways Wick would absolutely wreck

your day- or check out this other fun video instead!

Learn languages from TV shows, movies, news, articles and more! Try LingQ for FREE

John Wick vs Neo - Which Keanu Reeves Character Would Win? (John Wick & The Matrix Movies) John Wick gegen Neo - Welche Figur von Keanu Reeves würde gewinnen? (John Wick & Die Matrix-Filme) John Wick εναντίον Neo - Ποιος χαρακτήρας του Keanu Reeves θα κέρδιζε; (Ταινίες John Wick & The Matrix) John Wick vs Neo - ¿Qué personaje de Keanu Reeves ganaría? (Películas John Wick y Matrix) ジョン・ウィックvsネオ - キアヌ・リーブスのキャラクターはどちらに軍配が上がるか? Johnas Wickas prieš Neo - kuris Keanu Reeveso personažas laimėtų? (John Wick & The Matrix Movies) John Wick vs Neo - Która postać Keanu Reevesa by wygrała? (John Wick i filmy Matrix) John Wick vs Neo - Que personagem de Keanu Reeves venceria? (John Wick & The Matrix Movies) Джон Уик против Нео - кто из персонажей Киану Ривза победит? (Джон Уик и фильмы о Матрице) John Wick Neo'ya Karşı - Hangi Keanu Reeves Karakteri Kazanırdı? (John Wick & Matrix Filmleri) Джон Вік проти Нео - хто з персонажів Кіану Рівза переможе? (Джон Вік та фільми "Матриця") 约翰·威克 vs 尼奥 - 基努·里维斯的哪个角色会赢? (《疾速追杀》和《黑客帝国》电影) 約翰威克 vs 尼奧 - 基努李維的哪個角色會贏? (《疾速追殺》和《駭客任務》電影)

It's the ultimate Keanu showdown, Neo vs John Wick.

Young Keanu vs Old Keanu.

But rest assured, one of these two- Neo or John Wick- is going to be a Sad Keanu by the

time this fight is over.

Now lets run down our two contestants, and see what the tale of the tape tells us.

Neo, or The One, or simply Thomas A. Anderson to his landlord, was a programmer working

for a run-of-the-mill software company.

By night however he was a prolific hacker who infiltrated company and government networks

in order to sell off the secrets stashed there.

One day he came across something known as 'The Matrix', but Neo was unable to find any

definite answer on what this was.

He believed that whatever this matrix was, it was tied to his own feeling that there

was something wrong with the world.

In a quest for answers, Neo undertook a search for one of the world's most dangerous terrorists,

a man known simply as 'Morpheus'.

His search leads him to make contact with Trinity, or Carrie-Anne Moss with a leather Его поиски приводят его к контакту с Тринити, или Кэрри-Энн Мосс с кожаным

fetish, and this encounter inevitably leads him to Morpheus and his discovery that all Фетиш, и эта встреча неизбежно приводит его к Морфею и открытию того, что все

reality is nothing but a digital construct created by intelligent machines.

The purpose of 'The Matrix' was to give human minds something to occupy themselves with

while machines harvested the bio-electrical energy of their physical bodies, which makes

absolutely zero sense but that's ok because cool gunfights.

Soon Neo is embracing his newfound identity as a freedom fighter- even if this is a fight

to free people from a normal life in pleasant modern-day Earth and awaken them to a post-apocalyptic

hellscape where machines are constantly trying to rip them to pieces.

Oh, and everybody eats goo soup- which we're pretty sure is dead people by the way because

did you see a single farm outside of The Matrix in any of the movies?

Yeah, we didn't think so.

So Neo literally becomes a god in between the first and second movies and at that point

the Wachowskis realize that you can't have a protagonist become godlike at the start

of a trilogy because then nothing is a challenge to him, and the entire Matrix series pretty

much goes off the rails at that point.

What's important to us though is Neo's powers, as that will be what John Wick will be contending

with.

First, inside The Matrix Neo is practically God.

With his ability to edit the very source code of the matrix, Neo can twist and spin reality Благодаря своей способности редактировать исходный код Матрицы, Нео может искажать и вращать реальность.

as he wishes, dodging bullets, explosions, and destroying hostile AIs with but a touch. как ему вздумается, уворачиваясь от пуль, взрывов и уничтожая враждебные ИИ одним прикосновением.

He can fly, we're pretty sure he can teleport, and he has the strength of a hundred men.

Or a thousand.

Or a million- there's literally no limit to his power because the matrix is his sandbox.

On top of godlike physical and mental abilities within the matrix, Neo is also an extremely

skilled martial artist, given the fact that he can learn any martial art by simply downloading

it directly into his brain.

This means that Neo has mastered every fighting style that has ever been digitally recorded,

which is pretty much all of them.

He's also an expert on every weapon ever conceived by man- as long as someone made a WikiHow

on using it, of course.

He knows every language posted on the internet, every single science, and all memes ever created,

because he can just instantly download the information to his brain.

This makes Neo a dangerous opponent even outside of the matrix, because while he can't bend

reality to his will outside the matrix, he still knows literally everything ever.

There's a popular myth that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something- for

neo it takes a fraction of a second, and unlike your ability to 'totally pwn 360 no scope' Это занимает доли секунды, и в отличие от вашей способности "полностью перебить 360 без прицела

noobs on call of duty, Neo's knowledge actually has useful applications in the real world.

So if John Wick thought this fight would be easier outside the matrix, think again.

John Wick is basically Neo without the godlike powers and a beard.

Growing up in the former Soviet Union- or a small Mexican village depending on if you

think movies or comic books are canon- John was destined to become a top assassin.

Unlike most protagonists, John Wicks' exact backstory is a bit vague, but it's believed

that at some point he joined the US Marines, likely early on in his life, before being

groomed to become an assassin and work for the Continental, a club for all the cool assassins,

no nerd assassins allowed.

John's reputation quickly grew as he took on more and more dangerous assignments, earning

the nickname of “The Boogeyman”.

John would eventually join up with a Russian outfit known as the Tarasov Mob, becoming

its leader's top hitter.

John worked for many years until one day he met a girl named Helen and fell in love with

her.

Wishing to live a quiet, civilian life, John Wick asked his boss to release him from his

service.

A deal was struck- John would have to accomplish one impossible task and then be free to live

his life as he wished: write just one good episode of The Mandalorian- err, we mean,

kill all of Viggo Tarasov's rivals in just one night.

With a little help from his friends, John managed to accomplish the feat and soon he

was living the simple life with his beloved Helen, until tragically cancer claimed her

life.

Helen left John with a farewell gift though, a small beagle named Daisy.

When Viggo Tarasov's son ends up killing Daisy, John went super-sayian and killed literally

everybody ever.

John is much like Neo, a martial arts expert, skilled in Barizilian jiu-jitsu, judo, jujutsu,

sombo, aikido, and aiki-jitsu.

He's also very skilled with blades and knows his way around practically any firearm in

the world, making him a deadly opponent.

So how do the two stack up in a fight?

For our first round we're taking things to the matrix, where obviously Neo is going to

have all the advantages.

Neo can simply dodge Wick's attacks all day long if he wanted, but why not torment Wick

and defeat him not just physically but psychologically.

Much like one of the first mods to hit Steam for Xcom 2, Neo can simply mod the matrix

so that his own gun shoots beagle puppies at John Wick instead of bullets.

A beagle moving at several hundred feet per second is still a deadly weapon, and one that

will for sure make John Wick absolutely lose his (bleep).

Sadly, there's literally nothing Wick can do in the matrix against Neo- but what about

the real world, surely he has the advantage there, right?

Well, you might want to pump your brakes before you think a real world fight between Neo and

Wick would end with a Wick victory.

Remember how earlier we made it clear that Neo basically has the sum knowledge of humanity

in his brain thanks to his ability to download everything?

Well, Wick may be a martial arts and gun expert, but Neo's own proficiency is lightyears ahead

of Wick's.

Sure, Wick has real world experience- but Neo has something even better: simulated experience.

While jacked into the matrix, or a training digital construct, Neo can gain a form of

super intelligence known as speed intelligence.

This means that Neo is basically able to framejack his mind so that he experiences time in any

digital world at hundreds or even thousands of times faster than time flows in the real

world.

So while John Wick has been a top assassin for thirty years or so, Neo could have been

practicing for this fight for tens of thousands of years, simply by jacking into a training

program and framejacking his brain.

Experience is firmly on Neo's side, because John Wick will have lived only one lifetime

as a super assassin, while Neo will have lived thousands of lifetimes in his digital training

world, which is capable of fully simulating every single aspect of real life.

Such accurate and detailed simulations means that Neo's fake, virtual experience is just

as effective as Wick's real-world experience.

Wick's one advantage over Neo is his physical fitness though, as Neo doesn't have to be

as physically fit as Wick when most of his fighting is in the matrix.

You might think Wick's reflexes are better than Neo's, because of his real-world experience,

but reflexes are based on electric impulses, which can be fully replicated by a computer

in a simulation- so both Wick and Neo are on par here.

Physically, Wick is stronger than Neo without a doubt- but that matters little if Neo can

resolve a fight at a distance using his tens of thousands of simulated years of gunfight

experience to destroy Wick.

To make matters worse, Neo also has the ability to affect the electronic systems of machines

in the real world through some poorly understood method, or just bad plot writing, so Neo could

use that power to destroy or interfere with any electronics Wick may be using.

If the fight came down to hand-to-hand combat, Wick may have a shot at victory thanks to

his superior physical strength and stamina.

However, Neo has mastered every martial art that was ever digitally recorded, and many

of these martial arts are designed for weaker opponents to defend themselves from physically

stronger opponents.

Once more, given his thousands of years of experience in simulated martial arts fights,

even Wick's superior strength may not be enough to overcome Neo's god-like skill set.

In the end, we're declaring Neo a winner, because when your brain is literally a supercomputer,

it's like playing at life with cheat codes enabled.

But, Neo and Wick have one opponent that neither can defeat- and that's Keanu Reeves.

Not only are both Neo and Wick constructs in Keanu's head, mere fictions in his imagination,

but Keanu is basically the best at everything IRL.

Seriously, he's the nicest guy in Hollywood by far, the most respectful, and he learned

every single martial art and gun skill that he really needed to know for both The Matrix

and John Wick movies.

Keanu has been an undercover Chuck Norris this whole time, because the true master always

keeps his strength secret.

Now go watch You Versus John Wick to find out all the ways Wick would absolutely wreck

your day- or check out this other fun video instead!