John Wick’s Baba Yaga Nickname Sounds Cool — but You Have To Put On Your Thinking Cap for It To Make Sense

Keanu Reeves' John Wick goes by many names, but Baba Yaga makes little sense when you actually consider Slavic folklore.

March 30, 2025 · 1 min · 62 words · Joshua Freeman

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Therefore, the use of it to describe a hitman is slightly ignorant of history.

Baba Yaga exists outside of society, in the woods, and has her morality code.

Furthermore,Baba Yaga is said to take away bad children, as Wick would do to Iosef.

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Yippee-ki-yay to these action bangers.

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