John Wick Meets ‘Kill Bill’ in Netflix’s Near-Perfect Revenge Thriller 'My Name'

Published Nov 8, 2026, 6:45 AM EST

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K-Dramas have long embraced the thriller genre, and Netflix's My Name is a prime example. Perfect for fans of John Wick and Kill Bill, the series revolves around a teenager trying to make sense of her father's death. With the rest of the world positioned against her, she finds answers in the criminal underworld her late father was allegedly involved in. As she soon discovers, there is a price to pay for power, and when you've pledged your life to the most powerful drug kingpin in the country, that loyalty must be upheld. Boasting a 100% Tomatometer score, My Name is a nonstop, hyper-slick thriller series that's perfect from start to finish.

What Is 'My Name' About?

My Name introduces Yoon Ji-woo (Han So-hee), a 17-year-old girl who is constantly mocked by her fellow peers at school for her estranged father's alleged involvement with the Dongcheon drug ring. When he finally returns home on Ji-woo's birthday, he is brutally killed in a shooting right outside their front door. Distraught by his death, Ji-woo turns to her father's closest confidante, Choi Mu-jin (Park Hee-soon), the boss of Dongcheon. Although Mu-jin warns Ji-woo about the consequences of pursuing a path of vengeance, Ji-woo decides to take matters into her own hands, especially after the police fail to identify her father's murderer.

Years later, the now-adult Ji-woo assumes the alias Oh Hye-jin, enrolls in the police academy, and joins the Narcotics department at Inchang Metropolitan Police Station as a mole. Leading a double life, Ji-woo is caught between two sides of the law: her allegiance to Mu-jin, who will stop at nothing to help her with her long-suppressed purpose, and the Narcotics department, whose sole mission is to take down Mu-jin.

'My Name' Delivers Some of TV's Most Realistic Fight Scenes

Like The Bride (Uma Thurman) in Kill Bill, Ji-woo has to go through hell before becoming a full-fledged killer for Dongcheon. She trains under brutal conditions, thrown straight into a run-down dojo with no mercy from Mu-jin’s henchmen. Although she's tenacious and already knows how to throw a punch, Ji-woo is still greatly inexperienced. This is where My Name gets it right: becoming a dangerous killer takes time and practice. In Ji-woo's case, it takes five years, shown through a flash-forward montage that follows her transformation from an impulsive fighter into a skilled assassin.

My Name delivers some of television's most convincing close-quarters combat, with choreography that makes excellent use of Ji-woo's smaller stature. Rather than relying on strength alone, she fights strategically, catching her enemies off guard. She still gets pummeled on occasion, but the more she's beaten down, the harder she fights back. Whether she's defending herself against a school bully, narrowly escaping a car compactor, or shooting someone atop a shipping-port crane, this variety of situations showcases Ji-woo's full skill set.

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Would You Thrive In?8 Questions · 4 FranchisesFour franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the professional with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to go down. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.The Four

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Question 01PRESENCE

01How does a room know you've walked into it?Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.

ASomeone recognizes me, and the temperature in the room drops without a single word being said.BLoudly and warmly. I arrive with my people, and we're already laughing about something.CI'm the one who told everybody where to stand. I walked this room twice before anyone else arrived.DBy accident. I wasn't supposed to be here, and now I'm the only one who can do anything about it.

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Question 02COMBAT

02It turns physical. What does your fighting look like?Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.

AEconomical and devastating. Trained technique, no wasted motion, finished before most people notice it started.BLoud, heavy and weirdly joyful. I'm not elegant, I hit like a truck, and I always have backup.CTo plan, until the plan breaks. Then I improvise at full sprint and refuse to stop moving.DBadly, honestly, and with a lot of swearing. I take more punishment than I deal and I still don't go down.

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Question 03CREW

03Who is standing beside you when it starts?Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.

ANobody. I have contacts, favors and people who owe me, but when it begins I work alone.BEveryone. My people are the entire point, and I'd trade the whole mission for any one of them.CA small hand-picked team I trust completely, and I'd still take the worst part of the job myself.DA voice on the other end of a radio and a building full of people who don't know I exist.

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Question 04PRESSURE

04It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright?Act two exists to find out what you're really made of.

AFocus, commitment and sheer will. Grief is fuel if you point it in the right direction.BThe people counting on me. I don't appear to have a limit when it's family on the line.CRefusing to accept the odds. Somebody has to do the impossible part, and it's going to be me.DSpite, mostly. And a growing sense that these people picked the wrong building.

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Question 05WHEELS

05There's a vehicle. What are you driving, and how?No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.

AA black muscle car I am unreasonably attached to, and I will dismantle an entire empire over it.BSomething impossibly modified, at impossible speed, off an impossible ramp. Physics is a suggestion.CA motorbike at full throttle through a city I memorized last night. And then off a cliff.DA borrowed car, badly, while somebody in the passenger seat politely asks me to slow down.

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Question 06ORDERS

06How do you feel about the people giving the orders?There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.

AThere are rules and I respect them absolutely, right up until somebody breaks one against me.BI don't take orders. I take care of people, and everything else tends to sort itself out.CI serve the mission, not the memo. If my people are in danger, the orders come second.DThey're in a van outside telling me what I'm doing wrong while I'm the one standing on broken glass.

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Question 07MOTIVE

07Underneath all of it, what are you doing this for?The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.

ASomething was taken from me that can't be replaced, and I've been settling that account ever since.BBelonging. I built a family out of people who had nowhere else, and I'll defend it with everything.CThe conviction that if I stop, people pay for it. I don't know how to hand that to anyone else.DI just wanted to get through the holidays with my family. Everything after that was self-defense.

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Question 08LEGEND

08When the credits roll, what do people say about you?Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.

AThat I was a myth people warned each other about in whispers, and that they were right to.BThat I never left anyone behind, the door was always open, and there was always a place at the table.CThat I did the impossible part myself, every single time, and never asked anyone to risk it for me.DThat I was just a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time, who turned out to be very hard to stop.

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Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive the trilogy, and probably headline it.

2014-2023John WickJohn Wick to Chapter 4Reasonable to the line. Immovable past it.

You are precision with a grudge. You don't posture, you don't escalate, and you don't warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are so careful never to be the reason you start.Why You Would Thrive Here

• The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who honors every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one against him.
• You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and then completely immovable past it.
• Focus, commitment and sheer will. You'd be the one carrying grief through three sequels and turning it into technique rather than noise.
• People wouldn't call you dangerous. They'd say your name quietly and let that do the work.

The CodeNo Wasted MotionSay It Quietly

2001-2023Fast & FuriousThe Fast and the Furious to Fast XThe mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about: the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and you'd drive through a building for any one of them.Why You Would Thrive Here

• This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its real subject, because loyalty scales and plot doesn't have to.
• You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you defend it past the point of reason.
• You'd thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve, an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
• The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

Found FamilyRide TogetherPhysics Optional

1996-2025Mission: ImpossibleMission: Impossible to The Final ReckoningYou have never once delegated the cliff.

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself anyway. It looks like control, but it's really responsibility. You have never worked out how to ask somebody else to carry the risk.Why You Would Thrive Here

• This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that's left.
• You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an administrative error.
• You'd thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure. The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
• Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

Over-PreparedOwn The RiskStill Running

1988-2013Die HardDie Hard to A Good Day to Die HardYou declined to be the person who let it happen.

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.Why You Would Thrive Here

• Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outnumbered, out-planned, battered, and extremely funny about it.
• You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn't make you noble, it makes you sarcastic, and then it makes you unstoppable.
• You'd thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation, and you've never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
• You didn't want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.

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'My Name' Turns Grief Into a Brutal Coming-of-Age Story

Growing up isn't easy for Ji-woo, especially when she has no one else to turn to for support. With her father gone, Mu-jin becomes the closest thing to a parental figure in her life. He is the one who shapes how she sees the world, teaching the impressionable young girl never to show fear and to kill without hesitation. The first half of the series reflects this well, as Ji-woo becomes Mu-jin's most loyal subordinate, using her position in the police department to stay one step ahead of the authorities and protect Mu-jin. However, there's more to Ji-woo than her killer instincts.

Much like John Wick, Ji-woo's pursuit of revenge is rooted in grief. Having never learned how to cope with her pain, she channels it into violence instead, following Mu-jin's "guidance." But as the series progresses, the more time she spends with her police colleagues, the more she discovers a different side of life, one where peace is possible. However, that isn't the future she's paved for herself. As long as her desire for retribution remains, she won't stop pursuing those who ruined her life. Even if she does leave her criminal past behind, Dongcheon won't let her walk away so easily. By the end, Ji-woo must choose between the life she's been trained to lead and the possibility of moving beyond revenge. Every kill carries consequences, giving My Name more depth than a mere bloody spectacle.