Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - 15 Easter Eggs & References You Must See

3. A Question Of Paternity The other sub-plot devoted to vengeance comes in The Long Bad Night - the other unpublished Sin City story - which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as cock-sure gambler Johnny who takes on Senator Roark and embarrasses him in a backroom poker game and gets a beating as a result. Ultimately, it is revealed that Johnny is Roark's illegitimate son, seeking personal vengeance and validation by besting his father, who admits that he only considered his other son (the Yellow Bastard of the first film) his true flesh and blood. Incensed, Johnny renews his vengeance, and takes on his father again (after he has killed his companion and good luck charm Marcie) and once more buys into Roark's game, beating him again and taunting him. For his boasting, he is killed, as he clearly expected. The entire sequence is clearly designed as a call-back to the issues of lineage and pride that played such a key part in the first film: Roark's family has been destroyed, and now Johnny has destroyed his image, and while his vengeance is short-lived as Nancy kills Roark anyway, the story ties back in to the Yellow Bastard storyline of the first film.