Yusuf al-Kaysani

Yusuf al-Kaysani, known as Joe, is an immortal and current member of the Old Guard. He is in a relationship with Nicolò di Genova, known as Nicky, whom he met while fighting on opposite sides during the Crusades.

Comics
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The Old Guard
Joe appears in the opening scene of the film with Andy, Booker, and Nicky. All are covered in blood and lying face down in an unknown location, apparently dead. In a voice over, Andy muses, "I’ve been here before… over and over again, and each time the same question: Is this it? Will this time be the one? And each time the same answer. And I’m just so tired of it."

The film then jumps backwards in time. Andy meets up with Booker at a hotel in Marrakesh, Morocco after an apparent hiatus from the Old Guard. Booker asks Andy to join him, Joe, and Nicky in working a job for James Copley, who hired them for another job eight years prior on behalf of the CIA. Andy and Booker meet Joe and Nicky in the hotel room. Nicky gives Andy a hug, and then Joe picks her up spinning in a circle to show his delight.

The team meets up with Copley, who asks for their help in recovering seventeen students who were kidnapped from a South Sudanese grade school. Andy, Booker, Joe, and Nicky raid the location where Copley told them the students were being held, but the team does not find any children. They are instead ambushed by a squad of highly trained mercenaries, who expend all of their ammo on the four. Andy, Booker, Joe, and Nicky are shown as they were in the opening of the film: covered in blood and lying face down. Once the team heals their wounds, they attack the unprepared mercenaries and realize that Copley set them up to film the encounter and learn more about The Old Guard's healing abilities. Andy angrily destroys the cameras with her axe.

The Old Guard travels to France to regroup and plan a way to prevent Copley from sharing their secret. They sleep on a cargo train while en route to France, and Joe is shown sleeping with one arm around Nicky. The four are awoken in the middle of the night when they all dream of a new immortal named Nile's first death. Joe and the others describe to each other details that they noticed in their dream, and Joe quickly sketches her face in a notebook. Joe and Nicky empathize with Nile and advocate for finding her as quickly as possible. Booker, however, wants to focus on Copley first. Andy begrudgingly sides with Joe and Nicky. Using the details and Joe's sketch, Andy retrieves Nile from Afghanistan and brings her back to France.

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Comics

 * The Old Guard Volume 1: Opening Fire (#1-5)
 * The Old Guard Volume 2: Force Multiplied (#1-5)

Film

 * The Old Guard