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Boost your score and climb up the ranks to become the world's finest silent assassin. Eliminate targets, collect weapon parts and complete blueprints to unlock the most powerful rifles. Rated 4. Lincoln Towncar. Best drink to relax with after a mission? Whiskey on the Rocks. Long Island Iced Tea. Primary fear? Becoming "adrift" in life. Failing your goals. Weapon of choice?
My own bare hands in gloves. Machine gun. Poisonous dart. Ideal damsel in distress you would like to save? Emma Watson. Hilary Swank. Emily Ratajkowski. Taylor Swift. You'd Make A Killing. In Grosse Pointe Blank , the lead turns down a French government commission to blow up a Greenpeace boat by saying, "No way-I have scruples. Indeed, one of the film's villains, hired to assassinate the protagonist, is mentioned as being a former member of a violent Basque separatist group.
The eponymous character from Hitman is even more sympathetic than his video game predecessor. Although still a cold professional he appears to possess more empathy and insight than most characters from the movie. Hitman : The titular hitman is a contract killer who masquerades as a police officer in civilian disguise and strives to uphold the law. The Hitman's Bodyguard : Darius Kincaid, the eponymous hitman, has built his entire career around the concepts of Never Hurt an Innocent and Pay Evil unto Evil ; everyone he's murdered has willfully committed evil acts his first murder was the man who murdered his father.
This is the main reason why he opposes Dukhovich he witnessed the massacre of an entire village under Dukhovich's command and is willing to testify at his trial. In Bruges is about two likable hitmen dealing with the aftermath of the younger one accidentally killing a little boy during his first hit. The older one is then assigned to off the younger one, but reflexively throws the job when he sees his target about to take his own life in grief.
Did we mention it's a dark comedy? The deeper incarnations of James Bond. The Bond One-Liner version doesn't count, though. Bond himself explains his case in The Man with the Golden Gun ironically, a film where he acts like a Jerkass most of the time when Scaramanga, an assassin that does not fit this Trope, tries to convince Bond that they aren't so different.
Bond is disgusted by the thought, telling the villain that the people he kills are themselves killers, unlike Scaramanga who enjoys it, which leads to this: Scaramanga: You do not enjoy it, Mr. Bond: I admit that killing you right now would be quite enjoyable Vlad Taltos of Steven Brust's Dragaera series is an assassin and mob boss who will Never Hurt an Innocent and loves his wife Cawti, an assassin whom he met when she killed him he got better. Rild-Sugata in Roger Zelazny 's Lord of Light , who became a follower or even the follower of his original target.
Rild is a religious assassin, directed by his Goddess of Death, naturally to kill this planet's version of the Buddha. Buddha is a fake, though — an immortal named Sam, who is trying to overthrow the Hindu pantheon also immortal fakes. Rild converts to Buddhism Samism? Carson Wells from No Country for Old Men is a perfect example, being an experienced yet sardonically humorous and kind hitman whose job is to track his complete opposite; Anton Chigurh, a staggeringly brutal and evil Psycho for Hire.
Unfortunately, he gets blown away by Chigurh. Andrew Vachss ' character Wesley is the exact opposite of this trope. He pretends to follow a code, but only to avoid starting an argument with his Mafia clients. Rook, of Jim Butcher 's Codex Alera : the "will do anything to keep her daughter safe" variant.
Interdimensional assassin Lainya Vantrik in The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids has a code of honor from which she is quite vocal that she "will not swerve". Most notably, it includes not harming or endangering children where "children" is defined generously enough to also include teenagers. Officially it's because he's paid for that. In Changes , we have Stevie D, an assassin hired to kill Harry.
During the attack, he shoots Butters to clear his line of sight on Harry. Afterwards, he asks if the "little guy" was fine. He was. Butters had become Properly Paranoid about working with Harry, and wore a bulletproof vest.
This is initially just a case of Balancing Death's Books in accordance with his death-worshiping religion , but by the time of their parting he clearly bears her affection and even offers to take her under his wing.
The Guild of the Faceless Men , despite being a society of assassins, is portrayed rather sympathetically overall. They strictly avoid collateral damage, adjust their price so that the poor can afford their services if they have a good enough reason, and provide painless euthanasia for anyone who requests it.
Inverted in Dean Koontz 's book Watchers. The hitman Vince De Nasco believes he has a "Gift" that allows him to absorb the life energy of anyone he kills. This leads him to desire immortality and godhood, which is his reason for becoming a hitman.
He loves killing young people, as their life energy is less tainted by the world, and his biggest dream is to kill a pregnant woman, to receive both her energy and the unborn child's. At one point he brutally tortures one of his targets before killing him upon learning the man is a habitual philanderer, and thus his life energy is too unclean. It really is all in his head. The main character guns him down at the end, the Hitman failing to demonstrate any Made of Iron abilities that one would think a literal power would allow him.
Hawk from Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels is erudite, thoughtful, and has standards of conduct. It might not fit exactly, but the Assassins' Guild in Pratchett's Discworld series has high moral standards, which essentially bans non-contract targets from being killed the rule is fairly un-policeable though, so a few do indulge in this. Interestingly, the Thieves' Guild follows close to the same moral standards for their line of work, to reduce collateral damage as much as possible.
The Assassin's Guild also refuses contracts on any target that they don't consider to have a fair chance at defending themselves the rich are always fair game, as if they had thought to prepare they could have hired guards.
To wit: Anyone worth Ankh-Morpork 10, or more was considered automatically capable of protecting themselves, or at least hiring people who could.
Otherwise what was a person to do but sit with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door? Live Action TV. Even though his job requires him to be a ruthless and methodical killing machine, he nevertheless does what he does to financially support his granddaughter. He also develops an affectionate father-son relationship with Jesse Pinkman, and consistently shows that he has a much better moral compass than Walt.
All of this makes it exceptionally sad when Mike is forced to abandon his granddaughter and is needlessly murdered by Walt. He's an unironic Marty Stu. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Terminators, despite their tendency to kill anyone who even slightly inconveniences them, have elements of this, though it's more to do with their programming than any sense of decency. The sole survivor, Agent Ellison, is desperately reloading his pistol when he looks up to see Cromartie standing right in front of him, pointing a pistol at his chest.
Accepting the inevitable, Ellison closes his eyes and waits for death, but because he's neither a target nor a threat, Cromartie simply walks away. Later on, Cameron points out that Terminators "aren't built to be cruel", noting that while a Terminator will kill a target with ruthless efficiency, it won't torture or otherwise prolong the target's pain, and may actually try to help people who it isn't under orders to kill if that doesn't conflict with their mission.
After she leaves Moya, Aeryn on Farscape works as one of these for a while. John asks when she became an assassin and she replies "When I found a cause that required it.
Heroes : Edgar is a Super Speed assassin, but he has said things like "I've only killed when I've absolutely had to" that imply he doesn't really like what he does. Mixed with some Pet the Dog moments, this makes him something of an Iron Woobie.
Subverted in an early episode of Criminal Minds. The hitman felt extremely uncomfortable with killing women Person of Interest : In the second episode, "Ghosts", the hitman responsible for killing the character of the week's family is an apparently unrepentant killer, but he Wouldn't Hurt a Child. This pays off in causing Atia's sadism to backfire on her; when she kidnaps Servilia and inflicts hours and hours of Cold-Blooded Torture on her, intending to kill her in the end, she expects Timon to carry it all out without question, but he finally turns on her "I am not an animal!
I am not a fucking animal! Boardwalk Empire : Richard Harrow is a very interesting treatment of this trope. He's a horrifically scarred veteran of World War I who essentially got the left side of his face blown off. Combined with his crushing shyness and awkwardness, this makes him The Woobie and we feel our heartstrings tugged when he makes friends with Margaret's children, who were initially so distraught when seeing him without the mask that covers his empty eye socket that they cry hysterically at the sight and we see his dream of having his face whole again and being in love.
Then when he shoots a year-old boy during a job or suggests wiping out an entire family in order to make the D'Alessio come out of hiding, we get reminded that his job in the war was being a Cold Sniper , and he didn't leave it behind on the battlefield.
Throughout the series, this turns into a deconstruction of the trope. As Richard gets more and more humanized and forms the interpersonal connections, he dreams of falling in love with a nice girl and becoming a surrogate father to his blood brother Jimmy's son Tommy after Jimmy's death.
It is shown that the violence he has participated in has taken a grievous toll on his mental health and psychological well being. He eventually becomes so sick of violence and killing that he is unable to be violent at all, not even to perform a Mercy Kill on a suffering animal, and even having tried sends him into a Heroic BSoD.
As a result, when he's tasked by Nucky with performing One Last Job , he botches it badly, kills a sympathetic innocent bystander, gets mortally wounded in the process, and dies soon after. She ends up adopting her ex-lover's kids, gaining a new family. The problem is, this is the first time she's been ordered to kill someone who by all accounts is a perfectly good and nice person.
A Girl ultimately refuses to go through with it, and reclaims her identity as Arya Stark in the process. Logan's Run : The show's version of Logan was more this as compared to his literary counterpart more of a Consummate Professional or the Jerk with a Heart of Gold as portrayed in the movie.
He was already having serious doubts about his profession before the series started, and while he had no problems with lethal force, he was at least willing to investigate the situation first, try a non-lethal approach second, and use lethal force as a last resort. Helena from Orphan Black was raised by the Prolethean cult as a Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb to assassinate clones though the Proletheans neglected to inform her that she herself was a clone.
Despite her ruthlessness, Helena is at least somewhat sympathetic from the start due to her abusive upbringing, and she even overcomes her indoctrination and joins the heroes during the second season.
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