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** At one point Mireille gets the drop on one of the leading members of the [[Ancient Conspiracy]] simply by waltzing into his office and shooting the guards.
*** Of course he wanted her to find him. It probably wouldn't have been that easy otherwise.
** [[Spiritual Successor]] ''[[Madlax]]'' gets away with assassinating the head of the military during a speech by sniping him from farther away than his security thought possible. (Apparently they'd never heard of [[w:Carlos Hathcock|Carlos Hathcock]].) The elite [[Cold Sniper]] assisting with the security arrangements immediately figures out what happened, but she isn't able to stop Madlax before she gets away.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', assassinations seem to be composed mostly of grand, elaborate battles with huge elemental attacks that shred the landscape and are visible from several kilometers away. Appropriate for the show that practically ''defines'' [[Highly-Visible Ninja]].
** In hindsight, this explains why a attack described as sounding like a thousand birds and is a glowing ball of lightning was developed as an assassination attack. In part one, it seemed silly. Compared to part two? Subtle.
** Justified, in part, in that a lot of the victims will be [[Glass Cannon]] types, or more durable than that, who are perfectly capable of wielding that much
** To be fair, very few actual assassination attempts happen on-screen, and practically all the successful ones happen off. Zabuza has to defeat Kakashi and co. to kill the relatively harmless bridge builder; Orochimaru assassinated the Third Hokage in the middle of a massive invasion, but the invasion was the real plan anyway, and he wanted to humiliate his old mentor in battle; Sai was going to kill Sasuke in his sleep but decided to spare him (and Sasuke was awake anyway); Sasuke tries to kill Orochimaru {{spoiler|and succeeds}} when he is seriously ill and nearly on his death bed, and still has a dangerous fight on his hands; Jiraiya has no idea what Pain looks like and is intercepted by him first....and so on. On the dlip-side, Sai is carrying around a handbook of a whole list of people he has managed to kill, and is implied to have been subtle about it (at the very least, nobody knew he was the killer).
* In ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'', an assassin knows about the Jackal quote, so he simply decides not to worry about escaping. He smuggles a rifle into the country as a decoy, and his ''actual'' plan is to infiltrate the crowd and run up to his target with a combat knife and flower bouquet full of explosives. Fortunately, the heroes are [[Badass]] enough to figure it out [[Just in Time]] and stop him.
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in ''[[Princess Principal]]: Crown Handler'', where the second movie begins with the third in line to the throne being shot during a public procession. It turned out to be [[Only a Flesh Wound]]... {{spoiler|and to have been staged}}.
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