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There is some Truth in Television here, as oftentimes the assassin is intended to be caught or killed. This is called a "lost" assassination and is popular among terrorist groups, the insane, and groups manipulating the insane for plausible deniability.
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== [[Anime]] ==
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*** Ofcourse 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 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 (Anime)|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
** 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 destrutive power themselves, and employ all sorts of deceptive security measures and can even sense killing intent. In other words, if you try the subtle method, you'll probably fail, and either way you better be ready for an epic, uber-violent and highly destructive battle if you truly want this person dead.
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** They actually went for the far simpler [[Kill All The Witnesses]] approach.
* Frank Castle aka [[The Punisher]]
* Averted in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'': Starr's right-hand man suggests killing Allfather D'Aronique, claiming that other Allfathers did the same. Starr points out that the previous Allfathers "quietly had each other garroted" instead of sudden public attacks, and that they'll be shot down by the guards if they try it. When Starr ''does'' make his move, he does so at a point where there will be no witnesses (save one he later throws into a propeller).
== [[Film]] ==
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* In the [[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'', which is a sort of prequel, Lord Vetinari, then a student assassin kills [[The Caligula|one of the previous Patricians]] at a party. There is an explicit comparison with Death (a la ''Masque of the Red Death'') as effort had been made to spook the Patrician beforehand, so in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], when Vetinari appeared, the Patrician died of a heart attack before he struck the fatal blow.
* Done at multiple levels in ''Crown Of Slaves'' by [[David Weber]]. During the coronation at the end of the book, Lieutenant Governor Cassetti is killed in front of thousands of people and dozens of notables from the various political groups around Torch. Averted at one level, because Scrags are instantly found with the murder weapon, but played absolutely straight at another level because {{spoiler|Thandi Palane planted the evidence of their guilt and had her guards kill them so they couldn't be questioned, such that she was standing in full view of everyone while she executed him}}.
* ''[[The Executioner]]''. [[One
* In ''[[The Day of the Jackal]]'' by Frederick Forsythe, the Jackal plans to assassinate Charles DeGaulle at a public event -- notably the award ceremony on Liberation Day, the one occasion he can be certain the President of France will turn up, no matter what threats have been made against his life.
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* [[Jeopardy (TV)|U.S. Presidents for 400, Alex]]:
** President [[Andrew Jackson]]'s would-be assassin ambushed ol' Hickory while he was walking with his entourage in DC. Unfortunately for him, ''[[Reliably Unreliable Guns|both]]'' [[Reliable Unreliable Guns|of his prepared pistols misfired]]. What followed was [[Extreme Melee Revenge|an attempt by Jackson to beat the man into a paste with his cane]]. He had to be physically restrained to keep him from killing the man. One can only assume that Jackson was not amused by the assassin's audacity.
** Used to great effect by John Wilkes Booth when he assassinated [[Abraham Lincoln]] at a crowded theater. There were ''soldiers'' present in the audience, with sidearms. Booth managed to shoot Lincoln, jump down from the President's box onto the stage, ''break his leg'' while landing, give a [[Bond One
** [[James Garfield]] was shot in a train station. There weren't a ton of people around, but the assassin, Charles Guiteau, was a nutjob who reportedly yelled, "I did it and I want to be arrested!" afterwards, which is always helpful.
** Next was [[William McKinley]], who was shot while gladhanding the crowd at the Pan-American Exposition. One of his Secret Service bodyguards admitted at the trial that he may not have seen the assassin, Polish-American anarchist Leon Czogolsz, because he was distracted by the [[Scary Black Man]] standing behind him. (The crowd, including said [[Scary Black Man]], did attack Czogolsz, and McKinley, who knew he was dying, asked the Secret Service to stop them.)
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