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== [[Film]] ==

* Although the general setup is a ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]''-style sniping, {{spoiler|Colonel West}}'s attempt in ''[[Star Trek VI]]'' counts due to using a [[Energy Weapons|phaser]] with a bright blue beam. Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]] because {{spoiler|he is disguised as a Klingon in order to incite war, and therefore ''must'' be seen for the plan to work}}.

* Although the general setup is a ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]''-style sniping, {{spoiler|Colonel West}}'s attempt in ''[[Star Trek VI]]'' counts due to using a [[Energy Weapons|phaser]] with a bright blue beam. Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]] because {{spoiler|he is disguised as a Klingon in order to incite war, and therefore ''must'' be seen for the plan to work}}.

* ''[[Road to Perdition]]''. The man Tom Hanks is after is under the protection of the Chicago mob, so he steals a pile of their money, agreeing to return it if they let him have his revenge. We then see Tom Hanks entering a Chicago hotel, walking past mob guards on all floors who make no attempt to stop him, entering a room where he casually shoots dead his target, then walking out again.

* Subverted in ''[[Terminator (franchise)|The Terminator]]''. The T-800 Model 101 decimates a local police station and in the sequel, the local police get some pictures of the T-800 and immediately recognize that this is the same suspect that destroyed the police station in The Terminator.

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== [[Literature]] ==

* Mario Greymist's assassination of [[The Emperor]] in Steven Brust's [[Dragaera]] book ''Five Hundred Years After''. That character definitely has a link with death- grey is the in-universe color of death. (It is also associated with the Greymist Valley, which is located just above Deathgate Falls.) Justified in that Mario was allied with the prospective claimant to the throne and would have been rewarded if all went according to plan.

* In Richard Condon's ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]'', the assassination of the presidential nominee was planned not only to occur on live television during the convention, but at a specific point in the nominee's acceptance speech.

* In Richard Condon's ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'', the assassination of the presidential nominee was planned not only to occur on live television during the convention, but at a specific point in the nominee's acceptance speech.

* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld/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}}.

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