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{{quote|''Ronnie Kray, one of the two Kray Twins who basically run organized crime in London, commits the murder he'll finally be sent away for when he walks into the Blind Beggar pub and shoots George Cornell in the head... Kray would manage to get away with this for three years by virtue of the fact that nobody was actually stupid enough to testify against a man who walked into pubs and shot people dead, this being [[Trigger Happy|a sort of tautological behavior]].''|[http://tardiseruditorum.blogspot.com/2011/03/ready-to-outsit-eternity-ark.html Philip Sandifer]}}
So there's the Evil Overlord sitting on his throne, when a figure in black suddenly appears looking like Death himself. He strikes a fatal blow and the crowd is so shocked (and/or the victim so [[Zero
If the Target employs [[Swiss Cheese Security]], they deserve it.
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* ''[[The Presidents Analyst (Film)|The Presidents Analyst]]'' opens with a US spy knifing an Albanian double agent and dumping the body into a garment cart on a busy sidewalk on New York's 7th Avenue - note this is filmed ''on location'' and nobody gives it a second glance!
** [[Completely Missing the Point|Well yeah. They saw the cameras.]]
* Narrowly averted in the climactic scene of ''The Emperor and the Assassin''. The eponymous assassin chases the eponymous emperor Qin up and down his throne room, dagger in hand, in front of hundreds of courtiers. Emperor Qin finally fights off and kills the assassin all by himself after minutes of this, and then turns on his courtiers, supposedly his loyal supporters, and says "None of you did anything." It was one of the most brutally effective [[Despair Event Horizon|DespairEventHorizons]] ever filmed, as he realizes that he is now the sole ruler of all China, but that [[Zero
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The Master does this to the President of Gallifrey in the ''[[
** The Marshall has one carried out in ''[[Doctor Who
* The neo-Nazis who shoot at the president's entourage in ''[[The West Wing]]'' are easily shot by the Secret Service through the window of the office building they're in. Later we find out that they had no ID on them, implying they expected to die.
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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-Liner]], run offstage, leave the theater, get his horse, and gallop away. Nobody stopped him. From later witness interviews, reactions when it happened varied from "wait, is there a gunshot in this play? I don't think there is" to "oh, it's John Wilkes Booth, popular actor, [[Hey, It's That Guy!|I know that guy]]. Why's he jumping on stage in a play he's not in?" [[Refuge in Audacity|The act was so brazen that by the time anyone wrapped their head around what had just happened, Booth was long gone]].
** [[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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