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* Inverted in the ''[[Burke]]'' novels by Andrew Vachss. Sociopathic hitman Wesley is given a contract by [[The Mafia]] to kill a martial arts expert, but Burke kills him first. The mob then decide there's no point in paying Wesley, so he decides to [[Kill Them All]].
* This method of dealing with unneeded hitmen is used by the [[Big Bad]] of the novel ''Quite Ugly One Morning'' by Christopher Brookmyre, and the protagonist [[Genre Savvy|uses his knowledge of this trope]] to his benefit later in the story.
* In ''The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.'', as in the movie (above), the Bureau's head willingly accepted a contract to have his group hunt him down and kill him. In the book, however, it wasn't to weed out unworthy members, but because the Bureau targeted people who harmed humanity and society as a whole. He'd been persuaded that by founding the Bureau, '''he''' had done harm -- since society wouldn't formalize true justice as long as there was already an unofficial means (the Bureau) of destroying evildoers.
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