Contract on the Hitman: Difference between revisions

* Train Heartnet in ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]''.

* Teresa in ''[[Claymore]]''. She isn't quite a hitman per se, since her assignments are only hits on Youma, but that's basically the same thing.

* [[Lupin the Third]] once pays a hitman to take a contract out on himself, literally. {{spoiler|Turns out the hitman has split personality issues.}}

* Pretty much the premise of ''[[Lone Wolf and Cub]]'' is disgraced government executioner Lone Wolf evading the many, many, many people out to kill him.

* In ''[[From Hell]]'', the conspirators contemplate having William Gull killed when his mental illness reveals him as a liability. Ultimately they {{spoiler|throw him into an asylum under a false name.}}

* Jackie Estacado, mafioso hitman, of ''[[The Darkness]]'' finds himself on the receiving end of this once his powers manifest.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The ''[[Hitman]]'' movie. See also the [[Video Game]] examples below.

* The titular character of John Woo's ''[[The Killer]]'' has to deal with his syndicate trying to kill him after pulling off the hit that he hoped would earn him the money to have a singer he accidentally blinded be able to see again, due to the boss, Johnny Weng, wanting to keep the money for himself and clear the table for his ambitions. {{spoiler|[[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|He doesn't survive]], though to his credit, it takes the [[Big Bad]] himself to finally end him}}.

** Chow Yun-Fat's character in ''[[The Replacement Killers]]'' also has to deal with a syndicate who wants him dead after he refuses to kill a cop's eight-year-old son for a Triad boss with a [[Revenge by Proxy|fucked up sense of revenge]].

* The Sylvester Stallone movie ''[[Assassins (film)|Assassins]]'', where Antonio Banderas is contracted to kill the [[Hitman with a Heart]].

* ''[[Fulltime Killer]]'' apes the film ''Assassins'', in that the wild hitman Tok has modeled himself after action films and intentionally imitates the Stallone film in his rivalry with number one assassin O.

* The main character in ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank]]'' is targeted by fellow hitmen after he refuses to join their labor union.

* ''[[The Mechanic]]'' (1972) movie with Charles Bronson as a mob hitman. Bronson's character trains the son of a Mafia boss in his art without getting permission from his employers, so they set them both up to be killed. {{spoiler|Ironically after escaping the trap, the mobster's son then murders Bronson for his own personal reasons, and is himself killed by a bomb left by Bronson in his car.}}

* The short film ''[http://www.spike.com/video/talking-dessert/434948 Talking Dessert]''.

* ''Telefon'' (1977). Charles Bronson plays a KGB agent sent to stop a [[Renegade Russian]] who has stolen a list of [[Manchurian Agent|Manchurian Agents]] that could be used to start [[World War Three]]. In order to ensure that word won't get out about this cock-up, his superiors order a female American [[Double Agent]] to kill Bronson once his mission is complete. {{spoiler|Fortunately she's smart enought to realise that she'll also get the chop for [[He Knows Too Much|knowing too much]], and the two run off together at the end of the movie.}}

* ''[[Road to Perdition]]'' saw a hitman for an Irish gang hunted by the Mob after his ex-partner and boss's son {{spoiler|kills his wife and son}}; of course this causes him to go on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against the Mob.

* ''Gomorra'' (2008). Two teenage hoodlums have been running out of control in the local Camorra clan's territory, despite warnings from the mob boss to behave themselves or die. They ignore this warning, stealing a cache of weapons hidden by the Camorra. An older mobster points out they'll have trouble with the police if two youngsters are killed publicly, so he approaches them with a deal -- for 10,000 euros they return the weapons and kill a mobster who has betrayed him. The youths follow their target to an isolated location, only to be murdered in an ambush and their bodies carted away by a bulldozer to be disposed of.

 

 

* Done memorably on ''[[Angel]]'', much to the frustration of the contractors:

{{quote|This is getting ridiculous. The first assassin kills the second assassin, sent to kill the first assassin, who didn't assassinate anyone until we hired the second assassin to assassinate the first assassin. }}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** Somewhat related is the plot for ''[[Hitman]]: Blood Money'', in which a major part of the plot involves a rival contract agency called "The Franchise", who is killing off all of the agents from 47's agency. Towards the end, {{spoiler|only 47 and his contract informer, Diana, are still alive. They split the remaining money and part their separate ways. However, Diana seems to be a turncoat for the Franchise, and "kills" 47 to fulfill the contract on the guy's head by the Franchise's [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] (he wanted 47's clone DNA as a starting point for his own super-assassin cloning scheme). This turns out to be a ploy by her to weed out the one behind the Agency's liquidation, and she revives 47 just in time to finish the bloke off.}}

* This is the premise of the game ''[[Bushido Blade]]''; your character is trying to escape from the clan of assassins he or she belongs to, and the rest of the cast wants you dead.

* In ''[[Dead or Alive]]'', Ayane is required to kill her half-sister Kasumi as desertion from a ninja clan is punishable by death.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Occurred in one story arc of ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', with Bongo's squad of [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20021201.html bounty hunters] being employed to capture their previous coworker, Doyt/Haban, {{spoiler|due to the highly classified gear that D/H was equipped with, which the UNS didn't want out of its control.}}