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== Films -- Live-Action ==

* ''The Matador'' stars Pierce Brosnan as a lonely, damaged hitman who's starting to lose his edge.

* Leddo from ''[[The Alzheimers Case (Film)|The Alzheimers Case]]'' refuses to kill a child which gets him into a lot of trouble.

** From the same series, we have Stevie D, an assassin hired to kill Harry. Obviously, given that Harry is one of the most powerful wizards on earth, [[Curb Stomp Battle|he fails]], but not before shooting [[The Medic|Butters]] in the back to clear his line of sight. After the battle, he is happy that {{spoiler|Butters survived by being [[Crazy Prepared]]}}, because he was not the target.

** Also Rook, of [[Jim Butcher]]'s ''[[Codex Alera]]'': the "will do anything to keep her daughter safe" variant.

* Very, ''very'' averted in Dean Koontz's book ''Watchers.'' The hitman Vince De Nasco believes he has a "Gift" that allows him to absorb the life energy of anyone he kills. This leads him to desire immortality and godhood, which is his reason for becoming a hitman. He loves killing young people, as their life energy is less tainted by the world, and his biggest dream is to kill a pregnant woman, to receive both her energy and the unborn child's. At one point he brutaly tortures one of his targets before killing him upon learning the man is a habitual philanderer, and thus his life energy is too unclean. {{spoiler|It really is all in his head. The main character guns him down at the end, the Hitman failing to demonstrate any [[Made of Iron]] abilities that one would think a literal power would allow him.}}

* Hawk from Robert B. Parker's ''Spenser'' novels is erudite, thoughtful, and has standards of conduct.

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