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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Do what? Do I ice her? Do I marry her? Which one of these?"''
|'''''Prizzi's Honor'''''}}
The [[Career Killer]] is as deadly as he is serious about his job, "[[Nothing Personal]], it's just business" is their favorite quip for a reason. He can spend months infiltrating a target's life and winning their confidence without hesitating to pull the trigger once the order comes. Of course, there's always that ''one'' target... not [[The One That Got Away]], but the one that ''got into'' their heart.
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Another [[Moral Dilemma]] facing the [[Hitman with a Heart]] is just what exactly to do vis-a-vis his [[What Measure Is a Mook?|former colleagues]] and innocents. Now that he's essentially done a [[Gender Flip]]ped [[High Heel Face Turn]] into at least being an [[Anti-Hero]], he can't just kill anyone he pleases. The [[Love Interest]] usually insists on [[Morality Chain|holding him to a more moral standard]], and only killing those who attack them or betrayed them.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Rethink your definition of "love", and you have Seishirou Sakurazuka from ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'' and ''[[X (manga)|X 1999]]''.
* ''[[Crying Freeman]]'' has Emu Hino, who saw Yoh Hinomura for the first time right after he murdered one of his targets. She was singled out for death... but she and Yoh fell in love and ran away together.
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== Comic Books ==
* Probably the case with Yith, a [[Snake People|
== Fan Fiction ==▼
* The somewhat, um, '[[Memetic Mutation|infamous]]' ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]: [[Dawn of War]]'' fanfiction "Love Can Bloom".▼
▲* The somewhat, um,
== Film ==
* Played with in [[Grosse Pointe Blank]]. The hitman is actually in love with {{spoiler|his mark's daughter.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'' inverts this. The two characters fall in love and get married, neither knowing the other is a secret agent, and then later, they're instructed by their respective organizations to kill each other.
* The movie ''Portrait of a Hitman''. I don't know about 'falling in love with' but he can't pull the trigger on her.
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* Subverted in ''[[Red Eye (film)|Red Eye]]''. Jackson Rippner develops a [[Villainous Crush]] on his target Lisa but he continues to go through with his mission.
* The parents' backstory in ''[[Spy Kids]]''. They were secret agents working for different countries, were assigned to "take each other out," fell in love, got married, settled down, had kids, got kidnapped by a [[Depraved Kids' Show Host]]...You know, normal parent stuff.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[In Death]]'' series: Averted. ''Memory In Death'' has Eve Dallas finding out thing Bobby Lombard married Marnie Ralston, who was pretending to be Zannah. Marnie only married him because she was trying to hurt his mother Trudy Lombard as well as steal her stuff. Then she impulsively killed Trudy, tried to cover it up, as well as attempting to kill Bobbie for kicks. Eve has to tell Bobbie about all this, and warns him that she will use this trope to manipulate him. Naturally, he is unable or unwilling to believe what she's telling him.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Cole (Belthazar) from ''[[Charmed]]'' was originally sent to kill Phoebe (and her sisters) but ends up falling in love with her.
* Alec from ''[[Dark Angel]]'' fell in love with the daughter of the mark. The mark was later expanded to include her.
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* On ''[[Castle]]'', a con artist is murdered because he falls in love with his rich fiance and his partner in the con kills him to try to earn the money.
* In a ''[[CSI]]'' episode, the victim's wife and secretary are revealed to have been planning on poisoning him for years in order to split his fortune (they previously did this to the secretary's rich husband). Unfortunately for the secretary, the wife actually ended up falling in love with him. The secreatary still killed him, though, and both get off scot-free. The wife doesn't seem too broken up about his death, however.
== Video Games ==
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* Played with in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'': Thane fell in love with the woman that blocked his shot on the Mark. According to Thane she didn't even know his target, and this had a profound affect on him, eventually tracking her down and marrying her.
* In ''[[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones]]'', Joshua meets Natasha and attempts to flirt with her; she runs off, keenly aware of the bounty on her head as a [[Defector From Decadence]]. When they meet up later, he flips a coin and tells her to call it in order to determine whether he kills her or not. Note that she is a cleric who is bound by oath not to indulge in vices such as gambling (though this ''is'' an understandable excuse). They get married if they achieve an A support.
** And from Blazing Sword (7), we've got Jaffar and Nino. A catch here is that they're both assassins in the organization now run by the [[Big Bad]]—and are sent to assassinate the Prince of Bern, Zephiel (a hit put out by the Prince's [[Kick the Dog|Fox-kicking]] Bastard of a Father). However, the organization can't exactly get away with killing someone that important... so [[Evil Matriarch|So]][[Complete Monster|nia]] order [[Defrosting Ice Queen|the up-to-that-point completely heartless]] [[Tyke Bomb|Jaffar]] to kill ''her own daughter'' [[Token
* The backstory of Kasuga from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' reveals that she fell in [[Love At First Sight]] with Uesugi Kenshin, the man she was supposed to assassinate and promptly underwent a [[Heel Face Turn]] for, and has been serving as his bodyguard ever since.
* A rather twisted version of this trope appears in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', in which Sniper Wolf is known for becoming so obsessed with her targets that she falls in love with them... right before she kills them anyway.
* In ''[[Sacred]]'', two of the PCs, the Dark Elf assassin and Wood Elf ranger, are lovers. The Dark Elf was supposed to murder the Wood Elf as a rite of passage, but his love for her turns him into a [[Defector From Decadence]].
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[The
== Western Animation ==
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