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* In ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', the entire ''city'' of Roanapur is composed of either hitmen or people who cater services ''for'' hitmen, anyone who has worked in the trade long enough gets ''really'' pissed off when they have someone running around messing up potential profitable contracts or clients. It's one of the reasons nearly the entire city gets behind trying to clear off Hansel and Gretel, who are themselves hired killers who know no other way of life. [[Pragmatic Villainy|Anarchy just ain't good for business]].
* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'':
** The Varia are elite, if somewhat [[Crazy Awesome|eccentric]], assassins. They're certainly well dressed, and have no problem killing anyone ([[You Have Failed Me...|or each other]]). They prefer to remain independent from the more peace-loving [[The Mafia|Vongola]] however, as [[Benevolent Boss]] Tsuna is too nice for their liking. Though their own boss served as the [[Big Bad]] for a time, now they're more [[Anti-Hero|antiheroes]] than anything.
** Reborn:
*** The title character is a subversion of the trope: He always refers to himself as a hitman, never an assassin, There seems to be a clear distinction between the two in the Vongola Family, and the title "Hitman" appears to command the utmost respect. Reborn himself is highly honorable and wise, if a bit of a prankster. Although we're repeatedly told he's the best Hitman alive, we never actually see him kill anyone (but we do see that he is an uncannily good shot.)
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** Most Professional Killers from ''[[Sin City]]'' are hitmen; assassins are very, very rare to find, with the possible exceptions of the Salesman and deadly little Miho. While a number of these hitmen are fairly skilled or powerful, they nonetheless all have the life expectancy of the average hitman as described above.
* The titular ''[[Ichabod Azrael]]'' is, in the very first strip, assassinated by a gang of notorious outlaws led by Bloody Bill Sterling.
* Laura "X-23" Kinney, the [[Opposite
* Valentine D'Eath from [[2000 AD]] (specifically "Shakara") definitely fits the Assassin mold, albeit with all the exaggeration inherent to a gonzo [[Space Opera]] scifi setting.
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** For an [[Old World of Darkness|Old world]] example, we have the Assamites of ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', an entire vampiric clan with close ties to the hashhashin (to the point that the original Mount Alamut is their home base). The face they present to the rest of the Kindred is that of assassins and brokers of war, but their numbers also include scholars and sorcerors. Unfortunately, one of their castes has a flaw that means they find vampire blood especially delicious...
** For another Old World example, the Euthanatos from ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' are often stereotyped as this, but it's more a matter for the Golden Chalice faction. Even then, their actions aren't entirely about killing for pay; as they view themselves of agents of "the Wheel" of life and death, they make it their business to target [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|those whose actions unbalance the Wheel towards death]].
* Most agents of the Officio Assassinorum in ''[[Warhammer
* [[Rifts]] and several other Palladium Books games have a partial subversion: Special Forces types typically have two options for their variety of close-combat training: "Hand-To-Hand: Assassin" and "Hand-To-Hand: Commando". Assassin is typically only allowed to characters of an outright evil alignment, and offers supreme lethality but no automatic dodge and fewer raw attacks a round.
* ''[[Dungeons
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* The [[Killer7]] run the gamut from MASK DE Smith, an Assassin, to Dan Smith, a Hitman. Several of your enemies are Hitmen, while Curtis Blackburn is probably the most horrifying take on the Assassin imaginable.
* Zevran from ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'' belongs to a notorious assassin's guild, the Antivan Crows.
* [[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Tommy Vercetti]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|Carl Johnson]] from [[Grand Theft Auto]] series act as typical hitmen for a large part of the game. [[Grand Theft Auto IV|Niko Belic]] is even better example.
* Thane Krios in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' is the most feared and deadly assassin in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' universe.
** And he has something to say about all those other 'professionals' you've fought.
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