Professional Killer: Difference between revisions

:* Bond has a cool and calm demeanor, and he can certainly move under the radar when he wants to, but once he gets started with violence and gun play, his methods generally result in copious body counts and extraneous explosions, often in public settings with little regard for property damage or discretion.

:* Francisco Scaramanga from [[Ian Fleming]]'s ''[[The Man with the Golden Gun]]'' started as a hitman and became an assassin, later in both the film and novel. He is mostly known as "The Man with Golden Gun" because he only uses bullets made of gold (in the movie) and of course an actual golden gun (both versions, though the model of gun is different). Developed his marksmen skill as a (child) trick shot circus act. In his career, he's worked for the Spangled Mob (novel), US drug runners (novel), Cuba's secret police (novel), the KGB (movie), and freelance (movie and novel).

** Despite being stylish, the Assassins of [[Discworld]] tend to be mostly unsympathetic with some notable exceptions, such as Pteppic, who decides he can't kill anyone, and Vetinari, who notably subverts and breaks a number of [[Weird Trade Union|Guild]] rules.

** Also important to note that most of Ankh-Morpork's prominent families send their children to be educated at the Assassin's Guild, making it an important political force and that most of those who went there are not technically assassins. The Guild even has a sense of civil responsibility, refusing to take on contracts they feel would harm the city or its interests in an unacceptable fashion. Vetinari and Vimes have both been taken off the register as it was felt their removal would 'not only spoil the game but smash the board'. Though that Vimes survived 9 attempts may have contributed.

** The teachers at the Guild sometimes send students after Vimes to teach them humility. Most of the traps that Vimes has set to them are very lethal - for example loose roof-tiles on greased rails, placed where a hapless Assassin will fall onto an spiky, ornamental, but more importantly, ''spiky'' fence, bear-traps, water pits that you can't climb out of, precarious beams above the dragons' cages, etc.

 

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