Hitman vs. Reality – is Agent 47 Better than Real Assassins?
Hitman, or Agent 47, is incredibly inventive in fulfilling his contracts. Does history have equally unusual cases of real assassinations? Let's check it out.
Table of Contents
- Hitman vs. Reality – is Agent 47 Better than Real Assassins?
- Hitman – speed kills
- Hitman – killer Skynet
- Hitman – two bullets and a cannon
- Hitman – the attack of the beast
- Hitman – agents without heart
Hitman – the attack of the beast
Fulfilling his contracts, Agent 47 resorts not only to robots and various mechanisms, but also other people. On the territory of Santa Fortuna in Colombia in the mission "Three Headed Serpent" he pushes even further, using something even stranger. Rico Delgado, for example – the boss of a drug cartel and one of Hitman's targets – had a farm with a real hippo! Enacting the guardian of the animal, can we take Delgado inspect the hippo, and throw Rico into the pit with the powerful beast. What happens next would probably be best explained by David Attenborough.
There's also another occasion, when we can throw an unsuspecting victim into the mouth of a beast. The summer return to Sapienza in one of the bonus missions has the players visit a newly built movie set, full of props and special effects equipment. A problematic artist, Dino Bosco, is a threat to the interests of the production of the movie, and an appropriate contract was prepared for him. After a little exploration of the set, disguised as a SFX specialist, Agent 47 can use the jaws of a huge robot to get rid of Bosco.
History – I swear it was a bear!
One of the Miami race scenarios allows Hitman to disguise as a flaming mascotte, which allows him to close in on the target without raising any suspicions. A similar situation, oddly enough, occurred in reality, and it is quite a long time ago. In the 17th century in Europe, broke out the Thirty-Years War between the Protestant countries of the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Habsburg dynasty. One of the more controversial characters form that period was the Swiss Protestant leader, Jörg Jenatsch.
On 24 November 1639 the politicians celebrating during the carnival were joined by a group of strangers. One of them, dressed up as a bear, ran up to Jenatsch and slaughtered him with an ax, then fled the scene. The identity of the killer was never discovered, although it is suspected that the murder was orchestrated by Rudolf von Plantas, the son of Jenatsch Pompeius Plant, the leader of one of the Catholic groups murdered some time before.
