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Carnival of Killers

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Carnival of Killers	comment	A Carnival of Killers occurs when a villain either hires the best assassins from around the world and sends them after the hero, or puts out an open contract on the hero's head that attracts a variety of assassins. A typical Carnival of Killers will involve a large collection of assassins with radically different styles (e.g., a Cold Sniper, a Mad Bomber, etc.), and sometimes will include last season villains that have since fallen below the Sorting Algorithm of Evil's current threshold. The assassins may work together, albeit with a tendency to eventually betray each, or be in open competition from the outset. In a story that wishes to evoke an "international" flavor, all the killers may make no secret of their creepy foreignness and might even dress as mildly absurd ethnic stereotypes. It's not unusual for some of them to be political radicals or even terrorists who are taking a break from their usual "hobbies." Compare Legion of Doom and Quirky Miniboss Squad. Not comparable to Circus of Fear, unless being chased by the world's top assassins posing as clowns is the hero's worst fear. Compare and contrast Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, who are usually the protagonists and/or the focus of the story who are just as radically different individually as this trope.
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Carnival of Killers / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock: In "The Reichenbach Fall", a group of international assassins appear around Sherlock, although initially they appear to be keeping Holmes alive. Ultimately, it is revealed they have been hired by Moriarty to kill Holmes' friends if Holmes refuses to kill himself.
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Carnival of Killers / int_1367cea0	comment	In the backstory of Worm the Slaughterhouse 9 used to act as this for gangs such as the Teeth. By the current story, they seem to have abandoned these side jobs in favor of straight mayhem.
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Carnival of Killers / int_14b1f802	comment	In World's Finest #8, a mob boss puts an open contract on the Huntress's life, causing a large number of assassins to start targeting Helena in an attempt to collect.
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Carnival of Killers / int_16a9f881	comment	In The Spirit Thief, as the combined bounty for Eli, Nico and Josef eventually exceeds 600,000 gold standards, everyone and their dog is out to get them, including master swordsmen, unnoticeable men, spiritualists, League of Storms, random bounty hunters and one very angry empress.
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Carnival of Killers / int_17547b7a	comment	Monster Blood Tattoo: Europe and Rossamund have to fight their way through a number of hired killers at the midpoint and at the climax of Book Three.
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Carnival of Killers / int_1869a077	comment	This was common enough in Samurai Jack that eventually an episode is told from the perspective of the disparate group of Bounty Hunters searching for Jack. note This episode is one of the few instances of Jack using his sword on a living creature (albeit not directly 'on camera'), an artifact left over from the Lone Wolf and Cub chapter which it homages almost scene-for-scene. Oddly, Jack is later said to have never taken a (non-robotic) life before a certain point that comes after that fight. Another example is the endless progression of hunters facing Jack head-on in "Jack and Mad Jack" (most notably, "Crazy Round Man" and Huntor).
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Carnival of Killers / int_186be976	comment	These groups get sent after the Secret Six all the time. In fact, the roster of the Six themselves read as a veritable carnival of killers:
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Carnival of Killers / int_18c16684	comment	John Wick: Chapter 2: Retired killer John Wick has One Last Job where he helps an old associate, and this ends with him having a large bounty on his head through his former guild. Earlier in the film, an open bounty was also put on his head by the villain, resulting in Wick having to deal with killers gunning after him on every street corner. This theme continues in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, which deals with John Wick trying to survive the aforementioned massive bounty on his head, and John Wick: Chapter 4, where John has a chance to get the bounty lifted... but only if he makes it to a certain place by a certain time, and the villain has a vested interest in making sure that John arrives late if at all.
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Carnival of Killers / int_18d2fbe8	comment	Hawkeye was subject to one of these in Avengers Spotlight #24-25 when Crossfire put a bounty on his arm.
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Carnival of Killers / int_1c5bbe78	comment	The Lupin III: The Italian Adventure, plays with it by having the colorful group of assassins include Goemon. They are secretly assembled by a rising Italian politician to kill a ruthless African dictator. Turns out the politician just wanted unrestricted access to the dictator's oil fields, and he has his own mole within the assassins turn on their cohorts to keep his secret.
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Carnival of Killers / int_1d1c07f6	comment	In the The Amazing Extraordinary Friends episode "Quality Time", Renfield hires the 'world's greatest super assassins' (the Invisible Ninja, Captain Tardy, Geyser Girl, and the Easter Bunny) to eliminate the Friends.
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Carnival of Killers / int_1e015a5d	comment	The bounty hunters in The Empire Strikes Back, although the only one who actually gets anywhere with hunting the occupants of the Millennium Falcon is Boba Fett.
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Carnival of Killers / int_1e812a69	comment	I Hate Fairyland: In Issue #15, a group of Fairyland's best mercenaries are hired to kill Gert before she can finally make her way home. They briefly argue over who gets to kill her, but that's brought to a quick resolution when they're told that they'll all be paid equally regardless of who finishes her off.
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Carnival of Killers / int_221ad0d3	comment	Barry: VERY briefly used in "a nice meal" when Hank hires the F.U.B.Ks (Four Ultimate Badass Killers), consisting of a knife fighter, an explosives expert, an ex-Special Forces operative, and a sharpshooter. He sends them to take care of Fuches... who promptly sends their boxed heads back to Hank's office.
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Carnival of Killers / int_2547d61f	comment	White Collar had one of the protagonists calling on a carnival of killers, when Mozzie places a six million dollar bounty on Keller who killed one of their friends and was threatening them.
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Carnival of Killers / int_2604077	comment	Obi-Wan Kenobi. After her fellow Inquisitors cut Reva out of the hunt for Obi-Wan, she sends out an open contract on Obi-Wan to every bounty hunter in the city. However Reva doesn't think the bounty hunters are good enough to kill or capture the legendary Jedi—it's only meant to flush him out into the open so she can take him down herself.
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Carnival of Killers / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Spoofed in "Sex, Pies, And Idiot Scrapes." Homer becomes a bounty hunter with Ned Flanders as his partner. When Flanders decides to leave the business, their boss tells him his last bounty is Homer himself. And if Flanders won't do it, one of the other hunters will. Cue a room full of thugs, including a knife-wielder, a psychotic man with a chainsaw, a girl with a machine-gun leg, and a grizzly bear practicing the nunchaku.
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Carnival of Killers / int_2a590d91	comment	The Superposse in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which includes Indian tracker Lord Baltimore and lawman Joe leFors and which has been paid to stay on the trail of the outlaws till they are dead.
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Carnival of Killers / int_33e7e620	comment	This premise is repeated in Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball, except this time the target is an FBI analyst who has a massive price placed on his head several days before his impending retirement.
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Carnival of Killers / int_34ce03c2	comment	The Umbrella Coup: Several hitmen line up to get a shot at Grégoire but he manages to foil all their attempts on his life.
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Carnival of Killers / int_383d1260	comment	The finale of The Last Dragon, where Bruce Leroy fights off everyone from a wrestler with a white Mohawk to an acid bath murderer...
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Carnival of Killers / int_39e3b5ff	comment	In Kill Bill, the protagonist is a former member of a Carnival of Killers, all with their own specializations and codenamed after different snake species. She ends up massacring most of the other members on her way to, well, kill Bill, the leader of the organization.
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Carnival of Killers / int_3bce4381	comment	The second half of the anime Trigun is about Vash trying to stay alive while keeping the 12 Gung Ho Guns at bay as they come at him.
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Carnival of Killers / int_3bd96c18	comment	In Alita: Battle Angel, as the titular protagonist starts growing to become a problem for the Big Bad, a group of cyborg bounty hunters and criminals, all with their own unique armaments, is hired to assassinate her in the course of a Motorball match.
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Carnival of Killers / int_3d0180fa	comment	The Pink Panther: In The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dreyfus demands that Clouseau be killed or he will destroy the world. Several nations send assassins to kill Clouseau at Oktoberfest in Munich, only for the assassins to wind up killing each other by accident or to stop their rivals from getting the credit. In Revenge of the Pink Panther, the main villain's henchman hired a whole Carnival Of Killers. When the Big Bad saw them, he said "are these the men you have hired to kill Clouseau?" The henchmen replied he had hired these men to kill Mr. Chong. The Carnival of Killers had been hired merely to test the skills of the real killer they were sending after Clouseau…
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Carnival of Killers / int_3f093ce4	comment	During 2011, Bob Sapp sent several "assassins", including Jonathan Gresham, Ryan Genesis, Cho-un Shiryu, Dragon Chen, and Ryoma Li, into Dramatic Dream Team for the purpose of ridding it of Danshoku Dino. Gaylon Summers of GOUGE was the one to finally defeat Dino in a match, but he didn't succeed in making him leave DDT, and Dino eventually did defeat Gaylon for good.
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Carnival of Killers / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	Austin Powers: Among the various killers hired by Dr Evil are an Asian man using his shoe to kill people named Random Task and a vaguely Middle-Eastern man who angers Dr Evil but will just not die.
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Carnival of Killers / int_400f983e	comment	In Revenge of the Pink Panther, the main villain's henchman hired a whole Carnival Of Killers. When the Big Bad saw them, he said "are these the men you have hired to kill Clouseau?" The henchmen replied he had hired these men to kill Mr. Chong. The Carnival of Killers had been hired merely to test the skills of the real killer they were sending after Clouseau…
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Carnival of Killers / int_42800440	comment	The Scorpion: In The Mask of Truth, Cardinal Trebaldi puts a 1,000 gold coin price on the Scorpion's head. Every assassin in Rome tries to claim it.
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Carnival of Killers / int_4531122c	comment	Button Man: When Harry's leverage on Senator Jacklin becomes useless after the latter's death, the Voices organize a massive game by sending thirteen other Button Men to go after Harry in a cross-country hunt. They get into each other's way to get to Harry a bunch of times, which is handily exploited by him.
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Carnival of Killers / int_489c6d22	comment	Lost to Dust: A bounty is put on Yang Xiao Long and several bounty hunters attack her group, including Billy the Kid and Beowulf.
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Carnival of Killers / int_49ad83ee	comment	The "Deaths of Chromie" scenario from World of Warcraft, players have to stop several assassins hired by an unknown master all trying to kill Chromie at the same time. They include a satyr, a lich, a dreadlord, a Void god, as well as other undeads, demons and even troops from the player factions, even though all of these people are normally working for wildly different sides at war with each other.
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Carnival of Killers / int_4c23cdd0	comment	In Nobody Lives for Ever, the dying leader of SPECTRE places (literally) a prize on the head of James Bond, which brings opportunistic killers from various organizations after him. However, SPECTRE has no intention to pay any of them, and instead uses them to find and herd Bond to their base in Florida, where they are going to claim his head by themselves with a guillotine.
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Carnival of Killers / int_4f14e537	comment	The New Adventures of Invader Zim: In Season 2, Episode 3, Nyx decides that the best way to help Zim is to eliminate Dib, and so puts an open bounty on him, causing several alien bounty hunters to descend on Earth in search of him. Among them are a Spider Person Trap Master, a centaur with Super-Speed, a Vortian Combat Pragmatist, a cyborg Blood Knight, and a working pair of a robot and a flying goblin. This all ends when Zim finds out about the contract and, enraged by it, orders Nyx to call it off, which she does.
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Carnival of Killers / int_5194858f	comment	In Silverblade, Vermillion hires a trio of assassins to hunt and kill Milestone for his Snuff Film. He even holds auditions, and disposes of the one who doesn't make the cut. The three selected use a laser, an electrified sword, and a flamethrower.
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Carnival of Killers / int_52c71109	comment	Steven Richards, Thuggin and Buggin Enterprises, La Résistance, Tommy Dreamer and Batista all tried to get the money Triple H was offering to whoever would take out Goldberg for him.
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Carnival of Killers / int_5319ce6c	comment	Spy X Family: Yor is assigned to protect Olka Gretcher and her infant son from dozens of assassins sent to kill them as they escape Ostania on a cruise ship.
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Carnival of Killers / int_542eeb2d	comment	Chai Lai Angels: Dangerous Flowers: Recognizing how useless his own thugs are, Dragon hires a group known as the Five Nation Bounty Hunters to take out the Chai Lais. The group consists of a Scary Black Man, a meido wielding a katana, a martial artist with a bladed staff, and a rhythmic gymnast wielding ribbons as weapons.
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Carnival of Killers / int_551d6610	comment	This is what happens in No Country for Old Men after Moss steals the money. He has numerous Mexican mooks, Professional Killer Carson Wells, and Psycho for Hire Anton Chigurh after him.
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Carnival of Killers / int_58cc5b9c	comment	Dead Man's Gun: In "Death Warrant", John Pike—a ruthless, hard-bitten bounty hunter carrying the Dead Man's Gun—accidentally kills an innocent young man in a shoot-out. The mother of the dead boy puts a bounty on Pike's head, and he finds himself being hunted by every bounty hunter, hired gun, and chancer across three states.
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Carnival of Killers / int_5f76cba1	comment	In the New 52 series of Harley Quinn, a $2 million bounty is placed on Harley's head, bring a veritable army of hired killers out of the woodwork to try to claim it.
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Carnival of Killers / int_5fcf37d9	comment	Lupin III: Part 5 plays the trope straight in the first part of the series when the dark web site Marco Polo sets a wild band of killers on Lupin as revenge for him stealing the hacker behind their success.
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Carnival of Killers / int_62972a00	comment	Deconstructed in The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank, where a gangster employs three badass killers to take out the Punisher. The first guy is a Martial Arts expert "with a black belt in anything you care to name." Punisher says that he "knows a little myself", but settles on simply shoving the guy onto a subway track. The second guy is some kind of Neo-Cowboy Gunslinger, famous for a firefight with a police officer, where he ducked the bullet fired at him and shot the cop dead. The Punisher riddles him with an UZI. note ("Dodged a bullet. Not thirty.") Lastly we have an ex-Marine sniper and Desert Storm veteran. Punisher runs him over with a car.
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Carnival of Killers / int_629cd094	comment	Subverted in Dragon Age: Origins. Arl Howe approached the Antivan Crows about assassinating the Grey Wardens, but since it's considered in poor taste (and often suicidal) to go after members of that order, only Zevran stepped up to accept the contract. Once he makes his attempt, no more Crows bother the Warden for the rest of the game. When they do return, it's more because they are after Zevran for failing to get his target.
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Carnival of Killers / int_63eff2b2	comment	In Criminal Case: World Edition, the Arc Villains of each world region and even a few minor Killers of the Week are elite agents of the Nebulous Evil Organisation fought throughout the story by the player and the police force they belong to. These include a Morally Bankrupt Banker/cult leader committing terrorist acts all over Europe, a Professional Killer with a penchant for Poisoned Weapons, the head of a Russian space organization, a NGO worker laundering and stealing money from disaster charities, a Social Darwinist grandma in charge of a Deadly Game for children, a Professor Guinea Pig experimenting on humans, a diamond heiress smuggling jewels for the organization, and even a member of the police force.
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Carnival of Killers / int_6b463ee9	comment	Birds of Prey: After Harley goes to retrieve Cassandra from the police station, Sionis posts a $500,000 bounty for bringing Cassandra to him alive and sends it to every hired gun in Gotham, who converge on Harley and her cargo.
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Carnival of Killers / int_6bcd58c7	comment	In the Sin City tale, Hell and Back, the protagonist deals with one assassin after another. All of the assassins belonged to the same guild, however. Also done in the first story. Marv has to deal with a SWAT team, two hitmen, a cannibal Serial Killer, and a group of federal agents all assigned to take him down.
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Carnival of Killers / int_6c9193a1	comment	At the end of The Venture Bros.' third season, Jean-Claude LeTueur, Russel "Go-Fish" Sturgeon, and Herr Trigger are hired to track and kill Brock. All of them manipulated by Molotov Cocktease into getting killed by Brock so that her Black Hearts assassins agency would be the only game in town for high profile assassination jobs.
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Carnival of Killers / int_6cd3b44f	comment	Happens twice in Black Lagoon, once in response to the Vampire Twins, and once in response to Greenback Jane. In the second example, one of the episodes of the arc is even called "The Roanapur Freakshow Circus". (It sums up a lot about Black Lagoon when you point out that several of the characters involved then end up working with the heroes in the "Baile de la Muerte" arc.) It sums up more when you realize that two of the characters defending the target during the second carnival participated in the first.
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Carnival of Killers / int_6d361cf3	comment	The Assassination Bureau is about a member of a Carnival of Killers who challenges his fellow assassins by putting a bounty on himself. Things do not bode well for those other assassins.
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Carnival of Killers / int_701f0ece	comment	In Berserk, we have the "Bakiraka" an elite group of Kushan Assassins led by Silat. Then there's the "Black Dog Knights", a not so elite group of murdering scum led by the biggest murdering scumbag of them all: Wyald. Both are employed by the King of Midland to track down the outlawed Band of the Hawk.
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Carnival of Killers / int_75c31694	comment	The A-Team: The episode Deadly Maneuvers had a syndicate of crime lords pay Major Douglas Kyle to assemble a Dream Team of mercenaries to hunt down the A-Team. The episode "Waiting for Insane Wayne" had Insane Wayne and his team of mercenaries-for-hire who the team briefly impersonates then ends up fighting.
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Carnival of Killers / int_7d7fbcc	comment	In the 14th issue of Daredevil, after word spreads about Ka-Zar's vibranium medallion, a motley crew of "agents from every nation and killers without a nation", in addition to the Plunderer and the police, all start gunning for Ka-Zar and Daredevil.
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Carnival of Killers / int_8125b468	comment	One of the Batman Versus Predator mini-series had this running as B plot. An open bounty on Batman brought a variety of hitmen to Gotham to attempt to collect.
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Carnival of Killers / int_81bdb552	comment	In Machete Kills, Mendez puts a $10 million price on his own head, and $20 million on Machete's, causing a veritable army of freelance killers to assemble between them and the US border. These include Dirty Cop Sheriff Doakes; Desdemona and her gun-toting prostitutes; and Master of Disguise el Chameleon.
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Carnival of Killers / int_82bd6a04	comment	Akuma no Riddle is about a girl who's the target of twelve assassins, until one of them decides to defend her instead. From that on, it's "only" eleven.
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Carnival of Killers / int_84eea494	comment	Was the general idea of the Gunsmoke episode "Reward for Matt". Mrs. Hornby gets pretty mad when Marshal Dillon kills her husband. She offers $1000 to anyone who kills Dillon. The script was later reused for an episode of the Gunsmoke TV series.
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Carnival of Killers / int_86269885	comment	The Weaver Option: The pirate captains/admirals of Pavia are a disparate bunch and would happily kill one another given the chance. Despite this they will all answer the call of Duke Sliscus when he summons them, if only so he won't slaughter them and their crews.
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Carnival of Killers / int_88a89745	comment	The whole premise of Smokin' Aces is that a huge bounty is placed on a mob rat and a whole lot of colorful assassins swarm on his location at the same time trying to collect.
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Carnival of Killers / int_8d81bb26	comment	This is set up in NCIS by Alejandro Rivera in "Honor Thy Father", who arranges a break on a prison ship with any and all escapees ordered to kill Gibbs. End result? Only one escapee, who then hires a mercenary to also kill Gibbs for a Batman Gambit, but both are offed by him instead.
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Carnival of Killers / int_920bdb7c	comment	Kill Six Billion Demons has the Pursuers, an unaffiliated mob of 108 Guild mercenaries and independent warriors hunting the Key of Kings lodged in Allison's head. While they work together to chase Allison, whenever they get close to actually catching Allison they start killing each other in a free-for-all brawl since only one would be able to actually claim the Key. New Pursuers join up at about the same rate as they get killed, keeping the number constant.
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Carnival of Killers / int_93fb9c70	comment	In Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman, gang lord Che Longana puts a bounty of 300 million pesos on the head of the Machine Gun Woman, which attracts all kinds of killers; from common street thugs to elite hitmen.
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Carnival of Killers / int_9535dfe4	comment	Grosse Pointe Blank: Martin Blank, a disenchanted hitman, attends his high school reunion only to cross paths with an assassin union who thinks he's trying to steal their hit. The hitmen we see are mostly just mooks, though Blank and the union leader do conversationally mention some colorful assassins.
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Carnival of Killers / int_969fb090	comment	Blindspot: In the Season 3 episode "Clamorous Night", Roman puts a hit on the FBI team. The only specifically unique assassin in the group is one who likes using poisons; the rest stick to good old-fashioned guns and knives.
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Carnival of Killers / int_99c003af	comment	On The Boondocks, Gin Rummy tells the tale of Bushido Brown fending off a group of these hired by the beef industry to take out Oprah Winfrey, including pastiches of Walker, Texas Ranger and Billy Jack.
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Carnival of Killers / int_9d47a2a2	comment	In A Song of Ice and Fire, Tywin Lannister employs a carnival of killers for "foraging" missions, which is essentially sending armed men to plunder and murder the enemy's peasants. His troupe includes a mercenary gang called the Brave Companions but nicknamed the Bloody Mummers, which is almost literally a carnival of killers, right down to a Monster Clown, the fool Shagwell who kills people for not laughing at his jokes. In fitting with the spirit of the trope, the group is also extensively multicultural, and individual members often have their own signature derangements. They are led by Vargo Hoat, his long beard and helmet with horns lead to him being nicknamed the goat. However he's a sadistic psychopath who enjoys cutting off limbs, and even his laughable Speech Impediment is sinister, due to it coming from him catching a disease from raping someone.
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Carnival of Killers / int_9e84c324	comment	The Red Triangle Circus Gang in Batman Returns is about as literal as this trope can possibly get. True to their name, they are indeed ex-circus performers and continue to dress as clowns, acrobats, and various other circus people while serving as the Penguin's shock troops, apparently because Crime Doesn't Pay. More to the point of this trope, they function as a sort of highly anarchic guerrilla fighting force with every weapon known to man: machine guns, rocket launchers, ninja weapons, and various incendiary devices.
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Carnival of Killers / int_9f19f7b1	comment	Frequently ended up on the wrong end of Oogami Itto's sword in Lone Wolf and Cub. Hired by the Yagyu clan, until the situation got desperate enough that they revealed themselves to wear this mantle as well.
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Carnival of Killers / int_a040500a	comment	Best Served Cold: For one of her assassinations, Monza and co. hire a bunch of performers/killers, including a juggler/killer and a band of killers. When Duke Orso finds out that Monza is still alive, he has the best assassins and bounty hunters brought to him and offers them a big reward for killing her. Monza and her group would be a Carnival of Killers themselves were they not the protagonists: lead by a mercenary with a terrible reputation (Monza herself), the group has a Barbarian Hero (Shivers), a Master Poisoner (Morveer) and apprentice (Day), a freelance Torture Technician and Information Broker (Vitari), a backstabbing mercenary (Cosca), and a number-obsessed mob enforcer (Friendly).
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Carnival of Killers / int_a3748187	comment	Part 5 contains its own variant, where the group of assassins are all from a mafia family that the protagonists also belong to. The heroes want to overthrow the boss and create a nicer mafia, but they're tasked with guarding the boss' daughter who becomes a target for everyone else. While the villains mostly belonging to a single Italian gang means less variety in certain aspects, the villains still showcase a wide variety of approaches and designs.
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Carnival of Killers / int_a5fe3567	comment	In the "6 Gun War" arc in Jonah Hex, Quentin Turnbull recruits a variety of assassins from around the world to bring him Jonah's head, including an Irish boxer, a Persian assassin, a Masai lion-hunter, and a Mexican Dual Wielding machetes.
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Carnival of Killers / int_a993be1f	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, the gangster Goto hires dozens of bounty hunters to bring in the Player Character. Goto wants you alive, but the people he hired don't pay attention to that part so much.
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Carnival of Killers / int_ab42c63a	comment	Max faces one in the Get Smart episode "Someone Down Here Hates Me" when KAOS puts a $250,000 bounty on his head (and later ups it to $500,000).
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Carnival of Killers / int_ac58ea30	comment	In The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dreyfus demands that Clouseau be killed or he will destroy the world. Several nations send assassins to kill Clouseau at Oktoberfest in Munich, only for the assassins to wind up killing each other by accident or to stop their rivals from getting the credit.
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Carnival of Killers / int_ac76e13b	comment	Akame ga Kill! is a subversion of the usual formula since the Carnival of Killers are the protagonists. Night Raid accepts assassination contracts on the corrupt and powerful.
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Carnival of Killers / int_b1268111	comment	Accident Man: After Mike kills Cliff, Big Ray orders the rest of the Murder, Inc. crew to hunt down and eliminate Mike. This consists of ex-special forces soldiers Bash Brothers Mick and Mac; Master Poisoner Poison Pete; finesse killer Finicky Fred; and katana wielding vamp Jane the Ripper.
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Carnival of Killers / int_b2ad762f	comment	The Carnivale in Agent G: Infiltrator is a literal example of this. Albeit, the name just reflects that they tend to be more colorful than other assassins, giving themselves badass names and being less careful about collateral damage than other groups.
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Carnival of Killers / int_b2b8158	comment	Part 4 contains a lighter version of this. The early villains were all empowered by one man, but his goal wasn't to assassinate the heroes and most of the early villains fought the heroes for their own reasons. This changes in the latter half of the story, where the new villain's father is empowering people on the fly in order to find someone who can stop the heroes from tracking down his son. This ends up including such characters as a gangster granted the power to drain people's life forces, a cat that comes back from the dead as a plant, a kid who can steal your energy by winning in rock-paper-scissors, and a man who can fold you into paper if he sees your fear.
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Carnival of Killers / int_b4290f43	comment	The Destroyer: The Last Alchemist had an interesting variation of this. The Dragon as part of his backstory participated in an open contract on a crimelord. After he killed the target, he was given a job as the personal assassin of the Big Bad who had placed the contract simply to find a suitable person for the position. The trope appeared in a few other books in the series as well.
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Carnival of Killers / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: The Identity Crisis storyline is about Spider-Man being framed for murder with a $5,000,000 bounty on his head, dead or alive. Eventually, he assumes several different costumed identities so he can keep up the superhero game without being harassed, but before he thought of that he was fighting off dozens of bounty hunters every day. The guys after the 5 mil ranged from mundane gun nuts and thrill-seekers (like the Hunters) to professionals (like Shotgun) to actual costumed villains (like Override and Aura).
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Carnival of Killers / int_ba3af9dd	comment	Boss Level has its protagonist Roy hunted by one while trapped in a "Groundhog Day" Loop with no idea why either situation is happening to him. His day starts with a suited guy with a machete trying to stab him awake, followed minutes later by another mowing the apartment down with a minigun from an helicopter, and then the assassins only get weirder and more lethal after that.
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Carnival of Killers / int_bac8c243	comment	Pretty-boy gangster Dorian Tyrell promises $50,000 to whoever can kill the title character in The Mask (no mean feat, since the green-faced creature is practically immortal).
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Carnival of Killers / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Also the various groups that tried to catch Danny Phantom after Vlad put out a bounty on him, including the Guys in White and the Extreme Ghostbreakers.
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Carnival of Killers / int_bb4af8d3	comment	The Young Justice episode "Infiltrator" dealt with the heroes protecting a scientist from a group of assassins. However, all of the assassins were working for the same group—The League of Shadows—and operated as a team with zero infighting.
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Carnival of Killers / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: While the Officio Assassinorum normally sends one or two agents out to deal with their targets, an especially dangerous opponent can result in the deployment of an Execution Force, which includes assassins from multiple Assassin Temples. As reveal in the Horus Heresy novel Nemesis, the very first Execution Force created was given a truly momentous task - assassinate Horus. They failed, with one of their own even noting the odds of victory were below twenty five percent. A second force was deployed to kill Lord Drask (which forms the plot of a spin-off game), while a third one was apparently deployed during the Second Damocles Gulf War to take down high ranking T'au in the conflict. The Culexus assassin succeeds in killing Aun'va.
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Carnival of Killers / int_bd54ba07	comment	Invoked for laughs in Blazing Saddles:
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Carnival of Killers / int_bdb01400	comment	In Arachnid, Alice Fuji is made the target of such a game by an organization of insect-themed assassins. However, the reward for killing her gets increased for every assassin that dies, implying one purpose of this is to set them against each other and weed out the weak members of the organization.
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Carnival of Killers / int_bfd23f28	comment	In Masters of the Universe, Skeletor hires a group of mercenaries to follow He-Man and the others to Earth to recover the Cosmic Key. They consist of the Master Swordsman Blade, the Beast Man, the reptilian Saurod, and the hook-handed Karg. When they fail in their first mission and return empty-handed to Skeletor, he kills Saurod and forces Evil Lyn to join them.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c0050ddd	comment	Cassiopeia Quinn: During "The Big Race" arc, Headhunter siccs a small horde of his mercenaries after Cassiopeia, including Clawlossus, Mercy, and Old Salt.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c0426389	comment	Warhammer 40,000: In the Gaunt's Ghosts book Sabbat Martyr, the plot centers on the Ghosts defending the reincarnated saint Sabbat from nine would-be assassins, dispatched against her by the Arc Villain Enok Innokenti. They range from a lone wolf Cold Sniper, to alien mercenaries, to a psyker and his attendant Creepy Twins, and culminates in a berserk Chaos Dreadnought.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2 consists of a team of these being pitted against another team of them. To wit: A Bostonian Fragile Speedster with a penchant for baseball. An Ax-Crazy, not-quite Shell-Shocked Veteran of World War II. A Pyromaniac of indeterminate gender and origin. A black, Scottish cyclopean demolitions expert who can swing a mean sword. A large Russian man with a love for massive chainguns. A Texan Gadgeteer Genius somewhat addicted to More Gun. A sadistic German doctor. An Australian sniper who uses an ancient martial art. A French espionage agent with a variety of cloaking watches.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c0da5437	comment	An early arc in Punisher: War Zone had the New York mob hiring the seven best assassins in the world to hunt down the Punisher. Such things are something of an occupational hazard for The Punisher. Deconstructed in The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank, where a gangster employs three badass killers to take out the Punisher. The first guy is a Martial Arts expert "with a black belt in anything you care to name." Punisher says that he "knows a little myself", but settles on simply shoving the guy onto a subway track. The second guy is some kind of Neo-Cowboy Gunslinger, famous for a firefight with a police officer, where he ducked the bullet fired at him and shot the cop dead. The Punisher riddles him with an UZI. note ("Dodged a bullet. Not thirty.") Lastly we have an ex-Marine sniper and Desert Storm veteran. Punisher runs him over with a car.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c22905b5	comment	Red Robin introduces the Council of Spiders, a spider-themed carnival of killers that decides to take on another carnival of killers, the League of Assassins.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c2374a54	comment	The Gray Riders, a group of twelve mercenaries and assassins hired to hunt down and kill Red Sonja in the Legends of Red Sonja mini-series.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c35714d6	comment	Unusually used in the Blackadder episode "The Black Seal", where it's the protagonist who assembles a team of the biggest bastards in all of England (including himself, naturally) to carry out a fiendish plan. They all turn on him in favor of an even BIGGER bastard by the end of the episode.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c3c3dfc	comment	The villains in Part 3 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure embody this concept. The main villain, Dio, hires a group of assassins in order to kill the heroes, or at least slow them down long enough for him to reach his full strength. These assassins come from all over the world, have a large variety of backgrounds (one habitually crashed planes and trains For the Evulz, one was a habitual gambler) have a large variety of ways in which they kill (stealing your soul by beating you in a high stakes game, killing you in your dreams, or simply shooting you with a gun with seeking bullets), include some incredibly strange individuals (including a sentient sword, a bird, and a baby), and some even embody stereotypes (like Hol Horse, a modern-day cowboy). Part 4 contains a lighter version of this. The early villains were all empowered by one man, but his goal wasn't to assassinate the heroes and most of the early villains fought the heroes for their own reasons. This changes in the latter half of the story, where the new villain's father is empowering people on the fly in order to find someone who can stop the heroes from tracking down his son. This ends up including such characters as a gangster granted the power to drain people's life forces, a cat that comes back from the dead as a plant, a kid who can steal your energy by winning in rock-paper-scissors, and a man who can fold you into paper if he sees your fear. Part 5 contains its own variant, where the group of assassins are all from a mafia family that the protagonists also belong to. The heroes want to overthrow the boss and create a nicer mafia, but they're tasked with guarding the boss' daughter who becomes a target for everyone else. While the villains mostly belonging to a single Italian gang means less variety in certain aspects, the villains still showcase a wide variety of approaches and designs.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c61eedbe	comment	In Until Death Do Us Part, one of these was called against Mamoru by Edge Turus. Notable in that the "target" then spread the word that he'd be in a certain location at a specific time, and when they gathered there, took out the assassins all at once.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c75ae76b	comment	In his final appearance in the Dick Tracy strip, "Big Boy" Caprice created an open contract: an offer of one million dollars to anyone who killed Tracy. This led to multiple attempts on Tracy's life. (New writer Max Allan Collins used this storyline to kill off Moon Maid, Creator's Pet of the series; killed by a car bomb meant for Tracy.)
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Carnival of Killers / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest In "The Crossing", John Reese and his Friend on the Force Joss Carter have to flee an open bounty placed on them by HR, an organisation of corrupt police. In "4C", Reese has to battle five assassins from three different organisations (Mossad, The Cartel, and his former employers in the US government) who are trying to kill the Victim of the Week in four separate ways.
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Carnival of Killers / int_c7f59f7d	comment	In Teen Titans Annual #2, a mob boss hires one to protect him from the Vigilante and kill the Titans. It included Scorcher, Spear, Bazooka, Tanker, Slasher and Cheshire (the only one to survive/catch on and make subsequent appearances.)
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Carnival of Killers / int_c9ff23dd	comment	In The Cape, the Big Bad Chess occasionally hires members of an assassin order called Tarot, each of whom specializes in a different skill. Cain is a poison expert, while the Goggles and Hicks duo (brothers) specialize in surveillance. After one too many failures, Chess refuses to have any more dealings with the Tarot. Ironically, he does this moments before Hicks would have revealed the true identity of the Cape. However, since he no longer works for Chess, Hicks feels no obligation to hand over the information and, instead, uses it to bargain with the Cape for the location of his captured brother.
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Carnival of Killers / int_cae652c	comment	Happens in the Yorknew City Arc of Hunter × Hunter. After the Phantom Troupe has proven to be too much for the Mafia to handle alone, by killing their Praetorian Guard, the Elders call in the most famous assassins in the world to finish them off, including Killua's father and grandfather.
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Carnival of Killers / int_ccf0819f	comment	Vince McMahon issued a contract on D-Generation X (Shawn Michaels and Triple H) in the summer of 2006 when DX was running amok on Monday Night Raw. Both Chris Masters and Eugene (who, being a babyface, didn't bear DX any ill will but just liked the idea of getting a reward) failed to collect, so Vince enlisted the help of Cuban businessman Armando Alejandro Estrada, who actually succeeded for a time in getting Triple H sent to jail after framing him for having smuggled Cuban cigars into the country. There were even hints that non-wrestling personnel could get involved: Vince boasted that he and his son Shane McMahon had access to "unlimited resources", causing DX to retort, "Bring in anybody from the street - we don't care." Eventually, at SummerSlam, the McMahons had Big Show, Mr. Kennedy, and King Booker's Court (Sir William Regal and Sir Fit Finlay) rough up Shawn and Hunter before Vince and Shane even set foot in the ring - and DX still won.
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Carnival of Killers / int_ce0b992	comment	The Car: Road to Revenge: Not as classy as many other examples of this trope, but Telar offers bounties on anyone who brings him the car, the girl, or the chip. As these bounties include free access to his arsenal of weapons, and free cybernetic enhancements, every gang in the city mobilizes in an attempt to claim them.
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Carnival of Killers / int_d8e24914	comment	In Yaiba the Seven Revenant Swordsmen summoned by Onimaru during the Ryuujin Orbs arc, who are all famous warriors from the past, including monks, ninjas, samurai, and a Warrior Poet assassin.
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Carnival of Killers / int_d9876abc	comment	In The Shotgun Arcana, Ray Zeal has a horde of serial killers, rapists, and cannibals working for him. Among them is a demigod and one of the Thuggee.
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Carnival of Killers / int_ddf528c5	comment	In Flag of Iron, an old Shaw Brothers kung-fu film, the main character is hunted by the Ten Killers of the Underworld. One of the killers is The Accountant who uses a weaponized abacus. Another is a Hitman with a Heart who ends up aiding the hero.
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Carnival of Killers / int_e293455a	comment	At least Once A Season on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For example, in season 2: In "Homecoming", the Carnival Of Killers is combined with Hunting the Most Dangerous Game. Several killers are hired to hunt Buffy and Faith (accidentally replaced by Cordelia), including Cain the werewolf hunter, vampire Lyle Gorch and his wife Candy, and the blade-throwing demon Kulak. A nice subversion is in the episode "Angel", where the Master hires the Three, three apparently badass vampires to take down Buffy. In their first encounter with her, she manages to barely escape with Angel's help (who kills one of them)...and the Master, incensed that they failed, has Darla kill all of the Three, making their scenes a total of two. They weren't the real threat of the episode; that happened to be Darla herself.
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Carnival of Killers / int_e356cbe8	comment	Shoot 'Em Up: Smith and Oliver get pursued by every freelance assassin in the city (which is a surprisingly high number).
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Carnival of Killers / int_e4518c0a	comment	This happened to Moon Knight a few times too. One incident had "the Council of Five" hire five assassins, including a sniper called Ice, a demolitions expert going by Boom-Boom, a knife specialist called Shiv, and a nunchaku-wielding martial artist going by Dragon. Another case involved Moon Knight trying to protect two businessmen from a trio of assassins called Gun, Fist, and Blade. In a twist, the assassins turned out to be the good guys, the businessmen were millennia-old cultists who had to regularly sacrifice children to keep their immortality.
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Carnival of Killers / int_e5c6748d	comment	The Three Stooges face one in The Outlaws Is Coming. The eponymous outlaws called in to wipe out the heroes are Rob Dalton, Wyatt Earp, Johnny Ringo, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Bat Masterson, Cole Younger, Wild Bill Hickock, and Belle Starr.
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Carnival of Killers / int_e735e9e0	comment	Dead Winter: One of the main characters, Monday, is involved in one of these as a subplot.
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Carnival of Killers / int_e755f69b	comment	The basic premise behind Batman: Arkham Origins is that Black Mask put a fifty million dollar bounty on Batman's head, and eight professional killers show up trying to collect, though Lady Shiva and Deadshot are only encountered in side quests missions, and the third side-mission-only mini-boss Anarky is not one of the eight.
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Carnival of Killers / int_eb3a4552	comment	In Guns, Girls and Gambling, a motley cluster of outlaws, fortune hunters, assassins, frat-boys, Elvis impersonators, and 21st Century cowboys seek a prized Apache war mask that's been swiped from an Indian casino.
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Carnival of Killers / int_ecd2d797	comment	A constant theme in the first Baldur's Gate game is a never-ending stream of bounty hunters and assassins attacking the protagonist. Unusual in that the protagonist didn't do anything to screw the Big Bad's plans; all the assassination attempts are simply for him or her existing.
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Carnival of Killers / int_eeb170e3	comment	Spy School: In Spy School: Project X, a bounty on Ben attracts many professional and amateur killers. They include most of the recurring villains from earlier books, a Mafia goon, a pilot in a stolen military jet, an eyepatch-wearing woman who legally changed her name to Myrtle Combat, an arrogant couple who drive a sports car and wear bodysuits, two hunters who believe a Conspiracy Theory the Big Bad started claiming that Ben is an evil alien (which eliminates any moral qualms they have about Hunting the Most Dangerous Game), a ninja, a woman who looks like a suburban mom, a woman in a fancy gown, and a man dressed like Mad Max.
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Carnival of Killers / int_f12c8a56	comment	Gunsmoke, In "Reward for Matt", a woman offers a $1,000 reward to the man who kills Matt Dillon after Matt killed her husband while attempting to bring him in for murder. This was a Recycled Script from an episode of the radio show.
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Carnival of Killers / int_f12f9b66	comment	In the Wander over Yonder episode "The Bounty", Lord Hater gets tired of Peepers' repeated failures at capturing Wander and Sylvia and hires three bounty hunters to do the job: Rongroffle the Huntress, Killbot 86, and... a potted plant (one that turns out to be of the man-eating variety).
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Carnival of Killers / int_f43df87c	comment	Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead — the reason our protagonists are dead is that they know they can't survive long against a Carnival Of Killers sent by Christopher Walken.
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Carnival of Killers / int_f4a728d6	comment	Describes the rest of the world for anyone who puts on the Number 2 Headband in Afro Samurai: Afro routinely fought gangs of heavily armed killers determined to take the headband from him, even when he was just minding his own business.
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Carnival of Killers / int_f5b58f88	comment	In the "Run Like Hell" arc in Catwoman, the Penguin puts out a $1 million contract on Selina's head. This attracts a large number of Gotham's costumed criminals out of the woodwork to take a shot at her.
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Carnival of Killers / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 had another protagonist example. In "Objects in Motion", Garibaldi learns, but can't prove, that the board of Edgars Industries is trying to have him assassinated. As part of his response, he arranges to put large bounties on all their heads if anything happens to him or Lise.
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Carnival of Killers / int_f84c42c0	comment	A favorite trope of Lupin III: The Lupin III: The Italian Adventure, plays with it by having the colorful group of assassins include Goemon. They are secretly assembled by a rising Italian politician to kill a ruthless African dictator. Turns out the politician just wanted unrestricted access to the dictator's oil fields, and he has his own mole within the assassins turn on their cohorts to keep his secret. Lupin III: Part 5 plays the trope straight in the first part of the series when the dark web site Marco Polo sets a wild band of killers on Lupin as revenge for him stealing the hacker behind their success.
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Carnival of Killers / int_f93f2d2a	comment	The Hassansins in the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time who comprise of; a man that controls snakes, a man that shoots darts, a guy with two deadly whips, and finally a guy that throws explosives.
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Carnival of Killers / int_ff9ecb2d	comment	In The Grand Duel, most of the Bounty Hunters chasing after Vermeer for the $3,000 reward are little better than hired killers, and none of them have any intention of bringing him alive.
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