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Hitman with a Heart
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So, let us say that there is this guy who happens to be a hitman. The best in town. He will usually be an urban legend, moving swiftly beneath the concrete jungle, leaving no evidence behind, and fulfilling his jobs with the utmost care up to the point of perfection. Mossad? CIA? KGB? It does not matter, his targets drop like flies. No job is too hard and there is no one which he can not kill. ...Or is there? For perhaps even this cold-hearted killer will Never Hurt an Innocent (usually a child). And not only does he not do his job, but he may even turn against his employer to save the life of the very same person he was supposed to kill. This guy we're talking about? He is a hitman with a heart. A common trope in a number of dark comedy and action movies is to have a sympathetic assassin as either the protagonist or a secondary character. Although their job is to commit murder for money, they also have a number of traits that make them sympathetic to the audience. This occasionally overlaps with Evil Is Cool and The Gunslinger, though the Hitman With A Heart is usually more of an Anti-Hero/Anti-Villain presented as a sympathetic human being, with some positive traits rather than being truly evil. He is also often racked by a number of "uncool traits", such as neuroticism, reclusiveness, some sort of substance addiction, or presented as an otherwise damaged individual. Sometimes the hitman will have a code that makes him more easily acceptable by audiences, such as only killing criminals, or refusing to kill women and children, or not going after the family of his targets. He may take pains to make his hits painless, possibly even Cradling Their Kill. Or he may be saddled with a child or an innocent to protect. Commonly he will have to turn on his old employers (be they Government types or Mafia dons) after he refuses to perform a certain hit and has to deal with a Contract on the Hitman. There is some Truth in Television to this. A mob hitman is a hired gun who only accepts hits on mobsters, period, and might fit the description. A blend of The Atoner and Professional Killer, and can (sometimes) overlap with The Gunslinger or Friendly Sniper. Sometimes is A Lighter Shade of Grey. May result from falling In Love with the Mark. If this trope comes in the backstory variety, it's a Sympathetic Murder Backstory. If his reluctance to kill the target doesn't cue a Heel–Face Turn, it might just be a case of evil having a lot of standards. If the hitman in question is also a superhero, see Superhero Packing Heat. See also Badass and Child Duo, which this may result in. |
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Like canon, Deadpool doesn't harm kids, he's pretty amiable even when he's on the clock and make it clear that his job is just a job, it's Nothing Personal, and he's Happily Married. Oh, and he takes his markers seriously, dropping his job when Alison calls one in. He's also mildly horrified when he realises he's been half-hitting on someone underage (in this case, Carol, who's notably younger than she looks) because Everyone Has Standards. | |
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Linked to Deadpool is his recurring foe Hitmonkey. Hitmonkey is an uplifted monkey who, as his name suggests, works as a hitman. However he only takes hits on criminals, mobsters, or other assassins and will even drop a pursuit to help bystanders who are in danger. He has come after Deadpool a few times but lately seems to have largely dropped his vendetta against the merc with a mouth. | |
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It's worth mentioning the sin that seems to be bothering him the most is not having been fast enough in his last contract to prevent innocents from being killed by his target's Mooks. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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The first case of Investigations 2 features the return of de Killer, who takes a hostage in order to force Edgeworth to investigate the murder of a man de Killer considered a Worthy Opponent. He figures out who the murderer is long before Edgeworth does, yet doesn't simply kill the murderer to avenge the victim but makes Edgeworth keep going and bring the murderer to justice, presumably because the victim was Lawful Good and would prefer it that way. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
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As mentioned above, it's not entirely uncommon for mob hitmen and other such figures to be this, refusing to take jobs that involve hurting innocent people. Of course it's also not uncommon for this to be done for pragmatic reasons (murdering innocent people is a lot more likely to get the cops on your tail, and career criminals tend to despise people who harm the disabled, defenseless, or young; this is why child killers or molesters rarely last long in prison without constant protection. Mobsters also tend to drop members or hitmen who harm people not involved in their "business" since, as previously mentioned, it brings down a lot more heat from police). And keep in mind that people like this tend to have pretty warped moral codes (they do kill people for a living after all). | |
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The Lancer | |
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Sagara Sanosuke from Rurouni Kenshin, though a milder example, is introduced as a hired fighter who determines his fee by how much he enjoys a fight, but he often quits if the fight is too easy, as he hates to see people being picked on by someone stronger. He also objects to being treated like an assassin: | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Heero Yuy is an interesting case; he begins the series as a trained assassin/soldier who resents himself for feeling guilt over killing (and repeatedly attempts suicide), but his interactions with the rest of the cast lead to him valuing his life and maturing into a confident, compassionate guardian angel. | |
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Played with in Dragon Age: Origins with Zevran. While he professes to enjoy the art of killing and has no moral qualms with the act, he only took the contract on the Player Character because he thought the Warden would kill him. He really feels tremendous guilt for at least one of his kills. If the player gets to know, he'll find out Zevran's training began as a child, and he was really a glorified slave. He kills because he knows nothing else. A romanced Zevran can be persuaded to give up the lifestyle altogether. The overall impression is that of a broken, damaged man who, while not entirely penitent, at least has some regrets. It's revealed that Leliana's past as a bard also involved assassinations. While she and Zevran both admit they enjoyed the killing or at least the "hunt" (with varying degrees of glee), a conversation between them reveals they also made sure to kill their targets as cleanly and quickly as possible. |
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Sociopathic Hero | |
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Brock Samson on The Venture Brothers was trained as a deadly, omnicompetent super-agent, but his mentor impressed upon him a strict rule against killing women or children. He also appears to care for his charge's children even more than Dr. Venture does himself. But that last bit is not the least bit difficult to achieve. | |
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Knight Templar Big Brother | |
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Kincaid will kill you if you harm Ivy or even threaten her happiness. Officially it's because he's paid for that. | |
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Tyke-Bomb | |
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Absolution shows his softer side, however. He betrays the Agency to save a young girl from becoming something like himself, largely because it was Diana Burnwood's last request. He also shows some initial hesitation when shooting Diana. | |
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I Cannot Self-Terminate | |
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In one story, Keller discovered that his target was also his client: the man had terminal cancer and couldn't bring himself to commit simple suicide, so he needed a hitman to off him. Through an odd chain of events, he and Keller became more-or-less friends, and the fellow called Keller's boss to cancel the hit — refund not required. The story ended with Keller planning to kill him anyway. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Zabuza Momochi grows a heart after his Morality Pet Haku is killed, and remains so for approximately five minutes before his Redemption Equals Death. When revived as an Edo Tensei zombie, he is offended by being forced back into his old profession. He wants to just go back to being dead. | |
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Bounty Hunter | |
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The Bounty Hunter of Star Wars: The Old Republic can be played as this, a Consummate Professional, or a Psycho for Hire, depending on the choices of the player. Light Side bounty hunters will try to minimize violence and sometimes end up sparing their marks, while Dark Side Bounty Hunters sometimes go out of their way to be as sadistic as possible, even when their contract doesn't call for it. The hunter's first companion, Mako, in particular, tends to favor merciful actions mixed with professionalism. | |
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Loan Shark | |
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The "Extra Class" four-parter is about four assassins who decide to help out the owner of their favourite bar when they discover that she is having problems with a Loan Shark. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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In fact, all of the Assassins are this concept. The entire purpose of the Assassin order is to safeguard the evolution of mankind into its own entity, and not to be bound by the dictates of others. The titular creed's tenets of "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" define this philosophy. The assassins also are not "hitmen" in that they (usually) aren't hired by an outside group to kill targets. They clash with the (somewhat) Well-Intentioned Extremist Templars because of their ideal for a world without conflict... achieved by removing free will, which have been the cause for conflict throughout history. | |
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