History Characters / HitmanGamesAgent47

* AfraidOfNeedles: A flashback in ''Absolution'' shows a preteen 47 being restrained and crying as doctors plunge a very large needle into his neck. Ort-Meyer's "diary" in the [=C47=] manual reveals he is deathly afraid of them: In a scene reminiscent of Lecter's backstory in ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', a pre-teen 47 overpowered some of the largest orderlies and stabbed the phlebotomist (Odon Kovacs) with his own needles, then got quietly escorted back to his cell. Decades later, he immediately recognizes Kovacs on sight as "the one with the needles". He's not so afraid of them that he's unwilling to use them as weapons, however. By ''Hitman 2'' he's presumably gotten over it as he shows no qualms about letting Lucas Grey inject him [[spoiler:With the antidote to Ort-Meyer's memory suppressant]].

** At the start of the End Of An Era mission, 47 has an entirely skippable conversation with a young woman who is worried she and her friend are growing apart. Not only does 47 give the girl good relationship advice, he notably doesn't take the bait when she uses the phrase "dead weight" to make another veiled joke about assassination.

* FiveFiveFive: The barcode tattoo; "640509040147" is a wacky, but completely intentional example. It's a fully-legal barcode, which may have skipped over the heads of players in the early 2000's, but when barcode scanning apps for smartphones became more common, scanning it reveals it belongs to a dildo holder. Presumably, the bardcode was chosen as it ended in a 47, which Ort-meyer uses as a naming scheme for the clones he creates. In some of the promotional materials for ''[[VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution Absolution]]'', it didn't end in a 47 and was in fact a {{Platform/Steam}} code for the game. Specifically, 640509 refers to 47's "birthday", September 5 1964, and 040147 refers to Series 4, first-class clone (Blood Money goes into what the different classes of clones mean; as a first-class clone, 47 grew to adulthood at a normal rate instead of an accelerated one and is more genetically stable), individual 47.

* JerkAss: In earlier games like Blood money, he is cold, unfeeling, and has no problem with killing innocents and leaving his allies for dead. He's only focused on money, not caring about the harm he brings to those around him or those he encounters.

%%** Fatally shooting a mail carrier because he delivered a letter with the cryptic phrase "code red." What the heck was that about?

** ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Blood Money'' shows him at his nastiest. He canonically kills multiple civilians who he suspects might be threats, or who've simply seen his face. It also introduced the series's first experiments with scripted Opportunity Kills; these were more gruesome than anything in the series thus far[[note]]Feeding a man to alligators, setting a man on fire, crushing a man's trachea with a barbell, setting a woman on fire and ''then'' feeding her to a shark[[/note]]. Unlike ''World of Assassination'', many of these scripted kills required either killing innocents[[note]]Burning Mrs. Sinistra alive to retrieve her necklace, or sending Chad Bingham Jr. plummeting to his death along with his PaidHarem[[/note]] or framing them[[note]]Smuggling a weapon into the White House by planting it in a tourist's luggage, or tricking an opera performer into shooting a co-star[[/note]]. He's also greedier than ever, going as far as ''demanding compensation for a mission even when his own life is at stake''. He shows no care for any living thing apart from a pet canary, which [[ShootTheDog he kills during a raid on his safehouse to prevent his cover from being blown]].
** Even after he grew a conscience in ''VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution Absolution'', he kept a sadistic streak. His methods of killing have gotten more vicious with every installment.

* WouldHitAGirl: While 47 is not inclined towards violent behavior against women in ordinary circumstances, if his paid target is a woman, or if he is defending himself against one targeting ''him'', he’ll show no more mercy toward her than
he would with any man.

* WouldHitAGirl: While 47 is not inclined towards violent behavior against women in ordinary circumstances, if his paid target is a woman, or if he is defending himself against one targeting ''him'', he won’t hold back against her anymore than he would with any man.

* FiveFiveFive: The barcode tattoo; "640509040147" is a wacky, but completely intentional example. It's a fully-legal barcode, which may have skipped over the heads of players in the early 2000's, but when barcode scanning apps for smartphones became more common, scanning it reveals it belongs to a dildo holder. Presumably, the bardcode was chosen as it ended in a 47, which Ort-meyer uses as a naming scheme for the clones he creates. In some of the promotional materials for ''[[VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution Absolution]]'', it didn't end in a 47 and was in fact a {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} code for the game. Specifically, 640509 refers to 47's "birthday", September 5 1964, and 040147 refers to Series 4, first-class clone (Blood Money goes into what the different classes of clones mean; as a first-class clone, 47 grew to adulthood at a normal rate instead of an accelerated one and is more genetically stable), individual 47.

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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Agent 47 does not discriminate with his targets. No matter the target’s race, gender, sexual-orientation, religion, financial status, political leaning or nationality, if he is contracted to kill them, he will show them no leniency or special treatment as he ends their life.

** [[spoiler:In the neurotoxin induced coma, he starts having hallucinations about all his previous assassinations, being haunted by the memories or all the people whose blood he has spilled. Even if he's a ProfessionalKiller, he's not completely without emotion, and taking lives isn't something that he can do without being completely unfazed.]]

* OddFriendship: With Diana Burnwood, an affluent British intellectual, turned handler for the ICA. She's the only real friend he's got and the two are incredibly close, with her even forgiving him for killing her parents.

** In the 2016 game, civilians and guards describing him speculate him to be on his thirties of late forties. His medical file in Hokkaido describes him as being physiologically in his early twenties.

* OneManArmy: 47 is TheDreaded by anyone who knows about him, letalone if they know him personally. It really says a lot about that status that in ''Absolution'', ICA Director Travis send an ''entire platoon'' with rockets and [=ATVs=] solely to take him down. Note that 47 is ''not'' a one-man army in most other respects; He's feared because he can kill guards and targets ''silently''; not because he packs a lot of heat like many other videogame action hero's. This is best seen in "Apex Predator" in ''VideoGame/Hitman3'', where 47 [[spoiler:has to kill 5 out of the 11 ICA agents sent to kill him]], and the game treats it as a cat and mouse situation, with 47 observing and biding his time to kill each of them one by one.

* GeniusBruiser: He's at the pinnacle of human physical capabilities as well as an extremely formidable combatant and a highly skilled assassin who is very skilled in a variety of fields such as tactics, investigation, intelligence gathering, breaking into locations, engineering, chemistry, computer science and knows multiple languages as well as how to avoid leaving evidence and avoiding detection.

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** Funnily enough, the poison described in Blood Money is a combination of two poisons that would both be deadly on their own, but combined would precipitate into solid powder and be useless as an injected poison.

** Preparing Fugu Fish ("Situs Inversus" "The king of Chinatown," and "Tracking Hayamoto")

** Beat Jasper Knight, a master of Chess, in his own game[[note]]Though this was an actor playing Jasper, not the real chess master[[/note]] ("The Final Test")

** Comfortably massage people ("A Glided Cage")

** Wrestle against a formerly unstoppable wrestler pumped full of steroids using fighting moves he's never shown any proficency in before ("Fight night")

** Trick Penolope Graves, a woman far more intelligent than he is, into believing he's an interpol agent, testing her alliegance to Sean Rose's compound by using masterful improvisation tactics to gauge her reactions ("Freedom Fighters")

** Give professional medical advice and perform checkups on people with the skill of a seasoned doctor ("The Finish line," "The Last resort")

** Perform a "spiritual cleansing" in front of a group of superstitious folk with nobody the wiser ("Three-headed Serpent")
** Play the bongos with the rest of a band without any rehearsal ("Three-headed Serpent")
** Fix a tattoo to look exactly like another person ("Three-headed Serpent")
** Paint a stylish portrait of someone ("Chasing a Ghost")
** Neatly shave people's beards and hair without harming them ("Chasing a Ghost")
** Pose for a photo shoot in the most photogenic way possible ("Chasing a ghost")
** Get someone's measurements precisely in order to set the foundations for what would likely have been an amazing dress ("Chasing a ghost")

** Prepare burgers and fries to such a good level that Nolan Cassidy, a man notoriously hard to please, is impressed. ("Another life")
** Deliever the mail promptly and expertly, faster than a postman who knows the lay of the land ("Another life")
** Blend in perfectly with the ark societies strange customs and locate coins that are in such esoteric locations that seasoned guests have not been able to obtain all of them ("The Ark Society")

** Impersonate a corpse so impeccably that nobody realises that he's alive and concious ("The Ark Society")
** Apply for a job interview and pass it with flying colors, though this can barkfire if the player makes the wrong choices ("Golden Handshake")

** Give clear and professional instructions on how to properly use fitness equipment as well as jetskis ("The last resort")

** Prepare a five star meal that's enough to impress a notorious elitist ("On top of the world")
** Solve a complicated murder mystery in a very short period of time ("Death in the family")
** Take professional quality photographs ("Landslide," "Death in the family")
** Deal drugs to finicky customers ("Apex predator")

** Resist mind control torture directed at him by a ruthless scientist ("End of an era")

* BeenThereShapedHistory: According to the ''ComicBook/Agent47BirthOfTheHitman'' comic, him and Subject 6 are responsible for the decision to tear down the Berlin Wall, as they needed to get rid of their behavioural implants and the person they needed to see was in Berlin. On a related note, they're also the ones who killed Diana's parents, as 47 was fulfilling a contract when he was at The Institute and was given to them by Providence.

* DualWielding: 47 is iconically known for using both of his Silverballers at once, though he lost this skill after ''Absolution.''
* EasilyForgiven: Diana eventually forgives him for killing her parents. That's nice of her.

* LackOfEmpathy: He's gotten better over time, but in early games he's notorious for being icy and lacking compassion. His response in the fourth game when Diana announces she may die is to brush this off and demand his paycheck.
** He's a very mild example of this, as he shows concern for people like Diana, Victoria, Sister Mary, and [[spoiler:Lucas Grey, his brother.]]
** This trope can be exaggurated by player choice, as he doesn't seem to care about civilian deaths, nonchalantly going on a killing spree without any ounce of remorse. This is never recognized as canon[[note]]a possible exception is ''Blood Money's'', Baltimore mission, in which massacring civilians is required[[/note]], but it demonstrates that while he's capable of showing affection, it's only to people he's already formed a strong bond with.
** His killing methods are gruesome, calculated, excruciatingly painful, and often humiliating. They include drowning, burning alive, feeding people to carnivorous animals, electrocution, shoving people into mulchers, ''impersonating women's lovers'' to lure them, and most chillingly, tricking a man into [[spoiler:killing his own daughter]].

* OldShame: The only killings he seems to regret is his murder of Diana’s parents, once he remembers that he was the one who assassinated them.

** ''VideoGame/Hitman3'' leaves no doubt that 47 returns her affection: judging by his [[spoiler:sedative-induced hallucinations]], his deepest fear is losing Diana's friendship, a logical fear since he [[spoiler:murdered her parents]]. She forgives him.

* MyGreatestFailure: 47 is truly sorry for [[spoiler:killing Diana's parents]], which he croaks out while [[spoiler:he's being poisoned. Diana even gives him a minor TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to keep up appearances, as well as to tell him how she truly feels about the whole situation]]. This is notable, as it seems to be the only kill he has committed that he has ever felt any remorse for.