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* BottomlessMagazines: Particularly in the shootout at Udri's place. The MP5s that 47 has appear to have the [[SarcasmMode very-rare 120+ round magazines]].

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* BottomlessMagazines: Particularly in the shootout at Udri's place. The MP5s [=MP5s=] that 47 has grabs appear to have the [[SarcasmMode very-rare 120+ round magazines]].
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* BottomlessMagazines: Particularly in the shootout at Udri's place.

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* BottomlessMagazines: Particularly in the shootout at Udri's place. The MP5s that 47 has appear to have the [[SarcasmMode very-rare 120+ round magazines]].
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* TooDumbToLive: Belicoff is so compromised by drugs/overconfidence that he's too arrogant to do something as simple as keep ammunition away from the guns out on display. Agent 47 points out his poor gun knowledge as a distraction partly so Belicoff doesn't kill one of the women with a pistol he's demonstrating. Agent 47 even manages to get an exploding suitcase into the meeting room with him to distract Belicoff's guards so he can lock-and-load and take everyone out with the weapons Belicoff so helpfully provided.

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* TooDumbToLive: Udre Belicoff is so compromised by drugs/overconfidence that he's too arrogant to do something as simple as keep ammunition away from the guns out on display. Agent 47 points out his poor gun knowledge as a distraction partly so Belicoff doesn't kill one of the women with a pistol he's demonstrating. Agent 47 even manages to get an exploding suitcase into the meeting room with him to distract Belicoff's Udre's guards so he can lock-and-load and take everyone out with the weapons Belicoff Udre so helpfully provided.
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* TooDumbToLive: Belicoff is so compromised by drugs that he's too arrogant to do something as simple as keep ammunition away from the guns out on display. Agent 47 lampshades his stupidity as a distraction partly so he doesn't kill one of the women in the room with a pistol he's demonstrating. Agent 47 even manages to get an exploding suitcase into the meeting room with him to distract Belicoff's guards so he can lock-and-load and take everyone out.

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* TooDumbToLive: Belicoff is so compromised by drugs drugs/overconfidence that he's too arrogant to do something as simple as keep ammunition away from the guns out on display. Agent 47 lampshades points out his stupidity poor gun knowledge as a distraction partly so he Belicoff doesn't kill one of the women in the room with a pistol he's demonstrating. Agent 47 even manages to get an exploding suitcase into the meeting room with him to distract Belicoff's guards so he can lock-and-load and take everyone out. out with the weapons Belicoff so helpfully provided.
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* TooDumbToLive: Belicoff is so compromised by drugs that he's too arrogant to do something as simple as keep ammunition away from the guns out on display. Agent 47 lampshades his stupidity as a distraction party so he doesn't kill one of the women in the room with a pistol demo. Agent 47 even manages to get an exploding suitcase into the meeting room with him to distract Belicoff's guards so he can lock-and-load and take everyone out.

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* TooDumbToLive: Belicoff is so compromised by drugs that he's too arrogant to do something as simple as keep ammunition away from the guns out on display. Agent 47 lampshades his stupidity as a distraction party partly so he doesn't kill one of the women in the room with a pistol demo.he's demonstrating. Agent 47 even manages to get an exploding suitcase into the meeting room with him to distract Belicoff's guards so he can lock-and-load and take everyone out.
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* TooDumbToLive: Belicoff is so compromised by drugs that he's too arrogant to do something as simple as keep ammunition away from the guns out on display. Agent 47 lampshades his stupidity as a distraction party so he doesn't kill one of the women in the room with a pistol demo. Agent 47 even manages to get an exploding suitcase into the meeting room with him to distract Belicoff's guards so he can lock-and-load and take everyone out.

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* SadisticChoice: 47 gives Yuri two horrible choices: either he intentionally screws over his own conspiracy, or he dies by electrocution. [[spoiler:47 ''may'' have been lying about sparing him, since the countdown hits zero regardless of his compliance.]]

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47 gives Yuri two horrible choices: either he intentionally screws over his own conspiracy, or he dies by electrocution. [[spoiler:47 ''may'' have been lying about sparing him, since the countdown hits zero regardless of his compliance.]]]]
** 47 forces Mike into helping him with a coverup by confronting him in his home and warning that he and his entire family will be killed if Mike doesn't play ball.
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* InUniverseFactoidFailure: An ArmsDealer attempts to intimidate 47 using an [=M4A1=] with an [=M203=] grenade launcher, but gets all the basic facts wrong. 47 is not intimidated in the slightest.
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A reboot titled ''Film/HitmanAgent47'' was released on August 21, 2015. It is an American-German action film directed by Aleksander Bach and written by Skip Woods (who also wrote the original ''{{Film/Hitman}}'' film) and Michael Finch.

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A reboot titled ''Film/HitmanAgent47'' was released on August 21, 2015. It is an American-German action film directed by Aleksander Bach and written by Skip Woods (who also wrote the original ''{{Film/Hitman}}'' film) and Michael Finch.



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'''''Hitman''''' is a 2007 action film based on the [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} video game of the same name.]] It was directed by Xavier Gens.

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'''''Hitman''''' ''Hitman'' is a 2007 action film based on the [[{{VideoGame/Hitman}} video game of the same name.]] It was directed by Xavier Gens.
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** One scene is captioned as taking place at the Russia-Turkey border. There is no such borders and quite a few small countries between Russia and Turkey.

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** One scene is captioned as taking place at the Russia-Turkey border. There is no such borders border and quite a few small countries are between Russia and Turkey.
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* One scene is captioned as taking place at the Russia-Turkey border. There is no such borders and quite a few small countries between Russia and Turkey.
* One line states that Russia is leading the European Union investigation of the assassination. This implies Russia belongs to the EU, which it does not and never has been a member of.

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* ** One scene is captioned as taking place at the Russia-Turkey border. There is no such borders and quite a few small countries between Russia and Turkey.
* ** One line states that Russia is leading the European Union investigation of the assassination. This implies Russia belongs to the EU, which it does not and never has been a member of.
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* AssholeVictim: Belicoff. While he's said to be a moderate politically he's also an abusive misogynist. Hard to feel any sympathy for him or anger at 47 for taking him out.


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* One scene is captioned as taking place at the Russia-Turkey border. There is no such borders and quite a few small countries between Russia and Turkey.
* One line states that Russia is leading the European Union investigation of the assassination. This implies Russia belongs to the EU, which it does not and never has been a member of.
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* {{Asexuality}}: 47 is not very social. Comes with the territory of being trained as a child to be a perfect killer. As evident by his almost kiss with Nika.

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* {{Asexuality}}: 47 is not very social. Comes with the territory of being trained as a child to be a perfect killer. As evident This is evidenced by his almost kiss with Nika.Nika, when he seems baffled.
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Please add any tropes relevant to the reboot on it's [[HitmanAgent47 own page]].

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Please add any tropes relevant to the reboot on it's [[HitmanAgent47 its [[Film/HitmanAgent47 own page]].
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* PragmaticAdaptation[=/=]{{Woolseyism}}: The original concept of 47 being just another unit of a long line of cloned assassins is changed to him being one of many genetically engineered children specially trained for assassination. This was done to accommodate more actors to portray the other Agents that 47 meets throughout the film.

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* PragmaticAdaptation[=/=]{{Woolseyism}}: PragmaticAdaptation: The original concept of 47 being just another unit of a long line of cloned assassins is changed to him being one of many genetically engineered children specially trained for assassination. This was done to accommodate more actors to portray the other Agents that 47 meets throughout the film.
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* StockFootage: It seems that 47 grew up at [[DarkAngel Manticore]], judging from all the familiar footage seen in the intro.

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* StockFootage: It seems that 47 grew up at [[DarkAngel [[Series/DarkAngel Manticore]], judging from all the familiar footage seen in the intro.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Cited by 47 when he finds himself confronting three other agents, each pointing a pair of guns at the others. Sizing it up, 47 intones that "I don't know about you but I'd like to die with a little dignity." He looks each agent over and each nods in turn. In unison, they empty their guns, drop them, pull out swords and cross them in a respectful pattern before going to fight.

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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Cited by 47 when he finds himself confronting three other agents, each pointing a pair of guns at the others. Sizing it up, 47 intones that "I don't know "How about you but I'd like to die dying with a little dignity." dignity?" He looks each agent over and each nods in turn. In unison, they empty their guns, drop them, pull out swords and cross them in a respectful pattern before going to fight.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Cited by 47 when he finds himself confronting three other agents, each pointing a pair of guns at the others. Sizing it up, 47 intones that "I don't know about you but I'd like to die with a little dignity." He looks each agent over and each nods in turn. In unison, they empty their guns, drop them, pull out swords and cross them in a respectful pattern before going to fight.
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47 never brings up the noise of the weapon at any point in the opening.


* WouldHurtAChild: Threatened; 47 warns Mike that, should he be forced to kill Mike in his own home, the gun would be loud enough to wake up his family. 47 doesn't leave witnesses, so they'd have to be eliminated.

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* WouldHurtAChild: Threatened; 47 warns Mike that, that should he be forced to kill Mike in his own home, the gun would be loud enough to wake up his family. 47 doesn't leave witnesses, so they'd have to be eliminated.will also kill Mike's family too.

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-->'''Mike Whittier''': Are you going to kill me?
-->'''Agent 47''': [[IfIWantedYouDead If I was going to kill you,]] I'd have done it when you walked to your car this morning and been gone by the time your body hit the sidewalk
-->'''Mike Whittier''': Then why are you here?
-->'''Agent 47''': To talk. But, Mike, if you make me kill you, you will not go alone.(...)

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-->'''Mike Whittier''': Are you going to kill me?
-->'''Agent
me?\\
'''Agent
47''': [[IfIWantedYouDead If I was going to kill you,]] I'd have done it when you walked to your car this morning and been gone by the time your body hit the sidewalk
-->'''Mike
sidewalk.\\
'''Mike
Whittier''': Then why are you here?
-->'''Agent
here?\\
'''Agent
47''': To talk. But, Mike, if you make me kill you, you will not go alone.(...)



* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: 47 pays Udre Belicoff with such a briefcase. He's hidden a small explosive in it, which he uses as a distraction when his cover is blown.



* DeadpanSnarker: Everything 47 says is in monotone but he gets a few moments of fun.

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* DeadpanSnarker: DeadpanSnarker:
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Everything 47 says is in monotone but he gets a few moments of fun.



--> '''Nika:''' [looking at a magazine ad] Why would you need luggage like this?
--> '''Agent 47:''' Because that suitcase perfectly holds my Blaser Sniper Rifle, two .45s and a gag for irritating, talkative little girls like yourself. You want me to stop and get it out?
--> '''Nika:''' I don't know - you think we have time for foreplay?
* DistractedByTheSexy: 47 may be TheStoic but even he is prone to stare at Nika's "assets", even for a second.

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--> '''Nika:''' [looking at a magazine ad] Why would you need luggage like this?
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this?\\
'''Agent 47:''' Because that suitcase perfectly holds my Blaser Sniper Rifle, two .45s and a gag for irritating, talkative little girls like yourself. You want me to stop and get it out?
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out?\\
'''Nika:''' I don't know - you think we have time for foreplay?
* DistractedByTheSexy: DistractedByTheSexy:
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47 may be TheStoic but even he is prone to stare at Nika's "assets", even for a second.



--> '''Nika:''' What's the Soup of the Day?
--> '''Agent 47:''' Lentil and mint with sauteed onions and diced tomatoes.
--> '''Nika:''' The woman two tables behind you. What's she wearing?
--> '''Agent 47:''' With the red hair and the silk dress?
--> [Nika nods]
--> '''Agent 47:''' [beat] That's not a woman.

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--> '''Nika:''' What's the Soup of the Day?
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Day?\\
'''Agent 47:''' Lentil and mint with sauteed onions and diced tomatoes.
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tomatoes.\\
'''Nika:''' The woman two tables behind you. What's she wearing?
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wearing?\\
'''Agent 47:''' With the red hair and the silk dress?
--> [Nika nods]
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dress?\\
''[Nika nods]''\\
'''Agent 47:''' [beat] That's not a woman.



* LampshadeHanging: When 47 is informed that the assassination is being changed to public and messy, he states "That's not my usual style," referencing the games more subtle approach to murder.

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* LampshadeHanging: When 47 is informed that the assassination is being changed to public and messy, he states "That's not my usual style," referencing the games games' more subtle approach to murder.



* NotDistractedByTheSexy

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* NotDistractedByTheSexyNotDistractedByTheSexy: Despite her best efforts, Nika's efforts to seduce 47 fall flat.



-->'''Agent 47:''' [Udre has a Makarov point blank in a hooker's eyeball] Whoa whoa whoa, hold up. This is not a Kedr. It's a Chinese copy. In fact, I don't know if it's the drugs, or if you're usually this inept, but you've been wrong about most of these weapons. If the gun you're holding is as cheap as this one, even if you did manage to shoot her in the eye, and I'm not saying you could, you wouldn't kill her. [[note]]47 himself makes a blunder as the weapon being discussed here is an Arsenal Shipka. Granted, it is close to a Kedr, but it is not one, and there exists no Chinese-manufactured clone of the Kedr. [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Hitman_%282007%29#Arsenal_Shipka An explanation can be found here.]][[/note]]
-->[Udre shoots at 47, missing]

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-->'''Agent 47:''' [Udre has a Makarov point blank in a hooker's eyeball] Whoa whoa whoa, hold up. This is not a Kedr. It's a Chinese copy. In fact, I don't know if it's the drugs, or if you're usually this inept, but you've been wrong about most of these weapons. If the gun you're holding is as cheap as this one, even if you did manage to shoot her in the eye, and I'm not saying you could, you wouldn't kill her. [[note]]47 himself makes a blunder as the weapon being discussed here is an Arsenal Shipka. Granted, it is close to a Kedr, but it is not one, and there exists no Chinese-manufactured clone of the Kedr. [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Hitman_%282007%29#Arsenal_Shipka An explanation can be found here.]][[/note]]
-->[Udre
]][[/note]]\\
''[Udre
shoots at 47, missing] ''



* SadisticChoice: 47 gives Yuri two horrible choices: either he intentionally screws over his own conspiracy, or he dies by electrocution. [[spoiler:47 ''may'' have been lying about sparing him, since the countdown hits zero regardless of his compliance.]]



* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Diana, literally - in the beginning of the movie, she's a text-to-speech converter on 47's laptop.

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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Diana, literally - -- in the beginning of the movie, she's a text-to-speech converter on 47's laptop.



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-->I'm gonna ask you a question. How you answer it will determine how this night ends. How does a good man decide when to kill?

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-->I'm gonna ask you a question. How you answer it will determine how this night ends. How "How does a good man decide when to kill?
kill?"
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-->I'm gonna ask you a question. How you answer it will determine how this night ends. How does a good man decide when to kill?

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* DeadMansChest: Done as a ShoutOut to the original games. He not only puts the bodies in a shipping crate but nails it shut as well.

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* DeadMansChest: Done as a ShoutOut MythologyGag to the original games. He not only puts the bodies in a shipping crate but nails it shut as well.



** When the Russian SWAT teams raids his hotel, 47 hides behind a pillar, pistols held in his canonical GunsAkimbo cross-armed stance.
** Later, in the Turkish restaurant, there are several scenes of 47 walking down the hallway as the camera follows him from a high angle, referencing the game's ThirdPersonShooter perspective.



* ShoutOut: Several, to the video game.
** When the Russian SWAT teams raids his hotel, 47 hides behind a pillar, pistols held in his canonical GunsAkimbo cross-armed stance.
** Later, in the Turkish restaurant, there are several scenes of 47 walking down the hallway as the camera follows him from a high angle, referencing the game's ThirdPersonShooter perspective.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Nika spends a fair amount of time in the trunk of 47's car. Additionally, being an assassin, 47 also hides bodies there - there's a dead body in the trunk the first time he forces Nika to get inside, in fact.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Agent 47 is a ConsummateProfessional who would never share any details of his contract with the outside world so trying to kill him just results in him having a reason to ruin the antagonists' lives. Likewise, Nika has no loyalty to the [[spoiler: dead Belicoff.]]

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* AssassinOutclassin: The duel on the train seems to share elements of this as the other Agents are there to kill 47 but also seem to fight each other.
** Possibly justified since it seems that [[{{Greed}} whoever completes the contract will get the payment]].

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* AssassinOutclassin: The duel on the train seems to share elements of this as the other Agents are there to kill 47 but also seem to fight each other.
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other. Possibly justified since it seems that [[{{Greed}} whoever completes the contract will get the payment]].



* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe example. When 47 meets Udre Belicoff as a "weapons buyer", Udre misidentifies pretty much every gun he offers. For example, he refers to an [=M4A1=] with [=M203=] Underbarrel Grenade Launcher as "an [=M203=] with an Underbarrel Grenade Lancher." 47 actually points this out as evidence of how clueless Udre really is.

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* CriticalResearchFailure: CriticalResearchFailure:
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In-universe example. When 47 meets Udre Belicoff as a "weapons buyer", Udre misidentifies pretty much every gun he offers. For example, he refers to an [=M4A1=] with [=M203=] Underbarrel Grenade Launcher as "an [=M203=] with an Underbarrel Grenade Lancher." 47 actually points this out as evidence of how clueless Udre really is.



* FanDisservice: Nika's FullFrontalAssault flashback, where she is strung up and being whipped by Belicoff as his leering friends watch.



** FanDisservice: ...except for Nika's FullFrontalAssault flashback, where she is strung and being whipped by Belicoff as his leering friends watch.



* KatanasAreJustBetter: The train duel shifts from a four-way GunsAkimbo MexicanStandoff, to hectic fencing match to the death with everyone [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding]] small katanas.

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* KatanasAreJustBetter: The train duel shifts from a four-way GunsAkimbo MexicanStandoff, to hectic fencing match to the death with everyone [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding]] DualWielding small katanas.



* [[LaxativePrank Purgative Prank]]: 47 covertly drugs his impersonation mark's drink to send him to the bathroom to be dispatched.

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* [[LaxativePrank Purgative Prank]]: LaxativePrank: 47 covertly drugs his impersonation mark's drink to send him to the bathroom to be dispatched.



* MexicanStandoff: Just before the train duel with the other Agents, 47 gets caught up in one with the other agents as the each point their [[GunsAkimbo dual]] pistols at one of the others.
* MythologyGag: When Agent 47 crashes through the window of the hotel room below his, the two kids who stare at his entrance are playing one of the Hitman games on TV.

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* MexicanStandoff: Just before the train duel with the other Agents, 47 gets caught up in one with the other agents as the each point their [[GunsAkimbo dual]] pistols at one of the others.
others. They decide to switch to swords for an honorable duel.
* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
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When Agent 47 crashes through the window of the hotel room below his, the two kids who stare at his entrance are playing one of the Hitman games on TV.



* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Nika doesn't mind strutting her stuff in front of 47 while wearing nothing more than some ''very'' skimpy panties.

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Nika doesn't mind strutting her stuff in front of 47 while wearing nothing more than some ''very'' skimpy panties.



* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: 47's electrocution trap uses way more amperage than is necessary to kill a person, a fact he lampshades when explaining that he wants his victim to know just how serious his demands are.



* TrojanPrisoner: One of 47's jobs is to assassinate a warlord. He accomplishes this by grabbing a mook the warlord was looking for, stuffing a grenade in the guy's mouth, then dropping him off for the inevitable boom.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:It's not made clear if Yuri Marklov survived 47's elaborate execution setup, since the clock hits zero despite him doing as asked, followed by a cut.]]

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:It's WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
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not made clear if Yuri Marklov [[spoiler:Yuri Marklov]] survived 47's elaborate execution setup, since the clock hits zero despite him doing as asked, followed by a cut.]]
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* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: After her second ride in the trunk, Nika complains to 47. He doesn't see the problem; he got rid of the body she complained about last time.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Agent 47 is a ConsummateProfessional who would never share any details of his contract with the outside world so trying to kill him just results in him having a reason to ruin the antagonists' lives. Likewise, Nika has no loyalty to the [[spoiler: dead Belicoff.]]
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A reboot titled ''HitmanAgent47'' was released on August 21, 2015. It is an American-German action film directed by Aleksander Bach and written by Skip Woods (who also wrote the original ''{{Film/Hitman}}'' film) and Michael Finch.

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A reboot titled ''HitmanAgent47'' ''Film/HitmanAgent47'' was released on August 21, 2015. It is an American-German action film directed by Aleksander Bach and written by Skip Woods (who also wrote the original ''{{Film/Hitman}}'' film) and Michael Finch.

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