History Main / AssassinationAttempt

* Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'':
** Leonhardt Aschenbach is targeted by the Nazis for openly opposing them and inciting rebellion against them, but he doesn't care and continues to oppose them no matter what.
** [[spoiler: Count Germont wants to plunge Switzerland into World War Two, so he orders Alfred to assassinate [[HistorialDomainCharacter Henri Guisan]] Even though Alfred is a horrible person, he's disgusted that the Count would ask him of that.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Padme is subject to more attempts on her life throughout the series, be it from bounty hunters such as [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E7Assassin Aurra Sing]] and [[Recap/StarWarsForcesOfDestinyS1E6TheImposterInside Cato Parasitti]], or old political "allies" such as [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E4SenateSpy Rush Clovis]].

** Her Senate colleague, Bail Organa, is attacked by Chata Hyoki and Robonino right before he was set to make a speech to the Senate about the costs of recruiting more Clone Troopers in ''[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E11PursuitOfPeace Pursuit of Peace]]''.
** [[TokenEvilTeammate Tarkin, of all people]], is nearly killed in a suicide bombing by the Separatists using a Venator-class Star Destroyer loaded with lots of rhydonium in ''[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E13PointOfNoReturn Point of No Return]]'' during the Republic strategy conference at Carida, though D-Squad thankfully puts a stop to it.
*** [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch After the rise of the Empire]], Tarkin is nearly killed again in another bombing, [[Recap/StarWarsTheBadBatchS2E15TheSummit this time by Saw Gererra and the Partisans on his homeworld of Eriadu]].

* ''Series/{{Scandal}}''

* The most notorious assassination attempt on UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte happened on December 24, 1800 when he was [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem First Consul]], known as the Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}. It was organized by a group of royalist Chouans from [[UsefulNotes/DepartementalIssues Brittany]] led by Georges Cadoudal, and carried out via an improvised bomb nicknamed the "infernal machine" (a barrel bound with iron hoops, filled with gunpowder, flammable materials and bullets). The bomb was lit to late to blow up the stagecoach of Napoleon and UsefulNotes/JosephineDeBeauharnais and instead killed five people and injured twenty-six others. The man who set up the bomb and lit it, Pierre Robinault de Saint-Régeant, was caught first and guillotined in 1801, and others, including Cadooudal, participated in further plots and were caught and guillotined in 1804.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot The 20 July plot]] was when some of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's own soldiers attempted to assassinate him, which resulted in him getting minor injuries and having his [[ClothingDamage trousers blown off]]. What's really remarkable about this attempt are the ForWantOfANail aspects: if any of four or five factors[[note]]The assassination attempt had already been attempted once before, only to be called off by the conspirators at the last second; Stauffenberg was only able to arm one suitcase bomb instead of the two he smuggled in; the meeting had been moved into an outdoors cabin because the bunkers were being renovated, thus decreasing the blast force; the bomb was moved behind a thick wooden table leg just seconds before the explosion, thus redirecting the blast force away from Hitler, etc.[[/note]] didn't randomly work out in Hitler's favor, he would not have survived and the war would have ended a year early.

!!'''Because assassinations may result in {{death|Tropes}}, spoilers may be unmarked.'''

** In ''VisualNovel/DesireAndDecorum'', Book 3, Chapter 16, Sir Gideon makes an attempt on the Prince Regent's life, leading [[spoiler:Viscount Harry]] to TakeTheBullet.

** ''VisualNovel/CrimesOfPassion'', Book 2 revolves around several high profile assassinations in Drakovia, including a countess who is Prince/ss Trystan's fiancee, a prominent lawyer and one of Trystan's half brothers. Chapter 14 reveals the assassin to be [[spoiler:Trystan's other half brother]].

* In ''VisualNovel/PerfectMatch'', Book 2, Chapter 12, it is revealed that Eros plans to assassinate the US president to prevent a bill about AI disclosure from being passed. The would be assassin, who is planted by Eros to be the president's "Perfect Match", makes the move in Chapter 14, leading to the climatic battle which spans the last two chapters.
* In ''VisualNovel/DesireAndDecorum'', Book 3, Chapter 16, Sir Gideon makes an attempt on the Prince Regent's life, leading [[spoiler:Viscount Harry]] to TakeTheBullet.
* ''VisualNovel/CrimesOfPassion'', Book 2 revolves around several high profile assassinations in Drakovia, including a countess who is Prince/ss Trystan's fiancee, a prominent lawyer and one of Trystan's half brothers. Chapter 14 reveals the assassin to be [[spoiler:Trystan's other half brother]].

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** UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in an incident that led to the the Secret Service's duties being expanded to protection of Presidents and other government officials[[note]]when the legislation creating the Service was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service No, seriously.]]), the remit of the agency was to combat counterfeiting[[/note]].

** UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in an incident that led to the formation of the Secret Service to protect Presidents and other government officials.

* Apparently, UsefulNotes/FidelCastro was the target of over ''600'' assassination attempts by the US Government, running the gamut from the direct[[note]]paying someone to shoot him, the man got cold feet[[/note]] to those that would not have been out of place in the playbook of a Bond villain[[note]]placing explosive seashells on Castro's favorite beach, or hiring a man to place a poison pill in Castro's milkshake. The latter failed because the would-be assassin [[EpicFail put the pill into the freezer]] ''[[EpicFail with]]'' [[EpicFail the shake]], and by the time it was to have been served the pill had frozen to the freezer's side, and was ruined when the assassin tried to dislodge it[[/note]], to the downright ''bizarre'' [[note]]plans were put into place to give Castro a wetsuit impregnated with a deadly disease, and in another plot, this one to kill his dignity if not his person, chemicals were devised that would make Castro's beard fall out[[/note]] Castro did eventually succumb... to death by natural causes, in his 90s.

* Apparently, UsefulNotes/FidelCastro was the target of over ''600'' assassination attempts by the US Government, running the gamut from the direct[[note]]paying someone to shoot him, the man got cold feet[[/note]] to those that would not have been out of place in the playbook of a Bond villain[[note]]placing explosive seashells on Castro's favorite beach, or hiring a man to place a poison pill in Castro's milkshake. The latter failed because the would-be assassin [[EpicFail put the pill into the freezer]] ''[[EpicFail with]]'' [[EpicFail the shake]], and by the time it was to have been served the pill had frozen to the freezer's side, and was ruined when the assassin tried to dislodge it[[/note]], to the downright ''bizarre'' [[note]]plans were put into place to give Castro a wetsuit impregnated with a deadly disease, and in another plot, this one to kill his dignity if not his person, chemicals were devised that would make Castro's beard fall out[[/note]] Castro did eventually succumb... to death by natural causes, in his 90s.

* ''Film/SteelRain''. A MilitaryCoup in North Korea commences with commandoes seizing an MRLS launcher in South Korea and firing it at a RibbonCuttingCeremony where Kim Jong Un is opening a Chinese-built factory. However before the renegade troops can move in and finish him off, a loyal North Korean operative throws his wounded leader into a van and takes him across the border to South Korea, putting a SpannerInTheWorks.

** UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln was gunned down by stage actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth not long after the end of the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar.