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** [[AxeCrazy Bob]] loves killing people, and becomes a hitman to make money off it.

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** [[AxeCrazy [[AxCrazy Bob]] loves killing people, and becomes a hitman to make money off it.
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'''Basic Trope''': An assassin who kills [[ItAmusedMe because they enjoy it]]. The money is secondary.

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'''Basic Trope''': An assassin who kills [[ItAmusedMe [[EvilFeelsGood because they enjoy it]]. The money is secondary.
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** Alternatively Bob is a ConsummateProfessional. Whatever the contract he will take his time to plan the most efficient way to do so. He still loves killing people though, money be damned.

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** Alternatively Alternatively, Bob is a ConsummateProfessional. Whatever the contract he will take his time to plan the most efficient way to do so. He still loves killing people though, money be damned.
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** Bob keeps his urges iin check and is a ConsummateProfessional he plans the most efficient way kill people without overenusiatistic sadism

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** Bob keeps his urges iin in check and is a ConsummateProfessional he plans the most efficient way to kill people without overenusiatistic over enthusiastic sadism
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** Buzz is an extremely precise ConsummateProfessional that avoids collateral damage at any cost and prides himself to have only killed the people he was hired to kill and nobody else throughout his career. The kind of skills that he had to develop to be so precise [[BecauseImGoodAtIt don't translate to an easy life outside of being an assassin, though, and he's okay with it.]]
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** Alternatively Bob is a ConsummateProfessional. Whatever the contract -- be it to strong-arm, maim, or even kill; even if asked to perform a horrifying bloodbath of a slaughter -- he will take his time to plan the most efficient way to do so. He still loves killing people though, money be damned.

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** Alternatively Bob is a ConsummateProfessional. Whatever the contract -- be it to strong-arm, maim, or even kill; even if asked to perform a horrifying bloodbath of a slaughter -- he will take his time to plan the most efficient way to do so. He still loves killing people though, money be damned.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob is a brutal thug who enjoys hurting people. However there's more to his character beyond that, and he's sane enough to follow reasonable orders and to understand that he needs money to survive.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob is a brutal thug who enjoys hurting people. However there's more to his character beyond that, and he's sane enough to follow reasonable orders and to understand that he needs money to survive. ???


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** Bob keeps his urges iin check and is a ConsummateProfessional he plans the most efficient way kill people without overenusiatistic sadism
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** alternatively Bob is a ConsummateProfessional. Whatever the contract -- be it to strong-arm, maim, or even kill; even if asked to perform a horrifying bloodbath of a slaughter -- he will take his time to plan the most efficient way to do so. He still love killing people though.

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** alternatively Alternatively Bob is a ConsummateProfessional. Whatever the contract -- be it to strong-arm, maim, or even kill; even if asked to perform a horrifying bloodbath of a slaughter -- he will take his time to plan the most efficient way to do so. He still love loves killing people though.though, money be damned.

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* '''Straight''': [[AxeCrazy Bob]] loves killing people, and becomes a hitman to make money off it.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob works for free as long as he's allowed to kill people however he wants and whenever he wants. In fact he's willing to pay you for just for the opportunity!

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* '''Straight''': '''Straight''':
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[[AxeCrazy Bob]] loves killing people, and becomes a hitman to make money off it.
* '''Exaggerated''': ** alternatively Bob is a ConsummateProfessional. Whatever the contract -- be it to strong-arm, maim, or even kill; even if asked to perform a horrifying bloodbath of a slaughter -- he will take his time to plan the most efficient way to do so. He still love killing people though.
*'''Exaggerated''':
Bob works for free as long as he's allowed to kill people however he wants and whenever he wants. In fact he's willing to pay you for just for the opportunity!



** Bob is a ConsummateProfessional. Whatever the contract -- be it to strong-arm, maim, or even kill; even if asked to perform a horrifying bloodbath of a slaughter -- he will take his time to plan the most efficient way to do so and dislikes people who perform such acts for the sake of "scratching an itch".
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** Bob is a reluctant assassin that likes to avoid getting his hands dirty as much as possible, but it's willing to do almost anything [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for a hefty sum of money]].

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** Bob is a [[PragmaticVillainy reluctant assassin that likes to avoid getting his hands dirty as much as possible, possible,]] but it's willing to do almost anything [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for a hefty sum of money]].
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* '''Played For Horror''': Bob is essentially a slasher film villain killing for money (and even then he's okay with doing stuff for free if he's bored), with all of the messy mass murder that this creates.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Bob is showcased as the muscle of the FiveBadBand early on, and his BloodKnight tendencies foreshadow that the rest of the band will struggle keeping him in line. Then he dies first, probably executed when he outlives his usefulness, to showcase that the FiveBadBand is more professional than that.

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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Bob is showcased as the muscle of the FiveBadBand evil FiveManBand early on, and his BloodKnight tendencies foreshadow that the rest of the band will struggle keeping him in line. Then he dies first, probably executed when he outlives his usefulness, to showcase that the FiveBadBand evil FiveManBand is more professional than that.
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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** Then Bob stabs the Carl in the neck, and tells him he was the target all along while [[PsychoticSmirk grinning]].

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** Then Bob stabs the Carl in the neck, and tells him he was the target all along while [[PsychoticSmirk grinning]].



** Alternatively: Bob finds his job as a killer unspeakably dull, and [[OnlyInItForTheMoney only keeps at it because the money's good]].

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** Alternatively: Bob finds his job as a killer unspeakably dull, and [[OnlyInItForTheMoney only keeps at it because the money's good]].good]] (or, stranger still, because [[BecauseImGoodAtIt it's the only thing he's really good at]]).
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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is completely nuts and needlessly sadistic, but he's also [[BunnyEarsLawyer competent]], and has his niche; he's called when his boss wants somebody not quietly eliminated, but blatantly ''slaughtered'' as a gruesome warning to others.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is completely nuts and needlessly sadistic, but he's also [[BunnyEarsLawyer competent]], and has his niche; he's called niche. For simply killing someone, other agents are used, but Bob is the go-to guy when his boss wants somebody not quietly eliminated, but blatantly ''slaughtered'' as a gruesome warning you want to others.MakeAnExampleOfThem.
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** Bob is a ConsummateProfessional. Whatever the contract -- be it to strong-arm, maim, or even kill; even if asked to perform a horrifying bloodbath of a slaughter -- he will take his time to plan the most efficient way to do so and dislikes people who perform such acts for the sake of "scratching an itch".
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** Bob's violent tendencies are noticed early and treated.
** Carl avoids hiring any assassin who doesn't regard it as "just business."

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** Bob's violent tendencies are noticed early and treated.
[[HeelFaceBrainwashing treated]].
** Carl [[PragmaticVillainy Carl]] avoids hiring any assassin who doesn't regard it as "just business."
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** Carl shoots Bob in front of all the other mooks and makes it clear that this is what will happen if he catches wind of any of them starting to show bloodlust--he does ''not'' pay them to RapePillageAndBurn.

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** Carl [[MakeAnExampleOfThem shoots Bob in front of all the other mooks mooks]] and makes it clear that this is what will happen if he catches wind of any of them starting to show bloodlust--he does ''not'' pay them to RapePillageAndBurn.



** Alternatively: Bob's over-enthusiastic sadism and bloodlust mean that he gets himself and his employers killed or captured when a saner enforcer would have succeeded.

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** Alternatively: Bob's over-enthusiastic sadism and bloodlust mean that he gets himself and his employers killed or captured [[SanityHasAdvantages when a saner enforcer would have succeeded.succeeded]].
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** The order that Bob trained with brainwashed all of its students into becoming psychopathically sadistic.

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** The order that Bob trained with brainwashed [[TykeBomb programmed all of its students students]] into [[BrainwashedAndCrazy becoming psychopathically sadistic.sadistic]], possibly using a little help from some PsychoSerum for good measure.
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** Carl shoots Bob in front of all the other mooks and makes it clear that this is what will happen if he catches wind of any of them starting to show bloodlust.

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** Carl shoots Bob in front of all the other mooks and makes it clear that this is what will happen if he catches wind of any of them starting to show bloodlust.bloodlust--he does ''not'' pay them to RapePillageAndBurn.

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* '''Implied''': Every character talks about Bob as if he was some kind of rabid dog before he even appears on screen.



** ''Fortunately'' for Carl, Bob takes [[TheHero Bill]] with him.



** Carl shoots Bob in front of all the other mooks and makes it clear that this is what will happen if he catches wind of any of them starting to show bloodlust.



* '''Played For Drama''': Bob slowly comes to realize that channeling his homicidal impulses towards specific, often deserving targets might be the only way to keep from killing everyone in sight. But it's not easy.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Drama''':
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Bob slowly comes to realize that channeling his homicidal impulses towards specific, often deserving targets might be the only way to keep from killing everyone in sight. But it's not easy.easy.
** Carl starts seeing a lot of drawbacks from having Bob around--MookDepletion (because Bob keeps killing them), the heroes declaring TheGlovesAreOff, etc. The worst part is that he has no clue if Bob will turn on him sooner or later and kill ''him'' ForTheEvulz. And this all adds up to his inevitable VillainousBreakdown.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Bob is showcased as the muscle of the FiveBadBand early on, and his BloodKnight tendencies foreshadow that the rest of the band will struggle keeping him in line. Then he dies first, probably executed when he outlives his usefulness, to showcase that the FiveBadBand is more professional than that.
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** Bob does not enjoy violence, so he never hurts anyone.
** Alternatively: Bob finds his job as a killer unspeakably dull, and only keeps at it because the money's good.
** Bob is still insane, but he's not violent.

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** Bob does not enjoy violence, so [[ActualPacifist he never hurts anyone.
anyone]].
** Alternatively: Bob finds his job as a killer unspeakably dull, and [[OnlyInItForTheMoney only keeps at it because the money's good.
good]].
** Bob is still insane, crazy, but he's not violent.violent, just plain regular (so to say) {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
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** Bob is a [[PunchClockVillain surprisingly stable individual]] who sees killing as a business transaction and a necessary evil.

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** Bob is a [[PunchClockVillain surprisingly stable individual]] who sees [[ProfessionalKiller killing as a business transaction transaction]] and a necessary evil.

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* '''Justified''': The order that Bob trained with brainwashed all of its students into becoming psychopathically sadistic.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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The order that Bob trained with brainwashed all of its students into becoming psychopathically sadistic.
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** [[BlackComedy It's important to have a job you really like.]]
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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob slowly comes to realize that channeling his homicidal impulses towards specific, often deserving targets might be the only way to keep from killing everyone in sight.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob slowly comes to realize that channeling his homicidal impulses towards specific, often deserving targets might be the only way to keep from killing everyone in sight. But it's not easy.
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** A [[TheDon mob boss]] [[BigBad Carl]] hires Bob on the recommendation that he is completely insane. Only to find out that Bob is barely coherent and unable to carry out an assassination with any dependability.

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** A [[BigBad Carl]] the [[TheDon mob boss]] [[BigBad Carl]] hires Bob on the recommendation that he is completely insane. Only to find out that Bob is barely coherent and unable to carry out an assassination with any dependability.

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* '''Subverted''': A [[TheDon mob boss]] [[BigBad Carl]] hires Bob on the recommendation that he is completely insane. Only to find out that Bob is barely coherent and unable to carry out an assassination with any dependability.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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A [[TheDon mob boss]] [[BigBad Carl]] hires Bob on the recommendation that he is completely insane. Only to find out that Bob is barely coherent and unable to carry out an assassination with any dependability.



* '''Double Subverted''': Then Bob stabs the Carl in the neck, and tells him he was the target all along while [[PsychoticSmirk grinning]].

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* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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Then Bob stabs the Carl in the neck, and tells him he was the target all along while [[PsychoticSmirk grinning]].

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