Assassin Outclassin / Fan Works

• Adventures of the Morning Star: Silco attempts to have the Piltover council assassinated during a gala, unfortunately they are stopped by teenaged girls. Granted, it was Vi and Caitlyn, who are prodigies in combat, but still.
• Androgyninja's A Drop of Poison: During the Finals of the Chuunin Exams, Sasori attempts to assassinate the Kagekaze, revealing that not everyone in Sunagakure agrees with how Rasa has been running things. However, they're completely taken aback to discover that Orochimaru had already pulled off his Kill and Replace scheme.
• In Déjà vu no Jutsu, a Naruto fanfiction, the main character Mesuji Natsumi, an assassin herself, not only stops the assassination of her teacher's wife and son but later on, her own assassination. She's more annoyed by the latter, much to her husband's dismay considering she was just off a mission and not in good shape BEFORE she ended up fighting for her life.
• In Discworld fiction, largely that of A.A. Pessimal, Sam Vimes' reputation for unkillability continues.
  • In fact, Assassins' School teacher Miss Alice Band now has an informal agreement with Sam that she can send him a student in need of correction at any time, and he will obligingly aid in their education by delivering a short sharp lesson in over-confidence and where it leads to. In The Civilian Assistant, she indulges a Klatchian student with a flying carpet, partly because she wants to trial an aerial approach to the client, and partly because the over-confident student has forgotten to take into account that Vimes now recruits an Air Police. Vimes and his airborne Watch Witches, with their attendant Feegle, tip the hapless girl off the flying carpet and into the inevitable Ramkin Manor cess-pit. Alice will happily bodyguard Vimes against attack — as if he needs it — as he is such a valuable teaching assistant to her.
  • In Nature Studies, Vimes is in fact saved from near-certain death by an Assassin. She whips two irritated and hungry lions away from him (thus introducing the circus discipline of lion-taming to the Discworld) when she might have stood back, allowed Nature to be red in tooth and claw, and claimed the bounty money, citing two lionesses as her inhumation weapon. Asked afterwards why she saved him, she cited several reasons, including fear of the wrath of Lady Sybil. Vimes himself maintains he would have stubbed his cigar out on the animal's nose to make it back off. This might have worked...
  • Lazier and more inattentive Wizards on the faculty failed to realise how much power they were gifting to Ponder Stibbons by dumping unwanted academic positions on him. Until it belatedly dawned on them that so many Faculty votes had ended up with Professor Ponder Stibbons that he now commands a one-man 51% controlling vote in Unseen University affairs. This 51% controlling vote allowed Faculty to reverse the doctrine that said Wizards cannot marry and must remain bachelors for life. ^note The Lore was amended to say yes, Wizards may marry and have children provide they have no more than seven. There have been attempts to informally remove Vice-Chancellor Stibbons from his position. But these have foundered on the rock which is Mrs Stibbons. In marrying a Lady Assassin, Ponder got not only a bodyguard for life but somebody who is prepared to do meaningful things like dangle a would-be successor out of an upstairs window at Unseen University by nothing more than a slowly fraying rope attached to one ankle. Just to make the point. Nobody now tries to kill Ponder.
• Fallout: Equestria: Littlepip views a memory from the perspective of an assassin zebra about to kill Rarity. The zebra is wearing a stealth cloak and is completely invisible, but is suddenly stunned right before she can strike. Rarity had slipped a stun grenade in her pack with telekinesis and activated it. Rarity's unique magic spell lets her find gemstones, and zebra magic is powered by gemstones, so she was easily able to detect her even with the invisibility.
• In Fate/Stay Night: Ultimate Master, Zouken, aware of the threat Ben Tennyson is as a Master, sends True Assassin after him. The attempt... doesn't exactly go as planned.
• Harry Potter in Inspected by No. 13 kills multiple goblin assassins without realising it. The first is accidentally bumped into a bear enclosure at the zoo, while the second attempt involves a squad teleporting to his location — which turns out to be hundreds of feet in the air where he's having a broomstick race.
• An assassin tries to kill Princess Twilight in Legionnaire. Unfortunately, she's a tougher mark than anticipated.
• In A Ninja's Guide to Gotham, the League of Assassins has a somewhat spotty record against the Batfamily, never mind superpowered magic ninjas from another world.
  • Kei, as a Person of Mass Destruction, is only inconvenienced by League operatives because she wants to observe Batman's Thou Shalt Not Kill rule while in Gotham. The main threat posed by the assassins is less of a chance that she'd lose to them in a fight and more the idea that their Tranquillizer Dart weapons might contain something dangerous enough to drive her berserk in a populated area.
  • After being informed that the League of Assassins might be after Hayate, Jason's narration notes that he's been dealing with stray assassins by dropping them headfirst off buildings.
  • Hayate is more than capable of fighting off League assassins even three-on-one. It's later clarified that he never attacks them head-on, preferring instead to get the jump on them with an Attack Hello.
• While it's an Offscreen Moment of Awesome, Hizashi Midoriya in One for All and Eight for the Ninth has had several assassins from the Meta Liberation Army sent after him when his accounting firm started investigating them. He has taken all of them down, even beating one without using his Quirk, and gone so far as to criticize their shoddy work.
• In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, the Republic Intelligence Service decides to either capture or kill Sarah the Siren. When capture attempts fail, the attackers switch to gaseous Eridium. Not only does that not kill Sarah, it actually powers her back up from her Heroic RRoD, disintegrates all organic matter in the vicinity, and severely damages the ship she was being held on.
• The Requiem of Remnant: Emerald and Mercury get sent to bump off an ex-White Fang member who has left the terrorist life to run a bookstore. This would have been a fairly easy job for them, if not for the stipulation that they were to Leave No Witnesses, and the one other person in the bookstore was Giorno Giovanna. Giorno defeats them both with minor difficulty, and nearly kills them.
• In Robb Returns, a blind drunk Joffrey tries to murder Robb Stark after Jaime and Cersei's incest is discovered, thinking that doing so will somehow get him reinstated as a prince. Being both drunk and, well, Joffrey, he fails epically despite having the advantage of surprise, a Valyrian steel knife and Robb being unarmed on his side. Robb manages to fend him off long enough for help to arrive in the form of the wildling girl Val and Joffrey endures a broken nose and a Groin Attack delivered so hard that he soils himself.
• Jalal Stormbringer in the Shadowchasers Series franchise is the only member of his organization not under the divine protection of the Knights of Domiel that is supposed to prevent this; nonetheless, he doesn't need it. Attempts on his life happen rather frequently, and almost none ever come close to succeeding. As he tells Taramanda in Power Primordial, with a sarcastic tone, if a week goes by without it happening at least once, he thinks something is wrong. Ironically, Tarmanda came closer to getting rid of him than anyone else in the franchise to date, lacing her cards with a venom that, while incapable of actually killing him, could have reduced him to a vegetative state. The chapter in question pointed out that Jalal is somewhat prepared for the rare things that are lethal to him, having compiled a list of them after a close call many years ago.
• Magic isn't supposed to be able to save you from vacuum if you're Thrown Out the Airlock, but Damien from Starship's Mage is no ordinary mage. When he and Grace are cast into deep space by an explosion, he manages to create an impermeable shield to hold their breathable air, while Grace (also a mage) cycles carbon dioxide into oxygen.