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Providence

A mysterious and seemingly all-powerful organization clandestinely shaping world events. The World of Assassination Trilogy kicks off when the Shadow Client starts manipulating the ICA and 47 to disrupt their operations by putting out contracts on their members and associates.

In General

• Ancient Conspiracy: As noted by The Constant, Providence has been in power for a long time, with Hitman 3 indicating the group was founded in the aftermath of World War II, but the three families behind it have been international power brokers since the 19th century in shipping, oil, technology, and really anything else trade-related.
• Badass Boast:
  • The messenger seen in Sapienza's end cutscene, Hajun, is less afraid of the Shadow Client and more amazed that he thinks he can win, barely reacting when he realises the Shadow Client has enough keys to open the safe.
    Shadow Client: Thank you, messenger.
    Messenger: Don't, I just killed you.
  • After Hokkaido, the Constant tries to enlist Diana to help track down the Shadow Client, calling him a terrorist who only desires chaos.
    Diana: He's only a terrorist if you win.
    The Constant: Miss Burnwood. We won a long time ago. This? *scoffs* This is maintenance.
• Conspiracy Placement: Their symbol is an origami dove. High-ranking members will often wear one as a lapel pin.
• Expy: To The Illuminati, though they have more of a Corporate Conspiracy feel to their dealings. Their full backstory given in Hitman 3 also makes them one to the Philosophers and the Patriots. Even their name is in reference to the Illuminati.
• Fluffy the Terrible: Providence isn't the kind of name you'd expect for an international organization of evil. The name refers to the "Eye of Providence", given their status as an Expy of the Illuminati.
• Genre Blind: The Constant acts like this in the aftermath of Marrakesh, as he sneers at the idea of conspiracies. This, despite being a prominent part of an Illuminati-like organization, and heavily involved in several lesser conspiracies.
• Greater-Scope Villain: They tried creating a virus that would make the ICA obsolete, attempted to install a military dictatorship in Morocco, used Soders to destroy the Freedom Fighters operation, and they know Ort-Meyer's true motives behind the cloning experiments he did back in Romania. Also they rule the world. Birth of the Hitman also reveals that Ort-Meyer was a member of their organization and they were the ones responsible for funding his work, which Hitman 2 corroborates later on when Grey explains some of the events to Diana, and Janus explains to 47 if you do a check up on them.
• The Illuminati: Proividence apparently have enough pull and influence in world affairs that they qualify for one of these. Diana's reaction to the name in Colorado suggests they are the Hitman universe's equivalent of the Illuminati myth.
• The Man Behind the Man: Providence are behind the Moroccan coup and Sapienza's ETHER virus, as well as having a hand in The Falklands War. Not only that, but they funded Ort-Meyer's experiments, and the creation of 47, Grey, and all the other clones. They are also implied to be responsible for the Nabazov Virus too, as The Keep in the "The Ark Society" holds a copy of Oybek Nabazov's Manifesto on a stand as you walk into the room.
• Mouth of Sauron: Heralds act as this; operatives that relay orders and performs deals and transactions on behalf of Providence whenever the conspiracy interacts with outsiders.
• Nebulous Evil Organization: Are behind a lot of dirty deeds according to what little we know of them.
• Pragmatic Villainy: They intended Strandberg to just head up the Moroccan banking system and oversee their secret transactions. Strandberg stealing billions from the people wasn't part of their plan. They take the money he stole for themselves, instead and had every intention of killing Strandberg.
  • They were smart enough to say they would not retaliate against the ICA after their handling of Soders.
  The Constant: (To Diana about Soders' death) Honestly, you could've just sacked the poor guy.
• Sigil Spam: Several of their operatives wear an origami dove pin (Yuki has hers around her neck), and the mercenaries in Carpathian Mountains all wear patches with the logo on their armor. Only Silvio Caruso, Francesca De Santis, General Reza Zaydan, and Erich Soders avoid wearing one (Caruso and De Santis are merely tools for Providence not full members, Zaydan literally does not have the room on his uniform to do so, and in Soders' case, his profession makes that tricky for him to get away with wearing it). In Mendoza, an unaware waitress accidentally lampshades this, pointing out how strange it is that they all wear the same pin, unaware they're supposed to be a secretive calling card.
• The Stoic: Most of Providence's members act like this, with The Constant treating the Shadow Client as a mild annoyance, and they only start losing this facade when the Shadow Client steps up his attacks, which is partly why they hire the ICA to track him down.
• Unknown Rival: 47 didn't know of their involvement for the first four contracts of 2016, and he's finally clued in after investigating the militia's saferoom at the end of Colorado, even assuming they were a myth.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: They have plans to eliminate Strandberg rather than save him, especially after the mess he caused in Marrakesh that needlessly complicated their plans.

Leadership

The Partners

The overall leaders of Providence, consisting of the Heads of the Stuyvesant, Ingram and Carlisle families. Expect Spoilers!

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In General

• Art Evolution: In a really odd sort of way. All of them had their faces slightly altered when seen in the briefing for Golden Handshake as a part of the obituaries section, and are very clearly early in-game model renders, especially when compared to their Hitman 3 appearances and their introduction in the cinematics in 2. Carl is the most unchanged, only gaining a black eye, and a more casual wardrobe, while Marcus's face is more chubby, and Alexa's face looks more angry and elderly, rather than the calm, Tranquil Fury face she usually has. As mentioned, their Hitman 3 appearances are directly based on what they looked like in the 2 cinematics, asides from a graphical downgrade and a change of clothing for Marcus and Alexa.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: They are the collective and equal leaders of Providence, though Alexa Carlisle is the unofficial head of the trio.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Come Hitman 3, thanks to the Constant stealing all their resources and taking over Providence, they've lost most of their power and it's clear Arthur Edwards has supplanted them as the main antagonist.
• Foreshadowing: They were referenced way back in Colorado by Ezra Berg when interrogating William Candler, his Herald prisoner in the basement, and the Birth of the Hitman comic also references The Partners when Ort-Meyer finds out that Providence are taking 47 away from him.
• Gotta Kill 'Em All: The first two missions in Hitman 3 involves assassinating all three of The Partners. The first two, Marcus and Carl, are killed in Dubai, while Alexa is killed in Dartmoor.
• Old Money: What the three families are. They rose to power during the 19th century and pooled their resources at the end of World War II to create Providence. During that time, they grew affiliations with many of the companies you hear in-game, such as Carl being affiliated with various kingmakers, Stuyvesants being related to Kronstadt, and the Carlisles being affiliated with Quantum Leap, Kronstadt and ETHER.
• Starting a New Life: The premise of "The Last Resort" has the service HAVEN make new identities for the partners.

Marcus Stuyvesant

Marcus Stuyvesant

The Patron

"The old man could have buried us all, our families!"

Appearances: Hitman 2 | Hitman 3

Voiced By: Iain Batchelor (English)

The Patriarch of the Stuyvesant family and the youngest of the Partners, whose family hold major properties and shares in real estate and the entertainment industry.

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• Affably Evil: He's the friendliest out of the three Partners, being polite and pleasant to those who earn his respect. He's still a power hungry terrorist, despite his genuine affability.
• Blade Enthusiast: Because his father was a dedicated hunter, he seems to have an unusual appreciation for people who are skilled with knives, stating that if someone is good with a knife they'd be even better with a gun. Because of this, when putting on an audition for a new personal bodyguard he puts the applicants to a knife throwing test.
• Dirty Coward: Unlike his two fellow Partners, who at least snap back at 47, he will pathetically beg for his life if 47 has him at gunpoint.
  Marcus Stuyvesant: No! You don't want to do this- I have very rich- I have very influential friends! We can cut a deal! Just please, have mercy...
• Disney Villain Death: One of the ways he can be killed is by sabotaging the parachutes and then causing an emergency that forces both him and Ingram to flee via said parachutes. He can also be pushed off an unprotected ledge after completing his knife-throwing test.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He loves his daughter Cornelia and will risk blowing his cover to briefly reunite with her.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's far less involved in the world control schemes that Providence participates in, wishing to use his connections to illegally fund artistic institutions instead. While he doesn't try to stop his fellow conspirators, he doesn't seem to enjoy their intense power struggles.
• Faking the Dead: In order to cover Providence's tracks, his obituary reads that he got caught in an accident on his own private race track when testing out a prototype vehicle test. His cause of death is possibly a reference to a possible scenario that pops up in Miami as a way of killing Robert Knox.
• Good Parents: He loves his daughter dearly and has tried to give her the best life possible. He'll even risk blowing his cover to say goodbye to her.
• High-Voltage Death: He can be electrocuted by the art exhibit's giant sun by overpowering it.
• The Illuminati: Stuyvesant is one of the three Partners of Providence and thus one of the leaders of a global elite that controls the world in secret.
• Meaningful Name: The Stuyvesant family share their name with a real Dutch family who also owned a significant amount of land in New York, with a few of the family members being politicians.
• Nervous Wreck: He is the most high-strung and panicked of the three Partners in the second game. In the third game, he's accompanied at all times by a bodyguard and is the only one of the three who will freak out if cornered by 47.
• Nice to the Waiter: If his employees get on his good side, he's not afraid to throw praise at them. He seems to share this with Carl.
• Oh, Crap!: He reacts with absolute terror if Lucas Grey announces he's tracked him down. This is a noticable contrast to the agitated Carl Ingram.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: In "On Top of the World", unlike Carl Ingram, who makes no attempt to alter his appearance, Stuyvesant attempts to disguise himself with a rather goofy-looking outfit, consisting of large sunglasses, a golf cap and a loose unbuttoned shirt.
• Properly Paranoid: He's worried that someone may realise he's not really dead, so he's taken extensive measures to hide who he really is as well as protect himself. It's a smart decision, but it doesn't save him from 47's crosshair.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He tries to use his money to buy his way through life. He'll even try to bribe 47 in exchange for sparing his life.
• Sinister Shades: He's wearing sunglasses, even though it's indoors and they look creepy and stupid.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: According to his bio, he spent much of his life trying to impress his unsupportive father, who refused to appoint him as his successor after his death, something that still haunts him to this day. He's notably supportive of his daughter Cornelia and meets her one last time.

Carl Ingram

Carl Ingram

The Kingmaker

"And a cornered animal is twice as dangerous."

Appearances: Hitman 2 | Hitman 3

Voiced By: Kerry Shale (English)

The patriarch of the Ingram family, a libertarian oil magnate and political fixer and the second-most senior Partner.

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• Abusive Parents: Carl reminisces on the "beatings my loving father administered" while talking about wringing Edwards's neck.
• Affably Evil: While he's a prick to most people, he is almost fatherly to people he sees as being part of the intellectual elite. He treats his successor and chefs with kindness, even if he wishes to control the world using his wealth and power.
• Berserk Button: He will go on screaming rants whenever he hears noise, like a radio or vacuum cleaner.
• Defiant to the End: Unlike Marcus, who panics and pleads for his life if 47 holds him at gunpoint, Carl takes it in stride.
  Carl Ingram: Do what you have to. Just tell Edwards I'll be waiting for him in Hell.
• Disney Villain Death:
  • One of the ways he can be killed is by sabotaging the parachutes and then causing an emergency that forces both him and Stuyvesant to flee via said sabotaged parachutes.
  • He can fall to his death if the penthouse balcony's railing is sabotaged.
• Easter Egg: The Running Gag of Allan failing to add details is continued and can be found at the end of his obituary.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He's got a deep voice and is a ruthless man.
• Evil Old Folks: Very old and very evil. Goes with being a partner of Providence.
• Eye Scream: One way of killing him is pushing his head into an oil rig model on his desk.
• Faking the Dead: In order to cover Providence's tracks, his obituary reads that his continued suffering of Pulmonary Disease (which restricts airflow to the lungs making it hard to breath) means he dies of heart failure. Considering how he speaks in a raspy low voice, the former may well be accurate (or he's a very good liar).
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Any sort of noise, such as a radio or a vacuum cleaner, will cause him to snap and chew out Al-Ghazali's staff. Annoy him enough and he'll go to the balcony to play golf and he can still be angry even then, cursing out Edwards and swearing to beat him to death with a golf club.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: His obituary has one of his former friends, Bernard Weathers, point out that he was so good at doing business that he was always "preternaturally" ahead of the curve on any decision he made.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He can be killed by 47 while he's disguised as the assassin he hired to eliminate Edwrards.
• The Illuminati: Ingram is a Providence Partner, one of the three leaders of a global elite that controls the world in secret.
• Nice to the Waiter: The only good thing that could be said about him. He does appreciate a well cooked meal and will invite the chef to eat with him. Ironically, this act of decency can be used to kill him.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Ingram appears to be based on the Koch brothers, being an aged libertarian from Kansas who made his fortune in the energy industry and has significant political ties.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Has as much disdain for the common folk as the Washington twins combined. He's also extremely prejudiced towards those who aren't exceptionally gifted, as shown in his dictaphone recordings.
• Silver Fox: He is a 66 year old Providence member that is aging, looks fairly attractive and has grey hair.
• Strawman Political: He's a parody on libertarians, being classist, elitist, and obsessed with tradition and legacy. He's also a staunch capitalist who cares little for government regulations.
• Stylistic Suck: Ingram's recordings are a scathing attack on the worst of libertarian politics, with his recordings sounding like they wouldn't be out of place in an Ayn Rand book.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: 47 can slip either lethal poison or rat poison into his food. The former is an instant kill. The latter sends him running to the bathroom where can be drowned in the toilet.
• The Vietnam Vet: Did a tour of duty in Vietnam shortly before the fall of Saigon.

Alexa Carlisle

Alexa Christine Carlisle

The Matriarch

"Is there a problem, secretary?"

Appearances: Hitman 2 | Hitman 3

Voiced By: Moir Leslie (English)

The matriarch of the Carlisle family, the most senior Partner and their unofficial leader.

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• All for Nothing: Both Alexa and Zachary murdered Montgomery so Alexa could become Providence's senior partner and the heiress of the family. In doing so, however, Zachary ended up suffering from immense guilt that drove him into reclusiveness. In addition, a lost letter from Montgomery reveals he was going to hand his positions over to Alexa as she was better suited, making the murder pointless. Revealing all of this to Alexa is enough to make her commit suicide.
• Been There, Shaped History: Played a hand in orchestrating the War of the Falklands in a ploy to dethrone the military junta. She also played both sides of the Cold War to Providence's advantage alongside Janus, who was defecting at the time.
• Cain and Abel: She and her younger brother Zachary murdered their older brother Montgomery to inherit the family fortune, feeling that he was too soft for his position.
• Dark Is Evil: She's wearing black, and is a cold, stern woman and the unofficial leader of the Providence partners.
• Death from Above: She can be crushed by the antlers dangling over her head as she walks through the hallways.
• Defiant to the End: Like Ingram, she refuses to beg for mercy if 47 holds her at gunpoint.
  Alexa Carlisle: Go on, then. Get it over with! You spineless shit!
• Disc-One Final Boss: She's eliminated in the second mission of Hitman 3, decisively putting an end to the Partners. However, the ending of Hitman 2's DLC missions already made it clear that Edwards would be the real Big Bad of the series.
• Driven to Suicide: She will throw herself off her balcony if she learns that her brother Montgomery, who she murdered decades ago, loved her and was ready to leave her the estate.
• Enemy Mine: If 47 solves the mystery of Zachary's killer, she'll be willing to give him the file on Arthur Edwards that serves as the secondary objective since they both want him taken down and she (incorrectly) assumes that 47 wasn't actually targeting her as well and simply knew she had extensive information on Edwards.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • Deep down in her cold heart, she does love her family, or at least her brothers and her daughter Rebecca. If she discovers that Montgomery had planned to leave her the estate decades ago, she ends up being Driven to Suicide after realizing she killed her brother for naught.
  • If 47 frames Mr. Fernsby as Zachary's killer, she will defend him and say he did to protect her family's legacy.
• Evil Brit: Her entire demeanor screams this trope.
• Evil Genius: She is incredibly intelligent, obviously being the brains out of the partners. Unlike Carl who is mostly talk, she has the intelligence to match her cunning.
• Face Death with Dignity:
  • Having lost control of Providence to the Constant, Carlisle returns to her family manor to say farewell to her family and wrap up her affairs, knowing that 47 is coming for her.
  • She even kills herself in a dignified way. She looks down at the ground, calmly pulls herself over the balcony, and hurls herself to her death as if it was nothing out of the ordinary to do.
• Faking the Dead: In order to cover Providence's tracks, her obituary reads that she died of lung cancer, supposedly after a long battle with it.
• Greater-Scope Villain: On top of being the unofficial leader of the modern-day Partners, she was also one of the key players in deciding that 47 and the rest of Ort-Meyer's clones should be turned into assassins. She was also the one who ordered their minds to be wiped.
• The Illuminati: Carlisle is a Providence Partner (the Senior Partner, in fact), one of the three leaders of a global elite that controls the world in secret.
• Inheritance Murder:
  • She and Zachary murdered her brother Montgomery to acquire the family estate. Unbeknownst to her, Montgomery intended on leaving it to her.
  • She can be killed by her daughter-in-law, Emma, who intends to take over the Carlisle estate after her husband inherits it. Emma is actually Montgomery's illegitimate daughter and views this as taking back what's rightfully hers while avenging her father. This too is All for Nothing as the Constant stole everything in the Carlisle estate when Alexa faked her death.
• Iron Lady: While Stuyvesant and Ingram don't seem all that different from any of the other ultra-rich assholes that 47 has killed, Carlisle is deadly serious and comes across as the most stoic and formidable of the Partners. Even Diana notes that, while she might be a monster, Carlisle's due diligence and calm resolve even in the face of her imminent downfall is very impressive.
• Karmic Death:
  • She can end up being poisoned by her niece Emma, the illegitimate daughter of her brother Montgomery, as revenge for killing him.
  • She can be Driven to Suicide if she's told that Montgomery was going to hand her the family fortune, meaning that she killed her own brother for naught.
• Klingon Promotion: She killed her older brother Montgomery after their father died in order to become the Senior Partner of Providence, believing that Montgomery was too soft-hearted and lacked the ruthlessness needed to maintain the organization. Unbeknownst to her, Montgomery felt the same way and was going to pass the family fortune and leadership role to her, making her killing of him completely pointless. She'll be Driven to Suicide if she learns of this.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: If 47 asks for the case file, she'll realize who he is and congratulate him by giving him the case file. If she's told her brother committed suicide, she'll ask him to make sure Edwards suffers before killing herself.
• My God, What Have I Done?: If 47 tells her that Montgomery was already planning to leave her the estate before she killed him, she will be so horrified with her actions that she will commit suicide.
• Noble Demon: Iron-fisted, icy and fratricidal as she is, Carlisle will give up Edwards' file to 47 as a reward for solving her brother's murder and will ask 47 to make Edwards hurt.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: A cold British, bouffant-haired Iron Lady who played a role in the Falklands War and has significant political ties, Alexa may be based on Margaret Thatcher.
• Not So Stoic:
  • After making tense phone calls to subordinates on an occasional basis, including Don Yates, Alexa secludes herself in a secret room where her composure slips and she screams into a pillow she holds onto her face from everything she's going through, showing that for all her serious and stoic demeanor, she is still only human with feelings and frailties. Naturally, 47 can use this opportunity to sneak in and smother her with the pillow.
  • If 47 reveals to her that her brother Montgomery, whom she and Zachery murdered, actually loved her, knew his inadequacy in handling the Carlisle legacy and had intended to give her the inheritance all along, Alexa will be so horrified by this revelation that she offs herself soon after.
• Parental Favouritism: While she is said to have been hard on all of her children, it is made rather clear that she favours her youngest child and only daughter, Rebecca over her two sons, Gregory and Edward.
• Parental Neglect: It's quite clear that she is the main reason her son, Edward, is a Nervous Wreck obsessed with winning her pride and approval. One of his planned eulogy statements reflects on how as a child, she told him to climb down a tree he got stuck in instead of helping him down.
• The Reveal: In Hitman 3's bio for Alexa, it's confirmed that she was "instrumental" in turning the Institute for Human Betterment (the asylum seen in Hitman 2 and the Birth of the Hitman comics) from Ort-Meyer's Mad Scientist experimental cloning program into a true assassination service, as well as also being partly responsible for suggesting "the wipe" of the clone subjects, which was in retaliation to 47 and 6's raid of the building. As her bio also lampshades, "the wipe" being enacted is one of the key reasons why 47 and Grey are out to kill her.
• Rich Bitch: She lives in a giant mansion decorated with paintings and statues, and is an awful excuse for a human being.
• Spotting the Thread: If 47 solves the mystery of Zachery's death while disguised as the private investigator and asks as his reward for the file on Arthur Edwards which Alexa possesses, Alexa would quickly deduce his real identity as Agent 47 (in contrast, 47 can have a similar conversation with Ingram in the previous level, where the clues 47 drops as to his identity just completely fly over Ingram's head). She would give him the file anyway as both wanted the Constant dead, he did help her solve her brother's death and she mistakenly believed that 47 wasn't actually there to kill her.
• Villainous Breakdown: She loses her composure if 47 reveals how and why her brother died. Depending on what 47 reveals, she'll either scream her lungs out into a pillow, or throw herself over her balcony in a moment of quiet despair.
• Vocal Evolution: Her voice in 3 is slightly deeper and raspier in comparison to 2, where she sounds softer and clearer. Her tendency to elongate her words remains, however.
• Vorpal Pillow: She can be smothered while screaming into a pillow in her panic room.
• Worthy Opponent: It's implied Alexa does on some level see 47 as this. She returned home when Providence began falling apart, knowing that sooner or later 47 (Or Arthur Edwards) would get to her and wishes to put her affairs to order as well as say goodbye to her family before he does. In one story thread at Thornsbridge Manor, when 47 solves the mystery of her brother's death while in disguise as the Private Investigator she hired, he can demand the file on the Constant she has as his reward. Despite quickly realizing who he is, rather than ordering her guards to gun him down, she gives him the file anyway as he did help her in a fashion and both of them wanted the Constant dead and even walks away from her guards to the balcony so he could kill her easily. Whether or not 47 kills her regardless or the Constant's forces does, she goes out with the cold comfort 47 would make sure Arthur Edwards pays for his transgression against her and Providence.

The Constant

The chief controller and second-in command of Providence who supervises the Heralds and acts as the organization's primary agent.

Janus

Janus

The Past

"Make sure this doesn't happen again, doctor."

^{Click to see him as he appears in Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman}

"Without us, your experiments would be theoretical at best"

Appearances: Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman | Hitman (2016)^note Mentioned only | Hitman 2 | Hitman 3^note Mentioned only

Voiced By: Richard Katz (English)

The first Constant of Providence, a legendary KGB spymaster who defected to the US shortly before the fall of the USSR. Having retired from his position in the late 90's, Janus now resides in the idyllic suburb of Whittleton Creek, where Providence keeps him under heavy surveillance to prevent him from disclosing the organization's existence.

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• Ambiguous Situation: If 47 disguises himself as his nurse, he mentions that he reminds him of a boy he once met that was part of an "idiotic" project to "create an army of super soldiers through genetic manipulation", clearly alluding to the previous mission's cutscene, and further mentioning "the wipe" from the Birth of the Hitman comic and goes into more detail about it. What's left deliberately ambiguous is whether or not Janus actually knows who 47 is or not, and if he does recognize 47, it's up to interpretation as to whether he's facing death with dignity, outright taunting him, or simply trying to play for time by implicitly offering 47 information about his past in the hopes of escaping him.
• Ambiguously Bi: Some of Janus' dialogue towards Helen West and 47 comes across as almost flirtatious. See Noodle Incident below for more details.
• Art Evolution: In the Birth of the Hitman comic, Janus didn't wear any glasses, and from what little we see of him, he looked very much like a younger Arthur Edwards; his successor. Since Janus and Edwards were later retconned into two separate title holders of Constant in Hitman 2, (the latter taking over the former as Constant when 47 escapes), it can be very easy to mix the two up as the same person.
• The Atoner: According to a journal in the the Isle of Sgàil mission, his work in founding the Ark Society was born of a genuine desire to leave a positive legacy.
• Been There, Shaped History: While he isn't directly credited, the mission briefing notes that as soon as Janus defected to the United States, the Cold War ended in a decisive Soviet collapse.
• Brutal Honesty: Janus isn't afraid to voice his opinions, and they usually are not very nice ones at that.
• Canon Immigrant: While Janus is first mentioned in the tutorial for the 2016 game, he doesn't physically appear in the trilogy until Hitman 2 made him a target for 47 and Grey as part of a Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit. Janus first shows up almost a full year earlier in the Birth of the Hitman comic series (albeit only being known as the Constant). He reported on Ort-Meyer's clone project to The Partners, and relayed information to both parties, and after the clones get their memories wiped in Issue 4, he leaves his post as Constant and Edwards takes over, who is seen in the comics from then on.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Janus could serve as this to Vinnie Sinistra from Hitman: Blood Money. Both of them are retired monsters who are living in a quiet suburbia. The difference between them is that despite his recklessness and paranoia, Vinnie was trying to live a normal life. Janus is much more meticulous and analytical, openly mistrusting everyone he comes into contact with. Ironically, Vinnie's nativity and Janus' paranoia prove to be equally problematic when exploited by 47.
• The Cynic: Janus is extremely jaded and pessimistic and most of his dialogue when referring to other people is him assuming they are a terrible person.
• Dark Lord on Life Support: He's not really powerful anymore, but he needs full-time medical aid and an entourage of bodyguards to prevent him from leaking Providence's existence.
• Death Seeker: Janus doesn't care about dying. Cassidy and Providence want to keep Janus alive though, something that complicates the mission.
• Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Diana and Grey's plan is to frame Janus as the real Shadow Client.
• Defector From Commieland: He used to be a KGB spymaster, but he defected to America in 1988. Though he evidently still has sympathies for the USSR, often berating capitalism to Helen and moaning the fall of the USSR while going through Soviet memorabilia.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Despite being the first constant of Providence, Janus isn't the main villain of the story since he's not even particularly dangerous anymore. The Partners and his successor Edwards are higher up on the villain scale.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He seems to be interested in Helen West, having nothing but high praise for her even when she reveals she killed his previous protector.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • He found Ort-Meyer's experiments "idiotic" and "distasteful" and only took advantage of them because the damage had already been done., something Edwards confirms when you escort him out on the Isle of Sgàil.
  • He also has some distaste for what Providence has become, seeing it as needlessly ruthless and power hungry. He seems to be driven by pragmatism rather than malice or power.
  • He sees Zoe and Sophia Washington as glory hounds who desecrate the past and vehemently opposed them becoming the chairwomen of the Ark Society.
• Evil Genius: Despite the fact that Janus' mental state is deteriorating, it is obvious that he is still an extremely intelligent man.
• Evil Mentor: To the current Constant of Providence.
• Evil Old Folks: Almost certainly the oldest target in the main game.
• Eye Scream: He keeps a hammer and sickle trophy in his bunker that he can be pushed onto.
• Face Death with Dignity: Janus congratulates 47 for being able to corner him if he is held at gunpoint. He is one of the only targets not to plead or bargain in this situation. If you get him into a choke-hold, he'll also tell him "Get it over with", rather than plead for his life.
• Face Framed in Shadow: Janus was very much The Faceless in the comics, always being shown in the shadows, and only a few of his visual features are shown. When he's introduced into Hitman 2 via a cinematic, he spends much of the time off-camera and in the shadows, until his face is revealed near the end.
• Foreshadowing: Janus is mentioned in Enemy Chatter during "The Final Test" as the boss of both Jasper Knight and Officer Netzke. They also wonder if the defection of the Soviet Ambassador Knight murdered means Janus' power is crumbling, which could be a hint to Janus' own future defection.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Befitting for an ex-spymaster and the first Constant of Providence.
• Genre Savvy: Downplayed. It's deliberately left open to interpretation as to whether or not Janus recognises 47. If he doesn't, then he's just recalling old memories (which is even a Mission Story in the game), but if he does, he's one of the only targets in the franchise to pick up that 47 has taken the disguise of somebody else, and just goes along with it.
• Hiding in Plain Sight: He used to be one of the most powerful men in the entire world. Now he's living under-the-radar in a quaint upper-middle-class American suburb, though with numerous secret security precautions such as the fact several of his neighbours are actually agents assigned to protect him.
• Identical Stranger: He bears a passing resemblance to his successor; Arthur Edwards, both have a receding hairline, and both dress rather similarly. Even with glasses, which were later added when he next appears in Hitman 2, you could easily say that Janus looks very much like an aged Edwards.
• I'm Standing Right Here: If 47 disguises as Janus' nurse, he'll state how 47 "reminds" him of a boy he met while supervising Ort-Meyer's super-soldier project and state his disappointment towards both 47 and the project. 47 is quick to probe him:
  47: What became of him?
  Janus: I don't know. Dead, I assume.
• Jerkass: Janus is extremely rude and unpleasant to almost everyone. He even beats Nolan Cassidy in this regard, by no means an easy feat.
• Karma Houdini Warranty:
  • Janus has been active for many years, setting up spy rings and planning assassinations without ever getting his comeuppance. 47 helpfully comes to rectify that.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Janus is the name of a literally two-faced Roman god. While this might be befitting of a spymaster well versed in deception, it also makes one wonder if the KGB ever expected him to defect.
  • Could also double as an Ironic Nickname since both he and his operatives (at least in his heyday) were known for their utmost loyalty to the USSR, even when faced with torture.
  • It's also definitely not a coincidence that the costumes worn by the Ark Society's Council (which he helped found) have faces in the front and back (with the front being a skull).
• Must Have Nicotine: Despite being elderly and requiring an oxygen tank he can't resist a cigarette, which can be used against him.
• Noodle Incident: Trying to get him to follow you while pretending to be his male nurse can result in proclaiming he doesn't swing that way - well, not besides that one time in The '60s.
• Only One Name: Notable for being the only target in the 'Hitman series like this. Even his civilian neighbors refer to him as Janus, suggesting he's using it as his legal name rather than a code name.
• Poor Communication Kills: When Gunther starts a background check and locks you in a room after you disguise as Janus's nurse, he doesn't bother to tell Janus or the guard in his room that this is happening. This allows you to easily escort Janus to his death after escaping the room without him realizing anything is wrong.
• Rambling Old Man Monologue:
  • His guards often find themselves in the receiving end of one if they ask about any of his memorabilia.
  • He does this if 47 disguises as his nurse, and notes his face looks familiar.
• Retcon:
  • In his bio, it is mentioned that 47 was previously hired to kill Janus as one of the first targets of Ort-Meyer. His bio doesn't elaborate on the details, and the comics, which went out of its way to show 47's first kills post-escape in Codename 47 does not show this either.
  • In Hitman 2, Janus' bio mentions he stepped down as Constant after "The Wipe" (something he corroborates in-game), meaning in the context of the comics, Janus takes over from Arthur Edwards in Issue 4 where this occurs. This means that Edwards and Janus were retconned to be two different people; the former taking over the latter. Quite conveniently, Edwards' face was never shown in detail (nor referred to by name, but that isn't too surprising given their jobs) prior to Issue 4, making this retcon easier to get away with and implement into the story.
• Retired Monster: He was the previous Constant of Providence and once personally confronted and disciplined 47 when the latter was just a child. After Edwards replaced him in that role as Constant, he retired and starting living in a quiet upper-middle-class American suburbia in 2004, and has stayed there ever since.
• Right in Front of Me: If 47 disguises himself as Janus' nurse, Janus claims 47 reminds him of a boy he once met that was part of an "idiotic" project to "create an army of super soldiers through genetic manipulation". When 47 asks what became of this boy, Janus claims he's most likely dead. Janus is either completely unaware that that "boy" is standing right in front of him or he's Defiant to the End.
• The Scapegoat: He's killed and made out to be The Man Behind the Man to Lucas as part of a plan to capture the Constant.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Despite having been once a genius, the ravages of old age have clearly done a number on him. Tellingly, unlike Cassidy, he will not notice if 47 impersonates one of his bodyguards.
• Shrouded in Myth: Appropriately for a spymaster, his past is a complete blank. This gave rise to rumors claiming he was everything from the son of penniless Belarusian peasants to the bastard son of Nikita Khrushchev himself.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Janus is the target and focus of one mission. He also helped Jasper Knight kill the soviet ambassador and then set up the death of Knight himself, giving Soders his rise to power in the ICA. Soders then uses this mission to try and get agent 47 to drop out of the ICA. 47 succeeds with the help of Diana then assassinates Soders 20 years later for betraying the ICA. In short, Janus inadvertently helped Soders' and 47's rise to power.
• The Spook: There's nothing known about his past beyond rumours and his real name isn't given. His bio even mentions that his past was carefully erased.
• The Spymaster: His identity as a former KGB spymaster who defected to the West is apparently general knowledge, at least among the intelligence community. The fact he was the previous Constant of Providence is a closely held secret, unknown even to Diana and the Agency.
• Villainous Friendship: With his neighbour, Helen West, as she's the one person he treats with a modicum of respect.
• Villainous Valour: He will Face Death with Dignity if 47 holds him at gunpoint, telling 47 to get it over with.
• Vorpal Pillow: One method of assassinating him involves smothering him with a pillow during his health check.
• Walking Spoiler: Janus is incredibly important to the plot and the fact that he is the first Constant of Providence gives almost half the story line.

Arthur Edwards

Arthur Edwards (The Constant)

"Miss Burnwood, we won a long time ago. This? *scoffs* This is maintenance."

^{Click to see him as he appears in Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman}

"If I were a more suspicious man, I'd say you made yourself indispensable... At a time when you were very much disposable."

Appearances: Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman | Hitman (2016) | Hitman 2 | Hitman 3

Voiced By: Philip Rosch (English)^note Other Languages:Yutaka Aoyama (Japanese)

A mysterious man who speaks to the outside world on behalf of Providence, acting as their second-in-command, chief strategist and the top controller of the Heralds. He initially appeared as one of the main antagonists in the "World of Assassination" trilogy as a high-ranking member of Providence, before gradually being revealed as a far greater threat than he first initially appeared to be.

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• Accent Relapse: If his mind is wiped with the serum, Edwards will lose his Creepy Monotone and speak in a genuinely confused tone of voice before 47 leaves him.
• Affably Evil: Polite, soft-spoken and a high-ranking intermediator agent for, and eventually leader of, Providence; the Ancient Conspiracy that subtly controls the world.
• All-Powerful Bystander: In 2016, he was reacting to events, and was still putting the pieces together on what was happening, but his deal with Diana to kill Greys' militia in 2 means he definitely has the resources to do as he pleases, so long as he checks in with The Partners on what he's doing eventually. Best shown in the "Dead Ends" cinematic; he meets The Partners in the Black Pyramid specifically to discuss his interference by allying with the ICA, something The Partners are skeptical of initially until they hear his continued plan to snuff out the rest of the Militia to end his attacks on their operations.
• Amnesiacs are Innocent: As a form of Laser-Guided Karma, if 47 chooses to wipe Edwards' memory out with the serum, he will spare Edwards and leave the train with him alive.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: As seen in Hitman 2, he is capable of pulling a lot of information from thin material. One of the few times he loses his Sherlock Scan tendancies is when Diana and Grey make him think Janus was the Shadow Client, and it's only until 47 reveals all to him on the Isle of Sgàil that he puts the pieces together.
• Bald of Evil: His hairline has receded very far.
• Base on Wheels: In Hitman 3 it turns out he's operating out of a fortified train traveling throughout Europe, which he's using as a mobile command center (background conversations indicate it was originally Janus' mobile command center). Since it has no fixed location, it's virtually impossible to find and infiltrate.
• Berserk Button: The only thing that seems to rattle him is his loyalty being questioned or betrayed. Quite hypocritical, seeing how he easily he betrayed the Partners and embezzled them shortly after escaping from Grey. He's also an Asshole Victim, as he's stated to be completely loyal to Providence, and was then disposed of without an afterthought.
• Big Bad: He becomes the central antagonist of Hitman 3.
• Big "NO!": If you choose to use the memory-suppressing serum on him, Edwards freaks out and screams this right as 47 jabs him in the neck.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You:
  • In the Isle of Sgàil mission, killing him results in instant mission failure since your goal is to bring him in for interrogation.
  • When Diana captures 47, Edwards opts to re-wipe 47's mind rather than put him down as he would be a useful tool for Providence.
• The Coup: Does a silent and non-violent version of this when he usurps Providence's resources from the Partners, using their assassinations to become the leader.
• Creepy Monotone: He speaks in this manner, and from Hitman 2 onward, he has mannerisms rather reminiscent of the G-Man from Half-Life.
• Cruel Mercy: If 47 injects him with the memory serum, Edwards effectively loses everything that he's sought to gain.
• Deadpan Snarker: When speaking to Diana after the death of Soders.
  The Constant: You could have just sacked the poor guy.
• Death of Personality: Using the memory-erasure serum on him effectively destroys "Arthur Edwards" as a person without actually killing him. After it takes effect, he shows no sign of knowing anything about where or who he is.
• Disappointed in You: He clearly saw Diana to be an important ally, if not a friend and was hurt by her double-crossing Providence twice.
• The Dragon: He is revealed to be this in Hitman 2 as he reports directly to the Partners, the true heads of Providence.
• Dragon Ascendant: At the end of "The Last Resort" he has gotten complete control of Providence's assets.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: At the end of Hitman 3, he expresses disbelief at the notion that Diana would resist the corrupting allure of power and go through with dismantling Providence from the top down, telling 47, “This is not how people work.” 47’s response is that she accept the responsibility but rejects the power, which is proven true despite Edwards telling him to join him in “the real world.”
• Expy: His vocal mannerisms, the way he acts, his presence behind the scenes of a larger conspiracy, heck, even his dress sense, is eerily similar to that of the G-Man from Half-Life, especially in Hitman 2, where IOI amplified this comparison.
• Explosive Leash: In Hitman 2, after Janus' assassination he's forced to inject himself with a remote-controlled killswitch to prove his loyalty to Providence.
• Face Death with Dignity: At the end of Hitman 3, when 47 finally comes for him, the Constant expresses disappoint in the outcome but remains completely unperturbed, calmly telling 47 to get it over with. He doesn't even flinch if you shoot at him to try and get a reaction out of him. He only loses his cool if 47 inflicts Cruel Mercy on him by injecting him with Ort-Meyer's memory wipe serum instead of simply killing him.
• Fatal Flaw: His unusual infatuation with Diana leads him to make some questionable decisions, including allowing her a high-ranking role that gives her what she needs to dismantle Providence.
• Finger-Tenting: One of his more unusual mannerisms - he often walks around with his hands clasped, as if he's carrying something.
• Green-Eyed Monster: It's mentioned in his bio that he despises the Partners because they would never make him one, due to the fact that he had a working-class upbringing.
• The Heavy: Due to the Partners' secrecy, he's the most prominent agent of Providence and leads the charge in trying to stop the Shadow Client.
• Horrible Judge of Character: What leads to Edwards' downfall is his unusual trust in Diana. Even after she's responsible for the deaths of several of his operatives, he gives her a role as his successor as Constant, believing that she would turn against 47 and Grey when he informs her of them killing her parents back in 1989. Not only does it not work, but when 47 confronts Edwards in the final mission, Edwards is bewildered as to why Diana would resist Providence's power and go through with destroying them, not really understanding that absolute power is of no interest to her — Diana outright says she doesn't care about power in a phone call to Edwards before Chongqing's events). Not only that, but Edwards also appears to be unaware that she previously did a similar trick in Hitman: Blood Money to take down The Franchise.
• Identical Stranger: He bears a great resemblance to his predecessor, Janus.
• Ink-Suit Actor: He's closely modeled on his voice actor, Philip Rosch.
• Inexplicably Awesome: Edwards is usually behind the scenes, and until Sgail revealed his full name; Arthur Edwards, the player barely knows anything about him. That said, everything he does do makes his chessmaster tendencies come off as impressive.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: This is what he plans to do to 47 in the last level. In the final confrontation with him, 47 can instead inject him with the memory-wiping serum that effectively wipes his identity, thus causing him to lose everything while still leaving him alive.
• Legacy Character: He is the second person to hold the title of Constant, with the first being the Cold War spymaster known as Janus.
• Limited Wardrobe: He's only ever seen wearing a navy suit. If you check his wardrobe in the final level of 3, he has multiple copies of the suit on display. Since the Heralds seen in "The Farewell" wear an identical outfit, it's likely a uniform.
• Long Game: NPC chatter in "The Farewell" has several Providence members speculate that Edwards's plan began decades prior when the Providence resources, technology and subsidiaries he's relying on were first being developed.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: His bio in the final level states that Edwards hoped to become one of the Partners, but the Partners' refusal to acknowledge him as an equal due to his middle-class origins resulted in him plotting their downfall.
• Mouth of Sauron: He's responsible for Providence's communications and delivers their alliance offer to Diana.
• Nice to the Waiter: He's genuinely friendly with Constantin, Janus' valet. He also makes an effort to be unremarkable and unmemorable to the wait staff.
• No Name Given: For most of the "World of Assassination" series, he's primarily known as "The Constant". His name is first revealed in a file in a safe, and that you can get off of his body if you knock him out. From "The Last Resort" onwards he is addressed primarily by his name.
• Oh, Crap!: If 47 chooses to use the memory-erasure serum on him, Edwards breaks down and begs him to stop, the only time his armor cracks in the entire series.
• One Nation Under Copyright: His plan for Providence is to merge their corporate subsidiaries into one before establishing an independent corporatocracy in Greenland.
• Retcon: As mentioned in Janus's folder, Edwards and Janus were retconned in the comic series to be two different people; the former taking over the latter. If you find the photo of Janus and Edwards together and compare the two of them, they even look rather similar due to their receding hairlines and general facial features.
• Retired Monster: He was the previous Constant of Providence and once personally confronted and disciplined 47 when the latter was just a child. After Edwards replaced him in that role as Constant, he retired and starting living in a quiet upper-middle-class American suburbia in 2004, and has stayed there ever since.
• The Reveal: In Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman he's the reason 47 escapes in Hitman: Codename 47, as Ort-Meyer lets 47 flee to force the Constant into revitalizing the cloning program, explaining why Ort-Meyer was staring down 47 as he fled.
• The Spook: Beyond his name, the only other thing known about him is that he applied for the London School of Economics on a scholarship in 1976, thus indicating he didn't come from a wealthy background unlike the majority of Providence. 47 and Olivia mentions this in 3:
  47: Look closer...
  Olivia: I'm telling you, the file is trash. Arthur Edwards doesn't so much burn his bridges as blow them up. Arthur Edwards, whoever he was, don't exist no more.
• The Starscream: Overthrows the Partners when the opportunity presents itself. Once their identities are compromised, the Partners trigger a fail-safe where they would fake their deaths and assume new ones. However, their Providence assets are redirected to the Constant rather than their new identities. Once Grey and 47 finish off the Partners, he has full control over Providence.
• The Stoic:
  • Takes the looting of Providence's computer room in his stride, while Director Fanin freaks out.
  • In Hitman 2 he is equally calm when 47 forces him to come quietly by threatening him with the killswitch.
  • In the final mission of Hitman 3, he accepts his fate at the hands of 47. He only panics if 47 injects him with the memory wipe serum. It also takes the loss of his identity for him to be genuinely affable to anybody other than the Sgàil staff, politely asking 47 as to what they were just discussing.
• Tempting Fate: After 47 finally tracks him down and accepting that he's going to die, he quips that "at least I die knowing who I am." One method of eliminating him is to stick him with Ort-Meyer's memory wipe serum, which neutralizes him and makes him not even worth killing.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: William Candler, the Herald captured by Grey's militia in Colorado that Berg was trying to break mentally, describes him as looking like an accountant and his face certainly wouldn't stand out in a crowd. When he's attending the Ark Society gala in Sgàil, Zoe Washington wonders how he can manage to be the most anonymous person in the room despite being the only one not wearing a mask.
  Berg: What does he look like?
  Candler: Like a bookkeeper. Like the guy you sit next to on the bus. Plain as vanilla and that's the idea.
• Tranquil Fury: His tone changes to one of stern disappointment when Sophia Washington questions his loyalty and mocks his middle-class upbringing in front of him.
• Uncanny Valley: He has an odd look about him; middle-aged, yet young at the same time. Despite being modeled on his VA; Philip Rosch, he has a knack for doing a Kubrick Stare when angry, and looks very similar to the G-Man in general.
• Villainous Breakdown: The only time he outright panics is if, in Hitman 3, 47 opts to use the memory wipe injection on him, making him not die as himself, but lose everything. Before that, he expresses disbelief that Diana would still go ahead with dismantling Providence, believing that she wouldn't be able to resist the power.
• Villainous Crush: 47 and Providence members in Mendoza speculate that this is why the Constant trusts Diana so much.
• Visionary Villain: Claims that Providence had become stagnant as part of his justification for usurping the Partners. Once he's in command, he's much more ambitious. NPC dialogue in "The Farewell" hints that he's already consolidated Providence's subsidiaries (Ether, Kronstadt, Milton-Fitzpatrick etc.) under a single corporate umbrella and eventually plans to leverage their vast wealth and resources to establish an independent corporate state under Providence's control. Said nation-state would be headquartered in an Ark Society base in Greenland and operate outside the jurisdiction of any national government, rendering it (in theory) untouchable.
• Villainous Widow's Peak: His hairline's receded heavily, but he still has this. It's much more noticeable in his Birth of the Hitman appearance and a picture of the first Ark Society gathering.
• Vocal Evolution: In the first game, he speaks in a relatively normal-pitched, if slightly monotonous voice, reminiscent of the Half Life's G-Man. In 2 and 3, his voice is deeper, more whispery, and is significantly harder to place, further strengthening this comparison.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: In Hitman 3, the Constant talks to Diana over the phone and claims he didn't arrange Grey's rampage and the events leading to the downfall of the Partners, but took advantage of the opportunity when it presented itself, especially after being forced to inject himself with an Explosive Leash by the Partners, which he saw as both an insulting questioning of his loyalty as well as a reminder of how disposable he was to them.

Don Yates

Don Archibald Yates

The Successor

"Make no mistake, this woman's hands are soaked in blood. Our blood!"

Appearances: Hitman 3

Voiced By: Nathan Osgood (English)

A New York based lawyer who, alongside Ken Morgan and Theodore Kohn, was known by the public as one of the founding members of the law firm (and secret Providence asset), Morgan, Yates & Cohn; in private, he was also a Herald, regarded by his fellow members as their unofficial "chief" due to being the top corporate fixer to the Constant, Arthur Edwards. After his ascension as the third Constant following the death of the Partners and Edward's subsequent control of all their corporate assets and resources, he announced his retirement to his wife's ancestral vineyard in Argentina, Vinedo Yates, in order to secretly prepare himself for his new role within the organization.

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• Ambition Is Evil: Yates is an opportunistic crony who isn't above throwing the people closest to him under the bus for power, something that Vidal notes to Diana. Not only did he sabotage his wife's career to strengthen his own, he plans on having Diana and Vidal executed so he can betray Edwards.
• Amoral Attorney: His law firm regularly engages in corporate fixing to shut down cases against their clients and he isn't above throwing his wife under the bus to make them seem undefeatable, the latter of which can be used against him.
• Bald of Evil: He has advanced male-pattern baldness and is an extremely unsavory and unpleasant individual.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: On the outside, he's a jovial, polite and sophisticated man. In reality, he's a cold, ruthless and traitorous individual who won't hesitate to betray his closest allies to save his own skin.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Following the "Closing Statement" story results in him convincing the other Heralds to have Diana killed for her treachery, resulting in him sending her to his room to personally execute her. However, he gives Diana plenty of time to let 47 infiltrate his room. When he does arrive, he takes a moment to gloat about his plans right in front of Diana, giving her the perfect opportunity to shank him with a letter opener.
• Bullying a Dragon: He'll try to personally have Diana killed and gloat to her face about his plans, assuming that she would be weak because she mostly does Mission Control. He really should've read the apparently-extensive file on her compiled by Aron Ford Jr, as she has had combat experience since she was 14 years old, and manages to stab him.
• Chekhov's Gunman:
  • Don is first mentioned in Hitman (2016) — if Dr. Laurent discovers Soders murdered his father but isn't under the influence of drugs, he will call Don about this revelation.
  • Alexa Carlisle will attempt to call Don, chiding him for sending a junior partner to aid with her problem instead of himself.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Sabotaged his wife's career to benefit his own, robbed Alexa Carlisle blind at the request of Edwards, and intends to betray him as well by murdering Diana and Vidal.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: He shares several similarities with Don Fernando Delgado, both being aging, seemingly-retired villains who live in a South America vineyard and are secretly connected to a powerful organization. However, whereas Fernando is Affably Evil and widely respected by the public, Don is cold, ruthless and widely disdained by the public for being an Amoral Attorney.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: 47 can impersonate Yates' junior partner Aaron Ford Jr, lure him into a private meeting to discuss the report Ford has prepared on Diana Burnwood, then slam his head into a desk, driving a fountain pen through his eye socket.
• Deadpan Snarker: His freakout when the wine pumps are sabotaged is laden with sarcasm. Even when he's about to be killed, he snarks about 47's loyalty.
  Don: (to Diana) Please... it will keep me awake at nights and I'm 65. I get up four times to piss as it is.
• Defiant to the End: If 47 fatally stabs him after Diana corners him, he'll mock his subservience before dying.
  Don: Such a good boy...
• Drunk with Power: If given the chance, the newly appointed Constant will order Vidal's execution and tries to kill Diana. Even if he's planning a frame-up, he sure isn't subtle about his plans for the future.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Although he did ruin her career, he does love his wife Valentina, asking 47 and Diana not to let her find his body if they kill him together. He also cared for his business partner Ken Morgan and is clearly angered by his death.
• Evil Old Folks: He's 65 years old and is an unscrupulous ex-lawyer and a high-ranking member of the game's equivalent of The Illuminati.
• Failed a Spot Check: His plan to personally kill Diana falls apart because he leaves a letter opener on his desk, which Diana takes and stabs him with.
• False Flag Operation: He wants to kill Diana and mask her death as an assassination by 47 for going rogue.
• Faux Affably Evil: His friendly demeanor and outgoing nature slowly slips away when there's nobody in the public eye to see it. He's actually an extremely ruthless bastard who uses charisma as a smokescreen to hide his odious nature.
• Framing the Guilty Party: Played with. He's absolutely correct that Diana is a massive threat to Providence, but lacks any genuine proof of her intentions, relying instead on her (admittedly extremely damning) orchestration of much of the "1% Killings" to justify his betrayal of her and Edwards to the Heralds. Moreover, it's clear this is primarily his own power-play so he can become Constant himself.
• History Repeats: One possible method of killing Ken Morgan is luring him into meeting Jordan Cross, where the latter will push him off a balcony during an argument. Don can end up meeting the exact same fate at the hands of his wife.
• In-Series Nickname: A magazine cover shown during the Mendoza briefing gives him the sobriquet of Don "Cojones" Yates, a fitting name for a guy so brazen as both a lawyer and a cutthroat Providence bigwig.
• Ironic Echo: States "this woman will be our downfall" towards Diana during the Herald meeting and orders his guards to kill her. She outright states this to him before stabbing him to death.
• It's Personal: Don's distrust and attempted assassination of Diana stems from her involvement in Ken Morgan's death.
• Karmic Death:
  • He can end up being pushed off a balcony by his wife Valentina if she is given files revealing he was behind the data leak scandal that destroyed her diplomatic career. Similarly, his partner Ken Morgan could also be pushed to his death by Jordan Cross in 2016.
  • He can also be fatally wounded by Diana, the woman he attempted to murder.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: He plans to make his murder of Diana seem like a staged accident at the hands of 47, with Vidal having been collateral.
• Not Worth Killing: It's entirely possible to just leave him for dead after Diana wounds him, making him succumb to the stabbing.
• Pet the Dog: He adopted Pickles, Ken Morgan's dog and tried to take good care of him, loving the dog dearly. Sadly, Pickles was later pickled by a grape picker, something that Don laments.
• Properly Paranoid: He's skeptical of Diana and is insistent that she is killed, as he believes she'll betray him and Providence. He's completely correct. He also has guards surrounding him when he attempts to personally execute Diana, a plan that's only foiled because 47 infiltrated his security.
  Diana: If it's any consolation, Don, your instinct were dead on.
• Retirony: Subverted. He's hosting his retirement party during the events of "The Farewell", but his retirement from law is to prepare for his role as Constant. A few partygoers even correctly guess that he's merely found a better offer.
• The Starscream: He's only in the running to be the next Constant, but he already aspires to go against Edwards by having Diana and Vidal killed.
• Trumplica: An arrogant, flamboyant, ambitious, balding New Yorker with a real estate mogul father, former presidential ambitions and the name Don and whose wife speaks with a pronounced foreign accent, Yates might feel more than a little bit familiar to a certain US president. He also bears a passing resemblance to Fred Trump, Donald's father.
• Villain Has a Point: Claiming Edwards must be out of his mind to appoint Diana to be the new Herald. Considering Edwards' bio stated his unusual infatuation and Diana's true allegiance, he has a point.
• Villain in a White Suit: He wears an off-white linen suit throughout the level, clearly to further his resemblance to Don Fernando Delgado. Given how he plans on usurping Edwards by killing Diana and Vidal, it suits him well.
• Villainous Friendship: Was a close friend of his law partner, Ken Morgan. When questioning the Constant's decision to allow Diana to become a Herald, Don puts heavy emphasis on the fact that Morgan was one of 47 and Diana's victims.

The Final Constant (Unmarked spoilers!)

Diana Penelope Burnwood

See here.

Heralds

Heralds are the couriers of Providence, recruited mainly amongst analysts, corporate fixers, lobbyists and political advisors. They receive their orders from the Constant and relay them back down to the operatives. They also investigate Providence-related issues, such as assassinations of their operatives as well as other Heralds.

Hajun

Hajun

Appearances: Hitman (2016)

Voiced By: Alex Wyndham (English)

A Herald that was killed by Lucas Grey while investigating the Ether virus incident.

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• Face Death with Dignity: Faces his imminent death at the hands of the Shadow Client in his stride, confident that his murderer's days are numbered.
• Nerves of Steel: Never raises his voice or panics, even when the Shadow Client makes it clear that he intends to dispose of him. The closest thing to an emotional reaction he has is shock that the Shadow Client would actually attempt to go up against Providence.
• Unholy Matrimony: A phone call made by Yuki Yamazaki in Hokkaido heavily implies that the two of them were in a romantic relationship.

Eugene Cobb

Eugene Cobb

The Banker

Appearances: Hitman (2016)^note Mentioned and seen in photo | Hitman 2^note Appears in flashback | Hitman 3^note Mentioned only

Voiced By: N/A

CEO of Milton-Fitzpatrick, killed by Lucas Grey and first victim of the private militia.

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• Art Evolution: For reasons unknown, his design was changed in◊ Hitman 2 when Grey kills him.
• Flat Character: Despite knowing his impact in the games' events, we know very little about him personally; All we know for sure was that he was a Providence Herald, he was the CEO of Milton-Fitzpatrick, and that's about it. His morality is never mentioned either.
• Posthumous Character: Murdered by Lucas Grey before the events of the trilogy where Grey was his head of security. He is, however, incredibly important to the story.
• Small Role, Big Impact: As mentioned, he's already dead by the events of the first game, and never makes an appearance in-game, but Cobb is the most referenced non-target by a wide margin, being mentioned in chatter in almost all the levels in the Trilogy; from civilians in Bangkok wondering about his plane crash, to Ingram when he rattles off the hits Grey was responsible for, and many conversations in between. His death marks the beginning of Grey's war against Providence, and as such, is quite important to the story.

Director Alexander Fanin

Alexander Fanin

Appearances: Hitman (2016) | Hitman 3^note Cameo appearance

Voiced By: Ramon Tikaram (English)

The CEO of Milton-Fitzpatrick Bank and the successor of missing former-CEO Eugene Cobb.

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• Art Evolution: In Hitman 3, he seems to have grown a moustache, and looks like a dead ringer for John Cleese.
• Continuity Nod: He's head of the Milton-Fitzpatrick Bank in 2016, and the ending of Hitman 3 reveals that he, like other Providence-affiliated CEO's, resigned from his post at Milton-Fitzpatrick under pressure from Diana.
• Karma Houdini: One of the few prominent Providence members that actually gets away scot-free, despite his ties to the conspiracy, merely stepping down as CEO once Providence is dismantled.
• Nervous Wreck: Or at least far more jittery and neurotic when compared to the Constant. A phone call made by Yuki Yamazaki in Hokkaido reveals that he is terrified that he will be the next Providence operative that the Shadow Client's private militia murders. Yamazaki assures him that, given his rather minor position in the organization, the chances of that are slim.
• Long Bus Trip: He's not really mentioned after the events of Marrakesh, where we see him talking to The Constant, as he otherwise gets very little focus, mostly being referred to in incidental dialogue after that point. He can be seen resigning as CEO in the "A New Deal" cinematic at the end of Hitman 3, now that he has the opportunity to do so.

Yuki Yamazaki

Yuki Yamazaki

The Watchman

"I understand you need to protect your clientele, but losing Soders is not an option. I'll be watching very carefully how you handle this, Director."

Appearances: Hitman (2016)

Voiced By: Susan Hingley (English)^note Other Languages:Arisa Shida (Japanese)

A Tokyo lawyer in the employ of Providence to whom Soders has promised a list of all active ICA operatives once his surgery is complete.

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• Alliterative Name: Yuki Yamazaki.
• Amoral Attorney: She's a former Yakuza lawyer who has moved on to working for Providence.
  Chef Aide: The rules are the rules.
  Yamazaki: I'm a lawyer, I always saw them more as a set of guidelines.
• Asian Rudeness: Specifically Japanese, and she's quite snippy and demanding towards everyone she encounters, often berating them under her breath.
• Call-Back: Her backstory explaining her rise to power begins with the gang wars that resulted from 47's assassinations of Masahiro Hayamoto and his son in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
• The Dreaded: Not only do none of the hospital's patients want to be near her, the injured yoga instructor is deliberately avoiding the yoga sessions she's booked.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: Her heavy eyeshadow and eyeliner stand out with her white hair.
• Fatal Flaw: A lot of the opportunities to kill her come from her carefree and somewhat reckless attitude, such as smoking in a hospital, wanting fugu, performing yoga on an unprotected ledge, or relaxing in a sauna at a deadly temperature.
• History Repeats: The intro to the game shows that canonically, 47 killed Masahiro Hayamoto Jr. via poisoned fugu sushi. Yuki can be killed the same way. To draw further parallel, Yuki is affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza.
• Laser-Guided Karma: She rose to prominence after the deaths of the Hayamotos and can be killed in the same way that Hayamoto Jr. canonically died, via botched fugu.
• Leave No Witnesses: Two resort patients can be overheard discussing a janitor Yamazaki couldn't crack who disappeared soon after, and two of her guards mutter how her new gig "beats dissolving witnesses in acid baths".
• Mafia Princess: Her bio states that she is the daughter of a Yakuza boss.
• Meaningful Name: Yuki is the Japanese word for snow, likely referencing the level taking place on a snowy mountain.
• Mouth of Sauron: Yuki is the first proper Herald the player interacts with, and is present at GAMA to oversee Soder's defection and ensure that the promised list of ICA agents is secured once his three-day surgery is completed.
• Must Have Nicotine: Which causes some problems, considering GAMA's strict no-smoking policy. Should she find a pack, she'll regularly go to either the rooftop garden or her suite's balcony to smoke.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Downplayed. If distracted with coins, she will sometimes speak with her voice actor's British accent.
• Sauna of Death: One method of killing her involves cranking the onsen's sauna room to a deadly temperature and barring her inside before she leaves.
• Stereotype Flip: She's a lot less polite than you'd expect of a Japanese woman.
• Tattooed Crook: Her right arm is heavily tattooed, seemingly as a holdover from her Yakuza days.
• Tempting Fate: She'll tell 47 that the view from an unprotected ledge "is to die for" during her yoga session.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Fugu fish sushi, of all things. She's quite cross the GAMA facility has banned it. Ironically they still keep all one needs to make it on site...
• Thought-Aversion Failure: Pulls this on herself.
  Yuki: Don't think about cigarettes. Don't think about cigarettes... DAMN IT! I THOUGHT ABOUT CIGARETTES!
• Too Dumb to Live: Unique among targets in 2016, every stop on her route contains at least one intended way to kill her, all of which stem from her own reckless behavior:
  • If her pack of cigarettes in her room is replaced, she'll go out to smoke right next to a gas lamp, on a balcony overlooking a cliff.
  • If her pack of cigarettes at the restaurant is replaced, she'll go to an industrial fan in the rooftop garden to smoke. Said fan happens to be right next to an oil barrel...
  • If 47 poses as the yoga instructor, she'll follow his instructions to pose standing on one foot right at the edge of a cliff.
  • If 47 sets the temperature of the sauna to be lethally hot, she'll dismiss her guards and go in for a soak.
  • When she talks to the hospital director, she does so in the one section of the entire map that's vulnerable to sniper fire.
  • When she goes to the kitchen, she demands fugu sushi, a dish famous for being lethal if not correctly prepared.
• Unholy Matrimony: It is heavily implied from one of her phone calls that the agent of Providence who got killed by the Shadow Client in Johannesburg was her lover.
• Yakuza: Began her legal career working for them.

Nolan Cassidy

Nolan Cassidy

The Present

"You'll see. We'll own this town yet!"

Appearances: Hitman 2

Voiced By: James Sobol Kelly (English)

A former Secret Service agent and current Herald of Providence acting as Janus' chief of security.

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• Asshole Victim: He only needs to die so he doesn't contradict Diana and the Shadow Client's narrative that Janus was the Shadow Client. It is hard to feel sorry for Nolan despite this, as he isn't a particularly pleasant person.
• Consummate Professional: As Janus' chief of security, he frequently patrols Whittleton Creek, intercepts Janus' mail, and has several undercover agents within the neighborhood.
• Evil Is Petty: Threatens to destroy a pest extermination company in a phone call to its owner, then calls someone to dig dirt on the exterminator working in the area, simply because the exterminator won't remove his fumigation set until he's done with his neighbor's house.
• Evil vs. Evil: The Censor Elusive Target has his agents trying to track down and catch a Serial Killer terrorizing Whittleton Creek, to the point of one of them posing undercover at a party the killer is attending. They're likely trying to catch him as to remove a threat from the neighborhood, though it's ultimately rendered null when 47 kills him in the middle of their investigation.
• From Camouflage to Criminal: He served in the U.S. military during the Kosovo War and worked as a Secret Service agent, both for honorable reasons. However, he ended up running security for criminal cartels after losing his job after the assassination of Daniel Morris and was eventually recruited into Providence.
• Gun Nut: He has a huge armory in his house that is rigged with alarms and will cause him and his security detail to come running in case anything is taken. Oddly enough, Cassidy himself is unarmed, just like most other assassination targets in the game.
• Genre Savvy: Walking into explosive vaults aside, Nolan is surprisingly diligent about possible security risks and has set up precautions to keep Janus safe. This being a Hitman game, this doesn't work.
• The Heavy: A herald of Providence and the one who has set up Janus' security.
• Jerkass: He is quite rude and brusque with people.
• Married to the Job: Nolan is very obsessed with keeping Janus safe and spends all his time surveying the area for threats and observing the community. Most of his dialogue is him complaining about other people not taking their jobs seriously enough.
• Nice to the Waiter: He is rather friendly with 47 (who is disguised as a waiter) if he offers him food at the BBQ. Obviously, this can be used against him.
• No-Sell: He seems to know all of his and Janus' bodyguards personally and won't be fooled if 47 disguises himself as one of them.
• Oh, Crap!: Re-enabling the underground vault's explosive security measures while he's inside of it results in him shouting at you to not do so as he tries to sprint out of there. He doesn't finish the sentence.
• Overt Operative: Cassidy doesn't do a very good job of blending into a quiet suburb and looks totally out of place among the residents of Whittleton Creek. Many of the NPCs have taken notice of this and suspect there is something sinister about him.
• The Paranoiac: He is so overzealous about his job and increasing Janus' protection detail that his end goal is to literally take over Whittleton Creek and populate it entirely with bodyguards. Of course, given that 47 is after Janus, this might make him Properly Paranoid.
• Parental Issues: Janus mentions that Nolan has serious problems with his father, suggesting this.
• Remember the New Guy?: According to his bio, he was on duty in the White House while 47 killed VP Daniel Morris and Mark Parchezzi III back in Blood Money.
• Safety Freak: He's so obsessed with protecting Janus that he sees any new neighbors and an exterminator as a security threat, and has several undercover bodyguards. This has created some friction between him and Janus, who sees his measures as intrusive.
• Sinister Shades: A fitting look for a former Secret Service agent.
• Taking Over the Town: Intends on moving as much bodyguards as he can into Whittleton Creek. It shows considering that some of the partygoers, garbage men and West's gardeners are all armed.
• Too Dumb to Live: Leading him as a real estate broker into a house he's been eyeing has him disable an underground, explosive-laden vault using his experience with such tech and factory-standard settings. Then he asks his only bodyguard to go check the outside for any external signs of the vault and steps inside of the vault with the security panel within arm's reach of 47. And all this can occur after 47 spends the entire tour of the house talking in great detail about how deadly any given room could be, concealed very wanly within references to their typical purposes. Any player that doesn't make him realize how badly he screwed up has great restraint.
• Villainous Friendship: Tamara Vidal mentions that aside from his grumpiness, she liked Nolan.

Frank Schmidt

Frank Schmidt

Appearances: Hitman 2

Voiced By: N/A

Former Herald working for Janus, accidentally killed by Helen West and replaced by Nolan Cassidy.

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• Posthumous Character: Dead by the time "Another Life" takes place.

Athena Savalas

Athena Savalas

The CEO

"Why are we forced to entertain the notion of interacting with these people every day?"

Appearances: Hitman 2

Voiced By: Zigi Ellison (English)

The Director of the New York branch of the banking division of financial giant Milton-Fitzpatrick, responsible for a veritable laundry list of financial crimes.

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• 0% Approval Rating: No one likes Athena. Her staff hate how bossy she is and because of how much power she has at the bank, she can fire anyone at the drop of a hat, just for not pleasing her.
• Asshole Victim: Savalas only needs to be taken out to prevent her from reporting a data theft to the Partners. Despite that, she's a completely loathsome person who has it coming.
• Attention Whore: Athena has her face plastered everywhere that definitely strokes her ego, such as being on the front of a magazine, a massive portrait outside her office, as well as on a few posters around the bank.
• Destination Defenestration: Savalas watches over the bank from a glass clock tower in her office, which she can either fall through or be pushed out of.
• Disproportionate Retribution: She fires an employee for wearing a knitted jumper and jeans.
• Evil Genius: Extremely intelligent and extremely evil.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Speaks with a condescending and scratchy British accent.
• Foil: To Sierra Knox. Both of them are blonde, short-haired businesswomen who became cold and ruthless because of their business obligations and to appease their neglectful fathers. While Sierra isn't always the most pleasant of people, Athena is far more unfriendly and morally bankrupt than Sierra and is disliked by almost everyone, whereas Sierra has coworkers and friends that seem to care about her.
• Freudian Excuse: Her workaholic father was distant towards her, forcing Athena to sacrifice her character to keep up her families reputation.
• Genre Savvy: She stays on the top floor of the bank and only comes down if there is an emergency, such as her stocks falling. 2/3 guards in her office see through the elite guard disguise (as does Athena herself) and her personal room is also a hostile area in every disguise.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: Justified. While the guards in her office are extra observant of disguises, especially their own, there are still only 3 of them; as such, they all follow her out of the office when a fire alarm is triggered, leaving the room completely empty. Even if your personal guard is skilled, there's gonna be some blind spots if you can count said guards with one hand.
• Hate Sink: Athena is sociopathic, narcissistic, has an ego the size of the clock she leans on, cruel to her employees and incredibly unpleasant to be around.
• It's All About Me: She literally looks down at those who do menial tasks and thinks that because she runs the joint, she can do whatever she wants.
• Jerkass: One of the biggest in the entire series.
• Karmic Death:
  • Athena uses the clock tower to look down on those below her. Agent 47 can teach her a lesson in humility by helping meet them by pushing her through the clock or tampering with it so she falls through it.
  • She can be eliminated while disguised as the employee she's firing for how he dresses. Even better, the story mission where you're disguised as said employee provides the opportunity to defenestrate her.
• Kick the Dog: Athena loves doing this. She fires employees over minor failures (including one that met all his quotas because he wore sweaters she didn't like and threatens to murder an auditor if she reads through the Cronkite file.
• Light Is Not Good: Has pale makeup, blonde hair and a bright yellow suit. Is far from a good person.
• Morally Bankrupt Banker: She's an evil bitch who treats her employees like crap and is so much of an egomaniac that she has a giant window in her office overlooking the bank just to literally look down on everyone.
• Narcissist: Athena likes how self-important she is compared to her co-workers.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Athena bears an uncanny resemblance to 'the Queen of Mean' Leona Helmsely, in both her appearance, her location, and her treatment of her employees.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: As is the case with the Washingtons, Athena shows disdain for the lower and middle class.
• Power Hair: She's a bank director with short swept-back hair.
• Rich Bitch: Very rich and very bitchy.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: It is mentioned that Athena used to be much more empathetic and affable before she became the president of Milton Fitzpatrick. Most of the people who knew her say she is almost unrecognizable compared to ten years ago.
• Two-Way Tapping: Her private quarters contains a two-way mirror separating it from an office, allowing her to confront an auditor if they're given the Cronkite file.
• Villainous Breakdown: If 47 passes the Cronkite file to the auditor rather than the reporter, Savalas will confront her and attempt to force her to hand over the file. When the auditor refuses, she go on an unhinged rant about whistleblowers before graphically threatening to kill the auditor. It's played surprisingly terrifyingly.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Downplayed. The public sees her as a cutthroat banker, nothing more. However, unless you manipulate events in your favour, the only people who know about her cruel nature and shady business tactics are her underlings.
• Weaksauce Weakness: As mentioned above, pulling the fire alarm near her office empties it, allowing 47 to set up a trap.
• White-Collar Crime: Athena is guilty of many of these, including several financial loopholes, exploiting tax rules, laundering money for criminals and gambling with customers' money. She's attempting to hide a set of files detailing her misdeeds through pretending the bank was broken into.

Mikhail Kadir

Mikhail Kadir

Appearances: Hitman (2016)^note Mentioned only | Hitman 2^note Mentioned only | Hitman 3

Voiced By: Unknown

Another Herald working directly under Don Yates, previously mentioned in passing in both Hokkaido and on the Isle of Sgàil.

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• One-Steve Limit: Shares his name with Mikhail Slavsky from Birth of the Hitman.
• Unseen No More: For the longest time, Mikhail was an ever-present background character during the events of 2016 and 2 as The Ghost, but makes an appearance in Mendoza as a guest of Don Yates.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He is called by both Yuki Yamazaki in Hokkaido, and The Constant on the Isle of Sgàil. Yuki calls him to request that he provide her footage from the car park where her lover, Hajun, was murdered by Lucas Grey. While The Constant postulates with him about the mysterious circumstances surrounding Janus' apparent defection, as well as Orson Mills' attempt to rob a money transport in Belgium and subsequent arrest.
• Only Six Faces: As with Dolores Powell, they share their faces with the other NPC's in the Mendoza level.

Tamara Vidal

Tamara Vidal

The Protégée

"Why are you here, Burnwood?"

Appearances: Hitman 3

Voiced By: Yolanda Vasquez (English)

A ex-CIA agent and former far-right political leader of German-Argentinian descent, Vidal is Arthur Edwards's closest advisor and is found accompanying Diana during Don Yates' retirement party.

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• Affably Evil: She's a horrible person but her friendliness to Diana and the Constant is genuine. Diana actually does feel bad about her death should she be sniped in front of her.
• Alas, Poor Villain: If she is killed while following the "Eyes On Target" storyline, Diana will feel bad for having to kill her, something that 47 makes note of.
• Argentina Is Nazi-Land: She's of German descent and born to parents who fought with the nationalist junta during the Dirty War. She ran a far-right party accused of being crypto-fascist and expresses her belief in strong hierarchies and having the privileged lead society because of their lineage, common principles of fascism. She also happens to be blonde with blue eyes, which makes her fit the Nazi's definition of an Aryan.
• Ascended Meme: Tamara sarcastically quips Diana's "Quite the résumé" line at her after listing some of the Heralds and operatives Diana and 47 have killed in the trilogy.
• Birds of a Feather: With the Constant, who she shares a similar political vision with.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: The winery tour provides several gruesome ways of killing her, including dropping her into a distilling tank, locking her inside an industrial freezer, pushing her into a grape crusher and crushing her inside a pressing machine. The latter actually leaves nothing of her left besides a pile of blood.
• Defiant to the End: Similarly to Ingram, she will not beg for her life if 47 pulls a gun on her. Rather than accepting her fate like he did, she goes down taunting 47.
  Tamara Vidal: You live for this, don't you, 47?
  • If 47 triggers the secret meeting, Don Yates ends up having one of the guards execute Vidal (for being more loyal to Edwards than he prefers). Vidal, once again, does not beg for mercy or even flinches. She just stares coldly at him until the end.
• Drink-Based Characterization: Asks the bartender to serve her a bottle of Pinot Noir, a dry and bitter variation of wine that reflects on her cold, brutally honest nature.
• Evil Genius: An ex-CIA surveillance expert and political expert who serves as The Dragon to Edwards. She's also one of the few people in the game who sees through 47's usual alias.
• Failed a Spot Check: When she leads 47 to an empty theatre room to have him executed, she doesn't notice the gun lying on the table next to her.
• Genre Savvy: Vidal deduces that 47's "Tobias Rieper" alias is a fake and lures him down for a gunfight.
• He Knows Too Much: Diana admittedly likes Vidal and feels that she has a lot to answer for. Regardless, Vidal's surveillance of her and her complete loyalty to Providence's principles renders her an obstacle in Diana's plot to destroying the organization.
• I Know You Know I Know: Unlike most other targets, she's immediately aware that Tobias Rieper is 47's alias yet plays along anyway. She already has one of her bodyguards researching his background and will lead 47 into a trap if he continues greeting Burnwood.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: During the Herald meeting, Vidal opposes Yates' decision to have Diana executed for her damage to Providence, arguing that he's using it as an excuse to usurp Edwards. Yates responds by having her killed.
• No-Sell: After talking to Diana under the alias of Tobias Rieper, Tamara will eventually ask to see 47 in private once he talks to her a third time. This turns out to be a trap, with Tamara explicitly stating she's aware of his identity.
  Tamara: All right. No more bullshit. Who are you really?
  47: I told you. Tobias Rieper, corporate liquidator.
  Tamara: ...liquidator. Yes, you said. Do you take me for an idiot? Your oh-so-clever euphemisms may fool the plebs but not me. Tobias Rieper does not exist. I was CIA. I know a half-assed sock puppet identity when I see one.
• Odd Friendship: Tamara bonds with Diana rather quickly, despite their contrasting morals. If she's killed by Yates' sniper, Diana seems remorseful for having to do so.
• Pet the Dog: She seems to genuinely like Diana and becomes fast friends with her and is the only Herald to defend Diana when Yates calls a meeting proposing the group kill Diana and make it look like an accident as revenge for all the trouble she's caused them. This ends up getting her killed by Yates. If 47 disposes of her through other means, Diana will note she genuinely feels a little bad that Tamara had to die.
• The Social Darwinist: She justifies her belief that Providence is necessary by saying that people need someone to lead them and that no hierarchies leads to chaos.
  >Vidal: Any dumb mob or chest-pounding gorilla has might. I believe in merit, the rule of competence. Those who are born with superior skills and intellect have a moral obligation to lead. It's as simple as that.
• Tempting Fate: Unlike most targets, Tamara will actually point out the various safety hazards present during the wine tour, even snarking at the idea of falling into the grape crusher, all of which can be used to assassinate her.
• Undying Loyalty: To the Constant, as noted by Diana and other Heralds. This can actually get her shot by Don in one mission story, where she calls him out for going against him by deciding to kill Diana. If she confronts 47 alone, she'll call his death her golden ticket to becoming Constant, unlike Yates' desire to usurp Edwards.
• Villain Ball: Escorting 47 down to the cinema to face off against her guards is a decent ploy, if easily overpowered. Interrogating him with a gun placed mere feet away, much less so. Her guards are also further away from her while she stands right in front of 47.
  47: If I am who you say I am, do you really think this... was your best course of action?
  Tamara Vidal: It's five against one.
  47: Yes. See your mistake?
• Villainous Friendship: She’s in the process of forming one with Diana by the time you kill her, not that it stops Diana from telling you to eliminate her to begin with.
• Villain Respect: She's actually rather impressed with Diana's massive body-count of Providence operatives and assets, on the basis that she shook Providence out of their complacency by showing they were no longer untouchable — fitting, considering her "survival of the fittest" mentality.

Geraldine Quill, Richard Jones, Wang Yin Yuan, Hira Amala, & Alexandra Stavroula

A group of Heralds attending Don Yates' party.

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• Evil Brit: Jones, Amala and Stavroula.

Operatives

Dr. Ort-Meyer

Dr. Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer

See here.

Silvio Caruso

Silvio Caruso

The Genius

"Do not fear the strong. Fear the weak. For they have something to prove."

Appearances: Hitman (2016)

Voiced By: Brian T. Delaney (English)^note Other Languages:Fumihiro Okabayashi (Japanese)

A gynophobic and travelphobic virologist, Silvio Caruso never leaves his villa and suffers from crippling depression due to his mother's death. Despite this, he's developing a singularly devastating biological weapon for Ether Biotech Corporation.

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• Abusive Parents: His mother was a controlling, manipulative emotional abuser, which goes a long way towards explaining why he's so screwed up.
• Best Served Cold: He plans on killing his childhood bullies, despite years after their torment of him has stopped and having become better people (with the exception of Abiatti).
• Blue Blood: His bio states that he's the last known descendant in a line of rural aristocrats.
• Broken Ace: He's a world-renowned, extremely skilled genetic scientist, but also deeply disturbed.
• Bully Hunter: A Deconstructed version as he intends to murder all of the bullies from his childhood with his virus, despite many of them having become better people since then. He also previously hired the ICA to assassinate a former bully of his, Marco Abiatti, although this was out of of the betterment of Sapienza, as Marco was planning to threaten Sapienza's heritage and was a very powerful bully with mafia ties.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A travelphobic, gynophobic shut-in who is also the world's greatest virologist.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Bears a passing resemblance towards Robert Downey Jr..
• Conspicuous Consumption: Hires a famous chef to try replicate his mother's spaghetti bolognese recipe and treats him like crap for being unable to.
• Crazy-Prepared: Has ensured there are multiple ways for him to eliminate De Santis should she pose a threat to him. He has a sample of her DNA in a safe in the attic. Just in case she finds that, he's also hidden a copy of the virus encoded to kill De Santis in a model ship.
• Disappeared Dad: His father, a political essayist, left him shortly after his birth and died soon after.
• The Dog Bites Back: He ordered the hit on Marco Abiatti, one of his childhood bullies-turned-corrupt politician 47 assassinates during "Landslide". Likewise, he murdered his manipulative and controlling mother after years of emotional abuse from her.
• Early-Bird Cameo: His mother (or an actor playing her) appears in the training mission, at one point mentioning how creeped out she is by his behaviour and expressing the belief that he might one day kill all of them.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite knowingly trying to engineer the world's most potent means of assassination, he still hires the organization he is plotting to put out of business to kill Marco Abiatti - not even for the sake of personal revenge against him, as is par for the course for Caruso, but out of genuine concern for Sapienza and Italy as a whole.
• Expy: He's basically Norman Bates if he were a bio-engineer, although lacking the parental incest.
• Eye Scream: One of the ways to dispatch him is to shoot him through his telescope.
• Fainting: The challenge "Beyond the Grave" makes him do this in the end. 47 will turn on his late mother's favorite record, then turn on her chairlift to lead him upstairs, ring the service bell in her room and finally turn on a fan that causes her rocking chair to move. Silvio thinks it's his mother's ghost and he ends up fainting all alone in her room, leaving 47 free to dispose of him without being seen.
• Freudian Excuse: His mother's treatment of him left him an emotional wreck.
• Godzilla Threshold: Former clients are among the few people the ICA normally refuses to kill. They make an exception for Caruso as he now poses an existential threat to the organization.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Being a Nervous Wreck, he's prone to flying off the handle easily, and will get angry at his guards if he isn't left to mourn in peace, or the head chef if he's served spaghetti. 47 can take advantage of this during the therapy session by insinuating that he killed his mother, causing him to admit he did it.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Silvio suffers from gynophobia due to his mother's abuse and this is part of the reason he is plotting against Francesca.
• Hidden Depths:
  • While writing his memoir, he will note his desire to overcome his gynophobia and have children without the need for artificial insemination.
  • Caruso demonstrates a surprising self-awareness of his own mental issues and is fully aware that his mother is responsible for most of them. However, that awareness doesn't fully stop his compunctions and compulsions and only leaves him more depressed and neurotic.
• Hollywood Autism: Played with. While a couple of characters claim that he has Asperger's, and he's a very eccentric, intelligent, emotionally volatile man, he shows few stereotypical traits of the disorder that couldn't also be attributed to the lifetime of emotional abuse he suffered at the hands of the town bullies and his mother; in other words, even if he is autistic, it's just another factor compounding his laundry list of neuroses rather than the sole reason why he is who he is.
• Irony:
  • Silvio is angry that a world-famous chef is unable to replicate his mother's trademark spaghetti. His mother actually made him store-bought canned spaghetti sauce... and if 47 poisons it with a can of expired sauce, he'll comment that the chef finally got it right, immediately before rushing off to hurl his guts out.
  • Despite being a scientist, Silvio believes that his mother's ghost haunts her bedroom.
• Karmic Death: 47 can smother him with a pillow after Silvio confesses that he smothered his mother.
• Matricide: He ultimately smothered his mother to death, which resulted in him suffering several mental breakdowns. Francesca mentions this possibility in a phone call she makes, but Silvio can confess his crime if 47 poses as a therapist or delivers the flowers to Isabella's grave.
• Mean Boss: He treats his help like crap and he gives a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to his head chef when he's unable to replicate his mother's spaghetti. His mother actually made him cheap, store-bought spaghetti from a can, while the chef makes high-quality, five-star restaurant spaghetti.
  • When golfing, Silvio makes one of the gardeners caddy for him. Granted, he golfs on a single personal putting green on the mansion grounds, so the gardener doesn't exactly have to put much elbow grease in.
• Moe Greene Special: It's possible to kill him by shooting him through his telescope.
• Mundane Object Amazement: He loved his mother's spaghetti as a child and has hired various chefs to recreate it, to no avail. Little does he know that it's actually store-bought canned sauce.
• My Beloved Smother: His mother was one of these and it royally screwed him up.
• My God, What Have I Done?: His feelings regarding murdering his mother is guilt and self-loathing.
• Nervous Wreck: The suspicion that Francesca is spying on him and guilt over his mother's death has caused Silvio's behavior to get increasingly erratic. If he's held at gunpoint, he'll completely break down.
• No-Sell: Silvio appears to know the majority of his staff, as he acts as an enforcer for most staff-related disguise besides the kitchen assistants.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Despite being a meek scientist on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Silvio is the brains behind a weaponized virus that could kill millions if it was ever completed. This makes killing him absolutely necessary.
• Properly Paranoid: He is highly suspicious and distrusting of Francesca and has made a prototype encoded with her DNA. Given that she's been sent to spy on him and potentially kill him should the need arise, he's absolutely correct.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Can be seen as this, as the virus he is cultivating is a specific request from Ether Corporation and Silvio just took it as a challenge.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Francesca describes him as a scared and angry little boy in a grown man's body.
• Scope Snipe: A variation, he can be shot through his telescope.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: During a target lockdown, he will attempt to flee in a seaplane.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: He believes Francesca is plotting against him so he takes measures which causes her to start plotting against him in self-defense. Not that it helps either of them.
• Self-Made Orphan: If you take the gravesite or the psychologist opportunities, Silvio will confess to having smothered his mother to death.
• Single-Issue Psychology: Everything wrong with Silvio traces back to his mother's treatment of him.
• Speech Impediment: Often stutters and pauses between words, particularly when he's enraged.
• The Unfavorite: Silvio's mother favored his brothers a lot more than him, yet ended up having to latch onto him once her husband died and her other sons ran away.
  • To elaborate, you can overhear Isabella talk about Silvio in "Freeform Training" and she says that she's disturbed by his mannerisms and behavior, a manner which she cultivated in him in the first place. She also states that he might "murder us all".
• Tragic Villain: Silvio is undoubtedly evil, but seeing him constantly on the edge of a nervous breakdown, filled with guilt and self-loathing paints him in a more sympathetic light than most targets.
• Vorpal Pillow: He apparently suffocated his mother with one and 47 can do the same to him.
• We Can Rule Together: If 47 holds him at gunpoint long enough, Caruso will eventually state that his wealth could make him rule the world and he offers to share it with 47. Unfortunately for him, Silvio doesn't have enough time to contact the ICA for a new target...
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Considering all the poor guy's been through, it's not hard to understand why he snapped.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: It's possible to add an expired can of sauce to the spaghetti, which will have Silvio praise the chef for finally getting the recipe right. Of course, it doesn't take long for him to eventually get sick.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Right with Crazy-Prepared above. He somehow is correctly suspicious of Francesca and kept her DNA sample with him as a way to get rid of her influence. Francesca can even insinuate Silvio has the collection of samples of his entire group of employers, possibly why the contract even came to the Agency in the first place.

Claus Hugo Strandberg

Claus Hugo Strandberg

The Banker

"Greed and ignorance, my friend. Those are the cornerstones to any good con."

Appearances: Hitman (2016)

Voiced By: Patrick O'Connell (English)^note Other Languages:Yoshitaka Kure (Japanese)

A Swedish bank CEO whose massive investment fraud has stolen 7 billion dollars from the savings of the Moroccan people. He was busted out of custody by mercenaries connected to his partner General Zaydan and is now holed up in the Swedish consulate, outside of which a massive protest demanding his handover is formed.

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• Abusive Parents: He divorced his wife shortly after they had a daughter and stole the daughter's seven-figure inheritance after her mother's death. His daughter happens to be one of the protesters in the crowd.
• Asshole Victim: It's revealed that Zaydan, with Providence's approval, is planning on having his men throw Strandberg into the ocean during his flight out of Morocco. This would normally be a pretty awful thing to do, but Strandberg's such a douche that you almost want them to do it.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Claus outright admits he has done horrible things and has no sympathy for the people he has screwed over, something that is reinforced in his interview. He barely hides the fact he is an evil person.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Claus is not only in danger from the entirety of the Moroccan people but he's also ticked off The Illuminati, given that his Ponzi scheme was done against Providence's orders. He's also betrayed his own daughter by taking her mother's inheritance for himself.
• Con Man: For all his apparent sophistication, he has been one for his entire life. He even freely admits that his fraud was a con.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's a financial bigwig who robbed Morocco blind.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: As CEO of Morocco's largest bank, Providence tasked him with subtly interfering with the economy, ensuring they could use the recession to put Zaydan in power and let Strandberg keep his place. Strandberg instead opted to take the money for himself, getting him thrown in jail and making him a liability to Providence.
• Cutting Off the Branches: His Precision F-Strike-laiden interview does go through, as bystanders in "Club 27" and "The Source" talk about it at length, implying 47 disguised as a cameraman to get close to him.
• Death Flight: What Providence would have done to him during his escape to Argentina.
• Didn't Think This Through: Strandberg was tasked with subtly messing with the Moroccan economy, which would cause a financial recession and justify Zaydan's military coup. Instead he ended up taking all the money from his Ponzi scheme for himself, resulting in him needing to be rescued and complicating Providence's plan (though fortunately for Providence, the outrage Strandberg's scheme generates makes any reasoning for a coup even stronger). By the time he's rescued, Providence has already taken the stolen money for "safekeeping" and are trying to dispose of him.
• Dirty Coward: A Downplayed Trope example as he flees at the first sign of danger but this is Properly Paranoid given his circumstances.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": Anytime somebody calls him Mr. Strandberg.
  Claus: Please, call me Claus.
• Early-Bird Cameo: One of the few targets in the game where he is shown in the first trailer for the 2016 game (back when it was going to release in late 2015). The riot outside is present, the news ticker behind him is accurate to the game and the only changes appear to be his face (where he is older, late 50's instead of late 30's) and the fact he's in a hotel, not the Swedish Consulate.
• Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. His fraud wasn't about having the money as much as it was proving how much smarter he was than everyone by taking it. He's also willing to unrepentantly brag about his actions during a live interview, which he can be killed by. The whole thing was done without Providence's approval, since he was confident that he could use his connections to get him to safety. Unfortunately for him, Providence intends on having Zaydan kill Claus during his escape.
• Faux Affably Evil: He is extremely friendly with most people, be they reporters or masseurs, insisting that they call him "Claus". However, it's clearly an act, given that he is a sociopath.
• Foregone Conclusion: Even if 47 hadn't gotten to him, Zaydan was planning to chuck him in the sea on the way to Argentina anyway, so there was no way he was getting away unscathed.
• For the Evulz: His conversation with General Zaydan reveals he's less interested in the money than taking it.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: A fitting look for a white-collar criminal.
• Gilded Cage: The mission to assassinate him and Zaydan is called "A Gilded Cage" for a good reason; the Swedish Consulate has all the comforts of home, but he can't leave since there's a huge crowd of protesters right outside howling for Strandberg's blood.
• Hated by All: According to bystanders, he's not just one of the most hated men in Morocco, but one of the most hated men in the world, at present. The people working in the Swedish consulate are disgusted to have him take refuge there, the masseur is actively trying to get out of his duties due to being repulsed by the thought of touching Strandberg, and even his own daughter (whom he conned out of her inheritance) is part of the mob of protesters outside the consulate building! Even Providence has no intention of keeping Strandberg alive if he escapes Morocco, as Zaydan was planning on throwing him into the sea anyway.
• Hate Sink: Strandberg may not be a murderer, but he is still considered to be one of the most despicable targets in the entire series. Strandberg has robbed thousands of people, including the poor, the blind, and his own daughter. He's even hypocritical enough to blame people for falling for his cons. He evades justice to help Zaydan during the military coup to start a civil war, perfectly willing to let thousands die just so he can save his own skin. It's no wonder Zaydan intends to kill him.
• Hypocrite: He genuinely believes the Moroccan people deserved to be conned by him due to being greedy and wanting "easy money".
• It Amused Me: His reasoning for doing his Ponzi scheme instead of Providence's plans.
• It's All About Me: He deliberately went against Providence's well-laid plans for no reason other than to satisfy his need for a thrill. He also berates his intern for not risking his life to retrieve some possessions for him.
• Karmic Death:
  • If you're disguised as the masseur, you can kill him as he talks about how the lure of easy money makes people stupid and how they assume luxuries (like, say, a private masseur in an embassy) make them important. The best moment perhaps being when you break his neck as he talks about possessing a private jet for maximum irony.
  • Impersonating the intern and having him strangle Claus, which counts as a challenge, becomes this if you wait for the target to berate the intern for not recovering his personal effects from a nearby house despite a near-riot outside the embassy.
  • He can be killed during his self-serving interview by having an overhead moose statue dropped on him or blown up by a rigged explosion. Even more so after he gives the listeners a Precision F-Strike for demanding justice. Even Pam Kingsley will call it "poetic justice" afterwards.
• Kick the Dog: Where to begin? In addition to his massive Ponzi scheme, he also verbally abuses his intern, drinks wine in the diplomat's office in view of the protesters, has a self-serving interview where he literally tells the crowds "fuck you", stole his daughter's inheritance while blaming her for being angry and brags about his stolen fortune to his masseur.
• Lack of Empathy: Goes with being a sociopath. He dismisses the people protesting him as proles and is shocked to find out his daughter hates him for stealing her inheritance.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • Despite having escaped justice with Zaydan's help, even before 47 gets to him, Providence has already taken Strandberg's money and has ordered Zaydan and his men to throw him off his plane during their escape.
  • While on the phone with his daughter, he justifies having stolen her inheritance by saying that someone as young as her doesn't need so much money. Later when Strandberg calls Providence about them not having yet returned the stolen 7 billion they had been "safekeeping", he at some point shouts, "who doesn't 'need' 7 billion dollars?", implying he got the same excuse thrown back at his face.
• Light Is Not Good: Claus dresses in very light clothing and has blonde hair and is an utterly slimy douchebag.
• Loophole Abuse: During his interview, he claims that nothing he did was illegal.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: That suit he's wearing is pretty nice.
• Morally Bankrupt Banker: His profession before being arrested.
• Moral Myopia: Is horrified at the prospect of his father's watch getting sold in a "two-bit pawnshop".
• Narcissist: Claus only cares about himself and is perfectly willing to screw over even his own daughter just to make a quick buck.
• Never My Fault: Even though he openly admits to being a con man, he never actually takes personal responsibility for his deeds, instead blaming his victims for being dumb enough to fall for his cons in the first place.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • He's a crossover between Julian Assange and Bernie Madoff.
  • Him faking having degrees from a nonexistent university and hiring an actress to pretend to be an official to "verify" them is lifted straight from Danish white collar criminal Stein Bagger.
• No-Sell: Unusually, the janitor disguise is the only one where Strandberg acts as an enforcer. This is explained in dialogue between two workers, who claim that when he arrived he shook everyone's hands and remembered their names.
• The Pawn: Despite being the man to carry out the white collar portion of his plan, none of this was his idea. He's only acting on orders from Providence.
• Pet the Dog: Despite being a pompous sociopath, Strandberg does have at least two moments.
  • If 47 impersonates the masseur and completes the treatment, Strandberg will thank him for a job well done, makes it free, advises him to leave Morocco since "things are about to get… unpleasant" and even offers him a job. Given that he thinks 47 cannot offer him anything more than a good massage, it's probably the closest thing to demonstrating kindness that a man like Strandberg can achieve.
  • During his route, he'll make a phone call to a person called Matthias and thank him for retrieving some paintings, even allowing him to keep one he always liked. Even if the paintings were stolen, Strandberg's tone is notably more honest and sincere than to anyone around him.
• Phony Degree: He never finished his Economics degree and got hired by a prestigious investment bank by claiming to hold an MBA and PhD from a nonexistent university. When his employers got suspicious, he hired an actress to pretend to be an official of said university and "verify" his qualifications.
• Ponzi: He ran a Ponzi scheme that embezzled 7 billion dollars worth of savings from the Moroccan people.
• Precision F-Strike: Ends his interview with one directed towards the protesters.
• Properly Paranoid: Is well aware everyone in Morocco except for General Zaydan wants him dead. He has an elaborate security plan to get to the General's fortress at the first sign of danger.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: What Providence and Zaydan had planned for him.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Plans to use his connections with both Zaydan and Providence to become a Karma Houdini.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If there is any alarm raised in the consulate, Strandberg will be escorted out by security through an underground tunnel that leads to the school.
• Smug Snake: One of the biggest in the entirety of the franchise.
• The Sociopath: Strandberg is a textbook case with superficial charm but no real empathy for other beings. His mission briefing profile explicitly refers to him as such.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • Claus really doesn't take it well if his security is compromised. When held at gunpoint, he is one of the most desperate out of the targets, lamenting over how his plan is falling apart.
  • If Zaydan is killed before his evacuation, he will believe that he has turned on him and sulk near the school's walls.
• White-Collar Crime: He's utterly nonviolent but his plan almost brought down a nation.

Reza Zaydan

General Reza Zaydan

The General

"Oh don't tell me you're sleeping, Sayid. Plenty of time for that, I'm sure."

Appearances: Hitman (2016) | Hitman 3^note Voice archive only

Voiced By: Jason Isaacs (English)^note Other Languages:Yasuhiro Mamiya (Japanese)

A Royal Moroccan Army General working with Strandberg and taking advantage of the public outrage over the latter's fraud and escape to incite civil unrest and institute martial law, with the end goal of launching a full scale Military Coup.

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• 0% Approval Rating: While the public respects him, the soldiers under his command despise him for buying his way into his rank despite having no combat experience. His second-in-command trashes his cushy lifestyle to another soldier, and another feels his plans for a coup are excessive and plans to transfer out of disgust. If he's killed in front of his soldiers, they aren't at all fazed by his death, and in Hitman 2, a news report states they insist he acted alone while on trial.
• Armchair Military: He has approximately zero experience in actual combat according to his men. This is backed up by the fact that if he's confronted openly by 47, he won't attack at all, merely shouting insults and threats.
• Badass Boast: If confronted at gunpoint, he will threaten you.
  Zaydan: What are you waiting for? Take the shot! You think I'm scared? Lesser men than you have tried to kill me and everyone of them I sent straight to hell! So kill me, you pig!
• Blue Blood: His family is said to be "practically royalty" in Morocco and is implied to have gotten his job through Nepotism.
• The Can Kicked Him: It's possible for 47 to kill him by dropping a toilet on his head.
• The Casanova: Has apparently dated Moroccan models, actresses and athletes to the delight of the public.
  • Handsome Lech: It's implied that his success with women is due to his position, money and good-looks versus anything appealing about his personality. The model currently dating him is an IAGO spy who loathes him and intends on breaking up with him to focus on her career.
• Chest of Medals: Take them with a grain of salt, however, since it's suggested in-universe that at least some of them were bought rather than earned.
• Commissar Cap: Fitting for a wannabe military dictator.
• Dressed to Oppress: He's a soon-to-be dictator dressed in a green uniform with a Commissar Cap, a Chest of Medals, and a golden aiguillette.
• Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: His men claim he is a lot more adept at this than being a leader.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Zaydan may be a brutal, power-hungry bastard working for a sinister Ancient Conspiracy, but he still dislikes Strandberg's villainy for its own sake attitude. Though this may be at least partly because it unnecessarily complicated his plans.
• Face Framed in Shadow: His target profile image in Hitman 2, as seen above.
• Failed a Spot Check: His False Flag Operation involves framing Crystal Dawn, an East African terrorist organization, as the people behind the riots. Despite going through the efforts of printing false propaganda, people are well aware that Crystal Dawn has no cells in Morocco and most take it with a grain of salt.
• False Flag Operation: Intends on having his units disguise as terrorist organization Crystal Dawn and escalate the riots by causing a shootout, thus allowing him to enforce martial law and proceed with his Military Coup.
• General Failure: Not only did he achieve his position by buying his way into it, he lacks any actual combat experience. Even his False Flag Operation was devised by Providence rather than himself.
• General Ripper: Had six cops murdered during Strandberg's "rescue" despite the fact they didn't resist.
• The Generalissimo: Has plans to become a Moroccan version of this.
• Hate Sink: While he's easier to tolerate than his partner Strandberg, Zaydan is still a megalomaniac who intends on killing innocent people who want justice from being scammed to provoke a civil war so he can overthrow the government. Even his own troops can't stand him and berate him behind his back.
• Karmic Death:
  • Can be killed by 47 while the latter is disguised as a prisoner he's planning to execute.
  • 47 can also kill him while disguised as the Headmaster and make it look like he's being killed for taking over the school.
  • You can disguise yourself as one of the printing crew and shove him into the running press after he muses about killing them.
• Kick the Dog: Aside from helping Strandberg defraud the Moroccan people of billions to perform a Military Coup, he does a lot of these. He imprisons his friend who started questioning his loyalty after his brother was killed during Strandberg's breakout, plans to incite the riots even further by sending men dressed as terrorists to fire on the protesting crowd, and is a generally unpleasant man all round according to his troops.
• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: After Strandberg failed his initial plan and got thrown into jail, Providence used Zaydan to bust him out to provoke the public. This gives Zaydan the opportunity to perform a False Flag Operation that would destabilize Morocco's government and allow a Military Coup installing him as leader.
• Majored in Western Hypocrisy: He's a West Point graduate.
• Miles Gloriosus: Some guards discuss all of the secret missions General Zaydan has supposedly been on. Those close to him make it clear Zaydan made them all up as he has no real combat experience.
• The Neidermeyer: Has almost no respect from his troops. A news report in the second game states that all of his troop members insisted that he acted alone in his plans.
• Nepotism: It's hinted that Reza got his position through both his family's wealth and because his father was the secretary of state.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: His voice actor, Jason Isaacs, makes no attempt at faking a Moroccan accent and uses his natural British accent instead.
• Not So Above It All: If not taken as just an Easter Egg, he is willing to get down and boogie with his troops during an impromptu dance party.
• The Pawn: While he believes himself more akin to The Dragon, he's nothing more than this to Providence.
• Phony Veteran: According to some of his henchmen, his military experience is greatly exaggerated.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Bought his way into a generalship for starters.
• Testosterone Poisoning: Overcompensates for the fact he's a Blue Blood by acting like he has this. Even his troops, who aren't exactly wilting flowers themselves, comment on him overdoing it.
• Torture Technician: His troops claim he's a better torturer than general.
• Villainous Valour: While he's not as impressive as his record makes him seem (at least according to some of his underlings), he's no coward. If 47 holds him at gunpoint, he doesn't break down or beg for his life. He gives a Badass Boast and dares 47 to shoot him.
  • Subverted for the other dialogue options, where he begs to be spared.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Unlike the universally despised Strandberg, Zaydan is admired as a war hero by the public, especially in his native Morocco.
• Xanatos Gambit: Subverted. The ICA believe he's the architect of the Morocco plan but he's actually just a pawn of Providence.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Suggests having the printing press creating the fake Crystal Dawn propaganda killed due to their knowledge of Zaydan's plan.

Erik Olander

Erik Olander

Appearances: Hitman (2016)

Voiced By: Daniel Bonjour (English)

Morocco's Swedish consul. He works for Providence and is in on Zaydan's plans.

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• Diplomatic Impunity: He's presumably been advancing Providence's interests through his diplomatic work and as such, is working with Zaydan on the coup and Providence's plan to have Strandberg eliminated.
• Nebulous Evil Organization: Comes with being a Providence member, really.

Ken Morgan

Kenneth "The Brick" Morgan

The Lawyer

"Court is like war. You only go if diplomacy fails."

Voiced By: James Sobol Kelly (English)^note Other Languages:Mitsuru Ogata (Japanese)

A ruthless attorney for the law firm Morgan, Yates & Kohn and corporate fixer in the employ of the Cross family, having helped Jordan Cross get away with his girlfriend Hannah's murder.

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• Amoral Attorney: He'll sink to any depths to win his cases, bribing officials, blackmailing witnesses and even having people killed.
  Morgan: The things I have done for [Thomas Cross] would get my grandchildren disbarred.
• Asshole Victim: Even more than the other targets since his death is superfluous to the Shadow Client's plan of kidnapping Thomas Cross during his son's funeral. There was probably other means to put a contract on Jordan but by involving the Highmoore family, the lawyer became a target of revenge. He is just collateral in the main plot. However, he is also a ruthless criminal and poison in the legal system, so his death is deserved.
• Bald of Evil: Well, balding, but close enough.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: He looks a lot like David Cross without a beard.
• The Consigliere: He explicitly describes himself as a fixer first and attorney second, preferring to deal with things quietly before getting the legal system involved.
  Morgan: Court is like war: you only go in if diplomacy fails.
• The Corrupter: One conversation he can have is with a District Attorney who wants in on the same type of work, telling the man to call his law firm to arrange an interview.
• Cutting Off the Branches: Dialogue between two custodians in "The Ark Society" in 2 suggest that Ken was killed in some form of accident, as talks of him being assassinated are brushed off as an "alt-right conspiracy theory".
• Disney Villain Death: Making him and Jordan meet up leads to them going to the balcony of Ken's suite to talk. After revealing that he was sent to retrieve the recording of Hannah Highmoore's death by Dexy, Jordan snaps and pushes him off.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • Ken has a pet dog named Pickles that he cares for. One phone call has him panic upon learning that Pickles swallowed a flashlight and needs it removed.
  • Hitman 3 reveals he was close with his business partner Don Yates, and part of Yates' hatred of Diana stems from placing the hit on him.
• Evil Brit: The man doesn't just help people get away with their misdeeds, he's also perfectly willing to get his hands dirty himself.
• Fat Bastard: A fat Amoral Attorney who might as well bully a verdict out of the jury.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Considering he's arranged for inconvenient people to die, he definitely qualifies.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He is known as "The Brick", both from his ruthless cross-examination techniques as well as his size.
• Neat Freak: He has the habit of carefully examining stuff he's given, whether suites or tuk-tuks, for dirt.
• Nice to the Waiter: He is quite cordial with his personal bodyguard Otis, is courteous to the restaurant staff when invited to sample the day’s specials (although the chef berates him) and is willing to buy an aging tuk-tuk from one of the staff.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He appears to be partially based on infamous New York lawyer and former mayor Rudy Giuliani, even sharing his receding hairline and tortoiseshell glasses.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Ken shares his surname with one of the Sarajevo Six targets, Patrick Morgan.
• Smug Snake: Prone to insulting or berating the staff in a pompous manner over simple misdeeds.
• Too Dumb to Live: OK, so you ran into your boss's son, who is clearly furious at the sight of you. You know that this man previously killed someone in a rage by pushing them off a balcony, as you helped cover it up. To avoid causing a ruckus, you decide to take this conversation up to your private suite. Fair enough. But of all the places in said gigantic suite, did you have to continue the conversation with your back to an open window?
  • Karmic Death: This is the guy who bailed Cross out when he pushed Highmoore off a balcony in the first place. If Cross had gotten his just punishment then, he wouldn't have been free to murder Morgan now.

Thomas Cross

Thomas Cross

Appearances: Hitman (2016)

Voiced By: N/A

A multi-billionaire media mogul who owns the Himmapan Hotel and is the father of Jordan Cross.

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• Early-Bird Cameo: He (or, more specifically, an ICA actor playing him) appears in the training mission, discussing his desire to expand his business.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: How evil he is depends, but he truly does care for his son, enough to order a vegan cake made for his birthday. In one conversation, Ken tells his bodyguard that during Jordan's arrest, Thomas begged him to make the charges go away at all costs.
• Foil: To Robert Knox. Both of them are wealthy and famous entrepreneurs with a single child that they haven't paid much attention to and both were murdered around the same time as them. However, Cross genuinely tried reconnecting with Jordan, whereas Knox cares little about Sierra.
• The Hermit: Mentioned to rarely ever leave his private island in Costa Rica. This is the entire reason the Shadow Client had Jordan targeted, so that Thomas would come out to attend his son's funeral.
• Kick Them While They're Down: Kidnapped and murdered by the Shadow Client's militia during his son's funeral, as it drew him out of his private residence.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Appeared to be modelled and based on media mogul Richard Branson. His media conglomerate and mentions of him being cold and staunchly conservative appear to be taken from Rupert Murdoch.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He never physically appears within "Club 27", but his murder after the contract causes the ICA to become aware of the Shadow Client.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Zig-zagged. Ms. Moojkai, the Himmapan's manager, holds him in high regard and most of the hotel's guests just see him as another billionaire. On the contrary, in "The Showstopper" an IAGO auction guest who is a member of the Democratic Party calls him "as republican as college football" and "evil" when told of his donation to the party. Dexy Barat, who agreed on spy on Jordan for him, even admits that she doesn't like him on a phone call to him.

The New Herald (Unmarked spoilers!)

Erich Soders

The Herald

^{Click to see him as he appears in Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman}

"You....."

Appearances: Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman | Hitman (2016) | Hitman 2^note Mentioned only | Hitman 3^note Appears in flashback

Voiced By: William Salyers (English)^note Other Languages:Shinya Fukumatsu (Japanese)

Erich Soders was once one of the ICA's most celebrated assassins prior to 47 but by the time of the latter's induction in 1999, he had retired and taken the position of Senior Supervisor in charge of recruitment and training. 20 years later, he has ascended to the ICA's Board of Directors. Unfortunately, Soders' gambling habits coupled with a rare health condition have led him to become a mole for Providence in order to receive the expensive surgery needed to save his life.

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• The Ace: He was ICA's best assassin until 47 came along. Diana's dialogue in Freeform Training indicates that 47's penchant for disguises is something the ICA had never seen before, suggesting that Soders managed all his hits using either pure stealth or alternate methods, which is a massive achievement all on its own.
• Alas, Poor Villain: It's all but implied Soders wouldn't have considered becoming a Providence member if he wasn't given an early retirement due to his genetic condition, as he was a turncoat due to Providence fast-tracking his surgery and offering him a replacement donor heart at short notice. Diana even refers to his assassination as being "regrettable."
• Ambiguous Situation: While Hitman 3 confirms he was killed on the surgery table by "human error," it's not clear whether this means 47 killed him personally, or manipulated Dr. Laurent into doing so.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a white one in Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman while saving Diana from some guards she was trying to pacify.
• Bizarre Human Biology: Soders has Situs Inversus, a condition where the internal organs are mirrored. This is significant because it means that, on top of all the other requirements for a suitable replacement organ, he needs a heart from someone with Situs Inversus. As such, getting into the room holding the donor heart and destroying it will complete the mission, as there is no hope of him getting another replacement heart before his condition kills him.
• Broken Ace: While he was unquestionably a great field agent, he also suffered from a heart condition that forced him out of the field while still in his prime, something he's quite bitter over. He's also addicted to gambling, which has left him virtually bankrupt by 2020 and played a critical role in his defection to Providence.
• Broken Pedestal: Diana's reaction to Soders's betrayal is this, as Soders was one of the most highly decorated agents in the ICA's history. Considering Soders also straight-up saved her life in Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman, it's quite clear she takes the betrayal personally too.
• Career-Ending Injury: His heart condition forced him to retire from active assassination at an early age.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Were you really expecting the suit who tried to screw you over in the tutorial to not be one of the final targets of 2016?
• Cool Old Guy: Subverted. He's so obsessed with protecting his reputation that he tries to sabotage 47's chances of being accepted into the ICA. Even so, the ICA regards him highly: his assassination of Jasper Knight is frequently studied by ICA members, and he's regarded as one of their "sacred cows" (according to the "Situs Inversus" intel). This is part of the reason his betrayal is a major shock for the Board.
• Cruel Mercy: 47 can indirectly kill him by destroying his replacement heart, thus dooming Soders to a slow death in a hospital bed since there's no way another right-handed heart can be obtained in such short notice.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: There are a number of creative ways 47 can kill him on the operating table. Probably the most gruesome is jabbing a robot syringe straight into his heart and draining all the blood out of his body, which causes him to scream in horror and curl up in a ball as his blood gets sucked straight out through his heart. His donor heart can also be destroyed, thus meaning he'll slowly die due to the lack of a replacement. Or he can be stabbed full of holes by the surgery table arms, gurgling as his blood spreads over the surgery table.
• Cutting Off the Branches: A news report in "Nightcall" confirms he was killed by the surgery table, revealing that its manufacturers are currently fighting off a lawsuit by insisting that Soders was killed by "human error". This is backed up by 47's hallucinations in the final mission of the third game, which shows him being pierced by the surgery table's arms. However, it's unclear whether this was the result of 47 manipulating Dr. Laurent into killing Soders or 47 doing the job himself.
• Dark Lord on Life Support: By the time 47 is sent after him, Soders is hooked up to a surgery table and helpless due to his declining health.
• Death by Recognition: Approaching Soders while dressed in 47's signature suit causes him to have a heart attack.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: A subdued version of this: he acts cool and collected behind the scenes but wants to make sure 47 fails.
• Evil Old Folks: Just because Soders is in his 60s doesn’t mean he’s any nicer.
• The Faceless: During the tutorial, he’s mostly shown from the back of his head and otherwise his face is either obscured by shadows or only seen from a long distance. You don't get a good look at what he looks like until the end of “Freedom Fighters”, where a picture of him from 20 years ago is found on the Shadow Client's desk.
• Face–Heel Turn: Goes from a nominal ally of the protagonists (insofar as "they're working for the same side") to The Mole for their enemies.
• Fright Deathtrap: If 47 approaches him in the operating theatre while wearing his standard suit, Soders manages a horrified "You!" Exclamation before dropping dead from a heart attack.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Tried to flunk 47 with a nearly impossible simulation when it was clear he would overshadow him as the best hitman the ICA ever had.
• Heart in the Wrong Place: Soders suffers from Situs Inversus, meaning his organs are mirrored. This makes getting a heart transplant extremely difficult for him, as he needs a right-sided heart from another Situs Inversus patient that also meets all the usual standards for a transplant. Providence's ability to provide him with one on relatively short notice along with the medical care to ensure he survives, despite him being virtually penniless, was a significant force in his defection.
• Hollywood Heart Attack: If he sees 47 in his classic suit, the sheer horror of the sight of seeing 47, mixed with his fragile heart, will do all of 47's work for him.
• Irony:
  • Was hesitant to hire 47, noting that they knew nothing about his past. 47 just hid it so well, something that's presumably good for the business.
  • Could also be considered Properly Paranoid as 47's status as a clone has gotten both him and the ICA in no small amount of trouble over the years.
• Karmic Death:
  • You can get the chief surgeon to stab him with the operating table by showing him evidence his father was murdered by Soders.
  • Another example is indirectly killing him by destroying the replacement heart he sold out the ICA for.
  • On a more subtle note, Soders is assassinated by 47, the person whose career he tried to sabotage twenty years ago. Although 47 won't be too much bothered by this.
• The Mole: Became one for Providence some time after the Bangkok mission, offering to deliver the identities of all active ICA operatives to them in exchange for extending his own life.
• Moving the Goalposts: Soders pulls this in the final tutorial level, altering an already difficult scenario to become near-impossible by adding extra guards. He did this more or less specifically to screw 47 out of the ICA, either out of jealousy or paranoia.
• Oh, Crap!: If 47 makes it to his operating table in his suit and reveals himself, Soders dies out of pure shock and horror.
• Progressively Prettier: Downplayed, but similar to Owen Cage his appearance is noticeably cleaner and less decrepit in the Hitman 2 remastered legacy level compared to the original Hitman level. Justified for his appearance in the comics and his picture you find in Colorado, as he was younger.
• Retired Monster: He was a former assassin but his health issues got the better of him.
• Shock and Awe: He can be killed by forcing him to go into cardiac arrest and overcharging the defibrillator.
• Stationary Boss: The only target in the game to be completely stuck in one place due to the nature of his surgery. However, he is also the most protected target, being located in a room with bulletproof glass for walls in the most remote part of the facility, guarded by dozens of highly armed men and constantly monitored by an A.I that will revive him should anything interrupt the surgery. There's a reason the game supplies you with a way of completing the objective (destroying the replacement heart) that doesn't actually require getting to him.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Should his heart be destroyed (thus ensuring a slow death) nothing stops 47 from killing him anyway. Doing so in either order will net two challenges, one of which is aptly named "Overkill" .
• Trapped by Gambling Debts: He's lost a lot of money gambling, meaning he can't afford life-saving surgery, especially given how rare the very specific replacement heart he requires is. Because of this, he agreed to start working for Providence.
• Unwinnable Training Simulation: He tries to create one for 47 by basing the scenario on the pinnacle of his own career (the Jasper Knight hit) only with even more guards just to be sure. 47 passes anyway.
• Villain Decay: He was the ICA's best assassin and attempted to put an early stop to 47's career out of jealousy of the newcomer's capabilities surpassing his own. However, the reason he retired in the first place was due to growing health problems that were nigh-impossible to cure without an expensive operation, which cumulates in the heart transplant he betrays the ICA to get. By the time you encounter him in-game he's a completely helpless old man who can't even move, as he's in the middle of a complex surgery to save his life. His weak condition means that the mere sight of 47 in his signature suit is enough to kill him.
• Walking Spoiler: The fact that he has any significance whatsoever outside the tutorial mission is enough to raise warning bells. He's also one of these in Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman, where he helps the younger Diana out, where such an appearance would raise a lot of red flags for 2016 players. The very fact that his name, alias and folder is on this page should clue you in on this.
• "You!" Exclamation: If 47 approaches him in his classic suit, the last thing Soders says before dying of a shock-induced heart attack is a weak, yet horrified "You!".
• Younger Than They Look: Soders is 66 at the time of "Situs Inversus", but looks a good decade or two older, presumably due to his poor health. Notably, he's aged considerably less gracefully than 47 or Diana have in the 20 year time gap between the prologue and the present day.

Akira Nakamura

Akira Nakamura

Appearances: Hitman (2016)

Voiced By: Oliver Cotton (English)

The hospital director at the Hokkaido GAMA Facility.

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• Affably Evil: While he's affiliated with Providence and allows Ito's organ harvesting ring to function in the hospital, he's calm and professional, even whilst dealing with Yamazaki.
• Baldness Angst: Downplayed. His black hair is a wig, though he doesn't make any mention of it.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Since he facilitates an organ harvesting ring and is connected to Providence.
• Mugged for Disguise: Taking his disguise grants access to nearly every area of the hospital aside from the guest rooms and the operating theater.
• NPC Scheduling: Weirdly, he doesn't leave his office on the top floor in the "Patient Zero" mission under normal circumstances, unless you force your way in there with a keycard or scrambler, meaning he's one of the few people in the entire facility to be safe from the contagion of the Nabazov Virus (the lower levels are also safe, as they don't get visitors and so the virus never spreads there). Considering who he works under, it's very possible Providence saw him as an important asset and tipped him off as to what was going to go down and told him to bunker down for the time being.
• Named After Somebody Famous: He shares his name with a Japanese professional baseball outfielder. To strengthen the reference, his office contains a baseball bat and a baseball uniform on display.

Robert Knox

Robert Knox

The Inventor

"Ultrasonic 3D information capture ensures the right targets are taken down every time. It's so good, I'm willing to stake my life on it."

Appearances: Hitman 2

Voiced By: Martin McDougall (English)

Sierra Knox's father and CEO of robotics corporation Kronstadt Industries. A former member of Providence, he recently defected to the Shadow Client's militia out of fear for his and Sierra's lives, and provided them with intel that lead to the assassination of several key Providence members.

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• Affably Evil: He's unfailingly polite to everyone he talks to, whether they're people he wants to sell equipment to or random passersby while buying something from a food stall.
• Arms Dealer: Has become this in recent years. He's planning to sell advanced robotic technology to the military.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While Robert is generally a nice person to those around him, he is an extremely neglectful parent and somebody who has no remorse for the way his inventions are being used.
• Career-Ending Injury: Suffered an accident while using an experimental boost system that burned the left side of his face and ended both his and fellow racer Maxwell Rutter's careers.
• Control Freak: He is very protective of his personal projects. If 47 tampers with the Kronstadt car being exhibited in the Expo building, Knox will literally run down to fix it once he's informed.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He was always a better engineer than a businessman and has compensated for this by resorting to threats, lawsuits, bribes and finally Providence's connections. He could also have had a hand on the death of his former business partner Konstantin Zhukov, since in The Undying mission, he has hired Mark Faba to kill one of Zhukov's relatives who is about to release a tell-all book about Kronstadt.
• Despair Event Horizon: Upon accidentally killing Sierra, he will break down and start monologuing, before leaving the mission through his helicopter.
• Ditzy Genius: Shows shades of this, especially considering he apparently thought it was a good idea to "play peek-a-boo" with his bodyguard at one point, which almost led to him being shot.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His reaction to Sierra's death in one of the assassinations^note His assistant deliberately prevents Robert from learning about Sierra in all other methods. shows that, despite his Parental Neglect, he did care for her. Though he's quick to dismiss her death as Providence teaching him a lesson.
• Evil Genius: Brilliant inventor, but not very scrupulous.
• Eye Scream: One of the ways to kill him is to poison his eyedrops.
• Foil: To Thomas Cross. Both of them are wealthy and famous entrepreneurs with a single child that they haven't paid much attention to and both were eliminated around the same time their child was. However, Cross genuinely tried reconnecting with his estranged son whereas Knox (seemingly) couldn't seem to care less about Sierra.
  • Robert is also a foil to Isabella Caruso. Both of them are terrible parents. They differentiate in that Isabella was extremely possessive of her son and forced him to be dependent on her while Robert mostly ignored Sierra and caused her to have a massive inferiority complex.
• Forehead of Doom: He's an Evil Genius with an unusually large forehead making him look like a realistic version of Dr. Neo Cortex.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has rather noticeable scars on the left side of his face from an accident involving a malfunctioning nitrous system on his prototype car.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • There are multiple opportunities to kill Robert with his own inventions, especially the car or the military android.
  • He can be killed by the bomb he intended to have planted in Moses Lee's car.
• I Was Quite a Looker: His office contains pictures of him before the accident that scarred him, where he has longer hair and aviators.
• Irony: He and his daughter betrayed Providence because they feared that The Shadow Client might come after them. Unfortunately, their betrayal prompted Providence to hire 47 to assassinate them.
• It's All About Me: His briefing mentions that despite his affable behavior, he's an egomaniac and a bully.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: One of the easier ways to eliminate both him and Sierra requires you to invoke this trope. If you sabotage the satellite dish, Robert will come out to repair it, then look at the racetrack and say, "Ah, there's my car, with Sierra in it!" If you kick him off the ledge before he finishes this line, he lands on Sierra's car, causing her to lose control and smash into the wall - two birds, one stone.
• Nervous Wreck: When threatened at gunpoint, Robert Knox barely maintains his cool, stuttering and screaming a lot.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • His public image as an eccentric billionaire with a great interest in artificial intelligence and outlandish PR stunts bring Elon Musk to mind.
  • The scars around the side of his face resemble those of late Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda, who also got them from a racecar accident.
• Offing the Offspring: He can be tricked into killing Sierra by rigging her car with a bomb Robert intended to be used on a competitor and then handing him the detonator without him realizing how his plan's been sabotaged.
• Parental Neglect: His workaholic nature coupled with some implied resentment over Sierra's mother's Death by Childbirth has turned him into an absentee father. One Kronstadt employee claims that when Knox learned that his daughter had not only worked in Kronstadt for years without his knowledge but had just been appointed CFO, Knox didn't react with neither shock nor pride. Instead he simply told her "Don't screw this up".
  • If Sierra wins the race, he'll meet with her and credit the machines instead of his own daughter. She barely bothers to hide her disappointment, but he doesn't even notice. Before this, if you sabotage the satellite dish, he'll look out on the race track afterwards and acknowledge his car before he acknowledges his daughter is driving it.
  • He uses her as a guinea pig to test a sort of spyware suit, which monitors her biochemistry and even makes chemical injections without her knowledge. Worse yet, he mentions that there's a radiation leak and he is unaware of any possible effects from the excess radiation. If he's miscalculated, he could be making her very sick.
  • Played with if he's tricked into killing her as he's clearly emotionally devastated. If you don't kill him, though, he then says that he understands this was Providence teaching him a lesson and he'll be good from now on.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: He's the brilliant inventor and founder of Kronstadt Industries and is much less physical than his daughter. This is downplayed as his daughter's still a genius.
• Tempting Fate:
  • One of the methods of killing him is impersonating a military VIP and going to sabotage a weapons demonstration for a Killer Robot that's programmed to shoot specific targets while ignoring others. The guy tries to demonstrate how reliable it is by walking into the line of fire and saying he bets his life on the fact that the robot won't shoot him, guess what you have to do.
  • Similarily, if you plant the bomb he intends to kill Moses Lee with in the trashcan behind his meeting point and hand him the trigger, he'll state that "tomorrow's papers will surely write this off as some terrorist militia attack on some rich CEO".
• This Is Gonna Suck: His last words if you use his photo to get his robots to kill him are a surprisingly calm, "Oh, damn."
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • Robert leaves magazine photographs of himself near a robot designed to shoot specific targets, while walking onto the line of fire believing that the robot can't shoot him.
  • Should his antennae be sabotaged, he will proceed to repair it while leaning too close to the edge of an unprotected building.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He loves the coconut balls sold by a local food stall near the Expo building and frequently drops by for a snack.
• Turned Against Their Masters: One method of assassinating him involves scanning his picture to his military android as he proceeds to test it.
• Villain with Good Publicity: The public generally considers him an admirable figure.

Sierra Knox

Sierra Knox

The Daredevil

"Let's be clear. You and I having this meeting because my father doesn't need to know about this. It's just another undesired distraction."

Appearances: Hitman 2

Voiced By: Antonia Bernath (English)

The CFO of Kronstadt Industries and the lead driver for the Kronstadt Racing Team in the Miami Global Innovation Race.

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• Ambiguously Gay: While never directly stated, there's quite a few hints in-game that Sierra may be a lesbian and in a relationship with her lawyer Brigitte.
  • Press reporters at the racetrack's entrance speculate that she's not interested in men at all and later ask if her friendship with her lawyer Brigette is "just platonic, or something more".
  • Brigitte follows Sierra around throughout the level and acts quite flirtatiously, at one point even calling her "Sier-bear", causing Sierra to immediately ask her not to call her that.
  • When Brigitte asks to come to the hotel, Sierra will gently tell her "Don't worry your little head about that". Brigitte also expresses disappointment when Sierra rejects her offer to go out for a drink after the race.
  • Her friends mention an ex named Romanov, but never mention any pronouns (the suffix -ov is generally reserved for Russian men, although Romanov could still be a female's last name).
• Badass Driver: Renowned for her skills at racing cars. Notably, her team's garage is the only one on the track that doesn't have a canister of Robert's illegal octane booster and she still manages to make it to second place if the race is not tampered with.
• Berserk Button:
  • If 47 dresses as the blackmailer, he can hand Sierra the incriminating documents without much of a fuss. However, if he gives the real blackmailer his keys back, things won't go as smoothly. The difference is that the blackmailer will threaten to show Sierra's father that she's been funneling money from his PALLAS project to cover up her Tungan Valley trade and the threat of the blackmailer turning her own father on her makes Sierra so upset that she will kill the blackmailer.
  • The mere mention of Tungan Valley around her is enough to annoy her. When a reporter briefly mentions the incident, she immediately assumes its the real topic of the interview and shuts it down immediately.
• Boyish Short Hair: She's a masculine racer with a slicked-back pixie cut.
• Butch Lesbian: Well, butch ambiguous lesbian anyway. Sierra has a deep voice, short hair and is a competitive driver with a short temper. She also seems to be very close to Brigitte.
• Competition Freak: Incredibly competitive as both a race car driver and in drinking competitions. Both can be used to take her out.
• Contralto of Strength: Her voice is deep and she's known for her skill on the racetrack.
• Daddy's Little Villain: She is her father's second in command and is every bit as brilliant as he is.
• Dark Action Girl: Occasionally threatens people with murder and implies that she does it herself. If 47 hands the real blackmailer his keys back, Sierra will end up murdering him.
• Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Played with. It's stated in her Intel that she has used brutal sabotage to further her achievements in the past, possibly including past races (all of which she won). Despite this, Kronstadt mechanics can be heard commenting that she refused to use her father's special (and illegal) Octane booster because "she wants to win on her own". Additionally, no one seems to respect her for her achievements, including the racing board. Her own father attributes her wins to his technology and even tries to cheat for her, installing an illegal steering AI in the car, attempting to kill Moses Lee and even using her racing suit to inject her with dopamine reuptake inhibitors and adrenaline to sharpen her performance during the race.
• Disqualification-Induced Victory: This is one of two ways Sierra can win the race, by 47 disqualifying Moses Lee from the race, which has Sierra Knox win instead.
• Drinking Contest: As one of the other competitors, 47 can challenge her to a drinking game, with the drinks being susceptible to sabotage.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Cares for her father deeply and tries to take care of blackmail against him herself so he won't have to worry about it. This is especially notable in that most targets tend to hold some sort of disdain towards one another.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Played with. It's enforced by the game to never let Sierra win the Global Innovation Race unless 47 interferes with the race in some way (killing Moses Lee or disqualifying Moses Lee).
• Fatal Flaw: Wrath of the Seven Deadly Sins. She's quite prone to anger and a bit too eager to beat her opponents, and this is the main reason 47 manages to assassinate her.
  • In one of the mission stories, Sierra lures a blackmailer into somewhere secluded. Then she threatens him and in fact will kill him if 47 doesn't intervene. Of course, the whole thing will go really badly for her if 47 gets rid of the blackmailer and takes his place. 47 won't have this opportunity if not for the fact that she is planning to murder the blackmailer with her own hands.
  • Another example will be the drinking game (where 47 can sabotage her drink with lethal poison). Again, 47 won't have this opportunity if not for her desire to beat her opponents at everything.
• Foil: To Jordan Cross of the previous game. They're both hot-headed big-shots with issues with their respective (wealthy) fathers who seem to spend most of their time on their jobs. However, Sierra genuinely cares about her father whereas Jordan despises his own and the former is a target due to being directly involved in her father's work while the latter was only a target to draw out his father.
• Freudian Excuse: Acts violent and temperamental because she doesn't know whether her father loves her.
• Genius Bruiser: While she is portrayed as a brute in-game, it is mentioned in the briefing that she graduated from Harvard with a degree in International Business and Law and she later worked her way up to becoming CFO of Kronstadt Industries.
• Graceful Loser: If you challenge her to the chili shot drinking game and you win and you don't use it as an opportunity to kill her, she'll accept her defeat with a "cheers" and move on with her day, not saying one bad word about the winner.
  • Sore Loser: If she finishes second in the race, however — which, barring any interference from 47, will happen automatically — she'll berate the entire pit crew and have the pit boss and head mechanic Grace Miller investigated for possibly undermining her.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Said to have this by others.
• Internal Reveal: She applied to Kronstadt Industries and worked her way up until a CFO interview, which was when her father actually learned she was working in the company.
• Jerk Jock: Not the friendliest racer around. As a 17-year-old, she hired someone to break her main competitor's legs because she was worried she might lose to her in their short-distance running race. Both of them.
• Karmic Death: 47 could potentially kill her by sabotaging her car and eliminating her in the middle of the race. Similarly, she was said to have sabotaged several competitors in previous races she's been a part of.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: The attractive daughter of Robert Knox, an Evil Genius robotics pioneer, and is attempting to follow in her father's footsteps, despite his Parental Neglect of her.
• Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Her bio states that her mother died due to complications from childbirth, something that she feels her father holds her responsible for.
• Nice to the Waiter: When she's in a decent mood, she can be nice to people working at the race event. Walking close to her while disguised as one of the employees there (pit crew, event crew, waiter, etc.) can have her thanking you or asking if you're paid decently for your time.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Her working her way up in her father's engineering company's finance department under an assumed name could be an allusion to claims that BMW heiress Susanne Klatten did the same thing.
• Parental Neglect: Her father is emotionally distant and neglectful, which is apparently the main reason she develops a raging inferiority complex. It's best shown if 47 tempers with the race and lets her win - Robert Knox arrives to congratulate his daughter... while boasting about the technology his company develops (which Sierra's racecar utilizes), oblivious about the fact that his daughter obviously wants him to praise her.
• Passionate Sports Girl: Her passion is for racing. However, her competitive nature means that she's not above cheating to get her way.
• Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: After the race ends she'll challenge her main competitor Moses Lee to a chili shot roulette wheel duel. 47 can spike the chili shot with poison or even rocket fuel, then disguise himself as Moses Lee, face Sierra in the duel and use his enhanced senses to keep track of which shot is the chili shot and make sure Sierra ends up with it in the end.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: While she is said to be brilliant like her father, she acts brutish and seems significantly more physical than her father.
• Tempting Fate: Should 47 choose to meet her as the blackmailer, she starts threatening him while facing a very deep trash pit while disposing of the blackmail evidence.
  Sierra: So here are the two possible outcomes of this meeting. One. You will leave this place and this country for good and that will be the end of it. Everyone lives happily ever after. Two. You don't choose option one. Someone dies. Right here, right now.
• Tomboyish Voice: Has a decidedly deeper voice compared to the other females in the game.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: To be fair, though, her dad wouldn't be particularly ugly if not for his disfigurements.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: Suffers from an inferiority complex and tries proving herself to her father.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: You can help her win the race... only to poison her champagne or burn her alive while she's celebrating.

Byron Washington III

Byron Washington III

Apperances: Hitman 2 (mentioned), Hitman 3 (mentioned)

A powerful conservative figure and the father of Zoe and Sophia Washington, Byron is the president of the Pax Mundus Foundation, a conservative think-tank and one of Providence's biggest assets.

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• Black Republican: He's the president of a staunchly conservative think tank and one of the biggest names in climate-change denial, although the latter is so Providence can profit from fixing it.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Zig-zagged. Two partygoers mention in "The Farewell" that he "mourned his daughters a long time ago" but still sent a special task force out to find their killer.
• The Ghost: He's prominently mentioned in both "The Ark Society" and "The Farewell", yet is never actually seen in 2 or 3.
• Ironic Name: "Pax mundus" is Latin for "world peace", an ill-fitting name for a think-tank affiliated with a power-hungry conspiracy.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Being the founder of a conservative think tank at the center of climate change denialism, he's clearly based on and named after Thomas A. Saunders III, founder of The Heritage Foundation.
• Properly Paranoid: Set up a special task force to hunt down his daughters' killer, correctly guessing they were not the intended targets during Arthur Edwards' capture.
• The Unfought: Despite being one of Providence's most powerful operatives, he's never actually fought beyond his daughters being collateral when trying to capture The Constant.
• Villainous Friendship: With Don Archibald Yates, whom he gifted a bottle of the world's rarest wine.

Zoe Washington

Zoe Washington

The Socialite

"These people are used to all doors being open to them. A closed door drives them mad. Show them a closed door and they'll chew off their own foot to gain entrance."

Appearances: Hitman 2

Voiced By: Laila Pyne (English)

A conservative socialite, fortune hunter and co-chairwoman of the Ark Society, along with her twin sister Sophia.

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• Adventurer Archaeologist: She and her sister are treasure hunters who lead mercenary teams to exotic locations to despoil and steal ancient artifacts.
• Asshole Victim: She and her sister are simply collateral who only need to be taken out in order to prevent them from using the killswitch to kill the Constant, who Diana and the Shadow Client need alive. As the rest of these tropes show, they are nonetheless horrible people who have it coming.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She pretends to honor Janus during the funeral, but then proceeds to mock him when everyone has left.
• Black Republican: She and her sister hold strongly elitist views regarding the social ladder.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Being burned alive is a horrific death by even 47's standards.
• The Dreaded: In contrast to the calmer Sophia, Zoe is feared by many of the society's patrons, something that she plans on using to her advantage in the Lie Detector initiation test. The anxious master of ceremonies refuses to go near her because she scares him.
• Electric Torture: Zoe has stepped up the traditional Lie Detector portion of the Ark Society initiation procedure by adding an ECT machine set to activate whenever a person is lying.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Zoe will call out Blake for ruining Sophia's taste for adventure.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish to Sophia's responsible, at least by the time "The Ark Society" occurs. Zoe is shown to be far more willing to take risks and get her hands dirty. Sophia, meanwhile, spends most of her time being concerned with getting in The Partners' good graces and ensuring their future power.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard:
  • If 47 keeps lying to her during the Lie Detector test, Zoe will keep getting closer to 47 to intimidate him until she's standing in a puddle of water at his feet... after which she will order that the ECT machine be cranked to maximum voltage. One more lie later...
  • 47 can replace Janus's body and lie in state. Zoe will approach and make a point of mocking the "corpse" after everyone else has left... leaving no witnesses when 47 gets up and stabs her through the heart.
• Hopeless with Tech: At least according to Blake Nathaniel.
• Last Disrespects: She has Janus' body preserved and sealed inside the Ark Society's vault as retribution for not wanting her and Sophia to be chairwomen. Once the wake finishes, she badmouths what she presumes is his corpse.
  Zoe: So here we are. You didn't want me and Sophia taking over, fought us tooth and nail, but a fat lot of good it did you. The Partners, they turned a deaf ear, and deep down, Janus, you know why. Because for all your smarts, you're just rank-and-file, pedestrian, middle-class blah, and we have the one thing merit can't buy: Blue blood. That's right, good old-fashioned pedigree. That is why Sophia and me will one day be Partners of Providence, and you'll spend eternity as a wax figure. So long, "mastermind".
• Light Is Not Good: Wears a white dress with gold jewelry and is not a good person.
• No OSHA Compliance: Two out of the three mission stories that can result in her death are entirely because of her not acknowledging or noticing flaws with the machinery involved.
• Oh, Crap!: Her reaction should she realize the door mechanism on the phoenix sculpture has malfunctioned.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Wears a metallic white dress with an oversized hood and girdle with a slit through her right leg.
• Politically Incorrect Villain:
  • She and Sophia display some very elitist and classist views. Zoe, in particular, uses her and sister's pedigree as proof of their apparent superiority over former Ark Chairman, Janus.
  • Judging by what we hear about her and sister's treasure hunting days, the twins don't appear to have much respect for the local people and culture of the countries they travel to in search of thrills and adventure.
• Pragmatic Villainy: If the Constant is made aware of Sophia's treachery, Zoe will talk her out of killing him when Sophia calls her for help.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: After hosting Janus' wake, she gloats about his inability to prevent the twins from becoming chairwomen and mocks his blue-collar background.
• Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: Had bullied a fellow sorority girl to the point of attempting suicide. When one of her friends feels regretful over doing so, Zoe tells her not to let it bring her down.
• Sunglasses at Night: She and her sister both wear their glasses throughout the entire mission, even though it takes place entirely at night. Downplayed in that they spend a lot of time indoors, while the outdoor areas are (for the most part) very well lit. Still, it's definitely a status symbol.
• Thrill Seeker: She's a flat out adrenaline addict with a flair for the dramatic. Her and Sophia first started travelling the world in search of thrills and adventure. The sheer absence of thrills in her life by the time the mission takes place has led her to set up events and tests that potentially threaten her own life.
  • If the Phoenix Ceremony goes as planned, the sheer rush Zoe gets from it will lead to her calling Sophia and suggesting that they abandon their aspirations of corporate power and go back to treasure hunting.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Is implied to be this to Cornelia Stuyvesant. At one point Cornelia will tell Zoe that she ran into the girl from their sorority days who they had both bullied to the point that she had attempted suicide and who still seemed to carry a grudge against them. When Cornelia appears to express the slightest hint of remorse for their actions, Zoe brushes it off and tells Cornelia to never let anyone's weakness drag her down. Cornelia agrees and then apologises for "ruining the mood."
• Too Dumb to Live: She has a flair for the dramatic that violates common sense (her sister Sophia thinks that Zoe is chronically bored, while Zoe feels the more practical Sophia has lost her taste for danger). In both cases, a Beleaguered Assistant comments on their safety concerns about the objects in question and in both cases, 47 can set things up to kill her.
  • She uses a lie detector and electric chair setup to interrogate applicants to the society, one that is prone to short circuiting. In addition, one of the machine's wires is lying on a pool of water, which she will step on while demanding that the machine be cranked to its maximum voltage.
  • She makes a ritual involving sealing her in a Phoenix statue that's to be set on fire and has only one, easily-compromised escape route.

Sophia Washington

Sophia Washington

The Schemer

"Zoe and I have benefactors. Our father has served them for decades and now so do we."

Appearances: Hitman 2

Voiced By: Laila Pyne (English)

A conservative socialite, fortune hunter and co-chairwoman of the Ark Society, along with her twin sister Zoe.

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• Adventurer Archaeologist: Like her sister, she's a treasure hunter who steals artefacts for thrills. Though some dialogue in the level indicates she's lost her taste for it.
• Asshole Victim: She and her sister are simply collateral who only need to be taken out in order to prevent them from using the killswitch to kill the Constant, who Diana and the Shadow Client need alive. As the rest of these tropes show, they are nonetheless horrible people who have it coming.
• Black Republican: She and her sister hold strongly elitist views regarding the social ladder.
• Contractual Boss Immunity: Despite repeatedly passing by a serving tray as part of her usual loop, she won't eat anything when offered, saying she works better on an empty stomach. If you want her to eat anything, you have to play through the Social Climbing story, suggesting her lack of hunger is simply from the stress of the council meeting.
  • It is also possible to poison her champagne glass, which requires voting yes on the Winds of Change mission story.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible sibling to Zoe's foolish. Sophia is more concerned with her corporate ambitions and rarely takes unnecessary risks. Zoe, likewise, lives for thrills and will frequently participate in events that endanger her own life, as well as the lives of others.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Regarding Blake Nathaniel's donation of the Cloud Serpent artifact.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her desire to have Blake Nathaniel put a priceless necklace she desired around her neck can be exploited by Agent 47 disguising himself as Blake, allowing him to strangle her with that same necklace.
• Hopeless with Tech: At least according to Blake Nathaniel.
• Never a Self-Made Woman: According to Jedediah Block (who is not exactly unbiased), everything that Zoe and Sophia have is a product of their father's money and influence.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Her original name (as unintentionally left in her intel) was "Serena". Her appearance, glasses and initials all bear a striking resemblance to Serena Williams.
• No Honor Among Thieves: Plans on discrediting the Constant, who helped make her and Zoe chairwomen, to get closer to the Partners. This can backfire on her if 47 approaches the Constant with the killswitch's blueprints, leading to a confrontation between the two.
• Not So Stoic: After the Constant discovers her plan to oust him, she gives him a self-assured monologue about how he can't make any moves against her. Immediately after he gets out of ear shot she panics and calls her sister, worried about what he might do.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Has one after confronting the Constant, where she'll end up calling Zoe and think of a plan to kill him while pretending his identity was compromised.
  • Another one is when someone calls her to inform her that a philanthropist who witnessed the twins murder a tribe survived and is about to report her to Amnesty.
• Politically Incorrect Villain:
  • She and Zoe display some very elitist and classist views. Sophia, in particular, derides the Constant for being middle-class if her attempt to test his loyalty leads to a confrontation between them.
  • Judging by what we hear about her and sister's treasure hunting days, the twins don't appear to have much respect for the local people and culture of the countries they travel to in search of thrills and treasure.
• Post-Stress Overeating: If 47 (disguised as Jebediah Block) vetoes her climate initiative proposal, Sophia will briefly take a detour to the bar and indulge herself (despite claiming to "work better on an empty stomach" if 47 offers to serve her food prior to the council meeting).
• Pragmatic Villainy: Even her father's conservative think tank acknowledges that climate change can no longer be ignored and has convinced all of the fossil fuel titans on the Ark Society Council (save one) to embrace clean energy in order to keep their power.
  • Of course, since Providence's plan all along was to exacerbate climate change and then make a fortune on fixing it, it's unlikely she herself was unaware of the eventuality.
• Purple Is Powerful: She spends the mission dressed in purple and is the co-chair of a powerful NGO.
• Smug Snake: Impossibly arrogant, classicist and elitist while surrounded by Magnificent Bastard types of the highest order.
• Retired Outlaw: Some dialogue in the level suggests she wants to become this and put her treasure hunting past behind her. Albeit because of the danger involved, rather than any actual moral reason.
• Sunglasses at Night: She and her sister both wear their glasses throughout the mission, even though it takes place entirely at night.
• The Starscream: Intends on proving the Constant's lack of loyalty by working with the designer of his Explosive Leash to have it removed. This can be used against her by revealing her plans to him. If Zoe dies before her, she'll activate the killswitch as Zoe will attempt to talk her out of it.
• Stereotype Flip: Despite her skin tone, she acts as a Politically Incorrect Villain who believes in the importance of pedigree and lineage.
• Title Drop: In a way. An NPC in the Isle of Sgàil calls her "Sophia the Schemer", which happens to be the title she's given by the game itself.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • Certainly there are better times to attempt to blackmail someone than after sending your bodyguards away and while facing and toying with an authentic iron maiden.
  • The Constant isn't someone to take lightly even when you're holding his Explosive Leash. Mostly because he IS far more valuable than you to someone.
• Ungrateful Bitch: The Constant personally recommended the Washington twins to the Partners for Chairwomen of the Ark Society. Sophia repays him by conspiring with the designer of the killswitch to attempt to trick the Constant into getting it removed, thus proving that he's disloyal. If the Constant is made aware of this and he calls her out, Sophia will mock his middle-class origins. Should her sister be killed before her, she'll outright press the trigger while making up an alibi for the Constant's death.

Anderson Silviero

A secretary of state with a history with Providence's assets.

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• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Likely based off former US Secretary of State and Republican Party member Mike Pompeo.

Dimitri Belikof and the Commando Unit

In General

Appearances: Hitman 3

The Providence Commando Leader leading a team of a dozen heavily armed and armored Providence Commandoes that serve as the final obstacle between 47 and the Constant aboard the latter's train/mobile base.

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• All There in the Manual: The Commando Leader's name, Dimitri Belikof, is only given as part of the map's DLC Escalation, where he's dubbed "The Muscle".
• Continuity Nod: One of them is Orson Mills, Alma Reynard's boyfriend from the first mission of Hitman 2. In fact, Mills happens to be the very final commando just before the executive offices and the Constant's private car.
• Elite Mooks: They're the toughest enemies in the World of Assassination trilogy and the only enemies in the game that are tougher than normal. Dialogue from the regular troopers indicates they're a special commando squad who are the ones that took down Lucas Grey.
• Final Boss: They're the final opponents standing between 47 and the Constant (the executive car has a couple of bodyguards in suits, but you can walk right past them with the dress suit you're given by default at that point).
• Heavily Armored Mook: They wear heavy armor and are the only enemies in the World of Assassination trilogy to avert Armor Is Useless. It takes a good 21 rounds of smg fire or 17 rounds of compact pistol fire to bring one down, compared to just 6 smg shots or 5 compact pistol shots to kill a normal enemy. Their protective helmets also allow them to resist multiple headshots. They can still be instantly taken out with thrown weapons or melee attacks, though.
• Made of Iron: While all the commandoes can take an impressive amount of firepower to bring down, the Commando Leader is equally as durable despite not being as visibly heavily armored (including resisting headshots despite not wearing a helmet).
• No-Sell: The only disguise that works on the Commandoes is the Commando Leader's own uniform.
• Praetorian Guard: The Constant has them positioned guarding the only entrance to the executive offices and his private car, and they'll stop anyone trying to gain entry to that area.
• Sunglasses at Night: The Commando Leader wears a pair of sunglasses despite it being night time.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Their armor might let them soak lots of bullets before dying, but being shot still hurts like hell and they'll be staggered and knocked down after every few bullet hits.
• Unskilled, but Strong: They're equipped with heavy armor and high-end weaponry, but are no smarter or more observant than any other guard, unlike for example the Praetorians from Absolution.
• Wolfpack Boss: Despite their heavy armor, you can handle one of them fairly easily. If you start a firefight with all of them at once, however, things can definitely become tricky, especially on the higher difficulties.

Affiliates

Francesca De Santis

Francesca De Santis

The Scientist

"Hard to say. His behavior is getting more and more erratic."

Appearances: Hitman (2016)

Voiced By: Salli Saffioti (English)^note Other Languages:Hana Takeda (Japanese)

An up-and-coming executive of Ether Biotech Corporation, Francesca has been assigned to watch over Silvio Caruso in order to make sure he finishes the biological weapon he's working on. She's begun an affair with Caruso's golfing instructor and is deeply suspicious of his Casanova past.

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• Affably Evil: While she's helping create a dangerous biological weapon, she's generally level-headed and patient with those around her. While she's been sent to spy on Silvio and potentially kill him should the need arise, she's understanding of his issues and is reluctant to do so, opting for something quick and painless. She'll be upset if she finds out that Silvio intended to kill her with the virus.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: It's stated in her bio that she looks and acts innocent before stabbing you in the back.
• Blown Across the Room: She's so stunned by the reveal that Silvio had a DNA sample of her that she walks too close to the fireplace, with 47 waiting for just the right moment with the propane tank. If Silvio finishes his therapy appointment, both can be killed at the same time.
• Broken Pedestal: If you reveal to her that Silvio is intending to kill her with the virus, Francesca will feel betrayed, tell her bosses and start plotting to kill him, albeit somewhat reluctantly.
• Career Versus Man: Francesca has devoted herself to her career with Ether and her recent love affair has her seriously off her game.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She is very jealous of all the attention Roberto Vargas gets from other women.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: She's smart enough to do the work herself but is primarily a corporate executive.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: A challenge involves impersonating her lover and then drowning her in her own vomit while she still thinks you're them. Alternatively, lethally poisoning her champagne after she confesses to spying on Caruso, assuming that her lover is silently watching her die.
• Didn't Think This Through: Francesa is charming, sensuous and worldly which she has no qualms about using. However, Ether assigned her to a man who fears women.
• He Knows Too Much: Her knowledge of the virus means that she can finish the project should Silvio die, thus making her the mission's secondary target.
• High-Voltage Death: One way of disposing of her is to rig the power strip next to her before turning on the sprinklers nearby.
• Hypocrite: Takes Silvio plotting against her immensely personally despite the fact she was sent to spy on him and potentially kill him.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Played with if you spike her champagne with lethal poison while disguised as Roberto.
  Francesca: "I don't know, I feel so— My god! The champagne! Roberto, how— how could you!?"
• Ink-Suit Actor: She strongly resembles the actress that voices her, Salli Saffioti.
• Klingon Promotion: She's been tasked with potentially killing Silvio and finish the weaponized virus in his place.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: A few ways of killing her involve pumping toxic chemicals into the laboratory, breaking an extension cord close to a sprinkler, or dropping propane in a fireplace.
• The Mole: She was planted by Ether to gain Caruso's trust, but has been assigned to dispose of Caruso and take over from him should he prove to be too much of a liability.
• Never Suicide: Intends on doing this to Silvio by making it seem as if guilt over strangling his mother made him take his own life, before pretending that she found his body.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Is very worried about getting her objectivity compromised by her current relationship. So it's actually her worried about her OOC behavior.
• Punch-Clock Villain: She agreed to spy on Silvio, and potentially kill him and finish the project by herself, to get promoted to head of regional R&D. Despite that, she's reluctant about killing him without solid evidence.
• Sympathy for the Devil: She feels this way about Silvio and is reluctant to kill him, hoping to do so quickly and painlessly and then frame it as a suicide. She will not take the revelation that Silvio intended to kill her well.
  Francesca: Oh, Silvio. Can't believe I actually admired you. Keep my hair in a bag, you bastard? Thanks for relieving me of the guilt when I have you killed.
• Together in Death: There's a challenge for locking Francesca's corpse in with Roberto's, though Roberto doesn't actually have to be dead to complete this challenge.
• Too Dumb to Live: If she's informed about the bioweapon being destroyed, Francesca will go down to the lab and vent the dangerous chemicals previously containing it so she can go in and survey the damage. So far so good. Then she walks inside the containment room, completely alone, without a hazmat suit. Leaving aside the fact that there could still be traces of the containment chemicals in there, said chemicals can be pumped back in with a single touchscreen press…
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Is assigned to Silvio specifically because his irrational behavior makes him a liability and if Silvio snaps she has been ordered to kill him, albeit Francesca is fond enough of Silvio to give him a quick and painless death.

Oybek Nabazov

Oybek Nabazov

The Source

"Many are afraid of death. They think it's the end. But it's not. Death is just the beginning."

Appearances: Hitman (2016)

Voiced By: Alec Newman (English)

The leader of the doomsday cult "Liberation". ICA analysts have linked him conclusively with seven mass cult suicides or atrocities over the past three decades. Nabazov is in the Himmapan Hotel preparing for his followers to commit a bioweapon attack under the guise of an exhibition.

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• Ax-Crazy: Causing the deaths of hundreds of people he indoctrinated and using his current cult to launch a bioweapon attack for no discernible reason makes him this.
• Asshole Victim: Possibly one of the biggest in the entire franchise. Nobody is going to miss this omnicidal maniac any time soon.
• Big Bad: Despite dying in the first mission, he manages to qualify for this, or at least share the role with Owen Cage, due to the concessions he set up to occur in the event of his death.
• Beard of Evil: Oybek is one of the few targets to sport a beard. He's also one of the most evil.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He presents himself as a self-help guru and an artist. He doesn't mention that he's a sociopath leading innocents into committing suicide.
• Con Man: What he is ultimately at heart.
• The Corruptor: Oybek preys on the desperate and convinces them to kill themselves.
• Dark Messiah: Goes with being the head of a doomsday cult.
• Death Seeker: How he is hoping to go when his plan is complete.
• Disc-One Final Boss: You'd think killing a cult leader would stop his plans. You'd be wrong.
• Faux Affably Evil: As you'd expect from a cult leader and sociopath, Oybek is rather friendly and polite to people around him. This is almost certainly an act, considering the rest of his personality.
• Hate Sink: Oybek is a sociopath cult leader who causes mass suicides for shits and giggles. While he can come across as polite and friendly, it is only an act to convince people to join his cult. Unlike some of the other hate sinks in Hitman, Oybek is played seriously and made to be as detestable as possible.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Oybek has created various cults, all of which he has led into committing ritualistic suicide and is about to lead another one down the same route. He can then be burned alive during one of his rituals.
• Hypocrite: For all his talk about how death is nothing to fear and instead something to embrace, if you hold him at gunpoint he'll yell for his guards and plead for his life.
• Indirect Serial Killer: Oybek never personally kills anyone. Instead, he manipulates people into joining his death cults and killing themselves in ritual mass suicides. During the Patient Zero campaign, he takes it up a notch by planning to release a bioweapon.
• Karmic Death: He can be burned alive during his own ritual if you replace his fire-retardant oil with vodka. The purpose of this display was to show that he was the chosen one. The challenge for doing this is called "Divine Intervention".
• Kill It with Fire: One of his deaths, achieved by replacing his rubbing oil with vodka.
• Lack of Empathy: Oybek doesn't care in the slightest about causing mass suicides and preying on weak-willed people.
• Mad Artist: Oybek is an artist and a murderous psychopath.
• Madness Mantra: "And the footsteps that you hear will be the last to reach your dying ear", frequently said during his exhibition.
• Milkman Conspiracy: At the end of the Patient Zero campaign, 47 and Diana find it very hard to believe that Liberation, a mere new-age death cult, to have had the capability to pull off the events of the campaign and seem far too powerful and far too well-connected to be acting alone. In Hitman 2, Nabazov's manifesto/ profile can be seen in the Isle of Sgàil, essentially confirming that Liberation were connected to either Providence or the Ark Society (or both), the latter of which is a cabal of billionaire survivalists who intend to rule the world once they survive a civilization-ending cataclysm, which the Nabazov Virus was very much capable of.
• Misplaced Accent: He speaks in a heavy Eastern European accent despite being Uzbek.
• My Death Is Only The Beginning: Nabazov gets killed in "The Source", the Patient Zero campaign does not end at that mission. In fact, his death is a trigger for other operatives to begin spreading the virus.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: His actions and his M.O. make him rather reminiscent of real-life doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara. His influence and his history of driving cults to ritual suicide seem to be based on Jim Jones.
• Sadist: Being a serial cultist who preys on the emotionally weak and goading them into suicide certainly qualifies him as this.
• Scam Religion: He is known for starting multiple of these, then leaving once the groups kill themselves.
• My Death Is Only The Beginning: Killing Nabazov in "The Source" activates a dead mans trigger and subsequent campaign missions to take place where 47 has stop a virus exchange in "The Author", a testing plan in "The Vector" and finally, a global pandemic from happening in "Patient Zero".
• The Sociopath: Up there with Strandberg, though somehow even more detestable. The briefing states that he has repeatedly formed cults, inspired devoted loyalty and manipulated his followers into committing mass suicide. He would need to be excellent at forming profound-seeming relationships with people, while also incapable of feeling actual empathy for them.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: His deep, level voice never raises, even when frustrated or discussing topics like death. The only time he's annoyed is if the exhibition's slideshow is tampered with.

Haven (Tyson Williams, Steven Bradley and Ljudmila Vetrova)

Tyson Williams, Steven Bradley and Ljudmila Vetrova

See the Hitman 2 page.

Sheikh Omar Al-Ghazali

Sheikh Omar Al-Ghazali

Appearances: Hitman 3

Voiced By: Nathan Osgood (English)

A construction mogul and owner of the Burj Al-Ghazali, and member of the Al-Ghazali family.

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• Arab Oil Sheikh: He's in the construction industry instead of the oil industry, but is a wealthy sheikh who owns the world's tallest building.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: His outfit appears to be based on Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.
• Ornamental Weapon: Omar carries a gold-trimmed scimitar with a porcelain handle, used during the Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony. It can be unlocked by reaching Mastery level 13 in Dubai.
• Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: He cuts a ribbon of balloons with an ornamental scimitar a few minutes into the level.
• Self-Made Man: Downplayed. While he's still quite rich due to his family connections (though, according to him, he comes from one of the less wealthy branches of the family), he decided to be a construction mogul.

Valentina Yates

Valentina Yates

Appearances: Hitman 3

Voiced By: Kelly Agredo (English)

A former diplomat and the wife of Don Yates, who resides in her ancestral vineyard with him.

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• Behind Every Great Man: An NPC will briefly mention that it is rumored that she is behind many of her husband's most famous court strategies. Eavesdrop on her conversations with her husband and the rumor will be proven true.
• The Consigliere: During her route, she'll give Don advice regarding dealing with Diana and she's mentioned to be the one behind Don's court strategies.
• Evil Vegetarian: She is vegan and did not take kindly to an employee putting a BLT next to the wine room ventilation system. She is also Don's confidant and has no compunctions about his planning to kill Diana.
• My God, What Have I Done?: If she pushes Don off a balcony after discovering he ruined her career, she'll immediately realize what she has done and head into her room feeling sick. After calling Fanin for a sum of money, she'll head towards the gates of the vineyard to sulk.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: In-Universe. A phone data leak scandal six years prior forced her to retire and head back to Argentina. Revealing that her husband was behind the leak to preserve his firm's reputation results in her killing him in an argument.
• Unholy Matrimony: Is said to be as brilliant and ruthless as her husband. As a result the two have enjoyed a long and intellectual partnership.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: If she pushes Don off the balcony after finding out he ruined her career to benefit his own, she'll immediately get upset and leave the villa.

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