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The exploding ducks are back. They are now joined by a concussive, non-lethal variant.
One of the new weaponizable items? A fish. Yes, 47 can now knock someone unconscious by slapping them in the face with a fish.
- If 47 places the fish on a serving plate, it magically turns into sushi.
- If a guard sees 47 with the fish in hand, he will shout, "Asshole! Put down the fish!"
Briefcases make a return in Hitman 2. This isn't a particularly comedic development in and of itself, but prior to a 2018 bugfix, a glitch would occur wherein thrown briefcases would slowly follow their targets!.
- The return of the beloved briefcase is even noted in a set of patch notes - for an update that fixed an issue where, at the beginning of a mission, 47 would be holding his briefcase while in his blend-in pose.
  Patch Notes: He's probably just happy that it's back again and doesn't want to let it go.
- Under "Known issues" on the same notes, they also mention that players have reported that "The new ‘homing’ ability of 47’s briefcase is not strong enough and does not target multiple NPCs", and that they are working on a fix.
- The December patch notes include a "Briefcase" section that begins with the assurance that "it’s not *that* fix".
- While it was inevitably patched, IOI thought it was hilarious enough to make it a feature in August of 2019, in the form of the ICA Executive Briefcase Mk II, and explains it away with Technobabble. Even more amusingly, the infamously slapped on 2 sticker on most of the game's base unlocks is enlarged and plastered on the side, as if to signify that this is not a serious item in the slightest. But perhaps the most hilarious part of it all is how leisurely the briefcase is in sailing through the air, so its unfortunate victims can only look on in terror and flee to no avail as it floats through the air towards them.
- The small changes to the briefcase (Such as its new ability to store anything instead of being sniper-specific) mean that it now acts as Hammerspace. While some snipers have small adjustment animations ^note, none of them actually build the rifle, meaning that the Druzhina rifle which is bigger than the briefcase still fits in in its entirety. The prize, however goes to the broadsword, as it's almost as long as 47 is yet can still be hidden in it!
Physics in the game have changed and are still extremely buggy, this can cause NPCs you launch into objects to start convulsing violently and flying extremely far away after clipping into them, or to get stuck in said wall/furniture.
You can now throw weapons at unconscious characters. While there's a valid explanation for using this as a means to eliminate an unconscious person, throwing blunt weapons at them does nothing other than hit them in the head again for no reason.
The targets now have quips when they are subdued for too long. Sophia Washington's remark takes the cake.
Sophia Washington: You smell like dollar store aftershave.
The sniper rifle's information page would like to inform you that the man-length weapon will be "detected upon frisking".

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New Zealand

A news report reveals that Aleksander Kovac, the client of the sniper mission "The Last Yardbird", was dumb enough to immediately convert all of his ill-gotten gains into bitcoins and thus was arrested and will likely be charged with the murder of his fellow Yardbirds.
While Reynard is nothing to laugh at, one conversation with her new boyfriend, who is frustrated by their smart home's apparent inability to recognise him, ends with her dryly offering to name him Sean 2.
A Good Bad Bug is that Orson happens to be looking away when Reynard drinks the tea. Should the tea be poisoned, Reynard could die a few feet away from him and be quickly cleaned up by bodyguards. This causes Orson to ask everyone if they've seen Alma.
- The man he calls, Gerard, is the head bodyguard and the most likely person to bag Alma and drag her away. He says that he hasn’t seen her.
A meta example, in these patch notes, IOI refers to Orson as "Sean 2" as well.
It's possible for 47 to chase Alma into the sea, whereupon she quickly drowns.
Upon successfully assassinating The Politician elusive target (Who was accused of embezzling), Diana delivers this gem:
Diana Burnwood: The client is transferring a very charitable "Donation" as we speak.
Dame Barbara can deliver this line while revising her speech:
Dame Barbara: I can only extend an olive branch of... human compassion? No, no need to put a bow on it. Obviously it wouldn't be "animal compassion".

Miami

47 can dress up as a certain "Tame Racing Driver..." One Easter Egg allows 47 to exit in a race car in said suit, and Diana gives random "Some say..." introductions introduced in Season 6 of Top Gear.
Diana: Some say he could make it as a top fashion model, and that he's the only person to visit the Palais de Walewska dressed as a vampire. All we know is, his name is 47!
Considering how in the previous game 47 seemed to be capable of doing just about anything if the situation called for it, you'd expect that pretending to be part of Knox's pit stop crew would have 47 repairing her car? Nope. If you choose to plant explosives to her car, instead of planting it, say, in the tires (the way the briefing in the Announcement Trailer suggested), 47 just slaps an obvious mine into the car's rear before giving a thumbs up to the rest of the crew.
The Flamingo mascot outfit as a whole. Many characters in the map will consider it to be strange and funny-looking, and 47 himself will actually sometimes perform mascot gestures to blend in while still being entirely in-character.
- The main reason for the Flamingo costume is to impersonate Sierra Knox's blackmailer. Which leads to an amusing conversation between 47 and one of Sierra's bodyguards since they have no idea why you're meeting:
  Bodyguard: So you're here for a job application or what?
  47: Something like that.
  Bodyguard: Nice! ...if you don't mind me saying so your particular choice of attire is a maybe a little, I don't know, off? For a job interview, I mean.
  47: My suit is at the cleaners.
  Bodyguard: And you couldn't find anything else to wear?
  47: Correct.
  Bodyguard: You must lead a very interesting life, my friend.
  47: You have no idea.
- There's also another bodyguard 47 can have an amusing conversation with:
  Bodyguard: So... That's a great outfit. I'm thinking it must get pretty warm in there though.
  47: It's insulated.
  Bodyguard: Huh, imagine that. Guess it would have to if you're supposed to wear it for hours and hours every day. Do you, you know, get to use it at home? For parties and things like that I mean.
  47: (dryly) No.
  Bodyguard: Right, right. I, eh, I have a friend that is into that sort of thing. Cosplay, assuming imaginary identities. He says it's very liberating. Takes him out of the stress of everyday life and work, you know?
  47: Not really.
  Bodyguard: Yeah, I guess it's different when you do it for a living. How's the pay?
  47: Sufficient.
  Bodyguard: Nice! Okay, good talk.
- The Flamingo mascot unlocks a secret exit where 47 flies away as if he were an actual bird. Just...see for yourself.
- Plus Diana's absolutely baffled reaction to you donning the thing.
  Diana: Well... I always thought... pink... was your color, 47...
47 can also majestically exit the mission (via specific actions and items) on Dolphins.
One way to assassinate Sierra Knox is to poison an IV drip she takes when you're posing as a doctor. When Sierra asks if 47 can help her, almost every line he says makes it obvious (to us) that he's about to kill her.
Sierra: So, what's on the menu? Something that'll take care of this hideous pain in my neck, I hope.
47: I promise. Once I'm done, you won't feel a thing.
Sierra: So what's in this thing, anyway, doc?
47: Mostly floral extracts. Hemlock, Belladonna, Aconite. It's designed to be fast and efficient.
Sierra: Fast and efficient. I like that. Wait, Belladonna? Isn't that poisonous?^noteAs it turns out, all of them are.
47: Yes.
Sierra: Should I be concerned?
47: I'm not. Just relax. It'll be over soon.
If 47 is close to some people on the map, they will make note of his bad breath.
(While outside of the race venue at a vendor stall)
Vendor: No offense, but your breath smells like a rat crawled up your ass...
(A Guard in the Expo Hall...)
Guard: God, your breath stinks.
(Bumping into a Kronstandt Engineer)
Engineer: Little bit of constructive criticism, you could use a mint.
Sabotaging the show car in the exhibition hall will have Mr. Knox come to examine it. Pour some propellant boost in there, and he gets killed when you start the engine and the car backfires. Similar to the ejector seat kill in Hitman 2016, everyone around is too gobsmacked to do anything while you saunter out the door cool as ice.
47 can orchestrate events so that Robert Knox accidentally kills Sierra Knox with the bomb that was intended to be used to eliminate Moses Lee.
- Alternatively, 47 can forgo planting the car bomb on Sierra's car and instead dump it in the garbage bin behind Robert so he will kill himself when he detonates the bomb.
Much like with Dalia in "The Showstopper" from the previous game, 47 can push Robert Knox off a building and onto Sierra Knox's car, causing the latter to crash, eliminating both. The former even bounces off of it rather cartoonishly.
If you eliminate/pacify Robert Knox without anyone noticing, his personal bodyguard can deliver this gem while searching for him:
Bodyguard: Mr. Knox? Please don't peek-a-boo me, sir. Last time I almost shot you, remember?
The briefing for the return of the Undying lampshades its nature as the only contract with the same target as a previous one who was confirmed killed, with Diana noting that it "rings a bell", and as she makes her final statement, feels like she's repeating herself. Her entire briefing sounds more tired here as well.
"The Undying Returns" Elusive Target contract has Faba with an eyepatch, an acknowledgement of the common method of eliminating him being driving his head into an upright pen.
If you pick up the newspaper article with Florida Man’s picture (which can be used to sic PALLAS on him), the Intel shows a closeup of the article, allowing you to read the headline:
"Florida man offers crazy sale in race build up''
Encourages all to eat his balls!
If you kill every NPC on the level, an announcer with a Scottish accent will comment on the massacre, referencing Scottish YouTuber bigMooney06 and his Kill Everyone challenges.

Colombia

Wearing the Tattooist disguise magically causes full sleeve tattoos to appear on 47's arms. ^note This is explained by a tourist who says that the tattoo artist is a poser with obviously fake tattoo sleeves.
- Performing the opportunity involving said disguise will lead to 47 having to take a selfie with Rico Delgado's wife. As usual, 47 is less than impressed by the situation.
47 conducting the "spiritual cleansing ritual" during the "Hallowed Ground" Mission Story: he just makes three dramatic gestures to spooky music. Everyone else is in awe.
47 can assassinate Rico Delgado by posing as a tattoo artist. One of the things 47 says when sitting Rico down is:
47: You need to keep still, Mister Delgado. I wouldn't want to stab you by accident.
- The preamble to this specific kill also features both his target almost realizing that 47 is an imposter and 47 himself only barely managing to get away from it.
  Rico: You know, you look different on TV. I can't quite tell what it is, but there's something...off.
  47: You know what they say: The camera gives you ten pounds.
  Rico: Yeah, it apparently also gives you new cheekbones.
  47: I just had surgery.
  Rico: Sure, sure, I figured it was something like that. Cat, she's been under the knife yearly for the last decade. Me personally, I wouldn't be caught dead doing something like that.
  47: Time will tell, Mister Delgado.
If you don't do anything to ruin the statue unveiling ceremony, you are treated to watching Rico Delgado awkwardly shimmy around in his attempt to dance.
- Alternatively, Rico gets very angry if there's no drumroll, and both he and Andrea eventually start complaining to the same guard at the exact same time should the drummer (47) suddenly disappear.
Rico gets so excited about the submarine that he wants the technician (47) to rev up its engines as strongly as possible. This usually means over the safety limits, causing the sub to dislodge from its mount and launch itself into the nearby water, along with Rico himself since he happened to be in the way.
The "hippo whisperer" hired by Rico to deal with his pet hippo's meat addiction has no experience in dealing with hippos, and instead spends most of his time unsuccessfully looking for answers on the web, including equestrian forums.
On a run where the conditions for "Hero of Santa Fortuna" has been completed. There will be an umbrella next to the building storing the ship that can be shot into the water. After doing so, it opens an escape where 47 flies away using it.
47 can run over NPC's during two closing cut scenes. One intentionally, one unintentionally. The latter can possibly ruin perfect score runs.

Mumbai

One kill involves eliminating the targets by redirecting a train into them.
47's demeanor is surprisingly effective in business transactions:
Vendor: Ah, my friend! You have chosen well! Now, we have the best prices here! What you do say to 140 rupees per running meter? Does that sound fair?
(47 is silent)
Vendor: No? Nothing? Ah, I can see you are a man of refined taste and a skilled haggler! My kids will only eat rice tonight but it's yours for 105 rupees then. It's a deal, yes?
(47 is still silent)
Vendor: Wow, those eyes are really burning into me! It's like you're just looking straight into my soul. Okay, final offer now. 90 rupees. 90 rupees per running meter. That's my own cost. I-I really can't go any lower.
(47 remains silent)
Vendor: (nervous laugh) Still no? Your haggling skills are-are something else, I'll give you that much. The silence, it's— It's terribly unnerving, to be honest. It's like you're just, uh, dead inside. Like there is a vast empty space where your emotions would normally reside. I can go no lower that 75 rupees. Really! Take the offer! Please take the offer!
(47 keeps staring in silence)
Vendor: (takes a moment to gather himself) You know what?! My grandmother made these with her own hands. There is blood on the loom every night because she works so hard! A fair price is a 100 rupees so that's what I'm charging you. Serves you right for just standing there like a corpse!
(47 still says nothing)
Vendor: (sighs) Okay, fine! The story about my grandmother is a lie. We both know it. Your silence is killing me! Just... (lowers voice) Just have it at what I'm buying it for. 40 rupees. That's it. Please. It's a fair price. You beat me! Take it. 40 rupees. Okay?
(47 remains unmoving for a long time)
Vendor: Fine! Just take it! Take it! It's free! All right?! Just get out of here. You're scaring off my real costumers! Take whatever you like and leave!
47: It's a deal.
Vendor: (suddenly cheerful again) Ah, good, good! Take any of the bundles please!
- Even better, the vendor has three cloth bundles you can take, and if you have the patience for it, you can make him recite this “dialogue” up to three times and take all his wares for free, as if he hadn’t repeated the story of his grandmother and admitted to lying about it before.
During the mission, it's possible to discover that there is a rival assassin after Dawood Rangan - and you can help him out by getting the target to hold still while painting him. This involves 47 painting Dawood as he stands in front of an image of himself that is captioned: "I'm Rich". Just before the rival does the kill for you:
47: Can you look up a bit?
(-THWIP-)
47: Thank you.
- Just after Dawood dies, 47 applies the finishing touches to his painting by painting a red crosshair, centered on Dawood's sunglasses.
- While painting, Dawood will state that he isn't paying the painter since he believes the exposure he'll receive is enough payment, a dubious claim considering that all of his paintings are hung inside his penthouse suite.
  47: I prefer cash over exposure.
  Dawood: Don't we all?
- On the topic of Dawood's paintings: realizing that every painting in his lounge is of himself presented as some grandiose, godlike figure is pretty hilarious.
- One of Dawood's quotes:
  Dawood: When I do this pose, all housewives in a 2 mile radius faint automatically!
Getting both Shah and Rangan killed by The Kashmirian, whom they both hired to kill the other. Also counts as Awesome.
Diana: Are you planning on outsourcing all your work to the Kashmirian from now on?
One NPC in the level angrily protests her role as being knock-out bait for 47 in the game.
Woman: I don't like people that throw stuff. And then I have to check it out and then boom! I'm down!
A conversation between two people near Dawood Rangan results in this comment:
Man: Why do all our rich people have such poor taste?
One of the lines a guard can say when searching on this level is:
Guard: Going to have a look around. I'm whispering because I'm in stealth mode, okay?
One of the lines a civilian may say on this level when 47 gets too close to them is "Are you trying to intimidate me, or be intimate with me?"
The "Gone With the Wind" opportunity involves launching Dawood off the skyscraper using a very powerful industrial fan. His ragdoll has a tendency to be extremely exaggerated in this case.
- The director of the film calls her partner on the phone right after, first pretending to care about it being a "terrible accident", but then immediately dropping the facade and delivering the news very flatly. She then suggests that the accident being caught on film can make for a better ending and could improve sales.
- The leading actress who portrays the Damsel in Distress isn't really all that worried either.
  Karisma: I always knew his inflated ego would be his downfall... I just didn't think it would make him literally fly off the building.
A Mission Story involves impersonating a Broadway actor named Gregory Arthur. However, that is probably a stage name, as the Create a Contract mode gives his name as Gilford Bootyswang.

Whittleton Creek

One of the methods of blending in at a local party is to pretend to be the cook's aid, where you can serve some fries to any guests that approach. As per usual, 47 never loses his dry wit despite his advertising of the food.
Agent 47: Psst. Wrap your lips around this.
- Using this method to poison Cassidy so that you can ambush him at your leisure also results in a Pre-Mortem One-Liner.
  Nolan Cassidy: So, what's good here?
  Agent 47: I hear it's all to die for, Mr. Cassidy...
47 can drop rakes on the ground in people's paths, resulting in a Rake Take and immediate knockout.
- NPCs will react to this in the exact same way they would if you had knocked them unconscious, with mass hysteria. If done at the right time to Nolan, it can cause his bodyguards to start acting as if moving him to lockdown... which means leaving him on the ground as all the bodyguards head into the house, leaving him extremely vulnerable to a killing blow.
As usual, most retrievable items can be used as melee weapons, and any blunt object will knock someone out. In Whittleton Creek, this includes rolled-up newspapers and blueberry muffins.
One method of target elimination is to poison the entire house using the fumigator and some lethal poison. If you do so, become hunted, and then enter the house while wearing the pest exterminator's disguise (which comes with a gas masks to keep you from suffocating) people will run into the poisonous air of the house without masks on, resulting in them shouting to arrest you before, seconds later, dropping dead.
The fact there's a place on the map called "Murder Basement", right underneath Helens house. Discovering this for the first time on the map may make you confused as to why it's called that, until you realise exactly why that is.
47 acting as a realtor and giving Cassidy a tour of the house he wants to buy. He basically rattles off flat definitions of each room and their potential uses, sprinkled with some bits that sound like they came from an ICA instructor, like how the living room has "dark floors [that] hide stains easily" or how the kitchen is the "the most dangerous room in the home" (alongside, of course, the bathroom). Additionally, 47 is more than willing to say bad things about the house, such as when he states that the attic is "small, tends to be prone to a leaky roof and likely houses various types of molds".
- Cassidy snapping at 47 if he climbs up to present the attic.
- The way 47 pronounces the word "bathroom" might stick out yet again to long-term fans.
- Even worse is when 47 tries explaining the room where the previous owner was killed in, as the bloodstains are still there. He gives an extremely detailed account of his assumptions of what took place there, concluding it was caused by a severe allergic reaction or a poisoning of some kind. Cassidy is understandably horrified by this ability, but 47 simply states, "I dabble in forensic investigation. Among other things.".
- 47 clearly wasn't expecting a vault guarded by explosives and visible laser trip sensors, and takes a moment before rolling with it as though it was part of the tour.
  Agent 47: And here we have... Some sort of... vault?
  - When examining the vault after disabling its security system, Cassidy sends his bodyguard outside to see if the vault is visible from outside, while still inside the vault. Which provides 47 the opportunity of re-enabling the trip sensors and blowing Cassidy up.
"You know that I can see you. You're not very good at hiding."
One of the citizens is doing yoga out in the park. They go through the exact same series of poses that you can use to eliminate Yuki Yamizaki in Hokkaido.
A conversation a gardener has with one of Cassidy's men about a frog habitat behind their house, worried that them joining a long line of people who've buried things there might disturb the frogs.
Gardener: I wouldn't be surprised if we uncovered Jimmy Hoffa's remains back there!
Guard: (nervously) Eheh.

Isle of Sgàil

Showing up at the super secretive masquerade ball dressed as Santa Claus. Or in the Flamingo suit.
The Constant trolling the ultra-conservative Jebediah Block by pointing out that if global society collapses and the Ark Society is all that's left, the result will be a tiny egalitarian colony with no economy or class structure. In other words, Block has spent nearly 2 billion dollars on communism. Block is left utterly shaken.
Should 47 disguise as Block and vote "nay" during the council meeting, Sophia will have a private discussion with him. While reprimanding him, Sophia will ask if his grandchildren will pay for his survival should Block's coal company go under, leading to this exchange:
47: Nice try. But I don't have grandchildren.
Sophia Washington: (frustrated) You just had to make this difficult, didn't you?
- This will lead to Sophia threatening to expose Block while she faces an ((iron maiden)). After she dismisses her guards, no less.
One of the achievements requires poisoning the council members' drinks and then voting in favor of the motion.
47: Who wants chowder?
Diana's announcement when either of the targets enters 47's field of vision is extremely long, and she makes a Call-Back to when she announces Viktor Novikov's by stating that they have "quite the resume".
Due to Artificial Stupidity, you can casually walk up to Zoe Washington with a blunt weapon in hand and your cultist cloak disguise on while she makes her speech. From there, knock her out from behind and right in front of her followers. They'll just simply stare at you dumbfounded at what's going on before you push her unconscious body off the back of the stage and onto the foot of a cliff.
If you are dressed as an Initiate, you would likely have the fortune to run across a fellow Initiate who would taunt you about how she got so many tokens and is sure to win before you, even holding one up in front of you. You can snatch the token from her and she will follow you (allowing you to lure her into a secluded room, knock her out and steal the rest of her tokens), demanding it back before giving up and storming off.
Zoe Washington gets confused as to why you would lie on the first question of the Lie Detector test, since telling the truth ("Yes") would be beneficial to the question ("Are you an expert in your field?"). Continue to lie to her and she will eventually be irritated enough to not realize she's standing on a puddle with the wire connected to the electric chair, which has been sparking for the last few attempts already, in it as she orders her assistant to crank it to the maximum. Naturally, this leads to her getting electrocuted in your place.
- Even funnier is that the assistant has the chance to first react to the death with the default civilian reaction of calling her friend on the phone and express how exciting things are, only to almost immediately switch to her scripted and opposite response: freak out that one of her bosses just died.
Diana's reaction if 47 knocks out the Constant after killing the Washingtons:
Diana: Shit. So much for subtlety. Get out of there, 47, Mr Grey will take it from here.
One challenge involves taking the Cloud Serpent without getting caught or destroying the cameras, then putting an apricot in its place. The Ark members won't notice the necklace being gone and simply gather around the apricot as if it were an art piece.
There is a wonderful Easter Egg there where one of the girls at the party is talking about two guys laughing at how seventy people were killed by electrocution via walking into a puddle.
The secret exit that has 47 diving off the cliff the giant Phoenix statue is on. How do you reveal it? By locking a butler inside of a freezer!

New York

Taking away the "Caution: Wet!" signs and causing a distraction with the sign will make anyone slip up and get knocked out, similar to the rakes in Whittleton Creek.
One of the secret achievements is called "Defenestration" and if its conditions are met^*, a new exit opens up: 47 opens a window, casually straightens his tie or collar, and calmly steps out of it.
If 47 tampers with the clock panel with a screwdriver, Savalas will topple out the panel the next time she leans on it. The way she then stumbles and falls to her death is so cartoonish that it's hard not be amused.
- Even better, despite being mere feet away from her and her taking around three seconds before she actually falls through, Savalas' bodyguards will not bother to grab and save her, and may not even notice. While it's likely due to Artificial Stupidity and the game not wanting to overcomplicate the kill, it can be seen that Savalas is so hated that even her guards will gladly let her die.
Turning off the router in Savalas' room will make her summon one of the IT members to fix the problem. When he arrives, he simply spends his time staring at the router.
Breaking open a small vent leading to the lower floor results in Diana laughing and remarking that she knows what 47 is thinking, and that it won't work.

Haven Island

Much of the footage for the mission briefing is a In-Universe promo, even marked with a "Property of HAVEN" sign. Just the fact that the group decided to take a promo for a briefing instead of actually taking footage themselves is just hilarious.
There are bananas lying around at several places around the island; at first they may seem useless, but planting one down (throwing doesn't work, they have to be placed) they become dangerous traps. In essence, they are portable versions of the slippery puddles from the previous level.
The challenge "Disrupt Portman" requires you to eliminate Jason Portman. There's no in-game justification for it, and the challenge only exists so you can screw over the poor guy once more; even the challenge text bluntly says: "Just get rid of him."
Portman's bedroom yet again has pictures of Helmut Kruger strewn around with hearts scribbled on them, including one found on his bedframe.
Turning on any of the TVs shows a promo of what to do at Haven, including the ability to "dab on haters" at the dancefloor.
Near the radio tower, there are two guards. Or rather, one guard and another one who has fallen asleep. The other guard fluctuates between gibbering rage and baby talk.
Guard: I'm going to go to HR and complain. Tell them I'm working with a zombie who sleeps all day. But look at him, he's so cute. Are you sleepy? Yes you are, yes you are.

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