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[''Yor kills him'']

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* On ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', Gin Rummy tells the tale of Bushido Brown fending off a group of these hired by the beef industry to take out Oprah Winfrey, including pastiches of Series/WalkerTexasRanger and Billy Jack.
-->'''Gin Rummy:''' Apparently only one guy actually managed to get his hand on Oprah's door, they say Bushido Brown kept that hand.
-->'''Ed the Third:''' Dang, I think I just shit myself.
* Also the various groups that tried to catch ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' after Vlad put out a bounty on him, including the Guys in White and the Extreme Ghostbreakers.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Spoofed in "Sex, Pies, And Idiot Scrapes." Homer becomes a bounty hunter with Ned Flanders as his partner. When Flanders decides to leave the business, their boss tells him his last bounty is Homer himself. And if Flanders won't do it, one of the other hunters will. Cue a room full of thugs, including a knife-wielder, a psychotic man with a chainsaw, a girl with a machine-gun leg, and a grizzly bear practicing the nunchaku.
--> '''Ned Flanders:''' I'm sure they're all competent professionals, but you'd best leave it to me.
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''' third season, Jean-Claude [=LeTueur=], Russel "Go-Fish" Sturgeon, and Herr Trigger are hired to track and kill Brock.
** [[spoiler:All of them manipulated by Molotov Cocktease into getting killed by Brock so that her Black Hearts assassins agency would be the only game in town for high profile assassination jobs.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Bounty", Lord Hater gets tired of Peepers' repeated failures at capturing Wander and Sylvia and hires three bounty hunters to do the job: Rongroffle the Huntress, Killbot 86, and... a potted plant (one that turns out to be of the [[ManEatingPlant man-eating variety]]).
* The ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode "Infiltrator" dealt with the heroes protecting a scientist from a group of assassins.
** However, all of the assassins were working for the same group--The League of Shadows--and operated as a team with zero infighting.

** Baroque Works plays this straight.

* The [[PsychoForHire Seven Warlords of the Sea]] in ''Manga/OnePiece'' — to a degree, as not all of them are antagonistic towards [[TheHero Luffy.]] [=CP9=] probably counts as a straighter example, and they're actual assassins as opposed to the Warlords...

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': [[HitmanWithAHeart Yor]] is assigned to protect Olka Gretcher and her infant son from dozens of assassins sent to kill them as they escape Ostania on a cruise ship. Hilariously, at one point, two such assassins attempt to invoke this trope by introducing this trope in a hammy fashion, [[FakeUltimateMook only to get cut down immediately.]]

** N’kama, a South African Zulu warrior.

** The Iron Maiden, a former Russian agent who [[UnknownRival who had been living in the Black Widow’s shadow for years]].

** In ''Film/RevengeOfThePinkPanther'', the main villain's henchman hired a whole Carnival Of Killers. When the BigBad saw them, he said "are these the men you have hired to kill Clouseau?" The henchmen replied he had hired these men to kill Mr. Chong. The CarnivalOfKillers had been hired merely to test the skills of the real killer they were sending after Clouseau…

* ''Film/ThingsToDoInDenverWhenYoureDead'' — the reason our protagonists are dead is that they know they can't survive long against a Carnival Of Killers sent by Creator/ChristopherWalken.
* ''Film/TheUmbrellaCoup'': Several hitmen line up to get a shot at Grégoire but he manages to foil all their attempts on his life.

* [[Wrestling/StevieRichards Steven Richards]], Thuggin and Buggin Enterprises, [[ForeignWrestlingHeel La Résistance]], Wrestling/TommyDreamer and Wrestling/{{Batista}} all tried to get the money Triple H was offering to whoever would take out Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} for him.

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': [[HitmanWithAHeart Yor]] is assigned to protect Olka Gretcher and her infant son from dozens of assassins sent to kill them as they escape Ostania on a cruise ship.

* ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'', In "Reward for Matt", a woman offers a $1,000 reward to the man who kills Matt Dillon after Matt killed her husband while attempting to bring him in for murder. This was a RecycledScript from an episode of the [[Radio/{{Gunsmoke}} radio show]] (see below).

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The ''ComicBook/SpiderManIdentityCrisis Identity Crisis]]'' storyline is about Spider-Man being framed for murder with a $5,000,000 bounty on his head, dead or alive. Eventually, he assumes several different costumed identities so he can keep up the superhero game without being harassed, but before he thought of that he was fighting off dozens of bounty hunters every day. The guys after the 5 mil ranged from mundane gun nuts and thrill-seekers (like the Hunters) to professionals (like Shotgun) to actual costumed villains (like Override and Aura).