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Films — Live Action
"Hi, Admiral. Six months ago, your boy Tom Breaker cancelled Operation Cleopatra, and shortly thereafter, two young men from Langley showed up in Miami; tried to cancel me along with it. Now you did receive each man's right forefinger in the mail, didn't you,Tom?
—Strannix, Under Siege
Trixie: Oh my god, was that a ninja?
Pops Racer: More like a NON-ja. Terrible what passes for a ninja these days.
Pops Racer: More like a NON-ja. Terrible what passes for a ninja these days.
"It's a pity you didn't know when you started your game of murder that I was playing, too."
—Frederick Loren, House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Literature
"I was planning on accepting my fate, but the assassin was even weaker than I expected. Tell your intelligence division to read people’s hearts, not the data."
— Nyarlathotep, Heavy Object
"Why would you draw [a gun] right in front of me, you moron? And you were aiming for my heart? How were you supposed to pass that off as suicide?"
— Major Frolaytia Capistrano right before dislocating her would-be assassin's arms, Heavy Object
Live Action TV
Werner: I tried to do what Ward wanted. I tried to kill him.
May: Him? Professor Garner?
Werner: We had him... but I didn't know he'd change into that thing.
May: Him? Professor Garner?
Werner: We had him... but I didn't know he'd change into that thing.
— Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "Among Us Hide..."
"This is getting ridiculous! The FIRST assassin kills the SECOND assassin sent to kill the FIRST assassin?! Who didn't assassinate anyone until WE HIRED THE SECOND ASSASSIN to ASSASSINATE HER!"
— Lee Mercer, Angel ("Sanctuary")
Eliot: [on the phone, while pinning an assassin to the wall] Now you're sending weak-ass assassins after me?
Assassin: [looks offended]
Eliot: [to assassin] If I'm not honest with you, you can't improve.
Assassin: [nods hurriedly]
Assassin: [looks offended]
Eliot: [to assassin] If I'm not honest with you, you can't improve.
Assassin: [nods hurriedly]
— Leverage
Video Games
"Dear diary. Found a package full of heads outside camp today. Thought it could just be my boys prepping for our annual headball tournament. But then I remembered the kill team I'd sent after my younger brother, and, uh... yeah, it was them alright. Classic Zane. [chuckles] Haven't seen him in years! Not since he left to join that black ops outfit. Sending assassins after him is just my way of keeping in touch. A little more personal than a Mercenary Day card, you know?"
— Captain Flynt, Borderlands 2 "Commander Lilith and the Fight For Sanctuary" (giving an Early-Bird Cameo for Zane of Borderlands 3)
Assassin: [gives a long, threatening speech in an alien language]
Atton: Anybody here catch that? All I understood was "very".
Bao-Dur: I think he wanted us to give up the General to his poorly-trained collection of bounty hunters.
Atton: Ah. well that would explain it. Which one do you want?
Bao-Dur: I'll take the stupid one who decided to threaten us rather than shoot us when he had the chance. (Battle Discretion Shot)
Atton: Anybody here catch that? All I understood was "very".
Bao-Dur: I think he wanted us to give up the General to his poorly-trained collection of bounty hunters.
Atton: Ah. well that would explain it. Which one do you want?
Bao-Dur: I'll take the stupid one who decided to threaten us rather than shoot us when he had the chance. (Battle Discretion Shot)
"That assassin should be embarrassed. A terminally ill drell managed to stop him from reaching his target."
— Thane, Mass Effect 3
"I like assassinating assassins. They always look so surprised."
— Imperial PCs, Alderaan planetary questline, Star Wars: The Old Republic
Real Life
Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.
— Note from Josip Broz Tito, found in Josef Stalin's personal papers
