History Heartwarming / Hitman2016

* The Sarajevo Six target spends the entire mission looking at the distance on the Yoga platform. If he’s approached, he recognizes 47 instantly, before [[WhamLine thanking him for being on schedule.]] He then reveals that [[spoiler: he ordered the previous SS assassinations to atone for the war crime they committed willingly.]] He then turns his back to 47 and tells him to complete the final contract. Or you can just snipe him from a distance, completely skipping his story. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments This actually grants the player a challenge.]]

* The Sarajevo Six target spends the entire mission looking at the distance on the Yoga platform. If he’s approached, he recognizes 47 instantly, before [[WhamLine thanking him for being on schedule.]] He then reveals that [[spoiler: he ordered the previous SS assassinations to atone for the war crime they committed willingly.]] He then turns his back to 47 and tells him to complete the final contract.
** Or you can just snipe him from a distance, completely skipping his story. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments This actually grants the player a challenge.]]

! Meta

* A possible one. Just before the 10th Elusive Target was announced, an user on the official forums mentioned that he/she would have to leave town for work-related reasons September 16th. This would be his/her 10th ET, which meant that he/she would have just missed unlocking the ''Blood Money'' suit, forcing him/her to wait for several weeks for the next chance. After a brief discussion, a moderator promised to ask the team if there's anything they could do. The elusive target lasted for an entire week; Either because of this or it's a hell of a coincidence.
* Every single kill in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-lXfmWToIY Legacy trailer]] references older ''Hitman'' games. The developers remember their players.
* IO holding a fundraiser for cancer during the Christmas holidays.
* Even after it was announced that Square Enix has dropped IOI, the developers are still active on the forums, and giving hints towards finding easter eggs. Even if IOI cannot keep making Hitman games, their final Hitman game is considered to be among the best games of the series and of 2016.
** Thankfully this situation had a happy ending, as IOI retained the rights to the Hitman series, and would release a sequel two years later.
** And ''another sequel'' has been slated for release four years later.
* During the above situation, fans were kind and understanding towards IO, comforting them and sending them gifts, really showing their appreciation for the game's developers.
** And we can't just forget how nice the devs have been to the fans from the start. Their forum moderators are active, and the team clearly takes player feedback into account. Had they just made another ''Absolution'' or ignored the fans, it's likely that the above would have ended the franchise.

* One of Jordan’s bodyguards (named Alex "Bullet Harrower in Contracts Mode) can be heard recounting a story to another bodyguard about how Jordan and Heidi once rushed over to get some shitty instruments after an inexplicable explosion destroyed their van and miraculously made music so beautiful with them that the guard telling the story asked his wife to marry him that day.

* On the second floor of the school, there's a soldier who is talking to his daughter on the phone, while leaning out of a window. He mentions her birthday that he couldn't attend due to his job, and promises to buy her a present. As the girl begins to cry as she misses her father, the soldier asks to talk with her mother, who then proceeds to tell something about twins to him. Of course, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential 47 can pull the guy to his death during, or immediately after the phone call]].

* While wandering around Marrakesh, you can find a brother and sister pair discussing his ex-girlfriend who is now head of security at the Swedish embassy. They talk at length about his lame but well-intentioned attempts to impress her. This is part of an Opportunity but a reminder all of the people involved in 47's life have their own loves and worries.

* The Sarajevo Six target spends the entire mission looking at the distance on the Yoga platform. If he is approached, he recognizes 47 instantly, before [[WhamLine thanking him for being on schedule.]] He then reveals that [[spoiler: he ordered the previous SS assassinations to atone for the war crime they committed willingly.]] He then turns his back to 47 and tells him to complete the final contract.

* Diana's sympathy towards Soders. She is shown to find the contract regrettable and seems numbed when Soders is killed.

* Using the switch to Ito from committing suicide as a result of being in a depressed state for too long nets you a challenge.

* If you begin, but do not complete, the Opportunity involving the interview with Novikov, you practically ensure an up and coming journalist's career. An interview with a world famous designer mere MINUTES before his death may be the golden goose of fashion journalism. Not to mention the warm and fuzzy feeling you get by making 47 play the role of a kind man just wanting to help out when you give her the camera lens.

** Kind of related is the client who ordered the hit in the first place. Most clients of 47 order hits due to financial or reputation-related reasons; it's just that their [[AssholeVictim victims happen to be assholes]]. This client ordered the hit purely on ethical grounds, to stop this super-deadly virus from getting onto the market without harming the company.

* Stopping a morgue doctor from committing suicide nets you a challenge.

* While wandering around Marrakesh, you can find a brother and sister paid discussing his ex-girlfriend who is now head of security at the Swedish embasy. They talk at length about his lame but well-intentioned attempts to impress her. This is part of an Opportunity but a reminder all of the people involved in 47's life have their own loves and worries.
* The Swedish consulate workers are all suitably horrified by Claus Strandberg's crimes but one of them states, unequivocably, "he's innocent until proven guilty" and deserves the benefit of the doubt. [[SubvertedTrope Admittedly, even she changes her tune after hearing how Strandberg robbed his own daughter.]]

* In the A House Built On Sand bonus mission, taking out Mendola and Kong during/after their meeting can count as this in a somewhat twisted fashion. While you still have to murder the somewhat sympathetic Frenchman, you got to Kong wire the money to Mendola's bank account, so that his [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes family]] would still receive the money after his death.

* In a twisted way, the anger that Dr. Laurent feels when realizing that Soders killed his father and made it look like a suicide is heartwarming to a degree. His willingness to forsake his reputation as a surgeon to avenge his father shows how much he cared for his old man.