History Hitman / TropesMToZ

** Dr. Ort-Meyer in the original.

* PlatonicLifePartners: 47 and Diana.

* SaveScumming: Initially averted. The first installment had no in-mission saves, with limited saves being available on later games. The number of saves decreases until you reach professional, where you only get a saved game slot as a progress bonus (but don't count on it). ''Blood Money'' introduced a "Rookie" mode, which allowed infinite saves. In ''Absolution'' it sort of brings it back to the classic games with in game check points instead of manually saving. Weirdly they don't check event flags, so if you reload to the last check point after you've set up an accidental kill before it actually killed your target you'll have to go and set it back up again. After Absolution the series brought back the save file system.

* ShesGotLegs: For 12 years, all we ever saw of Diana was her knees. Jade is also introduced in this manner.

** Ditto in ''Silent Assassin'', when 47 accepts "one last job" involving a summit at the former FSB headquarters. Yet again, you can ignore Diana's yapping and and just storm the place if you feel like it.

* SpiderSense: The map won't show you the guards' view cones (a la ''Metal Gear Solid)''. You do, however, get a suspicio-meter, a staple of the ''Hitman'' series, the threat meter determines how the guards react to Agent 47. When it is empty, everyone will treat Agent 47 as a normal bloke. He can generally run around without raising suspicion. When it is half full the threat meter will turn yellow/red, and this indicates that the guards have seen something suspicious and will go on alert. Running around may agitate the guards until they blow Agent 47's cover. When the meter is full it'll turn bright red, which means any guard present has seen through Agent 47's disguise and shoot on sight. In ''Blood Money'', the threat meter will decrease over time if Agent 47 acts normally, or hides from the guards, another thing that was new to the series but long overdue.

** Hiding behind a resteraunt menu, 47 watches the "handoff" in New Orleans before the level even starts. Follow the big red bird, and he will ''eventually'' lead you to Mark Puriyah.

* StickyBomb: Mines can be placed inside suitcases or tool boxes and then detonated later from a safe distance. This is noisy and can cause the deaths of innocents, use with caution. It's also possible to stick mines to the walls, tables, trays, etc.

* StormingTheCastle: Lee Hong's resteraunt, Pablo's mansion, Hayomoto's Castle, Gontranno Sanctuary, and Dexter Industries

* TakeCover: Alcoves are your friends. This ability was removed in ''Blood Money'' thanks to the free roaming camera.

** Granted, ''Absolution'' will give you a penalty if you are spotted by ''the people you are rescuing.'' They do thank you afterwards and promise not to to tell a soul, but hey - a witness is a witness.

** Anyone who's played the previous games knows that the AI is a challenge (and not in a good way) and the story has always been a bit "off "and oddball, full of over-the-top gangsters and bimbos. Lets face it, in ''BM'' you had to kill three hitmen dressed as birds, and in ''Contracts'' you had to kill a guy in a S&M party in a slaughter house (with hanging animal carcasses on the walls no less). Any fan of the series will admit the odd, quirky, and distasteful situations are part of the game's charm.

### The Columbia and Rotterdam missions all take place on a huge map, and will prove to be your most frustrating time. (Enjoy the huge salary, at least.) "Plutonium Runs Loose"" is definitely the hardest mission in the entire game. You could say the Colombia missions are harder, but the difference here is that this final Rotterdam mission is not only a matter of survival, but of absolute stealth and precision. If Boris gets wise to your presence he'll arm his nuke and split in a car, turning the harbor to ashes. The map is so large that it's easy to forget a few minor details and botch the whole mission.

** Ditto in SA, when 47 accepts "one last job" involving a summit at the former FSB headquarters. Yet again, you can ignore Diana's yapping and and just storm the place if you feel like it.

* SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: If you trip up and alert the police, don't worry -- Jesper Kyd will let you know it.

** 47 and The Agency have a fondness for wordplay and passwords. You will find a few Agency contacts in Siberia (just ask for "Yuriska"), an herbalist in Lee Hong's resteraunt, a neo-Nazi in the Hotel Galar, and another one in a Punjab travel agency ("Special price, only for you!")

%%* WorldOfBuxom:
** Anyone who's played the previous games knows that the AI is a challenge (and not in a good way) and the story has always been a bit "off "and oddball, full of over-the-top gangsters and bimbos. Lets face it, in ''BM'' you had to kill three hitmen dressed as birds, and in ''Contracts'' you had to kill a guy in a S&M party in a slaughter house (with hanging animal carcasses on the walls no less). Any fan of the series will admit the odd, quirky, and distasteful situations are part of the game's charm.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: 47's targets are invariably incredibly depraved criminals. It's only in ''Blood Money'' that 47 is seen killing "innocents" as part of the story.
** Even then, the innocent deaths comes back to bite him later on, as the [[ItsPersonal Shadow Client]] calls it out.
--> "Do you realize the kind of world you've been shaping? Does the ICA? Does your handler? I live in that world. I have seen the consequences. I have felt the cost. [[CreateYourOwnVillain That's what defines me]]."

* WorldOfBuxom: There are three types of human in ''Hitman'': targets, guards, and civilians. The game only considers women capable of two of those roles. Targets (dressed in latex bondage nun outfits) and civilians (whose job is to get scared and run away) And anyway, most of the men are ''impossibly'' ripped, too.
* WorldOfWeirdness:

** Despite this, it's the ''canon'' ending. When Absolution was announced, it confused a number of people who thought 47 had [[spoilers:died]] at the end of Blood Money.

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Agency is a a large, secretive network about which we know very little, only that it's an international syndicate with links to some unknown royal family. The only contact was Diana and we know little about her either. You're the world's greatest assassin and you still know little-to-nothing about the corporation for which you work.

* SaveScumming: Initially averted. The first installment had no in-mission saves, with limited saves being available on later games. The number of saves decreases until you reach professional, where you only get a saved game slot as a progress bonus (but don't count on it). ''Blood Money'' introduced a "Rookie" mode, which allowed infinite saves. In ''Absolution'' it sort of brings it back to the classic games with in game check points instead of manually saving. Weirdly they don't check event flags, so if you reload to the last check point after you've set up an accidental kill before it actually killed your target you'll have to go and set it back up again.

* SWATTeam: 47 has to deal with various special police forces, mainly in Romania (penultimate level of ''Codename 47'' and first level of ''Contracts'') and France (the GIGN in the last level of ''Contracts''). They're usually deadlier than previous mooks, armed with the best submachine guns and equipped with bulletproof vests.

** The hitwoman at Lorne's party in ''Blood Money''. She has a distinctive [[IntimateMarks skull and crossbones tattoo on her buttock]], which sets her apart from the other bunnies. One of the saints, Dixon, has a similar tattoo on her right cheek (it's a teardrop) in ''Absolution''.

See also Hitman/TropesAToC and Hitman/TropesDToL.

** In "Flatline," you can kill one of the mafiosos by tinkering with a gas stove he has hidden in his room.

** One of 47's targets in "The Beldingford Manor" has dozed off in a recliner in front of a fireplace. He can be killed by dropping a gas can down the chimney.

** Pablo Ochoa. His counterpart in ''Blood Money'', Don Delgado, wears the same attire: a white suit and pink shirt.
** Hayomoto Junior has platinum hair and an all-white suit. Although, if you play your cards right you won't ever cross paths with him.
** The Albinos dress and equip themselves in a direct parody of Mr. 47.
** The "angel" outfit in the Shark Club consists of a white mask and tuxedo.

** The King of Chinatown will meet with "Snow", an douchey guy in a white running jacket (w/ popped collar, of course), and follow him into a nearby building to sample the merchandise.

*** Skurky hides within a local church and uses the priest as a shield, just as Sergei does in SA. Also, the showdown with Travis (''Absolution'') is similar to the final battle with Sergei: A rain-swept cemetery with plenty of guards, and Travis hiding behind an impenetrable door.

** Your ultimate goal in Japan is to eliminate Masahiro Hayamoto, a majordomo in a Yakuza and a well-known agoraphobe. He has recently come into possession of a {{MacGuffin}} you need, and he's handy with a kendo sword. It takes 4 missions to finally kill him, and Mr. 47 boosts one of his vehicles to escape. Oh, and the upper floor of his headquarters contains a brothel with Mei Ling and a nosy geisha who might give away your position. Sound familiar?

** Lorne is a parody of ''Playboy'' mogul Hugh Hefner, and the Pink Mansion is a more fanciful version of the Playboy Mansion. Lorne is said in his in-game biography to be a born-again Christian, a reference to ''Hustler'' founder Larry Flynt.
** Morris' plan mirrors a conspiracy theory related to UsefulNotes/GeraldFord's real-life rise to the presidency. Ford was also voted into the vice presidency by congress, later to abruptly become acting president, without being popularly elected to either office. However, both of Ford's successions were caused by corruption-related resignations instead of deaths.

** You can get two in cutscene form in ''Blood Money'', the first one at Lorne de Havilland's party, where [[spoiler:a Franchise assassin stabs you in the neck if you don't kill her quickly enough]], the second being [[spoiler:stabbed to death by the completely psychotic Eve at the Heaven and Hell party, again if you stand still and let her kill you.]]

** Joseph "Swing King" Clarence was found not guilty of a gross negligence after one of his fairground attractions killed forty people. Money talks, and killers walk. However, the legal battle bled Joseph's finances dry, and he's on the verge of declaring bankrupcy. After his wife leaves him, Joseph 'Breaks Bad' and re-purposes the husk of his theme park into a crack den.

** The hitwoman at Lorne's party. She has a distinctive [[IntimateMarks skull and crossbones tattoo on her buttock]], which sets her apart from the other bunnies. One of the saints, Dixon, has a similar tattoo on her right cheek (it's a teardrop).
** Wade's name in written in ink on his right hand. Lenny has much more ostentatious arm tattoos.

** Maynard John is maserqading as a bartender in the Shark Club. When you confront him, he invites 47 to join him in a soundproofed room where they can "duel" in private.

** The German Embassy and the Cruise Ship.

** If you attempt to strangle Fritz in the Hotel Galar, 47 will headbutt him and then force his head underwater, killing him in seconds.

** In Punjab, your main goal is to gain access to the doomsday cult "Gurdwara" through a secret passage in one of the shops in the city marked "Carpets International." (A pun on the ICA.) You will find another ICA contact (Agent Smith again) inside the International Parcel Service shop who will provide more info.

** A secondary objective in "The Jacuzzi Job."

** The {{Big Bad}}s of ''Hitman'' 1 & 2 are kept in shadow of most the game. Most interestingly, the flashbacks with Ort-Meyer show 4 other men conversing over the newly-hatched body of Mr. 47. As you progress through the game, it becomes clear that these silhouettes belong to Lee Hong ("Will he be able to feel any pain? It makes people obey orders."), Pablo Ochoa ("Come to papa!"), Franz Fuchs ("His nose is very much like mine!") and Boris ("If I'd only had 50 of him in [[UsefulNotes/VietnamWar 'Nam]], it'd still be French!")

** Agent 47 was cloned by former Nazi scientist Doctor Ortmeyer from himself and 4 other men whom he served with in the army.

** Meet Your Brother drops 47 off right where the [=H:C47=] tutorial ended; all you have to do is work backwards. The orderly at the desk will draw a gun on you this time.

** It is also used in boss encounters: Ort-Meyer, 17, and Sergei each appear in a white room when they die. The loose remake, ''Contracts'', begins in [[http://archive.kontek.net/hitman47.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/hitman3/walkthrough/01_asylum/images/02.jpg that same white room]] as Ort-Meyer's body, right down to the pool of blood forming a "Hitman" symbol, which is quite cool and surreal. The game returns to normal when you exit through a door into the lab, and you can't reenter the white room.

## In the showdown with Blake Dexter, he wields a devastating machine gun and is protected by mines, guards in riot gear, and a whole bunch of other shit. Travis is an immobile enemy, but he's flanked by the Praetorian Guardsmen.

** Don Giulliani oversees the kidnapping of the padre himself, greeting him with [[HeyYouHaymaker a stiff shot to a jaw]] and another to the ribs when Vitorrio won't stop screaming. Talk about bad karma.

** In ''Absolution'' The prologue shows 47 driving up to Diana's gate in an ice cream van, pretending to be lost. The guard approaches an unseen 47 in the window and tells him they don't want any Fudgsicles today. "What about your partner?", 47 murmurs. "What partner?" the guard sneers, right before getting wired and dragged into the van.

** Jasper Knight was world-famous chess player who murdered the Soviet ambassador, poisoning him with ricin-coated chess pieces during a match. Jasper then fled to communist Cuba, arranging safe passage across the Iron Curtain for himself. When Langley discovered what he had done, they hired Erich Soders to eliminate him. 47's final step toward becoming a full-fledged ICA agent is to recreate this hit.

** The Galar Hotel has a quite a few in place for the world summit, including one stationed the front door (in the remake, that is). It's possible to smuggle a gun inside if you're clever, just as it's possible to smuggle Fritz's bomb out (it's a mission objective). A security uniform helps -- cops are ''supposed'' to be armed, of course.

** In ''Blood Money'', your final mission requires you to infiltrate the White House as part of a tour group. The main challenge is the metal-detector/X-ray checkpoint. There's a number of ways to smuggle weapons inside - your Sniper Rifle can be upgraded with a special foil-covered Attache Case which can glide through the X-Ray, but you can also smuggle in your trusty Silverballers by slipping them into a tourist's luggage. When the soccer mom gets nabbed at the checkpoint, the guns are confiscated, and you can then retrieve them from the Marine lock-up later (after you've 'borrowed' a uniform, preferably.)

** In ''Silent Assassin'', you start the last mission with nothing but the reel of piano wire, while every enemy has a gun - and no spare ammo to loot. It is immensely satisfying when you break into your weapons storage locker after skulking around and being extremely vulnerable.

** You can get two in cutscene form in ''Blood Money'', the first one at Lorne de Havilland's party, where [[spoiler:a Franchise assassin stabs you in the neck if you don't kill her quickly enough]], the second being [[spoiler:stabbed to death by the completely psychotic Eve at the Heaven and Hell party, once again if you stand still and let her kill you.]]

'''Sheriff''': Ahhhh, not lookin' good. He, uh... he hit his head pretty hard.

** ''Hitman 2''[='s=] Sierra Knox has a frosty relationship with her father, RobotMaster and war profiteer Robert Knox.

*** If you get too close to Mark Parchezzi during the White House shootout, he will detonate some explosives and kill the both of you. A similar tactic was used by Mr. 17 when he firsts appeared in India. Both 17 and Parchezzi are inferior products of the same cloning program which made 47.

** Mr. 17 is an inferior clone specimen created by Dr. Ort-Meyer. He was most likely locked away in the asylum and later sprung loose when Sergei and his partner came looking for 47. Like the previous game's Mr. [=48s=], he doesn't have much in the way of brains, and is easily brainwashed by Deewanna Ji into hijacking the nuclear warhead meant for Sergei. After the cult leader dies, he returns to work for Sergei, ambushing Mr. 47 from inside of the Pushkin Building.

** The Delgado cartel is revisited in ''Hitman 2'', still trying to maintain their good name in Chile with their philanthropic endeavors. This time, the Don's nephew is working with a chemist to distribute a form of "super-cocaine".

** So many ways to dispatch [[spoiler:to Soder]] in the last mission of 2016 Season 1. Just a pleasant hello will give him a shock and kill him, and tampering with his surgery will also do, but in case you want to outsource your killing again, just show the actual chief surgeon his patient is also his father's killer, and the good doctor will off your target himself.