History VideoGame / Hitman3

** While it results in a messy gun battle, disguising yourself as the club manager and then setting up a meeting with Agent Montgomery will result in up to 5 targets coming to your location, obviating the need to hunt them down individually. A sawed-off shotgun is helpfully stashed under the manager's desk to help even the odds. There's even both a starting location and an exit nearby.

** Alexa is also surprisingly accepting of 47's presence should he out himself by requesting the Arthur Edwards file after solving Zachary's murder. Though in two of the three case outcomes, she wrongly assumes that 47 is ''only'' there for the file, and not to kill her as well.

* EasilyForgiven: Alexa, if [[spoiler:falsely told that her butler killed her brother, says that he did it to protect the family and declares that there won't be any more consequences other than his guilt]].

* BookcasePassage: Thornbridge Manor contains a number of secret passages and rooms. Some entrances are activated by tapping Zachary's cane on switches hidden in the floor, though others are entered by such actions as turning a painting and one - inside Zachary's bedroom - is a true bookcase passage, entered by pulling a book on the shelf.

* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: Emma has been plotting for her entire life to take over the Carlisle family fortune and has married, had a kid, as well as committed murder in order to seize it. However, by the time she does, the family fortune has already been wiped out by the Constant.]]

* BookEnds: In the end cutscene for this mission [[spoiler:Grey is outgunned and tries to fight back against the elite Providence soldiers, and kills himself to protect 47's cover. This mirrors events from the ''Birth of the Hitman'' comic, where 47 and Grey are outgunned by elite Providence soldiers, and Grey feigns his death to let 47 live]].

* StoppedNumberingSequels: As with ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'' and ''VideoGame/Hitman2'', it's zig-zagged once again. This is a direct sequel to ''VideoGame/Hitman2'', which itself was actually the seventh entry in the series, but this one is also technically the only game with the exact title of Hitman 3 -- the actual third game in the series is the semi-remake that is [[VideoGame/HitmanContracts Hitman: Contracts.]]

** You can poison somebody with rat poison, follow them to an isolated area, and then knock them out; they won't die despite the stuff remaining in their bodies, nor can they drown in their own vomit.
** 47 can poison food or drinks in full view of the public (including the intended target) if 47 is wearing any kind of food service uniform, such as a waiter, a bartender, or a chef.

* TechnicolorToxin: Lethal poison is colored red, Emetic Poison is denoted the color green, and Sedative poison is denoted a yellow-orange color (the vials are blue, however).

* DeconstructedTrope: Of NPCScheduling. Royce's entire work in Chongqing is based around this trope, portraying it in a way that doesn't provide her MediumAwareness, but in ways that realistically let it work InUniverse. She uses algorithms and big data analysis to predict peoples' patterns and movements that future ICA Agents can use on a target to predict what they'll do with flawless accuracy. As the analysts mention around the facility, she's spying on all of them to make all this work, and some even claim that she knows them better than they know themselves, taking this trope to an uncomfortable endpoint. For added irony, this can also be used to kill her, as the experiment she sets up of firing people in a specific order is also [[GoneHorriblyRight one that works as intended]], specifically because of the people she's firing are directly related to her (unknowing) in-game routine of going into the Data Core to do check-ups on it, meaning ''even she's'' not immune to her own experiment.

* NPCScheduling: Imogen Royce is a master of guessing how people think, and has set up a project for the visiting Board Member that accurately predicts how people act to the millisecond in percentages of likelihood. If you disguise as the Board Member, she'll basically describe her experiment to the player; ICA Agents rely on predictable actions of others, and if she can harness that knowledge, everything would change; not realizing that she's basically talking about how the entire game works.

*** In place of Corvo being recommended by Ken to solve Mr West's problem, Yates instead recommends Keith [=McKenzie=] in the above phone call. Keith was a ''very'' minor [=NPC=] that Ken talks to in his routine in "Club 27", whith him offering Keith a job at the firm after hitting it off, Keith seems to have been made junior partner by the time of this mission too.

*** Multiple references to a herald called "Bronson" are made between the party guests, apparently assassinated during the events of the trilogy, with many at the party suspecting 47 to be behind it, given the death was ruled as an accident. This is, according to WordOfGod, meant to be referencing the Militia's hostage in Colorado that is in the house's basement (named William Candler in Contracts Mode), which makes a good deal of sense.

* LeftHanging: Multiple references to a herald called "Bronson" are made between the party guests, apparently assassinated during the events of the trilogy, with many at the party suspecting 47 to be behind it, given the death was ruled as an accident. However, we're never told the specifics of how they were killed, and no other level mentions Bronson, making it strange to include in a level dedicated to wrapping up plot threads, currently leaving it unresolved.

''Hitman 3'' (stylized as ''HITMAN III'') is the eighth game of the ''Franchise/{{Hitman}}'' series by Creator/IOInteractive. The final installment in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfAssassinationTrilogy'' preceded by ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'' and ''VideoGame/Hitman2'', it is also the first game of the franchise to be self-published by IO Interactive. It was released on January 20th, 2021 for the Platform/Playstation4, Platform/PlayStation5, Platform/XboxOne, Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS, Platform/NintendoSwitch, and Platform/MicrosoftWindows as a timed exclusive for the Platform/EpicGamesStore, as well as releasing on the Microsoft Store. A year later it was released onto Platform/{{Steam}}, as well being available to play on Xbox Game Pass. It also had a [[Platform/GoogleStadia Google Stadia]] port, which came with some exclusive content and Save State sharing among other Stadia friends. The [=PS4=] and [=PC=] ports can also utilise [[Platform/Playstation4 PSVR]] and PC [[Platform/HTCVive Virtual]] [[Platform/OculusRift Reality]] to serve as a first-person mode. It was also one of the first released UsefulNotes/CloudGaming titles for the [[Platform/NintendoSwitch Switch]].

* MeaningfulName: The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol where a serpent eats his own tail, meant to signify life, death and rebirth. Given the contract has you kill Mark Faba, a guy who seems to be impossible to kill off, this is a very suitable name.

* SchizophrenicDifficulty: As mentioned below, the stage completion requirements are quite odd difficulty-wise. Stage 1 is relatively easy (kill Faba with the pen in the laboratory, which he often stares at), Stage 2 is completely freeform, so can be as easy or as hard as the player desires, and Stage 3 is the hardest of the stages (don't get spotted and do not change disguises).

## ..then kill Mark Faba in any way you want...
## ...and finally kill Mark Faba without changing out of your starting disguise, and without getting spotted.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: This Elusive Target Arcade contract is the only one that is paid for, and also is one of the rare few [=ETA=] contracts where objectives are enforced and not optional. And yet is also the only [=ETA=] contract that features a stage where there are ''no'' complications and the player can kill Mark Faba in any way they see fit.
* VirtualPaperDoll: The DLC gives you the Ephemeral Suit with Eye Patch, an exact replica of the suit Faba wears in The Undying Returns. On a related note, a free, non-eyepatch variant can be unlocked by completing the re-run of that mission, which ran at the same time.

* MythologyGag: The "Kronstadt [=IOI-1998X=] Surround Earphones" are
* SerialEscalation: This Elusive Target Arcade contract is one of the more simple out there, though the final level may be a bit of a challenge in a suit:

* AnAesop: In the world of Hitman, no one is untouchable. Regardless of how many resources you have, there is always someone to give you your comeuppance. Not The Shadow Client/Subject 6 (who had to feign his death to escape Providence, and his past came back to haunt him years later), not 47 (the person who is jointly responsible for killing Diana's parents, and has gone from one handler to another; Ort-Meyer, then Diana), not Diana or her parents (the former getting tracked down after Dubai and forced to [[spoiler:make a case in working for Providence]], the latter going after a pharma company with a lawsuit, and getting killed because of it), not the targets from the games (their various misdeeds catching up to them, like Valentina Yates [[spoiler:if you tell her that Don sabotaged her career]]), not even The Constant is unreachable (he's not infallible as his demeanour suggests, and he suffers from extreme over-confidence when making deals with people).

** The "White Sunset", "Sunset Rubber Duck", and "Orange Pinstripe Briefcase" color scheme (purple, orange, and white) are the ones seen in [[Platform/GoogleStadia Google Stadia]] branding and advertising, and these items were initially exclusive to that platform. However, these colors make no sense now as Stadia went defunct back in January 2023 and new players won't understand the reference. These would later be made available via the "Cloud 9" challenge pack later on, (the name alluding to the cloud and [=IoT=], which includes Stadia) with several types of servers needing to be tampered with or destroyed in the challenge requirements (Ironically, not including the one in Chongqing).
** The "Phantom" suit's name alludes to Ghost Mode, which was available in ''2'', with the mode shutting down not long before ''3'' released, so the original meaning of the name will be lost on any new player. The suit was an unlock for the mode too, but is now an unlock for completing 35 Featured Contracts in ''3'' unless you did a save transfer.

* EasyLevelTrick: [[spoiler:Knocking out and impersonating Aaron Ford Jr., an attorney at Yates' law firm who can be encountered right at the start of the level, allows you to saunter right into the AmoralAttorney's villa with free run of the place, ''and'' corner him in a private meeting after taking out a single guard. Aaron even carries a briefcase you can use to sneak a weapon past the frisk checkpoint!]]

* DevelopersForesight: Interestingly, you are able to knock out and take the coins of targets early if you pacify them, regardless of if they've been revealed to you yet. This is likely to avoid an UnintentionallyUnwinnable situation where you could be soft-locked and have to start over.

*** In place of Corvo being recommended by Ken to solve Mr West's problem, Yates instead recommends Keith McKenzie in the above phone call. Keith was a ''very'' minor [=NPC=] that Ken talks to in his routine in "Club 27", whith him offering Keith a job at the firm after hitting it off, Keith seems to have been made junior partner by the time of this mission too.

*** Don Yates was the business partner of Ken Morgan, the "Club 27" mission's secondary target. [[spoiler:He can also be pushed off a balcony by his wife during a confrontation, exactly like how Morgan could be by Jordan Cross.]]
*** Yates’s fixer, Corvo Black, was initially mentioned by Ken Morgan in a phone conversation in Bangkok's "Club 27".

--->'''Jiao:''' Expertly done, 47. Expertly fucking done.

* PrecisionFStrike: You only need to kill five targets, but if you get all eleven, Jiao says, "Expertly done, 47. Expertly fucking done."

** It's possible to kill all 11 targets, either by ambushing the remaining agents when they try to escape, or by knocking out 6 and then finishing them off after completing the mission. Jiao has unique dialogue if you do so.

** A sword made from scrap metal can be found beside the canal on the left-hand side of the map. The achievement for using it to eliminate one of the targets is named "Waaagh!", the BattleCry of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'''s Orks, who typically use similar cobbled-together weaponry.