History VideoGame / HitmanAbsolution

On the multiplayer front, there is an online mode called Contracts which lets players create different, well...Contracts for each other. The gist of it is you load any of the missions found in the game, but this time, ''you'' are the one to set the objectives. You can mark up to three random [=NPCs=] found in the level as targets, kill them and then leave via an escape route of your choice. Unlike, say, ''[[VideoGame/{{Portal 2}} Portal 2]]'', it's virtually impossible to come up with anything original since it seems every possible combination already exists out there. Still, it's a modest way of adding 'multiplayer' to a single-player game while keeping Square Enix's server costs down.

* PraetorianGuard: Name-dropped in the final mission. Travis' last line of defense could well be stand ins for John Clark, Chris Kyle and Steven Segal. (No, not ''[[Literature/RogueWarrior that]] Steven Segal.) The trio operate as a small team, similar to the Saints, and their names are references to protective items in Ancient Greek and Roman culture: Aegis (a large cape worn to show that one was protected by a religious authority), Scutum (Latin for "shield"), and Hoplon (another kind of shield carried by Greek infantry). The term "Praetorians" refers to the personal guards of a Roman Emperor -- Travis himself.

** After Blake kidnaps Victoria and drags her back to the plant, Dr. Ashford is instructed to figure out what makes this girl tick. This involves restraining the subject in a chair and probing her anatomy with needles. Now comes the fun part: Just as players were able to exact revenge on Dr. Kovacs in the original game, you can kill Ashford by waiting for him to sit in the biopsy chair, then jam a very large needle into his chest as the old man shrieks for help.

* YouFool: Dr. Ashford screams this as the lab techs if you restrain him in the robot chair.
-->"Hey...? What are you doing you fool?! NOT WHILE ''I'M IN HERE!!'' HEY! HEEE'''AAAAGHH!!'''"

* DestructionEqualsOffSwitch: Just tugging on a cable fries the entire server and "destroys" all of Ashford's research? Sure.

* OminousMultipleScreens: In an exam room, Dr. Ashford has screens situated all around her chair which document his study of Victoria.

Our story opens with Mr. 47 getting sent to {{UsefulNotes/Chicago}} to kill his handler, Diana, for insubordination. With her dying breaths, Diana reveals she went rogue in order to protect a young girl, Victoria, whom The Agency had been grooming as an assassin. His job done, 47 reflects that he still owes Diana a debt, and he assumes her role as Victoria's guardian. Now, 47 is the one to turn rogue... and the Agency will stop at nothing to get their property back.

* PipePain: Collect on in the alley and break some skulls.

* ForeignCultureFetish: Judge Strickland turns out to be wearing a terribly stereotypical, geographically-misplaced and slightly anachronistic British ceremonial Lord Chancellor's wig and robes. Then it turns out he is just a very enthusiastic anglophile who has also draped his office in Union Flags.

* PraetorianGuard: Played with, it is a semi realistic game after all. Instead of a QuirkyMinibossSquad that would not look out of place in ''Franchise/MetalGear'' Travis' last line of defense could well be stand ins for [[Literature/RainbowSix John Clark,]] Chris Kyle and [[Literature/RogueWarrior Steven Segal.]] No, not [[NamesTheSame that]] Steven Segal.

* CriticalAnnoyance: The graphics go through a grain overlay, which reminds one a bit of the GTA DLC ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned The Lost and Damned]]''. It gets more intense on some levels and especially when you're low on health.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Judge Strickland worked in Hope, South Dakota as a criminal judge. Despite having a reputation for being tough but fair (according to a dialogue in Skurky's Law), he is apparently aware of Sheriff Skurky's corruption yet shows no objection to it. After learning that he is of recent British ancestry, he became obsessed with all things British and started dressing in a full-bottomed wig and a British-style judges ceremonial robes at work and even having court transcribers rewrite some profanities into British English counterparts, such as "asshole" into "arsehole".

** "instinct" lets you see through walls, spot enemy paths and objects of interest, ss is custom for a stealth game in a post-''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Arkham Asylum]]'' world.

* FollowTheLeader: It being an odd-numbered sequel, it's time for ''Hitman'' to revamp itself yet again, with characteristic subtlety. Now we're in a big homage to VideoGame/MaxPayne.

* "Point Shooting." This activates BulletTime and lets you guide bullets before firing them, similar to the "Dead Eye" mechanic in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' or "Mark And Execute" from ''VideoGame/SplinterCell: Conviction and Blacklist.''
* As is custom for a stealth game released in a post ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Arkham ]]'' world, 47 can SherlockScan the paths of [=NPCs=]. This comes at the cost of sapping away his "Instinct". The Instinct gauge is easily replenished by performing silent takedowns or completing objectives.

** While the games in the series beforehand had a very strong noir feel, Hitman Absolution, with its cast of eccentric and oddly-dressed characters, had a distinct Creator/QuetinTarantino feel to it.

* HellholePrison: The example to beat is "Skurky's Law", a real life medieval dungeon which lies underneath the Hope courthouse. Here prisoners are routinely beaten and suffer 'accidents' shortly before giving a trial testimony. In another Tarantino-like twist, it's revealed that Skurky enjoys torture so much, he even chains ''himself'' up down here and allows a dominatrix to whip him.

This is a challenge for a true perfectionist. You know every rule, every detail, and all environments by heart. Even then you will die trying.

* ArtificialStupidity:

* CruelMercy: "End of the Road" has a variety of methods to take out Lenny, and the humorous touches -- like Lenny attempting to use ReversePsychology to make you choose a less-lethal weapon -- encourages replays. Or you can just pack up and leave: 47 says there's "no honor" in killing a defenseless worm like him. 47 driving off and leaving Lenny alive will earn you an achievement/trophy titled "Not Worth It", with the additional bonus of listening to more funny dialogue from Lenny.\\\

* DenserAndWackier: In "Fight Night", 47 is required to turn over all weapons all the security booth. Even if he's disguised as a trainer or the fighter himself, he promptly forks over his giant-sized silenced Hardballers with custom ''fleur de lis'' logos and says not to lose them. He sounds like a Yuppie warning a parking attending not to scratch his Rolls-Royce. Of course nobody in the queue blinks at this.\\\

** One of Diana's guards is providing tech support to someone over the phone. His very first suggestion is, "Have you tried turning it on?" a sure sign of a KKK cross-burner. Terminate him with extreme prejudice.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: One of the levels ("Hunted and Hunted") ' is set at Chinatown during the Chinese New Year, but you can find a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]], which is Japanese.

* MeetTheNewBoss: Dr. Ashford is a seeming callback to Dr. Kovacs, the man who gave 47 his regular rotation of drugs back in the 1970s. It's interesting that 47 flashes back to his childhood when Victoria mentions the grotesque experiments she has had to undergo.
* MilesGloriosus: Lenny Dexter is a two-bit, South Dakotan gang leader with delusions of grandeur. Now that he's had a taste of the big city, he confides to his barber (Mr. 47) that he plans to expand his outfit to Chicago. "I could run that town!"

** After Blake kidnaps Victoria and drags her back to the plant, Dr. Ashford is instructed to figure out what makes this girl tick. This involves restraining the subject in a chair and probing her anatomy with needles. Now comes the fun part: Just as players were able to exact revenge on Dr. Kovacs in [[VideoGame/HitmanCodename47 the original game]], you can kill Ashford by waiting for him to sit in the biopsy chair, then jam a very large needle into his chest as the old man shrieks for help.

* DaChief: The "Sarge" is in charge of canvasing the library for 47. He can be berating "Vazzano" in the background and just generally giving everyone a hard time.

* DavidVsGoliath[=/=]EvilIsBigger: This is lampshaded in two of "Fight Night's" achievements. If you opt to beat Sanchez cleanly and complete all of the challenges, The game bands you a modern day David and Muhammad Ali. However, if the sniper rifle is used correctly, 47 can make it look as if the ''real'' David ("The Patriot") wins the fight.

On the multiplayer front, there is an online mode called Contracts which lets players create different, well...Contracts for each other. The gist of it is you load any of the missions found in the game, but this time, ''you'' are the one to set the objectives. You can mark up to three random [=NPCs=] found in the level as targets, kill them and then leave via an escape route of your choice. Unlike, say, ''VideoGame/{{Portal}} 2'', it's virtually impossible to come up with anything original since it seems every possible combination already exists out there. Still, it's a modest way of adding 'multiplayer' to a single-player game while keeping Square Enix's server costs down.

* As is custom for a stealth game release in a post ''[[/VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Arkham Asylum]] world, 47 can SherlockScan the paths of [=NPCs=]. This comes at the cost of sapping away his "Instinct". The Instinct gauge is easily replenished by performing silent takedowns or completing objectives.

* MeetTheNewBoss: Dr. Ashford is a seeming callback to Dr. Kovacs, the man who gave 47 his regular rotation of drugs back in the 1970s It's interesting that 47 flashes back to his childhood when Victoria mentions the grotesque experiments she has had to undergo.

* After Blake kidnaps Victoria and drags her back to the plant, Dr. Ashford is instructed to figure out what makes this girl tick. This involves restraining the subject in a chair and probing her anatomy with needles. Now comes the fun part: Just as players were able to exact revenge on Dr. Kovacs in [[VideoGame/HitmanCodename47 the original game]], you can kill Ashford by waiting for him to sit in the biopsy chair, then jam a very large needle into his chest as the old man shrieks for help.

** Dr. Ashford is a seeming callback to Dr. Kovacs, the man who gave 47 his regular rotation of drugs back in the 1970s It's interesting that 47 flashes back to his childhood when Victoria mentions the grotesque experiments she has had to undergo. After Blake kidnaps Victoria and drags her back to the plant, Dr. Ashford is instructed to figure out what makes this girl tick. This involves restraining the subject in a chair and probing her anatomy with needles. Now comes the fun part: Just as player were able to take revenge on Kovacs in the original ''[[VideoGame/HitmanCodename47 C47]]'', you can kill Ashford by waiting for him to sit in the biopsy chair, then jam a very large needle into his chest as the old man shrieks for help.
** Dr. Valentine is ''always'' irritable about something, and he will go from room to room, examining his inventions and yelling at the techies for not handling them properly. Regardless of what machine he is meddling with, you can take the controls and turn the Doctor into jam. Try frying him with a rail gun as he's straightening the test dummies, or mixing some fire paste into his hair tonic. ("I can feel it prickling!")\\\

The story opens with Mr. 47 getting sent to {{UsefulNotes/Chicago}} to kill his handler, Diana, for insubordination. With her dying breaths, Diana reveals that she went rogue in order to protect a young girl, Victoria, whom The Agency has been grooming as an assassin. His job done, 47 acknowleges that he still owed Diana a life debt, and assumes her role as Victoria's guardian. Now 47 is the one who has turned rogue, and the Agency will stop at nothing to get their property back.

The plot is more 'grindhouse' than ''Hitman'' is generally known for, with a heavier emphasis on action. Whereas the old characters would feel right at home in ''Film/TheReplacementKillers'', this cast seems better suited for ''Film/ElMariachi'', with a third of the game spent hiding from gangsters and crooked ''federales'' in a seedy desert town. While praised by the gaming community at large, ''Absolution'' didn't receive as much support from the niche ''Hitman'' crowd, and it was less commercially successful than ''[[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Blood Money]]''.

Along with the graphics, the gameplay got a major facelift: This is very much a post-''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 RE4]]'' shooter, with linear environments (instead of single [[WideOpenSandbox sandbox]] map, each mission is divided into segments), [[QuicktimeEvent QTE]] battles, [[TakeCover stop n' pop]], and [[GameplayAndStorySegregation scripted spectacle events]]. Here's the rundown:

* 47 can drag around fresh kills when using the fiber wire, using the noose as a leash.

* 47 can SherlockScan the paths of [=NPCs=], but at the cost of sapping away his "Instinct". The Instinct gauge is replenished by performing silent takedowns or by completing objectives.
* Enemies aren't quite as stupid this time, and will get suspicious even if you're wearing the same clothes as them. Just turn on Instinct Mode and guards will give you the "These aren't the droids we're looking for" treatment.
* 47 can take cover and peek around corners, like in modern third-person shooters. He can also reach across wait-high objects to grab bad guys. Hell, he can even hang onto ledges and grab [=NPCs=] from below, or cling to the sides of buildings and yank them through a window to their deaths.
* "Hold Breath" is self-explanatory, and it makes 47 a more accurate sniper (long overdue).

* AbandonedHospital: "Rosewood". The munchkins have all left on a conveniently-timed field trip, and most of the clergy were gunned down on sight. You and Wade have the whole place to yourselves.
* AdrenalineMakeover: This game is more suited to Hollywood-style gunplay than the previous installments. There are plenty of foot chases and exploding buildings and other sequences ripped out of a ''Mission: Impossible'' film.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Lenny's speech and actions of a person who is, perhaps, mentally twelve-years-old. [[FridgeHorror It's entirely possible that he's got a developmental disorder, which would go a long way to explaining his behavior.]]

** As is typical for ''Hitman'', guards get antsy if they see you enter Sneak mode. That's not the unrealistic part. Their attention spans are so short, all you have to do is break the line of vision. Meaning that it's possible -- and this is something you can do even in your plain suit in an off-limits area -- is let an enemy follow you for a little while, then crouch behind some crates, then reappear in the guard's line of sight a second later to move to a new cover.\\\
Now, in real life, a construction worker would surely get more suspicious of a guy jumping around behind pallets than if he was just beelining to where he wanted to go.

** In "Attack of the Saints", you should see Dijana (one of the killer nuns) and a guard on the other side of the reception desk. Sneak over and take cover at the desk. Even though it looks risky, you can actually grab Dijana and yank her over the desk (and even kill her) right there in front of him and all he'll do is ask ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hG5S-JFfBk#t=760s where she went!]]'' (Oh, ''Hitman'', [[VideoGame/HitmanCodename47 don't ever]] [[VideoGame/Hitman2SilentAssassin change.]])

* BaldOfEvil: Parodied with Valentine. He is fixated on inventing a hair growth serum at present.

* BreatherLevel: "Birdie's Gift" (win back the Ballers), "End of the Road" (kill Lenny, not exactly the worthiest of adversaries), and "One of a Kind" (get fitted for a suit, how horrific).
* BreakingTheBonds: At the start of "Operation Sledgehammer", Skurky takes a break from interrogating 47 and leaves. This gives 47 ample opportunity to untie himself.

** In the last segment of "Run For Your Life", the subway is brought to a standstill by a police blockade. 47's going to have to restart the signals himself. All trains are cancelled and will continue to just zoom by until you fix it.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: '''This''' is the top informant in the city? Though he has plenty of money, Birdie lives in/works out of a derelict prison bus which is rife with his pet birds. His nickname derives from three things: the bird poop covering his jacket, his association with and love for birds, and as a not-so-subtle reference to his role as a stool pigeon.
* BuriedAlive: This is [[ExploitedTrope Exploited]] by Mr. 47 in "End of the Road". Lenny can't talk if he's dead, so 47 forces him to dig a hole in the desert until he gives up Victoria's location.
* CasualKink:
** One of Dexter's toughs can't help himself: he gets randy just being around Layla, despite her being [[LikesOlderWomen ten years older than him]]. (He'd definitely hit it.) Another guard makes a tortured analogy about how "[[IHaveThisFriend some people]]" like to "tie a plastic bag around their heads until they come."
** Is there an emergency? Don't go looking for the Sheriff at the police station. Skurky's, erm...office is located in the courthouse basement, where he and his assistant "Mrs. Cooper" pass the time with bondage games and spanking. He seems to spend as much time (if not more) in the pokey than actual prisoners do, a fact Dexter chews him out on.
* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: In "Fight Night", players can take two routes to Sanchez: the sporting way, and the sneaky way. The first method involves disguise yourself as his challenger, a masked wrestler billed as "The Patriot", and confronting him in the ring. If Plan A is chosen, 47 will unmask himself to Sanchez and get him to reveal where Skurky took Victoria.

* ColdBloodedTorture: "Hawaii" is a euphemism for Dom Osmond's favorite toy: an old barcalounger wrapped in cheap Christmas lights, with manacles built into the armrests. The chair is surrounded by a video camera (gross) and a huge poster of Hawaii on the back wall. This is where Dom brings his employees for ...disciplinary action.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Hope. Blake Dexter is praised as a great benefactor to the town and, according to ''Hope News Times'', he intends to turn it into a major tourist resort. The local economy absolutely hinges on the revenues from Dexter Industries, as half the citizenry are employed by it. Because of this, most of the town is on the take from Dexter, but apparently it hasn't paid off for them. Newspapers with the headline "[[AC:CITY IS BANKRUPT]]" can be seen in Tyler Colvin's office--a combination of waning profits and Dexter slowly outsourcing jobs to Chicago in the months following the Stallion merger. It's also quite bleak how, when the [=BoD=] of Stallion Armaments was rubbed out, the paper reported their deaths as "[[AC:CHICAGO MURDERS CREATE HOPE JOBS]]".
* CreepyBasement: There are two: 1) the boiler room of Rosewood Orphanage (the setting for the Wade battle), and 2) the Vixen club basement, when Dom records snuff films of himself and others beating/raping staff members after they turn mutinous.
* CruelMercy: "End of the Road" has a variety of methods to take out Lenny, though 47 says there's "no honor" in killing a defenseless worm like him. 47 driving off and leaving Lenny alive will earn you an achievement/trophy - titled "Not Worth It" - with the additional bonus of listening to more funny dialogue from Lenny.\\\
Even if you left Lenny to his fate, it is quite unlikely that he survives the long walk home. In addition, guard dialogue in the Penthouse of Blackwater Park confirms that Lenny never returned from the desert.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: Interestingly, if 47 completes the "It won't be Stealing" challenge without raising attention, nobody in the gun shop will notice 47 ripping off the Silverballers. He'll even pose dramatically for about ten seconds with his pistols in the air.
* DaChief: The "Sarge" in charge of canvasing the libary for 47 after the hotel explosion. He can be berating "Vazzano" in the background and just generally giving everyone a hard time.

* DavidVsGoliath[=/=]EvilIsBigger: This is lampshaded in two of "Fight Night's" achievements. If you manage to beat Sanchez cleanly and complete all of the challenges, The game declares you a modern day David ''and'' Muhammad Ali. Also, if the sniper rifle is used correctly, 47 can make it look as if the real Patriot won the fight.
* DenserAndWackier:
** During "Fight Night" in ''Absolution'', 47 is required to turn over any weapons before leaving the training area that starts the level. Even if he's disguised as a trainer or the fighter himself, he promptly gives his [[WeaponOfChoice silenced Hardballers with custom ''fleur de lis'' logos]] to the guard and warns him not to lose them. Nobody bothers to question it.
** This is also the mission where snapping Sanchez's neck in full view of cheering spectators counts as a "Silent Assassin"
** The level itself could be counted as such. You can impersonate the target's next opponent and actually go toe to toe with him, smashing his skull in and breaking his neck. In front of hundreds of witnesses with his mask off. No one questions this because they assume it was part of the fight, and no one can identify 47 because he looks so generic.
* DestructionEqualsOffSwitch: Just tugging on some cables fries an entire server and "destroys" all of Ashford's research? Sure.
* DestinationDefenestration: 47 can now stand on ledges and yank guards through windows to their doom, just like with "prostate" guy.

* DisguisedHostageGambit: When the revelations about his friend Clive Skuky come to light, Dexter shrugs it off. But it seems he ''was'' somewhat disgusted by Skurky's private games, as he forces his lady-friend to cooperate in a fake hostage exchange, with a blouse and skirt to look like Victoria. When Travis makes the money drop, Dexter caps "Victoria" in the head, revealing Cooper (still wearing her gimp suit!) under the mask. This almost causes Travis, a man of sturdy stomach, to lose his lunch.

** You'll find a dead hooker in the Vixen Club basement. According to NPC dialogue in the club, at least two strippers named Laurie and Amber were executed by Dom, who beat them with a billy club. The corpse in the cellar is presumed to either be Laurie's or Amber's. Toss the cadaver over a railing and she lands in the crawlspace with a crunch, spooking the cops who are investigating below. "SHIT! T-That...wasn't there a minute ago."
** Once Skurky is dead, Dexter no longer has any need for the Sheriff's associate Mrs. Cooper. He evidently kidnapped Cooper and absconded with her back to Chicago, where he duct-tapes her mouth and sticks a sack over her head. He then duped Travis into believing it's Victoria before casually shooting her in the head--all for a laugh.

* DownInTheDumps: There is a scrapyard behind the Cougars' garage. You can dump multiple bodies into the oil pool by the house.

* TheDreaded: Wade is infamous in the underworld for his misdeeds as a mob enforcer. Birdie sounds ready to soil himself after his name is dropped.

* EaglelandOsmosis: The Agency is currently based in and around the Chicago area, whereas in the old days, it was founded by the British government. It's said that 47 first got in touch with The Agency through Tom, a tailor working out of Little Italy (how in the world did 47 end up all the way in Chicago?), and Diana has a cliffside residence overlooking the city, suggesting she is no longer a British national.
* TheEndIsNigh: "Look, sir, uhh...'Reverend', is it?" Two cops question a clearly-insane homeless man about whether he's seen 47 in the area. He just resumes his rant about the "deliverance."
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Once you reach the crematorium to face off against the Praetorians, you will find numerous angel statues scattered across the level. To trigger an easter egg, destroy each and every angel statue to see a rainbow. Keep checking the sky; once you have destroyed the last one, a second rainbow will appear.

* ExactEavesdropping: If you don't feel like fighting Sanchez or want to take the sneaky route, 47 can hide in a locker room ventilation shaft, where he overhears Sanchez telling Blake Dexter where Victoria went on his phone. Then you'll have to kill him some other way.
* EyeObscuringHat: 47 will subtly (as in, not as all) dip his hat while in Instinct mode. If he lacks headgear, he might tuck his chain and pretend to massage his neck. Sometimes he will hide his face with his palm instead.

** In "Hunter and Hunted", one of Wade's hitmen threatens to shoot a Chinese waiter in an alleyway. The hitman decides to "count down to 10" to give him a chance to tell him where Birdie is, then thinks, "Aw, da hell wit' this" and caps the waiter at "six".
** The Hawaiian owner of the Waikiki Inn is one of the few survivors of the rocket attack. One of the ICA cleaners takes him aside and promises they'll pay for the "damages" if he just spills where 47 is. You can guess how well that turns out for him. Also, in the cornfield one of the Saints (Jacqueline) will call out to 47, claiming that Travis wants to cut a deal. (The Agency doesn't cut deals, as Travis explains when delivering his ransom suitcase.)
* FamousLastWords: Wade can get off on literally anything. Even his own execution. "I-I got wood, man. ''Why'' do I got wood?"

* ProfessorGuineaPig: Dr. Valentine is always irritable about something, and he will go from room to room, examining his inventions and yelling at the techies for not handling them properly. Regardless of what machine he is meddling with, you can waste him with it. Try frying him with a rail gun as he's straightening some test dummies, or impaling him with a robot phlebotomist.\\\
For added irony, you can also mix some fire paste into his hair tonic. Valentine will shove aside a chemist and insist on trying it out on himself. His scalp will suddenly catch on fire, and Valentine will run screaming off a ledge and into a {{bottomless pit}}.
* PsychoForHire: Often times, a target will have a few of these working for him. ''Absolution'' is filled to the brim with these. Blake Dexter, who is hardly the picture of sanity himself, has a mercenary named Wade on his payroll, who gleefully shoots an orphanage full of nuns to pieces to get one target. The Saints, meanwhile, were all recruited by Agent Travis from prisoners, domestic abuse victims, refugees and the like. Naturally, they are extremely violent and callous with human lives.
* PsychopathicManchild: Wade ''enjoys'' wallowing in the blood and viscera of his job. His rap sheet would make even Jeffrey Dahmer blush, which is part of the reason why Dexter trusts him so implicitly. As if to lampshade this, Wade is the first character in the series to wear adult braces.

* YourMakeupIsRunning: "Victoria" getting shot in full view of the baffled ICA wet team. When Blake cackles and removes her head sack, we get a gruesome closeup of Mrs. Cooper with her mouth duct-taped shut. Also, her mascara is running.

* PraetorianGuard: Travis' last line of defense is referred to this by name. TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse in being a nuanced, realistic version, a squad of older special forces soldiers who hole in at the church and booby trap the outside. As BadAss as they may be, they go down just like everybody else.

'''''Hitman: Absolution''''' (2012) is the fifth game in the ''{{VidoGame/Hitman}}'' series, and the only one to be released for the [[UsefulNotes/TheSeventhGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames seventh generation of consoles.]]

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* TookALevelIndumbass:
** No self-respecting black ops outfit would ever employ a baboon like Travis, much less appoint him Division Chief of the U.S. branch. It's also stated that ''Birdie'' is a former Agency operative [!] and still regarded as their "top intelligence man".

** Lily is an expert marksman on par with the Hitman himself. The way to 'win' back your Silverballers is to beat her high score at the shooting range.
*** Though, to be fair, female sharpshooters have been an attraction in the American West since Annie Oakley.

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