Hitman (2016) / Characters

All the characters appearing in Hitman (2016). Some of them also appear in its sequels; Hitman 2 and Hitman 3 in various roles. Expect mild (but marked) spoilers for these games, as well as for the prequel comic book series Birth of the Hitman.

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International Contract Agency (ICA)

47

See his page.

Diana Burnwood

Diana Penelope Burnwood

See here.

Elusive Targets

See their own page.

Story Mission Targets

Kalvin Ritter

The Sparrow

"The Sparrow cannot die."

Voiced By: Daniel Bonjour (English)^note

A world-famous art-thief known as the Sparrow, Kalvin Ritter has noticed the thieving world’s gradual shift to cybercrime. As such, he's decided to retire and get out of the game. Unfortunately, a former client of his had been sold a counterfeit piece of art and hired the ICA to kill him in revenge. 47 re-enacts the assassination as part of his induction to the ICA.

Affably Evil: Charismatic and charming, but nevertheless willing to hurt or even kill those who got in his way.
All Part of the Show: Anything which happens to him is simulated as the one in the game is just an actor working for the ICA. Hopefully he got paid double for getting his face dunked in a toilet of his own vomit as one potential ending.
Caper Crew: Used to belong to one of these. Him and his companions are most famous for their daring robbery of the Shamal Casino in Las Vegas, where they made off with hundreds of millions of dollars.
Classy Cravat: Wears a leopard-print underneath his blazer.
Cool Boat: Owned what appeared to be an extremely expensive and large personal yacht with four decks.
Cool Shades: They certainly helped his Gentleman Thief image.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His girlfriend is terrified he's going to piss off the wrong people (and she's right, he did).
Gentleman Thief: Relatively speaking. There's no indication he's a brute and while it says he would be willing to kill or injure security personnel in his way he does not appear sadistic or unnecessarily violent.
Legacy Character: Planned to make the Sparrow into one of these. He didn't get the chance.
Master Actor: One of his greatest assets was his ability to switch effortlessly between accents, identities and personalities.
Posthumous Character: The real Kalvin Ritter died before the story began; the one in the tutorial is an actor playing the role for training purposes.
Race Lift: Potentially an In-Universe example. While the actor that plays Ritter in the training is black, the briefing for "The Last Yardbird" shows that all of the members besides Doris Lee were white.
Retirony: He really should have quit earlier.
Visionary Villain: Planned to continue the Sparrow name with a group of employees he trained.

Jasper Knight

The Chessmaster

"My god. You people don't piss about, don't you?"

Voiced By: Brian Kimmet (English)^note

A genius American chess master with communist sympathies, who defected from America to the Soviet Union in the 1979 with a head full of CIA secrets. The CIA hired the ICA to silence him at a Cuban airstrip, which they did via their top operative Erich Soders, whose textbook execution of the hit became the pinnacle of the latter's career. Twenty years later, Soders makes 47 re-enact an even harder version of the scenario as part of his final test as an (unsuccessful) attempt to make 47 wash out.

All Part of the Show: Averted if you jury-rig his jet to eject him into orbit as this very clearly killed his actor and the others are stunned by it.
- Indeed, there's several ways to kill him which should kill him in 'real life' like dropping a spotlight on him and electrocution. Using the ejector seat is the only one that causes everyone around you to freak out and break Kayfabe, though.
- Played straight in the redo of the tutorial missions in the sequel, where a line is added of Diana mentioning that the ejector seat still has a parachute, implying the actor survives.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: His death by rigged ejector seat, doubles with Cruel and Unusual Death as the actor playing Jasper had nothing to do with Soders' cheating.
Cutting Off the Branches: A conversation between Diana and Tamara Vidal in Hitman 3 indicates that 47 passed the test by using the faulty ejector seat.
Defector From Commieland: Inverted in that he's a defector to it.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Jasper refuses to leave his girlfriend behind.
He Knows Too Much: Janus set up Knight to be eliminated for his knowledge of Soviet spy schools in the US.
High-Voltage Death: He can suffer one of these, thanks to a faulty radio microphone.
- A faulty overhead projector can similarly be used to cause this. There is even a Steam achievement for getting his KGB minder to electrocute him for you.
Insufferable Genius: If his actor's personality is anything to go by.
Meaningful Name: Really? A man named Jasper Knight just so happens to be a chess grandmaster? You don't say?
No Celebrities Were Harmed: A reversal of chess grandmaster defectors Viktor Korchnoi and Lev Alburt (among others) who defected from the Soviet Union to the USA.
Posthumous Character: As with Kalvin Ritter, the real Jasper Knight was already assassinated by someone else before the story began; the one in the tutorial is an actor playing the role for training purposes.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: You can make it look like the KGB did this to him if you kill him while disguised as the Soviet colonel.
Smart People Play Chess: Knight was a renowned chess master and he spends much of his time during the level studying a chess puzzle. According to some Enemy Chatter, he once performed an assassination by lacing an opponent's chess pieces with poison.
Smug Snake: Seems to believe he can manipulate the KGB to do his bidding as well as screw over the CIA.
- Averted when 47 defeats him in chess as he compliments him and says that he's a genius too. Played with as it's highly unlikely the actor playing Jasper has anywhere near the real one's ability.
Too Dumb to Live:
- Jasper blackmails the Soviet Union with state secrets he knows in exchange for them transporting his girlfriend with him.
- Jasper (or his actor) will start fiddling with faulty 70s electronics which will electrocute him if 47 or the KGB Colonel turns it back on.

Viktor Novikov

The Moneyman - Head of Sanguine and ring leader of IAGO. Quite the résumé.

"Congressman Walsh! A pleasure as always. Make sure to join Dalia and I for a drink later."

Voiced By: Jon Curry (English)^note

A former Russian oligarch turned fashion designer as well as the main financier and figurehead of the clandestine spy ring IAGO. Dating the former supermodel Dalia Margolis, the true brains of the operation.

Affably Evil: As a contrast to his girlfriend who toys with even harmless prey, Viktor reacts to Valerie St. Clair's blackmail threat with wry amusement. He also puts up with Sato's frustrated artist complaints with no greater threat than to his job. He's also surprisingly friendly to many of the guests and his bodyguard, speaking to them like they're close friends.
Attention Whore: One of his defining features is that he absolutely basks in the attention being a fashion designer brings him, gleefully taking the stage to boast about himself and his accomplishments. Naturally, 47 can exploit this for a particularly memorable death.
Be Careful What You Wish For: He does get the case against him destroyed, only for the Shadow Client to sell him and Dalia out to MI6.
Blatant Lies: Sebastian Sato absolutely despises Viktor and the strict creative control he exerts over his creations and is quite adamant that his begrudging work is the only reason Sanguine is even making a profit. Viktor even has to force him onto the stage, where Sato will give a speech insulting Viktor in all but name. If Sato is inconvenienced from stepping onto the stage with Viktor to address the crowd, however, Viktor will launch into a dramatic speech about how Sato had demanded that his employer do the address instead, how Sato considers the designs displayed at the fashion show to be his finest work and how Sato believes that credit for its success should be split between himself and Viktor.
Cutting Off the Branches: 47's memory in the final mission of the third game shows a still image of Viktor being crushed underneath the light rig, confirming that the "Lights Out" opportunity is the canonical way he died.
Dark and Troubled Past: Very much wants to leave behind his Russian past and go straight. His girlfriend disagrees with this decision.
Death by Irony: His death on the stage or murder by being tossed into the Seine accompany him having decided he's managed to avoid all consequences for his previous actions.
Early-Bird Cameo: One of the few targets in the game where he is shown in the first trailer for the 2016 game (back when it was going to release in late 2015). Whereas Claus Strandberg had some minor differences in his portrayal, here Novikov actually has all of the facial features and the location has not changed; he's a fashion mogul at a fashion show. In fact, the only real difference is his sunshades looking different and that's about it.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He dearly loves his girlfriend, even if this love only goes one way. He'll mourn her death if he finds out about it, promising to avenge her no matter what it takes.
Executive Meddling: In-Universe. It's clear that Viktor has extensive creative control over his designs, despite Sato's hatred of them. He has to force Sato onto the stage, complete unaware that Sato's speech is a thinly-veiled mockery of Viktor's control.
Failed Attempt at Drama: Tries to impress the Shadow Client with a couple quips about how cool the information he gathered is and is upset when he is unimpressed.
The Fashionista: A rare male example. Viktor isn't in fashion just as a cover, he genuinely loves what he does and prefers it to his position as a head of IAGO.
- That said, he's clearly more interested in making a profit than genuinely investing in the industry. He is caught off guard in an interview when he is asked about his design philosophy and artistic vision, ending the interview as soon as possible and afterwards condemning the fact that a CEO apparently has to be passionate about their projects and not just Only in It for the Money.
Happily Married: Played straight on Viktor's part. His girlfriend, however, dates him for his money and connections.
Jerkass: Viktor is highly unpleasant to most of the people he comes across. Sebastian Sato and the catering crew are the prime victims of his jerkassery.
Karma Houdini Warranty: Viktor has been staying one step ahead of his enemies in Russia by foul means for decades, including having the head of the FSB murdered. By the time 47 catches up with him, he's managed to destroy the last bit of evidence against him as well as bribe the new FSB head to protect him until his dying day. It's doubly satisfying as he can be murdered while believing he's in the clear.
Light Is Not Good: He wears a white outfit, and is a rather rotten individual.
Make It Look Like an Accident: What he had the Shadow Client do to the head of the Russian FSB: the latter framed him as a CIA mole and made it look like a suicide. Novikov himself can be subjected to this, if the light rig above the fashion show is set to collapse atop him during his solo speech to the crowds.
Meal Ticket: Blissfully unaware of the fact that Dalia is only dating him for his money and connections.
Neck Snap: Apart from 47's generic execution method, his neck is twisted as he's thrown into the Seine by 47, killing him before he even hits the water.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Despite being a former Russian crime boss, Novikov's American English accent is almost completely flawless, especially in the level itself. However, his speech is noticeably more accented in the after-level cutscene flashback showing his meeting with the Shadow Client; this is possibly due to being stressed.
Retirony: Novikov is very close to eliminating all of the evidence the FSB has against him and taking care of the threats against him. Which is when the Shadow Client releases his name to MI6.
Retired Monster: Has aspirations to leave his past behind and be a fashion mogul full-time. Dalia doesn't agree.
Sinister Shades: He has sunglasses on, and runs an international espionage ring alongside his wife.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He'll try to bribe 47 if held at gunpoint by him. It doesn't work out for him.
Starter Villain: Alongside Dalia. The two run a dangerous spy ring, but they're easily assassinated and they have no association with Providence beyond unknowingly having intel on them. Their actions are also far less nefarious than the Providence-affiliated targets after them.
Sunglasses at Night: He wears his glasses when he's meeting with the Shadow Client at night, and during the mission itself, which takes place during the sunset. Justified in that he only goes outside the palace during mission stories and stays around the well-lit lower floor of the palace.
Trademark Favorite Drink: His favorite drink is a cocktail called a Bare Knuckle Boxer. One opportunity to kill him comes if 47 learns how to mix it and then lace it with poison, causing Viktor to isolate himself.
Unholy Matrimony: Viktor loves his girlfriend and is blissfully ignorant that she's only with him because of his money and connections.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Not to 47, but to Providence. Him selling the entirety of IAGO's database to the Shadow Client allows the latter to begin his war on Providence in earnest and setting the plot of the following two games in motion. He wasn't aware the people he had dirt on were Providence operatives.
Villainous Breakdown:
- He freaks out when he realizes that Valerie has information regarding his criminal activities, venting to his bodyguard while desperately asking for advice. It's one of the only times he truly loses his composure.
- He also has a memorable one if held at gunpoint by 47, offering him money, power, and anything else he could desire, barely able to maintain his composure during this ordeal.
Villain with Good Publicity: As far as the world at large is concerned, he's just a fashion mogul.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When the Shadow Client has what he needs from IAGO, he leaks information about the group to MI-6, so that the ICA will be contracted to kill both of its leaders.
- It's also likely Dalia would have done this to him if the two of them survived the mission, as his actions were starting to draw attention to the couple's activities.

Dalia Margolis

The Mastermind

"Knowledge without power is just ivory-towered academics. Power without knowledge is simply brute force. But combined, power and knowledge shape the face of the planet."

Voiced By: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (English)^note

An ex-Israeli spy turned supermodel, Dalia Margolis is the real brains behind IAGO and deeply involved in its criminal activities. Ironically, despite being a former supermodel, she’s less interested in Sanguine than her lover, who she believes to be weak for his desire to go straight.

Affably Evil: She's pleasant, beautiful and tied to numerous terrorist organizations.
Badass Israeli: Subverted in that she's a master spymaster but is no harder to kill than anyone else.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She comes across as a charming supermodel turned businesswoman, helpfully omitting the part where she is a ruthless spymaster.
Daddy Issues: Her father apparently didn't approve of her desire to become a model, which led to him disowning her and leading her to fend for herself. It's not made clear if she still holds a grudge, however.
Daddy's Little Villain: Subverted. She was trained as a spy by her Israeli general father but now uses those skills against Israel.
Deadpan Snarker: She tends to act like this towards Viktor, as can be seen if their lockdown procedure is triggered.
Failed a Spot Check: Notable despite being a former spy and a chief intelligence officer. Dalia fails to notice the Sheik she's invited is 47 (despite very clearly being a clean-shaven Caucasian) or that her long-time associate Helmut Kruger has been replaced by an Identical Stranger, despite having private meetings with both previously.
Fallen Hero: Is a former Israeli spy who now sells secrets to terrorists.
The Fashionista: Subverted. Dalia doesn't seem to have any interest in the fashion industry anymore and leaves that to Viktor.
Gold Digger: She's with Viktor because of his wealth and influence and is fine with eliminating him if the need arises, as she states to her assistant Sophus.
Happily Married: Subverted on her part. She's dating Viktor for his money and his connections, but Viktor is genuinely in love.
Hoist by His Own Petard: If 47 meets with her while disguised as Helmut, she'll hand him a cyanide canister and order him to kill a consulting company's CEO as a last resort. When she's distracted by a subsequent phone call, 47 can use the cyanide to poison Dalia's wine.
Honey Trap: Dalia makes use of these in order to get information on VIPs.
Karmic Death: One method of killing her is with the same exact canister of cyanide she wants Helmut (who 47 can be disguised as) to use either on their target or themselves if their job goes south.
The Man Behind the Man: Dalia secretly rules IAGO and is the one responsible for creating it. Viktor, by contrast, would be content to run his fashion business without involvement in international terrorism.
Manipulative Bitch: While all of the targets have a covert side, Dalia is notable among them for the fact she toys with Hailey and Helmut both despite knowing both of them are ill-suited for any form of intelligence work.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Has this fate planned for Hailey, a spy for a fashion magazine which got more than she bargained for by becoming her assistant. Fortunately, she doesn't get the chance to go through with it and Hailey can even abscond with a CICADA guard if Dalia's laptop is tampered with.
Shame If Something Happened: Has this attitude when she gives Helmut Kruger a canister of cyanide as a failsafe. It's unclear whether she wants him to murder his target or commit suicide should he be caught.
Skewed Priorities: If Dalia is told about Viktor's death, she is far more concerned about the authorities discovering the auction than she is about her boyfriend's death.
So Proud of You: Is genuinely proud of the IAGO agent responsible for retrieving the NOC list, offering (though, possibly joking) to promote her to a central position in IAGO if she continues to impress and is disappointed when the agent announces her intentions to quit the spy business and start her own fashion brand (though she does wish her luck).
The Spymaster: The real brains behind IAGO.
Unholy Matrimony: With the caveat that she doesn't actually love her boyfriend.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: To Providence and the majority of the other main mission targets in the game, though to a lesser extent than Viktor. Were it not for her organisation's activities, the Shadow Client would have likely had a much harder time setting up his contracts to the ICA and waging a war against Providence.
Villainous Friendship: Appears to be on good terms with Ezra Berg, another former Mossad agent who she calls in the event that 47 attends the IAGO auction as Tobias Rieper.
Villain with Good Publicity: Most people just think she's a fashion model turned businesswoman.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Overhearing Enemy Chatter between Dalia and Sophus implies that she's decided this applies to Viktor and is planning accordingly and is willing to do this to her assistant since the latter is a spy. She is also a victim of this trope along with her boyfriend courtesy of the Shadow Client.
World's Most Beautiful Woman: Was given this title in the prime of her career.

Silvio Caruso

See the Providence page.

Francesca De Santis

Francesca de Santis

See the Providence page.

Claus Hugo Strandberg

See the Providence page.

Reza Zaydan

See the Providence page.

Jordan Cross

The Rockstar

"I'll never be safe... One moment's mistake, and you pay for it forever."

Voiced By: Jonny Cruz (English)^note

The lead singer of the acclaimed indie rock band "The Class", currently recording their sophomore album in Bangkok. A year prior, he was accused of the murder of his girlfriend Hannah Highmoore, though all charges were dropped thanks to the influence of Jordan's wealthy father Thomas and his family lawyer Ken Morgan, leading Hannah's parents to hire 47 to get justice for their daughter.

Accidental Murder: What he did to Hannah. 47 can engineer similar circumstances to "outsource" the death of Ken Morgan.
Affably Evil: When he's not being a total douchebag, he comes across as a man capable of forming meaningful bonds with his bandmates and staff. It doesn't change the fact he murdered a woman and used unsavory means to cover it up.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: If confronted using the recording of Hannah's murder, Jordan correctly guesses the Highmoores sent 47, before begging 47 not to assassinate him, wondering if he really deserves to die for what he did. Unfortunately for him, a contract is a contract for 47.
A Lighter Shade of Black: He's a douchebag who committed a felony, sure, though compared to the terrorists, spymasters, and warlords of the rest of the game, he's rather tame. Unlike Morgan or his father, he also has nothing to do with Providence.
Ambiguously Evil:
- It's not really clear if he had any other criminal deeds or skeletons in his closet other than murdering Hannah Highmoore in the heat of the moment and getting away with it due to the help of his father and lawyer, but it just looks like he’s way over his head when it comes to fame and getting away with things he did.
- Despite his father clearly being involved with Providence, Jordan's own involvement is much less clear. The only hint is that the album he's recording being named after them, but that could just as well be a subtle dig at his dad. It's possible that Jordan was at least aware of his father's connections, as he threatens 47 that Thomas could send "really dangerous people" out after him. Hitman 3 also reveals that his record label is one of Providence's assets, which could hint that his father secretly arranged for him to get a deal, although nothing is stated about this.
Asshole Victim: Less so than Ken Morgan, both in the sense that he's not as evil as Morgan (though he's still hardly a good person) and that the Shadow Client did engineer his contract as part of a plan, but it’s worth noting that he isn't the one the Shadow Client is truly after. That would be his father.
Beard of Evil: Cross is one of the few targets with a prominent beard.
Berserk Button: Bringing up his father can run the risk of him going into a frothing rage.
- In the audio tape of the night of Hannah's murder, a snide mention of his father by Hannah sends him and then her over the edge. Him metaphorically, her literally.
- The same thing can also happen to Ken Morgan if Morgan mentions his father was acting in good faith by having Dexy keep tabs on him during a private chat, resulting in the same defenestration happening.
Buy Them Off: He'll try to do this if 47 confronts him with evidence of his murder of Hannah, offering him double whatever the Highmoores are paying. Unfortunately for him, 47 doesn't operate like that.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: His appearance seems to be based off Jared Leto.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Poisoning his birthday cake. While the death isn't particularity cruel for 47's standards, making Jordan think that his father murdered him certainly is.
Cutting Off the Branches: Dialogue from Heidi during her cameo in "The Finish Line" suggests that 47 disguised as Abel De Silva to get to Jordan, although it's left ambiguous as to whether or not 47 pushed him off the hotel's balcony during the meeting.
Daddy Issues: He fears his father and every time someone brings him up he gets homicidal.
Destination Defenestration: 47 can push him onto the atrium's glass ceiling when posing as Abel de Silva.
Died on Their Birthday: He's celebrating his 27th birthday during the mission. Diana and several of the recording crew make reference to numerous musicians dying at 27.
Dirty Coward: He didn't intend to murder Hannah, but he didn't tell the truth about it either.
Early-Bird Cameo: The player can find multiple mentions of Cross in "The Showstopper": one of the guests in the IAGO auction can be heard calling Jordan to book him for a gig, Helmut Kruger's photographer asks the latter to pose like he did "in that Jordan Cross video" and one of the IAGO models mentioned having been "assigned" to him. Silvio Caruso's therapist in "World of Tomorrow" will at some point mentioned having "cured" Cross.
Et Tu, Brute?: If you poison his birthday cake, he dies thinking his dad had him killed since he was told his father was the one who had the cake made and delivered. One can feel pretty bad hearing the betrayal and sadness in his voice with his last word.
Evil Vegetarian: Made clear by both his vegan birthday cake and dialogue by Pablo Llosa in Hitman 3.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Let's just say you do not want to have an argument with this guy while standing near a balcony.
Helicopter Parents: Resents his father for trying to control every aspect of his life, which is ironic since it’s only thanks to his father's meddling that Cross isn't in jail right now. The recording of Hannah's death however shows that if his father didn't mess him up he wouldn't be in this trouble in the first place.
Hipster: His style of dress, man-bun haircut and beard, his rebellious nature against his privileged upbringing and the fact that he's a vegan absolutely scream stereotypical Hipster.
Horrible Judge of Character: Has complete trust in Dexy Barat, unaware that she's not only spying on him on behalf of Thomas Cross, but merely using him to extort money out of the latter. Ken revealing this to Jordan is enough for the latter to murder the former.
Hypocrite: For all his attitude about being sick of his father controlling him and wanting to be his own man, the minute things start going badly for him (i.e. finding the recording of Hannah's death playing in his room or pushing Morgan out a window in a rage) he immediately whips out his phone to beg his dad for help. Also he is staying and recording his music clip at his dad's hotel but considers a birthday cake as an insult.
I Need a Freaking Drink: He drank heavily during the murder trial, but therapist Oscar Lafayette helped him stop. However, he still drinks if angered, which can happen by interrupting his recording session.
Karmic Death:
- Following the Abel de Silva Opportunity leads to 47 pushing him off a balcony, just like he did to Hannah.
- If you get him to kill Ken Morgan, you can also push him off a balcony right after, possibly while he pleads for his dad to bail him out again. It'll be the same balcony his newest victim fell from, no less.
Karma Houdini Warranty: You can escape the legal system, Jordan. You can't escape 47.
Leave Me Alone!: He despises his father controlling his life and wanted to break free from his grasp. However, he murders Hannah by accident and things go downhill from there.
Manslaughter Provocation: Apparently, anyone mentioning his father. Not that the authorities will see it as sufficient justification.
My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction to accidentally killing Hannah and Morgan.
Nice to the Waiter: Treats his crew members pretty well.
No Celebrities Were Harmed:
- His appearance and veganism appears to be based on Jared Leto, who is also part of a rock band.
- His case of being a rockstar who killed his girlfriend seems to be a reference to Sid Vicious, who is suspected to have killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: In-Universe. The murder trial and his subsequent acquittal hasn't made a dent on his popularity.
Non-Idle Rich: Jordan could easily live like a king off his father's money and never lift a finger. Instead, he works as a rock star.
Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction once he finds out that Hannah's parents ordered a hit on him and asked the ICA to do the job in retribution of their daughter's murder. Leads to a Please, I Will Do Anything! session, as listed below.
Oh, No... Not Again!: If 47 makes Cross and Morgan run into each other, they will have an argument in the latter's suite during which Cross will get mad and push Morgan out the window.
Cross: [takes out his phone]: D-Dad… please call me. It happened again.
Once Done, Never Forgotten: How he feels about Hannah's death. He expresses annoyance that everybody else won't stop bringing it up and begs Dexy to help him.
Reminiscing About Your Victims: One of the staff says he keeps a recording of the last argument he had with Hannah before her death. Some may think it's this at first, but it isn't. When you actually listen to it, he's shaken with guilt regarding those final moments, though he is responsible for killing her. Curiously, Cross ends up being the second young industry star in this one game (after Caruso) that is pushed to the mental breaking point by their murder of a loved one and can be lured somewhere by a recording of the latter.
The Rock Star: He's one of the most famous indie musicians in the world.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Believes that he could get away with her death by asking his father for help and dodging the court system with cash, lawyers and celebrity gossip, ensuring that his band career and celebrity status is not harmed in any way. However, he did not expect Hannah's parents to ask the ICA to send 47 after him…
Shout-Out:
- Cross is celebrating his 27th birthday when 47 fulfills his contract on him, a reference to the 27 Club, a list of popular musicians or artists who died at age 27. Lampshaded by both Diana when the mission starts and several of the recording crew.
- One method of killing him involves electrocuting him with a faulty microphone, very similar to the death of Scottish guitarist Les Harvey, who also died at 27.
Stealth Insult: Gives one to Ms. Mookjai, who others say worships Thomas Cross like a god, after she tries to compliment him saying he looks more like his father every year.
Cross: You have no idea how that makes me feel.
Ungrateful Bastard:
- Ken Morgan's the reason he's free right now, but if he meets Morgan again, it causes a chain of events that ends with him pushing the man out a window.
- He also throws a hissy fit when he finds out that his custom-made, vegan birthday cake was made on his father's orders, interpreting it as Thomas Cross sending a coded message rubbing Jordan's reliance on him in his face.
Villain Song: "Are We Stars" is written and sung by him, apparently giving his point of view on Highmoore's death.
Villains Want Mercy: He basically begs for mercy and says that he would do anything to fix what had happened to Hannah if he's lured to his room using the recording.

Ken Morgan

See the Providence page.

Sean Rose

The Commander

"Fire in the hole!"

Voiced By: James Sobol Kelly (English)^noteOther Languages:Toru Sakurai (Japanese)

The person the ICA suspects to be the Shadow Client. Sean Rose is an Australian terrorist mastermind who is leading a multi-national left-wing terrorist group in Colorado. A former eco-terrorist and bomb-maker, he suffers from severe OCD and bullies his subordinates.

0% Approval Rating: The other members of the Militia and even his own men regard him as a Psycho for Hire. At most they respect his skills, while having nothing but disdain for him as a person. This is in sharp contrast to the widespread respect and reverence they have for both Parvati and the Shadow Client.
Accidental Murder: He bombed a government office building in Aukland, New Zealand, thinking it was vacant. It wasn't, as there was a kids birthday party being held there. Even he wasn't happy about this, going on a self-loathing spiral.
Bad Boss: A mix of this and Benevolent Boss. He is incredibly paranoid, showing nothing but disdain to Penelope, and his unpredictable nature frequently unnerves his soldiers because of his mood swings.
Beat It by Compulsion: The "Unclean" mission story involves triggering Rose's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to the point he ends up suffering a full-blown anxiety attack, leaving him completely vulnerable in an isolated room.
Became Their Own Antithesis: Is an anarcho-primitive eco-terrorist turned high-tech militia leader. Played with as his beliefs haven't changed so much as his methods.
Benevolent Boss: A mix of this and of Bad Boss, depending on the person. He will praise his subordinates if they please him, and tends to give them freedom of what they want to do around the compound.
Black-and-White Insanity: His upbringing has instilled in him a single-minded nature that makes him incapable of understanding that there might be shades of gray.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A neurotic bomb maker who the ICA, nevertheless, believes is capable of doing everything the Shadow Client has done.
Cigarette of Anxiety: He smokes when he's agitated. Adding hallucinogens to his cigarettes can be used to send him into a panic.
Death by Irony: Two of the methods for killing him involve blowing him up, either by exploiting Explosive Stupidity or tampering with his watch. The watch method adds another layer of irony, noted by Diana in the intel: his watch is the exact same model the watch bomb and trigger is tailored to.
Demolitions Expert: He's an expert bomb maker. One way to kill him is to tamper with his nitroglycerin so that he kills himself while testing it, or replace his watch's battery with an explosive one intended for another assassination.
Disappeared Dad: Due to his terrorist activities, he hardly spends time with Mercedes, his daughter. This is made even worse by his death, which obviously permanently cuts him out of their life.
Disc-One Final Boss: Played with in that the player already knows Rose isn't the Shadow Client (as the cutscenes before Paris and Sapienza makes clear), but 47 and the ICA go in thinking he is, and the challenges presented by his compound certainly evoke the feeling of a final dungeon.
The Dragon: Apparently the Shadow Client's, leading the Western Cell of his militia.
Eco-Terrorist: Started out as one.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- It's mentioned that he genuinely cares about his girlfriend, freelance assassin Alma Reynard. The two also have a daughter together and while Sean doesn't mention her, it's never implied that he was a bad parent to her.
- In a platonic example, he mourns the death of Maya, mentioning how he wishes she could have been there if his soldiers pass her training course. This shows that in a stark contrast to his treatment of Penelope, he cares deeply for the former pirate.
Even Evil Has Standards: He may be a terrorist, but randomly killing civilians is too much, even for him. He suffered a massive breakdown when he killed children in Auckland, horrified by his actions and consumed by self-loathing.
Evil Luddite: He used to be a member of an anarcho-primitivist terror network called The Pristine Army, until he accidentally killed several people while bombing a government building in New Zealand.
Explosive Stupidity: Two opportunities to kill him arise from this.
- While testing explosives on a vault, it is possible to overpower his mixture with the nitroglycerin he's ordered. He won't actually test the mixture before applying it to the vault, resulting in his death.
- He has designed a bomb concealed in a smartwatch battery to be used on a CEO who owns the watch. It happens that Sean owns the exact same watch and will place it down while washing his hands.
Freudian Excuse: It's implied that spending most of his early life in a reclusive Marxist collective, then being put into foster care after an AFP raid played a major role in making him so screwed up.
Glasgow Grin: Has a noticeable half-smile on his left cheek.
Hoist by His Own Petard: The exploding smartwatch method involves blowing him up using a bomb he created for assassination of others.
Implausible Synchrony: Invoked. The Obsessively Organized militia leader Sean Rose's OCD compulsions manifest, amongst other habits, as synchronizing all his clocks to his watch.
Jerkass: His treatment of Penelope Graves, Black-and-White Insanity and Never My Fault attitude certainly point to this.
Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Rose started out not wanting to kill anybody, but he quickly abandoned this and most of his other restraints.
Karmic Death: Two of the assassination opportunities allow you to kill Rose with his own explosives. One involves rigging his watch with an explosive battery intended for a CEO with the exact same watch, the other sabotaging a nitroglycerin test he's preparing on a safe.
Kick the Dog: Threatens Penelope Graves with execution by her own bodyguards.
Mad Bomber: Albeit a rather unconventional example. He has his limits, but as some of the spec ops speculate, he's the kind "to find any excuse to blow things up".
My God, What Have I Done?: Implied with the Auckland bombing, which killed several children. Graves mentions that Rose upped up his bomb-crafting after the bombing to minimize future collateral damage and he gets agitated when Graves confronts him on it (though he also blames an office worker for having his child's birthday party at the office).
Never My Fault: Doubled down in his terrorist leanings despite starting as a pacifist. When Graves confronts him about the Auckland bombing killing several children, he blames an office worker for having a birthday party for his kid.
Necessary Evil: Graves and the Shadow Client see him as one, anyway:
Berg: Rose has no honor. No sense of fair play. The boss asked me here because he wanted to avoid unnecessary cruelty. So why does he tolerate Sean Rose?
Graves: Because the boss is not a monster. And right now, well, he needs one.
Berg: "Sean Rose, freelance terrorist. Because sometimes you need a monster." You ought to be in advertising.
Noodle Incident: He has a fear of hallucinogenic drugs after an unspecified childhood incident. If his cigarettes are laced with them, he will freak out about being covered in microbes and desperately wash himself down.
Obsessively Organized: The man is obsessed with cleanliness, symmetry and timekeeping. 47 can trigger an episode by tampering with his grandfather clock, cigarettes and pencils.
Oh, Crap!: If 47 chooses to kill Sean with the smartwatch bomb, he has a moment in which he recognises what's about to happen before it explodes.
Rose: Email. "Boom?" What the-?
Psycho for Hire: Some of the militia members, including Graves, believe that the Shadow Client hired him for his reason.
Ripped from the Headlines: He had bombed an office building which resulted in the casualties of several children, similar to that of the Oklahoma bombing.
Small Role, Big Impact: Only shows up for one mission, but his loss is felt keenly by the rest of the Shadow Client's militia and people keep referencing him far into the sequel. In Colombia, a forger who got him documents to infiltrate into Colorado complains about his OCD months after the man is dead.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Maya Parvati. While he has some respect for her, he hates how standoffish she is, and will frequently complain to his girlfriend about her actions. The feeling is mutual, as while the two are constantly working together, there's little love shared.
- Surprisingly despite all of this, Sean will take time to mourn Maya's death and honor her memory, showing that while he disliked her, the time they spent together has left a somewhat positive impression on him.
Terrified of Germs: A fear 47 can exploit. One part of his route involves washing his hands and the sink in his bathroom can be disabled during his OCD episode. It also provides an opportunity to rig his smartwatch with a bomb.
Terrorists Without a Cause: Played with. Like many real-life terrorists, his motives are frequently subject to change. Parvati's Spec Ops soldiers note that at the end of the day, Rose's ideals are malleable and ultimately he's just looking for a morally justifiable reason to blow people up.
Western Terrorists: He spent some time offering his services to various radical political and environmental groups.
Would Hurt a Child: Completely accidentally, but he was responsible for the deaths of a few children in Auckland with one of his terrorist attacks. He didn't take this well.

Penelope Graves

The Analyst

"Think, Graves! How did they get to you?"

Voiced By: Elsie Bennett (English)^noteOther Languages:Kumi Tanaka (Japanese)

A child prodigy and former Interpol agent, Penelope recently defected to the Shadow Client's organization after she discovered the corruption in the U.N. was impossible to deal with. Unfortunately, her history of monitoring Sean Rose has created tension for the two.

The Ace: Was one of Interpol's best agents to the point that she believes that her defecting cost them their best analyst.
Affably Evil: She seems to be rather cordial most of the time. Her psychological profile says she's very empathetic, but also has a distinct moral fluidity. She comes off as quite endearingly awkward when trying to engage with smalltalk with the lower-ranked members of the militia or when she apologizes for calling the Shadow Client "sir" during their phone call. Then there's her reaction to Olivia Hall's work.
Graves: Oh wow! Olivia Hall's amazing. I wonder if we'll be friends.
Anti-Villain: She truly believes that she is doing the right thing and is one of the most sympathetic of the targets. Despite having good intentions and being relatively moral, she is still aiding a dangerous terrorist organisation.
Child Prodigy: Could speak fluently at six months and at the age of five, she was studying college-level physics.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Penelope's facial features and hairstyle are quite similar to that of Emma Watson.
Evil Brit: Graves used to be on the side of justice, but she threw her lot in with a bunch of ruthless terrorists. However, given the setting's Gray-and-Gray Morality, this may just be a case of Wrong Genre Savvy.
Fallen Hero: Not long ago, she was an anti-terror analyst for Interpol. However, due to her superiors stonewalling her attempted investigation of UN corruption, she grew disillusioned with the system she once supported and started working with the Shadow Client sometime thereafter.
- The revised intel in Hitman 2 implies that she would be considered a potential recruit to the ICA had it not been for her defection. The Shadow Client is also revealed to consider Agent 47 as an ally rather than enemy, which means she could have been an ally to both him and Diana should things have gone differently.
Horrible Judge of Character: A conversation with Sean Rose has her assume he is going to forgive and forget their past as enemies.
Mirror Character: Debatably to Sean Rose. A militia member will bring up the fact that they are both obsessed with "patterns and order" and Rose will openly admit to Alma Reynard that he believes that Graves has potential (this being one of the few examples he admits to respecting a fellow member of the militia), but is tied down by her "pedestrian sense of morality." In short, one could argue that Graves is a more mentally stable, empathetic and moral version of Rose, a straight up Good Counterpart before her Face–Heel Turn.
The Mole: She is in fact secretly tasked by the Shadow Client to keep an eye on Rose's mental state. She is also suspected by the private militia of being a mole for Interpol and they plan on testing her loyalty.
Precision F-Strike: If you hold her at gunpoint, she will yell, “Get that fucking thing out of my face!”
Pragmatic Hero: As her ICA profile states, "When confronted with the classic trolley problem, she would push the fat man onto the tracks without hesitation".
Secret Test of Character: Sean Rose plans on having a disguised member of the militia approach her in private and impersonate an Interpol agent requesting her compliance in being their mole inside the militia, intending to test her loyalty to the cause.
The Social Expert: Claims to be one when discussing Sean Rose's growing instability in her phone call to the Shadow Client.
Sympathy for the Devil: Seems to grow more sympathetic to Sean Rose as time passes by the camp in the camp, openly admitting, in her onsite profile notes on Rose, that she admires his dedication and abilities and that she believes his heart is in the right place. By the time her final profile note is concluded, she admits that she is looking forward to working with him, saying this in a tone that hints her perception of him might not be completely professional.
- Rose outright lampshades this trope, theorizing that the only reason Graves was never able to track him down during her time in Interpol was because she didn't actually want to.
Token Good Teammate: Downplayed and shared with Ezra Berg. Graves is a former Interpol agent who defected to the Shadow Client when she found about the corruption in the UN.
Undignified Death: The Mission Story that focuses on her involves spooking her with a fake Interpol badge, as a means of testing her loyalty. She can be pushed right into a slurry pit as she tries to identify any mistakes she might have made while erasing her paper trail.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Allying with the Shadow Client against Providence is arguably the moral choice. Unfortunately, the group is not exactly moral in its methods.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Believed she would be welcomed by the Shadow Client's allies and they would work together to defeat Providence. Instead, she is treated with barely-concealed contempt and suspicion.

Ezra Berg

The Interrogator

"So, young friend, let's try again."

Voiced By: Oliver Cotton (English)^note

An Israeli interrogation and chemical torture expert working for Sean Rose's militia. He wears a 3D-printed mask and takes a little too much joy in his work.

Affably Evil: Polite, soft-spoken and gentlemanly, he's nevertheless a man with very few scruples, especially in regards to his interrogations.
Badass Israeli: Was a former member of Mossad, one of the most feared intelligence agencies in the world.
Chekhov's Gunman: He's first mentioned in "The Showstopper". If 47 infiltrates the auction, Dalia, another ex-Mossad member, will make a private phone call to him, asking for a background check on Tobias Rieper.
Deadpan Snarker: Makes various snarky remarks during conversations with Graves and the prisoner. He also gets a bit snarky if you happen to walk past him while disguised as one of the hackers:
Ezra: "Linux is only free if your time has no value."
- Doubles as a bit of Hilarious in Hindsight, as the game was eventually ported over to Linux in early 2017.
Even Evil Has Standards: He doesn't like Rose's methods and considers his chemical torture more humane than other varieties.
Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: Uses chemicals and drugs to interrogate his prisoners and is noted to have been fired from Mossad for this reason.
Jewish and Nerdy: The man's chemical skills are legitimately impressive.
Lonely Piano Piece: He turns a very creepy one on whenever he's interrogating his victim.
Mad Scientist: Really, his dedication to his craft would be admirable… if he didn't have victims.
Malevolent Masked Men: He spends the whole level wearing a creepy, Michael Myers-esque interrogation mask.
Necessarily Evil: Both he and Grey seem to see his chemical interrogations as this, as he mentions that Grey brought him into the operation in order to avoid any unnecessary cruelty when it comes to getting info on Providence.
Nice Guy: You can overhear two guards discuss how surprisingly polite Ezra is and he seems to be the only militant who actually likes Penelope Graves.
The Perfectionist: One of his character flaws. Berg is insistent that all of his chemicals be perfect and even the smallest deviation from his expectations has him going back to the drawing board.
Soft-Spoken Sadist: He never raises his voice but commits terrible cruelties to prisoners.
Stockholm Syndrome: A subdued variant. He and his family were kidnapped for ransom by Hezbollah when he was young due to living on West Bank territory, and while he never turned on his country, when they were rescued he found the relentless and inhumane way the Israeli government suppressed a clearly outmatched opponent distasteful.
Technical Pacifist: The most he's willing to harm anybody physically is with a hypodermic needle to a vein, but he'll inflict untold psychological horrors on his victims to extract the information he wants.
Token Good Teammate: Downplayed and shared with Penelope Graves. He is a former Mossad agent who chooses the least violent ways to make his victims crack.
Torture Technician: His primary role in the militia.

Maya Parvati

The Instructor

"Alright, people, let's get to it!"

Voiced By: Traci Lords (English)^noteOther Languages:Rei Furukawa (Japanese)

A former Tamil Tiger turned pirate turned terrorist. She is the primary instructor of Sean Rose's militia.

Bad Boss: Her exercises are grueling and dangerous, and she has no care if her soldiers get hurt. This can be used against her, as she can be killed by 47 with her own battering ram.
Berserk Button: She can't stand people not living up to her standards, going ballistic over the slightest misstep. While her skill as a commander is respected by her men, they clearly have to walk on eggshells to avoid pissing her off.
Dark Action Girl: She used to be an assassin for the Tamil Tigers and she hasn't changed her terrorist ways since then.
Defiant to the End: If held at gunpoint by 47, unlike most targets she insults him to his face and dares him to kill her.
Developer's Foresight: She takes no damage if her prosthetic arm is shot.
Drill Sergeant Nasty: Her primary role in the militia.
Evil Cripple: She has a prosthetic limb and is a terrorist.
Face Death with Dignity: One of the few targets that doesn't beg 47 for mercy when held at gunpoint, instead insulting him and daring him to just kill her already.
Faux Action Girl: Despite her noted past, she is unarmed and can't attack 47, just like all other targets in the game. Because of her missing arm, Worf Had the Flu is likely in play.
Hook Hand: She has a prosthetic hook where her left arm used to be, a play on the fact that she's a former pirate.
Karmic Death: She can be killed using the unsafe conditions of the training courses she herself designed.
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: She speaks in a flawless American accent despite being Sri Lankan.
The Perfectionist: A Downplayed Trope example as it's clear her team really does need the training.
Pet the Dog: If Ezra Berg or Penelope Graves' are knocked out, and their bodies left near her, Maya will express visible concern for them, shouting out their first names in shock, and promising to get help.
- What's worth noting is that Graves is a new recruit whose loyalty is questioned by many within the militia. Despite this, Parvati does not hesitate to come to her aid if she comes across the unconscious body of the former Interpol agent.
Reasonable Authority Figure: She's widely respected by the Militia, in contrast to Rose whose own men refer to him as a dead-eyed psychopath. One of the Militia members turns out to be the soldier who blew her arm off during her pirate days. Her response upon recognizing him? Walking up to him and complimenting him for being a "good shot".
Ruthless Modern Pirates: After the Tamil Tigers disbanded, she became a pirate in the South China Sea.
Sergeant Rock: Despite being hard on her troops, they hold a good deal of respect for her.
South Asian Terrorists: Maya hails from Sri Lanka and is a former Tamil Tiger.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Conversations between her and Sean Rose make it clear that the two can't stand each other, with Rose outright expressing the intent to get rid of her if she continues disrespecting his authority in his phone call to Alma Reynard.
- This is downplayed, as Sean does have some care for her at the bottom of his cold, cold heart, genuinely mourning her if she is killed in front of him.
Undignified Death: Being flattened by a hay bale is not a very honorable way to go, especially for a woman as feared and dangerous as she is.
Villainous Friendship: She was apparently close with Vanya Shah. In Mumbai, Shah will fondly remembering their time working together in the Maelstrom's crew after she receives the inheritance Maya left her.
Villainous Valour: Should 47 hold her at gunpoint, she'll insult him to his face despite not having any real means of defending herself or escaping.

Yuki Yamazaki

See the Providence page.

The Herald

Erich Soders

See the Providence page.

The Sarajevo Six

In General

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Left to right: Gary Lunn, John Stubbs, Walter Menard, Taheiji Koyama, Scott Sarno and Patrick Morgan.

A group of six mercenaries — Scott Sarno, Gary Lunn, Walter Menard, John Stubbs, Patrick Morgan and Taheiji Koyama — who committed several atrocities during The Yugoslav Wars while working for CICADA. Although they evaded military tribunals since the 90s, they are now being targeted by the ICA to make sure they don't escape justice.

Originally a series of bonus contracts of the same name, formerly exclusive to the PS4 version of Hitman (2016), and was long assumed to be impossible to port over to other platforms, not due to technical limitations, but due to pesky (and very messy) rights issues concerning with Sony^notewho commissioned the contracts and Square Enix^notewho was IOI's publisher during 2016. It would take seven years for these contracts to lose this exclusivity, and were ported to all platforms on August 17th 2023 as DLC.

You can view their briefings in this playlist.

Bald of Evil: Stubbs, Koyama, and Morgan are all bald (or balding in Stubb's case) and have done incredibly evil things.
Continuity Nod: The contracts were all sent in by Locksley, the same contractor for both The Bookkeeper, as well as the client for the Patient Zero campaign. However, while the former's briefing implies the two are at least related, there's no confirmation if it's the same person, if it's an alias the ICA made to protect clients, or a group of people behind this one alias, though Koyama's wording implies its the first option.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The Sarajevo Six's missions did not return in Hitman 2 or the launch lineup of Hitman 3 for contractual reasons to do with Sony (and likely Square Enix too), they're not a part of the Chongqing database of sanctioned targets, and there's no mention of them in any campaign. In fact, it took over two and a half years after Hitman 3's release for the Sarajevo Six to make the jump to the now-rebranded "World of Assassination" on all platforms to subvert this trope.
Dark Is Evil: Lunn, Koyama, Sano, and Morgan all have dark clothing, and are responsible for multiple atrocities.
Exiled from Continuity: None of the Sarajevo Six get mentioned after their debut in 2016, not directly anyway. A picture of Stubbs appears in a Marrakesh newspaper, and their camp in Sarajevo gets a reference in Hitman 3, where several guards in the Carpathian Mountains talk about a CICADA mercenary camp in Sarajevo; the same one that gave the group their name. Their former exclusivity with Sony on the PS4 version of 2016 is the reason why they've been in this state for so long, despite repeated mentions of being tied to the story targets, so direct references were out of the question.
Gameplay and Story Segregation: All their briefings are noticeably more misleading to players than the main mission ones when it comes to their in-game routines. While some of this is to flesh out their background via in-universe security footage, all the briefings have actual, in-game footage, of 47 stalking them, implying that they are more varied than they actually are, and that the player controlling 47 means they can see these more varied routines:
- Scott Sarno does not react to the fireworks being set-off, nor will he go on a smoking break if this happens. Curiously, he does react to Novikov going on-stage.
- Gary Lunn does not spend any time in Villa Caruso, he is confined solely to the ETHER Biolab.
- Walter Menard does not leave the abandoned school, yet is shown walking around the markets, and even running to, and around, the Swedish Consulate at multiple points.
- John Stubbs does not walk around the Himmapan Hotel, instead, he is confined to the bottom floor, and at no point does him and his wife walk up to their hotel room, or mosey up to the cafe.
- Patrick Morgan is shown at multiple points as not having his militia crew with him, despite the fact that his gameplay consists of trying to separate Morgan from them.
- Koyama does not have any routine to speak of where they walk around the GAMA Facility, as he's waiting for 47 to come and kill him, though in this case, this may have been deliberate to hide the twist in the story.
Karma Houdini: Despite being branded as war criminals by the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal, they've managed to avoid capture and prosecution for decades.
Multinational Team: The six members are French, Canadian, German, British, American and Japanese, respectively.
Private Military Contractors: All of them are former members of the CICADA Corporation's SIGMA Squad and most of them are still active in the private security industry.
Properly Paranoid: After killing Sarno and Lunn, Menard and Stubbs start looking into their former squad mate's deaths, and by the time 47 gets to Morgan, he's on high alert and surrounded by militia bodyguards. Subverted with Koyama, who is standing alone in the sauna since he's waiting for 47.
Red Baron: All six are given such a title in the briefing screen. Scott Sarno is The Director, Gary Lunn is The Enforcer, Walter Menard is The Extractor, John Stubbs is The Veteran, Patrick Morgan is The Mercenary, and Taheiji Koyama is The Controller.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Most of these men have escaped justice for so long due to their immense wealth gained by their actions. Unfortunately for them, 47 has a habit of hunting the uber-rich.
Truth in Television: In a tragic example of reality, war criminals are far less likely to be punished for their actions than most criminals are, due to their immense wealth, political power, and manufactured reputation from their time as war ciminals. Many die of natural causes due to their comfortable living conditions. Fortunately, 47 stops this from echoing the real world by dishing out some cathartic justice to these six monsters.
Villain with Good Publicity: Most of them have this, but Koyama is the most obvious example, being a vocal critic of civilian casualties as well as a frequent donor to anti-war charities.
Western Terrorists: Aside from Koyama, everyone on the team is either European or North American, and they're all politically motivated war criminals, with many of them continuing to support terrorist organizations. In a nice bit of irony, the sole non-western member of the team is the only character to have completely disowned his terrorist connections.

The Director (Scott Sarno)

Scott M. Sarno

Voiced By: Alec Newman

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The Director

The leader of the SIGMA unit and CICADA's director of European operations, currently supervising security for the Sanguine fashion show at Palais De Walewska.

The Cameo: He makes an odd cameo appearance alongside Nila Torvik in the briefing in Mendoza's "The Heartbreaker" Elusive Target in Hitman 3, though given he apparently died in a plane crash, it's likely he, like Nila, are representing other people.
Continuity Nod: Sarno is an explicit part of the staff at the Sanguine fashion show in Paris's "The Showstopper" mission. While he's not mentioned in the main mission itself, CICADA are the security at the show, and the intel, briefing, and his own dialog states that he's running the security op there, even forcing Novikov to wait until it is safe to go on-stage.
Death from Above: His unique challenge for killing Sarno is to release a chandelier as he walks underneath it.
Developer's Foresight: Pacifying Sebastian Sato before he goes on-stage has Novikov take his place, and a unique routine of Sarno will play out, where he will wait for Novikov behind the catwalk area, and then check if the catwalk is safe before Novikov goes down the runway. There is no reason to do this other than to hear Sarno interact with Novikov, as he still waits around in public areas.
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: One of the guards in the downstairs security room may mention that the images on the monitor in the downstairs security room in Paris never changes, despite looking at it for last hour.
Recurring Boss Template: The Director plays rather similarly to that of The Forger, in that both Scott Sarno and Sergei Larin go from the heavily guarded top floor to the less secure bottom floor of the Palais De Walewesca, with much of the gameplay being to assassinate them as they come down the stairs.

The Enforcer (Gary Lunn)

Gary Lunn

Voiced By: Nicholas Boulton

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The Enforcer

An enforcer for the SIGMA unit operating the security at Villa Caruso.

Continuity Nod: Diana mentions that Lunn is running the security op in Villa Caruso, though he's not mentioned in the main mission.
Death from Above: His unique challenge for killing him asks you to shoot a stalactite down from the cave roof as he's walking under it.
Lean and Mean: Lunn is not exactly the peak of physical prowess in the modern day, but a good half of his lines are just him being angry at either the lack of WiFi, or the guards "skiving" (taking a unneeded break).
Recurring Boss Template: The Enforcer is very similar routine-wise to Jordan Cross from Club 27, in that the goal is to kill him while they stay in one part of the level (top floor for Cross, Biolab for Lunn).
Surrounded by Idiots: He believes the guards are this, though nothing suggests that they are lazy, he appears to just want to berate the guards at every chance he gets.
Violent Glaswegian: Lunn acts like this, as if the guards are incompetent and that he's Surrounded by Idiots, and makes mild threats to everyone if something doesn't go his way.

The Extractor (Walter Menard)

Walter Menard

Voiced By: Nicholas Boulton]

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The Extractor

A high-ranking member of CICADA, Menard has been assigned to aid Claus Hugo Strandberg's extraction operation in Marrakesh.

Continuity Nod: The Extractor, very much like "The Gunrunner" Elusive Target, is actually directly tied to the story events of "A Gilded Cage", instead of happening around it, with Walter Menard set to help extract Claus Strandberg out of Morocco after the coup has been enacted. It also features unique dialog from a main mission target; General Reza Zaydan (starring his actual VA to boot!), something almost no other side mission or Elusive Target has.
Excrement Statement: Menard urinates in one of the dilapidated holes in the abandoned school in lieu of a functioning toilet.
Foreshadowing: Artwork of John Stubbs appears on the "Al Massala" newspaper found throughout this level.
Newhart Phonecall: He has several calls that he makes or responds to, some of which are to CICADA higher-ups in preparation for moving Strandberg, asking what has happened to Gary Lunn and Scott Sarno, while another is in response to someone trying to up-sell him a new phone contract and him getting really angry over it.
No Kill like Overkill: One of the challenges for killing him asks you to use the APC Turret, which not only kills Menard, but Strandberg, Zaydan, and the soldiers nearby.

The Veteran (John Stubbs)

John Stubbs

Voiced By: Timothy Watson

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The Veteran

A retired mercenary living off the money obtained during SIGMA's operations. Stubbs is on holiday with his wife Caroline at the Himmapan Hotel, but has become paranoid following his colleague's deaths.

Affably Evil: While Stubbs is semi-retired and lives a life of luxury from his ill-gotten gains, he genuinely loves his wife, Caroline, and has set up measures for her to retrieve his fortune when he dies. He pays Will, his ghost writer, out of pocket to the Himmapan personally and tells him to keep writing his biography should anything happen to him.
Bad Liar: Stubbs' wife gradually starts to become suspicious about where her husband's money comes from after hearing about the deaths of the first three. When Stubbs tries to say that they were merely friends, she becomes even more suspicious.
Breather Level: In many respects, his mission is one of the easiest of the Sarajevo Six. There are no cameras anywhere in his routine around the hotel (so going to the security office to delete any recorded footage can be avoided), his routine is fairly short, and at several points he isolates himself from his wife to make a few calls.
Coconut Meets Cranium: One of the challenges associated with killing him asks you to drop a pile of coconuts on his head.
Continuity Nod: Jordan Cross is alluded to, and shown as the "high profile guest in residence" in the briefing, and Caroline even mentions to John that he's fine with sharing a hotel with a famous Rockstar, suggesting "Club 27" is happening concurrently with this mission, if not slightly before it.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: If Stubbs's wife Caroline dies (or is pacified and hidden), he will spend the rest of the mission in a very public area, clearly crushed by her death.
Foreshadowing: Stubbs at one point talks on the phone with Patrick Morgan and is surprised at the fact that the latter is currently in Colorado with Sean Rose, with the latter convincing Stubbs they're being picked off systematically.
I Should Write a Book About This: John Stubbs occasionally talks to a writer who is writing a biography on his and the Six's operations. Notably, he seems to not want to embellish any of the details, and actually gives advice to the writer when he has difficulties understanding certain events.
Random Event: His routine is random on each restart, the only consistency being that he starts in the hotels' atrium. He does have specific places he'll go to however (meeting with his writer inside the hotel, sitting in the outside bar, standing near the outside lounging chairs area, and smoking near the water fountain at the front of the hotel), and will take diversions to make phone calls.
Recurring Boss Template: This mission is very similar to The Broker, in that the mission is staged in one part of the level, he very rarely moves away from the bottom floors, and requires finding a way of killing the target as they move around. Both even have phone call routines so the player can isolate them more easily.
Retired Monster: John Stubbs hasn't been an active mercenary for over 20 years, having retired to a life of ill-gotten luxury with his wife completely unaware of his shady past. He is in the middle of his holiday when 47 comes for him.

The Mercenary (Patrick Morgan)

Patrick Morgan

Voiced By: Timothy Watson

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The Mercenary

A freelance mercenary and a former tactical leader at CICADA. Morgan has been recruited into the private militia and is staying at their base in Colorado, expecting an assassination attempt.

Angrish: Patrick Morgan speaks entirely like this, mostly out of the (justified) fear that the Six are being offed one by one. There is nothing but venom in his voice if you try and hear him.
Continuity Nod: He's in Colorado helping Sean Rose, though the extent of his ties to the Militia are not expanded upon in-game or in his briefing.
Death from Above: His unique challenge for killing him asks you to shoot a haybale down as he's walking under it.
Harder Than Hard: This is easily the hardest mission in 2016 due to its central conceit; Morgan and four of the militia are hunting you, and you must always be wary of his movements when setting up a trap or isolating him.
No-Sell: Patrick Morgan and his bodyguards will see through all of 47's disguises and follow him around if you get too close to them.
One-Steve Limit: Patrick Morgan shares his surname with main story target Ken Morgan, but that's where the similarities end, they are otherwise unrelated.
Recurring Boss Template: This mission plays very similarly to The Bookkeeper Elusive Target. Morgan is surrounded by guards and tricky to isolate, much like Perrti, and requires more lateral thinking than usual to take him out. The Militia and Patrick Morgan following 47 around is also based on the "Deadly Stalker" NPC found in "The Mallory Misfortune" escalation.
Scary Black Man: Patrick Morgan is considered to be the most dangerous of the six. He's also the only armed target in 2016 (though not in World of Assassination overall), and is actively hunting you, so his reputation is well deserved.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: After Sarno, Lunn, Menard and Stubbs are killed, Patrick is Properly Paranoid that someone is out to get him, and never leaves his armed entourage.
Unexpected Gameplay Change: The Mercenary requires you to kill Patrick Morgan, all the while he actively hunts for you, and the game is set up so his entourage follow you around if you get too close. Morgan is also one of two armed targets in the entire trilogy, sharing this distinction with Noel Crest and the targets in the Hitman 3 Berlin level.

The Controller (Taheiji Koyama)

Taheiji Koyama

Voiced By: Alec Newman

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The Controller

A former logistics and operations coordinator for CICADA, Koyama retired shortly after the SIGMA unit disbanded and became an anti-war philanthropist. Koyama is staying inside the GAMA medical facility, where he's slowly succumbing to Elyen's Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder.

Affably Evil: Koyama left SIGMA after the war ended out of guilt for his actions, using his money to support anti-war charities and rejecting various life-saving treatments on ethical grounds. He placed the contract on himself and the rest of the six, knowing he would likely die before justice could be served otherwise.
All for Nothing: In this mission it's finally revealed that Koyama placed the contracts on himself, as well as his former colleagues because he felt he would perish before justice could be served. After 47 exposes the files online however, both Diana and 47 agree that the incident was simply a sideshow among the various atrocities of The Yugoslav Wars and that the six's deaths won't be publicly noticed.
The Atoner: The final contract exists because Taheiji Koyama made the contracts to atone for his past actions, and also put the hits out his former squadmates.
Balance Buff: The later re-release of The Controller in Hitman 3 changed some aspects of his mission:
- The mission now allows being recorded by security cameras (so long as you're not doing anything illegal, and are actually allowed to be in the area you were seen in), making the mission less linear as a result (so you can delete the security footage after stealing the files more easily, not before, for example).
- The following patch in October 2023 removes all restrictions on saving, now keeping it in line with the other missions in the trilogy, and making it less frustrating to those who previously had a hard time with it. While the patch notes imply this had been done campaign-wide, The Controller was the only contract that had this restriction prior to the update.
Beyond Redemption: After slaughtering refugees during a gold robbery, Koyama started to believe that he and the rest of the group had completely lost their morality. Once an old friend informed him of the ICA, Koyama chose to place a contract on himself and his former comrades.
Broken Pedestal: An implied trope, as the information of their escapades are leaked to the public at the end of this mission, decimating their reputations, particularly for Stubbs' wife.
Caught Monologuing: 47 can kill Koyama as he explains what SIGMA did and why he placed the contracts. Doing so completes a challenge.
Face Death with Dignity: Koyama is waiting for 47 and even says that it would have been rude for him to die to his illness before 47 arrived. After confessing everything, he asks 47 to complete the final contract and turns his back to him.
Gameplay and Story Segregation: Despite waiting for 47 to kill him, Koyama acts like a regular target and will run away if provoked or shot.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: An interesting example, as it's one done intentionally by Koyama, but his redemption leads to 47 killing him, as a strange form of a Suicide by Cop.
Heel Realisation: In the final mission, Koyama is the only one of the six to regret his actions, hiring 47 to kill all his former partners as a way of atoning for his actions. He's spent many years trying to atone for what he's done, including becoming a vocal anti-war advocate.
Karma Houdini Warranty After Koyama is killed, the ICA is instructed to declassify the files on them that 47 retrieves, meaning that their actions will come to light. Though both Diana and 47 theorize that due to the deaths of the members, nothing significant will come of it.
Redemption Equals Death: Koyama's atonement includes his own death, though he acknowledges it won't erase his actions.
Stationary Boss: Koyama stays on the onsen's ledge and won't leave without being provoked, since he's waiting for 47 to kill him.
Suicide by Cop: Koyama pulls this off by hiring the ICA to assassinate the rest of the group before allowing 47 to finish him off, believing that he would end up dying from ill health before justice could be served.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: One of the challenges for killing Koyama is named "No Thanks, Captain Exposition", and asks you to kill Koyama mid-exposition, as he's telling 47 of the atrocities of the SIGMA Unit.
Token Good Teammate: Taheiji Koyama hired the ICA to take down his team and serve justice. He also donated his fortune to charities, including help for war victims across Asia. Even when he was diagnosed with Elyen's Syndrome, he refused treatment and continued donating to charities until he moved to Gama.
Unexpected Gameplay Change: The Controller asks you to kill Koyama, though he's actually a Death Seeker, and get the files on the groups' escapades from the Director's computer, which is in the most secure part of the facility.
Walking Spoiler: Koyama's, with the help of Locksley, he is the client who hired 47, and the only one wanting to atone for his actions, even if it means his own death.
Your Days Are Numbered: Koyama suffers from a rare disease called Elyen's Syndrome, but he has consistently refused treatment from it. When he begins succumbing to the disease, he places a contract on himself and the rest of the Six.

Bonus Mission Targets

Dino Bosco

The Thespian

"Come on! I'm not asking much! Just a freaking inferno!"

Voiced By: William Mapother (English)^note

A washed up character actor seeking to relive his glory days by directing and starring in a movie based on the cult superhero graphic novel The Icon. His rampant perfectionism and disregard for budget have put his studio on the edge of bankruptcy, causing them to turn to the ICA to eliminate him.

Asshole Victim: While Dino is nowhere near as evil as any of the other targets, he's certainly one of the most unpleasant. For most of the mission, you can hear him berating the film crew. Because of this, killing him is really satisfying.
Bait the Dog: At first, you might feel bad for the rather petty reason for his kill order. After you spend some time on the mission, you'll probably change your mind.
Be Careful What You Wish For: One of his most common complaints is about the lackluster flames produced by the fire-breathing alien, wanting a "freaking inferno". Naturally, one opportunity involves giving him exactly what he wants, with predictable results.
Career Resurrection: In-Universe, he hopes to have one by starring in The Icon, but gets killed before he can.
Casting Gag: William Mapother was originally intended to replace David Bateson as the voice of 47 in Hitman: Absolution but Bateson returned to the role at the last minute due to fan demand. Dialogue between some NPCs in Bosco's level can be overheard talking about having Bosco replaced in the leading role with another named Dave Bateson.
Cruel and Unusual Death: The ways 47 can kill him using the movies special effects, ranging from the harsh but fast blowing him up with the explosives that go off during his running, adding more fuel to the alien that spits fire so it burns him alive, to sabotaging the big alien he jumps towards and giving the launching pad enough power to get him to it's mouth, where the razor sharp teeth slice into his guts. Yowch.
Damage-Sponge Boss: Compared to other targets in the game, Bosco takes more firepower to gun down because of his costume protecting him. It takes 10 silverballer shots to the torso or at least 3 headshots to kill him (bear in mind the silverballer is a Hand Cannon compared to the regular pistols used by guards), which isn't a huge amount but makes him tough enough that you can't shoot him to death without causing a big commotion. In fact, Bosco is even tankier than the Heavily Armored Mook Elite Mooks who essentially serve as the Final Boss of the trilogy in Hitman 3, though without weapon he's completely helpless.
Disproportionate Retribution: Killing a B-movie star just because he's a huge jerk that's bleeding the studio's funds dry probably counts as this.
Dead Artists Are Better: Before his death on-set, Bosco is seen as a washed-up, abrasive character actor. Afterwards, he is remembered fondly and The Icon turns out to be a hit.
Hated by All: Besides draining his studio's budget dry to the point of them ordering a hit on him to not violate their contract, all of the film staff despise him for berating them every second he gets. Two of them even intend on boycotting the film until he's replaced. Even his PR manager thinks lowly of him.
It's All About Me: Dino doesn't care about anybody else working on the movie. He only cares about the final result and making himself look good in the process.
Jerkass: He berates his film crew and threatens them multiple times if he's even slightly annoyed at the shot. He's also immature enough to respond to edits and unauthorized recuts of his films by peeing on the screen during the premier and Flipping the Bird to the whole audience.
Mean Boss: Or rather, mean director. Dino makes a habit of treating his crew like shit.
Nice Character, Mean Actor: Dino plays a superhero fighting monsters during the film set, but as soon as the camera stops filming, he becomes a Prima Donna Director.
Nice to the Waiter: He's a complete asshole to everyone on the film set, but he's actually quite charming towards his fans, even the ones who are acting kind of awkward and weird.
No-Sell: His suit is genuinely bulletproof. He can take at least 2 headshots from the Jaeger 7 Lancer. However, he isn't protected from melee weapons and even the Silverballers will get past the armour eventually.
No Stunt Double: As an old school B-movie actor, he does all his own stunts. This being Hitman, it can prove to be his undoing.
The Other Darrin: Invoked In-Universe, some NPCs can be overheard discussing having an actor named Dave Bateson replace Dino Bosco in the movie.
The Perfectionist: According to his studio's accountant, he's spent weeks shooting the same scene over and over and he refuses to wrap up production until he's absolutely satisfied, creating huge delays and causing the movie to go over budget.
Prima Donna Director: He wants everything to be done the most realistically and the reshoot is sinking the production company into bankruptcy. It's cheaper hiring 47 to kill him than breaking his contract.
Self-Deprecation: The dialogue you can overhear about Bosco's leading role, and how two fans want him to be replaced by an actor named Dave Bateson is a reference to his voice actor, William Mapother, almost replacing David Bateson as the voice of Agent 47 in the development of Hitman: Absolution.
Self-Made Man: Despite coming from a relatively privileged background, Bosco insisted in starting his film career from the very bottom (including Z-grade movies and porn), claiming that "you have to earn it".
Small Name, Big Ego: Dino is extremely cocky for a washed up B-movie star.
White-Dwarf Starlet: Bosco was a popular actor in his prime, but his abrasive attitude and substance abuse led to him being blacklisted by the film industry. While he intended for The Icon to resurrect his career, his perfectionism results in the movie studio placing a contract to avoid being bankrupted.

Kong Tuo-Kwang

The Contractor

"Admiring the view? Good. Because soon it will be our high-rises that dominate the scenery."

Voiced By: James Sie (English)^note

The founder of construction firm China Corp, who claims that he does what he does to improve lives but is really driven by profit.

Affably Evil: Rather personable and abjectly amoral, in direct contrast to Mendola.
Berserk Button: Although normally calm and collected, throwing stuff around to try and lure him will often cause him to shout and swear.
Briefcase Full of Money: Calls out Mendola on believing in this cliché alongside the Newspaper-Thin Disguise cliché. He points out that everyone simply uses wire transfers in the real world.
Community-Threatening Construction: Hinted to be interested in this. He compliments the view of the city and the local traditions, but is enthusiastic to turn it into skyscrapers, whatever the cost.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Despite his protestations to the contrary, it's clear that the man pursues profit at all costs. The fact that he's illegally spying on his competition is testament to this fact.
Deadpan Snarker: If he meets with Mendola, he will enjoy messing with him.
Kong: Ah, yes, Mr Mendola, I always carry around a million dollars in unmarked bills. And a newspaper with eyes holes.
Even Evil Has Standards: While ruthless, he honors his deals and tries to be as personable as possible to those around him, showing that his actions are driven by a desire for power and wealth rather than sadism or malice. This makes him come across as one of the more likable villains in the game and one of the least evil ones.
High-Voltage Death: He can be killed by overflowing the pool in the shisha den and dropping a light into it. This is one of the most bombastic deaths he can be subjected to.
Nice to the Waiter: In contrast to Mendola, Kong is normally polite to anyone working for him. Bumping into him while wearing a service-based disguise won't annoy him as much as it would Mendola. Just don't throw anything around him or he'll lose his shit.
Noble Demon: Shows signs of this. While he has no qualms about illegally spying on Hamilton-Lowe and tearing down the city to build skyscrapers, he’s polite and respectful to the waiting staff and honours his deal with Mendola by wiring money to his bank account, rather than throwing the Frenchman off the roof.
Purple Is Powerful: He wears purple and is a very wealthy man.
Self-Made Man: A darker variation. He started life as a street orphan in Kowloon Walled City and eventually became a high-powered corporate executive. However, it's implied that he stepped on quite a few toes during his rise to fame and fortune.
The Stoner: A functioning example, but he enjoys hitting the shisha pipes.
Villain with Good Publicity: To most of the world, he's a simple CEO and building contractor.

Matthieu Mendola

The Architect

"You see, I have this meeting in a few minutes and it is really important to me."

Voiced By: Keith Ferguson (English)^noteOther Languages:Yuta Odagaki (Japanese)

A highly superstitious family man and Hamilton-Lowe's former chief architect, whose dissatisfaction with his job caused him to become a spy for their main competitor.

All for Nothing: If he is killed before he can make a transaction with Kwang, his death is rendered pointless.
Ambiguously Evil: There's nothing to suggest he's actually a bad person, just a spurned employee trying to retaliate against a bad employer. Considering his employer is a regular client of the ICA, he's probably right to take this view.
Creative Differences: In-Universe. Having several has made him defect from Hamilton-Lowe.
Death by Materialism: His desire to sell out his company for a massive profit is what leads to his death.
Death from Above: He can be crushed by a neon letter sign dangling from the cafe entrance. Alternatively, he can be flattened by a lantern at the lamp shop.
The Dog Bites Back: Sees his failed attempt at corporate espionage this way.
Escort Mission: Him meeting Kong is entirely dependant on if 47 takes him directly to the contractor.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's not exactly evil, but he is noted to be a family man in his profile.
French Jerk: Hasn't got the friendliest personality and doesn't hesitate to chide anyone for even the slightest mishaps. That being said, it might be because of his (justified) paranoia of being found out during the mission. He is nicer than he needs to be to a few of the vendors on the street, but is quick to turn snarky when things don't go his way.
High-Voltage Death: If he tries to make a phonecall on a phone tampered with by 47, he falls victim to this trope. He can also be electrocuted by a puddle while roaming the market streets.
Jerkass: He's rather rude and stubborn, being antagonistic to everyone around him. Whether this is due to the intense stress on his shoulders or if it's just his normal personality is never explained.
Make It Look Like an Accident: There are a multitude of ways to kill him as he patrols the markets, much more ways than most bonus mission targets.
- His head can be crushed in with a crystal ball when he consults with a fortune teller.
- He can be poisoned by snail soup or tea leaves.
- He can be flattened with a lantern while being harassed by the shopkeepers.
- When he tries to use a phone to call Kwang, he can be electrocuted.
- He can be crushed by a neon latter at the cafe.
- He can be electrocuted while stepping through a puddle.
- He can be drowned in a toilet if the snail soup, tea leaves or his shisha pipe is laced with rat poison.
- He can be poisoned along with Kwang by their shisha pipes.
- He can be pushed to his death while admiring the view of the marketplaces.
- He can be blown up by a gas lamp near the shisha pipes.
Mean Boss: In contrast to Kong, he will chide any service provider he is unhappy with - fortune tellers, food vendors, phone repairmen. Even if the bodyguard calls him up to the meeting a minute after his arrival, he will announce his intention to chide them for lateness.
The Mole: He is Kong's inside man within Hamilton-Lowe, planning to hand him documents that could land him billions in a real estate deal.
Nervous Wreck: He is constantly on edge due to paranoia.
Properly Paranoid: He is constantly worried of getting caught and/or killed for his defection. He is very correct.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: He plans on selling private documents to China Corp, hence why he ends up becoming a target.
Video Game Caring Potential: If you're feeling nice, you can make sure his family gets his fortune by letting Kwang complete their transaction before killing the two of them. Mendola's family may be distraught over his loss, but at least they'll be billionaires.
Video Game Cruelty Potential: Alternatively, you can kill him before such a transaction is made, rendering Mendola's death as completely pointless.

Harry "Smokey" Bagnato & Marv "Slick" Gonif

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Harry "Smokey" Bagnato

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Marv "Slick" Gonif

Voiced By: Unknown

A pair of burglars trying to rob the Palais de Walewska on Christmas Eve.

Blatant Burglar: They infiltrate a gala event wearing black street clothes with long jackets. Yet nobody seems to notice them or care when they enter restricted areas. Marv at least tries by wearing a security uniform, but Harry has no excuse.
Butt-Monkey: Slick. One of the mission challenges is to knock him unconscious with a brick three times before finally killing him, in reference to a scene in the one of the Home Alone films.
Christmas Episode: Christmas-themed Targets (Harry and Marv) in a Christmas-themed Paris level.
Developer's Foresight: If Harry or Marv come across Santa, they will wave and clap at him. Since the chances of their routines crossing paths is quite unlikely (Santa's teleporting in a semi-random order), this is quite a rare sight.
Disproportionate Retribution: They are targets for simply being thieves, pretty unremarkable ones at that.
Evil Laugh: Slick starts giggling to himself every time he steals something or floods a sink.
Expy: A pair of bumbling thieves named Harry and Marv robbing a place on Christmas Eve? Why does that sound so familiar? Slick even insists on flooding the Palais de Walewska's bathroom sinks.
Hammerspace: They can steal huge weapons such as battle axes and katana's, but they will disappear as soon as they take them. They will still drop them when they get knocked out or die.
Nerf: Their routines in 2016 and 2 used to start at the basement of the Palace, where they'd eventually split up. In 3, only Marv starts there and Harry starts on the first floor instead. This was changed to remove the possibility of killing two birds with one stone as getting to their starting point is very easy; now the player has to sneak around the Palace to chase after Harry.
Random Event: Unique to the "Holiday Hoarders" mission is Santa, who teleports from room to room in a mostly random order. Averted for Harry and Marv, as they, like most of the other targets in Hitman, have unique learnable routines.
Shout-Out:
- To the thieves in Home Alone, sharing similar names to the Wet Bandits from said film.
- The "Bad 47" challenge asks you to knockout Marv three times with a brick, a reference to a similar scene in the first sequel (just that Marv doesn't go unconscious there).
- Marv’s penchant for flooding sinks is also a reference to the Wet Bandits’ calling card of robbing places, then leaving the homeowners’ sinks on.
Temporary Online Content: Averted in Hitman (2016) as the mission, and therefore Smokey and Slick, were not temporary, but played straight when they were initially re-released into Hitman 2. Averted once more, as Holiday Hoarders was made a permanent mission in the December 2019 update for Hitman 2. Hitman 3, being released after Christmas 2020, didn't release the level until the 2021 holidays, but was made permanent.
The Voiceless: Downplayed. They have generic dialog if you come across them, but they don't talk to each other with unique voice lines, nor to anyone else for that matter, but you can hear them get frustrated or upset if you steal something before they do, and be happy at something with delighted squee's.
Timed Mission: After Harry and Marv complete their routes, the two will meet up. A challenge requires you to steal all the items on the target's lists before they do. The challenge fails if either one dies, but you can freely knock them out. Another requires you to kill them both in a propane explosion after they return empty handed.
Troll: Slick occasionally enters bathrooms just to flood the sink and giggles like a little kid after doing so.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: As noted above, no one will bat an eye as they slip into restricted areas in plain sight. While Smokey does at least try stay low and move fast to avoid detection while searching for loot, Slick just walks around cluelessly looking for stuff to steal.
Writing Around Trademarks: They have similar names to the thieves in Home Alone.

Marco Abiatti

The Politician

"I did it because of avarice, I admit. But this is such a beautiful town - it's too good for the poor."

Voiced By: Jon Curry (English)

A wealthy businessman and right-wing politician with mafia ties returning to Sapienza to run for mayor.

The Bully: Enjoys cowing and threatening others. He also turns out to have been one to Silvio Caruso and Father Francesco as a kid.
Call-Forward:
- His death is mentioned in passing by numerous NPCs in "World of Tomorrow". Francesca De Santis discovers this and mentions at one point that the real reason Silvio Caruso issued the contract is because Abiatti bullied him when they were at school.
- If Silvio Caruso is confronted by 47 at gunpoint in “World of Tomorrow”, he might scream out "This is just like Abiatti throwing me down a well!".
Churchgoing Villain: Subverted. He claims to be a good Catholic, only to brag about his misdeeds and Evil Plan during his "confession". He's only interested in having Father Francesco (whom he bullied in high school) support his plan, and he will push him off the bell tower when the latter refuses.
Community-Threatening Construction: He plans to expel the local townspeople and make Sapienza a luxury retreat for the rich and powerful.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: What he was before entering politics and, given his plans for Sapienza, still is at heart.
Corrupt Politician: He has mafia connections, doesn’t give a damn about his constituents, plans to use his position for his own personal gain and is even willing to murder a priest.
The Dog Bites Back: Your client is Silvio Caruso, who Marco had bullied in the past.
The Dreaded: Others in Sapienza who know him regard him with fear. Salvatore, a local lawyer, has butted heads with the Mafia and finds him and him alone terrifying.
Engineered Public Confession: Sabotaging the stage and leaving the mic on causes Marco to accidentally reveal his true intentions towards Sapienza. He'll then head to the stage to explain himself, even though it was just declared a safety hazard. If you give him a chance to make his speech before giving him his shocking exit, after some awkward right-wing fumbling while claiming he was just joking, he's actually slick enough to win back the crowd by promising them jobs and lower taxes.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Expects everyone to consent to being bought, from the local townspeople to his political enemies. When people are more principled, he tends to respond with threats or violence.
Evil Is Petty: Outside of pushing a priest he bullied as a child off a building, Abiatti barely hides his rude manners. He will urinate on a grave and will flirt with an engaged woman, upsetting and potentially driving her fianceé to suicide.
Handsome Lech: Considers himself something of a ladies' man, having went on a date with the actress of a play he watched and praises the creator of a dating app he uses upon meeting him. He also takes a photo of himself with a woman near the church while offering her his number, causing her fianceé to commit suicide. Two women mention that he's been accused of sexual harassment by a former classmate of his.
Hate Sink: The other targets don’t stop to piss on people’s graves or push priests off church rooftops.
High-Voltage Death: It is possible to give him a fatal shock while onstage trying to salvage his reputation or when he urinates on a gravestone.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: It’s possible to lure him up to the roof of a church and push him off, causing him to fall on one of the spires and get run through.
"Just Joking" Justification: If you set up Marco for an Engineered Public Confession, he claims this about what he was overheard saying. Also, if you follow him around Sapienza and listen in on his conversations you'll find that he makes this excuse quite often.
Karmic Death:
- One way to kill him is to push him off the roof of a church where he gets impaled on one of the spires. Right after he tried to put on a façade of being a Church Going Villain by going to confession with no intention of actually repenting. For added karma, you do this dressed as Father Francesco, one of his old bullying victims and someone he will kill should he find him.
- It's possible to trick him into an Engineered Public Confession, then electrocute him while he tries to do damage control in front of the now enraged public he was intending to expel for his own selfish ends.
Kick the Dog: He’s been outright stated as one of the reasons why Silvio is such an emotional wreck and he will eventually murder Father Francesco should the two meet.
Last Disrespects: If the graveyard meeting is shifted, he will proceed to take a leak on a grave. Since said grave is right next to an extension cord, this can be used to kill him.
Man of Wealth and Taste: He spends the entire mission dressed in a nice suit.
No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Of infamous Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, with a dash of other European populists. His ties to the mafia, off-color jokes and feud with a newspaper are all based on controversies surrounding Berlusconi.
Politically Incorrect Villain: While he poses as a man of the people, he secretly loathes the poor and middle class citizens of Sapienza, and intends on evicting them so he can turn the town into a luxury resort.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: He spends the mission dressed in a red pinstriped blazer with a black shirt and a striped black and white tie. He barely hides his vicious demeanor in private.
Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: To both Silvio Caruso and Father Francesco.
Seven Deadly Sins: Abiatti's traits cover all seven of them.
- He's a wealthy businessman with mafia ties that is running for mayor, using organized crime to consolidate his power. (Gluttony)
- He hosts a lavish campaign festival with his face plastered on posters and vans, and while he portrays himself as a populist, he shows contempt for anyone else. He openly gloat about his misdeeds during his "confession". (Pride)
- He wants to turn Sapienza into a luxury resort for the wealthy. (Greed)
- He doesn't like getting his hands dirty, often bribing his opponents into silence or setting up private meetings. He's also lazy and ill-mannered, relying on his assistant for information about his guests and urinating in a graveyard instead of using a toilet. (Sloth)
- He flirts with several partygoers and booth babes, regardless of if they're taken, and has allegedly sexually harassed women in the past. (Lust)
- He seeks the approval of a lawyer with evidence against him and the Vatican, and dislikes that Father Francesco, whom he bullied as a child, is admired by the local community. (Envy)
- He resorts to violence and threats when things don't go his way, and flies off the handle when things go poorly for him. (Wrath)
Trumplica: His politics and personality seem to be based off Donald Trump, who was elected into office later that year, alongside other right-wing politicians. He's also clearly tanned and somewhat heavy.
Sleazy Politician: Not only is he a crook, he's a complete sleazebag as well.
Villain with Good Publicity: A few residents of the town see through his act. A majority, however, are lining up for photos, extolling the virtues of his supposed honesty and enjoying the festivities in his name. One option for killing him is turning on a mic and exposing him to the town and killing him during his attempted damage control.
Visionary Villain: Speaks of his plan to reinvent Sapienza in quite grandiose terms.
Wicked Pretentious: He fancies himself a connoisseur of drink, but the first time he's served a glass in the mission, he turns up his nose at it after a sample, saying it's "too fermented" (which anyone who knows anything about wine would understand is not only impossible, but antithetical to the very idea of wine). The waiters gossip about it later, calling him a nouveau-riche idiot and the server decides out of spite that she's just going to keep serving him out of the same bottle while displaying different ones. Marco never once notices.

Patient Zero Targets

Oybek Nabazov

See the Providence page.

Sister Yulduz

The Sister

Voiced By: Elsie Bennett (English)

Nabazov's second-in-command who’s in charge of organizing the cult's activities.

Didn't Think This Through: Yulduz doesn't seem to appreciate the gravity of Nabazov's plan and believes the viral outbreak is something she can profit from, not considering that all that money won't do her any good if Nabazov's virus destroys the world.
Dirty Coward: She intends on abandoning the cult during their ritual suicide so she can flee with a private militia and profit from the viral outbreak.
The Dragon: She is Oybek's unloyal second in command and almost as vile as he is.
Dragon with an Agenda: Yulduz lacks any interest in the cult's activities beyond making a profit from the virus' destruction and has hired a group of mercenaries to escort her out of the hotel once Nabazov dies.
Even Evil Has Standards: Even Oybek is a bit too crazy for her. Downplayed, as this is due to the fact that he wholeheartedly believes in his nihilistic worldview while she is an opportunist hoping to profit off of his plans.
Genre Savvy: See Properly Paranoid. Even if 47 covers his tracks, she'll still notice if Nabazov isn't around.
Hate Sink: A selfish, greedy coward willing to kill billions to fill her own pockets, Sister Yulduz is nothing short of a monster.
Irony:
- Yulduz's plan involves investing in companies that would profit during a viral outbreak and abandoning Liberation once their plans kick off. Klaus Liebleid's notes in "Patient Zero" indicate that the Nabazov virus is designed to attack cities and other densely-populated areas, which would make her investments worthless if an outbreak did happen.
- Yulduz sees Nabazov, a Con Man responsible for several mass suicides, as a lunatic who will kill himself during the suicide ritual. Yulduz herself has no loyalty to the group.
Let No Crisis Go to Waste: ICA intelligence has found she has made substantial investments in security and pharmaceutical companies, apparently hoping to profit off the plague Liberation is planning to unleash.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: She is likely inspired by Ma Anand Sheela, the ruthless second in command of the Rajneesh movement, a group also accused of being a cult and who orchestrated a bio terror attack on U.S. soil.
No Name Given: Shares this with Brother Akram, their full names are never revealed.
Only in It for the Money: Her main reason for organizing the cult's viral outbreak is to make money from her investments in the security and pharmaceutical industry.
Playing Both Sides: She's organizing the viral outbreak while secretly having investments in security and pharmaceutical companies in the hopes of profiting off the outbreak. She also refuses to go down with the cult and will leave if Nabazov goes missing.
Properly Paranoid: If you kill Nabazov first and hide his body, leaving it undiscovered, Yulduz will still eventually notice he isn't around and correctly deduce something has happened to him, leading to the Screw This, I'm Outta Here moment below.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If Nabazov dies, Yulduz's plan seems to be to flee and make good on her investments rather than stick around and go down with the rest of the cult when Nabazov's doomsday plan kicks off. This is why she's got a team of mercs that are not part of the cult on call in the gardens.
Not in This for Your Revolution: In private phone calls, Yulduz refers to Nabazov as an "old lunatic" and makes it clear she has absolutely no intention of going down with the cult as Nabazov triggers the apocalypse. Her only interest seems to be short-selling companies and making a profit when the viral outbreak tanks the economy.

Craig Black

The Author

Voiced By: Timothy Watson (English)

A renowned author and Liberation sleeper agent who plans to release the cult's deadly virus at a fan convention for his books.

Creator Backlash: An In-Universe example as he hates "Cassandra Snow: New England Wiccan", his most popular series. In fact, he hates it so much that he is willing to commit bioterrorism on his own fans to overshadow it.
Dead Artists Are Better: Hitman 2 reveals that the Cassandra Snow series skyrocketed in popularity after his death.
Irony:
- He researched the seductive and tempting nature of cults to research for the Cassandra Snow franchise, only to join one himself later on.
- He despises the Cassandra Snow series and intends on killing everyone at a convention so it can overshadow the series. His death causes the series' popularity to skyrocket.
Disproportionate Retribution: He plans on killing everyone at a Cassandra Snow convention with the virus because the series has overshadowed his other works.
Early-Bird Cameo: Nabazov calls him in "The Source" about his upcoming meeting with Akram.
Humiliation Conga: A posthumous one. He hates the Cassandra Snow franchise to the point that he would kill everyone at an upcoming convention with a deadly virus to make sure he'll be remembered for that instead. After 47 kills him, it is announced that the Cassandra Snow film franchise will continue to go on despite his death, and another book comes out, with no one being aware of his cult activities.
Laser-Guided Karma: He utterly despises the Cassandra Snow books and their popularity and vows that they will not be what he will be remembered for. A news report in Hawkes Bay in Hitman 2 reveals that Hollywood has decided to keep making Cassandra Snow films despite his death, thus ensuring its all he'll be remembered for.
Mad Artist: It's suggested he's not right in the head, given his willingness to join a doomsday cult and murder his own fans.
Magnum Opus Dissonance: Before working on the Cassandra Snow franchise, Craig wrote a number of sci-fi neo-noir novels that went largely ignored. However, his supernatural preteen fantasy series, Cassandra Snow, which he created on a lark has completely eclipsed them in popularity, which has left him bitter and resentful.
Mugged for Disguise: You can kill/knockout Craig Black to steal his clothes and meet up with Brother Akram.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Given that the Cassandra Snow series is a clear parody of The Twilight Saga, Black appears to be based on Stephenie Meyer. Like Meyer, Black is stated to have released several sci-fi books that were ignored, and Black's involvement in a cult is likely based on Meyer inserting her Mormon beliefs into her books.
No-Sell: If 47 disguises himself as Akram and meets with Craig, he'll eventually see through the disguise since 47 can't give him the virus.
Old Shame: The dialogues from him indicate he has come to hate his most popular work "Cassandra Snow: New England Wiccan". In fact, he hates it so much that he is willing to commit bioterrorism on his own fans.
Would Hurt a Child: While a lot of Cassandra Snow fans (many of whom Craig is planning to murder at a Fan Convention) are adults, the books are still YA novels...

Brother Akram

The Brother

Voiced By: Nicholas Boulton (English)

A high-ranking operative of Liberation currently meeting Craig Black in Sapienza to hand him the virus crucial to their bioterrorism.

Ambiguously Brown: The mission briefing notes that his Central Asian heritage is only a guess.
Early-Bird Cameo: Is mentioned by Nabazov in "The Source" when the are both on a phone call to one another.
Flat Character: Along with Paine and Liebleid, he has very little development outside of his intro. All that's known about him is that he's obsessive, fanatical, and not right in the head.
Mugged for Disguise: You can kill or knockout Brother Akram then nick his clothes and meet up with Craig Black.
Mysterious Past: His profile is largely guesswork and conjecture. His traveling suggests a degree of tradecraft and his correspondence suggests a long history with Nabazov pre-dating Liberation's founding, but nothing conclusive.
No Name Given: Shares this with Sister Yulduz, as their full names are never revealed.
Room Full of Crazy: The bedroom in his apartment fits the bill. The walls and floor are covered in red paint mimicking blood, skulls and a picture dedicated to Nabazov is on his nightstand.
Diana: He's not particularly discreet.
Terse Talker: Akram only has about 12 proper voice lines (his meditation voice lines, a few lines when meeting Craig Black, as well as a single line when speaking to himself before the meeting).
You All Look Familiar: His model and outfit are similar (not the same, the hair is different and his cheeks are chubbier) to that of a cult bodyguard encountered in "The Source" also called "Akram".

Bradley Paine

The Brainwasher

Voiced By: N/A

A Liberation sleeper agent serving as a researcher in the CDC.

Ambiguous Situation: Either his presence in Rose's militia is because he was hired for his duties as a field doctor and the Shadow Client legitimately didn't know he was a member of a cult, or the entire map is just meant to take place on a different apricot farm, It's not clear which is the correct interpretation of events. The game does feature a phone call between Paine and Nabazov in "The Source" suggesting the former, as Nabazov mentions the Militia were looking for medical staff to join them.
Asshole Victim: Diana isn't particularly upset when you kill Paine. If you kill him last, she'll end her introduction of him with "good riddance".
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: He has a mixed resemblance to both Matt Smith and David Byrne; his face better resembles the latter, but features the former's glasses worn on Doctor Who. Paine's suit and bowtie look like they came straight out of "Once in a Lifetime", a music video Byrne sung and starred in.
Early-Bird Cameo: Is mentioned by Nabazov in "The Source" when they are both on a phone call to one another, which reveals he's reluctant to join the militia, but does so when Nabazov convinces him to.
Even Evil Has Standards: Diana, who generally manages to be professionally blasé about the numerous crimes and Kick the Dog moments committed by most of 47's targets, seems to find Paine's actions to be particularly heinous, given he's coldly experimenting on his own men with a deadly bio-weapon.
Flat Character: Downplayed. He has no specific voice lines for the mission (which makes sense, given it's a sniping mission), with most of his characterisation coming from his Intel, Bio and Briefing.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Bradley may have glasses but he lacks a moral compass.
The Mole: His bio indicates that his role in Liberation is to hinder the CDC's efforts to combat the Nabazov virus once it’s been released. He’s also this for the militia, who he's using to test the virus on.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Pain(e). Also doubles with Meaningful Name, since inflicting pain on people is the thing he seems to be doing in the level.
Properly Paranoid: Should he be alerted to anything going wrong, he will immediately run away even if it sounds like an accident.
The Sociopath: Diana indicates that his lab notes refer to his victims more like lab animals than people, indicating a casual indifference to human life.
The Voiceless: Since you're situated at the top of a sniper perch, you never hear him speak (though he’s still visibly talking to militiamen and the like while patrolling). This makes him one of the few Targets in the entire franchise where he's completely mute to the player on the account of being too far away from you to hear him speak.

Owen Cage

The Patient

Voiced By: Timothy Watson (English)

Nabazov's partner and the main developer of Liberation's bioweapon, which he has infected himself with in order to become its Patient Zero and spread it throughout the world. After failing to infect Sydney, he’s currently being held under heavy quarantining in the Gama hospital.

Achievements in Ignorance: In making the Nabazov virus to Liberations' specifications, he accidentally made a hideously infectious pathogen that happens to be disproportionately lethal to 47, capable of killing the clone assassin long before a regular infectee would display symptoms. This is something previous antagonist groups would have traded a blank cheque for.
Antagonist Title: He's the titular "Patient Zero" of both the campaign and its final mission, though he's Dragon Their Feet after the death of Big Bad Nabazov.
Apocalypse Cult: An active member of Nabazov's death cult.
Big Bad Duumvirate: Alongside Nabazov, he's the main villain of the Patient Zero campaign, being the guy who developed the virus and set up plans to spread it throughout the world.
Captain Oblivious: Cage is so afflicted by the virus that he doesn't notice or react to anything 47 does. He also seems to be unaware of where he is, frequently asking his escort about his flight.
Conspiracy Theorist: Actively promoted conspiracy theories online under the handle "Black Tide", including the Illuminati and the Elders of Zion.
Dark Lord on Life Support: He's bedridden and delirious by the time 47 gets to him.
Dragon Their Feet: Despite Nabazov and the other cult agents being wiped out, he still goes through with their plans to infect the world and is the last cultist to be assassinated.
Eco-Terrorist: Described as an "idealistic eco-warrior, driven to extreme measures by what he perceives to be a relentless race towards environmental collapse" in his bio.
Evil Genius: Cage serves as this to the Liberation cult, being the developer of their bioweapon.
Evil Old Folks: Appears to be in his sixties and is responsible for creating and attempting to distribute the cult's virus.
Patient Zero: Cage injected himself with the virus with the intention of becoming Patient Zero for the Nabazov vorus. While it didn't precisely go to plan, he can still become this for the Gama hospital by infecting others with the plague.
Plaguemaster: His intention was to be this. His ambitious scheme to infect Sydney was thwarted and he’s too weak by the time he reaches Hokkaido to proactively or even consciously perform this role. Yet he can manage to do it anyway as he passes by an unprotected surgeon during his route.
Politically Incorrect Villain: His bio states his belief in the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notoriously false antisemitic document.
Professor Guinea Pig: Helped mastermind the Nabazov virus plot and willingly uses himself as a conduit for the virus.
Progressively Prettier: Downplayed. While he’s still hideous due to the effects of the virus, his appearance in Hitman 2 onwards is much less deformed compared to his original facial model.
Tainted Veins: Among other visible signs of damage.
Typhoid Mary: Subverted. Cage himself doesn't count due to actively showing symptoms, but those he infects become this, spreading the virus around the level without any visible sign of infection.
Zombie Gait: He's the only NPC that walks like this.

Klaus Liebleid

The Virologist

Voiced By: Nicholas Boulton (English)

One of the Ether Corporation's best researchers. He plans on extracting the Nabazov virus from Owen Cage to reverse-engineer it.

Ambiguously Evil: His lack of ethics and nefarious plans for the virus are not explicitly confirmed during the mission itself, though he does talk enthusiastically about weaponizing the virus for more "tactical" usage. Even if Ether does have dubious intents, it's unclear how proactive he was in organizing those plans. Notably, he is the only target killed in the Patient Zero campaign who’s neither involved in the cult nor collateral damage to contain the infection, rather being a target due to what he knows about the virus.
Dark Is Evil: Wears a black hazmat suit and is utterly amoral.
For Science!: Considers himself beyond ethics and hopes to weaponize the virus.
Hazmat Suit: Wears a distinctive black one. He and his team are suitably immune from contracting Cage's illness.
He Knows Too Much: Dr. Liebleid's knowledge and intent to reverse-engineer the Nabazov virus result in the ICA designating him a target, considering him too dangerous to let escape.
Herr Doktor: He's a German doctor.
Hoist by His Own Petard:
- The single dose of vaccine he produced is what allows 47 to survive infection and continue his assignment.
- There's a challenge for incinerating Liebleid and Cage with the emergency incineration system Liebleid is using as a failsafe.
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He got his doctorate by legitimate means, but he plays fast and loose with the rules.
Mugged for Disguise: Can be killed or knocked out to steal his bio suit.
You ALL Look Familiar: His model is the same as that of a resort security member found in "Situs Inversus".

Non-Targets

In General

The Shadow Client (Lucas Grey)

Lucas Grey / Subject 6

See here.

Olivia Hall

See here.

Salvatore Bravaumo

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The Attorney

Voiced By: Daniel Bonjour

A local attorney you can encounter in Sapienza in Landslide.

And Your Little Dog, Too!: His family is threatened by Abiatti since Bravaumo refuses to bend to his demands. Fortunately, he's killed before he can make good of this threat.
An Offer You Can't Refuse: How Abiatti tries to threaten him, even going after his family if the documents he holds go live. It leaves him in a wreck, but he stands his ground decently well against the threat.
Ascended Extra: He appears in "The Author" and is part of an opportunity in the "Landslide" mission to be Mugged for Disguise by 47 to meet up with Marco Abiatti. He's even the attorney used in "The Deceivers" Elusive Target.
Bullying a Dragon: He won't kowtow to Abiatti's threats, sticking to his morals despite the threats Abiatti hurls at him. This is an extremely ballsy, if dangerous move, which would likely have left to his death is Abiatti wasn't killed shortly after their encounter.
Crusading Lawyer: Bravaumo is intentionally going against Abiatti for the betterment of Sapienza and if you let him be found, he'll tell him that he has integrity and doesn't want to lose it, even when his life is at risk, even pledging to expose Abiatti as a fraud while looking very agitated.
Baldness Angst: Downplayed. Salvatore wears a Toupee and it covers his baldness very well. In fact, it's only obvious he wears one when you take his clothes.
Dark Is Not Evil: He has far more dim and dull clothing than the flashy Abiatti, and is one of the few unambiguously heroic characters in the franchise.
Dodgy Toupee: His toupee isn't the best, but it helps 47 to pass as him, as he also dons it if disguised as him.
The Dreaded: Salvatore considers Marco this and is terrified of him.
Early-Bird Cameo: He never appears in "World of Tomorrow", but his office is empty and freely accessible to roam around in.
Foil: To Ken Morgan. Salvatore is not an Amoral Attorney and wins his cases by doing his research, whereas Ken relies on fixing court cases so he always wins. Salvatore is also not a Bunny-Ears Lawyer either, as he seems very smart and him being scared of Abiatti is very justified considering the latters' mafia ties. They are both bald, however, though Ken sports a Bald of Evil look and Salvatore wears a toupee.
Hidden Supplies: In "Landslide" he has a gun taped to the underside of his desk, while in "The Author", he has an explosive golfball kept in his safe for reasons unknown.
Limited Wardrobe: He's only seen in his silver suit and golden tie combo outfit.
Momma's Boy: Even in his 50s, he still seeks the approval of his mother, being horrified with what she'll think of him if he lets out a swear word after a particularly stressful encounter with Abiatti.
Nerves of Steel: He's scared of Abiatti, but he's not so unscrupulous as to be bullied by him and defies Abiatti's offer to be "with him" on his deal to make money off of Sapienza.
The Night Owl: "The Author" confirms he does stay in quite late at the office, long after the rest of Sapienza has gone to sleep. Props to his guard for also staying awake too.
Noodle Incident: Why exactly he's barred from Craig Black's reading is never explained, especially considering that Bravaumo doesn't seem to be the type of guy to stir up trouble in that sort of way.
Not on the List: In "The Author", a potential way into the church is by looking around for an invite to the book reading, but Salvatore is not allowed in, even if you manage to swipe an invite from someone else. It's not even a trespassing zone if you infiltrate manually, so him not being allowed in is a bit strange.
No-Sell: Abiatti knows Bravaumo personally, so he'll see through 47 instantly if the two encounter. To circumvent this, 47 is required to blend in using the decorations in Bravaumo's office so that the Corrupt Politician doesn't get a good look as his face.
Precision F-Strike: He swears under his breath (and apologizes profusely to his mother) when he's finished being threatened by Abiatti, which sends him into a nervous wreck.
Punny Name: His name is a literal Italian translation of "Saul Goodman", the Bunny-Ears Lawyer from Breaking Bad.
Properly Paranoid: He hides from Marco Abiatti in the very justified fear that the mafia might kill him.
Shout-Out: As mentioned under Punny Name, his name is "Saul Goodman" in literal Italian. The posters seen advertising his services are also modeled after the ones seen in the show.
Silver Fox: Has grey hair and is looks about in his 50's. While he's not as handsome as most examples, he's still quite photogenic for a man of his age.
Smart People Wear Glasses: He has glasses and is an incredibly intelligent man.
Video Game Caring Potential: Abiatti can be killed before the two even encounter, saving Bravaumo from a huge amount of stress.
Video Game Cruelty Potential: If 47 wants to meet with Abiatti, Bravaumo can be knocked out and have his clothes stolen, or simply murdered and dumped into a nearby closet.

Characters / Hitman (2016)

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Elusive Targets

Story Mission Targets

Kalvin Ritter

Voiced By: Daniel Bonjour (English)note Other Languages:Masayasu Nagata (Japanese)

Jasper Knight

Voiced By: Brian Kimmet (English)note Other Languages:Kazuyoshi Hosoya (Japanese)

Viktor Novikov

Voiced By: Jon Curry (English)note Other Languages:Yoshihisa Kawahara (Japanese)

Dalia Margolis

Voiced By: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (English)note Other Languages:Akari Higuchi (Japanese)

Silvio Caruso

Francesca de Santis

Claus Hugo Strandberg

Reza Zaydan

Jordan Cross

Voiced By: Jonny Cruz (English)note Other Languages:Kazuyuki Okitsu (Japanese)

Ken Morgan

Sean Rose

Voiced By: James Sobol Kelly (English)note Other Languages:Toru Sakurai (Japanese)

Penelope Graves

Voiced By: Elsie Bennett (English)note Other Languages:Kumi Tanaka (Japanese)

Ezra Berg

Voiced By: Oliver Cotton (English)note Other Languages:Keisuke Fujii (Japanese)

Maya Parvati

Voiced By: Traci Lords (English)note Other Languages:Rei Furukawa (Japanese)

Yuki Yamazaki

Erich Soders

The Sarajevo Six

Scott M. Sarno

Voiced By: Alec Newman

Gary Lunn

Voiced By: Nicholas Boulton

Walter Menard

Voiced By: Nicholas Boulton]

John Stubbs

Voiced By: Timothy Watson

Patrick Morgan

Voiced By: Timothy Watson

Taheiji Koyama

Voiced By: Alec Newman

Bonus Mission Targets

Dino Bosco

Voiced By: William Mapother (English)note Other Languages:Hiroshi Shirokuma (Japanese)

Kong Tuo-Kwang

Voiced By: James Sie (English)note Other Languages:Minoru Hirota (Japanese)

Matthieu Mendola

Voiced By: Keith Ferguson (English)note Other Languages:Yuta Odagaki (Japanese)

Harry "Smokey" Bagnato & Marv "Slick" Gonif

Voiced By: Unknown

Marco Abiatti

Voiced By: Jon Curry (English)

Patient Zero Targets

Oybek Nabazov

Sister Yulduz

Voiced By: Elsie Bennett (English)

Craig Black

Voiced By: Timothy Watson (English)

Brother Akram

Voiced By: Nicholas Boulton (English)

Bradley Paine

Voiced By: N/A

Owen Cage

Voiced By: Timothy Watson (English)

Klaus Liebleid

Voiced By: Nicholas Boulton (English)

Non-Targets

In General

Lucas Grey / Subject 6

Olivia Hall

Salvatore Bravaumo

Voiced By: Daniel Bonjour

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