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New Zealand: Nightcall
Sean 2 (Orson Mills)
Orson Mills
See here.
Miami: The Finish Line
Ted Mendez
Ted Mendez
Voiced By: Nathan Osgood
A United States military officer visiting Robert Knox about a Kronstadt military project.
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: He's standing around outside the Kronstadt building instead of actually meeting Knox because Knox once kept him in a waiting room for four hours before cancelling their meeting.
- Mugged for Disguise: His disguise can be taken to infiltrate the meeting and access the upper floors of the expo center.
- Retired Badass: Mendez handles procurement nowadays, but his ribbons include the Distinguished Service Cross and the Bronze Star, suggesting that he was a very impressive soldier in his prime.
Florida Man (Nicholas Velmorres)
Nicholas Velmorres
See here.
Kronstadt Consumer Android
Kronstadt Consumer Android
Voiced By: Unknown
The Android in the Kronstadt Expo building that can talk to the player when you visit it.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: If greeted by Sheikh Al Ghazali, he will mention that "we" last saw him in Paris, and now in Miami, and openly questions if he'll pop up anywhere else.
- Developer's Foresight: Almost all of the prominent outfits that 47 can disguise as in the level have unique dialog attached for the android to react to, and in different ways too. There's even suit-specific dialog for the Corky the Clown outfit that isn't found in the level. Some outfits, like the Medic outfit and any of the racing outfits fall squarely into this trope as they are used on the other side of the map, and there's no reason to ever visit the expo dressed as these people, but you will get dialog from this robot all the same.
- Do Androids Dream?: Has shades of this; one of the responses from the racing outfit is the android wanting to race a car, and describes a fantasy about driving.
- Irony: The AI voice handles most words well, but whenever Kronstadt comes up, the android is noticeably confused on how to say the word, and either rushes through the word as if it's never heard of it before, or attempts to pronounce it in an odd way... despite being created by Kronstadt.
- No-Sell: 47 Disguising as security will have them not recognise him from his visual index, but will not out you, rather he will mention that KAI needs to update him of this information.
- Paparazzi: Disguising as a journalist from the racetrack has them react in a very standoffish way, as if to avoid leading questions and "falling into traps". Similarly, disguising as Moses Lee has him accuse him of industrial espionage.
- Wilting Odor: Going up to him as Florida Man has the android ask 47 to take a step back due to the smell. Yes, even an android can smell how bad Florida Mans' clothes are.
Brigitte Cabot
Brigette Cabot
Voiced By: Susan Taylor
Sierra Knox's lawyer.
- Ambiguously Gay: Acts quite flirtatiously towards Sierra.
- Hello, Attorney!: She's quite good-looking, though she wears quite casual clothing.
- Properly Paranoid: She acts as an enforcer to most disguises, likely out of fear for Sierra's well-being. Of course, even her paranoia won't stop 47.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Regardless of their relationship, she's the girly girl to Sierra's tomboy, and doesn't approve of the drinking game Moses and Sierra play after the race.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Implied, but also Downplayed. She's not dangerous to the player, but acts as an enforcer to most disguises and follows Sierra practically everywhere once the race is over, making things harder for 47.
Moses Lee
Moses Lee
Voiced By: Alexander McMorran
The CEO of Kowoon Heavy Industries, who functions as Sierra's main rival in the Global Innovation Race
- The Ace: He's the only racer who's able to win the race against Sierra and a successful CEO.
- Cutting Off the Branches: A news report in "Three-Headed Serpent" confirms that he canonically wins the Global Innovation Race.
- Friendly Rivalry: Zig-zagged. He and Sierra get along pretty well, having pretty mutual respect for each other and hanging out after their races to play some drinking games. Sierra may occasionally insult him and will ask another driver for dirt on him.
- Handsome Lech: A conversation between Sierra and another driver mentions that Lee can be a bit too "handsy".
- Mugged for Disguise: His disguise can be taken after he comes off the track to take his place on the podium or to challenge Sierra to a drinking game in the Drivers' Lounge.
Grace Miller
The lead mechanic in the Kronstadt Pitstop.
- Ambiguously Evil: If Moses Lee wins the race, Sierra Knox will call a detective to have Grace investigated for corporate espionage or sabotage. Of course, given the Knox family's own crimes, this may not be a sign that Grace is evil.
Edwin Schmitz
A driver for Thwack.
- Ascended Extra: To a certain degree. He's an incredibly minor character in The Finish Line, but plays a slightly larger role in a mission opportunity in A Silver Tongue.
Colombia:"Three-Headed Serpent"
Hèctor Delgado
Hèctor Delgado
Voiced By: Paolo Rivera
Rico Delgado's younger brother and Andrea Martínez's former lover, another high-ranking member of the Delgado Cartel.
- Ax-Crazy: Heavily stated to be emotionally unstable and prone to committing brutal punishments for minor offenses. When he's encountered, however, he's relatively tame and is more upset about Andrea, although this can be chalked up to the fact he just out of rehab.
- Blood Knight: The mansion staff mention that he once blew up Andrea Martínez's car after the two of them broke up and in one of his rejected love letters to Andrea he waxes lyrical about one of their bloody rampages against the Delgado's enemies.
- Cutting Off the Branches: "Chasing a Ghost" and "The Farewell" reveal that he canonically survives the events of "Three-Headed Serpent" and takes over the Delgado cartel.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The bartender tells Paul Power that Héctor once killed one of his sicarios for sneezing next to him.
- Driven to Suicide: He will do so after snorting cocaine if 47 orchestrates things so that he will deliver the letter to Andrea himself and then push her off her balcony. There's a challenge to save him the effort by spiking the cocaine with lethal poison.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Hèctor appears in person in Miami, making a cocaine deal with the sheikh from the previous game. Hèctor also is mentioned by Andrea when talking to Dalia and Nelle Brant in Paris (see below).
- Forehead of Doom: That forehead could rival Robert Knox's in terms of size.
- Inadequate Inheritor: Dialogue in "The Farewell" in the third game reveals that sheer anger over his brother and Martínez's death ended up escalating the war against the Morenos. It also resulted in Héctor purging several of the cartel's members, resulting in them ratting on each other.
- Love Martyr: Desperately wants Andrea Martínez back, even if she despises him now.
- Limited Wardrobe: One of the few Recurring NPCs in the game that never changes his outfit. He wears the same suit the same way in both Miami and Columbia.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: In the first Hitman game, Dalia Margolis mentions "the nice one" and "the psychotic one" when discussing the Delgado brothers. Both brothers are actually violent gangsters, though Rico is able to maintain a Faux Affably Evil veneer as long as you don't displease him, but is quick to impose brutal punishments upon those who fail or oppose him. Hèctor is more sentimental and less domineering, but also openly emotionally unstable and described by the mansion staff as "batshit crazy".
- The Unfought: Despite being a high-ranking member of the Delgado cartel, he's the only one of the four present who isn't an official target. However, he can be Driven to Suicide as part of one method of killing Andrea Martínez and doing so doesn't even count against you as a non-target kill.
- Working with the Ex: He used to be in a relationship with Andrea Martínez and is trying to win her back.
P-Power (Paul Powers)
Paul Powers
Voiced By: Matthew Gravelle
A celebrity tattoo artist who has been hired to fix one of Rico Delgado's tattoos.
- Brick Joke: A tourist near the river believes that Power's tattoos are sleeves since he only seems to do cover-ups. Disguising as him reveals that he's correct.
- Call-Back: His manager is Dexy Barat, who was formerly Jordan Cross's manager in Hitman (2016)
- Oh, Crap!: Paul's gotten himself in a horrible situation and realizes that he's either going to have to tattoo an unpredictable psychopath or try to avoid him and likely get murdered. Thankfully, 47 can solve this dilemma by taking Paul's clothes and tattooing Rico himself.
- Properly Paranoid: Didn’t realize he was going to be doing the tattoos of a psychopathic drug lord and doesn't want to go meet him.
Mumbai: Chasing A Ghost
The Kashmirian (Karan Dhar)
Karan Dhar
The Kashmirian
Voiced By: Matthew Gravelle
An assassin 47 can encounter (and help) in one of Mumbai's chawls.- Badass Normal: He's not in 47's league, but is a pretty decent sniper (even if he’s reliant on a rangefinder and can't just accurately eyeball distances like 47 can) and is smart enough to play Shah and Rangan against each other as well as deduce the two of them are tied to the Maelstrom.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: The Kashmirian wants to become a legend in the criminal underworld. If 47 eliminates all of his targets, then he's likely to be known as the man who killed the Maelstrom and his lieutenants. An organization with fanatically loyal members.
- Boom, Headshot!: His preferred way of dealing with his targets.
- But Not Too Foreign: He's actually an Indian-American from Austin, Texas, but fled to his mother's homeland of Kashmir after becoming the prime suspect in a series of serial killings.
- Cold Sniper: Uses a sniper rifle to make his kills.
- Did Not Think This Through: Both Rangan and Shah have hired him to kill the other. He can kill both and unfortunately for him not get the full payment from either. Subverted in this was his "audition" to work for the Maelstrom, who seems genuinely impressed, so the money was never his real goal.
- Hammerspace: Can somehow conceal a tripod and huge sniper rifle in his suit. Even 47 has to carry large weapons on his back.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: For whatever reason, kills made by the Kashmirian are counted as accidents. This is most likely so using him isn't Awesome, but Impractical for purposes of a Silent Assassin run.
- Of course, this could also mean that any investigation into the deaths of Rangan and Shah would end at the Kashmirian since he was the one who actually killed them.
- Non-Action Guy: Despite being a hitman, he does not carry a handgun and has no way of fighting 47. His AI is the same as other civilians.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If 47 steals his sniper rifle or kills Rangan before him, he'll run into the street to catch a bus and leave Mumbai.
- Serial Killer: Diana mentions that he had to flee his hometown of Austin, Texas after becoming the prime suspect in a series of serial killings there.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: He wears a very dapper blue Cashmere pinstripe suit. An update added a variant of the suit as an escalation reward for 47.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: He's a contract killer with a very soft, steady voice.
- Unwitting Pawn: 47 can use him as a means to take out all his targets in the level. At first glance, one might see it as a sort of mutually beneficial arrangement. But if you play his mission story through in full, he effectively becomes this. His killing of Rangan and Shah was meant as his "audition" for joining the Maelstrom, but 47 can follow up by disguising himself as the Kashmirian, taking his place in the meeting with the Maelstrom (three guesses as to what you can use that for). Instead of joining the Maelstrom, the Kashmirian becomes inadvertently responsible for bringing him down (and likely ends up taking the blame as well).
Gregory Arthur
Gregory Arthur
Voiced By: Derek Hagen
The secondary lead actor in Dawood Rangan's film. He can be found sick in the slums of Mumbai rather than on set. He's from the United States and people are starstruck upon seeing him, which rubs Rangan the wrong way.
- Embarrassing Last Name: It might not be canon, but in contracts mode, his real name is revealed to be "Gilford Bootyswang".
- Mugged for Disguise: He's a quick-and-easy way for 47 to infiltrate Rangan's tower and Rangan will even meet with him in almost complete privacy.
- Super Drowning Skills: He suffers from a bug in that if you choose the pacify action as he's throwing up, he may still die due to his face falling into the puddle below.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Is almost always throwing up somewhere in the slums during the mission.
Karisma Haasan
Karisma Haasan
Voiced By: Priya Davdra
The lead actress in Dawood Rangan's film.
- And There Was Much Rejoicing: She seems, at the very least, not distraught by Dawood's death, even if he dies in a "freak accident" right in front of her. Justified, considering that he threatened to ruin her career just seconds before his death.
- Casting Couch: Subjected to this by Rangan, who wants her to kiss him for the film's finale and makes several unwanted advances towards her. She ultimately storms off the set, making Rangan angry.
- Meaningful Name: An actress with a name that's a homophone for "Charisma".
- Nice Girl: One of the more innocent characters in the game. All she did was work for a scumbag in the hopes of breaking into the pictures. In one interaction, the crew talks to her. Apparently, her brother is very well known in the movie tech world for his skill with lighting really creepy scenes. She offers to set up a meeting so the crew can meet their idol.
- Video Game Caring Potential: In a twisted way. You can kill Dawood after he threatens to ruin Karisma for refusing to kiss him. This ultimately saves her career and rids her of Dawood.
Rima Shah
Rima Shah
Voiced By: Sheena Bhattessa
Vanya Shah's disfigured personal assistant.
- Butter Face: Her face is disfigured, due to literally Taking the Bullet with what appears to be shrapnel to save Vanya.
- Morality Pet: For Vanya Shah. Rima's the only person she truly trusts.
- Taking the Bullet: Invoked. If a disguised 47 offers Vanya Shah tea, Rima will step in and drink it first, preventing the player from simply poisoning it beforehand. Vanya will not drink until Rima takes it. Judging by her disfigured face, she appears to have previously taken one before.
Whittleton Creek: Another Life
Charles Blake III
Charles Blake III
Voiced By: Alexander McMorran
The president of the homeowner's association and a politician making the rounds around Whittleton Creek for the local election.
- 0% Approval Rating: Only Blake's campaign manager Aiden has anything nice to say about him. Most of Whittleton Creek can barely hide their contempt for him.
- Bad Boss: Treats his assistant like crap.
- Butt-Monkey: His attempts at winning voters do not go well. Nobody in the suburb takes him seriously and all his conversations with the citizens of Whittleton Creek end with him looking like an idiot.
- Ding-Dong-Ditch Distraction: 47 can ring the doorbell of a house and sneak inside while the owner is distracted. While he can do this with any disguise, there's an achievement for doing it while disguised as Blake.
- Foil: To Nolan Cassidy. Nolan is trying (and succeeding) in taking over the neighbourhood to keep Janus safe from anyone that might harm him covertly, such as replacing key workers with Providence moles, using old houses as storage, and installing camera's to spy on the locals. Blake meanwhile, comes off as an brash Obstructive Bureaucrat who has all the subtlety of a bulldozer when it comes to changing Whittleton Creek, and his sole motivation is to make everything look the same.
- Hated by All: Charles is a local politician who has a 0% Approval Rating among the townsfolk of Whittleton Creek, some of the NPCs tell various stories to Blake's campaign manager once he asks for their vote to get Blake into higher office, and nobody has anything nice to say about him. In no particular order, the residents complaints range from involving banning maple syrup lollipops, banning Halloween decor, disallowing Christmas lights in the fear none of the houses' lights would look the same, and the residents aren't allowed to visit City Hall due to the municipality being covered in a ton of red tape that disallows residents from visiting. He's a pompous douche who thinks he can order people about because he owns the land around Whittleton Creek, and it's clearly not working.
- I Own This Town: Blake is the president of the homeowner's association, something he tries using to win the voters' support, and it's clearly not working.
- Mugged for Disguise: His outfit can be taken by 47 and is an achievement.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Fits this to a tee. As mentioned, he tries being forceful towards the residents of Whittleton Creek to sway votes his way... which clearly isn't working.
Gunther Mueller
Gunther Mueller
Voiced By: Derek Hagen
Janus' personal bodyguard.
- Foil: Interestingly, he serves as a foil to Cassidy's bodyguard Frank. Gunther is savvy and will be suspicious and wary of any unexpected events compared to the latter's more relaxed nature. While Frank dresses in a Conspicuous Trenchcoat, Gunther wears a nightrobe and t-shirt.
- Mugged for Disguise: His outfit can be taken by 47 and is an achievement.
- No-Respect Guy: Downplayed with the other bodyguards, who are fine with him but ridicule his paranoia. Played straight with Janus, who finds him overbearing.
- Properly Paranoid: Gunther can see through 47 if he’s disguised as a bodyguard and if he’s disguised as Janus' nurse, he will proceed to run a background check and lock him in the study. As Diana is unable to forge an ID for 47, this only gives him five minutes before his cover is blown.
The Wilsons
Richard & Susan Wilson
Voiced By: Susan Taylor (Susan), Luis Soto (Richard)
A couple that’s relatively new to Whittleton Creek. Susan and her husband, Richard, are hosting a barbecue party that 47 can enter.
- All Women Love Shoes: Gender-Inverted, as this is the case with Richard, not Susan. He has a pair of newly-opened plaid shoes in a box in their bedroom. Susan does have lots of handbags that are, by the reactions of one couple, worth a fair chunk of change, but only two pairs of high heels, both red.
- Genius Ditz: Richard is apparently the BBQ King, and forgets to get the gas for his propane grill.
- Hidden Depths: Richard is an avid baseball fan, as evidenced by his rec room being filled with shirts and paraphernalia of the sport. He is also aware of Nabazovs' cult from Patient Zero, as he has Oybek's manifesto on a shelf.
- Moustache de Plume: Inverted with Richard, who writes romance novels under the pen name Georgette Delaney.
- Neat Freak: Susan constantly adjusts her hair with the reflection of a bottle as part of her routine round the party. It also freaks out some of the guests, because some of the guests are convinced the house is too clean.
- Nice Girl: Susan is an absolute sweetheart. She's welcoming and friendly to everyone, hopes they have a great time, playfully teases her husband, and is even willing to share her cheesecake recipe.
- Nom de Guerre: Richard the "BBQ King".
- No-Sell: Susan is an enforcer for 47's starting outfit on Master Difficulty and in "The Censor".
- No Social Skills: Implied with Richard, who has a hard time speaking to the crowd and who somehow forgets to put gas in the grill.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Susan wears a poofy dress that would not look out of place in the 1950's, with dots all over it and trimmings at the bottom. It's notable that she's the only NPC to have a large dress in any locations in the trilogy.
- Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: The Wilsons come across as almost too neighbourly and their neighbours suspect them of hiding something, claiming that their house looks "too new", with Susan mentioning that they have a microfilm machine in the attic, all of which would reasonably raise suspicion. It turns out that these aspects of Susan and Richard all have completely mundane explanations; The microfilm machine was part of a failed hobby Susan never got off the ground, while the furniture looks new because it is; Richard used his "Chains of Love" book series to buy furniture. Ironically, despite their behaviour and appearances, they're the only residents of Whittleton Creek who aren't hiding some kind of dark secret, despite all evidence to the contrary.
- Shout-Out: They're both dead-ringers for the couple from I Love Lucy, with Richard sharing his name with Lucy's husband and Susan herself resembling Lucille Ball.
- Secret-Keeper:
- No matter how many times the residents ask, Susan is very tight-lipped as to what her profession is, even dissuading a police officer as it might freak them out if they knew what it was.
- You have to go through a lot of hoops to activate the dialogue, but Susan reveals that Richard is the writer of the "Chains of Love" book series under the pen-name of Georgette Delaney. They then created the "To Love a Monster" series, which was based on fan fiction of the late Craig Black's Cassandra Snow books, which hit off big after being named a Spiritual Successor by fans of that series. This seems to fit the real life parallel of Fifty Shades of Grey originally being fan fiction to Twilight, which the Cassandra Snow books were already an Expy of.
- Stepford Smiler: Subverted. Susan's secrecy about her job, the couple's appearances, their 50s aesthetic and the state of their house raise suspicion among the partygoers. They're actually one of the few residents of Whittleton Creek who don't have any dark secrets.
- Wine Is Classy: The two have a massive wine cellar inside their basement.
- What, Exactly, Is Her Job?: The guests keep asking what Susan's job is, but she is adamant to change the subject or not answer whenever possible. The guesses from the guests are a professor, a job in education, party planner (the guest was being somewhat serious), a news anchor or weather anchor on local TV, while all the other guesses are Susan attempting to dodge the question to varying degrees of success. Her demeanor implies is isn't because she's ashamed, but because she would rather the guests enjoy the party.
Helen West
Helen West
Voiced By: Rebecca Crankshaw
A sweet old lady living in Whittleton Creek, spending her days running a muffin business.
- Accidental Murder: She claims that Schmidt's death was an accident, down to having an "interesting reaction" to an ingredient, so this is probably true. That being said, it's heavily implied that said ingredient is lethal poison, considering she has a vial in her basement.
- Affably Evil: She's rather friendly for a serial killer.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She seems like a nice old lady who bakes muffins for Whittleton Creek. She's actually quite evil.
- Cheery Pink: Subverted. Her furniture, car, company's uniforms, attire and gun are all pink, which fits with her Affably Evil nature, but hides her depraved nature.
- Creepy Basement: She has a dark basement filled with beakers, chemicals, a huge furnace, poison and what looks like human brains in jars. If you look at the map of the level and go to where her house is, the basement is appropriately named "Murder Basement".
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: She killed a Providence Herald, an act which Heralds believe is a guaranteed death sentence and essentially got away with it scot-free thanks to her friendship with Janus.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Maintains a regular friendship with Janus.
- Evil Old Folks: She has violent and disturbing urges, killed her brothers' pets, drugged boys in college For the Evulz and killed Schmidt (although she says that it was an accident). This seems to be why Janus likes her.
- For the Evulz: She doesn't actually know why she has sadistic urges and she denies the possibility of them being caused by trauma.
- Karma Houdini:
- Her murder of Frank Schmidt counts, since Providence considers murdering their heralds punishable by death.
- Since she isn't a main target, she most likely gets away with her killings and continues feeding unwitting people human brains.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Helen shares her surname with infamous English serial killer Rosemary West. Alluding to this, Helen has a British accent and a basement for murdering.
- The Perfectionist: Her muffin recipe has to be no less than perfect and she contemplates how it can be improved as she walks around her Creepy Basement.
- Pink Means Feminine: Asides from poison, she keeps a customized pink pistol called "Rude Ruby" under her pillow. It's even an unlock at Mastery level 15.
- The Secret of Long Pork Pies: Her muffins are implied to contain human brains, judging by the glass jars in her basement.
- Serial Killer: It's likely that she has killed many people, judging by her creepy basement.
- The Unsmile: Her smile is extremely off-putting. Even going after her with a gun and making her beg for her life, she refuses to drop the smile.
Isle of Sgàil: The Ark Society
Jebediah Block
Jebediah Block
Jebediah Block(ed!)
Voiced By: Nathan Osgood
A coal baron who is one of the five founders of the Ark Society.
- 0% Approval Rating: Not only does no one in the Ark Society like him, Sophia comments that Block's approval ratings are "just south of John Wilkes Booth", implying nobody whom works for him like him either.
- Bad Boss: Aside from having a 0% Approval Rating, Sophia states that he covered up one of his coal mines collapsing years prior.
- Didn't Think This Through: He apparently never realized that if a global collapse happens and the Ark Society is all that's left, capitalism is completely dead and the resulting society would be de-facto Communist. Block gets a minor Villainous BSoD when the Constant points this out.
- Gone Horribly Right: Providence used the Ark Society to support climate change denial so they could later make billions fixing the problems they created. But now that they need the Ark Society to stop climate change, they find out that Block is an actual climate change denier and keeps vetoing the motion.
- It's All About Me: Block doesn't care about what happens to the planet so long as he gets to flee to a luxurious arctic safehouse when society collapses.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Continuing the opportunity without voting for Sophia's proposal will eventually reveal that the real reason she wants the vote to be successful is to further her own goals more so than further the council's.
- Malicious Misnaming: Others call him "Blocked" as he keeps blocking the resolution for clean energy.
- Person as Verb: The other council members will shout "Blocked!" at the meeting, due to the annoying frequency of Veto-ing the green energy bill.
- Properly Paranoid: He's desperately trying to get dirt on the Washington twins because he thinks they're plotting against him. It's revealed Sophia would've blackmailed him if he continued voting against the notion.
- Punny Name: His last name is "Block" and the entire reason why the vote on moving to clean energy isn't successful is that he keeps voting against it.
Blake Nathaniel
Blake Nathaniel
The Treasure Hunter
Voiced By: Derek Hagen
An archaeologist and treasure hunter and a rival of the Washington twins. He was once romantically involved with Sophia Washington and have a love-hate relationship with one another.
- Exact Words: A conversation Blake can have with Zoe while in the Gallery has the two of them discuss Sophia. While Blake thinks Sophia wants to steal the necklace, Zoe tells him that what Sophia really wants is for Blake to put it around her neck. While he will never do it, 47 can disguise himself as Blake, steal the necklace and put it around her neck...then use it as a garrotte.
- Expy: Of Nathan Drake from Uncharted, even the first name is just swapped round and a few added letters. They share a similar gung-ho adventurer attitude and love for puzzle-solving. Though Blake and Nathan are essentially riffing off of Indiana Jones too.
- The Guards Must Be Crazy: Defied. If 47 takes care of the glass paneling surrounding the Cloud Serpent by shooting it, making a Falling Chandelier, or deactivating the security around it, he will immediately request for more guards to look after the Cloud Serpent, as he doesn't trust Zoe or Sophia.
- Mugged for Disguise: An easy way to obtain the Cloud Serpent necklace is to attract his attention when he passes the toilets, disguise as Blake and disable the security, and then climb back down and pick the Cloud Serpent necklace up as you would normally.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: He and Sophia are an on-again off-again couple. His conversations with random civilians on the level, as well as 47 if you disguise as him, imply that he at least still does genuinely love her despite both being "off-again" at the time of Sophia's assassination.
- Sunglasses at Night: He wear a pair of Cool Shades as a part of his adventurer attire.
- Together in Death: Much like with Roberto Vargas and Francesca DeSantis in Sapienza, there's a challenge that one can unlock by storing his body in the same container as Sophia Washington's corpse. Just like in that case, since Blake is not a target, he can be merely unconscious.
Paul Munroe, Dennis Bertrand and Georgina LaGrande
Paul Munroe, Dennis Bertrand and Georgina LaGrande
Voiced By: Derek Hagen (Dennis), Matthew Gravelle (Paul), Elsie Bennett (Georgina)
Three Ark Society patrons undergoing a test to become a full-fledged member.
- Does Not Like Men: Implied with Georgina, who is needlessly abrasive to 47 and rants about his "whole gender falling apart" if he steals her coin.
- Informed Kindness: Paul is mentioned to be a Nice Guy with a strong sense of integrity. When you run into him, he is anxious about getting Sierra Knox's Rhodium suite and badgers others for tokens. When one of his friends tries to bribe him for a suite with a token, Paul only turns down the offer due to being afraid of getting caught and expelled. He is less abrasive than his rivals, however, and is the only one to talk to other patrons rather than badgering guards.
- Mugging the Monster: Georgina. She approaches and taunts another initiate not knowing that they are a master hitman in disguise.
- Rich Bitch: Georgina, with a net worth of $57 billion, more than her competitors combined, and an attitude to match.
- Smug Snake: Georgina rubs her pending victory in 47's face if she runs across him dressed as an initiate, even waving a coin in front of his face.
- Token Good Teammate: Paul, who is noted to be the only New York trader who came forward during the Haven Corporate Services data leak.
- Unsportsmanlike Gloating: If Georgina finds 47 dressed as another Initiate, she will call him a loser and brag about the amount of tokens she got, holding one up right in front of him.
William Garrett
William Garrett
Grey's Informant
Voiced By: Unknown
A Raider and informant for Lucas Grey on the Island.
- Call-Forward: He is mentioned in the "Precautions" cutscene, set just before the mission takes place, having confirmed the Constant has arrived at the Ark Society.
- The Mole: Essentially what he's on the island for. However, he's not particularly happy about being this, and mentions and unspecified "debt" being paid to Grey.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only having one voice line (him leaving an angry message to Grey about the killswitch), the information he gives to Grey is instrumental in pulling off the kidnapping of The Constant, and without it, The Constant would've likely died.
New York: Golden Handshake
Mateo Pérez
Mateo Pérez
Chief of Security
Voiced By: Rob Pomfret
The chief of security of the Milton-Fitzpatrick bank in New York
- Everyone Has Standards: If the three big figures of Milton-Fitzpatrick meet, he quits because the fraud that Fabian and Athena are trying to pull is a step too far for him, even if he's done questionable things in the past.
- Paper Tiger: Like all other targets, despite his resume as head of security, he doesn't carry a weapon and goes down pretty easily.
Fabian Mann
Fabian Mann
Head of Accounts
Voiced By: Derek Hagen
The head of accounts of the Milton-Fitzpatrick bank in New York
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's every bit the ruthless and amoral New York mega banker that Athena is. However since he's not directly tied to Providence, he gets off and isn't a target.
- No Honor Among Thieves: Accuses Mateo as the one responsible for the (faked) break-in.
Elusive Target Exclusive NPC's
Dave Ready
Dave Ready
Voiced By: Lance C. Fuller
A Kronstadt employee and ICA mole who helps 47 to set up a meeting with Mark Faba, an elusive ex-MI5 agent that the ICA can't seem to kill. He agreed to help and in return the ICA will assist him with a problem he has with the Moreno Cartel.
- Butt-Monkey: Faba gives him no amount of grief when they meet and if Dave Ready is indisposed by 47, he'll quip that "I hope he's fallen off the ledge and into the bushes below".
- Didn't Think This Through: Tries to bargain with the Moreno Cartel (which, as 47 notes, is the second-biggest cartel in the southern hemisphere) to live it up big time, but becomes so indebted to them, Dave agrees to the ICA's deal of getting the cartel off of his back if 47 can get a meeting with Faba.
- Knowledge Broker: For Kronstadt Industries (though he never shows up in anything but "The Undying" and "The Undying Returns") and digs into the target Faba wants to kill in a good amount of detail.
- The Mole: Dave Ready is a mole inside Kronstadt Industries, who works with the ICA in finding Mark Faba and in return, the ICA will get the Moreno Cartel out of his hair.
- Temporary Online Content: As with Faba, he is exclusive to "The Undying" and "The Undying Returns" and does not show up anywhere else in Hitman 2.
Pavel Zhukov
A child of the former partner of Robert Knox, Konstantin Zhukov, now spreading apparent misinformation about Kronstadt Industries in retaliation for Konstantin's death. Mark Faba is set to kill him after they've visited the Expo building in Miami.
- The Ghost: He's not present in the level itself, being the intended target of Mark Faba. Given Faba dies in Miami (eventually), he's free to continue to publish his book without repercussions.
- Meaningful Name: The "Zhukov" family name may be in reference to the character of Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky, a former KGB agent and Russian Gangster who appears in GoldenEye — the fact Sean Bean starred in that film as Alec Trevelyan is probably not a coincidence, and Zukov would later re-appear in The World Is Not Enough.
- One-Steve Limit: Has the same first name as Pavel Frydal (one half of the 2016 Elusive Target contract "The Surgeons").
- Revenge: Seems to be the reason why he wrote "The Naked Truth About Kronstadt", as they appear to blame the company for the death of Konstantin.
Keating's' Body Double
Voiced By: Rebecca Crankshaw
The body double for Dame Barbara Elizabeth Keating, and is hired to confuse anyone who would hurt the real Dame Barbara while at events. She is currently working into the night with Keating, rehearsing some lines for the latter's upcoming comeback tour.
- Call-Forward: One of her lines when reading from her script is about the legend of the Phoenix, and how it's used to symbolise a persons rise out of the ashes and being reborn. The Phoenix is also used as symbolism on the Isle of Sgàil mission "The Ark Society", and is mentioned by Zoe Washington as a rebirth analogy for when the world goes under in a future cataclysmic event, the society will rise up to take over (and has also crafted the bird into a metal effigy that she can escape from).
- Eating The Eyecandy: She seems to appreciate the Manly Facial Hair of Keatings' body guard, and has a conversation where she's trying to act professional while very clearly being flustered by his presence and attracted to him.
- Identical Stranger: An Enforced Trope, given the point is to protect Keating. Their voices are also basically identical too, though the body double does tend to sound a bit more nervous and is prone to making mistakes.
- No Name Given: Since she's specific to this mission, the body double isn't in contracts mode, so their real name is never revealed. Even her internal name is listed only as "The Politician".
The Undercover Officer
Voiced By: Royce Pierreson
An undercover officer, and a part of Nolan Cassidy's manhunt to find Joseph Gorski, A.K.A, The Serial Killer.
- Bad "Bad Acting": He could give Jimmy Chen a run for his money in how bad he is at keeping a low profile. At one point, he calls a guest at the party "fellow citizen", which said guest calls him out on, and they try to, unsuccessfully, dig their way out of suspicion.
- No Name Given: Since he's specific to this mission, he's not in contracts mode so his name is never revealed. Internally, he is known as Brian Lewis.
- They Look Like Everyone Else: It is quite easy to miss the guy, considering most of his routine has him blend into the background in various areas of the party, writing on a notepad in the garage, and covertly shadowing Gorski. Even his face is reused from other civilian NPC's so this also comes up in a literal sense as well.
Himmelstein: The Last Yardbird
Aleksander Kovak
A retired thief who led a criminal gang of thieves called The Yardbirds, who were infamous for robbing the Shamal Casino in Las Vegas. After burying the looted money and laying low, Kovak places a contract on the surviving Yardbirds so he can take the loot for himself.
- All for Nothing: In Hawkes Bay, Pam Kingsley reports on Kovak being arrested by Interpol in Panama, as he had immediately converted all the money from the score into Bitcoin, which the police found suspicious as it matched the total stolen. In addition, the hit on his former colleagues makes him the prime suspect in their murder investigation.
- The Ghost: He's never seen in-game, and the times he shows up in the briefing for The Last Yardbird, he's either seen from behind, in silhouette, or with his mask on.
- Killed Offscreen: In "The Farewell" in Hitman 3, Diana and Tamara Vidal have a conversation about former ICA hits, and Diana confirms 47 had killed Kovak. While it is possible he was assassinated by 47 on behalf of some countries' government agency before reaching a final verdict, it could also be a Continuity Snarl, given the context of the conversation.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Kovak stabs his crew in the back by killing them and taking the looted money, only to end up being arrested once he converts the money into cryptocurrency.
- Tontine: After learning that the money they looted belonged to organized criminals, the Yardbirds hid the money and agreed that the last remaining member would take everything. When the other three members decide to split the money between them, Kovak places a contract against them to take it all for himself.
Elizabeth Lang
Dorian Lang's daughter whose wedding is happening during the level.
- Aww Look They Really Do Love Each Other: If her wedding goes well, she is shown to love her husband deep down, even if she isn't the kindest towards him.
- Bouquet Toss: She does this during her wedding, and 47 can shoot the flowers out of her hand (or in the air) to destroy the bouquet.
- Bridezilla: She eagerly anticipates her wedding, and freaks out if things start to go wrong.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Dorian disapproves of her husband and will speak to her about his dislike for him. She doesn't take it into consideration, of course.
- Jerkass: If things don't go exactly the way she wants, she berates her innocent husband and slaps him. She must have inherited her wrath from her father...
- Video Game Caring Potential: If you choose to kill her father far away from her, she enjoys a lovely wedding, gets married to a man who deserves far better than someone like her, and even gets beautiful pictures taken of her and her beau.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can kill her dad right in front of her, kill her husband right next to her, or ruin her wedding by shooting her.
Elizabeth Lang's Groom
Elizabeth Lang's husband to be.
- Butt-Monkey: He feels the brunt of his wife's anger and is hated by his father-in-law the poor guy.
- Henpecked Husband: He seems to take Elizabeth's outbursts like it's an everyday occurrence.
- Never Found the Body: You can shoot him into the water below before Elizabeth gets to the wedding venue. Naturally, this voids the wedding.
- Video Game Caring Potential: You can make sure him and his wife's wedding goes off without a hitch...
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: ...Or you can ruin the wedding, causing him to be the punching bag for his wife. And you can go a step further and off him too.
The Priest
A priest officiating Lang's daughter's wedding
- Butt-Monkey: You can ruin his day by shooting his wine bottle while he's holding it, staining his robes and sabotaging his job.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: He drinks wine before the ceremony, something that can be used to prevent him from overseeing the wedding.
The Skydiver
A skydiver planning to jump off a cliff.
- The Alcoholic: He has a large amount of beverages behind him, though this could be because he's so nervous about jumping off the cliff. He grows out of this in Siberia.
- Character Development: He jumps instantly and effortlessly in Siberia, without a huge amount of alcohol by his side.
- Cutting Off the Branches: He survives the events of "The last yardbird," jumping off a cliff right besides 47.
- Easter Egg: In a blink and you'll miss it moment, he returns in Crime and Punishment, jumping off the cliff beside 47.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: He is too scared to jump off the cliff, turning to his alcohol to try and give himself some courage. Shooting the bottles will get him to jump.
- Saved by Canon: Canonically, 47 doesn't kill him, as he returns to jump off a crane in "The Pen and the Sword", and off of another cliff in "Crime and Punishment".
- Running Gag: He apparently travels the world to skydive off cliffs. Be it an Austrian mansion, a Singaporean dock crane, or a Siberian prison. How he finds these places is anyone's guess.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: You get an achievement for murdering him while he's about to skydive off the cliff.
The Hiker
A hiker who wants to trek to a waterfall, prevented from doing so by a no trespassing sign.
- Deadly Bath: If 47 kills him while he's washing himself in his waterfall.
- Mr. Fanservice: He becomes this once he reaches the waterfall, stripping off his shirt and bathing in the waters.
- Non-Nude Bathing: He strips shirtless and bathes in the waterfall if 47 allows him to reach his destination.
- Skinny Dipping: A PG version of this trope. He strips off his shirt and bathes in the waterfall.
- Video Game Caring Potential: The poor guy just wants to go visit the waterfall, but a no trespassing sign is blocking his path. Thankfully, 47 can shoot off the sign and let him bathe in the waterfall.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: Or you can shoot him before and after he reaches the waterfall.
- Waterfall Shower: He does this after reaching his destination.
The Monk
A monk chilling out on the rooftop near the pigeons.
- Berserk Button: He doesn't take it well if the pigeons on the rooftop are killed.
- Easter Egg: He is easily missed unless an astute player decides to shoot the rice bags in front of him.
- Friend to All Living Things: He's on the rooftop to feed the pigeons.
- Nice Guy: You'd have to be rather strange or rather friendly to be on a rooftop to feed the pigeons.
- Noodle Incident: Why he is on the rooftop behind a few bags of rice is never explained.
- Oh, Crap!: If the bags of rice in front of him are shot, he becomes quite anxious. This is understandable, as he's just heard a bullet shoot down the rice, something that is surely not a normal occurance in this estate.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: Why 47 would kill a nice religious man is purely because the player feels like doing so, despite there being harsh penalties for doing so.
The three band members
Three band members that play at the wedding
- Flat Character: Even with the limited characterisation of the characters in this mission, these three have nothing significant about them.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: They'll flee with the rest of the guests if 47 makes his presence known by shooting up the wedding.
The Pilot
Doris Lee's pilot. He takes her to the mission.
- Ace Pilot: He's a skilled pilot who effortlessly lands the helicopter on the mansion grounds and delivers Doris to the mansion garden.
- Flat Character: There is nothing noteworthy about him, other than the fact that he transports Doris to the place of her death.
- Never Found the Body: By using a shockwave ammo shot, you can send him flying to his death into the water below. There's no real reason to do so, as Doris is still able to fly away if he is killed.
- No-Sell: Like Dorian's limousine, the plane is bulletproof, so Doris cannot be killed while she is in the plane.
- Palette Swap: He's got the same exact design that Nails in Situs Inversus does, only this pilot has a yellow suit as compared to the Japanese pilot's red suit.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: It's ambiguous if he knows of Doris' true background, so killing him seems excessive.
The Photographer
A photographer who takes photos of the newlywed couple when they reach him.
- Butt-Monkey: His expensive camera equipment can be destroyed, he gets scolded by the aggressive Dorian, and he can even be killed by his own equipment.
- Death by Irony: If he's killed in an accident, it's by his own camera.
- Video Game Caring Potential: By leaving him alone and sparing Dorian for a little while, you can allow Dorian to witness his daughter and her new husband sharing their first wedding photos together. It's a beautiful sight and likely the last good thing Dorian witnesses before his timely execution at 47's hands. The photographer also gets some good shots in the process if this path is taken.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can destroy his camera, kill him with said camera, or use the camera to kill Dorian right in front of him, likely traumatising him. This is a dick move, to say it likely.
The Butler
A butler for Dorian Lang. He is guarding one of Lang's paintings.
- The Ace: He is such an amazing butler that he can restore a destroyed painting in seconds.
- Berserk Button: He understandably doesn't like when 47 shoots the artwork, examining it with bewilderment and frustration.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can kill him as he goes to investigate the recently destroyed painting.
The Chefs
Two chefs cooking food in the mansion
- Easter Egg: Right beside them, there are two rats eating their food. Their presence in the kitchen is to alert players that there may be something worth looking for near them.
- Epic Fail: They somehow don't realise that two rats have made off with their ingrediants.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: They can be blown up by the fire hydrants in the kitchen.
- Shout-Out: Them (and the rats in the kitchen) are a reference to Ratatouille.
The Driver
Dorian's driver, who brings Dorian and his daughter to the level.
- The Driver: His sole purpose in this mission.
- Flat Character: Little is known about him, even more so than the bit characters in this level.
- No-Sell: The limosine he drives is bulletproof, so Dorian can't be killed while in the vehicle.
The Caveman
A caveman living in a cave underneath the mansion grounds.
- Born in the Wrong Century: Why a cavemen is in the 21st century is never explained.
- Easter Egg: He can be summoned by shooting his fireplace to ignite it.
- Shout-Out: You get the achievement "Prometheus" for igniting his fireplace, a reference to a Greek mythological figure who stole fire from the gods to give to the mortals.
- Video Game Caring Potential: Agent 47 (or the two other agents) can give the cavemen a warm fireplace by shooting it, giving him temporary heat. You even get an achievement for doing so.
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can use this opportunity to murder him for no reason.
Singapore: The Pen and the Sword
Sun Po
Sun Po
Voiced By: N/A
The despotic ruler of the East Asian nation of Khandanyang, known as the "Heavenly Leader".
- The Corruptor: He uses his charisma and rhetoric to turn people to his side and create loyal and fanatical minions to use at his disposal.
- Corrupt Politician: Well, corrupt dictator, so in a way he's even worse. He rules his country with an iron fist and kills anyone who gets in his way.
- Cult of Personality: He has a very strong one, with at least Lhom Kwai being a true believer.
- Evil Is Petty: He tries to have two innocent people murdered due to the fact that they defected, which hurt his ego.
- Evil vs. Evil: He tries to have Hush killed due to Hush being a loose cannon. Keep in mind that Hush is one of the most depraved villains in the series, so this almost comes across as reasonable.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: Implied. He is at least open-minded enough to appoint a female captain, Re Thak. However, Re Thak's family apparently faced discrimination for their Chinese ancestry, although it’s unknown whether he personally holds and promotes anti-Chinese views.
- The Ghost: Apart from possibly making an appearance in the briefing for Miami he has yet to appear in person - 47 has only encountered his son, business partners and military officers.
- Glorious Leader: He uses a cult of personality to project an image like this, hiding the true extent of his depravity.
- He Knows Too Much: He tries to have Hush killed due to the hacker being too skilled at his job. He doesn't succeed.
- Karma Houdini: So far, he's never faced any reprecussions for his actions.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: The fact that he's known as the "Heavenly Leader" despite the country being ruled by a relative (Jin Po) and Khandanyang's status as an analogue for North Korea, he's likely one to Kim Il-sung.
- People's Republic of Tyranny: The eponomous tyrant in question. He rules his country in such a way.
- Sadist: He wants to have two defectors tortured for his birthday present.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He is adored by his supporters due to his charisma and skill at manipulation. One of his minions even took a bullet for him.
Han and Mina Ldong
Han is a Khandanyang poet who defected to Virginia in Whittleton creek with his wife. They've been kidnapped by the Heavenly Guard and their execution is to be a birthday gift for Sun Po, a brutal tyrant.
- Damsel in Distress: Both of them are tied up and helpless, at the mercy of their captors until 47 rescues them.
- Defector From Commieland: The two of them have fled from Khandanyang, Hitman's version of North Korea.
- From Bad to Worse: If enough time is passed, they'll be relocated to a much more secure part of the level, making them fear that their time is almost up. Fortunately, 47 plays guardian angel and saves them even if this happens.
- Non-Standard Game Over: If they're killed or if 47 kills them, the mission instantly fails.
- Schmuck Bait: Go on, shoot them, go on. You'll fail the mission instantly.
- Video Game Caring Potential: While he's being paid to do so, 47 makes sure they're rescued by killing their tormentors and freeing them from their imminent execution.
Siberia: Crime and Punishment
Evac pilot
An evacuation pilot who is preparing to take Roman Khabko out of the prison.
- Ace Pilot: Even more so that Doris' pilot, as he's able to navigate the harsh Siberian winds.
- Karma Houdini: If 47 doesn't shoot him, he doesn't get any comeuppance for trying to transport a dangerous criminal out of Russia.
- Palette Swap: Like all pilots in the series, he has the exact same outfit with a different color scheme.
Prison Chef
A prison chef serving food to Roman Khabko.
- Accidental Hero: Delivering the food to Roman Khabko can lead to his death, if 47 shoots rat poison into the soup, causing Khabko to vomit his guts out in a toilet nearby. Obviously, this wasn't the chef's intention.
- Nerves of Steel: He'd have to be, working in an extremely dangerous prison as a chef, especially with a man as dangerous as Khabko.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: 47 can shoot rat poison into his soup, granting an opportunity to isolate and murder Roman.
Khabko's Victim
Some poor guy who is murdered by Roman Khabko.
- Asshole Victim: Implied, as he'd have to be a pretty awful person to be in a prison as notorious as this.
- Body Horror: His head is crushed to a pulp with a tire iron but due to the distance the player is sat at, the full extent of his injuries isn't shown, but, in Diana's words "It's not pretty".
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He is stomped down, brutally beaten, and has his head crushed by a car battery.
- Noodle Incident: It's never stated how exactly he got on the bad side of Roman Khabko, it's only shown that it's what causes his demise.
