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Fridge Brilliance :

  • While the skill quality of the assassins depicted seems at odds with their alleged reputations, it may be worth considering that the kind of people who would participate in the Tournament may not be truly professional assassins in the sense that Powers implied. With the exception of Harlow and Lai Lai, who joined the Tournament explicitly to get the money to get out of the business, most of the more developed assassins in the film seem to mainly enjoy killing for the sake of killing rather than for purely professional reasons. Taking this into account, it doesn't seem unrealistic to assume that most of the killers depicted here were basically thugs and psychopaths, who were either recruited or signed up because they enjoyed making a show of murder rather than because they were true professionals. Taking this further, Powers probably just plays up the idea of the participants being professional assassins because it sounded better to his guests and he knows that most of them wouldn't know how to check that kind of information after the Tournament concludes anyway.
    • Considering how psychotic Miles is, it's safe to say they take any killers, sane or insane, for the Tournament (and considering this takes place every seven years, there may actually be very few true professionals like Lai Lai and Harlow left in the world. So, the only option left is having second tier killers who are stupid or crazy enough to join).

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