Many characters in Hitman do truly horrendous things. these villains go so far beyond the norm that they lack any chance of redemption or mitigation afterwards.
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Codename 47
- Frantz and Fritz Fuchs both cross this by planning to bomb a U.N convention during a peace conference. Even worse, they're using a nuclear warhead to destroy a hotel, making this even worse.
- Arkadij "Boris Jegorov crosses this by arming a nuclear bomb to cover his tracks when confronted by 47. He does the same thing in contracts (despite now being named Boris Ivanovich Deruzhka,) though this is during the middle of a police raid. Unlike Wolfgang Ort-Meyer, the game makes no effort to humanise him after this, ending his life on an extremely heinous note.
Silent Assassin
- Don Giuseppe Guillani crosses this by kidnapping and beating a frail old priest in order to get a large ransom off him. This act alone starts the normally stoic 47's Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- Deewana "Zip Master" Ji is yet another target who acquires nuclear warheads for his Apocalypse Cult, something that makes him so dangerous that 47 is paid nearly half a million dollars to kill him.
- Sergei Zavorotko crosses this several times over. He sells weapons and nuclear bombs to terrorists and warlords across the globe, he has 47 murder all his (also evil) subordinates purely to obfuscate his connection to them, then holds Father Vittorio at gunpoint, despite the poor guy having already endured that previously.
Contracts
- Campbell "Meat King" Sturrock crosses this by kidnapping a teenage girl for his murderous psychopath of a brother.
- Malcolm Sturrock crosses it even further by raping, mutilating, torturing, and murdering the poor girl and dancing around her mangled body, which he's cruelly built a crude shrine around. To further hammer home how awful he is, his death has a far more minimal impact on 47's rating than most other npcs, meaning even the developers are encouraging you to kill him.
- Winston and Alistair Beldingford cross this by kidnapping people and hunting them down on their estate for sport.
- Rutgert Van Leuven crosses this by capturing an undercover biker and brutally torturing him for weeks instead of just killing him on the spot. He crosses this a second time by murdering a reporter if they fail to show up with the money.
Blood Money
- Scoop crosses this by turning Joseph Clarence's abandoned theme park into a drug den, abusing the park owner at every opportunity, and executing one of his own men for failing to stop 47 from getting into the park.
- The unnamed gangster with the jerry can 47 encounters when inside the park crosses it by taunting a bloodied and broken divorce lawyer before burning him alive without any remorse whatsoever. He serves as an example that blood money's a bit more forgiving when it comes to murdering npcs, as sometimes they really have it coming.
- Alvaro D'Alvade crosses it offscreen by running a child prostitution ring. He goes downhill from there by raping and murdering a thirteen year old girl. Unlike Richard Delahunt (who actually loves D'Alvade, despite being another reprehensible scumbag,) he's never given any sympathy after his MEH crossing.
- Daniel Morris crosses this either by helping murder vice president to take his place or by trying to kill the president so he can take his place and issue a law that allows Alexander Leland Cayne to build his clone army without much resistance.
- Alexander Leland Cayne, despite coming off as Affably Evil at the very worst, proves to have crossed this by participating in the assassination (or attempted assassination in the president's case) of several politicians and their staff in order to install a puppet government who would enable him to build his own clone army that he could use for his own malevolent means.
Absolution
- While it takes him a while to fully cross it (as he has some sympathetic qualities for most of the game,) Blake Dexter fully embraces this by almost blowing up an entire penthouse with his security still on it in an attempt to kill 47 as well. His last words are about his money, choosing to prioritise it over his own son, who had been his (utterly ineffective) Morality Pet for most of the game.
- Dominic Osmond crosses it offscreen by raping and murdering prostitutes for snuff films if they refuse his depraved sexual advances.
- Edward Wade crosses it by raping and killing prostitutes that Osmond holds captive, shooting up an orphange, forcing his men to participate in the slaughter under threat of death, kidnapping a young girl to sell to Blake Dexter, coercing a mentally impared man to kill a nun, and expressing a desire to rape 47's corpse.
- Marcus Green quickly sheds his Freudian Excuse by using thousands of pigs as test subjects for his explosives, causing them to die horrifically and senselessly.
- Warren Ashford crossed this years ago by dedicating his life to experimenting on children in painful and damaging ways, only showing disgust at Blake Dexter for his greed being more important than morbid scientific curiosity.
- The saints all cross this by murdering everyone at a resort that 47 is staying at in order to Leave No Witnesses.
- All the ICA agents sent out by Benjamin Travis cross this by shooting up a farmer's market in an attempt to catch 47 in the crossfire.
- Sheriff Clive Skurky crosses this by holding a priest hostage in front of a traumatized congregation in a cowardly attempt to stop 47 from shooting him.
- Benjamin Travis crosses this a few times throughout the game. Not only does he approve of the experimentation of children to turn them into killing machines, he also tricks 47 into taking a contract out on Diana Burnwood due to her defecting in a severe case of Even Evil Has Standards. He then authorises two seperate massacres to try to kill 47. While his crimes are on the same level as Dexter's, he's far too gone much earlier, meaning his crimes have no mitigating factors from the very start.
Hitman 2016
- Claus Hugo Strandberg crosses this an absurd amount of times. He scammed his own daughter out of her deceased mother's inheritence, stole several billion dollars from the Morrocan public, assisted an illuminati-esque organisation for personal gain, and went along with a wannabe usurper to save his own skin.
- Reza Zaydan crosses this a few times. He murders several police officers to rescue Strandberg, with the end goal involving inciting a full scale riot by the Morrocan public. To make matters worse, he wishes to dress his soldiers up as terrorists to massacre civilians as part of a False Flag Operation in order to stage a coup and become the dictator of Morocco.
- Erich Soders crosses this by selling out the ICA, a group which he had been the leader for decades in, purely in order to pay for his heart transplant. Diana Burnwood and 47 are so disgusted that they sanction a contract on him in order to send a message to others following in his footsteps, seeing Soders as irredemable at this point.
- Marco Abiatti crosses this either by scheming to evict a bunch of people out of their homes to build a luxury resort, or in the mission by pushing a priest off a balcony. Knowing what 47 does to those who disrespect the clergy, it's clear that this makes him a special kind of evil in the eyes of the agnostic Holy Hitman.
- The Sarajevo six, minus Taheiji Koyama massacred civilians during a botched bank robbery. Koyama is so disgusted by the actions of him and his crew that he sees having 47 kill them all as the only way for him to pay for his deeds, despite his decades long Heel–Face Turn.
- Not only did Oybek Nabazov kill several hundred people by forming suicide cults, he wishes to cross it once more by murdering billions more people to fulfil his twisted obsession with death.
- Sister Yulduz crosses this by assisting Nabazov in his plan so she can profit off the carnage that will follow when his virus is unleashed on mankind.
- Craig Black crosses this by planning to spread the virus at his upcoming book convention, due to being upset that people enjoy the books he hates writing. Even worse, his books are aimed at teenagers, making his Evil Plan even more MEH worthy.
- Bradley Paine crosses this along with the other cultists by attempting to infect a military compound filled with dozens of oblivious victims. Even Diana does little to hide her vitriol for him.
- Owen Cage, the Antagonist Title himself, crosses it by willignly infecting himself with the virus in order to kill as many people as possible before his own death. Diana even swears when mentioning his deeds, something that is totally out of character for her.
- Adalrico Candelaria crossed this decades ago by assisting Augusto Pinochet in "disappearing" political rivals or critics. He crosses this in the present day by scheming to ruin the life of Sapienza's nicest priest due to said priest standing up to his cruelty.
- Etta Davis crosses this by murdering dozens of her patients, as well as her husband, best friend, and the headmaster of Marakeech's local school. She crosses it yet another time by plotting to murder the soldiers she's tricked into being her personal security.
- Richard J. Magee crosses this by bankrupting and abandoning emotionally vunerably but wealthy clients while purposely leading them away from the people who are trying to help them.
- Adeze Oijofor crosses this by being a brutal dictator in East Africa as well as plotting to have her son's girlfriend murdered to prove to him that the world is dangerous.
- Philip Giggles crosses this by torturing animals to death in his twisted performances and organising gladiator rings. Even Diana can't help but snark about his demise.
Hitman 2
- Janus crossed this decades ago by betraying his oaths as a spy and becoming the top enforcer of a global conspiracy, ordering various programs that involve massive casualties to facilitate his goals. His years as a Retired Monster have done little to help his demeanor, as he verbally abuses and rants at people around him in old age. His one good action, recognizing that cloning people to make super assassins is an incredibly dumb idea, is merely Pragmatic Villainy. His actions in the game are effectively nowhere near almost anyone else on this list, but back in his day he did by far the most damage out of anyone else here. Nobody except his secret survivalist club expresses a single bit of regret about his death (even then, his successors mock his corpse so it is little more than lip service) and him being framed for betraying Providence is not investigated at all due to it being so immediately believable. His death at 47's hands is simply the Karma Houdini Warranty finally expiring.
- Athena Savalas crosses this by bankrupting her own customers in order to fill the pockets of her and her financers, funding illuninati-esque organisations while knowing the extent of their misdeeds.
- Richard J. Magee crosses it even more by actively encouraging his patients to kill themselves as part of Trout's twisted scheme to obtain a lead in the polls. Unlike Trout, he doesn't even have any sympathetic moments left in, since he had none to begin with.
- Dmitri Fedorov crosses this by letting hundreds die in his unsafe factories in order to keep costs down.
- Joseph "The Censor" Gorski crosses this by torturing multiple people to death in order to grade how much of a fight they put up against him.
- Lom Kwai crosses this by selling his own family out to be executed so he can join the ranks of the military for a brutal dictatorship, with his loyalty being fanaticism over anything else.
- Jin Noo crosses this by kidnapping a couple who had tried to defect and planning to have them executed as a birthday present for Sun Po, the brutal dictator.
- Vitaly Reznikov crosses this by running a Hellhole Prison and relying on brutal inmates as his muscle instead of doing his job, leading to many people dying in a needlessly brutal and volitile environment.
- Roman Khabko crosses this by being a mobster, sex trafficker, and mass murderer who kills prisoners for the slightest provocations while needlessly murdering Reznikov despite the warden complying with his demands.
Hitman 3
- Hush crosses this by experimenting on the homeless in order to turn them into mindless husks. That's not even getting into the fact he worked for a dictatorship where he helped hunt down dissidents, was involved in organ and human trafficking, and tried to kill his own protege for standing up to him.
- Kody Haynes crosses this by murdering anyone who has owned artwork that he buys, being unable to cope with the fact he isn't the sole patron alive with the experience of possessing his desired paintings.
- Terrence Chesterfield crosses this by ignoring the hundreds of deaths at his feet in order to continue cutting costs.
- Philo Newcombe crosses this by murdering the partners of those he lusts after, breaking hearts and bodies to satisfy his fleeting lust.
- Sully Bowden crosses this by murdering or crippling his opponents, encouraging his students to do the same, and threatening to murder a drug dealer for a trivial reason.
