Individual games:
General
- From memory those two guys that kept appearing in the newspapers was part of a viral marketing campaign for Kane & Lynch.
- One of them turned up in Silent Assassin, so it's entirely possible that there are still more.
- Confirmed. The Shadow Client is one of said surviving clones.
- What always bugged this troper is the fact that the urban legend has him as a clone. How would someone know this only from the eyewitness reports?
- Because he has a barcode on the back of his head. QED.
- Remember in the "Asylum Aftermath" level in Contracts, which takes place after the final level of Codename 47, the Romanian SWAT Team had raided the place. This Troper thinks that they had found the bodies of the 48s, and thought that another clone had gone rogue, and since 47 has a similar barcode on the back of his head, people assumed he was that very clone (and were more right than they thought).
- Because he has a barcode on the back of his head. QED.
- He does try to cut it off and cover it up in Absolution, but it's back at the end of the game. Perhaps it's encoded to come back after removal in his DNA a la Dark Angel.
- He didn't cut it off, he cut through it, and it was a clean cut. It just healed.
- I am not the assassin you're looking for.
- No, 47's REAL psychic power is precognition. He can endlessly play out events to come in his head, 'save' and 'reload' moments in time, and perfectly predict the movements of his targets.
- His other REAL psychic power is introduced in Hitman 2. His ability to know where everyone in the immediate area is, and his ability to tell how suspicious people are of him.
- While that is of course entirely cracked, it seemed that in the original game they were potentially planning to have Ort-Meyer survive and come back later for revenge in a sequel (during his extended rant in the final battle, he talks about how he "can't die" and hints that his technology makes miracles (i.e. coming back from the dead) possible). However, the series has evolved quite a bit since then towards a more "realistic" universe, and I seriously doubt they'd revisit this potential plotline.
- How would all the failed assassination attempts and identical corpses go unnoticed by the public?
- Also, it's never indicated that clones can share memories, so there's no way he'd remember all his previous acquaintances.
- Jossed: Two things - a) an incredibly popular, lucrative series would never just be dropped like that by any publisher worth their salt, b) announcement trailer for Hitman 5 was released 10 May, 2011.
- The Big Bad from Blood Money specifically states that they only got some of Ort-Meyer's work and they need 47's bone marrow to fill in the blanks.
- Not so much WMG the newspaper clippings heavily imply that Margeaux ordered the killings. Not to mention that if you speak with her in "Till Death Do Us Part" she'll tell you where her father is, warn you that the area is off limits, and advise you on when you could "catch him". If she happens to stumble upon her fiance's dead body she'll say "finally." And the clippings from "House of Cards" suggest she went to Las Vegas with their drug money.
- Probably Jossed. According to the trailer "The Saints ICA Files", "Boo" (standing first from the left in the picture above) was KIA◊ before the events of Absolution. The one who could make a return is their leader, LaSandra Dixon, who apparently survived her encounter with 47 and ended in a coma.
- He reappears in Hitman 2016 in the level Situs Inversus, locked in a freezer by the doctors. He has switched to working for Interpol.
- He takes immediate vengeance against Diana at the beginning.
- The plot's about the exploitation of clones.
- It's set practically entirely in America, where 47 spent most of Blood Money.
- Absolution's plotlines (Victoria's life with Diana and Birdie's betrayal) are left unresolved in the new game
- If I may add on to this, the reason for his left and right incompetence in that game could be he feels like a bit of an idiot for getting caught off-guard by Diana like that, which knocked his sense of self-confidence down a few pegs. After all, if he was taken down that easily by somebody with the combat capabilities of an average civilian mom, probably not feeling too great about himself.
Alice and her brother Peter had some conflict; perhaps Peter had moral reservations, perhaps Alice wanted Diana to succeed her at the ICA, perhaps Peter was planning to usurp her, perhaps Peter is Chairman and she wants to usurp him. Either way, Alice ordered 47 to assassinate Peter; Nancy may or may not have been collateral damage.
Alice planned subtly recruit Diana into the Agency, but Diana fucked up and had to go on the run, forcing Soders to save her ass. That said, she was a stellar handler, and Alice used her position as Chairwoman to protect her, planning for her to one day succeed her.
Unfortunately, that plan went to shit when she betrayed the ICA and leaked her identity out.
Diana’s parents were killed and she’s stuck with a domineering aunt and a cousin who bullies her. Starting from her teenaged years, she fantasies about joining a gang, taking revenge against her brother’s killers, usurping the gang’s leadership easily and running an assassination agency through college. Blah blah blah she ends up in the ICA.
As she grew up, her imagination became a bit more grounded, but she still dreamt of working with a bald clone assassin to assassinate criminals and serve her own form of justice.
Meanwhile, in real life, Diana either works an honest, boring life as a schoolteacher or counselor or something, or she could have been arrested and imprisoned for vigilante justice, perhaps an assassination of a Blue Seed executive.
- A prison. Having to break into one to kill inmates and/or staff members seems like a very interesting concept.
- Mexico City during a Day of the Dead celebration.
- A comic con-type event. 47 could disguise himself as a cosplayer or a celebrity — maybe a video game voice actor for a meta touch.
- İstanbul. Picturesque old-town settings and Hitman go together like wine and cheese.
- A zoo. There could be plenty of animal-related kills.
- Vatican City. Disguise yourself as a Swiss Guard or a cardinal to take out a corrupt bishop.
- Hawaiʻi. One potential elimination might be throwing a target inside a volcano.
- Antarctica. Maybe they could take some inspiration from McMurdo Station.
- Jerusalem. Plenty of potential target/client motives.
- Such as?
- Rio Carnival. Maybe with opportunities that involve blending in on a float.
- A tech company HQ in Silicon Valley. Maybe 47 could be contracted to not only kill some people — programmers, cryptographers, executives, etc. — but also sabotage a processing system of some kind.
- South Korea. We've already seen China and Japan, so it seems like a logical country to visit.
- Alternatively, whatever is their Hitman equivalent (seeing that Hitman's North Korea is Khandanyang).
- Cape Town. AFAIK, we haven't been to sub-Saharan Africa yet, and such a famous tourist attraction seems like a logical first destination.
- A skyscraper in Dubai. Since we haven't had a fully vertical mission in a while.
- Toronto. Imagine being able to push someone off the CN tower.
- A Brazilian favela. Hitman 2 saw a visit to the slums of Mumbai, so why not some of the most notorious slums in the world?
- Some big international airport.
- An amusement park. One that's open, unlike the one in Blood Money.
- Rural Australia. There could be a challenge called "drop bear" where you kill a target by causing a koala to fall on their head.
- An Irish village.
- Greenland.
- A ship at sea. It might be a cruise liner, an oil tanker, a cargo ship, or even a military vessel.
- A space station.
- A Pedophile Priest.
- An Evil Poacher.
- Confirmed with Blair Reddington in "Embrace of the Serpent".
- A jewel thief gang a la Ocean's Eleven.
- Confirmed somewhat in "The Last Yardbirds" Sniper Assassin mission. 47 must take down the rest of the gang that The Sparrow worked with.
- A gang of professional bank robbers a la PAYDAY 2.
- A televangelist.
- Assassin's Creed—ICA is simply part of the Assassin/Templar proxy war for one side or other (or even both).
- Metal Gear—The cloning technology that produced 47 shares funding/research/what have you with Les Enfants Terrible, and 47 himself may also have Big Boss genes.
- Resident Evil (or really, any video game with a virus-based zombie apocalypse)—Alternate universes in which 47 failed to stop the virus developed by the Ether corporation.
- Kingsman—Even if ICA and the Kingsmen share no direct ties, they may be competitors, and 47's love of bespoke suits was canonically inspired by a tailor (which may or may not be a Kingsman outfitter).
- Team Fortress 2—Respawn may be using the same cloning technology that produced 47 and the Spy in particular may be a direct clone of 47 himself.
- James Bond—With IOI creating a Bond game, a link between the two is plausible.