Does 47's job exist in Real Life?

[Phyliinx]

Or something close to it.

[Bankai9212]

A swat team should be at you're doorstep in a few minutes.

[UFO]

Well... Are you a geneboosted, nigh-immortal killing machine who grew up in a Soviet secret weapon program? No? I'd stay in school. They DID write a manual for hitmen back in the eighties (true story)... And some idiot used it as a manual while killing for money.

Baking a cake using a youtube tutorial? Sure. Fixing your computer by reading a DIY website? Certainly. Murdering people and trying to get away with it by consulting a book written as a lark by a bored housewife? Not so much.

Edit: actually, TWO idiots used the same book as their manual... And both got caught.

[Rekalty]

Accidents happen.

[Bouncer]

Yes. You should walk in a bar (usually one in town center works well) and covertly ask the bartender and patrons 'where can I find someone who kills for money?'

You're guaranteed to find one eventually.

[Dirk]

Hitmen/Women exist in real life. But no where near as romanticised as Agent 47.
They just rock up and kill who ever it is and make a quick escape. Or they try and be fancy, walk into the place hiding a silenced pistol with some flowers and blast some poor individual. All while getting caught by CCTV.

Although i've no doubt there are some that have never been caught.

[knighttime]

yes

[karmazyn1]

Yes it does, but in real life assassins use radioactive materials not lethal poison. See what russian hit squad did in UK.

[TommyEV]

Hitmans exist. Agencies like the ICA... unlikely.

Originally posted by Dirk:

Hitmen/Women exist in real life. But no where near as romanticised as Agent 47.

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[? Mark]

Originally posted by Dirk:

Hitmen/Women exist in real life. But no where near as romanticised as Agent 47.
They just rock up and kill who ever it is and make a quick escape. Or they try and be fancy, walk into the place hiding a silenced pistol with some flowers and blast some poor individual. All while getting caught by CCTV.

Although i've no doubt there are some that have never been caught.

FYI, for most models of a pistol silcener whould just turn deathening BOOM into loud PAH.
I think, only specifically customized for cover ops pistols (with probably very downgraded power) can get anywhere close to the effectiveness of silencers which we see (hear) in most videogames.

[IIIX4W7EN]

I'm sure a fair amount of people are employed in a similar field with variable allegiances.

[? Mark]

Originally posted by TommyEV:

Hitmans exist. Agencies like the ICA... unlikely.

Originally posted by Dirk:

Hitmen/Women exist in real life. But no where near as romanticised as Agent 47.

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Those which are are usually work for governments, and usually are intelligence agencies and counter-intelligence agencies of many countries

[Agent472]

Of course. CIA, mossad, and other intelligence agencies conduct surveillance and assassination for a hefty price

[Delle(DK)]

Hitmen do excist in real life. I think most of them are just bad people who work for the mafia as their kind of "trusted" badass who do the dirty work so they dont them self get dirty hands or can be accused of being involved in something. The hitman get money, recognition and example to become a full time member of a motorcycle gang ect.
Often hitmen are not that professional and one reason could be they are amatures, who get pushed to do something becourse of money/drugs.

But are there professional hitmen.. Yes many states have such people, and typical they are from the intelligence service.. A good example is that saudi arabia killed a journalist in a forign country not long ago.
Other countries send special foreces soldiers to take out example a terrorist leader og people who work together with them... calling them a hitman is maybe not the correct term, but never the less they get a job and take out a target as their job for some reason political or military leaders ask them to do..

But are there real life professional lone wolf hitmen... I would say yes.. but its not excactly like they advertise to get clients.. I would asume they know someone who know someone who are in surden circles.. Example it could be the maffia or business people who know someone who know someone who can help with issues and then things happen.
I would asume a hitman do more htan just killing, such as also do recce and intel missions, industry sabotage and many such other skills.

But all in all its a very niche "job" non public kind of thing where the client and hitman do never meet each other, but somehow pay for something.
Example someone cheated them when they did business, or they want their x-wife dead by accident, or want to hurt someone who hurt example their child.

PS.. I would say that what can you learn from hitman... well i think the part about distracting security with loice and happenings can be usefull in real life to "hide" what you are doing.
and ofcourse you can learn to think about not to be recorded or notised, and how to blend in.. To get close to a target and shooting someone i would call for being a supid aproach since people can see you, you leave traces ect... so maybe poison, explosives and long range rifle ect is maybe better than getting close to a target and leve traces/DNA and get video taped.

[? Mark]

Originally posted by Delle(DK):

Hitmen do excist in real life. I think most of them are just bad people who work for the mafia as their kind of "trusted" badass who do the dirty work so they dont them self get dirty hands or can be accused of being involved in something. The hitman get money, recognition and example to become a full time member of a motorcycle gang ect.
Often hitmen are not that professional and one reason could be they are amatures, who get pushed to do something becourse of money/drugs.

But are there professional hitmen.. Yes many states have such people, and typical they are from the intelligence service.. A good example is that saudi arabia killed a journalist in a forign country not long ago.
Other countries send special foreces soldiers to take out example a terrorist leader og people who work together with them... calling them a hitman is maybe not the correct term, but never the less they get a job and take out a target as their job for some reason political or military leaders ask them to do..

But are there real life professional lone wolf hitmen... I would say yes.. but its not excactly like they advertise to get clients.. I would asume they know someone who know someone who are in surden circles.. Example it could be the maffia or business people who know someone who know someone who can help with issues and then things happen.
I would asume a hitman do more htan just killing, such as also do recce and intel missions, industry sabotage and many such other skills.

But all in all its a very niche "job" non public kind of thing where the client and hitman do never meet each other, but somehow pay for something.
Example someone cheated them when they did business, or they want their x-wife dead by accident, or want to hurt someone who hurt example their child.

PS.. I would say that what can you learn from hitman... well i think the part about distracting security with loice and happenings can be usefull in real life to "hide" what you are doing.
and ofcourse you can learn to think about not to be recorded or notised, and how to blend in.. To get close to a target and shooting someone i would call for being a supid aproach since people can see you, you leave traces ect... so maybe poison, explosives and long range rifle ect is maybe better than getting close to a target and leve traces/DNA and get video taped.

To cut a long story short, most paid assasination are perforemd with a gun and by cheap amateurs.
But most of those crimes are happening in bad neighbourhoods of developing countries, and victims are also either criminals or ones who owe something to the criminals, so you dont get to hear about them that often.

That does not concern high profile hits.

[HoneyDrake]

Originally posted by Dr. Do Little:

To cut a long story short, most paid assasination are perforemd with a gun and by cheap amateurs.
But most of those crimes are happening in bad neighbourhoods of developing countries, and victims are also either criminals or ones who owe something to the criminals, so you dont get to hear about them that often.

That does not concern high profile hits.

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Most professional hitmen are working inside the dark web, so crypto currencies are needed to pay them, also good luck getting their websites/contact information.

And even then: the most common newspaper article where hitmen are described are actually something like: A "Burglar" killed someone after getting access into their targets house/apartment, killing them, after he got caught by the owner. Ofc. taking some jewels, money or whatever with him. Rumbling around a bit, move out and smash an window from the outside, making it seem like an burglar who was there.

This was proven to be the case for some situations, where people tasked an death additional to stealing an object of interest, like data, statues, pictures, etc.