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| “ | I always knew I didn't belong in this world. I wasn't made for this. But I'll never forget- those who betrayed me, and those who never failed my trust. I'll be carrying nothing from Gontranno but this lesson: never trust anyone and rely on your instincts. Forget the past. I'll never find peace here. So, I'll seek justice for myself. I'll choose the truth I like. | „ |
| ~ Agent 47's monologue in the end of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, when he was leaving Vittorio's Church. |
| “ | Names are for friends, so I don't need one. | „ |
| ~ Agent 47, in Hitman: Blood Money. |
| “ | Agent 47: I choose this path because I can. There will always be people like them. So there will always be people like us. Diana: No one is untouchable. Agent 47: It's good to be back. |
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| ~ Agent 47 to Diana at the end of HITMAN III a year after the events of that game. |
Agent 47, also known as The Hitman and Tobias Rieper, is the titular main protagonist of the Hitman video game series.
He is a bio-engineered clone who works as a contract killer, and although he is the protagonist, his works and doings have made him infamous as a professional assassin. He was employed by the ICA (International Contract Agency) to carry out hits for their clients, and has since become renowned as one of the ICA's most superior assassins, and a strategically valued asset.
The part that is also frequently overlooked is that most of the villains in the Hitman series are depraved and extremely evil figures who deserve no sympathy when they die at the hands of 47, but this absolutely does not mean that 47 is a do-gooder, as in fact, if he is assigned to assassinate a good person, he would do so with cold-hearted efficiency.
In the video games, he was voiced by David Bateson, who also voiced Shark and Crab in Help! I'm a Fish. In the films, he was portrayed by Timothy Olyphant (who also played Mickey Altieri in Scream 2, Thomas Gabriel in Live Free or Die Hard, Lucas Troy in Archer and Willard Stenk in Missing Link) in the 2007 film adaptation, and by Rupert Friend (who also portrayed The Grand Inquisitor in Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi) in the 2015 film adaptation.
Appearance[]
| “ | I know we only just met, but you have this... quality to you, I can't really pin it down. it's familiar and alien at the same time. And your face. Don't take this the wrong way, but it feels like if i looked away for a minute, i'd forget every feature. | „ |
| ~ Noel Crest to Agent 47, during Shadows in the Water |
47 appears as a roughly middle-aged, Caucasian male with a height of 6 feet to 6 feet, two inches tall, bald/shaved head, and physically fit body type. His face is usually marked by an inexpressive and blank countenance. He typically wears a black suit blazer, white undershirt, crimson necktie, formal, black suit pants, a neatly polished pair of shoes, and black leather gloves. His dress varies rather frequently though, as he often has to disguise himself to hide among his enemies. He is stated to weigh 187 lbs and demonstrably possesses deep, blue eyes and an exceedingly fair complexion.
In Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Hitman: Contracts, 47 appears somewhat slender but still physically fit, with vaguely Asian facial characteristics.
In Hitman: Blood Money, 47 is very muscular, with his appearance noticeably widening and his arms having noticeable veins. His necktie also has orange stripes on top of the crimson base.
In Hitman: Absolution, his appearance changes. After quitting the ICA, he cuts off his barcode tattoo with a straight razor in order to avoid further attention from the ICA. He now carries a bloodied bandage covering the cut area. Further on, after a failed assassination attempt of Blake Dexter's bodyguard Sanchez, he is left for dead in the now burning building. He loses his gloves, his tie is gone and his suit has been tattered.
In the Hitman: World of Assassination trilogy, 47 has lost a considerable amount of weight and has less muscular definition. The aged appearance he had in Absolution was retconned; some have noted how young he looked in HITMAN (2016). 47's barcode also returns, indicating his attempt to remove it failed.
Powers and Abilities[]
As a professional hitman and the ICA's top assassin, 47 is known as the most discreet and greatest assassin in the world due to his ability and techniques. Rigorously trained and highly skilled in armed and unarmed combat, firearms, stealth, assassination techniques, the use of disguise, and tools of assassinations such as a fiber wire and a sniper rifle, 47 was trained extensively and thoroughly in armed and unarmed combat and in the use of improvised weapons such as explosives, sniper rifles, automatic weapons and bladed weapons and is also fully adept at survey the environment and using it to his advantage. He also has extensive knowledge of poison and chemistry able to kill his targets or render them unconscious without laying a hand on them. 47 is also a skilled engineer and mechanic able to manipulate machinery and objects to make his targets death look like accidents. 47 was trained to operate as a assassin for the International Contract Agency and went into business for himself as a professional hitman for hire.
- Peak Human Condition: Due to his engineering, he is biologically superior to human beings. He possesses inhuman physical strength, speed, stamina, heightened senses and a very efficient metabolism. Medical experts describe him as a large stem cell. He may be also long-lived, as despite him being over half a century years old, he still has the health and vitality of a man in his mid-twenties.
- Genius-level Intellect: 47 is an extremely intelligent, methodical, sharp-witted man, highly adaptable and alert to any situation. He has shown himself to be very skilled at espionage, infiltration, counter-intelligence, and is skilled at adjusting his plans to account for changes as well as knowing how to plan well in advance and improvising new plans when necessary. He is also a master at immediately settling into roles associated with his disguises (& optionally, to comedically exaggerated levels such as escaping in Miami wearing a flamingo suit by just flapping his costume's "wings" (which are actually his arms)). He is also able to predict where his targets will be, shown when he tilts the Kashmirian's sniper rifile in Mumbai to kill Vanya Shah.
- Master Martial Artist: As a professional assassin, 47 is a incredibly skilled martial artist able to take on other physically fit, full-grown men. He can disarm trained and armed soldiers with ease, as well as render people unconscious with minimal effort. 47 is also skilled enough to engage several armed enemies unarmed and survive. He was able to beat Sanchez in a one-on-one match and snapped his neck. His fighting style consists of Kickboxing, Krav Maga, Jiu-Jitsu and Eskrima and he can use anything he finds in the environment as a weapon. During a bar fight in South Dakota, he swiftly engaged patrons and rendered them unconscious efficiently and used the environment to his advantage. He is also able to use non-weapon items like bottles & even food to eliminate or non-lethally subdue targets.
- Master Marksman: 47 is a brilliant marksman whose shots always meet their target. He is also an expert in handling all types of weapons with exceptional precision, speed and reactions and can eliminate many men without wasting a shot. He is perfectly capable of handling submachine guns, assault and sniper rifles. He can fire any gun with minimal recoil and usually land a headshot. During his training as a child, he is noted for his exceptional marksmanship and for attacking the asylum staff with slingshots. His signature weapon is AMT 1911 Hardballer nicknamed Silverballer with a suppressor. In Mumbai, he is also shown to have the knowledge on how to adjust the magnification of telescope-like objects, shown when he adjusts the Kashmirian's scope to help kill Dawood Rangan.
- Stealth Intuition/Impersonation: 47 is the master of stealth, infiltration and exfiltration. He is able to sneak up on anybody and has a expert level of understanding the use of disguises to access restricted locations and can slip past guards undetected. 47 is very skilled at breaking into the most secure facilities and breaking out undetected and leaving no trace of evidence.
- Engineering: 47 is also a very skilled mechanic and engineer. He is able to manipulate objects and machinery around him to his advantage with little effort. Additionally, he is an expert locksmith, being able to lockpick most locked doors and open them in mere seconds.
- Chemistry: 47 has shown to be knowledgeable and skilled in chemistry/poisoning. He is able to concoct poison that that can either kill or incapacitate people in seconds.
- Indomitable Will: No matter how bad his situation gets, 47 never panics or gives up. Examples include him managing to keep his composure and successfully escape from dozens of police officers who were storming his apartment despite only recently recovering from a gunshot wound, refusing to be intimidated by even feared criminals such as Yuki Yamazaki, Blake Dexter or Wazir Kale and being able to resist Hush's brainwashing experiments that he used to remove the intelligence from people and transfer it into himself. He never begs for mercy either and always bounces back when he is seemingly defeated, further showing his unbreakable spirit.
Victims[]
Hitman: Codename 47
- Two Asylum Staff Members
- Red Dragon Negotiator
- Blue Lotus Emissary
- 21 Blue Lotus Guards
- Hong Kong Chief of Police
- Another Red Dragon Negotiator
- Lee Hong
- Pablo Ochoa
- Franz Fuchs
- Arkadij Jegorov
- 11 Agent 48 Clones
- Two More Asylum Staff Members
- Dr. Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer
- Total - 45
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
- Don Guiseppe Guilanni
- General Rimat S. Rumyanstev
- Igor Kubasko
- General Makarov
- General Mikhail Bardachenko
- General Vladamir Zhupikov
- Masahiro Hayamoto Jr.
- Masahiro Hayamoto
- Brat Charliego Sidjan
- Charlie Sidjan
- Ahmed Zahir
- Mohammed Amin
- Abdul Malik
- Yussef Hussein
- Two Unnamed Assassins
- Hannelore Kamprad
- Deewana Ji
- Agent 17
- 21 of Sergei's Henchmen
- Sergei Zavorotko
- Total - 40
Hitman: Contracts
- Campbell Sturrock
- Andrei Puscus
- Fabian Fuchs
- Sergei Bjarkhov
- Winston Beldingford
- Alistair Beldingford
- Klaas Teller
- Rutgert Van Leuven
- Fritz Fuchs
- Albert Fournier
- Total - 10
Hitman: Blood Money
- Joseph Clarence
- Scoop
- Manuel Delgado
- Fernando Delgado
- Alvaro D'Alvade
- Richard Delahunt
- Carmine DeSalvo
- Lorenzo Lombardo
- Rudy Menzana
- Vinnie Sinistra
- Mark Purayah Jr.
- Angelina Mason
- Raymond Kulinski
- Chad Bingham Jr.
- Lorne De Havilland
- Skip Muldoon
- Everett Jefferson
- Junior O’Daniel
- William Corfitz
- Adam Hendrikson
- Joe Netberg
- Elijah Krup
- Buddy Muldoon
- John LeBlanc
- Hendrik Schmutz
- Sheikh Mohammed
- Tariq Lateef
- Anthony Martinez
- Vaana Ketlyn
- Eve
- Maynard John
- Vice President Daniel Morris
- Mark Parchezzi III
- Alexander LeLand Cayne
- Rick Henderson
- Unnamed Priest
- Ten Unnamed Guards
- Total - 45
Hitman: Absolution
- The King of Chinatown
- Dom Osmond
- Bill Dole
- Larry Clay
- Frank Owens
- Edward Wade
- Tyler Colvin
- Gavin LeBlond
- Landon Metcalf
- Mason McCready
- Luke Wheeley
- Lenny Dexter (determinant)
- Marcus Green
- Raymond Valentine
- Warren Ashford
- Sanchez
- Heather McCarthy
- Jennifer Paxton
- Dijana Radoncic
- Agnija Radoncic
- Louisa Cain
- Jaqueline Moorhead
- Lasandra Dixon
- Sheriff Clive Skurky
- Layla Stockton
- Blake Dexter
- Jade Nguyen
- Jack Aegis
- John Hoplon
- Carey Scutum
- Benjamin Travis
- Total - 31
HITMAN
Main Story Targets
- Kalvin Ritter Actor
- Jasper Knight Actor
- Victor Novikov
- Dalia Margolis
- Silvio Caruso
- Francesca De Santis
- Reza Zaydan
- Claus Hugo Strandberg
- Jordan Cross
- Ken Morgan
- Sean Rose
- Penelope Graves
- Ezra Berg
- Maya Parvati
- Erich Soders
- Yuki Yamazaki
- Total - 16
Patient Zero Targets
- Oybek Nabazov
- Sister Yulduz
- Craig Black
- Brother Akram
- Bradley Paine
- Four Militia Soldiers
- Owen Cage
- Klaus Liebleid
- Total - 11
Bonus Mission Targets
- Dino Bosco
- Kong Tuo-Kwang
- Matthieu Mendola
- Harry "Smokey" Bagnato
- Marv "Slick" Gonif
- Marco Abiatti
- Total - 6
Elusive Targets
- Sergei Larin
- Anthony L. Troutt
- Adalrico Candelaria
- Jonathan Smythe
- Vito Đurić
- Dylan Narváez
- Gary Busey
- Howard Moxon
- Owen Wagner
- Nilla Torvik
- Xander Haverfoek
- Brendan Conner
- Richard Ekwenski
- Inez Ekwensi
- Gabriel Santos
- Etta Davis
- Richard J. MaGee
- Wen Ts'ai
- Richard M. Foreman
- Walter Williams
- Adeze Oijofor
- Pavel Frydel
- Akane Akenawa
- Pertti Järnefelt
- Kieran Hudson
- Bartholomew Argus
- Ji-Hu
- Phillip Giggles
- Total - 28
HITMAN 2
Main Story Targets
- Alma Reynard
- Sierra Knox
- Robert Knox
- Rico Delgado
- Jorge Franco
- Andrea Martinez
- Wazir Kale
- Vanya Shah
- Dawood Rangan
- Janus
- Nolan Cassidy
- Zoe Washington
- Sophia Washington
- Athena Savalas
- Tyson Williams
- Steven Bradley
- Ljudmila Vetrova
- Total - 17
Bonus Mission/Special Assignment Targets
- Dmitri Fedorov
- Blair Reddington
- Basil Carnaby
- Ajit "AJ" Krish
- Galen Vholes
- Total - 5
Sniper Assassin Targets
- Dorian Lang (determinant)
- Guillaume Maison (determinant)
- Doris Lee (determinant)
- Fifteen Bodyguards (determinant)
- Captain Re Thak (determinant)
- Captain Lhom Kwai (determinant)
- Colonel Jin Noo (determinant)
- Fifteen Heavenly Guard Soldiers (determinant)
- Roman Khabko (determinant)
- Vitaly Reznikov (determinant)
- Fifteen Siberian Tiger Soldiers (determinant)
- Total - 53
Elusive Targets
- Mark Faba
- Vincente Murillo
- Miranda Jamison
- Dame Keating
- "The Censor"
- Jimmy Chen
- Total - 6
HITMAN III
Main Story Targets
- Carl Ingram
- Marcus Stuyvesant
- Alexa Christine Carlisle
- Agent Montgomery (determinant)
- Agent Banner (determinant)
- Agent Tremaine (determinant)
- Agent Thames (determinant)
- Agent Green (determinant)
- Agent Rhodes (determinant)
- Agent Swan (determinant)
- Agent Lowenthal (determinant)
- Agent Chamberlin (determinant)
- Agent Davenport (determinant)
- Agent Price (determinant)
- Hush
- Imogen Royce
- Don Archibald Yates
- Tamara Vidal
- Arthur Edwards (determinant)
- Total - 19
Post-Launch Mission Targets
- Noel Crest
- Sinhi Venthan
- Total - 2
Elusive Targets
- Kody Haynes
- Joanne Bayswater
- Terrence Chesterfield
- Philo Newcombe
- Jack Roe
- Robert Burk
- Allison Moretta
- Sully Bowden
- Alexios Laskaridis
- Total - 8 (so far)
Total
- 342 Victims (so far)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- His codename is Agent 47 for two reasons, as he is the product of Professor Ort-Meyer's forty-seventh cloning experiment, and his genetic makeup includes forty-seven chromosomes, which Ort-Meyer states gives him a steep biological advantage over regular humans.
- IO Interactive originally considered making Agent 47 a "mean old hairy guy", then a man with high-tech glasses, until they went with his current design.
- Because of his kills and techniques, Agent 47 is considered as one of the most popular and significant characters in video game history.
- In an instance from Agent 47, he rarely speaks in the first five games and is always emotionless, while in the Hitman trilogy, he speaks more, and does develop a humanity in him.
- Throughout the series, Agent 47 is known for wearing a black suit and a red tie. In Hitman III, in the cinematic trailer and its artwork, Agent 47 is instead wearing a dark blue overcoat, but never actually wears it during in game and only wears it while in the End Of An Era mission, which is set in Chongqing, China, and the suit is called Neon City.
External Links[]
- Agent 47 on the Heroes Wiki
- Agent 47 on the Hitman Wiki
- Agent 47 on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
