Some have criticized Hitman as being “safe edgy” in killing only “bad guys”. Firstly, that isn’t true, he canonically killed the delivery guy, the priest and the journo in Blood Money simply because they were witnesses though all of them were innocent peopleBut also there is a misunderstanding of the character’s genesisThe first romanticized hitman is from the French film Le samouraï, about a stoic contract killer whose only companion is a caged bird in his apartment. The character was inspired by the guy from the Seven Samurai who is an ascetic who devotes his life to his art of the sword. This character is an impassive ascetic who devotes his life to the art of contract killing and has no morality but does have a sense of honor as eventually revealedhttps://youtu.be/PTFV07ah4fYThen you have the film that inspired, John Woo’s The Killer, also about a contract killer who is attached to Catholicism despite not being religious, and who has a code of honor despite being a killer https://youtu.be/UBjnv3C-g5oObviously the character of 47 which is based on these guys, is going to be in a similar vein. He is an ascetic who lives only for his craft, for him like them it is almost spiritual. Even if he is sociopathic he has a code of honor, simply because that is the genesis of his character. If he didn’t attach some metaphorical value to killing he wouldn’t bother doing it, he would just be a hermit in the mountains since he has no interest in living well like most criminals do
tldr he bald and woke
>>745558436He’s an incel
>>745558436That explains Charlie Kirk
>priest>innocent
>>745557598you looked too deep into a meme
>>745557598He's a supersoldier clone who was bred and raised for the sole purpose of killing. I don't think he ascribes any morality to it, its just what he does.
>>745557598he's was engineered in a test tube be a contract killer, he kills whoever the ica tells him too. the retarded devs forgot their own lore.
>absolutionlol
>>745559631 For 47 a priest is innocent because he likes the Catholic Church and is close to it as clear in both Silent Assassin and Absolution>>745559767 He’s a sociopath but he ascribes value to it or else he wouldn’t refuse to do it without heavy payment even though he gave away all his millions to the Catholic church >>745559916 He escaped from his his masters in the first game and systematically killed all of them. He works for the ICA because they pay him and outright went rogue against them in Absolution
>>745557598>Some have criticized Hitman as being “safe edgy” in killing only “bad guys”.It's not that he only kills bad guys, it's that he almost always only kills bad guys. I think it's fine, because I still like the series. I don't think the writing is its strong suit, though. I even think the schlocky grindhouse over-the-top gratuitous writing in Absolution where 47 plays a total moralfag was the best written entry in the series (because it was just really fun, stupid, and cool). It just leaves some more varied and emotionally challenging storytelling potential on the table.>But also there is a misunderstanding of the character’s genesisI don't think that's that relevant to the criticism.
>>745560217Absolution is the nearest thing to Hitman: the Movie since the actual movies were dogshit
ioi lost the plot after the first game>he has no emotions, all of that was edited out of him>oh wait but now he wants to find peace and get away from it all and live in a church with a birdthe game was good when it was just him being an assassin then they had to go and start asspulling
>>745560370Again the character was BASED on the contract killers from the first two movies I mentioned. The first has no emotions and lives with a caged bird and the second likes churches despite being a contract killer
>>745557598>killing only “bad guys”If you are a powerful person and want to kill good guys you use the millions of muslims you invited into your country to kill them in an "unrelated" terrorist attack.
>>745560435i simply dont give a shit. 47 was engineered from the dna of super villains to be a contract killer. that's all the games ever had to be.
>>745560536The idea of him being a clone was AFTER his character’s conception. And as a clone he is tasked with killing the supervillains and then his father. He is an introverted Jesus. The first level of the game in Hong Kong is clearly inspired by the Killer. The ideal of a stoic warrior devoted only to his discipline of killing as a spiritual pursuit was the origin of the stoic, impassive hitman in le samouraï, before that hitman in films were always hedonistic macho gangsters, not schizoid introverts. This idea of a hitman with schizoid personality disorder comes from those movies and is the genesis of the character. Making him a clone was added later to give an outright biological explanation for his disposition and lack of family or friends
>>745560747>Making him a clone was added lateridk man he always had a barcode on his skull. That's a mass produced man
>>745560917The barcode was also added later as a conception
>>745560917He is mass produced but all the other clones before him are failures and kills all the ones after him that are intended as improvements
Is this a real complaint?I mean who he is going to kill that's a "good guy" exactly? No one's going to put up a expensive contract on a normal dude for no reason. It's always going to be gang members, corporate opponents and murderers.
>>745561628A lot of /v/ thinks someone would be bound to pay him to kill someone like Trump by now and not depicting that is a bit ridiculous
>>745561628Well I mean, witnesses and whistle blowers. And even those are not black-and-white good people always, but sometimes.
>>745563527But those are generally not hard to kill, not a hundred thousand dollars worth, unless they are in the witness protection program and he has killed people in that
The modern games are censored for normies Blood Money was fucking incredible thoughFuck I need to play that again Killing is only bad when republicans do it. If the precious negro has to ”fight the power” it is fine to hurt mothers and children, which is why Hitman is always after “le white guy with money” now
>>745566208Do you need to pay someone his fee to kill other kinds of targets? I don’t think his employers are even available to people outside an extremely prestigious and wealth circle, you have know a guy who knows a guy who is the leader of a major mafia to even get their services
In Blood Money he was killing black gang members and pedophiles. Very chuddish ngl
>>745559631>faggot>an opinion that matters
>>745566208Blood Money isn’t a right-wing game, it makes fun of Republicans and Americans throughout the papers in the game which mockingly parody Bush and depict gun shooting as a curriculum for kids in souther schools. It’s just a very politically incorrect game since it satirizes rap and black culture (“yo yo check it. Motherfucker. Yo yo. Check it. Motherfucker”) and has Easter eggs like people cheering if you burn the slutty wife alive even though she’s not a target
>>745561628You could easily craft a mission where you kill some rich philanthropist who runs a humanitarian operation to help children with cancer that came into conflict with an organ harvesting cartel who order a hit on him. It's really not that hard to come up with something.
>>745567259Those kind of targets might be realistic hits but they are hardly difficult hits that require the 007 of contract killers to execute. The very lowest fee 47 works for is 100k and most of his jobs run for 400k and that is twenty years ago. He gets hired to kill people who are protected by extensive security like generals or senators or mob bosses
>>745557598the isle of sgail mission is a eyes wide shut party for people who are working to cover up climate change that is the most safe edgy shit i've ever heard
>>745566993/v/ermins can't differentiate between the two.
>>745566993Bill Maher?
>>745567829You can just imagine the kind of person who thinks Trump did stuff with Epstein and is corrupt and nefarious kek
>>745572706שָׁלוֹם
>>745573531Hating Jews is the most safe edgy shit you can do today
>>745573785we're on 4chan unc, nobody cares about the offsite meta
>>745566993dude even as a 12 year old playing blood money for the first time when it released, i knew that "check it" song was racist as fuck , lol. loved it.
>>745576075The black gangster is named “scoop” as a joke on snoop dog
>>745560265First one was good, fuck off
>>745577204No it isn’t especially not compared to the actual two movies that Hitman was based on. It isn’t as shitty as the next movie but it sure as well isn’t good
>>745560747A real schizoid wouldnt be a contract killer. They don't have the drive for it. Too emotionless. People do things because of emotions, motivation is emotional. If hitman was schizoid he would probably be homeless or low-tier wagie
>>745580297He’s based on the hitman from Le samouraï who is depicted as completely emotionless and having no life or hobby except lying in bed smoking, his character is meant to convey the existential bleakness and atomization of modern life and capitalism and only kills people because it’s his job and he doesn’t think much more about it than that. 47’s human side is based on the hitman from the Hong Kong film The Killer which is also inspired by Le samouraï. This is in the OP
>>745580547I'm just saying those movies and hitman are wrong from a psychological point of view
>>745557598idk I basically play hitman like it’s GTA. Full clear all the time.
>>745557598>First game is a glorified sci-fi game, final level has you fight a dozen supersoldier clones in a secret lab>Later games completely drop any sci-fi elements>The game still mentions you're a super-clone but apparently nobody else has any high-tech shit of any kind??? LMAO!
>>745580585They are meant to be philosophical symbols not realistic characters, actual hitman are like the guys in Hemingway’s the Killers or the movie of the same name. I have actually been to prison and known contract killers, they’re out of GoodFellas in temperament. The hitmen from those films combine two ideas, the ideal of a zen ronin who lives ascetically and only for the way of the sword, like Musashi and the character from the Seven Samurai, monks of violence, this is especially prominent in Ghost Dog. The other idea is Marx’s theory of labor alienation>All these consequences are contained in the definition that the worker is related to the product of his labour as to an alien object. For on this premise it is clear that the more the worker spends himself, the more powerful the alien objective world becomes which he creates over-against himself, the poorer he himself—his inner world-becomes, the less belongs to him as his own.>political economy – despite its worldly and voluptuous appearance – is a true moral science, the most moral of all the sciences. Self-renunciation, the renunciation of life and of all human needs, is its principal thesis. The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.James Bond embodies the glamor of capitalism whereas they embody the alienation of, they have nothing at all to them as persons except making money and have alienated every other aspect of their being. 47 even says in Blood Money when told “you can’t shoot me” that “I can do whatever I’m paid to do.”
>>745580717The first game is an anti-colonial allegory, 47 is created from the members of a French Foreign Legion unit tasked with killing Vietnamese resistance. He spends the game killing his fathers. He kill’s himself and his creator at the end in a reverse Frankenstein wherein the monster demands his creator make him another like him (a woman but still), here the monster is not lonely, he dislikes humanity and turns on his creator and fellow monsters. He doesn’t seek family and kill out inability to find love, he kills his family as a goalIt is science fiction but that was not originally part of the plot, it was added to make it easierThe later games feature cloning, in Blood Money the legality of it is what the whole plot is about and in Absolution it is about 47’s surrogate daughterCloning is not science fiction though it is totally possible, and grafting genes in the process is as well, it’s just very far-fetched that you could make an ideal hitman through that process.
>>745581238The first game has an entire sub-plot about the doctor planning to basically make an army of superhumans under his control.Then the next games drop any pretense of scifi.
>>745581463I don’t think you have played Blood Money since the idea of “terrorists” having a “clone army” is mentioned by the FBI or CIA guy (who turns out to be the director of a contract killer agency himself) as to why cloning had to be banned
>>745581510Blood Money is the only other game that really brings it up.
