There is some Truth in Television to this. Commonly he will have to turn on his old employers (be they Government types or Mafia dons) after he refuses to perform a certain hit and has to deal with a Contract on the Hitman. Or he may be saddled with a child or an innocent to protect. He may take pains to make his hits painless, possibly even Cradling Their Kill.
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Sometimes the hitman will have a code that makes him more easily acceptable by audiences, such as only killing criminals, or refusing to kill women and children, or not going after the family of his targets. He is also often racked by a number of " uncool traits", such as neuroticism, reclusiveness, some sort of substance addiction, or presented as an otherwise damaged individual. This occasionally overlaps with Evil Is Cool, though the Hitman With A Heart is usually more of an Anti-Hero/ Anti-Villain presented as a sympathetic human being, with some positive traits rather than being truly evil. Although their job is to commit murder for money, they also have a number of traits that make them sympathetic to the audience. This guy we're talking about? He is a hitman with a heart.Ī common trope in a number of dark comedy and action movies is to have a sympathetic assassin as either the protagonist or a secondary character. And not only does he not do his job, but he may even turn against his employer to save the life of the very same person he was supposed to kill. Or is there? For perhaps even this cold-hearted killer will Never Hurt an Innocent (usually a child). No job is too hard and there is no one which he can not kill. Mossad? CIA? KGB? It does not matter, his targets drop like flies.
He will usually be an urban legend, moving swiftly beneath the concrete jungle, leaving no evidence behind, and fulfilling his jobs with the utmost care up to the point of perfection. So, let us say that there is this guy who happens to be a hitman.