50 Fun Facts About Hitman

Agent 47 of Hitman placed third in a 2024 BAFTA poll of iconic game characters, behind Mario and which other character?

Lara Croft and Mario were the only two characters ranked above the bald assassin in the poll, which drew around 4,000 respondents.

What is tattooed on the back of Agent 47's bald head in the Hitman games, marking him out among fellow clones?

A barcode was added so players had something to look at while following him from behind. In the story it tells him apart from the other clones.

Which actor played Agent 47 in the 2007 film Hitman, a role first lined up for Vin Diesel?

Timothy Olyphant later said he only took the part to pay for a new house after his series Deadwood was suddenly cancelled.

Which Game of Thrones actor played Mark Faba, a Hitman 2 target, in a mission titled The Undying?

Sean Bean portrayed Faba, the game's first time-limited celebrity target, in a mission released a week after the game itself.

Which Point Break actor won a public vote to appear as an assassination target in the 2016 game Hitman?

Gary Busey beat fellow actor Gary Cole in the online poll, and both men ended up appearing in the week-long mission.

Agent 47's trademark Hitman outfit pairs a dark suit and leather gloves with a tie of which colour?

Red, or more exactly burgundy, is the tie's colour. In the first game the whole suit is left neatly folded on the ground whenever he swaps outfits.

Since the first Hitman game, Agent 47 has slipped into restricted areas by taking what from other characters?

Their clothes become his disguise, though in the first game the cover is blown as soon as the stripped victim's body is found.

Hitman 3 opens at the inauguration of the Sceptre, a fictional skyscraper in which Middle Eastern city?

Dubai was picked for an open, airy, top-of-the-world opening, and the Sceptre is modelled on the real Burj Khalifa.

The 2014 mobile spin-off Hitman Go presents each of its levels in the style of what?

A board game suited phones, its makers felt, because it gave players time to think and plan before making each move.

In Hitman 2, Agent 47 stalks a father-and-daughter pair of targets at a motor race in which Florida city?

Miami hosts the race, where the targets are Robert and Sierra Knox, defectors from the secret society that hired the Agency.

Which handler at the International Contract Agency briefs Agent 47 on his targets throughout the Hitman games?

Diana Burnwood has guided him since the first game, yet Hitman: Absolution opens with the Agency ordering him to shoot her.

Which Homeland actor took the lead in the 2015 film Hitman: Agent 47 after original star Paul Walker died?

Rupert Friend stepped in after Walker, the original choice, was killed in a car crash in November 2013. The reboot was Aleksander Bach's first film as director.

IO Interactive, the studio founded in 1998 that created Hitman, is based in which Nordic city?

Copenhagen is home to the studio, which began as a joint venture between seven game developers and the film company Nordisk Film.

At the start of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Agent 47 has retired to work as a church gardener on which island?

Sicily is where he seeks peace until the local Mafia kidnap the priest who took him in, forcing him back to the Agency for help.

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin was edited after protests over a level set in a version of which Indian holy site?

The Golden Temple is among Sikhism's holiest sites, and the level had players killing Sikhs inside it. All Sikh references were later removed from two versions of the game.

In Hitman: Contracts, Agent 47 relives old jobs in flashback while lying wounded in a hotel room in which city?

Paris is where a tipped-off target has him shot, and the game's missions are the memories that surface as he bleeds in his room.

At the climax of Hitman: Blood Money, how does Agent 47 get close to the enemies hunting him?

As a corpse, or so they think: his handler injects a serum that mimics death, then slips him the antidote at his own cremation, where he wakes and kills everyone present.

Which sacred song, sung by a Zurich Boys' Choir soloist, features on the soundtrack of Hitman: Blood Money?

Ave Maria, in Franz Schubert's setting, was sung for the game by Daniel Perret. The rest of the score was recorded with a Budapest orchestra and choir.

Which actor has voiced Agent 47 in every main Hitman game since 2000 and was the model for his appearance?

David Bateson was briefly recast for Hitman: Absolution and only found out from the trailer. Fan backlash got him rehired six months before release.

IO Interactive, the studio behind Hitman, released a 2026 origin-story game about which fictional secret agent?

James Bond stars in 007 First Light, which follows the young spy as he earns his 00 status. IO announced the project back in November 2020.

Which scientist, killed at the end of Hitman: Codename 47, created Agent 47 in a secret cloning project?

Otto Ort-Meyer mixed his own DNA with that of four criminal partners, then sets a newer batch of clones on 47 before dying at his creation's hands.

Agent 47 escapes from a sanatorium in which country at the start of Hitman: Codename 47, later returning for the finale?

Romania holds the sanatorium, and on his return he finally learns that he was created there as a clone.

Which animation technique, now standard in action games, did Hitman: Codename 47 help pioneer back in 2000?

Ragdoll physics came about because the coders found canned falling animations too static, and the effect helped the studio land its publishing deal.

Hitman: Codename 47 began as a run-and-gun shooter inspired by which director's films, such as Hard Boiled?

John Woo's gunfights inspired the first design, a quick-to-build run-and-gun shooter, before the publisher's producer steered the game towards stealth.

Which composer scored the first four Hitman games before writing the music for the early Assassin's Creed titles?

Jesper Kyd won a BAFTA for his Hitman: Contracts score. He had earlier been a member of Zyrinx, the developer whose staff went on to found IO Interactive.

Which British publisher released the first four Hitman games before Square Enix bought it in 2009?

Eidos Interactive signed the first game after six months of talks, then bought IO Interactive itself for £23 million in 2004.

Which Hollywood studio's games division published Hitman 2 in 2018 after IO Interactive parted ways with Square Enix?

Warner Bros. stepped in after IO bought itself out from Square Enix in 2017, keeping the rights to Hitman as an independent studio.

How was the 2016 soft reboot Hitman first released, a format IO Interactive abandoned for the sequel?

In monthly episodes is how its six locations arrived between March and October 2016, letting the studio refine each level as it went.

Which Italian town in 2016's Hitman holds the private lab where Agent 47 must destroy a prototype virus?

Sapienza is a fictitious town, and the targets there are two scientists developing the weaponised virus for a biotech corporation.

The last mission of 2016's Hitman takes Agent 47 to a hospital on which Japanese island?

Hokkaido is where a traitor among the Agency's directors awaits treatment, having agreed to trade a list of every active operative for it.

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin gave Agent 47 which chemical for knocking guards out quietly instead of killing them?

Chloroform arrived alongside a silent crossbow, in a sequel that let players incapacitate enemies for the first time in the series.

The final mission of Hitman 3 has Agent 47 wake up as a prisoner aboard which kind of vehicle?

A train is where the trilogy ends: the man who had him captured is aboard too, and 47 may either kill him or wipe his memory.

In the 2007 film Hitman, Agent 47 is hired to publicly assassinate the head of state of which country?

Russia is led in the film by Mikhail Belicoff, who seems to survive the shot because a double has secretly taken his place.

Which secret organisation that controls world affairs is the main enemy across the Hitman trilogy that began in 2016?

Providence at first allies with the Agency to hunt a mysterious enemy of its own, and 47 later learns it had a hand in creating him.

Which time-limited Hitman missions, introduced in 2016, can be attempted only once and are gone for good if failed?

Elusive Targets cannot be saved mid-mission either, so one mistake ends the hunt and the target never returns.

Which American author of Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid tie-ins wrote the 2012 novel Hitman: Damnation?

Raymond Benson set Hitman: Damnation just before Hitman: Absolution, with the Agency luring a long-missing 47 back for one more job.

Which ability, introduced in Hitman: Absolution, lets Agent 47 track enemies through walls and spot useful objects?

Instinct arrived with the more action-led Absolution and became a staple of the series, even being added to a later re-release of Blood Money.

Which genetically enhanced teenager does Agent 47 protect throughout Hitman: Absolution at his handler's request?

Victoria was engineered to become an assassin like him, and he hides her in an orphanage while rival factions hunt them both.

Which rival contract-killing outfit hunts down the Agency's operatives in Hitman: Blood Money?

The Franchise wants the cloning technology that produced 47, and in Blood Money it wipes out nearly every other Agency operative.

The first four targets in Hitman: Codename 47 turn out to have served together in which military force?

The French Foreign Legion links all four, who served in one unit in Vietnam before donating their DNA to the cloning project.

In the 2018 game Hitman 2, which everyday item can Agent 47 use to smuggle firearms into a location?

A briefcase echoes the very first game, where he carried a dismantled sniper rifle in a special case and had to reassemble it before firing.

Hitman 3 sends Agent 47 to a gathering in Mendoza, a winemaking region of which South American country?

Argentina had never featured in the series before, so a producer from the country advised on details such as tango and the drinking of mate.

In Hitman: Absolution, Agent 47 kills a crime lord called the King of Chinatown in which American city?

Chicago is where the game opens: he flees its police through an abandoned library and the subway before the trail leads to South Dakota.

In which Hitman 3 location can Agent 47 disguise himself as a detective and investigate a murder at an English manor?

Dartmoor's gothic mansion was inspired by Agatha Christie novels, and the detective disguise gives free access to most of the level.

Which all-female hit squad attacks Agent 47 at a motel in Hitman: Absolution on the orders of Benjamin Travis?

The Saints are Travis's personal hit squad, and 47 finishes off the last of them at a mobile command post in nearby farmland.

In the tie-in novel Hitman: Damnation, Agent 47 develops an addiction to what during a long stay in Kathmandu?

Painkillers hook him during fourteen weeks of recovery in Kathmandu, after an avalanche he set off himself left him with a back injury.

Which fellow clone and childhood companion of Agent 47 is revealed as the Shadow Client in the Hitman trilogy?

Lucas Grey, once known as Subject 6, helps 47 recover memories that had been erased and persuades him to turn on the people who made them.

In Hitman: Contracts, which rank sits at the bottom of the post-mission ratings, opposite the stealthy top rank?

Mass Murderer goes to players who gun down crowds and ignore stealth. The same scale appeared in the previous game, where clean runs unlocked bonus weapons.

The mobile game Hitman: Sniper has Agent 47 picking off targets at lakefront houses in which Balkan country?

Montenegro hosts every contract in the main game, which 47 carries out from one fixed position, seen entirely through his rifle scope.

In the novel Hitman: Damnation, Agent 47 is sent to kill Dana Linder, a candidate for which office?

US president is the prize in the book's election plot, and a second target, Charlie Wilkins, joins the race after Linder is shot.