Stealth based games can be incredibly rewarding. Remaining hidden while disposing of your targets requires great skill and practice, but these 10 video game characters certainly seem to have it down. Of course, you could always choose to take a gun’s blazing full frontal attack style approach in these games, but that wouldn’t be any fun now would it? Here we go, the top 10 deadly characters from assassin games:
10. Sub-Zero
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SubZero looks cooler than ever in Mortal Kombat X.
Sub-Zero is one of the most iconic characters for the Mortal Kombat series. The character is played by two brothers, the younger who takes up the role after the older dies. They serve as a hitman for the Lin Kuei clan and have been ordered to kill the host Shang Tsung. When the older brother fails the younger steps up and takes his place.
Sub-Zero’s mastery over the frozen element makes him a powerful foe to be reckoned with. He can swirl ice around and shape it into sharp spears. He can freeze you to the ground where you walk and dismember your body. However, the reason he isn’t any higher up on this list is due to the fact that he always fights his opponents face to face in a ring. Assassins don’t duel someone until their health bar is depleted. It seems to work for this guy though.
9. Travis Touchdown
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Travis Touchdown already looks like a guy you wouldn't like.
The No More Heroes series follows Travis Touchdown as he decides to become an assassin and climb the ranks of the UAA (United Assassin Association). Travis was a normal Otaku before he decided to go into the business of killing. That meant that he was deeply addicted to video games, manga, anime, and wrestling. The turning point for Travis was when he realized that he could no longer afford new video games, so he accepted a hitman job for cash.
What makes Travis so dangerous isn’t the ridiculous beam like light-saber weapon he bought online, but the fact that he simply doesn’t care. Travis just wants to chill and play video games and watch wrestling, nothing else matters. Your life doesn’t matter. This is what makes him so deadly, being apathetic to the value of human life.
8. Dark Brotherhood
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The creepiest assassin group in any game!
The Dark Brotherhood is an organization of assassins found in Skyrim. They hide in the shadow and kill their targets with skill and precision. Subtlety is key and remaining unnoticed is vital, unless you’re the Dragonborn of course.
After joining the Dark Brotherhood you will get consistant jobs to go out and kill the organizations targets. Since you are so ridiculously powerful and can shout with the power of dragons, you don’t have to follow the directives. Instead of killing the target, how about wiping the entire village off the map? The Dragonborn is really one of only few video game assassins that can charge in head first and kill everyone and get away with it.
7. HK-47
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This robot proves that AI can always do better what humans can't.
You purchase this bloodthirsty droid on Tatooine in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. This droid is unlike all other droids in so many ways. For starters, he refers to all organic life forms as “meatbags,” which can get old pretty quick since it is often aimed as a derogatory remark towards you. HK 47 was used as hitman robot before you bought him. He probably has more blood on his metal hands then you can imagine. To be fair though, it seems as if the droid was only used to assassinate targets that posed a threat to the galaxy. Although, who made those judgement calls we can’t say.
6. Nina Williams
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Nina fighting in her camo outfit in Tekken Tag.
Nina takes the trophy for the sexiest assassin on this list. She has appeared in all Tekken games in the franchise and is well known by the fighting game community. While she shares the same problem that Sub-Zero does in that she always fights her targets in a controlled environment face to face, her good looks and great back story put her higher up on the list.
Nina was taken by an underground force as a child and shaped into a perfect assassin. She is cold and indifferent towards all others except her sister Anna, who is constantly trying to reach out to her. Throughout the Tekken games she is often hired to eliminate other characters such as Heihachi, Kazuya, and Steve Fox, but her real intentions often revolve around settling a grudge between her and her sister.
Nina’s fighting style is fast and powerful. She often fights in high heels, which doesn’t make much sense to be honest, but it makes for some brutal kick attacks. Her chain grabs and throws are difficult to execute , but a skilled Nina player could beat almost anyone.
5. Phantom Assassin
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Don't let the girlish appearance fool you!
The Sisters of the Veil is a radical coven that takes children that have been chosen away and trains them in the lethal arts of assassination. Not much is known about this group other than that they receive their targets through divine guidance. The assassins in the coven are not known by name or number, except for Mortred. She speaks her name when no one is near enough to hear it, perhaps as a reminder of who she once was.
Mortred: The Phantom Assassin is one of the DOTA 2’s heaviest melee carry heroes. While she is incredibly farm dependent, she can last hit with her stifling dagger ability. This eliminates a huge weakness and allows her to itemize differently than other carries. What truly makes her shine though is her ultimate which is the hardest crit strike ability in the game.
4. Corvo
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Corvo's motives are honest, but he is a brutal killer.
Corvo from the Dishonored franchise is the embodiment of the American dream; The idea that if you work hard you can achieve anything you want. Growing up without a father, Corvo lived on the streets. He fought a lot as a child until his big break came in winning a fencing competition at 16. Following that, through hard work and dedication, Corvo became one of the Royal Protectors. All was well and Corvo was finally happy, until he was framed for the empress’s murder and thrown into prison that is.
After his escape from Coldridge prison Corvo becomes a cold blooded killer intent on clearing his name and getting revenge. His lethal skills are widely known and you can overhear guards and civilians talking about how awesome you are in the game. Corvo is one of the best killers in all current assassin games on the market.
3. Zed
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Zed is a free elo machine.
Assassin is the name of the game in the current League of Legends meta, and Zed has found his niche in killing noobs. He is currently one of the strongest mid-laners in the game and is very difficult to play against. His high mobility coupled with his insane damage output makes him really strong and popular, especially in lower elo matches.
Zed is the product of an overzealous ninja student seeking out a dark forbidden art. He was strictly prohibited from doing so, but he disobeyed and left his monastery. Later he came back and killed his master and fought his old friend and rival Shen in battle. In layman’s terms, Zed is kind of a douche.
2. Agent 47
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Agent 47 finally getting his weapons back.
The legendary hitman from the Hitman series is usually one of the first characters we think about when we discuss video game assassins. He was engineered and created to be an assassin. As a result he has a pretty dark childhood and not a lot of feelings. Although in the latest installment Hitman: Absolution, we get to see a new side of him.
Agent 47 is the assassins name because the bar code on the back of his head ends with 47. He works for the Agency in eliminating high profile targets. You can choose to follow the game rules and sneak around and only killing who you have to, or you could pick up a shotgun and mow down everyone until there are no witnesses left. Either way works.
1. Ezio
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He comes from a long line of Assassins.
The number 1 spot on our list goes to the video game protagonist from the Assassins Creed games, Ezio. The Florentine nobleman was totally unaware of his family’s involvement with the assassin brotherhood until he observed his family get hanged. That kind of stuff does things to a man. As a result Ezio donned the iconic white robe, put the famous wrist blades on, and proceeded to seek revenge against the Templar Order.
Ezio has the uncanny ability to blend in almost anywhere. No one can detect him or see him coming before it is too late. Some of his other awesome skills involve falling from great heights into bales of hay, and intimidating thugs for information. While Ezio has the perfect arsenal of abilities for executing his targets silently, he could also just kill everyone in sight. No one can notice if there is no one to notice right?
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