Agent 47
Agent 47 is a male video game character who features in Hitman.
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Biography
47 was a genetically engineered human being who was a clone created from the culmination of decades of research in genetic augmentation. A cabal of five criminal masterminds funded his creation where they each donated their own DNA for the project with his five genetic fathers being Pablo Ochoa, Ort Meyer, Lee Hong, Frantz Fuchs and Arkadij Jegorov. In the 1950's, Ort-Meyer created a mental institution in Romania as a cover for the genetic experiments whilst his comrades became crime lords and terrorists. In exchange for research funding, Ort-Meyer provided his former compatriots with donor organs that was harvested from clone bodies thus extending their lives. The goal of the experiment was to create the 'perfect assassins' that were physically fit and capable of following orders with devotion as well as unquestionable loyalty. At some point, Dr. Ort-Meyer tried to make his discoveries public but was discredited as a scientist with many of his peers labelling him insane for his radical theories. On September 5, 1964, 47 was completed with him being seen as the first genetically complete success by Dr. Ort-Meyer who gave his creation slightly more attention even though he had other specimens to consider. Between 5 to 7 years old ages, 47 was quiet and showed little social interaction. His only display of affection was towards a runaway laboratory rabbit he adopted on August 21, 1970, displeasing Dr. Ort-Meyer. However, it died on May 2, 1972. Ort-Meyer noticed 47 crying and was surprised, as he'd never seen any of his clones do so before. Five years later, 47 also showed affection to a pet mouse. He cared for the mouse for about a month, until it was killed by a fellow clone as a cruel prank. When 47 returns to Ort-Meyer's lab in Contracts, circa 2000, five incubated clones can still be found in chambers bearing the Five Fathers' names. However, Contracts takes place in 47's memory, and other details from Contracts have since been retconned, casting these five clones' canon into doubt.
Between the ages of 13 years and 23 years old, 47 began a fairly negative relationship with the asylum staff, attributed to his chronic uneasiness stemming from his regular medical checkups and frequent injections. On one occasion, 47 stabbed a doctor repeatedly with several needles, thus, prompting Dr. Ort-Meyer to assign more security for 47. Along with the other clones, 47 was trained from youth to kill efficiently. He was instructed in the use of firearms, military hardware, martial arts, the use of disguises, and the use of more classical tools of assassination like the infamous fiber wire and sniper rifle. During his training, he was noted for his exceptional marksmanship, as well as for attacking the asylum staff with homemade slingshots, all of which were promptly confiscated. He also shot smiley faces into targets when he was bored. This was one of the only possible examples of 47 being exposed to pop culture, although all of the clones were sufficiently educated about the outside world by using traditional school textbooks.
One year after escaping the asylum and very recently after joining the ICA, Agent 47 was contracted to kill four high-profile underworld figures - the hits were ostensibly ordered by four different clients, but are later revealed to be the machinations of Dr. Ort-Meyer. First was Red Dragon Triad leader Lee Hong, who was so well-protected that 47 and the ICA only felt ready to target Hong after playing the Red Dragon Triads, Blue Lotus Triads and Hong Kong's corrupt police force against each other in a complex chain of events, after which 47 successfully infiltrated the Red Dragon headquarters and killed Hong. It was also during this operation that 47 first met CIA agent Carlton Smith, later to become a regular ICA informant. Next was an assignment to kill Colombian drug lord Pablo Belisario Ochoa and destroy his drug plantation, which 47 was only able to locate by gaining favor with the local U'wa tribe that had long been terrorized by Ochoa's cartel enforcers. Once inside the complex, 47 killed Ochoa and blew up the drug facility while escaping in a propeller plane. The third contract was against the three Fuchs brothers - Fritz, Frantz, and Fabian - who worked alongside each other as Nazi-sympathizing terrorists. 47 first killed Fabian in Kamchatka, Siberia, alongside ex-Russian General Sergei Bjarkhov who was prepared to sell nuclear arms to the Fuchs brothers. 47 then proceeded to Budapest, Hungary to murder Frantz and Fritz Fuchs, and defuse a bomb that the Fuchs had planted in the vicinity before it detonated during a United Nations summit. Finally, 47 was sent to kill Russian crime lord Arkadij Jegorov while his tanker was docked in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Coincidentally, a job opportunity unrelated to Ort-Meyer also brought 47 to Rotterdam; the Rotterdam Chief of Police hired 47 to kill Flaming Rotterdam leader Rutgert Van Leuven, recover some blackmail material, and kill Klaas Teller. Unfortunately, the bikers were expected to meet Jegorov and tracking him down became more difficult with Van Leuven gone. Nevertheless, 47 tracked one of their men to a rescheduled arms deal with Jegorov's underboss, who 47 then tailed to Jegorov. 47 infiltrated the ship, eliminated Jegorov and defused yet another large-scale bomb aboard Jegorov's tanker before escaping.
Only after all four contracts were fulfilled did the ICA discover that they were secretly ordered by the same person, Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer. The ICA still accepted a fifth and final job from him and, only at Ort-Meyer's insistence, assigned it to 47 again. Upon returning to his childhood asylum in Romania and killing his official target, Dr. Odon Kovacs, 47 regained many of his memories from the asylum. 47 immediately proceeds further into the asylum to kill Dr. Ort-Meyer, and coincidentally finds Agent Smith being held captive in one of their wards. Smith directs 47 to the cloning lab's secret entrance, after which 47 shoots his way through an ambush of 48-series clones, confronts Ort-Meyer in his office, and kills him by snapping his neck. 47 then ventures back up to the asylum, evades the Romanian authorities, and steals Ort-Meyer's car to escape.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He had the numbers "640509-040147" tattooed on the back of his head with these being indicators of his date of birth, the series and the iteration of clone. Typically, his attire consisted of a black suit, black leather gloves and shoes, white dress shirt, and a burgundy tie. One of his most notable aliases was the name Tobias Rieper.
Powers and abilities
Agent 47 was a genetically engineered clone who was created from five genetic fathers. As a class one type clone, 47 was genetically enhanced in order to perform physical tasks much more efficiently than an average human.
Notes
- Agent 47 was created by IO Interactive where he featured in the setting of the Hitman universe.
In other media
Films
- In Hitman, Agent 47 appeared in the setting of the 2007 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Timothy Olyphant.
Appearances
- Hitman: Codename 47: (2000)
- Hitman 2: Silent Assassin: (2002)
- Hitman: Contracts: (2004)
