Scrolling through reddit today because I accidentally stumbled across a post tallying up all the James Bond references in Hitman, and I hate that the only reason these people seem to despise Absolution (besides the gameplay) is because they want 47 to remain this archetypal gritty villain with the stereotypical Cold War-era backstory, and not someone who's capable of saving lives and, more importantly, wants to save lives. Oh so we're just gonna ignore the tiny tidbits of him yearning to have a normal life, him having Diana as his moral compass, the trauma he carries from his past with the asylum doctors, and how he sees echoes of his younger self in Victoria? Oh okay so let's just flatten him back into an emotionless weapon, exactly the way everyone in-universe has always treated him. I know yall redditors have very low media literacy but i seriously didnt expect yall to skip the entirety of WOA.
"B-b-b-but it wouldnt make sense for 47 to get beaten up by Sanchez, or being electrocuted by Skurky--" okay???? In the end, he is STILL human. He's incredibly intelligent, meticulous, and fully capable of planning several steps ahead, yes, but none of that makes him immune to other people's smart plays. This man was jabbed by Diana in BM, who, again, in WOA, walked straight into that olive grove to meet Diana without noticing the enemies lying in wait around him, and while yes you may argue that it is only because he lowers his guard around Diana, but 47 CAN make mistakes because of emotional attachments. He's not some kind of untouchable machine yall make him out to be. He's a trained assassin but he is STILL a human. If the idea of vulnerability "ruins" his character then yall completely missed the entire tragedy of his character.
damnation literally talks about how he deals with depression and his substance abuse AND THEN we have absolution which discusses him dealing with his identity and how he copes with it by self-harming ALL THE WHILE wanting to do something about Victoria--as he wants to spare her the life he has. The game TALKS about he having agency over what he considers his identity as a cloned assassin, about him being able to do something about it and preventing it from happening, not just his identity as a cloned assassin alone. Yall failed to look pass his character as a clone and hence, failed to see him as human and it's pathetic as fuck
