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unusual facts about ''Hitman'' series



1993–94 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season

The return of Alan Shearer from a long-term injury saw him make a swift return to his superb form of old, with the 23-year-old hitman scoring 31 goals in the league.

AMT Hardballer

In the Hitman video game series, dual custom AMT Hardballers (called 'Silverballers' in Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money) are 47's signature weapons.

Béla Drahos

He was conductor during the recording of the critically acclaimed soundtrack of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Hitman: Blood Money, composed by Jesper Kyd and performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Choir.

BeTipul

As of 2009, two seasons have been produced, with co-creator Hagai Levi working on a spin-off program in a format similar to the Up series.

Black Moon Rising

Working for the US Government to retrieve a cassette with vital information, Sam Quint, a former CIA agent (Jones), runs into Marvin Ringer (Lee Ving), another hitman he replaced, who is after the same cassette.

Body kit

Games include Need for Speed: Underground (2003), Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 (2003), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), Ridge Racer 7 (2006), Juiced series (2005), The Fast And The Furious Tokyo Drift (2007), MotorStorm: Arctic Edge (2009)

Bryan Brown

He is best known to American television audiences for his Golden Globe and Emmy nominated role as Luke O'Neil in The Thorn Birds (1983), starring Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward, whom he later married.

Dead Clean

A Greek window cleaner (Sachs) is mistaken for a Greek hitman (Richie) and employed by Tony Judd (Mark Chapman) to murder business partner Frazer Morton (David Weller).

Dead Fish

Lynch (Gary Oldman), an emotionless bon-vivant hitman, stops a thief who stole a cell phone from Mimi (Elena Anaya) in a train station.

Disco in Dream

The tour took place in Asia, and after in Europe the tour would be re-titled as The Hitman Roadshow (sponsored by Coca-Cola) and advertised as The Coca-Cola Hitman Roadshow, as free concerts to "thank British fans' support".

DJ Flash

Other DJ Flash productions include ICE T Cold As Ever (Hitman/Blue Dolphin), and The Original 2 Live Crew, which featured early recordings by The 2 Live Crew.

Faf Larage

:Faf Larage- Mr Claude dans le jeu Hitman: Contracts, dans la dernière mission, dans la chambre d'un camé.

Four Swords

Four Swords can refer to one of a number of video games in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series.

Freddie Foreman

He additionally claimed to have intimidated witnesses to the killing of George Cornell in the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel by Ronnie Kray and to having been a hitman for the Kray twins.

G.V. Series

At the same time in West Africa (what became Nigeria and Ghana, specifically) EMI was recording and releasing Sakara, Juju and Apala music on 78rpm discs in the Parlophone B, HMV JL, HMV JZ and Decca WA/GWA/NGA series (1947–52), as well as HMV owned local labels, such as Ghana's Taymani Special.

Hallgrímur Helgason

His best-known works are 101 Reykjavík, which was made into a popular film of the same name, Höfundur Íslands (The Author of Iceland), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001, and The Hitman's Guide to House Cleaning.

Harry Horse

He also wrote The Last... series, which included The Last Polar Bears, which was made into a 30-minute cartoon for CITV, and The Last Castaways, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.

Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows is a 1998 documentary film, written by Paul Jay, which follows World Wrestling Federation superstar Bret Hart during his last year in the WWF, from his WWF Championship victory at SummerSlam to his final match with the company and the infamous Montreal Screwjob at Survivor Series on November 9, 1997.

Honor Bound

Honor Bound series, a series of World War II thriller novels written by W.E.B. Griffin

Hunters of Dune

Hunters of Dune is the first of two books written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson to conclude Frank Herbert's original Dune series of novels.

Iona Morris

Her voice work also includes: Medusa in The Fantastic Four series, Claudia Grant in Robotech and Nia/Betty in the short lived Phantom 2040.

Le Samouraï

Hong Kong director Pang Ho-Cheung's 2001 crime-and-filmmaking comedy You Shoot, I Shoot features Eric Kot as a hitman who idolizes Alain Delon's Jef, dressing like the character, and speaking to him via a Le Samouraï poster in his apartment.

Mary Pope Osborne

She is best known for her award-winning and bestselling Magic Tree House series, which has been translated into over 30 languages and sold over 100 million copies worldwide.

Mega Man

Although the classic series has yet to reach an ending, the storyline shifts to the Mega Man X series, followed by the Mega Man Zero series, Mega Man ZX and Mega Man Legends.

Mel Novak

One of his more high-profile parts from the 70's was as the hitman Stick in Game of Death (1978), directed by Robert Clouse.

Norman Stansfield

When Stansfield learns that the holder has been stealing some of the drugs for himself, he and his henchmen gun down the man's entire family, with the exception of 12-year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman), who is able to find refuge with neighbor, and professional hitman, Léon (Jean Reno).

Obećana Riječ

"Obećana Riječ" (English: Promised Word) is a song by Bosnian rapper Edo Maajka, which details the life of Alan, an ex-soldier, who became an hitman after the war in Bosnia.

Omen IV: The Awakening

Omen IV: The Awakening is a 1991 made-for-television film that serves as the fourth and final addition to the original The Omen series, directed by Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard.

R.O.B.

R.O.B. has appeared as a cameo character in various video games, such as StarTropics, Kirby's Dream Land 3, the Star Fox series, the WarioWare series, the F-Zero series, Viewtiful Joe, and his head appears in Pikmin 2, called the 'Remembered Old Buddy'.

Reto-Moto

The Reto-Moto development team was originally founded by members of Zyrinx and Lemon in 1998 and was responsible for the creation of IO Interactive and the Hitman series of video games.

Riyadh Al-Azzawi

Al-Azzawi said his spouse's former lover, Egyptian business tycoon and member of Egyptian Parliament Hisham Talaat Moustafa had offered Suzanne Tamim $50m to lure her away from Al-Azzawi and marry him — and threatened to pay $2m to a hitman to have Suzanne killed in revenge if she refused to marry him.

Roger Hargreaves

In 1981 the Little Miss series of books was launched, and in 1983 it also was made into a television series, narrated by Pauline Collins, and her husband John Alderton.

Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his T.V. Series

No singles were released from the album, though some editions include Walker's top-twenty single; "Lights of Cincinnati".

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

It is the fourth and final release in the Super Mario Advance series, and was first revealed at Nintendo's conference at the E3 2003 convention, containing several enhancements, including the addition of Mario and Luigi's voices by Charles Martinet, the ability to scan e-Cards into Nintendo's e-Reader to add certain content, and a multiplayer mode based on the original arcade game Mario Bros.

Survive Style 5+

The stories clash together through the intervention of a thuggish hitman (Vinnie Jones) and his translator (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa).

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

According to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime, Skyward Sword is the fastest selling title in the Legend of Zelda series.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is a companion novella to the Twilight series by author Stephenie Meyer.

Tintin and the Golden Fleece

Marcel Bozzuffi, who plays the thug Angorapoulos, is best known as the hitman pursued in the famous car chase and shot by Gene Hackman in The French Connection.

Tommy Vercetti

Tommy is the first playable protagonist in the Grand Theft Auto series that has a proper voice actor, with full dialogue.

Thomas "Tommy" Vercetti is the main protagonist and playable character in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a game in the Grand Theft Auto series.

Veselin Vukotić

Veselin "Vesko" Vukotić, Montenegrin hitman and criminal, known for murders of Enver Hadri and Andrija Lakonić.

Wendy Christensen

Wendy Christensen is a fictional character in the Final Destination series, portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

William Winwood Reade

This concept is elaborated somewhat in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, where "psychohistory" is used to predict and manipulate social and political developments.

Windows 8.1

It was also found that changes to screen resolution handling on 8.1 resulted in mouse input lag in certain video games that do not use the DirectInput API's—particularly first-person shooter games, including Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Hitman: Absolution, and Metro 2033.


see also

Hitman: Enemy Within

Agent 47 - The protagonist of the Hitman series; a genetically-altered clone assassin who utilizes various disguises while on-assignment.