Poll: Who is the best Assassin?

[AngelicSven]

Was Batman really trained by ninjas or are you just going based off of Batman: Begins?

I think Sam would be a better NATURAL ninja because he uses a pair of goggles and a knife. I've gone through many of the games without using the gun at all, except maybe the sticky shocker. Batman has a plathorea of gagets

In the comics, they just state that he traveled the world learning multiple martial arts, I'm sure one was ninjitsu. By ninjas? Most likely not but I'm not sure.

 

[LogicNProportion]

Big Boss assassinated The Boss, making him the greatest assassin.

Running up is Boba Fett. His backpack's got jets.

 

[Sanguinius- The Angel]

Ezio. He's suave as hell, and he fucks shit up.

 

[LorChan]

Agreed. The first book seemed just the right mix of gritty realism and fantasy. Yes, there was magic, but it had it's limits and the characters seemed human. The second and third books removed said limits to increasingly alarming degrees (to the point where one character actually flies) and the characters became cardboard cutouts (with the exception of Vi, but, while I appreciate what he did with her, I felt that her transformation was a bit to sudden, too rapid). Combined with incredibly poor decisions (like giving the ka'Kari a personality and voice, and returning you know who from the dead {I liked the character, but his death was an important plot point and added a lot of depth to the emotional interplay in the books. Bringing him back completely ruined that]), it all lead to books that barely resemble the first.

Overall, I think my biggest problem is that I see wetboys as a sort of specialized assassins, not something else entirely. I would define an assassin as anyone who discreetly kills someone for profit. SO wetboys fit the bill.

Indeed. I never finished the third book, but my friends who did went on AT LENGTH about the flying. And the Durzo. And Elene - by god do my friends hate Elene. The Ka'Kari overexerts the suspension of disbeleif pretty fast, and just the fact that the setting became so lost was really frustrating. I like it in the city, then they drag us across a massive, predictable fantasy land. Solon, Dorian, and Feir are boring, and I hate spending time with them... I'll stop moaning and complaining, because there are good point (like Nocta Hemeta, for example) but didn't Momma K become really rediculously useless after Durzo died? Like... wow.

Wetboys and assassins are kinda the same job... but hey, Sherlock Holmes is a consulting detective, not an ordinary detective. It's like a super detective... so a wetboy is like a super assassin, I guess.

 

[Redingold]

Vetinari. He flunked his stealth exam, because the teacher couldn't find him. Need I say more?

Now, now. Let's not forget that Edward d'Eath was the only person to ever get 100% on all the Assassin's Guild examinations.

Vetinari once killed a man unobserved by anyone but the target, without laying a hand on him, or doing anything harmful to him at all besides being in the same room.

You mean Winder? I'm pretty sure nearly everybody in the room noticed, they just ignored it because they wanted Winder dead.

 

[halfeclipse]

Vetinari. He flunked his stealth exam, because the teacher couldn't find him. Need I say more?

Now, now. Let's not forget that Edward d'Eath was the only person to ever get 100% on all the Assassin's Guild examinations.

Vetinari once killed a man unobserved by anyone but the target, without laying a hand on him, or doing anything harmful to him at all besides being in the same room.

You mean Winder? I'm pretty sure nearly everybody in the room noticed, they just ignored it because they wanted Winder dead.

His assassination was planed to take place at the party, but no one but Winder actually saw Vetinari there.