Question about 47’s ending (Spoilers)

[WinstonPeroni]

I’m pretty sure that we will see another Hitman game in this current generation.

[Bourbon]

@Lewisnic1

Would just be weird not having him called 47 anymore that’s all

I took it to mean that he’s no longer Agent 47, since that was his name with the ICA. Diana named him 47 by his own admission. I think he’ll keep it.

@WinstonPeroni

47, Burnwood & Hall Assassination Inc.

I think you mean Burnwood, Rieper and Hall. I know she said she’s out but 47 has said that before too. I think it would be easy to talk her back into it to honour Grey’s memory by continuing his fight.

[Hichkas]

@Lewisnic1

Diana referred to him as “Agent 47” then for 47 to state that’s not him anymore. Only for the ending to be 47 acknowledging that assassination will always be part of him?

I guess she was trying to mention his namelessness. This will never change.

[LongshoremanX]

I just had the worst intrusive thought: What if 47 takes a page out of Chad Johnson/Ochocinco’s book and starts going by Tobias Cuatrosiete?

[Lewisnic1]

@wincenworks

The setup is when you hear him say he’s not Agent 47 anymore you immediately assume that he’s taken on a new name - a new life.

The payoff is you discover the “new” aspect is he no longer intends to be an agent of the ICA, he wants to work in partnership with Diana, doing what the game establishes Diana always wanted to do via her position in the ICA: Touch the untouchables.

He’s not an agent anymore, he’s just 47. He’s embraced the person that he was always meant to be, and damn it feels good.

I was talking to a few other guys on the forum yesterday and they said exactly the same thing as you. I guess it was the “Agent” part he’s relinquished and after watching the cut scene back a few times it makes sense.

@Bourbon

I took it to mean that he’s no longer Agent 47, since that was his name with the ICA

Yeah that’s what a lot of people have said as well funny enough Like I’ve put above, I think it’s the “Agent” part he’s relinquished due to no longer being a part of the ICA.

[Zizmoka47]

I just can not imagine that I call him with a different name… He is always be 47 for me.

[Lewisnic1]

Think that’s the same for everyone as well

[Soupienza]

It’s basically HITMAN doing its version of the KNIGHT RIDER.

Knight Rider - Original Show Intro | NBC Classics

“HITMAN. A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Tobias Rieper, a (forever) young loner to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless (who pay top dollar) in a world of criminals who operate above the law.”

[Soupienza]

@sandor_krasna

Don’t fix what is not broken, tho… So idk how they can improve this system. They could improve it a lot by fixing the things people have asking them to fix since 2016.

In my Diana (or Lucas Grey) Must Die Thread on the old forum we also explored that one of the most interesting endings involved the downfall of ICA and all major agency structures, allowing for assassins to function as individual cells of privateers with their own “gimmicks” (ala SMOKING ACES) and for “systems” to instead exist as providers and enablers who work in an underground economy (similar to JOHN WICK). I also added this would be a clever way to reintroduce Kruger Schmidt as the master maker of untraceable weapons for anonymous killers.