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* The main character of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'', Altaïr, is one of the Hashshashin, and the game depicts the Syrian branch; future games would depict successor incarnations of the Assassins as being more politically-motivated (namely opposing Templar schemes to consolidate control over humanity), though they're willing to invert this by actually putting contracts on Templars and hiring either Assassins or outsiders for minor targets.

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** The Dark Brotherhood is a fully criminal offshoot of the Morag Tong who operates throughout the rest of Tamriel. They are a much more PsychoForHire group, doubling as a [[ReligionOfEvil cult of Sithis]]. Despite this, they do still have rules, such as losing part of your paycheck for anybody else aside from the intended target dying in the mission area. They appear to very much dislike the wholesale slaughter of innocent people, but one unnoticed target or another they do seem to encourage as that is how you gain entry into the guild, just no mass-murdering people for the hell of it. Also, the lower-level leaders are very much sane in a professional way, and generally only care if you are doing your job right. By the time of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', the Dark Brotherhood is now down to a single chapter in Falkreath. As such, the current leader Astrid has taken a less religious approach to things. She later proves to be quite the ControlFreak when the player is recognized as the Listener of the Night Mother fairly early on in the story, eventually resorting to [[spoiler:dealing with the head of the Emperor's personal guard to try and sell you out, only for this to backfire horribly on her]]. When first encountered, the player character can either begin a short quest chain to ''wipe them out'' or join them and put them on the path to renewed glory.

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* TheHashshashin (see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashshashin here]]) were a group of assassins during the Middle Ages. They also were a Muslim sect (Nizari Ismailis). Their name is the origin of the word "assassin" in western languages. They were also another politically motivated exampled, assassinating first Muslim and then Christian enemies of their state.

** The Antivan Crows in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' fall under this category, with members being raised and trained for the sole purpose of assassinating and... well, sex. If Zevran is recruited as a companion, he shifts his allegiance from the Crows to the Warden, and if his friendship increases sufficiently he will answer questions about the organization. The Warden can also choose to take assassination side-missions from a representative of the Crows.

** The Assassins' Guild of the great city of Ankh-Morpork, whose motto is "''Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre''": "No killing without profit", is at once a parody and a lampshading of the trope. The Guild is legal, its head is an influential public figure, and it is common for nobles to send their children to its excellent fee-paying school. The Guild will take political actions for the good of the city, and will even enforce their monopoly on assassination by hunting down murderers. Assassins themselves abide by several rules, including that they always wear black, even when this is detrimental to any attempt to be inconspicuous, and especially that they're not allowed to kill people unless they are paid to do so, and they cannot kill the defenseless. Of course, anyone rich enough is automatically considered able to defend themselves by hiring someone else to protect them. In ''{{Literature/Pyramids}}'', the head of the Assassin's Guild gives a great speech about how killing for a cause is extremely dangerous and inherently evil, as compared to killing for money.

* In Creator/CJCherryh's ''{{Literature/Foreigner}}'' series, the alien atevi have a strange form of government-approved Guild: someone contracts with the Guild to assassinate a target, the Guild informs the government, and the government informs the target. If the target is still killed in spite of the warning, the killing is legal. If an amateur kills someone themselves, it's illegal. If a Guild member kills someone without a Guild sanctioned contract, it's illegal ''and'' ticks off the Guild.

* The UAA from the video game ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' follows this trope. Interestingly enough, it also sets up deathmatches between members of its own organization, allowing ambitious killers to climb their way up the UAA's assassin rankings.
** Though this is mostly because the player wants to climb the ranks.
* ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' has the [=ICA=] (International Contract Agency), although the ICA themselves could be considered more of a VillainProtagonist in the sense that they seem to only take hits against scum-of-the-earth criminals who escaped justice, although this is more to do with the fact the handlers the agency employs are the ones who select the contracts, and have their own moral stances. Diana just happens to go after really bad people, and freely admits in later games that other handlers get to choose better contracts for more lucrative reasons.
** The Franchise in ''Blood Money'' was being set up as this before their eventual dissolving by the end of that game.

* ''Literature/GirlsDontHit'': Synergistic Business Services, a company officially specializing in mediating corporate disputes but actually arranging contract killings. They have assassins around the US and elsewhere. Joss and Echo are just two, with Miles their only actual link to the business. Sometimes though Joss goes to an office where she does fake work but actually just surfs the Internet.

* ''Film/MurderInc'', a 1960 BMovie, is [[BasedOnATrueStory an adaptation of Brooklyn DA Burton Turkus's]] account of the RealLIfe TropeNamer. It's otherwise notable as the breakout performance for Creator/PeterFalk.

** The [[Characters/BatmanLeagueOfAssassins League of Assassins]], as their name implies, they're an organization that specializes in covert operations that involve assassinations. They mostly work to fulfill ComicBook/RasAlGhul's goals, but some stories have them being working as assassins [[OnlyInItForTheMoney just for money]].
** The DCU also has the Council of Spiders, a [[{{Motif}} spider-themed]] group of elite assassins that decide to kill Ra's al Ghul as a ''game'' since he seems like challenging prey. Their membership includes poisoners, martial artists, and a guy with [[MultiarmedAndDangerous six extra arms]]. He can ''[[GunsAkimbo oct]]-wield''.

* In ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'', [[spoiler:Peter Piper's wife, Bo Peep,]] was a member of such an organization in their Homeland, after the Adversary invaded.

** Marvel has the Assassins Guild. They were introduced in ''Gambit #1'' and mostly appear in the ComicBook/XMen-related books. They've recently returned as antagonists of the ComicBook/ScarletSpider.

* TheHashshashin (see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashshashin here]]) were a group of assassins during the Middle Ages. They also were a Muslim sect (Nizari Ismailis). Their name is the origin of the word "assassin" in western languages.

* RED and BLU from ''Videogame/{{TeamFortress2}}'' could probably be considered this.

*** The sense of honor anime Chapel ultimately shows ("the cornered mouse will attack the cat") does not fit with the frenetic nihilism that seems to be in fashion in the Eye, although that might just be Razlo being AxeCrazy, Livio being beyond the DespairEventHorizon, and Master C being crippled and out for revenge.

* The League of Assassins from Franchise/TheDCU.

* Marvel has the Assassins Guild. They were introduced in ''Gambit #1'' and mostly appear in the ComicBook/XMen-related books. They've recently returned as antagonists of the ComicBook/ScarletSpider.

* There was an organization named Murder Inc. in the MarvelUniverse (Partly based on the real-life Murder Inc.) in the 1940s, that would take in homeless men, force them to sign life insurance policies, then collect on the policies after murdering them.

* In the ''ComicBook/SinCity'' comics, the Colonel runs an organization of elite assassins.
* In ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'', [[spoiler:Peter Piper's wife, Bo Peep,]] was a member of such an organization in their Homeland, after the Adversary invaded.

* G'Kar from ''Series/BabylonFive'' was once targeted by someone from the Thenta Makur, a Narn assassin's guild. Their signature is leaving a red flower on the target's bed, which is a signal to get one's affairs in order. The group has such a dedication that when G'kar fakes bribing the man they sent, they cancel the contract on him and move it to the assassin out of embarrassment.

** There is a Klatchian ([[FantasyCounterpartCulture read Arabic]]) assassination group, the drug-using Hashashin, resembling accounts of the original Assassins (Hashishim). However, descriptions of the Hashashin are sometimes parodic; apparently, they kept [[TheStoner giggling at the way light reflected off their knives, swaying to music, and falling over]]. In ''Jingo'', as Ankh-Morpork goes to war with the Klatch, Vetinari notes acidly that the Guild's boast of being so good that the Klatchians send their children there really means that Klatch's assassins know Ankh-Morpork's methods, have refined their ancestral skills, and have a working knowledge of the city's layout.

* The Black Organization of ''Manga/DetectiveConan''. They also deal with drugs and illegal weaponry as well.

* The International Contract Agency and the Franchise in the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' video games, though the Agency could be considered more of a VillainProtagonist in the sense that they seem to only take hits against scum-of-the-earth criminals who escaped justice, while the Franchise ''are'' the go-to people for the scum-of-the-earth criminals.