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My grim interpretation of Hitman 3 ending
Jesus christ Hitman 3 was a trip…But a good as fuck trip holy SHIT the locations are amazing, especially Chongqing, the attention to details. (I didn’t notice any translation error in the chinese texts like you usually find in other video games…
Rip Grey. Can’t believe they did my boi like that but he was trying his damnest to protect his only family…
I’m a bit confused about the ending though… Maybe it’s my natural attraction to tragic endings but I can’t help but interpret it this way… Spoilers warning for those who haven’t finished the game, also for my extremely cynical interpretation of the ending.
In the mission in Mendoza you can overhear conversations between Diana and Vidal and they also talked about 47. Diana was asked what 47 would feel if he saw her now, she said “He wouldn’t, 47 is a weapon and weapons don’t judge. They go where they are pointed.” And when Diana was waiting for 47 to save her upstairs, 47 shows up and she orders him to clear the floor, put on a gaurd’s outfit and wait for her signal. After she stabs Yates she ordered 47 to finish him and Yates snarled to 47 “such a good…boy”. I’m definately reading too much into it but her tone was just so cold when she said these things… And when she stabbed Yates (what I thought she would never do cause she wasn’t an “apathetic killer” like 47 was bred to be. Sure she works in the killing business but she never knew “what it was like to take lives”), I legit thought for a second that she really changed into a cold-hearted Constant.
I knew Diana wasn’t really gonna betray 47 (we already saw this in Blood Money so I thought they were going for a more polished version of it) and Diana was playing her part but… even when no one was watching though? Even when he was writhing on the ground thinking he was on the verge of death - betrayed by the one who he trusted the most? What was the plan here? Hoping Edwards wouldn’t kill him? Hoping he was gonna wake up safe in the train before getting mind-wiped again - his worst nightmaire? No whispered words of reassurance or hinted encouragemnet before he goes unconscious? Just…“this (death) is a kindness. Goodbye, agent”? Not even addressing him by his name in what he thought was the last thing he would hear?
Was there ever a plan? Or was it just 47 convincing himself that there was one in his mind? She didn’t give him any hint of hope. No wonder he imagined all those awful things Diana said in his dream. In the end it was Grey who snapped him out of it - his emotions personified, convincing him that Diana was plotting against Edwards, that Diana forgives him, that Diana trusts him to act on his own.
His emotions - love and loyalty for Diana brought him back. But to what end?
I always thought that the best ending of Hitman was to be the retirement of everyone. Tearing down this horrible and, in its core, immoral business of endless lies and bloodshed that ruined the lives of many. People like 47 and Grey could finally, like Grey said, “think about the future and not go back”, could have the freedom to choose options other than killing, hurting and being used as weapons.
But alas, in the end, 47 came back to his old ways. Did he really choose this path of murdering people for money on his own, or did he choose it because of Diana? With the unwavering belief that she could do no wrong, that she is uncorruptable by power, that she is untouchable?
Maybe 47 wasn’t bred to be the perfect specimen of human capabilities after all. Maybe he was bred to be loyal to whomever he has imprinted on.
Maybe he was bred to not have free will.
It’s just my very grim view on this story. Still though, I like the canon one a lot. Really hope this isn’t the end of the Hitman franchise… we’ll see. I’d love to hear what you guys think of the ending.
QvQ Also someone please write a fix-it fic where everyone rides off into the sunset and get married with each other.
My interpertation was that 47 proved his free will to us by convincing himself that that Diana did trust him despite all the evidence to the later. Like lying to yourself to carry on with a task that bothers us. Maybe he was thinking how could she not hate him, he knows he killed her parents after.
But he feels like it has to be a plan NOT because of his inate “programming” but because of the shit they have been thought in Blood Money and Absolution. They grown to trust each other and deep down in his instincts he knows he still trust Diana.
On that note, I just thought Diana literally guessed that is what Edwards was going to do since she know he like to use people as pawns. And she know 47 will kill him because that’s what he does.
In the Train mission, you can see that 47’s objectives were not given by anyone. It’s not by Diana since they didn’t talked about a plan for very long. I feel like 47 gave his objective himself and I also feel like he would have still spared Edwards with the scrum there aren’t other chooses we can choose from.
The ending suggested that both 47 and Diana had the same idea to continue to take down corrupt people. I don’t think it’s because 47 likes to follow Diana like a puppy dog but because they know more than anyone how it is like for powerful people to abuse their people on those who are weak to stop them.
To think 47’s following Diana because of his inate programming is a disservice to his arc as he tried to gain himself in this whole trilogy.
But that’s just my thoughts and I do respect your opinion if you feel that way.
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