Are assassins and stuff like super cool agents real?

Fictional scenarios are cool as fuck.

Real life is dirty, complicated, and has a shitty ending. Super cool doesn’t really fit in.

silenced pistols aren’t really very silent at all

Assassins were existed only in ancient times. For the super cool agents I guess you have to define what’s ‘cool’ for you first. An FBI agent/SWAT team could be considered as cool for me.

Perhaps the most interesting bunch would be the Special Operations Executive, formed by Winston Churchill and containing such notables as Ian Fleming (who used his experiences as the basis for his James Bond novels) and Christopher Lee. Something of a guerrilla group, though not in the Guevara sense.

@Blondesjon AFAIK it depends on the firearm and silencer. You could probably silence a .22 short with little difficulty. In any case, they make some very nice air guns these days.

@Nullo . . . who wants to trust a .22 for a head shot? it might just bounce around in there and leave your target much too alive. and don’t even get me started on penetrating the breastbone . . .

Of course there are assassins. Of course there are secret agents. How cool are they? I have no idea. But the way they look in the movies and in novels varies a lot, too, from agents who are more like movie stars to agents who are pretty glamorless and get their hands dirty.

Would any of us know if we knew a secret agent? And if we knew, could we tell on a public internet forum and not be killed?

We’re real, and we’re awesome.

P.S. We almost never use guns. Too loud. Luckily, katanas are way cooler anyway.

@Blondesjon there was a soviet assault rifle suppressor that vented the gas through the equivalent of a dog whistle. You couldn’t hear the sound of the shot at all. Of course that was mainly because every dog for a quarter mile was barking.

I think a lot of the spy movies we see in film are not as accurate as that, I think a lot of skullduggery we will never really kno—did you hear that!?! Something went zinging by my head. The flower pot in back of me shattered like a china plate at the carnival. What is that sparkle flashing off that building way over there……..?

@Blondesjon .22 ammo is cheap. Just keep beaning the target.

I’m the real austin powers

One word: Mossad. Snuck a bunch of F16 fighter jets into Iraqi airspace using a Boeing 747 to hide their radar signature, and then blew Iraq’s first and only nuclear power plant to kingdom come. And you thought James Bond was a badass… note to self: do NOT screw with Israel.

And they do assassinations to, just on people you wouldn’t know or care about but who probably know a tad too much… like the hooker they used to get a Iraqi scientist to spill the beans to about the nuclear power plant during his stay in France.

Well, yeah, we have assassins and agents…but I’m sure they’re nothing like in movies. I learned that Feudal Japan ninjas for example, really weren’t anything like they’re depicted in movies and video games. Like, at all.

Yes. Once I knew a couple of them. They did not wear Armani suits and drive sports cars however.