Surely style counts for something, right? Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere have lovely style.
When his professionality is confronted, Mr. Croup replies:
and then there’s a nice exchange:
Very nice.
Daniel
Oh, there’s always Liege Killer the Paratwa from Christopher Hinz’ novel “Liege Killer.”
Two bodies controlled by one mind and specifically bred to kill.
The Jackal a pussy? Maybe in some lame, alternate universe where hollywood would make a travesty of the movie by casting Bruce Willis and Richard Gere in the lead roles but that never happened, right?
I vote for the Jackal. Both in book and movie you actually follow along as he prepares and stalks his target and can actually believe it.
You have been misslead by the fact the companion often has a name similar to Jerry Cornelius. Jerry Cornelius is a true incarnation of the Champion (his two needle guns are the two black swords) cite
Three words: Bob The Nailer
Val Con yos’Phelium from Agent of Change and its sequels was pretty good, but then he fell in love, got soft and quit.
So, I’ll have to vote for Vlad Taltos over FitzChivalry Farseer.
Do military snipers count as assassins? If so, then I’ve gotta agree. Bob the Nailer is the biggest badass of all the badasses in badass land. There can be no badder asses than Bob the Nailer.
All these votes for Vlad and no one has mentioned Mario?
:dubious:
He’d just jump on your head and eat mushrooms. Who could he kill?
Number One Killer from Branded to Kill. This guy’s so dedicated that he pees himself so he doesn’t have to get up and give his prey an opportunity to get the upper hand! That’s discipline!
Having dug around I concede that I have mistaken Jerry as a Companion. I don’t believe that he’s on Elric’s level, though a fight between the two would be bad mojo all around due to the repercussions of an incarnation of the CE being slain.
I’m pretty sure JC would rather throw a party than kill anyone anyway.
Mario assassinated an Emperor that most people would admit needed to die, and he more-or-less stumbled onto the information that enabled him to do it (or maybe Sethra let it slip deliberately–it’s hard to tell with her). I would assume that he’s quite competent, since he’s still around, but his legend was made when he was basically a punk kid who got lucky.
On the whole, Vlad’s assassination of Mellar without starting a war was probably the more impressive feat. He’s taken–and fulfilled–a contract from a goddess. Then there was that little fracas with the Jenoine…
That’s why he is so cool 
he can’t shoot for sh*t (remember how long the fire fights with his brother took) but doesn’t much care, since if they need to die he can get them some other time. Though usually he’ll just end up doing something else like throwing a party as the world falls appart. Elric is often at the parties discribed as a self pittying albeno sitting in the corner, or some such.