You can imagine the gravelly voice of the hitman on the phone: "Boss wants to see ya.
Hagler decided it with his gloved rocks, his bullet-headed determination and a frightening relentlessness that reduced the lean, coiled power of the Hitman to reluctant impotence.
Up till now George Clooney's mission has been to glamorise masculinity in guises like those of the robber chieftain of Ocean's Eleven, the CIA veteran of Syriana, the smart lawyer of Michael Clayton, the workplace whizz of Up in the Air or the enigmatic hitman of The American.
In the the story of the Hitman series of games, when 47 was bored as a child he would practice firing at smiley-face targets.
Viggo Mortensen, almost unrecognisable, is a key actor in both films and in a neat piece of circularity, his next film is directed by Ed Harris, the sinister hitman of the earlier movie.
To some he was simply the hardest man in the game, the Hitman with the pint of Guinness hairdo.
He is shot in the leg for his pains, while Bug's father meets a worse fate: Michael arranges to have him killed by Chris Partlow, the chief hitman of drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield.
The arena is also the home of the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League (WHL).
Today the arena is also home to the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League and the Calgary Roughnecks of the National Lacrosse League.
But spare a thought for Ray Shoesmith, the chatty, affable hitman of The Magician.
It distinguished itself as something of a progenitor to the sandbox stealth of the Hitman series (particularly in its use of disguises), emphasising a cautious approach.
