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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4956607" data-attributes="member: 710">The Avenger is the religious assassin. He assassinates people in the name of his god and his beliefs. He has devoted himself to his gods cause (in a specific way, unlike the way of a Cleric or Paladin.) His god effectively imbues him with supernatural powers for his devotion.The Assassin (as class) is a supernatural assassin that. He sacrificed a part of his soul for his powers. But he didn't give it to anyone in particular (like a god). But the sacrifice grants him access to powers others cannot gain. A heroic character can do stuff like sacricing his soul or whatever. Maybe that makes him "anti-heroic", but ultimately, despite what "anti" usually means, that's still a kind of hero. It's just one with a flaw, a dark past. But his ultimate goal can still be too achieve good, to protect the innocents by dedicating himself to kill evil.Bruce Wayne fails the final Assassin test, though - he is unwilling to kill someone. He has all of an Assassin's skill set (or at least one possible skill set <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), but he lacks the ultimate aim to kill his mark(s). In a way, Rohrschach is the opposite in that sense - he didn't always kill people, but he changed after a bad experience. But both Batman and Rohrschach clearly have the skillset of Assassins.Another example of an Assassin might be the Operative of Serenity.He believes his actions are a neccessary evil to protect the Alliance and its citizen. In some peoples eyes, he might be a hero. He doesn't himself see it as such (and the audience and the protagonists don't either), but an Alliance-trusting individual might.</blockquote>

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