Agrippina swam to shore so Nero sent an assassin to kill her.

Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.

* In the film Deadfall ( 1993 ), when the character Eddie ( Nicolas Cage ) mortally wounds a would-be assassin, he asks the man " Who sent you?

Schwarzenegger plays the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from the year 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, played by Hamilton.

Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore presents her case to the Galactic Senate, urging them to hold off a military force, despite the attempts of a Death Watch assassin, sent by Dooku and Vizsla, to silence her.

Bede recounts that earlier on the day that Eanflæd was born, an assassin sent by Cwichelm of Wessex made an attempt on Edwin's life.

Realizing the danger and gravity of this situation, Crown Prince Dan of Yan had sent the assassin Jing Ke to kill the Qin king, but this failure only helped to fuel the rage and determination of the Qin king, and he increased the number of troops to conquer the Yan state.

Schwarzenegger's Terminator-the same model as the one which was the assassin in the first film-is the new protector sent by the Resistance, while Patrick's Terminator is the new Terminator sent by Skynet, a reversal of the roles from the first Terminator film.

Lü Zhi's chance arrived, so she sent an assassin to force poisoned wine down Liu Ruyi's throat.

On November 22, United States PRS Special Agent Maxwell D. Phillips sent a hand-written memo to Secret Service head James Rowley, stating that, " According to Mr Zapruder the position of the assassin was behind Mr Zapruder.

Empress Dowager Lü heard this and immediately sent an assassin into the emperor's palace to force poisoned wine down the prince's throat.

In 227 BC, with Qin troops on the border after the collapse of Zhao, the Yan Prince Dan sent an assassin named Jing Ke to kill the king of Qin, later First Emperor of Qin, hoping to end the Qin threat.

As the assassin was immediately cut down by Nizam's bodyguard, it became impossible to establish with certainty who had sent him.

* Helen Kim as Karen: An assassin sent to kill Beatrix.

While away on a vision quest with Highwater, in which he learns the true nature of his powers and briefly sees the comic's reader, Baker's family is brutally murdered by an assassin sent by the corporate heads seeking to stop his environmental work.

Magneto sent his assassin Sabretooth to kill him.

Later he orders a loud noise sent to the dead security guard's link, which reveals the would-be assassin who is dealt with.

As an adult, Gamora was sent as an assassin against the Universal Church of the Truth, quickly becoming feared by its agents, the Black Knights.

It is said that there is no ill will between them — Prez even offered clemency to the assassin, but she was still sent to the electric chair.

As World War II began, Strucker was appointed wing commander of the Death's Head Squadron by Hitler, and, in 1941, he was sent to Madripoor to help the Hand ninja cult transform young Natasha Romanova into their master assassin, only to be defeated by Logan ( yet to acquire the adamantium skeleton which would transform him into Wolverine ), Captain America, and Ivan Petrovitch.

The assassin was sent to prison but was released after 15 days during the Chrysanthemum Revolution.

The wedding day arrives, but so does an assassin, sent by Primo to kill Vitti.

A year later, 47 is a professional assassin of the International Contract Agency ( ICA ) briefed by controller Diana Burnwood, sent around the globe to eliminate four criminal masterminds.

In the 1950s, Desmond Cory and Ian Fleming introduced the secret agent with a licence to kill, the government-sanctioned assassin.

* March 6, 1901 — In Bremen, an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.

When John Ehrlichman, the President's counsel and assistant, asked Nixon why he kept Agnew on the ticket in the 1972 election, Nixon replied that " No assassin in his right mind would kill me " because they would get Agnew ( as President ).

The court ruled there was no evidence that Raviv knew assassin Yigal Amir was plotting to kill Rabin.

Although he managed to kill the assassin, he was struck in the arm by a dagger feared to be poisoned, and became severely weakened over the following months.

Well-known patients of St. Elizabeths include would-be presidential assassins Richard Lawrence ( who attempted to kill Andrew Jackson ) and more recently John Hinckley, Jr. who shot Ronald Reagan, as well as the successful assassin of James Garfield, Charles J. Guiteau ( until his execution ).

If a woman wanted to kill a man, she would either convince her male relatives to kill him or hire an assassin.

Unaware that “ Kelly ” is Hooker, he demands that " Salino ," his best assassin, kill Hooker.

Grampa claims to have attempted to kill Adolf Hitler on two occasions, one when he threw a javelin at him in the 1936 Summer Olympics, which barely missed and instead struck a would-be Hitler assassin, and once when he attempted to shoot him with a sniper rifle, missing only by a few centimeters due to unintentional interference by Montgomery Burns.

This peaked when in No. 181 ( April 1982 ) he had the assassin Bullseye kill Elektra.

During his stay at Toranaga's castle, Blackthorne is attacked unsuccessfully by an assassin who is revealed to be a member of the secretive Amida Tong, a group of operatives who train all their lives to be the perfect weapon for one kill.

It is also hinted that the Jesuits may have hired the assassin to kill Blackthorne to silence what he knows.

Evil's assassin tries to kill Austin Powers in a 1969 club he sees her accomplice's reflection by looking into her eyes.

The Day of the Jackal ( 1971 ) is a thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

The film is loosely based on the plot of the novel, featuring an unnamed assassin ( Bruce Willis ) being hired to kill a high-ranking figure in the United States by the Russian mafia.

* Would-be assassin Vladimir Arutinian, who attempted to kill US President George W. Bush during his 2005 visit to the country of Georgia, was an obsessive reader of the novel and kept an annotated version of it during his planning for the assassination.

In this book, the Organisation Armée Secrète ( a real-life terrorist group ) hires an assassin to kill then-French President Charles de Gaulle.

Forsyth's novels also feature famous personalities and political leaders as characters — The Day of the Jackal features the French president Charles de Gaulle and his interior minister, Roger Frey, who heads the government search for the assassin — the opening chapter is based on an actual attempt by the OAS to kill de Gaulle.

The assassin whom she employed failed to kill Illus, but cut off his ear in the attempt.

In addition to random killings there is an assassin guild, which for a fee will dispatch a group of players to kill another player.

Gion Toji, the Yoshioka school's assassin who seeks to kill Musashi, arrives at the temple first.