If anybody has played the Hitman games, they will be very familiar with the ICA organization. This agency is the employer for Agent 47, handing him out the very assassinations that form the gameplay. Within the series, the ICA has been shown to be a secret organization with powerful contacts.
During the long timeline of the franchise, the ICA has been involved in a number of events that have exposed flaws in the logic behind this group. These range from things that happen within the missions to the traits seen from the ICA. Let’s see just what the things are that don’t make sense.
10 The Unexplained Ties To Royalty
One of the reasons why certain fans consider the reboot series to be better than the original is due to the former handing out straight answers rather than leaving things for interpretation. Hitman: Blood Money had ended with Diana speaking to someone she referred to as “Your Majesty,” confirming ties to royal sources.
However, this has never been expanded upon and doesn’t really make sense with the ICA’s principles not to attack big names as it would upset the world’s system. Seeing as there haven’t been any clues to hits laid out by royal personalities, the majesty in question remains an odd link to the ICA.
9 How The ICA Follows 47's Missions In Real-Time
With Hitman’s inclusion among sandbox games out there, the scale of 47’s missions can truly be seen. And yet, the ICA remains in 47’s year the entire time despite him not having any cameras on his person. Somehow, Diana remains aware of everything 47 is doing.
The ICA also manages to stash important items like weapons or intel in sensitive areas containing the target, so why don’t they just kill the target right then rather than send 47 later? It seems the ICA is present everywhere even if they have no logical manner to do so.
8 The Issue With Hiring 47
There’s no doubt that 47 is an odd character. So much so, that fans have taken to creating memes about his mannerisms. Regardless, the ICA higher-ups always seem to have a problem with him even though he’s proven himself to be their top asset.
It was shown that the likes of Erich Soders and Benjamin Travis weren’t fond of 47 joining the ICA. However, the reason for their hesitancy isn’t justified, instead seeming as if they just don’t like him for the sake of the plot.
7 How Easily It Was Crippled
The ICA prided itself on carrying contracts with such finesse that even 47’s greatest kills could be explained as freak accidents. However, they were somehow completely exposed by a rival organization, the Franchise, who brought the ICA to its knees.
The Franchise was able to kill all of ICA’s hitmen, with the exception of 47. This doesn’t make sense, though, as the ICA’s assassins were supposed to be top-notch who could never be found. It’s also hard to believe how easily ICA’s assets were found, considering the agency is supposed to be top secret.
6 The Screening Process For Accepting Assassinations
Although the ICA claims to screen contracts and avoid major personalities, it also seems to have a kind of apathy that makes the organization easy to manipulate. There have been plenty of targets who didn’t deserve to die, with 2016’s Hitman showing Lucas Grey manipulating the ICA into killing people he wanted.
If the organization’s screening process is sound, there should be no way that it can be fooled into taking out those who didn’t have to be killed. There’s also no clarity over who actually authorizes these assassinations and what their criteria is.
5 Its Sudden Revival
As easily as the ICA was crippled by the Franchise, the organization was revived without any problems. It was stated that Diana used the Franchise’s remaining assets to restart the ICA, but that doesn’t explain how every single operation ran the same way as it did before the ICA was ruined.
In fact, Diana wasn’t even shown to be the leader of the ICA by Hitman: Absolution, which doesn’t make sense since Blood Money had made it appear as if she and 47 were the only ones left of the ICA. So, where did all the other people come from?
4 How The ICA Is Contacted
It’s been stated that the ICA has links with everyone, from the FBI to the United Nations. However, it’s not possible that every person working in these places knows of the ICA, making it unclear exactly how the organization is contacted.
It’s not like an agency specializing in killing people is legal or commonly known. And yet, clients from every background can be found, with even single entities contacting the ICA. This means that if it’s so easy to get in touch with them, there’s no way the ICA should remain a secret organization.
3 How Their Money Is Laundered
On paper, it should be impossible for the ICA to exist without being caught by financial institutions. Considering it’s an illegal agency that frequently provides pro tips and expensive equipment to its assassins, there has to be someplace to window dress their money.
The sheer scale of their earnings makes it hard to believe they can escape being caught even with creative accounting, seeing as 47 alone has been shown to earn about millions of dollars just for one hit. So, where does all the money get laundered in order to hide the ICA?
2 The ICA Recovering So Easily From Going Public
After learning of the ICA’s plan to use the super-powered teenager Victoria, Diana fled with Victoria and exposed the ICA to the public. All this happened at the beginning of Hitman: Absolution, with the ICA somehow stabilized without any problems.
Even though the Hitman games are among the best in the spy genre, there’s no valid excuse for how the ICA went incognito once again, in-universe. With so many assassinations committed and so many names exposed, it doesn’t seem possible that the agency recovered so easily from such public exposure.
1 Having A Logo And Corporate Branding
It would be logical for an illegal agency to be as quiet about their operations as possible. The ICA doesn’t seem to have had the same idea, going so far as to brand their equipment, offices, and anything affiliated with them.
They even have their own logo, which sounds like a really dumb move since all this stuff can easily link the killings back to the ICA. Overall, there’s really no purpose to have the agency branded since contacting it is supposed to be done in secret.