Jonathan Smythe (also known as "The Sensation") is an Elusive Target in the HITMAN™ mission The Showstopper.
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Description and Routes[]
Jonathan Smythe is a wealthy entrepreneur who is also wanted for committing crimes worldwide, according to the game’s briefing, and is currently throwing a meet and greet party at the pagoda gardens of the palace grounds.
He roams area around the gazebo in the northern area of the palace gardens, next to the open field where the helicopter in parked. The gazebo that he hangs out is also the exact same one where Viktor Novikov’s meeting with Max Decker takes place in The Showstopper.
From time to time, he goes to the table full of drinks, and the drink he imbibes throughout the level is the glass of vodka, which can be poisoned to eliminate him.
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Trivia[]
- Jonathan Smythe's first album was titled "Traceless" and he has $1.2 billion in a holding company in Malta named ULTRA.
- The mission briefing claims Traceless was downloaded fifty million times in the first three months after its release. This is highly unrealistic compared to the real-life record-holders for most downloaded album or single as of the contract's release. Counting all album sales makes the fifty million figure much more feasible, but still hadn't been achieved by a new album since the invention of Napster or iTunes.
- One of the party-goers gossips about his multiple homicide charge in detail, describing it as "torpedoing a carpool of teens off the road".
- Jonathan is one of the youngest targets ever to appear in the series at the age of 19-22, only being older than Mark Purayah II and Mark Parchezzi III, who were technically only 1-2 years older at the times of their assassinations.
- His contract had a slight time shift compared to "The Showstopper", since the skybox was tailored to be later in the evening.
- He is currently one of the few legacy elusive targets where their target photo was changed on a patch in HITMAN™ III, along with Adeze Oijofor and Gabriel Santos.
- Jonathan bears a strong resemblance to Justin Bieber, particularly how Bieber looked in the early 2010s. To further strengthen the resemblance, his file name is "jbjr".
- Its possible that the "jbjr" references have been misinterpreted, as the original mission briefing extracted from the game's launch files refers to his stage name being "JBJ". In this original briefing, the target is blonde and his crime he is on the run for is a hit and run rather than a multiple homicide.[1]