Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-807326-20171018035413/@comment-3221148-20171021125612

Kaestal wrote: Usually a spy tries to not leave a dead body at the scene, so as to not, y'know, alert people that there's a spy gathering information about things.

An assassin is more about killing a target and getting away scott free, or trying anyway.

While both are sneaky sneaky, one is more about information gathering, the other is about killing a target.

Also if you were both, it would risk compromising that a certain information was stolen which you might not want to be known, as an assassin's presence might make you think "Did they steal anything?"

Would go against the spy thing unless you didn't care that they knew you'd taken their stuff.

And James Bond is a hilariously over the top action spy, not the best example. Too bad we ARE dealing with hilariously over the top action, in which secret agents act as both spies, assassins and saboteurs. OF COURSE a real life spy is usually deeply infiltrated and won't risk overt actions so as not to blow his cover, but even they are trained in combat and sabotage, in case they have to shut down someone who can blow their cover, or they need to abandon the cover and blow the place up.

The specifics of a mission does not mean that a person specialized in infiltration is unable to perform an assassination, or vice versa.