User blog comment:Magma MK-II/Category Cleanup (continued)/@comment-25886777-20160528194121/@comment-2059440-20160528234911

no, let's not go overboard with this.. it's not a competition to see how many cats we can merge into super-cats.. assassins are a valid and important archetype, they are not bounty hunters nor are they mercenaries..

in fact bounty hunters are not (technically) villainous at all as they are pursuing criminals (even if the law is unjust.. remember that law is not always justice..)

however many media show "bounty hunters" as pretty much *exactly* the same as a mercenary.

unlike assassins mercs and bounty hunters will also (if needed) capture people alive, in fact sometimes killing a target is actually "bad for business" (as Ferengi would say).