- Real Name: Thomas Monaghan
- Alias: Hitman
- Identity: Public
- Alignment: Good
- Gender: Male
- Hair: Black, Eyes: Black
- Occupation: Hitman
- Status Citizenship: American
- First appearance: Demon Annual Vol 3 #2 (1993)
- Appearance of Death: Hitman #60 (April, 2001)
History[]
Tommy Monaghan was born to Kathryn Monaghan, an Irish prostitute, in Donegal, Ireland. His mother had a habit of naming her children after the johns who impregnated her, but Tommy's father was a violent man who threatened to kill Kathryn if she named her unborn son after him. As a warning he burnt down her house, killing three of her children. Kathryn fled to the United States, and left Tommy with a Catholic orphanage in Gotham City. Tommy's father tracked her down and mutilated her. She later died.
Tommy grew up in St. Killian's Orphanage under the guidance of Sister Concepta and Sean Noonan, the latter of which treated him like a son. He befriended Sean's nephew Pat, and the two remained friends into their adulthood. Tommy joined the United States Marine Corps, where he met Natt Walls. He and Natt became friends when Tommy took his side against two corrupt Marine recruits. They served together in Operation Desert Storm in Iraq and saw little action, though they did accidentally kill a group of British S.A.S. troops.
Upon returning to the United States, Tommy became a hitman, and he worked for several mafia families and government agencies. Though he killed for a living, he maintained a firm rule of never killing a good person. This rule came into play several times in Tommy's life as he had encounters with police officers and superheroes. Tommy himself became a superhuman when he was performing a hit on the head of the Dubelz Crime Family. One of the Bloodlines Parasites killed his target, then attempted to kill Tommy by draining his spinal cord fluid. The attack left Tommy alive and able to read minds and see through solid objects. The death of the Dubelz patriarch, however, earned him the hatred of that family. When Pat Noonan was killed for not revealing Tommy's location to an associate of Moe Dubelz, Tommy declared vengeance on the entire Dubelz family, and he managed to kill every one of them.
The Arkannone, Hell's lords of the gun, were impressed by Tommy's ability to kill so effectively, and they sought to employ him as their earthly agent. He resisted, and the Arkannone sent the Mawzir after him. Tommy managed to kill the Mawzir and the Arkannone with the help of Etrigan.
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