Bersarker wrote:
Bounty hunters, mercenaries, assassins, aren't they all criminals? Most of their jobs are to kill who their bidders ordered.
Not all bounty hunters are killers. Some can hunt down their targets, but they often have to follow specific orders if they're to receive payment for their services. If you're ordered to apprehend a person, you apprehend, but if you killed them, even when told not to, you risk your bounty by doing so.
Bounty hunters are not criminals, they are employed to catch fugitives from the law. So whether or not they can use lethal force depends on the laws of the region, & as you can imagine is not so common in modern times. The only way to "criminally" bounty hunt is if you're doing it without a required license. If it's not legal in the country (i.e. almost all of them, because it started as a result of western expansion in America), then bounty hunters can't even exist, because there's no bounty being paid. You're just a vigilante.
A mercenary is not necessarily a criminal either, they're just a soldier that is hired from an outside contractor rather than being employed by the military hiring them. You could kind of say the same thing for an assassin, if they're legally employed by the government.
But June looks like the type who would hunt anyone for money, the contractor being evil or not. And she is a freelancer in a country where the government doesn't really do much, so she doesn't need a licence. She doesn't really care about the morals of what she is doing, she almost doomed the world by helping to hunt the avatar.
And i don't know why you would think bounty hunters kill people, there are tv shows showing them hunting down criminals and people who didn't pay taxes or whatever. Unless you're thinking of those "Dead or Alive" posters of cowboy movies.
I'm explaining to Berserkar exactly what a bounty hunter is. The job description has changed a lot throughout the years. And they are allowed to use guns, which almost certainly means people sometimes still die in bounty collections, probably from forcing the hunter to defend themselves.
Like what Coulson said to Thor in the film?
"Some groups pay well for a mercenary."
Like I said, a crime is, by definition, something that is not legal. That's why stalking someone is illegal...unless you're an FBI agent told to tail someone.
Bersarker wrote: So what about the assassins?
Assassins are killers that are employed by individuals or groups that don't want to dirty their hands by going after someone or another group that they feel is troubling them. Some assassins have a fixed price for which to work for those that hire them, and some have a strict code by which they live; some will only go after a select target, ignoring other people, regardless of the potential danger they bring as witnesses.
Well, she does bear some resemblance to Mai.