Oh wow the list is so long.
Well there was the run into an underground facility for Raincoat Corp, a corporation designing biowarfare weapons, to extract a scientist after an accidental virus leak. Of course after the scientist believed he was mostly safe he tricked the runners into a confrontation with one of his experiments to test its potential (RE 1/2/3)
The run through a corporate HQ building (Datadyne) to steal an experimental isotope and return it to the Johnson. To add to the theft of the idea, there was a hole in security on the roof, but the isotope was in the basement levels. (Perfect Dark on the 64 1st Mission)
A run to break into a corporate owned villa and extract a man. (As above 2nd Mission)
A run to initially infiltrate a nuclear disposal site and secure a classified nuclear armed battle mech that has been secured by terrorists. (Metal Gear Solid)
The runners are hired to disrupt a game show being shot at the west renton mall. (Mallrats)
The runners are hired to kill eight men in Portland and deliver their heads in a duffel bag to the Johnson. (8 heads in a duffel bag ish)
The runners are hired to kill a trideo star, but realize during their attempt that the start is actually a very clever ruse put on by the director. (S1m0ne movie)
The runners are hired to look into and solve a fifty year old case. (Cold Case)
E.X.P...E.N.D...A.B.L.E.S. Expendables, Expendables (sung to the mickey mouse club tune). The heroes are hired to pull a very high paying, very public run, that is really only a distraction for the Johnsons real job. After all, he won't have to pay them if they're all dead
. (Age old Johnson double cross)
The runners are hired to keep tabs on a stuffer shack clerk and everyone he contacts for an entire day and report back to the Johnson. (Clerks)
The runners are hired to destroy a new SOTA Knight Errant security drone that has become glitchy. (Robocop)
The runners are hired to save the president without his or the secret services' consent. (24)
The runners are hired to pretend to take out a group of bad guys on the NewsNet roof with guns firing blanks in high action movie flair. Unfortunately, the bad guys have real ammo and are being lined up as the good guys in a news shoot. (Last Action Hero ish)
The runners are hired to rob a corporate armored truck during a script transfer. The Johnson has provided getaway in the form of an inflatable boat in the nearby sewer system. (
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The runners are hired to protect a mark that is attending a game convention without his knowledge and without shutting down the convention. (Every Game Convention I've Been To)
The runners are hired to find and destroy a book that contains records the Johnson does not want to see light. (An episode of Human Target)
The runners are hired to find and neutralize a target that has been exposed to a deadly virus who will become infectious (and likely cause an epidemic) in approximately 24 hours. (Zombie Flicks/24)
Those are just a few I can think of.
Movies, Music, Books, they are all my inspiration.