If an agent does steal or otherwise commandeer a vehicle for assassination purposes - for example, if there's no way to take the Sue down without one - one could always get some humour out of the agent trying to figure out how to pilot it. To expand on your example, Agent Clark Kent taking a TIE and desperately trying to figure out how to fly the thing and shoot Pink Five down without crashing into something or getting blown up. Just my opinion, though.

Although Agent Piper would probably be highly offended to hear it, there isn't actually a whole lot of PPC badfic. When someone writes PPC badly, we tend to go for gentle correction rather than wholesale massacre.

Of course, that's not counting the PPC Badfic Contest. But no, the DIO mission targets were written specially.

hS