Max Payne (series): Difference between revisions

A [[Video Game Movies Suck|Hollywood movie]] based on the characters was released in 2008 to a poor reception, but modest commercial success. Related tropes should go [[Max Payne (film)|to its separate page]].

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* [[Bullet Time]]

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* [[Adventures in Coma Land]]: Max practically has dual US-Comaland citizenship.

* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Well, not exactly a specific aesop, but the writers have had to reset Max's internal struggles with each game to keep the conflict going. At the end of the first game, Max is pretty satisfied with himself, remarking that he's a winner and that his ghosts have released him from his haunting. In regards to his killing spree, he says that Woden "had better" keep his promise to make the charges go away. In the second game he's done a 180, claiming that he had wanted to be punished for what he had done, contradicting his comment in the previous game and retains the same guilt and pain he originally had. This is at least partially justified by Max saying that he had lied to himself that it was over. By the end, Max has apparently once again made peace with himself and figured out who he is. By the third, he's become an alcoholic who ends up run out of town by the mob and drinks on the job.

 

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