Max Payne (series)/Characters: Difference between revisions

The titular protagonist. A former NYPD detective and DEA Agent, his wife and daughter were murdered by junkies three years prior to the events of the first game. This causes him to go undercover hunting for the source of the drug, 'Valkyr'. In the second game, he returns to the NYPD and crosses paths with Mona Sax, an assassin that he falls in love with. Things... don't go well. The third game takes place a decade later, with Max having left the NYPD and New York behind in search of a new life in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Three guesses as to how it goes.

 

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Jim Bravura believes he is one in the second game. But he first becomes one by the time the third games comes around.

* [[Badass]]: Max spends most of his time doing one of two things: [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|Tearing himself down]], and [[One-Man Army|tearing other guys to shreds.]]

** [[Badass Beard]]: Gradually grows one in ''3'', starting out as a [[Beard of Sorrow]].

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Have no fear, Vlad is here!", and "Dearest of all my friends." (He [[Sharpshooter Fallacy|refers to everyone]] as this.)

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: {{spoiler|He betrays Woden, his former mentor, and Max, his friend.}}

* [[Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters]]:

{{quote|'''Max''': "Vladimir was one of those old-time bad guys with honor and morals, which made him almost one of the good guys."}}

* [[Reformed Criminal]]: Or so he claims at the beginning of ''2''. His restaurant is only a front for the Cleaners.

* [[Renegade Russian]]

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Vlad, like Mona, prefers the Desert Eagle as his sidearm, but he's even more well known for using bombs.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: {{spoiler|A phone message makes it clear that he viewed Alfred Woden, his mentor in the Inner Circle, as a father figure, and was angry about him not respecting him as a son. So he settles for killing him instead.}}

 

* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: {{spoiler|Now that Max has become liability in the second game, he sends Mona to kill Max.}}

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: A regular visitor of the prostitute, Candy Dawn. {{spoiler|It comes back to bite him as she videotapes his visits and sells it as blackmail material. Both Nicole Horne and Max gets hold of a copy}}.

* [[The Mafia]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: To Horne.

 

* {{spoiler|[[The Dragon]]: To Nicole Horne}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]}}

* [[Sinister Shades]] / [[Sunglasses At Night]]

* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: Patronizingly refers to Max as "Maxie."

* [[You Have No Chance to Survive]]

 

* [[The Lancer]]: He's Max's sidekick for a couple of levels, although he always seems to be doing the least dangerous job that he possibly can be.

 

=== Anthony DeMarco ===

Max's new boss in Sao Paulo. He is an industrialist who is paranoid about kidnapping attempts. {{spoiler|He gets killed by a crooked cop during an attack on his company's headquarters while Max is busy fighting off the invading paramilitary goons.}}

 

* [[May-December Romance]]: Fabianna is considerably younger than Rodrigo.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Rodrigo is the oldest of the Branco brothers and Max's direct boss. Even after his wife Fabianna is kidnapped, he's much calmer about it than either of his brothers.

Rodrigo's brother. He is a local politician that wants to clean up the city. {{spoiler|In actuality, he is the mastermind behind a human organ trafficking ring, and the [[Big Bad]].}}

 

* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]

* [[Non-Action Guy]]: He does nothing but gives orders to Max {{spoiler|and [[The Dragon|Becker]]. To top it off, Max defeats him in a [[Cutscene Boss|cutscene]] by easily breaking his leg instead of the usual gunfight that occurs in the games.}}

 

=== Marcelo Branco ===

Rodrigo and Victor's younger brother, he is a party-loving playboy.

 

* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: Marcelo's not so much a person as a device used to dispose of cocaine.

 

Fabianna's younger sister, Giovanna lives in two worlds. By day, she's a social worker in Sao Paulo's impoverished lower-class neighborhoods, but by night, she parties with her sister in Sao Paulo's night spots.

 

 

=== Wilson De Silva ===

Becker is the leader of the Unidade de Forças Especiais (UFE), a {{spoiler|''spectacularly'' corrupt}} special police organization in Sao Paulo.

 

 

=== Serrano ===

Serrano is the leader of Comando Sombra, a powerful São Paulo street gang with ties to South American drug cartels. He and his gang kidnap Fabiana Branco in the hopes of collecting a hefty ransom from her wealthy husband.

 

* [[Scary Black Man]]

 

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