Max Payne (character)

Max Payne is a male video game character who features in Max Payne.

Biography

Max Payne

By the summer of 1998, Max Payne has been living with Michelle and Rose, is a Midtown South/Hell's Kitchen detective of the NYPD and has created a home and family he never had growing up - a house in the suburbs in Jersey, a loving wife, and a new born daughter. In his words, he was living the true "American Dream." On August 22, 1998, Michelle and Rose Payne are murdered by valkyr-pumped madmen wearing green jumpsuits who broke into the Payne residence. Max returns home during the invasion and finds his house in disarray. He kills the armed intruders, but is unable to rescue his family. All he is left to do is scream in anguish holding his wife's dead body. After burying his family in the Golgotha Cemetery, the widower accepts Alex Balder's offer and joins the DEA, seeking to bring down the traffickers and producers of the previously unknown drug (valkyr) that fueled his family's murderers. The Valkyr Case is opened.

Approximately two years later, in December 2000, the members of the DEA catch their first glimpses of progress in the case, when an dime-dropper informant links the Punchinello Crime Family of the Mafia to Valkyr distribution, Max Payne infiltrates the gang as an undercover officer. For three months, from December 2000 to early February 2001, Max Payne poses as a gangster rising through the ranks, meets higher and higher ranked members of the crime family and tries to uncover the source of the drug. During this time, he is known to have come into contact with the Finito Brothers and visited Lupino's Hotel on a regular basis. The highest ranking member he is able to get acquainted with seems to have been Vincent Gognitti. Max never manages to meet Jack Lupino, the original and main suspect of Valkyr trafficking. As a covert double agent, Max Payne maintains contact with only two DEA agents during this period of time: Alex Balder and B.B. The two are also the only law enforcement members that have knowledge that Payne is undercover in the first place, a likely tactic aimed at minimizing the chances of any possible mole in the agency itself uncovering his identity and compromising the operation.

One night in February 2001, characterized by a particularly strong winter blizzard, Max Payne receives a call from B.B. who, citing important news concerning Jack Lupino, sets up an urgent and immediate meeting between Max and Balder at the at the New York City's Roscoe Street Metro Station, the Bronx. The undercover DEA agent takes a metro train to the the station, but, once there, finds the atmosphere in it suspicious. A dead Transit Police officer alerts him to pull his Beretta 92fs Pistol out and Payne soon finds the area of the station filled with armed Mafia thugs who are eliminating any Transit Police officers on sight to hold the location and are acting as look-outs for an elaborate Roscoe Bank Heist operation nearby. Max Payne engages the gunmen in firefights and proceeds to move through the station and the Roscoe Bank looking for any signs of Balder. Payne eventually finds Alex Balder at Roscoe, but, whilst they talk, his friend is murdered in front of him. Max Payne then kills the last enemies at the station, and, with seemingly nothing left to lose in his world, he decides to exact his revenge and rage upon the Mafia by going after them in what is turning out to be the worst winter storm New York City has seen in a century. It doesn't take long before Payne gets framed for the murder of Alex Balder. The NYPD, led by police chief Jim Bravura, who initiates an intensive manhunt to apprehend him.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Max has a poetic sense of describing his actions. He does not believe his doings are heroic and he believes he should be punished for his actions. Max's pessimistic view on life and his inability to have fun is very noticeable as Vladimir Lem points out to Max in 2003.

As a child, Max Payne was very much interested in ancient myths. His grandfather used to tell him Greek myths, for example the Odyssey.

Notes

• Max Payne was created by Sam Lake and voiced by actor James McCaffrey where he featured in the setting of the Max Payne universe.

Appearances

• Max Payne:

External Links

• Max Payne Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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