History Characters / MaxPayne

* GiveMyRegardsToTheNextWorld: ''Tell the Devil that Dime sent you!''

The "hero" of ''Adress Unknown'', a popular psychological horror tv series from the late 90's that can be seen on various television sets in the first and second game. Two Mooks in the first game also discuss it.

* AmusementParkOfDoom: ''Adress Unknown'' was popular enough to spawn an (incredibly disturbing) fun house ride during it's run, though it's since been closed down and being used by Mona as her hideout.

[[folder:Mike]]
!!Mike the Cowboy
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Gary Yudman

->''"You are the sheriff? Well, how about making me your deputy?"''

Lem's second-in-command that thinks he's in a Western, he's fighting his way to rescue Vlad from Vinnie and joins Max in the hunt.

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Ragna Rock aka Vodka, styled as the hippest restaurant in Manhattan... if he can ever get the bloodstains out. [[spoiler:A more sinister example is the Squeaky Cleaning Company, whose shadowy "boss" is none other than Vlad himself.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Like Vlad and Kaufman, he's tougher than a regular Mook, though not quite as much as Kaufman and not nearly as much as the bosses from the first game.

* {{Expy}}: Of Dale Cooper from ''Series/TwinPeaks}}.

[[folder:Anders Dettling]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Wayne Duvall

An American ex-cop, who Max stumbles upon in some unlikely places during his romp in Brazil. He is essentially what Max could have been if he had a chance to live a normal life.

* FatalFamilyPhoto: Averted. If Max meets him in the club in the second level, Anders actually offers to show Max his family picture and gets as far as reaching into his shirt pocket to retrieve it, but Max rebuffs him before either he or the audience ever gets to see it. Ultimately, Anders does not die and makes through the rest of the game intact.
* {{Foil}}: To Max. They have the same basic background -- both are former policemen from the US north -- but otherwise couldn't be any more different, as Anders is a happy, well-adjusted man with a loving family who came to Brazil on charity business and has no desire to involve himself in any action or heroics. He exists to further accentuate how messed up and broken Max's life turned out to be.
* NonActionGuy: He'd seen his share of things before his retirement, but now he's more than happy to stay away from all action and danger.

[[folder:Brewer]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Emil Keller

Max's neighbour in Hoboken after his retirement from the police. He died during the mafia attack in a suicide explosion, taking several of mafia goons with him.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Appears to have been one before his death.
* MadBomber: A very rare benevolent example. He saves Max's life by blowing away a gangster who had Max at gunpoint with a shotgun, then blows himself up, killing several more gangsters as well.
* OneSceneWonder: Has only one scene in the game, but makes a hell of an impression in it.
* ShellShockedVeteran: He's been in the army judging from his jacket, and he's definitely not all there.
* StringTheory: His apartment is a messy hole, filled with makeshift explosives, his own rambling notes and writings on the walls. Somewhat disturbingly, he has a separate board with newspaper clippings on it specifically about Max and his past.
* SuicideAttack: He meets his end in one.

[[folder:Dave]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' David Calllagati

A sleazy American tourist that Max encounters after the shootout in the strip club in Chapter 7. Max later meets him again at the UFE station in Chapter 13.

* DiabolicalMastermind: Angelo Punchinello is scared out of his wits of her. She's already solid with Rico Muerte, B.B.'s corrupt DEA unit, and various freelancers from the FBI and CIA.

* BigBad: He's initially presented as the main villain of the game. When you finally confront him, you find out [[spoiler:he's just TheDragon to Nicole Horne.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: Zigzagged. He clearly indulges in the stereotypical "[[NobleDemon bad guy with morals]]" act, happily quoting Film/TheGodfather and Lucifer from Literature/ParadiseLost, yet still carries himself as a gallant gentleman and thinks of himself as the 'real' protagonist.

* VillainBall: Horne is a prototypical villain from a paranoid thriller, Instead of ordering a professional hit on Payne's wife (as with the Mayor), she sends junkies, which exposes the exitstance of the FantasticDrug Valkyr, thereby putting Max onto her scent. Then she personally calls his house during a crime in progress!

* DamageSpongeBoss: He has about four times the hitpoints of a normal {{Mook|s}}, though that just means he goes down after about a dozen pistol shots instead of just 3 or 4. Justified, due to him wearing a BulletproofVest. (His hitpoints ultimately doesn't help very much against explosives, which he takes just as bad as the average mook.)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BabsOlausanmokum

->'''Voiced by:''' Babs Olausanmokum

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Max didn't know she was crooked when he shot her down. Even though everything turned out "fine" in the end, Max himself notes that it shouldn't serve as an excuse.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: Her boyfriend turns out to be [[spoiler:Vladimir Lem]]. According to her, he has acted as a caring father figure to her son and is a generous financial donor of the Brooklyn School for the Blind. D'aww.

* DirtyCoward: Runs off as soon as the action starts, leaving his {{Mooks}} to do the job, and will only fight after his getaway car is trashed.

* TheMole: B.B. was closely involved in the Valkyr case.

* TermsOfEndangerment: Patronizingly refers to Max as "Maxie."

* TheApprentice: [[spoiler:Formerly to Alfred Woden.]]

* BadassInANiceSuit: He wears ordinary street clothes in the first game, but in the second he upgrades to a classy white suit.

* MadBomber: Vlad's favorite method of disposing of enemies and evidence seems to be lots of explosives -- most levels featuring him in some manner have the level blowing up or explosive crates and barrels around the place. Lampshaded by Mona when she warns Vinnie that Vlad is going to try and kill him: "knowing him, it'll probably be a bomb."

* PayEvilUntoEvil: He dismisses the [[spoiler:Inner Circle]] as an organized crime outfit, no better than he is and deserving of punishment.

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

* DefiantToTheEnd[=/=]ThrowingOffTheDisability: Woden spends much of the final level hiding from the Cleaner commandos and his own personnel inside his panic room. However, when he's finally smoked out, Woden gathers the strength to leap out of his wheelchair.

* AssholeVictim: For starters, he's a sleazy "sex tourist". [[spoiler:Max has the option of killing him in Chapter 7 with his first encounter or in Chapter 13 if he doesn't. Regardless of if/when Max kills Dave, it doesn't seem to affect the story at all (other than meeting him in Chapter 13 if you spare him in 7).]]

* YoungerThanTheyLook: As a stark inversion of the first game, Max is about 49 in the third game, yet looks almost a decade older than that.

* ContraltoOfDanger: She sounds like Satan's mother. Anytime you find one of her memos, it's read aloud in her action movie villain-voice.

* LawmanGoneBad: Was once an [[SWATTeam UFE Captain]] who then formed the Crachá Preto to respond to the gang crimes [[VigilanteMan he couldn't touch as a cop]]. Over time, they grew into a fairly fearsome gang in their own right, [[spoiler: even becoming involved in OrganTheft.]]

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Unlike the other victims of the organ harvesting ring, Serrano stays behind in the Imperial Hotel to find and exact {{Revenge}} on Dr. Fischer, and it's unclear if he was able to get out of the building on time before Max blew the whole thing up to destroy the Crachá Preto's base of operations. In the subsequent assault on the UFE police station, Max can find a briefing that notes the hotel was his last sighted location, with a ? mark next to 'Dead or Alive', suggesting the police are equally uncertain of his survival. It's hinted that Serrano in part stayed behind because, thanks to [[UnwittingPawn Max]] and the Conspiracy's duel actions, he had little left to live for with his gang destroyed and his body being ravaged]].

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Max and Serrano comes to an unspoken truce when confronting Dr. Fischer, as Max lowers his gun and [[DoWithHimAsYouWill allows Serrano to kill the doctor with a scalpel]].]]

* IdiotBall: [[spoiler:He assassinates Rodrigo while dressed in full UFE uniform in pain view of a surveillance camera. He is clever enough to steal the surveillance tape, but he then decides to keep a copy of it in his office instead of just destroying it.]]

* KarmaHoudini: After singlehandedly wiping out a New York crime family, Max has all charges dropped due to Alfred Woden's machinations. In the second game, after he shoots all the mobsters he missed the ''first'' time and kills his own partner, Max manages to make a strong enough case against the crooks that the NYPD pensions him off rather than prosecuting him. In other words, he's killed ''hundreds'' of people and he manages to skate. This trend continues for him in ''3'' after managing to [[spoiler:bring Victor Branco to justice]]. No concrete explanation is given as to how he managed go from [[WalkingDisasterArea shooting up half of Sao Paulo]] to kicking back on a beach in Bahia, but it's possible [[TheCommissionerGordon Da Silva]] had a hand in helping him along. Max lampshades his status as this at the start of ''2'', at the same time not appreciating it much.

** In ''III'', after killing so many [[spoiler: UFE officers]] in Nova Esperanca, his deeds become known across the city of Sao Paulo. When he intentionally goes to [[spoiler: UFE headquarters]] to be CapturedOnPurpose, he is immediately recognized and taken prisoner. He is also immediately reconized at the airport by those concerned.

* CorruptPolitician: He's manipulating Sao Paulo's gangs to further his ambitions.

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:He was apparently manipulating everyone to suit his own plans, possibly including all of the different gangs in Sao Paulo and especially his own family.]]

A friend of Max's from the police academy. He offers Max a private security gig in Sao Paulo, which is what prompts Max to leave New York.

Fabiana'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.

!!Police of Sao Paulo

Da Silva is a reasonably honest cop and a family man in Sao Paulo, which requires him to have a certain amount of moral flexibility. He's an unexpected ally to Max after Fabiana's kidnapping.

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He's practically the game's most avid cigarette smoker (which is impressive considering how hard Max has fallen into depression and chainsmoking left and right), but he's also pretty much the only moral cop in Sao Paulo.

Becker is the commanding officer of the Unidades Forças Especiais (UFE), a [[spoiler: ''spectacularly'' corrupt]] special police organization in Sao Paulo.

* MisterBig: Later on, you find out that he's 1. [[spoiler: Commander of Sao Paulo's [[PoliceBrutality unnecessarily brutal]] [[SWATTeam special police]] force]], and 2. [[spoiler: he's using that position to traffic human organs]].

!!Criminals of Sao Paulo

* NonActionGuy: Da Silva {{invoke|dTrope}}s this despite being a fully trained police officer in order to avoid the bad guys pulling a HeKnowsTooMuch on him by keeping his hands clean. [[spoiler:It works, big time. Unlike the corrupt pricks in the UFE and Victor he has done his homework and wisely ingratiates himself as the only honest cop in town to the person who almost single handedly wiped out a good chunk of the Italian mafia, a top-tier international conspiracy, its death squads, the Russian Mafia, a ruthlessly efficient death squad, the last remnants of the previously mentioned conspiracy's death squad, a Panamanian terrorist operation and has been blasting through easily the worst Favela gang in Sao Paulo as well as a paramilitary death squad.]]