Funny / Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

• Early on, you find out the cleaners have been spying on you, some of it can be Tear Jerker or funny depending on the player, especially in the case the wire-tapped phone conversations:
  • When you listen to wiretapped phone conversations, one is Bravura trying to talk Max into going to AA, while another is Max calling a phone sex hotline, and being, well, Max.
  • Looking at their binoculars lets Max see into his own apartment. When he does, two of the cleaners are setting up a bomb, hoping to catch Max when he eventually decides to go back home. They discuss the trope of the hero disarming the bomb, noting that they're setting up the bomb in a way that doesn't give him the chance to disarm it. As they do, a third cleaner bursts into the apartment, setting the bomb off.
  • Ed the Janitor is blissfully unaware that Cleaners are shooting up the apartments as he has headphones on and he's secluded in the basement level. One can imagine that he'll be in for a shock when he sees the bloody mess in the upper floors.
• In the police station, you can hear a really bizarre murder case:
  Cop: We found you out of it on V, covered in blood, burying the pieces of your wife and the pizza guy under a rosebush in the backyard. There's a bloody chainsaw in the bathtub, and by the looks of it, they had been shot in your bed. The murder weapons have your prints all over them, and you say you didn't do it.
  • The perp has this insane conspiracy theory going, claiming his wife and the pizza guy were in on it and setting him up as a fall guy. The cop snarks his way through the questioning, eventually saying:
    Cop: Your wife and the pizza guy deviously conspire to set you up, they kill themselves in your bed with your gun, proceed to chop each other to pieces with your chainsaw, and finally lure you to the backyard, where they patiently wait under the rosebush to inject you with V, and when you are helpless, they leak blood all over you and call the police. Anything to add?
  • And the perp still insists on being the victim of a conspiracy, claiming that the mailman is in on it, making it a Government Conspiracy. When the cop snarks that all he has to do is find the mailman, the perp retorts that the mailman is also dead.
  • The perp eventually tries to persuade the cop to release him and give him a gun so he can sort everything out. Naturally, the cop refuses.
• On the way to Vinnie's workshop as a mob war is going on between his men and Vlad's, three of Vinnie's men see Max and mistake him for reinforcements that Vinnie told them were coming. Max just decides to go along with it.
  • Also in the Mob level, a reference to a famous fan post
  Mobster 1: What about moving?
  Mobster 2: What about moving? You just put one foot infronta the other.
• Six words: Vinnie Gognitti in the mascot suit. The entire concept of him slipping into the squeaky mascot suit of a cartoon figure he just happens to be idolising that was given to him by his arch-nemesis, Vlad, and then finding it to be booby-trapped with a massive bomb and then has to be evacuated from his own headquarters by no one other than Payne himself is just as insanely obscure as it insanely hilarious. Still, the way he ends up dying in it is more than sobering.
  • And inside Vinnie's flat, it's revealed that Vinnie is a huge collector of Captain BaseBallBat Boy merchandise. And when Max starts shooting his items, Vinnie will call out on him, saying they're priceless collector's items.
  • Additionally, at the end of the level, when Max and Vinnie make their escape, the Captain BaseBallBat Boy theme plays like a victory fanfare.
  • Vinnie sums up the level perfectly in the following cutscene.
    "Well, that was fun. In a fuckin' sick, terrible, not-at-all-fun way."
• In part 2, as they escape Max gives us some of his trademark deadpan Black Comedy.
  Max: I'm at the edge of a pit, I can see a way out from here.
  Mona: I'm at the end of the pit, I'll find a way up.
  Max: Okay. (gunfire) The commandos don't want us to leave. I'll talk to them. (static)
• Lords And Ladies is a costume drama series that is so painfully hammy and sappy (deaths via 'rapier-under-the-armpit' impalement count as a dramatic climax), so horrendously scripted (most of the dialogue just consists of "my lord!" as well as "my ladeh!") and so cheesily casted (the evil matriarch is played by Sam Lake in drag bearing a permanent devious smile) that it hardly ever fails to put a smile on a player's face.
• You can also include Dick Justice, an ultra-campy, cliche-riddled noir parody of the first Max Payne, presented here as a TV show. It also takes several drama tropes and turns them into comedy simply by way of excessively hammy acting and 70s porn music for a theme. It intersects at the crossroads of cringingly bad and painfully hilarious, and manages to be a better parody of its own source material than most third-party attempts at the same. Enjoy a compilation. Funnier still, one NPC implies that In-Universe, it's (poorly) based on the events of the first game.
• During Part 3, chapter 2 when you return to Vodka, you enter a room to find a mannequin propped up against several explosives. If you go to the back of the room, you'll find 2 thugs with fingers in their ears, waiting for it all to explode. Right around the same time, another thug will walk into their trap. You might see it actually happen but it's more likely that you'll suddenly find a giant hole in the wall, allowing you to progress.
• Vlad's particularly hilarious breakdown towards the end:
  What the fuck is WRONG with you Max? Why won't you just DIE?! You hate life, you're miserable all the time, afraid to enjoy yourself even a little! Face it, you might as well be dead already. Do yourself a favor, give up!
• Chapter 2 of Act 2, Max in the Cleaners' hideout warns Mona over radio about how the cleaners are serious professional killers, to which the player gets back only Mona's response of "Doesn't seem that way from where I'm standing." Two chapters later, we finally see what Mona saw: if you are quiet enough when Max's warning comes into Mona's ear via radio you can open a door to find some supposedly-murderous thugs whooping it up as one of them prances around like a runway model ("Work it, baby, work it!"). It is quite possible to shoot this thug dead mid-prance. It isn't until later that the full context becomes clear: the thug was imitating Winterson strutting like an ice queen until she sees "the boss", aka Vladimir Lem.