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* A lie. They're framing Max.
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** Judging from what Woden said she's obsessed with getting the drug perfected so she could be treating the drug racket as one big petri dish. Plus she's amazingly greedy and every little bit of income counts.
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* A lie. They're framing Max.
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* The radio report of Alex's murder claims that he was shot multiple times at point-blank range, whereas in the cutscene, he was shot once from the top of the stairs. Is this an inconsistency, or is the report a lie?
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* Why is Horne even bothering to sell V on the streets through TheMafia? Given how large Aesir seems to be as a legitimate company and how most of Valkyr's addicts seem to be living on the streets destitute, [[CutLexLuthorACheck this smacks of doing it]] ForTheEvulz?
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** If a gunsmith known to be working for Vlad is among those attacked and killed by the Cleaners, Vlad's off the hook.
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** If he'd said "Put a scare on ***her***", I'd understand it to mean he used the Project Valhalla files to set someone onto Nicole Horne's scent. It could be interpreted to mean the D.A. was in on it and Woden was trying to implicate him, but there isn't anything in the game to support that.
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*** He didn't use an alias because every gangster in the game calls him "Payne", and the Finito brothers even make puns out of it. The "He got fired" guess is a good one.
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* [[spoiler: What part of Vlad's plan required him to take out Annie Finn?]]
* [[spoiler: "Woden sent the Project Valhalla file to the D.A. to put a scare on him." As a reasonably intelligent individual with an A.S. degree in Video Arts and Technology and someone who upon discovering the news of both MP 2 and MP 3 pre-ordered both, the premium edition of the latter, I after 16 years still cannot grasp the message here. What is Vlad talking about?]]
* [[spoiler: "Woden sent the Project Valhalla file to the D.A. to put a scare on him." As a reasonably intelligent individual with an A.S. degree in Video Arts and Technology and someone who upon discovering the news of both MP 2 and MP 3 pre-ordered both, the premium edition of the latter, I after 16 years still cannot grasp the message here. What is Vlad talking about?]]
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We can't post questions based on false premises here. That headscratcher was posted by somebody who simply didn't make it far enough in the game where the answer is blatant.
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* Whatever happened to Alex's killer? He just shows up, kills Alex, and runs away, we never see anybody that even remotely looks like him again.
** The killer was B.B. (same trenchcoat etc). I don't know about you, but I unloaded a Jackhammer into that guy's face.
** The killer was B.B. (same trenchcoat etc). I don't know about you, but I unloaded a Jackhammer into that guy's face.
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** The men were on the take by corrupt authorities. They would just claim it was a gang dispute and there was bloodshed. Marcelo and Victor may had to play a cleaner to make everything look like that but as Da Silva said, Daphne had a messy divorce and it was easy to cover up the murder
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** it's heavily implied Max is an UnreliableNarrator and the sheer body count he racks across the three games is an exaggeration caused by his guilt complex
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** it's It's heavily implied Max is an UnreliableNarrator and the sheer body count he racks across the three games is an exaggeration caused by his guilt complex complex .
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** it's heavily implied Max is an Unreliable Narrorator and the sheer body count he racks across the three games is an exaggeration caused by his guilt complex
* What's the deal with the yacht max is on getting attacked by Pirates/Terrorists/Thugs in the Panama Canal? The Panama Canal is a vital economic artery between the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean and thus is very heavily patrolled. It's probably one of the safest waterways in the world as far as pirate attacks are concerned. Even if it were to be attacked, the local law enforcement would be on the attackers like flies on honey once the alarm went out.
* What's the deal with the yacht max is on getting attacked by Pirates/Terrorists/Thugs in the Panama Canal? The Panama Canal is a vital economic artery between the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean and thus is very heavily patrolled. It's probably one of the safest waterways in the world as far as pirate attacks are concerned. Even if it were to be attacked, the local law enforcement would be on the attackers like flies on honey once the alarm went out.
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* What's the deal with the yachtmax Max is on getting attacked by Pirates/Terrorists/Thugs in the Panama Canal? The Panama Canal is a vital economic artery between the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean and thus is very heavily patrolled. It's probably one of the safest waterways in the world as far as pirate attacks are concerned. Even if it were to be attacked, the local law enforcement would be on the attackers like flies on honey once the alarm went out.
* What's the deal with the yacht
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* [[spoiler: Victor Branco sends Passos to go recruit Max in order to make him the fall guy.]]. The problem is, really, I can't think of why. Why did they need to blame a foreigner when there were crime syndicates and paramilitaries already in place to do the job.
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* [[spoiler: Victor Branco sends Passos to go recruit Max in order to make him the fall guy.]]. ]] The problem is, really, I can't think of why. Why did they need to blame a foreigner when there were crime syndicates and paramilitaries already in place to do the job.
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** ''Max Payne'' began development in late 1996, the team that worked on it was entirely in Finland, and the episode with Faith staking that guy aired in 1999. It's entirely possible that the in-joke was put into the game before the episode aired, or that it's a joke specifically referring to the Kristy Swanson movie, where vampires didn't simply blow up into ashes upon death.
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** ''Max Payne'' began development in late 1996, the team that worked on it was entirely in from Finland, and the episode with Faith staking that guy aired in 1999. It's entirely possible that the in-joke was put into the game before the episode aired, or that it's a joke specifically referring to the Kristy Swanson movie, where vampires didn't simply blow up into ashes upon death.
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** ''Max Payne'' began development in late 1996, the team that worked on it was entirely in Finland, and the episode with Faith staking that guy aired in 1999. It's entirely possible that the in-joke was put into the game before the episode aired, or that it's a joke specifically referring to the Kristy Swanson movie, where vampires didn't simply blow up into ashes upon death.
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* Okay this is very minor but there's a bit where Max finds a guy killed with a wooden stake, he tried to identify his killer as Buff...[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer you know where this is going.]] It was actually Faith who killed someone that way in the show, shouldn't she had been used instead? Or might that make the reference a little too obscure?
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* What's the deal with the yacht max is on getting attacked by Pirates/Terrorists/Thugs in the Panama Canal? The Panama Canal is a vital economic artery between the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean and thus is very heavily patrolled. It's probably one of the safest waterways in the world as far as pirate attacks are concerned. Even if it were to be attacked, the local law enforcement would be on the attackers like flies on honey once the alarm went out.
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** it's heavily implied Max is an Unreliable Narrorator and the sheer body count he racks across the three games is an exaggeration caused by his guilt complex
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** Likely a subliminal result coming from early instances of the drug's use, as well as its name. Hallucinations aren't 100% random, and Valkyr would bring up memories of the Valkyries. If a few people testify that they had those hallucinations, it would lead to other users thinking of the same thing and thus influencing their brain into having that hallucination.hallucination.
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** If you aren't an above-average shot, the human head is a hard target to hit when firing a high-caliber pistol with one hand.
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** It's not unrealistic for these groups to have membership numbers in the mid-to-high hundreds, especially in a city as large as San Paolo (L.A.'s Metro Division numbers about 300-400 officers, for example, and several American militia movements have memberships in the high hundreds). The real suspension of disbelief comes from Max killing them all single-handedly.
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*** Plus, his employers are fluent in English, so he may not have felt the need.
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* It seems glaringly unrealistic for Max to kill as many people as he does in the course of this one game - easily topping a thousand. The Comando Sombra would have to number hundreds of members, as would the Cracha Preto and the UFE. That would have to be every gun-toting favela thug, every dirty cop and every Hoboken mobster. I guess I can believe that life in Sao Paulo is tough enough to make joining a favela gang desirable, but where does one find that many corrupt cops to turn into a special police unit of that size? Or where does one find that many ex-cops and soldiers willing to form up an organ-stealing ring?
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*** The tie-in comics show that Bravura does survive, but is ultimately forced to kick Max off the police force with half-pension because, while he did take down a crime syndicate and uncover corruption at a really high level, he still went off the reservation and broke more than a few rules. While Bravura painted him as a hero for what he did, he still had to let him go, which is why Max is spending his time drinking: he has absolutely nothing else to do.
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** Learning a new language in adulthood is often a difficult proposition. Passos has an excuse because [[spoiler:his first language was most likely Spanish, which is much more grammatically similar to Portuguese than English is, and uses a similar set of pronunciations]]--not to mention also the fact he's probably worked much longer in Brazil than Max. Max can be seen making the occasional effort to speak the language in the latter half of the game, though he is nowhere near any form of fluency.
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** Learning a new language in adulthood is often a difficult proposition. Passos has an excuse because [[spoiler:his first language was most likely Spanish, which is much more grammatically similar to Portuguese than English is, and uses a similar set of pronunciations]]--not to mention also the fact he's probably worked much longer in Brazil than Max. Max can be seen making the occasional effort to speak the language in the latter half of the game, though he is nowhere near any form of fluency. [[spoiler:Passos has an excuse because his first language was most likely Spanish, which is much more grammatically similar to Portuguese than English is, and uses a similar set of pronunciations--not to mention also the fact he's probably worked much longer in Brazil than Max.]]
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* [[spoiler: Victor Branco sends Passaso to go recruit Max in order to make him the fall guy.]]. The problem is, really, I can't think of why. Why did they need to blame a foreigner when there were crime syndicates and paramilitaries already in place to do the job.
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*** [[spoiler: That or they could easier pin the blame on him for Rodrigo's death. It'd be easier for people to swallow that Rodrigo got killed and Fabiana kidnapped because the guy guarding them was an incompetent, old, drug addicted drunk who liked killing people a bit too much and drawing attention from all the wrong crowds.]]
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*** [[spoiler: That or they could easier easily pin the blame on him for Rodrigo's death. It'd be easier for people to swallow that Rodrigo got killed and Fabiana kidnapped because the guy guarding them was an incompetent, old, drug addicted drunk who liked killing people a bit too much and drawing attention from all the wrong crowds.]]
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** Learning a new language in adulthood is often a difficult proposition. Passos has an excuse because [[spoiler:his first language was most likely Spanish, which is much more grammatically similar to Portuguese than English is, and uses a similar set of pronunciations]]--not to mention also the fact he's probably worked much longer in Brazil than Max. Max can be seen making the occasional effort to speak the language in the latter half of the game, though he is nowhere near any form of fluency.
** Learning a new language in adulthood is often a difficult proposition. Passos has an excuse because [[spoiler:his first language was most likely Spanish, which is much more grammatically similar to Portuguese than English is, and uses a similar set of pronunciations]]--not to mention also the fact he's probably worked much longer in Brazil than Max. Max can be seen making the occasional effort to speak the language in the latter half of the game, though he is nowhere near any form of fluency.
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** Likely a subliminal result coming from early instances of the drug's use, as well as its name. Hallucinations aren't 100% random, and Valkyr would bring up memories of the Valkyries. If a few people testify that they had those hallucinations, it would lead to other users thinking of the same thing and thus influencing their brain into having that hallucination.[[/folder]]
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** They were reasonably certain he'd survive, given his record of having shot his way through half the gangsters in New York and an entire building of paramilitary agents. Also, IIRC the more dangerous missions (just about anything after Max balds himself) were Max's own initiative.
