Funny / Max Payne 3

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• Towards the end of the game, when Max is in a firefight in an airport, if a mook manages to throw a grenade at you, Max will sarcastically wonder "How did they get that past the TSA?"
• One of the television clues show a news report where apparently Max has been blamed for the office building blowing up. They then show an artist's sketch: Max's constipated looking face from the first game.
• "Amor e Damas", the over the top soap opera, with a Love Triangle and a backward feet baby^note Actually a "curupira", a Brazilian Folklore elf-like creature who uses said backward feet to trick hunters into following his tracks the wrong way. Even funnier if you know Portuguese.
• Speaking of the constipated face, one of the skins you can use in the game's Arcade mode is "Old School Max", which is Max from the very first game.
  • Beating the Story Mode on Old School difficulty, you think that your reward is a simple achievement/trophy? No, Rockstar does one better with another blast from the past, namely a fully rendered and rigged skin of Max Payne's character model from Max Payne Advanced (the Gameboy Advance port of the first game) in all his pixellated glory.
• One of the hidden "Clues" involves Max running into an American tourist at the favela strip joint/brothel. Said tourist unintentionally hints that the prostitutes he was "enjoying" may have been a bit underage. Max's subtle yet harsh reaction of disgust is priceless.
  • And it doesn't end there. Later, at the UFE police station, he encounters the sex tourist again (another "Clue" you can find), only this time, the latter's locked up in a cell. Max, to say the least, doesn't mind letting him rot in there.
  • Another is an American ex-cop who happens to be the exact opposite of Max in just about every way. He's a happy-go-lucky, overweight fellow with a stable family life who is in Brazil primarily to help with a charity. He also just so happens to be from the Northwest, and his accent and the way he talks about the things he has seen on the job could have come straight out of Fargo.
• When it comes to bullet time and multiplayer, watching everyone flopping around everywhere like a fish is a hilarious spectacle.
• After finding out Raul set him up, the exchange upon reuniting:
  Max: FUCK YOU!!!
  Raul: [nonchalantly] Sure, later. But now, we gotta move.
• This darkly humorous comment Max makes after the exchange at the stadium is ambushed and he gets wounded in the arm.
  Max: I had a hole in my second favorite drinking arm, and the only way we were going to get Fabiana back now was in installments.
• "GODDAMNIT!"
• After Max shaves his head and gets off the sauce, he wanders through a favela and eventually ends up in a bar where, of course, things devolve into a shootout. Sometimes, when you pick up painkillers at this point (the first point you can after Max stops drinking), he'll say the following line:
  Max: One vice at a time.
• In one of the flashback levels, Max and Raul wind up ambushed and held at gunpoint. One of the goons rather unnecessarily shouts "Freeze!" to which Raul sarcastically replies, "As opposed to what, disco dance?"
• Shoot-dodging down a flight of stairs. It's also funny how Max can do this without breaking even a single bone in his body.
• Multiplayer deathmatch allows players to play as nearly any named character from the story mode and the first two games, all fully voiced. Most of them are just pissed off at each other. But some, like the Branco techie and Fabiana are hilariously out of character in having the time of their lives shooting everyone else dead. But the kicker goes to the "Classic" and "Old-School" Max Payne skins, as his lines consist of his Purple Prose narration from the first two games being shouted at his enemies.
  Classic!Max: Pass me your gun, I'll give it back to you one bullet at a time!
  OldSchool!Max: Lady luck is really a hooker, and you're fresh out of cash!
• Some of Max's internal snark can be utterly hilarious.
  Max: [about to jump from a windowsill to a window-cleaning platform] I knew this was going to be a bad idea, but in the continued absence of any good ones, I decided to go with it.
  Max: [after getting off the platform right before it falls 50 stories to the ground] A couple more seconds and I'd have given some poor street cleaner a crappy start to his day.
  Max: [after being disarmed and shot by a sniper, Raul steals a pistol] At least one of us had a gun now. That raised our chances of survival all the way from nil to slim.

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