Brad Armstrong

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==Summary==
Note: This profile contains spoilers for the game LISA: The Painful. Please do not continue if you have yet to play the game and do not want to be spoiled.
Brad Armstrong is a character in the LISA franchise and the protagonist of LISA: The Painful. In LISA, an unexplained event known as the "Great White Flash" occurs, causing all females but one to be eradicated. In a world of men, Brad finds the only remaining female, a baby girl, who he names "Buddy". He raises her with his friends, but by the time she's pubescent, everyone knows about her, and she is kidnapped. Being the only thing that keeps him happy, Brad goes on a desperate search to find her. Throughout the game, Brad is harassed by a man known as Buzzo, who constantly tells him to keep taking "Joy", and presents him with horrifying choices, e.g., cut his arm off or lose all of his items (twice, which can result in Brad being armless, severely reducing his combat strength).
At one point, Brad is reunited with Buddy, only to be ambushed by Buzzo once again. He force-feeds Brad some Joy in front of Buddy, resulting in Brad hallucinating and Buzzo running away with Buddy. Moments later, Buddy successfully escapes from Buzzo and retreats to a remote island. When Brad arrives on this island, he finds that his father, Marty, is still alive and is taking care of Buddy. Brad kills him and Buddy escapes once again. Finally, at Rando Island, Brad encounters his friend's father seizing Buddy, whom he kills as well. At this point, Buddy tells Brad that he is the one who has hurt her the most, and Brad's in-game class turns from "Nobody" to "Failure", changing his skills to more powerful and devilish variants. At the end of the game, Brad has to fight 3 of his party members and 24 gang members, along with Rando, one of the main antagonists. After the fight, and a final dialogue with Buddy, the credits roll. After the credits, Brad is shown to be heavily mutated from his use of Joy, whether the player ever took joy or not.
Brad is a former children's karate teacher, using his own karate style "Armstrong style", described as "A home-brewed mixture of Karate & Pain." Brad is an alcoholic and addicted to a drug known as "Joy". He is also mentally scarred from witnessing his father, Marty, sexually abuse his sister, Lisa (which lead to her suicide, only to make things worse for Brad), as well as being physically abused himself as a child. If the player takes Joy during combat, Brad will replenish all HP, some of his stats are increased and all of his attacks are critical hits, severely increasing his combat strength. On the other hand, if Brad doesn't use joy for a long time, he will suffer from "Withdrawal", which decreases all stats to the point of his normal attacks doing no damage at all. The "Pain" aspect of his "Armstrong style" is clearly visible in how many of his attacks consist of risky maneuvers, e.g., cannonball (where he jumps really high and lands on the opponent) and head slide (in which he literally jumps forwards and slams his head against the opponents' knees at high speed). He can also cast fireballs. In-game, Armstrong style is represented by a "dial-combo", where the player enters combos of WASD to input attacks, e.g., WAD to do a headbutt.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , likely | At least , possibly far higher
Key: Base | Failure/End of Game
Name: Bradley Edwin Armstrong
Origin: Lisa
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown, at least 35 years
Classification: Human, Nobody, Failure, Drug addict, Karate master, Father
Powers and Abilities: 
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|-|Failure/End of Game=All previous abilities, Supernatural Willpower (Survived several arrows that clearly pierced through his skin, with two of said arrows even having pierced through his skull. Afterwards, he fought against Rando and endured strikes from the latter that stabbed through his chest and targetted his heart) and eventual Transformation (Is slowly turning into a Joy Mutant)
|-|With Optional Equipment=Purification (Type 3. Via Cigarettes and Bottles of Water. The former have a flavor so smooth that they cure poison and the latter are so refreshing that they can do the same thing), Poison Manipulation (Via Bottle of Dirty Water), Fragrance Manipulation (Via Nuggets), Regeneration with the Picnic Poncho, Resistance to Fire Manipulation with the Damp Poncho, Water Manipulation with the Rain Poncho, Poison Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation and Fear Manipulation with the Locket
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Attack potency: Wall level+ (Can harm characters with durability similar to his own. Can easily squat lift a car and several others heavy objects. Comparable to characters able to beat down a bulldozer physically and stop trucks dead in their tracks), likely Small Building level (Comparable to Rage Ironhead, who can do this. Can fight against foes capable of tanking TNT, whereas TNT is capable of reducing human beings to char) | At least Small Building level (Far stronger than before, killed 28 enemies that would have been comparable to his base form and reduced them to bloody paste), possibly far higher (Defeated Rando)
Speed: Supersonic+ (Can dodge bullets from melee range and move a speed similar to a bullet's. Can repeatedly dodges bullets from Sticky's assault rifle), likely Hypersonic (Comparable to Rage Ironhead, who can catch in fire mid-air while doing headbutts) | At least Supersonic+, likely Hypersonic
Lifting Strength: Class 5, potentially higher when Joyed and/or Failure ()
Striking Strength: Wall level+, likely Small Building level | At least Small Building level, possibly far higher
Durability: Wall level+ (Can survive cars speeding into him, dynamite explosions, trucks ramming into him and the fall of Dismal Island), likely Small Building level (Can survive TNT, which can reduce the football players in Snow Mountain to nothing, which would be this level. However, this could be the result of Game Mechanics) | At least Small Building level, possibly far higher
Stamina: Superhuman (His martial arts techniques let him recover SP in the middle of a fight; can fight dozens, without arms)
Range: Standard Melee Range up to Several Meters with fire attacks
Standard Equipment: Poncho, sweatbands, Joy (Becomes Joyed), jerky (Restores HP), Cocola Cola (Restores SP), TNT, bicycle, dead flower.
*Optional Equipment: A variety of items and accessories
Intelligence: Average (Capable of learning and incorporating the skills of trained martial artists instantly after reading their martial arts scrolls once without having to practice and has beating champion-class wrestlers. Although skilled in Martial Arts, he's deeply scarred and traumatized by his past experiences, hindering him quite a bit)
Weaknesses: Brad will enter Withdrawal if he hasn't taken Joy in a while, which greatly hinders his stats (In Failure this doesn't apply because of him slowly turning into a Joy Mutant)
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Base
**Buster Punches: A simple combo of punches and then a push.
**Surprise Attack: Kicks the opponent in the groin.
**Dropkick: A flying double foot press.
**Machine Gun Fist: Unleashes a flurry of punches.
**Fireball: Brad fires a fireball at the enemy, either with both hands or simply one.
**Tackle: Brad charges at the enemy, knocking them over.
**Headbutt: Slams headfirst into his opponent.
**Charging Headbutt: Slams headfirst into his opponent.
**Homerun Head Slide: Slides headfirst towards his opponent.
*Failure 
**Dropkick: A flying double foot press
**Charging Headbutt: Slams headfirst into his opponent.
**Fire Blast: Launches a massive blast of fire.
**Burning Head Slide: Slides headfirst and hits the opponent in the knees.
==Gallery ==
BradSide2Arm.png.png|Brad's normal in-game sprite
BradSide1Arm.png.png|Brad with one arm
BradSide0Arm.png|Brad without arms
BradFailure2arms.png|Brad as a Failure with both arms
BradFailure1arm.png|Brad as a Failure with one arm
BradFailure0arms.png|Brad as a Failure without arms
BradBike2arms.png|Brad cycling with both arms
BradBike1arm.png|Brad cycling with one arm
BradBike0arms.png|Brad cycling without arms
Brad Joy depression.PNG|Brad, surrounded by Joy and bottles
BradKarate.png|Young Brad as a karate teacher
BradChild.png|Brad as a child
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Kool-Aid Man (Marvel Comics) Kool-Aid Man's Profile (Both were 9-B, speed was equalized, and the battle took place at The DB World Tournament Arena)
Guts (Berserk (Verse)) Guts' profile (Speed was equalized, and this was second key Guts without the dragonslayer or hand-cannon, Brad was given all of his optional equipment)
Losses:
Yor Forger (Spy × Family) Yor's Profile (Base Brad used, 9-B versions used, speed was equalized, and starting distance was 5 meters)
Zangief (Street Fighter) Zangief's Profile (Failure/End of Game Brad was used, speed was equalized, starting distance was 10 meters and the battle took place in the Konoha Dome)
Inconclusive:
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