Major Payne

Maj. Benson Winifred Payne is a highly decorated soldier and Vietnam War veteran. He is a member of the United States Marine Corps. He is the husband of Emily Walburn and the adopted father of Kevin "Tiger" Dunn. He is portrayed by Damon Wayans, who also played Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon, Jimmy Dix in The Last Boy Scout, Michael Richard Kyle in My Wife and Kids! and Rock Keats in Bulletproof.
==Major Payne (1995)==
Returning from a successful drug raid in South America, Payne returns to America where he is told by his superior that his services are no longer needed and that war is not fought on the battlefield, but in the chamber of congress. Discharged, Payne finds civilian life unbearable and attempts to find a job for his unique set of skills. He tries working for the police, however is then rejected for almost killing a man during a simulated exercise. His superior then finds him a position at the Madison Preparatory School in Virginia where he is in charge of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps.
He meets up with his squad whom he finds as extremely disgraceful. He then starts shaping up the squad including proper uniform, shaved heads, hard training and even taking them out of their comfortable bunks in a regular house. This causes the squad to plan on ridding themselves of Payne for good, which consists of putting a super laxative in his cupcake, making him look like a pedophile and even resorting to them hiring someone to face Payne.
Of course Payne is completely unscathed by their plans, retaliates with his own unique forms of punishment. This includes simply farting out a super laxative, making all the boys in the squad wear dresses in their morning march for all to see and even beating up the guy hired by Alex Stone. Finding out that the squad wants him gone, Payne makes them a deal and that is to obtain the Virginia Military Games trophy from the Wellington Academy in a Black Op. Making an anonymous call, his men return with injuries and this leads to his men getting into shape for the games. Succeeding in his task, Payne is then called in on a matter of great importants in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Packing up, Payne leaves his squad and heads for the train on his way to Washington.
While waiting at the station, Payne decides to return to Madison where he watches as his squad graduates and win the games. Three Months Later, Madison has won the trophy, Alex Stone is a cadet squad leader, Payne marries Emily Walburn and adopts Tiger, as well as remains at Madison to command the new squad.
==Abilities==
=== Skills ===
*Weapons Expert: A soldier who's been out on the frontlines as long as he has, Payne is an expert with the use of various weapons including firearms and knives.
*Expert Marksman: Payne who has been in the military for a long time, is known to be a dead on accurate expert marksman with the use of any firearm, including a pistol.
*Intimidation: An ability shown throughout the course of his life and career as a military man, Payne is shown to be physically and mentally intimidating. from training arenas to the combat zone, Payne is shown to be as intimidating as he looks, alongside himself being fearless.
*Hand to Hand Combat: Shown at the beginning of the film, Payne is shown to have an expertise in advanced hand to hand combat, possibly from his years of training as a Marine.
=== Weaknesses ===
* Attractive women: Emily Walburn would sometimes get through to Payne's disagreements by using feminine wiles, which is very effective.
* Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: This is shown when he told Tiger a bedtime story.
==Weapons & Equipment==
Payne is a soldier, who wears the uniform of a United States Marine Infantry Man complete with a green camouflage look. He wears the hat of a drill instructor with the emblem of the United States Marines pinned upon it. He wears a utility belt as well as military grade black boots.
*Colt M1911: Throughout the course of the movie, Major Payne is issued an original Colt M1911 service pistol. He even carries it as the instructor for the J.R.O.T.C.
*Kukri Knife: Major Payne has in his possession a large Kukri Knife which he has been shown to hold in his spare time. This weapon also comes complete with a sheath.
*Hand Grenade: In one particular moment during training, Payne had taken out a hand grenade and pulled the ring out with his teeth in order to motivate his squad. Deemed by Alex Stone as a dummy grenade, Payne throws it and it explodes, causing a tree to fall over, showing that Alex was the dummy in that instance.
==Personality & Traits==
Payne has said himself that because of war, he has become a very paranoid individual. He's known to be very cynical and clearly shows to have some kind of mental instability. He cultivates these in order to instruct his troops and make them respect him. He has shown to have a soft side later on, but still retains his personality, even after marrying Emily Walburn who tries to make him a bit more care showing. He is very overbearing and mostly he is not much of a team player, but rather always the team leader. 
When his squad plotted against him, Payne was known to have retaliated against them and showed no special treatment, even to those not even involved in the affairs of others plotting against him. Mostly he is arrogant and insulting, one who has provided many comedic moments, these can make him either hardcore or wacky in an awesome way. 
His favorite hobby according to Payne is that he likes to hang upside-down blindfolded, take is gun apart and put it back together real fast before his nose begins to bleed. Payne is also shown to have a sweet tooth, often seen scarfing down hardy meals, but slowly savers servings of tiny desserts such as cupcakes and jello cubes. 
Mostly he is similar to Sgt. Emil Foley from An Officer and a Gentleman. The difference between these two no-nonsense, by-the-book military leaders, Foley is a good mentor, but with a sadistic side; while Payne is more like a redeemable bully than a mentor.
== Trivia ==
* Martin Lawrence was offered the role of Major Payne, but had turn it down because it would cause scheduling conflicts with Bad Boys (1995).
* Damon Wayans reprises his role, but under the name "Sergeant Savings" for a 1-800-COLLECT commercial.
* In the scene when Major Payne first meets the cadets, he screams at one of them saying "I am not your damned brother" in fact, Damon Wayans is his uncle in real life. The cadet's real name is Damien Dante Wayans.
* To research his character, Damon Wayans endured several weeks of DI qualification training, learning the requirements of a Marine Corps Drill Instructor, as well as other aspects of Marine Corps training. Viewers can see several small things he does like the cadence of his walk, almost unconsciously correcting his cover after berating & getting in the face of each cadet, and the list goes on. A common sentiment among former DI's, not only in the Marines, but in all other branches, is their statement that one most be akin to an improvisational or stand-up comedian as a DI, since they constantly have to improvise on the spot, break down the cadets, come up with statements on the fly, and Wayans' prior experience as one was a huge asset.
* In one scene, Major Payne tells the children, "Now apparently, what we have here, is a failure to communicate!" This is a famous quote taken from the movie Cool Hand Luke.
* The trailer for this movie contains a clip from a deleted scene in which Major Payne, to rouse the cadets for reveille, holds a cigarette lighter under the barracks' sprinkler system. The sprinklers kick in, soaking everybody while Payne struts among the bunks in full rain-gear. "RISE AND SHINE, PUKES!"
* Damon Wayans' Payne character was dancing to "Pop that Coochie" by 2 Live Crew in the nightclub scene. Interestingly enough Wayans was having a real life feud with 2 Live Crew at the time due to a joke he told about the group during his comedy special, Damon Wayans: The Last Stand? (1991), when he called them "Gangstas with microphones". This prompted 2 Live Crew front man Luther Campbell to cut a response rant on Wayans and his show In Living Color (1990) on a track called "I Ain't Bullshittin' III", which coincidentally appears on the 'Sports Weekend' album. The same album that also features "Pop that Coochie".
* Major Payne quotes 10 separate rhymes which are:
** "Love my barracks night and day! Won't complain That's where I'll stay!
** "Got no worry, got no stress! 'Cause we feel good in a dress!
** "Major Payne's a major diss! He makes us squat when we piss!"
** "Got no worries, got no care! I'm just a bald headed son of a bitch without hair!"
** "Used to be Samson, now I'm Ann! Gotta earn my right to be called a man!"
** "One! Don't you feel dumb! Two! Look at you!"
** "Hey Dunn you missed all the fun!
** "Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum. What beanstalk you fall from?"
** "Don't push the "maybes", baby."
==See Also==
*Major Payne on Villains Wiki.
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