Raul Passos

Raul Passos is the deuteragonist of the 2012 video game . He is a private security guard working for the Branco family, and Max's companion throughout much of the events of the game.
He was voiced by .
==Biography==
===Background===
Not much is known about Raul Passos's early life, other than that he was born in Colombia on April 27th, 1973. He became a cop sometime in the 1990s, and supposedly knew Max Payne in the New York Police Academy, due to the latter's popularity in said Academy. Passos allegedly worked for five years in the Bronx before being shot while on duty, and would move to São Paulo, Brazil, where he would also work as a cop. When neither of these ventures worked out for him, he began working for the wealthy Branco family. He ended up falling in love with Giovanna Taveres, the sister of Rodrigo Branco's wife Fabiana, and at some point had unknowingly impregenated her. 
Sometime before 2012, he was forced by Victor, Rodrigo's middle brother and a local politician, to work with him and Marcelo, the youngest of the Branco brothers, and take part in a conspiracy to ostensibly make Rodrigo loosen up on the family fortune, though both Passos and Marcelo were kept in the dark about both the planned assassination of Rodrigo and Victor's organ harvesting conspiracy.
=== Recruiting Max Payne===
In late 2011, Passos had traveled to Hoboken, New Jersey to hire Max to work for the Brancos down in Brazil, secretly under payment from Victor to hire a scapegoat for his actions. He entered a local dive bar, and found Tony DeMarco, son of local mob boss Anthony DeMarco, and his friends threatening Max. Drawing out a revolver, Passos told the thugs to leave the bar, with Tony promising that he would return. He would introduce himself to Max, and tried to hire him for the Branco security job, but ex-detective initially refused. After telling Max about his time in the Police Academy, along with lying about his supposed background, the two began drinking alongside a woman who had been in the bar around the same time. 
A couple hours later, Tony and his friends returned, threatening to kill Max and Passos. The woman began arguing with Tony, who wound up hitting her, only for Max to shoot him dead. Max and Passos then found themselves fighting a large army of mobsters, and the two were able to escape to Max's apartment complex for a short while. While Tony's father and his hitmen would begin attacking the apartment complex, Max and Passos nonetheless managed to escape from the building alive. 
After lying low in Queens for a few days, Max and Passos came to the nearby Golgotha Cemetery for Max to say goodbye to his family one final time before leaving for Brazil. Suddenly, DeMarco's henchmen began swarming through the cemetery in another attempt to kill them. Eventually, the two were captured, and were brought over to DeMarco, enraged at them for killing Tony. While Max and Passos apologized for this, the latter mentioned that Tony had started the fight, causing DeMarco to hit him with a shovel and insult him with a racial slur, and handing the shovel to Max to dig through their own graves, before leaving as he broke down in tears. Despite the odds, Max and Passos would survive the encounter, and were eventually able to leave New Jersey for Latin America.
===Early Jobs with Max ===
Sometime later, Max began working with Passos for the Brancos, starting with a job at a wedding in Aruba. After that mission, their next job would be watching over a party on a private yacht in Panama, hosted by Marcelo and wealthy American socialite Daphne Bernstein. Unbeknownst to Max at the time, Passos and Marcelo were secretly smuggling money onboard the ship, in order to deliver it to a banker associate of Victor's. Max went to his room to sleep for a few hours, and when he woke up, he found the yacht under attack by the AUP, who kidnapped/killed most of the crew and were searching for the money onboard. He fought his way off the yacht, and eventually found Passos and Marcelo placing bags of the money onto the back of a truck. Passos was convinced by Max to search for and rescue the remaining crew crew members, while Marcelo drove off with the money.
Fighting through the AUP, Max and Passos would, much to both men's dismay, find the corpses of the crew, including Daphne. The two eventually reunited with Marcelo down in Brazil, and continued working for the Brancos.
===Organ Harvesting Scandal===
During a job watching over a charity event hosted by the Brancos, the Comando Sombra favela gang stormed the party and attempted to kidnap Rodrigo and Fabiana. While Max was able to rescue both of them, the CS, this time with their leader Serrano, would strike again in a night club that Marcelo and his sisters-in-law frequented. While Max and Passos were able to rescue Giovanna with Marcelo's help, they failed to rescue Fabiana. Not too long after, the two agreed to bring ransom money to the Comando Somba at a nearby stadium, only for the meeting to be sabotaged by the Crachá Preto militia, who had, unbeknownst to both men, been hired by Victor to storm the meeting and take the money. While the two failed to retrieve the money, they were able to learn, via CCTV footage, that Fabiana was being kept by the CS at a hideout on Tietê River.
Traveling down the river, the two eventually gave chase to a boat convoy headed by Serrano, but despite their best efforts, the CS escaped, with Fabiana still their hostage. The two returned to São Paulo, and the next day, the two went to the Fábricas Branco building to attend a meeting with the Branco brothers and Armando Becker, commander of the Unidade de Forças Especiais, and after the meeting, Marcelo and Victor, Passos, and Becker would leave via helicopter. Unbeknownst to Marcelo and Passos, Victor and Becker had sent Bachmeyer, Becker's second-in-command, to assassinate Rodrigo, using an attack by the Crachá Preto as a diversion. Despite Max's best efforts, he failed to save Rodrigo, and wound up being the only known survivor of the attack.
A couple days later, when Max rescued Giovanna from the Crachá Preto, she told Passos about her pregnancy, and fearing for her safety, the two of them left via helicopter, leaving Max behind. The latter wound up being picked up by Wilson Da Silva, a local detective whom Max had begun working with, where the two would discuss the events that transpired up to this point, including Passos's, possibly unwilling, role in Victor's conspiracy. Later, Passos learned about Max's presence in the Imperial Palace Hotel, who had been sent there to uncover the truth about the Crachá Preto's connections to the UFE. He flew over to the abandoned Hotel, and killed the Crachá Preto's leader, Álvaro Neves, before he could execute Max. The two began about arguing Passos misleading Max, with the former explaining how Victor pressured him into taking part, and that he had kept him in the dark about both the planning of Rodrigo's death and the organ harvesting ring that Max had uncovered. Despite the bickering, the two would leave via Passos's helicopter moments before the building collapsed. 
The night after, Passos apologized to Max for misleading him, an apology that the latter accepted. Him and Giovanna said their goodbyes to Max, parting ways with him on good terms to raise their child, and Passos telling Max that "life [was] worth living," words that he seemingly took to heart.
==Gallery==
RaulPassosArtwork.webp|Artwork of Raul Passos.
PassosAimingRevolver.webp|Passos pointing his revolver at Tony DeMarco.
PassosComic.png|Passos talking with Max Payne and an unnamed woman in Walton's Bar.
MaxPayne3-Screenshot-RaulsavesMax.webp|Passos saving Max from a CS member.
MaxPayne3-Screenshot-PaynePassos.webp|Passos and Max at the stadium.
==Trivia==
*While initially presenting himself as Brazilian to Max, Passos's ID card can be found as a clue in "The Great American Savior of the Poor," showcasing his actual Colombian origins.
*According to a slide show in the UFE's headquarters, Passos is wanted for terrorism, assassination, and money laundering, possibly referring to his fights with the Crachá Preto, Rodrigo's assassination, and him and Marcelo laundering money for Victor in Panama respectively.
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