Armando Becker (Max Payne)

“Mr. Payne! I believe you had something to say to me” - Becker moments before confronting Max Payne and his death.
Armando Becker (d. March 1, 2012) was the Commander of the U.F.E. in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Although he was the commander of a police force unit, he was secretly a corrupted officer who assisted Victor Branco in his campaign elections and money-making schemes at the expense of others’ lives and his integrity. Becker currently only appears in one Max Payne 3, where he serves as the primary antagonist, but throughout the entire game, he serves as one of the secondary antagonists, alongside Alvaro Neves and Serrano.
== Biography ==
=== Penthouse Party, February of 2012 ===
Around February 16 of 2012, Becker was in attendance for the penthouse party held for the wealthy, including the Brancos’. When Fabiana Branco was taken hostage alongside her husband, Rodrigo by the gang known as the Comando Sombra, Becker along with Passos attempted to rescue Fabiana, who was held at gunpoint, but since they were unable to free her, former NYPD officer Max Payne, Passos’ partner and fellow bodyguard, stepped in by sliding down a slanted roof and shot the hostage taker. Afterwards, Becker consoled and calmed Fabiana, who was still in shock from what happened.
After Max had successfully managed to find and save Rodrigo from being captured, Becker and his U.F.E. forces finally showed up, where they started executing the surviving Comando Sombra until local cop and detective Wilson Da Silva had ordered him to stand down, although Becker told him in Portuguese that he shouldn’t “stick his nose where it doesn’t belong.” Everyone left the party soon after.
After days of unsuccessful attempts to rescue Fabiana, who got captured by the Comando Sombra once more and taken, Becker was finally called in. After some discussion about how to get Fabiana back, Becker offers a solution that would almost guarantee her safe return home, but Rodrigo is hesitant. Soon after, Becker, along with Victor and Marcelo, Rodrigo’s younger brothers, and Passos are called by Victor to join him in his helicopter, suspiciously vacating and leaving Rodrigo and Max alone. Sure enough, soon after, the office was attacked by the paramilitary group known as the Crachá Preto, with the end result being that someone assassinated Rodrigo in his office and blew the whole building up, leaving Max as the lucky sole survivor.
Becker was not seen for a few more days, but as Max investigated the Nova Esperança favela during his final attempt to save Fabiana, although he failed once again and she was finally killed, prompting Max to save Marcelo and Giovanna, he realized that Becker’s forces were in cahoots with the Crachá Preto, selling off the favela residents they kidnapped in their “raids” to the paramilitary squads. Although Becker was not present, and only his right-hand man, Bachmeyer, was, Becker was considered part of the scandal.
A couple more days later on February 29, after Max had finally found evidence and motive of the UFE and the CP’s wrongdoings, Max had decided to storm the UFE headquarters downtown to find and kill Becker, as legally, Max and Da Silva were unable to bring him down, but they figured that they might as well kill him. After Max had killed Bachmeyer and dozens of corrupted cops, he finally found Becker waiting in his office, but before he could strangle him to death, Victor stepped in. Before Max could harm Victor, Becker tasered Max and the duo escaped to the airport.
=== Payne’s Confrontation and Death ===
The next day on March 1, Max had tracked them down to the airport, which was locked down and evacuated by the UFE for their escape. Max fought his way through the airport until he finally managed to make it to Victor’s private hang, where the two were. In one final standoff, Max confronted Becker, who was armed with body armor, a riot shield, and a grenade launcher. Becker stationed himself on top of a plane-boarding staircase, firing grenades at Max. Although Max could not get a shot or an advantage on Becker, after he had killed his reinforcements, Max ran up another boarding staircase and dove straight towards Becker and shot his grenade in midair, maiming Becker to the point where his arm was blown off and his body ripped to shreds by the blast, while Max narrowly survived. Max then approached a dying and maimed Becker, gun aimed at him. Although Max had the chance to end Becker’s misery by shooting him, he had decided to let him die slowly from blood loss and shock.
=== Legacy ===
Becker’s attempts to ensure Branco’s escape was fruitless as Max soon grabbed the recently deceased Becker’s grenade launcher and with the help of Da Silva in his car, chased after Victor’s plane and blew it up, injuring Victor and allowing an easy arrest. Becker’s actions were finally revealed and published to the news, which ultimately led to Victor’s suicide/murder a week later.
== Appearance ==
== Personality ==
== Killed Victims ==
* Numerous counts of gangsters (Direct or Caused)
* Numerous counts of Nova Esperança residents, including Comando Sombra thugs (Caused; possibly Direct)
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