Changes: Frankie Niagara

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"Me, I love to watch cartoons. Cartoon violence's a fascinating thing."

―Frankie Niagara

Frankie "The Bat" Niagara is a hitman and torturer working under Angelo Punchinello. Frankie is a big fan of Captain BaseBallBat-Boy, alluding to his favorite mode of killing: bludgeoning people to death with his baseball bat. His M.O. when killing is tying his victim to a chair, beating them and leaving a newspaper folded open on a strip of Captain BaseBallBat-Boy near the body. Once Frankie finds himself assigned to a new target, he'll dump his previous victim into a nearby sewer hole, which is filled to the brim with the rotting corpses of all the poor souls which suffered a similar demise.

Biography

Background

"...Frankie, I know I can trust you to give this matter the dedication it needs.""

―A part of Punchinello's letter to Frankie, telling him to kill Max Payne.

At some point in his life, Frankie began to work as both a hitman and a torturer for the Punchinello Crime Family. Frankie has became a big fan of Captain BaseBallBat-Boy, and his torturing style was possibly influenced by the cartoon.

Around the time Max Payne begins to hunt down Angelo, the mob boss sends a letter to Frankie and orders him to take out the NYPD detective.

Death

"Pleased to meet you. I'm Frankie "The Bat" Niagara."

―Frankie introduces himself

After Mona Sax drugs Max with her drink at Ragna Rock, Frankie Niagara and his men come across Max. Frankie takes Max back to Lupino's Hotel and brutally beats him with a baseball bat, before and after the latter awakes from his nightmare.

However, he soon gets thirsty and leaves to get a drink at the bar. Max manages to get loose of the bands he was tied up with, escape, and (using only Niagara's baseball bat to start with) defeat Frankie's men. Soon after, Payne finds Frankie at the bar of the hotel, and, after a shootout, kills the mobster and leaves to deal with Punchinello.

Personality

"Nothing wrong with a little laugh now and then."

―Frankie to Max Payne

Frankie is a highly brutal and sadistic person who enjoys torturing his victims with his baseball bat. He seems to have no remorse for beating them to death.

Similar to many other mobsters, like Vincent Gognitti, Frankie is a fan of The Adventures of Captain BaseBallBat-Boy. According to him, he enjoyes the violence in the show and calles it a "fascinating thing."

Behind the scenes

It wasn't confirmed how Frankie and his men came to be at Lupino's nightclub. It is possible that they found out from Vincent Gognitti that Payne went there to kill Lupino.
Frankie shares many similarities with Rico Muerte. They both wear white shirts and wield Ingrams, and are both slightly rotund; they are both met and killed in the same room, the bar.
Frankie is briefly mentioned in Max Payne 2. When Max sees all of Vinnie Gognitti's Captain BaseBallBat-Boy memorabilia in his apartment, Vinnie says: "Hey, lots of tough guys are into this stuff. Frankie was into this stuff, he was a fucking tough guy."
In the graphic novel, Frankie is shown to be clean shaved, yet in-game he has a beard. A similar mistake is present in B.B.'s case.

Fight strategy

Max fights Frankie when he meets him at the bar. First, take out all of Frankie's thugs by funnelling them out of the bar room because Frankie will not leave the room. After his thugs are dead, focus on Niagara. Frankie himself is an extremely dangerous boss, sporting dual Ingrams and a high amount of hit points. He can kill Max in less than a second. Dual Ingrams work well against him; tackle him either when he is caught reloading or strafe while fighting him. If the player has experience, it is possible to kill Frankie with a baseball bat, as Max can dodge the bullets while he is rolling, Max can easily keeps rolling while getting closer to Frankie until he needs to reload, while reloading, he is vulnerable enough to kill him with the baseball bat. A single hit with it stuns the target and prevents to reload the weapon.

Appearances

Max Payne
- A Cold Day in Hell
  - Prologue (A Cold Day in Hell)
  - The Baseball Bat (Killed)
Max Payne 2
- Dearest Of All My Friends (Mentioned only)

Gallery

Quotes

"Max Payne, I envy your name. Pleased to meet you. I'm Frankie 'The Bat' Niagara"

―first words to Max

"Jesus Christ, how'd you get loose? Fine by me. This works out just as well."

―upon discovering Max had escaped.

Max Payne characters

Max Payne • Alex Balder • B.B. • Jim Bravura • Vincent Gognitti • Nicole Horne • Mona Sax • Vladimir Lem • Jack Lupino • Michelle Payne • Angelo Punchinello • Alfred Woden

Candy Dawn • Boris Dime • Finito Brothers • Rico Muerte • Frankie Niagara • Rose Payne • Lisa Punchinello • Kyra Silver • The Trio

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+{{Infobox_Max_Payne_Characters|status = Killed by Max Payne|death_date = 2001|relationships = [[Angelo Punchinello]] (boss)<br>
-{{quote|Me, I love to watch cartoons. Cartoon violence's a fascinating thing.|Frankie Niagara}}
+[[Max Payne]] (enemy)|affliations = [[Punchinello Crime Family]]|occupation = Soldato|weapon = Baseball Bat<br>
-{{characterInfobox
+Ingram|voice_actor = Bruce Kronenberg|performer = Unknown|image1 = [[Image:250px-Frankie1.jpg|250px]]}}{{quote|Me, I love to watch cartoons. Cartoon violence's a fascinating thing.|Frankie Niagara}}
- |name      = Frankie "The Bat" Niagara
+'''Frankie "The Bat" Niagara''' is a hitman and torturer working under [[Angelo Punchinello]]. Frankie is a big fan of ''[[The Adventures of Captain BaseBallBat-Boy|Captain BaseBallBat-Boy]]'', alluding to his favorite mode of killing: bludgeoning people to death with his [[Baseball Bat|baseball bat]]. His M.O. when killing is tying his victim to a chair, beating them and leaving a newspaper folded open on a strip of ''Captain BaseBallBat-Boy'' near the body. Once Frankie finds himself assigned to a new target, he'll dump his previous victim into a nearby sewer hole, which is filled to the brim with the rotting corpses of all the poor souls which suffered a similar demise.
-|image      = 250px-Frankie1.jpg
-|caption      =
-|affiliation = The [[Punchinello crime family]]
-|occupation = Hitman
-|location      = [[Lupino's Hotel]], [[New York City]], [[USA]]
-|weapon = [[Baseball bat]] <sub>([[graphic novel]] and cutscene only)</sub><br/>Dual [[Ingram]]s
-|death = 2001 <sub>(Killed by [[Max Payne]])</sub>
-|voice_actor = [[Bruce Kronenberg]]
-|performer = Unknown
-}}
-'''Frankie "The Bat" Niagara''' is a hitman and torturer working under [[Angelo Punchinello]]. Frankie is a big fan of ''[[The Adventures of Captain BaseBallBat-Boy|Captain BaseBallBat-Boy]]'', alluding to his favorite mode of killing: bludgeoning people to death with his [[baseball bat]]. His M.O. when killing is tying his victim to a chair, beating them and leaving a newspaper folded open on a strip of ''Captain BaseBallBat-Boy'' near the body.
 ==Biography==
 ===Background===
-{{quote|...Frankie, I know I can trust you to give this matter.|A part of Punchinello's letter to Frankie, telling him to kill Max Payne.}}
+{{quote|...Frankie, I know I can trust you to give this matter the dedication it needs."|A part of Punchinello's letter to Frankie, telling him to kill Max Payne.}}
+At some point in his life, Frankie began to work as both a hitman and a torturer for the [[Punchinello Crime Family]]. Frankie has became a big fan of ''Captain BaseBallBat-Boy'', and his torturing style was possibly influenced by the cartoon.
+Around the time Max Payne begins to hunt down Angelo, [[Angelo Punchinello|the mob boss]] sends a letter to Frankie and orders him to take out the NYPD detective.
-At some point in his life, Frankie begun to work as both a hitman and a torturer for Angelo's [[Punchinello crime family]]. Frankie has became a big fan of ''Captain BaseBallBat-Boy'', and his torturing style was possibly influenced by the cartoon.
-Around the time Max Payne has begun to hunt down Angelo, the mob boss sent a letter to Frankie, and ordered him to take out the NYPD detective.
 ===Death===
-{{quote|Pleased to meet you. I'm Frankie "The Bat" Niagara.|Frankie introduces himself.}}
+{{quote|Pleased to meet you. I'm Frankie "The Bat" Niagara.|Frankie introduces himself}}
-After [[Mona Sax]] drugs Max with her drink at [[Ragna Rock (location)|Ragna Rock]], Frankie Niagara and his men come across Max while looking for [[Jack Lupino]]. Frankie takes Max back to [[Lupino's Hotel]] and brutally beats him with a baseball bat; however, he soon gets thirsty and leaves to get a drink at the bar. Max manages to get loose of the bands he was tied up with, escape, and (using Niagara's [[baseball bat]]) defeat Frankie's men. Soon after, Payne finds Frankie at the bar of the hotel, and, after a shootout, kills the mobster and leaves to deal with Punchinello.
+After [[Mona Sax]] drugs Max with her drink at [[Ragna Rock |Ragna Rock]], Frankie Niagara and his men come across Max. Frankie takes Max back to [[Lupino's Hotel]] and brutally beats him with a baseball bat, before and after the latter awakes from his [[Max Payne's nightmares|nightmare]].
+However, he soon gets thirsty and leaves to get a drink at the bar. Max manages to get loose of the bands he was tied up with, escape, and (using only Niagara's [[Baseball Bat|baseball bat]] to start with) defeat Frankie's men. Soon after, Payne finds Frankie at the bar of the hotel, and, after a shootout, kills the mobster and leaves to deal with Punchinello.
 ==Personality==
-{{quote|Nothing wrong with a little laugh now and then.|Frankie to Max Payne.}}
+{{quote|Nothing wrong with a little laugh now and then.|Frankie to Max Payne}}
+Frankie is a highly brutal and sadistic person who enjoys torturing his victims with his baseball bat. He seems to have no remorse for beating them to death.
+Similar to many other mobsters, like [[Vincent Gognitti]], Frankie is a fan of ''[[The Adventures of Captain BaseBallBat-Boy]]''. According to him, he enjoyes the violence in the show and calles it a "fascinating thing."
-Frankie was a highly brutal and sadistic person who enjoyed torturing his victims with his baseball bat. He was known to be emotionless during torturing his victims, and seemed to had no remorse for beating them to death.
-Similar to many other mobsters, like [[Vincent Gognitti]], Frankie was a fan of ''[[The Adventures of Captain BaseBallBat-Boy]]''. According to him, he enjoyed the violence in the show, and called it a "fascinating thing".
 ==Behind the scenes==
+*It wasn't confirmed how Frankie and his men came to be at [[Ragna Rock|Lupino's nightclub]]. It is possible that they found out from Vincent Gognitti that Payne went there to kill Lupino.
-===Strategy===
-Max fights Frankie when he meets him at the bar. First, take out all of Frankie's thugs by funnelling them out of the bar room because Frankie will not leave the room. After his thugs are dead, focus on Niagara. Frankie himself is an extremely dangerous boss, sporting dual [[Ingram]]s and a high amount of hit points. He can kill Max in less than a second. Dual Ingrams work well against him; tackle him either when he is caught reloading or strafe while fighting him.
-===Trivia===
-*It wasn't confirmed how Frankie and his men came to be at [[Lupino's nightclub]]. It is possible that Punchinello sent Frankie to whack Lupino for disobeying Punchinello's orders, as is hinted in the ripped-up letter on Lupino's couch.
 *Frankie shares many similarities with [[Rico Muerte]]. They both wear white shirts and wield Ingrams, and are both slightly rotund; they are both met and killed in the same room, the bar.
 *Frankie is briefly mentioned in ''[[Max Payne 2]]''. When Max sees all of [[Vinnie Gognitti|Vinnie Gognitti's]] ''Captain BaseBallBat-Boy'' memorabilia in his apartment, Vinnie says: "Hey, lots of tough guys are into this stuff. Frankie was into this stuff, he was a fucking tough guy."
+*In the graphic novel, Frankie is shown to be clean shaved, yet in-game he has a beard. A similar mistake is present in [[B.B.]]'s case.
+===Fight strategy===
+Max fights Frankie when he meets him at the bar. First, take out all of Frankie's thugs by funnelling them out of the bar room because Frankie will not leave the room. After his thugs are dead, focus on Niagara. Frankie himself is an extremely dangerous boss, sporting dual [[Ingram]]s and a high amount of hit points. He can kill Max in less than a second. Dual Ingrams work well against him; tackle him either when he is caught reloading or strafe while fighting him. If the player has experience, it is possible to kill Frankie with a baseball bat, as Max can dodge the bullets while he is rolling, Max can easily keeps rolling while getting closer to Frankie until he needs to reload, while reloading, he is vulnerable enough to kill him with the baseball bat. A single hit with it stuns the target and prevents to reload the weapon.
 ==Appearances==
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 **[[A Cold Day in Hell]]
 ***[[Prologue (A Cold Day in Hell)]]
-***[[The Baseball Bat]]
+***[[The Baseball Bat]] (Killed)
-*''[[Max Payne 2]]'' {{Mo}}
+*''[[Max Payne 2]]''
+** [[Dearest of All My Friends|Dearest Of All My Friends]] (Mentioned only)
 ==Gallery==
 <gallery>
 <gallery orientation= "landscape" widths="170" captionalign="left">
-.jpg|Frankie tortures Payne
 Frankie_niagara.png|Greeting Max Payne at the basement of the [[Lupino's Hotel]]
 </gallery>
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