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

Template:CharacterInfobox 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.

Biography

Background

"...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.

At some point in his life, Frankie began to work as both a hitman and a torturer for Angelo Punchinello's 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 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 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 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'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."

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.

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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.


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