Editing Jim Bravura

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[[Valerie Winterson]] (Subordinate)|affliations = NYPD|occupation = Deputy Chief<br>
Homicide Department Lieutenant|voice_actor = Peter Appel ([[Max Payne (game)|Max Payne]])<br>
Vince Viverito ([[Max Payne 2]])|performer = Unknown (''[[Max Payne (game)|Max Payne]]'')<br>
Michael Arkin (''[[Max Payne 2]]'')|image1 = [[Image:MaxPayne2-Jim Bravura.jpg|250px]]|death_date = 2011}}{{quote|This is Deputy Chief Jim Bravura! Come out with your hands above your head!|Jim Bravura}}
'''Jim Bravura''' was the Deputy Chief of the [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]] and, later, a Homicide unit lieutenant. A dedicated policeman, he has the strict belief that any cop should act within the law, often very much in contrast to the outlook of [[Max Payne]].

==Biography==
===Background===
At some point before [[Timeline#2001|2001]], Bravura joined the NYPD and then became the deputy chief of the department. By the time Max Payne joins the NYPD, Bravura was an Inspector.

===[[Valkyr Case|Valkyr case]]===
In 2001, Jim Bravura has a position as the NYPD Deputy Chief and leads the police chase against Max Payne, but has difficulty catching up to Max during his rampage through the criminal underworld.

Eventually, after killing [[Nicole Horne]] atop the [[Aesir Headquarters]] building, the fugitive surrenders to Bravura's SWAT team willingly, and is taken away in their truck.

===[[Cleaner Case|Cleaner case]]===
By [[Timeline#2003|2003]], an exonerated Max now works as a detective for Bravura, who has demoted himself to Homicide lieutenant. Bravura debriefs Payne after his shootouts with the [[Cleaners]] in [[Annie Finn's warehouse]] and [[Max Payne's apartment complex|his apartment complex]].

He assigns [[Valerie Winterson]] the case of the murdered [[Sebastian Gate|Senator Gate]], in which [[Mona Sax]] is the prime suspect.

After Max Payne is caught working with the fugitive Sax in an [[Upper East Side apartments|Upper East Side apartment]] shootout with numerous Cleaners, Bravura orders the detective to remain at his desk and type up a detailed report of the incident.

Bravura is later seen in the New York Memorial hospital, attempting to find and interrogate a hospitalized Max about the death of Winterson when [[Mitchum]], an [[Ingram]]-wielding commando sent to eliminate Max, guns the police lieutenant down. When Payne [[Too Stubborn to Die|finds the security room]], he can see Bravura being operated on via a surveillance camera. Payne remarks that Bravura is 'too stubborn to die.'

[[That Old Familiar Feeling|Later that night]], in [[Alfred Woden|Senator Alfred Woden's]] office at his [[Woden's Manor|manor]], Max turns on the television and sees [[Kyra Silver|Kyra Silver's]] NYNN report, which says that Bravura is in stable condition after being shot.

===Later life===
Following the events of the [[Cleaner Case|Cleaner case]], Bravura returns to work. At some point later, Bravura summons Max to his office where he and Max agree that, due to Max shooting Winterson, he will quit the NYPD. Bravura promises to get Payne a pension, and asks Max if he ever lied to him. Max also reveals to Bravura that Winterson was the lover of [[Vladimir Lem]], the man who was behind the Cleaners. Before Max leaves the office, Bravura asks him to stay in touch. Bravura and Max stay in contact until Jim Bravura passes away due to a heart attack sometime between 2003 and 2011. <ref>[[Hoboken Blues|"Hoboken Blues"]]</ref>

==In Max Payne's dreams==
Jim Bravura appears in [[Max Payne's nightmares]]. Payne "fights" Bravura once in a dream and, equipped with a [[Beretta]], he and Winterson fire at Payne, but both cops are "killed" by Max.

==Personality==
According to fellow police officers, Bravura routinely demotes himself in order to stay closer to the police officers who work on cases in the field.

He is a former alcoholic and suffers from insomnia. Bravura is also seen swallowing [[Painkiller|painkillers]] routinely under stress, and may be addicted to them.

== Relationships ==

=== [[Max Payne]] ===
During the Valkyr Case, Bravura treats Max as a criminal fugitive needed to catch due to Max's alleged murder of DEA agent Alex Balder in Roscoe Street Station. The hunt for Max Payne grew and the need to capture him as Max massacres many mobsters in the hotel, tenements and places Max Payne passed through. He believes Max is a criminal who needs to be stopped for his rampage on New York. It is apparent in the radio news heard in the Asgard building where Jim swears to capture him. On the other hand, Max sees him as being on the wrong side of the battle even though he believes Bravura is genuinely a cop doing his job.

After the Valkyr Case and release of Max Payne, Bravura demotes himself and becomes Payne's boss when Max decide to rejoin the NYPD. Jim is concerned with Max's mental health and alcohol addiction and offers him to join AA and get therapy. After the Cleaner Case, Bravura offers to get him a pension even though Payne confessed to the killing of Valerie Winterson and revealed that she was secretly Vladimir Lem's lover and also stating that these circumstances forced him to quit the NYPD. They apparently kept in contact and remained on close terms, as Max was clearly affected by Bravura's death by a heart attack. 

==Behind the Scenes==
Aside from Max Payne, Bravura is one of the few characters that survives the events of the first two games of the [[Max Payne (Series)|series]]. However, he does not appear in the [[Max Payne 3|third game]], as he dies several months before the events of ''Max Payne 3''. His death and relationship with Max after the Cleaner case are mentioned in the second [[Max Payne 3 comics|''Max Payne 3'' comic]], "[[Hoboken Blues]]."

==Appearances==
*''[[Max Payne (game)|Max Payne]]''
*''[[Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne|Max Payne 2]]''
*[[Max Payne 3 comics|''Max Payne 3'' comics]]
**"[[After the Fall]]" <small>(appears in flashback(s))</small>
**"[[Hoboken Blues]]" <small>(appears in flashback(s))</small>
**"[[Fight and Flight]]" <small>(appears in flashback(s))</small>

==Quotes==
{{quote|This is deputy chief Jim Bravura from the NYPD. You are to cease your criminal activities and surrender immediately.|To Max Payne}}
{{quote|What were you thinking? Were you thinking at all?|To Max Payne}}
{{quote|What happened out there? You killed her!|To Max Payne, speaking about [[Valerie Winterson]]'s death}}
{{quote|Bull....shit!|Bravura's last words before passing out after being shooting}}

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