Jim Bravura

Jim Bravura
Status	Died of Heart Attack
Personal Information
Death Date	2011
Career Information
Affliations	NYPD
Occupation	Deputy Chief Homicide Department Lieutenant
Behind the Scenes
Voice Actor	Peter Appel (Max Payne) Vince Viverito (Max Payne 2)
Performer	Unknown (Max Payne) Michael Arkin (Max Payne 2)

"This is Deputy Chief Jim Bravura! Come out with your hands above your head!"

―Jim Bravura

Jim Bravura was the Deputy Chief of the 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 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

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 on the rooftop of the Aesir Headquarters building, the fugitive surrenders to Bravura's SWAT team willingly, and is taken away in their truck.

Cleaner case

By 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 his apartment complex.

He assigns Valerie Winterson the case of the murdered 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 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 finds the security room, he can see Bravura being operated on via a surveillance camera. Payne remarks that Bravura is 'too stubborn to die.'

Later that night, in Senator Alfred Woden's office at his manor, Max turns on the television and sees 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, 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.

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 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 series. However, he does not appear in the 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 comic, "Hoboken Blues."

Appearances

• Max Payne
• Max Payne 2
• Max Payne 3 comics
  • "After the Fall" (appears in flashback(s))
  • "Hoboken Blues" (appears in flashback(s))
  • "Fight and Flight" (appears in flashback(s))

Quotes

"This is deputy chief Jim Bravura from the NYPD. You are to cease your criminal activities and surrender immediately."

―To Max Payne

"What were you thinking? Were you thinking at all?"

―To Max Payne

"What happened out there? You killed her!"

―To Max Payne, speaking about Valerie Winterson's death

"Bull....shit!"

―Bravura's last words before passing out after being shooting

Gallery

Jim in Max Payne 1.

References

Max Payne characters

Max Payne 2 characters