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{{quote|Time moves forward, and nothing changes.|[[Max Payne]]<ref>[[A Fat Bald Dude with a Bad Temper]]</ref>}}
 
The following is the '''timeline''' of [[Max Payne]]'s life story and of those people connected to him.
 
   
 
{{quote|Time moves forward, and nothing changes.|[[Max Payne]]}}
==1941==
 
*[[Jack Payne]] is born.<ref name="comic1">"[[After the Fall]]"</ref>
 
   
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The following is the '''timeline''' of [[Max Payne]]'s life and of those people connected to him. The timeline covers the characters and events as depicted in ''[[Max Payne (Game)|Max Payne]]'', ''[[Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne]]'', ''[[Max Payne 3]]'', and the [[Max Payne 3 comics|''Max Payne 3'' comics]].
==1944==
 
*[[Helen Payne]] is born.<ref name="comic1" />
 
   
==1962==
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==1900s==
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===1903===
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*The [[Galatians FC]] soccer team of São Paulo, Brazil, is founded.
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==1940s==
 
===1941===
 
*[[Jack Payne]] is born.
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===1944===
 
*[[Helen Payne]] is born.
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==1960s==
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===1960-1961===
 
*[[Rodrigo Branco]] is born.
 
*[[Rodrigo Branco]] is born.
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*[[Valerie Winterson]] is born.
   
==1964==
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===1964-1965===
*'''May 12''': [[Michelle Payne]] is born.
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*[[Victor Branco]] is born.
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*'''May 12, 1964''': [[Michelle Payne]] is born.
   
==1967==
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===1968-1969===
 
*[[Álvaro Neves]] is born.
 
*[[Álvaro Neves]] is born.
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*[[Max Payne]] is born.
   
 
==1970s==
 
==1970s==
*'''Before 1976''': [[Max Payne]] is growing up, but, at his home, [[Jack Payne]] abuses [[Helen Payne|his wife]] and cheats on her. [[Max Payne's grandfather]] tells his grandson an occasional myth.<ref name="comic1" />
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*'''Before 1976''': A young [[Max Payne]] is growing up, but at his home, [[Jack Payne]] abuses [[Helen Payne|his wife]] and cheats on her. [[Max Payne's grandfather]] tells his grandson stories from ancient literature.
   
==1972-1973==
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===1972-1973===
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*[[Milo Rego]] is born.
*[[Milo Rego]] is born.<ref>Milo rego is aged 39 in 2012 as seen in the [http://www.rockstargames.com/maxpayne3/characters_and_gangs/cracha Unidade de Forças Especiais intelligence file]. Therefore, he could have been born in either 1972 or '73</ref>
 
*[[Raul Passos]] is born
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*'''April 27, 1973''': [[Raul Passos]] is born.
   
==1976==
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===1976===
*[[Helen Payne]] passes away.<ref name="comic1" />
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*[[Helen Payne]] passes away.
   
==1979==
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===1979===
*[[Jack Payne]] dies.<ref name="comic1" />
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*[[Jack Payne]] dies.
   
==Circa 1984==
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==1980s==
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===1983-1985===
*"[[Serrano]]" is born.<ref>[http://www.rockstargames.com/maxpayne3/characters_and_gangs/comandosombra The UFE intelligence file on Serrano and the Commando Sombra at the official ''Max Payne 3'' website] states he is ''approximately'' 28 years old. 2012-28=1984. Retrieved May 11th, 2012.</ref>
 
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*"[[Serrano]]" is born.
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*'''April 24, 1985''': [[Fabiana Branco]] is born in Lisbon, Portugal.
   
==1985==
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===1986===
*'''April 24''': [[Fabiana Branco]] is born.<ref>[http://www.rockstargames.com/maxpayne3/characters_and_gangs/fabiana Fabiana Branco's police file]. Retrieved May 8th, 2012.</ref>
 
 
==1986==
 
 
*[[Giovanna Taveres]] is born.
 
*[[Giovanna Taveres]] is born.
   
==1991==
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==1990s==
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===1991===
*In secrecy, [[Project Valhalla]] is launched by the [[United States of America|U.S.]] government.
 
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*The United States Government secretly commences [[Project Valhalla]], with the objective to create a chemical compound that enhances the stamina and morale of U.S. Infantry troops.
   
==1995==
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===1995===
*Project Valhalla is cancelled, but [[Nicole Horne]] continues manufacturing [[valkyr]] as a recreational drug.
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*Project Valhalla is cancelled after the results of the project are considered "unsatisfactory" by the government, but [[Nicole Horne]] continues the project in an unofficial capacity, manufacturing [[Valkyr]] as a recreational drug.
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*Fabiana and her family move to [[Brazil]] from Portugal.
   
==1998==
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===1996===
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*Max Payne saves a woman who works at the District Attorney's office named [[Michelle Payne|Michelle]] from two muggers in an alley. The two meet up for drinks the following week and begin dating soon afterward.
*'''February 4''': [[Rose Payne]] is born.
 
*[[Alfred Woden]] leaks the Valhalla files to the District Attorney's office.
 
*'''August 22''': The Payne family massacre at the [[Payne residence]], [[New Jersey]]. Nicole Horne labels it as a [[valkyr test subject]] "field test" in an "urban environment."
 
*Max Payne transfers to the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]] and starts working on the [[Valkyr Case]].
 
   
==2001==
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===1997===
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*Max and Michelle marry sometime between May and June after just six months of dating. The couple has their honeymoon in [[Wikipedia:Montauk, New York|Montauk]], and Michelle becomes pregnant with their daughter.
*[[Álvaro Neves]] joins the [[Unidade de Forças Especiais]], and sometime later becomes a Captain in that force.
 
*The [[Punchinello crime family]] enters a war with the [[Russian Mob]].
 
*<span style="font-weight: bold;">October</span>: After getting word from an informant that underboss [[Jack Lupino]] was trafficking Valkyr, Max Payne goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of his crime family.
 
*<span style="font-weight: bold;">December</span>: '''The heat of the [[Valkyr Case]]''': Over three nights in a ferocious winter blizzard in [[New York City]], Max Payne avenges his family and his friend [[Alex Balder]] by nearly completely decimating the Punchinello crime family and annihilating the [[Aesir Corporation]].
 
   
===Night One===
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===1998===
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*'''February 4''': [[Rose Payne]] is born.
*[[Alex Balder]] is murdered at the [[Roscoe Street Station]] when he stumbles upon the [[Roscoe Bank]] heist. Max Payne is framed for the murder. Although Payne is pursued by the police, he decides to go on a "nothing-to-lose" vendetta against the Mafia family he perceives is responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.
 
 
*[[Alfred Woden]] leaks the Project Valhalla files to the District Attorney's office.
*The mobsters inhabiting [[Lupino's Hotel]] are exterminated by Payne. The [[Finitos]] and [[Rico Muerte]] die.
 
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*'''August 22''': The Payne family massacre at the [[Payne Residence]], [[New Jersey]]. Nicole Horne learns about the Project Valhalla leak to the District Attorney's office that Michelle Payne is employed at. Michelle sees the documents but before she can investigate them any further, Horne sends three [[Valkyr test subjects]] to Michelle's home in order to prevent any further leak of the documents, under the guise of a "field test" on the subjects' behavior in an "urban environment" for Project Valhalla. The three test subjects are given guns, double their dosage of Valkyr, and then dropped off at the Payne residence to be let loose on the house and its inhabitants. The frenzied, manic test subjects murder Michelle and her baby, Rose, before Michelle's husband, [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]] detective Max Payne, can stop the intruders.
*The fugitive starts receiving calls from [[Alfred Woden]].
 
*[[Vincent Gognitti]] is chased by Payne over rooftops and is left bleeding but alive after spilling the beans about Jack Lupino's hideout.
 
*[[Ragna Rock]], the fortress of [[Jack Lupino]], falls to Payne's attack. Lupino, out of his mind on Valkyr, is killed in a shootout with Payne. Payne meets [[Mona Sax]] but their meeting ends with him being drugged and passing out.
 
   
 
*Max Payne transfers to the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]] and begins working on the [[Valkyr Case|Valkyr case]].
===Night Two===
 
*Payne wakes up to find his skull being cracked by [[Frankie Niagara|Frankie "The Bat" Niagara]] with his [[baseball bat]]. The prisoner escapes and kills Niagara.
 
*The defected Russian mobster [[Boris Dime]] is killed and his ship ''[[Charon]]'' returns to [[Vladimir Lem]]'s control. Max Payne gains weapons for completing this mission.
 
*[[Casa di Angelo]] is torched, as Payne escapes the trap and ambush by [[Angelo Punchinello]].
 
*The day at the [[Punchinello manor]] ends with the death of [[Lisa Punchinello]], [[the Trio]] being obliterated, Angelo executed by Horne's [[Killer Suits]] and Payne personally meeting the Aesir Corporation CEO herself before being injected with an overdose of [[valkyr]].
 
   
===Night Three===
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==2000s==
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===2001===
*Max Payne survives the hallucinations and the withdrawal symptoms of valkyr and traces Horne to [[Cold Steel]]. [[Operation Dead Eyes]] results in the installation being blown to smithereens but not before Payne finds the files of Project Valhalla and realizes Horne was responsible for his family's tragic death.
 
 
*[[Álvaro Neves]] becomes a captain in the [[Unidade de Forças Especiais]].
*[[B.B.]], the crooked DEA agent who betrayed Payne and sold him and Balder out, meets his end at the [[Choir Communications garage]] where he and his minions engage in a massive shootout.
 
 
*The [[Punchinello Crime Family]] enters a war with the [[Russian Mob]].
*The fugitive meets [[Alfred Woden]] at the [[Asgard Building]] and makes it out of the building alive after an attack by Horne's units on the place.
 
 
*After receiving information from an informant that underboss [[Jack Lupino]] is trafficking Valkyr, Max Payne goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of the Punchinello crime family.
*Max lays siege to [[Aesir Plaza]], slaughtering dozens of Aesir security guards and mercenaries. He encounters Mona, who is shot and thought dead. Max chases after Horne who attempts to escape via helicopter. Payne snaps the guy wires holding the skyscraper's antenna and sends it falling on top of the fleeing helicopter, sending both the tower, the copter and the heliport crashing to the streets below.
 
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*'''February 2001''': The main events of the [[Valkyr Case]] occur over the course of three nights during a winter storm in New York City.
*Max is arrested by the NYPD while Woden looks on; Max smiles in contentment after avenging his family's murder.
 
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**[[Max Payne]] stumbles upon a bank heist at the [[Roscoe Bank]] while attempting to meet up with his partner, [[Alex Balder]], in the [[Roscoe Street Station]]. Payne foils the heist by killing the robbers, but after meeting up with his partner, Balder is shot by an unseen assassin. Max is framed for the murder, and despite being pursued by the [[New York City Police Department]], he decides to go on a "nothing-to-lose" vendetta against the people who are responsible for [[Valkyr]] and the murder of his partner.
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**Max Payne kills numerous Punchinello gangsters in [[Lupino's Hotel]] while looking for Jack Lupino, his prime suspect as Valkyr's main distributor. Notable [[Punchinello Crime Family]] members killed includes [[Finito Brothers|Joey Finito, Virgilio Finito]], and [[Rico Muerte]]. The police later arrive, tape off the hotel, and take the bodies away.
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**[[Alfred Woden]] begins calling Payne in order to warn and guide him through his violent, vengeful quest for the truth.
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**[[Vincent Gognitti|Vinnie Gognitti]] is chased and shot by Payne, who is able to get Gognitti to confess Lupino's whereabout.
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**[[Ragna Rock]], a nightclub owned by [[Jack Lupino]], is stormed by Max Payne, who shoots dozens of Lupino's men occupying the club.
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**Jack Lupino, in a manic, psychotic state due to heavy Valkyr usage, is killed in a shootout with Payne in Ragna Rock.
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**Payne meets [[Mona Sax]] in the bar area of Ragna Rock, but their meeting ends with him being drugged and losing consciousness.
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**The police arrive at [[Lupino's Hotel]], collect evidence and the bodies of the mobsters Payne had killed earlier, and eventually leave after taping off the building and station a few officers to guard the building. The remaining officers are killed by [[Frankie Niagara|Frankie "The Bat" Niagara]] and his men.
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**Payne wakes up the night after the shootout at Ragna Rock to being assaulted by Frankie Niagara with his [[Baseball Bat|baseball bat]] in the basement of [[Lupino's Hotel]].
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**Frankie Niagara is killed by Max Payne after the fugitive DEA agent escapes from confinement in Lupino's hotel basement.
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**[[Boris Dime]] and his men, who have defected from the [[Russian Mob]], take over the [[Charon|''Charon'']] and the nearby Brooklyn dockyard in order to claim a large cache of weapons stored on the ship.
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**Dime and his men are killed by Max Payne after he is instructed by [[Vladimir Lem]] to reclaim the Charon and its contents for the Russians. Lem regains control over the ship.
 
**[[Casa di Angelo]] is burned down as Payne escapes a trap and ambush set up by [[Angelo Punchinello]].
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**Sometime before Max Payne arrives at [[Punchinello Manor]], [[Lisa Punchinello]] is killed, presumably by her husband.
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**[[Punchinello Manor]] comes under attack by Max Payne, who is looking for Angelo Punchinello.
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**Notable members of the Punchinello crime family, including [[The Trio|Vince Mugnaio, Pilate Providence, Joe Salem,]] and the Don himself, [[Angelo Punchinello]], are killed during the shootout at Punchinello's manor. Angelo is executed by [[Nicole Horne|Nicole Horne's]] [[Killer Suits]].
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**Payne is drugged by Horne and left to die from an overdose on Valkyr.
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**Max Payne survives the hallucinatory side effects and the withdrawal symptoms of Valkyr, waking up much later - presumably the next day - and traces Horne to [[Cold Steel]].
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**Once those responsible for guarding the Cold Steel complex realize it has been compromised, "Operation: Dead Eyes" is put into effect. The complex is destroyed, but not before Payne finds the files on [[Project Valhalla]] and realizes Horne is responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter.
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**[[B.B.]] and Max Payne meet on the roof of the [[Choir Communications Garage]], where B.B. reveals himself as corrupt and responsible for Alex Balder's murder and Max being framed.
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**B.B. and his men are killed by Payne as B.B. tries to escape the parking garage.
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**The fugitive DEA agent meets [[Alfred Woden]] and several other members of the [[Inner Circle]] at the [[Asgard Building]], who reveal this intention to assist Payne in taking down Nicole Horne. The building is invaded by numerous [[Killer Suits]], who kill most of the Inner Circle members present at the meeting. Payne and Woden make it out alive.
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**Max storms the [[Aesir Headquarters]] building, killing dozens of Aesir security guards and Killer Suits. Mona Sax and Payne meet in the building, but she is shot and presumed dead.
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**Max Payne chases Nicole Horne to the roof of the building, where she tries to escape in her helicopter. Payne shoots the [[wikipedia:Guy-wire|guy-wires]] holding the skyscraper's radio mast in place, which causes it to collapse on top of the fleeing helicopter, sending the tower, the helicopter containing Horne and her pilot, and the heliport structure crashing to the streets below.
 
**Max is arrested by the NYPD while Woden looks on.
   
==2003==
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===2003===
*By this time all charges against Max Payne for his actions in 2001 are dropped, courtesy of strings pulled by [[Alfred Woden]], and Payne returns to his post as a Homicide detective within the [[New York City Police Department]].
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*All charges against Max Payne for his actions in 2001 have been dropped, due to [[Alfred Woden|Alfred Woden's]] influence, and Payne returns to the [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]] as a Homicide detective.
 
*The [[Punchinello Crime Family]], led by [[Vincent Gognitti]], continue to battle Lem's [[Russian Mob]].
*'''The [[Cleaner Case]]''': A few rainy nights turn NYC into a bloody battleground as [[Vladimir Lem]] launches an aggressive, large-scale operation aimed to quickly eliminate his enemies and consolidate the power of the criminal underworld of the city under his grip. Max Payne and [[Mona Sax]] fight back and defeat Lem.
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*'''The [[Cleaner Case]]''': Over the course of a few rainy nights, [[New York City]] is turned into a bloody battleground as [[Vladimir Lem]] launches an aggressive, large-scale operation aimed to quickly eliminate his enemies and consolidate the power of the city's criminal underworld under his control.
**Mysterious hitmen posing as cleaners of the [[Squeaky Cleaning Company]] suddenly emerge as a powerful force in New York City that is tasked with covertly eliminating its enemies.
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**Mysterious assassins posing as cleaners working for the [[Squeaky Cleaning Company]] are tasked with covertly eliminating influential underworld figures.
**The [[NYPD]] Homicide detective [[Valerie Winterson]], who secretly acts as a double agent for Vladimir Lem, works the murder of US Senator [[Sebastian Gates]] and catches her suspect [[Mona Sax]]. When the female assassin escapes from custody, Winterson goes after her once again but is killed by Max Payne.
 
**The [[Inner Circle]] splits and starts its civil war. [[Alfred Woden]] and [[Vladimir Lem]] are the two opposing warring factions. Lem is winning the war. Woden is eventually murdered.
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**The [[Inner Circle]] splits and falls into infighting. [[Alfred Woden]] and [[Vladimir Lem]] are the heads of the two warring factions.
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**Max Payne responds to a shots-fired call at a warehouse owned by Vladimir Lem. Taking down several suspects dressed as Cleaners, the rest of the shooters escape when Payne's police back-up arrives. [[Annie Finn]], an arms dealer that works for Lem, is killed execution-style in [[Annie Finn's gun workshop|her gun workshop]]. [[Mona Sax]] is revealed to be alive after being wounded two years prior in [[Aesir Headquarters]].
**Italian mobsters lead by [[Vincent Gognitti]] continue to battle Lem's [[Russian Mob]]. Gognitti loses and is killed.
 
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**[[Valerie Winterson]] is assigned to the investigation of [[Sebastian Gate|Senator Gate's]] murder. Max Payne is assigned to the [[Cleaner Case|Cleaner case]].
**Max Payne and Mona Sax repel the Cleaner attacks, take on the offensive and crush the organization. Vladimir Lem and his remnants are cornered and killed, but Sax loses her life in the final assault.
 
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**Sometime before Payne meets up with Vlad at his restaurant, Mona Sax shoots Lem in the arm.
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**Later that night, a massive shootout occurs at [[Vodka]] restaurant between Max Payne, Lem and his Russian mob, who run the establishment, and Vinnie Gognitti with a large group of his men. The gunfight results in a stalemate and Gognitti gets away.
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**Max Payne is attacked in [[Max Payne's apartment complex|his apartment complex]] by dozens of Cleaners, but nearly of them all killed by Payne and a few of his neighbors.
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**Later, [[Upper East Side apartments|an apartment building on the Upper East side]] is the setting of another gunfight between Payne and the Cleaners, with Mona Sax joining in as well. The Cleaners are caught in the middle of cleaning up after assassinating several members of the Inner Circle. Numerous Cleaners as well as their leader, [[Kaufman]], are killed by Max and Mona during their investigation of the building. Winterson shows up, arrests Sax, then Payne and her take Sax back to the precinct they work at.
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**The precinct Mona is brought to comes under attack by the Cleaners soon after she is brought there to be held. Mona escapes the Cleaners, who have come to kill her, but the explosives used to break into the precinct kills several of the officers at the station. More officers are killed by the Cleaners as they look for Mona, but Max and a few of his fellow officers take them out.
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**Mona Sax's hideout, the [[Address Unknown Funhouse]], is invaded by a large group of Cleaners who attempt to kill both her and Payne, who met her at the funhouse. Between the two of them, they are able to overcome the assassins before the rest retreat in Squeaky Cleaning Company vans, but not before Payne jumps into one of them before they speed off.
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**Payne infiltrates the [[Castling construction site]], which a base for the Cleaners. A condemned building on the site is destroyed during Payne and the Cleaners' destructive gun battle, and Mona eventually shows up to assist Max on getting out alive.
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**Sax and Payne are stopped before they are able to escape the construction site by Valerie Winterson, who was sent there to kill both of them by Vladimir Lem. Payne shoots and kills Winterson, but not before being shot himself.
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**Payne and Winterson are taken to the New York Memorial Hospital, where Max is operated on and Winterson's body is sent to the morgue. The hospital is later attacked by Cleaner commandos, who are sent to kill Payne. Numerous guards, hospital staff and Cleaners are killed during the seige on the hospital. [[Jim Bravura]] is wounded while questioning Payne in the lobby of the hospital, and is sent into surgery almost immediately afterwards.
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**Another shootout occurs in [[Vodka]], this time with Payne working against and shooting the Russian mobsters. Payne, looking for Lem, instead discovers plans to kill Vincent Gognitti.
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**Payne finds and saves Gognitti from a Russian mob attack against Gognitti and his men, however he discovers Gognitti is trapped in a [[Captain BaseBallBat-Boy]] outfit.
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**Max takes Gognitti to Mona Sax's funhouse, hoping to get her to help him remove Gognitti's costume, but they instead find Lem, who kills Gognitti by blowing up remotely detonating a bomb within his costume.
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**Sax, witnessing the death of Gognitti's and the subsequent destruction, rushes into the burning funhouse to rescue Payne, who is unconscious from a bullet wound to the head and smoke inhalation.
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**Mona is able to save Payne and together they head to [[Woden's Manor]], assuming Lem is headed there as well. a massive gun battle breaks out between Lem, his Cleaner commandos, Woden's bodyguards, Mona, and Max.
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**Alfred Woden is killed by Vladimir Lem, ending the war between their factions. Mona is shot and later dies from her injuries in Payne's arms. Vladimir Lem is killed by Max Payne after the structure Lem is shooting from collapses, sending it and the Russian Mob leader crashing down into the manor below.
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**NYPD officers swarm the manor, rescuing Max from the building as the only apparent survivor of the deadly conflict.
   
==2004==
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===2004===
 
*'''September''': Álvaro Neves is accused of orchestrating the executions of two left-wing politicians.
 
*'''September''': Álvaro Neves is accused of orchestrating the executions of two left-wing politicians.
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*Fabiana moves to [[São Paulo]] after living in São Carlos for 9 years.
   
==2005==
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===2005===
 
*Álvaro Neves quits the [[Unidade de Forças Especiais]].
 
*Álvaro Neves quits the [[Unidade de Forças Especiais]].
   
==2006==
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===2006===
*"[[Serrano]]" becomes the leader of the [[Comando Sombra]].
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*"Serrano" becomes the leader of the [[Comando Sombra]].
 
*The [[Crachá Preto]] is founded by [[Álvaro Neves]] and some other officers.
 
*The [[Crachá Preto]] is founded by [[Álvaro Neves]] and some other officers.
   
==2007==
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===2007===
 
*[[Milo Rego]] joins the [[Crachá Preto]].
 
*[[Milo Rego]] joins the [[Crachá Preto]].
* Max Payne becomes a regular customer at [[Walton's Bar|Walton's bar]].<ref name="comic1" />
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* Max Payne becomes a regular customer at [[Walton's Bar]].
   
==2011-2012==
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===2009===
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*'''March''': Fabiana and Rodrigo Branco marry in [[wikipedia:Ilhabela|Ilhabela]], after meeting the previous year at a charity dinner.
*[[Jim Bravura]] dies because of heart failure.
 
   
==2012==
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==2010s==
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===2010===
*Max Payne is hunted by [[Anthony DeMarco]], after killing [[Tony DeMarco]], Anthony's only son.
 
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*'''November''': Fabiana Branco is kidnapped by gang members, but is safely freed after an [[Unidade de Forças Especiais|UFE]] rescue operation.
*Max Payne leaves [[Hoboken]], [[New Jersey]] for [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]] and works as a bodyguard for the [[Branco family]].
 
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*The [[Commando Sombra]] attempts to kidnap [[Fabiana Branco]] and [[Rodrigo Branco]] but is stopped by [[Max Payne]]
 
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===2011-2012===
 
*[[Jim Bravura]] dies of heart failure.
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===2012===
 
*Max Payne is [[Anybody Can Buy Me A Drink|hunted]] by [[Anthony DeMarco]], after killing [[Tony DeMarco]], Anthony's only son.
 
*Max Payne leaves [[Hoboken]], [[New Jersey]] for [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]] and works as a bodyguard for the [[Branco Family]].
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* [[Daphne Bernstein]] is [[Sun Tan Oil, Stale Margaritas and Greed|killed]].
 
*The [[Comando Sombra]] [[Something Rotten in the Air|attempts]] to kidnap [[Fabiana Branco]] and [[Rodrigo Branco]] but is stopped by [[Max Payne]]
 
*[[Fabiana Branco]] is kidnapped by the [[Comando Sombra]] in [[Club Moderno]].
 
*[[Fabiana Branco]] is kidnapped by the [[Comando Sombra]] in [[Club Moderno]].
 
*The [[IT Guy]] is killed.
 
*The [[IT Guy]] is killed.
 
*[[Rodrigo Branco]] is killed.
 
*[[Rodrigo Branco]] is killed.
*[[Fabiana Branco]] is shot in the head by [[Serrano]].
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*[[Fabiana Branco]] is [[A Hangover Sent Direct from Mother Nature|shot]] in the head by [[Serrano]].
 
*[[Serrano]] is captured by [[UFE]] .
 
*[[Serrano]] is captured by [[UFE]] .
*[[Marcelo Branco]] is burned alive by the [[Crachá Preto]].
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*[[Marcelo Branco]] is [[Here I Was Again, Halfway Down the World|burned]] alive by the [[Crachá Preto]].
*[[Milo Rego]] is killed by [[Max Payne]]
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*[[Milo Rego]] is [[Here I Was Again, Halfway Down the World|killed]] by [[Max Payne]]
*[[Arthur Fischer]] is killed by [[Serrano]].
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*[[Arthur Fischer]] is [[The Great American Savior of the Poor|killed]] by [[Serrano]].
*[[Álvaro Neves]] is shot in the head by [[Raul Passos]]
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*[[Álvaro Neves]] is [[The Great American Savior of the Poor|shot]] in the head by [[Raul Passos]]
*[[Bachmeyer]] is killed by [[Max Payne]] in a gunfight.
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*[[Bachmeyer]] is [[A Fat Bald Dude with a Bad Temper|killed]] by [[Max Payne]] in a gunfight.
*[[Armando Becker]] is killed.
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*[[Armando Becker]] is [[One Card Left to Play|killed]].
 
*[[Victor Branco]] is hanged in his prison cell.
 
*[[Victor Branco]] is hanged in his prison cell.
 
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"Time moves forward, and nothing changes."
Max Payne

The following is the timeline of Max Payne's life and of those people connected to him. The timeline covers the characters and events as depicted in Max Payne, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Max Payne 3, and the Max Payne 3 comics.

1900s

1903

  • The Galatians FC soccer team of São Paulo, Brazil, is founded.

1940s

1941

1944

1960s

1960-1961

1964-1965

1968-1969

1970s

1972-1973

1976

1979

1980s

1983-1985

1986

1990s

1991

  • The United States Government secretly commences Project Valhalla, with the objective to create a chemical compound that enhances the stamina and morale of U.S. Infantry troops.

1995

  • Project Valhalla is cancelled after the results of the project are considered "unsatisfactory" by the government, but Nicole Horne continues the project in an unofficial capacity, manufacturing Valkyr as a recreational drug.
  • Fabiana and her family move to Brazil from Portugal.

1996

  • Max Payne saves a woman who works at the District Attorney's office named Michelle from two muggers in an alley. The two meet up for drinks the following week and begin dating soon afterward.

1997

  • Max and Michelle marry sometime between May and June after just six months of dating. The couple has their honeymoon in Montauk, and Michelle becomes pregnant with their daughter.

1998

  • February 4: Rose Payne is born.
  • Alfred Woden leaks the Project Valhalla files to the District Attorney's office.
  • August 22: The Payne family massacre at the Payne Residence, New Jersey. Nicole Horne learns about the Project Valhalla leak to the District Attorney's office that Michelle Payne is employed at. Michelle sees the documents but before she can investigate them any further, Horne sends three Valkyr test subjects to Michelle's home in order to prevent any further leak of the documents, under the guise of a "field test" on the subjects' behavior in an "urban environment" for Project Valhalla. The three test subjects are given guns, double their dosage of Valkyr, and then dropped off at the Payne residence to be let loose on the house and its inhabitants. The frenzied, manic test subjects murder Michelle and her baby, Rose, before Michelle's husband, NYPD detective Max Payne, can stop the intruders.

2000s

2001

  • Álvaro Neves becomes a captain in the Unidade de Forças Especiais.
  • The Punchinello Crime Family enters a war with the Russian Mob.
  • After receiving information from an informant that underboss Jack Lupino is trafficking Valkyr, Max Payne goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of the Punchinello crime family.
  • February 2001: The main events of the Valkyr Case occur over the course of three nights during a winter storm in New York City.
    • Max Payne stumbles upon a bank heist at the Roscoe Bank while attempting to meet up with his partner, Alex Balder, in the Roscoe Street Station. Payne foils the heist by killing the robbers, but after meeting up with his partner, Balder is shot by an unseen assassin. Max is framed for the murder, and despite being pursued by the New York City Police Department, he decides to go on a "nothing-to-lose" vendetta against the people who are responsible for Valkyr and the murder of his partner.
    • Max Payne kills numerous Punchinello gangsters in Lupino's Hotel while looking for Jack Lupino, his prime suspect as Valkyr's main distributor. Notable Punchinello Crime Family members killed includes Joey Finito, Virgilio Finito, and Rico Muerte. The police later arrive, tape off the hotel, and take the bodies away.
    • Alfred Woden begins calling Payne in order to warn and guide him through his violent, vengeful quest for the truth.
    • Vinnie Gognitti is chased and shot by Payne, who is able to get Gognitti to confess Lupino's whereabout.
    • Ragna Rock, a nightclub owned by Jack Lupino, is stormed by Max Payne, who shoots dozens of Lupino's men occupying the club.
    • Jack Lupino, in a manic, psychotic state due to heavy Valkyr usage, is killed in a shootout with Payne in Ragna Rock.
    • Payne meets Mona Sax in the bar area of Ragna Rock, but their meeting ends with him being drugged and losing consciousness.
    • The police arrive at Lupino's Hotel, collect evidence and the bodies of the mobsters Payne had killed earlier, and eventually leave after taping off the building and station a few officers to guard the building. The remaining officers are killed by Frankie "The Bat" Niagara and his men.
    • Payne wakes up the night after the shootout at Ragna Rock to being assaulted by Frankie Niagara with his baseball bat in the basement of Lupino's Hotel.
    • Frankie Niagara is killed by Max Payne after the fugitive DEA agent escapes from confinement in Lupino's hotel basement.
    • Boris Dime and his men, who have defected from the Russian Mob, take over the Charon and the nearby Brooklyn dockyard in order to claim a large cache of weapons stored on the ship.
    • Dime and his men are killed by Max Payne after he is instructed by Vladimir Lem to reclaim the Charon and its contents for the Russians. Lem regains control over the ship.
    • Casa di Angelo is burned down as Payne escapes a trap and ambush set up by Angelo Punchinello.
    • Sometime before Max Payne arrives at Punchinello Manor, Lisa Punchinello is killed, presumably by her husband.
    • Punchinello Manor comes under attack by Max Payne, who is looking for Angelo Punchinello.
    • Notable members of the Punchinello crime family, including Vince Mugnaio, Pilate Providence, Joe Salem, and the Don himself, Angelo Punchinello, are killed during the shootout at Punchinello's manor. Angelo is executed by Nicole Horne's Killer Suits.
    • Payne is drugged by Horne and left to die from an overdose on Valkyr.
    • Max Payne survives the hallucinatory side effects and the withdrawal symptoms of Valkyr, waking up much later - presumably the next day - and traces Horne to Cold Steel.
    • Once those responsible for guarding the Cold Steel complex realize it has been compromised, "Operation: Dead Eyes" is put into effect. The complex is destroyed, but not before Payne finds the files on Project Valhalla and realizes Horne is responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter.
    • B.B. and Max Payne meet on the roof of the Choir Communications Garage, where B.B. reveals himself as corrupt and responsible for Alex Balder's murder and Max being framed.
    • B.B. and his men are killed by Payne as B.B. tries to escape the parking garage.
    • The fugitive DEA agent meets Alfred Woden and several other members of the Inner Circle at the Asgard Building, who reveal this intention to assist Payne in taking down Nicole Horne. The building is invaded by numerous Killer Suits, who kill most of the Inner Circle members present at the meeting. Payne and Woden make it out alive.
    • Max storms the Aesir Headquarters building, killing dozens of Aesir security guards and Killer Suits. Mona Sax and Payne meet in the building, but she is shot and presumed dead.
    • Max Payne chases Nicole Horne to the roof of the building, where she tries to escape in her helicopter. Payne shoots the guy-wires holding the skyscraper's radio mast in place, which causes it to collapse on top of the fleeing helicopter, sending the tower, the helicopter containing Horne and her pilot, and the heliport structure crashing to the streets below.
    • Max is arrested by the NYPD while Woden looks on.

2003

  • All charges against Max Payne for his actions in 2001 have been dropped, due to Alfred Woden's influence, and Payne returns to the NYPD as a Homicide detective.
  • The Punchinello Crime Family, led by Vincent Gognitti, continue to battle Lem's Russian Mob.
  • The Cleaner Case: Over the course of a few rainy nights, New York City is turned into a bloody battleground as Vladimir Lem launches an aggressive, large-scale operation aimed to quickly eliminate his enemies and consolidate the power of the city's criminal underworld under his control.
    • Mysterious assassins posing as cleaners working for the Squeaky Cleaning Company are tasked with covertly eliminating influential underworld figures.
    • The Inner Circle splits and falls into infighting. Alfred Woden and Vladimir Lem are the heads of the two warring factions.
    • Max Payne responds to a shots-fired call at a warehouse owned by Vladimir Lem. Taking down several suspects dressed as Cleaners, the rest of the shooters escape when Payne's police back-up arrives. Annie Finn, an arms dealer that works for Lem, is killed execution-style in her gun workshop. Mona Sax is revealed to be alive after being wounded two years prior in Aesir Headquarters.
    • Valerie Winterson is assigned to the investigation of Senator Gate's murder. Max Payne is assigned to the Cleaner case.
    • Sometime before Payne meets up with Vlad at his restaurant, Mona Sax shoots Lem in the arm.
    • Later that night, a massive shootout occurs at Vodka restaurant between Max Payne, Lem and his Russian mob, who run the establishment, and Vinnie Gognitti with a large group of his men. The gunfight results in a stalemate and Gognitti gets away.
    • Max Payne is attacked in his apartment complex by dozens of Cleaners, but nearly of them all killed by Payne and a few of his neighbors.
    • Later, an apartment building on the Upper East side is the setting of another gunfight between Payne and the Cleaners, with Mona Sax joining in as well. The Cleaners are caught in the middle of cleaning up after assassinating several members of the Inner Circle. Numerous Cleaners as well as their leader, Kaufman, are killed by Max and Mona during their investigation of the building. Winterson shows up, arrests Sax, then Payne and her take Sax back to the precinct they work at.
    • The precinct Mona is brought to comes under attack by the Cleaners soon after she is brought there to be held. Mona escapes the Cleaners, who have come to kill her, but the explosives used to break into the precinct kills several of the officers at the station. More officers are killed by the Cleaners as they look for Mona, but Max and a few of his fellow officers take them out.
    • Mona Sax's hideout, the Address Unknown Funhouse, is invaded by a large group of Cleaners who attempt to kill both her and Payne, who met her at the funhouse. Between the two of them, they are able to overcome the assassins before the rest retreat in Squeaky Cleaning Company vans, but not before Payne jumps into one of them before they speed off.
    • Payne infiltrates the Castling construction site, which a base for the Cleaners. A condemned building on the site is destroyed during Payne and the Cleaners' destructive gun battle, and Mona eventually shows up to assist Max on getting out alive.
    • Sax and Payne are stopped before they are able to escape the construction site by Valerie Winterson, who was sent there to kill both of them by Vladimir Lem. Payne shoots and kills Winterson, but not before being shot himself.
    • Payne and Winterson are taken to the New York Memorial Hospital, where Max is operated on and Winterson's body is sent to the morgue. The hospital is later attacked by Cleaner commandos, who are sent to kill Payne. Numerous guards, hospital staff and Cleaners are killed during the seige on the hospital. Jim Bravura is wounded while questioning Payne in the lobby of the hospital, and is sent into surgery almost immediately afterwards.
    • Another shootout occurs in Vodka, this time with Payne working against and shooting the Russian mobsters. Payne, looking for Lem, instead discovers plans to kill Vincent Gognitti.
    • Payne finds and saves Gognitti from a Russian mob attack against Gognitti and his men, however he discovers Gognitti is trapped in a Captain BaseBallBat-Boy outfit.
    • Max takes Gognitti to Mona Sax's funhouse, hoping to get her to help him remove Gognitti's costume, but they instead find Lem, who kills Gognitti by blowing up remotely detonating a bomb within his costume.
    • Sax, witnessing the death of Gognitti's and the subsequent destruction, rushes into the burning funhouse to rescue Payne, who is unconscious from a bullet wound to the head and smoke inhalation.
    • Mona is able to save Payne and together they head to Woden's Manor, assuming Lem is headed there as well. a massive gun battle breaks out between Lem, his Cleaner commandos, Woden's bodyguards, Mona, and Max.
    • Alfred Woden is killed by Vladimir Lem, ending the war between their factions. Mona is shot and later dies from her injuries in Payne's arms. Vladimir Lem is killed by Max Payne after the structure Lem is shooting from collapses, sending it and the Russian Mob leader crashing down into the manor below.
    • NYPD officers swarm the manor, rescuing Max from the building as the only apparent survivor of the deadly conflict.

2004

  • September: Álvaro Neves is accused of orchestrating the executions of two left-wing politicians.
  • Fabiana moves to São Paulo after living in São Carlos for 9 years.

2005

2006

2007

2009

  • March: Fabiana and Rodrigo Branco marry in Ilhabela, after meeting the previous year at a charity dinner.

2010s

2010

  • November: Fabiana Branco is kidnapped by gang members, but is safely freed after an UFE rescue operation.

2011-2012

2012