She was a very sarcastic person, cynically laughing at her husband's name, which is a pun on the word 'Max(imum) Pain'.įollowing her marriage to Max, she became a more serious and responsible person, devoted to her role in the family as a mother, and deeply cared about her husband and daughter. She was also more careless and relaxed, freely talks about various subjects. She was dead, but it was all right.'ĭuring her years prior to marrying Max, Michelle was a rather talkative and witty woman, and seems to enjoy teasing her future husband in various ways. Max seems to finally make peace with her passing, as he mutters: 'I had a dream of my wife.

Michelle is later mentioned after Max has killed Vladimir Lem and witnessed Sax's death. In one nightmare, the NYPD detective forsakes Michelle in a bid to win Mona Sax. Michelle Payne appears in Max's nightmares during his 2003 Cleaner Case. When Max finds her diary in one nightmare he has, he reads aloud that Michelle had merely stumbled across the Project Valhalla documents and wasn't fully aware of the matter. Payne hears Michelle's voice many times during his haunting nightmares. In 2012, Max comes to the cemetery to pay respects to his deceased family one last time, before leaving New Jersey for São Paulo, following a job offer from an old friend.Ī few hours before the events leading to his escape from New Jersey, Max sat at Walton's Bar in Hoboken, and looked back at much of his life prior to Michelle's death, including their first meeting, marriage, and daughter's birth. Michelle and Rose were buried in the Golgotha Cemetery, in a single grave. Eventually, after three long years, Max, with the help of Woden, discovered Nicole Horne's part in Michelle's death, and killed her in a final showdown at the Aesir HQ. During his search for Michelle's murderer, Max was framed in murder of his partner Alex Balder (who was actually killed by B.B.).

After three years of investigation, he starts to work undercover in the Punchinello Crime Family. He joins the Drug Enforcement Administration to build the Valkyr trafficking case. Michelle Payne and her daughter's deaths are what sets Max Payne to begin his journey to get revenge on those who are responsible. By now, she had been dead longer than I knew her.' ―Max Payne near Michelle's grave, 2012.

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