Max Payne is your stereotypical character who loses everything he has, then vows to get revenge on the culprits. Seems simple enough, but if Max Payne were that baseless, he wouldn't have nearly the popularity that he has. "Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets back. I was already so far past the point-of-no-return I couldn't remember what it had looked like when I had passed it." - Max Payne