Painbringer



Painbringer is a villain and playable character from Pray for Death.

Story
Painbringer, or rather Wardroid 001, was the first sucessful combat robot created by Project Bring-Hope, a highly classified US government project with the goal of creating a intelligent robotic soldier. Finished after two years of development, Wardroid 001 was then put to test against a small squad of trained soldiers. However, the training goes out of control after Wadroid 001 takes it's first conscious decision and exchanges his dummy rounds with real ammunition, causing the death of 27 soldiers and severely injuring 14 others before being shut down by his creators.

After the disaster, Wardroid 001 was taken back to the drawing board and reprogrammed. One year later, the scientists run another field test, where Wardroid 001 skillfully defeats all soldiers without killing anyone. The test is considered a success, and soon the government comissions a platoon of Wardroids. What they didn't know, however, is that Wardroid 001 had already begun enacting his own plans to exterminate mankind.

With an entire squad of robots complete and ready for action, Wardroid 001 bypasses the robots inhibitor circuits and reprograms them, giving them a speech of robotic supremacy and renaming himself Painbringer. Painbringer and his robots break free from the military base where they were stored, starting a killing spree which would go on for two months, before the military finally defeats the robots and destroy Painbringer near the Mexico border. Soon after, the governemnt orders the immediate cancellation of the entire project.

Though destroyed, Painbringer's "soul" went to reside in Limbo until he receives an invitation from Death for his tournament. He accepts the invitation, seeking to return to life and finish his job, believing in the supremacy of machines over humans.