User blog:Doodpeal/PE Proposal: Manny Pardo

Manny Pardo is one of the protagonists in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. He is a corrupt detective working for the Miami Police department, specifically investigating a serial killer dubbed the "Miami Mutilator".

Crimes: Manny Pardo's first major crime depicted was mass murder in a store being robbed, and cartel boat respectively. Pardo also planted a man's wallet into a woman's home as a mean of evidence planting. One can go to Pardo's car trunk and find the man whose wallet he stole. After a massacre, a perpetrator surrendered and asked to be arrested. Pardo, deducing the perpetrator wanted fame, shot him in cold blood without arrest. In a major plot twist at the end of the story, Manny Pardo himself is revealed to be the Miami Mutilator. In the Miami Mutilator crime scenes, victims were gradually mutilated more brutally. First victim has a slit throat, second victim was kidnapped, gagged and cuffed, to be strangled to death and have their intestines mutilated post-mortem. This victim was the one with a missing wallet as previously stated.Third victim was shot and mutilated beyond forensic recognition. Their limbs were removed, and their skin was bloodied to the point where only underlying muscle was visible. Due to the "Caught" level being merely a dream sequence, the crimes he committed in his dreams cannot define for a possible Pure Evil submission. However, this level reveals he is the Miami Mutilator. Specific crimes summarized: Mass murder, incrimination, kidnapping, corpse desecration, serial murder.

Personality: Pardo is an example of Faux Affably Evil. When one is disturbed by his awkward and suspicious demeanor, he attempts to calm them down by merely "flirting" with them or feigning friendship. Specifically, when he was about to commit a killing spree, when he planted evidence and walked in unannounced, and was questioned by his friend as to why "he became such a douchebag." Manny Pardo is extremely obsessive of fame. He committed the Miami Mutilator crimes out of envy of other criminals receiving significant amounts of media attention. His previous murder of Tony was also out of envy. This is also further backed by his hallucination of a film crew when he is present at a crime scene (that he committed). Manny Pardo tells himself that he doesn't control his actions, but the nature of crimes shown on screen tell otherwise. Manny Pardo has no motives that one could sympathize with. For example, Richter was forced to commit horrible acts, and even showed remorse. Beard was in the military and in no way wanted to kill people. Richard, the internal voice who reprimands all the characters for his murders, at times can feel bad for them, but cannot excuse their crimes. When he talked to Manny Pardo in the surreal "Table Sequence", he himself could not understand the motives behind his heinous crimes. Personality summarized: Obsessive, envious, sadistic, hypocritical, and deceptive.

Manny Pardo has no categories present that would excuse him from Pure Evil, but other characters in the series do. Examples: Richter is protective, Jake is an extremist, the Henchman is remorseful.