Bruce

""I'm gonna enjoy putting you down.""

- ~ Bruce (film)

Bruce Macchabbe is the main antagonist of Mutafukaz. He's the leader of the MIB and works alongside the Machos to capture Angelino and Vinz. Throughout the story, he's shown to be ruthless, precise and strongly devoted to his mission.

Appearance
Bruce is a tall, muscular man with short black hair and brown skin. While most often obscured by shadows, his eyes are shown to be pitch black with small, white pupils. The phrase "Bulletproof Tattoo" and a pentagram are tattooed on his chest and abdomen respectively.

He wears a light beige two-piece suit with a matching tie and white dress shirt underneath. In a flashback, it's shown that this outfit used to also incorporate a fedora.

In the film adaptation, this design is changed slightly. Bruce's chin is significantly larger. His eyes have red pupils instead of white, and are no longer hidden in the shadows of his eye sockets. The mystical tattoos on his torso are absent; instead, he wears a bulletproof vest under his shirt.

Personality
Bruce is aggressive and dominating, often chastising his men harshly for their incompetence. His anger extends to his enemies, whom he insults and talks down to with open contempt. This attitude likely stems from his deep hatred for humanity; he sees it as a race of degenerates that deserve to be enslaved by the Machos.

His past has also instilled in him a fixation with “finishing the job”. Bruce never lets go of his targets and goes to great lengths to personally tie up loose ends. He is abnormally determined, able to ignore pain and injuries while pursuing the heroes.

There is some semblance of humanity still in him; he remarks that he prefers his kills to be “quick and clean” and dislikes inflicting “unnecessary psychological torture”.

His weapon of choice is a golden revolver.

History
The following section contains heavy spoilers for the entirety of Mutafukaz:

Prior to event of Mutafukaz
20 years before the main events of the comic, Bruce has something resembling an ordinary life in New Jersey. He takes part in organized crime, but outside his work, he lives normally with his love, Mei, and their newborn child.

All this changes one night, when Bruce is on a job in Blackwood Cemetery. He is to execute three men who have taken money from their organization. After killing the first two, he can't shoot the last man because of a stovepipe jam in his pistol. The remarkably low chance of this happening convinces him that this is a sign from the universe, telling him that the man should be spared.

That same man later finds Bruce's house and, in revenge, murders both Mei and the child. Furious, Bruce tortures him to death. From that day onwards, he is determined to never leave a job unfinished.

During the main events of Mutafukaz, Bruce is working for the Machos. The first task we see him perform in this role is hunting down Angelino's parents. Along with his henchmen, he manages to gravely injure the Macho traitor, Taz and capture Angela. When the latter refuses to reveal where she has hidden Angelino, he shoots her in the head. Bruce and his men are unable to find the child, which laid hidden in a nearby dumpster before being taken to safety by the dying Taz.

Vol. 1 - Dark Meat City
As the story begins, Bruce is notified of Angelino resurfacing when an undercover Macho spy posing as a doctor identifies his powers. A group of three MIB agents, led by Randy Crocodile, are sent to follow the two protagonists, but are spotted and taken out. In response, Section Z-7 is deployed to capture Angelino and Vinz in their apartment.

Bruce bears witness to the aftermath of Operation Blackhead. He is furious and admonishes the incompetence of the Z-7. Afterwards, Mr. K summons him to his office and lectures him on the importance of capturing Angelino quickly.

Later, Bruce shows up to the scene of Jesse Christ's murder. The wrestler had managed to capture a live Macho, traces of which were found in the trunk of his car. Strangulation marks found on Jesse's body, however, did not resemble those of a Macho, suggesting that someone else was the perpetrator. Bruce is fed up with the investigation; he orders the clean up team to make the murder look like a suicide or accident, and to release El Diablo, who had been arrested on the scene of the crime.

When Angelino and Vinz are spotted by a crow-camera in Palm Hill, Bruce decides to settle the matter personally, backed up by an entourage of MIB agents. On arrival, however, the Bloods (a dominant gang in the area) become hostile and open fire, leading to a large scale shootout. Angelino and Vinz slip away, leaving the MIB to deal with the ensuing chaos. Bruce quickly takes out the gang's leader, Popeye, and follows his targets on a high speed chase across the highway.

Vol. 2 - Troublants Trous noirs
When the car at the head of the chase is hit with a grenade, Bruce's car gets totalled in a pile up. He quickly carjacks a nearby pedestrian's vehicle and continues the chase. On a busy intersection, Randy Crocodile's car and a local police car cause another pile up, blocking Bruce from moving further. He chastises the MIB, but is cut-off by the police, who hold him at gunpoint. They calm down when Bruce shows them his paperwork, proving that his actions are sanctioned by the president.

The MIB manage to track down Angelino and Vinz yet again by allying with DMC's Chinese mafia, who know that the pair is in Little Tokyo, taken under the wing of Mr. Tanaka's clan. In the battle that breaks out between the two groups, Bruce manages to get a clear shot on Angelino, and decides it'd be better to kill him than take him alive. He runs out of ammo, however, and is forced to fight at close range. Before he can take out his target, he's hit by a member of Mr. Tanaka's clan and knocked out of the building.

Bruce meets the two protagonists again in Shady's Diner, when, lured in by Luna and ambushed by the MIB, they can finally be captured.

Vol. 3 - Révélations
Having completed his mission, Bruce remains uninvolved in Angelino's imprisonment and indoctrination. He is later called and informed of the boy's successful escape from Golgotha. With great anger, Bruce is forced to recommence his pursuit.

Vol. 4 onwards (needs updating)
Following Agent Crocodile's attempt to kill Angelino and mistakenly initiating another shootout with the gangs, Bruce and his men arrive before a rocket detonates and summons a snowstorm that freezes all of the Machos. After Angelino is saved from freezing to death by Luna's kiss, Bruce shows up. He kills the remaining gangsters and throws Luna to the ground, taunting her of being more human than a Macho. Angelino attacks him when he prepares to kill her, but refuses to use his Macho powers for he fears hurting Vinz again. Without using his Macho powers, Angelino is easily overwhelmed by Bruce, mocking him for being a coward. Before he is able to kill him, Bruce is suddenly ambushed by gangster reinforcements. Popeye shoots Bruce's eye in vengeance of his lost eye before he and his squad open fire on Bruce, finally killing him.

Trivia

 * The word "macchabée" in French is synonymous with "cadaver".