Agent

1337 agent
The agent, as seen in DedmosRebuilt.fla and onward.
Debut:	Madness Combat 4: Apotheosis
Appearances:	25 (9 non-canon)
Last appearance:	Madness Combat 12: Contravention
Kills:	12 (3 non-canon)
Deaths:	847+ (199+ non-canon)
Allies:	A.A.H.W., Auditor, Sheriff
Enemies:	Hank, Sanford, Deimos, Jesus, 2BDamned

"Their discipline is unequaled."
- The-Swain: Team Madness Tumblr

The Agent, also known collectively as the 1337 Crew (also spelled "l337" or "l33t"), is the primary rank-and-file combatant of the A.A.H.W, and are characterized by their signature black suits alongside black (and sometimes red) shades, which is based off that of the Smith agents from the movie The Matrix, including suits, ties, and distinctive sunglasses. This was proven when Krinkels was asked where the idea of the agents came from, he replied: "Literally the matrix."

First appearing in Madness Apotheosis, They are higher-ranking soldiers trained to stop Hank. Being the most versatile unit at the A.A.H.W's disposal, Agents can fill a number of roles and are able to handle a variety of weapons. However, agents are often killed as easily as grunts, even mostly replacing them as the primary cannon fodder of the series after Madness Combat 4: Apotheosis.

Despite how easily they are killed, Agents are shown to still be more resilient than their predecessors. They are extremely brave and will almost never back down from combat regardless of the odds. The only time they have displayed cowardice was in Madness Combat 7: Consternation where an agent tries to escape a chainsaw-wielding Hank by climbing up a ladder but is killed before he can escape.

Appearances

Canon appearances

Madness Combat 4: Apotheosis

The 1337 agents made their debut with one agent appeared in Madness Apotheosis along with a recruitment poster in the background. The agent showed obvious improvement over grunts, being able to hold up Hank notably longer. He also appeared to command grunts, giving one a queue to approach Hank. However, the agent was still easily killed when he was impaled in the throat with a baton. The agent later returned as zombie, using a G36 to successfully shoot Hank. However, Hank survived and sliced the 1337 zombie agent's face in half with a dragon sword.

Madness Combat 5: Depredation

The 1337 agents with black shades, as seen in Madness Depredation

1337 agents also appear in Madness Depredation, but in greater numbers, replacing grunts as the main enemy type. They also appear to have a standard issued weapon as most of these agents were armed with black Desert Eagles although a few were armed with batons, Uzis and AUGs. Despite their numbers, they proved to be no match for Hank and were slaughtered just as easily as grunts. Eight 1337 agents are turned into zombies by Jesus but were killed fairly easily.

Madness Combat 5.5

The 1337 crew appeared all throughout Madness Combat 5.5, this time fighting Sanford and Deimos. They had the same black shades as they did in Madness Apotheosis and Madness Depredation.

Madness Combat 6: Antipathy

In Madness Antipathy, further details about the 1337 crew's purpose and recruiting process was given. The agents were revealed to be units within the A.A.H.W. (Agency Against Hank Wimbleton). Part of the episode took place in a recruitment center, where most enemies were either grunts being reassigned or agents themselves. One of the signs directing enlistment procedures referred to a "New Lord and Master," likely referring to the Auditor.

Madness Combat 6.5

Three agents shown receiving upgrades from the Auditor in Madness Combat 6.5

The agents appeared in this episode with A.T.P. engineers. It was revealed that the crew got their red-tinted shades through an upgrade from the Auditor, which also slightly enhanced their strength and agility. Despite the upgrade, Sanford and Deimos were still easily able to kill them.

Madness Combat 7: Consternation

An agent with solid red shades, as seen in Madness Combat 7 to Madness Combat 11.

In Madness Consternation, the agents wore solid-red shades instead of red-tinted ones. Also, two members, who were apparently rebellious or incompetent, were shown stabbed to walls with spikes in two parts of the episode. The crew seemed to be led by a mysterious shadowed figure, The Auditor, seen at the end of the episode. They appeared to have slightly enhanced abilities, as two of them managed to injure Hank with bullets. This episode also debuted the A.T.P. engineers, the superiors to 1337 agents.

Madness Combat 7.5

In Madness Combat 7.5, the agents already have solid-red shades. This episode also introduced the A.T.P. soldat, a second possible promotion from agents. A TV screen shows that qualities 1337 agents have over grunts include commitment, devotion, and sacrifice.

Madness Combat 8: Inundation

The l33t appeared again in Madness Inundation along with advanced engineers, who now appear more often. They wore the same red sunglasses as they did in Madness Consternation. Unlike previous episodes, their main enemy was not Hank, but Jesus instead, and they are still just as easily defeated.

Madness Combat 9: Aggregation

In Madness Aggregation, the l33t crew fought against Sanford and Deimos. In the start of the episode, they rode scooters while shooting at the protagonists. A few agents in the episode were playing cards until the Auditor interrupted and sent them away. Several corpses of agents were absorbed by the Auditor at the end of the episode.

Madness Combat 9.5

The agents, alongside engineers and soldats, are seen fighting against Hank in The Other Place. An agent can be seen writing "We are abandoned" on a wall before being killed by Hank.

Madness Combat 10: Abrogation

An enhanced agent

The crew returns to fight Hank and Sanford. They assisted the Auditor as he confronted the protagonists, though they were no match for the magnified Hank and the agile Sanford. One of them managed to stab Hank's head with a Bowie knife, but without much effect. In this episode, two agents were successfully resurrected by the Auditor's spell, giving them significantly enhanced fighting ability. In addition to the corpses of their deceased co-workers, several living agents were absorbed by the Auditor in order to heal his wounds and enhance his power.

The Auditor resurrected two l33t agents with his powers in an enhanced form (similar to the enhanced engineers in Madness Aggregation). These agents were able to take multiple hits to the body and head and had much faster reflexes than normal agents. For instance, the first resurrected agent managed to dodge Hank's sword swings and land a few punches on him. Like Jesus, they also had bloodshot eyes, which were partially hidden behind their shades that turned dark grey during the resurrection process. Sanford managed to interrupt a resurrection by destroying the body with a Mossberg 500 before the process was complete.

Madness Combat 11: Expurgation

The crew appear as some of the A.A.H.W. units summoned by Tricky in the hell dimension Hank and Sanford were sent to. All of them were killed by either Hank or Sanford.

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Agents are among Deimos' victims in the short. Notably, they have the black sunglasses of 1337 agents, rather than any iteration of the red glasses.

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The black sunglasses-wearing 1337 agents make another appearance in the short, one stabbed with their own MP7 by Deimos.

DedmosRebuilt.fla

After Deimos restored and enhanced his body, he fought and killed several 1337 agents with black sunglasses. Like most of Deimos's opponents in the episode, these agents were significantly larger than normal, although not quite to the level of a MAG Agent.

One agent had the misfortune of being impaled on a chain over a hole in the floor; as he struggled to free himself, Deimos walked on the chain, stole his shades, and then punched him along the chain and into the wall. Another agent had a baton jabbed into his throat, leaving him choking and bleeding from his neck as he staggered into the next room and died.

After "2BDamned" retrieved Deimos from Purgatory, three giant 1337 agents emerged from the cliff wall to attack them. These agents wore fully red shades and had small protrusions of bone or rock scattered around their faces.

DISSENTER

An agent with crimson-tinted shades, as seen in DISSENTER

Two agents with crimson-tinted shades appear in this short, both of them are on the unknown building's raid. Both agents got killed by an A.T.P. Soldat that fired a rocket at them.

Non-Canon appearances

Incident: 001A

Although a non-canon episode, Incident: 001A showed that the agents still retain their usual role of fighting Hank. They were first seen unloading boxes from a truck, with the last crate containing Hank, who leaped out in a surprise attack and killed them with dual Beretta 92s. Hank later advanced into the building, where he threw several agents into a giant blender.

Incident: 010A

Agents in Incident: 010A appeared to be guarding themselves in a building against a horde of zombies outside. Hank managed to break in and kill both the agents and the zombies.

Incident: 100A

Agents with paintball masks from Incident: 100A

The l33t crew appear in Incident: 100A as the main antagonists against Sanford and Deimos. At the beginning, one agent fired at a Deimos-like decoy before getting stabbed by the real one. One of them was beating up the person who Sanford eventually kidnaps. Additionally, there were four 1337 agents wearing paintball masks instead of shades. Deimos stunned them with a flashbang and kills them just as easily using an AR-15 with a grenade launcher attachment. According to Krinkels, these agents wore paintball masks because they somehow (incorrectly) thought that they would improve their odds.

Incident: 101A

Only three agents appeared in Incident: 101A, guarding a building while watching a delivery man pass by. This is the only animation where they neither fight nor get killed.

Incident: 110A

The agents in this animation retain their usual role as victims killed in large numbers by the protagonist, Jesus. At the end of the episode, Jesus was mowing down a horde of oncoming agents with a minigun in a comical display.

Incident: 111A

Three agents appear in Incident: 111A. However, they are simply targets of Jesus rather than antagonists in this animation.

Incident: 1000A

The agents are the antagonists in this animation, fighting against Hank and Jesus. Here, they have a new red tint in their glasses.

ROMP.FLA

The agents appeared in this animation as targets for Sanford and Deimos, where they were all killed with ease by the duo.

Krink Test

Two agents appeared in Krink Test - one was being toyed with by Hank, who evaded all of his attacks for about eight seconds before finally killing the agent. A second agent appeared later during the animation, but ended up as a cushion of sort, to absorb the power of a Half Mag Engineer trying to smash Hank against the floor. His remains were later used by Hank to damage the engineer's mask.

Game appearances

Madness Interactive

In Madness Interactive, the player has the option to dress in a business suit and/or Smith shades, similar to the ones of the 1337 crew. In the last several stages of the Story Mode, almost all enemies that appear wear business suits and sometimes Smith shades, likely representing agents. They also sometimes wear hair similar to that of Agent Smith from the Matrix, furthering the connection.

Madness: Project Nexus (Classic)

In Madness: Project Nexus (Classic), agents are a major Nexus unit type. Their skills are superior to those of grunts, but they're still quite easy to kill. In Arena Combat and Episode One of the Story Mode, the agents wear crimson shades. In the prequel, Episode 1.5, the agents wear black shades instead.

MADNESS: Project Nexus

Concept for the Agents in MADNESS: Project Nexus.

Agents are an enemy unit in MADNESS: Project Nexus. There are two types of agents, the ones that work for the A.A.H.W., who once again play their role as being slightly-harder-to-kill underlings, and the ones that are affiliated with the NEXUS Core, who are superior in comparison with the A.A.H.W. Agents. These NEXUS Agents are distinguished from their A.A.H.W. counterparts by their red sunglasses and darker suits, which have red stripes on the side and on the lapels, they also wear earpieces and a belt around their torso.

The A.A.H.W. agents as they appear in MADNESS: Project Nexus.

The Nexus Core Agent

Trivia

• The Agents of Madness Combat were inspired by Agent Smith from The Matrix.
• Old concept art shows that A.A.H.W. Agents were splinter faction from NEXUS forces, were well equipped and had private funding. In the final game, the A.A.H.W. does have access to some decent weaponry, as shown in The Escape, where they are seen with iron swords, CP5s and NS-19s, but can still be deployed with weak melee weapons, cheap revolvers and sometimes with no weapons at all.
• On the Kickstarter page and pre-alpha stages of the game, Agents wore solid red shades. They now wear black shades. It's unclear why this change was made, but possibly to make their NEXUS CORE counterparts more distinct.

Characters

Madness: Project Nexus (Classic)

MADNESS: Project Nexus