How Did Richter Kill Beard?

[Tuffcooke]

I mean, we learned in issue 5 that Beard is part of an elite military unit that can kill over 350 people in minutes. I get that Richter is good at what 50 Blessings has him do, but it seems like he took out Beard really quickly.

[Pysiaczek]

Beard is healthy brain, Richter is psychopaa... Sociopath.

[raziz5]

i cant recall it that good but i think it was just jacket's mind fooling him after he shot himself, so its just in jacket mind and not in real life

[Pysiaczek]

YOu know, Metaphore

[Jess]

Jacket is indirectly involved with Beard's death and is deeply traumatised by the events. The last words uttered by Beard as he dies within Jacket's arms were "I get it now, none of this is really happening. None of this is real? I knew it." He is exiled by what is left of his squad. Discharged from the military, Jacket is still affected and confused by Beard's death; his best friend. He pays visits to stores Beard would have wished to open imagining that Beard never died and had fore filled his wish. Jacket developes a deep hatred for Russians and joins up with 50 Blessings after reintegrating with civilian life; desperately avoiding the confronting reality. Eventually Jacket's mind breaks down, ultimately resulting in the death of over 50 police officers and becoming the most infamous spree killer in Miami history.

[Double_A]

Originally posted by THE NEGUS OF ETHIOPIA:

Jacket is indirectly involved with Beard's death and is deeply traumatised by the events. The last words uttered by Beard as he dies within Jacket's arms were "I get it now, none of this is really happening. None of this is real? I knew it." He is exiled by what is left of his squad. Discharged from the military, Jacket is still affected and confused by Beard's death; his best friend. He pays visits to stores Beard would have wished to open imagining that Beard never died and had fore filled his wish. Jacket developes a deep hatred for Russians and joins up with 50 Blessings after reintegrating with civilian life; desperately avoiding the confronting reality. Eventually Jacket's mind breaks down, ultimately resulting in the death of over 50 police officers and becoming the most infamous spree killer in Miami history.

Wait so you're saying that all of Beards apperances in Hotline Maimi are just Jacket's imagination? So when does he die in Jacket's arms? I don't remember that.

[Antares]

Originally posted by THE NEGUS OF ETHIOPIA:

Jacket is indirectly involved with Beard's death and is deeply traumatised by the events. The last words uttered by Beard as he dies within Jacket's arms were "I get it now, none of this is really happening. None of this is real? I knew it." He is exiled by what is left of his squad. Discharged from the military, Jacket is still affected and confused by Beard's death; his best friend. He pays visits to stores Beard would have wished to open imagining that Beard never died and had fore filled his wish. Jacket developes a deep hatred for Russians and joins up with 50 Blessings after reintegrating with civilian life; desperately avoiding the confronting reality. Eventually Jacket's mind breaks down, ultimately resulting in the death of over 50 police officers and becoming the most infamous spree killer in Miami history.

How do you know all of that?

[IIIIIIIIIIIIIII_IIIIIIIIIIIIIII]

This story is sooooo complicated for an indie game.

[Von_Kalev]

Originally posted by Badman_bacon777:

Originally posted by THE NEGUS OF ETHIOPIA:

Jacket is indirectly involved with Beard's death and is deeply traumatised by the events. The last words uttered by Beard as he dies within Jacket's arms were "I get it now, none of this is really happening. None of this is real? I knew it." He is exiled by what is left of his squad. Discharged from the military, Jacket is still affected and confused by Beard's death; his best friend. He pays visits to stores Beard would have wished to open imagining that Beard never died and had fore filled his wish. Jacket developes a deep hatred for Russians and joins up with 50 Blessings after reintegrating with civilian life; desperately avoiding the confronting reality. Eventually Jacket's mind breaks down, ultimately resulting in the death of over 50 police officers and becoming the most infamous spree killer in Miami history.

Wait so you're saying that all of Beards apperances in Hotline Maimi are just Jacket's imagination? So when does he die in Jacket's arms? I don't remember that.

He's clearly saying that Beard died during the war.

Anyway, I like his theory.

[Gorilla_Dust]

Alright, so the Ghost Wolves are Dreads, Scar, Beard and (probable) Jacket. Scar is confirmed in the first issue of the comic, Dreads is AWOL, and Jacket is in Jail. I'm still not certain that Beard is dead, fan concensus is that Richter is beard, but I dunno.

All of the art I've seen of Beard shows him with a broken set of glasses, some of the art looks a lot like a bullet hole.

http://store.iam8bit.com/collections/hotline-miami/products/hotline-miami-2-shirt

Just spit-balling

[Poke-Oh! TCG]

Originally posted by THE NEGUS OF ETHIOPIA:

Jacket is indirectly involved with Beard's death and is deeply traumatised by the events. The last words uttered by Beard as he dies within Jacket's arms were "I get it now, none of this is really happening. None of this is real? I knew it." He is exiled by what is left of his squad. Discharged from the military, Jacket is still affected and confused by Beard's death; his best friend. He pays visits to stores Beard would have wished to open imagining that Beard never died and had fore filled his wish. Jacket developes a deep hatred for Russians and joins up with 50 Blessings after reintegrating with civilian life; desperately avoiding the confronting reality. Eventually Jacket's mind breaks down, ultimately resulting in the death of over 50 police officers and becoming the most infamous spree killer in Miami history.

OMG Thank You! I feel like this completed the story well enough for me to fully understand it.
I am now ready for HM2.

[KronQ]

Originally posted by Gorilla_Dust:

I'm still not certain that Beard is dead, fan concensus is that Richter is beard, but I dunno.

All of the art I've seen of Beard shows him with a broken set of glasses, some of the art looks a lot like a bullet hole.

http://store.iam8bit.com/collections/hotline-miami/products/hotline-miami-2-shirt

Just spit-balling

The Richter = Beard is probably the product of people taking too directly the motif of Richter replacing Beard in Jacket's visions, so I wouldn't bet on it. IMO it's Jacket's mind going more and more unstable as he is about to wake up from the coma, replacing the positive - his best buddy, Beard, with negative - the dude that put him into hospital.
Beard probably dies during the war or soon after its end. Broken glasses might suggest the former.

[Sfro]

Why in the first would Richter have killed beard ? There doesn't seem to be evidence for it, beacause the little we know might actually mean that he got killed in another way (e.g. at war)

[DirtyBlue929]

Ignoring all the wild baseless sepculation in the comments and focusing on just the initial question - all the military training in the world can't save you from a bullet you don't see coming.

[Frostea]

Richter "killed" him while jacket was having heavy hallucinations, so you can't really actually believe that he's dead.

[ToastyToast]

Yo what if the fat dude in the wolves is the guy with the bear mask in issue 4. dont they both have scars over thier eye?