Wolf

Wolf
Wolf's clown mask
Real Name	Unknown
Age	32 (PAYDAY: The Heist) 34 (PAYDAY 2)
Nationality	Swedish
Role	Technician
Voiced By	Ulf Andersson

"FBI's most wanted? Check! Bullet wounds? Check! Rich as a motherfucker? Big fucking Check!"

—Wolf's victory cry upon finishing a job

Wolf is a playable character. Born in Vallentuna, Sweden. He was a law-abiding citizen for most of his thirty-two years in life. He has a wife and two children. As of Payday 2, he is 34 years old. He wears the white and red demon mask, and is voiced by Ulf Andersson.

According to Bain, he has just recently acquired and decrypted several classified FBI files regarding the background and criminal history of himself, Dallas, Chains and Hoxton. The files are being put together for an upcoming release.

Background

Prior to PAYDAY: The Heist

Wolf masked and unmasked

Wolf raised his family in Stockholm until the economic slump in the 2000's. Wolf's software development company lost many clients, continuing with only one client who had cold feet and withheld payments.

Wolf took personal loans to appease the client and keep the project afloat, but the client had already decided to pull out. His company became bankrupt and his family homeless.

PAYDAY: The Heist & PAYDAY 2

Two years later, Wolf went over the edge and started acting out crimes from the various action movies he watched and never looked back. According to Bain's bio of him in PAYDAY 2; Wolf is "one damaged individual who's seriously messed up in the head" and most likely a psychopath as he could be happy-go-lucky for one minute and frothing with anger in the next. He treats the heists like some sort of game for him to play, although he considers Wolf reliable for lacking both hesitation and regrets.

In a recently-released Hotline Miami DLC trailer, Wolf can be seen silently interrogating (presumably) a drug cartel member, battering the man to a bloody pulp, handcuffing a phone in his hands before leaving him to the mercy of an unknown Rooster Mask-clad person, resembling Jacket from Hotline Miami.

Web Series

Christian Hicks a.k.a. "New Wolf"

Ulf Andersson is a Swedish lead game designer at Overkill Software. He is known for co-founding GRIN, a Swedish game company with his brother Bo Andersson (CEO of Starbreeze studios). Andersson is also the co-founder of Overkill Software. In the PAYDAY: Web Series he is known for playing his character Wolf, he is the only character in the web series to be inspired, voiced, and acted by Andersson himself. There is little information about his life outside the PAYDAY Crew in the Web Series. Wolf is now acted by Christian Hicks. During the first two episodes Wolf was credited as himself.

Trivia

General

• Just as PAYDAY was influenced by the movie Heat, so is Wolf.
• He always wears a black suit during heists, regardless of armor. His tie is red in both PAYDAY games.
• He is voiced by and modeled after Ulf Andersson, the game designer of Overkill Software. "Ulf" is a common Swedish name, literally meaning "Wolf" in old Swedish.
  • Wolf's background was paraphrased from Ulf Andersson's own history. The company he founded with his brother is a homage to the Swedish software company GRIN founded by the Andersson brothers in 1997, which, after a client (Square Enix, project Fortress in 2008) decided to withdraw from an affiliated project without compensation, drove GRIN to bankruptcy. Overkill Software was founded on the remnants of GRIN by the very same people.
    • The Grin mask bears the same references.
  • Wolf's voice actor, Ulf Andersson, also voices the crew's helicopter pilot Alex.
• Wolf appears to be the only player character not to wear a clown mask, wearing instead a white and red demon-like mask.
• When in a tight spot, Wolf will sometimes speak Swedish.
• During development, the following nicknames were scrapped: The Swede, Svensken (The Swede in Swedish) or Shotgun Kjell (pronounced as "Shotgun Shell" but "Kjell" is a typical Swedish name).
  • "Shotgun Kjell" might be a reference to Kjeld Jensen in the Danish television show Olsen Banden (The Olsen Gang) and its Swedish adaptation Jönssonligan which the PAYDAY games were partly based on.
• Each character was originally named by nationality, and Wolf appears as "German" in the game files.
• Wolf is depicted as the "Technician" in PAYDAY: The Heist's "Upgrades" menu, and again in PAYDAY 2.
• Wolf seems to have a deep fear for special units, often shrieking out their names when he spots them. This goes especially for Cloakers (while calling them out, he might add in that they travel in groups). He also shows the greatest amount of satisfaction and relief out of anyone else in the team when he kills a special unit.
• Wolf is the most aggressive out of the team concerning hostages that are attempting to run, swearing at them and threatening to kill them when he orders them to lie down.
• In the Safehouse, Wolf seems to have the most amount of items. There are three boxes with 'Wolf' labeled on them at the entrance of the Safehouse, behind Lady Justice.
• He was born in the town "Vallentuna" which is in the outskirts of Stockholm.

PAYDAY: The Heist

• Sometimes, the AI controlling Wolf will go on a basic murdering spree in Panic Room, shown "here".
• Wolf has a tendency to give Hoxton nicknames when he interacts with him, nicknames being; Hoxtilicious, Hoxtitron, El Hoxo, Hoxtinator, Hoxtable, The Hox, Hoxtinite and Hoxifier.
• Wolf seems to have extensive knowledge of technology. In Undercover, when the IRS system is being hacked, the hack reads "WolfRoot." In Counterfeit, he proclaims, "Damn, a Franz-Jäger" when inspecting the safe.
  • Franz Jäger is a reference to either the Danish movie series "Olsen Banden", a series of heist-movies in which the safes and security systems are often said to be made by this fictitious Berlin-based company, or the Swedish series Jönssonligan, which was an adaptation of the former.

PAYDAY 2

• Wolf's class, the Technician Class, is the only specialization tree to retain its name from the original PAYDAY.
• The song that Wolf is sometimes singing when finishing a heist is "Segern är vår!" (Victory is ours!) A celebrating jingle used in Scandinavia during sports event.
• Sometimes at the beginning of Mallcrasher Heist, Bain will say, "This is strictly material, not personnel damage. This means you, Wolf," referencing Wolf's predisposition towards violence.
• Sometimes at the beginning of Nightclub Heist, Bain will say, "and Wolf... stay off the dancefloor", which means that Wolf is likely a bad dancer, or that he was previously involved in a dancefloor-related crime, most likely an assault and again might be a reference to Wolf's violent tendencies.
  • It may also be a nod to Wolf's psychological condition, rendering him prone to occasional mood swings and might start dancing instead of staying on his current mission.
• In a teaser image for PAYDAY 2, Wolf was shown with hair, which went against Wolf's original bald design. When the web series teaser trailer was released on May 23rd, 2013, Wolf can be seen putting on a wig over his head before putting his mask on. This is the same set of hair that he was seen with in the teaser image.
• Wolf is the only crew member whose face was never shown in the web series.

Video

Payday 2 - Wolf Pager Responses

Masks

Clown

Beeef

Alienware

Presidential

Golden

Infected

Troll

Soundtrack

Halloween

Vyse's

Secret

End of the World