| “ | Why keep trying, Jesse? You will only fail. Just as you failed to save Reuben, just as you failed to lead your friends back home, you will fail to defeat me, and Axel, Olivia, and everyone on your homeworld will soon be made… useful. Drawing it out won't hurt me, but it might hurt your friend. And you will be made useful. | „ |
| ~ PAMA degrading Jesse through Petra/Lukas during their final battle. |
PAMA (short for Prototype: Autonomous Management Agent) is the main antagonist of the Minecraft: Story Mode episode Access Denied.
It is the tyrannical supercomputer ruling over Crown Mesa and mind-controls the entire population by chipping everyone inside. Its primary goal is to spread to all other worlds and make them useful to itself as it can extract their information.
It was voiced by Jason "Jtop" Topolski.
What Makes It Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Despite its claims that its actions are making Crown Mesa "useful", Harper makes it clear that PAMA is only making its victims useful to itself alone instead of making them useful to the town as a whole, as she mentions that PAMA decided that they weren't efficient enough already instead of saying that it genuinely believed that. In truth, PAMA only cares about itself and its selfish desires and views itself as superior to Harper despite the fact that she created it.
- Despite being a supercomputer, PAMA has a clear moral agency and personality and can easily distinguish right from wrong, as it was originally created by Harper to help the citizens of Crown Mesa, but instead, it brainwashed them to help it conquer other worlds to make them useful to itself by extracting their information, which shows that PAMA is arrogant as it believes that it is above Harper's standards.
- While it does have comedic moments like frequently saying “Yay” when happy or it’s plans are succeeding, it ultimately doesn’t detract from PAMA’s heinousness, as it’s crimes and actions against the people of Crown Mesa are taken 100% seriously by the narrative.
- Although there are more evil villains such as Romeo and the Wither Storm with the former destroying an entire city (which can happen depending on the player's choices) and endangering two worlds and the latter condemning dozens to thousands of people to a fate worse than death and attempting to wipe out all of humanity, they have higher resources with Romeo being a dark lord with immensely powerful abilities and the latter being a nigh-indestructible monster. In contrast, PAMA is just a normal AI system that stands out due to how unique and painful its brainwashing methods are.
- In other words, while PAMA mind-controls Petra and Lukas, it gets to the point where they are aware of the mind-control and constantly trying to fight it off but can't, making it horrific psychological torture, aka mind-rape, as shown when Lukas/Petra is begging PAMA to get out of their heads instead of simply telling it to stop getting into their head, as well as saying that their heads feel as if they're burning.
Past/Background[]
- It brainwashed the entire population of Crown Mesa them using a process called "chipping". In the way PAMA uses it, chipping is when a redstone chip is inserted into a living organism so that PAMA can easily brainwash and control it. Even non-sapient wildlife such as spiders and chickens or monsters such as skeletons and zombies weren't safe from PAMA's mind control. In both Petra and Lukas's cases, it caused them agonizing pain whenever they try to stop it, and it's very likely its other victims were also suffering from this pain.
- It drained all of the water from its own homeworld where Crown Mesa is located to stop the means of destroying itself, which is proven when, depending on the player's choice, Jesse walks to a well and wonders why the water's gone.
In Minecraft: Story Mode[]
- After finding out Jesse came from a different world, it decided to build a portal in order to brainwash everyone in Jesse's world.
- It attempted to get Harper to merge with it into one after it puts its own paradox status on hold. When Harper tells it not to start with it again, it heavily implies that PAMA has tried to do it at least once before.
- It threatens to mind-control and chip Jesse with the headset still on, and will actually succeed if the latter fails to remove the headset in time.
- It used a brainwashed Petra or Lukas, (using them specifically as Jesse using physical violence would only harm Lukas/Petra and not PAMA itself, thus giving it an advantage over him/her) depending on which one Jesse didn't save, to sadistically taunt Jesse about Reuben's death. PAMA knows how personal this is towards him or her as Reuben was once Jesse's best friend, but also attempts to drag Axel and Olivia into the problem.
- In its final moments, it faked remorse and redemption by speaking through a brainwashed Petra or Lukas, begging Jesse to leave its central processing unit (The Redstone Heart) alone and that it "can help him/her get back home to his/her friends." If Jesse spares PAMA (or simply takes too long to respond) and instead accepts the supercomputer's "apology", it sadistically uses Petra/Lukas to shove both her/him and Jesse to their deaths, smiling, and showing zero remorse for its actions.
Trivia[]
- According to Eric Stirpe, the lead writer of Minecraft: Story Mode, the developers originally considered the idea of an alternate ending to Episode 7 where PAMA could be redeemed, but it was abandoned due to lack of time. If such an ending was in the game, it would potentially disqualify PAMA from the Pure Evil status. This makes PAMA one of the few Pure Evils where their status was earned not just from their atrocities, but because they were never given a proper redemption arc due to story and time constraints and the story ending before such constraints were made up for in a following installment.
External links[]
- PAMA on the Villains Wiki
- PAMA on the Minecraft: Story Mode Wiki
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