Charlie is a mask in Hotline Miami. Charlie is a mask of an octopus and when worn grants Jacket a passive ability of causing more melee weapons to spawn more often in weapon spawns. In Hotline Miami 2's Level Editor, the mask gives no perks as random weapon spawns aren't in Hotline Miami 2's code.
Although this mask increases the frequency of melee weapon spawns, it appears that only the basic set of melee weapons spawn under the influence of this mask. Even if the player has all the melee weapons unlocked, none of the unlockable weapons will spawn. Ironically, this effect makes Charlie the single most useless mask for obtaining the Always on Top and Knife for Pros achievements.
This mask can be found in chapter 16 on a counter in the kitchen area. It can only be picked up after all enemies have been killed.
Trivia[]
- Despite common misconception, the Charlie Mask most likely does not belong to the Technician and its appearance in Safehouse is simply a gameplay-story segregation; it is more likely that the mask is a representation of the Biker from Jacket's perspective as it shares the former's colour palette of magenta and teal, and increases melee weapon spawns similar to Biker's Cleaver. Furthermore the magenta texture on the rear of the mask bears strong resemblance to Jacket's coma vision of Biker's exposed brain face sprite from the outro of Push It.