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The Black Cap Brotherhood is a gang of nefarious robots that enjoy wrecking havoc in Machinarium. They are the main antagonists of the game.
Character[]
The Black Cap Brotherhood are a trio of gangsters that enjoy to cause trouble in the City. They have a hideout behind the Pub in a room where they drink and gamble at cards. They also have a secret jail in the Docks area where they construct the Bomb for their plot to take over the City. They plan to destroy the Castle where the Mayor of Machinarium governs and looks after the City. They all wear black headgear as a sign that they belong to the brotherhood.
There are three members in the gang:
- The boss - the Black Cap Leader
- The Fat Black Cap
- The Thin Black Cap
History[]
As shown in the flashback cut-scenes encountered in the game, The Black Cap Brotherhood have been a thorn in the sides of the citizens and police for some time, molesting the inhabitants of Machinarium for their own amusement and sometimes even robbing them, as it happened to Josef himself.
One day, the Black Cap Leader ploted a scheme to dispose of the Mayor of Machinarium to take control over the entire City. He climbed to the Mayor's office while Josef and Berta were cleaning the room and infected the Mayor with a virus to weaken him. Yet, the Mayor managed to call for help with a panic button incorporated in his chair that dispatched a Garbage Truck to try to dispose of the intruder. However, thanks to his bulky built, the Black Cap managed to evade capture and instead directed the Truck's hose towards Josef, who got suctioned and sent to the junkyard in his place.
When the Police Chief arrived to the building's roof, the Black Cap Leader decided to kidnap Berta and make the leave to prepare the next step of his plan with his two partners. He locked Berta in their Kitchen to force her to cook them something for later while the trio leaved to the docks.
Josef, having found his way back to the City, entered the giant Furnace's Room and saw the Fat Black Cap storing the explosive minerals in the minecart in his body before heading into a pipe. Following him, Josef witnessed the Leader and Fat Black Caps using the minerals to assembly a bomb, but was caught in the act and was thrown into the gang's Jail. Thin Black Cap, who was making some target practice, leaved earlier than his comrades to chase after some of their runaway prisoners.
Both the Leader and Fat Black Caps would then set up the bomb in the Castle's tower and split ways across the City briefly. During this moment, Fat Black Cap met again with Thin Black Cap and the two would head back to the Main Square to reach the hideout, but in the way they noticed the band that just set up in there and decided to use the Drummer's instrument against each other, leaving him without a drum to play and very saddened.
At the same time, the Leader, confident about the plan, ended up in the Water Tank and decided to steal the Wrench's record player to use it for his own entertainment before heading to the hideout as well.
The three remained playing cards in the Pub's back store, waiting for the bomb to go off in order to take over the City. However, Josef poured water throught the pipe in their room's ceilling, flooding the place and leaving them stuck. After defusing the bomb and saving the mayor, Josef reached the Pub's Cellar, where he broke the seal keeping the trapdoor of the Black Cap Brotherhood's room closed, causing it to open up with the weight above and sending the trio to a deserved doom, getting stuck in the well's depths and left there to their own luck.
With the three out of the way, Josef was finally able to reunite with Berta and the City was safe once again.