The Auditor is also the shadowy figure behind the creation of the A.A.H.W., a covert army founded specifically to kill Hank J. Wimbleton and his allies the S.Q., who are perceived threats to the reality he imposed on Nevada. He is an angelic god whose goal is that to "bring order" across Nevada, but despite this he is largely perceived as a failure in these endeavors.
The Auditor is shown to be extremely uncaring for his own minions, mercilessly slaying a grunt seemingly out of rage, as well as absorbing 2 agents to stabilize himself in Madness Combat 10. In some posters, he cancelled the parties during Madness Combat 5.5 and demanded that his minions go back to work, showing himself as a very strict and unforgiving boss. Additionally, the Auditor enhanced some of his minions, including agents and A.T.P. engineers, with powers that can presumably be a form of possession or brainwashing, possibly killing them in the process.
Despite his insensitive nature and strictness, the Auditor is not very formal, using slang and generally informal vocabulary frequently in his own posters, as well as in his machinery (with sights like "OH SHI" written on his Improbability Drive, or for example he once said "BRINGING ORDER IN THE SHATTERED WORLD IS MY GODDAMN PURPOSE").
He also appears to enjoy ostensibly displaying power in front of people, as shown when he does so in front of Hank and Sanford in Madness Combat 10 when spreading his fire in various sides and pretentiously raising his hands into the sky.
The auditor also seems to value his own goals over any type of personal values, allying with Hank, previously his main enemy, to take down Tricky in Madness Combat 11.
Although his personality appears to be very cold and even detached, he doesn't seem to be completely devoid of human emotions and needs: he is shown drinking soda, potentially meaning that he is not only capable but also is willing of feeling physical gratifications, despite presumably not even requiring to drink and eat altogether. He is also very frequently short-tempered as opposed to being genuinely emotionless.
He seems to be extremely centered around theme of control, as one of his posters in Madness 12 (assuming it was written by him) states: "MIND the ultimatel goal: to control", with him generally being a despotic and even possessive person towards people around - even attempting to forcibly "recruit" Sanford on his side using his manipulations of code while the latter was located inside his dimension in Episode 12. He also denotes for those around to "MIND the perception of false gods whomst would twist your will against mine", perhaps implying that he highly regards his heritage as an angelic deity and even considers himself to be the "true god".
Powers and Abilities
Natural Abilities
The Auditor is able to instantaneously teleport himself at will, which is usually shown as him disappearing into a puff of black flame. In MADNESS: Project Nexus' post-credit scene, the Auditor and the rest of the Employers appear to teleport into Nevada from a different realm, which is supported by Christoff's reaction.
The Auditor is able to summon seemingly any weapon at will, and has been shown creating variousblades, SMGs, and even a rocket launcher. He can morph to be as flat and intangible as a shadow, and he appears to be immune to all forms of physical harm, like bullets and blades. During his first fight with Hank and Sanford, he was able to shapeshift into an elongated fist, then later into a dragon's head.
The Auditor does not appear to have very good one-on-one or hand-to-hand combat skills, as when he fought Jesus in Madness Combat 8: Inundation, he is sent sprawling after a few seconds, and in Madness Combat 10: Abrogation, he is pummeled by Hank. He seems to be more skilled with weapons, seen by his use of swords and using a minigun as a long-range weapon.
The Auditor is able to absorb other Nevadeans into his own body, which increases his size and regenerates any potential damage he had taken by that point.
Although not shown often, the Auditor also has pyrokinesis, and can manipulate the flames that he summons from own body. He also can use this fire to destroy or even completely "erase" it's target, like he did it to table and Katana in MC 9.
From own fire he can create buildings with grunts and even MAG-Agents inside it.
It also was demonstrated in MC 11 and 12 that while in his dimension he can manipulate a "code" of alive beings and potentially change them (such as recruiting Sanford, likely implying mind control, or making him more violent). It is also implied that he can make people feel pain through it since we see the line about "To make hurts" when he was exploiting code to "recruit'" Sanford. This is also apparently what he used to heal Hank and give him weapons to kill Tricky. Adding to this, The Auditor evidently provided the "Prime Code" to Director Phobos, as Dr. Gonne in his notes mentions that prime code was given by "Phobos' mysterious benefactor", which possibly indicates that The Auditor is able to affect The Machine itself, since The Machine was hinted to work on the prime code.
In his dimension he even was capable of erasing corpses (though it is unclear if he can do to living beings) and summon countless spikes to impale his targets.
He is seemingly immortal, considering how after Tricky destroyed his body he simply reconstructed it once Clown was killed for good.
He was able to remotely attract Halo in the end Madness 11, indicating that he possesses some sort of telekinesis which is also shown when he absorbs bodies around from a distance without physically touching them.
Improbability Drives and Halo
The Auditor is a user of Improbability Drives, a group of powerful reality-warping devices that have been shown to have a multitude of diverse abilities. Enhancing his powers to an extensive degree. The Primary Improbability Drive, which was located within a building, was used to manipulate events to his favor, progressively upgrading his soldiers' abilities and infecting Jeb with a virus that severely weakened him and made him periodically cough up blood.
The Auditor appeared briefly on a poster in Madness Combat 5.5. This was his first chronological appearance, showing he had control over the agents' influence.
The Auditor appears in the middle of the episode and his first appearance, watching Sanford and Deimos. He sees Jesus' note saying he quits. From his command prompt, the Auditor sees that Hank being revived by someone with unauthorized access of the portable Improbability Drive, to which he messages Tricky. When asked, Tricky spams him saying that he will do what he wants and can't be stopped. Taking this in stride, he uses the Improbability Drive to upgrade the 1337 crew to their state in Madness Combat 6: Antipathy.
The Auditor first appearance is in Madness Consternation, since MC6.5 was released after it. In the final scene, after Jeb jumps down from the building and kills both Hank and Tricky, the view shifts away and through the window of a lone building in the background. A console with a screen can be seen: the main Improbability Drive, showing the recent events such as that Hank and Tricky were "terminated." A black hand proceeds to operate the machine. It pulls down a lever and increases the "Advanced Training Level" to the maximum or, on the Improbability Drive's pad, the "OH SHI-" level, which would explain the increased amount of A.T.P. engineers starting from Madness Combat 8.
The view then shifts to the front of the person, showing the Auditor for the first time in the series. Two large Mag Agent: V2s can be seen standing behind him, holding mag-sized Mossberg 500s. The scene then fades to complete black with the Auditor's evil thin red eyes glowing for a moment in the darkness before disappearing as well.
The Auditor attempts to warn the two Soldats to no avail.
The Auditor appears again in Madness Combat 7.5, this time his appearance is only indirect and brief, showing up once two Soldats contact him through Chatbuddy to warn him they are about to move out, his username on Chatbuddy appears as BIGBADAUD999.
The transcript is as follows:
OBSV032: hang on let me see
OBSV032: ya it's them brb we'll get them
BIGBADAUD999: Wait until engineering upgrades you, I can't do it from here. You won't stand a chance unless you've been upgraded!
(BIGBADAUD999 is typing...)
BIGBADAUD999: Hello?
After this conversation, the Soldats left the room and tried hunting Sanford and Deimos before the Auditor advised them to stop, leading them towards their doom.
Christoff is out to end the Madness, and in an attempt to destroy the Primary Improbability Drive, he heads to the Auditor's lair where it is housed. During the episode, the Auditor infects Jesus with some sort of disease to weaken him, which makes him vomit blood.
At the end of Madness Combat 8, Jesus reaches the Auditor's building while avoiding a volley of minigun rounds being fired at him. Jesus succeeds in entering the building, and after killing agents and a Mag Agent, he encounters resistance from the Auditor himself, who injures him. The brief fight proceeds into the room housing the Primary Improbability Drive. Unable to kill Christoff, the Auditor spawns an AT4 and fatally wounds Christoff, but also damages the Drive, starting the 'normality restoration'. Both Jesus and the Auditor are then enveloped in a blast of white light.
In Madness Combat 9, the Auditor is alive and well, albeit seen with more distinctive flames surrounding his body. Taking away Christoff'shalo and placing it above his own head, the Auditor gains a new power in an appearance similar to Jesus' power to 'dissolve' people. However, the Auditor uses this power to enhance anyone's basic hand-to-hand fighting skills and reflexes. He uses this new power to enhance two of his A.T.P. engineers, sending them after Sanford and Deimos to prevent them from resurrecting Hank. He also brings a newly developed Mag Agent as a backup plan in case his other agents failed in their mission.
He arrives at the resurrection building with Mag Agent: V3 just as Hank is revived in a new form. The Auditor flees, leaving the Mag Agent to fight Hank alone, but the agent is killed. After this, the Auditor reappears, absorbing the corpses of agents to empower himself and prepares to fight Hank and Sanford.
While The Auditor does not have any physical appearances in Madness Combat 9.5, at the start of the first part red text can be seen, it can easily be assumed that this is The Auditor threatening the Hacker for attempting to breach his security and bring Hank J. Wimbleton back to life, the text is as follows:
LISTEN HERE, HACKER
YOUR INTEREST WILL BE TERMINATED
HANK WILL BE RETAINED
The Auditor does not make any physical or non physical appearances in this episode after this.
In the tenth installment of Madness Combat, the Auditor continues from where he left off in Madness Combat 9, engaging Hank and Sanford in battle.
Thanks to his abilities to turn into a shadow and have bullets and blows pass right through him, he appears seemingly invulnerable and unimpressed by Hank's and Sanford's attacks. He then starts to use new techniques, such as shooting rays of black fire from his hands, as well as changing his form into fist- and mouth-like shapes to attack. The Auditor shoots Hank with an OA-93 and manages to sever mutated arm partially, before attempting to kill Sanford. However, as the Auditor is distracted by Sanford, Hank manages to grab the Auditor from behind, stealing the halo, which causes a large amount of electrical energy to sprawl from it, regenerating Hank's arm as well as his intelligence.
The Auditor grabs the halo and puts it back on his head and summons a large spear from the ground to attack Hank. But after a short clash, more energy starts to emerge from the ground behind the Auditor, pulling the spear out of his hands like a magnet. The Auditor, angry about the development of the "fragment rejections," unleashes a final fire attack on Hank before backing off again. He then enchants the floor beneath him, causing it to rise into the air as a giant pillar. He continues to summon more pillars, as well as a giant structure behind him. However, the Auditor is then struck by two bolts of energy coming out of the ground, causing him to suffer wounds for the first time in the series. He realizes that the halo is rejecting him, and decides to retreat into the structure he just summoned to rethink his strategy. Whilst doing so, he also enhances the bodies of two dead agents, but they both died quickly.
As Hank and Sanford entered the building he made and slaughtered all his men, the Auditor can be seen again, realizing that the "keystone fragment compatibility has been compromised." He runs into a corridor, seemingly panicking, as another bolt of lightning strikes at him. He then spots two agents and absorbs them, once again increasing his size as well as healing his wounds. He makes the conclusion that he is in need of more bodies that carry his dark energy to enhance and regenerate himself.
At the end of the episode, Hank and Sanford engages the Auditor in combat for the final time at the top of the tower. He sees them and quickly knocking Sanford back and quickly disarming Hank. However, just when he is about to strike, Hank uses his new electrical punches on the Auditor, physically wounding him, since the Auditor's invulnerability does not seem to apply to electricity. He tries to strike again, but is outstripped by Hank's one-on-one combat skills, suffering another punch in the process. The Auditor realizes that he won't be able to win in his current form, since he can now be hurt, and Hank's physical capabilities far surpass his, and absorbs most of the dead agents to heal his injuries and grow even more in size. He attempts to kill Hank with a giant ray of energy, but Hank is once again able to be faster, and wounds the Auditor's face. The Auditor seems dazed for a second, but manages to absorb the last remaining body (a dead Mag Agent) to heal himself, growing to a towering size.
In a last-ditch attempt to kill Hank, he summons his sword, and attempts to crush and impale Hank, who is, however, able to dodge and block all attacks. Growing tired of his mortal enemy, the Auditor raises his sword and prepares to charge in for the final blow. More dead bodies from the surrounding areas, such as the bottom of the tower, are being lifted into the air and absorbed by the Auditor, increasing his size to the point that not even Hank would know how to counter the next strike anymore.
Tricky's encounter with the Auditor
However, just when it seems that the Auditor has won at last, a fatal mistake happens. One of the bodies being lifted into the air happens to be the one of Tricky. When Tricky's body enters the Auditor, white flames start to burst out from his back, his eyes turning wide. The Auditor, surprised and shocked by this event, begins to stumble back and forth, shouting the words "WHAT?!" and "NO!, NO!, NO!" into the air, while Tricky responds with "HELLO AGAIN!!!" and "YES!!!, YES!!!, YES!!!". The flames continue to spill out of his body, and eventually, a giant bolt of energy breaks out of the floor, impaling the Auditors back, lifting him into the air and causing a bright light to shine out of his chest. Only a short moment after this, the Auditor's body collapses and explodes into a large cloud of black smoke, resembling Tricky's head.
The next installment of the Madness Combat series reveals that Tricky was able to resurrect himself after being absorbed by the Auditor, taking on a new demonic form with the Auditor's halo and some of his powers. More insane than ever, Tricky promptly banishes both Hank and Sanford to a hellish dimension full of A.A.H.W. troops and skeleton-like zombies in an attempt to kill them both. In this dimension, the Auditor suddenly appears before Hank, lacking his usual flames and sporting countless red scars on his back. After impaling Hank with spikes, he zaps him with dark energy to heal and empower him, also restoring the right arm that Tricky had torn off at the beginning of the episode by replacing it with one made of metal. He then teleports Hank away, sending him towards Sanford's location.
During Hank and Sanford's final push to reach the pillar of light seemingly acting as an exit from the hell dimension, the Auditor appears to contact Hank from afar, striking him with black energy and granting him new weapons to aid him against the waves of armored skeletons Tricky summons against him. After Hank kills Tricky, the Auditor emerges from the remains of the clown's skeletal body. In this moment, with Hank and Sanford's lifeless bodies surfacing from the ground, the Auditor appears to have played his enemies into killing each other. The Auditor retains his earlier scars, but he has also regained his flaming aura. He uses telekinesis to reclaim the halo, placing it atop his head while saying "FINALLY..." leaving the episode in a cliffhanger.
The Auditor appears again in his Expurgation appearance, first standing next to Hank's body, and says: "ERROR... HANK'S CHARTER HAS BEEN REVOKED effREF(comm).("Fix Nevada"); effREF(powr1).NewCharter(e3)("DO NOT WAIVER.")", possibly alluding to the fact that Hank is now possessed by the Auditor to "fix Nevada" and that Doc cannot change it. He then also uses the energy from his halo to try to possess Sanford, telling Doc to "STOP MEDDLING". This leads to Sanford being tortured by him, even temporarily warping his face, but the effort was unsuccessful as Sanford isn't possessed.
Sanford enters a building and kills all the enemies, but the Auditor keeps following him, summoning spikes and dissolving bodies, but he isn't successful in making Sanford his puppet. It is also shown on Deimos's tablet that the Auditor is moving towards Sanford, but he is interrupted when two rocks suddenly trap him in his own dimension. Visibly startled, the Auditor is "furious" and issues a death warrant on Doc, before teleporting back to Nevada.
The Auditor only makes one direct appearance in Project Nexus, during the Epilogue. In the Epilogue, he appears with 3 other Employers, Stygian, the Conductor, and The Deliberator. Auditor and his fellow Employers address Dr. Christoff directly, stating they have a new project for him, probably to eliminate Hank, and that he has to abandon his crusade against the Nexus Core.
The Auditor is a member of the Employers, a secretive group of powerful godly entities who manipulate Nevada from behind the scenes.
The Auditor, along with The Employers, as he appears in MADNESS: Project Nexus.
MADNESS: Project Nexus reveals that the Auditor is a member of the Employers. Once an ally of Project Nexus, they formed a "charter" with Phobos, but their relationship has soured over the years.
Ironically, the A.A.H.W. are nominally allied with the Nexus Core; locked "out of the loop" as it were, they attempt to stop Hank several times throughout the campaign.
Contrary to this, after Hank, Jebediah, Sanford and Deimos banished Phobos. Auditor revealed themself directly to Jebus and offered him a new "Job" on which the latter agreed. It's implied that he oversaw a whole process and simply waited when protagonists would stop Phobos only to use a provided opportunity.
He also makes one indirect appearance in Project Nexus, in a letter sent to Director Phobos. In this letter, he threatens Phobos with action from he and his fellow Employers if Phobos does not deliver the cloning technology that the Auditor personally requested to send to the A.A.H.W.
Auditor's appearance in his Makeship plushie trailer.
Artworks
Commissioned artworks
The Auditor and Jesus with dragon looks combined.
Merchandise
Auditor's Makeship plushie.
Trivia
Before Madness Combat 8: Inundation was released, many people believed that the Auditor would turn out to be the Sheriff revived, but Krinkels stated that this was not the case.
According to Krinkels, the Auditor has always existed as a shadowy figure, and at no point in time was a regular grunt. He also says that the Auditor originated in Nevada (However, it is most likely outdated, considering Doc saying in his M:PN journals that Employers are angels who hail from "Some terrible place" and would "descend" into Nevada).
In Madness Combat 7.5, it was shown that the Auditor's online social name is "BIGBADAUD999."
When asked via Curious Cat on what the Auditor was drinking while at his desk in Madness 6.5 and 8, Krinkels revealed that the Auditor was consuming some type of sugary drink. He also revealed that due to the Auditor's bizarre body composition, consuming foods high in sugar are unable to affect him, meaning he can have as much as he wants.
As Krinkels was asked if the Auditor died when he absorbed Tricky or if he was just teleported to Hell, he answered "The Auditor got a little “inverted” after absorbing Tricky in MC10, which explains why he appears in his own dimension. Auditor then wound up dragging Sanford and Hank as well."
Krinkels said the Auditor is named "the Auditor" because he thinks it's a cool word that doesn't mean something that cool.
When asked about Auditor's goal, Krinkels said, "The Auditor doesn’t seek idolization. The Auditor is a living gateway to a Hell. His job is typically more custodial but Hank and Co. keep screwing things up, so the Auditor conscripted an army, the A.A.H.W., as a means to have access to an endless source of manpower."
In Madness Combat 12, one of posters in Auditor's Dimension (Presumably addressed to Sanford) says that "BRINGING ORDER IN THE SHATTERED WORLD IS MY GODDAMN JOB!", which explains his grudge towards Hank.
In Episode 11, Auditor on posters blames Tricky in that he "Destroyed Nevada".
Krinkels was asked if the AAHW fear the Auditor. In response he revealed that fear is not a good motivator for Nevadeans, and the AAHW mostly just stay out of the Auditor's way and seek to appease him for their own benefit.
Krinkels was asked about how the Auditor differs from the other Employers. He stated that while all Employers do business in Nevada, "Auditor IS unique in that they'll pick fights with the inhabitants. Auditor learned the hard way that lowering yourself in such a way is unwise. When will they learn?"
Krinkels was asked if the Auditor is superior to other employers. he states "I'd argue that the Auditor is inferior to the others, considering their proclivity for squabbling with mere mortal Nevadeans. But to compare and contrast them is super meaningless and based entirely on our own notions of what is valuable."[1][2]
When Krinkels was asked about what the other Employers think on Auditor's antics he replied that "they probably think that he is an asshole".
The Auditor's fighter-enhancing ability was used in two episodes - Madness Combat 9: Aggregation and Madness Combat 10: Abrogation. In the former episode he used that skill on two living A.T.P. Engineers who were using bullpup rifles, and in the latter episode he managed to enhance two dead Agents, who continued to fight unarmed
Despite popular opinion in the community and his appearance (and the ability to summon fire), the Auditor seems to be not made out of flame, but rather from some other non-physical material, Krinkels himself said that Employers are made out of some 4-dimensional material. According to The Auditor's plush's description, Employers are being made out of pure logic, thus likely meaning that his body is a physical manifestation of logic itself.
Auditor (And Employers as whole) is likely based on christian angels, as Doc in his notes from Arena Mode refers to The Employers as "Dark angels" which is a direct term from The Bible. Alongside this, Krinkels also compared them to angels.
Krinkels compared the Employers to five-dimensional beings from superior plane of reality that no one can comprehend and mainly use avatars to interact in Nevada. However, Krinkels didn't exactly clarify if they are five-dimensional creatures.
Krinkels has said that The Auditor has poor judgement capacities and if he were to manifest some clothing, then it would've been something stupid like cargo shorts and a untucked dress shirt.
In Madness Combat 12, it is shown that when the Auditor tries to get into Sanford head, rays come out of the Auditor that come into contact with the corpses of the Agents.
Auditor was voiced by Gianni Matragrano in his Makeship plushie trailer.
The Auditor is the main antagonist of the Madness Combat series, first debuting in Madness Combat 7: Consternation and the master of the Improbability Drives.
Madness Combat 5.5
Madness Combat 8: Inundation
Madness Combat 9: Aggregation
Madness Combat 10: Abrogation
