Max (The Secret Life of Pets)

Max is the main protagonist of Illumination's 6th animated feature film and its sequel .
In , he is voiced by , and in , who also plays Remy in Disney and Pixar's , Quibble Pants in , and Professor Dementor in and also portrays him in .
==Appearance==
Max is a small Jack Russell Terrier with white and brown fur similar to a beagle's coat. He has a large black nose, a pudgy body, and small skinny legs. He also has brown eyes and rather clean teeth.
==Personality==
He is a very lovable, playful, and a very loyal dog towards Katie. However, he is so loyal to her that he selfishly wants to keep her to himself. He is shown to be very unwelcoming to Duke when Katie adopted him and even hostile. When Duke found out about Max's secret detest towards him, they seem to enter a feud. Knowing that he can't gain dominance over Duke (he had stolen Max's bed and dominated Katie's apartment when she's away), and after consulting Chloe about Duke's abuse, Max becomes very controlling of Duke and even arrogantly abusive of him. This shows that Max actually has a power hungry and controlling side (ultimately igniting the events of the film). However, he and Duke eventually made up from this after enduring many dangerous and even life-threatening situations that almost result in both the dogs dying. Max does care about Duke and tries to save him from drowning to his death (even risking himself meeting the same fate). Max seems to also be rather oblivious to the world outside of Katie's, this is demonstrated by him being completely and ignorantly blowing off Gidget's attempts to seduce him. He only viewed Gidget as something close to an actual friend. It's not until the film's climax that Max finally realizes Gidget's feelings for him and he finally returns the crush and they start their relationship (to Pops' disgust).
==Biography==
===The Secret Life of Pets===
Max lives a normal canine life with his owner Katie in a small apartment in New York. He spends his days waiting in front of the door for Katie to return and playing with his friends Mel and Buddy. One day, she comes home with another dog, a Newfoundland she adopted named Duke who has made Max's life turn worse. Although Max is immediately disgusted by Duke's callous wet licking and selfish sleeping habits, and his attempts to warn her of Duke's selfishness in the bathroom are in vain when Katie is unable to understand his barking.
The next day, Max has decided to displace Duke and become the object of Katie's affections once more. When Duke destroys a vase in the living space and spills dog food in the kitchen area, Max attempts to do the same as Duke by doing further destruction which gets him into trouble. Later on, the duo are taken for a walk by a pet-sitter with all the apartment pets to the dog park in Washington Square Park, where Max's insults push Duke into driving them out of the park and into downtown New York.
They end up stuck in New York far from Manhattan and are forced to work together to return before dinnertime. In an alleyway on the other side of Manhattan, Duke attempts to throw Max in a trash bin only to meet the Sphinx cat Ozone and his gang of abandoned cats. Though the pair escape the confrontation by running away screaming, an Animal Control officer places them in metal cages for transit to the City Pound. However, they are rescued by a bunny named Snowball who frees them and crashes the van.
In Snowball's lair in the sewers, Snowball reveals the existence of other secret abandoned pets in the city and recruits the two to The Flushed Pets. They end up escaping from Snowball through the sewer system which spits them out into the River Hudson - only for them to end up on a ferry to Brooklyn, in the opposite direction to home.
Max and Duke make it to Brooklyn, and they are both hungry. Duke sniffs out a sausage factory. The two run in and feast on all the sausages they can find, leading to a weird sequence where they imagine the sausages singing "We Go Together" from "Grease". Afterward, the dogs start to warm up to each other. Duke then talks about his previous owner, an older man named Fred. Fred had Duke since he was a puppy, but Duke ended up running away and was captured by Animal Control until Katie found him. Max decides to go look for Fred to bring Duke home.
Max and Duke find Duke's old home, but they come across a cat named Reginald telling them to leave. Duke asks about Fred, and Reginald says that Fred has passed away. The family that now lives in the house comes home, and Duke starts barking at them. He gets mad at Max for bringing him there since he knows Max was always trying to get rid of him. Almost immediately, the Animal Control officers show up and take Duke, who lets Max run away. Max instead chases after the truck.
While Max goes to save Duke, Snowball comes out of the sewers with Tattoo and the lizard. They spot Max and chase after him, but Tattoo and the lizard get taken. Max and Snowball decide to team up and chase after the truck. They hijack a bus and follow the truck to the Brooklyn Bridge. The bus falls and causes a traffic jam while the truck swerves off the bridge and gets stuck. The Flushed Pets surround the bridge as they find Max pulling Snowball out of the bus, thinking he killed Snowball. Before the Flushed Pets can get Max, the house pets arrive with Gidget riding Tiberius. She proceeds to pound ALL the Flushed Pets by herself, which impresses Max. Max rushes to save Duke, but the truck falls into the river with both dogs in it as Max tries to get the keys. Snowball then plunges into the river and gets the keys back to Max so he can get Duke out, and they all swim to the surface.
After Max successfully save Duke and arrive to the street of all the apartment pets, Max admits to Gidget his love for her after seeing her in the bridge and apologizing for not noticing her before (cause he barely noticed her now in the bridge fight and fell in love of her), after that both share some lick for their new relationship and love for each other. Max and Duke then go to their apartment and they are just in time before Katie came back, and now with Duke, Max has a friendship with him.
===The Secret Life of Pets 2===
At the start of the film, Max tells us how he is displeased with children and that he doesn't have to worry of ever facing one until Katie marries a man named Chuck and they have a kid named Liam. At first, Max is at peace since he knows that he cannot walk or speak yet. But when he learned to walk, Liam began tormenting Max, which causes him to be afraid of the child, until Liam says his name and hugged him gently and lovingly, and this causes him to protect Liam and feels the need to be there 24/7. Snowball tells him that he shouldn't worry about him and that he's all grown up and about to start pre-school, but Max tells him that he won't go to preschool and will stay with him forever. However, Duke told Max that Liam was missing. He tried contacting his friends Mel and Buddy for assistance, but didn't find him. Fortunately, Norman found him eating a cookie with his father. Max was relieved and irritated that he couldn't come with them. Katie then distracts Duke and takes Max to the vet, where he meets animals with personality disorders. He then walks home with a cone on his head. Katie feels bad for him, but tells him he needs it until he stops scratching himself. His mood improves when he finds his favorite toy, Busy Bee. He tries to get it, but he couldn't because of the cone preventing him to go under the table. Good news is, Duke told him that the family is gonna go to a trip. Max and Duke yell with excitement and Max tries to find a pet who can look after his toy. He tries to ask Chloe, but she wasn't interested, so he goes to Gidget's apartment instead. Gidget agrees, and she imagines her and Max being a couple with Busy Bee as their child. He was uncomfortable with the idea at first, but after some time, accepts it, probably because he didn't want to hurt her feelings and hinting he was also in love with her already. Max then heads to the family farm with Duke and his family. Max at first is displeased with the farm, not being familiar with the sounds and the animals there, which elevates his anxiety especially when he gets chased by a turkey. Fortunately, the farm dog, Rooster stops it from chasing him. Rooster also helps Max overcome his fears by tasking him to save Cotton, one of the sheep that got lost into the forest. Max felt proud of himself when he gets to face his fears. Max thanks Rooster for helping him with his problems and for facing his fears. Now feeling braver, Max helps Snowball save his friends Hu and Daisy from Sergei, an evil man who works at the circus and abuses the circus animals, Hu included. Max and Snowball ask Gidget for assistance, and together the three of them take Sergei down. Max thanks Gidget for helping him and Snowball save Daisy and Hu, and the two of them embrace. They then go back to New York, and Max finally learns to be brave and feels proud for Liam as he enters pre school.
===Super Gidget===
Max is been kidnapping by the evil flea of the mind control calls himself Infestor in that moment Super Gidget vacuumed that flea to saved him for her true loves kiss.
===The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash!===
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==Trivia==
*He and Duke shared similarities with toys Woody and Buzz from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story franchise.
*, , , , , , , , , , , , and were all considered to replace for the role of Max in the sequel before was confirmed to take over.
*Sausages are his favorite food.
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