Max

Max after being challenged to the race

**Max "Maximum V"** was a student and cross country runner at PHS on Earth-76. When he was a freshman, Victor Lee challenged him to a race. Max won the race and got his family out of poverty.

He appeared in Maximum V.

**See also: Max on Maximum V Wiki**

## Appearance

Max was an average height male Asian-American teenager. He had black, short hair, and was scrawny in build.

He commonly wore a Toy Story shirt and a stopwatch for cross country.

## Biography

### Early Life

Max was born on December 9th, 2004. He grew up in a middle-class family until his dad was fired in 2007. They then moved into a smaller house, and Max had to get a job to help out.

### Cross Country

He stopped doing so well on the cross country team in 8th grade, and in 2019, his mom got fired too.

He eventually got a 27 on a 5K at PHS' cross country program. He confided his disappointment in his friend Paul. Paul offered to introduce Max to a trainer, Mike, but Max refused, believing that there was no hope for him to ever get better.

#### Being Challenged

   After talking to Paul, Max happened to walk in on Bethany Edwards interviewing Victor Lee for PHS Sports News. Victor insulted Max and challenged him to a race. Max accepted, but later felt overwhelmed. He went to his friend Tony for help but ended up meeting Mike, who gave him a training program. Max was unable to improve by much and told Mike that he couldn't do it.

Mike responded by telling Max that it was "all in the head" and that he needed to keep trying. After training more, Max ran the race. He tired himself out and stopped for a bit, but kept running until he was elbowed in the stomach by Victor. He got back up, after seeing the faces of all his friends flash before his eyes. He ran past Victor and won the race. He celebrated by running up the fire escape at Princeton Charter School. (Maximum V)

### After the race

After the race, Max became the best on the cross country team again and won races all over the state. Victor Lee joined the boxing club, and stopped bothering Max. Meanwhile, the cross country coaches were fired for bribery.

In November 2020, Max was interviewed by Bethany Edwards on PHS Sports News, and began drifting apart from Paul and Tony.

### Daniel Drago

When a group of Russian exchange students, led by Daniel Drago, arrived at Princeton High School, Max watched their speech. He was approached by Victor to be his cutman for the fight against Daniel he was going to have. Max rebuffed Tony's attempt to hang out again after this, as he was busy with cross country and the fight.

At the fight, Max cheered Victor on, but was horrified when he was knocked out and killed by Daniel. He later visited Victor's grave and went to memorial after memorial for Victor.

#### The Fight

Bethany asked Max on behalf of the other students to fight Daniel, to combat anti-Russian sentiment at the school. max initially refused, but succumbed to the pressure and said yes. Mike began training him, although he did not know much about boxing, and Max quickly became a good boxer.

Max received widespread attention in the school for it, and many were excited to have Victor's death avenged. Angered by the pressure, Max stormed into the tv studio late for an interview and yelled at Bethany for inflicting this problem on him, and stormed out.

Max doubted his ability to fight, and ran to Princeton Charter School after a conversation with Paul in the stairwell. There, an eighth grader convinced him that he should fight Daniel. Max continued training.

##### Russia

Max claimed he was ready to go to Russia, and Mike agreed. When he arrived, in January 2021, he fought Daniel, while the school watched back home. He was eventually knocked out and remembered a conversation he had with Victor before he died. Max then got up and beat Daniel.

He returned home a hero, and helped set up the Victor Lee Memorial Fund. (Maximum V II)

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## Trivia

* Max's last name is Wu, but not many people know this