Max

### Age

12 (Summer Camp Island and Crossover Forces), 15 (Dark Disney and The Watterson)

## Production Information

### Other Appearances

Dust and the Sweeper (Cameo)

Max is one of the main children from *Summer Camp Island* who is friends with the other islanders and frequently partners with Hedgehog and Oscar. He is mostly seen as the "Cool kid" of the group, but is just as sweet as the rest of them, always participating in the island's activities. However, when he discovered an outpost being created in secret, he was abducted by the Horde Syndicate and imprisoned aboard their flagship dreadnought, The Invincible. Learning that his friends were coming to try and save him and the rest of the universe, Max blamed himself for bringing them into trouble. But from the words of the villain organization's leader, Cyber Catra, he was inadvertently motivated into making up for his mistake by opposing her forces and later rescuing those who fought to save him when the Horde Empire came to be. He now attends the Toon Force Initiation Program as a student superhero.

He returns as the primary protagonist of Dark Disney, originally planning to take the Toon Force Initiation Exam only to wind up in the distant future after a hyperdrive malfunction with his rocket. He was quickly spotted by the Enforcers, who notified Mickey Mouse of his existence, leading to Max being hunted down to be used to unlock the Toonverse's technology for the new Disneyverse. To return to the past, Max is found by Blinx, who introduces him to Oswald and the Underground, hoping to work together to stop Mickey's regime. Despite multiple traumatic events happening at once, Max willingly volunteers. Thanks to his quick thinking and use of the Neutron Soul Retrievers, he was able to work his way through the regime's schemes and confront Mickey the castle, only to discover that it was Black Hat who was behind the entire Disneyverse, having influenced the Mouse for years. After battling the last of the villain's defenses, he along with a small team destroy Elysium, reactivating Bimm inside to unlock time and reset the timeline to prevent Black Hat from escaping to Disney, putting an end to the war. However, this results in Max being brought back a whole decade after he vanished in the past, leaving him with Kitra to catch up on things.

## Appearance

Max is an anthropomorphic bat with dark colored fur, a light face similar to Hedgehog's, and a small tail gained from his appearance in Crossover Forces. He wears a backwards red cap, a light grey jacket, dark blue jeans, and brown shoes with white soles. Underneath his jacket, he is typically seen with a white t-shirt. Physically, he's taller than most of the other kids on the island by a few inches and can fit inside Bob's chassis with relative ease; also allowing One-One plenty of wiggle room.

## Personality

Contrary to his "Cool Kid" sort of style, Max is one of the sweetest of the bunch. And often the most active. Though he doesn't interact much with with Hedgehog and Oscar, when he does, he's usually the one who listens to them or gives a thumbs up. He doesn't seem interested in dating, however.

In Crossover Forces, his friendship with Oscar and Hedgehog specifically truly shows when he visits them to see a new structure being built on the island. Since he hasn't been with them totally often, he figures this would be interesting for them to see together. However, when it turns out to be an outpost for the Horde Syndicate and is captured, Max is both thankful that his friends escaped and worried that he may have put them in serious danger. With motivation from Cyber Catra, he is able to move past it and improve, being rescued by his friends and helping them shut down the villain's Battloon Fleet. He truly comes to his own when Black Hat's takeover began, going out of his way to recruit Bob to his side, rescue One-One, and ally with those from the Infinity Train. He further expanded with the rebellion led by Mao Mao and more from each of the new cartoons, then participating in the final battle against the Horde Empire even if it meant traveling to Etheria to destroy the last of the Battloons with no means of escaping. This event became his calling, joining the Toon Force as a new student of their initiation program.

Although he performed well in the program, he admits he sucks in a fight and is very hesitant to kill despite previously using a shuttle to blast through the virus creatures blocking his way through to Etheria years prior. He gets anxious when he forgets the final exam is on the same day he was planning to relax, but is easily motivated by Hedgehog and Oscar when they remind him of his achievements. This led him to mistaking the Dark Disney future for a simulation at first (possibly in denial from the sudden shift in events) before slowly coming to terms with the situation. He is quick to getting himself acquainted with people in the Underground, remaining very polite and firm. However, the moment he's captured and is forced to fight back, his anxiety increases, not only being forced to adapt to using the Soul Retrievers and kill people, but also from witnessing Thor's death. This shakes him for the rest of the 3rd chapter until he is greeted by the rest of the Underground, encouraging him to keep going to save lives. Though he witnesses more deaths on the Underground's side thereafter; many of which were sacrifices during missions he took part in, he remains firm on saving the future and takes inspiration from those such as Captain Rex and Blinx to come up with useful and effective strategies. He, however, also expresses concern over the possibility that all the friends he's met would be reset along with the timeline, only to suffer their own hardships in their respective worlds (i.e. Starscream's death in Armada and the formation of the Galactic Empire). Nevertheless, once he confronts Mickey and learns how to unlock time and space with Bimm's help, he ultimately decides to go through with it and returns to the past at the behest of the Underground. Although he initially thought he made a mistake returning to a specific period where a decade had passed since his vanishing, he gets bashful when Kitra, now his age, greets him and decides to help him catch up with life in the Toonverse.

## Relationships

### Oscar and Hedgehog

Since day one, Max has been best friends with Oscar and Hedgehog, even being a love interest to the latter, though he personally wasn't interested in anyone at the time. On most episodes, he's seen alongside the pair and had witnessed several weird things happening around the island, even if he's not always around to interact with them. By the time of Crossover Forces, Max had been so close to the duo that he told them personally about the outpost the Horde Syndicate were setting up, going as far as to sabotage the villain's plans and stopping the Battloon Fleet to save his friends and the Toonverse. In Dark Disney, he looks to them for advice at the start and gets motivated enough to take the Initiation Test, missing them throughout his time in the future when he realizes they've all expired by then. Though he vanished, his friends still knew he was alive and suspected his hyperdrive malfunctioned, proving to be correct when he returned years later from the future to reunite with them as adults.

### Cyber Catra/Kitra

For all the evil Cyber Catra had done and schemed, she was surprisingly affectionate toward the boy; even asking for his opinion about her evil monologue. Max blamed himself for Hedgehog and Oscar having to rescue him and being put in danger, but Catra believed it wasn't his fault and that his care for them and willingness to try and help proved more than enough to tell them he's still their friend. This would be her last interaction with him before he was rescued, and she would ask Hedgehog and Oscar to take care of him.

As baby Kitra, she looked up to Max and others like role models; much like Adorabat did to Mao Mao and Badgerclops. Her spirit even possessed Max's body briefly in the dark future to defeat a corrupted Judy. When Max returned, he was her age and the two had quickly shown their affection to one another (Kitra being the more talkative one while Max was the most confused). Since everyone of his friends had become adults by now, Max decides to stick with Kitra as a close friend of hers to play catch-up.

### Bob

Max never had any issues with Bob despite his role as an enforcer for Cyber Catra. He referred to him by name, reactivating the android when he was unable to stop the Battloon Fleet from warping to Toon City. Not only was Bob the most polite, he suspected Catra's betrayal and partnered with Max to find help.

### Oswald and the Underground

When Max first met the Underground led by Oswald, he started out hesitant not knowing who they were and just getting into the darkness of his situation. But very quickly on their first mission together, he wound up becoming very fond of almost every member of the organization much in the same way he was with the Toon Force. Characters like Bentley, Captain Rex, Toriel, and Luz are given the upmost concern from him whenever they struggle. Especially when it's revealed that Oswald neglected to tell them what would happen to each of them when the future is maintained from major events such as Order 66 or the death of Starscream in Transformers Armada. Oswald himself takes time to try and keep Max safe during each mission, carrying the burden of leading the Underground in what seems like a fruitless war. Luckily with Max's motivation after spending time with them in a short span, Oswald's able to pick himself back up and bring Mickey and his regime to justice.

When Max finally does return to the past and undoes the regime, one of the first things he does is visit Oswald in his world where he explains all that happened in the dark future, earning his friendship and offering to be there whenever he needs him.

### Blinx and Dust

Blinx was the first member of the Underground Max had met, and was usually there alongside Dust for a majority of their missions. Though Dust didn't speak until much later, he quickly got along with the boy much in the same way he became close friends with the Time Sweeper. And over time, Blinx explained his role in the Gameverse and how he and Dust came to know each other. Though tragic, Blinx was one of the few in the Underground who still looked forward to undoing the damage caused by Mickey even if it meant he didn't have a home to return to with the destruction of the Time Factory. The same could be said for Dust, who although was able to return to Falana with his friends and family, was just as concerned as Max about the rest of the Underground not getting a happy ending.

When Blinx was nearly killed at the hands of the 501st under Commander Cody as a replacement for Rex, Max, Starscream, and Dust immediately came to his rescue and panicked when it seemed he was ready to die. This didn't stop them from working together while he was in recovery, however, staying in contact in some of their later missions. Once Dust is able to speak, he expresses how Max had inspired him to keep his head up much in the same way Fidget and Ahrah would. In the end, Max's first trip after saving the timeline was returning the Mithrarin to Falana along with Blinx to live with each other in peace, and offers his assistance whenever he's needed by them.

## Abilities and Transformations

### Fruit Thief

In this form, Max was possessed by the video game villain, the Fruit Thief. He grew bat wings and had a boost of strength, able to dash at Oscar and land one-hit-kill blows on him to lower his life points. He's even able to carry other people around with ease.

### Battle Max/Soul Retrievers

Max is the first user of the Neutron Soul Retrievers, containing the data of past Toonverse characters, including Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, and Gumball Watterson. The last capsule, however, was meant for She-Ra but was destroyed by Judy Hopps, leading to Max combining what he had to create his Battle Suit. This allowed him to utilize all three capsules at once, and even tap into the Final Magisword's administrative powers to look into reality itself, much like Bimm and Nicole Watterson.

## Trivia

* In some artwork for Max in Crossover Forces, his face seems to resemble how he is as a teenager instead of a child due to the change in style. However, at age 15 for Dark Disney, this remains consistent. Everlasting youth, I guess.
* Max used to be a love interest for Hedgehog in the pilot and one episode of the show, but he wasn't interested. With that said, fans believe he maybe into Alexa since both are usually seen together thereafter. However, according to Frozarburst, this is also a close friendship.
* It's a fact that Max knows how to knit. When he learned how to do this, we don't know
* Max, as well as the rest of the Summer Camp Island characters, grows a tail by the end of Crossover Forces after a potion spell gone wrong from Susie.
* It's unknown if Max in-show was meant to have wings outside of his Fruit Thief form. However, according to Frozar, Max's wings had never developed and he was forced to fly by other means.
* Due to appearance and facial features, Frozarburst mistook Max for the same species as Hedgehog. This was, thankfully, never acknowledged in story.
	+ Additionally, Max was originally going to be a badger in Summer Camp Island as shown in the pilot.
* As Frozarburst puts it, Max is the Gordon Freeman of the legacy series.
* Max's arc in Dark Disney is very similar to X from Mega Man X
* The use of the Neutron Soul Retrievers may have further driven Max's heroism by the end of the story, causing him to sound more like the original members of the Toon Force, such as Danny and Jimmy.
* Max makes a cameo in Dust and the Sweeper, depicted in wall art at the forge in the Plains of Elysium encountering Necro Bimm.