Montana Max

Montana Max is a human cartoon character and the main antagonist of the early 90’s children’s animated cartoon, Tiny Toon Adventures. He is a human toon who attends the cartoon school located in Acme Acres, which is called Acme Looniversity.

## Appearance

Montana Max’s hair color is brown, but sometimes his hair color as mistaken to be a orange-brownish like color. Monty frequently on the show wears a grayish-blue jacket, a light green shirt, grayish-blue pants, and black shoes.

## Biography & Backstory

Monty is shown rarely to have a sweet side and is roled as a main character in 2 episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures: Love Disconnection, and Playtime Toons. He seems to get annoyed by Elmyra Duff, the other villain of the show who has a big crush on Monty, but he is shown to get help from her sometimes, probably to get those two pesky rabbits, Buster and Babs. This might mean that Elmyra feels like her boyfriend finally appreciates her at last. In Citizen Max, an half hour episode that is about the dark story of Montana Max, Max is destroying his stuff in his mansion until he saw his bike mirror and noticed he had Acne on his face. But, Hamton and other toons thought Monty said ''ACME'' and didn't know what he meant when he said that. One time back then, Monty was a peasant, and was best friends with Buster. He actually had less money and was also very nice and generous. But, until Max's mother won the lottery and moved into a mansion, Buster thought Monty was going to be his closest pal forever, but by the time the Acme Looniversity class president election started, he began to change as a nasty, evil, and greedy kid who then claimed Buster as his ''enemy''. Montana Max later appeared in The Plucky Duck Show, even though most of the episodes were recycled TTA episodes He also appeared in The 1995 Halloween special of Tiny Toons and had a minor role, unlike the two other TTA films, he just made brief cameos. But, He did not make any cameos in the later show Steven worked as a executive producer on, Animaniacs. He then was replaced by Rudy Mookich in Pinky, Elmyra, and The Brain. The show was unsuccessful and many Tiny Toons fans criticize them for replacing Monty as Elmyra Duff's love interest. Monty is also known as a cheater in competition, and he thinks he is better than anyone else, especially Buster Bunny. Monty's goal in life is to bring misery to Buster Bunny's life, since they are both at odds.

According to The Looney Beginning, At the Warner Bros. Animation studio, Monty was going to have his own show at first, but then rejected because of his own nasty behavior and greediness. Monty then gets revenge on Buster and Babs as they have plans to come up with a new show called Tiny Toons. Max stole the scripts and booted the two rabbits out and renamed the show ''The Montana Max Show''. At the end, Monty was tricked by Buster and Babs who were dressed as Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd, who were Montana Max's heroes in Looney Tunes. Max then got mad and realized that it was them in costumes and set out traps around his mansion, but failed since they escaped so quickly. Monty was then being chased by one of his big coins of a face of himself on it and got defeated by getting crushed by it. That means Buster and Babs saved the show from being ruined by Monty.

## Parodies

### **Wex Wuthor**

Wex Wuthor is Montana Max's supervillain alter-ego. He is a parody of DC Comics SuperVillain Lex Luthor. Wex is considered as an enemy of the Just-Us League of SuperToons, as seen in New Class Day. He was also the main antagonist in the Cinemaniacs segment, SuperBabs.

### **Harris Goulash**

Harris Goulash is Montana Max's parody of a unknown villain from the Indiana Jones film series. Harris was trying to get the secret of life before Pasadena (Buster Bunny) does, but at the end of the segment (Pasadena Jones), he failed by getting squished by the door that he was pulling on saying ''Its mine, finally mine!!''.

## Personality

Monty enjoys cheating in all forms of competition; oppressing the weak, terrorizing the timid, masterminding hostile takeovers and watching the compound interest rate climb past twenty percent. Monty is bossy and abrasive and hates fair play, honesty and people who stand up to him. He delights in using his vast fortune to bring misery to others, particularly Buster and Babs. He'll spend any amount of money to spoil their fun, but most often winds up bankrupting himself in the process. Monty is the perfect foil for Buster. The sawed-off bully's temper is matched only by his greed, and Buster is always able to bilk some fast bucks out of Monty.

Deep down, Monty is very insecure and sometimes fears no one likes him. He's right, of course, and occasionally feels the need to call "Acme Rent-a-Friend." Although he yells most of the time, sometimes we get glimpses of the real kid beneath the temper. He lives in the grandest mansion in Acme Acres. The grounds include swimming pools, tennis courts, stables and the like. It's the kind of place that would make Donald Trump envious. It has signs which read "Poverty Stinks," and "Charity Workers Will Be Shot."

Monty's goal in life is to bring misery into the life of happy-go-lucky Buster. He's not particularly fond of anyone in Acme Acres, for that matter. He thinks Babs is a scatterbrain and his only use for Plucky is as a pawn in one of his devious plots. He thinks Elmyra is a drippy little nerd, but she is one of his only friends, and he will occasionally call her into service to help him pester Buster and Babs. Elmyra loves the attention, figuring her "boyfriend" has come around and appreciates her at last.

It was revealed in the episode ''Playtime Toons'', that Montana Max owns his very own charge card, which his parents gave him. He can use it to buy anything he wants, like toys, since he said he can use his card to buy more toys and other stuff anytime.

## Relationship with Buster and Babs

In the series premiere, "The Looney Beginning" (a non-canonical origin story), it is revealed that Max was the star of a show that had been pitched to Warner Bros., but rejected because of the character's brattiness. Taking revenge on the network for rejecting his series, Max boots Babs and Buster out of the cartoon, steals their scripts and takes over the show, renaming it *The Montana Max Show*. Buster and Babs manage to reclaim the show by visiting his mansion disguised as Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd, who Max admits are his personal heroes.

According to the half-hour episode "Citizen Max" (a parody of the movie, *Citizen Kane*), Monty was once impoverished and friends with one of the series' stars, Buster Bunny, until the day his parents won the lottery and became quite wealthy; after this, he abandoned Buster and quickly turned into his familiar bullying, juvenile delinquent self, thus setting the stage for his long-running feud with the blue rabbit.

In the "The Acme Acres Zone" (a parody of *The Twilight Zone*) episode segment "A Walk on the Flip Side", Max gets an ironic comeuppance from Babs and Buster. Monty hates rabbits so much that he dreams that he is a rabbit himself. As a rabbit, he tries to get back to his real home. Elmyra catches him, but he makes an easy getaway. When he gets to his house, he finds out that Buster and Babs have taken over his mansion. They call the animal shelter and the keeper puts him in with a bunch of rabbits. Max is terrorized by visions of rabbits and by Elmyra when she wants to take him home "forever and ever." As Max wakes up, he decides to be nice to rabbits, but reneges when Buster and Babs begs at his doorstep. After being chased off the premises, Babs observes that these zone shows are supposed to have a twist ending. Max gets his twist as he opens his cabinet and finds a whole bunch of rabbits in it.

In the "Rainy Daze" episode segment "Rent a Friend", Buster is the only one who willingly volunteered to be Monty's rent-a-friend for the day, as Monty's abusive and insensitive behavior (as well as many dangerous toys) has scared all of the other rent-a-friends away. Buster is forced to be friendly towards Monty, who mistreats the bunny and has him play with his deadly and destructive toys, but when Monty goes too far, Buster gets his revenge on him (also costing the rich brat $250,000 to be saved from a tremendous fall, plus $13.50 for his rent-a-friend fee).

## Interests & Hobbies

Monty has interests which include counting his capital, landscape deforestation and rabbit stomping. He also owns heavily polluting industries that make things like elevator buttons and holes. In his own home, he loves destroying his toys because he thinks they are lame.

## Home

Montana Max, along with his parents, all live in the grandest mansion in Acme Acres, where it is located on the far edge. The grounds include swimming pools, tennis courts, stables and the like. It's the kind of place that would make Donald Trump envious. It has signs which read "Poverty Stinks," and "Charity Workers Will Be Shot". The mansion is armed with security guards, and Montana Max has several servants to do the simplest of tasks. The mansion has a bowling alley and movie theater, an in-ground pool, a high-tech alarm system, and countless safes for Max's money. The mansion also includes countless state-of-the-art traps for rabbits.

## Family

Montana Max has two parents, Mr. Max and Mrs. Max, who take personal care of him.

## Trivia

In Prom-ise Her Anything, Even though Monty is a minor, he is claimed to be a republican in this episode.

Montana Max is 14 years old.

Some TTA episodes, Monty himself has his own theme song jingle, as heard in the opening of the segment ''My Dinner With Elmyra'' in the TTA episode, Love Disconnection. It can be noticed in various other episodes.

Max has a supervillain ego of himself named Wex Wuthor, a parody of the DC Comic Fictional Supervillain Lex Luthor. Wex is considered as an enemy of the Just-Us League of SuperToons, as seen in New Class Day.

Monty might have a character named after him, Major from Hellsing, who is also named Montana Max. Maybe the author of Hellsing, Kouta Hirano, mainly based The Major on his Tiny Toons counterpart (Montana Max).

Montana Max is actually named after a state in the USA, Montana. Because, Montana is a western state, and Monty was named like that to share common characteristics with his Looney Tunes counterpart Yosemite Sam.

Monty is mainly based on Yosemite Sam, since they both have a bad temper, hatred for rabbits, and a western state named after them. Unlike Sam, The only difference is that Max actually speaks proper english, instead of using phrases ''ain't'' and ''ain't none''.

Deep down, Max is very afraid that no one likes him, and he's right. So, he mostly calls an ACME-Rent-A-Friend to play with, but he usually yells and has a bad temper. So, he might have a hard time making actual ''friends''.

According to Wikipedia, it has been confirmed that Montana Max will return in the upcoming Tiny Toon Adventures reboot, Tiny Toons Looniversity. Elmyra, the main affection for Monty, will not return in the reboot.