Max

**Max** is a minor character in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom* and the mayor of Yoshi Resort, being a regular human with some unknown demonic powers who loves the Resort dearly.

## Appearance

Max is a human with brown hair and eyebrows, as well as black coloured eyes. He typically wears a white, short-sleeved shirt with a zipped down black jacket worn over it; this jacket has a wither face and pockets on it, and the jacket has longer sleeves, he also wears grey pants and black and white shoes.

## Background

Max has lived in Yoshi Resort for his entire life, growing up and getting his education for many years there, where he saw all the different changes the city went through and many different people come and go. It is unknown where his demonic, decaying powers came from, whether he got them via a heretic spell or it just being something that runs through his ancestry, but he tended to remain secretive about it and only used them in dire scenarios. As he got older, he had grown even more attached to the wonders of the Resort and dreamed of being able to be it’s mayor in the future to help it grow and expand even more. He did a lot of community work throughout the years and after completing his work at Yoshi Resort University, he decided to run for mayor of the city. Though he lost the vote and was beaten in votes by Hector Flores who was re-elected as mayor at the time, it didn’t cause him to give up hope and liking for the Resort and he wanted to continue working and enjoying life there even if he wasn’t able to achieve his greatest dream. Some years later, Hector Flores decided to resign as mayor and moved away to The City of Nexus, giving Max a time to shine and run for mayor once again - this time he succeeded and had become the new mayor of Yoshi Resort. With this role he got his own office where he does his work, and with his role as mayor he began assisting in the construction of many new sites across the city such as a hospital, where he met a man named Doctor M. who he worked alongside and formed a small friendship with. To this day he is still mayor, having been recently re-elected since he won the last election so it seems that he will continue to be mayor for a few more years to come.

Max first met Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. when they had travelled to Yoshi Resort, it being the former two’s first time ever coming, after finding out about Officer M’s cousin Doctor M. He was pleased to meet them even though he didn’t recognise Officer M. since it had been so long since he was last at Yoshi Resort, and directed them to the hospital but warned them that Doctor M. was doing an important surgery at the moment so it would be best for them to not disturb him. He met the trio a few more times on their subsequent visits to Yoshi Resort, and though he was still welcoming towards them he had began to notice that they were starting to frequent the city as they were coming more then a few times. He had also appeared to defend the Resort and the trio from harm when the Pumpkin Punk was chasing them, and he managed to fight off the Punk with his powers for a decent few hours until finally being knocked out by a soul bomb attack, with Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. managing to heal up a bit during this period thanks to Doctor M. and run away. Max did survive and regained consciousness a few hours later, but was left badly injured by the Pumpkin Punk’s wrath and also became spiteful towards the guys since they had left him to fight on his own without any help. As a result, the next few times after this that they visited Yoshi Resort Max acted rather cold and distant towards them, whether it be because he can no longer trust them or just felt betrayed since they nearly left him to die. He did tell them a few things about the Farlands when Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. later approached him about details regarding the mysterious place, but the details he gives aren’t really useful since he claims that nobody who’s gone there has ever returned. This didn’t even end up being true since Llama reveals to them that he had been there before and returned, telling them about the dangers. The next day after the guys had recovered from their trek within the Resort’s Bog Copper Tower, they approached Max in need of a boat which they could use to get to the Farlands easily, following Llama’s advice. He took them to the Yoshi Resort docks where an old fisherman offered them a few rusty old boats, with Officer M. taking a boat called the S.S. Cheapskate which was not an ideal name but was the only one that hadn’t been sold out yet.

Max is involved in a prophecy hidden in the Resort where he goes on a journey with some of his closest friends: Shumi, Llama and a Yoshi named Tommy but gets lost in the woods and separated from the others on his journey. Whilst exploring the forest he will fall into the void and succumb to it’s influence, becoming a dark overlord of the deepest depths who even tries to kill Shumi but is saved by him. Max will accompany Shumi on a journey to many other places alongside other allies he makes, and help him defeat a wicked demon called Endie in a world-ending event. But this prophecy likely won't come true now because Shumi died to Superdog.

## Personality

Max is a pretty nice person who is polite and often patient with those around him, and is caring for all the citizens and Yoshis of the Resort. He is well respected by it’s citizens who see him as a worthy mayor, with him having faith in the Resort getting better and he wants to do anything that he can to improve the place even more. Despite that, he does also have a bit of a darker side and if annoyed, then he often holds a grudge with people and can get pretty snarky and sarcastic with them; an example of this was when Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. left him to fight the Pumpkin Punk all on his own without helping at all, so as a result he has become more irritated towards them for this.

Max has made a few friends across the Resort, such as Shumi, Llama and Tommy who he says are the three residents there that he hangs out with the most, and he also does have a little bit of a friendship with Officer M’s cousin Doctor M. even if not as much.

## Abilities

Though Max may look like a regular human being, he in fact does have some special powers that he can use to defend himself and the Resort should it be under attack. He is capable of conjuring shadowflames and shaping them into fireballs which he can throw towards any enemies, or can even just release them via powerful streams of flames. Another power he has is being able to throw out wither skulls that can burst into lingering wither clouds, rotting anything that comes nearby the blast radius. Furthermore, he is also agile which allows him to run pretty fast and he can use his flames to propel himself through the air like a sort of flight - it gives him good mobility.

## Appearances

* S6E4 - Pie War
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus
* S7E5 - Sparkville
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: The Lost Origins
* S8E4 - Bog Copper Tower
* S8E5 - The Farlands
* S8E12 - Unstable Amulet
* S8E14 - The Mystical Acres
* S8E15 - Soul War
* Christmas Special

He has a minor background appearance in Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Fighters too, in the Yoshi Resort area.

## Trivia

* He is a self-insert of Da Wither Lord, one of the creators and showrunners of *Turtle Man and DaPhantom* who also created the Yoshi Resort map.
* Max also exists in the Yoshi Resort: Rebooted game itself, as a character that can be spoken to several times across the map.

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