Max

Max is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## **BIOGRAPHY**

Max is a camper at Camp Campbell and the main protagonist of Camp Camp. His deeply cynical attitude about the camp clashes sharply with David's perky and bubbly demeanor.

His initial main goals included escaping the camp and "breaking David's façade". However, after Season 1, he has changed his focus to creating general mischief for his own amusement. At the start of season 4, he has been coming to terms with the fact that his attitude is getting better.

Outside of Camp Campbell, he is also a member of The New Action Squad, growing more caring and having a heart.

## **APPEARANCE**

Max is a relatively short kid with a thin build, fluffy black hair, bluish-green eyes, and tan skin. He often has bags under his eyes. He wears a contrasting blue hoodie with a yellow Camp Campbell T-shirt underneath, blue jeans, and red shoes with white stripes and black laces.

## **PERSONALITY**

Max is a jaded ten-year-old who is extremely pessimistic and seems to despise a wide variety of things, including but not limited to all of the amenities of Camp Campbell. Particularly in the first couple of seasons, Max has gone out of his way to cause trouble, such as building a Rube Goldberg machine in the episode "Mascot, creating a gambling ring in "Quest to Sleepy Peak Peak", and breaking the rules by dealing candy in "The Candy Kingpin". He has also actively trying to escape camp in the pilot and in "Scout's Dishonor".

Max has repeatedly been shown to have excellent sleuthing skills, much like a detective, and it could be argued that this could be the specific type of camp he should have been signed up for. In season 1, he took charge of locating Neil in "Reigny Day", trailed David around and questioned multiple townsfolk about him in "Into Town", and took a "Journey to Spooky Island" to prove the island wasn't haunted and had very thorough and logical explanations for everything. In season 3, he made a thorough investigation into Quartermaster's missing hook in "The Fun-Raiser", went searching for the story of Jasper's death (and David's involvement) in "Dial M For Jasper", and thoroughly (and anxiously) collected information on David's odd behavior in "Arrival of the Torso Takers". The season 4 episode "Who Peed the Lake" was practically a full-on police investigation from start to finish, with him even wearing a deerstalker cap and calling himself the "camp detective." "New Adventure!" also gives him an opportunity to put his skills to use by searching for whoever stole Gwen's "feminine haptic devices", though the actual investigation was performed off-screen.

Max is much more mature than his fellow campers, to the point of which Camp Counselors David and Gwen ask for his assistance regarding difficult issues (such as the torrid romance displayed in "Quartermaster Appreciation Day"). Due to his maturity, Max refuses to participate in childish activities (read: all the camp activities), or at least do as little as humanly possible. Although he says he isn't afraid of anything in "Journey to Spooky Island", he has shown fear on a few occasions, though in general he simply doesn't react to scary situations.

He's also very intelligent for his age and has repeatedly voiced very insightful and mature opinions on the people around him and how the world works, although they are always colored by pessimism. He has been left scarred by a spell that Harrison cast on him in "Mind Freakers" that made him vomit up random magical objects, and has stated that the reveal that ghosts are real has turned his entire worldview upside-down in "Dial M For Jasper". He also acknowledges that the forest attacked the campers in "The Quarter-Moon Convergence", but actively refuses to think about it, lest he be traumatized.

## **TRIVIA**

* Unlike the other campers, Max's parents "didn't care" enough to sign him up for a specific camp, leaving him without a purpose at Camp Campbell, which is revealed in the episode "Parents' Day".
	+ The fact that Max's parents just left his papers with only his first name and age written on it, without revealing his last name, contact number, or any other information proves that his parents didn't care for him at all, to the point where if something bad were to happen to Max, the camp would not be able to contact his family about it or take him back.
	+ Their neglect may also be why he hoped the other campers' parents would fail at supporting their children, insinuating that Max may be jealous of how the other kids' parents care for them and his own don't. He was remorseful that Space Kid's parents couldn't make it to Parents' Day, but went right back to being grumpy when it turned out his uncle was coming instead.
* Max and David are the only characters whose ages have been clearly established. With Max's age (10) being revealed by Gwen in "Gwen Gets a Job", later confirmed in "Parents' Day". And with David's age (24) revealed in his Tinder profile in "Romeo & Juliet II: Love Resurrected".
* Contrary to popular belief, his full first name has not been confirmed to be "Maxwell", "Maximilian" or even "Maximus"; these are actually from other people making assumptions. Pikeman has misnamed him twice, calling him Maxwell in "Gwen Gets a Job" and Maximus in "New Adventure!", and Preston called him "Maximilian" in "Nikki's Last Day on Earth." Even the registration form shown in "Parents' Day" only had the name "Max" on it, so whether or not it is indeed a nickname remains to be seen.
	+ While discussing Ered's nickname in "Camp Cool Kidz", Nikki calls Max a "first-part nicknamer", indicating that "Max" may not be his full first name.
* Max has a hidden talent: tap dancing. In "The Forest", during the scene where he addresses everyone to keep it a secret, a couple of obvious tap-shoe clicks can be heard as he walks, and his shoes are clearly black instead of the usual red. Other hints include Nerris' snicker about Max's (dance) routine, and Nurf also saying he'd rather "tap out" than give away the secret.
* Max is skilled in knitting, as shown when he was able to knit a cloth dummy of himself in "Escape from Camp Campbell," as well as additional dummies for Neil and Nikki.
	+ He is also seen to be skilled in knot tying as shown in "Camp Cool Kidz" when David compliments his skills, and in the same breath comments how torn he is that Max used this skill to tie him and Gwen onto the flagpole at the start of the campers' rebellion.