Max Kanté

* Max
* Pegasus
* Gamer

Martial Le Minoux (French)
Omar Vitelli (Italian)
José Torres (Latin American Spanish)
Roman Hajlich (Czech)
Boldog Gábor (Hungarian)
João Victor Granja (Brazilian Portuguese)
Sebastian Fitzner (German)
Nikola Todorović (Serbian)
Hiroshi Kōsaka (Japanese)
Zulkhairi Ahmad (Malay)
Diogo Valsassina (European Portuguese; Seasons 1-3, Queen Banana, Guiltrip, Optigami)
Pedro Leitão (European Portuguese; Season 4)
Mitch Wolterink (Dutch)

## Character Information

### Affiliations

Miraculous holders
French Miraculous superhero team

### Occupation

Student at Collège Françoise Dupont
Superhero

### Likes

Video games
Technology
Mathematics
Hanging out with his friends
Traveling by train

### Dislikes

Losing
Being alone

### Powers and abilities

Genius Intellect
Gaming skills
Pegasus' Voyage (occasionally)
Piloting skills and Robot regeneration (as Gamer; occasionally)

### Weapons

Pegasus' Horseshoe (occasionally)
Gamer's Giant Robots (occasionally)
Gamer 2.0's Reality Bending Simulators (temporarily)

## Character Relationships

### Affiliations

Miraculous holders
French Miraculous superhero team

### Alignment

Good

 —Max, "Guiltrip"

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**Max Kanté** is a student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont.

In "Gamer", when he loses his place in the school video game tournament because of Marinette Dupain-Cheng, he is akumatized by Hawk Moth and becomes **Gamer**, a Video-Game themed supervillain who controls a huge fighting robot.

In "Startrain", in order to save his mother, who was akumatized into the titular villain, and his friends, Max receives the Horse Miraculous from Ladybug. When the Miraculous is inhabited by Kaalki, Max becomes **Pegasus**, a horse-themed superhero who helps Ladybug and Cat Noir during "particularly difficult missions" in the third season and beyond.

In "Gamer 2.0", after being turned down by everybody to play his creative video game, Max is re-akumatized into Gamer, with the new title **Gamer 2.0**, getting a new ability to create a video game in real life.

After the events of "Strikeback", Max will temporarily be unable to become Pegasus after Hawk Moth manages to steal the Horse Miraculous along with all the others contained in the Chinese Miracle Box from Ladybug's yo-yo.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Max is a short slender teenage boy, who has a medium-brown complexion, coily-kinky brown hair, and moderate tangelo eyes. He is the only male character in Miraculous with realistic eyelashes (all the others appear to be wearing eyeliner).

### Civilian attire

Max wears black-rimmed glasses, a light green polo t-shirt, and pale, light grayish gamboge and brown checkered jeans. He also has suspenders with a light brilliant tangelo line between two grayish amber lines and silver buckles, along with pale, light grayish cobalt blue sneakers and a blue watch on his right wrist.

### As Gamer

As Gamer, he has grayish purple skin and vivid amaranth eyes. His glasses become butterfly-shaped and the glass has a light green tint. He wears a black skin-tight bodysuit with a head cover over his head and neck and a small green circle on his chest and three thin green stripes around his waist, each forearm, and each lower leg.

### As Pegasus

As Pegasus, Max's hair is longer, colored light brownish gray and braided in multiple locks that are tied back with a black headband, and his legs are muscular. He wears a deep brown high-mandarin-collared full-body outfit with multiple grayish tangelo outlines, dark grayish vermilion bracelets and anklets, and a small, light gray horseshoe on his chest. The Horseshoe is on his upper back when not in use. He has two wings that come from the anklets and sneakers, which resemble the wings Hermes has on his helmet.

## Personality

Max is a gamer and a fan of technology. He is smart, especially when it comes to mathematics, as seen when he figures out how fast Kim needs to be to make it to Pont des Arts right before Chloé Bourgeois gets there in "Dark Cupid". He tends to be carried away with his knowledge, often over-explaining things with further detail than necessary and occasionally revealing something that was supposed to be a secret. Max is also friendly, helping his friends with knowledge and support. In "Gamer", when he loses his place in the competition for which he trained a whole year, he sportingly congratulates Marinette and Adrien before he quickly leaves the room. Once outside, he starts rambling to himself about how unfair his situation was, and it isn't until after his akumatization and Marinette offering up her spot to him in the competition that he perks up.

As Pegasus, Max is also brave as well as shown to be very polite and works well with others seen in "Party Crasher".

As Gamer, he stops at nothing to show everyone that he's the best gamer, even turning people into experience points that help him level up. Additionally, the resentment he held towards Marinette turns into hatred, resulting in him specifically targeting her for a brief period. In "Gamer 2.0", nevertheless, he can be humble when admitting defeat.

## Abilities

### As a civilian

Max is very intelligent, being excellent at knowing facts, statistics, and calculations. He is also very skilled in playing video games and he has one of the highest scores in the entire school at playing *Ultimate Mecha Strike III*.

Max's intelligence was shown in his inventions that are revealed in "Robostus": an anti-virus flash drive and Markov, a highly-functional robot that has developed emotions on its own. Max is even capable of creating his own video game based on the akumatized villains.

### As Pegasus

Pegasus has much more enhanced skills, such as speed, agility, and strength, and he is almost invulnerable to physical damage. He is also very skilled at utilizing the Horseshoe during close combat.

His special power, Voyage, allows him to open a portal that he can travel through and exit at any location he desires.

### As Gamer

As Gamer, he pilots a giant fighting robot designed after MX-01 from *Ultimate Mecha Strike III*. The robot can shoot a laser beam that will transform any people and vehicle it hits into floating green orbs that serve as experience points. By absorbing these experience points the robot will level up.

* Level 1: A simple floating black pyramid with a green eye.
* Level 2: Adds two tall tentacle-like legs.
* Level 3: The robot becomes more human-like and it gains the power to perform special moves, such as firing electricity and missiles, creating a force field, and spinning like a drill.
* Level 4: The final level, but its form was never seen.

Gamer is able to "save his last level" and respawn the robot if it gets destroyed.

### As Gamer 2.0

Gamer 2.0 controls a massive pyramid, which is a real world video game inside. The game pits player against player and the playable avatars are past Akumatized supervillains.

After each fight, both the winning avatars' Akumatized object and the losing avatars' Akumatized object are added to the winning players arsenal where they can later be selected as a power-up in the final battle, giving the player access to those villains superpowers.

## Relationships

### Lê Chiến Kim/King Monkey

Max and Kim one couple. They are usually seen around each other and sit next to each other in class. Max supports Kim, helping him prepare

In "Party Crasher", the two work together with their friends to have a party for Adrien.

He meets Kim's alter-ego, King Monkey as his alter-ego, Pegasus and the two work well together continuing to do so in "Ephemeral".

### Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

Generally, Max and Marinette get along nicely. In "Gamer", he becomes upset with Marinette for beating him at *Ultimate Mecha Strike III* and becoming the second student to go to the tournament, which he tries to hide but fails to over time. After she offers up her place for him, though, he gains a lot more respect for her, and he encourages her when she ends up being his partner. Max appreciates Marinette's bravery and compassion, grateful for her trying to get Markov back for him in "Robostus", and he cares enough about her to team up with other students to try fighting off the titular villain and her minions to protect her in "Befana". During "Gamer 2.0", Max becomes sad that Marinette, like everyone else, is too busy to try out his new game. After he is deakumatized, Max took her parent's offer to play his new game with them and soon Marinette joins.

Max sees Ladybug as a wonderful protector of Paris, and he appreciates her greatly. In "Robostus", he takes her advice that he should forgive Markov because people sometimes struggle to control their emotions.

During "Startrain", Max accepted Ladybug's help request to stop his akumatized mother; when the temperatures inside the train were getting too dangerous for him, Ladybug offered him the Horse Miraculous, and he accepted it, becoming the hero Pegasus, and he followed Ladybug's instructions and lead faithfully as well as in "Party Crasher". After his mother and friends were saved, he returned the Horse Miraculous to her. As of "Mega Leech" and "Ephemeral", he continues to answer Ladybug's call

### Markov

Max cherishes Markov, both as his creation and his close friend. He fully supports that Markov has his own personality and emotions, and he enjoys working together with him. When Mr. Damocles confiscates Markov, Max worries about his robot's reaction to being separated from him for the first time. While Markov is akumatized into Robostus, Max is alarmed by his friend's villainous actions, and he defies him and his wishes to become human by freeing Ladybug and Cat Noir before their Miraculouses are taken, telling Robostus that he likes him the way he was before akumatization and he doesn't want him harming the heroes. Once Markov is back to normal, Max is initially unsure and worried about reactivating Markov, but after Ladybug encourages him to forgive Markov because he cares about him, Max goes through with it and warmly greets him. The two continue spending time together as seen in "Syren" and "Party Crasher".

### Kaalki

When Kaalki and Max met for the first time in "Startrain", he was friendly with her, and only vaguely surprised at the sight of a kwami for the first time; but Kaalki, being rather picky about holders, immediately asked him if he was someone glorious and famous, only stopping when Ladybug assured her that Max was fit for the job.

As of "Party Crasher" and so on, the two continue on working together in helping their allies against Hawk Moth.

### Nino Lahiffe/Carapace

In "Horrificator" Max helps Nino with his film by calculating the hours they have left to film it, as well as helping his classmate put together a boys-only party for Adrien by providing Nino with the dolls they need to "bribe" Adrien's bodyguard, and making the party itself a bit more exciting in "Party Crasher".

He and Nino have met as their alter egos in "Party Crasher", "Mega Leech" and "Ephemeral".

## Trivia

* Max's name is of Latin origin and means "Greatest".
	+ His family is from Mali, although the ethnic group is unknown.
* In "The Bubbler" and "Lady Wifi", Max appears without glasses.
	+ Thomas Astruc noted the instance in the former episode as an animation mistake.
* In his first appearances in the Korean musical *Ladybug*, Max wears a different outfit, which includes a purple t-shirt with white lettering printed on the front underneath a green and black plaid hooded jacket.
	+ In later performances, Max's outfit is mostly identical to his show appearance, excluding his glasses and including a black hat.
* Gamer reappears in the two-part special event "Heroes' Day".
* A statue of Gamer appears in the Musée Grévin in "The Puppeteer 2".
* In the French dub, his superhero name is "Pegase" which is French for Pegasus.
* Following Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Chloé Bourgeois, Nathalie Sancoeur, and Luka Couffaine, he is the sixth person to become a Miraculous holder and akumatized villain, excluding Gabriel Agreste, who akumatized himself.
* He and Carapace are the only Miraculous holders who wears glasses and keep them even after transformation.
	+ This is due to the fact that the Horse Miraculous *are* said glasses.
* Max's superhero name stems from a mythical creature called Pegasus which is a winged horse from Greek Mythology.
* He is the only member of team that doesn't wear a mask due to the Horse Miraculous being a pair of glasses but wasn't the first Miraculous holder to be seen without a mask.
* Max is the first member of the team that doesn't give himself a superhero name. Instead, he was called Pegasus by Ladybug.
* He is actually that third person of African origins to wield a Miraculous succeeding his Miraculous predecessor Mudekudeku who wielded the Ladybug Miraculous and his friend Carapace.
* As seen in "Mr. Pigeon 72", Max has been akumatized into Gamer four times. ("Gamer", "Catalyst", "Gamer 2.0" and one off-screen akumization).
* On Twitter, Miraculous creator Thomas Astruc confirmed that Max is asexual, meaning he doesn't experience sexual attraction stating "On va dire que Max est plutôt ace et Alix plutôt aro..." meaning "We will say that Max is kind of ace and Alix kind of aro ...".

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/BenjaminDiskin/status/1309634544102862850
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/childishgamzeno/status/1409573049611915267
3. ↑ In "Startrain" by Claudie Kante
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190213214129if\_/https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/755033027823046656
5. ↑ http://miraculeusecoccinelle.tumblr.com/post/129733355946/miraculous-les-aventures-de-ladybug-et-chat-noir
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/1085919271811723264
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/885252356836929536
8. ↑ https://pandasuite.com/viewer/2.0.2/59a6c26e48abe6f53a002dc9?t=1 (direct video source here and English subtitles here)
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/1252964475411599363