Max Thunderman

Maximus "Max" Octavius Thunderman is one of the recurring multitagonists of the original series *The Mission*.

He is a superhero (former supervillain) whose superpowers include Telekinesis, Heat Breath, and Freeze Breath, after forcing Phoebe to give him powers. After years of aspiring to become a super-villain, he eventually chose to become a superhero. Despite growing up in a family of people who want to do good, Max wanted to become a supervillain because he felt overshadowed by Phoebe and wanted to be the best at what he does. His family believed that Max was just going through a phase and wasn't truly evil.

Eventually, Max had to make a tough choice between being a hero and a villain. He chose to become a superhero and is currently training being a superhero.

Max is portrayed by Jack Griffo.

## Biography

Max, had a minor scene in the first episode. He was seen when Phoebe came home upset. He was also seen when Phoebe was studying. Max, is the twin of Phoebe. He gets his own full major scene in Piper gets sick, where he was building gadgets and Nora and Billy had taken some of them.

He was born in Hiddenville, like his sister. He was born 20 seconds after her. When he was 1, he developed teeth quick, unlike Phoebe, she got her teeth at 9 months. When he was 2 years and 3 months, he had started to walk, which was too late, because all the other members of his family first walked between 1year 1month and 1year 8months. When he was 3, he was aware of his surroundings and started to talk. He was not sure of things yet, so he was friendly to Phoebe. When he was 4, he was developing more sense and was more aware of the outsider and surroundings. When he was 5, he discovered scissors, and became reckless, since he was sure of things. He wasn't as nice to Phoebe, so he beheaded her dolls. This caused a big bicker and fight and is why they still fight up till today. This made Phoebe extremely rude to him, which made him ruder back. When he was 8, he decided he wanted to be a supervillain. None of his family members were supportive of this. When he was 12, he ruined Phoebe's chance of being in the Super S.A.S.S. Scientist group, which caused her extreme hatred and bickering between the two.

Max fins out Phoebe's secret. He was first to know, not counting Emma, Piper and Hudson. Then he forces her and Jake to give him superpowers, then he won't blurt out her secret. He then gets superpowers and continues with his Legacy. He later decides to become a hero instead of a villain.

### School and Friends

Max attends Beverly Hills High along with his sister, Phoebe Thunderman. Even though Max is smart, he chooses not to work hard at school and he misses a lot of classes as seen in Chicken Licken Opposite Dimension among others. Max uses his math and science knowledge at home to develop Gadgets that he mainly used for pranks. He even built a series of rockets which shocked Sarah and Evan.

Generally, Max doesn't like to get involved in school activities except when he wants to prank someone, mess with Phoebe or avenge Phoebe. For this reason, he always finds himself in trouble with Principal Bradford who crowned him "public school enemy number 1" because of his pranks. Due to his pranking, he wants to use his evil phase in front of non superheroes.

While Phoebe tried hard to make friends at their school, Max didn't seem concerned. Even when Lionel, Jake, and Tom approached him so that he can teach them how to prank in Chocolate Hypnotiser, he ended up turning them into his minions and it backfired. It was not until We meet Beyonce and Nick Jonas that Max made friends after starting Max's Band with Oyster, Gideon, and Angus who later got replaced with Wolfgang. He eventually decided to ditch the band in Mean Queen so that he can concentrate on his future careers and legacies.

## Description and Personality

When people think of nice and helpful, they don't first think of Phoebe's brother Max. His dream was to follow out a true life of evil, but, has shown to have his nice ways. He also owns an evil lair where he does all of his evil things. He has many gadgets like the Max 3000 (a computer created by Max) and an evil pet called Dr. Colosso. He is the founder of Max's Band.

When it comes to taking shortcuts, Max Thunderman is your guy. He's mischievous to no end and has big planned on attending Villain U when he's older. He has the same superpowers as his twin sister Phoebe, but he uses his for whipping up gadgets and potions in his evil lair instead. He is highly intelligent, as wells being very manipulative able to get others to do whatever he wants with ease, he is highly cunning and normally manages to stay one step ahead of others and very brilliant.

He is also a person with great strategic skills and, generally, always has a plan for everything: Max is the character who causes the problems, and also solves them, especially thanks to his gadgets and scientific knowledge. However, in Season 3, the boy is so busy in his attempts to overcome his twin sister's work to the point that he becomes impulsive and quite careless. In Season 4, Max regains his great emotional control and rationality: in the episode Thunder in Paradise, organizes a plan for Phoebe to return her to normal and he succeeds in his aim by combining the powers of the team. In the episode Party of Phones he pretends to be a supervillains and on the side of the kids to distract and stop them.

Max is also somewhat lazy, although incredibly brilliant and a genius in his own right, he does not normally apply himself or focuses on his school subjects, preferring instead to work in his lair on his inventions, formulate schemes or pranks. However, he doesn't take kindly to people implying or stating he couldn't handle said subjects and will often go out of his way to prove them wrong.

Although it very often seems that he doesn't care about anything and that he takes everything more lightly than Phoebe, Max is actually an extremely turbulent person and deeply frightened by failure and what might happen in the future: in the episode Escape the Haunted House he reveals that he invented a repeated watch to keep the day repeat because he was afraid of not reaching to become in the Z Force.

Especially during his evil phase, Max is very cold, detached and reluctant towards interpersonal relationships: most likely because of his role as a super naughty wannabe and, also for this reason, he tends to isolation: he escapes from social and family life, rejects the concept of friendship so as not to tarnish his identity and get out of his comfort zone of emotional containment: he tends not to easily express his emotions and, hardly, really demonstrates the anger he feels, or fear. In The Exposed, Max leaves himself to a liberating scream of frustration only after being blocked by his parents in his lair: during their reproaches he is completely impassive.

However, Max shows jealousy towards Allison in Mayor Sitting, where he tries to prevent her from playing her role because she was supposed to kiss a very attractive boy during the play, and seems to have the same feelings towards Oyster in Why Emma and Emma Quits, in which he tries to convince the boy that Miranda, who has a crush on him, is too kind and polite for a bad guy like him: but he justifies himself by the fact that he does not want a member of his band to have a relationship with his twin sister's friend. These behaviors most likely stem from the fear of losing the people he has close to him, especially since he is for most of the time ignored by his family, so much so that he fears that it may betray him or abandon him and be pragmatically prepared for it.

Probably because of the continuous devaluation suffered by his family and their considering him as an irresponsible and even a little stupid person, Max seems to have repeated crushes for very assertive girls: it seems that the boy has lost confidence in himself and feels much more safe in relationships in which power belongs to the other and is told what he himself must be and do.

Despite Max's assertion of being a villain, underneath it all he is really a good person at heart, as he does come through for others when they need him and will do the right thing when it really matters. That is one of the reasons why he chose to be a superhero. He owns a band with all his besties, a family about which he really cares and a girlfriend who he really likes.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* Freeze Breath: Forced to by threatening to blurt their secret , Captain Man gave him the power to freeze any object and person. It doesn't have long term effects and doesn't last long. He can make snowballs and ice cubes with his power. He can use it to freeze water to make ice. If under the ucilies comet, his power would malfunction and when he sighs, he blows freeze breath.
* Heat Breath: He was given the ability to blow fire/ pure heat from his mouth because he forced Phoebe and Jake by threatening to blurt their secret. He can melt things and door knobs. This is as good as a key. He can permanently destroy objects. He can also start fires. He can warm up and create fireballs that he cannot touch, unless he wants to burn
* Telekinesis: Max, like Phoebe can move objects without physically touching them. He can also put objects
* Thundersense: An after-effect of his powers, similar to Phoebes, he gained the ability to sense danger before it happens

### Abilities

* Skilled Fighter: Gifted like Phoebe, he had the ability to fight and do hand to hand combat before being a supervillain and hero. He was born a fighter and can fight without his powers. He can also do flips and backflips to hurt people
* High Intelligence: Max has super intelligence. He is able to do tasks such as hack the school system and have access to government agencies and is also very good at average school subjects, particularly math.
* Acrobat/ Flexibility: Max is very flexible, for a boy, and can do flips while fighting and do splits. In Cow's Milk, he helped Phoebe save the orange juice by backflipping to stop the leak.
* True Sight: An after effect of his powers, he has the power to see and hear ghosts.
* Balance: Max like Phoebe, has a tight balance, even if you shoot a hard ball at him while she is standing on one leg tippie toe
* Bo Staff Combatant: He can use bo staffs to attack people. She was able to take out 4 villains with one bo staff in one move

### Weaknesses

* Hypnotism: Max has no self conscious when she is hypnotised

## Trivia

* This character was originally very different from what is today. The character after the first write was "oldest kid Jack", with Tyler Peterson playing the role. After a while, the creators re-wrote the whole show, changing the character to "twin brother to Phoebe Jack". When Jack Griffo got the role, they changed the name to "Max." And the final character was Jack Griffo playing twin brother Max. Griffo was the last of the main cast to get the role.
* He was once a main character, and then was removed
* He along with Billy, Bob and Ella Thunderman are the only main recurring to appear in every episodes.
* Max has a pet named Dr. Colosso. According to Max, he's his best friend.
* During his Evil Phase, he planned on attending Villain University which is run by the Villain League but he changes his mind in Exposed since he became good.
* Black is his favorite color.
* Out of all the Thunder Kids, he doesn't have a strong relationship with his parents.
* Max's bedroom is the basement and Max often calls it his evil lair.
* Before Max turned good, he was a fan of Dark Mayhem and also had two posters of him.
* One of Max's rivalry with Phoebe is pranks.
* He was evil because he thinks Phoebe will be the most famous person and he wants to be the best so he tried to be the best at being evil. However, this was taken too far in Exposed.
* Max owns loads of phones since he needs one when his parents take one as a punishment.
* When Max turned evil, he invented many Doomsday devices to take over the world.
* Along with Phoebe, they have an allergic reaction to cats.
* Up until Power Problems, Max didn't know how to ride a bike.
* He has a teddy bear named Grizzly Gus for when he is scared of getting shots.
* He beheaded Phoebe's dolls when they were five.
* He doesn't know how to floss.
* When Veronica sabotaged Phoebe in choir, he wanted a rhino to attack Veronica.
* He's the only one in the family who knows where Nora keeps her bow collection.
* In Chicken Licken Cough, it is revealed that Max is 20 seconds younger than Phoebe.
* Despite having incredible intelligence, he gets poor grades at school because of his behavior and lack of interest.
* He is a very skilled hand-to-hand fighter Haunted Mission.
* His middle name, Octavius was revealed in A Merry Heromas.
* He was in a relationship with Allison but broke up in Fake Girl.
* In the episode New Years Billy, Phoebe mentions that Max forgot her birthday despite the fact that they are twins.
* Along with Phoebe, Max is scared of Captain Man The Ride and The Loopy Captain Man Roller Coaster.
* In the episode, Time Travel, Max let Phoebe win the math bowl after an emotional talk with her.
* Max twirls when he is excited.
* Max felt bad in Piper likes Videotalk when Phoebe didn't attend his gig.
* When Max knew Evan was Veronica's tutor, he wanted to drop an anchor on his head.
* Due to the fact that Max’s character was very humiliated in Season 3 and was used by the show as a funny monkey for viewers, many fans on Tumblr expressed dissent against this storyline and wrote rants about it: the hashtag "Protectmax2k16" became very popular in Max's fandom on the social.