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Maximus Octavius "Max" Thunderman is one of the main characters of the original series The Thundermans and its spin-off series, The Thundermans: Undercover. He is the oldest son of Barb and Hank Thunderman. He is Phoebe Thunderman's twin brother. He is Billy, Nora and Chloe Thunderman's older brother.
He is a superhero whose superpowers include Telekinesis, Heat Breath, and Freeze Breath. After years of aspiring to become a supervillain, he eventually chose to become a superhero. Despite growing up in a family of superheroes, 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 has trained to become a superhero with the help of Phoebe. He is currently a co-commander of an elite team of superheroes, the T-Force, with Phoebe.
Max is portrayed by Jack Griffo.
Biography
Max is the oldest son of Hank and Barb Thunderman, born 20 seconds after his twin sister, Phoebe. He is the elder brother of Billy, Nora and Chloe Thunderman, and they are the Thunder Kids. Max was born in Metroburg before his parents moved to Hiddenville to help the kids lead a normal life.
He used his bedroom as an evil lair during his evil phase. He shares his lair with a former supervillain, Dr. Colosso, who used to help coach Max to embrace the dark side.
The Thundermans
Max helping Nora with her project
Max attended Hiddenville 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 Ditch Day. He proved that he is just as smart as Phoebe multiple times including the Math Bowl in Report Card and Weird Science Fair 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.
Max pranking his minions
While Phoebe tried hard to make friends at their new school, Max didn't seem concerned. Even when Lionel, Jake, and Tom approached him so that he can teach them how to prank in Max's Minions, he ended up turning them into his minions and it backfired. It was not until Pheebs Will Rock You 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 Ditch Perfect so that he can concentrate on Z-Force training.
Max and Phoebe in their former superhero school
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Max getting a call from a fake Dark Mayhem
In Phoebe vs. Max, it was revealed that Max's role model is the supervillain Dark Mayhem, who later plays a big role in shaping Max's life. Max also revealed that he only wanted to become a supervillain because he felt overshadowed by Phoebe because she was really good at being a superhero and he didn't want to be second best. So, he thought that it would be much better being best at evil deeds.
In Cape Fear, Max jumped to the top of the list to get the last superhero cape of the year from the Hero League after taking the blame for Phoebe sneaking out and saving the world. Unfortunately, he blew his chance by attacking President Kickbutt when Phoebe and Dr. Colosso convinced him that he's turning good.
In A Hero Is Born, Max took Dr. Colosso to receive his Villain of the Decade award at the Villain League headquarters, but Colosso turned against him and had him captured by King Crab. Phoebe came in to save him.
Max stopping Phoebe using his gold attracting magnet
Max started taking his dark side more seriously in Phoebe vs. Max: The Sequel when Dark Mayhem called him and asked him to start committing crimes and keep a chronicle. Mayhem has been reviewing the chronicle periodically to see Max's evil progress.
In Exit Stage Theft, Max realized that he needed to take his game seriously in order to impress Dark Mayhem with the evil chronicle review. With advice from the ever-reliable Dr. Colosso, he ditched his band and joined a bunch of bad girls. He helped the girls steal his band's equipment but later realized that his friends cared about him. He tried to defend them, but the girls beat him up until Phoebe came to save him.
During the next chronicle review in Floral Support, Max's chronicle was confiscated by Principal Bradford. Max joined Allison's Green Teens to help get back the chronicle. However, when he realized that Phoebe was hurt because of it, he walked out on Dark Mayhem during a video chat. Dark Mayhem got mad at him but was impressed that Max had the courage to walk out on him. So, Max continued working on his evil chronicle.
Max having to apologise to people he pranked
Dark Mayhem showing his orb to Max.
In Thundermans: Secret Revealed, Max was finally offered the chance to become the supervillain he always wanted to be and join the Villain League when Dark Mayhem asked him to take away ThunderGirl's superpowers with a power-sapping orb.
Phoebe taking Max's powers away by accident
He was excited about the offer but reluctant to take his sister's powers. However, when Phoebe accidentally took away his powers with the orb and got him punished, Max felt compelled to get revenge. He took back his powers and that of his parents' powers as well as Nora's, Billy's, and Chloe's powers so that they won't try to stop him from taking Phoebe down. Max also declared himself a villain when Hank threatened disownment.
Max with the orb
Max confronted Phoebe and the siblings fought, with their peers discovering their secret. However, an emotional speech from Phoebe opened his eyes and made him realize that he already had it all - his friends, Allison and his family. So, Max made a courageous decision and stood up against Dark Mayhem. He restored his family's powers and helped them defeat Dark Mayhem and his minions. After that, the Hero League awarded him with the superhero cape, making him officially a superhero.
Max watching the villains kids tickle Phoebe
One of Max's biggest challenges as a superhero has been to convince Phoebe and everyone else that he is really good. In Date of Emergency, Max's girlfriend Allison worries he's not truly good because he still enjoys pranks. In Orange is the New Max, when the Hero League invites Max to speak to villain kids at Metroburg Junior Jail, Dr. Colosso convinces Phoebe that the kids will remind Max of the joys of being evil. She follows him to keep an eye on him, which leads to trouble. Max feels let down by Phoebe's lack of trust in his decision to abandon evil. Despite this, he successfully helps two of the three villain kids see that being a superhero can be fun too.
In Come What Mayhem, Max's old prank nearly ruins their chances of joining the Z-Force. When Max was evil, he set a stink bomb to go off during the 75th Annual Supe Awards, which could disqualify them. To disable it, Max and Phoebe need to create an electro-plasma blast to destroy the bomb's Thundertanium casing. Though Phoebe is frustrated with cleaning up after Max, he insists he should be able to handle it now that he's a superhero. To help, Max invents a gadget to extract electro-plasma from lemons, but Phoebe lacks confidence in it, prompting her to absorb powers from Dark Mayhem’s orb for backup.
Max and Phoebe at the Superhero awards
Max is disappointed that Phoebe went ahead and used Dark Mayhem's powers despite the warning that they could turn her evil. Phoebe saves the day, but Max's gadget would have worked as well. Both Max and Phoebe manage to remain in the Z-Force but it's too late because Dark Mayhem's powers have turned Phoebe evil.
In Thunder in Paradise, Max is furious with Phoebe, often refusing to talk to her. Under the influence of Mayhem's powers, Phoebe pours maple syrup on his shirt and hair. During a family trip to Hawaii, she becomes mean and rude, raising Max's suspicions. When she pushes Billy into shark-infested waters and abandons Max, he confronts her, but Phoebe's anger causes her eyes to glow red, revealing she still has Dark Mayhem's powers. She heads to the volcano lair, prompting Max to gather Hank, Barb, Billy, and Nora to face her, although she shows no desire to turn good, leaving the family ready to give up on her.
Max saving Phoebe
In Thundermans: Banished!, Max remains determined to be a superhero, resisting temptations from Dr. Colosso to return to evil. Realizing he needs training to match Phoebe's skills, he is eager for her help. However, Phoebe is selected for the Legendary Z-Force team, letting him down. After the Thundermans are banished, Max persuades Phoebe to return to Hiddenville to stop Candi Falconman, risking everything. Following their victory over defeating Candi, Max is chosen to join Phoebe on the Z-Force team.
Z-Force sending a message
Since turning good, Max has pledged not to let the Thundermans or the Hero League down. He has been working with his twin sister Phoebe to train for Z-Force. During the Z-Force training, Max has been struggling to keep up with Phoebe and prove that he is truly turned good.
Max showing Phoebe their new team headquarters
In Smells Like Team Spirit, Max had a hard time working with Phoebe's tight schedule and controlling nature. He used the Z-Force equipment money to get a tree house (tree-fort) for him and Phoebe without consulting Phoebe, which escalated the rift between the twins. He eventually learned to work with Phoebe when they saved one another from the falling tree house.
Max showing Phoebe his CrimeCaster gadget
In Max to the Future, Max struggles to match Phoebe's skills while submitting special talents for their team. Wanting to contribute, he creates a CrimeCaster gadget to predict future crimes using crime stats. Initially mocked by Phoebe and lacking confidence himself, they soon discover the gadget actually works, leading the team to include Max's inventions among their special skills.
Z-Force training has been taking a lot of Max's time and getting in the way of Max's friends. Dr. Colosso has been feeling left out ever since Max turned good and has been trying to compel him to return to the dark side or at least spend time with him. In Parks & T-Rex, Colosso even faked being sick to trick Max into spending time with him. Furthermore, Max had to ditch Max's Band in Ditch Perfect so that he can concentrate on Z-Force training. Luckily, Oyster and Gideon were planning on taking a break too.
Max with Cherry as Phoebe and Phoebe as Cherry
In May Z-Force Be With You, Max and Phoebe's crucial Z-Force interview is jeopardized when Phoebe gets injured. To save it, Max trains Cherry to impersonate Phoebe, but struggles without her powers and realizes how much he needs her. After successfully completing the interview with Cherry, Max advances to the final Z-Force recruitment stage alongside Phoebe.
In The Thunder Games, Phoebe and Max found out they made the Z-Force championships. After making it to the final, Dirk Trumbo decides to make Phoebe and Max go against each other because they did not a twin power and two supes with the same powers isn't needed. Neither Max nor Phoebe wants to fight the other when the head of the Z-Force tells them that only one of them can make it. Phoebe fakes injury on purpose and lets Max win the Z-Force spot.
Max gets a message from Balfour that he captured his family so Max wanted Dirk Trumbo to have the Z-Force to stop him but Dirk Trumbo ordered the Z-Force to stop supervillains who just escaped prison so Max has to stop Balfour himself. When Max tries to stop him, he is nano-chipped and has to join the Thundermans in the cage. Before Balfour fries the Thundermans' brains, they hold hands and Phoebe and Max discover their twin power of EMP Generation and use it to break out of the cage and knocking out Balfour.
President Kickbutt fires Dirk Trumbo for his arrogrance by not helping Max when his family was captured. She made Phoebe and Max the new commanders of the Z-Force. Phoebe and Max invite their family to join them so they could fight crime as a family. As the new commander of the Z-Force, Phoebe changes the name to T-Force, the T standing for Thundermans. The T-Force get their first mission to stop a villain named Brain Puncher.The Thundermans Return
3 years after being a co-commander of the T-Force with Phoebe, the T-Force are on a mission in Metroburg to stop incoming meteors. After another successful mission, the T-Force go to their headquarters to have a mission review session set up by Phoebe. The T-Force get an alert in the crime lab that Blue Flame is robbing a bank and as a leader of the T-Force, she instructs them to suit up even though Bank and Hank wanted them to have their family night.
At the Metroburg Bank, Max and Phoebe get the T-Force to block available exits. The V-Team also arrive to stop Blue Flame. They both try and stop Blue Flame but accidentally gets She-Crab injured by Nora's lasers hitting Max's jetpack which causes him to knock over the giant metal donut which lands on She-Crab. Dark Mayhem Jr. hits the Blue Flame with his plasma blast which knocks him out.
Max invited back in the band
The T-Force are decommissioned for injuring a "supposed" supe by President Kickbutt and are sent back to their home in Hiddenville. Max reunites with his band again and rejoins them as their lead singer, which was reformed during his time away from Hiddenville.
Max and Phoebe are determined to get their superhero status back and figure out that the V-Team are villains. They wanted to expose them to President Kickbutt so that they can get their team back. They go back to the T-Force Headquarters, where the V-Team are looking for the Power Plant but they are noticed and tied up. The V-Team goes to Hiddenville to get it from Hank himself after Max and Phoebe have no idea what the Power Plant is and bring Max and Phoebe to the Mayhem Cafe, which is Dark Mayhem's old lair dedicated to his hatred of the Thundermans with a pre-recorded guide for Max and Phoebe to inflict torture on them.
Max stuck in the booth with Phoebe
Max and Phoebe try use their superpowers of Freeze Breath, Heat Breath and their twin power, EMP Generation but were stuck in a booth set up by Dark Mayhem to fill the booth up with liquid mercury as revenge. Max and Phoebe manage to break out of the booth but were still stuck in Dark Mayhem's lair that was going to self-destruct. Chloe teleports the rest of the Thundermans to the lair and Hank punches the keypad which stopped the lair from self-destructing.
Max and Phoebe's rematch with Dark Mayhem
The Thundermans figure out that the V-Team went to Mount Metroburg to use a large drone to spread, red-powered seeds so Chloe teleports them all there to stop them. On Mount Metroburg, the Thundermans find the V-Team, with their fathers, Dark Mayhem, Strongdor and King Crab and fight with the villains. Max has a rematch with Dark Mayhem and fight each other again, Phoebe helps Max before he gets crushed by a boulder Dark Mayhem was about to throw at him and Max and Phoebe use their freeze breath at the same time to freeze Dark Mayhem in ice. After a hard battle with the villains, the Thundermans thought they took care of everyone but Dark Mayhem Jr. climbs up the cliff and presses the button allowing the drone to spread evil, red-powered seeds in the sky. Chloe offered to help by teleporting with Max and Phoebe on the drone so they could use Telekinesis to remove the seed container. Before the drone explodes, Chloe teleports all of them back to Mt. Metroburg and they give the seed container back to Hank.
At The Thundermans' Home, President Kickbutt offers them their jobs back since the V-Team were not actual superheroes which they accept and make their home in Hiddenville their new headquarters. Max and Phoebe freeze Mrs. Wong, Bradford, Cherry, Oyster and Gideon outside their backyard for still having superpowers so they could deal with removing them after their family night.
The Thundermans: Undercover
In Thundercover, Max and Phoebe are given a mission to go undercover in Secret Shores by President Kickbutt to find out where evil transmissions are coming from in their Hi-Tech Beach Home. Phoebe and Max originally took Chloe along to help her make friends who don't know she is a superhero. Phoebe and Max find out Dr. Colosso was receiving evil transmissions from Malware so they stop him with the help from Chloe. President Kickbutt contacts them that their mission is only beginning when the Mastermind plans on having a new Villain League to take over Secret Shores and the world.
n Bummer School, Max gives him and Phoebe cover jobs at Secret Shores School where he is the vice principal while Phoebe is an art teacher. Phoebe finds out that Max made her a bad resume on purpose with Principal Taylor. Phoebe and Max continue pranking each other and accidentally break Chloe, Booch and Jinx's narwhal head. Dr. Colosso makes them a new one in exchange for new shorts by Max and the twins realize that their fighting affects Chloe now that they are guardians.
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 and outspoken, as well as 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 his family. In the episode Orange is the New Max he pretends to be a supervillain 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 Looperheroes he reveals that he invented a repeated watch to keep the day repeat because he was afraid of not reaching the Z-Force Championships.
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 Secret Revealed, 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 Kiss Me Nate, 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 Pheebs Will Rock You, in which he tries to convince the boy that Phoebe, 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. 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 safer 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.
Relationships
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Max and Phoebe is the twin / frenemy pairing of Phoebe and Max Thunderman. They are the first-born twins of Barb and Hank Thunderman and elder siblings of Nora, Billy and Chloe Thunderman.
They usually don't get along but despite their annoyances with each other, they stick up for each other when they need each other the most.
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Max and Colosso is the friendship between Max Thunderman and Dr. Colosso. Dr. Colosso isn't just Max's pet bunny, he's Max's best friend and his evil mentor during Max's evil phase.
Even when Max turned good, they are still friends, even though Colosso slightly hates him for becoming good.
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Max and Oyster is the friendship pairing of Max Thunderman and Oyster. They are best friends and were apart of Max's Band, along with Wolfgang and Gideon.
They often hang out together and are shown to be very close. In Mall Time Crooks, Max invites Oyster to hang out and go to the mall.
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Max and Wolfgang is the friendship pairing of Max Thunderman and Wolfgang. They are best friends and were part of Max's Band, along with Oyster and Gideon. Max was the one who introduced Wolfgang to the band as the new lead drummmer.
They became very close and often hangs out with each other.
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Max and Allison is the romantic pairing of Max Thunderman and Allison. The ship began in Date Expectations and they started dating officially in He Got Game Night.
In 21 Dump Street, they broke up over a text message because Allison said her soulmate is the Earth.
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Max and Cherry is the friendship pairing of Max Thunderman and Cherry Seinfeld. Most of the time, Max mocks at her intelligence because she isn't as smart.
It has been hinted that Cherry might have a crush on Max but has not been confirmed.
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Max and Sarah is the romantic / friendship pairing of Sarah and Max Thunderman. Max often avoids her because he finds her annoying.
In Can't Hardly Date, Max had enough of Sarah, as well as Phoebe with Gideon, so he and Phoebe planned for Sarah and Gideon to be together instead.
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Max and Bradford is the principal-student / frenemy pairing of Principal Bradford and Max Thunderman. Principal Bradford and Max's relationship is more of a frenemy and rivalry.
Max used to prank Principal Bradford and the latter hated him for it, but they are usually friendly with each other.
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Max and Link is the frenemy pairing of Max Thunderman and Link Evilman. Max doesn't like Link, but sometimes still hung out with him when Link was Phoebe's girlfriend.
They hung out together in It's Not What You Link when Max invites Link to join his "Evil Brotherhood" role play game.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Telekinesis: Like his sister, he can move objects or people with his mind. His powers are as strong as his sister, and he can manipulate at least three things at once.
- Telekinetic Blast: Like his sister, he can create blasts of telekinetic energy. This is strong enough to destroy things.
- Energy Manipulation: In Thundermans: Secret Revealed, Max and Phoebe were capable of moving, binding and manipulating Dark Mayhem's Energy Projectiles.
- Motor-Skill Manipulation: In Breaking Dad, Phoebe and Max were capable of manipulating the movement of Hank during the time he was in deep sleep. With this, they were capable of moving his arms, legs, and etc. to achieve effects of Hank being awake while he was really sleeping.
- Levitation: Max can remotely levitate other people or objects in the air. This was also used various times as an advantage to increase his physical jumping abilities as shown during The Thunder Games in his fight with Phoebe.
- Freeze Breath: Able to breath pure cold, which he can use to freeze people in ice. His ice breath apparently has no long terms effects on people frozen by it. He can also use this to make snow. It's also revealed to work on ghosts. (Haunted Thundermans)
- Stone Transformation: In Haunted Thundermans, Phoebe and Max turned the Green Ghoul into stone.
- Heat Breath: He can breathe a blast of heat, which he can use to unfreeze people he or his sister has frozen. He can increase the temperature of his heat breath to also melt things.
- Thundersense: Like his sister, Max gains the ability to sense danger before it occurs. However, it is not always specific enough to tell what the danger is. He gained this ability after his twin sister did (Thundersense).
- EMP Generation (via Twin Power): When Max and Phoebe hold hands, they generate energy in their hands. It can power through a chip design to stop them from using their powers, create a massive explosion with a punch, and short circuit electric devices as show in The Thunder Games.
Abilities
- Genius Intellect: Like his sister, Max has super intelligence. He is very good in science and has invented a lot of gadgets, machines and has proven himself to be super smart despite the fact that he barely takes classes seriously.
- Sedective Magnetism: in many episodes Max is shown attracting many women.
- Numerical Precision: In Cheer and Present Danger, Max was able to count pepperoni in a jar and the number of cats in the backyard. He says "It's a gift" implying that it's a special ability.
- Hand-to-hand combat: As shown in Haunted Thundermans, he is quite skilled at hand-to-hand combat when battling the Green Ghoul when he was in Phoebe's body and was able to do a backflip and front flip. This makes him very agile, and his fighting skills rivals his sister Phoebe. Later in and various other episodes, he, like Phoebe, is skilled in landing equal blows on the opponents and also skilled in using anything as a weapon as in Exit Stage Theft he and Phoebe used junk to take down 3 bad girls. In the final The Thunder Games, he and Phoebe were equally match until Max gained the upper hand, but it revealed that Phoebe lost on purpose.
- Master Engineer: Max has shown to be able to invent and engineer electronic devices and gadgets. He used this ability to create the Max 5000, a Brain Wiper, the repeat clock, and more.
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 along with Phoebe, Billy, Hank and Barb Thunderman are the only main characters to appear in every episode.
- 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 Thundermans: Secret Revealed since he became good.
- Black is his favorite color.
- Out of all the Thunder Kids, he has the weakest 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 rivalries with Phoebe is pranks.
- His character of doing pranks resembles that of Bart from The Simpsons.
- Both like to pull on pranks, even if it is their own sisters.
- He was evil because he thinks Phoebe will be the best superhero and he wants to be the best, so he tried to be the best at being evil. However, this was taken too far in Thundermans: Secret Revealed.
- Max owns loads of phones since he needs one when his parents take one as a punishment.
- When Max was evil, he invented many Doomsday devices to take over the world.
- Along with Phoebe, they have an allergic reaction to cats.
- Up until Crime After Crime, 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 Thundersense, 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 Thundermans.
- His middle name, Octavius was revealed in Winter Thunderland.
- Octavius was also the name of an evil doctor in Spider-Man 2 (Tobey Macguire).
- He was in a relationship with Allison but broke up in 21 Dump Street.
- Since Max's birthday is March 22nd, his zodiac sign would be an Aries.
- In the episode Smells like Team Spirit, Phoebe mentions that Max forgot her birthday despite the fact that they are twins.
- Along with Phoebe, Max is scared of Thunderman the Ride.
- In the episode, Report Card Max let Phoebe win the math bowl after an emotional talk with her.
- Max twirls when he is excited.
- Max felt bad in Aunt Misbehavin' when Phoebe didn't attend his gig.
- When Max knew Evans 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.
- On Danger & Thunder, Max along with Phoebe are the only ones who makes a special guest appearance to help Captain Man and Kid Danger taking down The Toddler and his goons.
- He and Phoebe aren't the first to be the only two characters from one show coinciding with another one. Joey and Parker from "Liv and Maddie" did it in "Jessie" and Riley and Lucas from "Girl Meets World' did it in "Best Friends Whenever".
- Max has his name in 6 episode titles which are Phoebe vs. Max, Max's Minions, Phoebe vs. Max: The Sequel, Max to the Future and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderhome.
- Max spent a summer at Metroburg Juvenile Detention Center while the rest of his family on vacation to Hawaii.
- Max was on the cover of Evil Teen magazine 11 times.
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