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== Maxwell is in the afterlife. ==
And his main tool? For all intents and purposes, it's an <s>ultra-strength [[Death Note]]</s> [[Light and Dark - The Adventures of Dark Yagami|Everything Note]], pulling whatever he needs from the various multiverses. (If you find yourself in Maxwell's presence, ''[[Deader Than Dead|try not to die]]''.)
* ...[[Fridge Logic|Time machines can die?]]
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[[Rule of Cool|That is all]].
== Scribblenauts takes place in [[
Maxwell is either a descendant of Rudy Tabootie, or he was able to get his hands on some magic chalk. Either way, it would explain why every thing he writes comes to life.
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== Maxwell is a Scribblenaut in training, and that's the plot. ==
The Scribblenauts are an alien organization (or perhaps a future Earthling organization) who must have Starites to use as fuel for their technology. Starites are a limitless power source, and they never run
* Alternitavely, Maxwell is already a Scribblenaut; completing the tutorial and becoming "a true Scribblenaut" is represented as graduating from university, and the rest of the game after that is one big test meant to help him gradually hone his skill (puzzle levels) and creativity (action levels). Getting 100% completion grants him the rank of ''Super'' Scribblenaut, and exploring his newly-gained powers (ex. the ability to use adjectives) will be the premise of the sequel.
** What's the opposite of [[Jossed]]? The devs have said in interviews that this was basically what the plot of the game was before they said "screw it" and just made it fun and random.
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== Maxwell is in a coma. ==
Maxwell is, is fact, a perfectly ordinary 10 - 12-year old kid who was injured when the space museum he was visiting blew up. That would explain the starites; many comatose dreams are caused by whatever activated the coma/useless bits of info in the person's head. Scribblenauts is a dream; Maxwell is actually lying in a hospital bed on life support and an IV. At the end of the game, he wakes up. It HAS to be a dream; how else would all the impossible things happen? The doppelgangers are just the acknowledged bad parts of Max's personality that he realizes he needs to fix.
* So basically, it's {{spoiler|[[Drawn to Life]]}} all over again...
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== Scribblenauts is an organization that helps people in need. ==
There can be little other reason for [[
Scribblenauts have access to a rudimentary form of time travel, powered by starites, and this allows you to replay levels, the first starite powering all further attempts.
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== Maxwell is linked to the [[Half Life|G-Man]] somehow ==
Maxwell is:
* The G-Man's employee. The G-Man runs the Scribblenaut organization. The Scribblenauts are fighting the Combine Empire, and are trying to liberate humanity and other enslaved species as well as conventional warfare (or at least as conventional has a war against the Scribblenauts could be). Maxwell is a skilled commando agent, advancing several [[Gambit Roulette]], furthering the master plan through is seemingly combat unrelated tasks. Starites are concentrated energy, created by the distortion of reality in a certain way, indicating that the plan will proceed unhindered. Combine leaders, seeing their armies fall at the Scribblenauts' hands, decided to eliminate their enemy's most dangerous commando, destroying morale and stopping the Gambit in it's tracks. The Doppelganger is an attempt to replicate Scribblenaut technology by the Combine, and, more importantly, take out Maxwell.
* The G-Man's relative. The G-Man's family has a genetic trait which allows them to alter reality.
* The G-Man himself. Maxwell advanced through the ranks over the years and became the commander of the Scribblenauts. When an exploration team discovered the Combine, the now older Maxwell decided to take them out. He carries his notebook in his suitcase.
== Llewxam was a failed attempt at creating a clone of Maxwell for if he died. ==
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Maxwell is just minding his own business, but when ever he gets close enough to starites, that create a sort of barrier that Maxwell can't leave. Sometimes he can see them, but other times he has to meet certain events in order for them to appear. From there, he could deactivate the starite and go along with his business.
== Maxwell's a highly dangourous criminal, wanted By nearly every nation on the planet. ==
Let's see what type of things are done on a regular basis...murder,thievery, arson, torture,possesion of illegal firearms,animal abuse that includes killing endangered animals, terrorisim and, worst of all, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|HURTING KITTENS.]]
Meaning, he doesn't get along well with the authorities.
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He accomplishes this using his notebook, of course...But why don't cops/other legal authorities attack you? Easy: Maxwell's notebook creates the items, and isn't aware of the shit Maxwell does, so, it will create things from the point of view that Maxwell is a normal person, causing things to act the way you'd expect them to towards you. ([[Department Of Redundancy Department Hostile|things are hostile,friendly things are friendly.]]These are NOT things that are sentient, they are "advanced" cyborgs, programmed to react certain ways to certain things in certain logical (Well...most of the time...)ways. Any non-setient item is a perfect copy of said item. (Meaning that 'counterfeiting' can be added to the above list)So, to conclute the logic of his notebook, as I've seem to have gone off-track, cops don't attack you, because they see him as an ''innocent person'' , not the [[Complete Monsterruthless|crimanal]] that he that he truly is.
Also, think about the levels: How many have you doing things that would get you arrested/have law enforcement as an enemy? A fair number. And...there was ''at least'' one were you were obviously in prison. Who's to say that the first-game level where you had to take down the "Wanted: Dead or Alive" crimanals, ''you where also an escaped prisoner who just wanted to get rid of the others for your own enjoyment?'' As for the (much more common) levels where you're just randomly helping out civillians or doing random things,([[Department of Redundancy Department|In a random way. Randomly.]])he's being nice to those people who don't know who he is, because he is a nice guy. (I know it goes against what I'm saying right now, but I'll clarify later), and trying to add some more [[Rule of Cool|Awesomeness]] to his life, not like he needs any, though. The random moster invasion levels? You made some zombies or what not to relese into the world and suddenly feel like helping. As for the levels where you help with something goverment related, those aren't real peope like you see in the other levels, those are notebook clones that Maxwell created, too escape the strain of his criminal life, and to convince himself that he's a "good guy."
Oh, and, [[It Got Worse|It gets better:]] Why would he do something like that? ''He doesn't want to do any of this.'' That's right. Based how many different ways there are to play the game, I've concluded that [[And I Must Scream|he's little more than a marionette belonging to the player-Except that he can feel emotion, but with no way to express it.]] All he can do is run and hadle objects. No way to voice his agony as he's burning to death in lava, being mauled by a monster, [[Bottomless Pitsor|falling to his doom]],or being killed by a nuke, all while the player watches, sometimes laughing, sometimes angered, always unsymphetic. (Plus, he's immortal,[[Who Wants to Live Forever?|meanning that he can experience these deaths, over and over, as many times as the player wants]]) He has no way to show his terror at the blood of innocents that he's constantly covered in, while the player can't even ''see'' the blood though the E10 rating. He has no way to show how sorry he is towards his victims, watching them die painfully, knowing that person views him as the horrible creature you've made him into, knowing they blame him for the actions he makes against his will. He has know way of showing to you the ways you're driven him insane. He doesn't ''want'' to be the monster you force him to be; he wants use his powers for good, but the puppetmaster controlling him (read: ''[[You Monster!|you]]'') is cruel, and makes him act like a [[Complete Monster|cruel and sadistic person.]] He knows that he's known as the world's biggest threat...he knows that his hands have shed much innocent blood...he ''knows'' you think of him as a simple form of amusement...but he still wants to be a hero to someone. Hence, the Starites come in. Whenever he does something slightly notable, he sees himself as getting one, believing it has some purpose; breaking away from the cruell player,the purification of his overwhelming insanity, the salvation of the universe...they aren't real. They're a hallucination on his part, to help him believe his life amounts to anything. [[What the Hell, Player?|He goes on a quest for personal purification, but only winds up even more broken as a result, thanks to, you, the player, his puppetmaster.]]
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