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'''Josh McGrath''': ''Josh McGrath is out of the picture. The name is Max Steel!'' }}

 

* [[Genre Savvy]]: a significant source of the show's humor comes from Max being this.

** Psycho ventured into this sometimes, though never quite enough to save him.

'''Max Steel:''' Glad you know the rules! }}

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Quite a few innuendos. Also L'Etranger, see [[Nightmare Fuel]].

** Psycho is [[Dead Space (video game)|a Unitologist.]]

* [[Implacable Man]]: Max himself is far more durable than normal humans, especially prevalent when he goes up against small-time thugs instead of his usual rogues gallery. L'Etranger as well, who can somehow go toe-to-toe with Max without breaking a sweat despite having no visible augmentations. Berto drowning him in "Fun in the Sun" seems rather brutal until you remember a previous episode showed him breathing underwater with no gear. [[Lampshaded]]:

'''L'Etranger:''' Stranger still, neither can ''you!'' }}

* [[In a Single Bound]]: Justified by Max having super powers, Psycho by being a cyborb.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Psycho, obviously. To a lesser extent, most of the rogues gallery after John Dread stops employing them.

** Case in point, this exchange from an episode where Psycho threatens to unleash [[The Plague]]:

'''Psycho:''' ''And yet, I don't seem to care. Must be why they call me PSYCHO!'' }}

* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: No ''too'' often, but one [[Sword Fight]] with a zombie pirate had a hilariously sped-up version of the Funeral March playing as background music.

* [[Russians With Rusting Rockets]]: L'Etranger's submarine, the Akina, is Russian surplus.

* [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]]: "Sphinxes". The heroes investigate a pyramid and after discovering the hoax, [[Genre Savvy]] [[Ascended Fanboy]] Max reports that it's a "[[Scooby Doo]]" and explains what he means to his [[British Stuffiness|Stuffy British]] partner.

'''Rachel''' (puzzled): Scooby-what?<br />

'''Max''': (groan) [[Genre Blind|Your ignorance is frightening]]. When the bad guys are up to no good, they use local lore to scare away the curious. That's the Scooby Way.<br />

* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]]: Played straight in the first two seasons. By season three, Josh seems to have quit school to focus on his sports career.

* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: During the [[Villainous Breakdown]]

'''Dread''': He '''never''' ''stays DEAD''! }}

* [[Xtreme Sport Xcuse Plot]]: Cameo episodes. See [[Cameo]] examples above.