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

 

Josh McGrath is a 19 year-old extreme sports star whose adopted father works at the sports equipment manufacturing company N-Tek. It turns out this is a front for a counterintelligence agency, so when Josh makes an unscheduled visit during an attack on the facility by terrorists, he finds himself caught in the crossfire and present at an honest-to-god [[Freak Lab Accident]] - his body is infested with "Max Nanoprobes", experimental [[Nanomachines]], leaving him on the verge of death. [[Teen Genius]] Roberto "'Berto" Martinez realizes that the probes have integrated with his body and become [[The Symbiote|symbiotic]] - he is dying because they are [[Phlebotinum Breakdown|running out of power]]. He is thus able to save Josh's life by infusing his body with the probes' specialized power source, [[Applied Phlebotinum|Trans-Phasic Energy]] (colloquially T-Juice). Afterward, it is discovered that the accident has given him [[Magic and Powers|numerous superpowers]]; superhuman strength, speed, stamina, senses, and the ability to become invisible. Realizing that these powers plus his extreme sports experience make him an ideal [[They Fight Crime|secret agent]], Josh creates a [[Secret Identity]] - an older, brown-haired version of himself he calls "Max Steel." The series begins with a [[In Medias Res|much less detailed explanation.]]

 

 

Trying to avoid the [[Nostalgia Filter]] here; the show was pretty much forgotten after it aired, and so the only reviews you'll find are by people who were around 12 when the show came out. It doesn't seem to have a particularly big fanbase.

 

 

The show can be seen on [http://www.youtube.com/show?p=tUnOgFoqDAY&pl=CCD4287CBC8882BA YouTube].

* [[Body Horror]]: Biocon.

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Rachel and Kat are among the toughest N-Tek agents next to Max. Rachel in particular, has quite the well developed rack.

* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: Notably ''averted'' on many occasions. The heroes are just better fighters and tacticians.

* [[Bridge Bunnies]]: L'Etranger's submarine is crewed entirely by women in form-fitting armor.

* [[The Cameo]]: Tony Hawk, Jeremy McGrath, and Matt Hoffman as themselves in [[Xtreme Sport Xcuse Plot]] episodes. Dizzy and Carmen from ''[[Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles (Animation)|Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles]]'' also cameo as students in one episode.

* [[Canon Dis Continuity]]: The made-for-TV films ignore the backstory that Max Steel was Josh McGrath completely. Then again, some of the fanbase like to think [[Fanon Discontinuity|those films never happened]] either.

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Psycho will be cool, collected and creepily calm one minute, and be [[Large Ham|the largest ham ever]] the next.

* [[Convection Schmonvection]]: The lava is only dangerous when someone's touching it.

* [[Fake Nationality]]: Pennsylvania-born John De Lancie as French mercenary L'Etranger. He's the only one who bothers even trying to pronounce his character's name correctly; everyone else anglicizes it into a hard-sounding "LAY-tron-JAY."

* [[Fallen Hero]]: Toxzon, from the movies.

* [[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]].

* Hammerspace: A lot of items appear in a person's hand while they were off-screen.

** Kat is [[Metal Gear Solid|Meryl Silverburg.]]

** Biocon is [[Star Trek|Odo.]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Psycho is less than thrilled when he hatches a plot in season 3 that has nothing to do with N-Tek or Max like all of John Dread's schemes, but it turns out Max is there anyway by ''sheer coincidence.''

** Dread has a minor one of these in his last appearance, where he expresses shock at Max coming back from the most impossible situation he'd ever been in. It's not very spectacular, but it's a major display compared to Dread's usual calm, professional demeanor.

{{quote| '''Psycho''': That's impossible! We saw you die!<br />

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