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{{quote| '''Jefferson Smith''': ''[[Ordinary High School Student|Josh McGrath]] can’t [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save
'''Josh McGrath''': ''Josh McGrath is out of the picture. The name is Max Steel!'' }}
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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.
After six episodes of season 1, the company making it went bankrupt and the series went over to another company, with a marked improvement in the animation quality. After season 2, they were shut down too and so season 3 was made by [[Mainframe Entertainment]], AKA the people who did ''[[Re Boot]]'' and ''[[
The show can be seen on [http://www.youtube.com/show?p=tUnOgFoqDAY&pl=CCD4287CBC8882BA YouTube].
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** Likewise, the [[Acting for Two|uncanny resemblance]] between Jefferson's predecessor at N-Tek, Marco Nathanson, and {{spoiler|John Dread}}. Greg Weisman [[Word of God|said]] that this was supposed to be a [[Red Herring]]. In a case of behind-the-scenes [[Retcon]], other producers after he left said they considered it to be exactly what it looked like. Neither interpretation is ever followed up on.
* [[Animation Bump]]: Happens mid-season 1. For the first couple of episodes, framerate, textures and character movements were much more static. As it went on however, they improved all of these, as well as using improved lighting and shadow techniques. This is due to the later episodes being animated by a new company.
* [[As Long
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: The nanoprobes, Infinity Ice.
* [[Body Horror]]: Biocon.
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* [[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
* [[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.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Psycho.
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** Biocon is [[Star Trek|Odo.]]
** Marshak is ''Ed Asner.''
** Jefferson is [[House (TV series)|Vogler.]]
** L'Etranger is [[Star Trek|Q]].
** Rachel is [[Batman Beyond|Inque,]] as well as the Keeper from [[The Invisible Man (TV series)|The Invisible Man]].
** Psycho is [[Dead Space (
* [[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]]:
{{quote| '''Max Steel:''' No ''way'' you can be that strong!<br />
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* [[Mana]]: Max's nanoprobes run on Transphasic energy; it seems capable of powering mechanical devices without actually following a constructed electric circuit, but burns up quickly.
* [[Moral Guardians]]: The bizarre way Max's powers are re-tooled in the made-for-TV movies happened because of complaints that the original mechanics, with Max able to enter a consequence-free super-powered mode at will, glorified drug abuse in athletics. The 'consequence-free' part would sound strange to anyone who actually ''paid attention'' to the show; it's demonstrated more than once that Max expends a great deal of the energy he needs to survive whenever he does this. Taking these details into account, the analogy is closer to "performance enhancers will kill you," and season 3 isn't even subtle about it as it becomes a larger problem.
** A less successful protest came from the idea that Psycho glorifies the stigma towards those with actual mental diseases/autism, encouraging the idea that all people with even minor but real issues fit the [[Exactly What It Says
* [[The Mole]]: During season 1, it becomes apparent that there is a traitor amongst N-Tek. {{spoiler|It's Mairot}}. According to [[Word of God]], the traitor was originally intended to be a double-agent, but it was never followed through on.
* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: Quite often people are shown falling and hitting the ground or a stable object ''hard''. Partially Justified for Max (it's likely that the probes can compensate), but your average sports athlete [[Soft Water|hitting water from what looks like a good fifteen storeys]] at near or actual terminal velocity and coming out with no injuries? Especially when they deliberately go from a splayed-put position to feet-first.
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'''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.
* [[Put
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Villain Bioconstrictor had a body composed entirely of snakes.
* [[Retool]]: As season three opens, we see that the government is less than pleased with the way N-Tek dropped the ball in the second season finale, and forces Jefferson to close down the espionage division. Josh, Kat and Berto become legit competitors on the sports circuit, sponsored by N-Tek's legit public front while [[They Fight Crime|fighting crime]] on their own time. It's actually somewhat odd, as season three clearly suffers from budget problems and the loss of the previous [[Status Quo Is God|status quo]] required new CGI assets to be made, while ensuring several previously re-usable assets like the N-Tek sets had to be dropped.
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'''Rachel''': I'll study his teachings later. }}
* [[Shout-Out]]: To various installments in the espionage genre, of course.
** [[The A-Team
** [[Mission Impossible (TV series)|Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to save that fruit!]]
* [[Sinister Shades]]: John Dread's slick shades never come off.
* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: Inverted when Max figures out Dread is impersonating Roberto because Dread gets Berto's nickname for him consistently wrong. Played straight when Dragonelle, impersonating Rachel, stands ''next'' to Rachel and tries to accuse the real one of being the impostor. The real Rachel tells Max not to even bother playing along and to just destroy the episode's [[MacGuffin]], ensuring the impostor has no chance of getting it. Max quips, "Now ''that'' sounds like our Ms. Leeds" as he does so.
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* [[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.
* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save
* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: During the [[Villainous Breakdown]]
{{quote| '''Psycho''': That's impossible! We saw you die!<br />
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