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"What'southward up, Doods, Max here."

— Max

The Online Warrior is an ongoing series of YouTube videos, made past "Miles923", besides known as Maximilian Dood. For a while, it chronicled his adventures in online games, including fighting and FPS games.

However, on the 4th episode of his Marvel vs. Capcom three series, he started doing something dissimilar- a character guide for individual characters, called Assist Me, offset with Doctor Doom. This serial is a departure from his normal fare, with actors playing the parts of the various characters, and something resembling a storyline. It was even picked up by Capcom to promote the release of Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, with six episodes covering 12 characters, and Marvel vs. Capcom Origins. Max has connected the bear witness, which will before long exist inbound its third season.

Max likewise covers trailers for new games, reviews older games on his "Sega Saturn Saturdays," does playthroughs of existing games, and provides alive commentaries for his games during various "Week of" series.

Max also at present has a channel Yo Videogames! for his Permit'due south Play content which is done mostly with Matt Simmons (Doom), and then that his other channel can focus on competitive games.In Yo Videogames! there'due south the normal Let'southward Play and one-time-school games aptly named "Retro Coach".

Note: Delight add together any tropes related to Assist Me or its alternate channel Yo Videogames in its proper page.

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Games with their own Online Warrior Series:

• Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Ultimate Curiosity vs Capcom 3
• Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of the Superheroes
• Street Fighter 10 Tekken
• Street Fighter Iii: Third Strike
• Soulcalibur Five
• Persona 4: Loonshit
• Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition Ver. 2012 (Under "The Salty Warrior" subcategory)
• Darkstalkers Resurrection (as Darkstalkers: The Night Warrior)
• Injustice: Gods Among Us

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This serial provides examples of:

• Adventitious Misnaming: In his reviews of Ability Rangers: Battle for the Grid, as Max's knowledge of Ability Rangers barely goes past Season I of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, he'll name characters other silly names, such equally referring to the Magna Defender as "Nighttime Souls Dude" and Kat Manx every bit "Catwoman Ranger".
• Angrish: Max volition pedal backwards into this whenever things don't go his way during games, or afterward them. He starts to audio like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• April Fools' 24-hour interval: Max posted a video, every bit a follow up a similar video that wasn't even done on the day itself, where he trolls his subscribers into believing that you can get the voiceovers of Wesker, Doom, and Deadpool from Assist Me onto the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 disc. Even funnier is Max treats this as absolutely horrible.
• Atoning Attacker: During matches, beingness the nice guy he is, Max will occasionally repent for not holding back if he's playing against opponents who aren't as skilled as him. He'll particularly apologize if he accidentally taunts his opponent, as Max considers taunting in fighting games to be Unsportsmanlike Gloating unless a game has Practical Taunts.
• Apologises a Lot: Whenever Max runs into an opposing player who has their in-game microphone on, he'll mute it to preserve the quality of the recording ^note And presumably so he doesn't get in trouble for annihilation the other person says. Quite oft he'll get people who recognize him ("Oh shit, am I fighting THE Maxmilian?!") or are fans of his ("I watch yous videos all the time, dood!"), which leads to him thanking his opponent for the kind words and fervently apologizing for having to mute them.
• Author Avatar:
  • Max has two in Soul Calibur V. One based off of Mitsurugi, the other based on Siegfried. He also has avatars of him and Doom for the action RPG Dragon'due south Dogma.
  • Max has also stated earlier that he likes to think of choosing fighting game characters based on the 1 playing in some way, shape, or grade. Thus, he tends to focus on blonde men that article of clothing red. (For example, Ken.) He'll lampshade this trend of his one time in a blue moon, similar when he called the Troubleshooter in DNF Duel "this handsome bastard correct hither". It should be noted that the graphic symbol'due south official DFO art makes him look similar an almost expressionless ringer for Max.
• Author Entreatment: Overlaps with the to a higher place trope. About of Max's notable mains like Ken and Siegfried are based on his own benchmark stated above. Aside from these, he is too known to play the following characters in other fighting games (some of which would keep to be featured on his aqueduct's animated opening):
  • Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom three: Dr. Doom, Strider Hiryu, Wesker, Nova, Dante, Akuma, Wolverine
  • Persona 4 Arena: Akihiko
  • Street Fighter Iii: 3rd Strike: Dudley, Q, Oro, Alex
  • Injustice: Gods Among Us: Batgirl, Batman, Superman
  • Super Smash Bros.: Marth, Helm Falcon, Link, Snake
  • Street Fighter X Tekken: Yoshimitsu, Ogre, Lars
  • Killer Instinct: Orchid, Jago, Spinal, Fulgore, Glacius, Sabrewulf, TJ Combo, Hisako
  • Guilty Gear Xrd: Sol, Ky, Leo
  • Mortal Kombat X: Takeda, Reptile, Predator, Ermac, Erron Blackness, Sub-Nix, Triborg, Xenomorph
  • Ultra Street Fighter IV: Evil Ryu, Oni, Cody
  • Street Fighter V: Nash, Alex, Akuma, Zeku, G, Gill, Seth, Dan, Akira
  • Injustice 2: Robin, Sub-Zero, Swamp Thing
  • Tekken 7: Akuma, Miguel
  • Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite: Strider Hiryu, Ten, Ghost Rider, Jedah, Dante, Ryu, Monster Hunter, Sigma, Venom
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ: Team Time Travelers (Trunks, Goku Blackness, Hit), Super Broly, Babe
  • BlazBlue Cantankerous Tag Battle: Squad Scythe (Gordeau ^note specifically his Gambit palette and Red)
  • Mortal Kombat eleven: Noob Saibot, Sub-Zero, Shang Tsung
  • Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl: Ren & Stimpy
  • He too holds Metal Gear Ascension: Revengeance and Resident Evil 4 in high regard, naming the commencement game as his personal game of the twelvemonth for 2013.
  • Asura's Wrath had Max say it'south one the best games he's ever played from The Seventh Generation Of Console Videogames.
  • The above trend when information technology comes to mains was broken in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, equally he mostly plays Megaman, despite the Blue Bomber existence meh at all-time, simply because he'south a big fan of the franchise. Similar treatment extends to the later additions of Ryu, Cloud and Bayonetta.
  • While Max does have his preferred sense of style, gameplay is what counts most in his book; he'll give characters a fair chance if he considers them cool, merely will only stick with them if they're fun to play. A big example came in the class of Kage from Street Fighter V Flavour 4: Max was super hyped for the grapheme because he seemed to be a fusion of Evil Ryu and Oni, 2 of his favorite characters from Street Fighter IV. Nonetheless, he dropped the character after only a couple of days considering his Glass Cannon nature combined with tiresome movement speed meant that fighting anyone except other Shotoclones was a massive chore.
  • Fifty-fifty though his channel and his hobbies are dedicated to fighting games, Max has stated multiple times that Terminal Fantasy VII, a role-playing game, is his favorite video game of all fourth dimension. He did a whole playthrough of Concluding Fantasy Seven Remake on his channel, and showed massive levels of hype for the game during its pre-release as he saw trailers and news footage almost information technology. He was even told by the creators of FFVII Remake that they liked his reaction upon seeing the game's start teaser. Max was also quite happy to see both Cloud and Sephiroth added to Super Blast Bros. equally DLC characters, the former in Smash 4 and the latter in Ultimate.invoked
  • If a character'due south looks isn't what ropes Max into playing them, a character that's some variation of a Shotoclone will. As he puts it in "What is... A Shoto?":

    Max: ...simply there's a lot of variances in betwixt these [gameplay styles]. In fact, if we looked at the ultimate shoto game, Ultra Street Fighter 4 [...] Why do we say Ultra Street Fighter Iv is the ultimate shoto experience? Well, information technology's the merely Street Fighter game - which essentially "established" shotos, right? - to feature an absolute metric shit-ton of shotos, hybrid shotos, and New Age shotos, and well-nigh every single fashion you can stick a shoto, they stuck it into this game. [leans into microphone] ...and I fucking love it.

• Atomic F-Bomb:
  • Max lets out a huge one during his Shadow Jago Dominate Rage when he realizes that because he switched characters during his run without returning to the master bill of fare, his victory against the commencement character withal counts as a loss in the overall run. It ends upwards getting cut off by a nail cut.
• Berserk Push:
  • Obviously and simple: Natsu = Salty Max.
  • "Bad Ping," for people with choppy internet connections. This includes his own internet.
  • Max considers taunting to exist offensive and Unsportsmanlike Gloating. He makes an exception for games with Practical Taunts like Street Fighter III. The few times he's taunted another player, it was either an blow (for which he apologizes profusely), or in response to the other role player's taunting.
    • By the aforementioned token, teabagging apace turns him into a salty revenge-driven role player. Since Mortal Kombat eleven makes you tap Down repeatedly to grant Mercy, Max tends to perform the input while jumping so it doesn't await similar he's teabagging.
  • Max dislikes information technology when people choose the training stage in online matches, since he thinks it defeats the purpose of the game having stages in the first identify.
  • Max isn't specially fond of people in the chat trying to tell him what to practice or how to play. If he doesn't put the chat into sub-only mode, he'll probable exercise the opposite of what he'due south told just to spite them.
  • Crappy netcode is something that gets on his nerves a lot, particularly equally someone who plays online a lot instead of tourney-hopping. Max has been championing the cause for better netcode to Japanese devs at almost every convention he'southward gone to in the by few years, to no avail. It got to the point where he one time dedicated a 20-infinitesimal pseudo-"Real Talk" episode solely on the topic, specifically on "Not Invented Here" Syndrome, citing the myriad proprietary Japanese game engines and proprietary, not-GGPO netcode, eventually boiling down the reason to "we can't be bothered to spend money learning strange technology". His "Hype Check" video on Dragon Ball Fighterz elaborates on how this issue affected his enjoyment of the game; subsequently a few months of loving it, he became disillusioned by the netcode bug online not being addressed, and abandoned the game early in 2019. Even when he returned in February of 2020 to play it again, he expressed that he would very likely non play online considering he was sure information technology had non been fixed. Max finally had his grievances on this topic addressed, albeit indirectly, in a "Fighting Game Developer Roundtable" briefing held late July 2020, when Katsuhiro Harada (Tekken's executive producer) talked virtually the technical difficulties of adjusting 3D animations for rollback netcode and how their evolution team plans to overcome those difficulties. Multiple times throughout the video, Max tells his audience how happy he is to meet literally any Japanese developer, much less Harada himself, finally take the effect seriously.
  • Max hates the thought that fighting games need to be for only hardcore players. While Max likes to play with skilled players and enjoys high-cease play, he above all wants to take fun, and gets really annoyed at how many fighting game communities act like "Terminate Having Fun" Guys. In Max's mind, this kills the FGC's chances of growing and just comes across as elitist. This is part of why he doesn't participate in a lot of big proper name tournaments — while Max likes the talent, he can't stand the attitude.invoked
• Beware the Dainty Ones: Max is mostly cordial and very nice, although he gets cocky every now so, simply press one of his buttons and all things tend to go downhill. Most of the fourth dimension hilariously.
  • In another video Max puts up with Doom'southward antics a lot simply snaps when Doom, in quick succession, interrupts his Call of Duty match, brings upward gross Latvernian customs, sets the curtains and Ammy on burn down, and disconnects the host. We don't see anything merely information technology's not pretty.

    Max: I'g gonna take your melted disfigured ponies AND SHOVE 'EM Downwardly YOUR THROAT!

  • He seriously lost his shit when Final Fantasy Seven was coming to PS4, ported from its PC release instead of being remade.
• Bias Steamroller:
  • Defied every bit much as possible. Max does take his biases (he's not actually a fan of modernistic anime aesthetics, almost JRPGs, and similar genres), simply he does his best to keep an open mind and requite everything he plays a off-white shot. He's openly said that he tries non to call anything "bad" outright (unless it's something universally recognized as broken or low-quality, like Kasumi Ninja); most of the time when he drops a game, the worst thing he'll say is "Information technology's but not for me", and he'll withal effort to point out the aspects that he liked. That said, there are quite a few times where he had a lot of fun with games or characters that fall outside his normal range of interests, such as Them's Fightin' Herds, Ability Rangers: Battle for the Grid, or his maining Ruby Rose in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle ^note he was actually eager to attempt Yang considering she hit a lot of checkboxes on his "cool character list", but was turned off past gameplay shortcomings.
  • Played directly with Simmons, who actively hates most anime and is not shy about it.
  • Equally Max explains in "Max is Killing the FGC", he tries his hardest to downplay the Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy mentality of The '90s arcade-era fighting game players (of which he grew up with) by helping people who desire to graduate from being a casual rather than gatekeeping them.

    Max: The "realities" of fighting games are kind of what I explained; that things aren't easy, things are very hard, and information technology's hard to go into this community. Only, to be honest, guys... we're non gang members. We're not, you know, criminals. Nosotros are dudes playing video games, and I recall that can exist shared with virtually anyone.

  • Max'southward reaction to Minecraft's Steve getting into Super Boom Bros. Ultimate was, at best, polite disappointment. However, he clarifies that, unlike the resulting outrage that occurred post-obit Steve's announcement, he's ultimately happy that Steve's in the game since his inclusion makes other people happy. He also stresses that he's non obligated to hate Steve simply considering he'south the polar opposite of Max's gaming preferences.
  • Max discusses this issue when playing Alien: Isolation. He'due south a huge fan of the Conflicting franchise, but isn't really the biggest fan of horror games due to his jumpy and hands frightened nature (as he has admitted). When he played the game back in 2014, he hated information technology and stopped playing it, but came dorsum around to information technology in 2020 and admitted that he liked the game, and attributed his initial dislike of it more to exercise with his feelings on the horror genre than the game itself.
  • "Existent TALK: The Casual Entreatment of STRIVE and "Re: Coincidental Players" has him reiterating for the umpteenth time that aye, coincidental players in a fighting game scene are perfectly okay, and they're the biggest reason the "End Having Fun" Guys of the fighting game community fifty-fifty take a discourse to stand up on.

    Max: People are 100% allowed to play a game for two weeks, non learn dick, but recall it looks really cool and never play information technology ever again.

  • Every bit he points out in his Rate The Supers video on The King of Fighters XIII, "he'south biased, simply he's not an idiot," and gives Athena Asamia her dues as having 1 of the best Supers in the game in his opinion.
  • In contrast to well-nigh other fighting game tutorial channels, his response to "How do I get good at (insert fighting game hither)?" is "but go play the fucking game". He explains in the Real Talk episode "The HUGE Gap west/Casual & Hardcore Players" that learning things similar frame data or movement techniques (specifically referencing Korean backdashing in the Tekken serial), while ultimately helpful, doesn't exercise a whole lot to help new players who still struggle with fundamentals like blocking or special move inputs. He also believes this misguided merely well-intentioned advice on high level play is what gets casuals to stereotype the unabridged genre as "working for your fun", with Max hoping that the Existent Talk serial tin can help dispel some of the stereotyping.
  • While Max was watching the December 2021 Projection 50 update video, Max takes a moment to pause when lead programmer Tony Cannon explains that simplifying controls isn't most helping new players shell pros with little effort, but to unlock the fun at all levels of skill. Max and so says that he's been reiterating this for literally years, believing the latter to exist an unattainable goal fighting game devs need to stop fruitlessly pursuing, and he'south personally glad that a dev squad finally validated his viewpoint for one time.
• Boss Boxing: Invoked in Max's "Boss Rage" series, where he takes on the final bosses of certain fighting games at their hardest possible difficulty. He tallies his total attempts against the dominate, which factors into his terminal rating. Defeated bosses include Eyedol, Shadow Jago, Inferno, M.Bison, Galactus, Apocalypse, Cyber Akuma, Gill, Shin Akuma, God Rugal, Oni, Shao Kahn, Corrupted Shinnok and Primary Cadre. He also occasionally delves into not-fighting game Boss Rages with games like Asura'due south Wrath (specifically the DLC battles with Evil Ryu and Oni) and Monster Hunter: World (where he, Simmons, Steve and Kenny hunted all the monsters in the beta).
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick:
  • Twice, in his Gargos Week of, where he does this in his battle against Kim Wu.
  • Also, this precious stone from one of Overwatch Hype and Rage Compilations:

    Egdelord Max: Yeah, I dyed everything. I dyed my eyes, I dyed my lips, I dyed my hair and I dyed my dick.

• Broke the Rating Scale:
  • Max loved the Dramatic Stop for Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta vs Super Broly so much he gave it an 11 out of 10.
  • As well Flash's super in Injustice 2 where Max gave it a thirteen out of 10 and called it one of the greatest supers of all time
  • Max gave both Terry Bogard's and Sephiroth's trailer in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate an 11 out of x and 15 out of 10 respectively and chosen both of those trailers two of the greatest trailers of all fourth dimension.
  • SNK Galactus scores Do Not Attempt/10 in his Boss Rage episode.
  • When rating the supers for King of Fighters XIV, he reacts in Stunned Silence to Xanadu'southward "The Wisdom", doesn't charge per unit it and moves on to the next character.
• Bullying a Dragon: Doom to Batman in Max's review of Injustice: Gods Amidst United states of america, later on the Dark Knight lets the 2 off the claw for withholding information.
• Call-Back: When playing Skullgirls, Max says "I'll carve my own Steak" which is something he said when using Patroklos' Critical Border
• Capcom Sequel Stagnation: Discusses the trope on a Guilty Gear trailer, specifically referencing the X2 serial's propensity for extremely long titles. ^note For the uninitiated, the sixth (and concluding) installment in the serial went by the name Guilty Gear Xx Accent Cadre Reload Plus R. While he doesn't explicitly say he dislikes this trope (he is a Capcom fan, later all), he does at least acknowledge that it'south "super polarizing".
• Catchphrase: See the folio quote.
  • "HOI!"
  • "FINGER LASERS!". Directly from Assist Me.
  • "My torso is [not] ready."
  • [Insert special motion'due south name here] + Large Ham
  • "VIDEOGAMES!" or "LET'S Become VIDEOGAMES!"
  • "Let's become, son!"
  • "That'due south a thing!"
  • "Get HYPE!"
  • "HypehypehypeHYPEHYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE!!!" (When near to do something awesome in a quick fourth dimension event)
  • "Sanic! Gotta go fast!". In Yo Videogames!
  • "Get that dick!" (Taken from Nidhogg)
  • "Salty Runback!"
• Vesture Damage: Max goes on about the awarding of this in Soul Calibur V.
• Cluster F-Flop: Max is prone to this whenever things don't go his manner or his opponent pushes ane of his Berserk Buttons.
• Damn Y'all, Muscle Memory!:
  • Max always has this trouble when switching between the various Online Warrior series.
  • As far as intra-series examples get, he discusses this trope while watching pre-release Guilty Gear Strive videos - particularly for Leo, one of his favorite characters in Xrd. Leo lost a lot of his follow upwards options after 1 of his special moves, plus an aerial command grab, and he admits that information technology'll be tough to wrap his caput around the changes.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Playing as Vergil in UMVC 3 is treated as one of these.

  I sold my soul, and information technology was worth it.

• Distracted by the Sexy: His attempt at analyzing Jack-O'southward reveal trailer is briefly derailed when he pauses on a frame where she's in a particularly provocative stance.

  I mean, since I don't know... (zooms in on a aptitude-over Jack-O) WHAT THE FU-

• Early-Bird Cameo: Possibly at the end of Max's review of Injustice: Gods Among Us, when The Joker offers his services to Doom, who has only sworn revenge on Batman for dumping a yogurt and cutting the mane off of a Rarity doll during his interrogation.

  Joker: So, having a fleck of a rodent problem, are nosotros? I believe I can help with that. Here'south my bill of fare. *laughs maniacally*

• Early Installment Weirdness: The channel used to feature a lot more Call of Duty gameplay (Modern Warfare two, in particular), arguably in equal measure out to his fighting game content. Max will occasionally relive these days whenever a new Call of Duty game comes out, with the last large stretch of CoD-related videos pertaining to Black Ops iv'due south "Coma" mode.
• The Quaternary Wall Volition Non Protect You lot: He actually suffered from vertigo during his playthrough of Deadpool whenever Vertigo used her powers.
  • For the same reason, he barely could play Far Weep 3: Blood Dragon. The game gave him terrible move sickness, and he had to stop playing information technology for his own health.
• Funny Background Event: Max oft lampshades the ones that occur when he plays Skullgirls.
• The Gadfly: While Max isn't malicious plenty to be a Troll, he likes screwing around with his audience and friends. If the chat nags at him to do something, he'll generally do the contrary ^note Prime example: While playing BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, quite a few chatters complained about Ruby'south English voice and begged Max to switch her over to Japanese audio; Max occasionally made remarks similar "Modify the phonation? Okay." so went correct dorsum to playing without irresolute annihilation, and he loves facetiously making fun of things that other people like such as Minecraft to become a rise out of people.
  • By the same token, the chat will occasionally try to screw with Max. During his playthrough of Resident Evil three, they fed him faux information to get him killed by the Nemesis and lied about Jessica sneaking upwards for a Jump Scare. That said, it's never actively malicious; the chatroom is more often than not positive and supportive, and Max has repeatedly stated that he's proud to have one of the nicest audiences on all of Twitch.
• Heroic BSoD: Played For Laughs. Whenever Max comes beyond something in a game he's playing that leaves him speechless or one of the Yo Videogames crew says something outrageous (Simmons being the main culprit of these moments), he will frequently stare off into space and so cut to his "Thanks For Watching" stream outro for a couple seconds before he continues with whatever he was doing in-game
• Hypocritical Humor: Max tries to embrace a new weapon for Mod Warfare 3 only for Doom to cut in and tell Max to stop camping. Somewhen Max hands Doom the controller and tells him to show him what'due south not camping. Doom then immediately started camping.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Max calling Super Skrull's Inferno assault "hot" in 1 The Online Warrior video.
• Insistent Terminology: He calls fighting games with extremely large Lag Cancel windows "loose", most prominently with DNF Duel. He uses the term often plenty that he even made a "loose" vs. "tight" tier list to explain his positions better.
• I Shall Taunt You: Played with. Max is non fond of taunting midmatch or post-match, believing it is unsportsmanlike conduct. Nevertheless, for Deadpool's taunt or Practical Taunts in tertiary Strike, he says it's alright.
  • Max, however, is more than happy to pay back any sort of taunts back if he has the chance.
  • In one instance Max accidentally taunts his opponent once the match is over and feels terribly guilty about it.
• Know-Naught Know-It-All: Max will ofttimes claim to be an skilful at things he's clearly inexperienced with, such as when translating foreign languages when subtitles aren't bachelor. If the chat attempts to right him he'll disregard them and claim he'southward right. Thankfully it'southward Played for Laughs and is all in adept fun.
• Permit's Fight Like Gentlemen: Max has this mentality when playing fighting games, equally he dislikes rage quitters and post and mid-match taunting. (A bonus is that he often employs the Trope Namer while playing Third Strike.)
• Trivial "No": Max's reaction to seeing Hugo in this Dominate Rage. Considering what Hugo does to him, he has every correct to be concerned.
• Nice Guy: Max is this, really. He never has a bad thing to say almost any opponent he faces online (no matter how outmatched or inept they are), and will heap large amounts of praise on them if they play well.
• Please Subscribe to Our Channel: Defied as much as possible. The closest he'll get to advertising anything helmed past him is video reminders on YouTube that he's streaming on Twitch, which he removes one time they end being relevant. It's to the point where he felt uncomfortable playing this trope directly one time changes in YouTube engagement algorithms substantially forced him to in tardily 2021 (although he's since sidestepped this issue by having a less obtrusive animation of a subscribe button beingness clicked).
• Popular-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Max usually isn't too well-versed with video game IPs exterior the scope of his Capcom fighting game interests.
  • Simmons had to give Max an "explain it like I'm 5"-styled summary of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 when Pyra and Mythra were released for Super Blast Bros. Ultimate.
  • He's not the biggest fan of anime fighting games, and for ones he has played, such as some games in the Guilty Gear serial, he'll readily admit he doesn't know anything about the overall story.
  • During Capcom'southward E3 2021 presentation, he admitted he doesn't know anything about the Phoenix Wright games, how or why they got popular, or the titular character across his Fighting Clown portrayal in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom iii.
  • Max knew then piddling about the extremely popular and arguable MOBA Trope Codifier League of Legends that he defended an unabridged 20 minute video looking at the game'due south roster and character lore, feeling the need to at to the lowest degree give it some attention to it earlier the release of League'due south fighting game spinoff, Project 50.
  • Zigzagged with DNF Duel. Despite being the world's near grossing IP while its first few trailers released, Max knew next to nada about the characters that were showcased. However, the game is extremely niche outside of east Asia, making his reaction justified. On the other manus, Justin Wong (another loftier-profile fighting game player and friend of Max) used to show up in DFO advertising years ago, making it a bit surprising he hasn't at least heard of the game from Justin.
• Precision F-Strike: Thrown effectually from time to fourth dimension, though rarely past Max, unless he's feeling salty.
• Rage Quit: Averted; Max virtually never rage quits if he'due south losing. And his "Boss Rage" video serial is all most how he won't quit until he beats a boss on the hardest difficulty (if whichever game he'due south playing has difficulty levels). Max also created a whole video explaining why no one should rage quit. Max argues that also information technology just being good manners to non quit when yous're losing, many games at present have Anti-Rage Quitting, and leaving early might penalize you.
• Rousing Spoken language: He's washed a few of them, in some of his RAGE QUIT videos:

  (against Oni): We travel lightly down this path—the path to enlightenment. At the terminate lies a demon—a demon that cannot be surpassed unless motivation and spirit guide your soul. LET'S ROCK.

• Running Gag:
  • Whenever someone in the conversation asks Max to explain the plot of a video game (ordinarily the one he'southward playing correct now, the synopsis he gives is e'er a warped version of Super Mario.
  • Every time SNK comes out with a new silhouette for the side by side graphic symbol (and their trailer) in The King of Fighters Xv, expect Max to say it'southward Rock Howard… every single time.
• The Scrappy: In-universe; Max and his friends are not addicted of Bo' Rai Cho. Case in indicate.
• Shout-Out: The end of Vanilla Curiosity vs. Capcom 3 The Online Warrior episode vii plays the fanfare from Back to the Future with Doom coming in similar Marty at the end of the 2nd moving-picture show. The segment serves equally tie in to the side by side episode, which has Assist Me featuring Wesker.
  • Max makes Inigo Montoya in Soul Calibur V'south Create-a-Graphic symbol fashion. A fan has promised to make a Count Rugen character to run into him in battle.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: From third Strike: The Online Warrior there is UFCgym, a player perpetually AFK who is there solely to steal matches from people really trying to play the game.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Inverted. Max is a very humble person and he would have to be well known in lodge for Capcom to approach him to assist the release of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
• Tempting Fate: His Max Reacts videos are full of this.
  • Right after the FFVII Remake declaration, Max mentions that it'southward i of "the nearly requested games that was never made", as well One-half Life 3. Then he remembers Shenmue 3... correct as it's announced.
  • He's watching the Nintendo Straight for 2015, and he invokes it twice. The first fourth dimension is a pocket-sized i, where he decides Cloud won't exist in Last Fantasy Explorers considering it's a Nintendo championship, just for him to appear at that exact moment, and so he lazily declares it's the inevitable Super Boom Bros. announcement, only for his eyebrows to raise at the music that starts upwards... The introductory music for Last Fantasy VII ... Evidently, Deject is in a outset-party Nintendo title...
  • He does information technology once again with the Capcom "Kitchen" VR demo, first telling Capcom that, if information technology wants to make horror games similar this, it should just make a Resident Evil; then making a "Resident Evil 7" joke. Cue Big "OMG!".
  • Only earlier the Capcom 30th Anniversary celebration, his thoughts on the big announcements are a fake announcement for Mega Man Legends 3, along with a new mobile game. He didn't expect, at all, Mega Man 11...
  • When the annunciation of Sakura for Street Fighter V comes in, he's initially all for it, until Capcom shows a grouping of silhouettes, pushing one of his Berserk Buttons, then they effectively seem to have heard his complaints, every bit they announce everything else in a trailer a few seconds later!
  • On a less happy note, during his Master Fortress Boss Rage, he - playing as Deject - decided to end the battle with Finishing Bear on, a move that requires fully charged Limit Interruption and deals only Scratch Damage, but has very high knockback. Later on fully charging the move, he turned to camera proverb "We can grin once again" and unleashed the motility... just Cadre wasn't damaged plenty and wasn't KO'd. He repeated information technology with the same outcome, and earlier he charged 3rd try, Master Core unleashed its Desperation One-Hit Kill attack, forcing him to restart the run from the very beginning.
  • During his stream of the EVO 2020 announcements, he made an off-manus joke that Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes would be on the official game roster for the result, even going equally far as to say that he'd throw in 100 souvenir subs if MvC2 was announced. The very terminal annunciation for EVO 2020 was an 8-man tournament for MvC2 to celebrate the games' 20th ceremony.
  • Happened twice during the Street Fighter V Summer Update stream:
    • Prior to the stream, Max had undertaken a Legacy video series on Dan Hibiki every bit a way of expressing his desire for Dan to appear in SFV, which was a flake unusual as he normally does a Legacy serial afterward a grapheme is announced. Dan ended upwardly being the first character announced during the stream.
    • Later during the SFV Summer Update stream, Max said that if a Rival Schools character was to exist appear, it would testify that Capcom cares most its' fans and that they're trying to do right by them. The last character reveal during the stream was a Rival Schools character; Akira Kazama.
  • During the Game Awards 2020, Simmons sings "Backstreets back, alright!" During the Smash Ultimate DLC character trailer to which Max jokes, "N*SYNC in Smash!" This is simply seconds before Sephiroth made his appearance... who has been voiced by Lance Bass of N*SYNC.
  • The intro to Capcom'due south E3 2021 presentation had them off-handedly mention that Capcom'southward fighting games partition had news to share. After a brief moment of excitement, Max dialed his expectations dorsum and advised his chat to do the same, because he assumed information technology was going to be something eSports-related. Sure enough, that'due south exactly what happens when the presentation gets to Street Fighter V. Max slouched in his chair and went on a tangent comically rolling off depressing movie quotes in response.

    Max: I hate being right, chat. I hate... I hate being cursed with cognition.

  • Max lampshaded his tendency to predict fighting game reveals in his reaction to Baiken's Invitee Fighter appearance in Samurai Shodown, going dorsum to stream from a whole 2 years prior to his reaction video, where he randomly muses nigh a pop samurai perhaps becoming a invitee fighter and proverb he'd be happy if it was Baiken. When he realizes that item stream predated the 2019 installment of Samurai Shodown by two months, he lets it get to his head:

    Max: What I'one thousand trying to say is that I accept an unearthly ability to... uh, directly manifest things that are not existing into existence. Somehow, in some way... [Ominous Visual Glitch, Max gets a Voice of the Legion effect] there is a manifestation and manipulation of, um... physics, time, and... my own will, that is having an event directly on the things that I want and the way that they appear in this existent life.

• This Is Gonna Suck: Max's overall response when he does something incorrect and gets punished.
  • How Max reacts when he has to fight a Natsu or a Dampierre online.
• Championship Drop: In Max's review of Injustice, Batman calls him and Doom "The Online Warriors."
• Took a Level in Badass: Galactus was one of the easiest Boss Rage opponents first fourth dimension circular. However, SNK Galactus put up much more of a fight.
• Viewers Are Geniuses: Max is a very skilled player, and then for a lot of new players a lot of what he says can become right over their heads. To correct this, Max has started creating a fighting game basic tutorial for beginners.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
  • Max's greatest weakness are platform games. Watching him playing any platform game may crusade sodium poisoning.
  • He too has a fright of spiders, based on an incident where a black widow fleck and nearly killed him. Every bit such, he has a partial disdain towards using Spider-Man in any Marvel fighting game (not that it has stopped him from really doing so several times).
  • In another video, Max revealed that he used to accept a fear of (ironically) dogs, due to a childhood incident where ane, in his words, "bit his confront off." He overcame this fearfulness for Jessica's sake, since she's a dog person.
• You Remind Me of X: Max is told quite frequently he looks similar Nicolas Cage and Chad Kroger. It comes to a head in Retro Aid Me, when Max meets his alternate self. This returns in the Capcom vs SNK 2 Boss Rage, as he introduces himself as Nick Kroger.
• Your Mom:
  • Max, of all people, to Batman in the former'southward review of Injustice.

    Batman: (screams, grabs Max) "The hell do you know?! My parents are expressionless! Your family'due south still alive! All I have are a butler and a scared, dislocated little teenager!"

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"My name is Maximilian and I'll see y'all guys side by side fourth dimension."

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