Max (Sam & Max)

Max
"Visiting this Cambodian frog-breeding forum seems to be the lowest point of someone's life!"
Gender	Male
Series	Sam & Max
Relevant Boards	/co/ - Comics & Cartoons /v/ - Video Games
Tournament Berths	Mr. /co/: 3 (2019, 2021, 2022) King of /v/: 1: (2022)
Highest Seed	Mr. /co/: 78th (2019) King of /v/: 110th (2022)
Best Result	Mr. /co/: Quarter-finals / 7th (2022) King of /v/: Round 2 (2022) Tag-Team Tournament: Champion (with Sam) (2019)
Next Eligible For	Mr. /co/lympus 2024 King of /v/ 2024

Max is one of the two titular characters of the Sam & Max franchise created by Steve Purcell. Having originally appared in a 1987 comic book series, the character has since been the subject of a graphic adventure video game developed by LucasArts, a television series, and a series of episodic adventure games developed by Telltale Games.

Max is an anthropomorphic "hyperkinetic, three-foot rabbity thing". His appearance is generally cute and cuddly, but contrasted by a reckless, impulsive, indulgent and destructive personality, being the source of much of the franchise's humor. Max enjoys extreme violence, and prefers to solve problems aggressively in contrast to his partner and friend Sam, enacting random violence while making sarcastic remarks. In other words, he is a menace to society and a war criminal. He's lucky he's cute.

Max earned his first /co/mpetition victory in the inaugural 2019 Tag-Team tournament.

Tournament History

Mr. /co/lympus

Due to the franchise's relative obscurity and lower presence status on the board, Max in earlier years could have been described as a classic example of "tournament fodder", being popular enough to qualify and even warrant some campaigning, but never enough to go past the first round. His first two bouts were in 2019 and 2021, where he was unlucky enough to be paired against an Elite Eight member in the first round both times.

Max would return once more for Mr. /co/lympus 2022. Despite the usual expectations for him, he outperformed them and finally escaped the first round curse. While his first two rounds were not seen as too remarkable, he gained considerably more attention after taking down Dr. Livesey in the third round. He sustained an even more spectacular victory against Spear from Primal, even with the show's finale having only aired weeks before the tournament. These victories led some to label Max as the "FotM (Flavor of the Month) Killer". His victory against Spear led him to finally make the Elite Eight for the first time, where he would finally lose to finalist Carl Brutananadilewski.

King of /v/

Due to his vidya appearances which he is prominently known for, Max was listed as one of the characters that anons could vote to add to the whitelist for King of /v/ 2022. He proved one of the most agreeable choices, with some anons claiming he should've been allowed without a whitelist in the first place. Max would qualify and win the first round against Not Important but then lose to Duke Nukem.

Though Max was voted to be kept in the whitelist, he was never nominated for King of /v/ 2023.

Tag-Team

Outside of the main tournaments, Max is notable for having won the inaugural 2019 Tag-Team contest alongside Sam, forming the Freelance Police duo. Ironically enough, the two of them had never made it into the bracket in the same year until 2022.

Results

Mr. /co/lympus

Mr. /co/lympus
2019 - seed 78
Round	Opponent	Series	Votes	Pct. For
Round 1	(51) Batman	DC	318 - 607	34.4%
2021 - seed 112
Round 1	(17) Grim	The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy	176 - 446	28.3%
2022 - seed 104
Round 1	(77) Zoidberg	Futurama	269 - 237	53.2%
Round 2	(76) Bill Cipher	Gravity Falls	317 - 251	55.8%
Round 3	(128) Dr. Livesey	Treasure Island	295 - 269	56.2%
Round 4	(4) Spear	Primal	309 - 267	53.6%
Quarterfinals	(12) Carl Brutananadilewski	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	202 - 258	43.9%
5th - 8th	(36) Squidward (3) Grim (115) Xavier	SpongeBob SquarePants The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Xavier: Renegade Angel	290 (points)	7th place

King of /v/

King of /v/
2022 - seed 110
Round	Opponent	Series	Votes	Pct. For
Round 1	(83) Not Important	Hatred	633 - 600	51.3%
Round 2	(35) Duke Nukem	Duke Nukem	471 - 924	33.8%

Tag-Team

Tag-Team Tournament
2019: Freelance Police - Sam / Max
Round	Opponent	Members	Series	Pct. For
Round 1	Parental Supervision	Father / Wicked Stepmother	Codename: Kids Next Door / Cinderella	%
Round 2	The Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour	Timmy Turner / Jimmy Neutron	Fairly-Odd Parents / Jimmy Neutron	%
Round 3	Calvin and Hobbes	Calvin / Hobbes	Calvin and Hobbes	%
Round 4	Cracking Cheese Lovers	Wallace / Gromit	Wallace and Gromit	%
Semi-finals	Samurai and Sunglasses	Samurai Jack / Johnny Bravo	Samurai Jack / Johnny Bravo	%
Finals	Duck Dinasty	Donald Duck / Daffy Duck	Disney / Looney Tunes	%