I feel like I'm losing the cherry on my sundae. The foam of my root beer.
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~ Max Goof.
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Ah-hyuck!
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~ Max when gotten kissed by girls
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The bet's off, Bradley. But I think you owe him something.
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~ Max to Bradley after defeated him.
Maximillian "Max" Goof is a major character of the Mickey Mouse franchise who is the son of Goofy. He first appeared in the 1992 television series Goof Troop as an 11½-year-old.
He was voiced by the late Bobby Driscoll in the classic Goofy shorts (who also voiced Peter Pan), the late Dana Hill (who also voiced Tank Muddlefoot) in Goof Troop, and Shaun Fleming in Mickey's Once and Twice Upon a Christmas. He is currently voiced by Jason Marsden (who also voices Chester McBadbat, Haku, Noel Kreiss, Danger Duck, Kovu and Nermal) since 1995 with Aaron Lohr - the voice of Jak in Jak & Daxter - doing his singing voice.
Max is an anthropomorphic dog with black fur, droopy ears, peach skin and his head appears to be shaped like a bean. He appears to have a striking resemblance to his father, Goofy, with some notable differences:
His spiky hairstyle
Eyebrows
A bigger head
And a smaller muzzle
Another notable difference, his facial skin is exposed more than Goofy's is. Also like his father, he possesses a humanoid body, as of hands and feet. One episode reveals his buttocks, although they're in a flesh tone instead of black.
Attire
As Goofy Junior, he wore overalls with a yellow shirt and white shoes.
As Max Goof, he normally wears red.
Personality
When he was young, Max was mischievous. As he grew up, he drifted away from his father. Aside from that, he was very worrisome about his father messing up everything and often lies. He is also not above maturity, as he acts grown up.
Other than acting mature, he is manipulative when it comes to getting what he wants and often gets his best friend to help him. But in spite of his tricky nature, he has had his moments of selflessness. He also inherited of his father's quotes such as "Ah-Hyuck!"
After defeating Bradley, Max lost all of his selfish obsession of coolness and fame and chose to embraced over his family bond with his father, Goofy and his friendship with P.J and Bobby. He gives away his trophy to his father, Goofy as an apology gift when his father was right about Bradley being a lousy cheater where he and Goofy teached Brad a lesson that cheaters never win.
Powers and abilities
Physical abilities
Athleticism and Sports
Max has demonstrated throughout the series that he is an excellent skateboarder, pulling off various stunts and poses, even being creative in making a move of his own. As stated in the second film, he admitted that "it is his best event". He is also quite acrobatic and agile while not on his skateboard, doing a backflip off a brick wall and years later doing various stunts on his way home. But besides being a good skateboarder, Max is a very athletic person. This trait was primarily in the sports videogames he appeared in, which consist of Basketball, Football, and of course, Skateboarding. He has also done Golf, a non-radical sport. In the X-Games, he has done Skating and Biking as parts of the course.
Physical condition and combat
In terms of strength, Max could not take out a bully (such as Leech) without the help of his best friend, P.J.. But despite his lack of strength, he, along with P.J., put up a good fight. It should also be noted that in the show's videogame, he was physically able to pick up things (such as coconuts, bombs, barrels, etc.) and use them for ammunition. He has even used weapons he finds, makes, or makes into a weapon and is very proficient. Other than his level of strength and usage of weapons, Max is also physically fast and durable, especially when it comes to hazardous situations. He survived severe accidents and never broke a single bone. In the same game he appeared in first, he went twice as fast as his father Goofy.
Mental abilities
Technology and Mechanics
Max once claimed to be a tech genius, saying that "most people are techno-wimps" compared to him. None the less, he was very skilled to install a VCR to a camera using distant long cords so that it would record footage of himself and P.J., though he had accidentally caused it to broadcast across the whole city. He also plugged in cords and installed a game without looking at the instructions, as kids naturally know how by the shape of the plug and outlet. He even built a machine to help P.J. with his homework that had working functions. Max also knew how to operate Pete's boat to search for gold just by setting it for goldfish. Yet in spite of his surprising knowledge of technology, Max was no genius compared to others like Bobby, who could hack into a school system and do advanced features.
Manipulation and Strategy
Max is very good at manipulating P.J. to help him pull off his plans, and it has worked every time, causing P.J. to question, "Every time. How does he do it?!?" He is also good at deception and often deceives his father, mainly by lying. He was very good at faking his feelings trick him and pretended to be hurt to take advantage of a nearby couple's concern for him. When burglars chased him into his booby trapped house, he tricked them into falling into the traps. Max even comes up with good strategies to trick people like Pete, who impersonated Goofy to get himself a vacation at Hawaii, and to get through certain places like Burger Behemoth. Unfortunately, these plans, sometimes, usually have their limits and backfire.
Miscellaneous abilities
Music and Dancing skill
Max had some dancing skills as a preteen and as a teenager posing as Powerline (though he might have been faking it). During the show's intro, he danced a bit while wearing sunglasses, showing some skill. At the beginning of the film, he slow-danced on stage to impress Roxanne. Later, he danced along with his father and impressed his own idol. Even Roxanne liked his dancing and tried to get as good as he was when he was on television. When it comes to singing, Max is arguably a good singer while singing some musical numbers as a teenager (even though he pretended to sing "Stand Out" with Powerline's voice). Not only that, as a preteen, he played the violin so nicely after finding out his songbook was upside down.
Disguise Mastery
Dressed as Goofy.
Alien disguise.
Elderly woman.
Teenage Max dressed as Powerline.
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Max is somewhat of a master of disguise, having disguised himself on many occasions, and was able to fool a lot of people. When he put on tin foil and pretended to be an alien, he tricked everybody into believing he really was alien (due to the accidental broadcast). On another occasion he pretended to be his dad. Since no one could facially tell them apart, he only needed P.J. for height and his dad's sweater for cover up. He has also dressed as an elderly women and temporarily fooled a bully. As elderly people are sometimes short, he pulled it off very well until he reached under his dress. When he was a teenager he dressed up as Powerline and wore sunglasses so nobody would recognize him. As a child, to cheer his dad up, he dressed as Santa Claus so that only he was fooled. But Goofy noted that he was short and slim and eventually discovered him when he nearly fell off the roof.
Temporary abilities
Magic
Max gained magical powers from a sentient magician's hat who settled on his head and manipulated him, but it seemed the hat needed to be on his head physically to channel his magic. While in possession of magical powers he could manipulate the color of his cape to be purple instead of black and restore Pete's tie after cutting it up. After stopping the hat however, this eventually became undone.
Dad, what do you say we take care of this race first?
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~ Max to Goofy when arrived to the final X-Games race after realizing his father was right about Bradley being a cheater.
Goofy is his father, who also seems to be the opposite Max. Well Max is mature, Goofy is wise, but he does not always know what is going on. Max loves his dad, but sometimes, he lies to his father, in order to keep him from ruining his plans. He, even went as far as changing the map his father and grandfather used for their trip to go to Los Angelos. This eventually had led to a disagreement between them, eventually reconciling and, making amends. But Max still went at lying to his father, but after they beat Bradley, things seemed to finally settle, by then when teaching Brad a lesson to prove cheaters never win. He gave his trophy to Goofy as an apology gift from his previous action, by writing an inscription that says, "i might not be your little boy anymore, but i will always be your son" after his father was right about Brad being a lousy cheater for sabotaging his team's equipments such as PJ's roller skates, Bobby's bicycle and Max's own skateboard, but managed to win the race, proving once and for all that cheaters never win.
In House of Mouse, Max thought his father's job was easy and vice versa, but they both of them had learned how hard each of their jobs were. When Max had wanted a new car, Goofy had believed that, he was not responsible enough. But after showing everybody his father was not a good driver in his youth, he gave him a parking space and decided to let him have a car.
Debbie is Max's cousin. Initially, Max had believed that, she was evil, because of the baby powder. But she was really nice and had loved her cousin. She also had helped him, when he had trouble, with an 18-year-old bully named Duke by pretending to be his girlfriend so he could eat at Mondo Burger in peace.
P.J. is Max's best friend, and always has been since they met. When Max met P.J., he was startled. But eventually they started bonding. Through every circumstance, and every trial, they have remained best friends since then. While Max is the brains, P.J. is the muscle, and Max has manipulated him into doing stuff behind their fathers' backs. However, when one of his not-so-well-thought-through plans fail, P.J. has been shown berating him for it.
Max has also been shown to be rude to P.J., having called him names and mocked him when he said something timid while trying to talk to his Uncle Bob. He even once believed that P.J. betrayed him and called off their friendship (though that was in a "non-canon" episode). But eventually he apologized to him for jumping conclusions and made amends. And whenever he doesn't know what's going on with P.J. (particularly when he doesn't show up to what they planned together), Max gets mad with him, but then gains empathy for him after finding out. Max also wrongly lashed out at him for something he did not do. But Max felt guilty, meaning he still cared about P.J.
When P.J. asked for help from Max, he did his best to help him. However, even though something happened with Max unintentionally, P.J. blamed Max for it. In a comic strips they got into a heated argument.
Max fell in love with her, but she didn't seem to notice him. He also believed she wasn’t into him because of how he was like his dad. Because of this, he blinded himself from seeing her for who she was. When Max fell down, she was compassionate towards him, and developed a liking for him, especially for his laugh. He was willing to lie to her to keep her, and she seemed to know something suspicious. Near the end of A Goofy Movie, after Max confessed his dishonesty towards her, she confessed that ever since his Goofy laugh, she loved him. Since then, he promised not to lie to her anymore.
When Max met Bradley in person, the moment was neutral. But, when Bradley had started treating his friends badly, they had developed hatred towards each other. Max always had called Bradley as Brad, as he hates that, name. When P.J was sent flying from the rocket booster from his roller skates, Max had realized that, Bradley is a double-crossing cheater, when Goofy had tried to tell him the truth. After defeating the cheater in the X-Games, Max had called off his deal of Bradley to become his towel boy, when he, allows Tank to give him a taste of his own medicine as payback for betraying him.
Quotes
An Extremely Goofy Movie
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Oh, yeah! Did Bradley tell you to say that? Stop wasting my time, Dad. I gotta stay focused
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~ Max Goof to his father about Bradley tell him to say that
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Congratulations, Dad. Here.
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~ Max to Goofy when his father graduated college after defeating Bradley.
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No, Dad. This is for you. Read the inscription.
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~ Max to Goofy when giving away his trophy as apology present when he was right about Bradley being a cheater.
Trivia
Ever since Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, Max Goof did not make a home media appearance in nearly 16 years, until season 3 of DuckTales (2017).
The Goof Troop series never kept an exact timeline of Max's life, sometimes defying things like, when they had moved. It's questionable if Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas aligns with that timeline, as Max was shown already living in Spoonerville and living next door to Pete.
Throughout nearly the whole Disney series to Max's so far, final film appearance, Max is a young adult while Huey, Dewey and Louie are still kids.
Max does not appear in seven episodes of Goof Troop.
Unreal Estate
Pete's Day at the Races
Window Pains
Nightmare on Goof Street
Goofs of a Feather
Goof Fellas
The Good, the Bad and the Goofy
In Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas, Max gets a new girlfriend, named Mona.
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