9.4/1013 votesLoading...#1 - Swashbucklers
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/16/2000
Josh and Laura's Spring Break vacation in Baja turns into a Max Steel adventure, as they encounter pirates with an earthquake machine.
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#2 - The Return
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/28/2000
Starting off the season by saving a hijacked NY City tour bus, Rachel is then promoted to be Max's boss, while Josh is approached by a pubescent girl to support the kids' efforts to get an extreme sports park built. Laura isn't in the episode -- but is mentioned as leaving on a one-year trip. But, arriving back at the apartment to try to spend a little time with Pete for a change, Josh finds a that Pete's been taken by Dread, who has survived last season's climax, and demands Max steal for him a vial of nano probes and a research disk, sending Max on a chase through a series of hurried legs to exchange vial & disk for Pete. Oh, and Dread managed to jam Max's link with Berto, thank you. In the process of saving Pete and putting Dread behind bars, Pete learns that Josh is Max. We're left with Dread in prison, vowing that ""it's not over, Max!""
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#3 - Sacrifices
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/11/2000
The episode opens with an assassination attempt on United Nations secretary general, Mari Keita, or so N-Tek believes. Max, however, has his doubts. Especially when he is told his adoptive father, Jefferson Smith, has had a heart attack, and yet, is unable to be found in any hospital. It quickly becomes apparent that Smith has been kidnapped. While the rest of N-Tek searches various leads, Max heads out on his own hunt. After discovering a hidden base and being captured, Max finds Jefferson. Working together, the father-son team manages to escape, just in time to stop Psycho from stealing a lethal virus from a hospital, which was apparently the real goal.
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#4 - Survival Instinct
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/19/2001
While competing in a snowboarding competition, Josh meets up with one of his rivals. The two do not hesitate to make life hard for one another, but when an avalanche strikes, the two are trapped in a small cave with diminishing oxygen. It is up to the two to help one another tunnel out before the oxygen supply runs out.
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#5 - Rough Seas
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/2001
Josh, Berto and Kat take a dream cruise, but Psycho hijacks the ship. Max, Kat and Berto must get the passengers to safety and stop Psycho.
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#6 - Turbulence
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 1/5/2002
Psycho steals a plane in order to steal from the federal reserve.
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#7 - Shadows
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/2000
Josh is having nightmares about the time when he first learned of N-Tek's real mission, and became Max Steel. Then, on a mission to Paris to investigate the cause of numerous city-wide blackouts, Max begins to faint at odd times, coincidentally at the same time as the outages happen. Each time, he has a short flashback about his first meeting and fight with Psycho, and the events following it. By the end, Max has come to terms once more with that clip of his past, and helps to defeat Psycho and save Paris.
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#8 - Sportsmen
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/25/2000
While in the middle of a qualifying contest for the Del Oro Extreme, Josh and the other athletes are rocked by a strange and violent lightning storm. By the next day, Josh has decided to quit the D.O.X., saying to his father that ""...there's no challenge; and it's just not fair."" However, when the lightning ceases to stop, Max must don the D.O.X. uniform, and try to find out the cause. After a series of near-death experiences for all of the D.O.X. competitors, Max learns that the threat is caused by a crazed Woody Barkowski, and his sister, Annabelle. He stops them, saving the day, and many lives. Then, at the awards ceremony, Laura catches him talking to Rachel, and accuses him of cheating on her, using a comment he made back in the episode ""Strangers"" against him. He pacifies her, sort of.
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#9 - Amazon
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/2000
Max is dispatched to the Amazon rain forest to investigate, as large swaths of the forest are mysteriously being cleared. There's another N-Tek operative, named Kat, who has been on the job for a few days, but her communications have gone silent. Also, 'Berto has to come along, because Max's communications won't work properly inside the dense rain forest (huh ??) and 'Berto knows the area. (Being from Columbia, he knows Brazil well.) After landing, Max & 'Berto are jumped -- and it turns out that they've surprised Kat, alive & well, but with a broken communicator. Kat doesn't need any help, thank you. Nor does Max need Kat. But they have to work together, or at least in close proximity. Orders, you know. Kat is mildly pleased when Max saves them from an enormous boa constrictor, while they're motoring up river, but the boat sinks, and she turns sarcastic again. They find some of the clear cuts in the forest, where 'Berto examines a felled tree, and identifies it as one with a sp
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#10 - Space Opera (a.k.a. Shooting Stars)
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/20/2001
Episode ""Space Opera"" in this database, listed as ""Shooting Stars"" on Cartoon Network 'Berto has been dying to do something that allows public recognition, unlike all his N-Tek work, and he gets word from NASA that he and his optics experiment have been approved to fly on the next Space Cruiser flight. Max agrees to give him a week of training to get him into shape for the flight. It's clear that 'Berto really is used to a lot of sitting! 'Berto gets to the Cape and meets Sarah Wolf, the Mission Specialist in charge of him and the payloads, and the rest of the crew. When N-Tek finds out his parents can't get to Florida in time to watch the launch, Max goes there to cheer on 'Berto. After 'Berto notes the last-minute loading of the latest space telescope onto the Cruiser, Josh arrives, and invites 'Berto to party on his last earth-bound night -- but 'Berto collapses, exhausted. 'Berto gets up early on launch day and goes into the Cruiser to check on his experiment, only to find th
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#11 - Deep Cover
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/12/2001
NTEK was shut down, and Max Steel returned to his role as Josh McGrath, the extreme athlete. When Josh discovers illegal weapons smuggling at the Radical Games, he and his team returns to crime fighting business. But without constant T-Juice supply as he did in NTEK days, can Max survive the battle before his juice runs out?
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#12 - Cold Sweat
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 12/5/2001
Josh and co. attend a major hockey game, invited by a major hockey star. But things go the wrong way when a boy is held ransom.
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#13 - Fan Appreciation
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 12/6/2001
While attending the opening of a new extreme sports park, Kat is especially well treated by the park owner and worker. However, Max begins to grow suspicious...
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#14 - Sphinxes
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/22/2000
In Egypt, Team Steel attempts to de-fuse Dragonelle and Dread's latest plot against world peace.
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#15 - Special Delivery
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/21/2001
Max, Kat and Berto meet up with Matt Hoffman to lend him some help and suport. However, his room is trashed and the team discover someone is trying to kidnap him.
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#16 - Prey
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 12/17/2001
Josh is stuck in South America - in the jungle. Even worse is the fact that he is pursued by ""unseen forces""
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#17 - Shattered
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/14/2000
N-Tek has a climactic showdown with the forces of DREAD.
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#18 - Breakout
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 6/23/2001
Dread escapes from prison and Max and his crew have to stop him before he destroys a peace conference.
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#19 - Sabres
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/1/2000
Josh and Laura seem to be repairing what damage was done to their relationship after a few recent events, while Pete simultaneously questions Josh as to his love for Laura. Meanwhile, Sabre, N-Tek's space station, has suffered a mysterious malfunction, and is in danger of plummeting back to Earth. Max, along with Jake Nez, is sent to investigate the problem. After a short fight in space, the duo reaches the station, only to find that it was all a set-up, by Psycho and Vitriol, designed to steal N-Tek's shuttle, the Phoenix. Max and Jake lock themselves in the bay, strategize, then simultaneously capture Vitriol and send Psycho spinning off into space. Sabre is brought down safely in the Pacific Ocean, and Josh returns to Del Oro, just in time for another scolding from Pete, as our hero had missed another date with Laura.
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#20 - Scions
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/30/2000
Trapped by a volcano, Max listens to a log of one of his late father's missions and imagines what it was like.
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#21 - Trapped
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/9/2000
An unsatisfied employee is holding hostages in a high security building and plans to blow it up.
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#22 - Strangers
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/25/2000
The first episode. Rachel Leeds, the agent Max Steel has been partnered with, is among a group of people kidnapped at a peace conference at the Reichstag in Berlin. The kidnapper quickly turns out to be L'Etranger, or ""The Stranger."" Max saves them, just in time for his public identity, Josh McGrath, to pick up his girlfriend, Laura Chen. A glimpse of surprises, and enemies, to come.
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#23 - Old Friend, New Enemy
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/10/2001
Max & Kat are sent to Kansas, where a former N-Tek employee, Dr. Klimo, is continuing his experimentation into harnassing the DNA of poisonous animals to create new weapons. (Jefferson had fired him when his experiments started going beyond good science. He USED to be a nice guy, even playing ball with N-Tek employee kids, like little Josh McGrath.) They find Klimo at work in an old barn, surrounded by cages of bats & snakes, and huge bubbling vats. He isn't interested in being taken back to Del Oro Bay, and a fight ensues. Klimo falls off a platform down into one of his vats of bubbling blue toxins. Just as Max & Kat turn to go, lamenting his death, a creature rises out of the vat -- Klimo's DNA has been altered, and his body is now sssssuper-ssssstrong, and constructed of coiled ssssssnakes! Klimo has become a poisonoussssss sssssnake himself, and can call other sssssnakes to help. They fight further, with Kat getting hurt in the ankle, but eventually Klimo morphs into a long,
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#24 - Extreme
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 2/17/2001
Josh enters a sports event and ends up entering as Max steel and teaming up with Tony Hawk. You may think that he'll be lucky but there's more. Someone is trying to cheat and it's up to Max to figure out what's wrong.
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#25 - Sharks
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2000
After recapturing the Barkowskis and their hurricane machine, Max and Rachel must recover plutonium from a vessel that sank in the storm, not realizing that freelance mercenary L'Æ’tranger is after it also.
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The Best Episodes of Max Steel
Every episode of Max Steel ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Max Steel!
A teenage boy with accidental body enhancements fights the enemies of peace as a super-powered secret agent.
Genre:Animation
Network:The WB
Episodes
35
Avg. Rating
8.7
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Best Episodes Summary
"Swashbucklers" is the best rated episode of "Max Steel". It scored 9.4/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/2000. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Return".
