7.9/1010 votesLoading...#1 - Steel vs. Steel
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/2000
Kat & Max are sent to retrieve a ""magma crystal"" from the mouth of an active volcano, but fail. Regrouping back at N-Tek, one of Electrix's electrobots (captured in a previous episode) attacks Max! No wait, it's not the same old electrobot -- 'Berto has modified it with trans-phasic energy to become an N-Tek ""techbot"": another agent, like Max & Kat. Max is none too pleased about being replaced by ""a bucket of bolts with a motherboard strapped on"", but 'Berto makes him understand that it is just to help, not replace him. Jefferson notes it would have been perfect to send into the volcano, instead of human agents, but Max is still skeptical. They undertake to train the new ""agent"" over at the N-Tek training island. Things begin to go wrong, and it turns out that Electrix included special code on the motherboard that, if captured, would re-assert the need to attack N-Tek agents, despite 'Berto's programming. The electrobot activates its three pals in storage, and they take the Behemou
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#2 - Spear Carriers
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/23/2000
Team Steel's new mobile base of operations, the Behemoth, is hijacked with 'Berto trapped inside.
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#3 - Seraphim
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/13/2000
When Max fails in his first attempt to steal back a computer code disk, N-Tek must bid for it at an auction.
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#4 - Fun in the Sun
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/4/2000
Things are quiet for a few days at N-Tek (with the robotic dog problems of last week, 'Berto's now developed a robotic cat reminiscent of Sony's Aibo [who's the studio making this show!?!]), so Rachel lets Max take 'Berto to Waikii Beach, Hawaii, where they can both vacation, and Josh can talk to a submarine scientist at the Pearl Harbor naval base about his latest designs, helping Josh with his civil engineering class project. After Josh & 'Berto make friends with an initially-hostile local windsurfer, a strange tsunami hits their hotel, and more rescues are in order. While Josh talks with the submarine scientist, 'Berto hacks in to their systems and finds out that there's no natural cause to the tsunami. Max & 'Berto decide to climb up to a mountainous side of the island to locate the cause of the tsunami when called from N-Tek, officially activating them and relaying L'Estranger's ransome demand for $5B to not wipe out Honolulu. They manage to fight off his minions, but L'Est
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#5 - When Lightning Strikes Twice
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/2000
The evil villain Electrix is angry with her history of being defeated by Max Steel and his crew. She becomes bent on revenge, but this time with a plan.
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#6 - Fire & Ice
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/2/2000
Josh is eating dinner over at Pete's house when he is called to work by 'Berto. Pete, who now knows Josh is also secret-agent Max, begs to come along, but Josh tells him no. 'Berto sends the Hawk airplane to pick up Max, sending him to Arctic Alaska, where two N-Tek research scientists have gone missing. Enroute, he discovers Pete stowed away in the back seat, still wanting to help his pal Josh with his secret agent role. Pete will cause no end of distraction and trouble for Max, today. Approaching the Arctic, Max has to fight off anti-aircraft missles from the villain, while Pete has to fight off motion sickness. They end up crash-landed close to the research station, and start to ski the rest of the way, where Max has to fight off a huge polar bear (without harming this endangered species!). At the research station, they discover that Vitriol has tapped in to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and try to discover whether they're stealing oil or planning to cause an ecological disaster. I
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#7 - Best Friend
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/3/2001
Max finds out his friend has been brainwashed and is intent on committing a murder. It is up to Max to save his friend, the person about to be murdered and discover who is behind the brainwashing.
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#8 - Truth Be Told
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/15/2002
Stuck in a van with a bomb, Josh is left with no choice, but to reveal his secret in front of another extreme sports star.
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#9 - 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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#10 - Snowblind
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/20/2000
Vacationing in Aspen with Laura and their friend Pete, Josh spots Psycho and follows him, only to discover that Dread has tapped into his Bio-Link with N-Tek HQ in order to kidnap Max and experiment on him.
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#11 - The Race
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/10/2001
Max Steel is sent to test a new vehicle in the Sahara. However, he discovers a plot...
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#12 - 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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#13 - 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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#14 - 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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#15 - 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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#16 - 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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#17 - 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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#18 - Shattered
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/14/2000
N-Tek has a climactic showdown with the forces of DREAD.
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#19 - 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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#20 - 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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#21 - 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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#22 - 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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#23 - 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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#24 - 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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#25 - 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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The Worst Episodes of Max Steel
Every episode of Max Steel ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Worst Episodes Summary
"Steel vs. Steel" is the worst rated episode of "Max Steel". It scored 7.9/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/16/2000. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Spear Carriers".
