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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Max Steel Season 1 Episode 1 - Strangers
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    #1 - Strangers

    S1:E1

    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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  2. Max Steel Season 2 Episode 7 - Steel vs. Steel
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #2 - Steel vs. Steel

    S2:E7

    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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  3. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 11 - Spear Carriers
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #3 - Spear Carriers

    S1:E11

    Team Steel's new mobile base of operations, the Behemoth, is hijacked with 'Berto trapped inside.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 8 - Seraphim
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #4 - Seraphim

    S1:E8

    When Max fails in his first attempt to steal back a computer code disk, N-Tek must bid for it at an auction.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Max Steel Season 2 Episode 2 - Fun in the Sun
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #5 - Fun in the Sun

    S2:E2

    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

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Max Steel Season 2 Episode 4 - When Lightning Strikes Twice
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #6 - When Lightning Strikes Twice

    S2:E4

    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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  7. Max Steel Season 2 Episode 5 - Fire & Ice
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Fire & Ice

    S2:E5

    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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  8. Max Steel Season 2 Episode 11 - Best Friend
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #8 - Best Friend

    S2:E11

    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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  9. Max Steel Season 3 Episode 9 - Truth Be Told
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #9 - Truth Be Told

    S3:E9

    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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  10. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 6 - Sharks
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #10 - Sharks

    S1:E6

    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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  11. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 9 - Snowblind
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #11 - Snowblind

    S1:E9

    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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  12. Max Steel Season 2 Episode 12 - The Race
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    #12 - The Race

    S2:E12

    Max Steel is sent to test a new vehicle in the Sahara. However, he discovers a plot...

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  13. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 2 - Shadows
    8.4/10(17 votes)

    #13 - Shadows

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Max Steel Season 2 Episode 9 - Old Friend, New Enemy
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #14 - Old Friend, New Enemy

    S2:E9

    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,

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Max Steel Season 2 Episode 10 - Extreme
    8.4/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Extreme

    S2:E10

    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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  16. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 3 - Sacrifices
    8.5/10(14 votes)

    #16 - Sacrifices

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 5 - Sabres
    8.5/10(14 votes)

    #17 - Sabres

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 12 - Scions
    8.5/10(12 votes)

    #18 - Scions

    S1:E12

    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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  19. Max Steel Season 2 Episode 6 - Trapped
    8.5/10(11 votes)

    #19 - Trapped

    S2:E6

    An unsatisfied employee is holding hostages in a high security building and plans to blow it up.

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  20. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 13 - Shattered
    8.6/10(13 votes)

    #20 - Shattered

    S1:E13

    N-Tek has a climactic showdown with the forces of DREAD.

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  21. Max Steel Season 2 Episode 13 - Breakout
    8.6/10(11 votes)

    #21 - Breakout

    S2:E13

    Dread escapes from prison and Max and his crew have to stop him before he destroys a peace conference.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Max Steel Season 3 Episode 6 - Prey
    8.7/10(14 votes)

    #22 - Prey

    S3:E6

    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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  23. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 7 - Sphinxes
    9.0/10(11 votes)

    #23 - Sphinxes

    S1:E7

    In Egypt, Team Steel attempts to de-fuse Dragonelle and Dread's latest plot against world peace.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Max Steel Season 3 Episode 7 - Special Delivery
    9.0/10(11 votes)

    #24 - Special Delivery

    S3:E7

    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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  25. Max Steel Season 1 Episode 10 - Swashbucklers
    9.1/10(14 votes)

    #25 - Swashbucklers

    S1:E10

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Strangers" is the worst rated episode of "Max Steel". It scored 7.5/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/25/2000. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Steel vs. Steel".