Rats across the world begin to have glowing red eyes and exhibit strange violent behavior.  Max, Norman, and Virgil head to China, the location where this brewing problem seems to stem from.  There they come face to face with Laoshu, the Emperor of the Rats who has somehow escaped from his prison and is bent on having dominion over the earth to rule with his fellow rats.  Laoshu tricks Max into solving a puzzle that traps the Mighty One and his friends within a never-ending maze.  While searching for a way out, the three encounter an archeologist named Kaiwan who reveals that while doing research on the legend of the Emperor of the rats, he had accidentally released Laoshu from his prison.

After Laoshu was freed, Kaiwan tells them that Laoshu took over his body by driving his spirit out.  Now Kaiwan's spirit wanders around trapped within the maze.  The archeologist learns that Max is the Mighty One and reveals that Max is prophesized in the legend to be the one that has the ability to

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The Cyberskull Virus

The Missing Linked

Lava Lord escapes from his prison after the destruction of the crystal of souls and is out to seek his vengeance on the one who imprisoned him, Skull Master.  An all out war breaks out in the center of the earth between the armies of Skull Master and Lava Lord.  Virgil tells Max that now is the time to strike in order to fullfill his destiny of destroying Skull Master.

With Norman, they travel to Skull Mountain where things start to go wrong.  They are separated from each other and Virgil is captured by Skull Master.  Norman and Max regroup and attempt to find Virgil.  When the two find him, they are horrified to discover that Virgil has turned to evil by joining the side of Skull Master.

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Pandora's Box (1)

Lava Lord attempts to destroy Skull Master with the help of his creation, ""Megus"", but is unsuccessful.  Max and Norman are hurt and confused by Virgil's betrayal.  Their doubts are put to rest when they discover that Virgil has not become evil, but has setup Skull Master. Virgil helps Max and Norman take control of Megus. This gives Max the opportunity to fulfill his destiny as the weapons of Megus are locked on Skull Master, ready to fire.  Skull Master quickly grabs hold of Virgil to use as his protection.

Max is on the brink of ridding the world of Skull Master, but he won't fire because his friend's life is more important to him than fulfilling the prophecy.  Despite Virgil's objections, Max chooses not to kill Skull Master in order to save the wise old fowel.  During the final moments of the confrontation, Max uses a portal to transport him, Norman, and Virgil back to the surface.  But in the process he also frees Warmonger and Skull Master who releases the dragon. On the dragon

Pandora's Box (2)

After being released from his inner earth prison, Skull Master travels to an island where he preys on and deceives some of the native inhabitants into drinking dragon's blood.  This transforms them into reptilian creatures that become mindless slaves obedient to his commands.  Max, Virgil, and Norman head to the island to stop him and encounter a young native who is stuck in mid transformation because he didn't fully drink the dragon's blood.  Together they attempt to rescue the rest of the natives who haven't drank the blood of the dragon.

Blood of the Dragon

The population of the little town of Schlepak is dwindling as  people begin to vanish never to be seen or heard from again.  This sends the town into a panic as they worry about their friends and loved ones.  The people are uncertain about what to do in the midst of this crisis.  Virgil, Norman, and Max investigate and meet a girl who reveals to them that a monstrous creature has engulfed her brother.

They discover that a deranged scientist who is having a difficult time remembering his name created two different organic slime creatures he named Corpus that devours and integrates metallic objects and human beings into its physical structure, making it stronger and bigger.  They try to stop the creature, but its seems somehow impervious to any form of attack.

The stakes become higher as it becomes personal for Max and Virgil when Norman becomes another victim of Corpus.  Now they set out again to confront the scientist with no name and attempt to rescue Norman and the rest of the villag

Max gets into an ongoing debate with Virgil about his love for videogames and its importance in the real world.  Virgil believes that it is a waste of time and that mathematics is a subject that Max as the Mighty One should devote his time to learning, which includes Lemurian Calculus.  With Norman, the two must put their opinions in the background and attempt to find common ground as Max must know combine his gaming skills with Virgil's knowledge of Mathematics to stop a warped computer programmer who has perfected the means of becoming one with his own computer program.  No longer human, he becomes ""Cyberskull.""  An unstoppable computer generated cybernetic destructive machine bent on digitizing the whole world.

Virgil and Norman summon the help of the Mighty One when there are reports of creatures resembling the now extinct dinosaurs  running amok in Hawaii.  There they discover a scientist named Eggbert Zygote who has developed a machine that can evolve and devolve life.  Max and his friends must stop the craze scientist who has big plans to meddle with the evolutionary process by using all life on this earth as his test subjects for the new invention.

Zygote's Rhythm

Max and Virgil discover that Norman who is basically not afraid of anything has a fear of spiders when they go head to head with a scientist who has mutated himself into a spider and now has control of all arachnids that he has mutated and enlarged in size.  Norman must now attempt to conquer his fear in order to help Max and Virgil prevent the scientist from conquering and overrunning the entire earth with giant mutant spiders.

Along Came Arachnoid

During the chopping down of trees in the forest, construction workers accidentally free an evil creature named Lockjaw who was imprisoned within the trees.  Now Max, Virgil, and Norman must stop him from unleashing total destruction upon the earth.

The Axeman Cometh

Bea accompanies Max, Virgil, and Norman to combat alien beetles and their alien beetle protector.

Beetlemania

Against Virgil's warning, Max uses the cap to travel to the astral plane where he encounters a large deformed eagle and its master, an evil giant skull named Talon that devours souls.  Talon steals the cap and uses it to escape into Max's dimension, leaving the Mighty One trapped there.  Talon ever hungry, views the human population as an all you can eat buffet as he begins feeding off their souls.  Max struggles to find a way out of the astral plane so that he can stop Talon's feeding frenzy.

Souls of Talon

Construction unearths and frees an immortal saber tooth tiger that begins to wreck havoc on modern day California.  Also freed is an immortal caveman who has spent most of his life battling this unstoppable enemy.  He joins forces with Max, Norman, Virgil, and Mom to stop a creature that should have been extinct a long time ago.

Tar Wars

Max must rescue Norman, Virgil, and a group of children who have been imprisoned and turned into mutants for a circus freak show by the deranged Freako the Clown.

Clown Without Pity

Max being the Mighty One is put into question when a boy from England named Maxamillion comes to the attention of Virgil.  It is revealed that Maxamillion shares the same birth date as Max and has also received the call that Virgil had earlier sent out in search of the Mighty One.  Max who been reluctant since day one about being the prophesized hero connected to the cosmic cap feels that the weight of the entire universe has been lifted off his shoulders.  He gladly takes off the cap and offers it to Maxamillion, but Norman stops him saying that Virgil wasn't stating that Max isn't the Mighty One, just that this confusion of identities needs to be cleared up by any means possible.

Virgil decides to put the two through tests in order for him and Norman to identify the true Mighty One.  Max searches within himself and decides that he is going to fight and not give up so easily because he has become accustomed somewhat to the cap and the duties that this calling entails making Norman ver

Max vs. Max

Even though he is imprisoned in cyberspace, Cyberskull's power is still able to reach out into the real world through computers.  He brainwashes JC Mega and countless others to do his bidding.  Cyberskull's plan is to use Mega's satellites to drain all of the world's electrical power and information after he acquires a new and larger robotic body.  Now Max, Virgil, and Norman race against time to stop him from taking over the entire world.

Cyberskull II: the Next Level

In Ireland, modern day Druids plan to bring a monstrous creature into this world.  Caitlin who is the daughter of one of the druids, assists Max, Virgil, and Norman in stopping this ritual.

Fuath and Beggora

In order to stay alive for 10,000 more years, Norman must once again face a warrior known as the Conqueror.  Max and Virgil are prohibited from helping their friend in this pivotal fight for his life.

Dawn of the Conqueror

A scientist who has lived in an underground environment filled with high levels of radiation for a long period of time has lost his mind and caused him to develop an immunity to the radiation.  Now Virgil, Norman, and Max must stop him because he is out to seek revenge for his condition with the help of his giant radioactive scorpions by exposing the entire planet and its population to radiation.

Scorpio Rising

Professor Zygote returns, and this time he's kidnapped a young boy with telekinetic powers, believing him to be the key to human evolution. It's up to Max and his companions to stop  Zygote from completing his plans, but what can Max do when Zygote evolves himself into a being of pure thought with unimaginable psychic power?

Zygote Music

Max, Norman, and Virgil attempt to stop a dark serpent creature known as Naga who has been awakened.  He seeks the means to gain control of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction and death.  Naga plans to unleash her destructive power upon all of India.

Good Golly Ms. Kali

A band of pirates led by the grandson of Captain Nemo have stolen the famous submarine, the Nautilus from author Jules Verne who has awakened after being cryogenically frozen.  These thieves use the sub to pillage other ships.  Now Verne must work together with Max and his friends to stop Nemo and retrieve his invention.

Around the World in Eighty Arms

Max is called to London to meet with Virgil and Norman due to there being reports of people being drained from the neck of their blood.  Virgil believes this to be the work of a vampire who is a relative of Dracula.  He uses his vast knowledge of vampire lore to educate and equip Max with the means to fight this dark terror.  When the three finally come face to face with the vampire, they discover that none of Virgil's recommended methods are able to stop her, as she is no ordinary vampire.

Fly by Night

Max is at home one day when he gets a message from Virgil to head for the town dump.  He gets there and is transported to Egypt to investigate several disappearances.  People have been vanishing and there is a mysterious door covered in egyptian hieroglyphics.  A female egyptologist comes by and asks them to come by the museum.  That night, they sneak into the museum and find the egyptologist praising a huge statue of Osiris.  She tells him that soon they will have the final part and their plan to fruition.  Max accidentally knocks over a plant and the furious lady condemns them to the realm of the ancient dead (""You mean Miami?"").  Virgil, Norman and Max fall into the ground and into a huge underground chamber where they meet Anubis, ruler of the dead.  Anubis quickly chains them, and then has them wrapped up in bandages as mummies and is about to have them buried alive when Norman breaks loose of the bandages and frees the others.  They are chased by mummies, but they manage to escap

The Mommy's Hand

Warmonger and Skull Master head to an island in the central point of the equator inhabited by Hydra, a two headed dragon that balances the polarity in the world with each head between good and evil.  Skull Master attempts to use pages in the Lemurian Arcana to eliminate the good side of Hydra and have it merge with the evil side so that he can receive more power by having dominion over it.  Max, Virgil, and Norman attempt to stop him because if he is successful, it will throw the world off balance.  Skull Master nearly completes most of the spell, but the page that he needs to control Hydra is blown out of his hand by a powerful gust of wind.  Warmonger, who has become fed up with being treated like dirt after serving Skull Master so long, quickly grabs the page and uses it to gain control of Hydra and orders it to destroy his boss.  Virgil begins to panic and tells Max and Norman that this must not happen, that they must prevent Skull Master from being killed.  Max is shocked and ques

I, Warmonger

Aliens from Sirius B are coming to Earth to steal the seeds of all power with the help of their agent, the shaman Nahmo. But Norman and Virgil are so busying fighting each other, they may not be able to figure out how to fight the aliens in time!

Sirius Trouble

Max is miserable during his birthday celebration because Virgil and Norman haven't arrived or communicated with him in a while. He creates a ruckus by tearing apart his birthday presents and cake in search of a message from the two, but there is nothing. He is happy when they do arrive, but is puzzled when they tell him that he must leave immediately to take care of something urgent relating to his birthday.

Virgil and Norman takes Max to their home where he jokes, but is serious about hanging out with the two sometime in the future.  Virgil is mysteriously saddened by Max's comment.  He reveals to Max the source of most of his knowledge by partly pulling down a curtain to reveal a large mosaic of pictures.  Which show the events that have transpired so far in Max's journey since he received his call as the Mighty One.  Virgil goes briefly through it and reveals that Skull Master is not dead as they originally thought, but is alive and well and has reconstructed the crystal of souls wi

Armageddon Closer (1)

Realizing that there is nothing that he could do to alter his destiny, Norman decides to engage the spider in final combat and go down fighting.  Max attempts to help Norman, but Virgil pushes Max into a portal and then follows after him. Furious and saddened, Max questions Virgil's actions and tells him that they could have saved Norman.  Virgil tells him that there was nothing both of them could do because Norman's death was foretold by prophecy and that when his time comes at Stonehenge, that he would want Max to respect that.  He warns Max not to go Stonehenge during the winter solstice because that is when darkness is at its strongest.  Virgil makes Max promise not to travel to Stonehenge during that time and they prepare to get going, but are stopped in their tracks when they run into Skull Master and Warmonger.  Max is sent to the Astral Plane by Virgil, a place where Skull Master is forbidden to follow.  Virgil is then taken captive by Skull Master and Warmonger.

With the power

Armageddon Outta Here (2)

Mighty Max is an American animated action/sci-fi television series that aired from 1993 to 1994 to promote the British Mighty Max toys, an outgrowth of the Polly Pocket line, created by Bluebird Toys in 1992. It ran for two seasons, with a total of 40 episodes airing during the show's run.

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