Max Steel

2000's Series
Max Steel is actually an alternate identity used by Josh McGrath, a boy fond of extreme sports and special agent of the N-Tek Corporation.

2013 Series
Max Steel is actually a superhero made of 2 people fusing together, 1st is Maxwell Mcgrath, A high-schooler attending Copper Canyon High School, 2nd is N'barro Aksteel X377, Nicknamed Steel.

History (2000's Series)
When his parents died some time ago, he was adopted by his father's best friend and partner, Jefferson Smith, who owns a sporting goods company which is actually a front for the Secret Intelligence Agency aforementioned known as N-Tek. By becoming Max Steel, Josh has the ability to blend into his surroundings and use the Turbo power, which gives him greater speed and strength for short bouts of time.

While Josh was visiting his stepfather at work, a group of enemy agents led by Psycho attacked the control facilities. During the attack McGrath faced several enemy agents, finally fighting the cyborg himself, but in the midst of the fight, he was badly injured and exposed to a swarm of microscopic nanomachines, known by the entity as "Max Nano-Technology", which penetrate Josh's body. But because the nanomachines were powerless, Josh was left to die. In order to save Josh's life, Jefferson submits Josh to a secret operation that gives him power from the nanomachines. This saves him and gives him superpowers. As a result, Josh takes on the identity of Max Steel and fights villains with powers, principally Mr. Dread, Psycho, members of the spy organization, and later, mutants, robots, mad scientists and monsters.

After his accident, they tried to heal him with something known by the company as Max Nano-Technology but it was useless (evidently, there is no mention of the fifth Elementium isotope). At that moment, Dr. Roberto Martinez (specialist in Max nano-technology) arrived and said that Josh felt weak because the nanoprobes needed Transphasic energy to survive because if not they would starve, so he says Josh also needed to be exposed to the energy. Josh agreed to undergo transphasic exposure and his life was saved. The Max Nano-Technology gave him the ability to see and hear at great distances, and the Nano-Probes gave him the ability to alter his appearance, turn invisible (stealth mode), and have super strength ("Going Turbo!") He used the nanoprobes to assume the appearance of Max Steel, who is very different from Josh McGrath, and join the fight against crime. Josh chose the codename Max Steel for having the Max Nano-Technology and being assigned to Team Steel (the most important operations team of N-Tek). Although he said in the series that he is no longer if Josh McGrath, but Max Steel, this is true until the movie The Mastery of the Elements, from which only now he appears as Max.

His new identity affects his work in extreme sports (making him retire, return, and retire again), his academic performance and his relationship with his girlfriend, Laura Chen. Maybe the Nano-probes would become his best friend, but sometimes they would be his greatest enemy, as they are also his weakness: if Max didn't have the Transphasic Energy, he would weaken and may die, and the only way for him to recharge is by a generator with transphasic circles that revolve around him (like the one shown in the film Max Steel: Countdown), but then Berto developed a mobile generator (like the one featured in the movie Max Steel: Endangered Species).

What is also very characteristic of the series is that Max had a plane called the Hawk that he used in almost every episode and also had the stealth mode like him. Max, aka Josh has left the extreme sports circuit after the movie "Endangered Species". In the movie "Countdown" it is mentioned that Max is not as powerful as before and after a laboratory accident, he was introduced to the Nanofillers, with which adrenaline would be his power source, the more fought and more excited, would have more power, this was a result of the Adrenalink process. However, in the movie "Max Steel Vs The Dark Enemy" Max ends the Adrenalink, taking it to 150% to beat Extroyer. This results in having to fix your system, and as a result returned to have the Turbo Action. But now is not weakened if it has no load and keeps his athletic skills.

In Max Steel vs The Mutant Menace, the system had to be improved as he couldn't defeat Toxzon, now he has a new Turbo fuel that is 10 times more powerful than the last. The Biolink was also revamped, as it now spreads throughout his body when going Turbo, creating a new nano-suit that helps him control his new power. By activating the Turbo Action can increase the power of the whole N-Tek arsenal, including vehicles. His charge also lasts longer than before. In The Mutant Menace, it became apparent that if Max had the Turbo Suit on, it meant that he had gone Turbo, but in The Toxic Legion, it is shown that he can go Turbo without wearing it.

Max's History
Max after recently moving to Copper Canyon with his mother, Started emitting a strange blue energy known as T.U.R.B.O energy (Which came from his Heritage), After causing a big explosion, He wakes up in N-Tek, Being confused, Only to see his Uncle Forge Ferrus there, After an explanation from Forge about N-Tek and it's mission (Which turned out to be false by Earth Under Siege: Part 1), He was put into the turbo chamber to contain him untill They find a better way to control his T.U.R.B.O energy, Max did not take lightly to this as he started emitting extreme amounts, This caused N'barro Aksteel X377 (Better known as Steel) to activate from his 15 year long coma and ultralink with Max, After it Max and Steel became a Special Agent of N-Tek, Under the codename of Max Steel.

Steel's History
Originally, Steel was created by Makino as a war machine, He was able to break his programming after a coversation with Ja'em M'Krah, They ultralinked and became sworn enemies of Makino, After the supposed "death" of Ja'em during the catastrophic test of the turbo star, Steel was left inactive for around 15 years until Max entered the turbo chamber, As Max was almost about to "go critical" (As said by Berto), Steel activated again and ultralinked with Max, Which is where Max got the name "Max Steel"

Steel mentions that all of his functions seem to work except for his memory files, Causing him amnesia, During "Thrill Of The Hunt", N-Tek found a spaceship, Steel found that the ship gave him a strange sense of Deja-Vu, Although N-Tek destroyed the ship before Steel could find out why, After that point Steel started to be extremly curious about his past, To the point of breaching N-Tek security to find out more. Max Steel