also their a lot more of them Stim and cores are super rare Thinking of making a mod for 4 where removing g a core removes all artificial light from the area now
@@Spaceghost918 He really is. Joins the Brotherhood for the power armor, immediately lets a brother get wasted and takes it when runs off into the Wasteland to mess around.
@@froglegstastebestsalted the brotherhood used to be isolationist and only grew by having children, they know what sex is And they aren't even religious, they just collect technology
@@KC_SmoothHe clearly embodies the player experiencing the Fallout world for the first time. But I can see how people who don’t understand the series see his character as lacking. That’s why I hope his character grows in the next season because while it’s funny to us, he does have to grow
Intelligence is 3. He doesn't talk like a caveman, so it can't be a 1 or 2. Charisma is 1. Fails speech checks, doesn't pick up on social cues, couldn't barter worth crap with that repair vendor lady. Perception is 9. Noticed the couple at the bridge were armed and cannibals. Immediately figured out Vault 4 is a cult. Immediately figured out Thaddeus turned into a ghoul. Luck 10. This one is obvious. BOS should have executed him but didn't. Got free power armor after getting a lucky shot on the Yao Guai. Promoted to Knight after misunderstanding. Strength 7. Can carry a huge backpack for a Knight (Strong Back) Endurance 8. Survived a direct punch from Power Armor. Can take a bullet too. Agility 6. It's average or so. Quick enough to draw pistol and kill those cannibals. Max is basically a Luck/Perception build.
I'll never get over the fact that this man was just genuinely entertained by a looping waterfall. At first I thought he was drugged or something from the food but no, he's just like that.
In all fairness, it didn't seem like he had seen any kind of tech before, besides from the Power Armor wich he cherish and idealizes so much since he got saved by a Knight wearing it as a kid. But most importantly. He is just being silly and was mad happy inside that vault since it was the first time he got the "feeling" of what a true home means and was just enjoying the moment while being truly safe and happy for the first time in his life. Prob his 1st tv, popcorn and everything that was inside that room including the warm shower and bathrobes. So he was basically a lil guy on their first Christmas getting all of these nice things. He even had a sex offer not long ago with Lucy. The dude was literally lost on that screen but it was more than just a waterfall for him i am guessing. That was his moment. But still pretty funny how silly he was.
I thought he was being hypnotized by it but now that you mention it I think he’s never seen anything like tv or the waterfall and he let his imagination take him somewhere beyond that waterfall. When I was growing up Spyro the dragon was new and I remember going to the border of the level after finishing everything and looking at the mountains in the horizon that I would I would never be able to get to but I’d just look at them for long periods of time because my imagination filled in what could possibly be beyond. Now I’m 32 and I know how video games work just a bit better so I know there was nothing beyond it and the magic is gone, but maybe not for someone that grew up in a wasteland.
idk man i think he has some charisma points there. he just complimented lucy with she smells nice then get a dialogue back with an invitation to have intercourse 😂
Maximus is a breath of fresh air. A little dumb, a little confused, but trying to be the best he can be. He is every Private ever, and we love him for it
He is self centered and stupid. When he’s in a position of power he abuses it, not chivalrous whatsoever. He has the most annoying voice… I think most people would agree with me on that one and throughout 8 hour long episodes as the deuteragonist, seeing the world for the first time he still hardly grew as a person. Hes pathetic Charisma 0 Perception 0 Luck 10
@@fuzzborne ...I'm sorry, you assume sane people take up the position of army grunt? To get yelled at and boot lick all day? That's what sane people do? Know your place, bud.
In fact, the writer did that on purpose to his character to show representation some of us(players) who actually an idiot in role playing and i like it.
It also makes lore sense. A Brotherhood of Steel Squire with limited education, besides practical combat skills, would probably not be the brightest bulb.
lorewise aren't squires people born into the brotherhood? which makes them highly valuable because they are sons and daughters of members of the brotherhood and are educated from an early age to become scribes, knights or lancers So lorewise Maximus should have been an initiate and should have had an assigned paladin since he joined the brotherhood
@123Juniiorr In his case, he was a child when he was recruited. I know that the lore doesn't make clear what kind of higher education the brotherhood facilitates, if any, but my guess is that some of his rank would not be qualified for it.
@@123Juniiorr eh, sources are really weird. From fallout 3 (from recollection), a lot of the squires/new recruits actually come from the Pitt as it was being saved (or, failed to be saved) by the BOS in that game. In fallout 4, the BOS both has recruits from the wasteland, and people who were born into the brotherhood. Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas had their BOS only recruit people who are born into the Brotherhood. Fallout tactics my beloved conscripts random wasters :>>>>
@@johnnatandc ugh no he seems funny and friends with everyone he’s interviewed with. Guess you’re the type to look for something specifically wrong with him. I wonder why. 🙄
@@whiteboy4045That would make for a decent perk idea. You gain a special point for every crippled limb, what points you gain are dependent on which limb is cropped.
The guy was f-ing his chickens. This was funny, but later we find out he doesn't know what that means. Just makes the look on his face that much funnier. 😂
Both Maximus & Lucy are naieve because they were sheltered however in very different ways. He was raised in a sheltered (albiet violent & militaristic) environment it makes him seem like an idiot at times but he is far from that. Both he and Lucy are what Rey and Finn should've been in the Starwars sequels, capable but not unstoppable
For any of the show's faults, that is an unavoidable comparison. And I can say without a doubt Maximus and Lucy are way way way better characters than Finn & Ray.
Finn and Rey deserve better The latter is quite likable in Lego Skywalker saga and a special where she actually have went through some stress with Porgs steal her lightsaber
The thing is, Finn is kinda like that, with him not understanding wookie or the force or lightsabers, Rey is different though, she's more of a foil to kylo ren "the toxic fan" while still never being op, she still needs to train and stuff
@@lordwunderbar7857 I mean, this is literally what basic training means. The ability to run it is good enough as it is. Running it with precision is a paladin thing
I suspect all the squires have training in case their knight is killed in the line of duty. They also seemed to all be trained in how to maintain the power armor as well
Danse is probably the most intelligent, eloquent, tactician i've ever seen in the brotherhood and he was an institute plant with a synthetic ai brain, this seems accurate
I love the scenes of Maximus with Thaddeus. The fact that Max is an idiot who takes on the identity of a knight and goes around on an adventure getting stuff done in dumb ways felt like a retelling of Don Quixote. Especially bc Thaddeus was his squire like Sancho, being the voice of logic and reason at times.
I don't think so, she fails a number of speech checks. I view her as we all do intially, we try to evenly space out our stats, "jack of all trades but master of none".
@honinakecheta601 not sure I agree, considering the speech she attempts and fails. If that were the case she would have been able to talk her way through more dialog checks lol. She fails in Filly, in Vault 4, and with the Fiends.
Me by episode 3: "man maximus has no survival instinct." My buddy: "he's got the idiot savant perk" Me: "Ha ha, funny joke." Me by episode 7: "Oh, it was not a joke. At all."
i have noticed that his stats overall are luck based while lucy seems to have a charisma/agility build and coop a perception/endurance/agility one. i love it i just hope the writers don't overdo it and hand maximus everything on a silver platter
He’s very lucky throughout the show but it’s not like he’s completely free of consequence. He has to make a lot of hard choices and mistakes-and in the end of S1 he has lost Lucy. The rewards of being lucky are almost conflicting with what he actually wants.
Maximus isn’t the smartest, but later on he’s trying to be good. EDIT: Sometimes, I wonder if these replies are from people that watched the same show.
It will easily be his conflict too tho. he will become a paladin but relinquish the armor because the elder will want loyalty above his moral restraint.
@@TheVoltdenatsu So he’ll be making a big choice. To bring the wasteland to its knees with the Brotherhood that has an unlimited power source, or to let go of power and prevent them from doing so.
I was hating on this character for like 3-4 episodes until I realised he wasn’t bad. Man just didn’t really have anyone to teach him how to be good. The episodes in Vault 81 really showed how childish he was, but it wasn’t his fault. Lucy is learning how to survive the real world (wasteland) while Max is learning about morality. Also, I thought that he had really put the razor on his friend’s boot but then it was shown otherwise
Every character has a perk if you put attention. The ghoul has Bloody Mess, Steph has Black Widow and Moldaver has Terrifying Presence. I'm thinking Lucy has Swift Learner.
You know the show was good when people are theorizing about In Game Perks and Stats that would apply to a character and they actually make sense in the story.
Hey, Maximus never said (or even implied) that he *himself* deserved to wear the armor. Besides, this knight was basically the same one who killed those closest to Max when he was only 6
I like how everyone agrees that his alignment is nutral not because of anything special or a big action he took. It’s just simply because he’s an idiot with really low charisma and bad decision making ability but high luck. He fails upwards
I mean... He isn't the only squire in the show which is a little dumdum. He maybe a little dumb in some places and always lands on his butt and what not, but he at least has his reality check taken outside the vault unlike Lucy which appears only by the end of the show to come to a full circle about her life. BOS members are something else.
@@themagnus2919 he represents a player trying to convince themselves they have good karma but always ends up staying the same for taking WAY too many selfish actions and accidentally taking the worst dialogue options possible
@@marcusgabriel8365 Maximus is a noob on a blind first playthrough who tries to be good but sucks at seeing hinted context and thus accidentally chooses all of the worst dialogue options despite trying for the opposite result. But because he's in classic Fallout, he get's the evil and neutral reward paths that he doesn't want while cursed to always miss out of the good path rewards he's aiming for and always missing. Aka he's the most relatable character by far.
My favorite character. He's so realistically chaotic without being evil or "too" good like Lucy was at the beginning. It's also awesome to have a dumb main character not be just Patrick Star.
He's a selfish idiot, who tried to kill his comrade one time, and successfully killed another, was absolutely ready to doom entire Vault just because "my armor is more important, duh", tried to scam the Brotherhood twice, betrayed the Brotherhood and wanted to go with Lucy after a pair of slippers and a bathrobe, instantly gave up Wlizig's head location, perfectly knowing it will put Lucy in danger. Dude's literally betraying and fucking over other people, even supposed friends and comrades, solely for his own benefits. Oh, and his actions also led to his Brotherhood companion turning into a ghoul and basically being exiled He's not just chaotic, he's basically an ultimate asshole
I really like him because he is the only character in the whole series that shows joy and wonder. From the first time he put on power armor to getting a pair of slippers. On a side note, him rolling through vault 4 like a boss in his power armor was a cool scene.
The Think Tank is insanely smart problem is they became detached from everything else due to how long they have kept their brains in jars combined with not having proper human interaction.
He's a player archetype, the "power armor simp" who does anything he can to get the power armor and then has no idea how the rest of the game (or the combat) works because they skipped through most of the worldbuilding and quests simply to get the armor ASAP. And then they are settled with a messy playthrough because of the damage they already did.
Same goes for vault 81s mole rat quest where the doctor tells you to give the kid the cure, and has no regards for your well being if you so happen to be infected. Plus that's a whooping one lvl of health which in survival can make a huge difference.
1. The BoS are over-represented 2. He's cringe But some of his lines *are* funny so he's a mixed bag and clearly the worse written of the 3 main characters and even one of the side characters.
I didn’t like him at first because of how he chickened out in the cave and let Knight Titus bleed out he’s kind of a coward and also is quick to murder to keep his lies going
@@MajorCinnamonBuns While you're spot on, I also think it was because he was kind of miscast. I found the actor's performance to be the only lacking one of the show. Michael B Jordan would've been so good in the character.
They missed one of the best parts. After Maximus confesses his situation. “I just threw acid in an innocent man's face,” she says. “And I've only been up here for two weeks”.
Also the Wild Wasteland trait. I'm pretty sure that while writing the characters, they actually thought about what kind of stats and perks they would have if they were the player characters, and then based them on that. That's also why Cooper Howard kicks so much ass, he's max level.
He's a selfish idiot, who tried to kill his comrade one time, and successfully killed another, was absolutely ready to doom entire Vault just because "my armor is more important, duh", tried to scam the Brotherhood twice, betrayed the Brotherhood and wanted to go with Lucy after a pair of slippers and a bathrobe, instantly gave up Wlizig's head location, perfectly knowing it will put Lucy in danger. Dude's literally betraying and fucking over other people, even supposed friends and comrades, solely for his own benefits. Oh, and his actions also led to his Brotherhood companion turning into a ghoul and basically being exiled. He's a chaotic asshole. Yeah, I wonder why people hate him...
I don't hate him in fact I was impressed they didn't make him mister goody good guy and had some depth to his character and yes he's a little slow as he should be considering he grew up in the wasteland and not born inside the brotherhood.
He's a selfish coward and an idiot. There's a whole laundry list but the biggest examples that bugged me were him needing to be talked out of dooming Vault 4 to death and how quickly he sells out Lucy in the end just to save his own skin.
Wish the 1st episode showed more of this side of his I thought he was going to be some kind of sociopath like Walter from Breaking Bad after cutting his friend's leg to take their place Edit: and people say New Vegas fans are annoying
@@Hanne_Winter Yeah. It kinda seems like a lie when they first say it, but the conversation after shows it’s clearly the truth. I wouldn’t blame anyone for missing it. I don’t think OP missed that though, they were just saying what they thought after episode one where that context wasn’t present.
@@CenoriaWoah Yes, I thought it was a lie too, but it makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't want to haul a giant bag full of heavy stuff while some idiot in power armor is getting us killed in a radioactive wasteland, too
The slow-motion shot of the Nuka-Cola machine flying through the air while the deformed vault dwellers stood in confused awe was one of the funny things I’ve seen in a long time.
I describe the three main characters this way. Lucy is the obvious noob player, the Ghoul is the player at endgame after you beat it with all the cool weapons and toys, and maximus is the idiot savant character you play for laughs the 4th or 5th time you play the game.
Y'know I've been thinking about how stupid him and some of his lines are, but it never even occurred to me that that's a whole trait and perk system that changes your dialogue to make you sound, oh I don't know, exactly like him?
Maximus became an instant favourite of mine. I was expecting him to act overly stoic at first but seeing him enjoy himself and acting like a goof made him a lot more likeable
The "wanna have sex?" and him noticing the vault was a cult shows how Max is actually smart, perceptive the very least, but his BoS indoctrination made him worse, once he's free from his leash he is growing a lot. Lucky sure, but his is almost a curse in a monkey's paw scenario, which makes a great storytelling/roleplaying dynamic that translated nicely (IMO) to the script.
@@Rocket_Devastator Plus, he's got pretty good aim (the gulper scene doesn't count because he is still untrained in his power armoru, and its the lake.)
We need an appearance of the mysterious stranger And it needs to be during like a super duper important fight scene like who tf is that random dude that helped with the death claw
Throughout the entire show my friend group was CONVINCED that Maximus was written as a psychopath, but when it was revealed that he didn’t put the razor in the boot, we realized he was an idiot.
The fuckin idiot savant perk sound lives in my head rent free, sometimes I hear it randomly when something happens and I like to think that it means it actually activated and it's not just the autism
