History Literature / MaximumRide

* BigEater: All the bird-kids have this, because of super-high metabolism to give them energy to fly. Amusingly, in the first young adult novel, they show up at a restaurant and start to order dinner, and the staff think it's some sort of prank. The Flock will often go without ''any'' food, sometimes for '''''days at a time''''', so it's completely understandable that once presented with ample amounts, they would stuff themselves just shy of getting sick because they couldn't be sure when their next meal would be; or of [[{{Squick}} what quality it might be]] (i.e. Dumpster diving being a regular one-stop shop for the hungry mutant bird kid on the run).

* FandomSpecificPlot: The fandom seems to really like HighSchoolAU stories. Understandable, considering [[SavingTheWorld what they have to go through on a constant basis]] in canon, not understandable in that the one time they actually DID go to school, it didn't end well for them.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Max at least has noticed that Fang's track record involves this.

* {{Bishonen}}: Many people think Iggy and Fang (especially Fang) were turned into these for the manga. [[http://www.yenpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/anthology8a.gif See for yourself]]

* WalkingSpoiler: Phoenix, who only appears in the epilogue of the last book, but is mentioned beforehand. [[spoiler:She's Max and Fang's four-year-old daughter, revealing that TheyDo.]]

* AwesomeMcCoolname:
** The flock: Maximum Ride, Iggy, Angel, the Gasman, Nudge, Total[[note]]It's worth mentioning that Total is a dog[[/note]] and ''Fang''. At least sort of justified by the fact that they picked their own names.
** Even better examples are the names they give to the talent agent in ''Max'': The White Knight, The Sharkalator, Cinnamon Allspice La Fever, and Isabella von Frankenstein Rothschild.

* AdventureTowns

* AfterTheEnd: When the final book takes place.

A sequel series focusing on Max's daughter Hawk began with the release of the first book, ''Hawk'', in July 2020.

As of March 2015 there is also a Creator/{{Marvel Comics}} adaptation, ''ComicBook/MaxRideFirstFlight'', and its sequel, ''Max Ride: Ultimate Flight.''

A sequel series focusing on Max's daughter has been announced. The first book, ''Hawk'', was released in July 2020.

# ''City Of The Dead'' (2021)

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the first book/second volume of the manga, the Flock gets new hairstyles in order to better disguise themselves. Only two of these hairstyles end up sticking: Fang's (going from RapunzelHair tied into a ponytail to chin-length hair with the bangs covering one of his eyes) and Nudge's (going from messy curls to straight hair with a skunk stripe).

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the first book/second volume of the manga, the Flock gets new hairstyles in order to better disguise themselves. Only two of these hairstyles end up sticking: Fang's (going from RapunzelHair tied into a ponytail to chin-length hair with the bangs covering one of his eyes) and Nudge's (going from messy curls to straight hair with a SkunkStripe).

A young adult series, written by Creator/JamesPatterson, about evil adults trying to kill TotallyRadical teenage bird kids on the run from the man. Loosely inspired by his adult books ''The Lake House'' and ''When the Wind Blows'', though the series are unrelated. The series is divided into two parts: ''The Fugitives'' (books 1-3) and ''The Protectors'' (books 4 and onward).

* WriterOnBoard: The fourth book - ''The Final Warning'' abruptly switches to a clumsy Aesop about ClimateChange, completely ignoring whatever semblance of a plot and characterization the previous books had. Among other things, the BigBad is defeated by a random hurricane, which is explicitly linked to ClimateChange.

* PromotionToParent: Max, and Fang somewhat.

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Fang, at the end of book six. But TheBusCameBack in the next one.]]

# ''The Angel Experiment''
# ''School's Out -- Forever''
# ''Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports''
# ''The Final Warning''
# ''MAX''
# ''Fang''
# ''Angel''
# ''Nevermore''
# ''Maximum Ride Forever''
# ''Hawk''

* {{Portmantitle}}: "Nevermore", as it's a compound word.

* WriterOnBoard: The fourth book - ''The Final Warning'' abruptly switches to a clumsy Aesop about GlobalWarming, completely ignoring whatever semblance of a plot and characterization the previous books had. Among other things, the BigBad is defeated by a random hurricane, which is explicitly linked to GlobalWarming.

* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:The Director of Itex claims that she is Max's mother. Turns out that the Director is only the one who ''designed'' Max, and that Dr. Martinez is Max's actual mother. Jeb Batchelder, a ReverseMole, turns out to be Max's father]].

* JustifiedCriminal: The main characters often steal in order to survive and to get to where they need to go including stealing a van and somebody's ATM card+ pin number.

%* AnyoneCanDie:
%** Sadly [[spoiler: {{averted}}, want proof? Ask Ari.]]
%** [[spoiler: Finally played straight in the last book with Maya and seemingly [[TheEndoftheWorldAsWeKnowIt the rest of the world]]...]]

%* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: ''Max'' is entirely fueled by it. Nuclear energy is a lot more likely to just kill... whatever those creatures were than to make them into those creatures.

** On that same note, Iggy looks like a blonde [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami.]]

** In ''The Angel Experiment'', we discover that [[spoiler:the Flock had parents, and Iggy's mom died, but his dad is alive]]. Fast-forward to ''School's Out -- Forever'', when [[spoiler:who should show up but both his parents, alive and well and ready to make money off of him]].\\
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There is a sort of throwaway line from Jeb in one of the books, where he mentions that they information the bird kids found at the Institute was probably planted by the Director. Still never mentioned again...\\
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In fact, most of the explanations they get from Angel on their parenting either don't exactly fit with or go directly against the information they get from the Institute.

* SpottingTheThread: 'Maximum Ride's clone might have been a more successful replacement if she had known that the blind guy was the TeamChef, but given that [[spoiler:the flock's youngest member is a freakin' ''[[{{Telepathy}} mind reader]]'' the chances are slim]].

A sequel series focusing on Max's daughter has been announced.

# ''Hawk'' (due June 2020)