Awesome / The Online Warrior

• Motivational Gameplays (aka: Never Give Up)
  • TEAM ASSIST ME
  • ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN
  • Near Death Experience
  • STRIDER STRIKES BACK
  • STRIDER'S REVENGE
  • HEART OF FIRE
  • THE DOOM JUNGLE SHUFFLE
  • NO ONE DEFEATS DOOM
    Dr. Doom: In Latveria, Doom puts YOU in blender.
  • THE BALLAD OF DOOM
    Dr. Doom: Hey Robin Hood, ^note (Hawkeye) meet the human blender. Now GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE!
  • DOOM DOESN'T LOSE!
    Dr. Doom: Hey Wolverine, your movies suck and you're an asshole!
    Wolverine: WUT?
  • Jagotron, Defender of Universe
• Max brings back 3rd Strike Online Warrior after putting it on hiatus and pulls off his own minor version of the infamous "Daigo Full Parry" in the process. The sheer hype of the moment reduces him to incoherent rambling for a brief second. His reaction is a bit of a Funny Moment, to boot.
  "LET'S GOOO ABLABLLBLEBLAAAAH!!! THIRD STRIKE! It's the best. This is probably way too late for me to be doing that."
• BOSS RAGE: Shadow Jago. After failing to reach Shadow Jago, Max is sent instructions on the requirements^note Must unlock everyone's ending; must be on Medium or higher difficulty; can't lose any fights (you have to return to the main menu if you do); 2 Supreme Victories (can't lose a health bar); 1 Ultra combo before your character's Rival; must defeat the Rival with an Ultra combo he needs to fulfill to fight him by a developer at Double Helix, and becomes the first person to beat him in arcade mode live on stream, all while playing on "Kyle" difficulty, which has learning CPU opponents.
• BOSS RAGE: God Rugal & Shin Akuma. It's structured as dramatic news report, and Max chooses the most hilariously fitting song to fight God Rugal to: Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For A Hero".
  • When Max sees God Rugal's stage intro, he realises that this boss will be a completely different league above Shin Akuma from his reaction.
  Max: Holy fuck!! He chucked Akuma's body!
  • When he gets an opportunity to finally win against God Rugal (by leaping clear over his Kaiser Wave), it quickly zooms on Rock Howard's head, and intercuts the opening cutscene from Garou: Mark of the Wolves just before Rock hits his Shine Knuckle SDM and wins the fight.
  • Due to the original video being temporarily taken down due to copyrighted music, Max has recently uploaded an edited version which replaces the song with a metal cover created specifically for this video by LittleVMills.
• BOSS RAGE: Oni. He manages to turn a (relative) handful of playthroughs into Ryu's journey to defeat "the demon that haunts him from night to night." Especially since he had to do it twice because he missed the requirements^note Can't lose any rounds; 2 Perfects; 10 First Attacks; 5 Super and/or Ultra finishers; defeat Seth with a Super or Ultra Combo and got Evil Ryu instead.
  Max: We travel lightly down this path, the path to enlightenment. At the end lies a demon, a demon that cannot be surpassed unless motivation and spirit guide your soul! Let's rock!

  Oni: I shall grind beneath my heel...
  Max: THIS IS IT!
  Oni: ...all that exists!
  Max: THIS IS WHAT WE'VE TRAINED FOR!
  Oni: NGAH! (assumes fighting stance)
  Max: I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU!
• BOSS RAGE: Evil Ryu & Oni. While there's not as much badass fighting game skill in it, Max makes up for it by providing awesome narration to the cutscenes, plus a motivational speech preceding an awesome motivational song ("Dare" from the Transformers animated film) to accompany the beating.
  Max: Right now, pretty much, the easiest thing I could do is quit. But we're not going anywhere! You don't just give up halfway through; that's not the point! The point is the challenge; the path...the road to victory. If you don't have that, then it doesn't mean anything! And if you don't lose something along the way, then you don't deserve it! We've lost many, but now we have to keep what's important in mind. We need hope. We need to believe...and believe that THERE IS SOMETHING BETTER OUT THERE! BECAUSE I'LL BE DAMNED IF MONSTERS LIKE THIS CAN ROAM FREE! AND IN THE END, I HAVE THE ONE THING THAT'S NEEDED TO WIN THIS FIGHT—THE ONE THING HE'LL NEVER HAVE! I FIGHT FOR MY GOD DAMN FRIENDS! LET'S GO!!! (Asura grabs Oni by his face) I AM SICK OF YOUR BULLSHIT! (Oni is flung away, Asura runs past him and tees up) WE'RE GOING IN NOW! AND THERE'S NO! TURNING! BACK! (Asura punches Oni into a far-off crater wall as the chorus to Dare plays)
  • And then the fight goes into space...
    "I'M TAKING YOU BACK TO EARTH, AND SENDING YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL!"
    • And then when Asura punches Oni THROUGH the Moon:
      Max: IT'S OFFICIAL! WE'VE BODIED THE PLANET!
  • Although the video was removed from Max's channel temporarily due to copyright issues, the episode has been preserved by someone else here.
• BOSS RAGE: Mortal Kombat 9 Tower Challenge #300. Max, Kenny, and Steve fight on for EIGHT hours, and during this time you can really see the salt flowing from their bloodstreams. After 191 attempts, with no retries (as retrying lowers the difficulty), Steve finally took down Shao Khan as Raiden. For context, they had to contend with Goro, Kintaro, Mileena, and Shao Khan in one go without losing once. Also, this was a blind challenge, so any and all strategies were formulated on the fly.
• BOSS RAGE: Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby - Owl. After numerous failed attempts to clear the astonishingly difficult Owl level (which includes Steve accidentally turning off the game not once, but twice), it's Simmons who finally manages to get 19 home runs, causing Max, Steve, and Kenny to erupt into cheers.
• Some credit must be given to this Sceptile player here. Using Fennekin's assist and some invincibility frames, he manages to completely avoid Max's Burst Attack and then using procedes to use Sceptile's ranged command grab to finish Max off and win the round. He then manages to win the match by winning the next round with over 400 health left. Max himself compliments the player afterwards.
• BAD BOSS RAGE has Max go on a quest through Street Fighter, and when he finally gets to Sagat, he battles him (with clips from the Ryu and Sagat fight from Street Fighter II: The Movie) and after multiple attempts, finally succeeds in defeating Sagat by landing a Hadoken, just like Ryu had done in the Street Fighter II animated movie.
  • Just a little bit earlier...Ryu gives Sagat the scar.
• A sequel to Street Fighter Legacy was made by Max. What was it? It was none other than Akuma Legacy, where Max plays as Akuma in every fighting game that he made an appearance in.
  • Which has a great finale in BOSS RAGE: Shin Akuma & Violent Ken, where Max accidentally set the difficulty to maximum and had to deal with Shin Akuma. Even better, after having to deal with Shin Akuma's ability to override Max's invincibility frames and special moves with his own special moves, Max defeats him by using a Raging Demon to phase through Shin Akuma's Messatsu Gohado and hit him when he's defenseless.
• He wants to get back into Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, but he's quite a bit rusty. So he released a video of him playing with Justin Wong volunteering to be his sparring partner.
• BOSS RAGE: Bio F.R.E.A.K.S.. Max starts off by talking about his friends who succumbed to the game and became Scrublords, and how he's doing this to save them. After being called out to play this game on the hardest difficulty (FREAK), Max, Kenny, and Steve spend 7 hours trying and failing, especially at the Final Boss. Even after Max briefly gives into the corruption and becomes a Scrublord himself, his dog Benny talks him down from it, and he eventually goes on to finally beat the game—perhaps the first known person to actually do so on FREAK difficulty.
  • Even after roughly a hundred defeats at the Final Boss Mutilator without any progress, the guys who originally issued the challenge conceded defeat to them.
    Max: [Woolie] said, (reading) "I'm so sorry. The intro was hype. The sweating was loud. Even if it ends here, it's legendary. Well played, sirs. Well played."
• Both the Akuma Legacy and the Sakura Legacy have one game that involves Max saying “Let’s beat a certain boss.”
  • For Street Fighter III 2nd Impact in the Akuma Legacy:
    Max: Let’s get to Gill and beat him the fuck up! (goes to main menu) The Giant Attack!
  • For Capcom Fighting Evolution in the Sakura Legacy:
    Max: Let’s go beat Pyron! That’s who’s at the end of this shit!
• Max finally reached 1 million subscribers.
• BOSS RAGE: Corrupted Shinnok. Max reaches Shinnok and then his corrupted form, which is so hard he ends up rage quitting. Then, Predator (played by Kris Blount) suddenly shows up and, using an arcade controller which causes him to perform combos, succeeds in defeating Corrupted Shinnok, and then disappears just as Max arrives to witness Shinnok's defeat scene.
• One Febuary 15th 2020, he had an announcement: Jay Jay and he weren't going to be at EVO that year.... because they were having a baby! Max's gonna be a daddy!
• Max shows how read-heavy the Samurai Shodown series is by killing one of his online opponents using only two well-placed super moves.
  Max: LET'S FUCKING GO! THE HARDEST GODDAMN READ!! Sing her a song, Ukyo! Sing that song! [...] Killed in two moves!? TWO MOVES!? Two deadly strikes!? [...] He's not gonna be happy. He's really not gonna be happy about that.
• In April of 2022, an unexpected but welcome crossover happened: Max X Team Four Star! Max provided a cameo appearance as the voice of Terrence T. D'Arby/D'Arby Younger in Stardust Crusaders Part 2 in 6 Minutes.
• During EVO 2023, he's streaming as usual, when, as they announce one more thing about Killer Instinct (2013), and Max abruptly gets up. Moments later, Max appears... at EVO 2023 itself, doing a interview with the developers of Killer Instinct about the anniversary update.
• In February 2024, Max teamed up with a special guest for Duos on NARAKA: BLADEPOINT- none other than the voice of Luke and Sonon himself, Aleks Le!
• The 2024 streamer awards saw a new category being announced for "Best Fighting Game Streamer", with Max a frontrunner to win due to his prominence. While he didn't take the category, he ended up being surprised with the award for "Legacy Streamer", owing to his long history on both Youtube and Twitch for his dedication to the genre and more.