"Max" is both a name (short for Maxwell, Maximilian, or Maxine) and also short for "Maximum", leading to all sorts of names both
punny and
awesome. See
Cutscene Power to the Max,
Catchphrase To The Max,
Alice Allusion and
Everything's Better With Bob.
Examples
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Punny Versions
Comic Books
Film
Literature
- Maximum Bob
- Maximum Ride
- In The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy the fat cat boss of Megadodo Publications (publisher of the Guide) is named Maxelcat.
- Maxim magazine, though it may not count as literature.
- It's named after the Maxim machine gun.
Television
Theatre
Video Games
Web Original
Western Animation
Real Life
- Jazz drummer Max Roach
- Max Factor
- Max Planck
- Max Weinberg
- Max Weber
- Max Brooks
- Viva Max! - Mexican General Maximillain de Santos retakes the Alamo, in 1969.
- Max Ernst
- Max Schreck, German actor famous for playing Count
Dracula Orlof in the film Nosferatu.
- Named after the above, industrialist Max Schreck in Batman Returns.
- After the Real Life fat cat publisher Robert Maxwell.
- Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster, who
may have has the single greatest name ever given to a man.
- Max Venturi, LAMBOURGHINI TESTER!
- Max Brenner is a guy who owns a chain of chocolate themed restaurants.
- He doesn't actually exist; the name of the chain is an amalgam of the two founders' names.
- Max Baer was a boxer, his son Max Baer Jr. played Jethro on The Beverly Hillbillies.
- Max Steiner
- Max Von Sydow.
- Minolta made a camera series called Maxxum. (Although in Japan it was marketed as Alpha and in Europe as Dynax. When Sony took over Minolta they changed the name to Alpha worldwide.)
- Subtitling company CaptionMax is named for its founder, Max Duckler, who clearly saw the potential of this trope in naming the company after himself.
