Max (film)

Max is a character in the ''Fallout Movie.

Early life
As a young boy, he left Vault 8 with his father and survivors of a mutant attack. The survivors took their G.E.C.K. to start their new life, however, they didn't make it far before his father was killed by scavengers. Max was then sold to Dekker as a slave, and helped him build the Hub, but escaped as a teenager.

Movie events
When the Vault Dweller explored Vault 8, Max captured him and the two other scouts. Impressed with the Vault Dweller's survival skills, he said “No one’s ever made it back up to Level 1. Unfortunately, I still gotta kill you for trespassing.” However, Max then noticed the insignia on the Vault Dweller's canteen: realising they were from Vault 13. Max asked what they were doing, to which the Vault Dweller explained the water chip situation. Max offered to get them a new chip, in exchange for Vault 13’s G.E.C.K.

Max took the team to the Hub to barter for a water chip in his customised ATV. Max drove his ATV to the top of the Hollywood Hills. Looking down on the L.A. basin the team is stunned by the sight: L.A. had literally became a jungle. A massive tangle of mutated flora and fauna spreading from the foot of the hills all the way to the ocean. Poking up through the canopy were the remains of the scattered L.A. skyline. Max stated that the jungle was created by multiple G.E.C.K.s used when the soil was still irradiated, and that nobody knew who started it.

Venturing into the jungle in the ATV, the team utilized remnants of the old freeway system. Once they arrived at Hub, the blasted-out remains of the Beverly Center, Max left his precious ATV with a shifty valet, warning the valet that he was now sitting on a mine. If he left the seat it would explode. If he tried to disarm it, it would explode. If the odometer changes, it would explode. Only Max’s remote would turn it off.

The Vault Dweller spotted a couple of the scavengers who murdered the Techy. They were selling his personal belongings and body organs. He snapped, and with the Scholar, he attacked Scavengers. Because no one had weapons, it turned into a huge brawl. Losing the battle, Max decided to reluctantly intervene -- but the female officer beat him to it, showing her amazing fighting skills in dispatching the scavengers. Max was plenty impressed, but that didn't stop the group from being arrested.

They were brought before Dekker. Clearly, Dekker and Max had history. Unpleasant history. But when Dekker sees the other three are from V-13 he was willing to forgive their transgressions. They could barter directly with him for the water chip, in exchange for two of their lives, one of which must be the female. The Vault Dweller objected. Max wisely stated they would have to think about it. They were made guests of Dekker for the night. The Vault Dweller wanted Max to take them to another trading Hub. But there was no other. Max barely had enough gas to make trip there and back. There were rumors of more Hubs, but as far as anyone knew, this was the world. Take the deal, or take a hike. Max pragmatically suggested that two people drew straws in the morning to see who would give themselves up for the good of the Vault.

The female officer later on offered her body to Max, she never met a man like him before, and she didn't want to die a virgin. However, a late night raid on the Hub by mutants broke up the party at the club. All exits were sealed. Word quickly spread that the mutants are looking for “pristine humans,” meaning the Vault Dweller and his group. Max urged him and the female officer to flee. However, the Vault Dweller didn't want to leave the missing scholar behind. Max admired his loyalty but suggests a good leader can make tough decisions for the betterment of the group.

Moments later, the scholar found them, and said he found a way out of the Hub. Max was skeptical, but they followed, and ran into an ambush, where Dekker was waiting with a gang of mutants. It turned out that the scholar had sold out the Vault Dweller and the female officer, offering them both to Dekker in exchange for a couple more water chips and a stockpile of automatic weapons. Scholar had seen the future and he knew what the Vault needed most. It was clear Dekker was in league with the mutants, who were the ones with a real interest in the Vault Dweller and the female officer.

Max turned the tables and held a secretly stashed gun to the female officer's head. He now had what the mutants wanted, and he wanted the G.E.C.K. She and the Vault Dweller were shocked by this betrayal. Dekker refused to be cut out of this deal -- Max could never trade again at the Hub. However, Max didn't plan to, and cut Dekker out of the deal with a bullet to the heart, something he’d wanted to do for years. Max thought he now held all of the cards, but the mutants wanted more than the three humans for a G.E.C.K. They wanted the location of Vault 13, something Max agreed to give them only when he had the G.E.C.K. and safe passage back to his ATV. A deal was struck, sealed with a hateful spit from the female officer down Max’s cheek.

Max was led to a huge mutant warehouse filled with everything they’d pillaged from Vaults over the years. Max was given a G.E.C.K., but it was defective. The mutants didn't care, they already had Vault 13's location from the scholar. Max took matters into his own hands and outwitted, then killed the mutants. Now he had access to their vast storehouse of amazing weaponry.

While the Vault Dweller an female officer were led to an F.E.V. dipping vat, Max used a turbo plasma rifle to infiltrate heavily guarded vat room, rescuing them both at the last second. According to Max, that was his plan all along. They both had no choice but to trust him now, since he had a water chip to prove his sincerity. The F.E.V. vats are destroyed, but the scholar had already been dipped, and was beyond saving. As the mutants closed in, the Vault Dweller and female officer helped Max blast their way out of the underground labyrinth, using explosives to seal off the tunnels behind them. His empire crumbling all around him, the Master told the scholar-mutant his plan.

Near the end of the battle, the female officer and Max tag-teamed against the Master. When the dust had settled inside the Vault, only a handful of humans had survived. The Vault Dweller honored his deal with Max, even though the G.E.C.K. now represented Vault 13’s best hope for survival above ground. Max offered to let what was left of Vault 13 join him, but the Vault Dweller didn't think the survivors were ready for the world above.

While the Master was playing possum, he got up and injected Max with the last strain of F.E.V. as he was leaving the Vault with the G.E.C.K. Max wanted the Vault Dweller to kill him, saying he’d do it himself but he could feel that the virus preventing him. Heartbroken, the female officer refused to let the Vault Dweller do it. However, the Vault Dweller took charge, and saw it as one of those tough decisions a good leader has to make.

Appearances
Max was to appear in the Fallout Movie.