Montana Max

Montana Master Max
Tiny Toon Adventures character
Promotional image of Montana Max
First appearance	Regular on Tiny Toon Adventures since the series premiere "The Looney Beginning" (1990).
Portrayed by	Danny Cooksey[1]
Information
Species	Human
Friends Annoyances	His Money Elmyra Duff (unrequited love)
Enemies Rivals	Elmyra Duff, Buster Bunny, Babs Bunny, Plucky Duck, Everybody Else
Associates	Grovely (Butler/Head Servant) His other servants Arnold the Pit Bull Plucky Duck (sometimes)
Mentors	Yosemite Sam Elmer Fudd

Montana "Monty" Master Max is a cartoon character from the Warner Bros. animated television series Tiny Toon Adventures. He is one of the main characters on the show. and also one of the main antagonists of the show. Monty is voiced by Danny Cooksey.^[2] Montana Max is a young, brown haired, male human with a grayish-blue jacket and pants, green shirt, and black shoes. He attends Acme Looniversity, although his personality would fit rather well at Perfecto Prep. Montana Max lives in large mansion on the left (west) side of Acme Acres.

Not surprisingly, Monty's favorite teacher and mentor is Yosemite Sam (also named after a location in the American West). Also like Yosemite Sam, he has a very explosive temper and is very greedy, despite the fact that he has already amassed such a large fortune. Unlike Yosemite, however, Monty is shown to use proper English, instead of using phrases like "ain't" and "ain't none".

Personality

Montana Max is one of the series' major antagonists who, according to Buster Bunny, is the only one who isn't a pushover, but also very wealthy. Monty lives in a large mansion on the edge of Acme Acres, the fictional city in which Tiny Toon Adventures takes place. Monty also possesses a nasty personality and a very short temper, and uses his wealth for his own amusement, often to the discomfort or belittlement of others. He also owns heavily polluting industries that make things like elevator buttons and holes. Some episodes featured Plucky fighting those factories as The Toxic Revenger (pun on The Toxic Avenger).

In the series premiere "The Looney Beginning", it is revealed that Max was the star of a show that had been pitched to Warner Bros. but rejected because of the character's brattiness. Seeking revenge, Max boots Babs and Buster out of the cartoon, steals their scripts, and takes over the show, renaming it The Montana Max Show. Buster and Babs manage to reclaim the show by visiting his mansion disguised as Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd, who Max admits are his personal heroes.

According to the half-hour episode "Citizen Max" (a parody of the movie Citizen Kane), Monty was once impoverished and friends with one of the series' stars, Buster Bunny, until the day his parents won the lottery and became quite wealthy; after this, he abandoned Buster and quickly turned into his familiar, bullying, juvenile delinquent self, thus setting the stage for his long-running feud with the blue rabbit. In the episode "The Acme Acres Zone" (a parody of The Twilight Zone) Max gets an ironic comeuppance from Babs and Buster.

Despite being a minor, in "Prom-ise Her Anything," Max claimed to be a Republican.

His doorbell at home chimes "Mon-ey!" (his passion) in place of a bell sound.

Despite Monty's faults, the other major antagonist of Tiny Toon Adventures, Elmyra Duff, seems to harbor manical affection for him. In the episode Dream Date Game, Elmyra chose Montana to be her date but only because Buster tricked her into believing that he is a rabbit. Their relationship to each other is toyed with in the episode "Sepulveda Boulevard", (a parody of Sunset Boulevard with a nod to the novelty song "Pico and Sepulveda") in which Elmyra and Max have characters based on the Norma Desmond and Joe Gilis characters respectively. On occasion, it is implied that he does have romantic feelings for Elmyra (at the end of the short "My Dinner with Elmyra", he admits, "I think I'm in love!"), but would prefer not to show it. In spite of this, Max does not appear in Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain, where Elmyra instead romantically pursued Rudy Mookich.

Trivia

• Montana Max has sometimes parodied the character of Lex Luthor, enemy of Superman and the Justice League (whose publishers, DC Comics, are owned by WB). He is called Wex Wuther, and his enemies are members from 'The Just-Us League Of Supertoons', made up of several tiny toons parodying the Justice League.

• While most of the other characters were voiced by adult actors using child like voices, Montanna Max's voice actor, Danny Cooksey, was an actual adolescent.

• The main antagonist from an earlier manga by Kouta Hirano (the creator of Hellsing) called "Coyote" was a nazi major known by the name "Montana Max"; and the "Major" from Hellsing is sometimes called "Montana Max" as well (especially by fans) since he was modeled after his earlier version in "Coyote".

References

1. ^ Gale Research Company, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television (Gale Research Co., 2002), 60.
2. ^ Gale Research Company, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television (Gale Research Co., 2002), 60.

See also

• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Animaniacs
• Yosemite Sam

External links

• Tiny Toon Adventures at the Internet Movie Database
• Tiny Toon Adventures at the Big Cartoon DataBase