The Backwards History of Mighty Max

Who else watched this every morning on USA along with sonic, street sharks, and sailor moon?

Mighty Max was a surprisingly dark and high-quality cartoon that didn't patronize it's audience. If you've never seen it, I highly recommend it.

"I will show you a thousand subtle shades of pain... a hundred ways to die... before I finally lay your lifeless body at my master's table!" THAT was a quote from Skull Master, voiced by Tim Curry, in the episode where Max breaks his Crystal of Souls, his greatest treasure and source of power. THAT is how you make an adventure show!

That show was brilliant. The way it ends and loops everything back to the beginning left a lasting impression on me. It felt like such a complete story.

I remember how dope the Mighty Max show was. Having Tim Curry's Skull Master say he'd drink the marrow from Max's bones hooked me right away.

Mighty Max is definitely in the running for best cartoon show ever. The fact that it made such an impression amid competition like Batman: The Animated Series, Gargoyles, Spiderman and X-Men says all you need to know.

I remember watching this show. 2 things that stuck out to me are 1- as you mentioned, it got dark and 2- I remember it being one of the only American cartoon shows that actually had some kind of a conclusion.

Look up the Mighty Max Restoration Project on here. There's a guy restoring the VHS episodes and bringing the video/audio up to way higher levels. He has over a dozen episodes completed and explains how he does it on his channel. Sidenote, he's also in need of VHS copies of some of the rarer episodes. He mentions this on his channel in a vid on there. So you might want to contact him if you have any way to share with him and he can keep making more restored episodes this year. He uses the physical VHS to do it so the crappier files online won't cut it. The guy does crazy good work. Check it out.

"It gets dark." Tim Curry in one episode: "I will rip the limbs from your body, and slowly suck the marrow from your bones!" Yep, a little bit. It was great.

Mighty Max was so awesome. If I remember right the spider was my first of them. Had the skull as well. A snake, some ice monster, a scorpion... Damn there had been a lot.

This series was my first experience with the fantastic voice of Tim Curry and the magnificent Tony Jay, may he be forever missed

I never had any of the playsets as a kid, but I LOVED the show! "The Maginifcent 7" will always be my favorite episode.

Pulling skull mountain out of my closet now, thank you.

I've never even collected, I just watch these because Dan seems like a cool guy and I love the production quality.

Mighty Max aired weirdly late at night when i was in college. Or was it crazy early? It's all a blur now. Instead of doing homework, I randomly caught the pilot alone in the lobby of my dorm — and quickly realized though it was obviously intended for kids, the storyline was incredibly dark and the laughs were mostly gallows humor. I was hooked immediately.

The Mighty Max cartoon was excellent. Everything about the show was great. The production was very high and the writing was very sharp, compelling, and dark when the story called for it. I remember watching every episode back during its original run and I always wanted to know how Max’s Story ended. I hope they decide to bring Mighty Max back and finish the story that they started over 25 years ago. As always great video and I can’t wait for the next one!

I Loved these back in the day.... ...for about 5 seconds before I'd drop one of the figures and it was lost in the carpet aether forever...

Loved that show. The series finale was dark as dark and definitely left the show open for more that made me hope that more was coming.

I remember this series during my childhood, I recall have some of the toys and would often watched the animated series and I loved it. Mighty Max deserves a comeback.

Man, if I had to name ten cartoons that made my childhood, Mighty Max is easily in the top 5. It used to play ridiculously early here in New Zealand, and me and my cousin loved watching it together. We'd get up at 6 and sneak down to the lounge, without waking up my aunt and uncle, and watch Mighty Max. Sometimes we'd drag a cardboard box into the lounge and we'd watch it from inside the box, I have no idea why, lol. Really wish I hadn't sold my old MM toys.