Montana Max, often nicknamed "Monty," is a young, brown-haired boy, and the main antagonist of Tiny Toon Adventures.
Based on Yosemite Sam, he is bad-tempered, loud-mouthed, money-hungry tycoon. Like Elmyra Duff, he is a human and attends Acme Looniversity. He is portrayed as a very wealthy character, living in a mansion and not having any friends, just a stubborn little boy. However, he does have a very rarely ever shown sweet side and has at least once been shown to have a good imagination. Elmyra likes Monty a lot. Monty is shown to be an only child and was the very first villain of the series as seen in the pilot episode. Described as a nasty little money-grubbing wart he is the main antagonist of the series and often subjected to severe physical and psychological harm.
According to The Looney Beginning, At the Warner Bros. Animation studio, Monty was going to have his own show at first, but then rejected because of his own nasty behavior and greediness. Monty then gets revenge on Buster and Babs as they have plans to come up with a new show called Tiny Toons. Max stole the scripts and booted the two rabbits out and renamed the show ''The Montana Max Show''. At the end, Monty was tricked by Buster and Babs who were dressed as Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd, who were Montana Max's heroes in Looney Tunes. Max then got mad and realized that it was them in costumes and set out traps around his mansion, but failed since they escaped so quickly. Monty was then being chased by one of his big coins of a face of himself on it and got defeated by getting crushed by it. That means Buster and Babs saved the show from being ruined by Monty.
Monty is shown rarely to have a sweet side and is roled as a main character in 2 episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures: Love Disconnection, and Playtime Toons. He seems to get annoyed by Elmyra Duff, the other villain of the show who has a big crush on Monty, but he is shown to get help from her sometimes, probably to get those two pesky rabbits, Buster Bunny and Babs Bunny. This might mean that Elmyra feels like her boyfriend finally appreciates her at last. In Citizen Max, an half hour episode that is about the dark story of Montana Max, Max is destroying his stuff in his mansion until he saw his bike mirror and noticed he had Acne on his face. But, Hamton J. Pig and other toons thought Monty said ''ACME'' and didn't know what he meant when he said that. One time back then, Monty was a peasant, and was best friends with Buster. He actually had less money and was also very nice and generous. But, until Max's mother won the lottery and moved into a mansion, Buster thought Monty was going to be his closest pal forever, but by the time the Acme Looniversity class president election started, he began to change as a nasty, evil, and greedy kid who then claimed Buster as his ''enemy''. Montana Max later appeared in The Plucky Duck Show, even though most of the episodes were recycled TTA episodes He also appeared in The 1995 Halloween special of Tiny Toons and had a minor role, unlike the two other TTA films, he just made brief cameos. But, He did not make any cameos in the later show Steven worked as a executive producer on, Animaniacs. He then was replaced by Rudy Mookich in Pinky, Elmyra, and The Brain. The show was unsuccessful and many Tiny Toons fans criticize them for replacing Monty as Elmyra Duff's love interest. Monty is also known as a cheater in competition, and he thinks he is better than anyone else, especially Buster Bunny. Monty's goal in life is to bring misery to Buster Bunny's life, since they are both at odds and do hate each other.
Personality[]
Monty is a bullying, spoiled, rich kid who throws world-class temper tantrums. Monty 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. His pastimes include counting his capital, landscape deforestation and rabbit stomping. He also owns heavily polluting industries that make things like elevator buttons and holes. Some episodes feature Plucky Duck fighting those factories as The Toxic Revenger (pun on The Toxic Avenger).
Monty enjoys cheating in all forms of competition; oppressing the weak, terrorizing the timid, masterminding hostile takeovers and watching the compound interest rate climb past twenty percent. Monty is bossy and abrasive and hates fair play, honesty and people who stand up to him. He delights in using his vast fortune to bring misery to others, particularly Buster and Babs. He'll spend any amount of money to spoil their fun, but most often winds up bankrupting himself in the process. Monty is the perfect foil for Buster. The sawed-off bully's temper is matched only by his greed, and Buster is always able to bilk some fast bucks out of Monty.
Monty is a mega rich brat who really hates rabbits, including Buster Bunny and Babs Bunny. He does not care about anyone at all, he just enjoys using his own wealth to make other people's lives miserable, even Buster himself. Monty's relationship with Buster is none other than rivalry and hatred. Their relationship is similar to Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam's relationship. Both Buster Bunny and Montana Max are archenemies throughout the show as Monty is seen as a mega rich brat while Buster is seen as a friendly and popular blue rabbit. Max himself is portrayed as a very wealthy character, living in a mansion and not having any friends, just a stubborn little boy. But, He has at least once been shown to have a good imagination. Monty is shown to be an only child and was the very first villain of the series as seen in the pilot episode.
Deep down, Monty is very insecure and sometimes fears no one likes him. He's right, of course, and occasionally feels the need to call "Acme Rent-a-Friend." Although he yells most of the time, sometimes we get glimpses of the real kid beneath the temper.
Montana Max returns in Looniversity ep 5.
Temper[]
Monty often a lot throws a big temper tantrum whenever things don't go the way he expects, causing him to kick his feet around, stomp, and cry. He even cries over ridiculous reasons like Buster tricking Monty, or getting his allowance taken away. He usually has to deal with it, but sometimes even has to suffer through punishments.
Interests & Hobbies[]
Monty has interests which include counting his capital, landscape deforestation and rabbit stomping. He also owns heavily polluting industries that make things like elevator buttons and holes. He pollutes plenty of times, like in "Pollution Solution". In his own home, he loves destroying his toys because he thinks they are lame.
Home[]
Montana Max, along with his parents, all live in the grandest mansion in Acme Acres, where it is located on the far edge. The grounds include swimming pools, tennis courts, stables and the like. It's the kind of place that would make Donald Trump envious. It has signs which read "Poverty Stinks," and "Charity Workers Will Be Shot". The mansion is armed with security guards, and Montana Max has several servants to do the simplest of tasks. The mansion has a bowling alley and movie theater, an in-ground pool, a high-tech alarm system, and countless safes for Max's money. The mansion also includes countless state-of-the-art traps for rabbits.
Relationship with Buster and Babs[]
In the series premiere, "The Looney Beginning" (a non-canonical origin story), 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. Taking revenge on the network for rejecting his series, 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 "The Acme Acres Zone" (a parody of The Twilight Zone) episode segment "A Walk on the Flip Side", Max gets an ironic comeuppance from Babs and Buster. Monty hates rabbits so much that he dreams that he is a rabbit himself. As a rabbit, he tries to get back to his real home. Elmyra catches him, but he makes an easy getaway. When he gets to his house, he finds out that Buster and Babs have taken over his mansion. They call the animal shelter and the keeper puts him in with a bunch of rabbits. Max is terrorized by visions of rabbits and by Elmyra when she wants to take him home "forever and ever." As Max wakes up, he decides to be nice to rabbits, but reneges when Buster and Babs begs at his doorstep. After being chased off the premises, Babs observes that these zone shows are supposed to have a twist ending. Max gets his twist as he opens his cabinet and finds a whole bunch of rabbits in it.
In the "Rainy Daze" episode segment "Rent a Friend", Buster is the only one who willingly volunteered to be Monty's rent-a-friend for the day, as Monty's abusive and insensitive behavior (as well as many dangerous toys) has scared all of the other rent-a-friends away. Buster is forced to be friendly towards Monty, who mistreats the bunny and has him play with his deadly and destructive toys, but when Monty goes too far, Buster gets his revenge on him (also costing the rich brat $250,000 to be saved from a tremendous fall, plus $13.50 for his rent-a-friend fee).
Romance[]
Elmyra Duff[]
Despite Monty's faults, Elmyra Duff, seems to harbor maniacal affection for him. In the Dating, Acme Acres Style episode segment, 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), 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 Love Disconnection double-length episode segment, 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.
Babs Bunny[]
Monty had a brief romance with Babs Bunny in the Spring in Acme Acres episode segment, Love Among The Toons. This was because Concord Condor was filling in for Cupid. He had noticed Buster arguing with Babs and tried to fix it, and although the first arrow succeeded in hitting Babs, the second arrow that was meant for Buster hit Monty, who got in the way because he was in a grumpy mood. This had caused Monty and Babs to fall in love with each other, with Buster trying to talk Babs, who is too lovestruck to listen to him, out of it. When Cupid is forced to take his job and his arrows back, Monty and Babs are about to get married to each other. Cupid uses his anti-love arrows to return Monty and Babs to their normal (and not so loving) feelings for each other.
Parodies[]
Wex Wuthor[]
Wex Wuthor is Montana Max's supervillain alter-ego. He is a parody of DC Comics SuperVillain Lex Luthor. Wex is considered as an enemy of the Just-Us League of SuperToons, as seen in New Class Day. He was also the main antagonist in the Cinemaniacs segment, SuperBabs.
Harris Goulash[]
Harris Goulash is Montana Max's parody of a unknown villain from the Indiana Jones film series. Harris was trying to get the secret of life before Pasadena (Buster Bunny) does, but at the end of the segment (Pasadena Jones), he failed by getting squished by the door that he was pulling on saying ''Its mine, finally mine!!''.
Quotes[]
- "You can't do this to me! I'm rich!"
- "Make my day, rabbit!"
- "Ask me if I care!"
Appearances[]
Season 1
- Episode 1: The Looney Beginning -- (Supporting role)
- Episode 3: The Wheel O' Comedy -- Episode segment: Win, Lose, or Kerblowie (Main role)
- Episode 4: Test Stress -- Episode segment: Never Too Late to Loon (Cameo)
- Episode 7: Journey to the Center of Acme Acres -- (Main role)
- Episode 8: Stuff That Goes Bump in the Night -- Episode segment: Home Wrecker (Main role)
- Episode 9: It's Buster Bunny Time -- Prologue before the episode segment: Lifestyles of the Rich and Rotten (Cameo: A still image is shown), Episode segment: Lifestyles of the Rich and Rotten (Main role)
- Episode 10: Looking Out for the Little Guy -- Episode segment: The Re-Return of the Toxic Revenger (Main role)
- Episode 14: The Acme Acres Zone -- Episode segment: A Walk On the Flip Side (Main role), A Bacon Strip (Minor role)
- Episode 15: Life in the 90s -- Episode segment: Whining Out (Cameo: A still image is shown), Episode segment: Paper Trained (Main role)
- Episode 16: Rock 'N' Roar -- (Main role)
- Episode 17: Prom-ise Her Anything -- (Supporting role)
- Episode 18: Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow -- (Supporting role)
- Episode 19: Cinemaniacs! -- Episode segment: Superbabs (Main role), Episode segment: Duck Trek (Minor role), Episode segment: Pasadena Jones (Main role)
- Episode 20: You Asked for It -- Prologue before the episode segment: Debutante Devil (Cameo: A still image is shown), Episode segment: Slight of Hare (Main role)
- Episode 21: Gang Busters -- (Main role)
- Episode 22: Citizen Max -- (Main role)
- Episode 24: Buster and the Wolverine -- (Cameo)
- Episode 25: You Asked for It, Part II -- Episode segment: The Return of the Toxic Revenger (Main role)
- Episode 28: The Wacko World of Sports -- Episode Segment: Tennis the Menace (Main role)
- Episode 29: Rainy Daze -- Episode segment: Rent A Friend (Main role), Episode segment: Bunny Daze (Minor role: Shown in Babs' dream sequences)
- Episode 30: Fields of Honey -- (Minor role)
- Episode 32: Spring in Acme Acres -- Episode segment: Love Among the Toons (Supporting role)
- Episode 34: The Wide World of Elmyra -- Episode segment: Go Fetch (Cameo)
- Episode 35: A Ditch in Time -- (Supporting role: A prehistoric version is shown)
- Episode 36: Animaniacs! -- (Minor role)
- Episode 37: Career Oppor-Toon-ities -- Episode segment: Buster's Guide to Part-Time Jobs (Main role), Episode segment: Falling to Pizzas (Cameo)
- Episode 38: Strange Tales of Weird Science -- Episode segment: Duck in the Muck (Main role)
- Episode 39: Inside Plucky Duck -- Episode segment: Wild Takes Class (Cameo)
- Episode 41: Dating, Acme Acres Style -- Episode segment: Dream Date Game (Main role)
- Episode 42: Looniversity Daze -- Episode segment: The Learning Principal (Minor role), Prologue before the episode segment: Eating Between the Lines (Cameo), Episode segment: What's Up Nurse? (Minor role)
- Episode 43: Best O' Plucky Duck Day -- Episode segment: One Minute Til' Three (Minor role)
- Episode 44: Hero Hamton -- (Main role)
- Episode 46: Ask Mr. Popular -- Prologue before the episode segment: A Pigment of his Imagination (Cameo: A still image is shown)
- Episode 47: Son of Looniversity Daze -- Prologue before the episode segment: Plucky's Dastardly Deed (Cameo), Episode segment: Plucky's Dastardly Deed (Minor role), Episode segment: Open and Shut Case (Cameo), Episode segment: C Flat or B Sharp (Cameo)
- Episode 48: Mr. Popular's Rules of Cool -- Prologue before the episode segment: Venison Anyone? (Cameo), Episode segment: Venison Anyone? (Main role)
- Episode 51: Tiny Toon Music Television -- Music video segment: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Supporting role), Music video segment: Money (That's What I Want) (Main role)
- Episode 52: The Return of the Acme Acres Zone -- Episode segment: Real Kids Don't Like Broccoli (Cameo: A droid version is shown), Episode segment: Duck Dodgers Jr. (Cameo: A still image is shown)
- Episode 54: Weirdest Story Ever Told -- Prologue before the episode segment: Robin Hare (Cameo), Episode segment: Robin Hare (Main role)
- Episode 56: Son of the Wacko World of Sports -- Episode segment: Acme Acres Summer Olympics (Cameo)
- Episode 57: Pollution Solution -- Episode segment: Jungle Bungle (Minor role), Episode segment: Waste Deep in Wackyland (Main role)
- Episode 59: Brave Tales of Real Rabbits -- Episode segment: And All That Rot (Main role), Episode segment: Day for Knight (Minor role)
- Episode 62: Here's Hamton -- Episode segment: Milk, It Makes a Body Spout (Cameo)
- Episode 64: K-Acme TV -- (Cameo)
Season 2
- Episode 66: Pledge Week -- Prologue before the episode segment: It's All Relatives (Cameo), Prologue before the episode segment: The Kite (Cameo)
- Episode 67: Going Places -- Prologue before the episode segment: When You're Hot (Cameo: Face not shown), Prologue before the episode segment: Slaughterhouse Jive (Cameo), Episode segment: Slaughterhouse Jive (Main role)
- Episode 68: Elephant Issues -- Episode segment: Why Dizzy Can't Read (Minor role), Episode segment: C.L.I.D.E. and Prejudice (Main role)
- Episode 69: Hog Wild Hamton -- (Cameo)
- Episode 70: Playtime Toons --Prologue before the episode segment: Fit to be Toyed (Main), Episode segment: Fit to be Toyed (Main role)
- Episode 71: Toon Physics -- Episode segment: The Year Book Star (Cameo)
- Episode 72: Acme Cable TV -- (Supporting role)
- Episode 73: Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian -- (Minor role)
- Episode 74: Henny Youngman Day -- Prologue before the episode segment: Stand-Up and Deliver (Cameo), Episode segment: Stand-Up and Deliver (Minor role)
- Episode 75: Love Disconnection -- Prologue before the episode segment: My Dinner with Elmyra (Cameo), Episode segment: My Dinner with Elmyra (Main role), Episode segment: The Amazing Three (Cameo)
- Episode 77: Sepulveda Boulevard -- (Main role)
Season 3
- Episode 79: Thirteensomething -- (Cameo)
- Episode 80: New Class Day -- Episode segment: Just-Us League of Super Toons (Main role), Prologue before the episode segment: Sound Off (Cameo)
- Episode 81: Fox Trot -- Episode segment: Can't Buy Me Love (Minor role)
- Episode 82: What Makes Toons Tick -- Episode segment: Whirlwind Romance (Cameo)
- Episode 85: Toons Take Over -- (Cameo: A still image is shown)
- Episode 90: Toon TV -- Music video segment: Video Game Blues (Cameo: Face not shown), Music video segment: The Name Game (Supporting role), Music video segment: Toon Out, Toon In (Minor role)
- Episode 92: Music Day -- Episode segment: The Horn Blows at Lunchtime (Minor role), Prologue before the episode segment: Loon Lake (Cameo: A still image is shown)
- Episode 95: Weekday Afternoon Live -- (Minor role)
- Episode 97: Best of Buster Day -- Episode segment: Compromising Principals (Cameo), Episode segment: Maid to Re-Order (Supporting role)
- Episode 98: It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special -- (Supporting role)
Film
- How I Spent My Vacation -- (Cameo)
Specials
- Tiny Toon Spring Break -- (Cameo)
- Night Ghoulery -- (Minor role)
Music
- 1992 Japanese import audio CD of Tiny Toons Sing! -- Song: Tiny Toons Rap (Vocals only), Song: Don't Worry, Be Happy (Vocals only), Song: Money (That's What I Want) (Vocals only), Song: The Name Game (Vocals only)
Video Games
- Montana Max is usually an enemy in the Tiny Toon Adventures video games. Often his plans involve him capturing Babs Bunny, in order to lure Buster Bunny into a trap.
- Acme All-Stars for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive: Monty is one of twelve playable characters in multi-player mode. This is the only video game in which he is a playable character.
Trivia[]
In Prom-ise Her Anything, Even though Monty is a minor, he is claimed to be a republican in this episode.
Montana Max is 14 years old, according to one of the Topps cards that has information about Max.
Some TTA episodes, Monty himself has his own theme song jingle, as heard in the opening of the segment ''My Dinner With Elmyra'' in the TTA episode, Love Disconnection. It can be noticed in various other episodes.
Max has a supervillain ego of himself named Wex Wuthor, a parody of the DC Comic Fictional Supervillain Lex Luthor. Wex is considered as an enemy of the Just-Us League of SuperToons, as seen in New Class Day.
Monty might have a character named after him, Major from Hellsing, who is also named Montana Max. Maybe the author of Hellsing, Kouta Hirano, mainly based The Major on his Tiny Toons counterpart (Montana Max).
Montana Max is actually named after a state in the USA, Montana. Because, Montana is a western state, and Monty was named like that to share common characteristics with his Looney Tunes counterpart Yosemite Sam.
Monty is mainly based on Yosemite Sam, since they both have a bad temper, hatred for rabbits, and a western state named after them. Unlike Sam, The only difference is that Max actually speaks proper english, instead of using phrases ''ain't'' and ''ain't none''.
Galleries[]
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