
She repairs her relationship with her half-brother Ari, but he dies soon afterwards.ĭr. Max leads other mutants in taking down Itex and stopping the Director from executing half of all life on Earth. Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Max is briefly replaced by her clone, Max II. However, it turns out to be a trap by the School. Max continues to be suspicious, as well as uneasy at being replaced by Anne as a mother figure for the Flock. An agent named Anne Walker takes them in and they experience a normal life and normal school. With Fang injured, the Flock winds up at a hospital being questioned by the FBI. In a final confrontation, she kills Jeb's son Ari, the leader of the Erasers, but Jeb shouts after her that she has killed her own brother. Gathering clues from their adventure, the Flock travels to New York, where Max begins experiencing painful headaches and visions, along with a Voice telling her to save the world. Max leads the Flock to rescue Angel from the School, learning along the way that Jeb is alive, and meeting a kindly veterinarian named Dr. Max's normal life with the Flock is interrupted when Erasers attack and kidnap Angel. Max was declared Flock leader, due to her age and close relationship with Jeb. Jeb vanished two years after the escape from the School. On her eleventh birthday (an arbitrary date of her own choosing), she selected the full name Maximum Ride. He took them to an isolated house in the mountains where they could be free to fly, learn, and interact with new parts of the world. She was permitted to interact with the other children that would later form her flock, as well as Ari Batchelder, Jeb Batchelder's son.Īround the time that Max turned ten years old, Jeb rescued her along with Iggy, Fang, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. Growing up, she had no name and spent the majority of her time either performing in painful experiments or confined to a dog crate. Max was created at an Itexicon facility called the School.


