Max Kanté (aka Pegasus) is one of the characters from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. He later becomes Pegasus, the Horse Miraculous holder in season 3.
In "Gamer", when he loses his place in the school video game tournament because of Marinette Dupain-Cheng, he is akumatized by Hawk Moth and becomes Gamer, a supervillain who controls a huge fighting robot.
In "Gamer 2.0", after being turned down by everybody to play his new video game, Max is once again akumatized into Gamer.
Bio[]
Max is a gamer and a fan of technology. He is smart, especially when it comes to mathematics, as seen when he figures out how fast Kim needs to be to make it to Pont des Arts right before Chloé Bourgeois gets there in "Dark Cupid". He tends to be carried away with his knowledge, often over-explaining things with further detail than necessary and occasionally revealing something that was supposed to be a secret. Max is also friendly, helping his friends with knowledge and support. In "Gamer", when he loses his place in the competition for which he trained a whole year, he sportingly congratulates Marinette and Adrien before he quickly leaves the room. Once outside, he starts rambling to himself about how unfair his situation was, and it isn't until after his akumatization and Marinette offering up her spot to him in the competition that he perks up.
As Pegasus, Max is also brave as well as shown to be very polite and works well with others seen in "Party Crasher".
As Gamer, he stops at nothing to show everyone that he's the best gamer, even turning people into experience points that help him level up. Additionally, the resentment he held towards Marinette turns into hatred, resulting in him specifically targeting her for a brief period. In "Gamer 2.0", nevertheless, he can be humble when admitting defeat.
Appearance[]
Physical appearance[]
Max is short slender teenage boy with dark skin, curly brown hair, and brown eyes.
Civilian attire[]
Max wears black-rimmed glasses, a light green polo shirt, and tan and brown checkered jeans. He also has suspenders with a light tan line between two dark tan lines and silver buckles, along with light grayish blue sneakers and a blue watch on his right wrist.
As Gamer[]
- Main article: Gamer (Character)
As Gamer, he has purple skin and red eyes. His glasses become butterfly-shaped and the glass has a light green tint. He wears a black full-body suit with a small green circle on his chest and three thin green stripes around his waist, each forearm and each lower leg.
As Pegasus[]
As Pegasus, Max has much lighter brown hair, styled in multiple braided locks that is tied back. He has a full body dark brown outfit with the Horse Miraculous weapon on his back. He has 2 spikes that appears to come from the shoes which resembles the wings Hermes has on his helmet.
Abilities[]
As a civilian[]
Max is very intelligent, being excellent at knowing facts, statistics, and calculations. He is also very skilled in playing video games and he has one of the highest scores in the entire school at playing Ultimate Mecha Strike III.
Max's intelligence was shown in his inventions that are revealed in "Robostus": an anti-virus flash drive and Markov, a highly-functional robot that has developed emotions on its own. Max is even capable of creating his own video game based on the akumatized villains.
As Pegasus[]
Pegasus has much more enhanced skills, such as speed, agility, and strength, and he is almost invulnerable to physical damage. He is also very skilled at utilizing his Horseshoe during close combat.
His special power, Voyage, allows him to open a portal that he can travel through and exit at any location he desires.
As Gamer[]
As soon as he transforms into Gamer, he gets a giant fighting robot designed after MX-01 from Ultimate Mecha Strike III. He starts off with the robot's Level 1 form, a simple floating black pyramid with a green eye, but by shooting at the population and cars, he turns them into experience points that make him level up. Level 2 adds two tall tentacle-like legs. Level 3 makes the robot more human-like and gives it the power to perform some special moves, such as firing electricity and missiles, creating a force field and spinning to make a drill. Level 4 is the final level, but its form is unknown.
- Level 1: A simple floating black pyramid with a green eye.
- Level 2: Adds two tall tentacle-like legs.
- Level 3: The robot becomes more human-like and it gains the power to perform special moves, such as firing electricity and missiles, creating a force field, and spinning like a drill.
- Level 4: The final level, but its form was never seen.
With his glasses, Gamer is able to save his last level and respawn in case his robot is destroyed.
In "Gamer 2.0", Gamer's powers allow him to summon many of the previously akumatized villains so that Ladybug, Cat Noir and himself may use them as avatars to fight. Gamer is also able to take the form of any of the akumatized villains and access their powers and abilities.
Trivia[]
- He will meet Ryan, Meg and Friends in Ryan's and Crash's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- He will appear in Pooh's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
- He will meet Tino Tonitini, Ash Ketchum, Littlefoot, Bloom, SpongeBob and their friends in Tino's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
- Max's superhero superhero name stems from a mythical creature called Pegasus which is a winged horse from Greek Mythology.
- In "The Bubbler" and "Lady Wifi", Max appears without glasses.
- Max's name is of Latin origin and means "Greatest".
- Gamer reappears in the two-part special event "Heroes' Day".
- In the French dub, his superhero name is "Pegase" which is French for Pegasus.
- In his first appearances in the Korean musical Ladybug, Max wears a different outfit, which includes a purple t-shirt with white lettering printed on the front underneath a green and black plaid hooded jacket.
- In later performances, Max's outfit is mostly identical to his show appearance, excluding his glasses and including a black hat.
- Pegasus is the second superhero in the series whose civilian identity is known by both Ladybug and Cat Noir, the first being Queen Bee.
- His English voice actor, Ben Diskin, also voices Shoutmon and Cutemon from Digimon Fusion, Sai from Naruto Shippuden, Eugene Horowitz from Hey Arnold! Seasons 2-5, Nigel Uno and Hoagie Gilligan from Codename: Kids Next Door, Humphrey from the Alpha and Omega sequels, Stitch from Stitch! and Ban from Seven Deadly Sins.
- Max Kanté is the fifth person to become to a Miraculous holder who was also an akumatized villain, following Nino Lahiffe in "The Bubbler", Alya Césaire in "Lady Wifi", Lê Chiến Kim in "Dark Cupid", Chloé Bourgeois in "Antibug", but excluding Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth, who akumatized himself in "The Collector" into the titular villain.
- He shares his English voice actor with two kwamis, Nooroo, Sass and Miraculous holder Carapace.
- In "Gamer 2.0" he is re-akumatized more powerful than ever, with the ability to summon past akumatized villains.
- It's been implied that Max is of South African heritage from his last name, Kanté.
- Max's hair color changes when he becomes Pegasus.
- Also his superhero ID came from a mythical creature called Pegasus which is a winged horse from Greek Mythology.
- Pegasus is the only member of the French Miraculous Superhero Team that doesn't wear a mask when he transforms, considering that the Horse Miraculous takes the form of glasses.