Main •
Maxwell "Max" McGrath/Max Steel (voiced by
Andrew Francis) is the titular protagonist of the series, a human-takion hybrid boy, Max is taken to the secret "N-Tek" facility, and discovers that his uncle, Forge Ferrus, is the commander and co-founder of N-Tek, along with Jim McGrath and Miles Dredd. Max later meets Steel, an Ultralink that will change Max's life and will later turn Max into the world's greatest and most powerful superhero in the world known as Max Steel. Maxwell and Steel don't know a lot about their past and also they don't know about N-Tek, especially N-Tek's true mission that Forge Ferrus is hiding from Max and Steel. Max has a friend named Kirby and has a crush on a girl named Sydney. Max wears a camouflage mode, so no one can see him with the Turbo Base Mode on (which can't be removed because it's permanently on Max) and he doesn't wants anyone to know that he is Max Steel. He is able to generate Tachyon Unlimited Radiant Bio-Optimized (TURBO) energy, and control it with the help of Steel, thereby creating the persona of Max Steel. As Max Steel, Max has superpowers (
superhuman strength, speed, and durability) and a cadre of TURBO Modes for different combat scenarios including; Base, Strength, Camo (Max's civilian mode), Flight, Scuba, Super, Speed, Stealth, Cannon, Clone, Mimic (Steel's turbo mode), Heat, Rocket, Spike, Nova, Titan,
Cannon Spike, Hydro Heat, Sonic Flight, Exo Strength, Hammer Claw, Prime, Hunter and Mega. Following the events of
Turbo-Charged, Max obtains new, completely technological modes, being those: Armor, Jet Pack, Wave Rider, Sniper, Rocket Spear and Mountain Combat. • '''N'Barro Aksteel X377/Steel''' (voiced by
Sam Vincent) is an
alien made only of technology, known as an Ultra-Link. He is only able to function by being charged from TURBO Energy, and along with Max acts as the armor persona Max Steel. Steel's memory core was damaged so many select memories of his time on Earth 16 years before the series are hazy, and battles with the Elementors insinuate that he had a connection to them. His full designation is "N'Barro Aksteel X377". Years ago he used to serve Makino, until meeting Jim McGrath. The two became the first Max Steel to fend off the first Makino Invasion.
Allies •
Commander Forge Ferrus (voiced by
Michael Dobson) is an N-Tek commander, and a mentor to Max, his nephew. It seems that Forge and the rest of N-Tek are hiding a dark secret from Max Steel since
Thrill of the Hunt, when they tried to acquire a damaged Ultra-Link from an Alien Spaceship and gave no answers to Max about why he wanted it. He has a robotic left arm, having lost his real one in a battle. In
Makino Strikes: Part 1, Forge was ultralinked, and because of it his robotic arm now had three arms. But in
Makino Strikes: Part 2, Ven-Ghan managed to unlink him. •
Ja’em Mk’rah/James "Jim" McGrath (voiced by
Trevor Devall) is Max's father who is one of the founders of N-Tek and later revealed to be an alien being from Planet Tachyon. Jim McGrath was the best in N-Tek, and also very smart and wise. He was Forge Ferrus' science officer and he was the one who discovered T.U.R.B.O Energy, a blue and powerful energy. He supposedly died when testing the Turbo Star, creating an explosion. Jim McGrath has a holographic monument of himself, and under it was the case that Steel was in since he was the alien Ultra-Link that was used in the experiment. In
Earth Under Siege Part 2 it was discovered that Jim was the first person that Ultra-Linked with Steel before Max did. In
The Legend of Ja’em Mk’rah Jim and Steel first met on Tachyon when the planet was invaded by Makino and his Ultralinks. It's revealed that Tachyons can also produce T.U.R.B.O. energy. In
The Final Countdown Part 2, Jim was revealed to be alive and held hostage by Makino, so he can use his TURBO energy to
power-up the Alphalink. •
Molly McGrath (voiced by
Nicole Oliver) is the secretive mother of Max. She is shown in the premiere as an amazing ninja spy when infiltrating THI and during the battle to raid some evidence that can expose their criminal empire. She becomes the new CEO of THI when Mr. Naught is removed following Dredd's first defeat by Max Steel. In the episode
The Secret Admirer, Toxzon turns her into a toxic monster with all his powers called Toxziana, until she is reverted to her original form. •
Sydney Gardner (voiced by
Sarah Edmondson) is a know-how girl who meets Max and becomes his best friend. Max instantly develops a crush on her. In
The Truth Hurts, she finally learns Max's identity as Max Steel. However she lost her memory of this after a blast from Elementor. In
My Best Friend is an Ultralink, Sydney suffered the same fate as Forge did when she was ultralinked. But at the end of the episode Ven-Ghan managed to unlink her. In
The Dawn of Morphos, she learns Max's secret identity as Max Steel for the second time, this time she was told by Jim McGrath and she also knew for a long time but she was just waiting for Max to tell her. •
Kirby Kowalski (voiced by
Richard Ian Cox) is Max's best friend, who is loyal but incredibly gullible and laid back. In
My Best Friend is an Ultralink, Kirby suffered the same fate as Forge did when he was ultralinked. But at the end of the episode Ven-Ghan managed to unlink him. •
Roberto "Berto" Martinez (voiced by
Sam Vincent) is a friend of Max and Steel. He is one of the most intelligent scientific geniuses at N-Tek. •
C.Y.T.R.O. (voiced by Colin Murdock) is an N-Tek robot operative invented and controlled by Berto Martinez and is continuously being upgraded by him. His name stands for
Cybernetic
Tactical
Robot
Operative. During the events of Team Turbo, Berto upgrades with him with artificial intelligence. His Turbo Vehicle Modes are: Base, Chopper, Wrecking Ball and Drill. •
Jefferson Smith (voiced by
Omari Newton) is a highly respected N-Tek agent. He, unlike any other pilot, owns his own Jump Jet which affectionately calls Lucille. It is hinted in the season 1 finale
Earth Under Siege that he loves Kat. •
Katherine "Kat" Ryan (voiced by
Kathleen Barr) is the highest ranking female N-Tek agent. She is proficient at xenobiology, as well as medicine, and is a skilled fighter in both hand-to-hand combat and long range. •
The Black Star Council have been around for an undetermined amount of time and are a group of aliens that have survived attacks from Makino's soldiers and have united to defend others from them and make them pay for their crimes. •
Ven-Ghan (voiced by
Giles Panton) is an Ultralink Hunter working for the Black Star Council. He has a personal vendetta against Makino and the Evil Ultralinks because they destroyed his planet. He is also after Steel and is not leaving without him. But in
The Ultralink Hunter, after seeing Steel risk his life to save him, he began to see Max Steel as an ally, and in the end of
Makino Strikes: Part 2, he decided to stop hunting Steel, after he saved his life again, and joined Max Steel and N-Tek in saving Earth from Makino. •
Team Turbo' are a team of superheroes formed by Maxwell, Steel, La Fiera, Tempestra and C.Y.T.R.O. who are Copper Canyon's protectors. They were formed in
Team Turbo. •
Alejandro Villar/La Fiera (voiced by
Adrian Petriw) is an animal-themed superhero. He is a skillful soccer player and met Max in one of the matches, where he found a piece of Jim's Connect-Tek sword while the Daedelus platform was falling down. He uses the piece as a compass to see where it belongs and eventually meets Max, Steel, C.Y.T.R.O. and Rayne. His Turbo Animal Modes are: Base, Tiger, Eagle, Raptor and Wave Rider. •
Rayne Martinez/Tempestra (voiced by
Lili Beaudoin) is a weather-themed superheroine and Berto's younger sister. She was found by Max and Steel in the World 31 base while it was being invaded by Extroyer and his clones. Her Turbo Storm Modes are: Base, Lightning Storm, Ice Storm and Wave Rider.
Villains •
Miles Dredd (voiced by Mark Oliver) is the former owner of Trans Human Industries. Prior to the series, Miles was one of the co-founders of N-Tek, but he turned on the agency when he chose to steal TURBO Energy for his own gain, which resulted him to be fused by his siphon device into his chest. In order to live, he created a suit that connects to his siphon so he can consume TURBO Energy (much like a vampire) which will make him very powerful. He destroys N-Tek's defense grid of transmitters in order to make way for the Makino Ultralink Invasion and subjugate Earth. He later turned against Makino when he was deemed unworthy and escaped his forces. :*
Dreddnaughts are an army of robots that work for Miles Dredd. They don't talk, but they are very dangerous and they have a gun as a hand. In
Dredd Ascendant, when Naught showed Dredd their new underwater base it is revealed that they have upgraded Dreddnaughts. :*
Axel (voiced by
Michael Daingerfield) is a thug hired by Jason Naught as his henchman to do his dirty work. •
Makino (voiced by
Michael Dobson) is an alien cybernetic being that has an Ultra-Link bonded to him, but it is permanent. He is the leader of the Ultra-Links and ruler of the planet Makino. In Season 1
Earth Under Siege, Makino is allies with Miles Dredd, Ultimate Elementor, and Jason Naught. Makino wants to devour Earth and possibly convert it into his second home planet, but he must first destroy mankind and Max Steel with an Invasion of Ultra-Links, which takes place in Season 2. :*
Evil Ultralinks are a special forces unit Makino has place under the command of Miles Dredd. ::*
Blast Link (voiced by
Brian Drummond) is the sniper of the unit, ultra-linked with a THI plasma cannon giving him powerful distance weapons. ::*
Prism Link (voiced by
Lee Tockar) is the close quarters combatant of the unit, ultra-linked to a series of crystals he is a durable, agile and razor-sharp fighter. ::*
Chomp Link (voiced by Samuel Vincent) is the brawn of the unit, ultra-linked with a
venus flytrap he is equipped with long vines and crushing jaws. It is unknown what happened to Chomp after Mega Metal Elementor launched him off a Makino Destroyer and into space in
My Best Friend is an Ultralink after he, Blast, and Prism failed him. ::*
Reaper Links are a pair of Ultra-linked reaper hologram Halloween decorations armed with Scythe's and equipped with the ability to switch between solid and intangible at will, resulting in a pair of ghost like stealth operatives. ::*
Plaztek (voiced by Andrew Francis) is an Ultralink that bonded with Fishy and some of Toxzon's orange waste to become a large fish-like creature composed of super dense and strong plastic. Able to fire plastic fish with large teeth for trapping opponents, toxic goo, plastic explosives, and is a versatile shape-shiftier. As a result of the glitchy connection between Fishy and the Ultralink Plaztek has a highly unstable personality and speech pattern that sounds like a corrupted sound-file. Appears to be destroyed at the end of
Toxic Relationship. ::*
Avatak (voiced by Richard Ian Cox) is an Ultralink that bonded with a video game console because of Toxzon in the episode
Digital Meltdown. He has the ability to shoot fireballs, he can also shoot a powerful laser from his chest, he can also hack into games on the type of video game console he bonded with. Avatak was destroyed by the end of the episode because of the glitch in the Max Steel TURBO Warrior video game, which overloaded his systems. •
The Elementors (Fire and Air, voiced by Andrew Francis; Earth and Water, voiced by Brian Drummond; Metal voiced by Trevor Devall) are Ultralinks that each manifested a body from the elements and are able to combine themselves into multi-elemental creatures. Originally, there were a group of four Elementors based around the four elements that were sent to Earth to aid Dredd for their own agenda. The first three, Fire Elementor, Earth Elementor, and Water Elementor, were eventually captured by N-Tek. But during an attempted rescue by Air Elementor in
Elements of Surprise, due to an accident with an inhibitor mounted on his head, the four Elementors' bodies ended up being fused into the 4-cored Ultimate Elementor that uses all their powers and combine them to produce ice and lightning. Though the four personalities conflicted at first, they eventually put aside their squabbles for their mutual hatred towards Max Steel. In season two, a Megalink Elementor named Metal Elementor is introduced in
Full Metal Racket. In
Ultralink Hunter, Metal Elementor sets Ultimate Elementor up by giving him 24 hours to catch Max Steel. After Ultimate Elementor is defeated after managing to catch Steel and Ven-Ghan, Metal Elementor reveals his ruse and absorbs Ultimate Elementor to become the 5-cored Mega Elementor. :*
Fire Elementor (voiced by Andrew Francis) is an Ultralink bonded with the element of fire. :*
Earth Elementor (voiced by Brian Drummond) is an Ultralink bonded with the element of earth. :*
Water Elementor (voiced by Brian Drummond) is an Ultralink bonded with the element of water. :*
Air Elementor (voiced by Andrew Francis) is an Ultralink bonded with the element of air. :*
Ultimate Elementor (Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Air, voiced by Andrew Francis; Ultimate Earth and Ultimate Water, voiced by Brian Drummond): :*
Metal Elementor (voiced by Trevor Devall) is a Megalink named Metallak bonded with a metal pyramid. :*
Mega Elementor (Mega Fire and Mega Air, voiced by Andrew Francis; Mega Earth and Mega Water, voiced by Brian Drummond; Mega Metal voiced by Trevor Devall): •
Dr. Tytus Octavius Xander/Toxzon (voiced by Andrew Francis): Formerly a THI scientist after Molly fired him, Xander was mutated after a lab accident with deadly chemicals, transforming him into the mutant villain, Toxzon. He can absorb pollutants and uses them as weapons and can generate venomous monsters. He can also transform into multiple forms by absorbing new poisons and toxins in different color: normal (green), neutralized (blue), acid (orange), toxic bacteria (purple), radiation (yellow), mind control serum (lavender), his mysterious orange toxin (orange), and oil (black). :*
Fishy (voiced by Andrew Francis) is Toxzon's beloved pet plastic goldfish. Xander hallucinates that Fishy talks to him, apparently He's a source of his sanity giving him advice and suggestions. In Season 2
Toxic Relationship, he was bonded with an Ultralink and turned into Plaztek, but subsequently meets his end in the hands of Max Steel thanks to his TURBO Drills, which resulted in making Toxzon a more dangerous threat. :*
Goopanoids are toxic monstrous mutant creatures generated by Toxzon and used as his henchmen. Toxzon can generate different versions in different colors of his goopanoids whenever he absorbs a new toxin: his green toxin (green), acid (orange), toxic bacteria (purple), and radiation (yellow). •
Troy Winter/Extroyer (voiced by Brian Drummond) is a professional criminal named Troy Winter who after being accidentally bonded with a damaged Ultra-Link, became a beastly creation who can morph into any animal just by scanning it with his eyes. His left arm is covered in self regenerating crystals and is used to destroy others in battle. He can so far transform into anything he sees, but he can absorb D.N.A. of dead life-forms and become the extinct beings. His primal transformations are these beasts: his pet black tiger, a spider, a shark, a black cobra, a gorilla, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a wasp, a Scorpion, a corrupted version of Max Steel's Strength mode, and an ultralinked electrical worm alien. If he has a second Ultra-Link in his body, he can transform into a chimeric monster. :*
Dwayne (voiced by Brian Dobson) is one of Extroyer's henchmen. Dwayne is smarter and acts like a boss for Vin. He hated Winter a lot since in
Thrill of the Hunt, he tried to feed them to his pet black tiger. In
Makino Strikes: Part 1, it's revealed that Dwayne has kids that don't know he's a thief. :*
Vin (voiced by Michael Dobson) is another of Extroyer's henchmen who is thin, and sometimes clumsy and dumb. He hates anchovies, as mentioned in
Driven. He is a little bit scared at times and he would sometimes be brave. •
Murukami was a ninja in Ancient Japan who seeks his mission, to conquer the world. Murukami was imprisoned in a magic sword by a sorcerer who warned that if anyone ever gripped the sword, he would be released and would wreak havoc on the earth. Murukami's spirit possessed Kirby when he held the sword that a shop vendor and descendant of the sorcerer hid his backpack. Max and Steel were able to use the Turbo Sword to break the magic sword and freed Kirby from Murukami. •
Colonel Jasper F. Castle (voiced by
Lee Tockar) is a former colonel in the US Army, he and his men's loyalties were bought by Miles Dredd. Using them, Dredd lured Max into a trap. Luckily, a traitorous member who was new to them called N-Tek and together they defeated and apprehended Castle and his men and chased Dredd and Naught off. •
Rygnok (voiced by Brian Drummond) is an Ultralink Hunter working for the Black Star Council who once a mentor and old friend to Ven-Ghan. Rygnok is a bounty hunter who will hunt anything for the right price. After Makino tore a destructive path through the galaxy, Rygnok began working for the Black Star Council. Unlike Ven-Ghan who is all about bringing Ultralinks to Justice, Rygnok cares more about being paid his reward money. •
Guamá is Rygnok's robotic lizard that he uses as a mount. •
Morphos (voiced by Brian Dobson) is a monster designed by N-Tek, as a last resort to destroy Makino should they fail to defend the Earth. It came out that Morphos is stronger than anything. It was predicted that because of this, he wouldn't stop destroying and become a bigger threat than Makino. He has the ability to copy modes of any character. Morphos has the DNA of Miles Dredd and sometimes refers him as his father. His previous weakness was that he is able to turn into one mode at a time, but can now mix his modes since after he was turned into goop by Dredd, he regenerated himself and came out with a mix of modes. •
Mortum is a new villain arising two years after the events of "Maximum Morphos". Once a successful scientist, he became obsessed with surpassing his own mortality and went after a device named Connect-Tek, who would give him god-like abilities - and thus triggering the events of the "Team Turbo" film. However, the device ends up damaged on his hands and it blows up on his face, turning him into a technologic zombie. Cruel, threatening and intimidating, he was one of Max's worst villains and wanted to take over the world by turning everyone into beings like him, but he is eventually stopped by Max and his team. •
Terrorax/Dr. Prometheus Halifax is a new major villain introduced in "Turbo-Charged". A member of a mysterious organization named Nexus, he studied Max's activities and energy for years. In the future, he captures Max and forces him to generate a new variation of his T.U.R.B.O. Energy and in the process ends up getting a portion of his blue energy to create his own version known as Terror Energy. After mutating himself and adopting the name of Terrorax, he becomes one of Max's most powerful enemies and had his own team of supervillain named Team Terror, who were evil counterparts of Max and his team. He is eventually defeated and returns with his most powerful weapon: the Pantheon, and planned on forcing people join the Nexus. •
Night Howl is a mechanically enhanced predator who serves as the evil counterpart of La Fiera. He has superhuman conditions and is capable of turning himself into a large wolf. •
Snare is a lethal assassin robot created by an unknown individual who was later murdered by his own creation. He has many weapons integrated onto his body and has murdered countless people over the years as stated in "Turbo-Charged". He is Tempestra's evil counterpart. •
Monstro is a monstrosity capable of turning cloning himself. He serves as the evil counterpart of C.Y.T.R.O..
Others •
Bartholomew "Butch" (voiced by Brian Drummond) is the school bully who torments Max, Kirby, and others. Bartholomew also has two sidekicks. In
My Best Friend is an Ultralink, Butch suffered the same fate as Forge did when he was ultralinked. But at the end of the episode Ven-Ghan managed to unlink him. After the events of the episode, he eventually becomes friends with Max, Kirby, and Sydney. •
Dr. Thornhill (voiced by Michael Dobson) is one of Max's teachers at Copper Canyon High School. •
Mr. Jones (voiced by Michael Dobson) was the old man who checked Max's driver's test. •
Klean Kal (voiced by
Scott McNeil) was the man in Driven, who was the one who was selling used cars to Kirby and Max. •
Vendor (voiced by
Vincent Tong) was the old man who was selling old things, and he had the sword of Murukami. He's been later seen in various episodes as a random vendor. •
Commander Parker (voiced by Vincent Tong) is originally a member of Colonel Castle's army in the first-season episode
Uncle Sam Wants You! until Castle's alliance with Miles Dredd was exposed, thanks to Parker reaching out to N-Tek. It was revealed in the second-season episode
Deep Turbo Blue Sea that he joined N-Tek after Colonel Castle was arrested. •
T.J. (voiced by Kathleen Barr) is a female artificial intelligence with the Turbo Jet, whom Steel has a crush on. •
Jimmy Blaze (voiced by Sam Vincent) •
Dean (voiced by Lee Tockar) •
Jake (voiced by Giles Panton) •
Torbolt (voiced by Andrew Francis) is an Ultralink who rebels against Makino. ==N-Tek/Turbo arsenal==