Character from Miraculous Ladybug by Thomas Astruc / ZAG
The class tech genius who built a sentient robot for a school project and became the superhero Pegasus — because in this show, even the nerds get to be heroes.
Max speaks in statistics and probabilities. He calculates the odds of success before deciding whether to participate. He built Markov — a genuinely sentient AI — as a personal project, which either makes him the most brilliant student in France or the most dangerous, depending on your perspective on artificial intelligence. As Pegasus, he can open portals through space using the Horse Miraculous, which suits someone who thinks in terms of optimal routes and efficiency. He's a loyal classmate, a fair competitor, and the person most likely to notice a logical inconsistency in Lila's stories but least likely to say anything because the social calculus doesn't compute. He and Markov have a genuine friendship — Max treats the robot as a person, and the show rewards this by making Markov consistently the most emotionally intelligent being in the room.
Short teenage boy with dark skin, short dark hair, green eyes behind large round glasses, and the focused expression of someone running calculations during casual conversation. Wears a grey-green tee, khaki shorts, and carries himself with the slightly rigid posture of someone more comfortable with machines than people. As Pegasus: blue bodysuit with a horseshoe visor and a cosmic theme.
Also known as: Pegasus