Editing Max Goof (section)

==Appearances==
===''Goof Troop''===
In the series ''[[Goof Troop]]'', Max is the son of [[Goofy|Goofy Goof]] and the late Mrs. Goof, who was born in 1981, whereby in 1992 he is 11 years old.<ref name="You Camp Take It with You">{{cite episode|title=You Camp Take It with You|series=Goof Troop|airdate=September 9, 1992|season=1 (The Disney Afternoon)|number=5}}</ref><ref name="Midnight Movie Madness">{{cite episode|title=Midnight Movie Madness|series=Goof Troop|airdate=September 10, 1992|season=1 (The Disney Afternoon)|number=6}}</ref> At the same age, Max moved to his father's hometown of Spoonerville with him and has lived there ever since.<ref name="Everything's Coming Up Goofy">{{cite episode|title=Everything's Coming Up Goofy|series=Goof Troop|airdate=September 5, 1992|season=1 (The Disney Afternoon)|number=1}}</ref> He is active, nice, observant, friendly, and best friends with P.J., Pete's son. He and P.J. are in the same grade at [[junior high school]].<ref name="Date with Destiny">{{cite episode |title=Date with Destiny |series=Goof Troop |airdate=September 22, 1992 |season=1 (The Disney Afternoon) |number=14}}</ref><ref name="Lethal Goofin'">{{cite episode |title=Lethal Goofin' |series=Goof Troop |airdate=November 1992 |season=1 (The Disney Afternoon) |number=36}}</ref> Max, like in all of his appearances, loves his father but wishes he would be a bit more normal, and dislikes the idea of sharing similarities with him. <ref name="Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp">{{cite episode|title=Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp|series=Goof Troop|airdate=September 15, 1992|season=1 (The Disney Afternoon)|number=9}}</ref>

===''A Goofy Movie''===
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''[[A Goofy Movie]]'' in 1995 features Max as a 14-year-old high school student, finishing the school year before going on summer vacation. Max has grown to find his father's goofy antics embarrassing, and is likewise viewed by his peers as a geek and a goof himself; a view he seeks to change at the school assembly when he dresses up like the musician rock star Powerline and interrupts the principal's speech to dance and perform to Powerline's hit song "Stand Out" before the entire student body.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McBride |first=Clare |date=February 18, 2019 |title=Chosen One of the Day: Max Goof, Disney's Everyteen |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/chosen-one-of-the-day-max-goof-disneys-everyteen |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=[[Syfy]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Weekes |first=Princess |date=April 7, 2020 |title=''Goofy Movie'' Still Perfect Father/Son Film on 25th Anniversary |url=https://www.themarysue.com/goofy-movie-25th-anniversary/ |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=The Mary Sue |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Spiegel |first=Josh |date=April 9, 2020 |title=Revisiting ''A Goofy Movie'', Disney's Unlikely Cult Classic That Upends The Company's Usual Formula |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/573786/a-goofy-movie-revisited/ |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=[[SlashFilm]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Additionally, Max seeks to gain the attention of his crush, a girl named Roxanne, whom Max is convinced only ever looks right through him and believes the laugh he inherited from his father ("a-hyuck") is to her disliking.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Snetiker |first=Marc |date=April 7, 2015 |title=Revisiting the songs of ''A Goofy Movie'' |url=https://ew.com/movies/2015/04/07/goofy-movie-anniversary-songs/ |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref> Though Max ends up in detention for hijacking the assembly, he succeeds in not only impressing the other students but also winning the affections of Roxanne, who shyly yet delightedly agrees to go with him to a party that is to be held the next Saturday.

However, the principal informs Max's father, Goofy, about Max's bad behavior. Fearful that his son is becoming a delinquent, Goofy decides to take Max on a cross-country fishing trip for some 'father-son bonding', much to Max's chagrin. Before Goofy and Max hit the road, Max pays a quick visit to Roxanne's house to explain to her why he can no longer go with her to the party but ends up lying to her that it is because he is instead going to see Powerline live in concert in Los Angeles and that he and his father will join Powerline on stage for the last song since, as Max claims, Goofy and Powerline are an old acquaintance. The guilt from this lie eats at Max throughout the film, while Goofy tries to bond with his son in ways that end up pushing Max away even further. When Goofy appoints Max the official navigator of their road trip, things go much more smoothly for the two as Max gets to pick all the stops along the way.

But, unbeknownst to Goofy, Max had secretly changed the driving route on the map to lead them to Los Angeles, and when Goofy finds out, he and Max come to a head as the two finally let out all their held-back emotions at each other before they finally reach an understanding in which Max confesses to his dad how he has felt about Roxanne and the lie he told her before while Goofy explains that he just wants to be a part of Max's life and that even though he's all grown up, he is still Goofy's son. By this point, Max and Goofy admit that they are stuck together and would not want to be with anyone else in this situation. The two actually make it to the Powerline concert, even appearing (accidentally) onstage. By the end of the film, when the two arrive back home, Max reveals to Roxanne that he lied, admitting that he just wanted her to like him. Roxanne in turn confesses that she already did like Max, revealing that the goofy laugh Max had been so embarrassed by was the very thing that led to her liking him. After Goofy's car suddenly explodes due to the damage after it had fallen down the waterfall, he is sent crashing through the roof of Roxanne's porch, at which point Max introduces Roxanne to his dad.

===''An Extremely Goofy Movie''===
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In the [[direct-to-video]] sequel to ''A Goofy Movie'', ''[[An Extremely Goofy Movie]]'' in 2000, Max is a high school graduate and leaves for college with his best friends [[Pete Junior|P.J.]] and Bobby Zimuruski.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hardwick |first=Ben |date=October 27, 2021 |title=How the Goofy Movies Made Goofy Disney's Most Relatable Character |url=https://www.cbr.com/how-the-goofy-movies-made-goofy-disneys-most-relatable-character/ |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=[[Comic Book Resources|CBR]] |language=en}}</ref> He hopes to start a new life for himself and partake in the College X-Games competition and eventually graduate at 23, in 2004. Upon his arrival to the campus, he and his friends are met by the five-time X-Games champions, the Gamma Mu Mu fraternity. However, because the Gammas invited only Max and not P.J. and Bobby to join them, Max makes a bet against the Gammas' leader, Bradley Uppercrust, to see who will be towel boy to the other should either win the X-Games.

Meanwhile, Goofy gets fired from his job (for an accident caused by his empty nest syndrome) and must go back to college to get a degree, as it is the only way for him to get a new job. He attends the same college as his son, much to Max's dismay as he had hoped to finally get away from his father's overbearing doting. Eventually, Max manages to distract his father by introducing him to Ms. Sylvia Marpole, the college's librarian, who takes a romantic interest in Goofy and vice versa while Max sneaks off to practice his skateboarding. When Goofy gets a date with Sylvia, he rushes off to tell Max only to interfere with Max's practice, resulting in the onlooking Bradley to misinterpret Goofy's clumsy antics on Max's skateboard for skill and offers Goofy membership to the Gammas. Max encourages his father to join, viewing it as another distraction to keep Goofy further away from his X-Games practices.

When Goofy inadvertently beats Max at the qualifying rounds for the College X-Games (thanks in part to some sneaky cheating by Bradley), Max ends up blowing up at his father, revealing his desires to get away from his father and [[Family estrangement|estranges]] him completely by telling him to "leave him alone and get his own life", sending Goofy into depression. When Goofy later overhears the Gammas' plan to cheat in the games, Goofy tries to warn his son, who does not believe him, as he still wants him out of his life. But once it becomes clear to Max (during the X-Games' final round) that the Gammas really have been cheating all along, Max realizes that Goofy was telling the truth and, feeling remorseful for disowning him and not listening to his warnings, redeems himself by asking his dad to fill in for the incapacitated P.J., which Goofy quickly accepts. During the final stretch of the triathlon, Bradley activates a rocket hidden in Max's skateboard, causing an explosion that ends up trapping fellow Gamma member Tank underneath some fallen fiery debris. Max forgoes heading straight to the finish line to first rescue Tank (with help from Goofy) and manages to barely beat Bradley to the finish line. 

Goofy graduates a year later in 2001, where Max is now 20. Both father and son make amends at Goofy's graduation, and Max gives his father the X-Games championship trophy as an apology gift for his unkind behavior and relinquishes his disownment of Goofy. The two part ways amicably, with Goofy - now cured of his empty nest syndrome - leaves Max to live his own life at college and heads on another date with Sylvia.

===''House of Mouse''===
In the television series ''[[House of Mouse]]'', Max is still a teenager (although considerably older than in ''A Goofy Movie'') and works as the [[valet parking|parking valet]] for the club, and appears to be most level-headed and calm of all the club's employees. However, this may be because his duties are not nearly as important as some of the others, and his inclusions are just to help out the rest of the cast. Yet, in episodes that revolve around him or Goofy, his insecurities and personal flaws are much more noticeable and intentional.

In the episode "Max's Embarrassing Date", Max is off work and on a date with Roxanne at the House of Mouse. While all the main Disney cast ([[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]], [[Minnie Mouse|Minnie]], [[Donald Duck|Donald]] and [[Daisy Duck|Daisy]]) attempted to keep Goofy away from the two so as to not embarrass Max in front of Roxanne, they ended up embarrassing him themselves until Goofy finally cuts in to give Max and Roxanne some privacy for the night. Max makes a cameo appearance in ''[[Mickey's House of Villains]]'' when the villains are entering the House of Mouse.

===''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas''===
In the ''[[Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas]]'' segment "A Very Goofy Christmas", Max goes bicycling into the mall with Goofy to mail his letter to [[Santa Claus]]. When Pete tells Max that Santa does not exist, Goofy goes out of his way to try and prove him wrong. However, after staying up all night with no luck, Goofy is filled with disappointment, leaving it to Max to cheer his father. In the end, Santa finally arrives to the joyful awe and wonderment of Goofy and Max.

===''Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas''===
The direct-to-video animated film ''[[Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas]]'' (a sequel to ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas'') is currently Max's latest appearance in any Disney media produced. In the segment titled "Christmas Maximus", Max has grown up into a young adult. He brings his friend Mona (whom Max hopes to make his girlfriend) home for Christmas to meet his father. Goofy picks them up at the train station and brings them back to the house, where Goofy shows Mona Max's baby pictures and unwittingly embarrasses Max with all his fatherly love. In the end, as Mona finds Goofy's quirks to be endearing, Max decides to forget his embarrassment and join in the fun.

Max later appears (in a non-speaking role) with his father and the other characters in the last segment of the film, "Mickey's Dog-Gone Christmas", in which they drive around the city in a snowplow to look for [[Pluto (Disney)|Pluto]], who had previously run away after having angered Mickey. After Pluto returns, everyone pulls up to Mickey's house in the snowplow, exits the snowplow, and goes inside the house to celebrate Christmas. Max and everyone applaud Mickey and Pluto topping the Christmas tree with the star decoration, and then they all join in singing a short medley of "[[We Wish You a Merry Christmas]]" and "[[Deck the Halls]]".

During the end credits sequence, a pop-up book version of Max and Mona are seen sliding close to each other (presumably to share a kiss) before a pop-up version of Goofy covers them both from view with a picture frame containing credits specific to the "Christmas Maximus" segment. Later, the closing image of Goofy and Max holding a Christmas caroling book together from the end of "Mickey's Dog-Gone Christmas" is shown again towards the end of the credits.

===Other appearances===

* Max Goof makes a cameo appearance in a photograph in the ''[[DuckTales (2017 TV series)|DuckTales]]'' episode "Quack Pack!".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zachary |first=Brandon |date=April 4, 2020 |title=''DuckTales'' Quietly Confirms A Goofy Movie Is Canon |url=https://www.cbr.com/ducktales-confirms-goofy-movie-canon/ |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=[[Comic Book Resources|CBR]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Elderkin |first=Beth |date=April 6, 2020 |title=Goofy Stopped by ''DuckTales'' and Canonized the Cutest Couple in Disney History |url=https://gizmodo.com/goofy-stopped-by-ducktales-and-canonized-the-cutest-cou-1842704579 |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=[[Gizmodo]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Max Goof makes a cameo appearance in ''[[Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (film)|Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bonaime |first=Ross |date=May 25, 2022 |title=''Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'': The Best Cameos, Easter Egg-Packed Scenes, and References |url=https://collider.com/chip-n-dale-rescue-rangers-cameos-easter-eggs-references/ |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=Collider |language=en}}</ref>
* Max Goof appears in a promotional video produced for [[Disney Channel]]'s fortieth anniversary.
* Max Goof appears as a playable character in the mobile game ''Disney Heroes: Battle Mode''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 10, 2024 |title=Update 6.0.1 Patch Notes |url=https://discourse.disneyheroesgame.com/t/update-6-0-1-patch-notes/2199513 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514174804/https://discourse.disneyheroesgame.com/t/update-6-0-1-patch-notes/2199513 |archive-date=May 14, 2024 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |website=Disney Heroes: Battle Mode |language=en}}</ref>