#Maximum ride

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[beguilingcorpse]

the maximum ride books are so fucking insane. james patterson wrote down literally whatever he wanted about a group of weird bird kids, threw in some wild plot about eugenics or global warming or nuclear winter or whatever, did not edit or proofread the manuscript, and then sent it to his publisher. he did this nine times. not once did anything in them make sense. and the books had a CHOKEHOLD on middle schoolers everywhere

[brainwashinsou]

I can’t think about dabihawks too much or my brain will explode cuz its like custom tailor made for me as a former Maximum Ride tween and current Frankenstein freak.

You got the bird man. Not an angel. He’s a BIRD MAN. He’s owned by the government, he’s their guard dog. His wings, the thing he flies with, the symbols of freedom, are what keep him trapped. He’s been trained his whole life to fight. He’s never been himself.

You got the discount Frankenstein monster. He’s stitched together with rotting parts. He ran away from home after being rejected by his father. He kills people to get revenge on his father, his creator. He’s punk. He’s a pyromaniac. He just wants to be loved.

Hawks is air. Dabi is fire. Air can blow out a fire but it also fuels fire. If you trap fire in an air tight container it will suffocate, it’ll burn all the air up until it dies.

Hawks was born poor and sold off for money and into money. His whole life is controlled. Dabi was born rich and died and lives on the streets, on the run.

They’re both 22. They hate each other. They’re narrative foils.

And they’re both boys.

[not-kat]

i can't be the only one who still thinks about maximum ride

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

Maximum Rideheads grab your child-in-an-adults-body warewolf brother

[minimum-ride]

"the angel experiment" was such a sick name for the first book of the world's most disappointing series. are you kidding me. angels, the untouchable divine beings... you managed to EXPERIMENT on them? and then it just turns out its just The World's Worst Dad

[jaztice]

NEW!!! ART!!!! WHO!!! DIS!!!

everyone welcome the Chosen, Fallen, Miscreant, Prodigy, and Weapon to the official art club for Extra Ordinary!!! All illustrations done by the wonderful @binturong-draws!

[alsoanyways]

sorry james they're actually my characters now (legally this is a joke)

anyway here's a list of things that are true in my version of things:

Everyone is older, the oldest of them being in their early twenties.

Fang is named Friday. He primarily uses sign language to communicate, but he can talk if he has to.

Nudge is named Dorothy (Dora for short, asked to be called that when she found out it was her real name).

Gazzy is named Gizmo.

Maya names herself Em.

Ari lives and becomes part of the flock.

Em is offered to join the flock after her fight with Max. She declines, but she does join later on.

That weird Dylan and Max were genetically made for each other plot thing does not happen. Em finds him when she makes her escape from the labs and he becomes part of the flock when she does.

The weird preachy save the word max you're the chosen one also isn't a thing here.

please ask me about my other headcanons bc I would love to share them

also here’s the refs I made for their wings!!

[vintrage]

something other than hunger games rq

[theboyatthebustop]

I can’t believe these type of videos exist in the Booktube community

[crow-caller]

top 5 moments in bad books you've read

there's so many directions and options so I'm going to just name things from max ride

When robert the lizard boy emerges from the decapitation of Mr chu, and when Robert the lizard boy is then never addressed, reacted to, or explained again

When the flock learned the manager of an African refugee camp was performing deadly scientific experiments on children in his way of playing God. Something Max calls 'nazi-scary' (the one ref ever to the nazis despite the nazi coding of Itex). The flock then runs away, and this is never mentioned again. Dr. God gives them Dylan and is friends with Jeb and no one blinks. Dr. God then goes on to create a plague in order to 'discover' the cure, an act which means Russia gives him control of their nuclear codes (he is not russian). Dr. God then triggers the nuclear apocalypse— but at the exact same time a meteor strikes. He winds up surviving, using an army of brainwashed teenagers to eradicate the last of humanity. He's the final boss. The Flock could have prevented this.

Total, a talking, flying mutant dog with the personality and interests of a middle aged man, marrying Akila, a normal dog who he explicitly cannot 'talk dog to'.

When iggy gained the ability to see the colour white, but only if it was in contrast to other shades of white. He could see Antarctica but nothing else. This is never addressed again

The fact the final book ended with every beloved child in the flock getting brutally murdered one by one, and that after that is VERY LATE revealed as an (obvious) trick, the reveal it was fake is capped by the revelation one of them secretly died for real

There are many many more

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

One of the things I want to be explored more is Max's general inability to connect with people outside of her immediate circle. Not in the "I'm so socially awkward" way or even "I grew up feral" way, but in the way of Max having spent the first 14 years of her life having everyone she interacted with divided into family or enemies.

Like, this isn't even fully psychology at this point, it's neurology. When her neural pathways were at their infancy all the way up to when her prefrontal cortex was mostly developed, she had the flock that she would die for, and everyone else who wanted to hurt her. That's it. It's no fucking wonder that she felt like Dr. Martinez and Ella were practically family after three days, and that's because her brain has no reference for making friends or casual acquaintances. They were nice to her, and that means they're not enemies, and there's only one other slot in her brain for them to into. It's no wonder that she felt disjointed in Virginia's private school, even when she was trying to make friends, because she's attempting to do something that she has no frame of reference for. Of course Jeb kept wildly oscillating between "my dad who was misguided but tried his best" and "the worst person alive", because he was one of her enemies until age 10 and then immediately made a switch to her caretaker, and that only enforced the dichotomy in her head.

She cannot relate to other people outside of these two scopes. The closest she gets is the romance, and even that has the undercurrent of family because even with all her options (and she had several), she always circled back to Fang. The romance is just an extension of a dynamic that's written into her brain.

And I think there's something genuinely sad about that. How it stunts her ability to interact with other people, how it creates an inability for nuance in her mind. And, ultimately, how it's something she never learns to outgrow.

[aldoodles]

I’m rereading maximum ride, and I still imagine her the same way I did when I was twelve lol

[reshramlove1ob]

I COULDNT FIT ALL OF THEM BUT 🫵