Montana Max
Montana Max is a
fictional character in the
1990s animated series Tiny Toon Adventures. Monty was voiced by
Danny Cooksey.
Montana Max (The Tiny Toons equivalent to
Yosemite Sam) is one of the series' major
villains, and is also very wealthy. Monty lives in a large
mansion on the edge of Acme Acres, the fictional city in which
Tiny Toon Adventures takes place. Monty also possesses a nasty disposition and a very short temper, and uses his wealth for his own amusement, often to the discomfort or belittlement of others. He also owns heavily polluting industries that make things like elevator buttons and holes. Some episodes featured
Plucky fighting those factories as The Toxic Revenger (pun on
The Toxic Avenger).
According to the half-hour episode "Citizen Max" (a parody of the movie
Citizen Kane), Monty was once impoverished and friends with one of the series' stars,
Buster Bunny, until the day his parents won the
lottery and became quite wealthy; after this, he abandoned Buster and quickly turned into his familiar,
bullying,
juvenile delinquent self.
His doorbell at home chimes, "Mon-ey!" in place of a bell sound.
Like the other characters in the series, Montana Max attends
Acme Looniversity; not surprisingly, his favorite teacher and mentor is
Yosemite Sam.
Despite Monty's faults, the other major antagonist of
Tiny Toon Adventures,
Elmyra Duff, seems to harbor manical affection for him. Their relationship to each other is toyed with in the episode "Sepulveda Boulevard", (a parody of
Sunset Boulevard) in which Elmyra and Max have characters based on the Norma Desmond and Joe Gilis characters respectively.
It is to be noted that in the
manga Hellsing, the primary villain, a Nazi officer, is also named Montana Max. Because he shares many characteristics with his Tiny Toons counterpart, it is to be presumed that
Kouta Hirano, author of Hellsing, largely based him off of this character.