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The ending .... spoiler questions

posted 14 years ago by Crow331
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SPOILER *****************

Just finished watching the cartoon .. awesome! Brought back a lot of good memories!

I have a question about the ending to The Maxx since I never saw all the episodes when they aired. I was a little confused:

In the last episode when The Maxx takes off his mask and is revealed to be working in a greenhouse as a gardner, is that who he was from the very beginning, NEVER being homeless living in a box? or did he become the gardner after Julie left? I think he was the gardner all along because some of the plants in the greenhouse reminded me of the creatures in the outback. Though where did Julie meet this gardner, not a lot of that in the city?

Tell me your thoughts on the ending?

[–] ctpoet 14 years ago

Hi!
It is possible that you can just take the movie and have that conclusion.

Yet, SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!

Having read the comics, which you would love, get them on trade paper back.
There is 35 issues plus some side stories issues. So, I would highly recommend that you get them then have me spoil the ending for you...

OK HUGE SPOIELRS below!!!!

In short, Maxx was a homeless guy. We never find out his story beyond minor hints even in the books. Juile hits him with his car and then because of her massive repression from a rape and tragic death of her bunny. Maxx becomes fused with Juile's spirit animal. When Juile is able to free him up a bit, he goes back to his outback which is the garden we see him tend to at the end.
As far as his true life or outback we only get tiny hints. Buy Sam Kieth's books and maybe it will convince his publishers to finidh the story.

[–] Nephilim-6 14 years ago

I read the 2nd Trade Paperback today and I don't think he was a homeless guy to begin with. Dave mentions in it that he was good at fixing pipes which suggests he was a plumber before he fused with the lampshade that erased his memory.

Did you ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really un-evolved? - Bill Hicks

[–] ctpoet 14 years ago

Mr. Gone says maxx was a homeless man, but even at the end, we never know Maxx's true story. We do know that the word, "Mommy" has a big effect on Maxx.
So he may have become homeless for some reason.

[–] thepropshopatlanta 13 years ago

...the way it was explained to me is that after julie was raped, she regressed inside herself, and became the leopard queen in her own world of pangea, where the Maxx was her protector;
Now, the maxx has been removed from pangea and brought to the real world, because julie is in apparent danger and needs protecting once again, from mr. gone, who is actually her uncle ( which is shown in the flashback episode about the injured rabbit she hides under her bed.)...
as far as the Gardner thing goes, your guess is as good as mine, but I did notice that the plants he was tending look just like some of the animals seen in pangea in earlier episodes...

at least, that's my take on it..

[–] ctpoet 13 years ago

Your understanding is somewhat mistaken. You should pick up the comics.

1. Juile was raped...yes
2. she became the leopard queeen, etc...no. We all have an outback, the leopard queen is part of Juile's psyche.
3.Maxx is her protector...no/kinda. Maxx gets mixed up with Juile's defender, her spirit animal, which is a rabbit. The Maxx, is the man crossed with that protector.
4. Maxx removed from pangea. No/kinda, since he is both, he keeps jumping between worlds.
5. Mr. Gone, Uncle Artie...is a friend of the family kinda of Uncle.
6. The garden was a way of showing he is going back to his own life.

[–] king_of_bob 12 years ago

In the last episode when The Maxx takes off his mask and is revealed to be working in a greenhouse as a gardner, is that who he was from the very beginning, NEVER being homeless living in a box?

What we see in the end is who he is in the Outback. His Outback. A refuge within his own mind.

Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!

[–] !!!deleted!!! (4524359) 12 years ago

Yep, in his own outback he's a gardener. In real life he's a homeless man.
But earlier he was fused with Julie's spirit animal the rabbit which is why he couldn't see his own outback (imagination, escape in your mind so to speak). But instead he became her protector because that was the rabbits job. This of course confused the hell out of him sense it created a sort of duality in his mind.

When she leaves him in the end he returns to his old normal self again thus freeing him in a way.