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Max Black is one of the dark spirits like Pitch, he is also his son. Max is best known as the monster in the closet. He is one of the followers of pain. He sees Jack as his rival, one of the former dark five. He is the current leader and founder of the Counter Guardian group called Monsters.
Appearance
Max's appearance is similar to Jack's. He looks young, has dark hair, always wears a black suit and he sometimes carries a large sword as his weapon. He has red blood eyes and pale skin. He always puts on a serious face.
Background
Max is actually a normal school boy. He died due to a school bully. Upon continuous failure, Pitch decided to raise the fallen soul similar to MIM did to Jack. He found Max and taught him all his dark technique. He eventually became a avenge spirit.
Story
As one of the Dark Five, he battles the Big Five often. He scares children by using their imaginary thought toward fear. The fear crawls out of the closet. He eventually gain the title of Monster in the Closet.
After Pitches downfall, he believed Pitch is too weak and decided to form his own team called Monsters. He lead the 7 Monsters against the Guardians. Max is cruel and extreme in his plan. The group began slaughtering and spread fear throughout the world. He was planning to bring back the second dark age. He delcare war during the meeting of the Guardian Alliance and crush the members of the Alliance one by one.
At some point of the timeline, he manages to kill Baby New Year and stop the year 2015 to move forward to 2016.
During Final Confrontation, he has transform from an avenging spirit into a true demon. However he was defeated by the Guardians with the help of Pitch.
Powers and Abilities
As a son of the Nightmare King, he is very powerful. He is a poor soul that received training from a dark master.
Swordmanship - He is also prove to be a power swordman. His swords can slash through buildings and mountains.
Weather Manipulation - He can only able to perform an eclipse blocking the moonlight from MIM upon becoming a true demon.
Emotion Reading - Unlike Pitch, he don't sense fear but anxiety and worries. He uses this abillity to conjure monsters out of closets to scare children.
Darkness Manipulation - He is able to control darkness at will. He combines the power with his swordmanship brilliantly.
Relationships
Jack
He sees Jack as his rival and the main obstacles in his plan.
Max and his hounddog
Guardian Alliance
All the members in the Guardians's Alliance are his enemy.
Pitch
Max does not respect Jack as his father. He follows him only out of fear. He sees him just as another bully.
Monsters
The 7 members of the Monsters seem to show high respect to Max.
Upon turning into true demon. All the evil surround him
Gallery
Quotes
- You should fear me more than you fear Pitch.
- All of you are just trying to bully me.
- Are you sure there is nothing behind you?
- Yes, father.
Creation Concept
Counter Guardian Created by Jona.
Trivia
The photo come from [1]