Josh McGrath a 19 years fictional extreme sports teen star, whose parents died some time ago,He was later adopted by his father's best friend and partner, Jefferson Smith, who works in an extreme sports articles manufacturing company which is in reality a facade for a secret counter-intelligence agency known as N-Tek.
While Josh was visiting his stepfather at work, a group of rival enemy agents attacked the facility commanded by Psycho. The young McGrath faced him and battled against this superpowered cyborg, but in the middle of the fight, he was severely injured and exposed to a swarm of microscopic nanomachines, known to the company as "Nano Tech Max", which entering Josh's body and, as they ran out of energy, dying and causing Josh to die too. In order to save Josh's life, his foster father, Jefferson Smith, agrees to submit Josh to a high proportion of the transphasic energy, which the machines need to survive. This saves his life and also gives him superpowers. As a result, Josh takes on the identity of Max Steel and fights against superpowered villains, mainly Mr. Dread, Psycho's evil boss, the members of his organization, and later, mutants, robots, mad scientists and monsters.
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