Maxie

Maxie (Japanese: マツブサ Matsubusa) is the head of Team Magma. He is the only character in the games to have the Trainer class Magma Leader (Japanese: マグマだんリーダー Team Magma Leader). He wears a red and black jacket, with the Team Magma emblem embedded over his chest, and long black pants. He has shoulder-length red hair and pale white skin.

In the games

Maxie is the head of Team Magma. In Pokémon Sapphire Maxie helps the player against Team Aqua. He doesn't have an active role in the storyline and can't be battled.

In Pokémon Ruby he first appears in the Oceanic Museum in Slateport City, trying to steal the Devon Goods from Captain Stern. Later, Team Magma members steal a Meteorite from Professor Cozmo in Meteor Falls, and use it to try to cause Mt. Chimney to erupt. Then, after Courtney raids the Weather Institute, Maxie steals the Blue Orb from Mt. Pyre. Later, he and the Team Magma members turn up in Slateport again as Captain Stern announces a discovery he has made about a seafloor cavern. Team Magma promptly steals the Submarine Explorer 1 that Captain Stern has built and goes for the Seafloor Cavern to awaken Groudon.

In Pokémon Emerald Maxie tries again to dry Mt. Chimney's lava pool via the meteorite from Meteor Falls, but this time he is looking for Groudon inside the volcano. After this first, unsuccessfully attempt, Maxie sends Team Magma members to make a new, secret hideout inside the volcano, where he finally awakens Groudon using the Blue Orb stolen at Mt. Pyre. However he loses the control over the legendary Pokémon. Later Team Magma raids the Mossdeep Space Center, trying to use the rocket fuel to make Mt. Chimney explode. The protagonist comes just in time to stop him, but as Tabitha is teaming up with Maxie, Steven is forced to team up with the player to stop Team Magma.

Pokémon

In the games he appears in, Maxie battles with the following Pokémon:

Pokémon Ruby

First battle

The first time Maxie is battled is on the crater of Mt. Chimney, after Magma Admin Tabitha and a Magma grunt.

File:MagmaBossMaxie.png Magma Leader Maxie Mt. Chimney Ruby Magma Leader and Professor Maxie Oak Mt. Chimney Ruby Reward: $2000

Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mightyena♂ Lv.24 Tackle Normal   --       Howl Normal   --       Sand-Attack Ground   --       Bite Dark   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Golbat♂ Lv.24 Supersonic Normal   --       Astonish Ghost   --       Bite Dark   --       Wing Attack Flying   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Magma Armor Held item: None Camerupt♂ Lv.25 Tackle Normal   --       Focus Energy Normal   --       Ember Fire   --       Magnitude Ground   --

Second battle

File:MagmaBossMaxie.png Magma Leader Maxie Seafloor Cavern Ruby Magma Leader and Professor Maxie Oak Seafloor Cavern Ruby Reward: $3440

Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mightyena♂ Lv.41 Roar Normal   --       Swagger Normal   --       Scary Face Normal   --       Take Down Normal   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Crobat♂ Lv.41 Bite Dark   --       Wing Attack Flying   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Air Cutter Flying   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Magma Armor Held item: None Camerupt♂ Lv.43 Take Down Normal   --       Amnesia Psychic   --       Rock Slide Rock   --       Earthquake Ground   --

Pokémon Emerald

First battle

File:MagmaBossMaxie.png Magma Leader Maxie Mt. Chimney Emerald Magma Leader and Professor Maxie Oak Mt. Chimney Emerald Reward: $2000

Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mightyena♂ Lv.24 Bite Dark   --       Sand-Attack Ground   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Zubat♂ Lv.24 Wing Attack Flying   --       Supersonic Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Magma Armor Held item: None Camerupt♂ Lv.25 Tackle Normal   --       Focus Energy Normal   --       Ember Fire   --       Magnitude Ground   --

Second battle

File:MagmaBossMaxie.png Magma Leader Maxie Magma Hideout Emerald Magma Leader and Professor Maxie Oak Magma Hideout Emerald Reward: $3120

Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mightyena♂ Lv.37 Scary Face Normal   --       Swagger Normal   --       Take Down Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Crobat♂ Lv.38 Wing Attack Flying   --       Bite Dark   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Air Cutter Flying   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Magma Armor Held item: None Camerupt♂ Lv.39 Earthquake Ground   --       Amnesia Psychic   --       Rock Slide Rock   --       Take Down Normal   --

Third battle

File:MagmaBossMaxie.png Magma Leader Maxie Mossdeep Space Center Emerald Magma Leader and Magma Admin Maxie Tabitha Mossdeep Space Center Emerald File:Tabithasprite.png Reward: $5120

Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mightyena♂ Lv.42 Take Down Normal   --       Swagger Normal   --       Scary Face Normal   --       Taunt Dark   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Crobat♂ Lv.43 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Air Cutter Flying   --       Mean Look Normal   --       Wing Attack Flying   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Magma Armor Held item: None Camerupt♂ Lv.44 Earthquake Ground   --       Amnesia Psychic   --       Rock Slide Rock   --       Take Down Normal   --       Types: Fire Ground Ability: Oblivious Held item: None Camerupt♂ Lv.36 Take Down Normal   --       Amnesia Psychic   --       Focus Energy Normal   --       Rock Slide Rock   --       Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Mightyena♂ Lv.38 Scary Face Normal   --       Swagger Normal   --       Roar Normal   --       Take Down Normal   --       Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Golbat♂ Lv.40 Air Cutter Flying   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Bite Dark   --       Wing Attack Flying   --

In the anime

Maxie appeared in two episodes of the Pokémon anime.

Maxie appeared in Gaining Groudon and The Scuffle of Legends. Maxie's goal was to expand the land of Hoenn believing that if so, the land would be peaceful. But at the end of the latter episode, Maxie realized the errors of his ways and finally changed his beliefs, now believing that the land of Hoenn is supposed to be kept as is.

Pokémon

Possessed

		Kyogre
		Kyogre was first seen in the containment chamber of Team Magma's ship. Aqua Admin Shelly sets it free by increasing the humidity levels in the chamber so it could revive itself. She successfully does so causing Kyogre to break free from the ship. It is seen with Team Aqua afterwards. In it's next appearance, Kyogre is seen fighting with Groudon in which it was able to knock it out thus causing the orbs in Archie and Pikachu to separate. Kyogre's known moves are Hydro Pump and Hyper Beam, and it's ability is Drizzle.
Debut	Gaining Groudon

Voice actors

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Maxie does not have any fixed headquarters and moves his locations from cave to cave across Hoenn, ruling Team Magma like a barbarian gang, also making them more elusive. Because of this, Team Magma was able to steal the Scanner from the Abandoned Ship and both the Red and Blue Orbs before Team Aqua knew about them. However, the latter was stolen by Amber's Volbeat for Archie, who proceeded to trap him and Tabitha together in the submarine, nearly killing them.

Maxie and Archie remained deep inside the Seafloor Cavern and fought Ruby and Sapphire both. When the two young trainers were getting the upper hand, the two evil leaders were possessed by the powers of the respective orbs and dragged them to Sootopolis City, where Groudon and Kyogre promptly arrived to settle the score.

After Rayquaza halted the fight between Groudon and Kyogre, Maxie and Archie went insane and attempted to destroy everyone who had interfered in their plan: the Elite Four, the Gym Leaders, the Regis, even their own members. It was Maxie's Houndoom that burned Norman with its flames.

Archie later indicated in the Emerald arc that Maxie died due to the Red Orb burning out his body and causing him to crumble into dust.

Pokémon

The following are Maxie's Pokémon in the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Houndoom (four)

Camerupt

Owned

Groudon (disconnected from when he lost the Red Orb)

Kyogre (lost control of along with the Blue Orb)

In the Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire manga

Maxie appears as the lead of Team Magma in the Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire manga. He, along with the rest of Team Magma, make their first appearance in We've Found Team Magma's Secret!!.

In the TCG

With Team Magma playing a large role in the EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua set, it's no surprise Maxie has his own card in that set.

Trivia

• Crobat is the only Pokémon Maxie has in the games that isn't in the Ground Egg Group.
• In Pokémon Emerald, the player battles against Maxie and Archie a total of four times. Maxie is three of these.

Names

See also

• Archie

External links

• Matsubusa's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Team Magma
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Animation and manga
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