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Max Steel: Team Turbo Fusion-Tek (alternatively titled as Fusion-Tek Part OneFusion-Tek Part Two and Fusion-Tek Part Three) is the second movie of the 2016 duology, and overall the fifth film of Max Steel. Alongisde its predecessor, Team Turbo, it is one of the two movies animated by Arc Productions. It was produced by Vera M. Hourani, written by Rob David, Matthew Drdek, Lloyd Goldfine and Eugene Son and directed by Sam Chou.

In UK, the movie was split into three episodes under the title of Fusion-Tek, airing from August 31 to September 2. It was then made available online for a short period of time for UK viewers. In September 3, the movie aired in Latin America alongside Team Turbo as a two-hours marathon.

Synopsis[]

Max Steel and his new Team Turbo are put to the test when a robot zombie rises from the grave intent on eating all of humanity’s brainwaves! Can Team Turbo survive to stop the Technopocalypse?

Plot[]

MORE!

"More, MORE!"

The movie starts with Mortum's hand emerging from his grave. After he unbounds from his grave, Mortum saw a couple who were apparently lost. He silently went on their direction and shouted "Brains!". When they saw him, they get scared and the zombie releases his hands on them and ultimately absorbs the brain energy of the man. The woman, upon seeing what happened with her boyfriend, tries to run away, but she is ultimately transformed into a robot zombie by him. Afterwards, Mortum sights Copper Canyon and yells to get more brains.

Team Turbo saves the day

Max Steel and his Team Turbo saves the day.

In the next day, Max and his Team Turbo saw few thieves stealing gold bars from Copper Canyon's bank. Max and his team goes Turbo and Max uses his Connect-Tek sword to slash the guns of the thieves. Another thief comes and manages to escape with his allies. Upon seeing that, Tempestra, La Fiera and C.Y.T.R.O. split up and went after them. Eventually, they were successfully stopped by Max's team and Copper Canyon citizens cheered up them. Upon seeing that, C.Y.T.R.O. asks if they were in pain and Rayne explains him that they were just cheering.

Meanwhile, Mortum reaches his hideout and leaves a destructive path behind by absorbing the brainwave of every single human that he saw on his sight. He eventually reaches his assistants while eating the brain energy of two unnamed scientists and afterwards asks for their help, despite they couldn't understand him. Mortum gets angry and launches his hand at the blond assistant, who states that there were only few days for his day off before being transformed into a zombie. Afterwards, Mortum ironically states that he feels much alive and better than ever. Scared, his nephew agrees. Mortum then proceeds to upgrade the Connect-Tek (or his brain) and states that the device had both destroyed and remade him. He says the more brainwaves he consumes, the stronger he gets, despite he would need more brain energy as he gets stronger. He then explains his evil schemes and ultimately commands his mindless zombies soldiers to bring his brains.

The zombies approaching Max, Alex, Rayne and C.Y.T.R.O.

"Fellas, whatever this guy's got, I think it is catching!"

Meanwhile, on Copper Canyon's streets, Max and his friends were hanging out. Alex mentions about his amazing moves and says he should be a solo act, which Rayne humorously says that she wouldn't miss him. After Alex buys a hot dog, Max discusses with his teammates about new Turbo Modes and they get really excited. Suddenly, Rayne sees a zombie and Max tries to help the man, but he shouts "brains!" and he gets scared. Alex, upon realizing that the zombie was the hot dog vendor, throws up the hot dog. Suddenly, a large horde of zombies start approaching them. Max and his teammates go Turbo once again to save the day. La Fiera uses his brute strength to knock down many zombies, but Max advises him that they were still Copper Canyon civilians. Meanwhile, Tempestra knock down few zombies by creating a tornado. C.Y.T.R.O. tries to contain the zombies by blocking their way with a bus, but they easily climb up the vehicle. After some time fighting against the zombies, Max sees how they are transforming other humans into beings like them and suggests to Steel to create some kind of protector to their brains. La Fiera was later caught off guard by a zombie who started to feast on his brainwaves, but luckily Tempestra saves him and jokes by asking if he still wanted to be a solo act. The zombies mysteriously stops and sends the brainwaves to a common place. Meanwhile, Steel scans a zombie to create the Brain Shields. Max deduces that they should follow the brainwaves to that place.

Cytro kills Mortum

C.Y.T.R.O. releases his energy ray and supposedly kills Mortum

In the meantime, Mortum was feasting on various brainwaves. After he ends his feast, he attempts to absorb the brainwaves of his own nephew, referring it as "dessert". Luckily, Max and his team arrives just in time to save him. Tempestra uses her Thunderclap Whip to electrocute Mortum, then La Fiera attacks Mortum with his claws and ultimately C.Y.T.R.O. uses a green ray that completely annihilates the villain. Max then asks if Tempestra was alright, and then she asks Mortum's nephew if he was too. He says he is and Max asks what was that thing. Devastated, he states that it was Mortum, who was almost unrecognizable due to his mutation and proceeds to talk about his background story. Afterwards, Steel deduces that if in fact Mortum was remade by Connect-Tek, he couldn't simply be destroyed. Mortum's poligons reunites and his shadow appears, scaring his nephew, who ran away, and Rayne. Mortum transformed into Turbo Trap Mode, a hybrid of a humanoid, a centipede, a scorpion and a spider. Mortum fights against Max's team and easily defeat Max's allies with his new form. Ultimately, Mortum manages to restrain them in the walls and proclaims that he was hungry and proceeds to absorb their brain energy. However, Steel manages to complete the brain shields just in time. After Mortum saw Steel, he stayed amazed and captured

him, bent on dissecting him to his own purposes. He later destroys the pillars of his base while Max's team were incapacitated and escapes.

Copper Canyon on havoc

Copper Canyon on havoc

After the base was destroyed, Max and C.Y.T.R.O. woke up and started to search for his friends, especially Steel. C.Y.T.R.O. confirms that Steel wasn't there and Max starts to feel dizzy and ultimately faints. C.Y.T.R.O. looks at Copper Canyon and sees the damage that Mortum and his zombies had caused.

Meanwhile, Mortum sees Commander Kilgore's aerial forces on Copper Canyon's skies. He states that Copper Canyon was only the beginning and proceeds to create a temple that now works as his base. His zombies approach him and reveal Steel, who makes a joke related to his temple. Mortum says that he was only making those jokes because he was just scared like all other civilians lurking in the dark, despite they could be saved by him after each one of them become a part of him. Mortum's voice and body temporarily glitches and Steel once again makes a joke about it. The zombie creates a energy shield around Steel and decides to dissect him, piece by piece.

Cast[]

Errors[]

  • Sometimes Mortum's mouth doesn't opens when he says something in his Turbo Scorpion Mode.
  • The edges of the poligons or other plates on Mortum's body sometimes pass through other parts of his body. This is seen on his initial form and his Turbo Trap Mode.
  • Mortum's missing energy sphere
    When Mortum releases an energy wave on Max and his friends, his energy sphere is missing in the next scene.
  • Max's missing blades
    The blades on Max's back are missing when Tempestra and the others share their powers to Max fight off Mortum.

Events[]

Continuity[]

  • The movie is a continuation of Team Turbo.
  • Mortum survives the Connect-Tek incident, and becomes a robot zombie as a result.

Noteworthy Events[]

Toy Line[]

Main article: Team Turbo Fusion-Tek (toy line)

Mattel released a toy line based on the film on the second half of 2016, featuring new action figures for Max Steel, La Fiera, C.Y.T.R.O. and the villain of the year, Mortum. The boxes featured the logo of the film, along with yellow and grey colors to distinguish from sublines, and the members of Team Turbo on the side of the box.

Production[]

The movie was announced alongside with Team Turbo when Mattel released its content for 2016. The initial synopsis featured a similar plot where the robot zombie would be a new character emerging from its grave with the intent of absorbing the brainwaves of the humanity, existing (and not appearing) before the events of Team Turbo. However, the plot of the movie was changed after Professor Mortum was introduced in Team Turbo, who eventually became the robot zombie. It is unknown if Mortum wasn't planned to appear in the series and was added in the last minute or it was a strategy to protect the villain's name.

After the Team Turbo debuted on TV, its sequel was already on production. The design of the new Turbo Modes, Mortum's mutated form and other characters were made first than their animated counterpart, which had notable differences.

Censorship[]

There were few scenes from Team Turbo Fusion-Tek that were cut by some channels, most likely because they were deemed too violent or dark for children. Cartoon Network cut some parts of Team Turbo Fusion-Tek (especially the beginning of the movie). The Brazilian version of the film also featured words that the show wouldn't normally use, such as "kill", "dead" and other words from the same genre. Other changes are:

  • The beginning was trimmed, cutting the mid transformation scene of when Mortum is absorbing the brainwaves of the lost couple.
  • The scene where Mortum's nephew is explaining the origins of his uncle is slightly altered. When the Connect-Tek explodes on the villain's face, it doesn't shows his skull like the original version, but instead it only fades to black.

The European channel also ITV cut some parts of the beginning of the film, such as Mortum's hand arising from his grave being skipped to showing him getting out of it. It's possible that these changes were made due to time limit, as the film had to be cut in three episodes rather than being shown as a full film.

Gallery[]

Click here for images of Max Steel: Team Turbo Fusion-Tek.
Max Steel: Team Turbo Fusion-Tek's gallery can be seen here.

Trivia[]

  • It was the longest film of the series ever released, as it has 66 minutes instead of 44 minutes like the previous ones.
  • It was the first movie of the rebooted series to be released first in another country instead of airing first in Latin America.
  • Team Turbo Fusion-Tek on Cinépolis 2

    Poster used to promote the movie.

    The movie was released in the Cinépolis movie theaters in October 1 to 16 on solely on Mexico. In 2015, the company also presented Maximum Morphos.
    • Additionally, a Chilean movie theater known as Hotys Cinema also showed the movie and even made a trailer for it, which can be seen here.
  • Commander Kilgore is a reference to Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore from the Apocalypse Now movie.
  • While the news anchor shows Mortum's virus taking over the city, a character named as Georgina Romero appears. Her name is a reference to George A. Romero, a famous American-Canadian filmmaker known for films like Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and many others.
    • Mortum's characterization on the beginning of the film is also similar to Tarman, a zombie from The Return of the Living Dead, one of George A. Romero's works. He shouts the word "Brains!" on a deep voice while going after the couple, quite similar to Tarman's behavior.
  • The plot in some points is similar to the Resident Evil 3 game, initially released for PlayStation. Besides the main antagonist being a zombie (ironically, Mortum and Nemesis, the latter being the main antagonist of the game, have a total of three forms that they use throughout the plot), commander Kilgore wanted to obliterate Copper Canyon with a missile so the zombie infestation wouldn't go any further, similar to when Racoon City would be entirely devastated by a missile because of the same reasons.
  • Mortum Vitruvian Man

    The illustration.

    The figure seen on Mortum's past is a reference to Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. The illustration is based on the ideal proportions of a man's body, making an allusion to Mortum's mission to perfect the human animal.
  • It is the second movie where N-Tek doesn't appears doesn't appears during important events
  • There are two versions of the scene where Max and his team find Steel at Mortum's temple. One has them with their visors or helmets on, while in the other they are not wearing them.
  • The plot of the film was adapted in a flash game released on 2016, titled as Techno-Zombie Infection. It was available on a mini website made to promote the film, which included a trailer for the film, the game aforementioned and a quiz to see what member of Team Turbo the person would be.

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Max Steel Episodes
Season 1 Episodes Come Together Part One · Come Together Part Two · Come Together Part Three · Cleaning House · Secret Identity Crisis · C.Y.T.R.O Attacks! · Hard Water · The Thrill of the Hunt · Extroyer Unleashed · Live by the Sword · Supermania · Uncle Sam Wants You! · Elements of Surprise Part One · Elements of Surprise Part Two · Driven · The Truth Hurts · The Secret Admirer · Scrambled · X Marks the Spot · Gone Fishin' · Making the Grade · Split Decisions · Pick Your Poison · Thanks, I Think · Earth Under Siege Part One · Earth Under Siege Part Two
Season 2 Episodes Ultralink Invasion Part One · Ultralink Invasion Part Two · Dredd Ascendant · Toxic Relationship · Full Metal Racket · Animal Attraction · Deep Turbo Blue Sea · The Ultralink Hunter · Digital Meltdown · Journey to the Center of Copper Canyon · Hot Zone · Lights, Camera, Max! · The Legend of Ja'em Mk'rah · Makino Strikes Part One · Makino Strikes Part Two · Got Turbo Star? · My Best Friend is an Ultralink · Me, Myself, and Extroyer · Definitely Fear the Reaper · Torbolt The Terrible · Reprogrammed · A Germ of an Idea · Fugitive ·The Great Turbo Star Caper · The Final Countdown Part One · The Final Countdown Part Two
Animated Films The Wrath of Makino · Dawn of Morphos · Maximum Morphos · Team Turbo · Team Turbo Fusion-Tek · Turbo-Charged · Turbo-Warriors
Mini Episodes Better Off Dread · Toxic Morphos · New World Disorder · Hot Water · The Captive · Terrorsaurus
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