Dr. Prometheus Halifax, known as Terrorax on the Nexus legion, was a highly influent and active member of the Nexus and the founder of Halifax Industries. Prometheus led a research of Max's T.U.R.B.O. Energy and synthesized his own version known as Terror Energy to carry on with the Nexus' plans of total world domination. He debuted in Turbo-Charged and was voiced by Mark Oliver.
History[]
Early life[]
Dr. Prometheus Halifax is the enigmatic founder of the Halifax Industries. He presents himself to the world as a billionaire, but he is secretly a member of the Nexus organization under the name of Terrorax. He apparently was leading a project involving Maxwell McGrath's T.U.R.B.O. Energy to exploit its maximum potential, which eventually led to the creation of the Terror Energy. Alongside with Nexus, Prometheus wants to establish a new world order.
Animated Films[]
Turbo Charged[]
Terrorax and the Nexus set up a trap for Max Steel and his Team Turbo and successfully captured the group. After Max woke up, Terrorax refuses to reveal his secret identtiy and proceeds to torture Max while mentioning about the "boundless possibilities" of his T.U.R.B.O. energy and how he wasted this potential. After obtaining a portion of the energy, Terrorax claims that he would exploit its true potential and commands his allies to electrocute Max's friends. As a result, Max gets extremely angry and nearly goes supernova, causing a massive explosion.
Later on, Terrorax approaches Lord Nexus and his Cloaked figures, who were concerned about him. He reveals that he had obtained the T.U.R.B.O. energy samples and that now they could successfully synthesize their own "Terror Energy". Terrorax asks for Nexus' permission to commence with his plan. He agress, and Terrorax, along with other two agents, shouts the Nexus legion's motto.
To commemorate his "ascension", Prometheus sets up a reunion with other Nexus agents at the Halifax Industries Building. During the event, Max and Alex infiltrate the building using their Chameleon Modes. However, Prometheus reveals that he was already aware of their presence and claims that they were studying Max's energy signal for years. Max is unable to recognize him, until Prometheus puts on his demonic mask, revealing that he was the masked man who stole Max's power. His machinery proceeds to connect hoses onto his armor, causing him to mutate into a Terror energy-powered monster. Upon his ascension, the Nexus agents glorify him and his energy. Terrorax approaches Max and La Fiera, stating that he was aware of the fact that Max's energy had changed, yet he was still weak due to the fact that he set limits for himself. He lifts his axe and attacks the duo, but they quickly dodge and Max activates his power gloves to counter attack.
Terrorax clashes with Max and La Fiera and he easily takes down the latter. Angered, Max attacks him multiple times until he is knocked down. Terrorax, while laughing, gets up and grabs the hero by his head. He demonstrates the destructive power of the Terror Energy by tearing down one of Max's gloves with his raw power. The hero quickly reacts and tosses other glove on a pillar, causing it to fall on Terrorax. He quickly gets up and La Fiera attempts to fight him with his Turbo Eagle Mode, but he is easily defeated. Terrorax, equipped with his axe, clashes with Max, causing a massive energy explosion that knocks down the latter.
While claiming that Terror Energy is going to change the world, Terrorax and a group of Nexus agents approach the duo. When he was about to finish them off, C.Y.T.R.O. and Tempestra destroy the roof above him, causing it to fall on Terrorax. While they stand on it, the villain reemerges and grabs Tempestra, squeezing her until she transforms back to her base mode. C.Y.T.R.O. attacks him, but Terrorax channels Terror Energy through his wrecking ball, causing a large explosion that glitches his system. Max and C.Y.T.R.O. are tossed out of the building by the villain, who claims that destroy them would be harder than he imagined. While distracted by La Fiera and Tempestra, Max lifts a truck and tosses at Terrorax, causing a massive explosion. He survives without a scratch and realizes that they had escaped.
In the next day, the Nexus legion hacks various electronic devices and television apparels around the world and reveals Nexus' intentions of destroying technology and offers them a chance to ally with them. Hours later, he proceeds to talk with Nexus to present Team Terror, a group of three deadly assassins (Night Howl, Snare and Monstro) that would handle Max and his team. He charges them with his Terror Energy and sends each of them to a specific location to fight against Max and Team Turbo. Before they fought against them, Terrorax presents each member to Max and his friends and says goodbye.
Hours later, Terrorax appears preparing the Terror Energy emitters that would disable Copper Canyon's technology, but Team Turbo intervenes. He sends out Team Terror to handle them while he charges the emiters with his Terror Energy. After doing so, a shockwave disables all technology on Copper Canyon. After Team Turbo had taken down Team Terror, they combine their powers to temporarily take down the villain. While he is distracted by them, Max uses his Green T.U.R.B.O. Energy to reactivate the technology on the city. After seeing that his plans were ruined, Terrorax gets extremely angry and releases a large shockwave that takes down Team Turbo.
Max confronts Terrorax, stating that he said he would take him down by any means. Terrorax forms a drill on his chest and forcibly attracts Max to him with his axe. He restrains him and reinforces that he nor his Terror Energy could be stopped regardless of what Max did. The hero closes his eye and concentrates in creating a new mode: Turbo Armor Mode, which releases a shockwave to push Terrorax away. Despite his efforts, Max manages to outpower him and ultimately incapacitates Terrorax by releasing a large projectile of green T.U.R.B.O. Energy on his chest. His base starts to crumble and Team Turbo are forced to retreat before rescuing Team Terror.
Terrorax is later rescued by Nexus agents, who deliver him to Lord Nexus. Shocked, he commands them to start the bio-restoration protocols and states that the first Terror Energy test didn't went as he expected. Terrorax gets up and states that he will destroy Max Steel the next time, regardless of the cost.
Turbo Warriors[]
At the top of the Pantheon, a weakened Terrorax appears observing Copper Canyon, commenting how shiny and vivid it looked and saying that it would be the key to execute his new plan. Metallak asks why he had contacted them and Earth asks why he couldn't resort to Lord Nexus. Terrorax says that he was too weak and needed to restore, but he couldn't do this alone and needed their help. He also states that he would give them powers beyond what they knew and when he asks if they were on his side, they shout the quote of the Nexus' legion, confirming that they are now allied with him.
Terrorax later on silently invades Team Turbo's base by glitching its systems with his Terror Energy while Team Turbo are distracted by the Elementors. While heading to Team Terror's prison, Terrorax leaves multiple bombs throughout the heroes' headquarters. He rescues Team Terror and they head to Team Turbo's vault, where they find the Terror Energy Generator, much to Terrorax's relief, who claims that Max Steel had taken away his sweet creation. He recapitulates how Max's blue energy had turned into his gracious creation and states that Nexus would finally take his place as the rightful commander of the world. A confused Team Terror silently stare at him, making Terrorax angry. They proceed to get the generator and after leaving the base, Terrorax activate the bombs, causing a massive explosion that destroys Team Turbo's headquarters. He shortly after contacts the Elementors, telling them that their plan was successful.
At the Pantheon, Terrorax contacts Nexus and states that he wouldn't fail him again. He charges himself, Team Terror and the Elementors with Terror Energy, and as a result Terrorax returns to his regular, powerful form. As his allies approach Nexus, Terrorax says that the world would be theirs and that no one would ever stop them. He later on hacks all devices on Copper Canyon and communicates that the Pantheon will be destroying all electronic devices and vehicles and if the citizens refused to join them, the city would be completely destroyed.
Hours later, Terrorax talks with Rayne and C.Y.T.R.O., who had been captured by Team Terror. She states that Max and Alex would invade the Pantheon and would defeat him, though he crushes her hope by revealing that the Pantheon was completely unassailable and inaccessible. He then commands the Nexus agents to activate the exponential towers of the ship, generating even more Terror Energy.
Later on, Terrorax interferes with Max, who was attempting to make the exponential towers of the ship run his green energy. He ultimately succeeds, though Terrorax does not care. He mutates into a draconic creature and states that his new beginning would start with Max's end and proceeds to fight with his arch-nemesis.
Eventually, Terorax attempts to bring Max to his side and shows a warped vision of Earth after Nexus had taken over. Extremely angry, Max releases an energy shockwave that pushes Terrorax away. He activates the spiky wheels from his Exo-Suit and rushes at Terrorax, ultimately impaling his chest. Max delivers a powerful blow to Terorax's face, causing his humanoid form to be destroyed. Terrorax lives as a small demonic dragon and attempts to escape, but Max interferes. After being hit by a couple of missiles, Terrorax falls on a green T.U.R.B.O. energy current and burns to ashes.
Abilities[]
- Superhuman Strength: Terrorax has access to Terror Energy, which makes him stronger and more agile than an average individual. Upon injecting it on himself, he was able to overpower Max's new Green T.U.R.B.O. with ease and knocked him down many times, however he was eventually defeated as it was proven that Max is more stronger with his Green T.U.R.B.O.
- Superhuman Speed: Terrorax is much faster than an average individual thanks to his Terror Energy, but mainly on his Dragon Mode, whose wings allow him to fly on high speed.
- Nigh-Durability: His body is extremely durable and can endure physical pain for long periods. Despite Max's best efforts in his first battle against Terrorax, he didn't damaged him at all and even after throwing a truck containing combustible on him, he survived and without any scratch. In fact, the only known weak spot of Terrorax is Max's green T.U.R.B.O. Energy.
- Flight: In Turbo-Warriors, Terrorax unlocks a dragon form with large wings that allows him to fly.
- Immortality: According to himself in Turbo-Warriors, the Terror Energy gifted him with immortality and as long it runs through his veins, he will always live.
- Terror Energy Generation: After he injected Terror Energy on himself, Terrorax started to generate Terror energy in large quantities, which enhances his physical capabilities and grants him unlimited stamina. He manifests this power in few ways, such as leaking Terror energy from his eyes, create an energy axe, project it with his fists or create shockwaves. In Turbo-Warriors, as a result of his last battle against Max Steel, Terrorax's powers are greatly reduced, but after obtaining back his Terror energy generator, he recovers himself.
- Spikes Projectiles: He has the ability of shooting the purple spikes from his back and axe and regrow them.
- Unlimited Stamina: Terrorax could fight during long periods against Max Steel without needing to rest.
Arsenal[]
- Terror Energy: After becoming a mutant, Prometheus gained the ability of generating large quantities of Terror Energy. It makes him stronger and more agile than an average individual. The energy is shown to be highly destructive and corrosive initially towards Max's green T.U.R.B.O. Energy and technology, as he managed to destroy Max's power gloves in few seconds, however, later it was seen defeated by it, with the upgraded Steel-Tek.
- Axe: Terrorax can create a large and durable axe made out of Terror Energy that he constantly uses in the battles. The weapon was also used to charge his minions with his evil energy. In Turbo-Warriors, he can create the axes on both hands rather than using them as a separate weapon.
- Drill: Terrorax has the ability of generating a medium-sized drill on the center of his chest that he used in an attempt of killing Max in the end of Turbo-Charged.
- Pantheon: Once a large ship used by the Nexus, Terrorax upgraded it to generate Terror Energy. His plan was to use the ship to deactivate the entire technology on Copper Canyon and other cities to force the innocent citizens to ally with Nexus and become a part of his society. By the end of Turbo-Warriors, the ship sank on the sea.
- Expert Tactician: Terrorax is shown to be very smart and predicted Max's moves more than once. For example, after Rayne and C.Y.T.R.O. stole information about the location of the Terror Energy emitters, Terrorax decided to switch their position and instead sent three deadly assassins to take on Max and his team.
Weaknessess[]
- Green T.U.R.B.O. Energy Vulnerability: Max's green T.U.R.B.O. Energy is extremely harmful to Terrorax in large quantities. This was proven in the end of Turbo-Charged, when Terrorax's body was left deformed after the battle against Max's Turbo Armor Mode and Terrorax barely could generate Terror Energy.
Etymology[]
Prometheus's alter ego, Terrorax, comes from the word terror, which is a extreme fear. The termination comes from his real name (Halifax).
Appearance[]
As a human, Prometheus has white spiky hair, brown eyes and usually appears wearing a black suit. He wears a mask with horns, a large simile, a triangle in the forehead and wears purple shoulder pads, a long black and silver coat, black pants and black boots.
As a mutant, he gains a large and muscular build. He has three horns protuding from his head, yellow eyes with black pupils surrounded by black circles and spiky teeth. He has three purple stones protuding from his shoulders and few spikes on his forearm surrounding a purple stone. He has large hands with four fingers rather than five. He has few spikes on his thighs, a purple hexagon on his knee and three toes. He also appears carrying a large axe made out of Terror Energy.
After his defeat on Turbo-Charged, Terrorax's body is left emaciated and with a cavity on the chest as result of the T.U.R.B.O. Energy projectile launched on him. He later on wears a purple worn out cloak and black bandages on his biceps, torso and legs.
By the end of Turbo-Warriors, Terrorax unlocks a new dragon form that gives him large wings, a segmented tail and the ability of creating axes on both arms. After his body was destroyed, he transformed himself into a small, deformed creature with a close resemblance to a larva with wings. He still retained his segmented tail and head.
Terrorax also features a more complex and detailed design exclusive to his toy line counterpart. He resembles a gargoyle, demon and has a muscular and tall body type. Terrorax has a purple triangle on his forehead, a pair of horns on each side of his head, geometrical white eyes and his mouth is shaped like if he was always smiling, showing his dental arch full of fangs. He has many purple and grey spikes on his neck and his shoulders have drills surrounded by irregular spikes. He has more spikes on his forearm, thighs and shins. He also has two geometric pieces attached to his knees and four toes. His dragon is very similar to his animated counterpart, but he has the same face as his first design featured on the toy line, more patterns on his armor and different legs. His mini-dragon is completely different as he is completely purple and his face resembles a human skull with distorted eyes and spiky teeth. He also has two horns.
Personality[]
As a human, Prometheus is a cold, calculating, cunning, mysterious and elegant individual who strictly follows the orders of the Nexus. Calm and collected, he is almost devoid of any emotion and shows little no no sense of humor, being often unresponsive towards Max and Steel's banter. He enjoys to highlight the advances that he has made to achieve the current vision of the Nexus legion, mainly about his creation, the Terror Energy.
After becoming a mutant, he assumes the name of Terrorax and retains his conscience and ideals of serving the Nexus legion and stablishing a new world order. He constantly talks about how powerful, marvelous and grandiose his Terror Energy is and sees it as the key to change the world. He is shown to be quite energetic in battles and mercilessly fought against Max and his team with violence at the point of almost killing them. After his defeat in Turbo-Charged, Terrorax develops an extreme obsession towards his own creation and gets obsessed in serving Lord Nexus to show him how competent he can be, though his leader doesn't believes on his potential anymore. Terrorax is also shown to be very smart, as he managed to predict Max's moves more than once. Terrorax is extremely arrogant, even in his human form. Believing that because Max sets lines and boundaries, as well as having morals, Max will never be able to use his T.U.R.B.O. Energy to its fullest potential. While Terrorax, believes because of his willingness to do anything with his powers, he is stronger than Max. This proves to be his undoing however, as Terrorax was defeated because of Max’s resolve, and his Green T.U.R.B.O. being more powerful than Terror Energy
Terrorax also has a rivalry with Max Steel and states that he doesn't grasps the "boundless possibilities of the T.U.R.B.O. Energy", yet he does and he wanted to liberate its true potential through Terror Energy.
Quotes[]
- "You don't seem to grasp the boundless possibilities of the T.U.R.B.O. Energy generating, Maxwell. But I do." -Turbo-Charged
- "I see your T.U.R.B.O. Energy has changed, Maxwell ... See it? I can smell it. Taste it! More potent than the blue variety, hm? Still, you've never tapped its full potential. And you never will, because you are weak! You set limits, rules, lines you won't cross! But I ... I have no such limits, and Terror Energy has only made me only stronger!" - Turbo-Charged
- "I am Terrorax! FEAR ME!" -Turbo-Charged
- "As darkness take you forever, Max Steel, let the last thing you feel be absolute terror!" - Turbo-Charged
- "Welcome, Maxwell! Oh, no need to hide! We can sense that you were here. We've been studying your T.U.R.B.O. Energy signature for years, remember?" -Turbo-Charged
- "Terror Energy...Terror Energy will change the world!" -Turbo-Charged
- "I am Terrorax, immortal among men! The dawning of this day marks the dawn of Nexus's rule of the earth! But first, I will obliterate you, Maxwell! My new beginning, STARTS WITH YOUR END!" -Turbo-Warriors
Relationships[]
Lord Nexus[]
Terrorax is very loyal to Nexus and refers to him as "Lord Nexus". He seeked to serve Nexus and satisfy him, but after the events of Turbo-Charged, where Terrorax was defeated by Max Steel and his team, Nexus apparently doesn't believes on him anymore and Terrorax got obssessed in pleasing him.
Maxwell McGrath[]
Terrorax and Max share a mutual deep hatred. Prior to their interactions, Terrorax made an extensive research involving Maxwell and his T.U.R.B.O. Energy, and eventually found out about his secret identity and uses this to intimidate him. He also claims that Max doesn't realizes all the potential that his energy has to offer and still considers Max as a weak individual after he unlocked his new green energy, which he underestimated Max's energy as he was been beaten by it.
As mentioned before, Terrorax has a deep hatred towards Max, as he stopped him from changing the world with his Terror Energy. Max, however, hates him for a completely different reason: he stole his energy and transformed it into a mass destruction weapon. By the end of Turbo-Charged, Terrorax, stated that he shall return and the next time he faces Max, he will destroy him by any means.
In Turbo-Warriors, despite Max tried to ruin his plans, Terrorax still wanted him to join the Nexus legion and even made him see a vision where he and Max ruled the world alongside with Nexus. Before doing this, he also confessed that Max's powers were indeed formidable.
Team Terror[]
Team Terror respect Terrorax and considers him as their master, as Night Howl said in a battle against Max. Terrorax also knows their origins. In Turbo-Warriors, he invades Team Turbo's Hideout and rescues Team Terror and acts harshly with them.
Team Turbo[]
Terrorax knows about the secret identities of Alex and Rayne and shows to have a hatred against them despite they didn't interacted too much. They fought against Terrorax but were easily defeated by him. In Turbo-Warriors, Rayne is captured by Terrorax and he interacted with her. Upon seeing him, Rayne said that Max and Alex would manage to defeat him, but he crushed her hopes by saying that the Pantheon was completely inaccessible and unassailable.
C.Y.T.R.O. didn't interacted with Terrorax a lot, but they fought against each other in the Halifax Industries building and he infected his systems with Terror Energy, which almost resulted on his permanent deactivation.
In the final battle against Max, Terrorax shows to him a vision of how a world dominated by Nexus would be. In this vision, Alex, Rayne and C.Y.T.R.O.'s dead bodies are seen, which implies that Terrorax has a deep hatred against them and don't want them to join in the Nexus.
Elementors[]
In Turbo-Warriors, it is revealed that Terrorax was allied with the Elementors and seeked their help. He promised them powers beyond what they had and managed to make them team-up with him in order to take down Max and his team.
Appearances on other media[]
Besides his appearance in the TV show, Terrorax also appears in the toy line, where he features a complete redesign. In the first wave, Terrorax has two action figures released: Terrorax (12 inches) and Spikes Terrorax (6 inches), both part of Turbo-Charged subline. In the second wave, he gains a third action figure: Dragon Terrorax, which is slightly bigger than other action figures and is a part of Turbo-Warriors.
Terrorax appears in a two-part comedy mini-series from Cartoon Network, where he has a much softer and comical personality compared to his animated counterpart. In a mysterious place, Max fights against Extroyer and later on Terrorax, who attempts to destroy him, but fails thanks to his Exo-Suit vehicle. After his defeat, Terrorax swears that he will return and destroy Max.
Gallery[]
Terrorax's gallery can be seen here. |
Trivia[]
- Terrorax's character was inspired by Psycho, one of Max's major enemies on the classic series and on the film saga. He has many similiarities with him, such as:
- Terrorax's demonic mask has a permanent smile, similar to Psycho's metallic face that featured a smile.
- Terrorax and Psycho were both part of secret organizations of villains and were extremely loyal to their leaders.
- Terrorax was responsible for making Max generating his new green T.U.R.B.O. Energy, while Psycho was indirectly responsible for creating the Max Steel persona and its powers.
- Besides his design being inspired by Psycho, he has similarities with Extroyer. The armor that he used to channel the Terror Energy onto his body is also slightly similar to that of Toxzon from the old series.
- Terrorax's appearance resembles Crota from Destiny franchise and DC's Doomsday due to his spiky appearance.
- Besides being voiced by Mark Oliver, Terrorax shows few similarities with Dread, such as:
- Both are owners of famous companies. Dread is the owner of THI while Terrorax is the owner of Halifax Industries, which is named after his real identity.
- Both characters are billionaires.
- Both wanted Max's T.U.R.B.O. Energy, but for different purposes. They can also convert the same power into a negative and obscure energy.
- They both have a connection with the Elementors.
- All of Terrorax's modes features purple, which is the opposite of green, the color of Max's new energy.
- He is the first villain to known about Max's secret identity. He also confirmed that knows about the alien origins of Max's T.U.R.B.O. Energy.
- Terrorax is right-handed.
- In the layout of Turbo-Charged (scene setup and staging, character blocking, etc), Terrorax's model is always shown smiling.
- In the storyboard, he also have a slightly different face design (this time featuring small spheres for his eyes, irregular and spiky teeth and a deformed facial structure) and his axe appear as a part of his body.
- Prometheus was the first villain of the show to deliberately cause his own mutation.
- Terrorax has his own profile in the Max Steel's official website, even though that only the "Ability, "Occupation" and "Interests" sections have informations about him, while the rest of the profile is literally the same as Air Elementor's.
- The idea of Prometheus stealing Max's energy to assist the Nexus legion likely is a reference to the mythological story of Prometheus, who stole fire and gave it to humanity.
- The demon mask that Terrorax wore bear a resemblance with Oni masks. In the Japanese culture, the Oni are portrayed as monstrous and large creatures usually with a single or more horns protuding from their heads. Interestingly, Terrorax's animated design features these characteristics.
- After Plaztek and Team Terror, Terrorax was the third villain to be killed by Max rather than being contained.
- Terrorax had his own theme song that played almost every time he appeared.
- Terrorax is, obviously, the Team Terror counterpart to Max Steel.