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|real name = Maxine "Max" Guevara

{{Quote| You stay out in the world long enough, you find out Manticore had it all backwards. Everything ''matters except'' the objective matters.|'''Max''' to [[Jace]]}}

'''Maxine "Max" Guevara''', designation X5-332960073452, is one of the twelve [[X5 series|X5s]] who successfully [['09 Escape|escaped]] from [[Manticore]] in FebuaryFebruary 2009. Years later, she became the leader of a group of [[Transgenic|transgenicstransgenic]]s living in the dangerous [[Terminal City]].

On the same day, after defending herself from Jack, she ran away from the Barrett’sBarrett's home. Afterwards, Max turned to petty theft to survive and camped out in Griffith Park. Three years later, in April 2012, she returned to the Barrett house to rescue Lucy but found it abandoned. Guilt over the tactical decision to refrain from defending and eventually leave Lucy, as her training bade, plagued Max into adulthood. In May 2009, a huge earthquake hit California leaving millions homeless. A year later, since foraging for supplies was becoming more difficult, Max migrated to Hollywood, California.

In California, Max eventually joined up with Moody and the Chinese Clan, a group of thieves taking refuge in the remains of Grauman’sGrauman's Chinese Theatre. In 2019, Max left Los Angeles to search for one of her Manticore siblings in Seattle, Washington. While stopping in Eureka, California, Max met “[[Original Cindy]]” McEachin and the two of them traveled to Seattle together.

Over the course of several months, Max and Zack would find themselves working together to help the othersX5's. Once, they were left no choice but to turn in their sister, [[Brin]], to Manticore lest she die from a deadly syndrome that plagued many transgenics.

Not long afterwardsafterward, Zack, who had been watching Lydecker and [[Dr. Elizabeth Renfro]], located Tinga and told Max. By this time, Max and Logan had fallen in love, and Lydecker was losing his influence in Manticore and its parent organization, the Committeecommittee. Max and Zack set out to rescue Tinga, only to discover that she had been killed by Renfro. In addition, Manticore had located Max by tracking the Red Series implant in her brain with the help of the South Africans. Lydecker and his soldiers intercepted the X5's at the silo where they had found Tinga, and Max was captured. Thankfully, Zack had escaped, and Renfro had betrayed Lydecker and tried to have him assassinated, forcing him to go rogue with just two loyal soldiers. After telling Max what had happened, he agreed to help the X5's attack Manticore. Along with Lydecker, Max, Zack and two of their siblings, [[Syl]] and [[Krit]], devised a plan to infiltrate Manticore's facility in Gillette and destroy the DNA database. They carried out the operation successfully, however, due to incorrect information regarding the facility's security forces, were attacked as they made their escape by a contingent of [[X7 series|X7's]]. Syl and Krit got away, but Max and Zack were captured. Max, who had been shot in the heart, was in critical condition, and, in order to save her, Zack shot himself in the head so that the doctors at Manticore could transplant his heart. Max survived, but now had to face the harsh reality that she was once again a prisoner of Manticore.

For the next few weeks, Max quietly endured training, drills, and hatred from the other X5's who considered her a traitor, all the while planning her escape. One night, a male X5 designated [[X5-494]] arrived in her cell and informed her that they had been assigned as breeding partners, as part of Manticore's program to create more soldiers without the DNA profiles that had been stored at the Gillette facility. Max was understandably horrified by the idea and refused to conceive a child. At first annoyed, 494 acquiscedacquiesced and agreed not to tell his superiors. Max eventually named him Alec (as in "smart alec") after he caught her preparing for her escape. Max ropes him into helping her leave Manticore, but later finds out that he'd been ordered to follow her for a Search and Retrieval Operation and ensure she killed [[Logan Cale|Eyes-Only]] with the virus. After learning that Logan had been infected with a virus, Max incapacitated him and sent a broadcast Logan had prepared revealing Manticore's location. When she returned to Manticore, she demanded that Renfro hand over the antigen, and after receiving it, Renfro took a fatal bullet for her, and with her dying breath, told Max to find [[Sandeman]].

*Despite that Max never showed any indication that she had romaticromantic feelings for Alec and saw the other transgenics as her siblings, some people think Alec and Max had romantic potential. OthersThis prefertheory is supported by the establishedfact that on the DVD commentaries and special features, the writers and producers have stated that Alec was brought in as a potential love interest for Max, and LoganAsha pairingas a potential love interest for Logan.