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Max Headroom

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Max Headroom	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Back in the 1980s, it looked like computers were going to be able to do just about anything. It also looked like Japanese businessmen were going to economically conquer the world. And it looked like corporate greed was going to grow and grow until the average citizen was a virtual slave to the mega-corporations who would happily destroy the environment, culture, history, and basic human liberty all in the name of profit. Come to think of it, not much has changed and those things look more likely to happen now than back in the 1980s (only with China instead of Japan).Max Headroom, a plastic-coated stammering faux-CGI host full of sardonic wit played by the frankly underrated Canadian actor Matt Frewer, made his debut in April of 1985 in a British one hour pilot entitled Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Though Max was the star of the show, he was really a very minor character. The story followed Intrepid Reporter Edison Carter (also Frewer) and his "controller" (i.e. director) Theora (Amanda Pays, who later played fanfic-favorite Phoebe Green on The X-Files) as he attempted to uncover a conspiracy revolving around the Blipvert, a highly compressed advertisement his station had recently adopted, which had the unfortunate side effect of causing some viewers to explode. In his daring escape from security with orders to kill, he is gravely injured when he crashes his motorcycle into a gatepost.A totally unlikable Teen Genius generates an AI copy of Carter's mind to cover up his disappearance, but the copy is somewhat unstable and has a bad stammer. He takes his name from the last thing Edison had seen before his injury: a sign on the gatepost reading "MAX HEADROOM: 2.3 METERS".Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })The pilot wasn't picked up, but the rights to the Max Headroom character were sold to the makers of a music-video program on British television, on which Max appeared later in 1985. The Max Headroom show was the first to play with the music-video format, with Max frequently talking over lousy videos and making jokes, or cutting the video off partway through, a technique later picked up by Beavis And Butthead and other satirical video shows. The character was later picked up by Coca-Cola, for a series of TV spots for New Coke and appeared on T-shirts and mer-BZZZZZZZZZZTThat does it! He's a freakin nerd! giggles Yeah, I think I'm better than Chuck Swirsky! Frickin' liberallllllllll--l-l--ll-l-l...BZZZZZZZZZT Er, we apologize about that. Moving on. Max Headroom was a huge hit, especially in the UK. But it was in the US that the pilot was picked up. Sort of. It was remade by Lorimar in 1987 as the first episode of the Max Headroom TV series, keeping only Frewer, Pays, and Morgan Sheppard (Blank Reg) from the original cast, and substantially rewriting the second half of the movie (but using all the video effects so the money budgeted to effects could be used elsewhere). The Teen Genius was changed from a villain to an unwitting patsy, and Max's role was greatly increased; in the original, Max and Edison never met, and Max spent the rest of the movie as a VJ for a pirate TV station. In the series, he and Edison became partners, breaking the Blipvert story together.Max Headroom straddled the line between Black Comedy and (mostly) serious Cyber Punk for two half-seasons before being cancelled and largely forgotten. Many believe the network intentionally killed it, scheduling it opposite two hugely popular shows, Dallas and Miami Vice (where, ironically, Matt Frewer played a villain in a two-parter shortly after his show was cancelled).The world presented by the show was strange and unwieldy, full of corporate greed, corrupt politics (elections to all political offices were decided by TV ratings: each network backed a candidate, and the highest rated network at the close of polling got their man installed), and a legal system that could not possibly have worked (it was illegal to turn a television off, books were banned in order to disenfranchise those who couldn't afford pay-per-view educational TV, bloodsports were mainstream, and trials for all but the rich and powerful were carried out in game show format). Also, everything had silly sci-fi names: "Blipverts", "Baby Grobags", "Credit Tubes", "Neurostim", etc.The character was resurrected in 2008 as part of Channel Four's marketing for the digital switchover, in a number of (full-length) adverts. In 2010, it was announced that the US series would be getting a DVD release in August of that year, with an amusing lenticular cover. The DVD set includes a bonus disc with behind-the-scenes featurettes.Episode recaps can be seen here.
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Max Headroom / int_12610160	type	Computerized Judicial System
Max Headroom / int_12610160	comment	Computerized Judicial System: With floppy disks!
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Max Headroom / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Max Headroom / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Most of the characters have their moments. in Baby Growbags, Edison and Theora both assume correctly that the fact Edison was given free access into another network must mean it's a trap, especially since said network is run by Edison's old boss Grossberg. It doesn't stop Edison though from going straight into it anyway for much needed answers.
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Max Headroom / int_192853e5	type	Repetitive Audio Glitch
Max Headroom / int_192853e5	comment	Repetitive Audio Glitch: Max often repeats syllables and words he's spoken within the past three seconds.
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Max Headroom / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Max Headroom / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: Breughel and Mahler's primary source of income is disposing of corpses for other criminals by selling them to body banks, which harvest the organs for use as transplants.
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Max Headroom / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Max Headroom / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Breughel has a predilection for quoting classical literature.
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Max Headroom / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Max Headroom / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Let's put it this way: Instead of foodstamps, the government gives the needy free TV sets. And only because the TV is used mainly for population control.
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Max Headroom / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Max Headroom / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Throughout the series.
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Max Headroom / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Max Headroom / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In the TV series, as Blank Reg is watching Max's telecast he notes: "What I could do with one of him." In the original movie, Max ended up at Big Time Television.
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Max Headroom / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Max Headroom / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: Complete with Rapid-Fire Typing and a Shout-Out to William Gibson with the term "ICE" (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics).
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Max Headroom / int_315f7f2c	type	Auto-Tune
Max Headroom / int_315f7f2c	comment	Auto-Tune: Matt Frewer's voice gets electronically distorted whenever he's playing Max.
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Max Headroom / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Max Headroom / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Grossberg, on stealing babies: "Carter, you've got to believe me. What you speak of is even beyond me!"
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Max Headroom / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Max Headroom / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: Mel is this in Body Banks when he kidnaps Theora to force a conversation with Edison to happen.
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Max Headroom / int_39ba2515	type	Advert-Overloaded Future
Max Headroom / int_39ba2515	comment	Advert-Overloaded Future: The very premise of the series.
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Max Headroom / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Max Headroom / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Trope Namer for 20 Minutes into the Future, but the cars are all from The '50s. And whenever a computer keyboard was shown, it was actually the keyboard from an antique manual typewriter.
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Max Headroom / int_4499cea4	type	SecondhandStorytelling
Max Headroom / int_4499cea4	comment	Secondhand Storytelling: In "Body Banks", Edison mentions a long conversation he had with Max the night before, wherein Max asks him many questions concerning his memories and what they mean. Script-writer Steve Roberts mentions that the one thing they were unable to do in the show was actually have a real-time conversation between Max and Edison, with the two reacting to each other. (Every time someone talked to Max, they were talking to an empty screen or pre-recorded footage, unlike the video phone conversations where the actor was actually talking to another actor on another set in real-time.) Matt Frewer on his part has told in an interview how the separately filmed Max Headroom scenes had to be choreographed to match the other actors: Say the line, stay quiet while "listening", look left towards one person, look right towards another...
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Max Headroom / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
Max Headroom / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: Max certainly thinks so.
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Max Headroom / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Max Headroom / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: In Dream Thieves: During an assignment, Edison runs into Paddy, an old friend and colleague who lost nearly everything thanks to Edison breaking a story before him. While he feels guilty about it, Edison fully breaks that night when after reconciling with Paddy, he later finds him dead and goes on a hunt to find out why. He ultimately beats up a defenseless doctor live on-air and has to be given a What the Hell, Hero? speech by his producer Murray. By this point, Edison isn't so much angry about Paddy being dead, more that they only killed him so they could sell his dreams onto a subscriber network for a new show.
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Max Headroom / int_4baebbc8	type	Soul Fragment
Max Headroom / int_4baebbc8	comment	Soul Fragment: Edison's relation to Max.
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Max Headroom / int_4e43e4e6	type	Engaging Conversation
Max Headroom / int_4e43e4e6	comment	Engaging Conversation: Notable in that it's the woman who pulls out the "marry me!" gag.
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Max Headroom / int_5028baf2	type	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
Max Headroom / int_5028baf2	comment	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: How Max is able to get Security Systems' A-7 computer to turn against the corporation and help Edison.
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Max Headroom / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Max Headroom / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The VU-Age Church exists for the purposes of bilking parishioners of their fortunes when they die.
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Max Headroom / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
Max Headroom / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: Insofar as the Networks have effectively become the government, Edison could often use the threat of his camera on uncooperative leads. The protagonists often exploit ubiquitous surveillance to learn things their superiors want to remain hidden.
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Max Headroom / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Max Headroom / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Edison Carter (and theoretically, Max himself).
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Max Headroom / int_673b2da6	type	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
Max Headroom / int_673b2da6	comment	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Insufficient resources are mentioned in the episode "Deities" to be the reason that the Vu-Age Church's Brain Uploading process only created an "idiot version" of the deceased that could only respond to people in a pre-programmed manner, whereas the system resources of Network 23's mainframe made Max Headroom, a complete artificial intelligence, possible.
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Max Headroom / int_693cabaf	type	Gladiator Games
Max Headroom / int_693cabaf	comment	Gladiator Games: In "Rakers" Carter investigates the rise of the violent sport of raking, which involves skateboard riders with weapons fighting each other.
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Max Headroom / int_7064ec04	type	Cassette Futurism
Max Headroom / int_7064ec04	comment	Cassette Futurism: The TV movie and subsequent series. Even though it's the Trope Namer for 20 Minutes into the Future, there's no flat-screen digital HDTV, no internet, computer graphics have a distinctly pre-Windows appearance and TV shows are still recorded on tape.
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Max Headroom / int_71a223fc	type	Up to Eleven
Max Headroom / int_71a223fc	comment	And only because the TV is used mainly for population control.
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Max Headroom / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
Max Headroom / int_7a21fc07	comment	New Old Flame: Vanna Smith in "Deities" is Edison Carter's girlfriend from college.
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Max Headroom / int_7a555627	type	Honest Corporate Executive
Max Headroom / int_7a555627	comment	Honest Corporate Executive: A Downplayed Trope version with Ben Cheviot, verging on a Downplayed Trope of Corrupt Corporate Executive. Generally, Cheviot acts in the defense of the protagonists but he has a responsibility to the network and his sponsors who are exceedingly corrupt. As such, he mostly serves as a defense and middle-man between the cyberpunk future's worst aspects and our heroes.
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Max Headroom / int_7c4ae6b0	type	Hot Librarian
Max Headroom / int_7c4ae6b0	comment	Hot Librarian: Theora is both smart and beautiful.
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Max Headroom / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Max Headroom / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: At the end of Blanks.
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Max Headroom / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Max Headroom / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the world of Corporate control, there's one crime you better dare not commit:
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Max Headroom / int_814356cb	type	White-Dwarf Starlet
Max Headroom / int_814356cb	comment	White-Dwarf Starlet: Max himself is humorously treated as one during Channel 4's digital switchover ads, constantly bemoaning how he was Screwed by the Network and trying to talk to his handler in the retirement home he lives in about his Glory Days in the 80s.
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Max Headroom / int_830343d8	type	We Will Use WikiWords in the Future
Max Headroom / int_830343d8	comment	We Will Use WikiWords in the Future
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Max Headroom / int_8864f9a9	type	Those Two Bad Guys
Max Headroom / int_8864f9a9	comment	Those Two Bad Guys: Breughel and Mahler.
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Max Headroom / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
Max Headroom / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: Breughel and Mahler are more than willing to turn on their employers if someone else makes them a better offer.
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Max Headroom / int_8e81e57f	type	Voice with an Internet Connection
Max Headroom / int_8e81e57f	comment	Voice with an Internet Connection: Probably the Trope Codifier in its "with Internet" form. When the show was made, AOL was brand new, CompuServe was hip and hot, college students were just starting to get email addresses, and the Web was still years away. Nevertheless, Theora and the other controllers clearly are accessing something Internet-like and providing the info to Edison et. al. This was terribly prescient at the time, but now suffers from "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny.
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Max Headroom / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Max Headroom / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Croyd Hawser in Wars initially presents himself to Edison as a friendly figure who doesn't want to harm civilians, despite being the leader of a terrorist organization. It doesn't take him long to go Axe-Crazy and start initiating fatal attacks once Edison realizes he's been duped.
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Max Headroom / int_97346240	type	We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future
Max Headroom / int_97346240	comment	We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future: Thoroughly averted. A central theme in the series is the disparity between reality and what is depicted in the media. And whether the image provided by the media is actually more real to the masses than the "real" reality. Just think about it for a while...
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Max Headroom / int_9b610976	type	I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!
Max Headroom / int_9b610976	comment	I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: The episodes "Whakets" and "Neurostim" feature a game show that broadcasts an addictive subliminal signal and a bracelet that implants images of a perfect life (and the urge to buy everything to make that perfect life a reality) into wearers' heads, respectively.
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Max Headroom / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Max Headroom / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: "For God's sake, treat A-7 with some respect-spect! She's not just a machiiiiiiine...!"
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Max Headroom / int_aa809887	type	Blipvert
Max Headroom / int_aa809887	comment	Blipvert: The Trope Namer.
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Max Headroom / int_ac0f4761	type	Future Imperfect
Max Headroom / int_ac0f4761	comment	Future Imperfect: It's a Cyberpunk show, it's par for the course. TV ruling the world, a polluted, dying city, no industry, little real justice, an apathetic populace...
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Max Headroom / int_b0485a20	type	Ditzy Genius
Max Headroom / int_b0485a20	comment	Ditzy Genius: Bryce Lynch. The most prominent example being when Grossberg says (over Carter's unconscious body) that they need to know how much Carter knows about the adverse effects of Blipverts; Bryce suggests they ask him when he wakes up. Also when Grossberg mentions that it would be unfortunate if the public discovered that the Blipverts were making people explode, Bryce suggests they don't tell them.
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Max Headroom / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Max Headroom / int_b434558	comment	Video Phone: Featured several times on the show. It is The Future, after all.
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Max Headroom / int_b83aeca9	type	Lantern Jaw of Justice
Max Headroom / int_b83aeca9	comment	Lantern Jaw of Justice: Both Edison and Max, but the "of justice" part usually only applies to Edison, since Max generally prefers snark and mischief over heroism.
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Max Headroom / int_bdddc73e	type	Yakuza
Max Headroom / int_bdddc73e	comment	Yakuza: Revealed to be the owners of the omnipresent ZikZak Corporation
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Max Headroom / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Max Headroom / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: Theora, and occasionally Murray.
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Max Headroom / int_c1ffa6fd	type	Virtual Celebrity
Max Headroom / int_c1ffa6fd	comment	Virtual Celebrity: Take a wild guess.
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Max Headroom / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Infamously, the series received a truly bizarre one when an unknown hacker took over TV signals in Chicago and broadcast a rambling string of nonsense while wearing a Headroom mask. Read about that here.
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Max Headroom / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Ned Grossberg. Many of the other network executives have their moments as well.
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Max Headroom / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: Bryce In the TV series, Bryce is an unusually likable example of this trope in large part because of the fact that he was depicted as a normal 15-year-old boy in terms of his personality, maturity, and sense of humour who happened to be a genius. The TV movie Bryce, on the other hand, is more irritating than Wesley Crusher and Adric combined. And, you know, evil.
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Max Headroom / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: For whatever reason, the often-featured executive of the Japanese Zik-Zak corporation is Ped Xing, a Chinese man — presumably so they could work in the joke.note Compounding this is that Xing himself was never played by a Chinese actor, but a Filipino one (Arsenio Trinidad) in the first season and a Japanese actor (Sab Shimono) in the second.
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Max Headroom / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: The usher issuing tickets to human guinea pigs in Dream Thieves is this in spades.
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Max Headroom / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Rick Ducommun wasn't able to reprise his role as Mahler for the second season, so the writers replaced him with another character, justifying the swap by having Breughel kill the original Mahler offscreen during a slow business night, selling his corpse off, and naming his new partner "Mahler" as a mocking tribute.
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Max Headroom / int_fbc1a68d	comment	Low Clearance: According to the movie, this is where Max Headroom's name came from—the last words seen by Edison Carter before getting clocked by the sign.
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