Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20151029033607/@comment-1894786-20171030034143

Nurdboy42 wrote: You know what gets me about Maximus? He doesn't seem all that mad. And I don't mean he has a point about the caste system, which he does, but that he doesn't seem to have a mental illness. For instance in the Paul Jenkins Inhumans run, which this is ostensibly based on, Maximus was full on crazy. Like, he was talking to himself and stuff.

There's almost nothing like that in the series.

I mean, we definitely saw it in the last few episodes with his (well-deserved) paranoia.

We see that he desperately wants to undergo Terrigenesis again, and judging by the preview for next week, the Royals are seemingly going to let Declan give Max his research to become Inhuman.

So my guess is that his madness will be the downside of his mind control powers when he finally gets to undergo Terrigenesis.