He may not be a carpenter, but he is a lowly factory worker.Messianic Archetype: Max has plenty of parallels to Christ:.Limited Wardrobe: Because they bolted the exoskeleton to him through his clothes.Heroic Sacrifice: Though he was dying anyway, he does spend his last days fighting to make everyone capable of accessing Elysium, at least until they can reboot the old system.At the end however he simply accepts that he has to die to upload the program to make Earth's population into Elysium citizens and kills himself. He's even willing to hand over the reboot program to Kruger as long as he gets cured. Hesitant Sacrifice: Throughout the film, Max asserts that he wants to live and make it to Elysium, fearing death whenever it looks bleak for him.Handicapped Badass: He also suffers from radiation poisoning during much of the film, yet still manages to defeat several of the bad guys.Face Death with Dignity: Max does, giving his life so everyone else can live.Empowered Badass Normal: Max is a physically fit man but when he's crippled in a radiation accident, his criminal contact grafts an exoskeleton onto his body that makes him able to fight on the level of the powerful police droids.Determinator: With only five days to live he is going to get up to Elysium no matter what.Clingy Costume: Well, Spider's men did screw and bolt down the Powered Armor onto his body.
