Max Steel premiered on February 25, 2000. The first season has a total of 13 episodes. A curious thing to note is the fact that every episode in this season started with the letter "S". In the first 4 episodes, Josh and Max share the same face. In episode 5, Max appears for the first time with his actual face, which is completely different from Josh's, more mature and though. However, the same old model of his face is reused later in the series, presumably due to a change in the order of production of the episodes. The initial original presentation of the show portrayed Max chasing and fighting terrorists around the world. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the word 'terrorist' was filtered out from various episodes, but, for some reason, wasn't filtered from the opening.