Makino's History
Early Life
Eons ago, a scientist was working on a extensive project involving floating technology and eventually created Makino, the most perfect and powerful creation that he had ever created. He was created with the purpose of absorb and expand. While the scientist's assistant was extremely reluctant in keeping Makino and suggested to destroy it, the scientist ignored and said he couldn't simply be destroyed due to his techno-organic systems programmed to regenerate and find a host, even on his death. Upon realizing his immense power, Makino linked with his creator and killed the assistant, who hopelessly tried to escape from his fate.
Later on, Makino started to create more beings like him, named as "Ultralinks" and eventually created an army of these small creatures. Over time, Makino became one of the most feared aliens (if not the most) that ever existed, as he destroyed many planets and ended many innocent lives with his Alphalink device. He also had created an ideal: "For the glory of Makino", said by most of the Ultralinks. His path of destruction eventually led to the creation of The Black Star Council, an organization consisting of aliens that managed to survive Makino's attacks whose main goal was to capture Makino and other intergalactic criminals.
During an attack to the Planet Takion, one of Makino's minions named N'Baro Aksteel X377 betrays his master by linking with one of the survivors (Ja'em Mk'rah) to save his life. Shortly after absorbing planet Takion, Makino already had chosen his next target: Earth. Eventually, the duo became a potential threat to Makino and his empire, as they stopped many invasions on many planets. The duo had also founded N-Tek alongside with Molly McGrath, Forge Ferrus and Miles Dread and were creating weapons to stop Makino and his minions.
Sixteen years prior to the series' events, Makino launched his first Ultralink attack on Earth. N-Tek's soldiers were ready to fight off the army, but there were too many of them and were quickly outnumbered, until they released their secret weapon: Ja'em Mk'rah and Steel, the traitor. The duo easily defeated Makino's army, which made him even more angry.
Makino ceased the invasion and kept sending Ultralinks to Earth, although they were captured and contained by N-Tek's forces.
Ultralink Invasion Part One
During a meteor shower, Makino sends a squadron of four Ultralinks to Miles Dread. He later on appears as an hologram and tells Miles to carry on with the plan and not fail him.
Makino Strikes Part One
Far away, Makino appears looking at an hologram of Earth and crushes it his hands with an evil grim on his face. By using his Alphalink, Makino opens a wormhole that allows him to travel to a Makino ship orbiting on Earth. After arriving, he laughs maniacally and Mega-Elementor and Dread greet him, though he gets angry at the latter and tells him to stay silent. He explains his plans of destroying N-Tek and taking on Max Steel and eliminate him.
After taking over Forge with an evil Ultralink, Makino and his soldiers attack N-Tek's base on Copper Canyon. As his army advances, Makino gleefully looks at them while laughing. Due to their defense and the fact that Berto froze the doors of the base, they couldn't invade it so Makino uses his technology-based abilities to tear apart an opening so his army could invade the place. Jefferson Smith attempts to attack Makino with missiles from his jet, but it does no damage to him and he uses his abilities to tear apart the vehicle. N-Tek sends few tanks to fight against him, but he tosses them away and one of them falls on Max and Steel while they were on the Turbo Car. After he realizes that Aksteel is there, Makino tosses their vehicle away and proceeds to absorb Jefferson's jet onto himself to fly where the duo was.
Some time later, Makino finally reaches them and gets surprised in seeing Max Steel, who surprised and scared. They attempt to use multiple Turbo Modes to fight against him, but it does no damage to Makino, who, after being taken down by Turbo Cannon Mode, returns harmless to battle and laughs maniacally. Max activates Turbo Flight Mode and attempts to gain time, but after staying distracted for few secons due to a call from Sydney, he is hit by Makino, who delivers a powerful blow that almost makes him faint. He falls on a lake, and Makino proceeds to land near it while saying that if he was Earth's greatest hope, then they would be disappointed. Second later, Max jumps from the lake and activates Turbo Cannon and charges onto Makino, who smiles and once again takes no damage. He returns to his base mode and proceeds to tell Max that nothing would stop him in his mission of Earth's destruction.
Later on, Max is being tossed around by Makino, who finds strange that a human is able to generate T.U.R.B.O. Energy and thinks that Steel is just using him and his energy to protect himself. After some time, he immobilizes Max against a rock using his powers and says that his friends and family would soon perish due to his failure and that he was nothing but an "weak earthling", which angers him. He uses multiple Turbo Modes to take Makino down and gets tired as a result. While the villain remains at the ground, apparently unconscious, he makes jokes about Makino being so tough and being conquerer of planets. He suddenly wakes up, violently grabbing Max's chest while saying that he was responsible for conquering much more and that he could have destroyed him and Aksteel at any moment, but didn't choose to as he likes to torture his prey before killing them. He tosses Max at the ground and forcibly removes Steel from his chest, saying that he was going to dissect him. He grabs him and laughs, and suddenly a portal opens and Ven-geance tackles at him, making him go through it and land in a cold place. Makino doesn't cares and says that they could get reacquainted, then proceeding to prepare his Jet mode to fly to the Makino destroyer.
The Wrath of Makino
After the explosion of the Alphalink, Makino's central processing unit is sent to a forest. Later on, he activates a message present on all of his Ultralinks proposing a competition to determine the new ruler of his empire. He leaves the coordinates for his unit and upon learning that Makino still lives, Max, Steel and N-Tek's forces go there.
After fighting against the Elementors, Blast, Prism and few evil Ultralinks, Max and Steel finally managed to neutralize them so N-Tek could obtain the unit. However, Metallak was watching at distance and went quickly ran after the device while shouting "For the glory of Makino!". Max attempts to stop him, but he touches the unit and makes a giant dome emerge, which the competitors enter on. After activating Turbo Nova Mode, Max enters there and faces a Makino hologram which attempts to intimidate them, yet they take it as a joke and proceed to fight against Makino's mental projections.
Initially the duo easily overpowered Makino's clones due to their new mode, but after realizing that the other competitors were ahead of them, Max and Steel decide to split up, despite the latter's reluctance at first. Steel proceeds to continue and ends up losing the contact with Max and thinks he is lost, until he reaches Makino's memories and sees his origins. He realizes that it was a trap all along but fails to tell Max. Meanwhile, he touches the unit and it reveals to be Makino himself, who proceeds to forcibly link with Max while he screams for Steel's help.
Afterwards, the dome closes itself and Makino reveals himself, now under control of Makino's body and claiming that Max no longer existed, and that only him remained and proceeds to laugh maniacally. His soldiers bow before him and he mentions that he was surprised to find such a powerful host as Maxwell and that he luckily didn't end up with any of his weak Ultralinks. The Elementors ask how they could serve him yet he gets angry and tosses them away with an energy blast. He proceeds to intimidate Max's family mentioning his insecurities and Steel attempts to bring him back, yet Makino tells him that he was no longer there and flees as he mentions that they would feel their wrath.
Later on, Makino appears seeing Copper Canyon at distance, while mentioning how he was tired of Earth despite his Ultralinks disagree with him. He gets angry and suddenly starts to beat himself, which turns out to be Max, who was still there and fighting. While attempting to get the control back of his body, Makino flies to Copper Cayon while crashing into some buildings and decides to continue their fight on his mind. He is overpowered by him and decides to tie him with an energy lash and then proceeds to mention his insecurities, which makes him angry. He explains that Max's energy would serve him on Earth's destruction, yet he doesn't believes it. Makino proceeds to tease him while using his "Go Turbo" motto to activate Turbo Annihilation Mode, a colossal armored mode fueled by Max's T.U.R.B.O. Energy.
He starts causing havoc and chaos on the city, throwing cars and using Max's energy to blow up things. He proceeds to create a drill to tear Earth in two using his energy. Ja'em and Steel link up again in order to stop him, which angers Makino. Despite their best efforts, Ja'em and Steel aren't able to face him due to his enormous power, so the latter attempts to remember about their connection, which as pointed out by Jim earlier, was stronger than any other Ultralink bond that he had ever seen. He successfully manages to free Max from Makino's control and as a result his armor blows up, his drill is deactivated and he returns to his initial form. He falls to the ground, where he sees Ja'em and bonds with him and creates a new secondary form to his Turbo Annihilation Mode.
After doing so, he proceeds to say that he simply couldn't be destroyed due to his programming of finding a new host even after he is defeated. Now under possession of Max's father's memories and powers, he attempts to intimidate Max by saying that his own father didn't believed on him, which angers him. He flies directly at him, but Makino easily pushes him away with his giant hands. He attempts to kill Molly, but Forge quickly saves her and commands N-Tek's forces to attack him, which does no damage to him. He continues with his mission of destroying Earth, but he is interupted by Max's new mode: Turbo Titan Mode, created specifically to deal with Makino's new colossal form. While fighting against him, Max tells Steel to attempt to break his connection with the villain in the same way he did with him, but it doesn't works.
As Makino's drill is almost shattering Earth, Max attempts to stop him once and for all, but the villain viciously fights against him. He tells Max that their battle could take forever, but it couldn't as their planet was dying and proceeds to launch a powerful energy ray that tosses Max away to a dock. He goes after them and grabs few containers to throw at them, but Max quickly uses Steel as a Turborang and throws him at Makino, which desorients him. They use the cranes to immobilize his arms and remove him from Ja'em's head. Max goes back to his base mode and attempts to talk with his father, who was still possessed by the parasite and continues to fight agressively against him. He attempts to stomp on Max's head but Ja'em starts to intefire. He touches Max's shoulders, and attempts to overload himself in order to remove Makino, which works. Yet still damaged, Makino was searching for a host.
Max and Steel activate Turbo Nova Mode and travel to the Sun. As they go, Makino leaves a message explaining that his core unit process wasn't working anymore, even though that he was much more than just that and that he was an ideal, an unimaginable power that someone would heir someday. As Makino calmly looks at the Sun, Max proceeds to throw him, and his body quickly start to desintegrate, thus causing his death.
Legacy
Despite the fact that Makino was destroyed by Max and Steel, he is still considered a threat to Earth, since he has many soldiers spread over the world. Most of Makino's technology remaining on Copper Canyon was stored in the Ice Box facility, where they are kept in low temperature.
An ex ample of Makino and his Ultralinks' legacy is the Connect-Tek, a device created by Jim based on Steel's ability of creating Turbo Modes. The device eventually created the Team Turbo group and triggered Mortum's mutation.
In Turbo-Warriors, Makino's head piece is shown in a room of Team Turbo's base, suggesting that he either could have returned during the time skip, but was once again stopped by Max Steel or it was a replica.
