Goof Family

Goof Family is the family ship between Goofy and Max Goof from the Mickey Mouse and Friends and Goof Troop fandoms.

Canon
Goofy and Max are the father-son duo of Disney's most iconic and central characters. Max's existence reveals Goofy to be a widower and a single parent, who raised his son all on his own. Max is also known to be brighter than his Dad and sometimes has to bail Goofy out of his own clumsiness. Goofy has also given Max the nickname, "Maxie."

Max loves his dad, but Goofy being clumsy and a goof has Max feel embarrassed by him. Whenever he sees people laughing at Goofy and feels part of that laughter being directed at him, for being the son of a goof who always trips and falls or ends up losing his pants. Along with Goofy still looking like a fool when he picks himself back up. It is fine when it is just the two of them or in the company of Goofy's friends, but seeing other people laughing at them was another story.

When Max hit his teens and was on his way of becoming a man, the two began to slowly drift apart. With Goofy partly babying him, by still calling go "Maxie," and Max worrying what the other teens at his school would think of him, once they see Goofy being his iconic goofy self. Max was even worried of him turning into his dad. Goofy knows that Max has grown up, but he still wants to be part of his life and to cherish the moments they still have together. He is a proud father who cares for Max's happiness.

Christmas Maximus
In the Goof Family short of the Christmas special, it opens with young Max feeling embarrassed of dad whenever he sees people laughing at clumsy Goofy. Who means well and brings festive joy to their house; before it time tips to teenage Max. Max had told his Dad the girl he was seeing, but when he and Mona were to spend Christmas with Goofy, Max was worried that his dad would embarrass him in front of her. So he gives his dad a call to remind him of their guest and asks him to be more cool than goofy. Goofy had made Max a scarf to keep him warm and asked Max if he was wearing it during their call, but the patched up design had Max refusing to wear it, and lies about wearing it every day. When Goofy promised Max that they would give Mona the best Christmas she would never forget, he knew exactly what that meant.

House of Mouse
Both father and son work at the House of Mouse night club, with the rest of their friends. Goofy serves as head waiter beside the Mary Poppins penguins, while Max is assigned the role of valet.

When Max makes the mistake of telling his Dad that waiting tables is the easiest job at the club in "Goofy for a Day," Goofy decides to prove his son wrong by hiring him as the new head waiter. Max soon learns that waiting is a lot harder that his Dad makes it look, despite Goofy's clumsy moments and even ends needing to be saved from some of the customers. Goofy had officered to show Max the ropes, but he turns his Dad down from believing that one mistake doesn't mean that waiting tables is hard. Until Max finds himself messing up too many times, he begs Goofy to teach him how to be a Waiter. Goofy explains to Max that goofing up helps to build character, and even though Max doesn't want to be a goof he listens to his Dad as he helps his son with serving the orders. At the end of the episode Max gains a new prospective for Goofy's role at the House of Mouse, but he doesn't want to remain a waiter and decides to go back to parking cars. Goofy then tries a hand at Max's job from thinking at it was easy, but ends up crashing than parking the cars.

Although Goofy was okay with Max parking other people's cars at the night club, he wasn't so sure on the idea of Max having his own car. Max tries to ask his Dad if he would buy him on in "Max's New Car," but Goofy wasn't sure if Max was responsible enough to have one and tells Max that he'll have to think about. Goofy's track record of thinking has Max worrying and wasn't sure if Goofy would go for it. While Max was struggling with an out of control car that was featured in one of the Mickey cartoons, Goofy was asking his friends if Max was in fact responsible to have a car. They all said that Max is from him being a mature teen, but once Goofy saw the crashed car that Max tried to hide from him, Goofy took it as a sign that Max shouldn't get a car. To fix his mistake of losing one of the club's acts and to show his Dad that he too has also crashed a few cars in his time, Max plays a very old Goofy cartoon that has many scenes of a younger, road rage Goofy crashing all the cars around him. In an attempt to get himself out of buying his son a car, Goofy gives Max his own personal parking spot, but after a car lands in that very spot and Max gives him a pleading look after they saw the "for sale" sign on it, Goofy caves in and agrees to let Max own a car after all. Max hugs his Dad to thank him.

Max worrying that his Dad would go "goofy" and embarrass him on his date with Roxanne at the club in "Max's Embarrassing Date," Max tried to keep his Dad in the dark about it. Once Goofy did find out and plans to serve as their waiter, however, Max turns to Mickey and the gang in hopes they'll help him keep Goofy away from Max and Roxanne during their date. Only to be embarrassed by them instead and has Goofy come to his rescue. Feeling revealed that Roxanne likes his goofy dad and doesn't have to worry about how he would affect the way Roxanne would think of him.

Moments

 * In season three of the DuckTales reboot, Goofy shares photos of Max with Donald. As he teaches Donald a thing about family photos by talking about Max, and the memories that have made some of those photos of them special.

Fanon
When it comes to father and sons in the Disney universe, Goofy and Max are well loved among Disney's other iconic and central characters. Half of the support comes from the Mickeyverse and the Goofy films. Since the later series of films has showcased moments between Goofy and his teenage son. As much as they enjoyed their shared moments from Max's child years, they are happy that Disney let Max grow and felt that Goofy has done a fine job raising him.

With half of Donald's family appearing in the Kingdom Hearts games, it had got some KH fans to wonder if the series ever plans to add in Max. Even though there have been theories that Max might not exist in the KH universe at all. With Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers being one of the past event worlds in Dream Drop Distance and the nature of Goofy's backstory in the film subjects that he never got to meet Max's mother in its universe. Even though the KH worlds don't always follow the full plot of the Disney films they are based on. Those who would like to see Goofy introduce Sora to his son, feel that Max might want to follow in his Dad's world traveling footsteps and to have his own adventure beyond Disney Castle. While aiding the Keyblade master he befriends in battle. That is why some KH fanart of Max have him wielding a shield, to reference his dad.

In the Japanese side of the fanbase, the pairing is known as グマク (gumaku) which combines the Katakana for Goofy (グーフィー) and Max (マックス). Although mixing two names together for a ship is romantic usually, it's platonic in this case.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * In the orignal shorts, Max's prototype was named Goofy Jr.
 * Max's voice actor Jason Marsden will sometimes refer to Bill Farmer, the voice actor for Goofy, as "Pop".