

Sam is a little more aware of how to deal with people, but he's still pretty self-centered himself. Max is a psychopath, but he's also naive and super cheerful. They act a lot like kids, and there's this quality that they're just "playing" at being detectives. I think that's one of the things that makes them so charming, in spite of the wanton violence. I don't think either of them has nearly enough emotional maturity to have a romantic or sexual relationship. Sam and Max have apparently known each other from the time they were very young, so I'm guessing it's just a bosom buddies kind of a thing. What references? Sam and Max barely show up in 302Īnd like Avistew said, people who are raised together from a young age are less likely to become sexually attracted to one another. They're friends, they know each other very well and they care about each other a lot. If two characters are childhood friends, I'll see it as a reason for them NOT to end up together as a couple, unless they had that kind of relationship from the start or something.Īnyways, I'm not sure what else there is to say. Not saying childhood friends never end up together, just that the idea is overused in my opinion. I personally always have some trouble with the "childhood friends who end up together" concept that often pops up either as canon or as fanstuff, because the people I know who actually are childhood friends all consider each other family, often referring to each other as "my cousin" or "my brother/sister" because that's how it feels for them. But here I only see the "close friends" thing. I think a lot of people tend to mix "super close friends" and "in a romantic relationship" because ideally your spouse also is a very close friend. I see them as having a childhood friends relationship, or a very close friends relationship. Sam and Max need each other and time and space need them together.

Sam and max need each ever and time and spas need them to giver
