He claimed possession of the Citadel and the aquifer it contains after a bloody battle in which he and his followers defeated the Citadel’s former citizens.

Immortan Joe (formerly known as Colonel Joe Moore) is a veteran and hero of both the Oil Wars and the Water Wars.

Because she proved barren, Immortan Joe turned her over to one of his Imperators, who trained her as his replacement. Her mother died shortly after the abduction, and Furiosa grew up in the Citadel, eventually being traded to Immortan Joe to serve as one of his Wives.

Furiosa, introduced in the fourth film of the series, Mad Max: Fury Road, was born to the Vuvalini in the Green Place, but she and her mother were attacked and abducted about twenty years before Fury Road.

He is already struggling with his emotional health in the first film ( Mad Max, 1979), and the murder of his wife and child propel him on a violent quest for vengeance, beginning with the theft of “the last of the V8 Interceptors,” his famous car through all four films. We first meet Max working as a Main Force Patrol Officer in an early postapocalyptic Australia.

Max Rockatansky is the title character of the series.

Events in these two films as well as Mad Max: Fury Road also provide implicit evidence of nuclear fallout in the increased cancer rates and environmental damage. The apocalypse that is the setting for the films is never fully explained in the films, but Mad Max: Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) offer vague references to a nuclear war that ended oil-based civilization. The world of the wasteland is too complex to sum up briefly, but it suffices to say that across the films the constant vision is of a world that is dry, fragmented, and violent. Each film release after Mad Max (1979) has relied to some degree on these non-film sources to propel the story-in-between, and this is certainly the case in Mad Max: Fury Road. Additionally, widely embraced plot developments are found in graphic novels, a video game, and various websites. 1 It is also the focus and subject of a broad array of fan fiction that is both franchise-approved as well as apocryphal. This is not a comprehensive guide to the world of Mad Max but a start that will get you through this book.ī ASIC F ILM I NFO: Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth in a film series that spans thirty-six years and has garnered dozens of awards and a total worldwide box office revenue of over half a billion dollars.

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