Miffed Max – Max Rockatansky from Mad Max
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The Night Riders are Furryosa’s army, her mains, bests, minis and bosses. Miffed Max is one of her bosses.
Miffed Max: “You stealies our dreams and lockies them up! All we get is sand and trees and RAGE! The Arcane Toad, he’ll free it.”
Morp: “Hang on now, mate. If you break the Great Barrier, you’ll be committing the same mistake our ancestors did. You’ll destroy the new ecosystem that’s developed from the old.”
Miffed Max: So you just get to keep the dreams, guard who gets in, decide what goes for all of us! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!”
Mad Max is an Australian media franchise created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy. It centers on a series of post-apocalyptic and dystopian action films. The franchise began in 1979 with Mad Max, and was followed by three sequels: Mad Max 2 (1981; released in the United States as The Road Warrior), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Miller directed or co-directed all four films. A spin-off, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, was released in 2024 and was also directed by Miller.
Max Rockatansky is the title character and antihero protagonist of the Australian post-apocalyptic action film series Mad Max created by director George Miller and producer Byron Kennedy. Max was played by actors Mel Gibson in the first three films from 1979 to 1985, Tom Hardy in the fourth film in 2015, and in a cameo appearance by Jacob Tomuri in the prequel spin-off film Furiosa in 2024.
According to film critic Justin Chang, Miller (a doctor by training) picked Max’s last name as an homage to Carl von Rokitansky, a pathologist “who pioneered a method of examining organs at autopsies to determine the cause of death.”
The exact causes of the collapse of civilization in the series are never specified, but some details are given. In the timeline of the original three films, the 1979 oil crisis caused by the Iranian Revolution worsened, leading to worldwide energy shortages and unrest. Tensions boiled over when Iranian forces attacked Saudi Arabia, igniting a massive war in the Middle East and around the world. In the timeline of the later two films, the collapse happened around the 2010s, and was caused by a combination of resource wars and subsequent environmental damage.
The first Mad Max film takes place in the original timeline and is a mostly traditional origin story. In a dystopian Australia where the government no longer has the capacity to effectively protect its citizens, Max Rockatansky is a skilled policeman trying to keep order on the highways. When Max takes his family to the beach for a holiday, a vicious biker gang murders his wife and child. Max kills the gang in revenge. Disillusioned by the collapse of ordered society, Max quits his job and becomes a wanderer in the increasingly devastated wasteland.
The remaining Mad Max films follow Max’s comings and goings in the wasteland. By Mad Max 2, global war has destroyed the remaining world governments. The old society has essentially collapsed, and gangs and warlords dominate the wasteland. Isolated pockets of civilization remain, desperately preserving remnants of pre-apocalyptic technology, especially oil refineries (Mad Max 2, Furiosa, Fury Road). By the time of Beyond Thunderdome, Furiosa, and Fury Road, society has devolved into a barter economy, with chattel and sex slavery being widespread. Furiosa and Fury Road also suggest that Christianity and other pre-apocalypse World religions have been replaced by new religions native to the wasteland.
During his wanderings, Max periodically encounters remaining pockets of civilization, which rope him into their political machinations or personal problems. Typically, Max goes along for self-interested reasons, but eventually his motives become more altruistic. Mad Max films typically highlight their protagonists’ struggle to reclaim their humanity in a dystopian wasteland that has taught them to place little value on kindness and decency.
Most Mad Max films are told from the perspective of a questionably reliable narrator retelling the story many years after the fact, suggesting that the characters of Max and Furiosa have crossed over into the folklore of a survivor civilization. (Although Fury Road lacks a narrator, Miller has said that in his mind, it was also “based on the Word Burgers of the History Men [cf. folktales told by bards or griots] and eyewitness accounts of those who survived.”) Miller “sees Mad Max as a series of legends about the titular character, the kinds of campfire stories that might be passed around in the Wasteland at dark.”
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