The series follows Max, initially a police officer in a future Australia which is experiencing societal collapse due to war, critical resource shortages, and ecocide.
After the economy collapsed and the fabric of society disintegrated across the world, the remaining governments were still trying to secure the last oil reserves. This had led to a global nuclear exchange. It is unknown who struck first, but everyone had suffered. Nuclear winter followed shortly after.
According to the official comic book spin-offs of "Fury Road," at some point in the near future, black fuel (what they call oil in the franchise) started to run out, causing riots and wars over control of the remaining sources of oil — later referred to as the Fuel Wars.
What caused the world to become such a wasteland in the Mad Max franchise? Very little is addressed in the movies, according to creator interviews, this is what happened: The Persian Gulf War lasted two days and left the country destabilized, with all of their rigs burning. They instantly stop exportations of oil.
Max, Furiosa, the four wives, and the last remaining members of the Vuvalini make it back to the now leaderless Citadel, where they are celebrated as liberators by the citizens. As all the women rise on a platform to take their place in the palace, Max leaves them behind to continue on with his wandering ways.
In Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, more is revealed as to how Mad Max's world became what it is. A nuclear apocalypse destroyed the world and all rule of law, hence why Aunty (Tina Turner) and the Collector (Frank Thring) created Bartertown to rebuild civilization, one created on a methane-based energy economy.
Here are the main factors that led to the collapse: Critical Resource Shortages: One of the primary factors leading to the collapse of society in the Mad Max world was a critical shortage of resources, particularly oil and water [2].
Though the best officer on the force, he is secretly afraid that he is becoming as cold and heartless as the criminals he pursues. He reaches a breaking point when a gang of criminally insane bikers led by the Toecutter burn Max's partner Goose alive inside a borrowed ute.
Both the original Mad Max and Fury Road feature almost no dialogue, with the simple stories of each movie being told almost entirely in visual terms. According to director George Miller, who helmed both radically different installments of the series, this choice was an intentional one.
Miller described the film's key theme as survival, which he said it has in common with the American Westerns that were "such a staple for the better part of a century in American cinema", while several critics wrote that the primary theme of Mad Max: Fury Road is the attempt to retain humanity in the face of ...
The after-effects of nuclear warfare obviously had grave consequences on the world, and one of these effects could have been the evaporation of the world's oceans.
One scene in Mad Max was enough for the whole film to be banned in New Zealand and Sweden: the one where Goose is burned alive inside his car. This scene was, unintentionally, very similar to an incident with a gang in New Zealand that happened shortly before Mad Max's release.
The series follows Max, initially a police officer in a future Australia which is experiencing societal collapse due to war, critical resource shortages, and ecocide. When his wife and child are murdered by a vicious biker gang, Max kills the gang in revenge and becomes a drifting loner in the Australian Wasteland.
Immortan Joe keeps a whole crew of women captive in order to harvest their breast milk and use it for sustenance for him and his closest. Essentially, these women are slaves, used only for their bodies' ability to produce milk, which he also commodifies, and then trades with Gas Town and the Bullet Farm.
When her mentor was killed she took over his command. Furiosa became Immortan Joe's finest warrior and earned the rank of Imperator. She lost her arm during one of the battles while serving Immortan Joe.
The main villain, Immortan Joe, and his hordes of pale, spindly "War Boys" all appear to have genetic mutations, presumably the result of nuclear fallout and other unspecified environmental fouling. In a sense, they are all disabled.
In Mad Max, he is 23 years old in the year 1997; in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, he is 26 years old in the year 1999; and in Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome, he is 40 years old in the year 2014; and in Mad Max: Fury Road, his age is retconed to 36 even though the film takes place 46 years after Beyond Thunderdome in the ...
One theory suggests that he is mute because his grandmother molested him at a young age, thus leading him to create Super Bunny, an imaginary hero who serves as his protector. Another widely cited (but never proven) hypothesis is that Max had some sort of head trauma.
The War boys all appear to suffer from some sort of terminal disease - most commonly lymphoma. Healthy children are a rarity in the wastes and for those born with the affliction, signing on with Immortan Joe is the only way to prolong their short, miserable lifespans.
His son is pronounced dead on the scene, while his wife suffers massive injuries. (It is revealed in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior that she later died from her injuries.)
Immortan Joe is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road. He is portrayed by Hugh Keays-Byrne, who previously portrayed the Toecutter in the original Mad Max.
Mad Max: Fury Road focuses on Nux (Nicholas Hult), a War Boy who used Max's blood to keep himself alive. Like the rest of the War Boys, Nux was very white from head to toes and had severe health issues, which is why he and the rest needed blood transfusions.
Nobody died in Mad Max, Hooper or Where Eagles Dare. These myths arise when people see a stunt that looks convincing (perhaps by going slightly wrong) and swapping scare stories. The high fall in Hooper preceded one for the movie Steel, in which AJ Bakunas did die.
What once used to be home to coral, fish and algae is now a desert of salt, sand and sharp rock. The ocean was mankind's own waste basket; everything was dumped into the ever swallowing water during the brief existence of civilization on the shores.
