History Characters / MadMax

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Max leaves the MFP, he's not seen in the film again. A cut scene reveals that Toecutter's gang assaulted the MFP headquarters and killed him, along with Charlie and Roop. However, this scene has never been found and may just be an urban legend; at any rate, it's contradicted by a panel in the ''Fury Road'' comic that reveals that Charlie and Roop joined Immortan Joe's army after the End.

* BadBoss: Unsurprisingly for a raider, Toecutter terrorizes and kills his own men just as often as he does the civilians.
* {{Badass Biker}}: He's an awful human being but he's a sinister and competent bike rider.

* TragicVillain: He clearly mentally ill, and even shows that he has ''some'' standards, but the almost-Apocalypse isn't exactly rife with opportunities for treatment, and full of bad role models.

* FauxAffablyEvil: His polite actions towards Max's wife and Johnny can quickly turn to violence at a moment's notice.

* FamedInStory: He's regarded as a legend among Toecutter's gang
* GlassCannon: In both personality and talent, he's flying high until he runs into someone who matches/surpasses his skills, then immediately crumbles.

* TragicVillain: He clearly mentally ill, and even shows that he has ''some'' standards, but the post-Apocalypse isn't exactly rife with opportunities for treatment, and full of bad role models.

* DoesntLikeGuns: Zigzagged. Upon being threatened by May wielding a shotgun, he says, "[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Ahh!]] I hate guns!" However, earlier in the film, he uses a shotgun to threaten Johnny.

* EvilMentor: Dialogue between himself and Bubba shows that Toecutter sees the potential for Johnny to become another [[FamedInStory Nightrider]]. Zanetti does ''not'' seeing Johnny as just another scag.

!!Nightrider
The first of Toecutter's gang to appear (and die) on-screen.
* BadassBoast: Ninety percent of his dialogue consists of this. The other ten percent consists of raw despair.
* BadassDriver: Better than your typical pursuit cop anyway. Toecutter regards him as a legend.
* CopKiller: According to the newscast about his death, this is why he was in custody, having run over an officer involved in a roadblock.
* DespairEventHorizon: Crosses when Max demonstrates that he's just as skilled a driver, if not more, than he is, and just as willing to take risks.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: A quick shot shows that he's driving barefoot.
* GlassCannon: In both personality and talent, he's flying high until he runs into someone who matches/surpasses his skills, then immediately crumbles.
* MoodSwinger: Goes from laughing hysterically to sobbing, possibly due to drugs.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: He broke out of police custody, stole an officer's car, and even picked up a lady along the way.
* OhCrap: Once he realizes he can't shake Max, his hyper-cheerful attitude takes a complete 180.

* CopKiller: We don't see it onscreen, but it's mentioned over the radio that he's killed an MFP officer, which is why he's driving an MFP Pursuit Special. The news report after the opening chase mentions that this occurred while he was being arraigned for killing ''another'' MFP officer.

* WaxingLyrical: His rant, quoted under LargeHam, [[ShoutOut quotes the songs "Rocker" and "Live Wire" by]] {{Music/ACDC}}.

* DespairEvenHorizon: Crosses when Max demonstrates that he's just as skilled a driver, if not more, than he is, and just as willing to take risks.

* {{Badass Gay}}: The chief of police and implied to be gay.

A road police officer in an Australian town during the dying years of civilisation, in the first film, he survives the subsequent Apocalypse and becomes an aimless drifter afterwards. Happily married to a wife, Jessie, and with an infant son in the first film, it is their deaths at the hand of the Toecutter and his biker gang that lead to his becoming a wandering road warrior.

* WalkingTheEarth: After taking out the Toecutter's gang, he begins wandering the wastes instead of going home.

* WaxingLyrical: His rant, quoted under LargeHam, [[ShoutOut quotes the song "Rocker" by]] {{Music/ACDC}}.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: He wears short blonde hair and is a major antagonist.

* CopKiller: We don't see it onscreen, but it's mentioned over the radio that he's killed an MFP officer, which is why he's driving an MFP Pursuit Special.

* DomesticAbuser: His relationship with Johnny is fraught with insults, humiliation, and even violence.
* {{Faux Affably Evil}}: His polite actions towards Max's wife and Johnny can quickly turn to violence at a moment's notice.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: As seen when he slams the breaks, the Nightrider for some reason does not wear any shoes.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Max leaves the MFP, he's not seen in the film again. A cut scene reveals that Toecutter's gang assaulted the MFP headquarters and killed him, along with Charlie and Roop.

* BadassDriver: A classic movie example. Due to the nature of the franchise, it's practically a given. It's notable in the first film how easily he takes out the vast majority of the biker gang in one fell swoop and how he handles the truck in the second during the final chase, even able to fire a shotgun one handed while driving.

* NiceGuy: Despite his womanizing ways and vulgar sense of humor, Goose is a nice guy who's full of life. He really shows this when he finds a raped and traumatized girl at the hands of Toecutter's gang. When he finds her, he tries to calmly convince her, he's not gonna hurt her and it works.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He makes Goose crash, and laughs at his misery, but get's extremely distressed at Toecutter's order to burn him. Johnny's refusal makes him angry and Toecutter attacks Johnny, demeaning and hitting him. In the scuffle the match is tossed onto the car and Goose goes up in flames.

* {{Badass Biker}}: He's an awful human being but, he's a sinister and competent bike rider.

* WideEyedIdealist: He believes that in order to keep the peace in a falling apart Australia, he has to inspire heroism. Hence why he tries to keep Max on the job regardless of the latter's objections.

* DirtyCoward: Like Johnny The Boy, the Nightrider is really a pathetic coward who immediatly breaks down and begs for his life when he no longer has the advantage.