History YMMV / MadMaxFuryRoad

** The mighty Furiosa's clan was named... [[FailOSuckyname Swaddle Dog]].

* AwardSnub: Creator/CharlizeTheron missing out on even a nomination for Best Actress at the Golden Globes and at the Academy; Nicholas Hoult not being nominated as Best Supporting Actor; Music/JunkieXL not getting a Best Score nomination; and, of course, the film not winning any "big" rewards like aforementioned Best Director and Best Picture.

* StreisandEffect: An article in [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3jq8x/awful-misogynist-website-return-of-kings-has-finally-been-shut-down the infamous woman-hating blog "Return Of Kings"]][[note]]The site is also known for claiming rape shouldn't be illegal on private property, for instance[[/note]] called for a boycott of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', accusing it of being "feminist propaganda" and that the filmmakers "would destroy a classic of American culture", implying they were newcomers to the series. ''Film/MadMax'' is, of course, ''[[UsefulNotes/AustralianNewWave Australian]]'' and proud of it, [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer and the film is written and directed by the original creator.]] This call to boycott had a huge impact in the media, mainly to make fun of how stupid that idea was. The end result was to draw attention to the film as a [[FeministFantasy feminist masterpiece]] in quarters that may not otherwise have noticed it, and draw attention to the website as a hate site, which probably had something to do with its "voluntary hiatus" some time later (along with being officially listed as a hate group by the SPLC).

* WinTheCrowd:
** The trailer was very well-received, as was the announcement that the film would largely use practical effects over CGI.
** The movie itself. The ''Mad Max'' movies, as wonderfully ridiculous as they were, were considered a product of the '80s. Almost ''no one'' expected ''Mad Max: Fury Road'' to be even a fraction as successful as it ended up being. But it ''did.'' And it has created a new generation of fans for an iconic series.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The movie is not subtle about its [[http://www.shakesville.com/2015/05/liss-and-ana-talk-about-mad-max.html feminist]] message. The bad guys are all men. Every woman is a good guy. Even the title character is a SupportingProtagonist to a strong, independent woman who ultimately takes power from a patriarchal regime. An early ArmorPiercingQuestion is "who killed the world?" with the implication that it's the men in power who are the cause of the CrapsackWorld of the setting.

* FanPreferredCouple: Max/Furiosa, to the surprise of absolutely no one. Notable in that there are really no pairings to rival this one, at least not involving the same two characters. The only other viable candidates for Max are the wives ([[SexSlave which would be all sorts of inappropriate]]) or someone else in Furiosa's tribe ([[ShipsThatPassInTheNight hampered by limited interaction]]), so he ends up developing the most chemistry with her. But since he decides to keep WanderingTheEarth rather than settle down, the only other avenue for seeing them together is fanfic.

** Ace, the OldSoldier of the Warboys who defends Furiosa's convoy against the Buzzards before realizing she's trying to escape Joe.

** The Five Wives themselves are pretty popular for being well-developed, well-acted DamselOutOfDistress characters who pull their own weight rather than just relying on Max and Furiosa to do everything.

** The out-of-context subtitle [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FfrCeKaGSj0/Ve5OK45TZVI/AAAAAAAAIA0/rX7ObEtMADE/w1174-h884/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-09-07%2Bat%2B7.55.18%2BPM.png "Men yelling indistinctly"]] (often complete with a non-plussed screenshot of Furiosa) is getting serious rounds as shorthand for [[{{GIFT}} the realities of the internet]].

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** The group are surrounded by sand and at one point Nux points out that they could escape by climbing to high ground. [[Franchise/StarWars Anakin Skywalker]] wouldn't like to be on the Fury Road.

** [[OneSceneWonder Morsov]], the War Boy who provides our introduction to the [[CrazyAwesome impressively suicidal insanity]] of Citadel culture. [[DyingMomentOfAwesome Truly, he died historic.]]

** Morsov, a War Boy who gets shot in the head with a crossbow before chroming himself and dive-bombing the Buzzards who shot him. His death is given such ceremony from those around, and it serves as a microcosm of the batshit CrazyAwesome mindset the War Boys live and die by. In their words: "WITNESS HIM!"

** A recursive one, since ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorkamorka Gorkamorka]]'' is essentially "The Road Warrior: the Tabletop Game", but if you imagine the War Boys as ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'''s Orks [[BloodKnight (which]] [[CarFu is]] [[RatedMForManly not]] [[LargeHam exactly]] [[CrazyAwesome hard]]) then this becomes the best ''Gorkamorka'' adaptation ever made. Even moreso if you read the Digganobz expansion, where pale humans with an affinity for technology really, ''really'' want to be orks and act accordingly.

* CrazyAwesome:

* Showing off his wealth, the People Eater rides a War Rig with a huge tank full of fuel. That's right, his vehicle of choice is a massive firebomb just waiting to go off [[spoiler: which it does]].

* {{Anvilicious}}: The movie is not subtle about its [[http://www.shakesville.com/2015/05/liss-and-ana-talk-about-mad-max.html feminist]] message. The bad guys are all men. Every woman is a good guy. Even the title character is a SupportingProtagonist to a strong, independent woman who ultimately takes power from a patriarchal regime. An early ArmorPiercingQuestion is "who killed the world?" with the implication that it's the men in power who are the cause of the Crapsack World of the setting.
** It's stretched out over the whole plot of the film so it might not be quite as in-your-face obvious but the overall message of the film seems to be [[spoiler: you can't run away from your problems, and if you try you'll only run into more; better to confront them and try to solve them.]]

** The Buller Farmer, the LargeHam TriggerHappy gunman who is irritated at Joe for dragging him into the chase in the first place. He has quite a bit of fan art out there.

* WhatAnIdiot: In a post-apocalyptic desert, everyone wastes water like crazy. It's understandable for Joe, who just wants to play god and not actually provide his subjects with it. It also somehow makes sense at the end, in the euphoria. But throughout the road war, the fugitives in the War Rig never bother to spare the water they have. Even if it's a quite lot (the war rig's cistern filled), they have no idea how long they'll be spending out with no other drinkable water.

'''Immortan Joe:''' [[BigNo OHHHHH NOOOOOO!]]

** [[LackOfEmpathy " DO NOT, MY FRIENDS, BECOME ADDICTED TO WATER!]] [[CondescendingCompassion IT WILL TAKE HOLD OF YOU, AND YOU WILL RESENT ITS ABSENCE!"]]

** [[LackOfEmpathy " DO NOT, MY FRIENDS, BECOME ADDICTED TO WATER!]] [[CondescendingCompassion IT WILL TAKE HOLD OF YOU, AND YOU WILL RESENT ITS ABSENCE!"]],

** Corpus Colossus, Joe's GenuisCripple son who [[KnowWhenToFoldEm knows better than to resist at the end]].

** The Buller Farmer, the LargeHam TiggerHappy gunman who is irritated at Joe for dragging him into the chase in the first place. He has quite a bit of fan art out there.

* HesJustHiding: Nux's death in the War Rig's destruction is never entirely confirmed, and some claim that the Rig's hardiness might leave him with a slim chance of survival. Unlikely, but given the series consists of disconnected tales and rumours with variable timelines, it's possible he could appear again.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: the Rock Riders might be ruthless bandits but that's just par for thel course [[CrapsackWorld in this setting]] and thete's nothing to indicate that they didn't deal fair and square with Furiosa before she expanded the deal.