Line #42 YMMV/MadMaxFuryRoad


1	* AccidentalAesop: Running away from your problems doesn't make them disappear, and the best way to solve them is tackling them directly.
2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
3	** [[spoiler:Was Joe's body torn apart out of hatred... or for relics, having finally ascended? Or maybe it was just sheer [[ImAHumanitarian desperation for food]]. ]]
4	** Joe's level of attachment to his wives and the nature of that attachment is seen very differently by different viewers. Of particular note is his response to the [[spoiler:death of Angharad and her baby]]; entries on this very page cannot agree as to whether he feels and expressed genuine grief over [[spoiler:her loss, and that of their child]] or is instead completely disinterested outside of the lost material investment. The fact that his face is covered by a mask leaves his emotions open to a great deal of interpretation.
5	** Does Joe truly believe in the neo-Viking cult he leads, or did he simply make it up and play the part? Is he a case of BelievingTheirOwnLies? If he is pretending, then is he doing it out of a lust for power, or because he believes himself to be a necessary evil?
6	** Did Furiosa help the Wives escape the Citadel out of compassion, or did she do so to exact revenge against Immortan Joe?
7	*** Or was it a twofer?
8	** Were the Vuvalini really the peaceful society the remnants claim it to be, or does the old womens' eagerness to kill and reaction to the Dag's joke about thinking they'd be above all that suggest a warlike culture like every other faction in the outback?
9	** The Buzzards. While their overall appearance (and the SchrodingersCanon tie-in comics) cause them to have a pretty bad vibe, in the film itself, the only people they're seen attacking are those from the citadel (and a heavily armed convoy at that), possibly implying some sort of feud between the factions as opposed to simple banditry. Given the Buzzards implied status as TheRemnant from Russia, and Joe's veteran status, either one of them could be the initial aggressor against the other out of lingering hostility from the war.
10	** Furiosa looks briefly uncomfortable right after Morsov's HeroicSacrifice. Is she merely concerned about the success of her escape plan, or does she feel guilty for getting so many of her ObliviouslyEvil escorts killed?
11	* AluminumChristmasTrees:
12	** The grenade-tipped spears used by the War Boys are similar to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spar_torpedo spar torpedos,]] which are also bombs on sticks that were used by boats as a means to attack other boats and ships. They also resemble a weapon used by Japanese forces during WWII called a "lunge mine" or "anti-tank spear". They're basically ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-explosive_anti-tank_warhead HEAT warhead]] on the end of a long bamboo pole. The soldier was expected to lie in the foliage next to the road, waiting for an enemy tank to roll by, at which point he'd jab the hull with his spear, [[SuicideAttack blowing up both the tank and the soldier]] -- essentially, exactly the way that Morsov uses them. Similar devices were also used by many armies since World War I to clear barbed-wire and minefields, they were known as Bangalore Torpedoes. Unlike the lunge mine, these were not a suicide weapon; the intent was that a soldier could push them into the obstacle from behind cover, or even throw them javelin-style, then withdraw to a safe distance and set them off using an attached detonator wire, without needing to expose himself to enemy fire to place the charge directly. (Which is in some ways the exact opposite of how the War Boys use them.)
13	** Yes, drummers were very important in the history of warfare to keep up charges and transmit information where words get easily garbled or drowned out by battle. However, having them on monster trucks, backed by a mute jumpsuited electric-guitar player whose guitar spews flames, is purely RuleOfCool.
14	* {{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 represent the forces of fossil fuels (Gastown), guns (The Bullet Farm) and war (the Citadel). They 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 responsible for the CrapsackWorld of the setting.
15	* 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 Best Director and Best Picture. On the plus side, this trope is also inverted, as the movie won ''6'' Oscars, more than any other film that year, even though the awards were purely technical.
16	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/JunkieXL's exhilarating score plays a huge role in fleshing out the action of the movie and amplifying the madness even further. Bonus points for the ''diegetic'' music played by the Doof Warrior on his double-necked flamethrower guitar.
17	%% The film's BrokenBase entry has been a matter of some controversy; please do not alter it without consulting the relevant Discussion thread. Thank you.
18	* BrokenBase:
19	** The film's audience is torn asunder by factions divided by their reading of the film's stance on gender politics. On one side you have a crowd hailing it as a FeministFantasy, another in the middle calling it "not-misogynist" but not outright feminist, and a very vocal faction on the other end claiming it's outright misandrist.
20	** Whether it is as good as the original trilogy. There are many people who think ''Fury Road'' was just an overblown cartoonish flick while others consider it the best movie in the series. The competition is especially tight between ''Fury Road'' and ''Road Warrior''.
21	** Max as the SupportingProtagonist. This is either a bold and clever choice to give focus to a new character, or an upstaging of the established hero which hurts the movie. Others claim this isn't especially different from his roles in ''Road Warrior'' and ''Thunderdome''.
22	%%** The idea of there being a [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black-and-white version]] of the movie. George Miller stated in an interview that it's better if the movie was black-and-white, but the fact that it's pretty much the same movie but without the color and dialogue might have people disagree otherwise. The black-and-white version not being available from the first home release doesn't help things either.
23	%% The film's Broken Base entry has been a matter of some controversy; please do not alter it without consulting the relevant Discussion thread. Thank you.
24	* CompleteMonster: [[WastelandWarlord Immortan Joe]] is an [[EvilOldFolks elderly]], [[EvilCripple sickly]], brutal tyrant who has forged a kingdom in the Wasteland. In the prequel comic, it is revealed Joe was a marauder who murdered others for their supplies, enslaving the women and killing the men and children. Upon founding his kingdom, Joe selects people to join it, but forces the women to become {{breeding slave}}s so their milk may be harvested, and the men to run along treadmills to power the turbines. Joe indoctrinates the strong young men into the War Boys: drug-addicted cultist fanatics who long to die in his cause. The most beautiful women are kept as Joe's personal [[SexSlave sex slaves]] and forced to bear his children; after three failed attempts at bearing a healthy boy, they find themselves exiled to certain death in the desert wastes. When several of his wives escape, Joe spares no resource to hunt them down and return them, though he is willing to kill one rather than allow her to be rescued, showing that he views them solely as his property.
25	* CrazyIsCool:
26	** The War Boyz: berserk, half-naked suicidal warriors painted white who suck up gasoline in their mouths and spit it into the intake of their junkyard-tanks to overclock the engines, wielding grenade-tipped spears. And they ''kick ass''. They're ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' Orks, only lacking green skin and [[MoreDakka not having]] ''[[MoreDakka quite]]'' [[MoreDakka as much dakka]].
27	** Nux himself, too, in spite of his ButtMonkey tendencies early in the movie. Of all the War Boys, he gets closest to the War Rig, with a man strapped to the front of his car, and manages to drive through a giant lightning sandstorm where everyone else was sucked up into a tornado or set on fire. Remember how he managed to wrestle that wheel from Slit on the basis that he was the driver? Yeah, Nux ''deserves'' to be driver for the shit he manages to pull through the movie. Did we mention he's terminally ill?
28	** Coma the Doof Warrior. Rides atop a massive rolling amplifier, shredding out mean riffs on a double necked guitar/flamethrower like a beefed-up cavalier. Necessary? No. Awesome? '''HELL YEAH!'''
29	%% This wording of DesignatedHero has been agreed upon in Discussion; please do not alter it without consulting the relevant Discussion thread.
30	* DesignatedHero: The Vuvalini, portrayed as the most heroic faction, prey on travelers and, from what little we see of them, seem to have an insular culture and a high distrust of men. Part of this can be chalked up to the necessities of survival in a harsh environment, the overall patriarchal domination of this world (see: Anvilicious trope) leading to its destruction. It's certainly possible that [[spoiler: absent that pressure, they'll rule the Citadel in a more egalitarian manner than Joe's regime]], but it's left up to audience interpretation.
31	%% Do not restore Draco In Leather Pants without consulting the relevant Discussion thread. Thank you.
32	* EnsembleDarkHorse:
33	** Nux. Mostly for Nicholas Hoult giving us a funny and [[LargeHam hamtastic]] -- "[[MemeticMutation OH WHAT A DAY! WHAT A LOVELY DAY!]]" -- performance, his [[BadassDriver driving skills]], his [[WalkingShirtlessScene lack of a shirt]] and [[spoiler:his HeelFaceTurn and HeroicSacrifice.]]
34	** The [[ThePowerOfRock Doof Warrior]]. Battle rages around him, cars blow sky high, adrenaline-pumped warriors fight to the death on his stage and what does he do? He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsirxA_cso4 keeps on a-shreddin']] his kick-ass ''[[RuleOfCool flamethrower-guitar]]'', that's what he does!
35	** [[OneSceneWonder Morsov]], the War Boy who provides our introduction to the [[CrazyIsCool impressively suicidal insanity]] of Citadel culture. [[DyingMomentOfAwesome Truly, he died historic.]]
36	** That one polecat assassin known only as "Black Mask". He is totally silent, wears a creepy baby doll head on the back of his mask, and shows [[BossInMookClothing unusual toughness and deadliness]] for a mook. He manages to shoot Max with an arrow which only fails to pierce his skull due to a lucky hallucination that made him raise his hand; when Furiosa stabs him and he gets thrown off the rig by the Vuvalini, he clings to the vehicle, climbs back and [[spoiler: near fatally stabs Furiosa with the blade she drove into his shoulder]].
37	** Despite [[spoiler:dying about halfway through the movie]], BadassPacifist Angharad is the best-remembered of the fan-favorite Five Wives for many fans. Some people consider her to have one of the best performances, if not the best, in a movie full of great performances.
38	** Ace, the OldSoldier of the War Boys who defends Furiosa's convoy against the Buzzards before realizing she's trying to escape Joe. Despite only appearing during that sequence, Ace is better-liked than some members of Joe's faction who last the entire film, and he has a decent amount of fan art.
39	** The Dag is one of the less important of the Five Wives, but many fans consider her to be the best of the bunch due to her colorful quirkiness and moving interactions with the Keeper of the Seeds.
40	** Corpus Colossus, Joe's GeniusCripple son who [[KnowWhenToFoldEm knows better than to resist at the end]].
41	** The Valkyrie, the ActionGirl of the Vuvalini who was ChildhoodFriends with Furiosa.
42	** The Bullet Farmer, the LargeHam TriggerHappy gunman who is initially irritated at Joe for dragging him into the chase in the first place, but later eats up all the scenery he can find when he goes blind and discharges every bullet and rocket at his disposal while playing [[Music/GiuseppeVerdi Dies Irae]]. Understandably, he has quite a bit of entertainment value and fan art out there.
43	** He's only around for a few minutes, but the Rock Rider Chief has a lot of fans for his BadassBiker appearance and driving skills, as well as how he's less AxCrazy than the other gang leaders. Plenty of people find him UnintentionallySympathetic in his fight against Furiosa.
44	* EpilepticTrees:
45	** The Max in this film is actually the Feral Kid from ''The Road Warrior'' as an adult having taken his hero's name, neatly explaining the actor change and the long gap between films. There are a quite a few actors and directors who support this theory, notably including Creator/QuentinTarantino.
46	** Alternatively, a popular fan theory is that Max is immortal.
47	** Given that he's played by the same actor as Toecutter from the first movie, some fans believe that Immortan Joe ''is'' Toecutter, having survived his apparent horrific death after being run over by a truck. It would certainly explain where Joe's horrible injuries came from...
48	* EvenBetterSequel: Bucking the trend of sequels/reboots/remakes/revivals that get flak for [[{{Sequelitis}} being lesser films]] (or simply for their nature), ''Fury Road'' is widely agreed to be one of the most successful series revivals in recent memory, ''and'' better than the last film ''Beyond Thunderdome''. It's currently sitting at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, the same as ''The Road Warrior'' which was the previously uncontested best of the series. For comparison, that's two percentage points ''higher'' than ''Film/SchindlersList''. It's also the highest-grossing entry of the series by far (even adjusting for inflation). In addition, it's the first in the series to receive ''any'' Oscar attention, let alone a nomination for Best Picture. Matter of fact, only weeks after its release, people were already calling it one of the greatest action movies ever made.
49	* EvilIsCool:
50	** The War Boys in general have gotten this due to their love of rock and roll, loud, faster cars and fearlessness.
51	** Coma the Doof Warrior, a guitar player that [[{{Determinator}} never stops playing]] his rock music for the War Boys.
52	** The [[GunNut Bullet]] [[EvilIsHammy Farmer]]. For crying out loud, the man has ''bullets for dentures.''
53	* FandomEnragingMisconception:
54	** Call ''Fury Road'' a knockoff of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' and you'll be met with a number of ''Mad Max'' fans who will inform you just how wrong you are as far as [[OlderThanTheyThink which property inspired which]].
55	** There's also a distinct Japanese variation; older anime fans and manga-ka ''will'' correct younger fans who believe ''Fury Road'' was inspired by ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' -- truth being the exact same thing as the ''Borderlands'' example, that the latter was very much inspired by the former's predecessors.
56	* FandomRivalry:
57	** Fans of ''Fury Road'' and ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' have been incredibly bitter toward one another with the films being released only a couple weeks apart, with the common arguments being over which had better action and story overall.
58	** ''Film/PitchPerfect 2'' was released on the same day and received a higher box office total during their opening weekend. Fans of ''Fury Road'' have a lot to say about that.
59	** At least on social media websites such as Tumblr or Website/YouTube, there is some competition between fans of ''Fury Road'' and ''Film/{{Tomorrowland}}'' and as to whether or not the idea of a hopeful future is a better message, or whether apocalyptic fiction like ''Mad Max'' is better.
60	*** Though some reviewers have [[http://dquinn.net/hope-and-redemption-in-mad-max-fury-road-and-disneys-tomorrowland/ pointed out]] that the core message is the same; having great dreams aren't enough -- you have to go out and make them reality.
61	---->'''Max:''' Hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what is broken, you'll go insane.\
62	'''Nix:''' In every moment, there is the possibility of a better future, but you people won't believe it! And because you won't believe it, you won't do what is necessary to make it a reality. So you dwell on this terrible future and you resign yourselves to it. And for one reason; because that future doesn't ask anything of you, ''today.''
63	*** In a similar vein, both movies make the claim that though bad things have a source -- Immortan Joe, the Monitor -- and removing that source will improve the world, the ''real'' reason bad things happen is because most people are too apathetic to resist it.
64	---->'''Nux:''' We're not to blame!\
65	'''Angharad:''' ''Then who killed the world?''\
66	'''Nix:''' You ''gave up.'' That's not the ''Monitor's'' fault. That's ''yours.''
67	* FandomSpecificPlot: [[spoiler:Nux and/or Angharad]] surviving is a common fanfic divergence point for fans of the film.
68	* FountainOfMemes:
69	** The marketing campaign seemed to be deliberately going for MemeticMutation for Nux's "OH, what a ''day''! ''WHAT A LOVELY DAY!''" (It worked.)
70	** A spray can using silver color for pastry cooking has had [[http://www.amazon.com/Wilton-710-5521-Silver-Color-Mist/dp/B005KTVG86 its Amazon reviews taken over by giddy War Boy fans]] asking if it makes them "ride eternal, shiny and chrome."
71	** Taken even further; now the "Frequently Bought Together" feature for the spray shows that many customers are buying it alongside [[http://www.amazon.com/Aviator-Motorcycle-helmet-Goggles-TMS-33-6/dp/B007ZHZ7EK/ref=pd_bxgy_79_text_y a pair of war Boy-worthy driving goggles]] and [[http://www.amazon.com/White-Body-Paint-Net-WT/dp/B00767Q6CQ/ref=pd_sim_79_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=31UvAfitmiL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=04WM78SCMVQA9SH1D3GX white body paint]].
72	** Enter a search for "Aqua Cola" and check out the Coke posters it's been attached to.
73	** Pretty much anything [[EvilIsHammy Joe]] says:
74	*** "I AM YOUR REDEEMER! IT IS BY MY HAND THAT YOU WILL RISE FROM THE ASHES OF THIS WORLD!"
75	*** "DO NOT, MY FRIENDS, BECOME ADDICTED TO WATER! FOR IT WILL TAKE HOLD OF YOU, AND YOU WILL RESENT ITS ABSENCE!"
76	*** ''' "MEDIOCRE!" '''
77	%%** The War Boy culture is one massive fountain of memes.
78	%%** It's fair to say that the Doof Warrior is this by now.
79	* FriendlyFandoms:
80	** One started up with feminist ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' fans when Rey, and the film in general, was attacked by the same groups that objected to Furiosa.
81	** ''Fury Road'' fans have become quite amicable with fans of ''Film/BladeRunner2049'', thanks to both of them being [[DevelopmentHell long]]-[[SavedFromDevelopmentHell delayed]] sequels to iconic '80s sci-fi franchises that haven't had a movie in over 30 years. Neither film was expected to [[ToughActToFollow live up to the legacy]] established by their predecessors, but upon release, were greeted with [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail overwhelmingly positive reviews]] by critics and fans alike, and even picked up some Academy Awards in the process.
82	* GeniusBonus: The Citadel is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_empire hydraulic empire]] in the most literal possible sense.
83	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct:
84	** All of the Wives, but it's probably safe to say that ''no one'' should be deriding Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as just another talentless model-turned actor (for her previous role in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', replacing Megan Fox as the main character's girlfriend) after this movie. She expertly portrays Angharad's intelligence, compassion, and bravery as the charismatic natural leader of the Wives and leaves quite an impression despite the fact that [[spoiler: she dies only halfway through the movie.]]
85	** To a lesser extent, no one's going to be calling Nicholas Hoult just another bland pretty face actor anymore (say it with us, guys: ''[[MemeticMutation "OH WHAT A DAY! WHAT A LOVELY DAY!"]]'')
86	* HesJustHiding:
87	** [[spoiler: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.
88	** Likewise, while the Doof Warrior's guitar gets flung forward, we never actually see him getting crushed, and it's not impossible that he may have been alive under there.
89	** There are those who think that Ace and some of the Polecats could have survived being thrown to the desert floor during the chase sequences.
90	* HilariousInHindsight:
91	** There have been a lot of comparisons to ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', especially with Brendan [=McCarthy=] co-authoring the script. Mark Sexton, who did the art on the tie in comics, would later do the art for a ''Judge Dredd'' story. Bonus points for the inclusion of a ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' poster in Max's backstory comic.
92	** Tom Hardy battles a massive man reliant on some breathing apparatus and figures out that he should take it apart first -- basically reversing the situation when Tom Hardy was in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. The very last scene is a massive platform lifting the {{Deuteragonist}} out of view, just like the final shot of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
93	** Knowing that one of the many [[TroubledProduction production difficulties]] over the course of the film's [[DevelopmentHell 30 year gestation period]] required the crew to move to filming in Namibia [[note]]because a sudden rainstorm and growth of beautiful green plant life [[RealityIsUnrealistic meant the Australian outback didn't look bleak or harsh enough afterwards]][[/note]], then the plot point of [[spoiler:the Green Place being dried-up and dead]] is hilarious because it's exactly the ''opposite'' of what happened in real life.
94	** Abbey Lee and Courtney Eaton would later star in ''Film/GodsOfEgypt'', another film involving an extended trek across the desert, where rescuing the latter's character is part of the plot.
95	** Zoe Kravitz filmed this before starring in ''{{Film/Divergent}}'', another post-apocalyptic story where she plays a civilian who decides to become an ActionGirl.
96	* HoYay:
97	** The Dag and Cheedo are in nearly constant contact with each other all through the movie, frequently holding hands; it's never clear whether they're meant to be a couple or if the Dag is more like a protective big sister to Cheedo.
98	** Nux and Slit. Their introductory scene has them naked from the chest up (well, the usual for a War Boy) butting their heads and grunting at each other. Then there's Slit's rage at Nux "traitoring" Immortan Joe.
99	* HypeBacklash: With the overwhelming praise the movie got, this was bound to happen. For some people it's just an okay action movie without much going on in terms of story and character.
100	* JerkassWoobie: The War Boys, our toxically destructive villains. At first glance you might dismiss them as nothing more than deplorable savages. However, it's soon made clear they're yet another group of Joe's victims, all being indoctrinated to blindly follow him whilst pumped up on drugs and lies. Not to mention, most -- if not all -- of them are terminally ill, and made to believe it's their calling to beat out their diseases by going out in a blaze of glory.
101	* JustHereForGodzilla:
102	** While the movie is universally acclaimed, for some fans it's specifically Furiosa's badass character that makes it remarkable.
103	** For others, they just wanted ''actual'' explosions and practical effects without any obvious CGI that is common in many modern action movies.
104	* LoveToHate:
105	** Immortan Joe is an absolutely disgusting CompleteMonster, which makes him fit this trope perfectly and makes his KarmicDeath all the more satisfying.
106	** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The People Eater]] is a [[FatBastard fat]], slovenly, cowardly and thoroughly disgusting creep who wears a very [[FanDisservice off-]][[BondageIsBad putting]] suit with cut-out nipple rings, is extremely unpleasant to look at and might very well be a [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibal]] given his gout and the hideous growths on his legs. He was creepy before, but [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon callously running down]] [[TooCoolToLive Valkyrie]] while she protects one of her fallen sisters]] and ''[[EvilLaugh laughing]]'' while he did so had audiences everywhere baying for his blood. [[spoiler:When Max used him as a BulletproofHumanShield and blew up his truck a few minutes later, the cheers were ''deafening''.]] It's enhanced by his one redeeming quality as the OnlySaneMan on the villain's side, who thinks Immortan is wasting his time and should have just let them ''go'' and keep the status quo.[[note]]He's proven right. Had Immortan Joe just let them go, either they're forced to go on an endless trek into the nothingness or come back to the Citadel. Either way, they lose.[[/note]]
107	* [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bitch]]: [[FromNobodyToNightmare Imperator Furiosa]], once a ruthless raider and Imperator in service of the monstrous Immortan Joe, risks everything to escape his service and steals his prized wives to hurt her [[ArchEnemy former master and tormentor]]. Betraying and killing [[BadBoss her own War Boys]] to flee Joe's convoy, Furiosa eludes him with the help of Max to return to her old clan, the Vuvalini and their Green Place. Upon learning the Green Place no longer exists, she and Max opt to instead double back and take Immortan Joe's undefended citadel with Furiosa herself [[GeniusBruiser outwitting and killing the tyrant]] before presenting his corpse to claim control over the Citadel.
108	* MemeticMutation:
109	** The [[http://feministmadmax.tumblr.com/ "Feminist Mad Max"]] meme. Kind of like "Good Guy Greg", but focused on Max respectfully helping Furiosa.
110	** "WITNESS!!!" [[note]](when a War Boy is about to go out in suicide attack and his comrades answer to him)[[/note]] Several people have been responding to [[spoiler: Nux's HeroicSacrifice]] with variations of "I will witness you!" and "I have witnessed you!"
111	** Spraying [[http://www.amazon.com/Wilton-710-5521-Silver-Color-Mist/dp/B005KTVG86/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1432691879&sr=8-1&keywords=wilton+silver+color+mist Color Spray]] to be all Shiny and Chrome when you enter Valhalla. The word "Chrome" being used to mean anything good or cool is also on the rise.
112	** The iconic shot of Max [[https://prodwpids-idrivesafely.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mad-max-fury-road-pole-vault-gif.gif swinging on a pole]] whilst [[StuffBlowingUp everything explodes]] in the background.
113	** It's become popular to state on online message boards that the movie is actually a non-fiction documentary depicting a normal day in [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Australia.]] [[note]] Going along with Australia's MemeticBadass DeathWorld reputation online. [[/note]]
114	** Thanks to Immortan Joe, declarations of "'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-FMvt83fA MEDIOCRE!]]'''" have become popular among fans of the film, especially when used against the movie's detractors.
115	** [[LackOfEmpathy "DO NOT, MY FRIENDS, BECOME ADDICTED TO WATER!]] [[CondescendingCompassion IT WILL TAKE HOLD OF YOU, AND YOU WILL RESENT ITS ABSENCE!"]] Adding to this, it's common to caption pictures of Nestlé or its CEO with this quote, because not only is the company responsible for extracting water from drought-stricken areas for their bottled water, but one of their CEO's outright said that water being a human right was an extremist position.
116	** The out-of-context subtitle [[https://web.archive.org/web/20180625223111/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 [[InternetJerk the realities of the internet]].
117	** The [[https://youtu.be/CtZSqc5LdY0?t=164 Bullet Farmer]]'s [[ChewingTheScenery over-the-top speech]] after [[spoiler: he gets blinded.]]
118	** Captioning extremely silly [[MacGyvering MacGyvered]] vehicles with "Gonna die historic on the Fury Road."
119	** "[[https://media.giphy.com/media/K0AnEB2t2EM/giphy.gif Uh, Uh... that's bait.]]" [[note]]A .gif of Max's reaction to an ObviousTrap has taken on a life of its own in message board circles, usually used as a way to point out Flame Bait or obvious trolling[[/note]]
120	** [[PlayingAgainstType From the director of]] ''Film/{{Babe}}'' [[PlayingAgainstType and]] ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'' [[note]] It's become fairly popular to note the irony of the fact that a blisteringly popular, explosively successful, R-Rated violent action extravaganza was directed by a 70-year old man who hasn't made a film rated higher than PG since ''Film/TheWitchesOfEastwick'' in ''1987''.[[/note]]
121	** "He was scanning the horizon!": used as a reaction to people getting overexcited at their crush/idol/etc. looking at them. Especially popular with the "Senpai noticed me!" meme.
122	%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample ** "I live, I die, I live again!"
123	* MisaimedFandom: The War Boys have garnered this. The movie doesn't hide that their culture is completely toxic and self-destructive, but they've become a FountainOfMemes regardless.
124	* {{Moe}}:
125	** Nux, due to how he's DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife, his emotionally stunted behavior, and his ButtMonkey moments.
126	** Splendid Angahard, due to her TeamMom and ActualPacifist moments.
127	** Capable, at least when she's being compassionate toward Nux. Her BrainySpecs goggles help as well.
128	** The Dag for some, due to her hamminess and her emotional conversation with the Keeper of the Seeds about the hope the seeds represent and The Dag's mixed feelings about motherhood.
129	* MoralEventHorizon: The People Eater has one during the FinalBattle [[spoiler:when he runs over Valkyrie while chuckling to himself. He even appears to be getting off on it.]]
130	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=970QwX8uCV4 The War Rig's horn]]. It just sounds so ''powerful'', like a cross between the roar of some giant animal and an electric guitar riff. Going along with the above, if you imagine the sort of horn an [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Ork WAAAGH!]] would put on a Wartrukk, ''that's it''.
131	%%* {{Narm}}
132	%%** This exchange when [[spoiler: Immortan Joe cradles the corpse of Splendid Angharad]]:
133	%%--->'''War Boy:''' Are you all right?\
134	%%'''Immortan Joe:''' ONNNNN! ONNNN!
135	%%** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150623195201/https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/tmb0fd5vibmbv7gozhoe.png This still]] of Furiosa may count due to her over-the-top expression.
136	* NarmCharm: The entire film runs on it, as the insanely messed-up over the top setting and characters would be ridiculous if it weren't so [[CrapsackWorld terrifying]] and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome badass]]. Case in point: The Bullet Farmer chasing the War Rig. An old man dressed entirely in bandoliers (including a ''judge's wig''), riding on a sports car with tank treads, firing [[MoreDakka an absurd amount of shots at nothing]] and [[LargeHam screaming at the top of his lungs]] while epic classical music plays. It's so over-the-top that it blows past {{Narm}} and circles back into pure awesomeness again.
137	* OlderThanTheyThink: Complaints about Max being "sidelined" in the film tend to neglect that both ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'' and ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' also featured Max as a SupportingProtagonist who has to choose a side in someone else's conflict.
138	* OneSceneWonder:
139	** 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 [[CrazyIsCool awesomely crazy]] mindset the War Boys live and die by. In their words: "WITNESS HIM!"
140	** The [[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow-like]]... [[HumanoidAbomination things]]... on stilts in the middle of the bog. Their extremely bizarre and distinctive appearance combined with the [[NothingIsScarier lack of an explanation]] for their presence just makes them creepier.
141	** The creepy polecat mook, [[FanNickname nicknamed]] "Baby Doll" because of the creepy baby's head on the back of his mask, who appears for about [[SmallRoleBigImpact five minutes]], survives being thrown off the rig, [[spoiler:shoots Max with a crossbow and mortally wounds Furiosa.]]
142	** Though he appears more than once, the Bullet Farmer only gets ''prominently'' focused on in one scene [[spoiler:during which Max kills him offscreen]], but given that the scene in question features him [[LargeHam screaming at]] [[EvilIsHammy the top of]] [[ChewingTheScenery his lungs]] and dual-wielding machine guns aboard a [[TankGoodness tank]]-[[CoolCar sports car]] hybrid vehicle (with ''[[SoundtrackDissonance opera]] [[NarmCharm music]]'' playing) it's hard to say he doesn't make an impression.
143	* OutOfTheGhetto: Is becoming one for action films. Being commercially successful and wildly acclaimed critically, and winning 6 Oscars. It currently sits at a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which, for those who are keeping score, is the same percentage point approval as ''Film/SchindlersList''.
144	* PeripheryDemographic: A lot of women love the movie for its high concentration of {{Action Girl}}s and focus on them as independent characters in their own right.
145	* RetroactiveRecognition:
146	** The film was shot in 2012, before Creator/ZoeKravitz had become more famous for ''{{Film/Divergent}}'', but even since then she's become acclaimed for ''Series/BigLittleLies'' and ''Film/TheBatman2022''.
147	** Cheedo's actress Courtney Eaton is now far more recognisable as Lottie in ''{{Series/Yellowjackets}}''.
148	* RonTheDeathEater: The Vuvalini are subject to heavy AlternateCharacterInterpretation based off their introduction being Valkyrie pulling a HoneyTrap and them being suspicious of Max and Nux because they're men. In contrast to the other tribes who do plenty of awful things in the film, they are nothing but helpful to the protagonists, and happily risk their lives to help bring down Immortan Joe.
149	* SignatureLine:
150	** ''"Oh what a day! What a lovely day!"''
151	** ''"Witness me!"''
152	* SpecialEffectsFailure: Splendid's pregnancy a few times it's shown looks like less of a real body and more like a plastic cover over her belly.
153	* SpiritualAdaptation:
154	** As detailed in SpiritualLicensee below, this film makes for an unbelievably awesome ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' film adaptation, what with the [[BloodKnight War Boys]] being very similar to ''40K'''s [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orks]] in every sense of the word, a [[TheApunkalypse post-apocalyptic]] DieselPunk-esque setting that's heavily reminiscent of one of the many war-torn planets in this [[CrapsackWorld hellish setting]], [[BigBad Immortan Joe]] being a decent stand-in for the [[GodEmperor God-Emperor of Mankind]] ([[CompleteMonster albeit much more evil]]), a lot of Chaos-esque imagery, and more.
155	** On the other side of the coin, with a BadassNormal living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with some {{steampunk}} aesthetics, a [[TheCaligula tyrannical ruler]] as the BigBad (albeit much, MUCH more mature and competent), undertones of genocide and slavery and a [[ActionGirl kickass woman]] in the lead trying to overthrow the villain, this is quite possibly the closest to a film adaptation of ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'', except with 99% of the [[TearJerker tragic moments]] replaced with FeministFantasy-powered sheer badassery.
156	* SpiritualLicensee:
157	** 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/Warhammer40000'''s Orks [[BloodKnight (which is not exactly 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.
158	** Another recursive one: the videogame ''VideoGame/{{Rage\|2011}}'' (which is itself ''The Road Warrior: The FirstPersonShooter'') has several similarities with ''Fury Road''. [[AfterTheEnd Post-apocalyptic]] [[DesertPunk arid desert setting]]: check. Violent [[GangOfHats Gangs of Hats]] driving [[WeaponizedCar technicals]]: check. ArtificialLimbs: check. Driving and vehicular combat have an important role in gameplay: check.
159	** It might also be a better adaptation of ''ComicBook/TankGirl'' than its own movie was. Hell, this [[https://41.media.tumblr.com/c98dfb76bf27ae443a7b0d003d5ed502/tumblr_nrnd4iDC7z1r7p67qo1_1280.jpg chart]] shows the comparison!
160	** It also feels very ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', especially compared to any time ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' ventures into the Cursed Earth. Having Brendan [=McCarthy=], a routine contributor to the comic, as a co-writer of the script and a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' appear in the tie-in comics has probably helped this more than a fair amount.
161	** A man rescuing women and girls who were imprisoned as breeding slaves by a hypermasculine war cult in an apocalyptic wasteland? The manga ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' featured a similar plotline during the Golan Organization story arc decades before.
162	** Driving pedal-to-the-metal through a ginormous lightning-sandstorm forms perhaps the most evocative part of Roger Zelazny's ''Literature/DamnationAlley''. Although the novel has a good claim on influencing about every action-packed post-apo movie ever since, ''Fury Road'' feels a lot truer to the source material than its own ([[InNameOnly supposed]]) adaptation, and the storm scene is definitely the best adaptation of that fragment that cinema has to offer.
163	* {{Squick}}:
164	** Immortan Joe's back is covered with sores. Several War Boys, such as Nux, are stricken with cancer and have tumors visibly bulging out of their skin.
165	** Furiosa shoots a random mook at one point with an explosive crossbow bolt, which blows a hole in his chest and [[TorsoWithAView exposes his bloody ribcage.]] Yeesh.
166	** [[spoiler:Immortan Joe's extremely gruesome death where he loses his face.]]
167	** The "worn out" breeders being milked, and the milk being consumed on camera immediately after we see where it just came from.
168	** Max washing his face, covered in someone else's blood, in the aforementioned milk.
169	** During the climax, Max is attacked by a couple of Joe's thugs, one of whom has a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]. Max defends himself by blocking the chainsaw with a nearby human shield. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Ouch.]]
170	** The People Eater has a massively swollen foot, implied to be the result of elephantiasis.
171	* TooCoolToLive:
172	** [[spoiler:Valkyrie]], the only ActionGirl in the movie who can match ''Furiosa'' blow for blow, goes down fighting with the rest of her sisters.
173	** Once again, [[spoiler:the Doof Warrior, whose wagon slams into the War Rig after Nux flips it, his guitar flying out of the wreckage]].
174	* UglyCute: Nux. Despite being a scar and tumor-covered DeathSeeker berserker who's religiously devoted to Joe, there's something almost huggable about his boyish enthusiasm, {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}y and [[InnocentBlueEyes big blue eyes]].
175	%% This wording of UnintentionallyUnsympathetic has been agreed upon in Discussion; please do not change it without first consulting there. Thank you.
176	* UnintentionallySympathetic: The Rock Riders might be ruthless bandits but that's just par for the course [[CrapsackWorld in this setting]] and there's nothing to indicate that they didn't deal in good faith with Furiosa before she brought the wrath of Immortan Joe on their heads.
177	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The Vuvalini are introduced via a pretty ruthless HoneyTrap, are immediately suspicious of the first men they meet, imply that a ChildByRape would be less "ugly" if it were a girl and one of them states that she's killed every person she's ever met in the wasteland.
178	%% Do not restore WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical without consulting the relevant Discussion thread. Thank you.
179	* {{Woolseyism}}:
180	** The French version calls the War Rig "Porte-Guerre" (''technically'' War-Carrier, but Warbringer is just as accurate) and translates "blood bag" as "globulard" (globule meaning "blood cell"), which sounds like a vague insult that meshes with the atmosphere. It also translates the term "guzzolene" designating the fuel as "gaspi" (shorthand for "gaspillage", meaning "waste"), bringing in mind a public service campaign from the 1979 oil crisis (coincidentally the year the first ''Film/MadMax1'' was released) urging people to save fuel by declaring "la chasse au gaspi" (waste-hunt).
181	** The Polish version (otherwise '''MEDIOCRE''') provides a nice one with ''Machina Wojenna'' (The War Machine), which in Polish has less vehicular connotations and might actually mean "The Thing That Keeps the War Going".

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