History WMG / MadMaxFuryRoad

[[WMG: The film takes place on [[Warhammer40K the planet Angelis]] in an even further future]]

* He likes big shoulder pads.

Being the [[Warhammer40k Immortal God-Emperor]] explains why Max seems to have lived an improbably long time without getting older, and how he takes all the abuse he does while hardly slowing down. When we see Max in the first film, Terra is already well into the Age of Strife, to the point that it's degenerated to late 20th-century technology. All the hallucinations are actually the result of psychic interference from the massive warp storms that are still raging. Empy still isn't quite ready to start empire building yet, but his emotional arc in Fury Road (and hand in helping re-organize that pocket of civilization) show he's working up to it. When he does, he'll use some of the tricks he picked up in this one:

[[WMG: Max is [[Warhammer40k the Emperor]] during the Age of Strife]]
Being the Immortal God-Emperor explains why Max seems to have lived an improbably long time without getting older, and how he takes all the abuse he does while hardly slowing down. When we see Max in the first film, Terra is already well into the Age of Strife, to the point that it's degenerated to late 20th-century technology. All the hallucinations are actually the result of psychic interference from the massive warp storms that are still raging. Empy still isn't quite ready to start empire building yet, but his emotional arc in Fury Road (and hand in helping re-organize that pocket of civilization) show he's working up to it. When he does, he'll use some of the tricks he picked up in this one:

* In GorkaMorka, Angelis is a world of barren desert populated by orks and gretchins (trying to rebuild a spaceship to get off-world), intelligent but hideously mutated humans, and cave-dwelling humans who want to be orks (with shamans that have an affinity for mechanics). While they're currently involved in a ForeverWar, it's possible that in the future the orks leave the planet (taking most of the fuel and water with them), leaving the mutants to rule over the orklike humans. Any memories about the world before the catastrophe can be attributed to LostKnowledge, which the mutants are very parcimonious with.

In the original Mad Max, Max loses his wife and toddler son. Yet, in Fury Road, he's haunted by hallucinations of a girl who looks to be about 10. Continuity error? Retcon? Nope. Max has been haunted for so long that, in his mind, the ghosts of his wife and son have blurred together, and the girl we see is the average.

Hence, the existence of a salt flat that would take over 160 days to cross, even on a motor vehicle. And hence, how Max knew that said salt flat was that large: notice that he was working on making a map in that scene. At some point, he must have remembered the Pacific Ocean from before the Apocalypse, and realized that where he was sitting was precisely where the coast of the Pacific Ocean used to be.

** Thanks for turning two of this film's TearJerker moments into a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming!

He probably have the same breathing complications his father suffer from.

It's to keep his mouth from flapping open. From what we see of him, he's [[DumbMuscle not exactly an intellectual powerhouse]]-- he's wearing a chinstrap because otherwise he would be a (literally) slack-jawed moron.

It's only really justified by ActorAllusion, but the fact that Max narrates Fury Road and both Immortan Joe and The Toecutter are played by the same actor, but there may be a deeper meaning to this concept. Though little about them is similar, Max unconsciously associates his newest enemy with the one who took his wife and child. Small details about Toecutter find their way into Joe, justifying their sharing an actor and the most supurfluous of simularities they have.

* It was blown the hell up in ''Mad Max 2''. Clearly the car, like Max himself, is not bound by basic rules of continuity. It's part of Max's legend, so of course when Max turns up, so too does the Pursuit Special.

Since they managed to salvage it the first time it gets hit with a grenade-spear, it's possible that they can do it again from what's left of it. Furiosa has it built as a thank you gift for Max's help in overthrowing Immortan Joe.

In ''Fury Road'', Max is haunted by memories of people who claim that he left them to die. Perhaps he got away after delivering the rig and that Papagallo wasn't able to get it through the blockade setup by the Lord Humungous, thus dooming the villagers. Meanwhile, Max gets away, but sees the results from afar and is riddled with guilt for what he failed to do.

** There's also the fact that, before they were driven to the wasteland, they had one of the few patches of arable land left in world. And the Keeper of Seeds has... well, a bunch of seeds.

* Two-headed lizards, trading, stealing. Like everybody else. Cannibalism isn't exactly sustainable.

How else could they survive in a wasteland?

A number of observers have noted that this is the only film in the series to have narration (however small and quick it may be) delivered by ''Max'' personally. As such, it makes sense that Furiosa gets the lion's share of attention, since it's him remembering ''her.'' Since Max doesn't seem like the kind of person to bullshit a story, it makes sense with how brutal the film plays out; which also applies to how he's naturally not averse to telling it with all the crap he had to personally go through - instead of having all that stuff swept under the rug by someone else making a legend out of it. This was Max remembering a really rough week where he got his car wrecked ''twice,'' was used as a blood-bag ''and'' a hood ornament, had to endure a sandstorm while ''outside'' of a vehicle, met a woman as dangerous as he was, got pulled into another issue he wanted no part of, and then helped said woman take back one of the few safe havens left in the wasteland.

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Nux]] actually ends up in Valhalla]]

In other words, Max Rockatansky now operates on the same level as James Bond.

* Alternatively, he went to the Fields of Freja, a shining green place where half of the gloriously slain go and there he waits for [[spoiler: Capable]]. He considered Valhalla briefly, before he caught a glimpse of Freja's Field and decided that [[spoiler: Capable]] would like it better there. He currently braids [[spoiler: the Splendid Angharad's]] hair as they wait together in the Green Place for their friends.

After searching for a glorious death and failing repeatedly, he finally succeeds through his acts of bravery and is rewarded at last. [[spoiler: Nux]] now battles in the day and feasts in the night, riding a shiny chrome battlecar.