History WMG / MadMaxFuryRoad

** Considering there's a moment in the movie where a satellite may have been spotted, perhaps there's still some modern or almost-modern civilization (or at least something technologically on the level of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' sans zombies and with less psychopaths) rebuilding on other parts of the planet. The "Mad Max" stories take place in the Australian Outback. Just because Australia had become some primitive, punk-rock, BDSM-flavored Frank Frazetta painting doesn't mean the whole planet is like that.
** Max's old police force may have founded their own Empire. They may have been strapped for resources but those in the wasteland are probably feeling the shortages worse.

** The only problem with this is that the Feral Kid is the (obviously elderly) {{Narrator}} of ''The Road Warrior'', and at the end he tells us they found somewhere to live, and he eventually became their leader.
** Max's narration explicitly mentions that he was a cop. There's no way the Feral Kid could have known that considering by the time ''The Road Warrior'', society has collapsed and he's unlikely to be old enough to remember the Main Force Patrol.

** This would probably explain a lot of continuity issues and the fact that Max seems to be immortal. There was likely a Max, a goofy guy in a flying machine, a feral kid, feral kids who founded a new society in the ruins of Sydney, etc. and a mythic version of Max is tied to them all.

The desolation inflicted upon the planet is far beyond anything we could do with the nuclear weapons we have. So that means that technology must have been more developped when things went awry and the Water Wars started. Who is to say that Max wasn't exposed to some nanomachine-thingies that stop him from aging, or something similar? Unlike the James Bond case, there is an actual possibility than Max is immortal (or at least ageless, since he certainly doesn't seem to have a HealingFactor). It could also explain his madness: he has seen far more than anyone else alive, and he wants to forget it so hard that he, himself, actually doesn't know he is ageless, having long buried any recollection that may help him make that realization.

Aside from the infertility, she's perfectly healthy, and ''could'' have easily been the very heir Joe'd been seeking all along ... except he'd already built a society so sexist that merely ''looking'' like a female was enough to bar any girl, intersex or otherwise, from being respected by his misogynistic personality-cult. As fate would have it, Furiosa claimed her rightful place as Joe's successor by force instead.

Because of Max's deeds in ''The Road Warrior'', ''Beyond Thunderdome'' and other events occurring off-screen, Max's legend spread throughout post-apocalyptic Australia over the years and decades. As a result, regardless whether the original Max is even still alive, there is at least one man [[WalkingTheEarth walking the earth]] under the name of Max, thereby ensuring that Max's legend endures.

Max's old police force may have founded their own Empire. They may have been strapped for resources but those in the wasteland are probably feeling the shortages worse.

* Related: the bastardization of Norse Paganism by Immortan Joe offended the Gods. Nux, unknowingly, was doing the work of Loki (as shown by his scared lips) in casting down the false version that Immortan Joe had created.

*** It is indicated the Green Place turning into a toxic swamp was a relatively recent event. until it died, the Green Place would have been able to sustain a population through agriculture, as well as probable a degree of hunter-gethering. The Keeper of the Seeds says she saved her stock, but they wouldn't take. meaning that she was trying to find a place where the crops they relied on in the Green Place would grow, to create a new home, but hadn't found anywhere clean enough to support farms. odds are that after the Green Place died, they turned to raiding to survive, killing travellers and convoys, and taking their food and water.

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 superfluous of simularities they have.

This may seem counterintuitive given what we've seen of Australia is a hot desert hell scape but actually makes more sense the more you think of it. Following a Nuclear War fire storms kick up massive amounts of soot in the Northern Hemispheer causing a Nucelar Winter. Which triggers another Ice Age. Which in turn causes glaciers to form which causes the oceans to receed and expose the Australian Oceanic Plateu. Furthermore during the last Glacial Period it is believed that while Australia became cooler it also became windier and drier. Which would be devastating for a country all ready dealing with a massive drought. Assuming the Water Wars occurred before the Oil Wars. Then an already dry and dusty Australia would get even worse if it became even drier and windier. The winds would kick up massive dust storms.

* Even without WordOfGod, we know Joe's citadel has existed as such for one whole generation of War Boys Nux's age to be raised, and for 7000 days (20 years) to pass since a young Furiosa's kidnapping. Gibson's Max was in his prime during the Apocalypse, which is when Immortan Joe roseto power. Now, Hardy's Max refers to himself as a road warrior, like the Feral Kid did to Gibson's Max; it is possible that the kid accompanied the original Max and then took to wearing his uniform, his name and even the leg brace. There's also a hallucination of a child calling to him ("Come on, Pa! Let's go!") when he abandons the Vuvalini. It could be Sprog, but it could be a mamory of Max II calling to Max I.

[[WMG: Nux is this universe's version of [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]].]]

We see a quote from the first history man at the end of the movie. Perhaps like many mythological figures in our world Mad Max is an Amalgam of several people and the movies are a representation of the life of this figure. Adding to the mix could also be Max being a monkier at the time for wanderer or traveller, much like Snow is a label for illegitimate children in GOT. This label may have resulted from the first "Max", the one from the first movie.

WMG:[[The Dreadnought from Death Race is a precursor to Immortan Joe's War Rigs]]

[[WMG:[[The Dreadnought from Death Race is a precursor to Immortan Joe's War Rigs]]

[[WMG:[[The Dreadnought((https://youtu.be/pZBcVl5so4M))]] from Death Race is a precursor to Immortan Joe's War Rigs]]
Perhaps Death Race is in a pre collapse world and afterwards these somehow manage to get into the hands of Immortan Joe. More could have been constructed after the loss of the original and Immortan Joe could have captured them. They may have lost functions due to years of battle damage, a lack of resources or perhaps that is what the replacement Dreadnoughts always looked like.

It's notable that all three groups wear masks which cover their faces, and the rock riders and buzzards wear clothing that hides the rest of their bodies. Of course, given how they live in a desert this would be a sensible form of protection anyway, but it's easy to believe the War Boys aren't the only fat ion showing signs of irradiation. Given their ties with the Citadel, it's possible that the Polecats ware a type of elite War Boys, and that that the Rock Riders might be a breakaway group.

Joe's territory seems pretty far away from The Green Place for him to have been raiding it himself. The Rock Riders are much closer, are apparently on trading terms with members of The Citadel, and Furiosa seemed willing to cheat them in a deal given the implication that there wasn't any gas in the pod (as she was heading to Gas Town to pick up more gas when she took off in the first place).

Toecutter survived his encounter with Max and invented Immortan Joe's persona to rule the Wasteland. After Joe's death, Rictus survives the War Rig crash. His face is damaged beyond recognition so he fashions an iron mask from the War Rig's scrap... and christens himself the Lord Hummungus.

This may seem counterintuitive given what we've seen of Australia is a hot desert hell scape but actually makes more sense the more you think of it. Following a Nuclear War fire storms kick up massive amounts of soot in the Northern Hemispheer causing a Nucelar Winter. Which triggers another Ice Age. Which in turn causes glaciers to form which causes the oceans to receed and expose the Australian Oceanic Plateu. Furthermore during the last Glacial Period it is believed that while Australia became cooler it also became windier and drier. Which would be devastating for a country all ready dealing with a massive drought. Assuming the Water Wars occurred before the Oil Wars.

This may seem counterintuitive given what we've seen of Australia is a hot desert hell scape but actually makes more sense the more you think of it. Following a Nuclear War fire storms kick up massive amounts of soot in the Northern Hemispheer causing a Nucelar Winter. Which triggers another Ice Age. Which in turn causes glaciers to form which causes the oceans to receed and expose the Australian Oceanic Plateu.

* He gets a steel dart in his forehead, ultimately breaking it off to leave the head stuck to his skull. He would later repurpose this for the Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace Marine's Long Service Studs, which are bolted into the exact same part of the skull.

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

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