Of course the chainsaw has no gas — gas is too valuable, making it Schmuck Bait of the first order!
Master's speech pattern seems to belie his intelligence, but in fact he adopts it specifically because he's so smart — he's a Smug Snake who talks to everyone like they're rock stupid.
More likely, he does it for Blaster's benefit.
That's exactly why he does it; so Blaster can understand his commands and follow what's going on around him. Master noticeably speaks in full sentences when he's explaining to Max and the others that Blaster is intellectually disabled and for all scenes after that.
Alternately, like many extreme geniuses Master may have some sort of mental issues himself, and have difficulty expressing himself except by playing up an ultra-confident facade. A very different man Beneath the Mask is hinted at with his curt but less condescending interactions with his engineering staff, genuine, justified grief over the death of Blaster because of what Master made him into, his salute to Max's Heroic Sacrifice, and the true Heel–Face Turn hinted at by the lights in Sydney shown at the end.
Some might wonder why Auntie is such a Graceful Loser after saying there would be "no mercy" for the people who took Master. It's simple, really - she still got what she wanted if Master escaped - after all, the machinery and pigs are still there, so the only real issue is if the machinery breaks down (the mechanic might have an idea of how to fix), and now her hold over the town is even stronger due to the loyalty inspired by her bravado. And besides, leaving him out there is another "gulag" punishment.
Additionally, Max "broke the deal, spun the wheel" and got exile as punishment. In the end, Max is out in the desert and not coming back to Bartertown, meaning Auntie upheld her end of things and Max upholds his. It's a wash, and Auntie has her reputation intact.
More good reasons for Auntie being a pragmatic Anti-Villain: One, she was "no one" before the War and Bartertown is all she has. Second, as brutal as it is, it's still civilization compared to the open desert and the likes of Toecutter and Immortan Joe. She's also a woman (and a very attractive one at that!), meaning she has to be harsh to send a message to the likes of those He-Man Woman Hater types that she and her relatively egalitarian town are not to be fucked with.
The kids make it to Sydney at the end of the film, but the epilogue shows a few of them being bald. Looks like they all might be suffering from radiation poisoning.
It's probable they shaved their heads to avoid lice and cholera, and some of them are refugees from biker gangs. Nix herself has a full head of hair, as do many of the people watching, so thankfully, this probably isn't the case.
Yeah, it's unlikely, radiation kills much faster than that. The epilogue is set decades after the movie (which itself is set many years after the nuclear war, so the worst fallout would be long gone), and none of the settlers show any signs of radiation poisoning.
The Pig Killer was sentenced to forced labor for stealing pigs to feed his family, which leads to the next fridge horror:
If the Pig Killer's family was still alive by then, they lost him for good after he escaped with Max.
Unless he simply LIED about feeding his family and was just trying to get food for himself. Thievery is hardly the worst sin in Bartertown.
The truth is probably far worse. Considering how delighted he was with seeing children, and his desire to leave was strong, his family is probably dead. We see how the desert is unforgiving to innocents.
Or his children were sold into slavery to pay off his "debt" for the pig's life, as another element of his punishment. Everything has a price in Bartertown, after all.
The Feral Children's parents abandoned them for missing the old world's luxuries, and that's the stated, happy interpretation. A minor character in Bartertown selling irradiated water implies that the parents may have found the same spring, and died of radiation poisoning shortly after finding a clean oasis for their children.
Actually, the REAL implication is that the adults went to find help, the children were just too young to really grasp it at the time. As for what happened to the adults, yeah, they probably either died from radiation, or from exposure, or from raiders. Keep in mind, these were pre-war adults, getting caught up in the nuclear war. They probably had no desert survival skills.
The Feral Children know who "Mr. Dead" is, and have knowledge of those who'd been "jumped by" him, and just how dangerous the desert is. They know this from experience.
Max leaves behind about twenty kids when he goes to rescue the ones who left. The handful that left eventually get Jedediah to fly them to Sydney. It's implied that Max is headed there too...so did anyone go back for the other kids?
They didn't need to. In the credits, they're called "The Ones Who Stayed", meaning they opted to remain in the oasis. They were never in any danger to begin with. Just another tribe in Australia.
Master winds up joining the kids and Jedediah on their flight to a new refuge. Supposedly, Master's knowledge will help them to thrive and to rebuild some kind of society for themselves. Except Master'd already proven himself to be an arrogant, petty-minded jerkass who'd antagonized Auntie Entity merely to sate his own ego and who'd shamelessly exploited the mentally-challenged Blaster, training him to be his personal transport and bully-boy. Is he really likely to be any less manipulative or self-aggrandizing just because he's now got a whole tribe of naive kids to take advantage of, instead of one hulking brute?
Bartertown was a kill or be killed Wretched Hive where a man like Master needs someone like Blaster to survive. The children are significantly less vicious and if all Master wants is respect then he's going to get all that he wants and more. It's also possible the death of Blaster and his subsequent Break the Haughty experiences have taught him to be less antagonistic.
Not to mention the Tribe is still alive and well decades into the future if the ending is anything to go by, and have begun to rebuild something of a society in the ruins of Sydney, no worse for wear.
Considering Blaster's own severe mental challenges, being the companion and protector of a genius who helped him conceal his vulnerability and ensured Blaster would receive food, shelter, and respect may have been the best thing that could have happened to him, under the circumstances. Better wearing a mask and a back-carrier than chains and whip-marks, or dying in the desert because you're too slow of wit to find food and water.
Fridge Heartwarming: Who do you think was responsible for the city having lights at the end?
Master getting tortured by being lowered into the Underworld pigpen might seem silly to some, except that pigs are Extreme Omnivores and are not above eating humans, living or dead.
Thats hardly FRIDGE Horror, where do you think Bartertown gets the resources to feed all those pigs? Hell, I wouldnt be surpised if half the reason for Bartertowns justice system is to provide raw meat for the pigs.
