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{{quote|''In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man, a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again...''|'''The Narrator''', '''''Mad Max 2''''', [[Opening Monologue]]}}
A series of films that constitute the most famous things to come out of [[Australia (country)
The first film, ''Mad Max'', was made with practically no money and released in 1979. Although it was surprisingly successful in Australia it was barely noticed in America - in fact, in the original American release all the characters' voices were dubbed with American accents because distributors [[Viewers are Morons|thought the audience wouldn't understand what they were saying]]. In the first film, Max Rockatansky is a cop with the Main Force Patrol in a town that is barely clinging to civilization, with a wife and young son -- until he loses everything, and then goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] in the film's climax.
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The third film, ''Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome'', is a [[Dolled-Up Installment]]: the original idea was of a man in a post-apocalyptic world who came across a group of wild children who were survivors of a plane crash, and series creator George Miller proposed "how about that man is Mad Max?" Unlike the first two films, ''Beyond Thunderdome'' was an American co-production rather than a fully Australian film.
A fourth film -- a prequel, set in the time when society was just starting to collapse, called ''Mad Max: Fury Road'' -- was in [[Development Hell]] for years. It was originally scheduled to begin filming by the end of 2010, but was delayed due to higher-than-normal amounts of rainfall, resulting in the area around [[Australian States and Territories|Broken Hill]] being too green. It was finally made, and released in 2015. Its continuity is debatable, but that aside, it tells a new story which expands on the universe. Max [[The Other Darrin|(Played this time by Tom Hardy)]] is more savage than before. He's taken as a human blood bag into a society of Norse-based highway warriors known as the War Boys, who are led by the tyrannical rule of Immortan Joe [[You Look Familiar|(played by Hugh Keays-Byrne who played Toe Cutter in the first film.)]] Said rule is enforced due to his control over one of the few Water Supplies remaining on Earth. His "Imperator" Furiosa turns traitor, taking Joe's five wives out of their prison/paradise
A 3D anime adaptation was also under development.
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* [[AB Negative]]: ''Fury Road''. The villain's attempts to use Max as an O- "blood bag" for transfusions.
* [[After the End]]: ''Mad Max 2'' and ''Beyond Thunderdome''. The original is [[Just Before the End]].
* [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels]]: And so are all car drivers, except for Max.
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* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Averted, and '''how'''! Max get shot in the leg in first film, rendering him into limping for rest of the series.
* [[Peek-a-Boo Corpse]]: Subverted in the second film, as Max doesn't even blink when the crashed semi's long-dead driver falls out of the cab.
* [[Post-Peak Oil]]: It is the cause of the collapse of society by the time of the
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* [[Product Placement]]
* [[The Promised Land]]: In ''Mad Max 2'', the villagers are trying to locate their own promised land. The kids in ''Beyond Thunderdome'' believe that Max is Captain Walker, who will rescue them and take them to Tomorrow-morrow Land, which also counts.
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* [[Sword Over Head]]: Inverted at the end of ''Beyond Thunderdome''.
* [[There Are No Rules]]: Thunderdome, except "Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves."
▲* [[The Thunderdome]]: the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: In video releases, the packaging revealed that {{spoiler|Max's family are killed}} in the first film, and {{spoiler|the fuel was in the bus, not the tanker}} in the second film.)
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: The first movie starts with the words "A Few Years From Now..."
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* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: All MFP officers carry a S&W .357 Model 28 revolver at all times. This could have been very useful to Max when he dropped his shotgun while facing the bike gang.
** Given the lack of funding that the MFP appears to have (Fifi has to cajole an investor to give him money for a new car for the force), [[Fridge Brilliance|it's possible that Max's pistol wasn't even loaded]].
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* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Max delivers a knockout punch to a teenage girl in ''Beyond Thunderdome''. He hesitates beforehand, but goes ahead and decks her.
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: "Methane cometh from pig shit."
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