Mad Max: Difference between revisions

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* [[Badass Driver]]: Max.

* [[Blood Sport]]: Thunderdome

* [[Brains and Brawn]]- [[Big Guy, Little Guy|Master Blaster]]

* [[Brains and Brawn]]: [[Big Guy, Little Guy|Master Blaster]]

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Bruce Spence's character in the third film is an odd borderline example, in that, despite their massive similarities, he is evidently ''not'' intended to be the same Gyro Captain who appeared in ''Mad Max 2.''

* [[Car Fu]]

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* [[Cool Car]]: Max's Pursuit Special, "last of the V8 Interceptors."

* [[Cool Pet]]: Dog, proving that blue heelers are fierce (the dingo blood probably doesn't hurt).

* [[Cozy Catastrophe]] - According to the second film's [[Opening Monologue]], [[World War III]] began shortly after the first film, only semi-nuclear, destroying only what was left of modern industrial infrastructure, and people using up resources that they can't replace - mostly by fighting over the resources. The third is solidly [[After the End]], 19 years in fact.

* [[Cozy Catastrophe]]: According to the second film's [[Opening Monologue]], [[World War III]] began shortly after the first film, only semi-nuclear, destroying only what was left of modern industrial infrastructure, and people using up resources that they can't replace - mostly by fighting over the resources. The third is solidly [[After the End]], 19 years in fact.

* [[Crapsack World]]: All three films, in increasing severity.

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]:

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** It's heavily implied that, similar to Max, Humungus was a victim of this and chose to be bad; witness his "We have all lost someone we love" speech and the picture of himself and his wife (or, possibly his parents) that he keeps with his gun. Humungus was originally going to be Goose from the first film, having gone over to the dark side.

* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: The first film was meant to show the dangers of reckless driving.

* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|The original movie. Max got his revenge, but is now en empty shell of a man who cares about nothing.}}

* [[The Dragon]]: Wez. Arguably the most evil and most dangerous character Max confronts.

* [[Eat the Dog]]: The Gyro Captain in the second film raises snakes as a food source as well as guards for his vehicle.

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* [[Gilligan Cut]]: Max sees one of the children scampering after them in the desert and states, "He holds his own." Cut to Max carrying him on his back in the blazing sun.

* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: Tina Turner (age 46 at the time) as Auntie Entity. Not many women in their 40's would dare to wear a one-piece chainmail ensemble.

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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Ending of the second and third films.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Max becomes a hard and bitter man by the end of the first film due to his battles with criminals. He quits the force because he's scared this will happen.

{{quote|''Any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I've got this bronze badge that says that [[Designated Hero|I'm one of the good guys]].''}}

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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Ending of the second and third films.

* [[Hollywood Healing]]: Averted: Max's arm and leg in ''Mad Max 2'', and his eye in ''Beyond Thunderdome'' George Miller, the director, was a practicing emergency medicine doctor.

* [[Hollywood Police Driving Academy]]: all members of the Main Force Patrol in the first movie appear to have graduated from the Australian branch.

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'''The Master:''' Lift embargo. }}

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: The Gyro Captain upon learning that Max has been bluffing him with an unloaded shotgun: "Empty, all this time! That's dishonest! ''Low.''"

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* [[In a World]]: The original trailers played this trope straight

* [[Impractically Fancy Outfit]]: Yes, 'Mad' Max is wearing black leather in the scorching hot Austrailian Outback. This is apparently supposed to help in crashes, but Max never rides a motorcycle.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Oddly only seen in villains.

** In the first movie [[The Dragon|Bubba Zanetti]] kneecaps Max with a single well-aimed pistol shot at long range.

** The mook shooting down the Gyrocopter with arrows in ''Mad Max 2'' would be nigh-impossible to pull off in real life, too.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: The Gyro Captain likes snakes- both as a booby-trap device and as a thrown weapon

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: The Gyro Captain likes snakes- both as a booby-trap device and as a thrown weapon.

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* [[In a World]]: The original trailers played this trope straight

* [[Incessant Music Madness]]: In ''Beyond Thunderdome'', some of the kids have run off. The other kids are showing Max which direction they went, and are chanting a lament in the background. Eventually, Max yells, "Stop the noise, STOP THE NOISE!"

* [[Indy Ploy]]:

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* [[Life or Limb Decision]]:At the end of the original as part of Max's revenge

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Before you say ''Beyond Thunderdome'', ''Mad Max 2'' is this to the terminally grim ''Mad Max''.

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* [[Loud of War]]: Max uses a dog whistle to defeat Blaster in the Thunderdome arena.

* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: Over the course of the last two films, Max's sideburns become increasingly faded, presumably from the horrors he has witnessed or the great stress he is always under to survive. What with the apocalypse and all...

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* [[Loud of War]]: Max uses a dog whistle to defeat Blaster in the Thunderdome arena.

* [[Lovely Assistant]]: In ''Beyond Thunderdome''. She even [[Wheel of Fortune|spins a wheel]].

* [[Malevolent Masked Men]]: Lord Humungus and many of his gang who wear police helmets and other assorted masks.

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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.

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* [[Post Apunkalyptic Armor]]: Pretty much defines the trope, especially ''Mad Max 2'' & ''Beyond Thunderdome''

* [[Post-Peak Oil]]: It is the cause of the collapse of society by the time of the 2nd and 3rd films.

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* [[Post Apunkalyptic Armor]]: Pretty much defines the trope, especially ''Mad Max 2'' & ''Beyond Thunderdome''.

* [[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.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Blaster.

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* [[Rasputinian Death]]

* [[Railing Kill]]: The first shot Max fires during the climax of ''The Road Warrior'' takes out the driver of one car, which takes out another vehicle.

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* [[Rasputinian Death]]

* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Averted. The Gyro Captain uses snakes, but he's a pretty good guy.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: At the end of the first film.