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A series of films that constitute the most famous things to come out of [[Australia (continent)|Australia]] since kangaroos and sexy women with accents. Starring [[Mel Gibson]] in his Australian accent as the title character 'Mad' Max Rockatansky.
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
The second film, ''Mad Max 2'', was released in 1981 and is almost unanimously regarded as better than the first -- it was a surprise hit in America, where, out of fears that no one would see it if they hadn't seen the original, it was retitled ''The Road Warrior''. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic Outback, a few years after the original film, wherein Mad Max is now [[Walking the Earth|wandering]] the wastelands in his [[Cool Car]] until he runs into a small ragtag group of survivors who are being threatened by a vicious gang of bandits. After at first resisting their pleas for him to help them, he ends up assisting them in their plan for escape to the north, exorcising some of his own personal demons.
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* [[Blood Sport]]: Thunderdome
* [[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]]
* [[Chainmail Bikini]]: Aunty Entity sports the slightly more sensible chainmail one-piece, which is probably a sensible investment given her position.
* [[Chain of People]]: The children trying to rescue one of their own from quicksand in ''Beyond Thunderdome
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Subverted during the ''Thunderdome'' scene. Max manages to grab a chainsaw from the [[Wall of Weapons]] and proceeds to use it against Blaster. Unfortunately, [[Reality Ensues|it runs out of fuel pretty quickly]].
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** Pappagallo inspecting the egg timer.
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{{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]].''}}
* [[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]]:
* [[Hot Amazon]]: The Warrior Woman.
* [[Hulk Speak]]: Master, who must speak this way around Blaster so he'll understand what's going on.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Implied that Master did this on a regular basis with Auntie Entity.
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'''Pig Killer:''' ''(laughing)'' Plan? There ain't no ''plan''! }}
* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: Despite his best efforts to keep to himself, Max always winds up allying with/helping out/getting saved by the victimized good guys.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted twice - Once in the original, then again in ''Beyond Thunderdome''.
* [[Land Down Under]]
* [[Large Ham]]: Tina Turner as Auntie Entity in ''Beyond Thunderdome''.
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* [[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.
* [[Rule of Pool]]: The vats of pig feces in ''Beyond Thunderdome
* [[Sadistic Choice]]
* [[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]: Max's signature weapon.
* [[Scavenger World]]: [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: Max being referred to as "The Man With No Name" in ''Beyond Thunderdome''.
* [[Solid Gold Poop]]: Bartertown in ''Beyond Thunderdome'' is fueled by methane, a byproduct of fecal decomposition. This choice of fuels was clearly made just for the arguments that could result.
* [[Sword Over Head]]: Inverted at the end of ''Beyond Thunderdome''.
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* [[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..."
* [[Two-Part Trilogy]]: ''The Road Warrior'' and ''Beyond Thunderdome'' are almost completely different from the first Mad Max film, to the point where the sequels are rarely ever labelled Mad Max 2 or 3, and if collectors edition of the trilogy are made, only the last two movies are included.
* [[Wasteland Elder]]
* [[Weapon for Intimidation]]: Max's shotgun for most of the second movie. He uses it to bluff Wez into retreating at the start of the movie and rigs it up to keep the Gyrocaptain captured. It's only when he searches some of the bodies by the autogyro and finds a single shotgun shell that we discover that the gun has been empty all along.
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