Mad Max: Difference between revisions

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Aunty Entity. Power-hungry bitch, yes, but she's genuinely trying to restore a little civilization, and is forced to be ruthless to maintain order in a [[Crapsack World]].

* [[The Apunkalypse]]: Pretty much [[Trope Codifier|codifies the trope]], especially in ''Mad Max 2'' & ''Beyond Thunderdome''.

* [[Awesome Aussie]]: Max.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Max Rockatansky.

* [[Badass Driver]]: Max.

* [[Blood Sport]]: Thunderdome

* [[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]]

* [[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 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.

* [[Rule of Pool]]: The vats of pig feces in ''Beyond Thunderdome.''

* [[Sadistic Choice]]

* [[Scavenger World]]: [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[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.

* [[Star-Making Role]]: For [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]].

* [[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..."

* [[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.