Max (Mad Max)

Max

Background

Max Rockatansky is a member of the Main Force Patrol, officer number 4073, vehicle 508. He is married to Jessie and his son is Sprog. Max is good friends with Jim Goose.

During the events of Mad Max (1979) played by Mel Gibson

After the Nightrider evades the other Main Force Patrol officers, Max is sent by dispatch to assist. He drives directly at the Nightrider, and the Nightrider flinches and loses his confidence. Max then toys with the Nightrider until the Nightrider crashes into a construction zone and his car explodes. Before leaving early for work, Jessie signs to him that she is crazy about him. When he shows up at the Halls of Justice, Jim Goose and Underground Mechanic show Max the last of the V8 Pursuit Specials. He is told by Fifi that the Nightrider's friends are out to get him, but he just adds them to the list of people that want him dead. While driving to the scene of a disturbance in New Jerusalem, Max and Goose come across the wreckage of Lair's vehicle. While searching the area they come across Girl in Chevvy tied to a rope and Johnny the Boy, and they arrest Johnny the Boy. He goes to the hospital after Goose is set on fire and refuses to accept the body in the hospital bed is Goose. He then goes to Fifi and hands in his resignation, but is offered some time off to think it over. Max, Jessie and Sprog go to the country, stopping to buy a Dog from a Dog Seller on their way. They stop at a tire shop and Max stays with Grease Rat while Jessie takes Sprog to get ice cream in town. He jumps in the car when Jessie comes back and when Jessie finds Cundalini's hand attached by a chain to their car, they call Ziggy. They arrive at May Swaisey's property and Max stays to work on their vehicle while Jessie goes to the beach. He then goes towards the beach when Jessie tells him the bikers from the ice cream shop were chasing her in the woods. While running to help Jessie, Max watches as Toecutter and his gang run over Jessie and Sprog. Max returns to the Halls of Justice and takes the V8 Pursuit Special and finds out where Toecutter and his gang are by questioning Grease Rat. He finds Johnny the Boy, Mudguts, Starbuck, Clunk, and Diabondo and drives straight towards them causing Johnny to lose control and crash his motorcycle. The others chase after Max and Max kills them when he drives at them on a bridge, causing them to crash. He falls into a trap and is shot by Bubba Zanetti in the leg. Bubba Zanetti runs over his arm but is then killed by Max who shoots him with his sawed off shotgun. Max chases after Toecutter and causes him to crash into a semi, killing him. As Max is driving he spots a cloud of black smoke and when he investigates it, he finds a wrecked truck and Johnny the Boy stealing the boots from a dead man. Max puts a handcuff around Johnny the Boy's ankle and then puts the other onto the wreckage of the truck. Max takes Johnny the Boy's lighter and sets a fire trap. He throws down a hacksaw towards Johnny the Boy and gives him a choice, die in the fire when the truck explodes or hack his ankle off. Max then drives away as the truck explodes.

During the events of The Road Warrior (1981) played by Mel Gibson

Max

Near Mundi Mundi Look Out, Max and Dog are being chased by Wez and members of The Humungus' Gang. Max starts to run low on fuel and Dog goes to the back of the vehicle. As a member of Humungus' Gang fires a bolt at Max, Max hits the breaks and the bolt hits Wez in the arm. Max then rams the one vehicle causing it to crash into another vehicle being driven by a member of Humungus' Gang. He stops his vehicle and begins to collect fuel from the destroyed vehicle. Wez rides up and pulls the dart out of his arm, screams at Max and rides away. Max searches a semi with trailer attached and finds the driver dead and a music chime that plays Happy Birthday to You, which he keeps. As he is driving, Max comes across a gyrocopter parked in a clearing. He pulls over and sees a snake coiled on the gyrocopter. As Max grabs the snake, The Gyro Captain climbs out of a hiding spot and points a crossbow at Max. The Gyro Captain taunts Max about stealing his gas, and Max warns him the tanks on his vehicle are booby trapped. The Gyro Captain makes Max turn off the explosives trigger on the bottom of his vehicle, but is then attacked by Dog. Max pulls a knife on The Gyro Captain who makes a deal to spare his life in exchange for telling Max the location of a working oil refinery.

They drive to a hill near the refinery and park before climbing towards the top of the hill. As Max is using his binoculars to spy on The Refinery Settlers, he sees them being attacked by The Humungus' Gang, and sees Wez ride up and yell something to The Humungus. Max chains The Gyro Captain to a dead tree and continues to monitor the refinery. One evening, The Humungus and his Gang drive away from the refinery. In the morning, a group of vehicles leave the refinery and drive in different directions. They are quickly followed and overtaken by The Humungus' Gang. He watches the progress of one vehicle and sees it crash. He sees Victim being raped and Nathan being pulled out and shot with a crossbow bolt by Wez. Wez and Golden Youth leave and most of the other Gang follow. Max leaves and walks up to Grinning Mohawker and kills him by hitting him in the head with bolt cutters. He then goes to Nathan, who is still alive and makes an agreement with him to take Nathan back to the refinery in exchange for all of the fuel he can take.

Max drives to the refinery and Big Rebecca cries out when she sees him carrying Nathan. Zetta yells to Derek to have a stretcher ready and Big Rebecca starts blaming Pappagallo for Nathan's injuries and Curmudgeon says he warned them that Pappagallo's plan was madness. Pappagallo starts questioning Max and Quiet Man walks up and asks about Victim and Max tells him Victim is dead. Max mentions the deal he had with Nathan and Warrior Woman tells Pappagallo to give Max nothing and Curmudgeon calls Max a parasite. Timbo attends to Nathan, but he dies and Pappagallo tells Max he only had a contract with Nathan and so he will get nothing. As Max is being kicked out of the refinery, his vehicle is rolled inside and Mechanic comments on it being the last of the V8's and shows Max the trigger mechanism he managed to take off. Dog runs out of the vehicle and starts chewing at Mechanic. A lookout yells The Humungus is coming back and everyone scrambles to secure the refinery and Max is handcuffed to a pole by Warrior Woman. The Toadie introduces The Humungus who chastises The Refinery Settlers for attempting a puny plan. Defiant Victim yells to give Humungus nothing and Wez runs up and headbutts him. The Feral Kid throws his metal boomerang at Wez, who ducks it and when The Feral Kid throws it again, it hits Golden Youth in the head, killing him. Wez throws the boomerang back at The Feral Kid and misses him and when it is returning, The Toadie tries to catch it and has his fingers cut off. After his Gang laughs at The Toadie, Humungus tells them to be quiet and says he has an offer for The Refinery Settlers. Wez demands they go in and kill them, but The Humungus chokes him unconscious. The Humungus has Bearclaw Mohawk take Wez away and then makes his offer. He tells The Refinery Settlers if they leave everything, he will give them safe passage out of the wasteland, and they have one day to decide.

After The Humungus leaves, Quiet Man shoots an arrow and yells they will never walk away. Big Rebecca wants to accept The Humungus' offer, while Warrior Woman and Zetta don't. Curmudgeon offers to speak with The Humungus and Pappagallo thinks their sacrifices would be for nothing if they walked away. The Feral Kid shows Max his boomerang and Max gives The Feral Kid the music chime he found. Warrior Woman says she is staying, while the majority of the others throw down their weapons and The Captain's Girl says they get weaker while Humungus gets stronger. Max whistles and tells them he knows where a semi is that can haul the fuel tanker. Max has a meeting with Pappagallo and the other leaders of The Refinery Settlers and makes them an offer, he gets the semi and they give him back his vehicle and all of the fuel he can take and Papagallo agrees to the deal. Max is given some diesel and he and Dog start to walk back towards the semi he saw. He falls into a trench and as Bearclaw Mohawk starts to walk to where Max is hiding, The Feral Kid starts howling like a dog and Bearclaw Mohawk eventually walks away after throwing a rock towards the howling. Max walks to where he left The Gyro Captain and finds him gone. He eventually finds him dragging the log he was chained to. Max then forces The Gyro Captain to carry the diesel jugs. They go to where the gyrocopter is and find a dead member of The Humungus' Gang bitten by The Gyro Captain's snake. They fly in the gyrocopter to the semi and Max leaves after giving The Gyro Captain the key to his handcuffs.

The Humungus shoots at the semi's engine, which brushes a tent over, exposing Tent Lovers. Wez, who had jumped onto the semi, attacks Max while a member of The Humungus' Gang starts to shoot out the semi tires. The Gyro Captain throws his dead snake on the Gang member who shoots the driver in the back. The Refinery Settlers briefly open the gates and Max makes it in along with two of The Humungus' Gang's vehicles before it is closed. Pappagallo is shot in the leg by a crossbow bolt and falls to the ground. Max runs to the flame thrower Pappagallo was manning and forces The Humungus' Gang back. Warrior Woman apologizes to Max for what she said before and Big Rebecca gives Max some shotgun shells she had saved. He tells her he is leaving and gives her the shells back. Pappagallo tries to get Max to drive the semi, and after Max refuses insults Max, who punches him. The Feral Kid tries to leave with Max, but Max shoos him away. Max drives away after The Gyro Captain tries to convince him to stay. Wez catches up to Max and causes him to crash by crushing his vehicle's windshield with an exhaust pipe. Dog is killed while defending Max and The Toadie and the member of The Humungus' Gang that killed Dog are blown up when Max's vehicle's booby trap explodes. The Gyro Captain picks up an injured Max. Max wakes up bandaged and next to a dead Quiet Man and walks outside as Pappagallo tells everyone the plan and where to rendezvous. He offers to drive the semi, and after initially refusing, Pappagallo agrees to it and hands Max a kerchief full of shotgun shells. The Feral Kid manages to sneak onto the semi, which also has Warrior Woman, Zetta and Mechanic riding on it. Max drives out of the refinery followed by Pappagallo in his own vehicle and The Gyro Captain in his gyrocopter.

A battle erupts between Max and those in the semi and The Humungus and his Gang. Zetta is killed when a grappling hook is thrown at him and pulls him and a piece of the trailer onto the ground. The Mechanic's legs catch fire when Bearclaw Mohawk shoots the bag of gas he is holding, and Mechanic drops it on his legs. Warrior Woman shoots Bearclaw Mohawk as he is trying to climb onto the rig, but is then shot by Wez with darts. Warrior Woman is pulled off the rig along with Mechanic, by a Gang member who is then killed when Max shoots the driver of the vehicle in the face with a shotgun round. This causes a chain reaction which kills multiple members of the Gang when the vehicle crashes and is then crushed by the semi. Max helps The Feral Kid into the cab of the semi and then shoots the Gang member that told Tent Lover to shoot the tire in the face and another Gang member in the crotch point black who had almost shot Max in the crotch with a bolt gun. Wez and Bearclaw Mohawk attack the semi cab and Defiant Victim and Broken Victim are killed when The Humungus runs into the rear of the rig. Pappagallo drives next to the semi and tells The Feral Kid to jump to him, but is killed by a trident thrown by The Humungus. Max tells The Feral Kid to get a shotgun shell that had fallen on the hood of the cab. As The Feral Kid is grabbing for the shell, Wez grabs towards him. Max manages to pull The Feral Kid into the cab shortly before The Humungus rams the semi, causing it to crash and killing him, Wez and Bearclaw Mohawk. An injured Max climbs out of the wreckage with The Feral Kid and The Gyro Captain drives up. Max stays behind, while The Gyro Captain and The Feral Kid leave.