

Exemplified when Rictus tries to physically pull the Wives out of the cabin. He also does plenty of ass-kicking in the tie-in comics and video game, when he brings Glory the Child out of the Sunken City. Action Dad: While not his biological kids, he does a lot of ass-kicking in the name of protecting the Five Wives, once he comes around to them.This becomes a Chekhov's Gun when Max has to perform a transfusion for Furiosa.

He is thus carried into battle by Nux, who is in need of an extended transfusion. AB Negative: Max is an O-negative "universal donor", which saves his life: Immortan Joe and his flunkies keep Max captive to use him as a "blood bag" instead of killing him outright - just as Joe sees the Five Wives as his " breeders".Don't think too hard about whether or not he's the same Max once played by Mel Gibson, or how he's seemingly the same age after this long, Word Of God is that it doesn't matter. Now it's my car!"Ī former Main Force Patrol cop, now a drifter, haunted by the past and pursued by scavengers in the present. "How much more can they take from me? They've got my blood.
