Mad Max Why Furiosa’s Fury Road Fate References Road Warriors Ending

Mad Max: Why Furiosa’s Fury Road Fate References Road Warrior’s Ending

Near the end of Mad Max: Fury Road, heroine Furiosa looks like Max at the end of The Road Warrior, but what is the significance of this reference?

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Mad Max Why Furiosa’s Fury Road Fate References Road Warriors Ending

There are many moments when Mad Max: Fury Road references earlier movies in the franchise, but one of the more subtle nods comes when Furiosa’s ending injury mirrors Max’s fate in The Road Warrior. When it was released in 2015, Fury Road proved both a revolutionary and fitting addition to the Mad Max franchise. On the one hand, the propulsive action movie told a fast-paced chase narrative like the best of the series. On the other, the title character was no longer the star of the show.

With the belated sequel never even explaining the little girl who haunts Max, Fury Road left viewers with little reason to focus on Tom Hardy’s eponymous antihero as the audience insertion persona. Instead, Charlize Theron’s battle-hardened Imperator Furiosa was the real star of Fury Road and it was her journey that the movie focused on, with Max being more of a supporting star than the lead. As if to underline this, one of Furiosa’s battle scars makes her resemble Max at the end of one of his earlier adventures.

Near Fury Road’s explosive climax, Furiosa’s eye is swollen shut thanks to the injuries sustained during the chase. It is identical to how Max’s eye is swollen shut at the climax of The Road Warrior, reaffirming that Fury Road is a Mad Max movie where Max plays support and Furiosa fills in the traditional protagonist role. Fury Road also revisited Lord Humungus’ missing Road Warrior backstory in Immortan Joe’s comic origins, further cementing its status as a gender-flipped revision of the earlier sequel.

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While the cargo being retrieved in Fury Road is human, rather than (supposedly) oil, the basic outline of both The Road Warrior and Fury Road’s plots are the same. However, in Fury Road, it is Furiosa who decides to do the right thing and go against the villains rather than Max, and the sequel focuses more on her perspective than his throughout its runtime. Giving Furiosa Max’s eye injury serves to make the comparison even more obvious, as both heroes end up with these injuries after opting to help others despite knowing it will come at a high, likely fatal cost to themselves.

The secret Immortan Joe cameo hidden in Fury Road ensures that this is not the movie’s only nod to earlier franchise outings, but it is one of the most explicit signs that Furiosa is a figure styled after Max himself. The eye injury lets viewers know that the antiheroine is more like Max than she lets on and means her long-awaited spinoff movie will likely retain the fast pace, gory action, and moral ambiguity of Max’s earlier screen adventures. While it will not arrive in cinemas for a few years yet, viewers anxiously awaiting Furiosa’s story can rest assured it will do the franchise justice judging by Mad Max: Fury Road’s Road Warrior reference.

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