![]() ![]() Phoebe tries another one and in the process the Thunder Twins accidentally cause the highly flammable fuel powering the hot tub to catch fire. Max tries one out and starts farting fire. Phoebe tries to get Max back but after realizing that she can do whatever she wants at Grandpa Giddy's, she decides to move out too and live there with Max.Īt Grandpa Giddy's, Phoebe orders peppers and shows Max how different peppers affect her heat breath. But now, with Max gone, all the parents' focus is on Phoebe, meaning that she can't get away with anything. Cherry helps her hide the peppers from her parents. However, she has to do it secretly because her parents are concerned that some peppers might have some terrible, negative effects. Meanwhile, Phoebe has been testing out the different effects of various spices and peppers on her Heat Breath. Max starts building his hot tub at Grandpa Giddy's. Out of options, Max decides to move out and live at Gideon's grandpa's house where there are no rules. They tell him that as long as he's living under their roof, he has to follow their rules. He secretly enlists Gideon to help dig for the tub in the lair but he's busted by Barb and Hank. Max wants to build a hot tub in his lair but his parents don't approve. After Max moves out, Billy, Nora, and Chloe try to win Max’s lair. However, Fury Road continues to show the world's gradual decline into a wasteland as Furiosa talks of "the green place" only to discover these last remains of plants and green life are gone.Max finally declares his independence from his parents' house rules and moves to his friend's house, where they only rule is that there are no rules ultimate freedom quickly becomes more than Max can handle. But the open nature of the series lore makes it ripe for speculation and creates the potential for more stories to come. With Mad Max director George Miller himself admittedly unclear on all the details of the franchise's timeline, a truly concrete answer is likely impossible. This is supported by the fact that Max has a son in the first movie, while the flashbacks in Fury Road show a little girl.Ī few have even gone so far as to theorize that Hardy’s Max is the feral boy from The Road Warrior. Some suggest Gibson and Hardy's Mad Max characters are completely different people, and that the titles of “Mad Max” and “Road Warrior” were passed from one to the other at some point in time. This means that Tom Hardy’s Max would have barely been born at the time of the societal collapse, which directly contradicts the first Mad Max.Īccepting Mad Max as more of a myth is the easiest way to reconcile these contradictions, but fans have proposed some interesting theories, too. Plus, in Mad Max's Fury Road introduction, he sports a new tattoo marking 12,045 days (or exactly 33 years) since the “fall” – presumably the apocalypse. Max still appears to be in his 30s in Mad Max: Fury Road, even though he would have had to be at least 40 in Beyond Thunderdome. Even if the dates and car models from Mad Max are ignored, as they seem to be in the comics, and it’s assumed that the events of those movies all still took place as they did, just 30 or 40 years later, it still doesn’t quite work. However, the chronology does not line up. Given a few references to the amount of time since the war, and the real-life references in the comics, the fourth film likely takes place around 2050. It’s also clear from the appearance and behavior of Hardy's Max in Fury Road that at least some notable time has passed, as he is even more primal, silent, and animalistic than he is at the end of the third movie. It’s clear that the movie takes place after the events of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, according to the prequel comics. The movie ends with a group of children seeking to build a new civilization in the remains of Sydney, but Fury Road suggests it didn't turn out well.Īs previously mentioned, Mad Max: Fury Road is difficult to situate exactly in the context of the original trilogy. The movie also sees the progression of the world as a wasteland with the nuclear warfare seemingly extinguishing most of the remnants of greenery left. This structure goes beyond the simple gangs and survivor groups shown in The Road Warrior, and it fits with the new, post-apocalyptic social order shown in Mad Max: Fury Road. Bartertown represents the first real instance of an attempt to rebuild society post-collapse, with a general outline of laws, commerce, and social hierarchy. This is a clear contradiction with the 1999 date shown in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.Įither way, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome's story is clearly set well after the nuclear apocalypse. Beyond Thunderdome takes place well after the nuclear war, regardless of which timeline is being used, but the prequel comics show that in the new timeline, that war didn’t happen until after 2015. Of course, this timeline becomes problematic retroactively because of Mad Max: Fury Road.
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