In the first film, Mel Gibson was the only one actually kitted out in leather due to budget constraints. Hell-Bent for Leather: His iconic MFP uniform is a leather police outfit, which is a result of the MFP being one of the last standing vanguards of civilization's crumbling remains and therefore had to look at least somewhat imposing.Heartbroken Badass: Precisely one of the core themes of the movie is just what an empty man Max is as a result of losing his family.These injuries never fully heal and stack up with the damage to his eye late in the second film. At the end of the first film as well, since Bubba Zanetti blows out one of his legs and runs over his right arm.He keeps going regardless, but they often hinder him (for example, one causes him to let go of a grate and drop right into the group of War Boys chasing him). Max has PTSD that causes hallucinations, and often those hallucinations will pop up right in the middle of a fight. He gives the Feral Kid a music box and protects him during the tanker chase in The Road Warrior and, reluctantly at first, goes after the kids who left their oasis in Beyond Thunderdome. Friend to All Children: Perhaps it's due to the loss of Sprog, but any time he encounters children, he is usually protective of them.Fashionable Asymmetry: From the second film onwards, his jacket is missing its right sleeve and has a shoulder pad on the right shoulder.Lampshaded when he's introduced as The Man With No Name in Beyond Thunderdome. The Expy With No Name: A badass drifter who talks as little as possible, wears a pistol-type shotgun in a low-slung holster, and wanders the Earth helping people despite himself.Most notably, the gunshot wound to his leg in the first film leaves him with a limp and requiring a leg brace in the second. Dented Iron: His injuries keep adding up over the films and never completely heal.Crazy-Prepared: Keeps his vehicle rigged with explosives to prevent anyone from siphoning off his fuel and a weapon near the explosives in case anyone tries to get him to disarm them.Counting the Magnum Opus from the game, his car has been wrecked five times. Captain Crash: For someone in a postapocalyptic wasteland where having a vehicle is king, he really doesn't have any luck with cars.In the first film, the only way Bubba and the Toecutter are able to get the drop on him is by drawing him away from his vehicle. It's notable in the first film how easily he takes out the vast majority of the biker gang in one fell swoop and how he handles the truck in the second during the final chase, even able to fire a shotgun one handed while driving. Due to the nature of the franchise, it's practically a given. Badass Driver: A classic movie example.Awesome Aussie: The definitive example in film.Arch-Enemy: The Toecutter, the biker who killed his family.After their deaths at the hand of the Toecutter and his biker gang in the first film, he begins Walking the Earth, surviving the apocalypse to become a legendary figure known as the Road Warrior. A road police officer in an Australian town during the dying years of civilization, happily married to his wife Jessie with an infant son.
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