1. Max Rockatansky is the title character and antihero protagonist of the Australian post-apocalyptic action film series Mad Max created by director George Miller and producer Byron Kennedy.
23 Facts About Max Rockatansky
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In Mad Max, Max Rockatansky is a Main Force Patrol highway patrolman tasked with maintaining law and order on the roads of a dystopian Victoria, Australia.
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Max Rockatansky is quiet, rarely speaking to any great extent, and never paying much attention to his steadily increasing reputation.
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Max Rockatansky reaches a breaking point when a gang of criminally insane bikers led by the "Toecutter" burn Max's partner Goose alive inside a borrowed ute.
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The sight of Goose's charred body in a hospital bed prompts Max Rockatansky to resign from the MFP.
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The MFP's officers are increasingly infuriated with the Australian prosecutors' inability to convict the criminals that they arrest, and Max Rockatansky's commanding officer gives him license to do as he pleases with the biker gang.
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Max Rockatansky goes on holiday with his family, but runs across Toecutter's gang, which kills Sprog and injures Jessie, leaving her in a coma, but later dies.
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Max Rockatansky is injured in an ambush set for him by the Toecutter, where he is shot in the left leg and has his right arm run over at the elbow.
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In Mad Max Rockatansky 2, set about three years after the first film, Max Rockatansky wanders the wasteland of the outback in his battle-scarred Pursuit Special.
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However, Max Rockatansky develops a mutual respect for the settlers and bonds with an innocent child, who helps him partially rediscover his humanity.
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In Mad Max Rockatansky 3, set fifteen years after the second film, Max Rockatansky is still wandering through the wasteland, scavenging whatever he needs for survival.
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Max Rockatansky's hair has grown long, and very few remnants of his old police uniform remain recognizable.
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Max Rockatansky falls foul of Aunty Entity, Bartertown's dictator, and is exiled into the desert, where he is rescued by a tribe of children living in a wilderness oasis.
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Max Rockatansky initially tries to leave the children, who mistakenly see him as a quasi-religious savior.
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Max Rockatansky makes a cameo appearance in the prequel film Furiosa: A Mad Max Rockatansky Saga, which is set between Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road.
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Max Rockatansky is played by Tom Hardy's Fury Road stuntman, Jacob Tomuri.
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Between the second and third films, after the destruction of the Pursuit Special, Max Rockatansky acquires a roll-cage equipped vehicle based on a pick-up truck and set up to be used as a camel-drawn wagon at need.
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Max Rockatansky wears the black MFP issue uniform of heavy duty riding leathers, which become ripped and patched through the course of the series.
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Max Rockatansky possesses considerable skill with firearms and is an excellent shot, but his most apparent skill is combative driving: he can shoot accurately with one hand while driving with the other.
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At the time of Mad Max Rockatansky, he was considered the "top pursuit man" in the MFP.
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Max Rockatansky improvised a time delay fuse with only a cigarette lighter, a lamp housing and the leaking fuel of an overturned vehicle.
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Max Rockatansky is primarily a survivalist in the wasteland and can tolerate discomfort and pain in achieving a goal, but unlike many movie protagonists, Max Rockatansky is susceptible to realistic and sometimes permanent injury: his left knee is blown out by a gunshot towards the end of the first film, he walks with a slight limp with the help of a leg brace in the second film, and the knee is still tightly bandaged in the third film.
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In Fury Road, Max Rockatansky's left knee brace makes another appearance and still appears to affect his mobility, albeit only slightly.