Is Mad Max canon? [NO SPOILERS]

[xX_masterchief_Xx]

Please don't spoil anything, but is Mad Max canon?

[Eli Parker]

Originally posted by Mad Ryuu:

prequel comic: http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Mad_Max:_Motion_Comic
short preludes: http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road_(comic_series)
i haven't read them, but i don't see any sequel comics

The Mad Max Fury Road comics, has a framing device that is set after the films.

[Blazewamp]

quote from devs mouth at 0:26
https://youtu.be/do3IiEWxGnE

[Woody]

Miller has stated many times that there is really no cohesive timeline for Mad Max's stories. They are all just stand alone stories, the only cohesive timeline is for the world around Max.

The interceptor has been destroyed 3 times.

Even in the movies you have Max and a couple of other characters mentioning their life prior to the fall. While other characters around the same age were born after.

The story of Mad Max is more like an epic tale of a reluctant hero wandering the waste being passed down.

[Pieking]

Originally posted by Ryuu-kun:

Originally posted by generalkyle:

It is considered Canon, Scrotus is the 3rd son of Immortan Joe, and George Miller confirmed this multiple times.

Okay, too lazy to check this, i knew about son thing already.
But then - where IS Immortan Joe? Is he dead already? Then where's the stronghold with Furiosa? And then we couldn't have Black Interceptor!
Is he not dead? Still where is his stronghold? Where are Bullet Farmer and the one who owns Gas Town?
Th girl in the photo - in FR movie it's not his daughter, tho oftenly confused, in MM1 he only had infant son, but here it's presented as his daughter.
MM movies and game don't connect well and it was always like that.

If you are using the old movies the interceptor was already destroyed in mm2. So those movies dont tie in. It is possible that in this adaptation he had a daughter. Also there is some random black guy haunting him too and he wasnt in the originals

[Wissari]

Originally posted by generalkyle:

Originally posted by Mad Ryuu:

Nothing says that, one could expect something from Scrotus about that.

Where would he get another one Black Interceptor, eh?

And you omitted whole Furiosa part, if she's in power - she should have force to drive out Scrotus as well amirite?

This literally takes place right after the events of fury road. She has no force or cars. Thats all destroyed or blocked by the canyon that nux blocked off.

All that would be their is some warboys. So they are probably hunkered up during the events of the game.

SPOILER TO MAD MAX FURY ROAD




Furoisa died at the end didn't she?

[xX_masterchief_Xx]

Originally posted by Wissari:

Originally posted by generalkyle:

This literally takes place right after the events of fury road. She has no force or cars. Thats all destroyed or blocked by the canyon that nux blocked off.

All that would be their is some warboys. So they are probably hunkered up during the events of the game.

SPOILER TO MAD MAX FURY ROAD




Furoisa died at the end didn't she?

ALSO SPOILERS

Uhhhhh, did you watch the movie? She becomes the new leader of the place Immortan Joe ruled after they killed him.

[GrimCat]

What people and even Max don't realise, is that he is constantly travelling between parallel worlds. He has all the memories of his parallel selves crashing around in his brain, which is why he's so crazy.

[Blitzwing]

Originally posted by XenoBurger:

Please don't spoil anything, but is Mad Max canon?

Mad Max: Fury Road - Nostalgia Critic is best way to explain this all^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRpIeg9eTTQ

[MonkeyHotDog]

Max is like a living legend, he just roams, maybe these "Tales" are true.. maybe they are not.
Maybe the "Road Warrior" is some random guy and when he saves a bunch of people, they assume that "HE IS THE ONE!" Only 1-2 is togather, i hope the next Mad Max movie has the same view as Thunderdom and Fury Road, each time it MAY be a different GUY.

Originally posted by Blackthorne:

Don't forget that the idea of the whole Mad Max 'saga' (all the films, this game) is all about mythology; tales that have been passed down and are being told around campfires of tribes scattered across the wastes and not in contact with each other, but have one thing in common - their ancestors had some kind of encounter with The Man They Called Max.

Hence, there's pretty much no such thing as 'canon' for the whole franchise; it's something that's always going to be expanded upon. Not worth arguing about the idea in my opinion.

EXACTLY! +1

[-=Charza=-]

It's really not that hard to see that this game is a prequel.
It takes place sometime before Fury Road, and it is the first actual time we experience things from the Perspective of Max Rockatansky himself.
I love how this game digs into his psyche, and after playing this story you will understand Fury Road's events even better.
The comics actually take elements of this game and tie all of it together. Although there are some pretty big differences.
The fact that there are differences between the comic and this actual game in regard of the events, their order and the mentioned people can actually be attributed to the fact that the comics are told from the perspective of a so called "History Man". So the comics are a third hand telling of events that took place in the past, while the game portrays the ACTUAL EVENTS as seen from Max's point of view.

[Eli Parker]

This game isn't canon, I believe at first it was meant to be a prequel to Fury Road...then something happened and things changed. I believe this should be a start for more Mad Max games set in the continunity of this game.

[Just Chill]

Originally posted by Fire2box:

There is no cannon to mad max anyways.

But he is using a shotgun ingame and also has some weapons which can be considered as "cannon", no?

[ScruffyOne]

Originally posted by Petrothian:

as someone who watched the original as a kid...

well, it should have ended with the 1st movie (as the kid/narrator drove away with his group leaving max with his destroyed car behind *without gas/food/amno... you know is a powerful ending when you remember it 20+ years after...). ...

(Yes, necropost, but couldn't ignore the misinformation )

The movie you've described is The Road Warrior. It was the second movie, which was set after the fall of civilization. Mad Max was the first movie, and was set during the final days of the breakdown of civilization.

For the record, I agree with you that the series should have stopped with The Road Warrior. IMNSHO, Beyond Thunderdome was a big budget waste of money. At the moment, I have no opinion of the "reboot" as I have yet to see it.

[Ryuu]

You can read interesting facts about Beyond Thunderdome on imdb, like how there was not supposed to have Mad Max in it at first, and how a director's friend died during filming, so the director didn't participate much during second part of the movie. Sheds some insight why the movie seems a bit out of place. I still like it.

[ZaggRukk]

Originally posted by WhiteSosa:

I dont get the whole picture of daughter and wife at the begining of the game. But in the movie Fury Road Mad Max had flash backs of a little girl.

In the first movie: Mad Max, Max was a MFP officer (Main Force Patrol = cop), He had a wife and a toddler (although I think he had a son in the movie). After witnessing their deaths, he went mad, took a corrupted promotion to be a legalized vigilante and took the original Interceptor (thought to be the last one with a V-8 and maybe the last interceptor of that body/type) and hunted down and killed the entire gang (so he thought) that was responsible. That's where the flashbacks are originating from. He had a "normal" life before the events that were set in motion in the original film.

As far as continuity? The first two movies: Mad Max and Mad Max (The Road Warrior or MM2 depending on region countries) are cannon. They set up the fall of Max. And as Miller has stated in interviews about if FR and the game were sequels, he stated that "these are just stories of Max's life". They can be inturpreted as his "epic" or the "adventures of Mad Max", so to speak. I personally put the story arc as MM, MM2, everything else, and ending, so far, with BTD. That puts the correct ages on the actors as well as the demise, reprisal, and another demise of the black on black interceptor. It is quite possible that there were several pursuit specials of the same make and model as the first one. The end of the world was kind of already known to be happening ahead of time, and I'm guessing that the interceptors were the last production model and those that still exist would be highly sought after and hidden away. In FR we see two different ones, the one that Max had at the beginning and the "chrome" one. If you're not paying attention, one might think that the chrome one was max's, since you see the warboys trying to salvage it. But, the chrome one is actually a seperate vehicle, according to the story. So it's possible that there may be quite a few interceptors still around. And after MM2 (The Road Warrior), Max must have found one prior to the events of FR. I would like to see those stories, where he hunts down the replacement of the original black on black.