Slight spoilers follow for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. There are three certainties within George Miller’s Mad Max universe. The cars are going to be tricked out beyond Xzibit’s and Vin Diesel’s wildest dreams.
The stunts that smash those vehicles to bits are going to challenge your understanding of time, space, and physics. And the names of the characters wreaking that destruction are going to be so goofy and so dumb, reflecting the boundless kooky possibilities of the English language, using alliteration and rhyme and wordplay to make you go, “Wait, that guy is named what ?” Since 1979’s franchise-starting Mad Max , Miller has packed these films with names that are simultaneously florid and regal and menacing and weird. Some of the earliest ones seem even quaint now, like Goose; there should be no reality in which the Mad Max and Top Gun franchises share nomenclature.
The names in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga , co-written by Miller and Nico Lathouris, run the gamut from somewhat normal (with recognizable first names, like Praetorian Jack and Immortan Joe) to let-your-freak-flag-fly bizarre. We’re not interested in the former grouping, or in names that actually reflect their characters’ motivations; “Furiosa” and “Dementus” handily express how these two hurt people hurt people. Instead, we’re ranking here the names you had to convince yourself you actually heard, or the ones thrown around with such seriousness in the film that you had to laugh.
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