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| “ | Out here, everything hurts. You wanna get through this? Do as I say. Now pick up what you can and run. | „ |
| ~ Imperator Furiosa urging the Five Wives to go with her to safety. |
| “ | Remember me! | „ |
| ~ Imperator Furiosa's most famous quote as she finally kills Immortan Joe following a climatic battle between their factions. |
Imperator Furiosa is the deuteragonist of Mad Max: Fury Road and the titular main protagonist of its 2024 prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Originally born of the Green Place before being kidnapped by Dementus, she is a soldier under Immortan Joe who betrays him in order to free the "Five Wives", who are his female sex slaves and concubines. She meets Max during her journey, and despite initial hostility, the two become allies and team up to drive The Five Wives to a safe environment called the Green Place.
She is portrayed by Charlize Theron (who also voiced Morticia Addams in The Adams Family animated films) in Fury Road while her child self is portrayed by Alyla Browne (who also played Maria Robotnik in the 2024 film Sonic the Hedgehog 3) and her younger self is portrayed by Anya Taylor-Joy (who also played Marla Brenner in Playmobil: The Movie, Magik in The New Mutants, Brea in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Casey Cooke in Split and Princess Peach in The Super Mario Bros. Movie) in Furiosa.
Biography[]
Background[]
Born in a fertile land known as the Green Place. She was a daughter of Mary Jabassa and one of the Vuvalini of the Many Mothers. Her initiating mother was Katie (or K.T.) Concannon and she was part of the Swaddle Dog clan. Furiosa was kidnapped by Dementus and his Biker Horde, while her mother died 3 days after the abduction. She was eventually traded to Immortan Joe, where she was kept with the harem with the expectation that when she hit puberty she would be used to procreate; however, after getting abducted by Rictus, she escapes him, but lacking other options, remained in the Citadel, but disguised as a mute boy. Even after her rise to Imperator, she would remain trapped, adding up to at least 7000 days away from home, until deciding to embark on a daring escape that would also rescue the remaining five Wives.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga[]
One day in the Vulvalini home of the Green Place, a rare oasis of vegetation and wildlife, Furiosa was foraging peaches from a tree on a precarious ridge, tossing one to her sister, Valkyrie, while she kept a second. Furiosa noticed a handful of raider bikers, so she told Valkyrie to wait hidden in the foilage, as she went to sabotage their bikes. The bikers were busy butchering a dead horse, which allowed Furiosa to cut the fuel line of one bike; before she could cut another, a biker guard alerted the others to her presence. She fled while blowing her alarm whistle, which is heard by her people and mother, Mary Jabassa. Before they could reach her, the bikers scooped up Furiosa, binding her, then carrying her away on a bike.
Mary Jabassa and another Vulvalini pursued on horseback; they sniped two of the bikers. Mary and her comrade parted since the former wished to continue the pursuit with a dead raider's bike, while the comrade returned to prepare a defense of the Green Place if needed. Mary sniped more riding raiders until only two remained; Furiosa chewed through the fuel line of her captor, forcing the raider duo to stop to refuel. Furiosa stole a blade, managing to cut her ties enough to allow her to run, however, her sprint is intercepted by her kidnapper. The two bikers, along with their prisoner, Furiosa, were in sight of Warlord Dementus' large encampment; Mary was able to snipe one of them, but couldn't shoot the other as they were too close to the camp.
As she is being transported slowly by her captor biker, Furiosa slips from the bike, and grabbed the spinal column that was used to trap her, attaching it to his bike's back wheel, which yanked him off the bike with the vertebrae gouging out his neck. In an attempt to curry favour, the one-eyed lieutenant presented Furiosa himself; the lieutenant presents Furiosa to Dementus, stealing the information the biker gave about the Green Place. However, as the lieutenant is unable to answer Dementus' questions about specific origins, he is forced to bring in the kidnapper biker; the biker was suffering from the injury to his neck, so before he could gasp a breath to point out the direction, Furiosa kicked his wound, making him collapse and bleed out. Instead of being angered, Dementus was impressed by the girl's fire, and thanks to his doctor, the Organic Mechanic's analysis, which revealed Furiosa was a rare full-life - flawless in every way - he was also motivated by a realisation that she could replace the child he lost. Dementus sends Furiosa to be cleaned up by one of his servant women.
In the cleaning tent, the peach harvested by Furiosa was torn apart to examine its lushness. Around and entering the tent, Mary killed the guards and embraced her daughter; the servant woman begged for her life, claiming she too had a child, thus Mary spared her, recovering the peach seed as she took her daughter away on a stolen bike. The servant woman runs to alert Dementus, who leaves with a squadron of bikers, lead by one of his dogs following the scent of the fleeing duo, to chase Furiosa and her mother. Mary gives the peach seed to Furiosa, then does the forehead touch that symbolises Vulvalini trust and connection, afterwards she orders her to flee, to return home or at least find shelter to hide until leaving when the threat passed; the mother is able to kill many attacking bikers, but eventually numbers overwhelm her, taking her captive. Dementus crucifies Mary on an X-shaped cross, with a fire burning beneath her, interrogating her about the location of her home; Furiosa forwent safety by rushing to save her mother, but she was held back; Dementus held her head forward and kept her eyes open to force her to watch her mother burn to death, promising he'll stop if she forfeits the Green Place, but Furiosa refuses, so Dementus merely keeps her watching Mary's slow death, while he claimed it will only make her stronger.
Dementus gives the teddy bear of his dead child to Furiosa, while keeping her in a cage with the History Man, with Dementus making an earnest yet delusional attempt to bond with her; Furiosa shortly dropped the bear, so Dementus returned it to his parachute cape. Dementus has twenty bikers in a rival gang fight to the death, so that five survivors would mount bikes attached to the limbs and head of their leader, and drive to tear him to pieces as to pledge loyalty to their new leader, Dementus; the warlord tells Furiosa that she doesn't have to watch the execution, but she emotionlessly watches anyway.
At night, Furiosa steals the History Man's pen to tattoo the star map directions to the Green Place into her left arm. The Horde travels across the wasteland, until locating a lone War Boy, who had a bolt pierced in his head and believed he had died to enter Valhalla. Dementus interrogates information of the war boy's origin, so he provides directions to three massive plateaus, one of which had the symbol of the Cult of the V8 carved into it, all of which make up the Citadel. Dementus uses his speaker system to announce his identity and strength, as well as inviting the residents on the ground and within the Citadel to overthrow their "big shots", so that he could replace it with an egalitarian society.
From above in the Citadel, leaders of the Cult, from the Bullet Farmer, the People Eater, Joe's sons Rictus and Scrotus, as well as Immortan Joe himself watch Dementus' presentation. On behalf of Joe, the People Eater retorts to Dementus by asking that he choose any random War Boy, which was done; Joe tells the chosen War Boy that he is awaited in Valhalla, therefore the chosen War Boy zip-lines down via the wires, enacting a kamikaze attack that killed dozens of the Horde. Joe monologues that any one of his War Boys would do the same, hence he returns inside, as his sons launch an attack with several more War Boys detonating more explosions throughout the Horde, while others hook up random bikes for material; the cage with Furiosa and the History Man is grappled, with the latter escaping, but Furiosa still chained. Dementus frees Furiosa from the cage, allowing her to be a passenger on his motorbike chariot, and is forced to order a retreat, with the Horde leaving the Citadel grounds.
Dementus organises hidden scouts to watch the activities of the Cult of the V8; after cataloguing the regular rig routines between the Citadel and Gastown, the oil refinery, Dementus disguises a handful of his men from the Octoboss' crew as War Boys, and once killing all real War Boys in the latest rig, orchestrates a Trojan Horse with it. The Guardian of Gastown is suspicious when seeing an approaching rig followed by members of the Horde, yet seeing no casualties; Dementus orders to make the attack real, so kills most of his own men on the rig, but it fools the Guardian, thus it entered Gastown. His personal men exit from within the rig and open the gates, which enabled the Horde to occupy the fortress.
Dementus coerces a negotiation with Immortan Joe, threatening to blow up Gastown if his demands aren't met; Dementus had the previous Gastown Guardian rigged in a device that will trigger a skull spike. Joe's dumbest son Rictus tries to overpower Dementus, but sets off the device, killing the Guardian. Despite this loss, Joe agrees to enter negotiations. Dementus demands that he be made Lord Guardian of Gastown, and the Horde be given a share of food and water from the Citadel; Joe agrees to appoint him Lord Guardian of Gastown, and agrees to share food and water, but a much smaller percentage. Joe, however, adds the condition that Dementus yield the Organic Mechanic and Furiosa; the Mechanic is traded without complaint, but for the girl Dementus claims that he won't because she is his daughter, Little D, but when Joe asks her if that's true, she answers truthfully that he isn't her father and he killed her mother; while acknowledging the matricide, Dementus argued that he did it to make her stronger. While briefly reluctant, Dementus accepts to giving up Furiosa to Joe; while she had eventually accepted the teddy bear, Dementus snatched it back, muttering about how it belonged to him.
Furiosa is escorted to the Treasure Vault, where she is greeted kindly by the other wives. Later, when a wife is in the process of giving birth, she and others are in attendance; Rictus creepily runs his fingers through her hair, thus she retreats upstairs away from everyone. During a night, Furiosa retrieves the peach seed that she had hidden in a knot of her hair, keeping it in her mouth as she cuts her hair at the roots; using candle wax, she glued the hair to a doily, after completing it, she wears it as a wig. Another night, Rictus sneaks into the Vault and abducts Furiosa, taking her to his room full of baby doll parts; he uses bolt cutters to remove the fanged chastity belt from Furiosa, which implied vulgar goals. Rictus noticed the star map on her left arm, and demands to know what it means, but she remained silent. When Rictus pawed through her hair again, since it is a wig, Furiosa is able to run, leaving Rictus confusedly holding the wig. Furiosa wipes her hands over some pipes in a tunnel, using the motor oil to paint her face as camouflage. Rictus manages to pursue her to top level's gate apparatus, where he is confronted by Scrotus; while the more aggressive Scrotus questions Rictus' reason for being there, neither realise that Furiosa had hid beneath the metal walkway.
Furiosa infiltrates the Citadel, but dressed as a boy, pretending to be mute so that her gender isn't discovered; she works as one of the door pulley walkers. After she managed to reattach a chain around a vehicle, saving it from falling, Scrotus promotes her to dogman, so she can work in the garage. Furiosa is among a big crew that is organised to construct a mighty new war rig; Scrotus and Rictus motivate the gathered, with Rictus almost recognising Furiosa, but is distracted by Scrotus' impatient order to let the work begin.
Dementus is Lord Guardian of Gastown for years, yet his mental state becomes increasingly unstable during that time, and he also withholds more and more food and water for himself and his lieutenants, rather than properly supplying the people of Gastown. The people become closer to revolting every day, as their overworked and underfed lives drive them further into desperation; Dementus, however, periodically appears to claim that he isn't responsible for their suffering, blaming outside forces, although this has a declining rate of efficiency as the people cease believing the Lord Guardian's delusions and lies.
After the War Rig is completed, Furiosa hides a motorbike and supplies in its undercarriage, in preparation to finally enact her escape to the Green Place. Praetor Jack is in charge of the War Rig, which he leads with the mechanic and a battalion of War Boys. Along the Fury Road to Gastown, a former subordinate of Dementus, who went rogue out of anger for his men's sacrifice, the Octoboss and his biker gang instigates an attack. Most of the War Boys get killed in battle, though also taking out most of the Octoboss' gang. Damage from the struggle causes Furiosa's supplies to spill out, until her bike almost falls, losing a tire; when the mechanic goes under to repair the damaged fuel line, he notices her. The mechanic entrusts her to finish the fix, handing her the part before he drops with the damaged bike to die from the momentum of the rig.
Due to the demand of the situation, Furiosa continues to repair damage to the Rig. Eventually all of the War Boys die, while the Octoboss directly engages to shoot at the rig; Furiosa fires the harpoon at the Octoboss' motorised glider, retracting the cable, then she activates the Bomby-Knocker - a spinning series of flails - which killed the Octoboss.
Furiosa aims a pistol, she acquired from Praetor Jack during the raider battle, threatening him to make him stop; instead, he hits the brakes, dumping her on to the road. Furiosa finds herself uncertain of what to do, as she no longer has supplies nor transport, and is stuck in the middle of nowhere. After some time, Praetor Jack approaches on foot; she aims at him, but he explains that he detects her warrior potential, and offers to help her focus it, as well as share other wasteland survival skills. While sceptical of the man's intentions, she agreed. At some point later, likely helped by Jack's word, Immortan Joe allows Furiosa to become a Praetorian.
Jack and Furiosa complete a routine ammunition collection from the Bullet Farm; afterwards Furiosa invites her proper father figure to join her on her journey back to the Green Place. At night at the Citadel, Furiosa explains the star map she tattooed on her arm to Jack; she leans her forehead against his to signify her decision to allow him to be an honory member of the Vulvalini, as well display her trust and gratitude.
One War Rig run to Gastown, Furiosa for the first time in years, sees her mother's murderer in the flesh, yet Dementus, on the other hand, failed to recognise his abandoned adopted daughter; Dementus claimed he wasn't at fault for Gastown's difficulties, blaming everyone else, yet on a speaker system to try to quell the uprising crowd, however, instead the discord of the people launched a riot that forced the War Rig to flee back to the Citadel, without the expected fuel allowance. Grown weary of Dementus' mismanagement, Immortan Joe declares that they will prepare for war, therefore orders Praetors Jack and Furiosa to collect a massive hoard of bullets and explosives from the Bullet Farm.
Dementus would lead his Horde to invade the Bullet Farm, while the Bullet Farmer was away at a meeting in the Citadel; he killed all of the workers, and prepared an ambush for the War Rig. Praetor Jack and Praetor Furiosa arrive, along with their War Boys, with him driving the Rig into the Farm, and her in a ute with two bikes, prepared for their escape to the Green Place. Dementus executes the ambush, which kills all of their War Boys; with the intent of protecting his ward, Jack drives the War Rig deeper into the Farm, while Furiosa sniped various targets; Furiosa eventually aims at Dementus, but he is able to use one of his men as a shield, while he fires an RPG at her. The rocket doesn't kill her, but collapses the ridge beneath her. Furiosa recovers, using a motorbike to reach Jack, then tossing a grappling hook to save him from falling, and they both ride the bike to the exit; they switch vehicles to drive the ute, but they are followed by a detachment of the Horde, lead by Dementus himself.
The chase goes across the desert, yet Dementus manages to land a bullet in Jack's chest, while partially grinding Furiosa's left arm between her vehicle and his six-wheeled monster truck; Dementus is able to flip Jack and Furiosa's vehicle, stopping to inspect the damage. The rest of his detachment arrive, seeing Dementus ranting at Furiosa and Jack for having hope, as he believes none have hope, not them, not his men, and especially not himself. He chains Furiosa's damaged left arm to the back of his monster truck-like vehicle, to torture her with pain and force her to watch while having his men tie Jack's arms behind two motor bikes to be pulled then dragged when he fell; Dementus orders his men to ride in a circle. The circle goes for hours, with Jack dying well before the night, either from bleeding out of his gunshot wound or asphyxiation from the dirt. Bored of the circle, Dementus orders them to stop, deciding to punish Furiosa next, however, he realised that she escaped by ripping off her own arm.
Furiosa recovered one of the two bikes she prepared, riding it ahead of the Horde; Dementus is delayed as Furiosa had rigged the tow chain of his modified monster truck to yank a tire off its axle. She is able to ride up and over a steep hill, while the squadron of the Horde struggle and fail to even begin ascent. After hours, Furiosa's bike runs out of fuel, which forces her to walk towards the Citadel; while the fortress is in sight, it is still far enough to be on the horizon. Furiosa collapsed from exhaustion and pain, although a lone figure from a nearby cliff noticed her; she is taken to the nearest settlement, which is the Citadel. Although, the Good Samaritan lacked knowledge about the area, so Furiosa was left in a dangerous situation. She was taken into one of the tunnels at the entrance of the Citadel, where maggots are bred in wounds and corpses for food, as such, her severed left stump was used for maggots. Furiosa recovers and escapes from her deranged, yet feeble captors.
Furiosa is able to convince an elevator guard to lift her with them due to her status as a Praetor. Dementus triggers smoke belching from the Gastown, making it appear like a massive fire is happening, in the hope of luring out Immortan Joe and his forces. However, Furiosa breaks into the War Room and manages to convey that the Bullet Farm had been seized; while facing resistance, she is able to convince Joe about Dementus' strategy, thus Joe sends a small unit to Gastown to make it seem like he was fooled, while waiting from a position of strength in the Citadel, ready to counterattack against the treacherous Dementus.
The 40 Day Wasteland War leads to slaughter on both sides, but the bulk of losses are suffered by the Horde. During that time, Furiosa recovers from her injury, while salvaging pieces to construct a mechanical prosthesis to replace her lost left arm. Eventually, the Horde is whittled down due to death and desertion, so Dementus and his few remaining lieutenants flee into the wasteland. Dementus, believing there is no point to continue any association, releases his lieutenants from their obligations to him, noting that they accomplished a lot, but their time is over.
Furiosa is able to take an incomplete car to drive to the battlefield, which is covered by dead bodies and destroyed vehicles, the latter being salvaged for parts by Joe's men. Scrotus realises that one of the dodgy car's tires would be a perfect replacement for his weaponised black car, and so commands his war boys to take it and the fuel; when Scrotus is distracted by the Organic Mechanic's offer of dog meat to eat, Furiosa takes the black car herself. Scrotus is more stunned than angered, wondering who she is, which the History Man answers that she is the Darkest of Angels and the Fifth Rider of the Apocalypse.
Furiosa chases Dementus' motorbike chariot, killing one of his lieutenants in the process, but realises its driver was the warlord's slave, Smeg, dressed in the clothes of Dementus as a decoy, yet she still leaves him to a sinkhole (though, he was too far in for her to do anything even if she tried). She chases another rider, but after they are taken down by the Buzzards, she sees it is just the one-eyed lieutenant. Dementus uses a giant sandstorm for cover, but Furiosa is able to follow him.
As Dementus slept, she cut his water pouch and stole his bike's tire; when he awakens, he is amused about his pursuer's "freakish" mind, as he could have been killed, but the assailant instead aimed to torture his sanity. Furiosa slowly follows Dementus in the black car, stopping and reversing if he tried to approach her. Eventually, Dementus falls to knees seeming to surrender due to thirst and exhaustion, so Furiosa finally meets with him. He wonders if they know each other, while Furiosa answers "remember me." However, Dementus doesn't recall her, which provokes her to beat him, only evoking further amusement from him.
When Furiosa reveals her face, Dementus still doesn't recognise her. Furiosa demands the childhood, her mother, and years he took from her, but Dementus taunts her back, reminding her that he lost his entire family and that revenge will not make her whole. He grabbed the knife from her calf-holster, however, the blade had been rigged to break, therefore was worthless; Dementus wryly argued his action wasn't out of hope, but instinct, after which Furiosa knocks him unconscious.
Dementus awakens, continuing his tirade about hopelessness and cruelty, but appeared to suffer a seizure, falls to his back; Furiosa cuts his dead child's teddy bear from its chains on his belt. Revealing he had faked the seizure, seeing Furiosa take the teddy bear finally makes him remember her, and he becomes thrilled to see her again. He also claims that whatever she does to him, he won't feel it, as he had become numb to sensations, needing greater and greater violence to feel anything, yet she can't beat his threshold of pain. Dementus claimed that he and Furiosa are exactly the same kind of evil, twisted creatures that thrive in the hell of the wasteland, and declared his cruelty towards her was validated since she became a power that he had dreamed would one day kill him.
The History Man, as an unreliable narrator relays potential outcomes, from Furiosa simply shooting Dementus in the head or ironic punishments like dragging him as he did to Jack or crucifying and burning him like he did to her mother; however, the narrator posits the truth is that Furiosa took Dementus, and imprisoned him in a hidden alcove in the Citadel, chaining him to the ground after planting the inherited peach seed beneath him, which grew up through his flesh, leaving a peach tree bursting from his body, yet he is kept alive by the steady stream of water.
While Dementus was never delivered to Immortan Joe, Furiosa's years of service, as well as providing the information and tactics that lead to countering Dementus' strategy, which ended with the annihilation of the Biker Horde, made Joe understand Furiosa's capabilities, and he believed her to be loyal, thus she was promoted to Imperator.
Mad Max: Fury Road[]
Imperator Furiosa pretended to undertake a regular supply run, but deviated from course as she smuggled Immortan Joe's involuntarily wives towards her childhood homeland of the Green Place, thus drives the War Rig to travel there. Joe realises the deception upon inspecting the vault in which his wives are imprisoned with only the elderly midwife remaining to delay him, thus he launched the bulk of his forces to chase after the traitor Furiosa to recapture his breeding women.
After entering an uneasy alliance with Max, Furiosa takes the group in the War Rig to meet with the Buzzards, as she had arranged a deal to trade gasoline for passage; however, the raiders noticed the three War Parties in approaching because of Furiosa, so they attack, forcing Max to drive, while she takes cover before reboarding the Rig. After multiple attacks, they are able to defeat enough Buzzards to make the rest retreat.
Immortan Joe catches up in his Gigahorse, but a broken door caused one of the Wives, Angharan, to fall, and she is run over. Max refuses to stop, claiming Angharan went under the wheel; while Furiosa is sceptical, she understands that they can't stop even if she did survive, as the encroaching War Party would catch them.
Furiosa finally reunites with the Vuvalini, but she learns that they had already passed the Green Place, although didn't realise because it had become a poison swamp, haunted by crows. Later, Max decides to help her, the Wives, and remaining Vulvalini by suggesting the plan to return back to the Citadel, volunteering for the race and likely battle against Immortan Joe's army, with the end strategy to block the pass so they can't follow. During the final battle, she is severely wounded by one of Immortan Joe's War Boys.
However, after Max temporarily defeats Rictus, Immortan Joe's son and right-hand man, Furiosa manages to reach Joe's car, the Gigahorse, and hooks her prosthetic left arm through Joe's mask, stating "Remember me?" with his angry roar interrupted when the cable attached to her false arm is raveled by the Gigahorse's wheel, which violently ripped his mask apart - due to it being fused to his face, it also tears his face off, killing him. Furiosa loses her prosthetic limb, but is safe enough to later survive due to first aid knowledge of and a blood transfusion from the universal blood donor Max.
While weak, Furiosa regains enough strength to ride the lift up into the Citadel, accompanied by the surviving Vulvani and Joe's freed Wives, and she is granted the responsibility to govern over the Citadel after Joe's death - with the death of the tyrant, his remaining forces either rebel to join Furiosa or become prisoners, and his milkers turn on the water pump, allowing the dehydrated crowd below to finally properly satiate their thirst. Numerous people who had been trapped down on the ground are able to mount the vehicle lift, to finally enter a livable environment. Max departs through the crowd, and before disappearing from sight, he and Furiosa share a nod of respect and appreciation.
Personality[]
As a member of the Vulvalini, Furiosa holds high regard for her fellow women and femininity, and like her mother, she also had a predilection for warrior ways, while still holding onto her female identity. However, due to necessities of survival in the wasteland, she would forfeit her own femininity, adopting masculine appearances and attitudes, at first to hide, but eventually to project strength in the overtly masculine Cult of the V8.
She was close with her sister, Valkyrie, and especially close to her mother, Mary Jabassa, yet as a child, she lacked a grasp on the realities of danger, so ended up wasting her mother's sacrifice by trying to save her from the execution by Dementus. She craved vengeance, yet quickly understood how helpless she was, thereby had the patience to wait and prepare to be ready to enact her revenge. Since it was her mother's mercy and selflessness that lead to her death, Furiosa would follow a selfish outlook for many years, choosing to ignore the suffering she saw; however, this also meant that she had a strong sense of discipline, as even surrounded by people she despised or being in the presence of Dementus again, she retained composure.
After Praetor Jack becomes her survivalist instructor and father figure, Furiosa begins to believe in her mother's balance of warrior and compassion again, thereby her trust allows her to invite him on her escape back to her home of the Green Place; choosing the leave meant abandoning her quest for revenge, which was a struggle for her, but the positive connection she found from Jack moved her to decide to forsake violence to return home. Yet when Dementus captured her and Jack, ordering him to suffer a prolonged execution in front of her - just like Mary - pushed Furiosa back to a commitment to revenge.
While working under deception in the Citadel for years, as well as her rise to Praetorian, displayed her strong willpower, the gravity of her strength was reinforced when she ripped off her own arm to escape Dementus, with a plan to warn the Cult of the V8 and recuperate to deliver her vengeance. And yet when she finally had Dementus at her mercy, his depraved ravings and inability to feel anything but the most extremes of sensations due to his trauma and years of cruelty, convinced Furiosa to renounce her desire to kill him; seeing how Dementus' years of selfishness and violence had left him a pitiful mad man, she decided not to execute him. While she certainly opted to force Dementus into a ruthless karmic punishment, afterwards instead of adhering to his pattern of further violence, Furiosa instead chose to follow the examples of her mother and father figure by dedicating her life to compassion and charity.
In Immortan Joe's forces, Furiosa held a position of prestige as an Imperator, but her desire to help the subjugated was stronger than her need for any privilege her status would allow her; due to her Vulvalini origins and own sense of morality, seeing the enslaved wives of Immortan Joe was abhorrent to her, thus she adhered to a highly dangerous plan to save them. She was highly protective of them, willing to fight raiders, Immortan Joe's forces, and even perceived threats like Max Rockatansky. As a Vulvalini and because of the suffering she experienced at the hands of men, Furiosa was slower to trust men in general, however, was capable of making exceptions if they earned it, such as Praetor Jack and eventually Max.
Furiosa had a highly disciplined control of her emotions, but intense trauma could cause her to break down in despair. She was generally apathetic to an anonymous enemy in combat - simply viewing them as foes in the moment - however, the longer battle lasts, the less disciplined she becomes, as she can become enraged, leaving herself vulnerable to counterattacks; she could also be resentful against people who caused significant pain to her and/or those she cared about, since she would hold a strong hatred for them for years until achieving retribution, as shown with Dementus and Immortan Joe.
Skills and Abilities[]
- Expert Driver: She was able to drive a war rig, small truck, or motorbike with exceptional competency.
- Expert Hand-to-hand Combatant: From her training as a Vulvalini, then further teaching from Praetor Jack, she became one of the most formidable fighters in the wasteland.
- Capable Marksmanship: She lacks the mastered sniper skills of her mother, but is still a skilled shooter of small arms and rifles.
- Mechanical Engineer: As a member of the Cult of the V8 mechanic team, she learned how to construct and repair sophisticated vehicles. She could also adapt her skills, as shown by her modification of a wheelchair appendage to shape into her own synthetic left arm.
- Extreme Pain Tolerance: She was able to break her already damaged left arm until severing it from above the elbow, and yet ride a motorbike for hours, then walk kilometers without pain relief. While less extreme, she gets stabbed in the abdomen, but was still able to fight at near-peak capacity for as long as she remained conscious.
Trivia[]
- She is the first protagonist to feature in more than one Mad Max film, other than Max himself.
- The actor Bruce Spence played very similar deuteragonists of the Gyro Captain and Jedediah the Pilot in Mad Mad 2 and Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome, respectively, however, they are different people.
- She is the first protagonist to directly kill the main antagonist.
- In Deadpool & and Wolverine, Deadpool prefer Sabretooth as Furiosa after Wolverine beheaded him.