AlthoughFuriosa: A Mad Max Sagadid explain how theMad Maxfranchise’s heroine ended up working for Immortan Joe, the prequel didn’t show her turning against him.TheMad Maxmoviesalready had a pretty complicated chronology before 2024’sFury RoadprequelFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga. 1979’sMad Maxtakes place after society has begun to break down but before the franchise’s off-screen apocalypse, 1981’s sequelThe Road Warriortakes place after the end of the world, and 1985’sBeyond Thunderdometakes place even later. Seemingly, 2015’sFury Roadoccurs last.
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However,Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagacomplicated this. The prequel begins decades after the apocalypse when Furiosa is still a young girl. Somehow, Furiosa is only a little younger than Max inFury Roadwhen, according toFuriosa: A Mad Max Sagaand Mad Max, he should be around 60 years older than her. The mystery aroundtheMad Max franchise’s timelineaside,Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagawas a critically acclaimed addition to the series. That said, director George Miller’s prequel didn’t delve into one major question about the backstory of its title character.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagadoesn’t address Furiosa’s feud with Immortan Joe, who she is still allied with by the end of the prequel. Miller’s movie makes it abundantly clear that Immortan Joe is just as monstrous and amoral a warlord as he was inFury Road, but it is expedient for Furiosa to align herself with him to survive. When she is first captured, Furiosa is kept alongside Immortan Joe’s female captives and barely escapes. She becomes one ofImmortan Joe’s War Boysand works her way up through the ranks of his militia, forging a relationship with Praetorian Jack.
Furiosa forms an uneasy alliance with the warlord so she can survive in the Citadel.
Although Praetorian Jack does die inFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga’s ending, Furiosa eventually gets her revenge on Chis Hemsworth’s Dementus when the War Boys defeat his Horde. Since Furiosa doesn’t have any immediate plans to find the Many Mothers again, and she lost the star map to her home when she was forced to sever her arm, there is no impetus for her to begin a battle with Immortan Joe yet. At least temporarily, Furiosa forms an uneasy alliance with the warlord so she can survive in the Citadel. This seemingly lasts until the events ofFury Road.
It’s Not Clear How Much Time Has Passed Between Furiosa & Fury Road
Since viewers don’t know how much time passed betweenFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga’s ending andFury Road’s beginning,Furiosa might have Immortan Joe him pretty quickly. She may have decided that upholding the warlord’s inhumane regime wasn’t worth it within a few months or years of beginning to aid his War Boys, and the only way to judge is by looking at the character’s appearance. Charlize Theron’sFury Roadversion of Furiosa isn’t that much older than Anya Taylor-Joy’sFuriosa: A Mad Max Sagaincarnation of the character.
Characters don’t age normally in the Wasteland, so it is impossible to judge just how much time passes betweenFury RoadandFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga.
However, even this doesn’t give too big a clue, thanks to the slippery nature of aging in theMad Maxuniverse. As noted above,theMad Maxfranchise’s unseen apocalypseoccurred over four decades before Furiosa was a child. Since Max was in his twenties before the off-screen event happened, Tom Hardy’s character inFury Roadshould theoretically be at least sixty-something. This proves that characters don’t age normally in the Wasteland, so it is impossible to judge just how much time passes betweenFury RoadandFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Furiosa Decides To Flee The Citadel After Getting To Know The Wives
Immortan Joe’s Mistreatment Of Captive Women Changed Furiosa’s Mind
The fact that Lachy Hulme’sFuriosa: A Mad Max Sagaversion of Immortan Joe looks almost identical to Hugh Keays-Byrne’s take on the character inFury Roaddoesn’t make things any clearer.Furiosa’sFury Roadtie-in comicdoes offer a backstory that explains her motivation for betraying Immortan Joe, but this is partially retconned inFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga. In “Mad Max Fury Road: Furiosa,” the second issue of a tie-in comic released alongsideFury Road, Furiosa becomes the bodyguard to Immortan Joe’s five female captives. Witnessing his vile mistreatment of them leads her to plot their escape.
However, this is contradicted inFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga, wherein Furiosa initially learns about Immortan Joe’s “Wives” when she is trapped in their vault when first captured by the War Boys. She meets the captives again in the prequel’s ending, but the initial introduction depicted in the comics is retconned by this twist. In any case,learning about Immortan Joe’s abuse of his captives leads Furiosa to betray himand free them. The question of when she makes this choice remains aMad Maxfranchise mystery even afterFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga’s story.
