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…
