Who is Furiosa’s equivalent of the Doof Warrior?
polygon.comHow do you top something that’s already ridiculously, joyfully, emphatically over the top? That’s the big existential question George Miller faced in making Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the hard-charging prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. The first film is maximalist to a fault, with screaming, bald, white-painted War Boys gleefully spray-painting their teeth chrome before throwing themselves to their deaths, and chase after chase featuring a giant War Rigs and nigh-infinite smaller vehicles covered in skulls, chains, creepy dolls, and anything else the designers could graft on.
But nothing in the movie is more over the top than the Doof Warrior, the fan-favorite hard-rocker who bungie-hops around a giant stack of speakers, dressed in red long johns and his dead mother’s face, wielding a fire-spitting guitar as he plays sick licks to inspire Immortan Joe’s hyped-up collection of Valhalla-minded dummies to go even harder in combat. Recently, a group of Polygon staffers were discussing Furiosa, and someone asked, “Who’s the Doof Warrior equivalent in this movie?”
The most obvious answer is that there isn’t one — at least, there isn’t someone who’s ridiculous in the same way and on the same level. But one of the best things about Furiosa is that Miller isn’t just trying to copycat himself, so he doesn’t, say, throw a flame-spewing brass band into his new movie to up the ante on something that was already perfect. But in terms of who Furiosa’s breakout character might be — who might inspire fan art and fan engagement, once more people have seen the movie — well, we’ve got different opinions on that one. Witness us!
Jack is in some ways the exact opposite of the Doof Warrior — quiet where DW is showy, content to disappear into a crowd instead of living for the spectacle, and a much more stylish dresser. (Red PJs are so pre-apocalypse.) But I think he may be the character who goes the distance in the fandom, because like the Doof Warrior, he stands out as radically different from
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