

In the first film, he wore his leather patrol uniform, which eventually started to wear out from being in the wasteland for the past 15 years and it became his protective armor. In Mad Max, he is 23 years old in the year 1997 in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, he is 26 years old in the year 1999 and in Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome, he is 40 years old in the year 2014 and in Mad Max: Fury Road, his age is retconed to 36 even though the film takes place 46 years after Beyond Thunderdome in the year of 2060. Max Rockatansky is a 5ft 9 ½ (176.5 cm), Caucasian male, with a strong and lean build. Max's family, Sprog Rockatansky and Jessie Rockatansky, were murdered by marauders. In the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road, Mad Max was played by Tom Hardy. Max was created by director George Miller and producer Byron Kennedy, and was played by actor Mel Gibson.

He appears in the films Mad Max, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Max Rockatansky (known by his nickname Mad Max, and sometimes referred to as The Road Warrior, Raggedy Man and The Man with No Name) is a title character and the protagonist of the Mad Max franchise. When the Interceptor is taken, everything changes but as always Max keeps moving and finds a way to survive." Film Description It is an extension of him, essential to survive the Wasteland. Max clings to his old car, the Interceptor, or "Black on Black".

There he is convinced he will find peace, an extinguishing of the anguish, and a silencing of the voices of past ghosts. His confused mind has constructed a mythical place which he refers to as the Plains of Silence. His survival training is part of muscle memory now. Max would have stopped long ago, stopped fighting, stopped breathing but his body will not allow him to rest. Living day to day, just surviving, while a cacophony of distorted memories, sounds and visions haunt him.

Somewhere in the death throes of human civilization, he lost his family to senseless violence. "Max, a loner, on the run from himself and his past.
