Background Info on the Insane Fire-Spouting Guitar Guy in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Mad Max: Fury Road exploded in theaters this past weekend, and audiences seemed to love it! This was easily one of the most entertaining movies I’ve seen this year. I’ve already seen the film twice, and I’m sure I’ll see it a couple more times before it leaves theaters.
If you've seen the film, then you know the story was full of very interesting and colorful characters. One of the crazier characters in the film was the mad flamethrower electric guitarist of death, who was dressed in red. That character is known as The Coma-Doof Warrior, and thanks to an interview with Fandango, George Miller has revealed some background information on the fascinating character, and where he came from.
There are going to be some prequel comics that give us the background stories of the main villain of the story Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and Nux (Nicholas Hoult). Another character that Miller would like to tell an origin story of is Coma-Doof, but it’s not in the plans right now.
"One character who didn’t get his own comic was the Doof Warrior. I want to tell a story about him in a comic if there’s an opportunity. For me, it was all about how someone who is blind survives in this place. How does someone weak survive the apocalypse? He survived because he was blind – because he lived deep in an unlit mine, where it was an advantage to be blind."
He then gives a little information regarding where the character came from:
"So, deep in the mine, he would sit there and eat rodents and get the water from the sea bed -- and he would also play his guitar where no one could hear it. One day Immortan Joe came past, and someone heard the music. Then he was called upon when [Joe] needed a bugler or the bagpipe -- someone who helps call everyone to war."
That gives you a brief idea of how this character came to be in the story, and it’s an intriguing bit of info that makes me want to learn more about him. Miller also teased the background of Immortan Joe:
"He was a colonel named Joe Moore. He was military, and he organized everybody, eventually being able to exploit a cult as he took over this dominance hierarchy."
Then, when briefly talking about Nux, he said:
"When we decided to put out some comics, we had to go back to everyone to see who they were, and Nux [played by Nicholas Hoult] is a great one because it follows him as a little baby, showing how he became a war pup and then a war boy. That was one of the first comics we did."
The Coma-Doof Warrior was definitely one of the coolest and most unique characters in the film. I'm happy that we at least got this little bit of background info on him! What did you think of the character?