Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome installments of the "Mad Max" series, "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" has influenced popular culture in various regards. The term "thunderdome" is now used in various contexts in which its meaning is similar to the sense in which it appears in the film. That is, a contest where the loser suffers a great hardship, though it has also come to mean, more generically, the state of the world following a nuclear apocalypse, or any place where chaos is the norm. Filmmaker Chris Weitz has cited the film as an influence. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (also known as
Mad Max: Fury Road (comic book) to help them escape however their teacher Aunty Giddy being too old chooses not to go with them. Furiosa sneaks the Wives outside of the Vault to help them escape from Immortan Joe's captivity. The third comic takes place between the events of "" and "Mad Max: Fury Road". Max Rockatansky travels to Gas Town to battle in its gladiator arena "Thunderdome Plus" to win a V8 engine so he can build a new V8 Interceptor after the original was destroyed during the events of "Mad Max 2". The "Thunderdome Plus" is based on the original "Thunderdome", however unlike the