| “ | Boy, we're really going to get it this time. He had his indicator on. | ” |
– Charlie | ||
Charlie is a Main Force Patrol Officer who has a partnership with Roop, he commandeered the "Big Bopper" one of the MFP patrol vehicles. He was portrayed by John Ley in Mad Max.
Biography[]
Mad Max[]
During the pursuit of the Nightrider, the bickering MFP Officers, Charlie and Roop, crash the "Big Bopper" into a towed civilian caravan, totaling the car. During the collision, Charlie is hit in the throat with a saucepan resulting in severe damage to his larynx and an inability to thereafter speak naturally.
| “ | You'd better send a meat truck, Charlie's copped a saucepan in the throat. | ” |
– Roop | ||
He later uses a speaking-aid device called an "electrolarynx" held to his throat to amplify his voice.
Post-Mad Max[]
After the events of the original Mad Max (1979) the fates of most of Max's fellow MFP officers is never stated and left to conjecture. With the Fall of civilization one was left to imagine them running-off with whatever friends and family members they had left to survive just like everyone else. However, the 2015 Vertigo comic book mini-series shed a little light on Roop and Charlie...
Mad Max: Fury Road (Comic Series)[]
Roop and Charlie as marauders just before their defeat by Colonel Moore's men.
According to the revised timeline presented in 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road prequel comics, Roop, Charlie, and several other members of the MFP became marauders after the Apocalypse with the MFP's disbandment. They formed a small group whilst still driving their Ford Falcon patrol cars. They were in process of defeating a smaller group of survivors when they were discovered by Colonel Joe Moore's gang.
Moore sent a War Party down to investigate the chaos, whereby they destroyed almost everyone — save the fat man — to include the ex-MFP officers in what would be a most tragic end to once former officers of the law.
Trivia[]
- Charlie appears to be Christian: in the opening scene of the first Mad Max film, when Roop tells him to get out of the driver's seat of their patrol car and uses Christ's name in vain, Charlie tells Roop he's speaking blasphemously again and that he shouldn't have to work with a blasphemer, which is in violation to the second or third (depending on numbering) of God's Ten Commandments to man in both Judaism and Christianity.