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Boy, we're really going to get it this time. He had his indicator on.

– Charlie

Charlie is a MFP Officer who has a partnership with Roop, he commandeered the "The Big Bopper" one of the MFP patrol vehicles. He was portrayed by John Ley in Mad Max.

History[]

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. He later uses a speaking-aid device held to his throat (an electrolarynx) to amplify his voice.

Quotations[]

"You'd better send a meat truck, Charlie's copped a saucepan in the throat."

-Roop

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.
  • According to the revised timeline presented in the 2015 Mad Max prequel comic books, Charlie, along with Roop and several other MFP members became Marauders after the Apocalypse. The crew attacked The People Eater's tribe before being discovered by Colonel Joe Moore.

References[]

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