"Listen on! This is the truth of it. Fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring. And that was damn near the death of us all. Look at us now! Busted up, and everyone talking about hard rain! But we've learned, by the dust of them all... Bartertown learned. Now, when men get to fighting, it happens here! And it finishes here! Two men enter; one man leaves." - Dr. Dealgood

Dr. Dealgood acts as the ringleader for Aunty Entity's psycho-circus best known as "Thunderdome."

BiographyEdit

When we first see Dr. Dealgood, portrayed by Edwin Hodgeman, he is acting as an auction caller, offering up Max's stolen camels for barter. The good Doctor, clearly educated, has a natural charisma and knack for working a crowd. This is later illustrated when he acts as the ringleader of Thunderdome as he introduces the two combatants -- Max vs Blaster -- working the crowd into a frenzy of blood-lust he exclaims, "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls . . . Dyin' time's here." Aside from hosting the craziness of Barter Town and offering the narrative of how the world came to be here, Dr. Dealgood has the most famous line of the entire Mad Max series, "Two men enter; one man leaves."

Dr. Dealgood wears a judge's robe, along with a Freemasonic emblem on a chain. Using the logic that many of the survivors of the Apocalypse escaped with virtually the clothes on their backs, it can be inferred that the Doctor may have in fact been a judge, although this is never made clear. At any rate Dr. Dealgood acts as a sort of judge as he enforces the Law of Bartertown -- that if two men have a dispute they settle it in the infamous Thunderdome. This is an ironic twist of fate for Max as he once enforced the laws, in his past life, and is forced once again to partake in a psychotic and inhumane form of justice. Just before the battle begins Dr. Dealgood explains the "rules" to Max, "Thunderdome's simple. Get to the weapons, use them any way you can. I know you won't break the rules, because there aren't any."

After the battle, after Max refuses to kill Blaster, Max must be judged again for breaking the law. Dr. Dealgood oversees the ritual of spinning the wheel of misfortune, called the "bust a deal wheel," in which Max winds up landing on "Gulag." Max is exiled into the wastelands and this is the last we see of Dr. Dealgood.