If you’ve seen Mad Max: Fury Road, you’ll know that one of the coolest characters of the film is “The Doof Warrior”, the guitarist that drives the troops of Immortan Joe forward with his metal chugs. He rides atop a truck built almost entirely of speakers, four war drummers pounding away behind him, his guitar shooting forth flames. It’s just one of those badass characters that shouldn’t make any sense but is perfectly rational, 100% normal in world that is built upon insanity.
Director George Miller spoke in an interview with Fandango and explained that there’s actually an origin story to this character:
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.
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.