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Well, ain't we a pair, raggedy man?
~ Aunty Entity

Aunty Entity is the main antagonist of the 1985 movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. She is a merciless gang leader and the Amazon dictator of Bartertown, who rules with an iron fist.

She was portrayed by the late singer Tina Turner.

Biography[]

Background[]

Aunty Entity was a cruel and despicable ruler of a post-apocalyptic town known as Bartertown. She was an Amazon-like woman who ruled with an iron-fist but found herself being challenged by Master Blaster.  Aunty Entity is enraged at this but is unable to publicly oppose the duo of "Master Blaster" due to Master being the only one who knows how to work all the machines that keep Bartertown running.

Meeting Mad Max[]

To this end the she manipulates "Mad" Max into a gladiatorial battle (known as the "Thunderdome") against Blaster with hopes Max will kill him, a convenient means of exacting political assassination without being caught.

Max manages to defeat "Master Blaster" in combat but refuses to kill him when he realizes after knocking his helmet off, that he has an intellectual disability- Aunty Entity is enraged and has Blaster executed before invoking the harsh law of "bust a deal, face the wheel" upon Max.

This ritual puts punishment at the hands of chance - much like a wheel-of-fortune as it is equipped with an arrow that will eventually stop at a number of punishments: Death, Hard Labour, Acquittal, Gulag, Aunty's Choice, Spin Again, Forfeit Goods, Underworld, Amputation, and Life Imprisonment. Max receives Gulag and is then exiled.

Max returns to the outskirts of Bartertown with a group of children and together they go in search of Master, the dwarfish Master has been reduced to little more than a slave by Aunty Entity due to the death of his protector, Blaster - Max and the children free him. Bartertown's methane factory becomes damaged and explodes.

Final Battle[]

Aunty leads the inhabitants in pursuit of Max and his band, catching up to the train. Max's group slows them down while Scrooloose hijacks one of the pursuing vehicles, which happens to be Max's stolen vehicle. The group comes across Jedediah and his son, and Max coerces Jedediah into helping his group escape with their aeroplane. After a lengthy chase, Max uses his vehicle to clear a path through Aunty's men, allowing the aeroplane to take off and escape, leaving him at Aunty's mercy. However, having come to respect Max and realising that she lost Master for good and killing Max would not change anything, she ultimately lets him go.

Trivia[]

  • Jane Fonda was considered for the role of Aunty Entity before the late Tina Turner was cast.
    • Turner was also the first American to play an antagonist in the franchise, although Turner later moved to Switzerland in 2013, relinquished her American citizenship, and became a Swiss citizen for the rest of her life.
  • In addition to playing Aunty Entity, Turner also provided the two main songs that became hit singles for the film, which were "One of the Living", which played over the opening titles, and "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)", which played over the end credits.
  • The late Tina Turner was billed as "Aunty Entity", but nowhere in the film does anyone call her that. She's always referred to as just Aunty.
  • The late Tina Turner had to shave her head for her wig to fit properly. She reportedly had no problem with that.
  • The script called for Aunty Entity to drive a vehicle, but all of the vehicles were built using manual transmissions, which the late Tina Turner couldn't drive, so a car equipped with an automatic transmission had to be constructed.
  • Aunty Entity's steel mail dress weighed more than 55 kilograms.
  • It's unclear why Aunty Entity didn't kill Max at the end of the movie. One reason could be that Entity may have let him live out of respect as survivors of the nuclear war, and an acknowledgement of his skill. Another possibility is she felt that leaving him in the desert with no transportation or supplies would have been a more brutal death sentence than outright killing him.
  • Aunty Entity is the only main antagonist in the Mad Max series to be female. She is also the only one that directly deals with Max, as no other villain actually has a conversation with him.
  • Aunty Entity was also the only villainous role of the late Tina Turner, as well as one of her only two acting roles in a motion picture. Her second and last acting role was the Mayor of Los Angeles in Last Action Hero, though unlike Aunty Entity, the Mayor is not a villain.

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