As for the actual Doof Warrior, musician iOTA told Audiences Everywhere back in 2015 that the flamethrower was controlled by a whammy bar, but while the flames were real, the music left a lot to be desired.
“Yeah, Well, it made a noise. You wouldn’t want to do an album with it. It was pretty s**t. It made a great sound and, to me, it felt perfect for the environment. In the sun and the dust in the cold, it was perfect. But it was always going to be a bit s**t.”
Of course, what is the coolest musician in the apocalypse without the coolest and most disturbing backstory? In that same interview, iOTA revealed the backstory for Coma-Doof Warrior. “Coma was found with his mother’s head, after she had been killed,” he said. “He was clinging to it and Immortan Joe came and found him and Coma took her face off and made the mask out of her face, to honor her when he went to war.”
That’s right, the mask he’s wearing all the time is the actual face of Coma’s mother. This means he is a live-action, humanoid version of Cubone, the Pokémon who wears the skull of its dead mother — making “Mad Max: Fury Road” secretly a “Pokémon” movie.