The Mad Max Timelines

[Mutant 77]

I have to say that I'm in no way claiming any theories I subscribe to are "canon." They are my "headcanon," which I will consider canon until they are contradicted by something else on screen or on the written page of a canon source. I see the whole Mad Max story as a saga to be taken as a whole. I don't like the idea of Fury Road as a reboot, because that would erase the original trilogy... not from my mind of course, but from the continuing story I want to be watching here.

Honestly, I think the original trilogy's story-arc was over. The parable was finished.

Max was 44 years old, and he had regained his humanity after a long process:

Mad Max: damnation
Mad Max 2: redemption
Mad Max 3: ascension

Without the core of energy (the Junk Train) and Master/Little Man, Bartertown was doomed. The city was set to last for few years more before collapsing forever into nothingness. Aunty Entity knew that.
By combining the best out of Bartertown and Planet Erf into a new group of people, Max contributed to create the right basis to start a brand-new future society, better than Bartertown and even ours. Max has always been the Agent of Destiny.

Mad Max/Max Rockatansky is set to spend the rest of his life in the Wasteland, alone. Savannah Nix will pass down his legend through generations.

In my mind, the very last show of Thunderdome depicts a 50/60 years old Max walking in the desert, before meeting his last fate.