Will he dub his own American voice?
(Just kidding on the above, but seriously, in Batman 3 his “Darth Connery” was a bit hard to understand)
Oh, and I don’t care what anyone says, Thunderdome kicked ass.
Fair dinkum I hope Tom doesn’t try and do an aussie accent, I think we could accept him doing a bland english accent but struth mate I hate it when people try to speak strain mate.
He is extremely fucked up mentally, extremely which isn’t that odd when you consider he saw his wife and son murdered in front of him.
He is very inefficiently trying to commit suicide, and/or punishing himself for his failure to save them. I thought the movies made it pretty clear.
I thought his staying behind at the end of Thuderdome was an extension of the “We don’t need another hero” trope of the film. The kids are going off to create their new civilization and he doesn’t want to “corrupt” them with influences from our old civilization.
Whether or not he knew he was a decoy doesn’t matter.
What matters is why did they spend all that fucking time bothering to fill the tanker with sand!? I mean…you could try and make the argument of “well, that way it handles like a real semi loaded full of gas,” but why would you want that? AFAIK, Max was never a Big Rig driver, so it’s not like he would know the difference between an empty and a full tank. By making it full, it will handle worse, at least if the person driving isn’t proficient in driving large trucks. It will be slower to accelerate, stop, use more fuel, etc…
I mean…I know the reason is "so the audience in disappointed when the truck goes off the road, then we see the cool shot of Max putting his hand through the sand that’s coming out and we go “fuck yeah, you fooled those bastards!” but there is no “in-universe” explanation I can come up with.
Perhaps the tanker was never loaded with gas and it filled with sand just by sitting around in the desert for years.
The tanker wasn’t a decoy; the settlers just didn’t realize that their new home on the coast already had sand.
They betrayed Max, by making him the decoy. He wouldn’t want to join them, since he couldn’t trust them.
Even if he were interested, he wouldn’t have any way to get to them. Remember that the Gyro Captain took over as leader of the group. He would not have taken Max with him to be an unstable element and potential rival.
The question in my mind is, how did Max survive after being abandoned there?
Thanks for the nitpick. 
He wasn’t flying at the end. He was go-carting it. The rotor was broke. (Apparently, he had a chain drive to the wheels or something) Anyways, no problems of too much weight to fly since he was limited to ground driving by the end of the movie.
He rode Shai-Hulud into the sunset
What we know from Thunderdome is:
a)He goes back and gets his car.
b)He picks up a team of horses and a monkey somewhere
c)The Gyro Captain does not stay with the group long. He has a son and then leaves to set up shop as a pirate.
Nor I. It would have been way easier to fill it with gas or leave it empty. Empty it would have been lighter and quicker.
They already had plenty of gas and a tanker filling devise. Plus, if the bad guys got the truck disabled and discovered real gas they would have stayed with it filling their cars instead of turning and going after the caravan.
Sand makes no sense to me.
They did it for the same reason they blew up the refinery. To cripple the Humongous’ gang. No juice, no cars, no power for the Man in the iron goalie mask.
I think Max also carries a martyr complex, if that’s the right term for it.
He’s in pain from losing his wife and baby to mindless violence in the first film.
In the second movie, the leader [of the community centered on the gas well] picks at Max’s emotional wound a little when he was saying “We all lost somebody, Max.” It didn’t seem to make any difference, because maybe Max thinks he hurts more than others do.
Since his pain and anger are all he feels, and all he’s known for years, by movie three, that’s all he has left. (Heck, it’s the only thing no one can take from him. 
) Look how he acted in the in the lost child village. He had no patience for their optimism. In his view, life is shit. (If not now, it soon will be.)
It’s the same actor, but not the same character (see the penultimate question).
Same actor. Different character, I believe.
ETA: What he said.
You don’t wanna get mixed up with a guy like him.
So I get that this is apparently the official line, but why did Max recognize him and immediately know that he would have some kind of aircraft? (it’s been a long time since I’ve seen these movies, so maybe I missed something)
Max was robbed by the pilot in the first scene.
In the opening of the movie, “Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome” Max gets knocked off his wagon/vehicle by the Pilot swooping in with engine off. The Pilot’s son takes over flying the plane and the Pilot jumps onto the vehicle and drives it away faster than Max can follow after he recovers from being knocked off. Also, it was being pulled by a team of camels, which he sees later in Bartertown.
ETA Bruce Spence plays the pilot in Thunderdome and the autogyro pilot in Road Warrior. Similar, but different characters.