Mad Max: Fury Road director-screenwriter George Miller described the backstory he had in mind for Coma-Doof Warrior, the blind mutant musician in Immortan Joe's army who was equipped with a flame-throwing electric guitar.
Speaking with Deadline, Miller described the tragic origin story of Coma-Doof Warrior, saying, "In his case, he was blind from birth. When things started going a bit crazy, he and his mother were left in a mining town. The only way they could survive was to go into a place where there was a competitive advantage to being blind. And that was to go deep down into a mine shaft where they were able to survive. He took what was most precious to him, a musical instrument, probably a guitar.”
Miller continued, “As [Immortan Joe and his army] were careening through the wasteland, someone heard this music echoing out of that mine shaft, went down there and luckily they saw him as an asset. I think they killed his mother because she wasn’t of any use. They took him and he eventually ended up as the equivalent of the drummer, the fife player or the bagpiper, in Immortan Joe’s army."
In another interview with Yahoo, iOTA, the Australian actor-musician who portrays the Coma-Doof Warrior, added to the tale the grim detail that Coma-Doof Warrior's skull mask was fashioned from his dead mother's head.
In Mad Max: Fury Road, Coma-Doof Warrior was last seen getting knocked off his own mobile concert stage, but his death was not confirmed. “I would like to think he’s still alive, somehow,” Miller remarked.
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