Take a moment to consider Furiousa’s backstory. She was kidnapped as a young child by a clan of “Alpha Males” who by no means value the lives of women.
The best case scenario for women in this clan is to be among the peasants begging for water. The rest are either sex slaves or pretty much reduced to being a dairy cow.
But then there’s Furiousa. She is not only a warrior for the clan, but the top warrior. The general of Immortan Joe’s army.
As a kidnapped girl who grew up as an outsider, consider how much ass she had to have kicked to get to that point. How much more superior a combatant she needed to be just to first be viewed an equal.
This is what was fantastic from George Miller’s storytelling style. With so little said, you can see how tougher-than-nails she really is from the mere fact that she leads the convoy.
Furiousa is easily among the deadliest women in all of fiction.