The kid puffing up his legend and Toecutter's thug saying "you just don't have the style" and it's fun to consider characters in Mad Max movies being *aware* of the theater of how they're behaving, like it's all a conscious performance
So like if they adopt their own monikers is that with their final role in mind? Like a guy who takes on a goon-ass nickname, is he aware he's doing that to himself? In converse, would a guy named Immortan Joe ever be anything but the boss?