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This article contains spoilers forFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Dont let his pure, virginal starting colors fool you, though.
Hes lost people, too.
Then death-crazed War Boys start raining down on him, slaughtering his horde and forcing him to retreat.
Bested at the Citadel, Dementus sets his sights on Gastown, another settlement in the Wasteland.
Any fleeting claim Dementus had to his white cape is gone.
At the very base, its still somewhat white, a reminder of where he started.
Dementus doesnt have what it takes to lead and is scrambling.
If he ever meant a word of his speech about sharing power, those ambitions have disappeared.
Ruling is hard, it turns out, and Dementuss new subjects are starving.
At one point, he uses some of them as human shields when avoiding Furiosas attempt to snipe him.
The trick only briefly works before Furiosa kills Smeg and manages to capture Dementus.
As he explains to Furiosa, his desire for vengeance was never sated.
He kept grasping to fill the void and only found emptiness.
The white cape was a mirage.
Furiosa seems to understand this about her onetime unwanted father figure and learns from it.
Her metaphorical white cape never turns black.
