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The Fast and the Furious (Franchise)
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Fast & Furious, originally named The Fast and the Furious, is a series of action films, which center on illegal street racing and (later) heists, produced by Universal. Here, the cars are fast, the drivers are furious, technology porn abounds and the cast of characters who eventually become "the crew" aren't just comrades, they're family. The movies are known for their unrelenting sequel escalation, steadily growing the films into one of the most popular, and financially successful, action franchises in recent memory.Not at all to be confused with the 1955 movie also named The Fast and the Furious, directed by John Ireland and starring Ireland and Dorothy Malone.note Incidentally, that film is also related to car racing, as it consists basically of a feature-length Chase Scene. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: Starting with Furious 7, blood became noticeably absent in the series, likely due to the real life tragedy of Paul Walker and the series wanting to divorce itself from anything resembling that reality. For an example, go back and watch the Dom vs. Hobbs brawl in Fast Five and compare it to the bloodless fight of Hobbs vs. Shaw in 7. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Fast & Furious compared to the first. Its tone is grimier, about Dom getting revenge for Letty's supposed death. Furious 7 has Deckard Shaw apparently murder Han and has a revenge theme, which includes a Bittersweet Ending. The Fate of the Furious contains Cipher, the most dangerous villain in the series, who kidnaps Elena and brainwashes Dom into working for her, causing him to betray his family in order to save Elena and their son. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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Owen and Deckard Shaw are both sociopathic Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy Blood Knights. Their mother seems to be just as nasty. | |
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World of Badass | |
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World of Badass: Every named hero is either a world-class stunt driver or a master martial artist, or both. The only exception is Ramsey, who might just be the greatest hacker and programmer in the world... and by Fast X, she's well on her way to being the former too. | |
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Oral Fixation | |
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Han is always eating something, needing to keep his hands busy due to being an ex-smoker. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The entire franchise was inspired by a magazine article. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Even though the movies are all contemporary, with the third film happening after movies 4, 5, and 6, it creates a strange paradox when it comes to the contemporary models of cars seen in those movies. Either Tokyo Drift is set in the "future" of 2015 and everyone drives 2006 model cars or earlier for some strange reason or the rest of the series takes place in 2006 but people are driving models that won't be seen for another 3-9 years. Furious 7 confirms that Fast and Furious is set in 2009, as the date on Letty's fake tombstone says 2009, and Fast Five and Six take place immediately (mere days, months at the most) after it, meaning movies 4-6 for the most part are set in 2009-10, with The Fast and the Furious being set five years prior in 2004. Furious 7 takes place a few years later, as Brian's son Jack is a preschooler, meaning the events of Tokyo Drift can't happen any earlier than 2012 or so. | |
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Blood Sport | |
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Blood Sport: It's a franchise mainly about illegal street racing. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: 4 and Five happen almost immediately after one another, with the final scene of Four being repeated and continued in Five, with the rest of the film's events occurring a few weeks following. 6, similarly, happens immediately after the ending of Five, which had a short Time Skip between the bulk of the action and the final scene, based on Mia's pregnancy. All of this allows 4, Five, and 6 to occur before the events of Tokyo Drift, allowing Han to be featured in them, but it essentially limits the events of the three movies within about a single year. So within the span of a year, Dom and co. lost Letty, avenged her by taking down the drug lord responsible for her supposed death, fled to Rio, took down the crime lord who controlled the city, fled overseas, then came to London and Spain and took down an international terrorist. | |
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Silly Prayer | |
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Silly Prayer: The team has a barbecue and the duty of saying grace falls on Jesse for being the first to grab some food. It goes something like this: | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: Some of the action and driving scenes are utterly ridiculous, especially in the later instalments... but does it really matter? Not to mention how often the characters survive incidents that should have killed them...without a scratch. Lamp Shaded in F9 by Roman. | |
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Sequel Escalation | |
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Sequel Escalation: The truck heists in the original movie are nothing compared to some of the jobs the characters pull in the later movies. The cars: The first had cheap, yet easily modifiable import cars. The second included more desirable, newer cars from the tuner scene. Tokyo Drift followed the same vibe as the second, though this time the cars were built solely for function, pretty decals aside. The fourth mostly had classic muscle cars and the odd import thrown in. The fifth followed the same route, however by the ending, the team are in high-end exotics and hypercars. The sixth has an eclectic mix of classic cars (which serves as a story point). And a tank. Furious 7 has the limited production Lykan Hypersport (valued at $ 3.4 million), also serving as a plot point in that film. The villains: The first film has Johnny Tran, a small-time criminal. The second film has Carter Verone, a major drug dealer. The third film has DK, also small-time but with a Yakuza uncle. The fourth film has Braga, the leader of a major cartel. The fifth film has Reyes, who has pretty much everyone in Rio in his pocket. The sixth film has Owen Shaw, who has his hands in almost everyone's pockets, including the CIA and the DEA. The seventh film has Owen's brother Deckard, a ruthless ex-Special Forces assassin and ghost proficient in both hand-to-hand combat and firearms who is also capable of racking up a terrifying kill count despite being on his own. The eighth film has Cipher, a remorselessly sociopathic hacker-slash-warlord with a veritable god-complex who is fully able (and willing) to threaten the world with a global nuclear holocaust just to puff up her monstrous ego. The ninth film features the return of Cipher, who now has a new evil sidekick: a master thief, deadly assassin and high-performance driver who just so happens to be Dom's forsaken brother. Hobbs & Shaw has the series' first explicitly super-human threat: Brixton Lore, a cybernetically-enhanced Super-Soldier out to unleash a virus that will wipe out half of mankind. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Hobbs, being played by former WWE champion Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, gets to bust out a few wrestling moves - he pulls off a Doomsday Device with Dom in 6, and hits the Rock Bottom, his WWE finishing move, in Furious 7. Hobbs' Bratty Half-Pint daughter alludes to Johnson's foray into the Action-Hero Babysitter genre (The Tooth Fairy, The Game Plan, etc.) — one that Vin Diesel also dabbed into. In Fate, the last few syllables of Hobbs' haka for the Red Dragons may sound familiar for anyone who's seen Moana. In back-to-back scenes in Fast Five, Dom jumps out of a convertible he's driven off a cliff and then is strung up by his wrists and menaced by a drug lord. An indirect one when Suki can be heard yelling "Move, bitch!" in the second movie, the one that introduced Ludacris to the cast. Charlize Theron being cast as the new villain in the 8th installment hot off the back of her acclaimed turn as drive-fast, fight-fierce heroine Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road made for a lot of good Fast and Furiosa puns. Coupled with the two movies' similar focus on cars, driving, fights, and action, the casting seemed particularly appropriate. In Fate, Deckard mockingly calls Hobbs "Hercules". Guess who played the hero in the 2014 Hercules film? Paul Walker's preference of Japanese imports in real life is reflected on Brian. In fact, the Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R from 2 Fast 2 Furious and the Toyota Supra from Furious 7 are his personal vehicles. Martial artist henchman Jah has half of the name of another character also played by Joe Taslim, Jaka. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Everyone gets their fair share, mostly due to the fact that their lives are drastically changed by the increasing weight and consequences of their dangerous, illegal endeavors. | |
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Matching Bad Guy Vehicles | |
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Matching Bad Guy Vehicles: Crops up occasionally, and not just with cars. In the first movie, Johnny Tran's mooks ride similar motorcycles and even wear similar helmets. | |
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Downplayed Trope | |
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Every time the crew pulls off a semi-truck heist, as the roads are conveniently clear of traffic. They do have to drive through construction during the first heist, however. | |
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Revolving Door Casting | |
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Revolving Door Casting: Since there have been several movies over the course of several years with a Retool here and a Soft Reboot there, it makes sense that the cast of characters would get shaken up. Some are Put on a Bus (with a few instances of The Bus Came Back) while others are Killed Off for Real or simply given Chuck Cunningham Syndrome. Not a single major character appears in every film (not including the spin-offs like Hobbs & Shaw) but a few come close: Dom was the Deuteragonist in the first film but sat out for the second film and most of the third (he appears in a cameo in The Stinger). Since then, he has been the main character for the rest of the series. Brian was in the first film as mentioned above and was the lone protagonist for the second film. He was not present for the third but was a major part of every movie until the seventh when Paul Walker unfortunately passed away. His character retired to be with his family. Letty, Dom's love interest for most of the series, was in every movie except the second, third, and fifth films. In the fourth movie, she is supposedly killed early on. Her photo appears in The Stinger in the fifth film as it is revealed she is not dead as previously believed, but she does not appear in person. Mia, like the most of the other characters, did not appear in the second or third movies. Since she ends up as Brian's love interest, she retired as well to be with their family. Because of that, she did not appear in the eighth movie. She returns in the ninth. | |
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The Stinger | |
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Letty, Dom's love interest for most of the series, was in every movie except the second, third, and fifth films. In the fourth movie, she is supposedly killed early on. Her photo appears in The Stinger in the fifth film as it is revealed she is not dead as previously believed, but she does not appear in person. | |
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Rated M for Manly | |
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Rated M for Manly: The series runs on cars, manly heroes, and gratuitous shots of hot women. | |
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Cliffhanger Wall | |
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Cliffhanger Wall: The third film, Tokyo Drift, was chronologically the last film for nine years — the next three movies would be interquels. It wasn't until the release of Furious 7 that the timeline moved forward again. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The first three films focused heavily on car culture amidst the relatively small time and contained criminal affairs of the plots. The fourth and especially fifth movies helped transition the franchise into the more action-oriented heist movies known today. Paul Walker was noted as feeling relieved when the changes occurred, believing that he had forcibly tried to look cool as per what the tuner scene needed. The first film has Dom and his crew as the villains, even though Brian refuses to believe it until he catches them in the act. In later films, Dom's crew only steals from bad guys, and once they're cleared of all charges are happy to go legit and help the government. Dom's initial crew consists of himself, Lettie, Mia, Vince, Jesse and Leon. For those last three, many may not even remember them, as out of all of them, we only see Vince after that, in Part 5, and he's not part of the crew at that point. No Roman, no Tej, no Han until Part 4 (technically Part 3, but that film takes place after Part 7), no Hobbs until Part 5 and no Ramsey until Part 7. For longtime fans of the franchise, who talk about Dom and "the family", it may seem odd just how far into the franchise it took for these characters to appear. | |
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Badass Driver | |
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Badass Driver: Pretty much anyone with more than 90 seconds of screen time, but hilariously subverted with Tej, who is shown to be unable to even drive a remote control toy car without "getting into an accident." He overcomes this eventually. | |
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Badass Family | |
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Badass Family: The Toretto Gang of carjackers may be surrogate and multi-racial, but their love and loyalty towards each other is stronger than most Real Life blood families. In fact, they explicitly refer to each other as family rather than just "friends", particularly at gatherings and when saying grace at meals. (So this is a bit of a case of Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't.) The Toretto family itself qualifies, consisting of Dom, Mia and their significant others, Letty and Brian. Owen and Deckard Shaw are both sociopathic Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy Blood Knights. Their mother seems to be just as nasty. | |
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Driving Stick | |
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Driving Stick: Shifting techniques in street racing are Serious Business. Even better because just about any lesson on performance driving technique in the series is total nonsense and potentially harmful to your engine. The first couple films are notorious for having characters up— or downshift more times than would be possible with their cars' transmissions. | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_5f3bb274 | comment |
Late-Arrival Spoiler: It's kind of hard to avoid the fact that Deckard Shaw becomes an ally for the protagonists, considering that he and Hobbs now have their own spinoff movie. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_5f3bb274 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_5f3bb274 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: Justin Lin, who directed all of the movies from Tokyo Drift up to 6 mentioned in the commentary for Tokyo Drift that he liked cars landing on their roofs after a big crash. If you watch the movies he's directed again, it's pretty glaring just how many of them actually wind up like that. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_6627695f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_6627695f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_6627695f | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_675056e4 | type |
Signature Move | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_675056e4 | comment |
Signature Move: Any film Dom appears in will have him drive so fast his car pops a wheelie, even in Part III, where he barely appears. Luke Hobbs seems to favor any vehicle capable of driving straight through solid block walls, and he does it at least three times. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_675056e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_675056e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_675056e4 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7263b4ea | type |
Car Porn | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7263b4ea | comment |
Car Porn: As befitting a series about cars, nearly every car onscreen gets its own close-up treatment. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7263b4ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7263b4ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7263b4ea | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7825974f | type |
Team Kids | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7825974f | comment |
Team Kids: Roman Pearce, despite being a grown man, often behaves the most immaturely of Dom Toretto's entire Criminal Found Family. He's nearly always complaining and voicing doubts about their plans, thinks he could be a better leader, but always refuses to take charge when they offer it to him, gets into petty verbal sniping with Brian in the second film, takes the most Awesome, but Impractical orange Lamborghini just to look cool, and in the sixth film, he's more concerned about using the right British currency to get a snack out of a vending machine than listening in about the Macguffin of the week and what the Big Bad wants to do with it. Hobbs offers to help Roman get his snack by just shooting the vending machine open, like an indulgent uncle. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7825974f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7825974f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7825974f | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7a4013f3 | type |
Deuteragonist | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7a4013f3 | comment |
Dom was the Deuteragonist in the first film but sat out for the second film and most of the third (he appears in a cameo in The Stinger). Since then, he has been the main character for the rest of the series. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7a4013f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7a4013f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7a4013f3 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7b20b8d2 | type |
Alternative Foreign Theme Song | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7b20b8d2 | comment |
Alternative Foreign Theme Song: "Before I Decay" by The Gazett E is the Japanese theme song. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7b20b8d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7b20b8d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7b20b8d2 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7fd142ef | type |
Shared Universe | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7fd142ef | comment |
Shared Universe: As confirmed by Justin Lin, Han is the same Han who appeared in one of his previous films, Better Luck Tomorrow. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7fd142ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7fd142ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_7fd142ef | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_80b57bec | type |
Super-Soldier | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_80b57bec | comment |
Hobbs & Shaw has the series' first explicitly super-human threat: Brixton Lore, a cybernetically-enhanced Super-Soldier out to unleash a virus that will wipe out half of mankind. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_80b57bec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_80b57bec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_80b57bec | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_82fc5bdf | type |
Bratty Half-Pint | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_82fc5bdf | comment |
Hobbs' Bratty Half-Pint daughter alludes to Johnson's foray into the Action-Hero Babysitter genre (The Tooth Fairy, The Game Plan, etc.) — one that Vin Diesel also dabbed into. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_82fc5bdf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_82fc5bdf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_82fc5bdf | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_85bd6357 | type |
Conveniently Empty Roads | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_85bd6357 | comment |
Conveniently Empty Roads: Played With like there's no tomorrow. The Fast and the Furious (2001): Invoked during the first street race, as it's shown that friends of the racers use their vehicles to block traffic from interfering. Every time the crew pulls off a semi-truck heist, as the roads are conveniently clear of traffic. They do have to drive through construction during the first heist, however. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: Zig-Zagged. Justified in the first race, since it takes place in a neighborhood where no one lives because all of the houses are under construction. Averted during the chase in which Han is killed, as there is a decent amount of traffic on the roads. Fast & Furious: Played straight. When Brian and the crew break Dom out of the prison transport, there are no other vehicles around. The same is true during the opening gas truck heist. Fast Five: Downplayed. During the final chase, there is some traffic, but not nearly as much as you'd expect. Fast & Furious 6: Downplayed and justified during the London chase, which takes place at night. Refreshingly averted during the tank chase, as the cars of several innocent bystanders are destroyed in the chaos. Zig-Zagged in Furious 7. Averted when Dom chases Shaw after the funeral, as both are forced to maneuver through traffic. Played straight when the crew rescues Ramsey but justified because the chase occurs on a remote mountain road. Downplayed and justified during the final chase, which takes place at night. The Fate of the Furious: Defied when Cypher hacks and remotely controls dozens of cars in order to prevent the Russian Defense minister from escaping. Played straight in the climax of F9, where Dom manages to successfully steer an upside-down armored truck onto a cliffside road just outside Tbilisi. Upon re-righting it, he drives it along the highway. There are no other cars using this road, which is a good thing because Dom next jack-knifes the truck and spins it around in order to use it like a whip to bring down an attacking remote-control drone plane with a UAV. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_85bd6357 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_85bd6357 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_85bd6357 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_87802c9a | type |
Rice Burner | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_87802c9a | comment |
Rice Burner: Although all the cars in the movies are high performance, they are commonly accused of responsibility for promoting this in real life. These days, the cars from the first and second installment look fairly tacky. Some would argue they did back then. The developers picked up on this, by having Hobbs make a remark about an aftermarket stereo on a classic GT 40 being as cheap as some neon lights during the fifth movie. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_87802c9a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_87802c9a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_87802c9a | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8967e17f | type |
Back from the Dead | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Dom's 1970 Dodge Charger was wrecked and rebuilt before the events of the first movie, and history repeats itself several times during the course of the series. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8967e17f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8967e17f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8967e17f | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8a07e085 | type |
Denser and Wackier | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8a07e085 | comment |
Denser and Wackier: The Fast and the Furious was pretty much a straight cop drama that revolved around the world of street racing. Starting with 2 Fast 2 Furious, the focus shifted to the cars themselves, to the point where Tokyo Drift was almost entirely about the racing. Then, with Fast and Furious, it took another change in tone, this time becoming an over the top action flick, while Fast Five somehow took it even further to the point where it was just another completely absurd action movie that's closer to something like The Transporter. Fast and Furious 6 has a plot more reminiscent of a Bond film, only even more over-the-top. Furious 7 went up another notch, involving the team working for a top-secret spy organization against terrorists and a rogue spec ops agent out for revenge. Certainly a far cry from the first movie's original cop drama format. Taken up to eleven in Hobbs & Shaw, which introduces a genetically modified cyborg supersoldier, moving the franchise closer to something like G.I. Joe. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8a07e085 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8a07e085 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8a07e085 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8a295a46 | type |
Cool Car | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Well, they are good-looking cars. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8a295a46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8a295a46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8a295a46 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8b6e8d7 | type |
Anachronic Order | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8b6e8d7 | comment |
Anachronic Order: Pull Tokyo Drift out of the lineup and stick it between 6 and 7, and you've got chronological order (i.e. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 3, 7, 8). The mid-credits stinger in Furious 6 is an extended scene from the middle of Tokyo Drift that puts it quite definitively between 6 and 7. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8b6e8d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8b6e8d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8b6e8d7 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8e7b271e | type |
Criminal Found Family | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8e7b271e | comment |
Criminal Found Family: Taken to meme-worthy levels as the main characters- especially the leader, Dom Toretto- routinely refer to each other as "Family" and justify all of their crimes and actions as being for the betterment of that family. While one or two of them are actually related, most are either childhood friends or outcasts that they basically "adopted" into said family. They use the phrase "Family" so often it is practically their catchphrase and a staggering number of joke sites and videos poke fun at the franchise for their overuse of the word. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8e7b271e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_8e7b271e | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_90c018ac | type |
Justified Trope | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_90c018ac | comment |
Justified in the first race, since it takes place in a neighborhood where no one lives because all of the houses are under construction. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_90c018ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_90c018ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_90c018ac | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_95f972d2 | type |
Nitro Boost | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_95f972d2 | comment |
Nitro Boost: Used in all of the films. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_95f972d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_95f972d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_95f972d2 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_973d220f | type |
Never My Fault | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: The characters tend to blame Brian for their misfortunes, such as the team being ripped apart, Vince and Mia being fugitives and Letty being supposedly dead. They tend to ignore the fact that they have suffered because they are criminals and even if Brian was involved in their lives, they still would have experienced these misfortunes. Additionally, it is unfair for them to blame Brian for Letty’s death when she was the one who decided to become an FBI informant so Dom could be pardoned for his crimes. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_973d220f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_973d220f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_973d220f | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9c97ab74 | type |
Lampshaded | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9c97ab74 | comment |
Not to mention how often the characters survive incidents that should have killed them...without a scratch. Lamp Shaded in F9 by Roman. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9c97ab74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9c97ab74 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: Just about everyone. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9d17b859 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9d17b859 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9d17b859 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: The fourth and especially fifth and sixth films are loaded with them. The third film gets one retroactively when Dom mentions Han running with him. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9dab0a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9dab0a6e | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9e943076 | type |
One-Man Army | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9e943076 | comment |
The seventh film has Owen's brother Deckard, a ruthless ex-Special Forces assassin and ghost proficient in both hand-to-hand combat and firearms who is also capable of racking up a terrifying kill count despite being on his own. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9e943076 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9e943076 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9e943076 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9e99d232 | type |
The Series Has Left Reality | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9e99d232 | comment |
The Series Has Left Reality: It started out as a grounded crime drama where the only intense action the film had was the street racing scenes. The moment Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is introduced is when the movie became the over-the-top popcorn action franchise it's currently known as. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9e99d232 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9e99d232 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9e99d232 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9ea277d2 | type |
Stealing from Thieves | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9ea277d2 | comment |
Stealing from Thieves: 2 Fast 2 Furious: Not a major haul, but Brian and Roman not only walk away with clean rap sheets for their help bringing down the villain, but even manage to grab some of the money he was laundering and sneak away with it once he's arrested. Fast Five: The entirety of the film has Dom and Brian putting a team together to take on the crooked cartel boss they gained the ire of. Culminating in them literally stealing his money vault and dragging it through the streets of Rio. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9ea277d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_9ea277d2 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_a8559a9f | type |
RealLife | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_a8559a9f | comment |
The Toretto Gang of carjackers may be surrogate and multi-racial, but their love and loyalty towards each other is stronger than most Real Life blood families. In fact, they explicitly refer to each other as family rather than just "friends", particularly at gatherings and when saying grace at meals. (So this is a bit of a case of Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't.) | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_a8559a9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_a8559a9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_a8559a9f | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Watch any of the films and try to locate someone who isn't one. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_ae3d6438 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b18aeb20 | type |
Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b18aeb20 | comment |
Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: This has been taken to the point of, for lack of other fitting description, absurdity by this series: No two movies use the same numbering system. The series goes: The Fast and the Furious 2 Fast 2 Furious The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Fast & Furious (renamed in various markets due to its confusing nature, especially in languages that lack articles) Fast Five (known as Fast and Furious 5 in the UK) Fast & Furious 6 (some international versions have the title card simply read Furious 6) Furious 7 The Fate of the Furious (or The F8 of the Furious) F9 (a.k.a. F9: The Fast Saga or Fast & Furious 9) Fast X (Fast 10 in Roman numerals) | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b18aeb20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b18aeb20 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b18aeb20 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b6203862 | type |
Interquel | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b6203862 | comment |
Interquel: The fourth, fifth and sixth films, which are set after the second but before the third movie. The seventh film takes place after the events of the third film, finally catching up to continuity. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b6203862 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b6203862 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b9c673a6 | type |
Market-Based Title | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b9c673a6 | comment |
Market-Based Title: Many foreign countries have regular Numbered Sequels instead of the word removal - only "Fast" or "Furious" - they got in English (at times with The Foreign Subtitle - for instance, Fast Five is known in many countries as Fast and Furious 5: Rio Heist). Likewise, Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious are known as just Fast and Furious 7 and Fast and Furious 8. However, all the films in the series so far has been released in Japan under the title Wild Speed instead. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b9c673a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b9c673a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_b9c673a6 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_c2d978fe | type |
Car Fu | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_c2d978fe | comment |
Car Fu: What all the movies center around. | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_c2d978fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_c2d978fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_c2d978fe | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_c3db1619 | type |
ZigZagged | |
| The Fast and the Furious (Franchise) / int_c3db1619 | comment |
Zig-Zagged in Furious 7. Averted when Dom chases Shaw after the funeral, as both are forced to maneuver through traffic. Played straight when the crew rescues Ramsey but justified because the chase occurs on a remote mountain road. Downplayed and justified during the final chase, which takes place at night. | |
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Invoked | |
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Invoked during the first street race, as it's shown that friends of the racers use their vehicles to block traffic from interfering. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
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Killed Off for Real: While the series has become notorious for its use of the Not Quite Dead trope, other characters have stayed dead after being killed in their respective films, like Jesse, Vince, and Elena. | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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Not Quite Dead: Letty, Han, and Giselle manage to live after what seems like definite deaths in 4, Tokyo Drift, and 6, respectively. | |
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Role-Ending Misdemeanor | |
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Role-Ending Misdemeanor: In-Universe, Dominic was banned from (sanctioned and legal) racing after he savagely beat the driver responsible for his father's death. | |
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Watch the Paint Job | |
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Watch the Paint Job: Most installations in the series have some example of this. | |
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No Seat Belts | |
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No Seat Belts: Oddly enough, the lack of seat belt use seems to have little effect on anyone's ability to survive catastrophic crashes. Until Furious 7, where characters are actually seen wearing belts and on one occasion, a helmet. | |
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Oddball in the Series | |
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Oddball in the Series: Tokyo Drift was set in Japan with an entirely different cast of characters. The only thing that connected it with the previous two films is the appearance of Dom in a cameo. Han would go on to appear in many of the sequels to tie it back into the franchise, but otherwise, it doesn't have much to do with the other movies. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Well, they are good-looking cars. Corona beer is featured prominently in all the films starring Vin Diesel. Funnily enough, Corona doesn't receive (or pay) money at all for it; when Corona first popped up in the original, it was chosen by the crew simply because that would be the beer of choice in a L.A. neighborhood like that. Corona has enjoyed the product placement so much, they still allow the series to use their products without compensation, letting the film's promotion speak for itself in terms of boosted sales. | |
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Tim Taylor Technology | |
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Tim Taylor Technology: Nitrous Oxide injectors FTW. Or, as the characters once liked to say it, "NAAAAWS." As NOS is a trademark of Holley Performance Products, it was removed from the second film and replaced by generic "N2O" labels on the steering wheels and was verbally referred to as "spray" and "kick" after Holley got a bit stroppy about its appearance in the first one. The NOS brand returns in later films. | |
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Sequel Goes Foreign | |
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Sequel Goes Foreign: Starting from the third film, the series moves out from just being set in the US. Films three, five, and six are mostly set abroad, with films four, seven, and eight having sequences in other countries while remaining mostly set in the US. Fast & Furious 4 mainly takes place in L.A. and its crowded city streets. The opening scene is set in the Dominican Republic, and a scene shows Dom living in Panama. Some scenes towards the end of the movie (especially the climactic car chase through the Mexican desert) take place in Mexico. Fast Five takes place on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (actually filmed in Puerto Rico). Some scenes show Washington DC, Germany, Monaco, and South California. Fast & Furious 6 is also set abroad in London, England and in Spain, including the Canary Islands. A few scenes show L.A. while a scene also takes place in Russia and China. Tokyo Drift takes place in Tokyo after 6, just before the seventh movie. Furious 7 is primarily set in L.A. (mainly filmed in Atlanta). A scene shows the team rescuing Ramsey by air dropping their cars over the Caucasus mountains in Azerbaijan (filmed in Colorado). The next 30 minutes take place in Abu Dhabi in the Middle East before returning to the home turf of L.A. Fate primarily takes place on the NYC streets. Some scenes take place in Berlin, Russia, and Havana. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Brian never legitimately beating Dom in a race. He almost does in the fourth film, and Dom lets him win in the fifth film. He finally beats him fairly in 6. Han is always eating something, needing to keep his hands busy due to being an ex-smoker. Dom's 1970 Dodge Charger getting completely wrecked and Dom rebuilding it. | |
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Car Cushion | |
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Car Cushion: All the time. A car hood seems to be the equivalent of a feather mattress in this world. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Nearly every jump in the series. Drifting to go faster. About once a movie, somebody starts driving in reverse during a chase scene or race. While cars can actually go pretty fast backwards, especially if modified, they're always depicted as going just as fast as they would be driving normally. There are several instances where a chase scene only happens because every vehicle is depicted as being just as fast as each other, even when the heroes are in tuned sports cars and others are in luxury SU Vs or even military vehicles. | |
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Practical Effects | |
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Practical Effects: From Fast Five onwards, the series has largely used In-Camera Effects for the stunts. Ironic, considering the Denser and Wackier Sequel Escalation the series undergoes at that point. | |
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