History Film / FastX

* FreezeFrameBonus: Elena Neves's files on Dante show that he was arrested for drug trafficking, manufacturing, car theft, assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest in the year/month leading up to the events of ''Film/FastFive''

-->'''Dante:''' [[spoiler:[[DidYouActuallyBelieve Did you really think it was going to be that easy?]]]]

-->'''Dante:''' [[spoiler:Dom may have driven the car... but [[Creator/DwayneJohnson you]] pulled the trigger.]]

-->'''[[spoiler: Aimes]]:''' ''(after shooting the plane)'' See, that's the problem with having a big family. Can't protect 'em all.

* EasilyForgiven: Averted. It is made pretty clear that Dom has ''not'' forgiven Cipher for killing Elena. Even when Letty grudgingly teams up with her to escape Antarctica, it is after the two have a brutal fight, and Letty realizes that she is literally in the middle of nowhere and has nothing to go on except for Cipher.

* {{Deconstruction}}: A surprisingly brutal one for ThePowerOfFamily the series infamously runs on. Dante Reyes takes advantage of Dom's love for his family to manipulate him and his team at every turn, separating them from each other and weakening them. Dom's wide circle of friends and allies around him only means more people that Dante can use to threaten and torment him, and no matter how badass Dom is, there's no way he can save them all. Above all, Dom's habit of making allies out of his former enemies gets turned on its head when [[spoiler:Aimes not only merely ''pretends'' to join Dom's side, but is actually TheMole for Dante all along, something both Dante and Aimes mock Dom for believing.]] This even applies to other characters, too. Roman and Tej, as close as they are throughout the series, get into a quite serious feud that lasts for much of the film when the former's ItsAllAboutMe attitude is pushed a bit too far, and it's only resolved when both of them accept their own flaws and forgive each other.

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--> '''[[spoiler:Luke Hobbs]]:''' Well, I ain't that hard to find, you son of a ''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]''.

* CrazyPrepared: When Cipher's goons turn on her, she activates a command to shut down all their weapons.

** The film introduces Mr. Nobody's successor, Aimes, who has been apparently a step behind Little Nobody within the organization for a while, but never mentioned, even when both Nobodies are absent from ''Film/F9''

** The film opens with a person wearing blue sitting in Hernán's office, who is never introduced. [[spoiler: Throughout the film, Aimes is ''always'' wearing blue.]]

* SissyVillain: Dante, all the way. Most of his outfits are effeminate, but his pink bathrobe with pink nail polish takes the cake. He also has a very zesty personality. This doesn't make him any less scary, what with his skills at manipulation by targeting the loved ones of those he wishes to suffer.

** [[spoiler:Cipher, once the GreaterScopeVillain of the franchise, ends up being an unlikely ally as she helps Letty escape the Agency's black site prison, clearly feeling like ItsPersonla against Dante]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Aimes, the new head of the Agency, denounces Dom and his team as nothing but criminals and acts as though it was inevitable they would do something like the Rome attack on their own rather than openly acknowledge that they were framed. He then encourages the use of criminal informants to find the team, essentially condoning the very acts he allegedly condemned Nobody for. [[spoiler:Then the ending reveals that he has been Dante's mole all along, working for an ever worse criminal for a decade]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the conflict on the bridge, snipers target Tess, Aimes and Isabel at Dante's orders. [[spoiler:While Tess is severely injured by a shot to the shoulder/chest, Aimes is hit square in the chest while visibly wearing body armor, a hint that Aimes is TheMole and Dante is just selling the ruse.]]

** Deckard isn't interested in helping the Family fight Dante until Ramsey reveals that he has targeted his mother.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: The film introduces Dom, Mia and Jakob's paternal grandmother, who outlived her son, Jack, years ago. [[spoiler:By the end of the film, she has (possibly) outlived Jakob, her grandson, too.]]

* RedHerring: There are a couple of mentions regarding Mr. Nobody, who went missing in the previous film and remains M.I.A. for this film, that make you think he will show up later on somehow. [[spoiler:He does not. However, it does make the reveal that it is Giselle Yashar (who is not mentioned at all in this film) being the one saving Letty and Cipher all the more surprising. However, serves as a CallBack to Film/F9 when Giselle is explicitly mentioned as having worked with Mr. Nobody.]]

** The film reveals that Dante was present during the team's heist at Rio [[Film/FastFive ten years ago]], and was actually there during the confrontation at the bridge where his father, Hernan Reyes, was killed.

* {{Revision}}: This film retroactively establishes that during the events of ''Film/FastFive'', Hernan Reyes was in the active process of [[spoiler:making a deal with Aimes that would allow him to eventually obtain influence over The Agency and gain global power for his family]], connecting what was otherwise an ArcVillain to the overarching plot of the series.

* SadisticChoice: During the street race in Rio, Dante forces Dom to choose between saving his Brazilian friend Diogo, or Isabel Neves, the sister of his former lover Elena Neves (though he doesn't know her identity at the time). [[spoiler:He chooses to save Isabel, but Dante decides to trigger the explosives in ''both'' cars. While Isabel survives, Diogo doesn't.]]

* TheStinger: There is one during the credits. [[spoiler:Luke Hobbs investigates Dante Reyes' property in Rio and receives a call from him, saying that while Dom was the one who stole the Reyes' safe, Hobbs was the one who actually killed his father Hernan. When Dante taunts him by saying that he is coming for him as well, Hobbs tells him to BringIt.]]

** Dom's crew recruit Deckard Shaw in their battle against Dante to gain access to cars and guns after the latter drains all their funds and [[spoiler:uses it to hire mercenary groups around the world to hunt the Toretto clan and all their allies down. When this leads Queenie to be a target, Deckard is more than happy to assist, while venturing off to protect his own family.]]
** [[spoiler:Cipher, once the GreaterScopeVillain of the franchise, ends up being an unlikely ally as she helps Letty escape the Agency's black site prison.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Ramsay has at least aquired a certified skill in improvised-weaponary, being able to knock out one of Dante's mercenaries out cold with her laptop computer.

* WouldHurtAChild: As the trailer shows, Dante has no qualms about kidnapping Dom’s son and having him involved in a dangerous car chase.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the conflict on the bridge, snipers target Tess, Aimes and Isabel at Dante's orders. [[spoiler:While Tess is severely injured by a gut shot, Aimes is hit square in the chest while visibly wearing body armor, a hint that Aimes is TheMole and Dante is trying to keep him alive.]]

* Foreshadowing: During the conflict on the bridge, snipers target Tess, Aimes and Isabel at Dante's orders. [[spoiler:While Tess is severely injured by a gut shot, Aimes is hit square in the chest while visibly wearing body armor, a hint that Aimes is TheMole and Dante is trying to keep him alive.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: A surprisingly brutal one for ThePowerOfFamily the series infamously runs on. Dante Reyes takes advantage of Dom's love for his family to manipulate him and his team at every turn, seperating them from each other and weakening them. Dom's wide circle of friends and allies around him only means more people that Dante can use to threaten and torment him, and no matter how badass Dom is, there's no way he can save them all. Above all, Dom's habit of making allies out of his former enemies gets turned on its head when [[spoiler:Aimes not only merely ''pretends'' to join Dom's side, but is actually TheMole for Dante all along, something both Dante and Aimes mock Dom for believing.]] This even applies to other characters, too. Roman and Tej, as close as they are throughout the series, get into a quite serious feud that lasts for much of the film when the former's ItsAllAboutMe attitude is pushed a bit too far, and it's only resolved when both of them accept their own flaws and forgive each other.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Aimes, the new head of the Agency, denounces Dom and his team as nothing but criminals and acts as though it was inevitable they would do something like the Rome attack on their own rather than openly acknowledge that they were framed. He then encourages the use of criminal informants to find the team, essentially condoning the very acts he allegedly condemned Nobody for. [[spoiler:Then the ending reveals that he has been Dante's mole all along, working for an ever worse criminal for the pay]].

** Deckard isn't interested in helping the Family fight Dante until Tej reveals that he has targeted his mother.

* RayOfHopeEnding: A first for the franchise! [[spoiler:Jakob dies in a HeroicSacrifice to save Dom, which proves fruitless as the film ends with Dom and his son completely at the mercy of Dante and [[TheMole Aimes]] as they prepare to blow up the dam that would flood the valley Dom and Brian are trapped in. The plane Tej, Roman, Han, and Ramsey are on was shot down with no indication if they make it out alive. Tess is heavily injured earlier in the film. Even if they all make it out alive somehow, they're still branded terrorists by the international community after Dante frames them for the devastating bomb explosion in Rome. The only silver lining is that Letty and Cipher managed to escape the Agency's base and rescued by a very much alive Gisele, and the post-credits scene show that Luke Hobbs will come into conflict with Dante, meaning a powerful ally of the Fast crew will come to their aid in the future. Deckard is also still alive, and could provide assistance with how Dante is targetting his mother for survivors of the crew.]]
* RedHerring: There are a couple of mentions regarding Mr. Nobody, who went missing in the previous film and remains M.I.A. for this film, that make you think he will show up later on somehow. [[spoiler:He does not. However, it does make the reveal that it is Giselle Yashar (who is not mentioned at all in this film) being the one saving Letty and Cipher all the more surprising.]]

* WhereItAllBegan: Dante ambushes the convoy escorting a captured Dom on the same bridge where Dante's father died ten years ago, loudly noting how they've come full-circle.

* BringIt: The final lines of dialogue in TheStinger reveal that [[spoiler:Dante's next target is a certain individual [[Film/FastFivr who also had a bad history with his family]]]]. That individual's response?
---> '''[[spoiler:Luke Hobbs]]:''' Well, I ain't that hard to find, you son of a ''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]''.