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* BillingDisplacement: The first movie is best known as a VinDiesel flick. Paul Walker actually plays the main character.
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* BillingDisplacement: The first movie is best known as a VinDiesel flick. Paul Walker actually plays the main character. Downplayed example, as Vin Diesel's character is just as critical as Walker's.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The BigBad of ''Fast Five'' is [[{{Desperado}} Bucho]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:When the producers ran out of ideas to name their [[ElectricBoogaloo new sequel]].]]
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** The piece of crap 1970 Chevy Monte Carlo the protagonist of ''Tokyo Drift'' has at the start of the film says otherwise, though.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The ''power shifting'', oh God...[[http://youtu.be/5mY0ji1otH8]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: The ''power shifting'', oh God...[[http://youtu.be/5mY0ji1otH8]]
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* AvengersAssemble: In Fast Five, Dom and Brian bring together a dream team made up of characters from the past few films, describing what they will bring to the table in a montage.
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* AvengersAssemble: In Fast Five, Dom and Brian bring together a dream team made up of characters from the past few films, describing what they will bring to the table in a montage.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The shooting for ''Fast Five'' took place in Puerto Rico. It's pretty easy to notice if you live in Puerto Rico too.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The shooting for ''Fast Five'' took place in Puerto Rico. It's pretty easy to notice if you live in Puerto Rico too.
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* CallBack: The incident that got Dom in trouble in the first place not only gets alluded to in Fast Five; he darn near does the exact same thing to Hobbs, socket wrench and all.
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* CallBack: The incident that got Dom in trouble in the first place not only gets alluded to in Fast Five; he darn near does the exact same thing to Hobbs, socket wrench and all.
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* ChildhoodFriends: Dom and Vince. Also Brian and Roman Pearce.
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* ChildhoodFriends: Dom and Vince. Also Brian and Roman Pearce.
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* CreatorProvincialism: Having owned 2 R34 GT-R's, a classic 1971 C10 Skyline and ending Fast Five with an R35, Brian appears to have a keen interest in Nissan's GT-R range. The actor who plays him, Paul Walker, purchased one of just 14 legalised R34 Skyline GT-R's in America before modifying it to around 500 BHP. A YouTube video has surfaced of Paul testing out a Mine's modified R35 GT-R as well.
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* CreatorProvincialism: Having owned 2 R34 GT-R's, a classic 1971 C10 Skyline and ending Fast Five with an R35, Brian appears to have a keen interest in Nissan's GT-R range. The actor who plays him, Paul Walker, purchased one of just 14 legalised R34 Skyline GT-R's in America before modifying it to around 500 BHP. A YouTube Website/YouTube video has surfaced of Paul testing out a Mine's modified R35 GT-R as well.
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* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: In the third movie, the character Han is introduced, and then killed off towards the end. Since the fourth and fifth movies take place before that, they were both able to feature Han and show what he was up to before he went to Tokyo. Unfortunately, everyone knows what awaits him when he gets to Tokyo ]].
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* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: In the third movie, the character Han is introduced, and then killed off towards the end. Since the fourth and fifth movies take place before that, they were both able to feature Han and show what he was up to before he went to Tokyo. Unfortunately, everyone knows what awaits him when he gets to Tokyo ]].
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sean in ''Tokyo Drift''.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sean in ''Tokyo Drift''.
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* DVDCommentary: The commentary for the first one by Rob Cohen goes to show the depth of insight a director can have about hidden aspects of the movie. Oh yeah, and he likes to [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] too.
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* DVDCommentary: The commentary for the first one by Rob Cohen goes to show the depth of insight a director can have about hidden aspects of the movie. Oh yeah, and he likes to [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] too.
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** Fourth movie: Same as the second (different drug lord) and the added twist that Don is also going undercover on his own initiative to get revenge on the man who killed his girlfriend.
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** Fourth movie: Same as the second (different drug lord) and the added twist that Don is also going undercover on his own initiative to get revenge on the man who killed his girlfriend.
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** Essentially any non speaking female role could be counted as fan service.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Not so much a photo, but being introduced to [[spoiler:Vince's]] child and significant other pretty much sealed [[spoiler:his]] fate.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Not so much a photo, but being introduced to [[spoiler:Vince's]] child and significant other pretty much sealed [[spoiler:his]] fate.
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* FatalFamilyPhoto: Not so much a photo, but being introduced to[[spoiler:Vince's]] [[spoiler:Vince]]'s child and significant other pretty much sealed [[spoiler:his]] fate.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Not so much a photo, but being introduced to
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* [[GaidenGame Gaiden Movie]]: ''Tokyo Drift''. {{Fridge Brilliance}} considering the origin of the trope name and the setting of the movie.
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* [[GaidenGame Gaiden Movie]]: ''Tokyo Drift''. {{Fridge Brilliance}} FridgeBrilliance considering the origin of the trope name and the setting of the movie.
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* [[{{GenreMotif/HipHop}} Genre Motif: Hip Hop]]: The series runneth over with this, even the third movie, which is set in Japan.
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* {{Homage}} / ActorAllusion: In back-to-back scenes in ''Fast Five'', Dom (VinDiesel) [[{{XXx}} 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.]]
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* {{Homage}} / ActorAllusion: In back-to-back scenes in ''Fast Five'', Dom (VinDiesel) [[{{XXx}} [[XXx 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.]]
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Dom is prone to this. The first film reveals how much of a "[[HairTriggerTemper model of self-control]]" he is by showing pictures of a guy Toretto nearly beat to death with a three-quarter inch torque wrench in an act of personal revenge. Dom admits this to Brian himself without prompt, and it's heavily implied [[MyGreatestFailure he harbors remorse for permanently disabling the guy]].
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Dom is prone to this. The first film reveals how much of a "[[HairTriggerTemper model of self-control]]" he is by showing pictures of a guy Toretto nearly beat to death with a three-quarter inch torque wrench in an act of personal revenge. Dom admits this to Brian himself without prompt, and it's heavily implied [[MyGreatestFailure he harbors remorse for permanently disabling the guy]].
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* NotSoDifferent : In the fifth movie, Hobbs shows his contempt for Dom when he reminds him how he beat a guy to death with a wrench prior to the first movie. However, during the fight between Hobbs and Dom later in the movie, Hobbs reaches for a wrench and tries to hit Dom with it. Seconds later, Dom actually refrains himself from doing the same thing. See MyGreatestSecondChance entry above.
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* NotSoDifferent : In the fifth movie, Hobbs shows his contempt for Dom when he reminds him how he beat a guy to death with a wrench prior to the first movie. However, during the fight between Hobbs and Dom later in the movie, Hobbs reaches for a wrench and tries to hit Dom with it. Seconds later, Dom actually refrains himself from doing the same thing. See MyGreatestSecondChance entry above.
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* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: This has been taken to the point of 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'', ''Fast Five'' (known as ''Fast & Furious 5'' in the UK). Just to confuse things further, the fourth and fifth films are Midquels fitting between the second and third films, and the main characters are inconsistent across the series as well. The producers are reportedly planning two more sequels, but haven't settled on the titles yet. They're casually referring to them as ''Fast Six'' and ''Fast Seven''. Just to keep the tradition, here's to hoping they name them something like ''Fast VI'' and ''Fast 7: Forever Furious''.
* OncePerMovie: A cameo by a rapper. Averted in ''Fast Five'', where Ludacris, Don Omar and Tego's characters are main characters.
* OnlyInMiami: ''2 Fast 2 Furious'' takes place in Miami. The opening scene has the characters drive by the American Airlines Arena, home to the NBA's Miami Heat. That should be a tipoff.
* OncePerMovie: A cameo by a rapper. Averted in ''Fast Five'', where Ludacris, Don Omar and Tego's characters are main characters.
* OnlyInMiami: ''2 Fast 2 Furious'' takes place in Miami. The opening scene has the characters drive by the American Airlines Arena, home to the NBA's Miami Heat. That should be a tipoff.
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* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: This has been taken to the point of 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'', ''Fast Five'' (known as ''Fast & Furious 5'' in the UK). Just to confuse things further, the fourth and fifth films are Midquels fitting between the second and third films, and the main characters are inconsistent across the series as well. The producers are reportedly planning two more sequels, but haven't settled on the titles yet. They're casually referring to them as ''Fast Six'' and ''Fast Seven''. Just to keep the tradition, here's to hoping they name them something like ''Fast VI'' and ''Fast 7: Forever Furious''.
Furious''.
* OncePerMovie: A cameo by a rapper. Averted in ''Fast Five'', where Ludacris, Don Omar and Tego's characters are maincharacters.
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* OnlyInMiami: ''2 Fast 2 Furious'' takes place in Miami. The opening scene has the characters drive by the American Airlines Arena, home to the NBA's Miami Heat. That should be a tipoff.
* OncePerMovie: A cameo by a rapper. Averted in ''Fast Five'', where Ludacris, Don Omar and Tego's characters are main
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* RiceBurner: Although all the cars in the movies are high performance, they are commonly accused of responsibility for promoting this in real life.
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* RiceBurner: Although all the cars in the movies are high performance, they are commonly accused of responsibility for promoting this in real life.
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* SourPrudes: Dom's girlfriend Letty temporarily use this position (without seeming to have it as an integrated part of her personality) as she chase off two girls hitting on Dom at the first race.
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* SourPrudes: Dom's girlfriend Letty temporarily use this position (without seeming to have it as an integrated part of her personality) as she chase off two girls hitting on Dom at the first race.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: Brian in the first film.
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* WatchThePaintJob: Most installations in the movies have some example of this, though Dominic's Dodge Charger in the first film (which was built by his late father and is revealed midway through the movie to be some sort of intimidating uber-car) getting completely pulverized by a semi truck in the movie's last drag race is the most remembered instance of this. The funniest example would be Sean from ''Tokyo Drift'' wrecking Han's S15 Silvia with a Skyline engine because he just can't drift.
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* WatchThePaintJob: Most installations in the movies have some example of this, though Dominic's Dodge Charger in the first film (which was built by his late father and is revealed midway through the movie to be some sort of intimidating uber-car) getting completely pulverized by a semi truck in the movie's last drag race is the most remembered instance of this. The funniest example would be Sean from ''Tokyo Drift'' wrecking Han's S15 Silvia with a Skyline engine because he just can't drift.
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** And their uncle, quite literally!
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** And their uncle, quite literally!
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: The ''power shifting'', oh God...
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** Essentially any non speaking female role could be counted as fan service.
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* AvengersAssemble: In Fast Five, Dom and Brian bring together a dream team made up of characters from the past few films, describing what they will bring to the table in a montage.
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** The entire CreditsMontage of ''Fast Five'' is this, with Dom and Brian racing through the settings of the films in reverse order (Brazil, Mexico, Tokyo, Miami, Los Angeles) while scenes from previous films are played for the actors (reverse order as well.)
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** Sung Kang was 39, 36 and 34 respectively when filming ''Fast Five'', ''Fast and Furious'' and ''Tokyo Drift''. Granted, we wouldn't be able to pinpoint Han's actual age in the films, but it's freaking amazing how Kang manages to pull off the role looking young.
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* ExtremeSportExcusePlot:
** First movie: Excuse is the street racers are hijacking shipment trucks to fund their activity and a cop goes undercover to infiltrate the group.
** Second movie: Excuse is same undercover cop and an ex-convict become street racers in order to get hired as drivers for a drug lord so they can infiltrate his operation.
** Third movie: Excuse is a street racing teenager sent to his US Navy dad stationed in Japan wrecks a yakuza drifter's car and he must work as his errand boy until he pays his car.
** Fourth movie: Same as the second (different drug lord) and the added twist that Don is also going undercover on his own initiative to get revenge on the man who killed his girlfriend.
** First movie: Excuse is the street racers are hijacking shipment trucks to fund their activity and a cop goes undercover to infiltrate the group.
** Second movie: Excuse is same undercover cop and an ex-convict become street racers in order to get hired as drivers for a drug lord so they can infiltrate his operation.
** Third movie: Excuse is a street racing teenager sent to his US Navy dad stationed in Japan wrecks a yakuza drifter's car and he must work as his errand boy until he pays his car.
** Fourth movie: Same as the second (different drug lord) and the added twist that Don is also going undercover on his own initiative to get revenge on the man who killed his girlfriend.
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* XtremeSportXcusePlot:
** First movie: Excuse is the street racers are hijacking shipment trucks to fund their activity and a cop goes undercover to infiltrate the group.
** Second movie: Excuse is same undercover cop and an ex-convict become street racers in order to get hired as drivers for a drug lord so they can infiltrate his operation.
** Third movie: Excuse is a street racing teenager sent to his US Navy dad stationed in Japan wrecks a yakuza drifter's car and he must work as his errand boy until he pays his car.
** Fourth movie: Same as the second (different drug lord) and the added twist that Don is also going undercover on his own initiative to get revenge on the man who killed his girlfriend.
** First movie: Excuse is the street racers are hijacking shipment trucks to fund their activity and a cop goes undercover to infiltrate the group.
** Second movie: Excuse is same undercover cop and an ex-convict become street racers in order to get hired as drivers for a drug lord so they can infiltrate his operation.
** Third movie: Excuse is a street racing teenager sent to his US Navy dad stationed in Japan wrecks a yakuza drifter's car and he must work as his errand boy until he pays his car.
** Fourth movie: Same as the second (different drug lord) and the added twist that Don is also going undercover on his own initiative to get revenge on the man who killed his girlfriend.
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* CallBack: The incident that got Dom in trouble in the first place not only gets alluded to in Fast Five; he darn near does the exact same thing to Hobbs, socket wrench and all.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Vince in ''Fast Five'', and considering his sendoff in the garage and the posthumous nature of his payoff, we doubt he's coming back]].
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Vince in ''Fast Five'', and considering his sendoff in the garage and the posthumous nature of his payoff, payout, we doubt he's coming back]].
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** The circumstances behind Roman Pearce's house arrest could arguably fall under this.
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* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: In the third movie, the character Han is introduced, and then killed off towards the end. Since the fourth and fifth movies take place before that, they were both able to feature Han and show what he was up to before he went to Tokyo. Unfortunately, everyone knows what awaits him when he gets to Tokyo]].
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* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: In the third movie, the character Han is introduced, and then killed off towards the end. Since the fourth and fifth movies take place before that, they were both able to feature Han and show what he was up to before he went to Tokyo. Unfortunately, everyone knows what awaits him when he gets to Tokyo]]. Tokyo ]].
** Could serve as an instance of DroppedABridgeOnHim if you're watching the series chronologically instead of in the order they were released.
** Could serve as an instance of DroppedABridgeOnHim if you're watching the series chronologically instead of in the order they were released.
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* NoodleIncident: Do NOT remind Dominic Toretto about nearly beating a man to death with a socket wrench; it'll come back to haunt you later. Subverted since we actually know what took place, but still...
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* NoodleIncident: Subverted since we actually know what took place, unless Fast Five is the first/only movie in the series you've seen. [[spoiler: Do NOT remind Dominic Toretto about nearly beating a man to death with a socket wrench; it'll come back to haunt you later. Subverted since we actually know what took place, but still...later.]]
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* CallBack: The incident that got Dom in trouble in the first place not only gets alluded to in Fast Five; he darn near does the exact same thing to Hobbs, socket wrench and all.
* NoodleIncident: Do NOT remind Dominic Toretto about nearly beating a man to death with a socket wrench; it'll come back to haunt you later. Subverted since we actually know what took place, but still...
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** Although there personalities are seemingly an inversion of what you'd expect. Toretto is calm and cool headed well O'Conner is much more fiery.
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** Although there their personalities are seemingly an inversion of what you'd expect. Toretto is calm and cool headed well headed, so long as [[BerserkButton you don't mess with his girl or his sister]] while O'Conner is much more fiery.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Not explicitly depicted but the judge is all too happy to throw the book at Toretto in the fourth film. Likewise, Hobbs and Elsa pull up every crime on each member of Toretto's crew, despite Toretto and Brian being their only real targets.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Vince in ''Fast Five'', and considering his sendoff in the garage, doubt he's coming back]].
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* InsideShoes: Sean commits a memorable faux pas in ''Tokyo Drift'' because he doesn't know about inside shoes.
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** Hobbs' armored car is the rare (for this franchise) non-racing example. The amount of punishment it takes is incredible.
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* [[spoiler:MercyLead]]: [[spoiler:In the 5th movie, Hobbs gives Dom and Brian a 24 hour lead before chasing after them. This naturally leads to the following exchange:]]
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* [[spoiler:MercyLead]]: [[spoiler:In MercyLead: In the 5th movie, Hobbs [[spoiler:Hobbs gives Dom and Brian a 24 hour lead before chasing after them. This naturally leads to the following exchange:]]
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-->{{xkcd}} [[http://xkcd.com/127/ #127]]
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HxYZeHQ9UM "Before I Decay"]] is the Japanese theme song.
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*StealTheSurroundings: The crew takes this up a notch, stealing a massive vault by towing it with their cars, starting a lengthy ChaseScene where they drag it throughout the city.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The entire franchise was inspired by a ''magazine article.''
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* HollywoodDriving: Invoked in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. So much so that if this weren't a movie, they would have both already been killed in a collission.
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* HollywoodDriving: Invoked in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. So much so that if this weren't a movie, they would have both already been killed in a collission.collision.
* {{Homage}} / ActorAllusion: In back-to-back scenes in ''Fast Five'', Dom (VinDiesel) [[{{XXx}} 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.]]
* {{Homage}} / ActorAllusion: In back-to-back scenes in ''Fast Five'', Dom (VinDiesel) [[{{XXx}} 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.]]
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* ParentalBonus: In ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', Brian is called "Bullet" once. While in that context it could just be considered a nickname based on how fast he drives, it doubles as a reference to ''Bullitt,'' a movie about a cop that has one of the most famous car chase scenes in the history of cinema.
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* ParentalBonus: In ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', Brian is called "Bullet" once. While in that context it could just be considered a nickname based on how fast he drives, it doubles as a reference to ''Bullitt,'' ''{{Bullitt}},'' a movie about a cop that has one of the most famous car chase scenes in the history of cinema.
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* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Gisele in the fourth movie]].
** Played with in the fifth movie with [[spoiler:Officer Neves. It seems like she'll end up in this role throughout most of the film, but both her ''and'' Hobbs end up joining forces with Toretto. She doesn't assist them in actually stealing the money, but does meet up with Dom again after the fact]].
** Played with in the fifth movie with [[spoiler:Officer Neves. It seems like she'll end up in this role throughout most of the film, but both her ''and'' Hobbs end up joining forces with Toretto. She doesn't assist them in actually stealing the money, but does meet up with Dom again after the fact]].
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** [[spoiler:Gisele in the fourth movie]].
**Played with Zig-zagged in the fifth movie with [[spoiler:Officer Neves. It seems like she'll end up in this role throughout most of the film, but both her ''and'' Hobbs end up joining forces with Toretto. She doesn't assist them in actually stealing the money, but does meet up with Dom again after the fact]].
** [[spoiler:Gisele in the fourth movie]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:When the producers ran out of ideas to name their [[ElectricBoogaloo new sequel]].]]
->''On the other side of the world a new style of street racing rules the Tokyo underground. The cars are lighter. The tires are slick. When you drift, if you ain't out of control, you ain't in control. And if you work the wheel back and forth just right... you get blue sparks.''
-->{{xkcd}} [[http://xkcd.com/127/ #127]]
''The Fast and the Furious'' is a series of street racing films produced by Universal Studios. The cars are fast, the drivers are furious, there is plenty of TechnologyPorn and a little story on the side.
The first film, ''The Fast and the Furious'', starring Paul Walker and VinDiesel, was directed by Rob Cohen and released in 2001. Brian O'Conner (Walker) is an undercover LAPD officer looking into a string of highway semi-truck hijackings, which he suspects is linked to ex-convict Dominic "Dom" Toretto (Diesel) and his car shop crew. Brian works to get into their inner circle and comes to respect Dom for his sense of loyalty, which causes problems when his superiors start questioning where Brian's allegiance lies.
The second film ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', starring Paul Walker and Tyrese Gibson, was directed by John Singleton and released in 2003. Brian O'Conner has long since left the LAPD and fled to the streets of Miami, but is coerced to infiltrate a local drug lord's money laundering operation as a runner. He recruits his childhood friend Roman "Rome" Pearce (Gibson) for a second driver, and both of them work to undermine the bad guys and get their criminal records wiped clean while trying to stay alive in the process.
The third film, ''Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'', starring Lucas Black, was directed by Justin Lin and released in 2006. Black plays [[DawsonCasting teenager]] Sean Boswell, who accumulates some serious motor vehicle violations that could earn him jail time. To keep him out of trouble, he is sent to live with his U.S. Naval officer father in Japan and finish school there. The culture clash is brutal, especially when he gets friendly with the girlfriend of a guy with Yakuza connections and a love of the drift races.
A fourth film, ''Fast & Furious'', was released in Spring 2009 with VinDiesel, Paul Walker, MichelleRodriguez, and Jordana Brewster reprising their previous roles. It's been five years and Brian has returned to Los Angeles law enforcement, this time as an FBI agent hunting another drug dealer. He reunites with Dom, offering him a pardon in exchange for help catching the drug dealer. Tension heats up when their personal motivations are revealed as Brian, Dom, Letty, and Mia struggle to work through the residual complications of their last encounter with each other.
A fifth film, ''Fast Five'', released in April 2011, brings [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] into the mix as a government agent, and star returners include VinDiesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, and Sung Kang. Brian, Dom, and Mia are wanted criminals and have escaped to Rio de Janeiro. Complications have encouraged them to quit their dangerous lifestyle for good, and they agree to pull a big job -- OneLastJob -- worth $100 million and then disappear forever. They bring many of their old crews on board, and struggle to outfox their corrupt yet incredibly powerful mark while avoiding the dogged pursuit of DSS Agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson).
''Fast Five'' had the biggest grossing opening weekend of the franchise (breaking two records in the process) which more than doubled that of its immediate predecessor, and garnered the most critical praise of the series. It's also notable for bringing back the bulk of its previous main characters and conglomerating them into a single team.
According to TheOtherWiki, a sixth film is in development as of the opening weekend of ''Fast Five''.
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!!This movie series contains examples of:
* TheAllegedCar: Subverted. Sean's Monte Carlo looks beaten up and about to fall apart... until he hands a Viper-driving jock his ass on a silver platter.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: There are a few here and there, but a particularly aggressive one in the fifth film sticks out.
-->[[spoiler:'''Vince:''' "Where's Letty?"]]
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Nearly every jump in the series.
** The entirety of the climactic chase scene in ''Fast Five''.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Refreshingly averted with Jesse in the first film. This also doubles as an example of ShownTheirWork: Jess dropped out of school; 37 to 50% of afflicted adolescents never earn a high school diploma as they either drop out or are expelled for behavioral problems. People with true ADD often find an interest, subject, or hobby that "calms them down" or is able to hold their full and focused attention (such as Jesse's love of cars). They are also at higher risk for things like criminal activity, impaired driving ability, injury, social impairment, drug and nicotine abuse, and poor financial management... all of which Jess exhibits, out of the many possible other adverse effects of the disorder.
* BackFromTheDead: You know that 1970 Dodge Charger (which was wrecked by his father and rebuilt before the first film's events) that Dom wrecks in the first film? It's back in the fourth film. [[spoiler: [[RunningGag And it gets wrecked and rebuilt AGAIN, and reappears in the next film only to get smashed up a fourth time]]. Dom isn't happy]].
** [[spoiler: Although she's only seen through a picture, Letty shows up at the end of ''Fast Five'' hijacking a military convoy]].
* BadassBoast
-->'''Dom:''' "You almost had ''me''? You never had me. You never had your ''car''. Granny shiftin', [[DanBrowned not double clutchin' like you should]]. You're lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake. You almost had ''me''? Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you fried. Ask any racer, any ''real'' racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning."
* BadassDriver: 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."
* BeleagueredChildhoodFriend: Rome did three years in prison and ended up on house arrest prior to ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. He blamed it on Brian for not helping him, but Brian didn't hear about his arrest until after he had already been sentenced to do time so there was nothing he could do.
* BerserkButton: Dom has a serious temper, especially if his loved ones are in danger. The button doesn't activate instantly, however; it usually takes a few seconds to warm up, and viewers can actually watch Dom reach the boiling point.
* BigDamnHeroes: Once per movie.
* BillingDisplacement: The first movie is best known as a VinDiesel flick. Paul Walker actually plays the main character.
** The fourth movie prominently features Michelle Rodriguez on the poster and in the trailers, even though [[spoiler:her character dies roughly fifteen minutes into the movie]].
* BlackBestFriend: Rome ([[InsistentTerminology but only his home boys can call him that]]) and Twinkie
* BookEnds: The fourth movie. It begins with Dom and his gang hijacking an oil truck [[spoiler: and ends with him getting rescued by Brian, Mia and his gang from the beginning. Also counts as a BolivianArmyEnding]]. This is ultimately subverted by the creation of the fifth movie, as well as [[spoiler:Dom's appearance in ''Tokyo Drift'']].
** Also invoked with Fenix. Earlier in the fourth movie [[spoiler: Dom sees Fenix standing over Letty before killing her in some sort of guilt induced hallucination]]. At the end, Fenix stands over Brian in much the same way before Dom swoops in for the rescue.
* BrickJoke: "I owe you a ten-second car."
* CaliforniaDoubling: The shooting for ''Fast Five'' took place in Puerto Rico. It's pretty easy to notice if you live in Puerto Rico too.
** Scenes from ''Fast Five'' were also shot in Atlanta.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler:VinDiesel]] at the end of ''Tokyo Drift'', and [[spoiler:EvaMendes and MichelleRodriguez]] in the credits of ''Fast Five''.
* CarFu: What all the movies center around.
* CharacterDevelopment: 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. Vince is the best example, going from an overly jealous jerk in the first film to a loving, caring, and protective individual with a dash of his old temper. Brian uses a lot of slang in the first two films, particularly the second, but the fourth and fifth take place five years later after he matures a lot more. Off-screen, Paul Walker has stated that the most difficult thing he found with his character early on was trying to act cool, and by ''Fast & Furious'' he no longer felt that pressure and stopped trying to force a certain image.
* TheCharmer: Sean in ''Tokyo Drift''. He successfully catches the attention of the girlfriends of two different guys, one a JerkJock and the other a {{Yakuza}} wannabe. This is also subverted when he tries his wink-and-smile combo on Cindy after the drag race and his mouth is [[{{Squick}} full of blood]]; she is appropriately turned off.
* ChildhoodFriends: Dom and Vince. Also Brian and Roman Pearce.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Vince in the first and fifth films; he finally calls Dom out on it in the fifth. Roman shares this role in ''Fast Five'', as well as being a semi-ButtMonkey.
* ConspicuousCG: This is how they did a lot of their special effects during the racing scenes. It's at its worst in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''.
* ContinuityNod: The fourth and especially fifth films are loaded with them. The third film gets one retroactively when Dom mentions Han running with him.
* CoolCar / PimpedOutCar: Just about everything on wheels in the whole damn series.
** The piece of crap 1970 Chevy Monte Carlo the protagonist of ''Tokyo Drift'' has at the start of the film says otherwise, though.
** Nice exotics like Ferraris tend to be sidelined or non-existent (the original features a F355 getting easily outdragged by the Protagonist's Supra).
* CreatorProvincialism: Having owned 2 R34 GT-R's, a classic 1971 C10 Skyline and ending Fast Five with an R35, Brian appears to have a keen interest in Nissan's GT-R range. The actor who plays him, Paul Walker, purchased one of just 14 legalised R34 Skyline GT-R's in America before modifying it to around 500 BHP. A YouTube video has surfaced of Paul testing out a Mine's modified R35 GT-R as well.
* TheDanza: Tego Leo played by Tego Calderon.
* DanBrowned: Go ahead. Watch these movies with actual gearheads. We dare you.
* DawsonCasting: ''Tokyo Drift'' is the only offender, for obvious reasons: Lucas Black (Sean) was 22, Zachary Ty Brian (Clay) was 23, Nikki Griffin (Clay's girlfriend Cindy) was 28, Nathalie Kelley (Neela) was 21, Bow Wow (Twinkie) was 19, Leonardo Nam (Takeshi's friend Morimoto) was 25, and Brian Tee (Takeshi) was the worst at 29. Only Bow Wow was still technically a teenager out of the cast.
** Both Toretto (VinDiesel) and Vince (Matt Schulze) were said to be 24 when ''The Fast and The Furious'' has been made. VinDiesel was 34, Matt Schulze was 29 by then.
** Well, Schulze was still in his twenties at least. Diesel, however, passed pretty well for 24-year old Toretto. (Many have jokingly attributed [[OneOfUs Diesel's]] younger appearance compared to his real age to his love for [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]].) However, the actors for Tokyo Drift easily stand out as people older than their character's ages, Dawson Casting at it's damn-near worst.
* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: In the third movie, the character Han is introduced, and then killed off towards the end. Since the fourth and fifth movies take place before that, they were both able to feature Han and show what he was up to before he went to Tokyo. Unfortunately, everyone knows what awaits him when he gets to Tokyo]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Watch any of the films and try to locate someone that ISN'T one. Hell, make a game of it.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Played straight in the first two films, but the fourth film subverts the trope usage from the first one.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sean in ''Tokyo Drift''.
* DrivingStick: 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.
* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Bridge On Her]]: [[spoiler: Letty has all of five minutes of screentime in the fourth film, and the next thing we know, Mia calls up Dom to tell him that Letty has been killed by BigBad Fenix. We get to see what happens later, at least, but it's still awkward and mean-spirited, especially since Michelle Rodriguez [[BillingDisplacement has her name on the posters]]. Eventually subverted since she [[NotQuiteDead wasn't quite dead]] in the fifth movie]].
* DuelingStarsMovie: Fast Five is most notable for being VinDiesel Vs. [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]. Johnson's character was originally going to be an older guy, but awesomely enough the filmmakers took up a fan's suggestion on {{Facebook}} that it would be great to see Diesel and Johnson in a movie together.
* DVDCommentary: The commentary for the first one by Rob Cohen goes to show the depth of insight a director can have about hidden aspects of the movie. Oh yeah, and he likes to [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] too.
* EnhanceButton: Used briefly by DwayneJohnson's team in ''Fast Five'' to track down Torreto.
* EveryCarIsRearWheelDrive: Mostly subverted, although a Skyline in the second movie was converted to rear wheel drive for certain stunt work.
* FairCop: US Customs agent [[EvaMendes Monica Fuentes]] in the second film. Rio police officer Elena Neves in the fifth. Brian O'Connor, for the ladies.
* {{Fanservice}}: The fourth film has moments of hot girls kissing during club scenes.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Not so much a photo, but being introduced to [[spoiler:Vince's]] child and significant other pretty much sealed [[spoiler:his]] fate.
* FiveManBand: In the original.
** TheHero - Dom
** TheLancer - Letty
** TheSmartGuy - Jesse
** TheBigGuy - Vince
** TheChick - Leon (he doesn't do much; he's just kind of there)
** SixthRangerTraitor - Brian (see below entry)
* ForegoneConclusion: In the fifth film, Dom [[spoiler:attempts a SelfSacrificeScheme in order to ensure Brian escapes with Mia, but as he is seen alive and free in ''Tokyo Drift'' which chronologically takes place afterwards, we already know he'll be saved at the last minute]].
* [[GaidenGame Gaiden Movie]]: ''Tokyo Drift''. {{Fridge Brilliance}} considering the origin of the trope name and the setting of the movie.
* [[{{GenreMotif/HipHop}} Genre Motif: Hip Hop]]: The series runneth over with this, even the third movie, which is set in Japan.
* HeyItsThatGuy: The BigBad of ''Fast Five'' is [[{{Desperado}} Bucho]].
* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Gisele in the fourth movie]].
** Played with in the fifth movie with [[spoiler:Officer Neves. It seems like she'll end up in this role throughout most of the film, but both her ''and'' Hobbs end up joining forces with Toretto. She doesn't assist them in actually stealing the money, but does meet up with Dom again after the fact]].
* HollywoodDriving: Invoked in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. So much so that if this weren't a movie, they would have both already been killed in a collission.
* InsideShoes: Sean commits a memorable faux pas in ''Tokyo Drift'' because he doesn't know about inside shoes.
* InspectorJavert: Hobbs in ''Fast Five'' is characterized this way until [[spoiler:he decides to help Dom because his team was killed and he wants revenge. After an EnemyMine for a day or two, he gives Dom a mercy lead.]]
--->'''Hobbs:''' Give me those documents. *throws them aside* All I care about is that Toretto is a name on a list!
* {{Interquel}}: The fourth and fifth films, which are set after the second but before the third movie (the third currently is the last chronologically). Film six is also going to be, if TheStinger of ''Fast Five'' is to be believed.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Vince in ''Fast Five'', and considering his sendoff in the garage, doubt he's coming back]].
* LargeHam: DwayneJohnson in the 5th movie, especially in his introductory scene.
* [[spoiler:MercyLead]]: [[spoiler:In the 5th movie, Hobbs gives Dom and Brian a 24 hour lead before chasing after them. This naturally leads to the following exchange:]]
---> [[spoiler:'''Hobbs''': "I'll see you again, Toretto."]]
---> [[spoiler:'''Dom''': "No, you won't."]]
* MilitaryBrat: The protagonist of the third movie.
* MissingTrailerScene: More like missing lines, from ''Fast Five'': "If you're gonna survive, stop thinking like a cop. You're in my world now," and "Chances are sooner or later, we are gonna end up behind bars or buried in a ditch somewhere. But not today." Both are spoken by Dom, but do not appear in the film, even out of the context presented in the trailer.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: When Dom fights Hobbs, he starts winning and ends up with a wrench in his hand. This is a reference to how he nearly beat a guy to death with a wrench in his backstory.
* NitroBoost: Used in all of the films.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Dom is prone to this. The first film reveals how much of a "[[HairTriggerTemper model of self-control]]" he is by showing pictures of a guy Toretto nearly beat to death with a three-quarter inch torque wrench in an act of personal revenge. Dom admits this to Brian himself without prompt, and it's heavily implied [[MyGreatestFailure he harbors remorse for permanently disabling the guy]].
* NotSoDifferent : In the fifth movie, Hobbs shows his contempt for Dom when he reminds him how he beat a guy to death with a wrench prior to the first movie. However, during the fight between Hobbs and Dom later in the movie, Hobbs reaches for a wrench and tries to hit Dom with it. Seconds later, Dom actually refrains himself from doing the same thing. See MyGreatestSecondChance entry above.
* NoSeatBelts: Oddly enough, the lack of seat belt use seems to have little effect on [[RuleOfCool anyone's ability to survive catastrophic crashes]].
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: This has been taken to the point of 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'', ''Fast Five'' (known as ''Fast & Furious 5'' in the UK). Just to confuse things further, the fourth and fifth films are Midquels fitting between the second and third films, and the main characters are inconsistent across the series as well. The producers are reportedly planning two more sequels, but haven't settled on the titles yet. They're casually referring to them as ''Fast Six'' and ''Fast Seven''. Just to keep the tradition, here's to hoping they name them something like ''Fast VI'' and ''Fast 7: Forever Furious''.
* OncePerMovie: A cameo by a rapper. Averted in ''Fast Five'', where Ludacris, Don Omar and Tego's characters are main characters.
* OnlyInMiami: ''2 Fast 2 Furious'' takes place in Miami. The opening scene has the characters drive by the American Airlines Arena, home to the NBA's Miami Heat. That should be a tipoff.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Twinkie in ''Tokyo Drift''. Also doubles as an IronicNickname, as the term "twinkie" is usually reserved for Asians.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Dom and Fenix in the fourth film.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Invoked by Neela in ''Tokyo Drift''; she was originally from Australia and her accent goes in and out depending on her current mood. This is often TruthInTelevision, when things like shouting or being upset will bring out your native accent even if you've lost it over time.
* OutrunTheFireball: Dom in the fourth film. Also inverted at the beginning, where Dom ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome runs toward the fireball]]''. It's seen in the trailer, so it doesn't count as a spoiler.
* ParentalBonus: In ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', Brian is called "Bullet" once. While in that context it could just be considered a nickname based on how fast he drives, it doubles as a reference to ''Bullitt,'' a movie about a cop that has one of the most famous car chase scenes in the history of cinema.
* PlotArmor: Played straight, subverted, and double-subverted throughout all movies involving Dom.
* RacingTheTrain: Brian and Dom do this at the end of the first movie while also drag-racing against each other.
* RedOniBlueOni: Twice-convicted Dominic Toretto and former LAPD Officer/FBI Agent Brian O'Conner.
* RefugeInAudacity: This was pretty much the crew's M.O. in Fast Five. For Starters: Dom's plan to get Reyes to move his money was to attack one of Reyes' drug houses, show his face and burn his money in front of Reyes' men and instruct them to tell Reyes what happened. Reyes moves his money to one heavily guarded spot instead of ten spots that are just guarded well, just like Dom planned. Except for the part about, it being a police station.
* ReplacementLoveInterest: EvaMendes as Monica Fuentes in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. This is promptly squashed by FirstGirlWins in ''Fast & Furious''. [[spoiler:Dom also gets one in ''Fast Five''. Interestingly enough, Dom is ''her'' ReplacementLoveInterest too. One wonders how that's going to play out since Letty is actually alive]].
* RiceBurner: Although all the cars in the movies are high performance, they are commonly accused of responsibility for promoting this in real life.
* RobbingTheMobBank: In ''Fast Five'', Dom and Brian assemble a team to rob drug kingpin Reyes completely blind.
* RunningGag: Brian has never legitimately beaten Dom in a race. He almost does in the fourth film, and Dom lets him win in the fifth film.
* SequelGoesForeign: The third film goes to Japan, the fifth to Brazil.
* SequelHook / TheStinger:
** ''The Fast and the Furious'': [[spoiler: Dom is driving along a beach in Mexico]].
** ''Tokyo Drift'': [[spoiler: Dom shows up in Tokyo]].
** ''Fast and Furious'': [[spoiler: Dom's escape from the prison bus, revealed at the beginning of ''Fast Five'']].
** ''Fast Five'': [[spoiler: Agent EvaMendes revealing Letty is alive and driving in Berlin]].
* SittingOnTheRoof: In ''Tokyo Drift'', a Yakuza starts a fight on the roof of the school with the guy who sold him a defective iPod.
* SixthRangerTraitor: Played with in the first one; Brian was an undercover cop while Dom, Letty, Leon, Vince, and Jesse were professional thieves.
* SmugSnake: Practically every villain, but the series originals were Johnny Tran and his cousin Lance.
* SourPrudes: Dom's girlfriend Letty temporarily use this position (without seeming to have it as an integrated part of her personality) as she chase off two girls hitting on Dom at the first race.
--> '''Letty''': I smell ''[sniffs]'' skanks. Why don't you ladies pack it up before I leave tread marks on you faces?
* StatusQuoIsGod: Brian and Dom never quite stay out of trouble, no matter how many chances they get.
* SubculturesInJapan: Just about everyone of note in ''Tokyo Drift'' is a ''hashiriya'' (car enthusiast).
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Roman in ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', replacing Dominic from the original.
* TechnologyPorn: Ever seen the inside of a camshaft?
* TemptingFate: Reyes right-hand man remarks that with the amount of security at the police station that's housing his drug money, not even God could steal it.
* ThatsWhatIWouldDo: Brian tries to narrow down a list of suspects with the same name to figure out which one is involved with street racing. He has his FBI partner read off a list of the suspects' cars. After hearing about a Nissan 240SX with an illegal modification, he remarks that he's the one. His partner asks how he knows this and he replies "Because that's what I'd drive."
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Used in ''Fast Five'':
-->'''Dom:''' This is Brasil!
* TimTaylorTechnology: 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 for films 3-5 though.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: Mia driving in ''Fast & Furious''[='s=] trailer. [[spoiler: She only drives at the very end, a minute before the credits]].
* TrueCompanions: The most important thing to Dom, Mia, and their friends is family, which is what causes Brian to flip for them in the first place.
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: During a race in the fourth film, Dom bumps Brian's car and causes him to lose control in order to win. This becomes a sore spot for Brian in the next sequel when he insists that was the only way Dom could have beaten him.
* UnderTheTruck: Done in the first and second films.
* UndercoverCopReveal: Brian in the first film.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: When Brian and Mia see each other again in ''Fast & Furious'', Mia hadn't yet forgiven him for his role as an undercover cop five years earlier. Naturally, this is followed by TheyDo.
* WatchThePaintJob: Most installations in the movies have some example of this, though Dominic's Dodge Charger in the first film (which was built by his late father and is revealed midway through the movie to be some sort of intimidating uber-car) getting completely pulverized by a semi truck in the movie's last drag race is the most remembered instance of this. The funniest example would be Sean from ''Tokyo Drift'' wrecking Han's S15 Silvia with a Skyline engine because he just can't drift.
* WeHaveTheKeys: One scene in the second movie.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: The ''power shifting'', oh God...
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Everyone's whereabouts are explained and accounted for throughout the series, except for Leon, who completely disappears after the first film, and Suki, who disappears after the second.
* WorthyOpponent: "Is it Toretto?" "No." "Not interested." [[SequelHook "Do you believe]] [[HesJustHiding in ghosts?"]]
* XtremeSportXcusePlot:
** First movie: Excuse is the street racers are hijacking shipment trucks to fund their activity and a cop goes undercover to infiltrate the group.
** Second movie: Excuse is same undercover cop and an ex-convict become street racers in order to get hired as drivers for a drug lord so they can infiltrate his operation.
** Third movie: Excuse is a street racing teenager sent to his US Navy dad stationed in Japan wrecks a yakuza drifter's car and he must work as his errand boy until he pays his car.
** Fourth movie: Same as the second (different drug lord) and the added twist that Don is also going undercover on his own initiative to get revenge on the man who killed his girlfriend.
* {{Yakuza}}: Pretty much every single Japanese character in ''Tokyo Drift''.
** And their uncle, quite literally!
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[[caption-width-right:350:When the producers ran out of ideas to name their [[ElectricBoogaloo new sequel]].]]
->''On the other side of the world a new style of street racing rules the Tokyo underground. The cars are lighter. The tires are slick. When you drift, if you ain't out of control, you ain't in control. And if you work the wheel back and forth just right... you get blue sparks.''
-->{{xkcd}} [[http://xkcd.com/127/ #127]]
''The Fast and the Furious'' is a series of street racing films produced by Universal Studios. The cars are fast, the drivers are furious, there is plenty of TechnologyPorn and a little story on the side.
The first film, ''The Fast and the Furious'', starring Paul Walker and VinDiesel, was directed by Rob Cohen and released in 2001. Brian O'Conner (Walker) is an undercover LAPD officer looking into a string of highway semi-truck hijackings, which he suspects is linked to ex-convict Dominic "Dom" Toretto (Diesel) and his car shop crew. Brian works to get into their inner circle and comes to respect Dom for his sense of loyalty, which causes problems when his superiors start questioning where Brian's allegiance lies.
The second film ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', starring Paul Walker and Tyrese Gibson, was directed by John Singleton and released in 2003. Brian O'Conner has long since left the LAPD and fled to the streets of Miami, but is coerced to infiltrate a local drug lord's money laundering operation as a runner. He recruits his childhood friend Roman "Rome" Pearce (Gibson) for a second driver, and both of them work to undermine the bad guys and get their criminal records wiped clean while trying to stay alive in the process.
The third film, ''Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'', starring Lucas Black, was directed by Justin Lin and released in 2006. Black plays [[DawsonCasting teenager]] Sean Boswell, who accumulates some serious motor vehicle violations that could earn him jail time. To keep him out of trouble, he is sent to live with his U.S. Naval officer father in Japan and finish school there. The culture clash is brutal, especially when he gets friendly with the girlfriend of a guy with Yakuza connections and a love of the drift races.
A fourth film, ''Fast & Furious'', was released in Spring 2009 with VinDiesel, Paul Walker, MichelleRodriguez, and Jordana Brewster reprising their previous roles. It's been five years and Brian has returned to Los Angeles law enforcement, this time as an FBI agent hunting another drug dealer. He reunites with Dom, offering him a pardon in exchange for help catching the drug dealer. Tension heats up when their personal motivations are revealed as Brian, Dom, Letty, and Mia struggle to work through the residual complications of their last encounter with each other.
A fifth film, ''Fast Five'', released in April 2011, brings [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] into the mix as a government agent, and star returners include VinDiesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, and Sung Kang. Brian, Dom, and Mia are wanted criminals and have escaped to Rio de Janeiro. Complications have encouraged them to quit their dangerous lifestyle for good, and they agree to pull a big job -- OneLastJob -- worth $100 million and then disappear forever. They bring many of their old crews on board, and struggle to outfox their corrupt yet incredibly powerful mark while avoiding the dogged pursuit of DSS Agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson).
''Fast Five'' had the biggest grossing opening weekend of the franchise (breaking two records in the process) which more than doubled that of its immediate predecessor, and garnered the most critical praise of the series. It's also notable for bringing back the bulk of its previous main characters and conglomerating them into a single team.
According to TheOtherWiki, a sixth film is in development as of the opening weekend of ''Fast Five''.
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!!This movie series contains examples of:
* TheAllegedCar: Subverted. Sean's Monte Carlo looks beaten up and about to fall apart... until he hands a Viper-driving jock his ass on a silver platter.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: There are a few here and there, but a particularly aggressive one in the fifth film sticks out.
-->[[spoiler:'''Vince:''' "Where's Letty?"]]
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Nearly every jump in the series.
** The entirety of the climactic chase scene in ''Fast Five''.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Refreshingly averted with Jesse in the first film. This also doubles as an example of ShownTheirWork: Jess dropped out of school; 37 to 50% of afflicted adolescents never earn a high school diploma as they either drop out or are expelled for behavioral problems. People with true ADD often find an interest, subject, or hobby that "calms them down" or is able to hold their full and focused attention (such as Jesse's love of cars). They are also at higher risk for things like criminal activity, impaired driving ability, injury, social impairment, drug and nicotine abuse, and poor financial management... all of which Jess exhibits, out of the many possible other adverse effects of the disorder.
* BackFromTheDead: You know that 1970 Dodge Charger (which was wrecked by his father and rebuilt before the first film's events) that Dom wrecks in the first film? It's back in the fourth film. [[spoiler: [[RunningGag And it gets wrecked and rebuilt AGAIN, and reappears in the next film only to get smashed up a fourth time]]. Dom isn't happy]].
** [[spoiler: Although she's only seen through a picture, Letty shows up at the end of ''Fast Five'' hijacking a military convoy]].
* BadassBoast
-->'''Dom:''' "You almost had ''me''? You never had me. You never had your ''car''. Granny shiftin', [[DanBrowned not double clutchin' like you should]]. You're lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake. You almost had ''me''? Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you fried. Ask any racer, any ''real'' racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning."
* BadassDriver: 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."
* BeleagueredChildhoodFriend: Rome did three years in prison and ended up on house arrest prior to ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. He blamed it on Brian for not helping him, but Brian didn't hear about his arrest until after he had already been sentenced to do time so there was nothing he could do.
* BerserkButton: Dom has a serious temper, especially if his loved ones are in danger. The button doesn't activate instantly, however; it usually takes a few seconds to warm up, and viewers can actually watch Dom reach the boiling point.
* BigDamnHeroes: Once per movie.
* BillingDisplacement: The first movie is best known as a VinDiesel flick. Paul Walker actually plays the main character.
** The fourth movie prominently features Michelle Rodriguez on the poster and in the trailers, even though [[spoiler:her character dies roughly fifteen minutes into the movie]].
* BlackBestFriend: Rome ([[InsistentTerminology but only his home boys can call him that]]) and Twinkie
* BookEnds: The fourth movie. It begins with Dom and his gang hijacking an oil truck [[spoiler: and ends with him getting rescued by Brian, Mia and his gang from the beginning. Also counts as a BolivianArmyEnding]]. This is ultimately subverted by the creation of the fifth movie, as well as [[spoiler:Dom's appearance in ''Tokyo Drift'']].
** Also invoked with Fenix. Earlier in the fourth movie [[spoiler: Dom sees Fenix standing over Letty before killing her in some sort of guilt induced hallucination]]. At the end, Fenix stands over Brian in much the same way before Dom swoops in for the rescue.
* BrickJoke: "I owe you a ten-second car."
* CaliforniaDoubling: The shooting for ''Fast Five'' took place in Puerto Rico. It's pretty easy to notice if you live in Puerto Rico too.
** Scenes from ''Fast Five'' were also shot in Atlanta.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler:VinDiesel]] at the end of ''Tokyo Drift'', and [[spoiler:EvaMendes and MichelleRodriguez]] in the credits of ''Fast Five''.
* CarFu: What all the movies center around.
* CharacterDevelopment: 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. Vince is the best example, going from an overly jealous jerk in the first film to a loving, caring, and protective individual with a dash of his old temper. Brian uses a lot of slang in the first two films, particularly the second, but the fourth and fifth take place five years later after he matures a lot more. Off-screen, Paul Walker has stated that the most difficult thing he found with his character early on was trying to act cool, and by ''Fast & Furious'' he no longer felt that pressure and stopped trying to force a certain image.
* TheCharmer: Sean in ''Tokyo Drift''. He successfully catches the attention of the girlfriends of two different guys, one a JerkJock and the other a {{Yakuza}} wannabe. This is also subverted when he tries his wink-and-smile combo on Cindy after the drag race and his mouth is [[{{Squick}} full of blood]]; she is appropriately turned off.
* ChildhoodFriends: Dom and Vince. Also Brian and Roman Pearce.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Vince in the first and fifth films; he finally calls Dom out on it in the fifth. Roman shares this role in ''Fast Five'', as well as being a semi-ButtMonkey.
* ConspicuousCG: This is how they did a lot of their special effects during the racing scenes. It's at its worst in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''.
* ContinuityNod: The fourth and especially fifth films are loaded with them. The third film gets one retroactively when Dom mentions Han running with him.
* CoolCar / PimpedOutCar: Just about everything on wheels in the whole damn series.
** The piece of crap 1970 Chevy Monte Carlo the protagonist of ''Tokyo Drift'' has at the start of the film says otherwise, though.
** Nice exotics like Ferraris tend to be sidelined or non-existent (the original features a F355 getting easily outdragged by the Protagonist's Supra).
* CreatorProvincialism: Having owned 2 R34 GT-R's, a classic 1971 C10 Skyline and ending Fast Five with an R35, Brian appears to have a keen interest in Nissan's GT-R range. The actor who plays him, Paul Walker, purchased one of just 14 legalised R34 Skyline GT-R's in America before modifying it to around 500 BHP. A YouTube video has surfaced of Paul testing out a Mine's modified R35 GT-R as well.
* TheDanza: Tego Leo played by Tego Calderon.
* DanBrowned: Go ahead. Watch these movies with actual gearheads. We dare you.
* DawsonCasting: ''Tokyo Drift'' is the only offender, for obvious reasons: Lucas Black (Sean) was 22, Zachary Ty Brian (Clay) was 23, Nikki Griffin (Clay's girlfriend Cindy) was 28, Nathalie Kelley (Neela) was 21, Bow Wow (Twinkie) was 19, Leonardo Nam (Takeshi's friend Morimoto) was 25, and Brian Tee (Takeshi) was the worst at 29. Only Bow Wow was still technically a teenager out of the cast.
** Both Toretto (VinDiesel) and Vince (Matt Schulze) were said to be 24 when ''The Fast and The Furious'' has been made. VinDiesel was 34, Matt Schulze was 29 by then.
** Well, Schulze was still in his twenties at least. Diesel, however, passed pretty well for 24-year old Toretto. (Many have jokingly attributed [[OneOfUs Diesel's]] younger appearance compared to his real age to his love for [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]].) However, the actors for Tokyo Drift easily stand out as people older than their character's ages, Dawson Casting at it's damn-near worst.
* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: In the third movie, the character Han is introduced, and then killed off towards the end. Since the fourth and fifth movies take place before that, they were both able to feature Han and show what he was up to before he went to Tokyo. Unfortunately, everyone knows what awaits him when he gets to Tokyo]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Watch any of the films and try to locate someone that ISN'T one. Hell, make a game of it.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Played straight in the first two films, but the fourth film subverts the trope usage from the first one.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sean in ''Tokyo Drift''.
* DrivingStick: 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.
* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Bridge On Her]]: [[spoiler: Letty has all of five minutes of screentime in the fourth film, and the next thing we know, Mia calls up Dom to tell him that Letty has been killed by BigBad Fenix. We get to see what happens later, at least, but it's still awkward and mean-spirited, especially since Michelle Rodriguez [[BillingDisplacement has her name on the posters]]. Eventually subverted since she [[NotQuiteDead wasn't quite dead]] in the fifth movie]].
* DuelingStarsMovie: Fast Five is most notable for being VinDiesel Vs. [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]. Johnson's character was originally going to be an older guy, but awesomely enough the filmmakers took up a fan's suggestion on {{Facebook}} that it would be great to see Diesel and Johnson in a movie together.
* DVDCommentary: The commentary for the first one by Rob Cohen goes to show the depth of insight a director can have about hidden aspects of the movie. Oh yeah, and he likes to [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] too.
* EnhanceButton: Used briefly by DwayneJohnson's team in ''Fast Five'' to track down Torreto.
* EveryCarIsRearWheelDrive: Mostly subverted, although a Skyline in the second movie was converted to rear wheel drive for certain stunt work.
* FairCop: US Customs agent [[EvaMendes Monica Fuentes]] in the second film. Rio police officer Elena Neves in the fifth. Brian O'Connor, for the ladies.
* {{Fanservice}}: The fourth film has moments of hot girls kissing during club scenes.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Not so much a photo, but being introduced to [[spoiler:Vince's]] child and significant other pretty much sealed [[spoiler:his]] fate.
* FiveManBand: In the original.
** TheHero - Dom
** TheLancer - Letty
** TheSmartGuy - Jesse
** TheBigGuy - Vince
** TheChick - Leon (he doesn't do much; he's just kind of there)
** SixthRangerTraitor - Brian (see below entry)
* ForegoneConclusion: In the fifth film, Dom [[spoiler:attempts a SelfSacrificeScheme in order to ensure Brian escapes with Mia, but as he is seen alive and free in ''Tokyo Drift'' which chronologically takes place afterwards, we already know he'll be saved at the last minute]].
* [[GaidenGame Gaiden Movie]]: ''Tokyo Drift''. {{Fridge Brilliance}} considering the origin of the trope name and the setting of the movie.
* [[{{GenreMotif/HipHop}} Genre Motif: Hip Hop]]: The series runneth over with this, even the third movie, which is set in Japan.
* HeyItsThatGuy: The BigBad of ''Fast Five'' is [[{{Desperado}} Bucho]].
* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Gisele in the fourth movie]].
** Played with in the fifth movie with [[spoiler:Officer Neves. It seems like she'll end up in this role throughout most of the film, but both her ''and'' Hobbs end up joining forces with Toretto. She doesn't assist them in actually stealing the money, but does meet up with Dom again after the fact]].
* HollywoodDriving: Invoked in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. So much so that if this weren't a movie, they would have both already been killed in a collission.
* InsideShoes: Sean commits a memorable faux pas in ''Tokyo Drift'' because he doesn't know about inside shoes.
* InspectorJavert: Hobbs in ''Fast Five'' is characterized this way until [[spoiler:he decides to help Dom because his team was killed and he wants revenge. After an EnemyMine for a day or two, he gives Dom a mercy lead.]]
--->'''Hobbs:''' Give me those documents. *throws them aside* All I care about is that Toretto is a name on a list!
* {{Interquel}}: The fourth and fifth films, which are set after the second but before the third movie (the third currently is the last chronologically). Film six is also going to be, if TheStinger of ''Fast Five'' is to be believed.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Vince in ''Fast Five'', and considering his sendoff in the garage, doubt he's coming back]].
* LargeHam: DwayneJohnson in the 5th movie, especially in his introductory scene.
* [[spoiler:MercyLead]]: [[spoiler:In the 5th movie, Hobbs gives Dom and Brian a 24 hour lead before chasing after them. This naturally leads to the following exchange:]]
---> [[spoiler:'''Hobbs''': "I'll see you again, Toretto."]]
---> [[spoiler:'''Dom''': "No, you won't."]]
* MilitaryBrat: The protagonist of the third movie.
* MissingTrailerScene: More like missing lines, from ''Fast Five'': "If you're gonna survive, stop thinking like a cop. You're in my world now," and "Chances are sooner or later, we are gonna end up behind bars or buried in a ditch somewhere. But not today." Both are spoken by Dom, but do not appear in the film, even out of the context presented in the trailer.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: When Dom fights Hobbs, he starts winning and ends up with a wrench in his hand. This is a reference to how he nearly beat a guy to death with a wrench in his backstory.
* NitroBoost: Used in all of the films.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Dom is prone to this. The first film reveals how much of a "[[HairTriggerTemper model of self-control]]" he is by showing pictures of a guy Toretto nearly beat to death with a three-quarter inch torque wrench in an act of personal revenge. Dom admits this to Brian himself without prompt, and it's heavily implied [[MyGreatestFailure he harbors remorse for permanently disabling the guy]].
* NotSoDifferent : In the fifth movie, Hobbs shows his contempt for Dom when he reminds him how he beat a guy to death with a wrench prior to the first movie. However, during the fight between Hobbs and Dom later in the movie, Hobbs reaches for a wrench and tries to hit Dom with it. Seconds later, Dom actually refrains himself from doing the same thing. See MyGreatestSecondChance entry above.
* NoSeatBelts: Oddly enough, the lack of seat belt use seems to have little effect on [[RuleOfCool anyone's ability to survive catastrophic crashes]].
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: This has been taken to the point of 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'', ''Fast Five'' (known as ''Fast & Furious 5'' in the UK). Just to confuse things further, the fourth and fifth films are Midquels fitting between the second and third films, and the main characters are inconsistent across the series as well. The producers are reportedly planning two more sequels, but haven't settled on the titles yet. They're casually referring to them as ''Fast Six'' and ''Fast Seven''. Just to keep the tradition, here's to hoping they name them something like ''Fast VI'' and ''Fast 7: Forever Furious''.
* OncePerMovie: A cameo by a rapper. Averted in ''Fast Five'', where Ludacris, Don Omar and Tego's characters are main characters.
* OnlyInMiami: ''2 Fast 2 Furious'' takes place in Miami. The opening scene has the characters drive by the American Airlines Arena, home to the NBA's Miami Heat. That should be a tipoff.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Twinkie in ''Tokyo Drift''. Also doubles as an IronicNickname, as the term "twinkie" is usually reserved for Asians.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Dom and Fenix in the fourth film.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Invoked by Neela in ''Tokyo Drift''; she was originally from Australia and her accent goes in and out depending on her current mood. This is often TruthInTelevision, when things like shouting or being upset will bring out your native accent even if you've lost it over time.
* OutrunTheFireball: Dom in the fourth film. Also inverted at the beginning, where Dom ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome runs toward the fireball]]''. It's seen in the trailer, so it doesn't count as a spoiler.
* ParentalBonus: In ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', Brian is called "Bullet" once. While in that context it could just be considered a nickname based on how fast he drives, it doubles as a reference to ''Bullitt,'' a movie about a cop that has one of the most famous car chase scenes in the history of cinema.
* PlotArmor: Played straight, subverted, and double-subverted throughout all movies involving Dom.
* RacingTheTrain: Brian and Dom do this at the end of the first movie while also drag-racing against each other.
* RedOniBlueOni: Twice-convicted Dominic Toretto and former LAPD Officer/FBI Agent Brian O'Conner.
* RefugeInAudacity: This was pretty much the crew's M.O. in Fast Five. For Starters: Dom's plan to get Reyes to move his money was to attack one of Reyes' drug houses, show his face and burn his money in front of Reyes' men and instruct them to tell Reyes what happened. Reyes moves his money to one heavily guarded spot instead of ten spots that are just guarded well, just like Dom planned. Except for the part about, it being a police station.
* ReplacementLoveInterest: EvaMendes as Monica Fuentes in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. This is promptly squashed by FirstGirlWins in ''Fast & Furious''. [[spoiler:Dom also gets one in ''Fast Five''. Interestingly enough, Dom is ''her'' ReplacementLoveInterest too. One wonders how that's going to play out since Letty is actually alive]].
* RiceBurner: Although all the cars in the movies are high performance, they are commonly accused of responsibility for promoting this in real life.
* RobbingTheMobBank: In ''Fast Five'', Dom and Brian assemble a team to rob drug kingpin Reyes completely blind.
* RunningGag: Brian has never legitimately beaten Dom in a race. He almost does in the fourth film, and Dom lets him win in the fifth film.
* SequelGoesForeign: The third film goes to Japan, the fifth to Brazil.
* SequelHook / TheStinger:
** ''The Fast and the Furious'': [[spoiler: Dom is driving along a beach in Mexico]].
** ''Tokyo Drift'': [[spoiler: Dom shows up in Tokyo]].
** ''Fast and Furious'': [[spoiler: Dom's escape from the prison bus, revealed at the beginning of ''Fast Five'']].
** ''Fast Five'': [[spoiler: Agent EvaMendes revealing Letty is alive and driving in Berlin]].
* SittingOnTheRoof: In ''Tokyo Drift'', a Yakuza starts a fight on the roof of the school with the guy who sold him a defective iPod.
* SixthRangerTraitor: Played with in the first one; Brian was an undercover cop while Dom, Letty, Leon, Vince, and Jesse were professional thieves.
* SmugSnake: Practically every villain, but the series originals were Johnny Tran and his cousin Lance.
* SourPrudes: Dom's girlfriend Letty temporarily use this position (without seeming to have it as an integrated part of her personality) as she chase off two girls hitting on Dom at the first race.
--> '''Letty''': I smell ''[sniffs]'' skanks. Why don't you ladies pack it up before I leave tread marks on you faces?
* StatusQuoIsGod: Brian and Dom never quite stay out of trouble, no matter how many chances they get.
* SubculturesInJapan: Just about everyone of note in ''Tokyo Drift'' is a ''hashiriya'' (car enthusiast).
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Roman in ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', replacing Dominic from the original.
* TechnologyPorn: Ever seen the inside of a camshaft?
* TemptingFate: Reyes right-hand man remarks that with the amount of security at the police station that's housing his drug money, not even God could steal it.
* ThatsWhatIWouldDo: Brian tries to narrow down a list of suspects with the same name to figure out which one is involved with street racing. He has his FBI partner read off a list of the suspects' cars. After hearing about a Nissan 240SX with an illegal modification, he remarks that he's the one. His partner asks how he knows this and he replies "Because that's what I'd drive."
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Used in ''Fast Five'':
-->'''Dom:''' This is Brasil!
* TimTaylorTechnology: 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 for films 3-5 though.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: Mia driving in ''Fast & Furious''[='s=] trailer. [[spoiler: She only drives at the very end, a minute before the credits]].
* TrueCompanions: The most important thing to Dom, Mia, and their friends is family, which is what causes Brian to flip for them in the first place.
* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: During a race in the fourth film, Dom bumps Brian's car and causes him to lose control in order to win. This becomes a sore spot for Brian in the next sequel when he insists that was the only way Dom could have beaten him.
* UnderTheTruck: Done in the first and second films.
* UndercoverCopReveal: Brian in the first film.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: When Brian and Mia see each other again in ''Fast & Furious'', Mia hadn't yet forgiven him for his role as an undercover cop five years earlier. Naturally, this is followed by TheyDo.
* WatchThePaintJob: Most installations in the movies have some example of this, though Dominic's Dodge Charger in the first film (which was built by his late father and is revealed midway through the movie to be some sort of intimidating uber-car) getting completely pulverized by a semi truck in the movie's last drag race is the most remembered instance of this. The funniest example would be Sean from ''Tokyo Drift'' wrecking Han's S15 Silvia with a Skyline engine because he just can't drift.
* WeHaveTheKeys: One scene in the second movie.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: The ''power shifting'', oh God...
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Everyone's whereabouts are explained and accounted for throughout the series, except for Leon, who completely disappears after the first film, and Suki, who disappears after the second.
* WorthyOpponent: "Is it Toretto?" "No." "Not interested." [[SequelHook "Do you believe]] [[HesJustHiding in ghosts?"]]
* XtremeSportXcusePlot:
** First movie: Excuse is the street racers are hijacking shipment trucks to fund their activity and a cop goes undercover to infiltrate the group.
** Second movie: Excuse is same undercover cop and an ex-convict become street racers in order to get hired as drivers for a drug lord so they can infiltrate his operation.
** Third movie: Excuse is a street racing teenager sent to his US Navy dad stationed in Japan wrecks a yakuza drifter's car and he must work as his errand boy until he pays his car.
** Fourth movie: Same as the second (different drug lord) and the added twist that Don is also going undercover on his own initiative to get revenge on the man who killed his girlfriend.
* {{Yakuza}}: Pretty much every single Japanese character in ''Tokyo Drift''.
** And their uncle, quite literally!
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