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1* In ''Fast Five'', Tej tells Rome how he would like to start a garage with his $11 million share of the take, because he always wanted a place where people could come get their cars fixed up without getting ripped off. However, in ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', Tej already had a garage. It was even called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Tej's Garage]]." That's how Brian and Rome were able to get their police-issued cars checked out and their trophy muscle cars modified. Why would Tej decide he needed a new garage, even before Mia and Brian announced they had all landed on the Most Wanted list?
2** That garage was used for a giant car swarm that ended in Brian and Rome escaping a rather large police pursuit (and Tej and Suki getting stopped/arrested). The cops probably confiscated the property, hence, Tej has no more garage.
3** Come to think of it, where is Tej's new garage at the end of ''Five''? He's still a fugitive at this point, so presumably it isn't back in the U.S...
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5* At the end of ''Fast Five'', they get a a share of 10 mill at least, why was Han skimming money from the yakuza of all people in ''Tokyo Drift''? He wouldn't have needed it, unless the events of 6 drove him to be a DeathSeeker.
6** Why did real world organized crime have steal from very profitable casinos they owned/controlled? Some people are criminals by trade.
7* How was the Charger able to flip that bus over without getting crushed in the beginning of ''Five?''
8** Or for that matter a tank getting flipped over by a sports car weighing it down in '' Six''?
9*** The tank wasn't flipped by the ''weight'' of the sports car. There's a shot when the Mustang falls down between the bridges and jolts to a halt at the end of the cable without slowing the tank at all. The cable wraps around a support between the two bridges and the Mustang gets caught, keeping the cable from moving and stopping the tank. It's the same basic way the semi was flipped in ''The Dark Knight'': secure Cable End A to moving vehicle, secure Cable End B to stationary object, watch physics work.
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11* How is Tej able to drive in his later appearances when he's said to have a permanent leg injury preventing him from doing so.
12** Two possibilities, Tej was lying/exaggerating how bad it was, or the injury wasn't as permanent as he thought, in RealLife, people have had "permanent" injuries, not exactly heal, but get into enough shape that they can make do with minimum fuss.
13* So Deckard Shaw had a serious hate-on for Dom and the rest of his family in ''Furious 7'' for what they did to his brother, and it's pretty clear from his single-handedly destroying an entire hospital just to pay him a visit how much he loves said brother. The guy Kylo Ren's Han Seoul-Oh and pretty much wages war on Dom to the point where he has no problem taking out Dom's sister, brother-in-law and [[WouldHurtAChild young nephew]] with a bomb just to get to him. Yet by the end of ''The Fate of the Furious'', Deckard and his brother are not only forgiven for their actions against Dom and his family...but are now considered ''a part'' of that family?
14** The theory about the bomb is that Deckard messed up the timezone, as shown in 8, he has an extreme distaste for harming children, so he might have thought at least Jack was in Daycare, The Shaws aren't exactly on the "family" list, but Deckard has shown to be willing to bury the hatchet as Dom helped him get Owen out of prison.
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16* While Dom naming his son Brian in ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious'' is a nice real-world tribute to the late Paul Walker, it's somewhat awkward in the context of the movie's universe since Brian is [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen alive and well]], and the kid's uncle. Wouldn’t he be weirded out by Dom seemingly invoking the DeadGuyJunior trope on him? Even moreso in ''Film/{{F9}}'' where Brian is apparently babysitting the other Brian offscreen.

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