History Film / FastAndFuriousSix

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''Fast & Furious 6'' is the sixth installment in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise. Released in May 2013, takes place shortly after the end of ''Film/FastFive''.

This time the racers work with Luke to take down a mercenary operation led by Owen Shaw (played by Creator/LukeEvans). There, Dominic discovers that Letty is alive and working for Shaw. As with the last movie, it once again reunites the cast of the previous films. The film continued F&F's tremendous box office run, once again setting a new opening weekend benchmark for the series with a $96 million opening weekend (and a four-day total of $117 million, on the most competitive Memorial Day weekend openings ever, no less).

Chronologically the film is followed by ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift''.

!!Tropes:

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: The conversation between Dom and [[spoiler: the amnesiac Letty]] after their race in London.
* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Played straight and subverted in the same scene when Jah (played by Indonesian actor Creator/JoeTaslim) wipes up the floor with Han (played by Korean actor Sung Kang). Jah is an experienced martial artist, while Han is not and just tries to use GoodOldFisticuffs.
* AmnesiacResonance: [[spoiler:Letty still drives the same way she did before she got amnesia, and in spite of working for Shaw since she got out of the hospital, she has a distaste for his methods, which eventually drives her to abandon him for Dom. At the end, while she still doesn't have her memory back, she comments that being at a barbeque with the rest of the family feels like home.]]
* ArtisticLicensePhysics:
** The plane pulldown scene.
** When Dom saves Letty at the end of the tank chase, he catches her in mid-air and continues on the same trajectory as he had before, violating the law of conservation of momentum. The only way it makes sense is if Dom weighs several tons so that Letty's mass is negligible compared to his.
* AxCrazy: Shaw takes blood-chilling pleasure in crushing dozens of innocent civilians under his tank in his rampage across the Spanish freeway; made doubly disturbing by the fact that it wasn't even a necessary maneuver to flee from Dom's crew.
* BadassBoast: During the credits, we get this small, but just as badass one from a unlikely source, unlikely meaning you didn't see it coming.
-->[[spoiler: '''Deckard Shaw (Owen Shaw's older brother)]]:''' Dominic Toretto, You don't know me... [[spoiler: (The car he crashed into explodes, killing Han.)]] ... But you're about to.
* BashBrothers: Dom with [[spoiler: Inspector Hobbs]]. [[FireForgedFriends Fighting each other/side by side has literally knocked a brotherly respect and admiration into each other.]]
* BatmanGambit: At the start of the third act, one of Shaw's men is caught trying to sneak into the base where the last piece of the MacGuffin is located, prompting Shaw to move it to a more secure location. [[spoiler:This is what Shaw wanted - so long as he knew when the transport was going to happen, it would be easier to rob a transport convoy than an Army base]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: After the first attempt to take down Shaw goes horribly for the heroes, with their cars being flipped and totaled this way and that through buildings, they rendezvous back at HQ with nary a scratch on any of them.
* BigEater: Roman's the only person to be frequenting the vending machine in DSS' field operations base in London (even after Hobbs blasted it open with his HandCannon). In the epilogue, he immediately reaches for the potato chips, prompting Brian to rat him into saying mealtime grace for the crew.
* BigNo: Han [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice when Gisele falls to her death to save Han from getting killed by one of Owen Shaw's henchmen.]]]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Owen is stopped and Letty, though still suffering amnesia, rejoins Dom and he finally allowed to go home as part of the deal he made with Hobbs, exonerated of his crimes along with the rest of the crew. However Giselle dies in the final battle to the heartbreak of Han who finally makes good on his word to go back home to Tokyo. Only for Owen's brother, Deckard, to kill him during his escape from the Yukaza in ''Tokyo Drift'' and phone Dom not long afterwards to inform him he's coming for him.]]
* BrickJoke: Brian breaking Stasiak's nose - having done so in the fourth film, he does it again in this one in order to get him thrown into solitary so he can find Braga.
* CallBack: The CreditsMontage for the opening is a compilation of scenes going in chronological order from 1-5, except for ''Tokyo Drift'' which, considering plot continuity, has yet to happen.
* TheCameo: British singer Music/RitaOra as the race caller in the London race.
* CarCushion: Dom and Letty land unharmed on a car after the stunt mentioned above under ArtisticLicensePhysics.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Gisele and Han meet this fate, although in the case of the latter, it was a ForegoneConclusion since his death in ''The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift'' comes full circle, except this time, we actually get to know who killed him.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[BigBad Owen Shaw]] tells about his older brother and his code. During the credits, Han's death from ''Tokyo Drift'', which takes place after movies 4-6 is shown again, [[spoiler: but it's revealed not only that Owen's brother, Deckard, is behind the death, but now he's now targeting Dom's crew in revenge, leaving a SequelHook.]]
* ContinuityNod: The following dialogue, referencing the well-established fact that Dom prefers old-school American muscle cars while Brian favors Japanese imports. In particular, Dom seems to have a thing for Dodge Chargers while Brian likes Nissan Skylines.
-->'''Dom:''' ''(To his young nephew)'' First car better be a Charger, Jack.
-->'''Brian:''' ''(To Dom)''... you mean Skyline.
* CoolPlane: Roman is seen onboard a private jet with the words IT'S ROMAN, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCHES]]! plastered on the rudder.
* CurbStompBattle: Roman, Han, and two cops vs Jah. Two minutes later Jah walks off without a scratch on him after wiping the floor with them.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler: Mia gets kidnapped by Owen Shaw and the team has to rescue her by hijacking a plane.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Elena stays back to help care for Brian and Mia's son and only appears in the beginning and the end of the film.
* DemotedToSatelliteLoveInterest: Mia is downgraded into a dutiful housewife and mother starting on ''Fast & Furious 6'', being absent for most of the film until the climax, where she serves as a DamselInDistress.
* DesignatedGirlFight: Not one, but two [[Creator/GinaCarano Riley]] vs. [[Creator/MichelleRodriguez Letty]] fights. Unsurprisingly not played for {{Fanservice}}, given the actresses' [[ActionGirl reputations]].
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:The SUV Owen Shaw is in hits a barrier at the back of the cargo plane that the final action scene takes place in as the aircraft is taking off. Since he doesn't have a seat-belt on, he goes [[DestinationDefenestration flying through the front window]] and out the back of the plane, falling several hundred feet onto the runway.]] {{Retcon}}ned as having survived but been put in a coma in the next film, however.]]
* DumbMuscle: Although he [[JustHitHim probably can break a neck with three fingers]], Klaus resorts mostly to simpler tactics like throwing and punching around. Not that it isn't effective, however.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Gisele successfully shoots the bad guy while falling to her death.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Creator/JasonStatham during the credits as Deckard Shaw, the villain of the next film]].
* EasyAmnesia: {{Averted|Trope}}; [[spoiler: at the end Letty is still unable to remember anything before her "death", and makes the HeelFaceTurn on her own.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Although Jah ultimately shares Shaw's ruthless pragmatism, Jah is visibly affected by Ivory's death.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Dom and the team will be the ''first'' to admit that they're not heroes or saints, but even they're horrified enough by [[AxCrazy Shaw's]] vicious crushing of innocent civilians under his tank that they deliberately change battle formation to protect said civilians from the psychopath's rampaging tank. [[spoiler:Letty exhibiting these same standards by criticizing Shaw while in the tank with him as a member of his crew is a quick hint that her time as a heel is soon to be over.]]
* EvilCounterpart: The entire bad guy roster. Aggressively [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Roman for laughs.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Letty looks to have undergone one during her time of FakingTheDead. Subverted as it turns out she lost her memory after the crash, and Shaw took her in when he realized she had amnesia. Even with no memory, Letty shows genuine disgust at Shaw's callousness towards losing his own men and eventually reunites with the team]]
* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler:Letty and Dom get back together after she leaves Shaw's crew]].
* GottaCatchThemAll: Shaw is trying to collect various items he needs to build the Nightshade while Dom and Hobbs are trying to stop him.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Owen's crew comes from many parts of the world, and the car chase scene at the beginning has the members talk to each other with their native languages. An example is the Indonesian Jah asking Vegh, "Hantam mereka," (which is subtitled "I need your help," but actually means "Hit them".)
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Gisele lets herself fall to her death to save Han from an attacker in the climax.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The base commander says, quite logically, that the threat to one life is not worth giving up the chip that would endanger the lives of millions. However, when ''his'' life is then threatened he orders all his men to stand down and lets the bad guys go.
* IndyPloy: [[spoiler: Dom smashing his car into a barrier in order to launch himself and perfectly catch a falling Letty ''across a highway''. He himself admits the only reason they survived was pure luck.]]
* {{Irony}}: Of the tragic kind. Gisele [[spoiler: sacrifies herself to save Han]], except [[spoiler: her death]] is exactly what motivates Han to finally move to Japan where we all know [[spoiler: he dies]].
* ISurrenderSuckers: Dom seemingly gives up his chance at freedom when he's forced to choose between it and saving his sister. [[spoiler:But don't think he's an idiot; it turns out he had [[XanatosGambit one more trick]] up his sleeve, and he uses it to take the upper hand against Shaw, so that he could have his cake and eat it.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Letty repays Riley's betrayal via a speargun to the gut which also throws her out the moving plane.
* ItsAllMyFault: Brian says this verbatim after [[spoiler:finding out Shaw told Braga that Letty was an informant in ''4'', setting her up to die.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Braga''': The minute you put her undercover, she was dead, bro.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Elena urges Dom to join Hobbs' investigation so he can learn if Letty is indeed alive. [[spoiler: When this turns out to be true, Elena allows the two of them to be reunited and presumably returns to her career in law enforcement a single woman.]]
* KickTheDog: While driving a tank Shaw decides to go on a civilian-crushing rampage on the bridge.
* MacGuffin: The Nightshade device. It's only mentioned once or twice and has something to do with stopping electrical power.
* MadeOfIron: Multiple characters go through horrendous car crashes without any major injury.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Owen Shaw is revealed to be the one behind Arturo Braga, the drug lord from ''4'' [[spoiler: which explains how Letty ended up in his employ]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Riley.]]
* MultiTrackDrifting: The heroes are driving their usual muscle cars when they suddenly discover that their opponent is driving a tank.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In the case of a ''vehicle'' doing this, the ''tank'' would count. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_VxktNWQAM It's an actual 10-ton tank on an actual freeway plowing through cars like nothing]]. They also modified the tank to go 60 MPH, when it originally can only go ''30 MPH''.
* OhCrap: When Tej sees the tank Shaw's crew has just hijacked from the convoy.
-->'''Tej:''' Uh guys, we got to come up with another plan... they got a ''tank.''
-->'''Roman:''' I'm sorry, did somebody just say a tank?!
* OneManArmy: Jah, the martial artist working for Shaw. He was able to take down a dozen London Policemen at Waterloo Station, then wipe the floor with both Roman ''and'' Han double teaming him.
* OnlyAFleshWound: [[spoiler: Letty]] shoots Dom in the shoulder. He just digs the bullet out by himself, slaps a bandage on top and acts the rest of the film as if it never even happened. Semi-justified as the pistol is noted to be a [=PSM=], a Russian handgun infamous for its anemic 5.45mmm round.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Averted when Roman drops everything as soon as he hears the others need help. Of course after he hears what the group is needed for, he asks Brian "We getting paid, right?"
* OutrunTheFireball: In the trailer, [[OutOfTheInferno Dom jumps out of the on-fire plane]].
* PowerFist: Letty uses a pair of handcuffs as improvised brass knuckles while fighting Riley.
* PrecisionFStrike: Rome drops one right on target. "When a woman starts shootin' at you, that's a clear sign to back the fuck off."
* ProductPlacement: Subaru donated the new BRZ.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Hobbs [[spoiler:forces his fellow officers at gunpoint to release Shaw and give him the MacGuffin,]] potentially risking millions of lives, because a protagonist that Hobbs had no particular reason to care about was being held hostage.
* PutOnABus: Leo and Santos, due to both actors wanting to concentrate on their rap careers. This is written off in-universe when Brian tries to assemble the team - the characters are stated as having last been seen crawling around the casinos in Monte Carlo.
* RecruitingTheCriminal: Hobbs is forced to ask Dom and his crew of outlaws for help because of their skills and connection to Letty in exchange for full pardons.
* RockBeatsLaser: Since the team's first attempt at grabbing Shaw failed partially due to his being able to hack their cars, they track down and acquire some antique muscle cars that have no computers to hack for round two.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Roman attempts to do this, of course, it doesn't happen.
* SequelEscalation: Lampshaded by Shaw when he first meets Dom, who notes how far the latter has come from simply stealing truckloads of DVD players.
* SequelGoesForeign: The film primarily takes place in England and Spain.
* SequelHook[=/=]TheStinger: Doubles as TheReveal that [[spoiler: Han was killed by Shaw's brother as retaliation again Dom.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: Just when it looks like Shaw's got Dom beat once and for all, [[spoiler:Dom and his crew reveal that they've got a few more tricks up their sleeves, having [[ISurrenderSuckers released Shaw deliberately]]]].
* TemptingFate:
** [[spoiler:While in prison,]] Brian gets a visit from [[spoiler: Braga]] and after a heated exchange, Brian tells him and his two goons he's lucky there's a door between them. Cue the door instantly being overridden and opened.
** Immediately before the above, Stasiak tells Brian that he could only get him into the general population of Braga's prison, so Brian will need to find his own way into solitary (where Braga is actually being held). Brian proceeds to break Stasiak's nose, which gets him immediately thrown into solitary himself.
** Shaw manages to pull off a gambit near the end of the film that got him released after he was caught. But then he has to state that Dom's team "were never part of the game". [[spoiler: Not a few minutes after he says this, said team come bearing down on him as he's trying to make his getaway. Resulting in ''his'' team being dismantled in the ensuing fight and he himself getting ejected out of a car and out the back end of a plane onto a speeding runway.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Tej goes from just being a coordinator and not being able to drive without crashing to being able to keep pace with the others.
* TurbineBlender: Happens to a member of Shaw's team during the final runway sequence.
* UnconventionalVehicleChase: The villains take a tank and start running over civilian cars before Dom's gang put a stop to them.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Letty threatens to beat Klaus down. Considering he was handing [[spoiler:Dom and Hobbs]] their asses one-on-one in the climax, and needed them to team up and the element and surprise to beat him, its very obvious that Letty has no idea how tough he really is
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Averted. We never really hear what the group's plan is when they try to stop Shaw from attacking the convoy, but it immediately gets ruined when Shaw busts out the tank, forcing them to improvise.
* VehicularAssault: "[[OhCrap Uh, guys...]] they have a ''tank''!"
* VillainRespect: After one of Shaw's underlings refers to the protagonists as common criminals, Shaw points out that those "common criminals" came within seconds of taking them all down, and says the underling should show them the respect they deserve.
* VillainousValor: Owen may be mortal foes with Dom, but he does respect the fact that Dom has a code by which he lives, which is why he offers Dom a chance to leave no strings attached. Of course, he's also seems not to realize that Dom's code is exactly why he ''won't'' leave under any circumstance.
* WhamShot:
-->'''Shaw:''' Coming, babe?
-->''[camera cuts to [[spoiler:Letty, then Gisele, then Letty again before focusing on Riley]]]''
-->[[spoiler:'''Riley:''']] Of course. I wouldn't miss it for the world.
** Notable that in that shot, [[spoiler: Riley's the only one who hasn't been shown to be involved in any dirty work of the villains. Gisele formerly worked with the fourth film's BigBad, Braga, while this film focuses on Letty siding with Shaw against Dom's team, even though she isn't entirely sure with the choice.]]
** Not only that, but also the stinger when it's revealed [[spoiler: who it was who killed Han. Not only who the character was, but also the fact Jason Statham is playing him and will also play him in the next film.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Happens to Dom's ''whole crew'' during their first encounter with Shaw's team in London. Han and Gisele got pinned down by Shaw's ColdSniper. Tej and Roman's cars got disabled by Shaw's electronic expert's special devices. Even ''Brian'' got taken down by a DynamicEntry from Shaw's [[TheDragon dragon]] in her flip car. Only Dom and Hobbs managed to stay on Shaw's trail until Dom got distracted by [[spoiler: Letty and later injured by her]], leaving Hobbs to pursue Shaw alone who eventually escaped. Though Shaw himself later admitted to his team that Dom's crew is the first WorthyOpponent they came across.
* WorthyOpponent: When told that Dom's crew was just a bunch of "common criminals", Shaw replies with this:
--> '''Shaw:''' Tonight, these common criminals were seconds away from taking us down. Show them the respect they deserve or it weakens us.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: This is taken UpToEleven with Shaw's martial arts mook Jah nailing a dropkick/elbow drop combination on Han and Roman. Also, over the course of the airplane fight, Klaus chokeslams Brian, before tossing him around, then receives a flying headbutt from Dom, before finally being finished by Hobbs and Dom performing a version of the Doomsday Device tag-team manuever on him.
* XanatosGambit: Shaw's plan to steal the computer. [[spoiler:Stopped by the Torettos? No problem, just have Mia and Jack kidnapped, knowing Dom will give anything to protect his family. This comes back to bite him in the ass when Dom [[ISurrenderSuckers remotely foils his attempt to murder them anyway]] and, accompanied by his crew and Hobbs, gives chase.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: Shaw doesn't even care for his teammates who have fallen in battle by justifying that they failed because they were careless, which disgusts Letty.
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* BatmanGambit: At the start of the third act, one of Shaw's men is caught trying to sneak into the base where the last piece of the MacGuffin is located, prompting Shaw to move it to a more secure location. This is what Shaw wanted - so long as he knew when the transport was going to happen, it would be easier to rob a transport convoy than an Army base.

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Since the team's first attempt at grabbing Shaw failed partially due to his being able to hack their cars, they track down and acquire some antique muscle cars that have no computers to hack for round two.

* ForTheEvulz: There's no real reason why Shaw decided to go on a civilian-crushing rampage on the bridge other than to highlight that he is a twisted maniac behind the composed veneer.

* SuperStrength: Dom is strong enough to lift up the front end of a car using only his brute strength. WordOfGod reveals a lot of this was Creator/VinDiesel's own strength in holding it up, though he was given some aid in the actual lifting.

''Fast & Furious 6'' is the sixth instantllment in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise. Released in May 2013, takes place shortly after the end of ''Film/FastFive''.

''Fast and Furious 6'' is the sixth instantllment in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise. Released in May 2013, takes place shortly after the end of ''Film/FastFive''.

''Fast and Furious 6'' is the sixth instantllment in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise. Released in May 2013, takes place shortly after the end of ''5''.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:How Roman, Han, and three other subway police officers get their asses handed over.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:The SUV BigBad Owen Shaw is in hits a barrier at the back of the cargo plane that the final action scene takes place in as the aircraft is taking off. Since he doesn't have a seat-belt on, he goes [[DestinationDefenestration flying through the front window]] and out the back of the plane, falling several hundred feet onto the runway.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Owen is stopped and Letty, though still suffering amnesia, rejoins Dom and he finally allowed to go home as part of the deal he made with Hobbs, exonerated as his crimes along with the rest of the crew. However Giselle dies in the final battle to the heartbreak of Han who finally makes good on his word to go back home to Tokyo. Only for Owen's brother, Deckard, to kill him during his escape from the Yukaza in ''Tokyo Drift'' and phone Dom not long afterwards to inform him he's coming for him.]]

* FiveManBand: [[EvilCounterpart Shaw's crew]].
** BigBad - Owen Shaw
** TheDragon - Jah[[spoiler:, though in truth it is Riley.]]
** TheEvilGenius - Vegh
** TheBrute - Klaus
** TheDarkChick - [[spoiler: Letty]]
** SixthRangerTraitor - [[spoiler: Riley]]

Chronologically the film is followed by ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'' [[spoiler: which focuses on Han and what led to his death.]]

* FiveBadBand: [[EvilCounterpart Shaw's crew]].

''Fast and Furious 6'' is the sixth instantllment in ''Film/TheFastAndFurious franchise. Released in May 2013, takes place shortly after the end of ''5''.

Released in May 2013, takes place shortly after the end of ''5''. This time the racers work with Luke to take down a mercenary operation led by Owen Shaw (played by Creator/LukeEvans). There, Dominic discovers that Letty is alive and working for Shaw. As with the last movie, it once again reunites the cast of the previous films. The film continued F&F's tremendous box office run, once again setting a new opening weekend benchmark for the series with a $96 million opening weekend (and a four-day total of $117 million, on the most competitive Memorial Day weekend openings ever, no less).