History YMMV / TheFastAndTheFurious

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Would it be tasteless to say that the CGI doubles for the late Paul Walker in ''Furious 7'' are actually quite good?

* AcceptableTargets: When the team has to assault a Russian submarine base to [[spoiler:prevent Cipher from stealing nuclear missiles]], they don't have to fight the Russian military. Conveniently, the base was taken over by "Russian separatists" so there's no political fallout when the mooks are killed in droves.

** In the eight movie, Deckard [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats a mook to death]] for shooting at a [[spoiler: baby]]. This results in two interpretations of the character. Either he didn't know about Brian's son in the seventh movie when he sent a bomb to his house in an attempt to kill him and is true to his values, or he [[WouldHurtAChild did know]] and is a complete and utter hypocrite. Most likely he didn't know and his target was Brian.
* AwardSnub: Despite feats such as peeking at #1 at the Billboard Top 100 after starting at #100 in only five weeks, breaking a record that had stood since ''1959'', being nominated for a Golden Globe and then winning a Critics Choice Award, "See You Again" from ''Furious 7'' was not nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song.

* BrokenBase: The franchise's famous tendence to insert the events of every installment into a bigger picture in the next (often in a heavy-handed way or using {{Retcon}} in plenty) is considered both a sign of ingenuity on the writers's part ''and'' an inevitable source of controversial and unexpected plot twists. The discussion reached its peak at the eight film, which puts a lot of effort to turn the irreedemable villains of the two previous into heroic unwitting pawns at the expense of their characterization.
* CompleteMonster: [[DiabolicalMastermind Cipher]] serves as the BigBad of the eighth film and the GreaterScopeVillain of the series. A powerful [[TheCracker cyber terrorist]] who desires nothing more than to [[TakeOverTheWorld have the world under her thumb]] by obtaining nuclear codes, she first meets Dom in Cuba whom she blackmails into being compliant to her schemes and betray his family by [[spoiler:holding Elena and her newborn son (Dom's child) hostage]]. With Dom, she attacks Mr. Nobody's headquarters and steal the God's Eye, where it was also revealed to have caused Owen Shaw's descent into villainy, earning Deckard's hatred in the process. Cipher uses God's Eye to take control of hundreds of remote-controlled cars in New York and have them crash everywhere, causing widespread chaos and panic just to get the nuclear codes from the Russian minister. When Dom allows Letty to escape with the codes, Cipher responds by [[spoiler: having Elena killed in front of Dom and his child]]. When [[spoiler:Deckard Shaw]] hijacks her plane, she crashes it before jumping out, fully expecting him to stop [[spoiler:Dom's son]] [[WouldHurtAChild from falling to his death]]. A pure sociopath who [[ControlFreak delights in taking people's freedom]], and who commits her crimes simply [[ForTheEvulz because she can]], Cipher cements herself as the vilest villainess that Dom and his family had ever encountered.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[spoiler: Brian Toretto, Dom's son.]]

* EvilIsSexy: Cipher, in spades. A sultry anarchist meet high-tech terrorist. Being played by Creator/CharlizeTheron helps.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler:Dom turning evil in the 8th film, ''The Fate of the Furious.'' Several fans are already guessing that [[{{Superdickery}} there's more to it than meets the eye]] and doubt that Dom becoming a villain will actually last. If anything, it's probably to cover both the reason why he joins forces with the villain, due to him having a son being held hostage, and the fact that the Shaw brothers pull off a HeelFaceTurn and are accepted into the team, as the actual film makes it clear from the very beginning that Dom is working with Cipher against his will.]]
* MagnificentBastard: Owen Shaw in the sixth movie is a borderline deconstruction of this. He has most of the traits: he's intelligent and manipulates the good guys to his own ends, he has a backup plan in case he gets captured, he ruthlessly pursues his goal, and he's smart enough to put his backup plan into motion ''before'' he gets captured, just in case. What he lacks, however, is charisma. To him, other people are nothing but tools, and he says as much to his own team. Instead of being admirable, this trait makes him cold and sadistic, preventing him from falling into this trope. [[spoiler:And it eventually gets him paralyzed when Letty turns on him and aids Dom's team in stopping him.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: In ''Fate'', if Cipher didn't cross this by [[spoiler: threatening to kill Dom's son]] (though she did for [[spoiler:''the Shaw brothers'' of all people]]), she certainly crosses it by [[spoiler: ordering Rhodes to kill Elena]].

* BoringInvincibleHero: As it was said in CinemaSins:

** The best (worst?) examples of this are the race at the beginning of ''[=2Fast 2Furious=]'' and the tanker heist in the fourth film.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[spoiler: Brian Toretto, Dom's son.]]

** Roman has started turning into a controversial character due to a perceived decay on the quality of his comic relief and the fact that he is noticeably the most static character in the franchise.
** Scott Eastwood's inclusion as Little Nobody in ''The Fate of the Furious'' has been met with controversy, as his character does little for the plot and instead eats screentime that would be better used for other characters, in special his superior Mr. Nobody, played by the much more popular Creator/KurtRussell.
** Madgalene Shaw. Her appearance is either a hilarious and awesome addition to the Shaws (and the franchise, considering [[Creator/HelenMirren who]] plays the good mama) or the point in which the brothers lose definitely their menacing aura.
* BoringInvincibleHero: I think CinemaSins said it best:

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Almost every song in the series. Ludacris? Teriyaki Boyz? N.E.R.D? Don Omar? deadmau5? Cypress Hill? Peaches? Huh-uh.

* DesignatedHero: Dom and his crew frequently use plans that cause massive collateral damage and put innocent people in danger, but the films gloss over any potential casualties. In ''Fast Five'' they flat out murder over a dozen police officers when they break into the police station and escape with the vault full of money, and the movie glosses over saying the police are all corrupt. And yet Dom insists that they aren't killers.
** To be fair, in the sixth film, Dom and the crew (plus Letty, whose on Owen Shaw's team) are shocked when Shaw hijacks a tank and begins running over people, leading them to try to stop him from hurting anyone else by stopping the tank.

** ''Tokyo Drift'' flopped Stateside, not even coming close to making back its budget and marketing costs. It would likely have been the FranchiseKiller for the series, had it not done a lot better outside the U.S. and had strong DVD sales, which were enough to convince the studio to take a gamble on a fourth film.

** Paul Walker, who played Brian O'Conner, being killed in a car crash becomes one considering that speeding cars is the bread-and-butter of the franchise, even after the street racing aspect was phased out.
*** Even more so when you consider how many times Walker's character has managed to escape or, at the very least, come away uninjured from some pretty serious accidents and explosions in the movies.
*** Eerily enough, TNT broadcast ''The Fast and the Furious'' on the day it was announced Paul Walker was killed. No, it wasn't a tribute. The broadcast was scheduled weeks in advance.
*** Him dying on a Porsche when Brian and gang usually drive similar luxury cars is also unsettling.
*** [[http://kissfm969.com/leaked-paul-walker-funeral-scene-one-more-funeral-from-fast-furious-7-video/ A scene from Fast and Furious 7]], leaked just a few hours before Paul's death had Brian and Roman attending Han's funeral. Roman says that he doesn't want any more funerals, where Brian says that there will be 'just one more'. In the context of the situation, the character was referring to the film's villain, yet it is still very chilling, especially with such a small time gap between the scene being leaked and the actor's untimely death.
*** Dom explaining his father's death in the first movie. The description is eerily similar to how Walker's fatal accident played out.

** Creator/RondaRousey's fight scene in ''Furious 7'' was carefully written not to make her look bad, as she was at the time the UFC Women Bantamweight Champion, the most popular female MMA fighter in the world and even a potential Wrestling/{{WWE}} debutant. Mere months after the release of the film, she lost her championship to Holly Holm and her career never recovered.

* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot of people saw ''Furious 7'' simply to see how Paul Walker's role and sendoff would be handled.

** Alot of the dialogue in the second movie during the first race between the drivers, especially Suki's.

** The airport at the end of ''6''. Just how long has the damn landing track to be to allow for such a long battle while taking off?

* OneSceneWonder

* SpiritualAdaptation: The later films have been compared as a throwback to over the top action movies of the 80s to the point that it could be considered as a better Expendables movie than the actual Expendables movie. The car stunts and chases have also been compared to the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series.

** In the eight movie, Deckard [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats a mook to death]] for shooting at a [[spoiler: baby]]. This results in two interpretations of the character. Either he didn't know about Brian's son in the seventh movie when he sent a bomb to his house in an attempt to kill him and is true to his values, or he [[WouldHurtAChild did know]] and is a complete and utter hypocrite.

** In ''Furious 6'', various characters over the course of the film refer to Hobbs as different members of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Come 2014, and Hobbs' actor has been cast in a superhero film, [[Film/DCCinematicUniverse just not a Marvel one]].

* GodModeSue: To the point that it's rumored all the major actors actually have in their contracts that they can't ''ever'' lose a fight onscreen.

* SpiritualAdaptation: The later films have been compared as a throwback to over the top action movies of the 80s to the point that it could be considered as a better Expendables movie than the actual Expendables movie. The car stunts and chases have also been compared to the ''Franchise/GrandTheftAuto'' series.

** There are news of a possible remake of ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' with Dwayne Johnson as Jack Burton... who was originally played by Kurt Russell, who appears in ''Furious 7'' alongside Johnson. We have the two Jack Burtons on the same movie now!

* RuleOfSeanConnery: The series started attracting considerable praise the same time The Rock was added to the cast. Jason Statham and Kurt Russell added some more come the seventh movie and again with the additions of Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren in the eighth.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Han in ''Tokyo Drift'', who during early test screenings scored a literal [[http://moveablefest.com/moveable_fest/2014/07/justin-lin-tokyo-drift.html 100 percent audience approval rating]], and who is arguably the reason the fourth, fifth and sixth movies exist as [[{{Interquel}} Interquels]].
** On the villains' side, the Shaw brothers count as this as arguably ''the'' most badass villains in the franchise. Probably helps that they're played by popular actors like Luke Evans and Creator/JasonStatham. To put this into more perspective, audiences marked out at the sixth movie's post-credits sequence when Deckard was shown as Han's murderer, while Owen serves as the villain for the ''Supercharged'' ride. [[spoiler:Their popularity no doubt helped contribute to their [[HeelFaceTurn redemption]] and joining up with Dom's Team during the events of ''Fate of the Furious''.]]
** [[spoiler: Brian Toretto, Dom's son.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[DiabolicalMastermind Cipher]] serves as the BigBad of the eighth film and the GreaterScopeVillain of the series. A powerful [[TheCracker cyber terrorist]] who desires nothing more than to [[TakeOverTheWorld have the world under her thumb by obtaining nuclear codes, she first meets Dom in Cuba whom she blackmails into being compliant to her schemes and betray his family by [[spoiler:holding Elena and her newborn son (Dom's child) hostage]]. With Dom, she attacks Mr. Nobody's headquarters and steal the God's Eye, where it was also revealed to have caused Owen Shaw's descent into villainy, earning Deckard's hatred in the process. Cipher uses God's Eye to take control of hundreds of remote-controlled cars in New York and have them crash everywhere, causing widespread chaos and panic just to get the nuclear codes from the Russian minister. When Dom allows Letty to escape with the codes, Cipher responds by [[spoiler: having Elena killed in front of Dom and his child]]. When [[spoiler:Deckard Shaw]] hijacks her plane, she crashes it before jumping out, fully expecting him to stop [[spoiler:Dom's son]] [[WouldHurtAChild from falling to his death]]. A pure sociopath who [[ControlFreak delights in taking people's freedom]], and who commits her crimes simply [[ForTheEvulz because she can]], Cipher cements herself as the vilest villainess that Dom and his family had ever encountered.

* CompleteMonster: [[DiabolicalMastermind Cipher]] serves as the BigBad of the eighth film and the GreaterScopeVillain of the series. A powerful [[TheCracker cyber terrorist]] who desires nothing more than to have the world under her thumb by obtaining nuclear codes, she first meets Dom in Cuba whom she blackmails into being compliant to her schemes and betray his family by [[spoiler:holding Elena and her newborn son (Dom's child) hostage]]. With Dom, she attacks Mr. Nobody's headquarters and steal the God's Eye, where it was also revealed to have caused Owen Shaw's descent into villainy, earning Deckard's hatred in the process. Cipher uses God's Eye to take control of hundreds of remote-controlled cars in New York and have them crash everywhere, causing widespread chaos and panic just to get the nuclear codes from the Russian minister. When Dom allows Letty to escape with the codes, Cipher responds by [[spoiler: having Elena killed in front of Dom and his child]]. When [[spoiler:Deckard Shaw]] hijacks her plane, she crashes it before jumping out, fully expecting him to stop [[spoiler:Dom's son]] [[WouldHurtAChild from falling to his death]]. A pure sociopath who [[ControlFreak delights in taking people's freedom]], and commits her crimes simply [[ForTheEvulz because she can]], Cipher cements herself as the vilest villainess that Dom and his family had ever encountered.

* CompleteMonster: [[DiabolicalMastermind Cipher]], the BigBad of the eighth film and the GreaterScopeVillain of the series, is a powerful [[TheCracker hacker]] and cyber terrorist with the goal of becoming a [[DarkActionGirl one-woman army]] by obtaining some nuclear codes. Initially posing as a random woman in Cuba, she quickly blackmails Dom into betraying his family and aiding her by [[spoiler:having Elena and her newborn son (Dom's child) kidnapped and kept as bargaining chips]]. As she attacks Mr. Nobody's headquarters to steal the God's Eye, it is also revealed that she caused Owen Shaw's fall into villainy, which earns her Deckard's hate. In New York, Cipher takes controls of hundreds of remote-controlled cars and crash them everywhere, causing untold chaos and panic just to get to the Russian minister who has the nuclear codes. When Dom allows Letty to escape with the codes, Cipher responds by [[spoiler:killing Elena in front of Dom and his child]]. When [[spoiler:Deckard Shaw]] invades her plane at the end, she avoids defeat by jumping out, fully expecting him to stop [[spoiler:Dom's son]] [[WouldHurtAChild from falling to his death]]. Cipher is an utter [[TheSociopath sociopath]] and {{hypocrite}}, praising the freedom of doing whatever one wishes but [[TheBully delighting in taking this freedom away from others]], and commits her crimes simply [[ItAmusedMe she wants to]]. She [[LackOfEmpathy doesn't understand love and affection]] above an evolutionary level and crosses many lines, on global but also on personal levels, such as when she kisses Dom in front of Letty ForTheEvulz.

* In ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', a guy in a red Mustang trying out to be a henchman for Verone's operation gets crushed under an semi-truck and then the car chassis causes a grey Corvette to crash; and it was a total accident that came out of ''nowhere''. Imagine how much thist thing happens in a universe like this...

* MoralEventHorizon: In ''Fate'', if Cipher didn't cross this by [[spoiler: threatening to kill Dom's son]] ([[spoiler: she did for ''the Shaw brothers'' of all people]]), she certainly crosses it by [[spoiler: ordering Rhodes to kill Elena]].

* MoralEventHorizon: In ''Fate'', if Cipher didn't cross this by [[spoiler: threatening to kill Dom's son (''Both of the Shaw brothers'' certainly thought she did)]], she certainly crosses it by [[spoiler: ordering Rhodes to kill Elena]].

* MoralEventHorizon: In ''Fate'', if Cipher didn't cross this by [[spoiler: threatening to kill Dom's son (''both'' of the Shaw brothers thought she did)]], she certainly crosses it by [[spoiler: ordering Rhodes to kill Elena]].

* MoralEventHorizon: In ''Fate'', if Cipher didn't cross this by [[spoiler: threatening to kill Dom's son]], she certainly crosses it by [[spoiler: ordering Rhodes to kill Elena]].

* CompleteMonster: [[DiabolicalMastermind Cipher]], the BigBad of the eighth film and the GreaterScopeVillain of the series, is a powerful [[TheCracker hacker]] and cyber terrorist with the goal of becoming a [[DarkActionGirl one-woman army]] by obtaining some nuclear codes. Initially posing as a random woman in Cuba, she quickly blackmails Dom into betraying his family and aiding her by [[spoiler:having Elena and her newborn son (Dom's child) kidnapped and kept as bargaining chips]]. As she attacks Mr. Nobody's headquarters to steal the God's Eye, it is also revealed that she caused Owen Shaw's fall into villainy, which earns her Deckard's hate. In New York, Cipher takes controls of hundreds of remote-controlled cars and crash them everywhere, causing untold chaos and panic just to get to the Russian minister who has the nuclear codes. When Dom allows Letty to escape with the codes, Cipher responds by [[spoiler:killing Elena in front of Dom and his child]]. When [[spoiler:Deckard Shaw]] invades her plane at the end, she avoids defeat by jumping out, fully expecting him to stop [[spoiler: Dom's son]] [[WouldHurtAChild from falling to his death]]. Cipher is an utter [[TheSociopath sociopath]] and {{hypocrite}}, praising the freedom of doing whatever one wishes but [[TheBully delighting in taking this freedom away from others]], and commits her crimes simply [[ItAmusedMe she wants to]]. She [[LackOfEmpathy doesn't understand love and affection]] above an evolutionary level and crosses many lines, on global but also on personal levels, such as when she kisses Dom in front of Letty ForTheEvulz.

* JumpingTheShark: Scenes of action with a submarine in the eighth film have become this for many. Not that the series would look especially logical or serious before, but many said that after that the series simply can not be more stupid and amusing.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:

** In the eight movie, Deckard [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats a mook to death]] for shooting at a [[spoiler: baby]]. This results in two interpretations of the character. Either he didn't know about Brian's son when he sent a bomb to his house in an attempt to kill him and is true to his values, or he [[WouldHurtAChild did know]] and is a complete and utter hypocrite.

** In the eight movie, Deckard [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats a mook to death]] for shooting at a [[spoiler: baby]]. This results in two interpretations of the character. Either he didn't know about Brian's son when he sent a bomb to his house in an attempt to kill him and is true to his values, or he [[WouldHurtAChild did know]] and is a complete and utter [[Hypocrite hypocrite]].