History YMMV / TheTransporter

** Louis Tien, from "Chimera", is a drug dealing crime lord who graduates to [[ArmsDealer arms dealing]] when he discovers the formula for a deadly [[SyntheticPlague biovirus]]. After murdering his lab head when the man refused to assist him, Tien forces the man's son Lim to create the biovirus--dubbed Chimera--for Tien, constantly mocking him about his father's death. Proudly proclaiming that Chimera will be able to wipe out Chicago in mere minutes, Tien plans to sell it to the insane extremist Blake, knowing he will use it to wipe out numerous cities and kill countless innocents, and only laughs at the fact that he'll be rich enough to continue his operations indefinitely.

* EvilIsSexy: Lola, so much. Assuming that you aren't turned off by how creepy she is.

** Basem Al-Harazi, from "Beacon of Hope", is a ruthless African warlord who cuts into the relief efforts of aid worker Zac Preston, buying off supplies he intends to use a for orphaned children he's taking care of. When Zac starts to defy him, Al-Harazi furiously tries to pinpoint his location, prying Zac's location out of a local man by shooting his friend dead and later murdering the man himself. Out of spite for Zac's defiance of him, Al-Harazi intends to murder Zac and [[WouldHurtAChild every single one of the children]] he's taking care of, brutally torturing Frank Martin when he learns he's allied with Zac and even threatening to personally blow out the brains of one of the children to make him talk.

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* {{Sequelitis}}: While some people will argue that the second film is just as good as (if not better than) the first one, most people would say the third is up to par with the previous two, though it does have its moments. The fourth movie was hit hard by this trope though, with both critics and fans panning it for lacking the charm of the earlier entries, and the lack of Creator/JasonStatham.

* SoBadItsGood: Some viewers enjoyment of the films was greatly increased by viewing them this way. [[UpToEleven Especially the second one]].

** You just know this trope applies to Frank when no-one's looking.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Pretty much all of the fights form the first movie, the bus station one in particular. In the second movie, he kills eleven {{Mooks}} with a ''firehose''! Dry firehose, by the way.

* WhatAnIdiot: Johnson's inevitable death scene in the third movie. [[spoiler:Frank attaches the exploding bracelet to him, him to the car, and drops the whole package off the back of a moving train (long story). Instead of doing the sensible thing (remaining attached to the car, landing on the tracks, living) Johnson detaches himself from the car, remains in the train, and is promptly blown the hell up when the car is too far away.]]
** [[spoiler: Johnson probably didn't want to got to jail, so he decided it would be better [[TakingYouWithMe to take Frank and Valentina]] with him by blowing himself up. The look on his face 1 second before the bracelet detonates says it all.]]

** ''The Transporter'' (first film): [[AgentPeacock Darren "Wall Street" Bettencourt]] is a smug dandy and wealthy businessman who doubles as a [[HumanTrafficking human trafficker]]. Working to deliver a load of 400 Chinese charges into the French Mediterranean to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil sell the lot of them as slaves]], Wall Street attempts to have the titular transporter, [[AntiHero Frank Martin]], killed after he clues into his scheme and finds the daughter of his associate Mr. Kwai. Murdering one of his own men in the hospital to [[HeKnowsTooMuch keep him from talking]] and having Frank's own house blown up to kill him, Wall Street uses his own position to frame Frank when he's finally cornered, and smugly informs him five of the charges died on the way to France before knocking Frank out.

* HarsherInHindsight: The second film's plot about a deadly virus becomes this due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

** ''The Transporter'': [[AgentPeacock Darren "Wall Street" Bettencourt]] is a smug dandy and wealthy businessman who doubles as a human trafficker. Working to deliver a load of 400 Chinese charges into the French Mediterranean to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil sell the lot of them as slaves]], Wall Street attempts to have the titular transporter, Frank Martin, killed after he clues into his scheme and finds the daughter of his associate Mr. Kwai. Murdering one of his own men in the hospital to [[HeKnowsTooMuch keep him from talking]] and having Frank's own house blown up to kill him, Wall Street uses his own position to frame Frank when he's finally cornered, and smugly informs him five of the charges died on the way to France before knocking Frank out.
** ''The Transporter: Refueled'': [[BigBad Arkady Karasov]] is the leader of the Russian sex trafficking ring Le Coeur Brisé ("the Broken Heart)". [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] mowing down a street corner of pimps and thugs to take over their territory for himself, Karasov then begins implementing his own prostitution ring throughout the world, forcing women to do his bidding under threat of violence and death. Karasov deals in girls as young as twelve, and is also known to take girls for himself as his personal {{sex slave}}s. After his partners turn on him due to one of his former prostitutes, Anna, ruining his reputation, Karasov guns down several of his associates and attempts to kidnap Anna and brutally punish her for all the trouble she caused him.

* BrokenBase: The lack of Jason Statham in the fourth movie. Is Ed Skrein a decent replacement as a younger Frank Martin, or is ''The Transporter'' without Jason Statham like ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' without Vin Diesel?

* ReplacementScrappy: A DownplayedTrope example. Ed Skrein is not Frank Martin as far as the Transporter fanbase is concerned but no one really has anything bad to say about his performance. It's more a case of a ToughActToFollow and OvershadowedByAwesome.

* {{Sequelitis}}: While some people will argue that the second film is just as good as (if not better than) the first one, most people would say the third is up to par with the previous two, though it does have its moments. The fourth movie was hit hard by this trope though, with both critics and fans panning it for lacking the charm of the earlier entries, and the lack of Jason Statham.

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