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The Toretto Family

In General

In general

• Badass Crew: Definitely qualifies.
• Badass Driver: In a World of Badass Drivers, they're the top of the class.
• Badass Family: A multiracial, adopted/surrogate family, but their love and loyalty is there nevertheless.
• Band of Brothers: Considering how fiercely loyal the group is to each other, and how much they value friendship, teamwork, loyalty and being there for each other/having each other's back, this definitely qualifies.
• Caper Crew: For the most part, they operate as thieves or carjackers using their cars and high-tech equipment to assist their plans. The main thing that changes once they become good guys is who they target.
• Character-Magnetic Team: Nemeses and antagonists such as Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw become a part of the Toretto family after their fight scenes with Dom.
• Dwindling Party: The team's first appearance in Fast Five is their largest incarnation by far, but their numbers get smaller with subsequent movies.
  • Leo and Santos don't rejoin the team in the sixth and seventh movies, with the word being that they lost all their money gambling in Monaco. They are still on good terms with everyone else though, as they cameo in Fate by helping Dom and Deckard's plan.
  • Gisele dies in Fast and Furious 6 trying to protect Han, who is apparently killed by Deckard Shaw during the events of Tokyo Drift. This is mitigated slightly with Agent Luke Hobbs becoming more of a formal member in 7.
  • Due to Paul Walker's death, Furious 7 sees Brian and Mia retire from the team, who are similarly unwilling to ask them for help in Fate.
  • Subverted in F9 where they actually regain two of their members, Mia and Han. The former comes back because the matter is personal as Dom and her's brother, Jakob, is the main antagonist. For the latter, it's revealed Han faked his death at the request of Mr. Nobody. Hobbs and Deckard do sit this one out, though.
• Everyone Has Standards: Dom and the team will be the first to admit that they're not heroes or saints, but even they're horrified enough in Furious 6 by 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. Letty (currently suffering from amnesia) 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 even before her memory returns.
• Five-Token Band: Brian and the Toretto siblings are white, Letty is Latina, Tej, Roman and Ramsey are black, Han is Korean-American, Gisele is Israeli, Tego and Rico are Afro-Puerto Rican and Hobbs is Samoan.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Most of the fighters on the team (especially Dom Toretto) are street fighters with little to no formal combat training. This hasn't stopped them from holding their own and sometimes even winning against more highly trained opponents.
• Heel–Face Turn: The crew was never evil, at the very worst veering on Chaotic Neutral Anti-Villain status, but most of them started out as petty criminals, only to officially become sanctioned government agents fighting terrorists starting in the sixth film.
• High-Speed Hijack: Dom's crew specializes in this, to the point where actual law enforcement agencies hire them for it.
• Karmic Thief: The main crew only steals from corrupt/evil targets.
• Made of Iron: Just about everyone (especially Dom and Brian).
• Multinational Team: The majority of the team are all multiracial Americans (Brian is a white-skinned Caucasian, Tej and Roman are African-American, Letty, Dom, and Mia are Latino, Han is Korean, Hobbs is mixed with Polynesian descent), in addition to the black British Ramsey, Israeli Gisele and Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans Santos and Leo.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: They're thieves, not murderers. In the first movie they use instant knockout darts instead of bullets to hijack trucks, and when they become the heroes they very clearly give a care about collateral damage.
• Speed Demon: All of them are into fast cars, especially Dom and Brian.
• Took a Level in Badass: All of them throughout the series, but especially Dom, Brian, Tej, and Roman. From being tough street racers and petty criminals to a world-class band of thieves with combat abilities on par with any military special forces.
• True Companions: 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.
• Two Girls to a Team: The films tend to rotate which two female members participate in the plot heists, maintaining the trope. Subverted in the sixth and ninth film which involves more of the women (including allies of the team) working all together.
• Undying Loyalty: More than most Real Life blood-families. It is no exaggeration at all to say that this team would gladly lay down their lives to protect each other and the lives of each other's children.

Current Members

Dom Toretto

Dominic "Dom" Toretto

"I don't have friends. I have family."

Played By: Vin Diesel, Vinnie Bennett (young, F9) ^{Other Languages} Guillaume Orsat (European French, 2001 & 2006), Frédéric van den Driessche (European French, 2009 onwards), Salvador Delgado (Latin Spanish, 2001), Carlos del Campo (Latin Spanish, 2006), Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin Spanish, 2009 onwards)

Appearances: The Fast and The Furious | The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious ^note archive footage | 2 Fast 2 Furious ^note flashback | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ^note cameo | Los Bandoleros | Fast & Furious | Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 | Furious 7 | The Fate of the Furious | F9 | Fast X

"Ask any racer, any real racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning."

One half of the series' main duo. A street racing mechanic and occasional (later full-time) thief. He prides himself on his bond with his family, both blood-related and otherwise.

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• The Ace: When it comes to driving. Put him in control of a car and he becomes downright invincible. 8 has him win a race against a sports car, in a much older car that's on fire and literally coming apart while having to drive backwards when approaching the finish line; and later single-handedly wipe out a convoy of terrorists that the entire team was out of ideas for just beforehand.
• Action Genre Hero Guy: Ticks most of the boxes.
• Anti-Hero: Up until Fast Five where he's the protagonist but also a lawbreaker and on the run from the cops. He grows out of this by Fast & Furious 6.
• Awesomeness by Analysis:
  • Shows incredible detective prowess in the fourth film, instantly knowing not only exactly what went down at Letty's crash site, but walked out with a vital clue apparently even the FBI missed.
  • In Furious 7, he tells Letty during Race Wars to keep the Cuda's speed under 9,000 RPM, because he can tell just by one look at the opponent's car that it will burn out before the finish line. True to his word, the competitor burns out just before the race ends, allowing Letty to coast to victory.
• Badass Driver: The one for the series.
• Baritone of Strength: He has an extremely deep voice.
• Bash Brothers:
  • With Inspector Hobbs at the end of 6. Fighting each other/side by side has literally knocked a brotherly respect and admiration into each other.
  • With Brian in the fourth, fifth and most of the finale for the sixth film.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Dom is usually a mellow, forgiving and laid-back guy but if you start hurting/threatening his beloved extended-family, this will get him into his even more dangerous state of Tranquil Fury, in other words, prepare to die messily and painfully. The button doesn't activate instantly; it usually takes a few seconds to warm up, and viewers can actually watch Dom reach his boiling point.
  • In fact, the one time you get to see Dom straight-out deliberately kill a man onscreen was in The Fate of the Furious, wherein he snaps the spine and then NECK of Rhodes in rapid succession with his bare hands for murdering Elena, the mother of his baby son, in front of them both.
• Big Bad: It's easy to forget considering how personable he is in the first movie, the fact that the climactic fight of that movie was against his rivals at that time, and his status as the definitive protagonist in the films ever since Fast and Furious, but he's actually this in the first movie, being the DVD player hijacker in the first film that Brian was tracking down throughout the whole movie. Considering he's the other major point of view character in the film, this also overlaps with Villain Protagonist for that.
• Big Brother Instinct: Hurting his little sister or family is not recommended. The last person who attempted the former was thrown out of a plane, and the worthless brute who murdered the mother of his baby son Brian has his spine and neck broken in rapid succession with his bare hands.
  • He becomes immediately protective of Isabel, his son's aunt, in Fast X.
• The Big Guy: Stands at 6 feet tall, with Hobbs being the only guy on the team that's taller than him at 6'5''.
• Breakout Character: Dom started out as villain deuteragonist to Brian's protagonist, but has since become the unquestioned lead of the franchise.
• Broken Pedestal: In F9. Once he realises Jakob was telling the truth about their father agreeing to lose the race that ultimately killed him in exchange for a big payout, Dom is devastated, especially after realising he exiled Jakob from home and family on what turned out to be a false assumption of fault. By the end of the film, his view has mellowed into Warts and All, accepting that his father had his problems, but that he still loved and looked out for his children.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: His Establishing Character Moment as this comes when Brian saves him from the Police in the first film. Dom's just beaten Brian in a race and had no high opinion of him before the rescue, but afterwards he treats Brian with friendship and respect, showing just how important loyalty is to him. So yes, he is a tough guy and was kind of a jerk at first, but stand up for him and he will die for you.
• The Cameo: At the end of Tokyo Drift.
• Characterization Marches On: In the first film, he's basically an Expy of Bodhi from Point Break, but the similarities decrease as the series continues.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: In Furious 7 he's strong enough to lift up the front end of a sports car using only his brute strength. Word of God reveals a lot of this was Vin Diesel's own strength in holding it up, though he was given some aid in the actual lifting.
• Childhood Friends: With Vince.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Dom's tendency to try and save everyone is exploited by the bad guys of Fast X
• Cool Car: Started with a Mazda RX-7 until he took his late father's heavily-modified 1969 Dodge Charger. Muscle cars (particularly from the old Chrysler brand) have been his choice of wheels ever since.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His father was a race car driver. One day, he gets into an accident and dies horribly before his eyes. The next time Dom sees the driver who killed him, he nearly beats him to death, earning him two years in jail. Now he's extremely protective of his family, blood or otherwise.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  • Brian comes to their store every day, gets the crappy tuna sandwich, and is clearly interested in Mia. This eventually gets him into a fight with Vince. Mia asks Dom to intervene.
    Dom: What did you put in that sandwich?
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: He has nothing but the fondest memories of his late father who instilled faith, family values and loyalty in him. He takes it hard when he finds out his father kept some secrets from him to maintain Dom's image of him in F9.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Dom has a knack for turning antagonists into allies. Of particular relevance are the cases of Gisele, Hobbs, Deckard Shaw and of course his most beloved brother Brian.
• Disney Death: Dom presumably dies after he and Hobbs destroy Jakande's helicopter, but he manages to regain consciousness after Letty reveals she got her memory back.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • Buries the hatchet with Deckard in The Fate of the Furious when the latter helps rescue Dom's son, while Deckard gives up his vendetta on them after Dom uses the God's Eye to help Deckard and his mother rescue Owen.
  • Also applies to Dom's team's attitude towards him by the end of the eighth movie, considering that he did betray his team and put most of them on the international most wanted list and almost assists Cipher into starting a world war. Though considering the life his innocent baby son, whom they would also have loved and laid down their lives for, was at stake, their forgiveness is much more understandable in this case.
• Enemy Mine: Teams up with the Shaw brothers against Cipher in the eighth movie.
• Evil Costume Switch: His status as a Rogue Protagonist in Fate is underlined by an all-black outfit.
• Excellent Judge of Character: Yes, he was wrong about Brian being a cop, but he was right about him being a good man, worthy of his trust. Pretty much every time Dom decides to put faith in somebody, they end up paying him back tenfold.
• Face–Heel Turn: When he seemingly turns against and betrays his team in The Fate of the Furious. Turns out he never truly betrayed them willingly. He was blackmailed and coerced by Cipher in order to protect his infant son's life. Even under her foot, he secretly plotted against her and avoided hurting any of his teammates while being forced to work with her.
• Fatal Flaw: His short temper. It's what landed him in prison after he nearly beat a man to death with a wrench.
• Genius Bruiser: He was the mastermind of the gang in the first movie. He exhibits effective brute force and Super Strength against any opponent, he's also shown to be very observant and capable of thinking logically. As seen in the fourth movie, Dom shows incredible detective prowess skills, instantly knowing not only exactly what went down at Letty's crash site, but walked out with a vital clue apparently even the FBI missed. He is also able to imagine precisely how Letty's car crashed just by looking at the crash site.
• Happily Married: Turns out he married Letty in the Dominican Republic sometime between Los Bandoleros and Fast and Furious (the 4th one), but she forgot due to her accident. The cross he always wears was used as a wedding band. Letty remembers by the end of the seventh film.
• Heel–Face Turn: For all of his symapthetic qualities, he was more of an Anti-Villain Protagonist in his first couple of appearances, before turning into an Anti-Hero and eventually a more straightforward hero.
• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...:
  Dom: (to Brian, regarding Mia) If you break her heart, I'll break your neck.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's introduced as kind of a dick who, nonetheless, cares very, very much about his family and friends. Later, though, he essentially softens into a Nice Guy.
• The Leader: Of his team, even getting named "the Alpha" in Furious 7 by Ramsey.
• Made of Iron: For a tall, muscular baldheaded street racer, this dude can surprisingly take a lot of damage in car crashes and explosions and still emerge unscathed.
• Magnetic Hero: His relationship with Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw becomes much more amicable after their fight scenes.
• Manly Tears: Shed when meeting his infant son for the very first time...held hostage by Cypher with his mother Elena behind bullet-proof glass.
• Nice Guy: Becomes this thanks to Character Development. While he has a tough exterior, he's a kind, warm-hearted Gentle Giant with strong morals - the proof of it being his immense sense of loyalty towards family and friends.
• Noble Demon: Starts off as this. It's easy to forget that, in the first movie, he had the role of an Anti-Hero, or even Anti-Villain, the notorious carjacker that California law enforcement has been chasing for months. And yet, he's always been a caring Team Dad, never goes into a carjacking with lethal firearms, and when he confesses having nearly beat a man to death you can just tell he's been regretting it every day of his life.
• Outlaw Couple: With Letty.
• Plot Armor: Played straight, subverted, and double-subverted throughout all movies.
• Rage Breaking Point: Dom doesn't fly off the handle often, but when he does it's like a bomb has gone off. This is a result of the incident following his father's death, where he maimed the man somewhat responsible and has regretted it ever since.
• Rogue Protagonist: The main hook of Fate of the Furious is Dom inexplicably turning on his crew, forcing them to track him down and get to the bottom of things.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: His weapon of choice, as he's seen brandishing one in every movie he's appeared in with the exception of Tokyo Drift.
• Speed Demon: Dom is recognized as the best street racer in Los Angeles. While having a heart-to-heart with Brian, he admits that racing is the only thing that allows him to forget his troubles for a while.
• Team Dad: To his extended family. He takes responsibility for looking out for them and appreciates it when they come to him with something.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Even though always a man of honor, Dom started the series with a harsh edge of intolerance for betrayal that characteristic of the typical crime boss; ever since Brian restored his faith in friendship and honor by trading his career and reputation to save him from a life in prison, the big man gradually softens into a tough but warm-hearted Gentle Giant who is willing to forgive anybody.
• Trademark Favorite Drink: Corona. His police profile even states as such.
• Tranquil Fury: This state is even more dangerous, as combined with his Godlike driving skills, there is literally no place you can hide from his wrath. Owen learned this the hard way, as does his brother Deckard.
• Turn the Other Cheek: Ever since Brian forsakes his life as a police officer to rescue him from prison, Dom's faith in friendship and honor became so strong that he is willing to give anyone as second chance and let bygones be bygones. Notably; he gives Vince's widow his fair share of the loot in Fast Five in spite of having been ratted out to the cops by him (knowing he did so to provide for his son), lets a Cuban crime boss who lost a drag race to him keep his car and dignity and takes his respect instead, and even accepting that since Deckard Shaw also had his family destroyed by Cipher's schemes, forgives him for the murder of Han and helps him avenge family's honor, earning his friendship in the process.
• Undying Loyalty: To his family and friends. A particularly strong example of this is shown in the the sixth film when it's revealed that Letty is alive and well, but is also working for Shaw. When Brian states that maybe the Letty they knew is gone, Dom states word-for-word, "You don't turn your back on family. Even when they do." His loyalty is rewarded when he and Letty re-unite.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He's never underwent any formal combat training but Dom's sheer strength and force of will (especially when he's royally pissed off) lets him stand toe-to-toe with truly experienced fighters like Hobbs and Deckard Shaw.
• Unstoppable Rage: Don't send him into this state. Just... don't. Just ask Rhodes.
• Wrestler in All of Us: In Furious 6, Dom and Hobbs defeat Klaus by teaming up to deliver a version of the Doomsday Device double team finishing manuever. Earlier in the fight he also delivered a flying headbutt to Klaus.

Letty Ortiz

Leticia "Letty" Ortiz

"You want a piece of ass, go to Hollywood Boulevard. You want an adrenaline rush, that'll be two large."

Played By: Michelle Rodriguez ^{Other Languages} Pilar Escandón (Latin Spanish, 2001), Erica Edwards (Latin Spanish, 2009 onwards)

Appearances: The Fast and The Furious | Film/Los Bandoleros | Fast & Furious | Fast Five ^note photograph | Fast & Furious 6 | Furious 7 | The Fate of the Furious | F9 | Fast X

"I may not remember anything, but I know one thing about myself. Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to."

Dom's girlfriend and later wife. A member of his heist crew, she becomes a FBI informant to find him after he goes missing and is supposedly killed... only to survive, albeit with her memory wiped.

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• Action Girlfriend: To Dom. She's just as good of a driver (and eventually fist and gunfighter) as he is.
• Amnesiac Resonance: Still drives the same way in the sixth movie as 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.
• Badass Biker: As well as being a highly skilled drive, she is also quite good at riding a motorcycle (as shown in F9 and Fast X).
• Combat Pragmatist: A trait she really needs because she doesn't pack as much muscle as rest of the team. She makes liberal use of Groin Attack, makes use of surprise against her opponents, uses hidden weapons and makes use of everything around her in a fight. See also Railing Kill below.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She hates that Dom attracts rats at street races and chases them off, and all but demands he concentrate on her. In Los Bandeleros she tracks him down to Mexico then, "followed the smell of skank" to bring him home.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: She has all of five minutes of screentime in the fourth movie, and the next thing we know, Mia calls up Dom to tell him that Letty has been killed by Fenix. We get to see what happens later, at least, but it's still awkward, especially since Michelle Rodriguez has her name on the posters.
• Easy Amnesia: Averted; at the end of 6 she is still unable to remember anything before her "death", and makes the Heel–Face Turn on her own. In 7, it's played straight; she starts to remember bits and pieces and finally gets all her memories back at the end.
• Face–Heel Turn: Appears to have made one in Fast and Furious 6. Subverted when it turns out she only joined up with Shaw because she had lost her memory and Shaw took advantage of that. She's genuinely disturbed at how little Shaw reacts when she tells him one of his men was killed, and when Shaw runs over cars with a tank, she tells him that it's not in the plan. After Dom saves her life, she re-unites with him and the team.
• First Girl Wins: She and Dom get back together after she leaves Shaw's crew.
• Happily Married: Turns out she got married to Dom sometime before Fast and Furious, but she forgot due to her accident. The cross he always seems to wear was used as a wedding band. She remembers by the end of the seventh film.
• Hot-Blooded: A young Tank-Top Tomboy woman with a badass attitude and quite the temper to match.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Letty considers her and Dom's situation in the beginning of F9 as this. While they were always in imminent danger, they were living a free life without regard to rules before they decided to settle down in a quaint countryside.
• Jumped at the Call: Contrary to Dom's wishes, she immediately decides to join the mission to recover Mr. Nobody in F9, outright saying that living in the countryside "isn't who [they] are".
• Made of Iron: Has walked away from multiple crashes during her life. In fact, she is chronologically the first one of the team to do so.
• Ms. Fixit: She's a very good mechanic.
• My Biological Clock Is Ticking: Teases Dom in the eighth film about how they never talk about having kids, despite being in relationship for over ten years. By the end, she decides to adopt Dom and Elena's son, Brian Marcos.
• Never Found the Body: It turns out her funeral in the fourth film was this, since she's revealed to have survived the ordeal with Fenix in the sixth.
• Not Quite Dead: Returns (in picture form) in The Stinger of the fifth movie, and is back for the sixth.
• Outlaw Couple: With Dom.
• Parental Substitute: To little Brian Toretto in the finale of The Fate of the Furious; it is clear she loves him as if he were her own son, and bears no bitterness whatsoever for the fact that his mother was Elena, Dom's second love while she lost her memories and was presumed dead, happily sharing memories she has of her to little Brian.
• She Is All Grown Up: Mentioned as the reason she and Dom got together. Beforehand, it's a one-way Precocious Crush from her to him.
  Mia: Letty grew up just down the street. She was into cars since she was like ten years old. Dom always had her attention. Then she turned sixteen...
  Brian: And she had Dom's attention.
  Mia: Yeah, it's funny how that works out.
• Spicy Latina: An unflinching, Badass Driver and Hispanic woman.
• Tank-Top Tomboy: She's portrayed by Michelle Rodriguez, so it's a given she'll be wearing one of these at some point.
• Undying Loyalty: To Dom. After his arrest, she contacted FBI Agent Brian O'Conner for help and became a double agent for Braga's crime ring in order to allow Dominic to return home. Looks to be averted in Fast & Furious 6 as she's shown to be The Dragon to Owen Shaw, even ruthlessly shooting Dom in cold blood and walking away the first second she sees him in the film, then subverted as she rejoins the crew after Dom saves her life; it's foreshadowed even before then, as she shows disgust at some of Shaw's actions (barely reacting when Letty tells her one of his men was killed, running over cars in a tank for no reason), showing that even without her memory, her standards fall way more in line with Dom's code than Shaw's.
• Unkempt Beauty: She's always covered in engine grease, but this doesn't make her any less attractive.
• Walking Spoiler: Her appearances after the fourth film are full of spoilers, for several good reasons. Being Not Quite Dead and undergoing a brief Face–Heel Turn will do that to you.
• Wrench Wench: She definitely doesn't fear greasing her hands.

Mia Toretto

Mia Toretto

"Dom, promise me we stick together. Promise."

Played By: Jordana Brewster ^{Other Languages} Mayra Arellano (Latin Spanish, 2001-present)

Appearances: The Fast and The Furious | Fast & Furious | Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 | Furious 7 | F9 | Fast X

"We're family. We got a problem, we deal with it together."

Dom's younger sister. She doesn't share her brother's interests, but develops a relationship with Brian in the process.

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• Action Mom: In F9, she rejoins the team in lieu of Brian, who stays behind to take care of the kids.
• Badass Driver: Is shown to be just as capable as her bro and boyfriend behind the wheel.
• Brainy Brunette: She's much more invested in school than the others.
• Closer to Earth: Unlike the rest of Dom's crew, she's not very interested in racing cars and would much rather go to college and build a good (and legal) life for herself.
• Damsel in Distress: In the sixth, she gets kidnapped by Owen Shaw and the team has to rescue her by hijacking a plane.
• Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: She 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 Damsel in Distress. In the seventh, she is taken out of the main action plot and doesn't do anything other than giving some moral support for Brian. Finally undone in F9, as she is back in the action, this time without Brian.
• First Girl Wins: For Brian, against Replacement Goldfish Fuentes from 2 Fast 2 Furious.
• Girly Girl: Very feminine and girly compared to the tomboyish Wrench Wench Letty. Until the fifth film, she also doesn't do much in terms of action.
• Girl Next Door: Mia comes across as this during the first film.
• Improv Fu: Unlike the rest of the team, she tends to grab any objects she can find to defend herself when thrown in a battle, implying a lack of experience in martial arts.
• Mission Control: Her role in the Fast Five caper.
• Morality Pet: To Jakob, who holds no ill will at her despite them being on the opposite sides in F9. After he is betrayed by Otto, it's ultimately her decision to save him that causes his Heel–Face Turn.
• My Secret Pregnancy: Does this twice, no less. The first is in Fast Five, where Vince's wife discovers that she's about three months pregnant, but she doesn't tell them until Dom attempts to split up the team. The second is just before the climax of Furious 7, where she tells Brian that she has to come home, or else their second child wouldn't have the chance to meet its father.
• Nice Girl: She's kind, caring, loyal and friendly, and one of the most levelheaded characters in the film series.
• Only Sane Man: She was very against her brother's carjackings in the first film and warned him that nothing good could come of it. By the fifth film, however, she has come to accept it, as being an outlaw, she has nothing to lose.
• Outlaw Couple: With Brian.
• Pregnant Badass: In Fast Five she is shown suffering the effects of morning sickness, but that doesn't stop her from helping to ROB A GOD DAMN TRAIN.
• Put on a Bus: Is put into this in The Fate of the Furious, since with Mia being demoted to a housewife, and Brian being retired due to his actor's death, bringing her in again without him would have been awkward. However, she makes a return in F9, as the villain is personal to her, although it's unknown whether this means she is rejoining the team full time.^note In real life, the return was because Michelle Rodriguez (Letty's actress) threatened to leave the franchise if it continued to ignore girl-girl relationship, citing Letty's lack of interaction with Mia despite them being sisters-in-law and having lived in the same orbit for years. In the film itself, Letty specifically invites Mia to return, ignoring Dom's objection, and the two share more interaction than the previous films combined.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: "I don't date my brother's friends". She, of course, ends up with the calm, reliable and loyal Brian.
• The Smart Girl: She wanted to go to college and definitely qualifies as the most rational and level-headed in her family and group of friends.
• Team Mom: She pretty much takes care of her brother and his friends, despite being younger than most of them.
• Thicker Than Water: She admits to Letty that even after Dom banished Jakob from home, she kept in touch with him for a year, until he left with a message not to search for him. She did it anyway, even breaking into a police station when she was 16 (much to Letty's amazement). In the climax of F9, she saves Jakob after he is betrayed and left for dead, which leads to his Heel–Face Turn. In the aftermath of the conflict, the siblings share a hug, with Mia asking Jakob not to disappear on her again.
• Took a Level in Badass: Her role in Fast Five is more action-heavy compared to the first and fourth, where she mostly does the talking and comfortably stays out of trouble. In F9, she engages in a tag-team fight with Letty and Elle against Otto's goons.
• Undying Loyalty: To her brother and friends.
• Woman Scorned: Still holds a grudge against Brian even five years after their romance came to an abrupt end with him telling her that he's a cop about to arrest her brother. Of course, she grows out of this.

Roman Pearce

Roman Pearce

"Come on, man. Guns, murderers and crooked cops? I was made for this, bruh."

Played By: Tyrese Gibson ^{Other Languages} Salvador Delgado (Latin Spanish, 2003), Sergio Gutiérrez Coto (Latin Spanish, 2011 onward)

Appearances: 2 Fast 2 Furious | Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 | Furious 7 | The Fate of the Furious | F9 | Fast X

"This is crazy. We are not in Brazil. So we got cars flyin', on some 007 type shit? This is not what we do!"

Brian's childhood friend from California. A fast talker, he joins Brian in Miami to take down mob boss Carter Verone in exchange for a shorter house arrest sentence. His bond later earns him a spot in Dom's crew.

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• Badass Driver: As established with his first appearance in 2Fast, winning a local Demolition Derby.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Though he's a Butt-Monkey, the man has pulled off a lot of saves in the series.
    • In 2 Fast, 2 Furious, he saves Brian right before he's killed by the villain's henchman due to the ejector seat not working.
    • In Fast Five, he blindsides some corrupted cops and keeps them off Han during the climax.
    • In Furious 7, he manages to catch up to the others and knocks some of Jakade's men off the road.
• Big Eater: As highlighted in Fast 6, he's the only person to be frequenting the vending machine in DSS's field operations base in London (even after Hobbs blasted it open with his Hand Cannon). In the epilogue, he immediately reaches for the potato chips, prompting Brian to rat him into saying mealtime grace for the crew. Lampshaded and justified in 2 Fast, where he says he's eating as much as he is because prison food sucks so he's having as much on the outside as he can...and also that he was diagnosed to have a high metabolism.
• Butt-Monkey: He keeps getting the short end of the stick.
• Childhood Friends: With Brian, to the point that they once considered each other - and eventually came back to considering each other - as brothers, and regularly call each other 'cuz'.
• Character Catchphrase: "I HATE YOU TEJ!!" (Whenever Tej's schemes result in him being the butt of the funniest joke of the film in question, once a film.)
• Childhood Friends: With Brian
• Consummate Liar: He's a "fast-talker"; or in other words, someone who can lie through anything.
• Cool Plane: Seen onboard a private jet in the early scenes of 6, with the words IT'S ROMAN, BITCHES! plastered on the rudder.
• Cowardly Lion / The So-Called Coward: Roman will always be the first to object to a dangerous mission, declaring Screw This, I'm Out of Here! on the grounds that he's Only in It for the Money and the danger is not worth dying for.... only to invariably come back to save his friends in the nick of time because he loves them more than his own life or money.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He might be the resident Butt-Monkey of the team, but when he's pushed hard enough, he can be just as capable as any of them in fighting. Shown in the eighth film when he single-handedly takes down four bad guys on snowmobiles with a car door and three perfect headshots, and taken further in the ninth where he guns down an entire platoon of soldiers surrounding him with nary a scratch.
• Dark and Troubled Past: It's very likely that Roman had a neglectful childhood and eventually became a juvenile delinquent alongside his childhood friend, Brian O'Conner. They both spent their last years underaged in a youth detention facility.
• Demoted to Comic Relief: When he's first introduced in 2 Fast 2 Furious, he's treated as the main character alongside Brian and is shown to be overall competent. From Fast Five onward, his comedic traits are played up while his contributions to the plot become more minor.
• Dynamic Entry: In Furious 7, he suddenly appears from within the treeline to assist Dom in shaking off Deckard.
• The Fool: Compared to the rest of the cast.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Considered the most obnoxious of the crew with how much of a loudmouthed showoff he can be, though they still acknowledge he'll come through when needed.
• Handsome Lech: He likes the ladies.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a cocky, egotistical, self-absorbed and often manipulative ass, with a really high opinion of himself, but he protects and looks out for his friends no matter what.
• Large Ham: Given how much of a showoff he is, it's not surprising that he can be very hammy and bombastic.
• Leader Wannabe: While he never questions that Dom is the overall leader of the group, Roman often tries to claim that he is at least the other leader, even though nobody takes him that seriously. While he was given the chance to lead the latest heist at the start of Fast X, any potential success was undermined when this mission was revealed to be a trap set by Dante Reyes.
• Motor Mouth: He is renowned for talking incessantly, with his peers frequently telling him to shut up.
• Never My Fault: The reason for Roman and Brian's dissolved friendship before the events of 2 Fast 2 Furious. Rome was arrested for housing stolen cars in his garage and blamed Brian for ratting him out despite Brian not even knowing about the arrest until after it happened and Rome was in prison. Subverted when Rome admits that it was his own mistakes that landed him in prison and that it was easier to blame Brian than admit that.
• Only in It for the Money:
  • It's implied that Rome's obsessed with money. When Brian tells him that his "pockets weren't empty", Roman then showed him the drug money and said "we ain't hungry no more either." He stole the money before he helped Brian apprehend Carter Verone.
  • And in Fast Five, he's very reluctant to participate in the mission, thinking it's personal and won't be any good for business. It isn't until Dom mentions that the vault's full of millions of dollars in cash that Rome's willing to change his mind.
  • Averted in 6 when he 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?"
  • Averted completely in 7. He doesn't even ask.
• Plucky Comic Relief: He is the least serious one on the team, and often cracks jokes. In 7, he is even named as the "joker" by Ramsey.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Brian's blue, especially in 2 Fast 2 Furious.
• Running Gag:
  • Since 6, he seems to have the worse luck with his vehicle during chases.
    • In 6, during the fight with Owen's tank. He gets targeted and has his car crushed with him almost inside of it.
    • In 7, he initially refuses an aerial jump only for Tej to hack the parachute on his car and force him to do the dive regardless. He likewise almost gets blown up by Jakande via a drone in the climax while trying to buy time for Teji and Ramsey to counter hack it.
    • In 8, the car he choose isn't modified to drive on icy terrain, which becomes a problem in the climax when Cipher has the nuclear sub surface on the frozen over lake the heroes are on in attempt to overturn their cars. He's forced to abandon the car and ride with Hobbs for the remainder of the climax.
    • In 9, he commanders an armored car through a chase against Jacob's men, but it ends up blown up while crossing a minefield and stuck between two rocks hanging precariously over another mine. He manages to climb out before the car drops onto said mine and barely avoids being flatten when the remains of the car come down from the explosion.
• Scary Black Man: More emphasized in 2Fast, since he only just got out of his incarceration. Still has some traces of it, despite becoming the Plucky Comic Relief when he reappears in Fast Five
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Attempts to do this in Fast and Furious 6, of course, it doesn't happen.
• Temporary Substitute: In the second film, he filled in for Dom when Vin Diesel couldn't return and eventually became a series regular.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: His Cool Plane illustrates this. So does his Dynamic Entry on Deckard Shaw's off-roader in 7:
  Roman: I'm back, bitches!
• Those Two Guys: Falls into this role with Tej a lot.
• Uncle Tom Foolery: He plays this trope straight in all of the films in the series after the second. He is the most annoying member of the crew and he provides mainly comic relief to the series while being cowardly and more hesitant than any other character to involve themselves in danger.
• We Used to Be Friends: Him and Brian had a falling out in the past after Brian became a cop and Rome was arrested for stolen cars which he blamed on Brian. 2 Fast 2 Furious restores their friendship.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With all members of the Team, but mostly with Brian, Tej and Han.

Tej Parker

Tejuan "Tej" Parker

"Plan B?" We need a Plan C, D, E; we need more alphabets!"

Played By: Ludacris ^{Other Languages} Juan Alfonso Carralero (Latin Spanish, 2003), Raúl Anaya (Latin Spanish, 2011 onward)

Appearances: 2 Fast 2 Furious | Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 | Furious 7 | The Fate of the Furious | F9 | Fast X

"It's all between you and the car you build. It's a bond, it's a commitment."

The team's mechanic. He worked alongside Brian back in his street racing days in Miami.

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• Ascended Extra: He's introduced in the second movie, mainly as a friend to Brian and a race coordinator but nothing more than that making him mostly a minor character. So it was a surprise he was picked for the team in the fifth movie where he was given more of a character.
• Black and Nerdy: Not much emphasized in the second and fifth movie. Gets better focus in Fast 6 being the tech expert in Dom's crew, but it’s still subverted since he still has a laid-back and cool personality and not an expected awkward nerdy personality. Ramsey even directly calls him "Tech Guy" in Furious 7.
• Career-Ending Injury: He says that his permanently injured leg (crashing into a wall at "a buck twenty", in his words) is the reason he can't race anymore, though he does get into more conventional chases in 6.
• Car Fu: Manages to disable four of the escort vehicles during the rescue mission in 7 by ramming his SUV with the extra boost from the other cars.
  STRIIIKE!! (Laughs)
• Deadpan Snarker:He usually fulfills this role going back and forth with Roman.
• Demoted to Comic Relief:Subverted since he never had a major role in the series but in his first appearance he was not used as a comic relief character like he is used in the recent installments of the series.
• Drives Like Crazy: And not in a good way. He's shown to be unable to even drive a remote control toy car without getting into an accident, though he has gotten over this by 6.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Tej is very good with technology, identifying and knowing how to open a very large, high-tech safe from the police department in Rio.
• Mr. Fixit: He's given up racing for the most part and instead prefers to work on cars.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Brought in to be the team's electrical technician and computer hacker in Fast Five. His only prior appearance was in 2 Fast 2 Furious, where he had no such role, nor displayed any of these abilities. Same goes for his sudden and miraculous fighting abilities in Furious 7.
• Plucky Comic Relief:Does not live up to this trope as much as Roman but still is the series comic relief to a small extant.
• Soul Brotha:He fulfilled this trope in his first two appearances in the film series being laidback and being a smooth talker with the ladies but he started to completely downplay this trope after the crew start to use him for technology.
• The Reliable One: He's an extremely reliable mechanic and friend to Brian, even offering him a place to stay and full access to his garages and cars during an FBI sting. His help allows Brian and Roman to successfully complete their undercover assignment against Miami druglord Carter Verone.
• The Smart Guy: He's the team's tech guy and the most knowledgeable one. Starting from 7 he shares this role with Ramsey, with the two frequently collaborating on technological ideas.
• Those Two Guys: Falls into this role with Roman a lot.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Goes from just being a coordinator and not being able to drive without crashing to being able to keep pace with the others in 6.
  • Goes into full badass mode by the time 7 rolls around. When the team is on the rescue mission in Caucasus Mountains, he lines up the rest of the team behind his heavily-armored Jeep Wrangler and protect them by soaking up the machine gun rounds from two of mook's jeeps before he gets close and knock them both off the road.
  • Also during the mission in Abu Dhabi, Tej and Ramsey are discovered by a security guard who prepares to attack them. Tej utilizes his Obfuscating Stupidity skill to get close to him, before completely destroying him using martial arts, surprising Ramsey.

Han Lue

Han Lue

"Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back."

Played By: Sung Kang ^{Other Languages} Óscar Flores (Latin Spanish, 2006), José Gilberto Vilchis (Latin Spanish, 2009 onward)

Appearances: Better Luck Tomorrow | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | Los Bandoleros | Fast & Furious | Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 | Furious 7 ^note  archive footage | F9 | Fast X

"You know, who you choose to be around you lets you know who you are. One car in exchange for knowing what a man's made of? That's a price I can live with."

A former member of Dom's crew, who eventually becomes a wanderer and finds himself in Tokyo, working with the yakuza.

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• Amazon Chaser: He's interested in Gisele from the beginning, but his Love Epiphany occurs after witnessing her badass driving. He's also seen with an unnamed badass girlfriend at the beginning of Fast & Furious, with whom he helps Dom rob the tanker.
• Back for the Dead: Although he died in Tokyo Drift (and his death was seen in 6), he shows up just long enough in 7 to have a few seconds of screentime before being blown up by Deckard Shaw. F9 reveals that Mr. Nobody helped him to fake his death.
• Badass Driver: Arguably the best driver in the third film.
• Battle Couple: With Gisele.
• Big Damn Reunion: After he is revealed to be alive in F9, he gets two of these, first with the rest of the team, and then with Sean and Twinkie in the ending.
• Big "NO!": Han lets one out in Furious 6 when Gisele sacrifices herself in the climax.
• Canon Immigrant: Han previously came from the Asian-American crime-drama Better Luck Tomorrow, which was directed by Justin Lin, the director of all the films from Tokyo Drift to Fast & Furious 6.
• Celebrity Paradox: Cipher made a reference to Star Wars in F9. Han's actor Sung Kang played Fifth Brother in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• Character Development: If you buy into the theory that the two are indeed the same character, Han goes from being a juvenile delinquent and bully in Better Luck Tomorrow to a thoughtful, loyal friend to Dom and the rest of the team. However, even in said movie, it's implied he holds some value for family.
• Dark and Troubled Past: When you take the events of Better Luck Tomorrow into consideration.
• Doomed by Canon: Han is introduced in the third movie, and then killed off towards the end. Since the fourth, fifth, and sixth movies take place before that, they were both able to feature Han and show what he was up to before he went to Tokyo. Han mentions going to Tokyo in both films, and finally does at the end of the sixth film. Subverted, since F9 reveals he survived that crash in Tokyo Drift.
• Death Faked for You: In F9 it's revealed he faked his death with the help of Mr.Nobody in Tokyo Drift.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Shaw's Heel–Face Turn in The Fate of the Furious implies this, leading some fans to create the "Justice for Han" hashtag. The creators noticed this, not only bringing Han back in F9 but also make him visit Deckard, possibly for a payback.
• Heartbroken Badass: At the end of 6. Seems to have gotten over it to some degree in Tokyo Drift, though. Then we see what was found in the wreck of his car, a picture of Gisele. Han never really moved on.
• Hidden Depths: He seems to have a nerdy side, considering his choice of alias and how he reads an Incredible Hulk comic in Tokyo Drift.
• The Mentor: Becomes this to Sean in Tokyo Drift, teaching him how to drift properly.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Falls victim to this in Tokyo Drift. Or not.
• Mr. Vice Guy: Han is your all-around nice guy who's always loyal to Dom and his friends but after settling in Tokyo after his girlfriend, Gisele's death he starts his own garage and friendship with the Yakuza for a living but not above stealing money from them to support himself behind their back. This comes to bite him in the ass when the Yakuza gets wind of it which puts his favorite pupil, Sean in danger from them making him save his ass at the cost of his own life.
• Mushroom Samba: Han briefly trips out on Bowie's 'fun muffins' in Fast X. It perturbs him enough to actually stop eating the things.
• Nice Guy: He's the most friendly and level-headed member of Dom's team and he's happy to teach Sean how to drift race during his supposedly last days in Tokyo after the teenager arrived here.
• Nominal Hero: In Tokyo Drift — while taking Sean under his wing and helping him adjust to life in the Japanese underground, Han has no other aspirations besides living out his hedonistic lifestyle, and despite already having plenty of money and still being in contact with his True Companions, Han embezzles from his new business partner, DK. When DK confronts him for this, Han rather callously brushes it off as "what [he] does." He grows out of it, though.
• Not So Stoic: Whenever Gisele is in danger, and progressing to full-on unstoppable rage (and later tears) when she does die.
• Oral Fixation: Due to being an ex-smoker. Doubles as a Running Gag, as he was regularly seen munching on snacks in Tokyo Drift, then in his scene with Dom in 4, and "later" on in 5. Gisele correctly deduces that he was a smoker due to his constant need to keep his hands busy, or in her words, "A two pack a day man for sure. Unfiltered."
  • Also serves as a nod to the younger version of his character in Better Luck Tomorrow, who smoked regularly as part of his rebellious image.
• Outlaw Couple: With Gisele.
• Parental Substitute: F9 reveals that he has been the guardian to Elle since around the time he faked his death; he was sent to steal a dangerous invention from her parents, but when another group of home invaders on the same night killed the girl's parents, Han took her in himself. It's later revealed that Elle is the key to activate Project Ares, meaning Han has been keeping a walking Tyke Bomb all this time.
• Personal Effects Reveal: The only personal belonging found in his car was a photograph of Gisele.
• Punny Name: His alias is pronounced as "Han Solo". Also funny because of his previously mentioned role as the mentor to Sean in Tokyo Drift.
• Real Name as an Alias: He used his real first name as part of the fake ID, "Han Seoul-Oh." Sung Kang says this was an in-universe Shout-Out on Han's part.
• Sacrificial Lion: Twofold. He bites it two thirds of the way into Tokyo Drift, eating that Sean has to confront DK on his own. The mid-credits stinger in 6 reveals that the Mercedes Benz that crashed his car not only did so deliberately, but was driven by Owen Shaw's brother Deckard in retribution for crippling his brother. This is done to set up Deckard as a Hero Killer for Furious 7.
• Stealing from the Till: Revealed that he has been doing this from DK, and thus indirectly from Kamata, DK's Yakuza uncle. Naturally, neither Kamata nor DK take this very well.
• Together in Death: This is suggested in 7 when Dom puts a picture of Gisele on Han's grave. Then subverted when Han turns out to not be dead after all. And then subverted further when Gisele also turns out to be alive.
• Tragic Keepsake: As revealed in 7, kept a photo of Gisele with him in his car in Tokyo.
• Unstoppable Rage: Flies into this after Gisele's Heroic Sacrifice. It doesn't end until he puts a guy through a jet turbine.

Ramsey

Ramsey

"I didn't trust them. I trust you."

Played By: Nathalie Emmanuel ^{Other Languages} Carla Castañeda (Latin Spanish, 2015-present)

Appearances: Furious 7 | The Fate of the Furious | F9 | Fast X

"Life is binary. Zeros and ones. Only two things keep a group like this together. Fear or loyalty. And I don't see a drop of fear among you guys."

Ramsey is the computer hacker responsible for the creation of the God's Eye program. Naturally, she is extremely intelligent. She joins up with Dom's crew after they rescue her from a band of mercenaries, and assists them in hunting down Deckard Shaw.

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• Action Survivor: Manages to hang with the team upon their missions, but it's the hell that she goes through when Dom saves her is what gives her this title.
• Affirmative Action Girl: Her addition in Furious 7 is possibly to balance out the cast and replace Gisele's secondary female hero following her apparent death in the sixth film.
• Birds of a Feather: Gets a few Ship Tease moments with Tej in Fate, most of them basing on their tech expertise.
• Damsel in Distress: The situation she finds herself in in Furious 7. However, she more than makes up for it afterwards.
• Distaff Counterpart: To resident techie Tej.
• Drives Like Crazy: Justified - Ramsey has never concerned herself with getting a driver's license, and when she ends up being the only one who can tail Otto on short notice, she's understandably out of her element and causes a lot of accidental property damage.
• Friendship Moment: She began to break down over Dom's Disney Death, and was relieved to see him alive. She's also seen at the end of the film hanging out with the group as they watch Brian play with Mia and his son on the beach, later asking Dom when he leaves if he's going to say goodbye.
• Gender-Blender Name: With a name like Ramsey, the team can be forgiven for assuming she was a guy.
• Hackette: Creating something with the capabilities of the God’s Eye may very well make the greatest hacker in the world.
• Hysterical Woman: Downplayed and justified in Furious 7. She's very calm and collected while helping Mission Control to do some Hollywood Hacking, but completely loses her shit whenever her life is in danger. It's perfectly understandable; after all, she's just a hacker, not a street-racer-turned-hired-gun like our heroes. Over the course of the film, she learns to keep a cooler head during intense situations, but is still easily the most emotional member of the group.
• Ms. Fanservice: One of the most attractive women in the franchise, which is saying something. Her scene rising from the water in a bikini leaves the audience as dumbstruck as Roman and Tej.
• Nice Girl: Was very friendly with the crew, being able to tell that they were good people. She was also very broken up over Dom's supposed death, showing she began to consider him and the others as friends.
• Only One Name: She only goes by Ramsey, but she does apparently have a last name, as she question Roman and Tej about whether either of them ever bothered finding out what it was.
• Samus Is a Girl: Up until the moment when the team rescues her, they all assumed that Ramsey was a man. The trope is lampshaded afterward in several ways, which includes bits of Fanservice.
• Sherlock Scan: She's a hackette, so this is a given. She's willing to trust Dom's crews despite having just met them in a less-than-pleasant rescue because she has already deduced that Dom's crew follows him out of loyalty, not fear. On top of that, she instantly deduces the role each member plays and that they're working for the US government. She even accurately guesses that Dom and Letty are married, which is doubly impressive because Letty herself wasn't even aware of that at the time.
• Took a Level in Badass: Ramsay has at least aquired a certified skill in improvised-weaponary by Fast X, being able to knock out one of Dante's mercenaries out cold with her laptop computer.
• Troll: A Blink-and-You-Miss-It moment — after Ramsey hacks Jakande's helicopter and recovers God's Eye, she leaves this classic gem on their monitors: 'Ramsey was here :]'
• The Worf Effect: As the person who created God's Eye, she's implied to be one of the best hackers/computer techies in the world. In Fate, she gets outclassed by the Big Bad Cipher (who is referred to as a computer goddess) twice in the film.

Deckard Shaw

Deckard Shaw

"I'm looking for the team that crippled my brother."

Played By: Jason Statham ^{Other Languages} Óscar Flores (Latin Spanish, 2013-present)

Appearances: Fast & Furious 6 ^note In The Stinger | Furious 7 | The Fate of the Furious | Hobbs & Shaw | F9 ^note In The Stinger | Fast X

"They say if you want to glimpse the future, just look behind you. I used to think that was bollocks. And now I realize you can't outrun the past."

Owen Shaw's older brother. He is a former British black ops agent who went rogue.

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• Anti-Villain: His own actor (Jason Statham) goes as far to say in an interview that he's not a villain, as his motives are mostly noble (avenging his comatose brother), but he does uses immoral means to exact revenge, such as bombing Dom's house, endangering his family and teaming up with a terrorist of all people.
• Avenging the Villain: His main goal is to exact revenge on the heroes for crippling his brother, Owen.
• Badass Boast: His very first lines in the franchise...
  "Dominic Toretto. You don't know me... (Car explodes behind him) But you're about to."
• Badass Normal: In Hobbs & Shaw, he acquits himself very well against the cybernetically enhanced super soldier Brixton.
• Bald of Evil: While he still have shades of being one of the most dangerous villains Dom and co. ever faced, before turning over a new leaf becoming friends with Dom after the latter help save his son, he's also one of the most badass fighers that's able to go up against larger threats and also one of the few people that can rival Dom and Hobbs in terms of sheer badassery and an awesome haircut that's smooth as cueball.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Jakande for Furious 7.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: While not having the same strength as Hobbs and Dom, his status as a One-Man Army as well as being a Combat Pragmatist and having a insane amount of endurance, he definitely counts.
• Combat Pragmatist: When it comes to fighting, he does not follow any rules and he most certainly does not fight fair.
  Deckard: [pulls an SMG on a wrench-wielding Dom] You thought this was going to be a streetfight?
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • He reinforced his Maserati Ghibli with steel in anticipation of a head-on collision with Dom's Barracuda. He later shows up in a dirt buggy when the team is trying to rescue Ramsey in Caucasus Mountains.
  • In Fate when rescuing Dom's baby, he brings noise cancelling headphones along with a bluetooth music player loaded with baby music so the baby won't hear gunfire.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He's a former MI6 agent. He and Brixton are old associates, both of whom gradually became disillusioned with the world they were fighting to preserve over the course of their careers. Eteon approached both of them and offered the chance to Join or Die; Brixton accepted, but Shaw declined, and Brixton was sent to assassinate him to keep him from talking; Brixton failed and Deckard ended up killing him, but not before he successfully framed Deckard for going rogue and killing the rest of his squad. Deckard was forced to go underground and his sister broke all ties with him because she thought he was guilty, while Brixton's body was recovered and he was revived as a cyborg assassin.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Made his first appearance in The Stinger for Fast and Furious 6.
• Easily Forgiven: In the eighth film, Dom buries the hatchet with Deckard when the latter helps rescue Dom's son, while Deckard gives up his vendetta on them after Dom uses the God's Eye to help Deckard and his mother rescue Owen.
  • Though Hobbs and Shaw shows that he hasn’t forgiven himself, and deeply regrets his actions.
• Enemy Mine: He teams up with the rest of the crew to take on Dom in The Fate of the Furious, as he has personal reasons to want Cipher dead.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Quite surprisingly for a vicious killer, Deckard shows a lot of warmth and almost boyish love for his Crime Boss Mother; and would obey any of her demands just so she won't cry.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Has respect for his brother Owen that he considered avenging him by killing the people who put him in a coma. Not to mention the fact that would do anything to not make his mum cry.
• Even Evil Has Standards: When rescuing Dom's baby son from Cipher's clutches, he was disgusted that her men would open fire in the direction of an innocent child; after disarming said mercenary, he turns the baby carrier away so the baby boy would not have to see him beat the brute into a vegetable. And even earlier than that when it's revealed that Cipher came to him first to recruit him in the mission to steal the Nightshade device, but Deckard refused to help her when he saw what kind of person she is, forcing Cipher to recruit his brother Owen instead.
• Evil Brit: An extremely ruthless assassin trained by the Special Forces.
• Evil Virtues: He taught his brother that every man has to have a code which they will always live and abide by.
• Ex-Big Bad: After being sent to prison by the end of Furious 7, he escapes alongside Hobbs in Fate and joins forces with the rest of the team to take down Cipher, eventually making a full Heel–Face Turn.
• Faking the Dead: Midway through the eighth film, Dom seemingly shoots and kills him. Later on, when Dom enacts his Xanatos Gambit against Cipher, Deckard is revealed to be alive, having faked his death so he could skydrop into Cipher's plane without being detected.
• Fate Worse than Death: At the conclusion of the seventh film, a part of the parking garage drops onto Deckard, and he survives to be taken to jail by Hobbs.
• Fallen Hero: Hobbs notes with admiration that Deckard was a decorated British Military Hero responsible for valor in combat and selflessly protecting innocent civilians, until he was sold out by the British Government. Hobbs & Shaw reveals that he and Brixton were approached by the Eteon Corporation who offered them jobs, and Shaw refused while Brixton accepted. Eteon sent Brixton to kill him and he shot Brixton in self-defense, only to be framed by Eteon for the murder of his team and forcing him to go on the run. Eventually he became the monster everyone thought he was.
• Fire-Forged Friendship: With Hobbs in The Fate of the Furious. They initially started as bitter enemies, having Snark-to-Snark Combat whilst in prison, to eventually laughing whilst insulting each other. Hobbs even gives a Big "NO!" when Deckard is seemingly shot dead by Dom. They seem to be buddies at the end of the film. In their spin-off Hobbs & Shaw, the two hurl petty insults at each other.
• Friend to All Children:
  • Surprisingly kind to and protective of children, even that of his enemies; threatening children in front of Deckard Shaw is an invitation to be on the wrong-side of a one-sided ass-beating.
  • However, some people accuse him of being a hypocrite due to the part in the last film where he nearly killed Dom's nephew with a bomb. This could be justified, though, by saying that the bomb was only meant for Dom, not Brian, Mia, or Jack and that he didn't know they were there in the first place.
• The Heavy: While he's apart of the Big Bad Duumvirate with Jakande, he still the main antagonist of 7 overall, as he's a much more active obstacle against Dom and his crew and his murder of Han is what drives the whole plot in 7.
• Heel–Face Turn: Is humanized so much in 8 that he is Easily Forgiven by Dom and takes part in the barbecue at the end of the film. Justified, as the guy did save Dom's baby from a person worse than himself; that would take out a lot of weight off the team's hate for him.
• Hero Killer: It's revealed he's the one who crashed into Han in Tokyo Drift and it wasn't an accident. Subverted when it's revealed in F9, that Han found out that Deckard was going after him, so he prepared a plan with Mr. Nobody to fake his death when Deckard rammed into him with the Mercedes so that he could go into hiding.
• Hidden Depths: Unlike his thoroughly corrupted and fallen little brother, there are still traces of the honorable and heroic warrior who was sold out by the British Government in his blackened soul; He makes sure that his enemies alone would be targeted on his vendettas, is protective of innocent children, and is more than willing to let bygones be bygones with his enemies if they too prove to be honorable warriors.
• Hypocrite: In Fate he expresses disgust and outrage over one of Cipher's henchmen being willing to fire in the direction of an innocent baby. Yet, in Furious 7 he had sent a bomb to the Toretto house that easily could have seriously injured or even killed Jack, though it's possible he didn't know of the kid at the time.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: An odd variation, since his little brother was also badass and evil. Deckard still qualifies in that he emerges from hiding to avenge his brother's injuries, racks up a ridiculous bodycount, and is gunning for the entirety of the Torretto Gang. The fact that he he seems to have more in common with Dom than his brother also paints him as another Evil Counterpart.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: The fact that he's billed as one of the main heroes of Hobbs and Shaw spoils the fact that he pulls a Heel–Face Turn during Fate of the Furious.
• Leitmotif: Has a menacing sounding theme that plays several in Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious, as well as briefly in F9.
• Made of Iron: Deckard absorbs and shrugs off an absurd amount of damage, including several car crashes, being hit by a car, two prolonged and brutal fights and having a parking garage collapse on him.
• Momma's Boy: Tough guy Deckard Shaw is endearingly sweet towards his tough Crime Boss mother, and would do anything to not make her cry.
• Noble Demon: Unlike Owen, Deckard still lives by an honorable warrior's code, however cruel it may be. Bonding with him through said warrior code is the surest way to earn his friendship and respect, as Hobbs and Dom did.
• One-Man Army: How he is introduced in the seventh film. He is standing in a hospital next to Owen, talking about their past and how he will avenge his younger brother, but the people taking care of Owen are scared out of their minds...then we see what he has done to the hospital Owen's in and it's in even worse shape than he is. He has torn it to pieces, having killed at least a dozen armed and armoured guards and then casually kills another one by handing him a grenade. This just proves that even a lone villain can be considered a grave threat to Dom & Co.
  • In Fate, he tears through hordes of prisoners and guards equally in his escape run.
  • This is also exemplified later in Fate, when Deckard and his brother rip through all of Cipher's mercenaries with ease. Deckard even has time to crack jokes and repeatedly check on the baby.
• Pin-Pulling Teeth: He does this when he appears being cornered by Dom, Brian, Mr. Nobody and his covert ops team before revealing he has teamed up with Jakande.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: He's able to track down the heroes constantly, regardless of how far they go or how seemingly unlikely it would be that he could know their location. In fact, he's recruited in Hobbs and Shaw specifically for his tracking skills.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Deckard sees through deception and deals as honorably as he can, Owen is a powder keg of violence and manipulation who occasionally gets in over his head. Deckard is open about his love of family and warrior's code, while Owen plays himself off as a ruthless sociopath for efficiency's sake. Despite this, they have each other's backs, both dote on their mother's commands, and neither Shaw brother has any interest in harming a child for a senseless goal of destruction.
• Stronger Sibling: Owen Shaw's "big bad brother".
• Tailor-Made Prison: He ended up in a top-secret supermax underground prison in the ending, with Hobbs personally overseeing him getting transferred into his special cell, with only one exit guarding by dozens of turrets. Despite all the heavy security, Deckard declares that no prison can hold him for long.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Implied. Eteon framed him for the death of his team, forcing him to go on the run, and by the time we’re introduced to him he’s become as evil as everyone thought he was. At least until Fate.
• Tragic Villain: As noted in Fate by Hobbs, Deckard was a highly decorated British soldier who constantly went above and beyond the call of duty, only to get sold out in the end by the very people he swore to serve. While it didn't necessarily push him towards villainy, it was certainly his Start of Darkness.
• Unflinching Walk: Both his intro scenes.
  • He does this in the stinger for 6 after killing Han.
  • After visiting his brother in the hospital at the start of 7, he waltzes out of the building...as it is falling apart around him.
• Weak, but Skilled: Downplayed. He doesn't have quite as much raw strength as Dom and Hobbs, but Deckard compensates by being faster and favoring finesse over brute force, on top of being a Combat Pragmatist whenever possible.
• Worthy Opponent: Oh, Deckard and Hobbs don't like each other, and are not shy about showing it; however, in Fate they gradually bond through their mutual respect for each other as heroic warriors sold out by their country, so much so that Hobbs punches a wall in grief and rage at the news of Deckards' apparent death.

Former Members

Brian O'Conner

Brian O'Conner

"Hey! We do what we do best. We improvise, all right?"

Played By: Paul Walker (2001-2015), Caleb and Cody Walker (2015) ^{Other Languages} Jesús Barrero (Latin Spanish, 2001-2003), Ricardo Tejedo (Latin Spanish, 2009-2023)

Appearances: The Fast and The Furious | 2 Fast 2 Furious | Fast & Furious | Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 | Furious 7 | F9 ^note offscreen cameo | Fast X ^note archive footage

"You asked me why I let Dom go. I did it, because at that moment, I respected him more than I did myself. One thing I learned from Dom is that nothing really matters unless you have a code."

The other half of the main duo. Formerly a detective for the LAPD, Brian was sent undercover to investigate a series of heists later revealed to be the doings of the Toretto crew. However, his work eventually developed into a brotherly bond with Dom and a full-blown relationship with Mia.

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• Action Dad: As of Fast & Furious 6.
• Badass Driver: Is shown to be able to beat Dom in the fourth film and actually accomplishes it in 6.
• Balls of Steel: Has these, which many people comment on.
• Becoming the Mask: Infiltrates the street racing scene and Toretto's crew as part of his undercover investigation, only to genuinely become part of both.
• Boxed Crook: After the first movie, Brian was, for the most part, a fugitive from the law, out of a job in the L.A.P.D., with a very keen interest in underground street racing. When the U.S. Customs Service gets a hold of him, they cut him a deal in not letting him go to prison. This carries over to the FBI, who were actively trying to hunt him down.
• Character Development: 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.
• Childhood Friends: With Roman.
• Consummate Liar: He's so good at it that the FBI recruited him.
• Cool Car: While Dom had been inclined with muscle cars after the first movie, Brian stuck with import tuners. Notables inlcude two Nissan Skyline R34 GTRs (one of which Walker owned personally in real life), two GT-Rs, two Toyota Supras (the orange one from the first; the white one from Furious 7 - which again was owned by Walker), and the green Lancer Evolution 7 from the second.
• Curb Stomp Cushion:
  • His attempts to fend off Dom's wrath after he finds out about his relation to Letty's death. While he is obviously not nearly as strong as Dominic is and gets thrown around, he manages to free himself from Dom's furious grip on him once, block most of Dominic's rage-driven fists when downed, and even manages to wrap his leg around Dom's leg and lift him up for a while before he gets tossed down. To be fair, he wasn't actually trying to harm Dom, just calm him down, and he might have putten up a better fight if they were duking it out for real, and considering how many other enemies have been easily beaten down by Dom, even holding him off that well is pretty impressive.
  • When up against Owen Shaw, Brian is able to get a few decent shots against him, even if he ultimately gets beaten down.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Brian had a neglectful childhood and eventually became a juvenile delinquent alongside his childhood friend, Roman Pearce. They both spent their last years underaged in a youth detention facility. He also has no memory of his father.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's more easygoing than Dom and not afraid to comment on things he finds weird or silly.
• Decoy Protagonist: He's The Hero of the first two movies, which are first and foremost his stories. He's Put on a Bus in Tokyo Drift, and bumped down to Deuteragonist in Fast & Furious to let Dom take over as the main character of the series.
• Disappeared Dad: Brian told Dom that he didn't remember who his father was or what he looked like, showing that there's a strong possibility that Brian is an orphan, an adopted child, or maybe even a street kid.
• Dull Surprise: Walker always used this as his backup mode of acting, but nowhere was this more evident than in Fast Five. He reacts to the fact that Mia is pregnant with an expression of "meh, that's good too".
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite how much him and Vince didn't get along at first, even Brian decides to help Vince when he sees Vince struggling to pull his leg out.
• Fair Cop: He fits this trope to a T.
• FBI Agent: He gets promoted to one by the fourth film.
• The Ghost: After his retirement in Furious 7 due to Paul Walker's death, Brian is regularly acknowledged as still being around but never appearing onscreen. F9 ends with him driving up to the Toretto house but cuts to the credits right as he opens the door.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: In Fast Five where everyone uses guns, he simply punched his way out.
• House Husband: In F9, he becomes this, staying behind to take care of the kids while his wife rejoins the team.
• It's All My Fault:
  • In 2 Fast 2 Furious, Brian expresses regret for not being able to help Roman when the latter was in prison for stealing cars. Roman eases his conscience by admitting it was his own mistakes that got him in prison. It is heavily implied that the reason Brian let Dom escape at the end of the first movie is because of the guilt he felt for not saving another friend from prison even though Roman's arrest wasn't Brian's fault.
  • In Fast And Furious, he also feels guilty for Dom being a fugitive which isn't helped by both Mia and Dom expressing open contempt for what they see as his betrayal.
  • He blames himself for Letty's supposed death and then her becoming a member of Owen Shaw's crew in Furious 6 since he was the one who convinced her to go undercover in Braga's cartel in exchange for granting Dom immunity. Once again, he is assured he is not to blame.
• In Love with the Mark: Well, with the mark's sister, in the first movie.
• Jack of All Stats: Played with. Aside for behind the wheel (where he's nearly Dom's equal), he's a capable combatant (but not as much as Letty or Gisele), decent with technology (but not as much as Tej), and good at schmoozing and fast-talk (but not as much as Han or Roman).
• Made of Iron: Brian endures a brutal beating from Dom (who angrily beats him up after finding out that he was the last person in contact with Letty). Apart from a drop of blood resulting from a minor nosebleed and looking somewhat mussed, he is ultimately unscathed. At the end of the fourth film, he gets T-boned by Fenix, yet somehow survives this.
• Meaningful Name: He frequently works undercover and has little trouble telling believable lies. So essentially, he's conning people.
• Nerves of Steel: As an undercover cop, this is a necessity. It earns the respect of Carter Verone in 2 Fast 2 Furious, since Brian can admit to Verone's face that Monica Fuentes is gorgeous without hesitation.
• Nice Guy: Despite being an undercover cop, he quickly forms a genuine brotherly bond with Dom and romantic bond with Mia, and selflessly sacrificed his reputation and career to free Dom from his second prison escort.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He admits that he's a very good liar and his ability to slip Beneath the Mask is one of the main reasons Brian was selected to be an undercover agent with the FBI.
• Officer O'Hara: He's blond-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and both his first and last names are Irish in origin.
• Older and Wiser: He matures a lot throughout the series.
• Outlaw Couple: With Mia.
• Put on a Bus: He opts to move on at the end of 7 to raise his family. While his wife Mia returned to the series in 9, Brian remains offscreen.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Compared to the rest of the cast, he's very calm and collected most of the time. Surprisingly inverted with Dom, sometimes.
• Retired Badass: He leaves the life behind for good this time at the end of 7.
• Running Gag: He never manages to fairly beat Dom in any race. Until 6, that is.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: In the first film, Brian was an undercover cop while Dom, Letty, Leon, Vince, and Jesse were professional thieves.
• Speed Demon: This is what allows him to bond with Dom as friends and rivals. 2 Fast 2 Furious shows him joining the Miami street racing scene and he still tries to one up Dom in Fast & Furious and Fast Five. Furious 7 shows Brian misses the action of street racing and is even worried he might get too used to driving cars at an acceptable speed limit.
• The Stoic: Brian is able to stay cool as a cucumber in the most harrowing situations.
• Tranquil Fury: When Dom gets the maximum sentence (a life sentence of which he must serve at least 25 years) at the end of the fourth movie, Brian doesn't say anything, but you can tell that he is pissed.
• Undercover Cop Reveal: In the first movie, he reveals himself to call for a medical helicopter to save Vince's life.

Gisele Yashar

Gisele Yashar

"I'm a citizen of the world."

Played By: Gal Gadot ^{Other Languages} Ingrid Donnadieu (European French), Marisol Romero (Latin Spanish, 2009-2023)

Appearances: Fast & Furious | Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 | Furious 7 ^note deleted role | F9 ^note archive footage | Fast X

"You don't need to send a man to do a woman's job."

An ex-Mossad enforcer for the Braga cartel, she defects to Dom and Brian's side and eventually joins their crew in Rio de Janario.

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• Action Girl: She is extremely competent with firearms.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Comes across as cold and distant, at least at first. She is warm with Dom and Han.
• Badass Israeli: She's a Mossad agent turned martially competent cartel member turned driver-heist crew member.
• Doomed by Canon: Is this due to her not appearing alongside Han in Tokyo Drift. Or so it seems, as Fast X reveals that she actually survived her apparent death in 6.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: She successfully shoots the bad guy while falling to her apparent death.
• Enigmatic Minion: In her first appearance. She serves Braga, while seeming oblivious to his true identity, and having some flirtation with Dom that both he and the audience wondering if she's doing it on her own or for Braga. Later, she tips off Dom about information on Braga, seemingly out of gratitude for him saving her life. A deleted scene from the 7th movie only further complicates this by showing Gisele being the one to get Letty to the hospital in time to save her life, while implying that doing so well help herself in some way as well as Letty. This is largely subverted once she joins Dom's team though, seeming more straightforwardly loyal and reliable. That being said, assuming the aforementioned deleted scene is canon, it raises questions about why she never told Dom and Brian about Letty being alive earlier.
• High-Heel–Face Turn: She's the only female of Braga's gang, and she's also the only one to pull a Heel–Face Turn after Dom saves her life.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Has a tendency to wear quite a bit of leather. Goes well with her Biker Babe tendencies.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices herself to save Han from a villain in the sixth movie. Fast X reveals that she survived it, though.
• Jack of All Stats: Dom recruits her specifically as someone who can "cover all positions."
• The Lost Lenore: For Han. He moved to Tokyo because it was the place that Gisele suggested for them to move in. He also quit putting any effort into building a relationship after her death. Her picture was found in the wreckage of Han's car.
• The Mourning After: In retrospect, this explains why Han only looks for superficial relationships when he's in Tokyo.
• Mysterious Past: It's never explained how an ex-Mossad agent ended up in the service of a Mexican drug cartel. In F9, it's revealed that she was also one of Mr. Nobody's best agents, and one of the few he could trust. It was because of their relationship that he decided to hire Han, as Gisele trusted him. Notably, she was already dead by the time Mr. Nobody was first introduced, explaining why nobody in Dom's crew could connect with him at first.
• Nice Girl: Once she joins the crew and sheds her aloofness, she's shown to be a friendly, pleasant and kind young woman, who is also very caring and self-sacrificing.
• Outlaw Couple: With Han.
• Present Absence: In F9, despite apparently being dead, she casts a shadow over the plot, as she essentially kickstarted a chain reaction of events that would enable Han to survive the car crash that would have killed him.
• Proud Beauty: She uses her looks as another weapon. Makes sense seeing how she's portrayed by a former Miss Israel.
• Statuesque Stunner: At 1.78 she is by far the tallest female character in the franchise, and one of the hottest.
• Sudden Name Change: Her surname went from "Harabo" to "Yashar" between 4 and 5.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: She's an Action Girl who often has her hair tied back.
• Unexplained Recovery: Shows up at the end of Fast X, smiling and fully healthy.

Luke Hobbs

Agent Lucas "Luke" Hobbs

"You want to catch wolves, you need wolves. Let's go hunting."

Played By: Dwayne Johnson ^{Other Languages} Juan Carlos Tinoco (Latin Spanish, 2011-2023)

Appearances: Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 | Furious 7 | The Fate of the Furious | Hobbs & Shaw | Fast X ^note In The Stinger

"You know I can't let you two go. I ain't made that way. The way I see it, you've earned yourselves 24 hours. The money stays, though. If I were you, I'd use the time. Make peace with whatever demons you got left. Cause come tomorrow, I will find you."

An elite DSS agent turned partner and ally to Dominic Toretto’s crew. He was initially assigned to track down Dominic Toretto and Brian O'Conner but eventually teamed up with the criminal protagonists to defeat a Brazilian drug lord.

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• Action Dad: In 7 it is revealed that he has a daughter named Sam, who's just as snarky as him.
• Action Genre Hero Guy: Ticks most of the boxes.
• Baritone of Strength: Considering who's playing him, yeah.
• Big Damn Heroes: Pulls this twice during the climax in 7, first by saving Letty and Ramsey before they can get blown up by a Predator drone and then providing some extra firepower against Jakande for Dom.
• The Big Guy: Both figuratively and literally; since he's the physically strongest as well as the tallest, most heavily muscled member of the team.
• Breakout Character: While he was always supposed to be an important character during his introduction in the fifth installment, he's since become one of the mainstays in the series, with him even getting his own spin-off film thanks to his popularity.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Occasionally performs feats that make him appear almost inhumanly strong, such as ripping out of handcuffs and punching dents into steel in Fate of the Furious. He can also No-Sell beanbag shotguns, in the same scene where single shots from the same weapons were instantly incapacitating men in armor.
• Cowboy Cop: He is a tough-as-nails, no-nonsense tough-guy and hard-nosed federal agent, who sometimes takes matters into his own hands.
• Crazy-Prepared: Furious 7 reveals that Hobbs' DSS office has handguns strapped to the bottom of at least one coffee table, presumably in the event that a lunchtime falling out gets really out of hand.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He's one of several brothers born on Samoa to a single mother. His deadbeat Disappeared Dad was a criminal who came back into their lives when they were teenagers, under the pretense of reconnecting with them but really to turn them into his new crew. Luke was the only one to see through his ruse and, when it became clear he was willing to let his sons die, turned him in to the police. He left Samoa shortly after and has never been back since; his brother Jonah is particularly sore about this, saying he abandoned his family.
• Demoted to Extra: In 7, he gets hospitalized early on due to the injuries he sustained from Deckard blowing up the DSS headquarters and doesn't get too much action until he pulls off two Big Damn Heroes in the climax.
• Determinator: He spared no effort and relentlessly never lets up in his his pursuit of Toretto and O'Conner.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: He's a Mean Boss to his own team in 5.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: Apparently in Hobbs & Shaw, his middle name is revealed as "Rebecca."
• Enemy Mine: He teams up with Dom and Brian in Fast Five due to the Big Bad wiping out his team.
• A Father to His Men: He's rough around the edges but he does care for the people who work under him. So much so that he personally kills the Big Bad in the fifth movie stating it was for his team that got wiped out in an ambush. Also applies once he employs Dom and Brian's team in 6.
• Fire-Forged Friends:
  • With Dom at the end of 6. They initially started as bitter, mortal enemies in 5, having Snark-to-Snark Combat at a car gala (with the lawman Fed serving as a personal nemesis to the criminal protagonist), to eventually building a rapport with each other. Fighting each other/side by side has literally knocked a brotherly respect and admiration into each other. Although he does amicably respect Dom in 6 and moreso in 7, the gamesmanship and battle of the wits still persists between them.
  • With Deckard at the end of 8. They initially started as bitter enemies, having Snark-to-Snark Combat whilst in prison, to eventually laughing whilst insulting each other. Hobbs even gives a Big "NO!" when Deckard is seemingly shot dead by Dom. They seem to be buddies at the end of the film, though they were veering abit into Vitriolic Best Buds in their spin-off film.
• Friend on the Force: He retains contact with the team while serving as a law enforcement agent.
• Gatling Good: Jacks the gatling gun from the drone he rammed an Ambulance with, and uses it against Jakande's gunship.
• Genius Bruiser: Not only does he exhibit effective brute force against any opponent he comes across, he's also shown to be very observant and capable of thinking logically. He always studies the files of his allies and targets to figure out their pros and cons (such as when he employed Officer Elena as his assistant even though she's a novice cop because he figured from her history that she's one of the few honest cops in Rio, if not the only one), is capable of noticing things that are out of place (the modern stereo set in a classic Ford GT, the tracker Tej put on his car) and apparently being a great enough leader to be in charge of an elite squad tasked with hunting down the worst criminals on the DSS list.
• Gentle Giant: He's a bulky powerhouse who's able to take down even larger opponents and is revealed to be an awesome gentle father to his daughter.
• Good is Not Nice: When Feds are thought of, they are thought of as good guys. However, Dwayne Johnson’s character and performance as Lucas Hobbs shows the audience how a life of brutality can desensitize and turn you cold and ruthless. When reminded that the street racers and criminal protagonists they are pursuing are innocent people, Hobbs remarks that they are just faces on a page. This emotional detachment can be seen elsewhere, as he shoots an enemy, when the enemy was unarmed and probably willing to surrender.
• Hand Cannon: Has a custom-looking revolver... which he uses to bust open a vending machine for Roman in Fast 6.
  Hobbs: [after shooting the vending machine] It's on the house.
• Hero Antagonist: Throughout Fast Five.
• Hunk: Handsome, manly, and devoted to justice.
• Iconic Sequel Character: While most of the major members of the crew introduced after the first film are this to some degree, Hobbs is easily the most notable one. He's one of the most important characters in the films behind only Dom and Brian, even though it takes until the fifth film to get to his introduction.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Hobbs has always been shown to be a pretty accurate shot, but in Furious 7 this is taken to ridiculous levels when Hobbs is able to finish Jakande's helicopter off by shooting the black bag of grenades that is hanging off the helicopter... is in the air... at night.
• Inspector Javert: He’s the hard-nosed type, a lawman devoted to the law, until of course the law fails him, and those on the opposite side of the law prove they possess stronger moral compasses than federal agents he calls his partners. Characterized this way until he decides to team up with Dom because his team was killed and he wants revenge. Following an Enemy Mine 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!
• Large Ham: He's played by The Rock, so it's to be expected.
• Lightning Bruiser: For a towering mountain of muscle, the man is surprisingly quick and agile, keeping up with the significantly smaller Deckard Shaw in their fight in Furious 7, and performing a kip-up in his fight with Dom in Fast Five. And in Fast and Furious 6 it's he and not Dom who pulls out the diving clothesline for their Doomsday Device on Klaus. Given, that his actor himself qualified as one during his wrestling career, this is only expected.
• Made of Iron:
  • He repeatedly makes fifty-foot leaps out of speeding vehicles without taking a single scratch in Furious 6, whereas similar falls from far shorter distances easily killed Gisele and crippled Shaw. To be fair, though, both those characters hit solid pavement. Hobbs landed on vehicles that were matching speed.
  • In the eighth film, Hobbs easily shrugs off rubber bullets as nothing more than an annoyance.
• Mercy Lead: For helping him kill Reyes, he gives Dom 24 hours at the end of Fast Five to escape the authorities if Dom's crew leave the money as it is. However, Dom conned out of this as the team switched the vault with a dupe before they head on the bridge.
  Hobbs: I'll see you again, Toretto.
  Dom: No, you won't.
• Mirror Character: Very similar to Dom, including how they are introduced. Both are introduced as being quite jerkish, then show more and more of a heart of gold as time goes on. Both are protective of their teams and indeed when Dom's team is working for Hobbs and Mia is threatened with death, Hobbs stands up for Dom and Brian, rather than the military and turns against his handlers. Also, get either of them mad at you and good luck escaping their wrath.
• One-Man Army: Hobbs can send many enemies tumbling just using his sheer brute strength. In the prison escape scene, he tears through countless inmates and prison guards while pursuing Shaw.
  Letty: Did you bring the cavalry?!
  Hobbs: (before grabbing the discarded minigun from a Predator Drone) Woman, I am the cavalry.
• Out of Focus: In 7, he spends most of it hospitalized due to the injuries he receives from his first encounter with Deckard. He does come back in time for the final confrontation though, and is even the one who fires off the final shot against Jakande.
• Parents as People: Hobbs is a devoted, loving father and his daughter adores him, but his job prevents him from spending more time with her and he does lament this.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy:
  • In spite of being a modern police officer, Hobbs proudly celebrates his heritage as a Polynesian Warrior though the traditional tribal tattoos that adorn his body, his use of Lua (traditional Hawaiian Martial Arts) in conjunction with wrestling in combat, not to mention imparting the Traditional Hawaiian Warrior Dance to his daughter and her friends to intimidate her school's rival team during her soccer matches.
  • Hobbs and Shaw reveals that he is actually Samoan. Before the final showdown with Brixton's crew, he leads his extended clan in a war prayer to their ancestors that doubles as an extended Badass Boast, finishing with a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner. While wearing a traditional sarong over his jeans.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: One of the main reasons he sides with Toretto in 5 is because he wants to kill Reyes for murdering his team.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Turns on his handlers when Mia is taken hostage by Shaw. Probably helped that one of his inside team was working for Shaw and given how he really values his men...
• Serious Business: His daughter's soccer team. It is hilarious, awesome and heartwarming all at once.
• Strong and Skilled: Compared to the other two in the franchise's Bald Head of Toughness trio, Hobbs is as strong as Dom and as skilled a fighter as Deckard.
• Super-Strength: As if being Made of Iron is not enough, Hobbs is able to redirect a freaking submarine-torpedo by hanging off the side of Roman's speeding Humvee and kicking the damn thing into the rocket-launching humvee of Cipher's goons.
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • He's quite jerkish, belligerent, antagonistic and adversarial towards Dom and Brian in 5. He has a change of heart following the ambush/rescue scene and decides to team up with Dom and Brian to defeat Reyes. After the job is done, he confronts both men and harshly debriefs them, refusing to let them go scot free. He is however, merciful enough to leave them alone in peace for 24 hours to give them a sporting chance (1 day window) to skip town.
  • By 6, he's still tough and a tad harsh, but has largely toned down his aggression and become much more affable, selfless and helpful. He softens up and becomes more amicible in 7.
• Token Good Teammate: As the only team member who isn't a career criminal protagonist or The Mole, Hobbs takes this role in 6 and his Enemy Mine in 5.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Celebrates cheat day with a towering stack of pancakes.
• The Worf Effect: Got injured shielding Elena from Deckard's grenade and the subsequent fall from the 4th floor of the DSS Headquarters, thus ending up hospitalized for most of the movie to demonstrate how dangerous Deckard is. He healed just in time in the climax to pull a Big Damn Heroes and destroy Jakande's drone and helicopter.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Not surprising, considering the actor. His Fast Five fight with Dom features several wrestling style slams, and features him doing the kip-up he often did during his WWE days. 6 features him and Dom actually defeating Klaus by performing the Doomsday Device tag team maneuver. In 7, he delivers a Rock Bottom to Deckard Shaw.
• Worthy Opponent: Oh, Hobbs and Deckard don't like each other, and are not shy about showing it; however, in The Fate of the Furious they gradually bond through their mutual respect for each other as heroic warriors sold out by their country, so much so that Hobbs punches a wall in grief and rage at the news of Deckards' apparent death.

Vince

Vince

Played By: Matt Schulze, Karson Kern (young) ^{Other Languages} Israel Magaña (Latin Spanish, 2001), Octavio Rojas (Latin Spanish, 2011)

Appearances: The Fast and The Furious | Fast & Furious ^note photo | Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 ^note archive footage | F9

"He's got no call bein' up there, you don't know that fool for shit!"

Vince is a childhood friend and street racer under Dominic Toretto. He opposed O'Conner's inclusion into Dominic's crew especially since his sister favored O'Conner over him.

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• Armor-Piercing Question: Gives a long one to Dom, pointing out on how Brian's involvement has completely destroyed their crew's lives: they all split up, Dom and Mia are hunted, and Vince is forced to lay low, all of them culminating in this sentence:
  Vince: Where's Letty, Dom? Where's Letty?
  • Zigzagged a bit given that Brian only got involved in the first place because Dom and his crew were hijacking trucks, and that he saved Vince himself during the last of their heists (see below under Ungrateful Bastard).
• Back for the Dead: Returns in Fast Five (for the first time since the first film) to have a redemptive arc, but dies three-quarters of the way through during a rescue/escape scene in Rio.
• Character Development: Went from an immature hothead to a caring father and loyal friend by the time of Fast Five.
• Childhood Friends: With Dom.
• The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Zig-Zagged; he's a dick and he's right about Brian being a cop, but he is wrong about Brian being untrustworthy.
• Deadpan Snarker: Usually towards (or in regards to) Brian.
• Fatal Family Photo: Not immediately, but being introduced to his family early on almost sealed his fate from the beginning.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Is very antagonistic to Brian because he's dating Mia, the girl he likes, and is constantly suspicious of him being an undercover cop, though not without merits. In the 5, even though he accepted that Brian won Mia's love fair and square, he still blamed him for ruining their lives and have to be on the run ever since he appeared. Still, considering what he had gone through, it's hard to blame him. He also proved to be a loyal friend to Dom and always offers to help him and his friends in their jobs at any chance he gets, and all he ever wants is a better life for his wife and son.
• Killed Off for Real: Gets shot in the gut and apparently bleeds out offscreen in Fast Five. However, considering his sendoff in the garage and the posthumous nature of his payout, we doubt he's coming back.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Consistently bullies Brian with homophobic slurs, as well as fighting him and claiming he's a cop which to street racers would be worse than the false claim of being gay.
• Redemption Equals Death: After nearly getting Brain, Dom, and Mia killed by Reyes' gang (albeit unwittingly), he redeems himself by saving Mia. Shortly after, he is fatally wounded in a shootout between Reyes' men and Hobbs' team.
• Timeshifted Actor: His cameo as a young man in F9 is played by Karson Kern.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Blames (or rather, misblames) Brian for screwing up the Toretto gang's operation despite the fact that Brian saved his life. He gets better but gets Killed Off for Real soon after.

Tego Leo

Tego Leo

Played By: Tego Calderón, Cered (young) ^{Other Languages} Mario Castañeda (Latin Spanish)

Appearances: Los Bandoleros | Fast & Furious | Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 ^note archive footage| Furious 7^note  archive footage | The Fate of the Furious ^note cameo | F9 | Fast X

A friend of Dominic Toretto and part of his gang from the fourth film.

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• Badass Driver: Not less than anybody in the franchise.
• The Cameo: Returns in a brief cameo, along with Rico, in The Fate of the Furious to help Deckard move inside an ambulance.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Los Bandoleros begins with him telling his theories about the corrupt on and machinations of the oil companies to fellow prisoners
• Everything Is Racist: In the flashbacks of F9, he told Dom that he and Santos were imprisoned because they were brown. Santos pointed out that the real reason was because they robbed a bank.
• Just Got Out of Jail: He is busted out of prison in the Los Bandoleros short film before joining the team.
• Lethal Chef: Both Rico and Roman agree his cooking's nigh-inedible, though apparently the New York "hipster crowd" just eats it up.
• The Pollyanna: Enforced male example; he always tries to keep the spirits high in the team, especially if the process involves mocking Rico's more composed approach to life.
• Put on a Bus: As of the sixth film, due to the actor wanting to concentrate on his rap career. This is written off in-universe when Brian tries to assemble the team - he and Rico are stated as having last been seen crawling around the casinos in Monte Carlo. He manages to make a cameo in the eighth film, as detailed above. Notably, while Rico makes a return in F9 in a cameo appearance at the end of the film, Tego doesn't, with Rico citing that he's too busy running a restaurant in Brooklyn.
• Those Two Guys: With Rico.
• Timeshifted Actor: Played by Tego Calderón as an older adult and Cered as a younger adult.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He and Santos unwittingly caused the tragedy that affected the Toretto brothers, as their conversation about the mechanics of a faulty engine caused Dom to realize that Jakob sabotaged their father's car, which led to his death.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Rico make a routine of taunting each other with every available topic, but they are best friends and quite inseparable.

Rico Santos

Rico Santos

Played By: Don Omar, Ozuna (young) ^{Other Languages} Óscar Flores (Latin Spanish, 2009-2011), Manuel Campuzano (Latin Spanish, 2017 onward)

Appearances: Los Bandoleros | Fast & Furious | Fast Five | Fast & Furious 6 ^note  archive footage | Furious 7 ^note  archive footage | The Fate of the Furious ^note  cameo | F9 | Fast X

Another friend of Dominic and member of his gang.

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• Badass Driver
• The Cameo: Alongside Tego Leo, in The Fate of the Furious.
• Determined Defeatist: He is constantly accused by Tego of being "negative." In truth, while Rico is definitely less plucky than his friend, he is away from being inactive or incompetent in any way.
• The Eeyore: He is a sober-headed man, or at least more than his pal.
• Put on a Bus: As of the sixth film, due to the actor wanting to concentrate on his rap career. This is written off in-universe when Brian tries to assemble the team - he and Tego are stated as having last been seen crawling around the casinos in Monte Carlo. As noted above, he returns briefly in the eighth film. He also returns in the ninth film, joining the rest of the Toretto family in their barbecue.
• Those Two Guys: Rarely seen without Tego.
• Timeshifted Actor: Played by Don Omar for most of the series, his role in the flashbacks of F9 is played by Ozuna.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He and Leo unwittingly caused the tragedy that affected the Toretto brothers, as their conversation about the mechanics of a faulty engine caused Dom to realize that Jakob sabotaged their father's car, which led to his death.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Tego again.

Leon

Leon

Played By: Johnny Strong ^{Other Languages} José Gilberto Vilchis (Latin Spanish, 2001)

Appearances: The Fast and The Furious

Leon is a friend and street racer under Dominic Toretto.

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• Social Circle Filler: He seems to exist purely to add numbers to Dom's crew in the first movie and never does anything of significance.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Completely disappears after the first film. Potentially justified; Mia explained in the original that while she, Dom, Vince, and Letty all grew up together, Leon and Jesse "just kinda showed up one night and never left", so he didn't have the same familial bond to the group that Vince and Letty did. It still doesn't explain why he's never even mentioned, though.

Jesse

Jesse

Played By: Chad Lindberg, Igby Rigney (young) ^{Other Languages} Gerardo del Valle (Latin Spanish, 2001)

Appearances: The Fast and The Furious | F9

Jesse is a street racer and the brains of Dominic's operations, and he is a wheelman in the heists. Jesse admits to having ADD and is shown often stuttering in his speeches and acting very nervous. Despite this setback, he is the computer nerd of the group as he is responsible for creating the designs, doing background checks on people, and hacking the engine characteristics of Toretto's race vehicles with precise calculations (a potential characteristic of those with ADD as they may at times have high IQs).

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Refreshingly averted. This also doubles as an example of Shown Their Work: 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.
• Sacrificial Lion: The only good guy to die in the first film, his death establishes the fact that Johnny Tran does not kid his words and is very dangerous.
• The Smart Guy: Of Dom's original crew.
• Timeshifted Actor: His cameo as a young man in F9 is played by Igby Rigney.

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