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{{quote|''On the other side of the world a new style of street racing rules the Tokyo underground. The cars are lighter. The tires are slick. When you drift, if you ain't out of control, you ain't in control. And if you work the wheel back and forth just right... you get blue sparks.''|[[Xkcd]] [http://xkcd.com/127/ #127]}}
''[[The Fast and the Furious]]'' is a series of street racing films produced by Universal Studios. The cars are fast, the drivers are furious, there is plenty of [[Technology Porn]] and a little story on the side.
The first film, ''The Fast and the Furious'', starring Paul Walker and [[Vin Diesel]], was directed by Rob Cohen and released in 2001. Brian O'Conner (Walker) is an undercover LAPD officer looking into a string of highway semi-truck hijackings, which he suspects is linked to ex-convict Dominic "Dom" Toretto (Diesel) and his car shop crew. Brian works to get into their inner circle and comes to respect Dom for his sense of loyalty, which causes problems when his superiors start questioning where Brian's allegiance lies.
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According to [[The Other Wiki]], a sixth film is in development as of the opening weekend of ''Fast Five''.
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The entire franchise was inspired by a ''magazine article.''
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Subverted. Sean's Monte Carlo looks beaten up and about to fall apart... until he hands a Viper-driving jock his ass on a silver platter.
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** Also invoked with Fenix. Earlier in the fourth movie {{spoiler|Dom sees Fenix standing over Letty before killing her in some sort of guilt induced hallucination}}. At the end, Fenix stands over Brian in much the same way before Dom swoops in for the rescue.
* [[Brick Joke]]: "I owe you a ten-second car."
* [[California Doubling]]: The shooting for ''Fast Five'' took place in Puerto Rico. It's pretty easy to notice if you live in Puerto Rico too.
** Scenes from ''Fast Five'' were also shot in Atlanta.
* [[The Cameo]]: {{spoiler|[[Vin Diesel]]}} at the end of ''Tokyo Drift'', and {{spoiler|[[Eva Mendes]] and [[Michelle Rodriguez]]}} in the credits of ''Fast Five''.
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* [[Character Development]]: Everyone gets their fair share, mostly due to the fact that their lives are drastically changed by the increasing weight and consequences of their dangerous, illegal endeavors. Vince is the best example, going from an overly jealous jerk in the first film to a loving, caring, and protective individual with a dash of his old temper. Brian 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.
* [[The Charmer]]: Sean in ''Tokyo Drift''. He successfully catches the attention of the girlfriends of two different guys, one a [[Jerk Jock]] and the other a [[Yakuza]] wannabe. This is also subverted when he tries his wink-and-smile combo on Cindy after the drag race and his mouth is [[Squick|full of blood]]; she is appropriately turned off.
* [[Childhood Friends]]: Dom and Vince. Also Brian and Roman Pearce.
* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: Vince in the first and fifth films; he finally calls Dom out on it in the fifth. Roman shares this role in ''Fast Five'', as well as being a semi-[[Butt Monkey]].
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: This is how they did a lot of their special effects during the racing scenes. It's at its worst in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''.
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** Both Toretto ([[Vin Diesel]]) and Vince (Matt Schulze) were said to be 24 when ''The Fast and The Furious'' has been made. [[Vin Diesel]] was 34, Matt Schulze was 29 by then.
** Well, Schulze was still in his twenties at least. Diesel, however, passed pretty well for 24-year old Toretto. (Many have jokingly attributed [[One of Us|Diesel's]] younger appearance compared to his real age to his love for [[Dungeons and Dragons|D&D]].) However, the actors for Tokyo Drift easily stand out as people older than their character's ages, Dawson Casting at it's damn-near worst.
* [[Doomed by Canon]]: {{spoiler|In the third movie, the character Han is introduced, and then killed off towards the end. Since the fourth and fifth movies take place before that, they were both able to feature Han and show what he was up to before he went to Tokyo. Unfortunately, everyone knows what awaits him when he gets to Tokyo}}.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Watch any of the films and try to locate someone that ISN'T one. Hell, make a game of it.
* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: Played straight in the first two films, but the fourth film subverts the trope usage from the first one.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Sean in ''Tokyo Drift''.
* [[Driving Stick]]: Shifting techniques in street racing are Serious Business.
** Even better because just about any lesson on performance driving technique in the series is total nonsense and potentially harmful to your engine.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|Dropped A Bridge On Her]]: {{spoiler|Letty has all of five minutes of screentime in the fourth film, and the next thing we know, Mia calls up Dom to tell him that Letty has been killed by [[Big Bad]] Fenix. We get to see what happens later, at least, but it's still awkward and mean-spirited, especially since Michelle Rodriguez [[Billing Displacement|has her name on the posters]]. Eventually subverted since she [[Not Quite Dead|wasn't quite dead]] in the fifth movie}}.
* [[Dueling Stars Movie]]: Fast Five is most notable for being [[Vin Diesel]] Vs. [[Dwayne Johnson|Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]. Johnson's character was originally going to be an older guy, but awesomely enough the filmmakers took up a fan's suggestion on [[Facebook]] that it would be great to see Diesel and Johnson in a movie together.
* [[DVD Commentary]]: The commentary for the first one by Rob Cohen goes to show the depth of insight a director can have about hidden aspects of the movie. Oh yeah, and he likes to [[Stuff Blowing Up|blow stuff up]] too.
* [[Enhance Button]]: Used briefly by [[Dwayne Johnson]]'s team in ''Fast Five'' to track down Torreto.
* [[Every Car Is Rear Wheel Drive]]: Mostly subverted, although a Skyline in the second movie was converted to rear wheel drive for certain stunt work.
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* [[Genre Motif/Hip Hop|Genre Motif: Hip Hop]]: The series runneth over with this, even the third movie, which is set in Japan.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The [[Big Bad]] of ''Fast Five'' is [[Desperado|Bucho]].
** Reiko in ''Tokyo Drift'' is [[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon|Sailor Mars]]!
* [[High Heel Face Turn]]:
** {{spoiler|Gisele in the fourth movie}}.
** Zig-zagged in the fifth movie with {{spoiler|Officer Neves. It seems like she'll end up in this role throughout most of the film, but both her ''and'' Hobbs end up joining forces with Toretto. She doesn't assist them in actually stealing the money, but does meet up with Dom again after the fact}}.
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* [[My Greatest Second Chance]]: When Dom fights Hobbs, he starts winning and ends up with a wrench in his hand. This is a reference to how he nearly beat a guy to death with a wrench in his backstory.
* [[Nitro Boost]]: Used in all of the films.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Dom is prone to this. The first film reveals how much of a "[[Hair-Trigger Temper|model of self-control]]" he is by showing pictures of a guy Toretto nearly beat to death with a three-quarter inch torque wrench in an act of personal revenge. Dom admits this to Brian himself without prompt, and it's heavily implied [[My Greatest Failure|he harbors remorse for permanently disabling the guy]].
* [[Not So Different]] : In the fifth movie, Hobbs shows his contempt for Dom when he reminds him how he beat a guy to death with a wrench prior to the first movie. However, during the fight between Hobbs and Dom later in the movie, Hobbs reaches for a wrench and tries to hit Dom with it. Seconds later, Dom actually refrains himself from doing the same thing. See [[My Greatest Second Chance]] entry above.
* [[No Seat Belts]]: Oddly enough, the lack of seat belt use seems to have little effect on [[Rule of Cool|anyone's ability to survive catastrophic crashes]].
* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]: This has been taken to the point of absurdity by this series: ''No two movies use the same numbering system''. The series goes ''The Fast And The Furious'', ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', ''The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift'', ''Fast & Furious'', ''Fast Five'' (known as ''Fast & Furious 5'' in the UK). Just to confuse things further, the fourth and fifth films are Midquels fitting between the second and third films, and the main characters are inconsistent across the series as well. The producers are reportedly planning two more sequels, but haven't settled on the titles yet. They're casually referring to them as ''Fast Six'' and ''Fast Seven''. Just to keep the tradition, here's to hoping they name them something like ''Fast VI'' and ''Fast 7: Forever Furious''.
* [[Once Per Movie]]: A cameo by a rapper. Averted in ''Fast Five'', where Ludacris, Don Omar and Tego's characters are main characters.
* [[Only in Miami]]: ''2 Fast 2 Furious'' takes place in Miami. The opening scene has the characters drive by the American Airlines Arena, home to the NBA's Miami Heat. That should be a tipoff.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Twinkie in ''Tokyo Drift''. Also doubles as an [[Ironic Nickname]], as the term "twinkie" is usually reserved for Asians.
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Dom and Fenix in the fourth film.
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* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: This was pretty much the crew's M.O. in Fast Five. For Starters: Dom's plan to get Reyes to move his money was to attack one of Reyes' drug houses, show his face and burn his money in front of Reyes' men and instruct them to tell Reyes what happened. Reyes moves his money to one heavily guarded spot instead of ten spots that are just guarded well, just like Dom planned. Except for the part about, it being a police station.
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: [[Eva Mendes]] as Monica Fuentes in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. This is promptly squashed by [[First Girl Wins]] in ''Fast & Furious''. {{spoiler|Dom also gets one in ''Fast Five''. Interestingly enough, Dom is ''her'' [[Replacement Love Interest]] too. One wonders how that's going to play out since Letty is actually alive}}.
* [[Rice Burner]]: Although all the cars in the movies are high performance, they are commonly accused of responsibility for promoting this in real life.
* [[Robbing the Mob Bank]]: In ''Fast Five'', Dom and Brian assemble a team to rob drug kingpin Reyes completely blind.
* [[Running Gag]]: Brian has never legitimately beaten Dom in a race. He almost does in the fourth film, and Dom lets him win in the fifth film.
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* [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: Played with in the first one; Brian was an undercover cop while Dom, Letty, Leon, Vince, and Jesse were professional thieves.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Practically every villain, but the series originals were Johnny Tran and his cousin Lance.
* [[Sour Prudes]]: Dom's girlfriend Letty temporarily use this position (without seeming to have it as an integrated part of her personality) as she chase off two girls hitting on Dom at the first race.
{{quote|'''Letty''': I smell ''[sniffs]'' skanks. Why don't you ladies pack it up before I leave tread marks on you faces?}}
* [[Steal the Surroundings]]: The crew takes this up a notch, stealing a massive vault by towing it with their cars, starting a lengthy [[Chase Scene]] where they drag it throughout the city.
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* [[Tempting Fate]]: Reyes right-hand man remarks that with the amount of security at the police station that's housing his drug money, not even God could steal it.
* [[That's What I Would Do]]: Brian tries to narrow down a list of suspects with the same name to figure out which one is involved with street racing. He has his FBI partner read off a list of the suspects' cars. After hearing about a Nissan 240SX with an illegal modification, he remarks that he's the one. His partner asks how he knows this and he replies "Because that's what I'd drive."
* [[Punctuated!
{{quote|'''Dom:''' This is Brasil!}}
* [[Tim Taylor Technology]]: Nitrous Oxide injectors FTW. Or, as the characters once liked to say it, "NAAAAWS." As NOS is a trademark of Holley Performance Products, it was removed from the second film and replaced by generic "N2O" labels on the steering wheels and was verbally referred to as "spray" and "kick" after Holley got a bit stroppy about its appearance in the first one. The NOS brand returns for films 3-5 though.
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* [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]]: During a race in the fourth film, Dom bumps Brian's car and causes him to lose control in order to win. This becomes a sore spot for Brian in the next sequel when he insists that was the only way Dom could have beaten him.
* [[Under the Truck]]: Done in the first and second films.
* [[Undercover Cop Reveal]]: Brian in the first film.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: When Brian and Mia see each other again in ''Fast & Furious'', Mia hadn't yet forgiven him for his role as an undercover cop five years earlier. Naturally, this is followed by [[They Do]].
* [[Watch the Paint Job]]: Most installations in the movies have some example of this, though Dominic's Dodge Charger in the first film (which was built by his late father and is revealed midway through the movie to be some sort of intimidating uber-car) getting completely pulverized by a semi truck in the movie's last drag race is the most remembered instance of this. The funniest example would be Sean from ''Tokyo Drift'' wrecking Han's S15 Silvia with a Skyline engine because he just can't drift.
* [[We Have the Keys]]: One scene in the second movie.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: The ''power shifting'', oh God...
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** Second movie: Excuse is same undercover cop and an ex-convict become street racers in order to get hired as drivers for a drug lord so they can infiltrate his operation.
** Third movie: Excuse is a street racing teenager sent to his US Navy dad stationed in Japan wrecks a yakuza drifter's car and he must work as his errand boy until he pays his car.
** Fourth movie: Same as the second (different drug lord) and the added twist that Don is also going undercover on his own initiative to get revenge on the man who killed his girlfriend.
* [[Yakuza]]: Pretty much every single Japanese character in ''Tokyo Drift''.
** And their uncle, quite literally!
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