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[[File:fast-and-furious.jpg|frame|When the producers ran out of ideas to name their [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|new sequel]].]]
 
{{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 (Webcomic)|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.
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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 Byby 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.
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* [[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 Onon 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 [[Face BookFacebook]] 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.
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** 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}}.
* [[Hollywood Driving]]: Invoked in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. So much so that if this weren't a movie, they would have both already been killed in a collision.
* [[Homage]] / [[Actor Allusion]]: In back-to-back scenes in ''Fast Five'', Dom ([[Vin Diesel]]) [[XXX (Film)|jumps out of a convertible he's driven off a cliff and then is strung up by his wrists and menaced by a drug lord.]]
* [[Inspector Javert]]: Hobbs in ''Fast Five'' is characterized this way until {{spoiler|he decides to help Dom because his team was killed and he wants revenge. After an [[Enemy Mine]] for a day or two, he gives Dom a mercy lead.}}
{{quote| '''Hobbs:''' Give me those documents. *throws them aside* All I care about is that Toretto is a name on a list!}}
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* [[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 Byby 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.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Invoked by Neela in ''Tokyo Drift''; she was originally from Australia and her accent goes in and out depending on her current mood. This is often [[Truth in Television]], when things like shouting or being upset will bring out your native accent even if you've lost it over time.
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** ''Fast and Furious'': {{spoiler|Dom's escape from the prison bus, revealed at the beginning of ''Fast Five''}}.
** ''Fast Five'': {{spoiler|Agent [[Eva Mendes]] revealing Letty is alive and driving in Berlin}}.
* [[Sitting Onon the Roof]]: In ''Tokyo Drift'', a Yakuza starts a fight on the roof of the school with the guy who sold him a defective iPod.
* [[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.
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* [[We Have the Keys]]: One scene in the second movie.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: The ''power shifting'', oh God...
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Everyone's whereabouts are explained and accounted for throughout the series, except for Leon, who completely disappears after the first film, and Suki, who disappears after the second.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: "Is it Toretto?" "No." "Not interested." [[Sequel Hook|"Do you believe]] [[He's Just Hiding|in ghosts?"]]
* [[Xtreme Sport Xcuse Plot]]:
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