History Film / F9

''F9'' (also known as ''F9: The Fast Saga'' and ''Fast & Furious 9'') is the tenth film in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' series (coming after ''Film/HobbsAndShaw''), though ninth chronologically.

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The movie was due to release April 2020 [[ReleaseDateChange but was pushed back]] due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic going into full swing across the globe at that point. The film was later released internationally in April 2021 and in the U.S. on June 25, 2021. A tenth film is set for release on April 7, 2023.

* AmbiguousSituation:
** The plot is kickstarted when Mr. Nobody's plane is taken down in Jakob's attack, and the team go to find him. [[spoiler:Mr. Nobody's whereabouts, or if he's alive or dead, is never revealed]].
** Cipher asks whether Jakob and Otto plan to use the Ares device themselves, or if they're working on behalf of someone else. This is never answered.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The film's opening chase scene takes place in [[BananaRepublic Montequito]], a fictitious Central American country which features high cliffs among karst rock formations. This kind of landscape exists in Southeast Asia, ([[{{JustifedTrope}} somewhat justified]], as the sequence was shot in [[CaliforniaDoubling Thailand]]).

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The film's opening chase scene takes place in [[BananaRepublic Montequito]], a fictitious Central American country which features high cliffs among karst rock formations. This kind of landscape exists in Southeast Asia, ([[JustifedTrope somewhat justified]], as the sequence was shot in [[CaliforniaDoubling Thailand]]).

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: [[spoiler: The team's hideout is later raided by Otto and his men, who free Jakob and kidnap Elle.]]

** The plot is kickstarted when Mr. Nobody's plane is taken down in Jakob's attack, and the team go to find him. [[spoiler: Mr. Nobody's whereabouts, or if he's alive or dead, is never revealed]].

** Flipping the armored truck has a couple problems:. The truck is probably heavy and would just compress instead of launching up when slowed, and the cars are pretty light to slow such a truck anyway.
** The truck slides upside down for a long distance, somehow maintaining it's speed after being flipped.
* BaitAndSwitch: It looks like Cipher is piloting a plane against Dom in the finale. When [[spoiler: it's destroyed, it turns out she was just running a drone]].
* BackFromTheDead: The trailer didn't even bother to hide that Han is alive after his supposed death in ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift Tokyo Drift]]'' (heck he's even in the poster for the movie as shown in the image there). [[spoiler: In the film it's stated he faked his death at the request of Mr. Nobody so as to protect Ellie more discreetly]].

* BigBadDuumvirate: Jakob and his employer, Otto, are the main threats of the movie. With Cipher only joining in later [[spoiler: when Otto releases her from prison to help against the protagonists. He reveals later he's working for her when he decides to turn on Jakob]].

** Not only is Han back, but the film also sees the return of [[spoiler: Sean, Twinkie and Earl, likewise from ''Tokyo Drift'']].

* CainAndAbelAndSeth: The film reveals that Dom and Mia have a third sibling, Jakob, and the film's conflict is driven by the bad blood between him and Dom. [[spoiler: This stems from the death of their father which Jakob had accidentally caused]].

* ChekhovsGun: The cast takes and tests out a giant electromagnet back to base, which was used by Jakob as a scrambler against surveillance in Edinburgh. [[spoiler: It would be later used for escape from Otto's army when they raided the base and installed in their cars in the final act.]]

* DramaticIrony: The tragedy about the Toretto brothers is further highlighted near the end of the film, which shows the immediate aftermath of the car crash that claimed their father's life. [[spoiler: Dom approached a grieving Jakob and promised him that they would carry on, because they are family and family sticks together. This contrasts with Dom's treatment of Jakob after he found out about his role in the car crash, as he basically urged Jakob to get lost. Evidently, Jakob became vengeful against Dom because to him, he didn't keep his promise.]]
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: It turns out that [[spoiler:Mister Nobody worked with Gisele before she met the team; he contacted Han for help with Project Ares because he reasoned that if Gisele trusted Han, he could do the same]].

* ForgottenFallenFriend:

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Jakob at the end when Otto betray and almost kills him. After Dom saves him, he comes to aid in stopping Otto on the transport truck.]]

** [[spoiler: Tej and Roman decide to use the last of their fuel to destroy the satellite instead of using it for their return trip. It works out though, with them getting rescued by the International Space Station.]]
* HijackedByGanon: At first it seems like Otto is the BigBad, [[spoiler: until he releases Cipher, the previous film's villain, from her box. She then fully takes over in the climax.]]
* HollywoodGenetics: Lampshaded as many openly discuss how odd it is that Dom can have a brother looking so different. Cipher notes she's heard the Torettos had "mixed blood" and "I didn't expect some Nordic in there."[[note]]For the record, John Cena isn't Nordic, but of Italian, English, and French-Canadian ancestry[[/note]] Magdalene notes how Jakob reminded her of Dom and "don't tell me he's a cousin." When Dom says he's his brother, she reacts in amazement.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Cipher once again leaves the film unscathed after Dom shoots down and destroys her fighter jet, as he just shoots down a large drone she was controlling by remote]].

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After Dom manages to capture Jakob alive, we cut to a frustrated Otto, with Cipher telling him that “if this was a movie right now, [[ThisIsThePartWhere this is the part where]] the villain suffers a minor setback”.
* LogoJoke: The film opens with the 1990-97 Universal logo graphics set to the 1997 fanfare with the current Comcast byline, as the film proper begins with a flashback to 1989.
* MacGuffinPersonReveal: [[spoiler: the key to activating Ares turns out to be Han's adoptive daughter, Elle, since her parents locked their invention with their DNA. Like most bearers of this trope, this is a girl, who is kidnapped and used by the villains.]]
* MotiveMisidentification: Dom assumes [[spoiler: Jakob caused their father's crash out of jealousy of being in his shadow. Jacob reveals that his dad had asked him to sabotage the engine because he was going to throw the race for a big payday. What neither man realized was the alterations would cause an explosion]].

* OnceMoreWithClarity: While [[spoiler: nearly drowning, Dom thinks back to the day of his father's crash. He now realizes his words to Jakob to "do it" was him telling Jakob to fix the engine to fail so his father had an excuse for throwing the race]].

* PutOnABus: Deckard and Hobbs aren't involved in this film, apparently still recovering from the events in ''Hobbs and Shaw''. [[spoiler: Though Deckard makes an appearance in TheStinger]].

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Like in the last movie, Cipher is still at large. Also, Mr. Nobody's whereabouts are unknown.]]
* ShoutOut: Otto makes multiple references to ''Franchise/StarWars'', even comparing himself to Luke and Han. Cipher says he is actually Yoda (“a puppet with someone else’s hand up his ass”).
* SpottingTheThread: It's Roman who's able to tell a couple of "workers" are actually thugs because they have cauliflower ears, indicating long histories of fighting.
* TheStinger: [[spoiler: Han arriving at Deckard's current hideout to show him he's still alive]].

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler: Cipher once again escapes at the end of the movie]].

* HollywoodGenetics: Lampshaded as many openly discuss how odd it is that Dom can have a brother looking so different. Cipher notes she's heard the Torettos had "mixed blood" and "I didn't expect some Nordic in there." Magdalene notes how Jakob reminded her of Dom and "don't tell me he's a cousin." When Dom says he's his brother, she reacts in amazement.

* UpToEleven: As part of LampshadeHanging, Roman is unable to process that he and Tej would be [[spoiler: going to outer space in order to take down a satellite, a step further up from out running tanks and fighting submarines, just to name a few.]]

** The trailer shows Roman and Tej in the Fiero screaming terror as it rockets down the runway. The car is actually unoccupied and remote controlled when it rockets down the runway. Roman and Tej don't actually get inside until they use it [[spoiler:to go into space.]]

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Artistic license, the movie could be an alternate title, with a number of wild stunts in the movie. Whether this is good or bad is {{TropesAreNotBad up to you}}. Some examples:

** The space car uses NOS as a boost. Nitrous oxide boosts a car engine mainly by decomposing and giving a higher fraction on oxygen in the air, allowing more fuel to be burned. The space car's rocket uses liquid oxygen as an oxidizer, which is more powerful than nitrous oxide would be, therefore NOS would actually reduce power.

** The truck slides upside down for a long distance, going at about the speed it was driving and travelling a long distance.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The electromagnets work absolutely nothing like reality. Besides the issues of SelectiveMagnetism, they can also be used to repel metal. Magnets only repel other magnets.
** Dom's car stunt in Central America obviously wouldn't have worked in the real world.

* HappyEndingOverride: Since the previous film's ending, Dom and Letty have been living in a quiet countryside with no access to telephone or internet. They have to be alert at all times because Cipher is still gunning for them. They are also estranged from the rest of the team, as Dom no longer wants to take part in their missions. Letty is rather miserable about the whole thing, as she misses being in on the action.

Some time after the events of ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious'', Mr. Nobody managed to capture Cipher, but his plane was shot down en route to transfer her to prison. The Family rides to his aid, with Dom specifically coming out of retirement when he learns that his younger brother, Jakob (Wrestling/JohnCena) is involved. Jakob and his associates are going after a device called the Ares that has been split up and can cause catastrophic consequences if it falls into the wrong hands.

** Averted. Despite years having passed since the last film, Roman explicitly brings up [[StuffedIntoTheFridge Elena]]'s death to make Dom reconsider about joining the operation to rescue Mr. Nobody. Meanwhile, not only Han still carries a torch for Gisele, he faked his death and became a secret agent for Mr. Nobody because the latter trusted Gisele, and she trusted Han.

* LogoJoke: The film opens with the 1990-97 Universal logo graphics set to the 1997 fanfare with the current Creator/{{Comcast}} byline, as the film proper begins with a flashback to 1989.

* AnachronismStew: The prologue takes place in 1989, but the race cars Jack Toretto and his competition are driving are modern late models, with Jack's done up to resemble a Chevy SS, a car that won't exist for another '''twenty-four years'''.

* EverythingIsRacist: Played for laughs. One of the Afro-Latino men young Dom met in prison asserted that they weren't arrested because they blew up a bank, but because they were driving while black and were connected to the crime after the fact.

* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Han has been the father figure to Ellie, a girl whose parents were killed by intruders while he was stealing their work on behalf of Mister Nobody, and the two are clearly attached to each other]].

* HijackedByGanon: At first it seems like Otto is the BigBad, [[spoiler: until he releases Cipher, the previous film's villain, from her box and fully takes over in the climax.]]

* PutOnABus: Deckard and Hobbs aren't involved in this film, apparently still recovering from the events in ''Hobbs and Shaw''. [[spoiler: Though Deckard makes a appearance in TheStinger]].

* TimeshiftedActor: Vinnie Bennett as young Dom and Finn Cole as young Jakob.
* TiredOfRunning: Letty admits to Mia that she hates living in hiding and that going on the offensive again is a relief. At the end of the film she and Dom have moved from their isolated country home to a home in the city.