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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Brian's Mitsubishi Eclipse is blown up when Johnny Tran and his gang shoot at it with their Micro Uzis, igniting the nitrous oxide leaking from the broken NOS system, and causing it to [[TechnicolorFire explode in a green fireball]. There is two things wrong here: first of all, nitrous oxide doesn't burn green. Second, ''it doesn't burn at all'', in fact, nitrous oxide's inflammablity is one of the reasons its widely used in racing.
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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Brian's Mitsubishi Eclipse is blown up when Johnny Tran and his gang shoot at it with their Micro Uzis, igniting the nitrous oxide leaking from the broken NOS system, and causing it to [[TechnicolorFire explode in a green fireball].fireball]]. There is two things wrong here: first of all, nitrous oxide doesn't burn green. Second, ''it doesn't burn at all'', in fact, nitrous oxide's inflammablity is one of the reasons its widely used in racing.
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* ShotgunsAreAlwaysBetter: Dom attempts to go after Tran armed with a shotgun, only to end up chasing the guy down with his Charger. The trucker who fights back against Dom and the crew is armed with a sawed-off over and under double-barreled shotgun
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* ShotgunsAreAlwaysBetter: ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Dom attempts to go after Tran armed with a shotgun, only to end up chasing the guy down with his Charger. The trucker who fights back against Dom and the crew is armed with a sawed-off sawed-off, over and under double-barreled shotgunshotgun.
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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Brian's Mitsubishi Eclipse is blown up when Johnny Tran and his gang shoot at it with their Micro Uzis, igniting the nitrous oxide leaking from the broken NOS system, and causing it to [[TechnicolorFire explode in a green fireball]. There is two things wrong here: first of all, nitrous oxide doesn't burn green. Second, ''it doesn't burn at all'', in fact, nitrous oxide's inflammablity is one of the reasons its widely used in racing.
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-->'''Dom:''' "You almost had ''me''? You never had me. You never had your ''car''. Granny shiftin', [[DanBrowned not double clutchin' like you should]]. You're lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake. You almost had ''me''? Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you fried. Ask any racer, any ''real'' racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning."
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-->'''Dom:''' "You almost had ''me''? You never had me. You never had your ''car''. Granny shiftin', [[DanBrowned not double clutchin' like you should]]. You're lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake. You almost had ''me''? Now me and the mad scientist [Jesse] gotta rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you fried. Ask any racer, any ''real'' racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning."
** Justified, since Dom was afraid of his Dad's 1970 Dodge Charger, only getting over his fear when he had to use the car to go after Johnny Tran for [[spoiler: killing Jesse]].
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* SacrificialLion: SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Jessie]] is the only good guy to die. His death establishes the fact that Johnny Tran does not kid his words and is very dangerous.
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* ShotgunsAreBetter: Dom attempts to go after Tran armed with a shotgun, only to end up chasing the guy down with his Charger.
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* ResurrectTheWreck: The Supra Brian gets to replace his Eclipse looks like it had a serious accident. Fortunately, the original engine is still in it and intact, so they get to fixing it up. When they finish, the end result easily handles a race against a Ferrari.
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** SixthRangerTraitor - Brian; unlike most examples of this trope, Brian legitimately cares for the crew despite that he's trying to stop them, as seen during the botched truck hiest (see below entry).
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** SixthRangerTraitor - Brian; unlike most examples of this trope, Brian legitimately cares for the crew despite that he's trying to stop them, as seen during the botched truck hiest heist (see below entry).
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**Also a couple of girls in wet t-shirts and thongs at Race Wars.
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''The Fast and the Furious'' is the first installment of the ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise. Starred Creator/VinDiesel and Creator/PaulWalker, was directed by Rob Cohen and released in 2001.
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''The Fast and the Furious'' is the first installment of the ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise. Starred Creator/VinDiesel Creator/VinDiesel, Creator/PaulWalker and Creator/PaulWalker, Creator/RickYune, was directed by Rob Cohen and released in 2001.
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** Several scenes later, it's repeated when O'Conner calls for police back-up and an ambulance after rescuing Vince. Dom, who had [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil considered Brian his brother]] up to this point, has to seriously restrain himself from not beating the living shit of him. Instead, he takes off.
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** Several scenes later, it's repeated when O'Conner calls for police back-up and an ambulance after rescuing Vince. Dom, who had [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil [[EtTuBrute considered Brian his brother]] up to this point, has to seriously restrain himself from not beating the living shit of him. Instead, he takes off.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: Brian reveals to Mia that he is a cop at the end of the movie. The viewer has known this all along but it allows some drama between Brian and the girl he has been sleeping with and eventually persuades her to help him track down the truck thieves.
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** Brian reveals to Mia that he is a cop at the end of the movie. The viewer has known this all along but it allows some drama between Brian and the girl he has been sleeping with and eventually persuades her to help him track down the truckthieves.thieves.
** Several scenes later, it's repeated when O'Conner calls for police back-up and an ambulance after rescuing Vince. Dom, who had [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil considered Brian his brother]] up to this point, has to seriously restrain himself from not beating the living shit of him. Instead, he takes off.
** Brian reveals to Mia that he is a cop at the end of the movie. The viewer has known this all along but it allows some drama between Brian and the girl he has been sleeping with and eventually persuades her to help him track down the truck
** Several scenes later, it's repeated when O'Conner calls for police back-up and an ambulance after rescuing Vince. Dom, who had [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil considered Brian his brother]] up to this point, has to seriously restrain himself from not beating the living shit of him. Instead, he takes off.
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-->'''Letty:''' "You need to shut the f---"
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Leon completely disappears after this 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.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Leon completely disappears after this film. Potentially justified; Mia explained in the original this film 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, mentioned in later movies, though.
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* ForbiddenChekovsGun: The Dodge Charger in Dom's garage belonged to his father and nobody, not even Dom, dares drive it... until the last ten minutes of the film.
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* InstantEmergencyResponse: Immediately before the start of the first race, a guy listening on the police band says that all the cops in the area are responding to a call somewhere else, so it's safe to race. The race is a quarter-mile straight line drag race that literally lasts ten seconds. A couple minutes after the race is over, the same guy reports that the cops have been informed of the races, and all of a sudden patrol vehicles are everywhere, despite them starting out in another part of town and having only learned about the races within the past five minutes at most.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The trucker who kept a loaded twelve-gauge on the passenger seat of his cab did more to suppress the robberies than the police did. All Brian accomplished was to accidentally finger the wrong guy, and fail to find any evidence linking Dom to the robberies until the climax.
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* ItsALongStory: Following the encounter with Johnny Tran:
-->'''Brian''': What was the deal back there?
-->'''Dom:''' It's a long story.
-->'''Brian''': We have a twenty mile hike. Humor me.
-->'''Dom''': A business deal that went sour. Plus I made the mistake of sleeping with his sister.
-->'''Brian''': What was the deal back there?
-->'''Dom:''' It's a long story.
-->'''Brian''': We have a twenty mile hike. Humor me.
-->'''Dom''': A business deal that went sour. Plus I made the mistake of sleeping with his sister.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Johnny Tran and his crew show up:
-->''Dom''': Oh, great.
-->'''Brian''': What?
-->'''Dom''': It's gonna be a long-ass night, that's what.
-->''Dom''': Oh, great.
-->'''Brian''': What?
-->'''Dom''': It's gonna be a long-ass night, that's what.
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* FiveFiveFive: Dom's cell phone number is 323-555-6439.
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* BottomlessMagazines: What Johnny and his cousin Lance seem to have in the final ChaseScene.
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* BottomlessMagazines: What Johnny and his cousin Lance seem to have fires way more rounds than the submachine gun he's carrying can hold in a magazine during the final ChaseScene.chase scene. Furthermore, he's doing so while riding a motorcycle, giving him no realistically-conceivable means of reloading. When they destroy Brian's Eclipse, each of their submachine guns fires like an anti-materiel machine gun, about 150-200 rounds of API ammo each. After so many rounds, any machine gun with one barrel would have gone white hot.
* CelebrityParadox: "Area Codes" by Music/{{Ludacris}} is being played in the house party, despite Ludacris playing the character Tej from the second movie onward. This begs the question of who made the song they were listening to in the movie's universe.
* ConflictingLoyalty: This is a major problem for Brian, who is assigned to obtain evidence against Dominic Toretto and his team of truck jackers. He ends up falling for Mia and becomes Toretto's friend. In the end, he chooses to let Toretto go.
* CreatorCameo: Rob Cohen is the pizza delivery guy who has to take a detour because of a street race. In the DVDCommentary, Cohen refers to himself as [[SelfDeprecation a terrible actor who he should have fired]].
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Brian, in his first drag race, uses his nitrous too early and is in danger of losing the race. In desperation, he uses a second nitrous burst, still loses, and severely damages his engine as a result. No one in the entire series of movies ever uses nitrous twice, except for this one instance.
* CreatorCameo: Rob Cohen is the pizza delivery guy who has to take a detour because of a street race. In the DVDCommentary, Cohen refers to himself as [[SelfDeprecation a terrible actor who he should have fired]].
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Brian, in his first drag race, uses his nitrous too early and is in danger of losing the race. In desperation, he uses a second nitrous burst, still loses, and severely damages his engine as a result. No one in the entire series of movies ever uses nitrous twice, except for this one instance.
* DeathGlare: The look Dom gives Brian during the UndercoverCopReveal. Brian is clearly very nervous under the glare.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Brian's Mitsubishi is blown up by a barrage of bullets from Tran's crew. Plus, pretty green emit from the car probably from all the nitrous he put in the car.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: A double subversion. Johnny Tran's gang pumps Brian's Mitsubishi is blown up by a barrage car full of bullets from Tran's crew. Plus, pretty green emit from bullets. Brian and Dom just keep standing next to it as it catches fire without blowing up. Seconds later Dom shouts "NOS!" and the car probably from all the nitrous he put goes up in the car.a massive fireball as they run away.
* FirstEpisodeTwist: Dom Toretto and his crew ''are'' criminal truck hijackers.
* ForbiddenChekovsGun: The Dodge Charger in Dom's garage belonged to his father and nobody, not even Dom, dares drive it... until the last ten minutes of the film.
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-->'''Dom:''' Brian Earl Spilner. Sounds like a serial killer.killer name. Is that what you are?
* HighSpeedHijack: A series of these is central to the plot, which is why the LAPD sent Brian undercover. The very beginning of the movie was the target truck being loaded, followed by the heist - we don't know who or why yet, but a gang driving Civics with underglow use a grappling hook to get into and subdue the truck's driver. Towards the end, the Torettos are revealed to be behind the thefts when they try another, failing miserably thanks to a shotgun-toting target.
* HighSpeedHijack: A series of these is central to the plot, which is why the LAPD sent Brian undercover. The very beginning of the movie was the target truck being loaded, followed by the heist - we don't know who or why yet, but a gang driving Civics with underglow use a grappling hook to get into and subdue the truck's driver. Towards the end, the Torettos are revealed to be behind the thefts when they try another, failing miserably thanks to a shotgun-toting target.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Vince onsistently 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.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Vince onsistently 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.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: Brian reveals himself to call for Mia that he is a medical helicopter cop at the end of the movie. The viewer has known this all along but it allows some drama between Brian and the girl he has been sleeping with and eventually persuades her to save Vince's life.help him track down the truck thieves.
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* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Dom's EstablishingCharacterMoment 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.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer:
-->'''Dom:''' ''(to Brian, regarding Mia)'' If you break her heart, I'll break your neck.
-->'''Dom:''' ''(to Brian, regarding Mia)'' If you break her heart, I'll break your neck.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: The crew use [[InstantSedation instant knockout darts]] instead of bullets to hijack trucks.
* NobleDemon: It's easy to forget that Dom's the ''villain'' of the movie, the notorious carjacker that California law enforcement has been chasing for months. He's a caring TeamDad, [[DoesNotLikeGuns 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.
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** The crew steal goods from Panasonic.
** "You can have any brew you want, so long as it's Corona".
** The crew steal goods from Panasonic.
** "You can have any brew you want, so long as it's Corona".
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* ShoutOut: The obscured truck driver in the final heist was an {{homage}} to ''Film/{{Duel}}''.
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* ShoutOut: SheIsAllGrownUp: Mentioned as the reason Dom and Letty got together. Beforehand, it's a one-way PrecociousCrush 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.
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** The obscured truck driver in the final heist was an {{homage}} to''Film/{{Duel}}''.''Film/{{Duel}}''.
** During the climax, Brian chases Tran and his henchman down a hill in a nod to the famous CarChase in ''Film/{{Bullitt}}''.
--> '''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.
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** The obscured truck driver in the final heist was an {{homage}} to
** During the climax, Brian chases Tran and his henchman down a hill in a nod to the famous CarChase in ''Film/{{Bullitt}}''.
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* AllThereInTheScript:
** Bilkins' first name is Bob.
** Dom's father was a pipefitter at the Navy Yard, with Stock Car Circuit aspirations.
** Brian is from Simi, California and was raised by his uncle, both his parents are dead. His father was a police officer, who had an affair with the wife of his colleague Jack van Patton. Van Patton then ambushed Brian's father and shot him dead.
** Dom and Mia's father had chased off their mother, to the New York area.
** At the final race at the railroad tracks, Dom mentions that he has only lost one race in his life - his first, after which, his father beat him.
** Bilkins' first name is Bob.
** Dom's father was a pipefitter at the Navy Yard, with Stock Car Circuit aspirations.
** Brian is from Simi, California and was raised by his uncle, both his parents are dead. His father was a police officer, who had an affair with the wife of his colleague Jack van Patton. Van Patton then ambushed Brian's father and shot him dead.
** Dom and Mia's father had chased off their mother, to the New York area.
** At the final race at the railroad tracks, Dom mentions that he has only lost one race in his life - his first, after which, his father beat him.
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* ProductPlacement: "You can have any brew you want, so long as it's Corona".
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Refreshingly averted. This also doubles as an example of ShownTheirWork: Jesse 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.
* BadassBiker: Johnny Tran is only seen driving a car once during the film, at Race Wars. Lance is never seen driving a car during the film, and spends the entirety of the movie on a bike of some kind.
* BadassBiker: Johnny Tran is only seen driving a car once during the film, at Race Wars. Lance is never seen driving a car during the film, and spends the entirety of the movie on a bike of some kind.
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* BatterUp: The truck driver in the opening heist defends himself with a bat.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Johnny tortures a mechanic when he doesn't have the right parts for a car by nearly making him swallow motor oil.
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* EvilIsPetty: Johnny and Dom have a deal to stay on each other respective sides of town. Brian accidentally drives into it while trying to get away from the cops after the street race. At first he seems reasonable enough and leaves without incident. Then a moment later two of his goons come back and shoot up the car. Forcing them to walk.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Tanner cares deeply about Brian, giving him advice and even trying to keep him off the cigarettes he gave up.
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* MySisterIsOffLimits: One of the reasons Johnny Tran has bad blood with Dom, who slept with his sister.
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* RedHerring: About halfway through the film, Hector is presented as a possible suspect behind the theft of the DVD players when he comes into the store Brian works at and orders parts for a few Honda Civics (the cars used to pull of the thefts). He's not, and it's later revealed that Dominic is behind the heists.
* RevisedEnding: An alternate ending titled "More than Furious" was filmed, in which Tanner drops Brian off at the Toretto home, where he encounters Mia packing, intending to move away. Brian reveals that he resigned from the LAPD, who let him go quietly, and that he wants another chance with her. When Mia tells him that it's not going to be that simple, Brian tells her that he's got time. This ending was released in the collection bundle DVD version.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Jessie]] is the only good guy to die. His death establishes the fact that Johnny Tran does not kid his words and is very dangerous.
* RevisedEnding: An alternate ending titled "More than Furious" was filmed, in which Tanner drops Brian off at the Toretto home, where he encounters Mia packing, intending to move away. Brian reveals that he resigned from the LAPD, who let him go quietly, and that he wants another chance with her. When Mia tells him that it's not going to be that simple, Brian tells her that he's got time. This ending was released in the collection bundle DVD version.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Jessie]] is the only good guy to die. His death establishes the fact that Johnny Tran does not kid his words and is very dangerous.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Leon completely disappears after this 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.
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%%* DidNotGetTheGirl: Played straight in the first two films, but the fourth film subverts the trope usage from the first one.
* DVDCommentary: The commentary by Creator/RobCohen goes to show the depth of insight a director can have about hidden aspects of the movie. Oh yeah, and he likes to [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] too. And he ''loves'' pounding cars.
* DVDCommentary: The commentary by Creator/RobCohen goes to show the depth of insight a director can have about hidden aspects of the movie. Oh yeah, and he likes to [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] too. And he ''loves'' pounding cars.
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* InterchangeableAsianCultures: The Tran family are inferred to be Vietnamese-Americans due to their surnames ([[CaptainObvious Tran and Nguyen]]). They are played by the Korean-American [[Film/DieAnotherDay Rick Yune]] and the Filipino-Chinese Reggie Lee.
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* InterchangeableAsianCultures: The Tran family are inferred to be Vietnamese-Americans due to their surnames ([[CaptainObvious Tran (Tran and Nguyen]]).Nguyen). They are played by the Korean-American [[Film/DieAnotherDay Rick Yune]] and the Filipino-Chinese Reggie Lee.
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* SuicideBySea: More like suicide by freight train. It's {{Implied|Trope}} that Dom was planning on dying at the end of his race with Brian. This is also supported earlier on in the film when Dom mentions that he'd rather die than go back to prison, and when Dom implies that driving his Charger would end up killing him the same way it killed his father.
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Starred Creator/VinDiesel and Creator/PaulWalker, 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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''The Fast and the Furious'' is the first installment of the ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' franchise. Starred Creator/VinDiesel and Creator/PaulWalker, was directed by Rob Cohen and released in 2001. 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.
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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* ''Film/2Fast2Furious'': Starring Walker and Tyrese, was directed by Creator/JohnSingleton and released in 2003. Brian O'Conner has long since left the LAPD and fled to the streets of Miami, but is coerced to infiltrate a local drug lord's money laundering operation as a runner. He recruits his childhood friend Roman "Rome" Pearce (Gibson) for a second driver, and both of them work to undermine the bad guys and get their criminal records wiped clean while trying to stay alive in the process. Dominic, despite being the first film's lead, does not appear.
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Starred Creator/VinDiesel and Creator/PaulWalker, 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.
* ''Film/2Fast2Furious'': Starring Walker and Tyrese, was directed by Creator/JohnSingleton and released in 2003. Brian O'Conner has long since left the LAPD and fled to the streets of Miami, but is coerced to infiltrate a local drug lord's money laundering operation as a runner. He recruits his childhood friend Roman "Rome" Pearce (Gibson) for a second driver, and both of them work to undermine the bad guys and get their criminal records wiped clean while trying to stay alive in the process. Dominic, despite being the first film's lead, does not appear.
!!Tropes:
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Dom explaining the significance of his car, and what happened to his father.
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Dom:''' "You almost had ''me''? You never had me. You never had your ''car''. Granny shiftin', [[DanBrowned not double clutchin' like you should]]. You're lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake. You almost had ''me''? Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you fried. Ask any racer, any ''real'' racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning."
* BookEnds:
** The truck heist in the climax reveals which characters did what during the truck heist in the opening scene. Dom drives in front of the truck. Vince fires the harpoon to break in the cab and knock out the driver. Leon and Jesse surround the truck, preventing it from moving. And Letty drives under the trailer bed to distract the driver.
** Before the second heist, Dom tells Letty that he had a dream where they were in Mexico. The post-credits scene reveals that Dom's dream did come true, just not in the way that he envisioned it. He arrives in Mexico as a fugitive.
* ChestInsignia: One of the few examples of a car variant of this trope. Each member of Dom's street team has a unique livery depicting a flaming robot character on the doors of their personal cars.
** Dom's RX-7 has a flying robot with an armada of spaceships.
** Letty's 240SX features a robot knight jousting on a comet.
** Jesse's Jetta exhibits a robot knight jousting on a rocket.
** Vince's Maxima depicts a robot shark.
** Leon's Skyline showcases a robot knight wielding a great sword.
** Mia's Integra sports a winged robot angel.
** Brian's Supra brandishes a robot knight throwing a javelin.
* DarknessEqualsDeath: Dom's monologue about his dad's death makes it very clear that his Charger was originally supposed to represent this.
%%* DidNotGetTheGirl: Played straight in the first two films, but the fourth film subverts the trope usage from the first one.
* DVDCommentary: The commentary by Creator/RobCohen goes to show the depth of insight a director can have about hidden aspects of the movie. Oh yeah, and he likes to [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] too. And he ''loves'' pounding cars.
* DrivenToSuicide: Quite literally in this film. After Brian blows his cover, forcing Dom's family to flee, and indirectly causing Jesse to die, Dom, now with nothing but the knowledge of his impending arrest, opts to kill himself by racing the quarter mile one last time, planning to get hit by a train that awaits him on the other side. In the very same car his father died in, no less. [[BungledSuicide It doesn't work, obviously.]]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Dom drives import cars (the Madza RX-7 and the Honda Civic) for most of the film, but starts driving muscle cars as his vehicle/s of choice for the rest of the series.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Brian's Mitsubishi is blown up by a barrage of bullets from Tran's crew. Plus, pretty green emit from the car probably from all the nitrous he put in the car.
* ExtremeSportExcusePlot: Excuse is the street racers are hijacking shipment trucks to fund their activity and a cop goes undercover to infiltrate the group.
* {{Fanservice}}: The two girls making out during the party Vince and the crew throw while waiting for Dom to return.
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader - Dom
** TheLancer - Letty
** TheSmartGuy - Jesse
** TheBigGuy - Vince
** TheChick - Leon
** SixthRangerTraitor - Brian; unlike most examples of this trope, Brian legitimately cares for the crew despite that he's trying to stop them, as seen during the botched truck hiest (see below entry).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:One of Brian's bosses mentions that truck drivers are arming themselves in response to the threat of robbery. Sure enough, a pivotal scene involves Dom's team trying to rob an armed driver.]]
* GanglandDriveBy: Near the end, after the heist scene, the crew returns to Dominic's house but Tran and his cousin zip by on motorcycles, spraying bullets, [[spoiler:and killing Jesse]].
* GunmanWithThreeNames: Referenced when Dom checks Brian's wallet.
-->'''Dom:''' Brian Earl Spilner. Sounds like a serial killer.
* HollywoodSilencer: Averted; Johnny Tran's crew use suppressed Micro Uzis as their WeaponOfChoice, but the guns are still very loud.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: The Tran family are inferred to be Vietnamese-Americans due to their surnames ([[CaptainObvious Tran and Nguyen]]). They are played by the Korean-American [[Film/DieAnotherDay Rick Yune]] and the Filipino-Chinese Reggie Lee.
* NeverGoingBackToPrison: Dom spent two years in prison for assault and tells Brian that he'd rather die than go back.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Dom is prone to this. The film reveals how much of a "[[HairTriggerTemper 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 [[MyGreatestFailure he harbors remorse for permanently disabling the guy]].
* RacingTheTrain: Brian and Dom do this at the end while also drag-racing against each other. They both make it.
* RealityEnsues: As stated in the BadassBoast above, Brian's modifications to his car (specifically the NOS) nearly break his car during his race with Dom, as he didn't bother to actually think about what went in his car, just caring to go fast enough to beat Dom.
* RecycledPremise: ''Film/PointBreak1991'', except with car racing instead of surfing.
* SixthRangerTraitor: Played with; Brian was an undercover cop while Dom, Letty, Leon, Vince, and Jesse were professional thieves.
* SourPrudes: Dom's girlfriend Letty temporarily uses this position (without seeming to have it as an integrated part of her personality) as she chases off two girls hitting on Dom at the first race.
--> '''Letty''': I smell ''[sniffs]'' skanks. Why don't you ladies pack it up before I leave tread marks on your faces?
* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Dom is driving along a beach in Mexico]].
* SuicideBySea: More like suicide by freight train. It's {{Implied|Trope}} that Dom was planning on dying at the end of his race with Brian. This is also supported earlier on in the film when Dom mentions that he'd rather die than go back to prison, and when Dom implies that driving his Charger would end up killing him the same way it killed his father.
* TookALevelInBadass: Dominic Toretto, already the most badass character in the movie, manages to take ''[[UpToEleven yet]]'' [[UpToEleven another level]] after Brian rescued Vince from the truck and revealed that he's a cop. Dom used to be primarily an import racer and scared of his father's [[CoolCar supercharged 900hp Dodge Charger streetmachine]]. But when he sets out to find Jessie before Tran does, he has overcome his fear of the black Mopar brute (which is the only car available to him anyway) and changed into the American muscle aficionado of the sequels.
* UndercoverCopReveal: Brian reveals himself to call for a medical helicopter to save Vince's life.
* UnderTheTruck: The climax sequence mirrors the opening sequence, revealing each character's role in Dom's heists. This scene implies that this was [[spoiler: Letty's]] signature move.
* WatchThePaintJob: Dominic's Dodge Charger (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 in the entire series.
* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Bryan gives Dominic a Toyota Supra that was probably intimidating at some point, but now looks like a building fell on it. The interior machinery, however, is all intact, so an impressed Dominic and crew immediately get to work repairing the outer damage.
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* ''Film/2Fast2Furious'': Starring Walker and Tyrese, was directed by Creator/JohnSingleton and released in 2003. Brian O'Conner has long since left the LAPD and fled to the streets of Miami, but is coerced to infiltrate a local drug lord's money laundering operation as a runner. He recruits his childhood friend Roman "Rome" Pearce (Gibson) for a second driver, and both of them work to undermine the bad guys and get their criminal records wiped clean while trying to stay alive in the process. Dominic, despite being the first film's lead, does not appear.
!!Tropes:
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Dom explaining the significance of his car, and what happened to his father.
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Dom:''' "You almost had ''me''? You never had me. You never had your ''car''. Granny shiftin', [[DanBrowned not double clutchin' like you should]]. You're lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake. You almost had ''me''? Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you fried. Ask any racer, any ''real'' racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning."
* BookEnds:
** The truck heist in the climax reveals which characters did what during the truck heist in the opening scene. Dom drives in front of the truck. Vince fires the harpoon to break in the cab and knock out the driver. Leon and Jesse surround the truck, preventing it from moving. And Letty drives under the trailer bed to distract the driver.
** Before the second heist, Dom tells Letty that he had a dream where they were in Mexico. The post-credits scene reveals that Dom's dream did come true, just not in the way that he envisioned it. He arrives in Mexico as a fugitive.
* ChestInsignia: One of the few examples of a car variant of this trope. Each member of Dom's street team has a unique livery depicting a flaming robot character on the doors of their personal cars.
** Dom's RX-7 has a flying robot with an armada of spaceships.
** Letty's 240SX features a robot knight jousting on a comet.
** Jesse's Jetta exhibits a robot knight jousting on a rocket.
** Vince's Maxima depicts a robot shark.
** Leon's Skyline showcases a robot knight wielding a great sword.
** Mia's Integra sports a winged robot angel.
** Brian's Supra brandishes a robot knight throwing a javelin.
* DarknessEqualsDeath: Dom's monologue about his dad's death makes it very clear that his Charger was originally supposed to represent this.
%%* DidNotGetTheGirl: Played straight in the first two films, but the fourth film subverts the trope usage from the first one.
* DVDCommentary: The commentary by Creator/RobCohen goes to show the depth of insight a director can have about hidden aspects of the movie. Oh yeah, and he likes to [[StuffBlowingUp blow stuff up]] too. And he ''loves'' pounding cars.
* DrivenToSuicide: Quite literally in this film. After Brian blows his cover, forcing Dom's family to flee, and indirectly causing Jesse to die, Dom, now with nothing but the knowledge of his impending arrest, opts to kill himself by racing the quarter mile one last time, planning to get hit by a train that awaits him on the other side. In the very same car his father died in, no less. [[BungledSuicide It doesn't work, obviously.]]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Dom drives import cars (the Madza RX-7 and the Honda Civic) for most of the film, but starts driving muscle cars as his vehicle/s of choice for the rest of the series.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Brian's Mitsubishi is blown up by a barrage of bullets from Tran's crew. Plus, pretty green emit from the car probably from all the nitrous he put in the car.
* ExtremeSportExcusePlot: Excuse is the street racers are hijacking shipment trucks to fund their activity and a cop goes undercover to infiltrate the group.
* {{Fanservice}}: The two girls making out during the party Vince and the crew throw while waiting for Dom to return.
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader - Dom
** TheLancer - Letty
** TheSmartGuy - Jesse
** TheBigGuy - Vince
** TheChick - Leon
** SixthRangerTraitor - Brian; unlike most examples of this trope, Brian legitimately cares for the crew despite that he's trying to stop them, as seen during the botched truck hiest (see below entry).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:One of Brian's bosses mentions that truck drivers are arming themselves in response to the threat of robbery. Sure enough, a pivotal scene involves Dom's team trying to rob an armed driver.]]
* GanglandDriveBy: Near the end, after the heist scene, the crew returns to Dominic's house but Tran and his cousin zip by on motorcycles, spraying bullets, [[spoiler:and killing Jesse]].
* GunmanWithThreeNames: Referenced when Dom checks Brian's wallet.
-->'''Dom:''' Brian Earl Spilner. Sounds like a serial killer.
* HollywoodSilencer: Averted; Johnny Tran's crew use suppressed Micro Uzis as their WeaponOfChoice, but the guns are still very loud.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: The Tran family are inferred to be Vietnamese-Americans due to their surnames ([[CaptainObvious Tran and Nguyen]]). They are played by the Korean-American [[Film/DieAnotherDay Rick Yune]] and the Filipino-Chinese Reggie Lee.
* NeverGoingBackToPrison: Dom spent two years in prison for assault and tells Brian that he'd rather die than go back.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Dom is prone to this. The film reveals how much of a "[[HairTriggerTemper 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 [[MyGreatestFailure he harbors remorse for permanently disabling the guy]].
* RacingTheTrain: Brian and Dom do this at the end while also drag-racing against each other. They both make it.
* RealityEnsues: As stated in the BadassBoast above, Brian's modifications to his car (specifically the NOS) nearly break his car during his race with Dom, as he didn't bother to actually think about what went in his car, just caring to go fast enough to beat Dom.
* RecycledPremise: ''Film/PointBreak1991'', except with car racing instead of surfing.
* SixthRangerTraitor: Played with; Brian was an undercover cop while Dom, Letty, Leon, Vince, and Jesse were professional thieves.
* SourPrudes: Dom's girlfriend Letty temporarily uses this position (without seeming to have it as an integrated part of her personality) as she chases off two girls hitting on Dom at the first race.
--> '''Letty''': I smell ''[sniffs]'' skanks. Why don't you ladies pack it up before I leave tread marks on your faces?
* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Dom is driving along a beach in Mexico]].
* SuicideBySea: More like suicide by freight train. It's {{Implied|Trope}} that Dom was planning on dying at the end of his race with Brian. This is also supported earlier on in the film when Dom mentions that he'd rather die than go back to prison, and when Dom implies that driving his Charger would end up killing him the same way it killed his father.
* TookALevelInBadass: Dominic Toretto, already the most badass character in the movie, manages to take ''[[UpToEleven yet]]'' [[UpToEleven another level]] after Brian rescued Vince from the truck and revealed that he's a cop. Dom used to be primarily an import racer and scared of his father's [[CoolCar supercharged 900hp Dodge Charger streetmachine]]. But when he sets out to find Jessie before Tran does, he has overcome his fear of the black Mopar brute (which is the only car available to him anyway) and changed into the American muscle aficionado of the sequels.
* UndercoverCopReveal: Brian reveals himself to call for a medical helicopter to save Vince's life.
* UnderTheTruck: The climax sequence mirrors the opening sequence, revealing each character's role in Dom's heists. This scene implies that this was [[spoiler: Letty's]] signature move.
* WatchThePaintJob: Dominic's Dodge Charger (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 in the entire series.
* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Bryan gives Dominic a Toyota Supra that was probably intimidating at some point, but now looks like a building fell on it. The interior machinery, however, is all intact, so an impressed Dominic and crew immediately get to work repairing the outer damage.
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