Line #106 Film/HobbsAndShaw


1	! Spoilers for all ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'' movies preceding this one, including ''Film/Furious7'' will be left unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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3	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} Two worlds collide.]]'']]
4	->'''Shaw:''' It's my sister! ''Family'' business.\
5	'''Hobbs:''' When it's the fate of the world, it becomes ''my'' business.
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7	''[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt Fast & Furious Presents]]: Hobbs & Shaw'' is a 2019 action film directed by David Leitch (''Film/Deadpool2'', ''Film/JohnWick'') and written by Chris Morgan, screenwriter of every ''[[Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious Fast & Furious]]'' film since 2006's ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift Tokyo Drift]]''.
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9	''Hobbs & Shaw'' is the first {{spinoff}} of the ''Fast & Furious'' franchise, with series regulars Creator/DwayneJohnson and Creator/JasonStatham reprising their roles as Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw, respectively.
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11	After Hattie Shaw (Creator/VanessaKirby), an [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] agent and younger sister of Deckard, becomes infected with a [[ThePlague super-virus that could wipe out half the world]], Hobbs and Shaw are forced to work together to save her life (and [[SavingTheWorld the world]]) from Brixton (Creator/IdrisElba), a [[{{Cyborg}} cybernetically]] and [[BioAugmentation genetically]] enhanced SuperSoldier-turned-international terrorist who needs the virus to fulfill his mission.
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13	The film also stars Creator/EizaGonzalez as Madame M, an ally of Shaw's, and Creator/EddieMarsan as Professor Andreiko, a Russian scientist who created the virus, while Creator/HelenMirren reprises her role as Magdalene Shaw, the mother of the Shaw siblings. Wrestling/RomanReigns (the [[RealLifeRelative real-life]] [[Wrestling/SamoanDynasty cousin]] of Johnson) also makes an appearance as one of Hobbs' brothers. The film is also notable for being LighterAndSofter than any of the main ''Fast and Furious'' films, due to it's greater focus on comedy when compared to the main ''Fast and Furious'' films (as in, the ones that focus on either Dom and/or his crew and all known associates besides Hobbs and Shaw, which are DarkerAndEdgier by comparison).
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15	A sequel is currently in development.
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17	'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SA7FaKxZVI Trailer 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7PAyCDwEg Trailer 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b736ZM_KfEk Trailer 3]].
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19	!!''Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw'' contains examples of:
20	* AbortedArc: When Eteon frames Hobbs and Shaw for multiple murders and spreads their face around the world, it serves only to set up a comedic scene at the London airport and explain why they don't bring CIA backup anywhere, but otherwise never affects the plot. [[spoiler: Hobbs is even detained by airport security and manages to talk his way out of it off-screen, despite being the world's most wanted man. Air Marshall Dinkley even recognizes them, but immediately concludes they are innocent and tries to join their mission.]]
21	* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler: Brixton is constantly fed visual real-time information on his opponents' movements, but despite the advantage, he is still limited to his eyesight. He is so focused on what is in front of him that he is easily blindsided. Hobbs and Shaw realize this, and agree that [[BashBrothers someone has to take a hit so the other can attack from the side, and they switch off repeatedly]]]].
22	* ActorAllusion:
23	** Both Johnson and Roman Reigns get to show off their background in ProfessionalWrestling, utilising wrestling moves during the third act battle. And while they are not brothers in real life, they ''are'' cousins, which means their relationship in this movie is also an example of this.
24	** Hobbs' daughter teases him about The People's Eyebrow, the raised eyebrow look The Rock was well known for in wrestling.
25	** Hobbs threatens to take a chair, turn it sideways and ram it down Shaw's throat. This is very close to one of his wrestling catchphrases, only the chair had a [[AssShove different destination]].
26	** Shaw's garage contains a classic-model Mini Cooper, with which he did a job in Italy. Jason Statham, of course, starred in ''Film/TheItalianJob2003''. The [[Film/TheItalianJob1969 original 1969 film]] featured classic Mini Coopers used in a heist in Italy, but the cars in the 2003 remake are the newer BMW model and not used in Italy.
27	** Brixton's eyes sometimes go golden-orange. This is an allusion to his actor Creator/IdrisElba's previous role as Heimdall from the Film/{{Thor}} movies (as well as all of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse), whose eyes are golden-orange.
28	** In ''Film/Deadpool2'' (another film directed by David Leitch), the Merc with a Mouth uses a simple brick as a temporary weapon during the FinalBattle. [[spoiler:During his reappearance in TheStinger, Locke (another character played by Creator/RyanReynolds) uses a simple brick offscreen to stab an Eteon mook. It turns out it was pretty easy.]]
29	* ActionGirl: Hattie proves every bit as capable in fights as either of the titular heroes.
30	* AgeGapRomance: Well, romance might be [[UnresolvedSexualTension pushing it a little]], but there's a 16 year age gap between Dwayne Johnson and Vanessa Kirby.
31	* AgonyOfTheFeet: A mook tries to stab Hobbs with a tattoo gun. Hobbs grabs the guy's wrist, causing the mook to drop the gun onto his foot needle first.
32	* AmazonBrigade: Madame M's crew are all young women who are well trained and well equipped.
33	* ArtisticAge: For Shaw: judging by the flashbacks, there's only a few years between Deckard and Hattie. In real life, there's a 20-year age gap between Jason Statham and Vanessa Kirby.
34	* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Eteon's secret facility in Chernobyl is concealed under the power plant itself--which is all well and good except that the wide shots of the facility show some very obviously completed cooling tower rows next to the power plant's [[UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} containment dome.]] Chernobyl's cooling towers were still under construction when the disaster occurred, with only two actually being started before the area was abandoned.
35	* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: When people donate blood, they are told to keep their arm still until the process is over, to prevent the needle from moving in the donor's arm. Hattie's running around during the final battle scene with a blood filtration device plugged into her arm to extract the virus capsules, while she goes around swinging an axe at mooks with the arm said filtration device was plugged into, would have torn the veins in her arm to shreds. One thing that may mitigate this is the fact that it's not a normal needle filtering her blood. There appear to be six needles in the device in some kind of clamp-on wrist cuff, which may keep the device in place while doing anything strenuous.
36	* TheAtoner: Shaw tells his sister about his deep regrets for certain actions that he has to make up for somehow. WordOfGod confirms he's talking about [[spoiler:killing [[Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift Han]]]].
37	* BadassFamily: We already knew Shaw had one but this movie introduces yet another member. With Hobbs, meanwhile, we meet his entire family of badasses in the third act.
38	* BadassInDistress: Hattie may be an ass-kicking ActionGirl, but when captured by SuperSoldier Brixton she finds herself in need of a well-timed rescue.
39	* BashBrothers: Hobbs and Shaw by the end, and brothers Luke and Mateo Hobbs (Creator/DwayneJohnson and Wrestling/RomanReigns) get some time tag-teaming some Eteon henchmen together too.
40	* BattleInTheRain: During the preparation for the final battle, Hobbs mentions that the northern coast was going to be in a raging storm come morning. [[spoiler: The FinalBattle with Brixton is a rain-soaked fistfight. It's all the more notable, as when they briefly cut back to Eteon's men and Hobbs' family fighting it's still glorious sunshine.]]
41	* BerserkButton: Neither Hobbs or Shaw can stand it when the other gives them anything that sounds like an order, leading them to play a series of increasingly juvenile pranks on each other throughout the film.
42	* BigBad: Brixton Lore is the terrorist SuperSoldier after the virus.
43	* BigBrotherInstinct: Shaw towards Hattie, even if she doesn't particularly care for it most of the time.
44	* BodyHorror:
45	** Throughout the film, we are repeatedly told that Brixton is “cybernetically enhanced”, but are never shown how. That is, until a scene late in the film where Brixton is being patched up, and we are treated to the sight of Brixton’s back being effectively zippered back up over his metal spine. From the sounds he’s making, it’s a less-than-pleasant experience.
46	** The effects of the "Snowflake" virus are not a pretty sight; within 72 hours, it causes ''liquefaction'' of the host's organs, turning the body into, as described by Locke, "a bag of hot soup." Thankfully, we're spared from seeing this ourselves.
47	* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Played for laughs when Shaw beats up a room full of mooks then has try each one in succession until he finds the one that actually has access to the facial scanner.
48	* BrickJoke: One involving an actual brick: [[Creator/RyanReynolds Locke]] complains about the improbability of Hattie stabbing someone with a brick (not knowing about super strong cyborg Brixton) when he initially meets Hobbs. [[spoiler:Cut to TheStinger and we see he's somehow managed to do the same with one of Eteon's goons. Turns out it's actually pretty easy]].
49	* BreakoutVillain: Both Hobbs & Shaw were antagonists when introduced, but were such hits with audiences (and played by two ''very'' bankable actors) that they were given an entire movie to themselves.
50	* BreatherEpisode: While it ''might'' become an InnocuouslyImportantEpisode to the main series, it's more or less a break from revolving around the equally intense adventures of the main series involving Dominic Toretto and his crew and more of a lighthearted buddy comedy actioner involving two unlikely allies (Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw) basically being forced to reconcile by [[EnemyMine teaming up against a greater threat]]. It's notable for also being the first installment to not involve Dom and his crew (besides Hobbs and Shaw) who probably weren't needed for the mission, considering it's a SpinOff to the main franchise.
51	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: After a long talk with Shaw, Agent Loeb notes that Shaw doesn't remember beating the hell out of him in a bar fight years before.
52	* TheCameo: Creator/RyanReynolds, Creator/RobDelaney and Creator/KevinHart all have small but memorable roles in the film.
53	** Martial artist and stuntman Creator/DanielBernhardt briefly appears in an uncredited role as an Eteon henchman.
54	* CanonWelding:
55	** We find out here that Brixton had Shaw framed for the murder of his own team 8 years before the events of the film, when their Eteon recruitment went south. It not only explains why he was a rogue operative when we met him in ''Film/FuriousSeven'' (where it was mentioned the British government had tried to have him killed for some unspecified crimes) but also his implication to Hobbs in ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious'' that his traitor status was due to being set up (like Hobbs in that film).
56	** It also explains Deckard's assertion in ''Fate'' that Cipher had "corrupted" Owen, an odd statement coming from someone who'd been a villain trying to kill Toretto and the team a film prior. Here we find out that Deckard was framed for the murder of his team, never truly stooping to the depths his brother Owen did, committing his worst acts in the seventh film out of a deeply displaced sense of family loyalty.
57	* CardboardPrison: It's pretty well-demonstrated that if Magdalene Shaw wanted, she could escape the prison she's being held in. She's in there because she ''wants'' to be there, comparing it to retirement. [[spoiler:The end of the movie implies she and her children are going to break her out.]]
58	* CardCarryingVillain: Brixton flatly introduces himself as "Bad Guy" shortly before his massacre of the [=MI6=] team.
59	* TheCharmer: Despite Shaw's sabotage Hobbs is able to get through airport security by charisma alone.
60	* CreatorCameo: David Leitch briefly appears as the Eteon helicopter pilot that Brixton throat-chops and shoves out of the copter.
61	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Locke may be a highly annoying MotorMouth who thinks way too highly of his bond with Hobbs, but [[spoiler:TheStinger shows he's a hell of a hand in close combat, with his wrecking an attempt to steal another Snowflake type virus including [[ImprobableWeaponUser stabbing someone to death with a brick]].]]
62	* CurbStompBattle: Due to his SuperSoldier status most of the battles against Brixton go this way for the heroes, with them repeatedly only surviving via taking advantage of their terrain ([[spoiler:sending his bike crashing into a tour bus, having half his Ukrainian base collapse on him during the truck fight]]). It's only in the final battle the heroes are able to subvert this [[spoiler:by working together to overload his enhanced senses]].
63	* CurseCutShort: While the "this guy's a real asshole!" is not buzzed out in the film ([[TrailersAlwaysLie unlike the trailer]]), there is one later on:
64	-->'''Hobbs:''' Welcome to my island, you mother-\
65	'''Brixton:''' [[HellishCopter PULL IT UP!]]
66	** In the film proper, the ''mother'' is dropped out leading to Hobbs just saying "Welcome to my island, you-"
67	* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Locke mentions Hattie supposedly stabbed one of her teammates with a brick.
68	* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Inverted with Brixton, who tells Hobbs and Shaw that the more implants Eteon puts in him, the more humane he becomes.
69	* {{Cyborg}}: Brixton is more or less one as he has cybernetic implants.
70	* DamselOutOfDistress: Hattie is captured by villains multiple times but can usually escape her restraints and take out her attackers on her own (although she sometimes needs the distractions her brother and Hobbs provide).
71	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Both Hobbs and Shaw have one, but in very different ways. Brixton is shown to have one as well, with strong ties to Shaw.
72	** Hobbs is one of several brothers born on Samoa to a single mother. His deadbeat DisappearedDad was a criminal who came back into their lives when they were teenagers, [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk 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.
73	** Shaw is 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. [[spoiler:Eteon approached both of them and offered the chance to JoinOrDie; Brixton accepted, but Shaw declined, and Brixton was sent to assassinate him to [[HeKnowsTooMuch keep him from talking]]; he failed and Shaw ended up killing him, but not before successfully framing Deckard for going rogue and killing the rest of his squad. Shaw 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.]]
74	* ADayInTheLimelight: While Hobbs and Shaw have both been major players in the franchise since their debut, neither has gotten much insight into their backstories and both have still been supporting characters in Dom and his crew's stories. This film puts them both center-stage, and gives a lot more information on their origins and what drives them.
75	* DestinationDefenestration: Shaw kicks a crook through a window and dangles him by a silk rope in order to [[HighAltitudeInterrogation get information out of him with the threat of dropping him]].
76	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:When he's "decommissioned" by Eteon, a beaten Brixton deactivates, leading him to fall off the cliff they're on]].
77	* TheDogBitesBack: Andreiko pays Brixton back for his abuse by [[spoiler: almost incinerating him with a flamethrower, rescuing Hobbs, Shaw and Hattie in the process.]]
78	* DudeInDistress: At about the halfway point of the movie, Hobbs and Shaw are both captured and nearly killed with electric shocks, requiring Hattie and Andreiko to rescue them.
79	* EmbarrassingTattoo: Hobbs threatens a crook based out of a tattoo parlor with a tattoo gun to make him talk. His lack of cooperation makes Hobbs use the gun on him. When Hobbs gets what he wants and walks away, we see that he carved "I <3 COPS" in pink on his forehead.
80	* EvilBrit: Subverted with Shaw, who despite his past actions is portrayed as a hero, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold if not a very pleasant one]]. Played straight with Brixton.
81	* EvilutionaryBiologist: Eteon has a single-minded determination to further the evolution of humanity, which includes culling all those people it considers weak or inferior.
82	* {{Flanderization}}: ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious'' had Hobbs and Shaw start as antagonists but eventually get on, becoming FireForgedFriends chasing Cipher (the two notably share a laugh over the ridiculousness of each other's threats at one point there). This film instead plays up the two's verbal sparring and bickering from their jail scenes in ''Fate'' to the point they can initially barely stand to be in the same room.
83	* FlashbackEffects: Flashback scenes appear to be shot on 8mm film, whereas the rest of the film is shot digitally
84	* ForceAndFinesse: The titular characters' combat dynamic. Hobbs is the force and Deckard is the Finesse.
85	* {{Frameup}}: Done repeatedly: Brixton frames Hattie for the murder of her team after [[spoiler:she injects herself with the virus]]. Then, after Hobbs and Shaw ruin his attempt to kidnap her, he has them framed for his attack on the CIA as well. Later in the film it's revealed Brixton did this to Shaw in their past, framing him for the murder of his own team after he refused to join Eteon.
86	* GenreShift: ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'' started off as a relatively grounded crime drama, with each sequel it got more action-packed and over the top, but stayed relatively in that world. This film is more in the realm of comic books and classic James Bond, fighting a literal SuperSoldier with a metal spine as their primary villain.
87	* GetOut: Luke is forced to go to his family, asking for his brother for help. Resentful for him leaving, his brother tells him he wants nothing do with him. [[SubvertedTrope However]], their mother has final say on the matter, and she says that they '''will''' help him.
88	* GreaterScopeVillain: Brixton is taking orders from a mysterious figure represented only as TheVoice, represented by an audio waveform whenever they tap in to talk. Brixton is technically TheDragon, but Hobbs and Shaw thought he was at the top of the chain and are not aware of anyone else involved until the very end.
89	* GroinAttack: Both Hobbs and Deckard do this in their respective first on-screen fights. Deckard hits a guy with a rope while Hobbs simply kicks his guy in the crotch before uppercutting him into a chair. Hobbs himself becomes a victim of this in his fight with Hattie.
90	* HallwayFight: We get two happening simultaneously, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX0Dfq4UugI as seen here]]. Hobbs and Shaw both go down two corridors that are connected by a window. Hobbs quickly takes down the GiantMook in his hallway while Shaw takes down a larger number of villains.
91	* HeadbuttingHeroes: Practically a CentralTheme of the movie. Hobbs and Shaw just ''can't'' stand each other, and aren't shy about exchanging insults and screwing each other over. Despite this, while they still don't exactly like each other even by the film's end, they do ''trust'' each other, and that goes a long way towards keeping them both alive.
92	* HollywoodHacking: Exaggerated. In the movie are 'net-connected weapons that can be disabled remotely with ease. Becomes FridgeLogic because [[spoiler: even the bad guy can be disabled in a similar way]], but nobody even considers doing it via hacking.
93	* IdiotBall:
94	** A second after Hobbs tells the guard how dangerous Hattie is. The guard [[spoiler: reacts unprofessionally after the very first taunt]]. Possibly the whole station as nobody notices anything while Hattie beats the guards and the bad guys go to the ''roof'' undisturbed.
95	** The mysterious leader of Eteon initially holds it in regards to dealing with Hobbs & Shaw. Instead of letting Brixton and his men [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim eliminate the duo]] before they can become an even bigger threat to their plans, the boss insists that they be forcibly recruited into their operation. [[spoiler: This attempt ends up costing them an entire base, countless men and resources, and ultimately the Snowflake Virus itself.]]
96	** Brixton gets the ball during the ending--even after it is clear that [[spoiler: his cybernetics cannot help much against two strong opponents at the same time]], he doesn't even try to line his opponents up so they can't attack at the same time. At the beginning of the movie, however, he had no problems with multiple opponents.
97	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Brixton may be a cyborg with super reflexes and a heads-up display built into his eyes, but when he shoots at [[PlotArmor anyone important]], he misses ''every time.''
98	* JailBake: During the ending credits, [[spoiler: Deckard and Hattie give their incarcerated mother a cake, which Deckard advises is not for eating]].
99	* JoinOrDie: Brixton attemps to recruit Hobbs & Shaw when they are captured under his master's orders. It works about as well as can be expected.
100	* JustPlaneWrong: When a helicopter is trying to gain altitude while chained to a [[spoiler:truck]], the pilot grunts and groans while pulling back on the main control stick. The clear implication is that a helicopter's ability to climb is in direct proportion to the amount of musclepower applied to the stick, as though the pilot is physically lifting the attached weight himself. In reality, the stick he's holding is called the ''cyclic pitch'' stick, and all it does is tilt the helicopter in the direction you pull the stick. Another control called the ''collective pitch'' lever, which you pull up on like a parking brake, controls how much lift the main rotor generates, in conjunction with a twist-grip throttle on the same lever (which works like a motorcycle's throttle). ''None'' of these controls gets harder to pull or twist if the helicopter is lifting a heavy load.
101	** It's probably more of a case of the pilot straining due to repeatedly trying to make the Heli pitch in a panic situation, being more a security-blanket type reaction rather than any actual strain of the controls.
102	* LighterAndSofter: While the main franchise from which this film is spun off isn't without it's own occassional ComicRelief moments, they are still fairly dark, intense and gritty and emotionally serious films that feature a whole lot of tearjerker moments despite being an action-oriented franchise. ''Hobbs and Shaw'', on the other hand, is more of a lighthearted action buddy comedy that has more levity and goofiness than any of the mainstream films that came before it. That being said, however, the BigBad is still [[KnightOfCerebus a fairly serious threat]] (though not without his LaughablyEvil moments, either), the stakes are still high and the film does become more serious in the third act, but the overall tone is more in the line of ''Film/CentralIntelligence'' than your average ''Fast and Furious'' film (which is usually much more DarkerAndEdgier).
103	* LogicalWeakness: Brixton's cybernetics make him impossible to beat in single combat, but his CombatClairvoyance is limited to his sight, so people can still blindside him. [[spoiler:Hobbs and Shaw just have to coordinate their attacks so that one is always in a blindspot as Brixton attacks the other.]]
104	* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Hattie loses her shoes the first time Hobbs and Shaw rescue her, and remains barefoot until the trio leave London.
105	* MenActWomenAre: Despite Hattie showing off [[ActionGirl combat skills of her own]], she gets taken hostage by Brixton thus forcing Hobbs and Shaw to put aside their differences and rescue her. She's captured at other points in the film, but usually ends up rescuing herself.
106	* MenOfSherwood: The extended Hobbs family and many other local Samoans provide a small army to fight the villains with in the final battle and acquit themselves well.
107	* MirroringFactions: A key theme of the film: the opening action scene with the two separately pummelling gangs to find out about the virus shows that while they have different styles they generally go about things the same way. Lampshaded repeatedly, especially by Hattie.
108	* MySisterIsOffLimits: Shaw orders Hobbs not to act on his attraction to Hattie, but Hobbs just taunts Shaw with the thought of him doing the “horizontal hula sexy-sexy time” with his sister.
109	* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Eteon, a sinister group that vaguely resembles [[Franchise/JamesBond Spectre]] and ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} in scope and overall objectives.
110	* NeckSnap: How Brixton kills [[spoiler:Professor Andreiko]].
111	* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Shaw when he tries to figure out which agent out of a pile of agents he just knocked out will open the door that has a [[FacialRecognitionSoftware face recognition security system]]. Hobbs is forced to wait for him and does push-ups in the process.
112	* NeverTrustATrailer:
113	** In the first trailer Hobbs slams a mook against an elevator Shaw is riding down in and mouths, "Fuck you!" at him. Shaw responds with SarcasticClapping. This scene is in the film, but Shaw is instead making a more vulgar gesture.
114	** The second trailer shows Brixton [[DoNotAdjustYourSet broadcasting his face]] on a large TV screen. In the actual film, this never happens.
115	* NoodleIncident:
116	** Hobbs claims this to be the ''fourth'' time he has saved the world. Assuming that his involvement in [[spoiler:[[Film/TheFateOfTheFurious preventing Cipher from becoming a nuclear power]]]] counts as one, that leaves two very interesting adventures unaccounted for. This is likely a reference to his involvement in ''Fast 6'' and ''Furious 7''. Though he wasn’t the main player, he did help.
117	** Shaw tries to ditch Hobbes at the airport by giving him a alias that not only is a juvenile pun, but also triggers security. A short time later, Hobbes manages to join them on the plane anyway, with only a brief quip about using his people skills to charm his way out of the mess.
118	* OrangeBlueContrast: Used during the split-screen/back-and-forth montage of Hobbs and Shaw's days, with orange for Hobbs and blue for Shaw, in terms of lighting. This highlights [[RedOniBlueOni the differences between them]] in personality, daily life, base of operations and the people they talk to.
119	* OutsideGenreFoe: Despite its increasingly outrageous stunts, up to this point the franchise was still largely confined within the realms of reality. SuperSoldier Brixton and the NebulousEvilOrganisation he works for, however, are straight out of a ScienceFiction movie.
120	* OverlyLongGag: The retinal scan scene, where Shaw tries to bypass a retinal scanner by hauling a dozen unconscious mooks and scanning them ''one at a time''. [[BrokenRecord ACCESS DENIED. ACCESS DENIED. ACCESS DENIED. ACCESS...]]
121	* PaperThinDisguise: After everyone being framed as terrorists, Shaw hand waves a claim about being able to digitally hide their appearance and create new passports when they travel. While Hattie's in-person disguise is rather convincing (due to wearing big glasses and a brown pixie cut wig to hide her medium-length blonde hair), Shaw's amounts to wearing a beanie, while Hobbs has a mustache and a hat. While Hobbs is given trouble at the airport due to Shaw messing with him, no one is discovered. All the more blatant as Hattie ditches her wig as soon as she's on the plane, which you'd think the aircrew might have noticed.
122	* PrecisionFStrike: Hobbs and Shaw's simultaneous reaction when it's first suggested that they work together?
123	-->'''Hobbs and Shaw:''' No fucking way!
124	* {{Pun}}: Shaw decides to give Hobbs a cute fake identity while they're infiltrating the UK airport: [[TeenyWeenie Mike Oxmaul]]. Hobbs gets him back in one of the post-credits scenes, [[spoiler:calling the police to arrest him--identifying him as Mr. Hugh Janus.]]
125	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Deckerd gives one to Brixton towards the end of the film.
126	--> You set me up as a traitor. Turned my own sister against me. Forced me to kill my own brother! You!
127	* ReassignedToAntarctica: Air Marshal Dinkley mentions that being an air marshal is the best he can do with his skills and training, but he's desperate to get back into the front lines and tries to convince Hobbs and Shaw to let him be of use to them.
128	* RelativeError: Deckard Shaw catches Luke Hobbs fighting Shaw's sister Hattie and [[BigBrotherInstinct furiously demands he get his hands off her]], causing Hobbs to think she's his girlfriend. This naturally [[{{Squick}} squicks]] both of them.
129	-->'''Hobbs:''' [[SarcasmMode Bullshit! She's too good-looking to be your sister.]]
130	* RunningGag: "[[BerserkButton No one tells me what to do!]]"
131	* SarcasticClapping: In the first trailer Shaw does this when Hobbs smashes a mook's face against the elevator he's riding down in. [[NeverTrustATrailer In the actual movie he makes a jerking-off motion in this moment.]]
132	* SequelHook:
133	** [[spoiler:Brixton is defeated, but Eteon's mysterious leader is still out there--and has an as-yet-unknown past connection with Hobbs to boot]].
134	** [[spoiler:In TheStinger, Locke mentions an even deadlier virus than Snowflake, one that eats a person alive from the outside]].
135	* SherlockScan: How Hobbs and Shaw peg Dinkley as an Air Marshal. Dinkley himself manages one to accurately determine Hobbs and Shaw's respective professions.
136	* ShoeSlap: Hobbs' mom throws her thong slippers to keep the family in line.
137	* ShoutOut:
138	** Shaw has a classic-model Mini Cooper, which he says he used for a job in Italy. This is a reference to ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'', which featured bank robbers in Italy making their escape in classic Mini Coopers. [[ActorAllusion Statham starred]] in the [[Film/TheItalianJob2003 2003 remake]], though the Mini Coopers in that film were the newer BMW model and never used in Italy.
139	** Brixton boasts about being "black Franchise/{{Superman}}" when he's [[spoiler:trying to get the captive heroes to join him]]. When Shaw explains his backstory, Hobbs compares him to ''Film/TheTerminator''.
140	** [[spoiler:Locke spends most of TheStinger complaining about the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' finale]]. Doubles as SpoilingShoutOut.
141	** Posters for ''Film/FortyEightHrs'', ''Film/{{Cobra}}'', and ''Film/LethalWeapon3'' are seen at some point.
142	** Brixton's [[CoolBike hyper-advanced motorcycle]] that can [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries self-drive and change shape makes some very familiar noises while doing so.]]
143	** In one shot during their time at Hobbs' home, someone standing behind his mother can be seen wearing a hook necklace. It looks identical to the hook used by [[ActorAllusion Maui]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''.
144	* ShroudedInMyth: The Wizards, the unit that Air Marshal Dinkley used to be a member of. They're so covert that they earned that nickname from the "magic" they pull off. Hobbs and Shaw are both decently impressed by what they've heard.
145	* SlapSlapKiss: Hattie, similar to her brother, has an immense disdain for Hobbs at first, but unlike Deckard eventually starts taking a shine to him even if they still occasionally butt heads.
146	* SmartGun: All of Eteon's weapons are these, preventing Hobbs and Shaw from using their guns against them. [[spoiler:Hattie hacks the verification code to disable all the guns during the final battle, giving the Samoans with their traditional axes, clubs and spears a more even fight.]]
147	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Nearly every interaction between Deckard and Hobbs is full of this. Hattie sometimes gets involved, as well.
148	* StabTheScorpion: After Hattie escapes from some goons in front of their hostage, the professor, he moves toward her with a scalpel but is just using it to cut an escape hatch through a tarp.
149	* StatusQuoIsGod: [[spoiler: After defeating Brixton and rescuing Hattie, Hobbs and Shaw argue over who really deserves more credit in saving the day]].
150	* StoppedNumberingSequels: The first ''Fast & Furious'' film without a number in its title since ''Film/FastFive'', but justified in that it's not a main-line entry.
151	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Hobbs and Shaw can't stand each other, but are forced to work together to defeat Brixton. [[spoiler: Although by the end of the film they have become VitriolicBestBuds.]]
152	* TellMeHowYouFight: Hobbs realizes Hattie is not the remorseless traitor she is being framed after their fight.
153	* TooMuchAlike: Air Marshal Dinkley proposes that the reason Hobbs and Shaw get on each other's nerves so much is that they're both big, strong men with alpha male attitudes and so take an instinctive dislike to each other.
154	* WaifFu: Played with. Hattie is a highly trained MI-6 operative and can handle any number of ordinary mooks, but trying to fight the equally skilled, much bigger, much heavier Hobbs doesn't go so well.
155	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
156	** Shaw's brother Owen, who he was shown to be close enough to in ''Film/FuriousSeven'' to go after Dom's crew in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge after they left him in a coma, is mentioned exactly ''once'', and never seen even in the flashbacks to Deckard and Hattie's youth - a particular oddity in a film that shows us so much of the Shaw family backstory.[[note]]In the flashback for the Keith Moon a second boy is seen helping set the bomb up on the safe, before running away from the explosion in the opposite direction to Deckard and Hattie, this is presumably Owen, but he's not clarifed as such.[[/note]]
157	** [[spoiler: Luke and Hattie share a quick kiss at sunset before the final battle. He asks if she wants to do it again, and she says no, but maybe the next sunset if they survive. After the final fight ends, Hattie and Luke have exactly zero scenes together.]]
158	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: A variant: Brixton is all for killing Hobbs and Shaw after they foil his attempt to capture Hattie in London, but his mysterious superior insists he try to turn them to their side. This means he doesn't immediately kill them when he has them at his mercy - inevitably leading to their getting free and destroying his Ukrainian base. When he's getting patched up after this, his master concedes he was right, much to Brixton's visible frustration.
159	* WildSamoan: Completely averted with Hobbs' family. They're a BadassFamily but oldest brother Jonah is a bit of a tech wiz, and the entire family works a chop shop converted into a completely legitimate business in hot demand with clients all over the world.
160	* WillfullyWeak: Hobbs manages to track down Hattie and she tries to fight him off. Despite being a skilled [=MI6=] operative, he's still a foot taller and 200 pounds heavier. A few moments makes it seem like she is getting the upper hand using {{Improvised Weapon}}s, grappling and arm locks, but he is just biding his time letting her wear herself out. The instant he's done he just lifts her in the air.
161	* WordSchmord: Upon being told "you don't save the world with genocide", Brixton replies "Genocide schmenocide".
162	* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Not surprisingly, Wrestling/RomanReigns (as Luke Hobbs's brother Mateo) gets to employ both his signature spear and the Samoan Drop in the battle against Brixton's men, while Hobbs himself dishes out a spinebuster and later [[spoiler:puts Brixton out of commission via a German suplex on solid rock]].
163	* YouAreFat: Deckard keeps insisting that Hobbs is fat rather than muscular.
164	** Hilariously, Hobbs' mother says she's "skin and bones" and tells him to eat something.
165	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: With a side order of YouHaveFailedMe. [[spoiler:When Hobbs and Shaw best Brixton, the Eteon leader "decommissions" him - shutting off all his mechanical parts and killing him - to avoid his revealing anything]].
166	* YouWouldntShootMe: Brixton claims Hattie won't shoot him when she threatens him with an Eteon gun to the head. [[spoiler:As it turns out, she ''would'', but she ''can't''; she needs an identity chip to fire it and doesn't have one.]]
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168	->''♫ Why can't we be friends?\

Context Film / HobbsAndShaw