YMMV / F9

• Adorkable: Ramsey getting flustered while attempting to drive a huge truck (which is also her first time driving a vehicle period), is very endearing to watch regardless of the copious amounts of property damage she causes in the process.
• Ascended Fanon: In a way. After years of jokes that the series was so over-the-top that the only way to up the ante was to go to space, this film does exactly that.
• Ass Pull:
  • Jakob Toretto's entire existence. Dom, loyal to a fault who will forgive grievous betrayals for "Family", had a younger brother this entire time that he never mentioned, even to his little sister, all because said brother "killed" their father, which again Dom never mentioned before. Even with that aside, Jakob then went on to become an elite super-spy, who is apparently so notable within the spy world that Cipher was aware of him, yet when she tried to Take Over the World, she went with Dom instead.
  • A lot of drama is reflected in Queenie's face when she has to sell Dom to Otto, asking him to survive the meeting before... and then it turns out she betrayed her agreement with Otto anyways, sending an Amazon Brigade, led by a bad case of Remember the New Guy? played by Cardi B of all people, to extract Dom safely.
  • Han's survival was clearly thrown in after so many people got upset at Deckard Shaw being so Easily Forgiven for killing him. Even moreso after it's found out Han was working with Mr. Nobody and they used Deckard's hunt for the Family as a means to make Han "die" so he could protect Ellie more discreetly. Even some of the more hardcore fans thought that was a bit of a stretch since it's never shown how exactly Mr. Nobody managed to make the switch and the previous times we got a full view of Han in the car before it exploded. This also robs some of the impact for Furious 7 since the whole reason for Dom going against Deckard was to avenge Han.
  • Otto betraying Jakob in order to enable the latter's Heel–Face Turn. There's no build-up to it at all, Otto had a conversation with Cipher where she called him a puppet, but even assuming she meant it/he took it to mean he's Jakob's puppet isn't properly explained, and until that point the two seemed to have a genuine Villainous Friendship, so the betrayal comes out of nowhere for the sake of having a "sweet reunion". This also overlooks the fact Jakob was ready to Take Over the World and only helps stopping Otto out of revenge for the betrayal, making the whole thing come off as Easily Forgiven.
• Awesome Music: Regardless of everything else, the film features an absolutely loaded soundtrack, with especial mention to insert themes like "De Museo" by Bad Bunny, "Rapido" by Amenazzy, Farruko et al. and "Mala" by Jarina de Marco.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Dom gets arrested for pulling a gun on Jakob in Otto's mansion -which is considered an embassy- and is escorted out by a hit squad who are seemingly under Otto's payroll. Then it turns out that they're an Amazon Brigade led by a character played by Cardi B, who Dom apparently knows but were told to get him out by Queenie as part of some Unspoken Plan Guarantee between him and Queenie. Putting aside the gratuitous celebrity cameo, the lack of set-up, and poor implementation, this ultimately leads to nothing. Dom doesn't extract any intel or learn anything other than coming face-to-face with Otto and Jakob, so the trip to the mansion added nothing but filler, and the escape seemed to be framed to make Dom look like The Chessmaster without him actually doing anything impressive.
• Complete Monster: Cipher returns. See that page for details.
• Ham and Cheese:
  • Thu Ersted Rasmussen is clearly having a ball playing the smarmy rich bad guy Otto, and gleefully devours any scenery within his vicinity.
  • Charlize Theron similarly relishes getting to play Card-Carrying Villain Cipher again, though she's far more restrained in her hamminess.

• Just Here for Godzilla: A few people went to the IMAX showings of the film just to see the extended first look trailer for Jurassic World Dominion.
• Like You Would Really Do It:
  • It's not like Cipher, the series' Breakout Villain, would actually fly a fighter jet into battle with her in the pilot's seat to get shot down and be killed that easily.
  • Almost everyone suspected that Jakob would have a Heel–Face Turn eventually before the movie was over and wouldn't be a straightforward villain.
• Magnificent Bastard (includes Fast X): Jakob Toretto is Dom's estranged younger brother who was banished by Dom from his life after helping their father rig his own race car so he would die in a crash. Recruited as a covert agent by Mr. Nobody years before Dom and his crew were, Jakob ends up going rogue and then ambushing the Nobodies on behalf of Otto, steals the first half of the satellite controlling Ares device while also abducting the captured Cipher and keeping her prisoner to force her help. Jakob impedes the team's efforts to stop him—while even zip-lining across a city after getting the second half of Ares and using a magnet truck as a distraction. Captured, Jakob arranged ahead of time for himself to be tracked and retrieves Elle to go with him as her DNA unlocks Ares completely. When betrayed by Otto allying with Cipher and nearly killed, Jakob—saved by his sister Mia—helps the team to kill Otto and destroy Ares and Dom rewards Jakob's honor by giving him a getaway car. Returning some time later, Jakob fights his way through government agents in order to protect his young nephew B and prevent them or Dante Reyes from using him to get to Dom—eventually initiating a Heroic Sacrifice in order to take out many of Dante's men in an explosion.
• Memetic Mutation: "The movies."^explanation From this ad for the film, which presented Vin Diesel inviting audiences back to theaters, as F9 was one of the first major big-budget films following the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Diesel's dramatic reading of "the movies" and describing cinema as a unifying feature of society earned a number of amused reactions and parodies, particluarly this one from Saturday Night Live featuring Beck Bennett as Diesel.
• Nightmare Fuel: The death of Jack Toretto in the prologue, where he literally crashes and burns, is eerily too similar to how real life race car driver Dale Earnhardt died. It also brings to mind the tragic death of the franchise's original protagonist, Paul Walker.
• Questionable Casting: John Cena as the younger brother of Vin Diesel. Putting ethnicity aside, which is already too big of a stretch for characters related by blood, they look nothing alike, even though characters in-universe are able to identify them as related based on their apparent similarity.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Sean Boswell has arguably been saved. In The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, his character was bland, compared to every other character in the movie and was considered Paul Walker if he had less personality and didn't have the screen presence that Walker did. Cut to this movie where, though his time is brief, his character is a lot more colorful and excitable. The scene with the car test shows that he, and his actor, had come a long way, to the point of being unrecognizable.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Remember how Han's always been portrayed as a Nice Guy who'll do anything for his friends? Well, now that's out the window, as he apparently had no problem abandoning Sean to his likely death at the hands of the Yakuza. That said, it's possible that Han intended to step in if he felt Sean needed help but trusted him enough to handle the situation as it stood when he "died".
• WTH, Costuming Department?: After her infamous dreadlocks in the previous film, Charlize Theron's hairstyle has somehow gotten worse with a bowl cut reminiscent of Simple Jack.