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Every 'Fast & Furious' Villain, Ranked By Real Fans
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Vote up the Fast & Furious villains that made a serious impact.
The Fast & Furious franchise is one of the most surprising cinematic success stories of the 21st century. It all started with a simple drag racing movie where a thief, Dom, and a cop, Brian, become friends. From there, the saga has evolved into a box office juggernaut, with the characters moving on from racing and stealing DVDs into million-dollar heists, human life-destroying viruses, and world-hacking devices while fighting guns, Russian submarines, and even a tank!
The timeline is a bit messy, with new brothers appearing out of thin air, and with the fourth through sixth films set before the third, but the franchise has kept going by speeding up its stakes and stunts with every new film. And, while Dom might not always be the biggest draw for viewers, the villains are consistently exciting. There have been bad guys who just wanted to win a race, others who wanted to destroy the world, and still more whose only intention was to keep earning money from the drug trade. Many of them have redeemed themselves and ended up becoming part of the family and enjoying Dom's Coronas and barbecues.
Start the engines and decide which evil character should win the race for best Fast & Furious villain.
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Dante Reyes
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Appears In: The big bad in Fast X, Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa) is the son of Fast Five’s Hernan Reyes, and he wants to kill Dom and his team for what they did to his father.
High-Octane Plan: Revenge is a dish served cold, and in Dante Reyes's case, with some stylish pink fashion sense and a whole lot of crazy. A sociopath who enjoys killing, he’s as loud as his clothing and might be the Joker to Dom's Batman. No other vengeful villain seems to get as much joy from doing bad.
The End Of The Road: Fast X ends on a cliffhanger, but for now, he’s the madman who has gotten closest to killing Dom. He’ll never drink Coronas with him while talking about family, that’s for sure.
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'DK' Takashi
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Appears In: DK (as in “Drift King”) Takashi (Brian Tee) is one of the best racers in Tokyo; he wants to maintain his status by beating Sean in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
High-Octane Plan: Though he's a nephew of a Yakuza mob boss with some anger issues, Takashi's main goal is to win some races and someday earn his uncle's place in the Yakuza. Unfortunately, he's also prone to cheating, possessive behavior, and temper tantrums, making it very dangerous to cross his path.
The End Of The Road: After losing a race to Sean, Takashi survives a rough-looking crash, but has to leave Tokyo. He hasn't appeared in any movies since, so it's unclear where he is now - probably reminiscing about his good ol' days as the Drift King.
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Hernán Reyes
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Appears In: The bad guy in Fast Five, Hernán Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), is a Brazilian drug lord and businessman with most of Rio’s police on his payroll.
High-Octane Plan: Reyes shouts a lot of orders and always looks annoyed, but he doesn’t do that much himself, instead using corrupt police to do his bidding, like killing Hobbs's men. He gets robbed by Dom, Brian, and all the cool characters from the earlier four films in a spectacular heist, stealing a vault with all of Reyes's money.
The End Of The Road: Reyes and his men chase Dom, who crashes an empty vault into their car. On the floor, the kingpin begs for his life, but Hobbs kills him, avenging his team. The character reappears in a flashback in Fast X, as his son, Dante, steps up as a new villain.
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Johnny Tran
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Appears In: Johnny Tran (Rick Yune) has the big honor of being the first villain the family encounters, as the bad guy in The Fast and the Furious.
High-Octane Plan: Once upon a time, Dom and his team kept busy with smaller-scale pursuits, like stealing DVDs and electronics. Tran’s evil plans are similar: steal cars and high-end electronics, that's it. However, Tran does so on a large enough scale that the FBI and Brian want to get him. Tran also proves he's a serious villain when he kills Jesse.
The End Of The Road: After killing Jesse and shooting at Dom and Mia, Tran is killed by Brian in the subsequent race. This is the moment Dom and Brian become brothers, as the FBI agent gives the thief a chance to escape. From the ashes of Tran's defeat rose the start of a wildly successful movie franchise.
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Cipher
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Appears In: The big bad in The Fate of the Furious, Cipher (Charlize Theron) is a genius cyberterrorist who has interesting taste in hairstyles. Refusing to be defeated, she returns in the following two films.
High-Octane Plan: Intelligent, conniving, and ruthless, Cipher wants to start World War III by using a Russian submarine to attack the world. To do so, she makes Dom turn on his team and work for her, as she has his ex-girlfriend Elena and Dom’s son, Brian, as leverage. She kills Elena just to prove she can, before being betrayed by Dom.
The End Of The Road: Dom has never forgiven Cipher for killing Elena, so serious bad blood remains between them. She has appeared in F9 and Fast X as a secondary villain trying to wreak havoc. For her part, it looks like she wants to become the team’s frenemy, but that seems unlikely.
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Owen Shaw
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Appears In: A former SAS Agent and the first Shaw to appear in the franchise, Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) first shows up in Fast and Furious 6. He also turns up in Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious.
High-Octane Plan: Shaw is ruthless, smart, and always has an escape plan. He’s looking for a chip to complete “Nightshade”, a military weapon that works like an Electromagnetic Pulse, and sell it to the highest bidder. He’s also memorable because his squad is an evil mirror version of the heroes, including the presumed-dead Letty (gasp!), who has amnesia.
The End Of The Road: He ends the film in a coma, and that's why his big brother, Deckard Shaw, goes against Dom in Furious 7. In The Fate of the Furious, he has recuperated and is held in a black site prison. After being liberated, he teams up with his brother to save Dom's son from a plane full of bad guys in one of the best action sequences in the franchise.
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Aimes
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Appears In: The newest leader of Mr. Nobody's agency, Agent Aimes (Alan Ritchson) at first appears to be the latest law enforcement official who ends up being in Dom’s side in Fast X.
High-Octane Plan: At the end of Fast X, Aimes betrays Dom in a big twist, revealing he has been working for Dante Reyes all along. Aimes ends the movie by shooting down the plane carrying Han, Tej, Roman, and Ramsey.
The End Of The Road: From the cliffhanger ending of Fast X, it looks like Aimes just killed half of Dom’s team. It's a fairly safe bet that Dom will go after Aimes in the next movie - audiences will have to wait to see it.
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Mose Jakande
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Appears In: Mercenary and warlord Mose Jakande (Djimon Hounsou) is one of the villains in Furious 7.
High-Octane Plan: Jakande teams up with Deckard Shaw in a “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” way to end Dom and his team. He wants to get his hands on the “God’s Eye,” a surveillance technology that would allow him to know where someone is, anywhere in the world and kill him.
The End Of The Road: After trying to kill everyone, Jakande escapes in a helicopter. Unfortunately for him, Dom has hooked a bag of hand grenades to the bottom of it, and Hobbs fires at those grenades, ending the criminal’s life in what might be the first Dom-Hobbs team-up killing in franchise history.
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Deckard Shaw
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Appears In: The bad guy in Furious 7, Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), wants revenge after Dom and his “family” has put his brother Owen in a coma.
High-Octane Plan: This tough, violent ex-MI6 agent wants vengeance, and his plan only has one step: kill Dom and every member of the team. He almost succeeds, too - he puts Hobbs in the hospital, destroys Dom’s house, and biggest offense of them all, he kills Han (or so it seems at the time).
The End Of The Road: With every new film, Shaw's less of a villain and more of an antihero as he keeps saving the world. Since Furious 7, Shaw has appeared in every entry in the saga (The Fate of the Furious, F9, and Fast X), becoming more of an ally to Dom as they work together. He’s also one of the lead characters in the, for now, only spinoff: Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw, stealing the show with his love/hate relationship with Hobbs.
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Carter Verone
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Appears In: A Miami drug lord who loves torture and design clothes, Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) is the villain in 2 Fast 2 Furious.
High-Octane Plan: Verone just wants to keep his drug empire going, buying some local cops, torturing some people by putting rats in buckets and lighting them on fire, and menacing his girlfriend, undercover US Customs Agent Monica Fuentes. Not the most diabolical villain, perhaps, but still a dangerous sleaze who has apparently seen Scarface and Miami Vice one too many times.
The End Of The Road: When Brian and Roman finally put him in jail at the end of the film, Verone promises revenge. It's been 20 years, and Verone hasn’t resurfaced in any of the following films, so he’s probably still rotting in a Florida prison.
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Jakob Toretto
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Appears In: Jakob Toretto (John Cena) is the antagonist in F9 and Dom and Mia’s long-lost younger brother. He was exiled by Dom after their father died.
High-Octane Plan: Jakob is the never-mentioned brother, who looks nothing like the Torettos, but fans can suspend disbelief over his sudden appearance because he's a downright exciting villain. Now, he plots with his friend Otto to steal Project Ares so they can launch a satellite and take control of the world’s computer and military systems. When his partner changes alliances and works with Cipher, Jakob has a change of heart and ends up helping his family.
The End Of The Road: After redeeming himself in Dom’s eyes in F9, Jacob comes back in Fast X to save Mia and Little Brian (Dom’s son). He takes Brian under his wing and keeps him alive for much of the film. In the end, Jakob gives his live in a heroic sacrifice to take out several mercenaries so that his brother and nephew can escape.
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Brixton Lore
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Appears In: Brixton Lore (Idris Elba) is a biologically enhanced super-soldier who calls himself “Black Superman” in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
High-Octane Plan: Lore used to be an MI6 agent before graduating to supervillain. Now, he works for a nefarious organization named Eteon and wants to release the Snowflake virus that would kill half of the population on the planet.
The End Of The Road: Lore is too much of a supervillain to have a change of heart and become part of the family. Once Hobbs, Shaw, and Hattie disable the virus, and beat Lore and his men in Samoa, Eteon's director kills him remotely. If he really was “Black Superman,” he shouldn’t have accepted having an on-off death switch.
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Arturo Braga/Ramon Campos
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Appears In: Ramon Campos (John Ortiz) is introduced as a second-in-command to the powerful drug lord Arturo Braga, until a twist reveals that “Ramon” is actually Braga himself. He's the villain in Fast & Furious.
High-Octane Plan: Braga is a heroin trafficker moving product across the US/Mexico border using quick cars. His plan is good enough to reunite Dom and Brian and make them work with law enforcement for the first time. He’s also responsible for killing Letty (even if she is later revealed to have survived).
The End Of The Road: Braga is the first villain to reappear in another film in the franchise without any sort of redemption arc. He's in jail in Fast & Furious 6 when Brian goes to him for some information about Owen Shaw, a bigger, scarier villain. Presumably, he's still in prison.
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Otto
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Appears In: Otto (Thue Ersted Rasmussen) is Jakob Toretto's right-hand man, friend, and financier with his own evil plan in F9.
High-Octane Plan: The son of a rich diplomat, Otto wants to steal Project Ares to hack every computer and military system in the world so he can be more powerful than his dad. In service of his daddy issues, he betrays Jakob and aligns with Cipher, who, even jailed in a glass box, exudes more smarts, power, and charisma than Otto and persuades him to work together.
The End Of The Road: Cipher kills him by mistake after a drone shot aimed at Dom hits him. It's not a big loss, and Otto won’t be mourned by many.
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