Random reasons why Dominic Toretto Is Worst Part Of 'Fast And Furious' (11 items)

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  (#1) He Gets Married In A Tank Top

  Dom got married in a tank top.

  Letty didn't get married in a tank top. Letty wore a full bridal dress, and Letty never wears dresses. 

  Dom and Letty weren't married in a garage. They were married in a church. By a priest. With candles and everything.

  Dom wore a tank top. To his own wedding. 
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  (#6) He Leaves His Girlfriend For His Ex As Soon As She's Available

  From 2009’s Fast & Furious to 2013’s Fast & Furious 6, Dom believes Letty, his former girlfriend, has died. In Fast Five, he strikes up a relationship with Elena Neves, a Rio police officer the series almost - but never really - takes seriously. 

  In FF6, Dom learns that Letty is still alive and immediately chases after her. The film largely ignores Elena until she pops up at the end to tell Dom everything’s cool and, hey, if her deceased husband came back to life, she’d kick Dom to the curb, too. 

  Elena is free to make her choices, but Dom is let completely off the hook with zero awkwardness from Elena or Letty. Maybe everyone in this series is just super mature about relationships.
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  (#2) He Doesn't Care About #JusticeForHan

  In The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the passing of Han is a surprisingly trenchant commentary on the dangers of street racing. As it’s presented in the film, Han’s demise is not due to the careful plotting of the yakuza but an ordinary traffic accident. This was later retconned in Fast & Furious 6 to be the result of the careful plotting of Deckard Shaw, who seeks revenge on Dom for wounding (though not slaying) his brother.

  This revelation sets Furious 7 in motion, and it sets up Shaw as a dangerous adversary for the crew to face. However, in just one installment, Shaw shifts from diabolical villain to bosom buddy, as he agrees to save Dom’s baby in exchange for squashing their beef.

  Sure, Dom can be expected to play every card he has to save his child, but that doesn’t excuse the fact that Shaw ended his friend in cold blood. One of the many shortcomings of The Fate of the Furious is that this plot point is left completely unaddressed. He may have saved Dom’s son, but Shaw has no business attending his barbecue and standing in the presence of Han’s surviving friends.

  As the leader of his crew, Dom had an obligation to tell Shaw the two were, at best, on even terms. Apparently, Dom's baby brain made him forget all the years he and Han ran jobs south of the border.
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  (#8) His Emotions Disappear In The Later Films

  In the early 2000s, Vin Diesel appeared in three films that would define him for the rest of his career: Pitch Black (2000), The Fast and the Furious (2001), and xXx (2002). Riddick, Dominic Toretto, and Xander Cage are basically the same character: outlaws who abide by a personal code and will not hesitate to deliver a meaty curb stomp to those that cross them. Yet what separates Toretto from the other two is a surprisingly emotional performance in the original Fast & Furious.

  In 2001, Diesel’s star was on the rise, and he played Dom with the fiery spirit of a young, hungry actor. Dom’s ambition, joy, rage, and even fear are worn right on his cut-off sleeve. At the end of the film, Dom’s voice breaks when he tells Brian he has to find Jesse. After nearly getting Vince offed, he’s terrified of what will happen to the most vulnerable member of his crew - and even more terrified of what he will do in retaliation. As ever, Dom battles with the two halves of his personality: the cool, calculating outlaw, and the reckless, raging rider.

  After refusing to return for an FF sequel and agreeing to the mildest of cameos in FF3, Diesel officially returned to the franchise with Fast & Furious, but by that point all nuance to the character was gone. Diesel was at a very different stage of his career, and the Dom in FF4 is almost a completely different person: laconic, emotionless, and dull. While this can be explained by saying the character is dealing with the apparent passing of his lover, Dom’s stoicism only intensifies in later films - well past the point that Letty returns to the franchise.

  For the latter half of the Fast & Furious series, Dom is a caricature of toughness with little to no indication that he has any interior life at all. Maybe Diesel stopped caring, or maybe Dom's been constipated since 2009.
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  (#9) He Knew The Tuna Was Terrible

  There is a clue in the original Fast & Furious that Dominic Toretto may not have the community’s best interest at heart. Before fully embarking on a life of crime, and then heroic counter-terrorism, Dom was a simple shopkeeper. Toretto’s Market & Cafe was a cozy spot where locals could grab a few groceries and enjoy a sandwich. But there was something rotten in Los Angeles...

  While attempting to infiltrate Dom’s crew, undercover cop Brian O’Connor makes a habit of ordering lunch at the cafe. He frequently asks Mia about the state of the tuna. That may or may not be a crude joke on his part, but it's nothing of the sort to its regular patrons. Mia tells Brian:

  Every day for the last three weeks you've been coming in here and you've been asking me how the tuna is. Now, it was crappy yesterday, it was crappy the day before and guess what? It hasn't changed.

  In fact, the tuna at Toretto’s Market & Cafe is so gross that nobody will order it. Vince attests to this when he’s chasing Brian out of the cafe. After Brian swears he likes the tuna, Vince calls him on it. He screams, "Bullsh*t, *sshole, no one likes the tuna here!"

  If the tuna was this notoriously bad, Dom surely knew about it. Yet he did nothing to rectify the situation, and exposed countless people to food poisoning. 
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  (#7) He Regularly Endangers Countless Bystanders

  This isn’t a shortcoming limited to Dom, but as the leader of his crew, he bears the greatest responsibility. Every installment of the Fast & Furious series features ridiculous levels of collateral damage to both property and people. Let’s tally up the most egregious examples:

  • In The Fast and the Furious, Dom’s poorly planned heist nearly results in Vince's end.
  • In Fast & Furious, he demolishes an oil tanker (and its driver’s livelihood) and causes accidents all along the route of his street race for Arturo Braga.
  • In Fast Five, he almost certainly harms and possibly kills countless civilians while dragging a massive safe through the streets of Rio - and finally manages to bring about Vince's demise.
  • In Fast & Furious 6, his antics on the bridge endanger several commuters (and break the laws of physics).
  • In Furious 7, his sister and nephew are nearly blown to smithereens due to his personal beef with Deckard Shaw.

  Finally, in The Fate of the Furious, there are few friends or civilians that are safe from Dom's wildly irresponsible driving and overall behavior. He commits international espionage, alienates his "family," lets his baby mama perish, then makes his wife raise their lovechild.

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