Fast X is an overwhelming film with a lot of moving parts.
That last thread is an odd one.
But more interesting than this thread itself is what it might be signaling about Cipher’s future.
Could they be setting Cipher up to join the family?
Yes, they certainly could be.
I’m not sure that’s the best idea, though.
Let’s break it down.
In The Fate of the Furious, Cipher came in like a thousand wrecking balls.
Charlize Theron’s villain character immediately positioned herself as the Fast & Furious franchise’s apparently unredeemable main villain.
The phantom menace had emerged.
This one felt pretty final–we get to watch Dom stare at her well-lit corpse for a while.
It’s hard to figure how this could have been faked, or why.
So: Elena is dead, because Cipher murdered her.
What’s Cipher’s plan?
Bad news on the largest scale this franchise has attempted.
The Nightshade gadget from Fast & Furious 6 could have rendered any nation in the world utterly defenseless.
The God’s Eye from Furious 7 is a global surveillance algorithm that can find anyone, anywhere.
In F8 she tries to fire off a nuke that would start a war.
She has no friends or family and doesn’t want them.
Cipher exists to be Dom’s antithesis.
Or she did, anyway.
Warning: The remainder of this article contains many spoilers for Fast X.
He succeeds, and tells her men to kill her as he walks out the door.
Cipher fights her way out, then literally walks to Dom’s house to tell him about Dante.
And then she’s sent to a blacksite prison in Antarctica.
She spends the entire rest of the movie there, ultimately working with Letty to escape.
All of this has left Cipher in an ambiguous spot.
Dante is the new main bad guy.
Every time Cipher appeared on screen in Fast X, alarm bells went off in my head.
Is this the start of a redemption arc?
Are we really just abandoning her story and doing Dante’s story instead?
Or are we gearing up for a three-way battle between Dom, Dante, and Cipher?
It’s impossible to know.Fast X’s cliffhangeris quite abrupt.
That girl is neither seen nor mentioned in Fast X.
Even worse, look at Jakob.
They simply punted on that character.
If that’s how they treat Dom’s brother, then what are they doing with Cipher?
I’m not actually opposed to a redemption arc for Cipher, to be clear.
I just worry they’ll handle it clumsily.
But whatwouldbe a satisfying arc for Cipher?
That’s a good group to pit against each other.
It’s not theonlygood path to take, but it’s one that could work.
Like “sacrifice yourself to save others” kind of big.
I’m just not expecting it.
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