Furious 7: Dom’s Greatest Scenes in the Fast and the Furious Franchise

Furious 7, the latest in the ever-intensifying The Fast and the Furious franchise, is coming to theaters on April 3. If you think you’re ready, then you don’t know Dominic Toretto, who’s devotion to his family is matched only by the density of his muscles and constant desire to drive smaller vehicles through and out of larger vehicles/buildings. He wears white shirts. He drives with one hand better than you can hold a cup with three.

Soon he’ll be at it again, solving the mysteries of the universe with pistons and pedals. He’ll drive cars through stuff. Around stuff. About stuff. He’ll blow your mind with his impossible combination of goodness and toughness. But before that happens, let’s celebrate his three greatest moments. He doesn’t deserve the attention. He simply has the right to it.

In Which Dom Expresses the Aerial Intuition of an Aged Dove

Fast & Furious 6 might not hold its place as the most bombastic of the franchise for long, nor the most illogical, but Furious 7 will surely have a hard time overcoming this singularly impossible moment in movie history. Not only does Dom launch himself from the exact point, and with the exact speed, needed to intercept a similarly catapulted woman midair, he has the presence of mind to spin his body in such a way as to land the both of them safely on a third vehicle’s windshield. How his body doesn’t simply plummet straight through the car, resulting in a heart-shaped explosion around the two lovebirds, I will never know.

In Which Dom Births a Car out of a Plane

Again, Fast $ Furious 6 makes the list, because it seems that at this point in the franchise, the producers came to understand just one fact about the world: Dom’s invulnerability knows no bounds. He is the angel on his own shoulder, the first arisen phoenix of American muscle. After about six hundred miles (by my astute calculation) of fighting on and around a cargo plane and the many cars circling it, Dom is trapped within as the plane bursts into flame. Like the phoenix, Dom finds a way out of those flames. Like a Dom, he does it in miraculous style.

In Which Dom Does Male Bonding Through a Number of Walls

It could be argued that Fast Five existed for the sole purpose of this epic throw-down, just to see what might happen when two objects, both simultaneously unstoppable and immovable, were to collide for more than a brief moment. Hobbs, represented with such subtlety by a man named after a geological object, had been chasing Dom through the entirety of the film up this scene, exchanging glances on rooftops like a Romeo and Juliet borne of pure fiery engine oil. This is what happens when you let love boil underneath for too long. Dom almost kills you with a wrench.

Now, are you ready for Furious 7? You are? That was your first mistake.