Han FastandfuriousTokyoDrift remains the best character in the fastandfuriousverse. He's the entire reason there's a weird knot in the chronology, because he was too cool to not bring into the main timeline I guess, but because his death is a major plot point in Tokyo Drift they then had to make it so a bunch of movies that were made after TD happened in-universe before it. To square TD with the rest of the movies in the franchise, in fact, Han is always *about* to die. Every last ride might be the one that sends him to Japan and to his fate. His arc is operating in a whole other genre to those of all the other characters who functionally cannot die, even Brian who had to be written out bc his actor literally did die. Han's death in Tokyo Drift essentially hunts him through all the other movies in the series. In this essay I will

















