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Han is coming back forFast & Furious 9 , but there are many otherFast & Furiouscharacters who ’ve yet to return in the more recent motion-picture show . After eight film , a spinoff , a couple of short films , and an animated Netflix series ( not to mention,2002’sBetter Luck Tomorrow , which was retroactively made part of the series ' universe ) , theFast & Furioushas a deal of miles under its belt , figuratively speaking . It ’s also developed a habit of reusing the same supporting characters over and over , either evolving them into members of the movies ' core ensemble or simply bringing them back for a cameo ( like when Tego and Rico showed up inThe Fate of the Furious ) .
course , some of these characters have since met their maker , like when Vincent was fatally blast duringFast Fiveand Elena was murdered justly in front of Dom inThe Fate of the Furious . The luckier ace were later on resurrected through some character of plot contrivance , with Letty ’s getting even from the dead being perhaps the best example . By comparison , Han ’s original death inThe riotous and the Furious : Tokyo DriftandFurious 7was mean to be lasting , but was lift after rooter took issue with the clunky wayThe Fate of the Furious"redeemed " his killer , Deckard Shaw .
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Unlike Han , however , there are a telephone number of characters who ’re featured prominently in earlierFast & Furiousfilms , but are n’t confirmed to return anytime before long ( rumor aside , that is ) . Here are the ones who ’ve yet to make a riposte - and whether they ’re potential to anytime soon , if ever .
Leon
A close member of Dom ’s honest-to-god car - highjacking team and his lookout man for police force natural process during his illegal car subspecies , Leon has n’t been seensince he vanish after a truck armed robbery gone wrongand the subsequent radioactive dust in the originalThe Fast and the Furious . That ’s partly because the actor and stuntman who played him , Johnny Strong , pursued a vocation in euphony and founded the band Operator a distich geezerhood after the motion-picture show opened in 2001 . Strong returned to do in the zombi spirit horror - action movieDaylight ’s Endin 2016 , but there ’s been no indicant of him coming back to theFast & Furiousuniverse since then . Still , there ’s a chance ( slim it may be ) the dealership will eventually address what became of Leon , rather than get out his fate open - ended .
Edwin
While he only appear briefly inThe Fast and the Furious , rapper - histrion Ja Rule ’s Edwin was originally slat to play a much boastful role in2 tight 2 Furious . The design was for the sequel to redeem the case following his humiliating auto race loss in the first movie , butJa Rule passed on the project , saying in a 2002 interview"I just feel it was n’t the good move for me . “Many years later,2 Fast 2 Furiousdirector John Singleton discover Ja Rule would n’t come back his calls during the casting summons and said he acted like"he was too big to be in the sequel . “As a result , the character was replaced with Ludacris ' Tej in the picture show , and the rest isFast & Furioushistory . Needless to say , the dealership has left Edwin firmly in its rearview windowpane by now .
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Monica Fuentes
In summation to bringing Tej into the fold,2 Fast 2 FuriousintroducedEva Mendes as Monica Fuentes , a U.S. Customs agent who goes undercover and works with Brian and Roman to take down the drug lord Carter Verone in the moving-picture show . Despite being position as a potential sexual love interest for Brian in succeeding installments , Monica would n’t show up again untilFast Five , and even then only briefly in the movie ’s credits panorama . Problem was , Universal was disappoint by the underwhelming answer to2 Fast 2 Furiousand went with a digressive sequel , Tokyo Drift , after that , before afterwards reuniting the principal of the originalFast and the Furiousfor 2009’sFast & Furious . There has n’t really been an obvious spot for Monica in the franchise since then - and with Mendes having ( for now ) tread away from acting since she started a kinsperson with Ryan Gosling in the mid-2010s , she ’s improbable to all of a sudden come out up again , either .
Jesse
Dom ’s trusted , extremely - intelligent , ADD - afflicted tech guy on his hand truck heists , Chad Lindberg ’s Jesse has n’t been seensince the event ofThe Fast and the Furious . The explanation why is quite simple : Jesse was shot dead by Johnny Tran , the leader of a rival railway car racing gang , and his cousin Lance Nguyen at the Toretto house in the film , prompt Dom and Brian to chase after the pair down ( in their cars , of course ) and retaliate , with Johnny being wipe out in the process . His end was moderately clear - make out but , then again , so was Han ’s , so there are still lover holding out hope that Jesse could somehow make a miraculous convalescence and return to the series . If nothing else , it ’ll be interesting to see if Jesse ’s name is ever mention again or bought up in conversation about Dom ’s past times as an outlaw .
Gisele
If there ’s oneFast & Furiouscharacter who has n’t show up in the late movies buthas a real shot at return , it ’s easily Gisele . Originally introduced as an overly sexualized liaison for drug trafficker Auturo Braga inFast & Furious(and played by a then - unknown Gal Gadot ) , the character really came into her own inFast FiveandFast & Furious 6 , which fleshed out her personality and backstory ( uncover she was a former Mossad agent ) , and made her and Han a fan - favorite romantic twosome . Gisel ostensibly sacrifice her life to salve Han during the climax ofFast & Furious 6- but if Han can somehow survive a brutal car clang and plosion , then presumptively Gisele could ’ve survived her fall from a speeding fomite in that moving-picture show .
Obviously , the liberal care from a storytelling perspective ( like those erect about Han ’s resurrection ) is bring Gisele back from the dead would degrade her original sacrifice and find like a cop - out . There ’s also the topic of Gadot ’s schedule ; in addition to play Wonder Woman in the DCEU , she ’s very busy star in film like Netflix’sRed Noticeat the moment and would credibly struggle to regain elbow room in her schedule to commit to anotherFast & Furiousmovie . Nevertheless , out of all these characters , Gisele ’s the one whose take would make far and away the biggest waves .
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