The Fast & Furious franchise has built up a huge rogues gallery, and Fast X could be leading to a huge villain team-up event in Fast 11. Though 2001's The Fast and Furious was a simple crime drama about a cop bonding with the criminal he's trying to take down, the series has grown into a huge blockbuster franchise full of theatrical baddies. From the Tony Montana-inspired Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) in 2 Fast 2 Furious to tech supervillain Cipher (Charlize Theron), who is making her third appearance in Fast X, the Fast & Furious saga's villains are becoming just as over-the-top as Dominic Toretto's seemingly invincible family.

With Fast X hitting theaters in 2023, the cast is speaking at length about how exciting of an event it'll be and how it sets up Fast 11. Most interestingly, Michelle Rodriguez revealed that Fast X ends on a huge cliffhanger. The actor explained, "I think people are gonna be really, really surprised and we're gonna get a lot of open mouths at the end of Fast X." Given that the franchise gets increasingly outlandish with each consecutive release, Rodriguez's comments could allude to anything from aliens visiting Dom to a whole Fast & Furious multiverse. But what's more plausible is a team of Fast & Furious's surviving villains.

The Fast Saga Now Has So Many Villains


With Fast X marking Cipher's third Fast & Furious movie, her presence seemingly gives the franchise a suitable overarching villain. However, the series is now full of colorful and eccentric bad guys ranging from Miami mobsters to literal superheroes. Along with Cipher, Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw features the villain Brixton Lore (Idris Elba), who has a supersuit that rivals Tony Stark's Iron Man suit. Then there's Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), who's something of an anti-hero and switches sides whenever it suits him, just like Jakob (John Cena). And Fast X will introduce a new, unknown villain played by Jason Mamoa, adding to the movie's immense star power.

Cypher Could Lead A Team Of Fast & Furious Villains


Ever since 2 Fast 2 Furious, the saga has been building its gallery of rogues with each release, and not all of them have been killed. Even then, nobody ever stays dead in the Fast & Furious series, so even the likes of Artura Braga, the villain of 2009's Fast & Furious, could somehow return. The series has been leading to an epic heroes-vs.-villains event, as so many of Dom’s family somehow being experts in combat and Dom essentially being a superhero. The family needs a team of villains to take them on, especially as the villains’ tech has been getting more and more advanced.

Cipher has clearly been built up as the Fast & Furious's own Thanos-level threat, and she could lead a villain team. She's the only villain who has returned for a second movie, and she's back in Fast X too. Of all the villains in the franchise, Cipher is the smartest and has billions of dollars worth of tech at her disposal. In F9, she was even held captive in a glass cell, just like Loki was in The Avengers. While she doesn't seem like she could cause that much damage without any tech, every character in the series thinks otherwise, and everyone who comes into contact with her fears her.

That kind of fear isn't totally justified and Cipher hasn't earned that reputation, at least not on-screen. But given her huge network of allies, her intelligence, and her billion-dollar toys, she could certainly rally together and lead a team of villains against Dom and his gang. Though Mamoa's role in Fast X isn't totally clear, he, along with Shaw, Mose Jakande, Riley Hicks, Brixton, and even Takeshi could become an epic team of villains that could finally be a threat to Dom's increasingly invincible family. And a line-up of villains played by Theron, Elba, Statham, Cena and Mamoa is a team with star power that even outdoes its main cast.

A Villain Team Will Pay Off One Fast & Furious Mystery


In 2 Fast 2 Furious, Brian and Rome busted druglord Carter Verone, but after he was caught, he told them, “I’ll see you real soon,” hinting that he’ll get his revenge. While his hesitence has become a running gag in the franchise, Rome was genuinely frightened by the threat. Verone's revenge is one of the few unanswered questions in the Fast & Furious saga. But with the possibility of a villain team in Fast 11, Verone could join them and his return would be a much bigger pay-off than any fantastical outerspace sequence. And Verone would be an interesting dark horse in the superteam.