The Fast & Furious franchise regularly brings seemingly dead heroes back to life, but there are a few who have remained dead and not returned (yet).

Summary

• Fast & Furious franchise is known for bringing back dead characters, but there are a few heroes who have remained dead.
• Jack Toretto, Dom's father, died in a racing accident and his death should not be undone in the franchise.
• Jesse, a member of Dom's crew, was killed in a drive-by shooting, while Vince was killed during an ambush. Elena, Dom's love interest, was killed by the villain Cipher.

The Fast & Furious franchise has brought many characters back from the dead, but a handful of its heroes have remained killed off after their demise. The Fast Saga has taken its characters on a wild ride from street racing to the most outlandish adventures possible. The running theme of the Fast & Furious franchise has long been family, with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) building quite a large family indeed over the course of the Fast Saga's run.

On top of its embrace of ridiculous, superhuman feats as a staple of its action scenes, the Fast & Furious movies are also well known for bringing back seemingly dead characters for more missions. The returns of Sung Kang's Han in F9 and Gal Gadot's Gisele Yashar in Fast X would be especially noteworthy in emphasizing the notion that no Fast & Furious death is irreversible. However, that is not entirely true, as there have been a few Fast & Furious heroes who have died and never come back.

4 Jack Toretto

Jack Toretto (J.D. Pardo) is the father of Dom, Mia (Jordana Brewster), and Jakob Toretto (John Cena), and is first seen in a flashback to 1989 in F9. Jack is a highly skilled race car driver who instilled that talent in his children, with Dom and Jakob being part of his racing pit crew. However, Jack's racing career took a tragic turn when his car malfunctioned and crashed, killing him. Dom later beat his father's racing opponent, Kenny Linder (Jim Parrack), almost to death with a wrench, believing him responsible for his father's demise.

This tragedy also led to Dom and Jakob falling out, with Dom later coming to believe that Jakob set up their father's death since he was the last one to work on his car. However, Jack was intentionally attempting to throw the race in order to get his family out of debt. He had asked Jakob to help tinker with his car so that it would fail, with Jack's death being unintentional on both their parts. While his return has been theorized by fans, of all the characters killed off in Fast & Furious, Jack Toretto's death should never be retconned.

3 Jesse

One of the early members of Dom's family in the original The Fast and the Furious, Jesse (Chad Lindberg) was the brains of Dom's crew in his enterprise of stealing DVD players. Jesse went on the run after losing a street race to Dom's rival, Johnny Tran (Rick Yune), having bet his MK3 Volkswagen Jetta in the race. Jesse was later killed outside of Dom's house when Johnny Tran and his associate Lance Nguyen (Reggie Lee) arrived and performed a drive-by shooting. Dom and Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) then chased down Johnny Tran and Lance Nguyen to avenge their fallen friend.

2 Vince

Vince (Matt Schulze) was another member of Dom's crew in The Fast & the Furious, and he was badly injured during a truck heist in that first movie. After his recovery, Vince fled to Rio de Janeiro where he later reunited with Dom and family in Fast Five. Despite Vince having settled down with a wife and a baby son, he agreed to join Dom's daring heist of Rio's most feared crime boss Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida). Unfortunately, Vince was killed during an ambush by Reyes's team. After successfully pulling off the heist, Dom left Vince's intended share of the money with his wife and son.

1 Elena

Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) worked alongside Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) in apprehending Dom and his crew in Fast Five. She and Dom gradually developed feelings for each other, however, and departed for Spain with Dom at the end of the movie. After Dom learned that his wife Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez) was still alive despite her apparent death in Fast & Furious, Dom and Elena had an amicable split, only for it to later be revealed that Elena is the mother of Dom's son in The Fate of the Furious.

After Elena was killed by the villainous Cipher (Charlize Theron), Dom and Letty raised the boy together, with the two naming him Brian after Brian O'Conner. Meanwhile, Dom later met Elena's sister Isabel (Daniela Melchior), who joined Dom's crew in Fast X. While Elena remains deceased as of Fast X, the arrival of her sister Isabel and Fast & Furious's habit of not truly killing off characters makes her the most likely thought-to-be-dead hero to potentially return as the franchise speeds towards its finale.