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| “ | I live my life ¼ of a mile at a time. Nothing else matters. Not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those 10 seconds or less, I'm free. | „ |
| ~ Dom's most famous quote. |
| “ | There's nothing stronger than family. | „ |
| ~ Dom valuing family. |
| “ | You'll always be with me. And you'll always be my brother. | „ |
| ~ Dom's farewell to Brian, which is also Vin Diesel's goodbye to the deceased Paul Walker. |
Dominic "Dom" Toretto is the main protagonist of the Fast and Furious franchise.
He is a crew leader of his team, street racer and a former criminal. He is the oldest child and son of Jack Toretto, and the brother of Jakob and Mia.
He is portrayed by Vin Diesel, who voiced the Iron Giant in the 1999 movie of the same name, Groot in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and also played Xander Cage in xXx and xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Richard B. Riddick in the Riddick franchise, Shane Wolfe in The Pacifier, Kaulder in The Last Witch Hunter, and Ray Garrison/Bloodshot in Bloodshot.
Biography[]
Dom is the eldest son of Jack Toretto, the brother of Jakob and Mia, husband to Letty Ortiz, the uncle of Jack and his younger sister, the cousin of Fernando, and the father of Brian Marcos.
An elite street racer and auto mechanic, Dom is a man with a strong moral code and family values, Dominic began as a career criminal who robbed trucks to support his family. Banned from the professional circuit, Dominic relied on illegal quarter mile races to satisfy his passion for racing. When he met Brian O'Conner, his family was torn apart by the revelation that Brian is an undercover cop. Dominic escaped from the United States and reestablished a new crew, running several jobs around Central and South America.
He joined forces with Brian again after returning to Los Angeles to avenge the apparent death of his wife Letty. After helping incarcerate drug lord Arturo Braga, he was sentenced to prison for twenty five years to life for his previous crimes before escaping the law and fleeing to South America once more, where he and his crew came into conflict with corrupt businessman and drug lord Hernan Reyes and Diplomatic Security Service agent Luke Hobbs in Rio de Janeiro.
Dominic earned his freedom after he and his crew helped Luke take down former British Special Forces soldier Owen Shaw, while rescuing an amnesiac Letty. He settled the score with the Shaw family after defeating former British military assassin Deckard Shaw, the man responsible for seemingly killing his friend, Han Seoul-Oh.
He was later forced to betray his team due to Cipher threatening his son, but with the help of the Shaw brothers, he was able to rescue his son and rejoin his team.
Three years after, Jakob resurfaced for revenge against Dom and threatened to destroy the current world order using a device called Project Aries. Dom gathered his team once more to go after Jakob and his partner Otto, who later teamed up with Cipher, and, along the way, face the past he ran away from for the sake of his son, Little Brian.
Two years later, Dom and his team met their deadliest enemy yet, Dante Reyes, Hernan's son who sought revenge for the death of his father and the loss of his family's money and legacy. Dante managed to separate Dom from his teammates, frame them as terrorists in the eyes of the world and the Agency and steal their money to buy the loyalty of hundreds of men. In an intense car chase in Portugal, Dom witnessed in horror as Jakob sacrificed himself to eliminate some of Dante's henchmen before he and Little Brian were cornered by Dante, who blew up a bridge under them, with the fates of Dom, his son and many of their friends remaining unknown.
Personality[]
Dominic has been described as "a gruff but affectionate father to his loyal pack of renegades, providing them with barbecue, protection, and a rough moral code to live by. "Toretto is "caretaker", defined largely by his emotional ties. In contrast to O'Conner's estranged relationship with his father, Toretto puts family first. Dominic is very protective of Mia and extremely loyal to anyone he considers family. He will do anything he can for them, even traveling to a foreign country to retrieve their body for a proper burial. Dominic is a religious man on account of his upbringing, attending church as a child with his father and sister.
While not overtly religious, Dominic relies largely on the faith he places in people. He requires everyone at the table wait until the food is blessed before eating, or bless the table when they eat before the blessing takes place. He uses the cross he wears around his neck representation of his love for wife, Letty Ortiz, who has known since childhood. Dominic recalls his father's influence on him and the things he did for Mia as as child as the reason he considers family as most important.
Dominic is impulsive and has little control over his temper. He tends to attack people whenever they insult him, or when he sees something he doesn't like. Dominic doesn't even bother asking for the full story and attacks the offender before an explanation, as seen when he attacked Kenny Linder following his father's death, and Brian, when he assumed Brian's actions resulted in Letty's death at the hands of Braga's cartel. His lack of control has often resulted in grievous consequences for the one attacked.
During his time on the run in Rio and onward, Dominic develops a better impulse control. He doesn't attack Owen Shaw following his meeting with Letty, something he would've normally done in the past. Instead he speaks with Owen, who is confident that Dominic's moral code and familial ties makes him vulnerable to attack.
Wanting to set a good example Jack, Dom and Brian agreed to leave the life of illegal street racing behind. However, they have come out of retirement sparingly when the situation calls for the unique skills of his crew.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Peak Human Condition: Dominic has proven himself to wield immense strength and durability easily apparent for someone of his physical build. Surprisingly, he is very fast and agile too, as well as quite athletic.
- Enhanced Strength: Dominic can generate strength above a peak human level. He is able to easily overpower weaker opponents, even quite a few of those that included extensively trained fighters and during his fight with Deckard Shaw, he proved to surpass Deckard's strength, able to uppercut him off his feet and several feet away, as well as pick him up by his collar. His blows were able to punch through concrete and dent a car when he punched it instead of Shaw, which angered him to the point he was able to lift him up and throw him into a car windshield from a further distance. He could also lift Connor Rhodes by the throat with one hand. His greatest feat of strength was stomping the ground weakened by Mose Jakande's missiles, causing it to crumble beneath Shaw's feet. The only ones to have ever surpassed Dominic's strength are Luke Hobbs and Klaus but even those individuals have trouble fighting him, as Dominic was able to clash with Hobbs and cause him trouble breaking out of his grip while he was able to eventually do the same when Hobbs restrained him, although he only did it the second time when he was angered upon seeing Mia in danger, while he was able to knock off Klaus with a leaping blow and lift him long enough for Hobbs to knock him out. In Abu Dhabi, Dominic also managed to lift the front of a Lykan HyperSport, which weighed 3,042 pounds (1,380 kilograms/1.52 tons).
- Master Driver: Dominic is career racer and proficient driver, adept at driving various vehicles. Dominic is skilled in varying race and street sports, such as cornering and drifting, but prefers quarter mile races. Dominic is often reckless, using extreme measures to resolve equally extreme situations. In two different occasions, Dominic drove his Dodge Charger R/T off the cliff and smashed it in order to escape from Mose Jakande and his men, and twice he smashed directly in a head-on collision with Deckard Shaw.
- Expert Engineer: Dominic is adept at fixing and tuning cars, rivaled only by Tej Parker in experience. He built the Dodge Charger R/T with his father. He built and tuned several vehicles that he owned, including two 1970 Plymouth Road Runners and a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle from an audition race for Braga's crew membership.
- Master Combatant: As a street fighter, Dominic uses unorthodox methods to fight his opponents. He is not afraid to use blunt weapons, such as wrenches and pipes. His impulsiveness and aggression is often a driving force in winning fights, but as he matured, he learned to keep his head and resort to more tactical methods. He is usually capable of drawing strength from watching his loved ones to turn the tides against a winning foe. In addition to being capable of handling many highly trained opponents on his own easily, Dominic has proven his physical conditioning and skills to be enough to pose a difficult challenge to the likes of the extremely skilled Brian, Owen Shaw, and even Deckard Shaw and Luke Hobbs. Indeed, he was able to soundly defeat Brian, stalemate Owen and Deckard, and while ultimately overpowered by Hobbs, he was able to match and even gain the upper hand and almost kill him upon seeing Letty giving him strength. His fighting styles seems to consist of boxing, brawling and wrestling.
- Marksman: Unlike many of his opponents, Dominic rarely resorts to using firearms. When he does use firearms, his preference is often the shotgun. Even though Dominic prefers fists over firearms, he is adept at using them. He mainly prefers using shotguns, and once, he made a sawn-off. While he was under attack from Reyes's men, he saved Hobbs's life and killed several attacking men using a shotgun from Hobbs's armored truck.
- Leadership/Tactician: Dominic is rather intelligent and uses his opponent’s presumption to regard him as ignorant to his advantage. He perchance of elaborate heists, such as the 2004 truck hijackings, and the 2009 fuel thefts, saw him and his given teams incorporate high end and luxury vehicles into his plans. When collaborating with Brian in 2009, he devised a plan to hijack 100 million dollars in Rio from Hernan Reyes, a Brazilian drug lord, and also aided Luke Hobbs to capture Owen Shaw. After escaping capture in the U.S for hijacking cars, he was able to escape from the county. He managed to remain in hiding for five years from the U.S government, travelling across Central and South America, such as Mexico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Ecuador and Brasil. After stealing 100 million dollars from Hernan Reyes, he hid in the Canary Island in Spain mainly because there was no extradition clause.
- Bilingualism: Dominic speaks English and Spanish.
Vehicles[]
- 1993 Mazda RX-7
- 1970 Dodge Charger R/T
- 1994 Toyota Supra MK IV
- 1970 Plymouth Road Runner
- 1987 Buick Grand National
- 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle
- 2010 Dodge Charger SRT8
- 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona
Victims[]
- Fenix Calderon - Crushed to death by Dom with his car.
- 5 unnamed Reyes Cartel Henchmen - Shot to death by Dom, Brian and Vince.
- Connor Rhodes - Neck broken by Dom.
- 47 Unnamed Corrupt German Soldiers - Indirectly; blown up by Tej Parker on orders by Dom.
Story Inconsistencies[]
- The Fast and the Furious establishes that Dominic and Letty were neighbors who knew each other since Letty was ten years old. In Fast & Furious 6, Dominic states that he never met Letty until she was fifteen and they participated in street race.
- At the end of Fast Five, Dominic, Mia and Brian have fled to the Canary Islands in Spain to avoid extradition. However, Spain has an extradition treaty with the United States
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Trivia[]
- Dominic Toretto is the main protagonist of The Fast and the Furious franchise. With the exception of 2 Fast 2 Furious and its short film, he has appeared in every film in the franchise since Tokyo Drift.
- In a deleted scene for The Fast and the Furious, Dominic recalls that his father taught him how to drive when he was five years old.
- Before Vin Diesel was cast, Timothy Olyphant was the original choice for the role of Dominic Toretto, but turned down the offer due to the film being too similar to Gone in 60 Seconds.
- In Fast Five, Dominic refers to his family, "Salute mi Familia".
- In the film Hobbs and Reyes, maybe Dominic Toretto will be mentioned and his team. Luke Hobbs having learned he will begin to get revenge on Dante Reyes.
External Links[]
- Dominic Toretto on the The Fast and the Furious Wiki
- Dominic Toretto on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Dominic Toretto on the Wikipedia
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