Fast & Furious 8: 23 WTF Moments In The Fate Of The Furious

13. The Rock Loves The Stath

Jason Statham Deckard Shaw Fast and Furious 8
Universal Pictures

Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw is easily the best thing about the movie: not only because of the baby sequence (wait for it), but also because he is as deadly with a barbed put-down as he is with his martial arts training.

For the majority of their first meetings, he and Hobbs trade ridiculous roasts, including Shaw threatening to punch the "whisker biscuit" off Hobbs' face. Who cares if it makes no sense, the jibing is very funny.

It's also significantly more homoerotic than the volleyball sequence in Top Gun, and comes to a head when they giggle at each other flirtatiously and are suddenly best friends. What.

Even worse, everyone seems remarkably willing to forgive Shaw - including Dom - despite the fact that he straight up murdered Han.

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