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Fast X introduced two new characters in the franchise with Jason Momoa as the villain Dante Reyes and Alan Ritchson as Agent Aimes, the new head of Mr. Nobody’s agency. If you haven’t seen Fast X, there are some spoiler details ahead, but these two characters were almost brothers in the story.
Over the course of the film, both Dante and Aimes are on separate missions to take down Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto. Reyes is out to torture him by hurting his family, and Aimes is out to capture him. Well, during the climax of the movie it seems like Aimes finally realizes that Dom and his family have been set up by Dante, and he starts to seemingly help him.
However, in the end, it’s revealed that Aimes has been helping Dante all along, and they’ve been working together since the events of Fast Five. In a flashback sequence, we see that Aimes was present during the film’s vault heist, and that sparked a partnership that led to the silly twist in Fast X.
When revealing that the two characters were almost going to be brothers, Ritchson explained to Entertainment Weekly:
“I don’t know if this is divulging too much, but we shot a couple different stories. One was that Jason Momoa’s character and Aimes were blood brothers. They were actually related, and one of the reasons why they were unified was because of their genetic link. There is a version in the editing room of that film, but at the end of the day it was decided that the other version which is what’s in the film now — we learn at the end of the movie that really surprising twist that there was an alliance between them the whole time making him maybe the bad guy — that’s what we’re left with. I wasn’t really sure which version of that was going to live, but I did know that there was a lot of duplicity in the character and that he was ultimately a bad guy, at least for now. We’ll see what the future holds.”
I mean, I guess the whole brother thing could’ve worked. it really wouldn’t have changed the film or made it any better or worse. It’d actually make more sense that they’d team up because they were brothers. But, I guess Ritchson’s character was just a super-loyal employee. What do you think!?