But Paul Walker’s character was effectively “retired”, so why not retire a major character like Dom or Hobbs?
But there is nothing like a truly meaningful character death to get people to pack in the theater.
Given that Paul Walker died for real, it would have to be tastefully done since this is a series that has actually dealt with real tragedy.
Letty and Han have both already been “killed” off, but as we can see, Letty’s been back for a while now, and Han is on his way back for the next movie.