Rio de Janeiro, commonly known as Rio, is the second most populous city in Brazil behind São Paulo.
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Early History[]
During the era of European colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquistadors arrived and warred against the indigenous populations, resulting in many causalities on both sides. The Portuguese also arrived in the Americas, although their relations with the indigenous was more cordial as the Portuguese shared their culture and inventions and traded with the indigenous, leading to the indigenous becoming reliant on Portuguese culture. Rio was then founded by the Portuguese in 1565.
Reyes Dynasty[]
Hernan Reyes was a businessman who eventually became a powerful drug kingpin and garnered a massive influence over Rio de Janiero, having much of the local police force and favelas under his control in exchange for resources. He also used his wealth to keep himself above the law and spoil his son, Dante Reyes. Despite this, most of the public was unaware of Hernan's criminal activities and he kept his image as a good-willed businessman.
2011[]
Rio Heist[]
After reuniting with Vince, Dominic Toretto and his team hijacked a train to steal some cars confiscated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, along with a shady man, Zizi, who turned out to be a henchman of Hernan. Later, Dominic and Brian O'Conner are captured by Hernan, but they managed to escape and burned some of Hernan's money, prompting the latter to move the rest of his money to a police station under his assets.
Later, DSS agent Luke Hobbs and his team arrive in Rio to arrest Dom's team after they supposedly assassinated several DEA agents during the heist. He recruited local cop Elena Neves to aid in the arrest, but was unaware that João Alemeida, the Chief of Police, and many corrupt cops were on Hernan's payroll.
Dom, Mia and Brian decided to pull one last job and invite Gisele Yashar, Han Seoul-Oh, Tej Parker, Roman Pearce, Tego Leo and Rico Santos to help them. Together they pulled off various jobs until they target a vault belonging to Reyes, containing 100 million dollars. To their surprise, they find out that the vault is hidden at the police station.
Eventually, while the crew prepares for the heist, Dom, Brian, Mia, and Vince were captured by Hobbs and his fellow agents to be extradited back to the United States for imprisonment. On the way, the convoy was attacked by Zizi and Hernan's men. Though Hobbs and his team were able to kill off most of the attackers, his team was murdered, with Hobbs being the only survivor. Before the terrorists could kill Hobbs, he was saved by Dom and his crew and they escape, but Vince is fatally wounded and dies shortly after. Afterwards, Hobbs temporarily puts his differences aside with Dom and his crew to help take down Reyes, with aid from Elena.
The team decide to attack the police station and steal the vault containing the money. While, Hernan and Dante were discussing their partnership with Aimes, they were alerted that the vault was being stolen. As Brian and Dom hooked the vault to their cars and dragged it through the streets, Hernan, Dante, and Zizi pursued after them with their men and a contingent of corrupt cops. After a lengthy chase that resulted in several instances of collateral damage, Dom used the vault to take out the rest of Reyes' men and all of the corrupt cops, with Hernan being killed by Hobbs, Zizi being killed by Brian, and Dante's car being thrown of the bridge. After the job was done, Hobbs gave them a head start but after learning that they used a decoy vault, he decides to let them go, only chuckling in amusement. The resulting heist effectively ended the Reyes' family's control over Rio. However, unbeknownst to them, Dante survived after being legally dead for two minutes and swore revenge on Dom and his crew.
2022[]
Upon learning that Dante was his newest enemy, Dominic went to Rio, where he reunited with Diogo and met Isabel Neves, Elena's sister who held resentment towards Dom for indirectly causing the death of her sister. Shortly afterwards, Dante and some of his followers joined them and he formally introduced himself to Dom before complimenting his efforts to save Rome, which ended up being partially destroyed by a bomb Dante set up. Dante and Dom briefly discussed Hernan and Dom and his crew's actions of stealing the money and legacy of the Reyes family before Dante and Dom's respective groups pointed their firearms at one another. Dante decided to settle the matter with a race, which Diogo, Dom and Isabel accepted. Before the race began, Dante confronted Dom over his love for his family and posed him a daring question-- "How do you choose the ones you save?"
The race began and Diogo managed to gain the lead. Unbeknownst to him and Isabel, Dante had placed bombs underneath their cars and tormented Dom, forcing him to choose whether to save Diogo or Isabel. When Dom leaned towards Isabel's car, Dante understood that act as his choice and activated the bomb underneath Diogo's car, killing him and even faking grief over his death. However, he decided to also activate the bomb underneath Isabel's car but the device was deattached from the car thanks to Dom's quick intervention. While Dom remained behind to save Isabel from the car wrapped in flames, an ecstatic Dante declared himself victorious and fled.
The next day, Dom and Isabel retreated to the Neves' residence, where they briefly bonded over Elena and her selfless persona. When Isabel revealed that the Reyes Family were responsible for the loss of Elena's husband, she and Dom searched over the files and discovered a possible lead could be in the abandoned police station, which was where Dom and his crew had stolen the vault containing the money of the Reyes family. Isabel expressed her desire to join Dom in his mission but he asked her to remain behind for her safety. Upon reaching the station, Dom was confronted by a series of photographs and videos containing his best moments in life and every single one of his loved ones set up by Dante. Dante himself called Dom and expressed fake disappointment over not being there to show him around. When Dom remarked that he could not understand how Dante had chosen the poorest path in life in spite of growing up in a rich family and declared that he was nothing without family, Dante retaliated by reminding Dom of the loss of his father and future at the hands of Dom's crew. Dante promised to hurt more of Dom's loved ones and revealed that the Agency led by Aimes was aware of his location before hanging up. Dante was seen next to the Neves residence, evidently planning to target Isabel next. Meanwhile, Aimes and his men arrived and apprehended Dom.
As Aimes, his men, and Dom were crossing the same bridge where Hernan was killed, they were attacked by outside forces, who were none other than Dante and some of his men. In the ensuing attack, the entire Agency convoy was killed, except for Aimes and Dom. As Aimes and Dom shot down several of Dante's men, Dante held Isabel hostage and threatened to cut her to pieces if Dom did not stop hurting his "friends" before being interrupted by the arrival of Tess, Mr. Nobody's daughter. Seeing Tess held him at gunpoint, Dante reluctantly released Isabel, who collapsed in Dom's arms. Dom then brutally Dante for a few moments until Tess and Aimes were shot by some of Dante's men, who prepared to take out Isabel, forcing Dom to rush to her aid. With Dom distracted with protecting Isabel from gunfire, the villain went to Tess and stole the God's Eye from her, granting him the location of Dom's son, Brian Marcos. Dom was unable to prevent Dante from fleeing in a helicopter and turned his attention back to Tess, who reassured him that he would take Dante down and gave back his cross. Isabel told Dom to go save his son and her nephew while she drove Tess to a hospital for treatment for her gunshot wound. Through an airplane, Dom and Aimes travelled to Portugal, where Little Brian was located and was being protected by Dom's brother, Jakob Toretto, with Dom completely unaware that Aimes was in fact in league with Dante.
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