“It simply cannot be a daily snack,” Justin Lin instructed Collider in an interview in 2021, forward of the Blu-ray launch of F9. “And speaking to Sung, I feel they needed to go — like, they needed to import these crackers, you realize? And I used to be adamant, I used to be like, ‘We can’t pretend Han’s snacks. It does not matter.'” For this reason you by no means see Han consuming Cheez-its or M&Ms; he is all the time munching on one thing you would not usually discover in an American merchandising machine. For a personality who hails from Japan, he is obtained Japanese snacks like Kameda Seika Kakinotane Rice Crackers or Meiji Hey Panda Cookies. Lin added: “Having labored with Sung, like even the best way he tosses it, you realize, it needed to be pure. So I do not forget that was a giant factor.”

Whereas all of this will sound ridiculous, it is a part of the authenticity that helps promote the character. Whereas most viewers might not discover, you possibly can count on Japanese audiences to query what is going on on. It is a related sort of consideration to element that impressed William Hartnell, the primary Physician on “Physician Who,” to determine the precise perform of each button and lever on the TARDIS management panel and hold it constant (through “About Time”). Eager-eyed viewers may need picked up on the truth that he was urgent buttons at random, and it will’ve made the present really feel rather less genuine.

As cartoonish and absurd as “Quick & Livid” has gotten over time — within the newest entry, they ended up in area — the franchise has all the time appeared to grasp that on the subject of the little issues that make a personality appear actual, being genuine and constant continues to be essential.