Or is it an entirely different character? See, we think Earl’s origins, though not confirmed by Justin Lin, could also trace back to Better Luck Tomorrow. It just takes a little finessing. It is easy enough to believe that Virgil, who, like Han also could have been on the run after high school, just changed his name to Earl to avoid catching heat if he got pinned for murder. (He didn’t even have to change his last name.) The only problem is that the next time we see Earl/Virgil is in Tokyo Drift, and while Han has canonically aged past being a high schooler, Earl/Virgil has not.
So how do we account for this? Well, it could be that Virgil is pulling a 21 Jump Street. It’s not like it would be hard. Everyone in Tokyo Underground Raceway Highschool looks like they’re in their late 20s anyway. It wouldn’t be completely out of the realm of possibility in this universe that Virgil would go from high school to high school, just posing as a student, benefitting off of free lunch programs and computer access, to learn about rocket cars and get by. Meanwhile, Han keeps his secret on the down-low, but they stay close by each other to trade drifting secrets and reminisce about their time living in California.
Again, it’s just a theory, and it has no bearing on the plot of the movies, but it is fun to think about, and we really believe it can be true. After all, we’ve seen cars go to space in these movies. Anything is possible.
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