F9 explains Han's death and return, but doing so also creates timeline issues, which don't align with the timeline of previous films.
Fast and Furious 9 broke the timeline while trying to fix it. With multiple films in the series, including spin-offs, it can get pretty tedious to keep track of the universe's timeline. F9: The Fast Saga tries to make amends by bringing back Han Lue, who was previously believed to be dead, but his return and newly introduced aspects of the story make things a bit confusing regarding the film's timeline.
At F9, Han reveals that Mr. Nobody helped him fake his death, which originally happened at the end of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift / Fast & Furious 6. Han agreed to protect Elle, an 11-year-old girl. years whose parents were killed by Jakob Toretto. men in an attempt to steal the Aries device they made at the time. All of this is shown in flashbacks. While the course of the film was corrected by bringing back Han, it also created a strange gap in the timeline.
However, Elle is a grown adult in F9, which suggests that at least a decade has passed since Han's "death", even though that's not true. Anna Sawai, Elle's translator, is 29 years old in real life. Of course, the ages of the characters in the film have never been confirmed, but even though the actress is playing ten years younger than her actual age - and while Elle is, say, in her twenties at most - she isn't. . I do not. coincides with Han's passing and the amount of time spent in film since his death on stage. The main issue here is that Han hasn't been out of town for so long and Dom's son Brian was born around the same time that Han yearned for his death and went into hiding to protect Elle. However, little Brian was only about four years old around the time of F9, which means Elle would have to be 15 in the film to set the timeline accurately.
Prior to the ninth episode, the Fast and Furious timeline was easier to follow because not all of the storylines strayed too far from the main chronology of events. And even as they did, the franchise found a way to tie him back into the timeline, i.e., this was done if Han died after Tokyo Drift. The events of the first two films flow seamlessly from one end to the other. The timeline got a bit complicated from then on, and the plots of the films then overlapped. The events of Fast and Furious 4-6 take place not long after Fast 2 Furious 2, but before the events of Tokyo Drift that line up with Fast & Furious 6. After Furious 7, Fate of Men and F9 took place without a history of errors.
Perhaps it would have been better if Elle had been in her late teens when she met Han. That way, timeline issues won't be so obvious and the amount of time that elapses between Fast & Furious 6 and F9 will be in line with little Brian's age. The fact that he was 11 years old right before Han's death and became a full-fledged adult only a few years later is absurd and will forever be a hole in the Fast and Furious timeline.