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Speed Racer

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Speed Racer	label	Speed Racer
Speed Racer	page	SpeedRacer
Speed Racer	comment	Speed Racer is a 2008 film based off of the anime series Speed Racer, directed and written by The Wachowskis. It features the titular Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) characters with their same basic personalities thrown into a racing world where corporate greed determines everything.The film also stars Christina Ricci as Trixie, John Goodman as Pops Racer, Susan Sarandon as Mom Racer, Matthew Fox as Racer X, Roger Allam as Arnold Royalton, Benno FÃ¼rmann as Inspector Detector, Hiroyuki Sanada as Musha, Ji Hoon "Rain" Jung as Taejo Togokahn and Richard Roundtree as Ben Burns.An outrageous visual spectacle, the movie did not attempt to make any apologies for the implausibilities or cliches of the original, instead merely using them to show insane, over-the-top brightly colored race car action sequences.The film bombed at the box office and was panned upon release, but has since become a Cult Classic in more recent years. It also got a Video Game adaptation, set one year after the events of the film.
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Speed Racer	sameAs	http://data.linkedmdb.org/resource/film/12201
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Speed Racer / int_10cfa355	type	Floating Advice Reminder
Speed Racer / int_10cfa355	comment	Floating Advice Reminder: On the last lap of the Grand Prix, Speed has flashbacks of his friends and family's advice, which spurs him on to a Heroic Second Wind.
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Speed Racer / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Speed Racer / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Royalton, the Togokahn clan, and Ben Burns were among the characters specifically created for the film.
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Speed Racer / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Speed Racer / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Peter Fernandez, producer of the English adaptation and the original voice actor for both Speed and Racer X, appears as a race commentator at Thunderhead.
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Speed Racer / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Speed Racer / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Roger Allam, the actor who plays bad guy Arnold Royalton, bears an astonishing resemblance to British writer and critic Christopher Hitchens, right down to the accent. Many reviewers have commented on it.
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Speed Racer / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
Speed Racer / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: The Vikings have a beehive catapult and Snake Oiler has a snake catapult.
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Speed Racer / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Speed Racer / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Spritle (and Chim-Chim). Speed was something of one to Rex.
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Speed Racer / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Speed Racer / int_1439161f	comment	Speed has one (combined with a Heroic BSoD) right as they entered the cave where Rex died. He quickly recovers, though.
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Speed Racer / int_14a5a8e2	type	Nerds Are Sexy
Speed Racer / int_14a5a8e2	comment	Nerds Are Sexy: Speed and Racer X both have their fangirls, but everyone was surprised at just how sexy Inspector Detector turned out with his styling specs. (He is a German Johnny Depp.)
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Speed Racer / int_17122cfd	type	Put on a Prison Bus
Speed Racer / int_17122cfd	comment	Put on a Prison Bus: Cruncher Block and his henchmen are last seen being taken into custody by Inspector Detector's team in the second half of the film. In the ending's magazine montage, Royalton himself is tried and eventually incarcerated off-screen.
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Speed Racer / int_1a8b9a47	type	Rule of Fun
Speed Racer / int_1a8b9a47	comment	Rule of Fun: Much like the anime, the plot is built around excusing over-the-top races, with action coming before everything.
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Speed Racer / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Speed Racer / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: The appropriately sexy Emile Hirsch as the hunky hero Speed. Matthew Fox as Racer X. He even gets a scene where he fights off a ninja wearing only a pair of boxers. Rainnote a Korean pop star, with whom Stephen Colbert has established a one-sided feud. And also appeared on the show long enough to beat Colbert at Dance Dance Revolution. He was actually asked to star in the Ninja Assassin film after his fight scene in Speed Racer was positively received. as Taejo.note It's like the screenwriters got together and asked, 'Now that we have Rain, how many fangirl moments can we give him?' He's first seen bleeding and with a ripped silky shirt, later with no shirt, in a dress, kicking bad guy ass, and finally in a tuxedo. Hmm.
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Speed Racer / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Speed Racer / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: The vertically integrated production line at Royalton is literally vertical.
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Speed Racer / int_1c662a5d	type	LongLostSibling
Speed Racer / int_1c662a5d	comment	Long Lost Sibling: Intentionally subverted by Racer X, who takes off his mask to prove to Speed he's not actually Rex Racer. But he is.
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Speed Racer / int_1d7d1b93	type	Remake Cameo
Speed Racer / int_1d7d1b93	comment	Remake Cameo: The Japanese dub of the film brings back three of the original voice actors, albeit in different roles. Kenji Utsumi, the voice of Inspector Detector in the original series, voices Pops Racer; Kiyoshi Kobayashi (the original voice of Mr. Black) is the voice of Tetsuo Togokahn; and Katsuji Mori (the original Speed Racer) voices Ben Burns. In the Latin American Spanish dub, Arturo Mercado (the original voice actor of Speed Racer) voices Tetsuo Togokahn.
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Speed Racer / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Speed Racer / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Harm one of Pops's sons, and you will be sent flying through a window. Just ask the non-ja.
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Speed Racer / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Speed Racer / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Cruncher Block attempts to have his piranhas bite off Taejo's hand, but it doesn't work out as Racer X is able to rescue him. One of his henchmen ends up having his finger eaten in his attempt to save the fish when a stray bullet breaches the tank.
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Speed Racer / int_219cf787	type	MsExposition
Speed Racer / int_219cf787	comment	Nayo K. Wallace plays Minx, Racer X's sexy associate and possibly girlfriend. Her main purpose is as the Ms. Exposition technician detailing all of the defensive modifications added to the Mach 5 for Casa Cristo, and in all other scenes she serves as Racer X's date at events.
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Speed Racer / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Speed Racer / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Just look at how Speed acts in the opening scenes—how does anyone miss such obvious signs of ADHD? Or worse? During the rally, Cruncher Block raids the Togokahns' private helicopter to take Horuko hostage and doesn't notice Taejo swapped places with his sister until he sees his face, despite the siblings' large difference in build.
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Speed Racer / int_2256c48a	type	Wraparound Background
Speed Racer / int_2256c48a	comment	Wraparound Background: Used in the most obvious way possible, on both sides of the car, with a bike that rings its bell every time it passes.
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Speed Racer / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Speed Racer / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: When Sprite and Chim-Chim sneak into a restricted area of Royalton Industries, they see testing for the spearhook in the Industryâ€™s cars. Later on Royalton tells Cannonball Taylor that a spearhook has been fitted into the Royalton GRX car heâ€™ll be using at the Grand Prix just in case he needs it, and while Taylor insists he doesnâ€™t need one to win, the fact that a whole flashback is dedicated to it makes it clear itâ€™ll come into play somehow later - which it does when Taylor gets desperate enough to use it against Speed, which ends up backfiring as Speed manages to free himself from it and expose both Taylor and Royalton for corruption and cheating in the process.
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Speed Racer / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Speed Racer / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Mr. Royalton, lampshaded by Pops Racer after a whirlwind tour of his corporate headquarters.
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Speed Racer / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Speed Racer / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Royalton's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Speed gets one in the finale as he uses sheer Heroic Willpower to come up from behind
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Speed Racer / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Speed Racer / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In the anime, Racer X always holds himself back so his younger brother can win the race. The movie does this backwards during the opening action sequence, when Speed deliberately loses to Rex's Racing Ghost. Speed knows that no one else could beat his time, so he is giving Rex immortality, in a sense.
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Speed Racer / int_2767953f	type	Blood Sport
Speed Racer / int_2767953f	comment	Blood Sport: While there are plenty of car crashes, this is downplayed by the fact that all cars have the foam bubble "Kwik-Save" ejector system installed, and any devices that are designed for or can be used to intentionally harm other racers, such as the Spearhook, are illegal. This makes it probably the most plausible bloodsport in fiction.
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Speed Racer / int_27ca4801	type	The Film of the Series
Speed Racer / int_27ca4801	comment	The Film of the Series: Of Speed Racer.
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Speed Racer / int_2a333642	type	V8 Engine Noises
Speed Racer / int_2a333642	comment	T180's like the Mach 6, also make V8 Engine Noises despite appearing to be rocket powered.
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Speed Racer / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Speed Racer / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Criminals, terrorists, and other racers alike fear Racer X, "The Harbinger of Boom". Even Spritle (and Chim-Chim) flee in fear at the sight of him.
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Speed Racer / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Speed Racer / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Christina Ricci was 27 when she played the role of Trixie, while Emile Hirsch was 23. Anyone watching would think he's the older of the two.
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Speed Racer / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Speed Racer / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The film has loads and loads of gratuitous explosions, but the whole movie is built on rule of cool and car-fu so no one really cares.
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Speed Racer / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
Speed Racer / int_3255968b	comment	Implied Death Threat: When Speed declines Royalton's offer, the latter threatens to do whatever it takes to ensure Speed won't win, place, or even finish the Grand Prix.
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Speed Racer / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Speed Racer / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: Pops dumps the ninja who infiltrated the Racers' hotel room onto their wheeled dinner table and then kicks him out of their window.
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Speed Racer / int_33b4e7f	type	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
Speed Racer / int_33b4e7f	comment	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Despite full-faced helmets being mandatory in most forms of motorsports for decades, none of the racers in the film wear more than an open faced helmet.
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Speed Racer / int_34c67518	type	Save the Day, Turn Away
Speed Racer / int_34c67518	comment	Save the Day, Turn Away: Racer X is really Rex, who faked his death to assume the Racer X identity. He decides to not to reveal his identity to keep his family safe. X tells Inspector Detector that if hiding the truth from his family is a mistake, it is a mistake he will have to live with.
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Speed Racer / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
Speed Racer / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Johnny "Goodboy" Jones, one of the Casa Cristo sportscasters, sometimes peppers his speech with French words courtesy of his actor Melvil Poupaud.
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Speed Racer / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Speed Racer / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The entire film runs on this. It knows it's adapting an anime and embraces that fact with bright visuals and flashy and over-the-top racing that would make REDLINE blush. The movie makes the laws of physics its bitch.
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Speed Racer / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Speed Racer / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: You know what is going to happen to the Gratuitous Ninja attacking the Racers when Pops performs a Punch Catch and the camera zooms to the ring he's been wearing all film long so we can read it: â€œGreco-Roman Wrestling State Championsâ€�.
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Speed Racer / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Speed Racer / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Pops utterly destroys and humiliates the ninja ("nonja") who attacks his kids in the hotel.
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Speed Racer / int_3ec10530	type	Wacky Racing
Speed Racer / int_3ec10530	comment	Wacky Racing: Courses that would be at home in F-Zero or Hot Wheels? Check. Themed racing teams, including one composed of a group of barbarians paid in furs? Check. Cars covered in special weapons and improbable technology? Check.
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Speed Racer / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Speed Racer / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Speed. After he realizes how dirty the sport is (thanks to a "The Reason You Suck" Speech) he's reminded by Racer X that it doesn't matter, so long as the dirt doesn't rub off. In the end, Speed decides to make racing fit his ideal. He apparently succeeds, as he inspires seemingly everyone after he wins.
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Speed Racer / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Speed Racer / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Speed wins the Grand Prix, Royalton's cheating and corruption are exposed and he is put in prison, and it is implied that the WRL will be reformed. However, Racer X has decided against revealing to his family that he is actually Rex Racer, and that he is still alive.
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Speed Racer / int_430e15e1	type	Stripperific
Speed Racer / int_430e15e1	comment	Stripperific: Despite playing the hero's loyal love interest, Christina Ricci's Trixie tends to dress like a femme fatale. This is most notable during her date in the Mach 5 with Speed. That red dress...
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Speed Racer / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
Speed Racer / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence: Several times during the film, but especially during the final race, where Speed literally becomes the race and the track dissolves into, well, Nirvana.
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Speed Racer / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Speed Racer / int_44f5d199	comment	Yu Nan as Horuko Togokahn. In the process, she pulls off the Pretty in Mink and Token Good Teammate tropes quite well.
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Speed Racer / int_45332ff5	type	Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting
Speed Racer / int_45332ff5	comment	Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: See Badass Family.
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Speed Racer / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Speed Racer / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The elderly announcer at the start says "I knew Rex Racer". Said announcer is played by Peter Fernandez, who voiced Rex/Racer X in the dub of the original anime.
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Speed Racer / int_4cfe362e	type	Awesome Aussie
Speed Racer / int_4cfe362e	comment	Awesome Aussie: Melbourne-born Kick Gurry uses his native accent as Sparky.
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Speed Racer / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Speed Racer / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Inspector Detector threatens to shut down the Grand Prix when Royalton tries to deny Speed's Loophole Abuse. Royalton complains about the cost, but Inspector Detector sticks to his guns, confident that Royalton will fold.
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Speed Racer / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Speed Racer / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Snake Oiler, Speed's primary rival throughout the Casa Cristo 5000.
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Speed Racer / int_504ca25a	type	Live-Action Adaptation
Speed Racer / int_504ca25a	comment	Live-Action Adaptation: Of the original anime, although the way it was shot (90% green screen) makes it look more like a live-action anime.
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Speed Racer / int_508535ad	type	Fighting Fingerprint
Speed Racer / int_508535ad	comment	Fighting Fingerprint: Played with. Speed suspects Racer X of being his Long-Lost Relative Rex, because Racer X drives in the same distinctive way Rex did. Racer X proves him wrong by removing his mask, showing he looks nothing like Rex. He is, naturally.
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Speed Racer / int_50f848cc	type	Technology Porn
Speed Racer / int_50f848cc	comment	Technology Porn: This movie indulges in this to the extreme, with rocket powered race cars, holographic advertisements in gleaming technicolor metropolises and track designs that challenge the laws of physics.
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Speed Racer / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Speed Racer / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Delivered by Pops Racer after dispatching a ninja:
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Speed Racer / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
Speed Racer / int_51beab21	comment	Good Old Fisticuffs: In the middle of a mad Car Fu and wild vehicular weapon skirmish taking place in Casa Cristo, Racer X jump-jacks up to an enemy car and punches the driver in the face.
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Speed Racer / int_52dd4fde	type	Context-Sensitive Button
Speed Racer / int_52dd4fde	comment	The auto-jacks make the exact same sound they did in the anime and work the exact same way (see Context-Sensitive Button above).
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Speed Racer / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Speed Racer / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: As a young child, Speed was so obsessed about automobile racing that he spoke about little else; he even filled out a multiple choice test's answer sheet so that the dots read GO REX GO. He later admits he probably would not have finished high school without Trixie's help.
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Speed Racer / int_5327b609	type	Badass Driver
Speed Racer / int_5327b609	comment	Badass Driver: Nearly half the cast, though Speed deserves special mention when he has his "in the zone" moment in the final race. Racer X. You don't earn the sobriquet "Harbinger of Boom" by being a nice, considerate driver.
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Speed Racer / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Speed Racer / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: A good bit during the first race, as Speed and family recall pivotal moments in their lives. Another during the final race, as Speed remembers his interactions with his friends and family, allowing him to race for the pure love of the sport, which causes him to essentially transcend reality and complete an entire lap in mere seconds, winning the race.
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Speed Racer / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Speed Racer / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Royalton's contract document is thousands of pages long, arranged in four giant stacks on a table.
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Speed Racer / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Speed Racer / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Racers and extended family all apparently know how to deal out some awesome whoopass. Except Sparky.
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Speed Racer / int_55be8fcb	type	Oil Slick
Speed Racer / int_55be8fcb	comment	Oil Slick: Used, appropriately, by Snake Oiler during the Casa Cristo rally.
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Speed Racer / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Speed Racer / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Taejo Togokahn offers to turn over incriminating evidence if Racer X and Speed help his team win the Casa Cristo 5000, on the grounds that Royalton will ruin his family financially if they don't. They do, which causes Togokahn's stock to skyrocket, and after Royalton buys out their company at a higher asking price, he leaves Inspector Detector and the Racers empty-handed.
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Speed Racer / int_57cfcbdd	type	Meta Twist
Speed Racer / int_57cfcbdd	comment	Meta Twist: The identity of Racer X — it's obvious if you are familiar with the anime. He's Speed's older brother Rex Racer, who is believed dead by everyone. The film actually takes the fans' knowledge into account, pulling off a Double Subversion. When he takes off the mask, he seemingly turns out not to be Rex, only for it to be revealed at the end that he is Rex and had undergone plastic surgery to hide his identity.
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Speed Racer / int_5a0e88d8	type	Bring It
Speed Racer / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: As Speed catches up to Cannonball Taylor in the Grand Prix, he has this to say:
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Speed Racer / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Speed Racer / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The Wachowskis managed to distill the feel of the animated Speed Racer, keeping the bright colors, but bringing it into the live-action arena.
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Speed Racer / int_5d667669	type	Dog Pile of Doom
Speed Racer / int_5d667669	comment	Dogpile Of Doom: Several racers try to do this to Speed during the final Grand Prix, by piling their cars against him to shove him up against the track side. Unfortunately for them, the Mach 6's jump jacks are more than strong enough to fling all of them off in one go.
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Speed Racer / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Speed Racer / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Speed and Trixie tell a fib to help Racer X and Inspector Detector by racing in the race that killed Rex. This lasts until Spritle watches Casa Cristo on TV and sees a very familiar car.
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Speed Racer / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Speed Racer / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Taejo decides to honor his word and turn over incriminating evidence to imprison Royalton after being inspired by Speed's incredible win of the grand prix.
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Speed Racer / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Speed Racer / int_62f9d08e	comment	Petrobras even gets a fully 3D-rendered car, although it plays no relevant part in the film. The car was actually custom built to feature in Petrobras promotional events back in the day (and it actually raced, unlike the Mach 5 which was just a prop). In the video game, players can drive said car (and it is one of the fastest).
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Speed Racer / int_68832e62	type	Human-Focused Adaptation
Speed Racer / int_68832e62	comment	Human-Focused Adaptation: Downplayed example, as the series always focused on humans, but in the series, the Mach 5 was constantly called the fastest car in the world, and the original Japanese series was named for it instead of the driver. Here, there's nothing stated to be particularly special about any version of the car, instead focusing far more on Speed's skill as a driver.
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Speed Racer / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Speed Racer / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Subverted when Racer X reveals his identity to Speed after The Crucible and Speed learns that Racer X is not his brother, Rex Racer, as he had suspected and then double subverted when it is revealed that Rex Racer faked his death and had Magic Plastic Surgery as the ultimate disguise to fight against corruption as Racer X.
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Speed Racer / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Speed Racer / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Even more so than in the anime. Auto racing is the most popular and most noble sport in the world, there's coverage in multiple languages (which in Real Life doesn't happen at most sporting events that aren't the Olympics, admittedly including Formula One), and the outcomes of races have far-reaching effects on the global economy. This is because the "Big Five" corporations fix races to manipulate the stock market to suit their whims. If Royalton's largesse is any indication, those Big Five do have a major effect on the global economy.
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Speed Racer / int_6badd0a5	type	Anti-Climactic Unmasking
Speed Racer / int_6badd0a5	comment	Anti-Climactic Unmasking: When Speed confronts Racer X on potentially being his long-lost brother, Rex, Racer X unmasks himself to reveal that he's...some random guy. Except it's revealed at the end that Racer X is Rex Racer and had his face changed with Magic Plastic Surgery.
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Speed Racer / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Speed Racer / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Crooked racer Snake Oiler. Amongst his many dirty tricks, he uses oil slicks and launches friggin' SNAKES at opponents. He's also a smug jerk, earning him the trope trifecta.
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Speed Racer / int_6cdb15b4	type	With a Friend and a Stranger
Speed Racer / int_6cdb15b4	comment	With a Friend and a Stranger: Team Togokahn, except that only Racer X knows this for a fact, given the Secret Identity. Speed does pick up on how well he and X sync together, leading him to suspect that he might actually be Rex Racer.
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Speed Racer / int_6dc99d2a	type	Deadly Delivery
Speed Racer / int_6dc99d2a	comment	Deadly Delivery: During Trixie's childhood flashback of how she met Speed and his family, a young Speed hands Pops a mysterious package, claiming it was from a "fan". Rex Racer puts an ear to the package and realizes that it's a bomb delivered to the family with intent to kill them — and quickly uses both Speed's childhood race car and a mop to send the bomb away. It explodes as soon as the race car hits the road, with the Racer family safe and sound.
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Speed Racer / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Speed Racer / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Said word-for-word by the the Grey Ghost towards the end of the film when Speed Racer catches up to him.
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Speed Racer / int_7160b097	type	Dawn of an Era
Speed Racer / int_7160b097	comment	Dawn of an Era: Ben Burns even says so when Speed manages to not only expose Royalton but manages to break speed records to win the race from last place. In front of the entire world, an Independent Team, Car, and Racer blew out all of the Big 5 to win the largest race in the world. By winning, Speed's not only singlehandedly crippled, if not outright demolished, the systemic race rigging, but destroyed one of the biggest companies ever, in one fell swoop.
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Speed Racer / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
Speed Racer / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: This trope is spelled out verbatim by the judge in the Racing Chronicle issue about Royalton's conviction and sentencing.
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Speed Racer / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
Speed Racer / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the original anime, Rex Racer merely ran away from home and disappeared before assuming the disguise of Racer X. In the film, Rex faked his own death to protect his family from the shady figures he had become embroiled with, leaving both of him and Pops with even guiltier consciences over their last interaction.
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Speed Racer / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Speed Racer / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: As opposed to the original anime, Trixie is a Badass Driver who can cover for Taejo in the Casa Cristo.
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Speed Racer / int_73a4d5e4	type	Speed Stripes
Speed Racer / int_73a4d5e4	comment	Speed Stripes: Unusually for a live-action film. Done deliberately as an homage to the original anime. It's seen especially in the transitions, or when Speed is really pouring it on.
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Speed Racer / int_746180fb	type	Awesomeness Is Volatile
Speed Racer / int_746180fb	comment	Awesomeness Is Volatile: As seen with Awesomeness Is a Force. The Mach 6 manages to get Speed to the finish line and then collapses once it comes to a stop, with its suspension shot and tires melting into black puddles. Speed himself isn't much better; he has barely enough energy to take off his helmet. The crowd pulls him out and carries him to the winner podium. Seeing as they both reached what could be described as Speed Nirvana, they are in good shape all things considered.
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Speed Racer / int_76c31ac8	type	Stranger Behind the Mask
Speed Racer / int_76c31ac8	comment	Stranger Behind the Mask: Speed is convinced that Racer X is his missing older brother, Rex Racer, but when he takes off the mask, he is a complete stranger, his face someone Speed does not recognize. However, it's revealed to the audience at the end that X is Rex and had undergone Magic Plastic Surgery to hide his identity.
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Speed Racer / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Speed Racer / int_77414bc2	comment	Lots of them, generally woven into the various action scenes. This allows the Action Prologue to ground us in the entire family's history; and, later, Speed's defiance of Royalton's Monologuing is made all the more hollow because we've already seen that the good guy loses.
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Speed Racer / int_7784e19b	type	Spiked Wheels
Speed Racer / int_7784e19b	comment	Spiked Wheels: The Femme Fatale headhunters have these, which can even be remote controlled to swordfight the shields installed on the Mach 5.
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Speed Racer / int_7881f335	type	Chekhov's Armoury
Speed Racer / int_7881f335	comment	Chekhov's Armoury: All of the "defensive modifications" on Speed's car come into proper use. Except for the Homing Bird.
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Speed Racer / int_79503ae9	type	Stout Strength
Speed Racer / int_79503ae9	comment	Stout Strength: Pops is a very corpulent man. But as a former wrestler, he is strong enough to toss around bad guys like they're ragdolls.
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Speed Racer / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Speed Racer / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Royalton gives one to Speed when he refuses to sign a contract to race for him, serving up a generous helping of Large Ham as he explains how the sport of racing is really nothing more than a corporate tool for financial gain. The big players come together to negotiate the finishing order, and all the "smart" racers play along for the big paychecks and generous perks. The crowning moment comes when he outs Speed's childhood hero as just another corporate shill.
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Speed Racer / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
Speed Racer / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: The movie seems to take place a few decades into the future, with hovercrafts, futuristic cities, and advanced car safety technology, but Ben Burns is said to have driven in the 1943 Grand Prix. Richard Roundtree, who plays Burns in the present, was born in 1942, which means even if the movie took place the year it came out, Burns would be too young to have been a driver. He could simply be much much Older Than He Looks, as he would be pushing one hundred were the movie set when it seems to be. The poster of Ben Burns says he's the champion of the Grand Prix XLVIII. If this is also the '43 Prix that Speed talks about (which is never explicitly stated to be 1943.) then Speed competing in the 91st annual Grand Prix means that it's '91, right? So either a really futuristic alternate 1991, or an anachronistic retro-styled 2091.
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Speed Racer / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Speed Racer / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Twice, until the end — where the trope gets parodied as Spritle and Chim-Chim interrupt it for the sake of a quip, and then it resumes.
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Speed Racer / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Speed Racer / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The whole cast, with the exception of Susan Sarandon, who played the wholesome Mom Racer. Even the most negative critic liked Roger Allam's over-the-top villainy.
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Speed Racer / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Speed Racer / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Ninjas infiltrate the hotel where Taejo, Racer X and Speed are staying to take their team out of commission. The first ninja, a stealthy assassin, is deftly successful at silently drugging Taejo, while the second somewhat annoys Racer X. Supported when the third makes trouble for Speed, Sparky, Spritle and Chim-Chim, but then subverted as he is comically relieved of his pants by Spritle and Chim-Chim, then trounced by Pops Racer, who derides the assailant as a "non-ja".
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Speed Racer / int_831164fe	type	Signature Style
Speed Racer / int_831164fe	comment	Signature Style: Some Wachowski trademarks: Exposition/Action montage, first seen in The Matrix Reloaded, used everywhere here. The Punch Parry, first seen in the Morpheus/Smith bathroom brawl in The Matrix, used by Racer X against his Nonja. Twice, in a Oner shot. Which is impressive when you hear DVD Commentary from Laurence Fishburne about how they had to cut immediately after they accomplished that stunt, because both he and Hugo Weaving were yelping in pain. Bullet Time, of course.
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Speed Racer / int_86ae1278	type	Adaptational Dumbass
Speed Racer / int_86ae1278	comment	Adaptational Dumbass: Downplayed but Speed is shown to have been Book Dumb throughout school. This is in contrast to his anime counterpart, who was shown to be very adept and intelligent, with him and Trixie solving an Egyptian mystery through historical research.
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Speed Racer / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
Speed Racer / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: Damn near everyone either chews the scenery or poses dramatically for the camera.
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Speed Racer / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Speed Racer / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: Racer X chooses not to reveal himself as Rex to his family, even telling Speed that his brother is truly dead.
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Speed Racer / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Speed Racer / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Every car in the movie, pretty much, but the Mach 5 remains the coolest.
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Speed Racer / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
Speed Racer / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time, of course.
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Speed Racer / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Speed Racer / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Several scenes (especially in the beginning) keep switching around between multiple points of time.
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Speed Racer / int_8fb67e29	type	Awesomeness Is a Force
Speed Racer / int_8fb67e29	comment	Awesomeness Is a Force: Implied in the final lap of the final race, when Speed restarts the stalled Mach 6, drives so fast his taillights leave visible afterimages, overtakes every single other racer on a partial lap when starting from a standstill, smashes two of his rivals while flinging a multi-ton car around with downright balletic grace, and seemingly achieves nirvana, all on nothing but his passion for racing and determination. When he finally comes to a stop, the Mach 6's tires are melting.
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Speed Racer / int_90b75a89	type	Speed Demon
Speed Racer / int_90b75a89	comment	Speed Demon: Speed has had a love of racing since he daydreamed about being a racer just like his brother Rex. Speed even goes as far as saying that racing is a religion in his family.
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Speed Racer / int_922df2dd	type	Loved Ones Montage
Speed Racer / int_922df2dd	comment	Loved Ones Montage: During the Grand Prix at the finale of the live action Speed Racer film, Speed's Heroic Second Wind after restarting the Mach 6 is accompanied by flashbacks to his discussions with his friends and family throughout the film, mixed with cuts to each of them watching in pride as he comes from behind to take the lead for the second time in the race.
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Speed Racer / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Speed Racer / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Speed and Trixie's Smooch of Victory at the end after Speed wins the Grand Prix.
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Speed Racer / int_9500202a	type	Machine Empathy
Speed Racer / int_9500202a	comment	Machine Empathy: Rex teaches Speed to "drive, not steer" by listening to the feel of the car. Speed later uses this ability to intuitively jump-start the Mach 6 in the middle of the final Grand Prix.
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Speed Racer / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Speed Racer / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: The Grand Prix is where everything goes to shit for Royalton. First, Speed publicly exposes Cannonball Taylor's spearhook using a race track camera, causing Royalton's corporate backers to leave him in disgust over using such illegal methods. When the Grand Prix reaches its final lap and Speed's chances of winning increase, Royalton starts screaming for the other racers to stop Speed. Once Speed wins at first place, Royalton completely loses it and pushes the ice sculpture of a race car to the ground, prompting Musha to shake his head at him and walk away, too. Snake Oiler gets one earlier, when he tries and fails to send Speed off into an icy, narrow mountain pass.
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Speed Racer / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Speed Racer / int_95b7c400	comment	During the Racer family's tour of Royaltan Industries, a Royaltan escort is extremely rough while removing Trixie's jacket, which Trixie notes with a "what the hell" look on her face. This is a very early indication that Royaltan and his business are not as nice as they try to appear.
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Speed Racer / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Speed Racer / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: E.P. Arnold Royalton is the main antagonist of the film. Specifically, he represents everything corrupt about the racing industries and big businesses in general that goes against what Speed and his family stand for.
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Speed Racer / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Speed Racer / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": An unusual version in that the emotion and reason for the Oh, Crap! is virtually different for the different factions as Speed shows up at the final race.
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Speed Racer / int_9b9cadcb	type	Slow-Motion Drop
Speed Racer / int_9b9cadcb	comment	Slow-Motion Drop: Mom drops a glass of wine when Rex Racer's death is announced on the news in a Flash Back.
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Speed Racer / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Speed Racer / int_9cc1a329	comment	Royalton's German is totally off. Though it might be justified as he's a corrupt Upper-Class Twit.
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Speed Racer / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Speed Racer / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Inspector Detector asks Racer X if he really wants to be at the Racer house for the attempt at recruiting Speed. Racer seems unusually emotional about it. We learn later that Racer X is Rex, Speed's older brother who everyone believes died years before in a racing crash. During the Racer family's tour of Royaltan Industries, a Royaltan escort is extremely rough while removing Trixie's jacket, which Trixie notes with a "what the hell" look on her face. This is a very early indication that Royaltan and his business are not as nice as they try to appear.
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Speed Racer / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Speed Racer / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: To the original series and the original Japanese version of the show; the end credits music is a remix of the "Speed Racer" theme song, and intermixed with the remix is dialogue from the original show and lyrics from the original Mach-A-Go-Go theme song.
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Speed Racer / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Speed Racer / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Virtually the entire soundtrack is remixes of the anime theme.
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Speed Racer / int_a20d4674	type	Techno Babble
Speed Racer / int_a20d4674	comment	Technobabble: One of the DVD Bonus Content clips is about nothing but the cars themselves, and quickly degenerates into this since the cars (and physics) have nothing to do with Real Life.
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Speed Racer / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Speed Racer / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: In the anime, Racer X's racing uniform has white and red colors. For the film, he wears a black racing uniform. Cruncher Block wears a white suit in the anime and an all-black suit in the live-action film.
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Speed Racer / int_a517fe78	type	Amazing Technicolor World
Speed Racer / int_a517fe78	comment	Amazing Technicolor World: And how. This movie is so vibrant that some critics reported visual fatigue.
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Speed Racer / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Speed Racer / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Mom Racer. While in the original series, she is a minor character with limited dialogue, in the movie, Susan Sarandon plays her as a strong, caring mother who provides emotional support and inspiration for Speed.
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Speed Racer / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Speed Racer / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Ben Burns was just as crooked as the other racing champions, but it looks like he'll never have to answer for it. Though given how he cheered Speed on and declared it to be a whole new world after he won the Grand Prix, it's entirely likely he was never happy with the situation in the first place.
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Speed Racer / int_a8b7f968	type	Love at First Punch
Speed Racer / int_a8b7f968	comment	Love at First Punch: Played with. Speed first notices Trixie after she punches out the Alpha Bitch on his behalf.
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Speed Racer / int_aa79bac	type	Parting-Words Regret
Speed Racer / int_aa79bac	comment	Parting-Words Regret: Between Pops and Rex, before Rex was presumed killed in the crash.
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Speed Racer / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Speed Racer / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: Royalton Industries is the premiere maker of T-180 race cars, and is headed by Corrupt Corporate Executive Royalton.
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Speed Racer / int_aaa35901	type	My Card
Speed Racer / int_aaa35901	comment	My Card: Inspector Detector attempts to give one to Pops, but he declines.
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Speed Racer / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Speed Racer / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: When Speed loses all hope of ever redeeming the crooked sport of racing, Racer X helps restore him to Wide-Eyed Idealist form.
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Speed Racer / int_ab62343b	type	Bee-Bee Gun
Speed Racer / int_ab62343b	comment	Bee-Bee Gun: A bee hive is used as a weapon in-race.
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Speed Racer / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Speed Racer / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Racer family when Rex's death is announced. Taejo when Cruncher Block nearly subjects him to the piranhas. Cruncher Block when Racer X damages the aquarium tank holding his piranhas. Pops says "Oh, no..." when he realizes that Speed is driving in the Casa Cristo. After the non-ja is pantsed by Spritle & Chim-Chim, he bumps into and tries to attack Pops, who easily catches his fist and pulls him into a hold. This is when he notices the Greco-Roman Wrestling State Championship ring on Pop's hand. Cruncher Block is surprised when he realizes that Horuko is actually Taejo in disguise while on the Togokahn plane. Speed has one (combined with a Heroic BSoD) right as they entered the cave where Rex died. He quickly recovers, though. The Racer family when Snake Oiler pulls a gun on Speed. Snake Oiler when Speed outsmarts him and sends him off of the cliff in the Casa Cristo. Spritle is shocked when Cannonball Taylor uses his spearhook on Speed. Having seen it before with Chim-Chim while exploring a secret part of Royalton Industries during the tour, he alerts his family, who sport looks of horror as well. Every single shot of Royalton's face from the moment the spearhook is revealed on-camera until the end of the film.
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Speed Racer / int_ad295cc3	type	Weaponized Car
Speed Racer / int_ad295cc3	comment	Weaponized Car: All the cars have auto-jacks which allow them to hurl themselves into each other with prejudice. There's also the illegal spearhook, an extendable clamp mounted on the undercarriage that grabs a nearby car and keeps it from driving off. This is mostly used for a Taking You with Me, since it's pretty hard to drag someone into an accident without ending up in it, too. In the final race, this backfires on Cannonball Taylor since he still wants to win the race, so Speed is eventually able to break free and expose him as a cheater. The Casa Cristo goes all out. Most of the contestants have weapons of some kind: Epic Flails, tire spikes, etc. The Mach 5 gets saw blades mounted to the front, though Speed only uses them to disable the tire spikes of other racers. This is technically illegal, but the rules are so loosely enforced that at times it seems like the race commentators are intentionally lampshading it. Racer X deploys numerous machine guns on his vehicle (the Shooting Star) when rescuing Taejo. Cruncher Block's big rig has gun ports for the people in the trailer to shoot out of and a missile launcher in the grill.
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Speed Racer / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Speed Racer / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Taejo's plans to have Racer X and Speed help his team win the Casa Cristo 5000 so he can uncover evidence that will implicate Royalton initially turn out to be a farce when the Racer family learns from Inspector Detector that they were being played for chumps.
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Speed Racer / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Speed Racer / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: The film moves from The '60s to a futuristic Retro Universe, way wackier and out of this world than the original series.
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Speed Racer / int_afdb4b3e	type	A-Team Montage
Speed Racer / int_afdb4b3e	comment	A-Team Montage: The Racers rebuilding the Mach Six for the Grand Prix, intercut with Royalton and Musha's contract signing.
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Speed Racer / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Speed Racer / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Trixie's "Cool beans."
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Speed Racer / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Speed Racer / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Trixie. She is played by Christina Ricci after all. Yu Nan as Horuko Togokahn. In the process, she pulls off the Pretty in Mink and Token Good Teammate tropes quite well. Nayo K. Wallace plays Minx, Racer X's sexy associate and possibly girlfriend. Her main purpose is as the Ms. Exposition technician detailing all of the defensive modifications added to the Mach 5 for Casa Cristo, and in all other scenes she serves as Racer X's date at events.
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Speed Racer / int_b1cfd9e5	type	The Big Race
Speed Racer / int_b1cfd9e5	comment	The Big Race: Several increasingly over the top races culminating in the WRL Grand Prix.
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Speed Racer / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Speed Racer / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Taejo's sister Horuko uses this to get Speed into the Grand Prix. Ordinarily you'd need to win an entry certificate, which Speed technically did not, but since he helped Taejo win the team rally at Casa Cristo and Taejo declined his invite, he can claim the spot.
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Speed Racer / int_b4696332	type	My Greatest Second Chance
Speed Racer / int_b4696332	comment	My Greatest Second Chance: When Rex left the family to fight the corporations, Pops viewed it as a betrayal and told him not to come back, which he regrets to this day. When Speed decides to do the same, Pops explains this and promises Speed that he can always come back home.
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Speed Racer / int_b4f56c5b	type	Epic Race
Speed Racer / int_b4f56c5b	comment	Epic Race: The Casa Cristo 5000.
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Speed Racer / int_ba112560	type	Throwing the Fight
Speed Racer / int_ba112560	comment	Throwing the Fight: Many of the races are fixed. A good half of the racers are there just to deliberately sacrifice themselves in order to stop the ones not playing along.
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Speed Racer / int_ba46585b	type	Adaptational Backstory Change
Speed Racer / int_ba46585b	comment	Adaptational Backstory Change: In the original anime, Rex Racer ran away from home after getting into an argument with Pops over wrecking the Mach 1 during his first professional race. In the film, Rex was already a racing legend who had a falling out with Pops after Rex got involved with several scandals over alleged cheating on the race track. While in the anime, Rex became Racer X to prove to Pops that he could strike out on his own as a capable racer, in the film, he assumed a new identity in order to protect his family from the enemies he had made combating the corporations involved in race fixing.
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Speed Racer / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
Speed Racer / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: by Word of God in the DVD Extras. Speed — Blue Pops — Red Trixie — Pink Racer X — Black Taejo — White (really, the whole Togokahn family) Spritle — Yellow Royalton — Purple Mom — Green Sparky — Orange
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Speed Racer / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Speed Racer / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Speed gets one (uncensored!) that also doubles as a Badass Boast during the final race:
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Speed Racer / int_bccb6703	type	Cement Shoes
Speed Racer / int_bccb6703	comment	Cement Shoes: Cruncher Block wants to use this method on Taejo, but he instead decides to use piranhas to try and eat Taejo's hand.
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Speed Racer / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Speed Racer / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Put into play during the Crucible when a frustrated Snake Oiler, foiled in his attempts to beat Speed, pulls out a pistol and opens fire on him. This is obviously cheating (and attempted murder), so he would have been disqualified even if Speed hadn't sent him flying off the cliff.
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Speed Racer / int_bdc0a18e	type	Idiosyncratic Wipes
Speed Racer / int_bdc0a18e	comment	Idiosyncratic Wipes: All through the movie. There are images of people's heads traveling across the screen with the new scene unscrolling behind them. The scene immediately before the Grand Prix is one over a minute long with the good guys, the bad guys, and the Racer family all sliding across the screen as Ben Burns declares "This is not a race. This is a showdown." In a case of Book Ends, right after the race, Racer X gets one of his old face, his doctors, and his new face, to explain to the audience how he pulled off his mask when Speed (would otherwise have correctly) identified him as his brother, Rex.
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Speed Racer / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Speed Racer / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Mom and Pops Racer. Pops goes so far as to say marrying his best friend was the most important thing he'd ever done in his life, above and beyond his sons.
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Speed Racer / int_bef9ad0	type	Trophy Room
Speed Racer / int_bef9ad0	comment	Trophy Room: Shelves of trophies are seen in the living room.
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Speed Racer / int_bf698238	type	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦
Speed Racer / int_bf698238	comment	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦: "[Racing is] the only thing I know how to do, and I gotta do something."
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Speed Racer / int_c02925f0	type	Wingding Eyes
Speed Racer / int_c02925f0	comment	Wingding Eyes: When the Semper-Fiber team is bribed with a Briefcase Full of Money, the team leader gets dollar signs in his eyes.
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Speed Racer / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
Speed Racer / int_c2c80ef	comment	Neck Lift: Taejo chokes Cruncher Block after his Groin Attack on the Togokahn plane.
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Speed Racer / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Speed Racer / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Also actually called such in the video game.
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Speed Racer / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Speed Racer / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: As noted in Serious Business, a company may intentionally drive down the value of its own stock if it can gain some other benefit in doing so. Naturally, if this plan fails, and something else happens, they still benefit.
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Speed Racer / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Speed Racer / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Casa Cristo race has plenty of shout-outs to the original series, even giving Speed an excuse to wear a neckerchief (so he can use it to cover his mouth during the desert run). At the end of the race, he jumps out and poses like in the original anime intro.
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Speed Racer / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Speed Racer / int_caf89e54	comment	All the cars have auto-jacks which allow them to hurl themselves into each other with prejudice. There's also the illegal spearhook, an extendable clamp mounted on the undercarriage that grabs a nearby car and keeps it from driving off. This is mostly used for a Taking You with Me, since it's pretty hard to drag someone into an accident without ending up in it, too. In the final race, this backfires on Cannonball Taylor since he still wants to win the race, so Speed is eventually able to break free and expose him as a cheater.
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Speed Racer / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Speed Racer / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Royalton made his big bucks off of fixing races and disposed of every racer who refused to play ball with him. Hell, any of the WRL sponsors qualify. They've been fixing races for the benefit of the stock market for at least 48 years.
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Speed Racer / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Speed Racer / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: Sparky. Spritle and Chim-Chim win more fights than he does (to wit: they work together to de-pants a ninja, while Chim-Chim later gets to hit a guy with a wrench).
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Speed Racer / int_cd7ef676	type	Seen It All
Speed Racer / int_cd7ef676	comment	Seen It All: Pops. "Terrible what passes for a ninja these days."
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Speed Racer / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: It starts with a race on a somewhat stylized but otherwise conventional race track, transitions to cross-country race full of murderous drivers and expansive, treacherous landscapes, and climaxes with Speed basically achieving Speed Nirvana.
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Speed Racer / int_d0c5fb3	type	Impossibly Cool Weapon
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Speed Racer / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: When facing a ninja, Racer X pulls down a length of cloth, whips it around dramatically, then ties it around his face to act as a mask.
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Speed Racer / int_d3e9483a	type	Non-Fatal Explosions
Speed Racer / int_d3e9483a	comment	Non-Fatal Explosions: The cars all have a system called "Kwik-Save" that puts them in a protective foam bubble and ejects them when they crash. Snake Oiler has a parachute. A failure in this system was blamed for the death of Rex Racer.
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Speed Racer / int_d500b978	type	Adaptational Wimp
Speed Racer / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: As evidenced by the episode "Junk Car Grand Prix," the film makes Sparky less handy in a fight than the anime does.
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Speed Racer / int_d5d37e3f	type	Scantron Picture
Speed Racer / int_d5d37e3f	comment	Scantron Picture: At the beginning of the movie, the young Speed fills the bubbles on a test to read GO REX GO, prompting his teacher to call his mom in for a meeting.
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Speed Racer / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Speed Racer / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: What Royalton puts his drivers through.
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Speed Racer / int_d88faed2	type	Scarf of Asskicking
Speed Racer / int_d88faed2	comment	The Casa Cristo race has plenty of shout-outs to the original series, even giving Speed an excuse to wear a neckerchief (so he can use it to cover his mouth during the desert run). At the end of the race, he jumps out and poses like in the original anime intro.
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Speed Racer / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Speed Racer / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Royalton's backers leave him behind when Speed exposes his corrupt methods.
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Speed Racer / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Speed Racer / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Racer X thoroughly erases his identity as Rex Racer, not only faking his death but getting plastic surgery so no one will be able to recognize him. When Inspector Detector asks him, at the end, if he wants to rejoin his family following Royalton's defeat, he quietly refuses, believing the loss of his former identity is a mistake he needs to live with. Pops Racer out and out tells Rex this when he announces that he's leaving Pops' racing team; his underlining intention is to protect his family, as he really means to take down the crime cartel. Pops (even without ever learning Rex's true motives) later admits that he deeply regrets saying that to his eldest son.
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Speed Racer / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Speed Racer / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Trixie was fairly tough in the anime, a novel concept at the time, but in the movie is much more an active partner to Speed than in the original. Even taking part in a portion of one of the races.
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Speed Racer / int_db08a39d	type	Animesque
Speed Racer / int_db08a39d	comment	Animesque: It's been called 'the first live-action anime'. That's an accurate description.
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Speed Racer / int_dd01736e	type	One-Eyed Shot
Speed Racer / int_dd01736e	comment	One-Eyed Shot: Moments before a mid-air clash between Speed and Cannonball Taylor, the camera focuses on one of each of their eyes in turn.
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Speed Racer / int_dd12e1d2	type	Punch Catch
Speed Racer / int_dd12e1d2	comment	Punch Catch: Happens to the non-ja when he takes a swing at Pops.
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Speed Racer / int_ddc4f035	type	Heroic Second Wind
Speed Racer / int_ddc4f035	comment	Heroic Second Wind: During the Grand Prix, while Speed Racer is able to expose Royalton's spearhook and break the Mach 6 free of it, it still leaves the Mach 6 unable to start up, putting him at dead last. Speed Racer is frantic and despondent over what to do, thinking he's going to lose for real... until he remembers Rex's childhood advice on Don't Think, Feel when race-driving. He intuitively jumpstarts the Mach 6, getting back into the race and shooting up from dead last in a short amount of time. The previously concerned crowd goes absolutely wild at this, with Cass Jones triumphantly shouting, "He's back in it!"
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Speed Racer / int_ddca0dbf	type	Punch Parry
Speed Racer / int_ddca0dbf	comment	The Punch Parry, first seen in the Morpheus/Smith bathroom brawl in The Matrix, used by Racer X against his Nonja. Twice, in a Oner shot. Which is impressive when you hear DVD Commentary from Laurence Fishburne about how they had to cut immediately after they accomplished that stunt, because both he and Hugo Weaving were yelping in pain.
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Speed Racer / int_de0df7a0	type	Stock Scream
Speed Racer / int_de0df7a0	comment	Stock Scream: When Spritle and Chim-Chim are racing through Royalton Industries.
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Speed Racer / int_dec54a8c	type	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating
Speed Racer / int_dec54a8c	comment	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: The only reason for any of the cursing in the movie. After Speed rejects Royalton's outrageously generous but sell-out deal, (something which became a Hannibal Lecture when he realized he wasn't getting what he wanted) 10-year-old Spritle gives Royalton the finger right when the elevators close! In the final Grand Prix, when Speed reaches Jack "Cannonball" Taylor, they engage in a personal duel and Speed's Mach 6 hits the GRX several times. In one of these, Speed utters "get that weak shit off my track!" Hard to distinguish due to the crashing sounds and the engine noise, so it went uncensored anyway.
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Speed Racer / int_e0ecc959	type	Changed My Mind, Kid
Speed Racer / int_e0ecc959	comment	Changed My Mind, Kid: One post-finale. Taejo Togokahn initially left Inspector Detector and the Racers high and dry by using them to win Casa Cristo, drive up the price of his father's company for a bigger buyout, and leave without giving them any evidence of Royalton's connection to Cruncher Block, but inspired by Speed's Grand Prix victory, he decides to testify in court and put Royalton behind bars for good.
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Speed Racer / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
Speed Racer / int_e1fa333c	comment	After Speed rejects Royalton's outrageously generous but sell-out deal, (something which became a Hannibal Lecture when he realized he wasn't getting what he wanted) 10-year-old Spritle gives Royalton the finger right when the elevators close!
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Speed Racer / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Speed Racer / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: In the LATAM dub, Speed is renamed MeteoroTranslation Meteor and Sparky as BujÃaTranslation Spark Plug as both names sound way better in Spanish than their literal translations (i.e., Velocidad and Chispita). Spritle is the one go becomes Chispita.
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Speed Racer / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Speed Racer / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Royalton's German is totally off. Though it might be justified as he's a corrupt Upper-Class Twit. Also Chim Chim's "favorite TV show" doesn't sound like German as claimed by Pops.
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Speed Racer / int_e462893a	type	Artistic License â€“ Sports
Speed Racer / int_e462893a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Sports: At no point in the movie do we see any driver wearing a full face helmet or a head and neck restraint, both safety improvements that were introduced in the late 20th century. While the "Kwik-Save" might keep drivers from being trapped in a burning car, it does nothing against flying debris or neck injuries.
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Speed Racer / int_e4b82f6f	type	Fascinating Eyebrow
Speed Racer / int_e4b82f6f	comment	Fascinating Eyebrow: Oh Trixie... delivers a decidedly sexy one during her "talk" with Speed.
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Speed Racer / int_e4deee07	type	DVD Bonus Content
Speed Racer / int_e4deee07	comment	One of the DVD Bonus Content clips is about nothing but the cars themselves, and quickly degenerates into this since the cars (and physics) have nothing to do with Real Life.
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Speed Racer / int_e640b487	type	Infodump
Speed Racer / int_e640b487	comment	The film is actually a pretty good study on well-handled exposition. Infodumps are done visually, essentially via the use of Cutaway Gags, and with Idiosyncratic Wipes (often involving the face of the character being exposited about) to lead both into and out of the cut-away.
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Speed Racer / int_e913fe74	type	Epic Flail
Speed Racer / int_e913fe74	comment	The Casa Cristo goes all out. Most of the contestants have weapons of some kind: Epic Flails, tire spikes, etc. The Mach 5 gets saw blades mounted to the front, though Speed only uses them to disable the tire spikes of other racers. This is technically illegal, but the rules are so loosely enforced that at times it seems like the race commentators are intentionally lampshading it.
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Speed Racer / int_ea4dab0e	type	Crush Filter
Speed Racer / int_ea4dab0e	comment	Crush Filter: Speed and Trixie have a Love at First Sight one when they first lay eyes on each other as grade-schoolers.
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Speed Racer / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Speed Racer / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Taejo delivers one to Cruncher Block while disguised as Horuko during the last leg of the Casa Cristo. Spritle does this during the mob fight.
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Speed Racer / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
Speed Racer / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Royalton, if you believe his claims about turning his computer startup into a multi-national empire.
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Speed Racer / int_eea06f9a	type	Artistic License â€“ Cars
Speed Racer / int_eea06f9a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Cars: Convertible sports cars like the Mach 5 would be the last vehicle to take on a cross-country rally. One, the vehicles lack the suspension travel for a route over desert sand and pockmarked asphalt, two, the racers would be choked by the clouds of sand kicked up by their competitors in the desert section and three, the vehicles' long wheelbases wouldn't have been ideal for the tight mountain roads. A rally car would be a better choice. T180's like the Mach 6, also make V8 Engine Noises despite appearing to be rocket powered.
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Speed Racer / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
Speed Racer / int_f2d29e14	comment	E.P. Arnold Royalton. Interestingly, he has a semi-realistic working class London accent, not the usual "posh" evil accent. This might suggest that he is from a poor background. If his speech about building his own computer out of scraps is true, then he definitely came from a poor family. His actor, Roger Allam, was born in London.
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Speed Racer / int_f4bec3d	type	Magic Plastic Surgery
Speed Racer / int_f4bec3d	comment	Magic Plastic Surgery: Racer X a.k.a. Rex Racer, used to turn Scott Porter into Matthew Fox.
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Speed Racer / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Speed Racer / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Real advertisements appear among the fake ones, including SeaWorld and Petrobras on a blimp at Fuji and Orange Glo on a crewman's jumpsuit at Thunderhead. In the scene where the Royalton janitor calls to report a supposed mouse problem, his Motorola walkie-talkie gets a close-up. Petrobras even gets a fully 3D-rendered car, although it plays no relevant part in the film. The car was actually custom built to feature in Petrobras promotional events back in the day (and it actually raced, unlike the Mach 5 which was just a prop). In the video game, players can drive said car (and it is one of the fastest). Among the competing cars in the movie is also one sponsored by the Juicy Drop Pop candy, which had real-world tie-ins promoting movie at the time, including a mobile game. Though way more visible in the top-down view of the car in one of the movie's special features than in the movie itself, the spoiler on the Thor-Axine Viking team cars sports a Sparco logo.
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Speed Racer / int_f5f79e56	type	Hard-Work Montage
Speed Racer / int_f5f79e56	comment	Hard-Work Montage: One of the many Montages of the film, the 32 hours before the 91st Grand Prix shows the Racer family hard at work building the Mach 6, contrasting with Royalton's high-class business schmoozing and the primping for the fancy Grand Prix gala.
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Speed Racer / int_f9977015	type	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
Speed Racer / int_f9977015	comment	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours: In retaliation to Speed snubbing his offer, Royalton does everything he can to sabotage Racer Motors and Speed so that he doesn't win an entry certificate and thus can't qualify for the Grand Prix. However, Horuko finds a rule that says that as part of the winning team in Casa Cristo, he is eligible to participate since Taejo declined his invitation. When Royalton tries to protest Speed's entry, Inspector Detector points out that the entry rule is ironclad in the WRL charter and if Royalton insists on breaking it, he'll have to shut the race down and conduct a full investigation, right before the event is about to start. Since Royalton can't afford such a debacle, he is forced to back down and let Speed race.
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Speed Racer / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
Speed Racer / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics:
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Speed Racer / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Speed Racer / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Speed is a good man overall, but the best way to piss him off is putting his girlfriend in peril. Best exemplified during the rally when Snake Oiler pulls off an offensive maneuver (positioning his speeding car so that his front wheel is dangerously close to Trixie's face) that could have cost a disguised Trixie her life; an enraged Speed performs the same move against Snake, coming inches away from killing the terrified man before relenting.
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Speed Racer / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Speed Racer / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The "Headhunters" (teams bribed by Cruncher Block to take out Team Togokahn) are the "Flying Foxes" (Femme Fatales), "Semper Fibre" (dressed as G.I.s), and "Thor-Axine" (Vikings). And then there's Snake Oiler...
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Speed Racer / int_fec2b522	type	Happy Ending
Speed Racer / int_fec2b522	comment	Happy Ending: With kiss included. But then, see Bitter Sweet Ending.
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Speed Racer	hasFeature	Flexible Tourney Rules / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Gang Up on the Human / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Get Out! / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Good Old Fisticuffs / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Gratuitous Ninja / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Group Picture Ending / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Idiosyncratic Wipes / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Impossibly Cool Weapon / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Live-Action Cartoon / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Loved Ones Montage / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Machine Empathy / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Magic Plastic Surgery / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	MegaCorp / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Never Found the Body / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Ninja / int_ef407eb4
NinjaAssassin	seeAlso	Speed Racer
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Ninja Brat / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Non-Action Guy / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Non-Fatal Explosions / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Not His Sled / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Oil Slick / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Periphery Hatedom / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Piranha Problem / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Post-Victory Collapse / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Punch Catch / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Punch Parry / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Put on a Prison Bus / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Racing Ghost / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Rearrange the Song / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Recursive Import / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Save the Day, Turn Away / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Scantron Picture / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Shark Pool / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Slow-Motion Drop / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Spectacular Spinning / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Speed Demon / int_ef407eb4
SpeedRacer	seeAlso	Speed Racer
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Spiked Wheels / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Stout Strength / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Stranger Behind the Mask / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Sugar Causes Hyperactivity / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	The Gimmick / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	The Remake / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	The Spartan Way / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Throwing the Fight / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Title Theme Drop / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Totem Pole Trench / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Troperiffic / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Trophy Room / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Wacky Racing / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Weaponized Car / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦ / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	White-Collar Crime / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	White Male Lead / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Wraparound Background / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Wrench Whack / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	X Must Not Win / int_ef407eb4
Speed Racer	hasFeature	Ordered to Cheat / int_ef407eb4

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