Does Racer X Ever Reveal Himself to His Family

"Ho-Hoa!"

Pops: You recall y'all can drive a car and modify the earth? It doesn't piece of work like that!
Speed: Possibly not, but it'southward the merely thing I know how to practise and I gotta do something.

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 aforementioned basic personalities thrown into a racing earth where corporate greed determines everything.

The film as well stars Christina Ricci every bit Trixie, John Goodman as Pops Racer, Susan Sarandon as Mom Racer, Matthew Fox as Racer Ten, Roger Allam as Arnold Royalton, Benno Fürmann equally Inspector Detector, Hiroyuki Sanada as Musha, Rain every bit Taejo Togokahn and Richard Roundtree every bit Ben Burns.

An outrageous visual spectacle, the picture did not endeavor to make any apologies for the implausibilities or cliches of the original, instead merely using them to bear witness insane, over-the-top brightly colored race automobile 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.

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Speed Racer provides examples of:

• Abnormal Ammo: The vikings have a beehive catapult and Serpent Oiler has a snake catapult.
• 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.
• Adaptational Badass: As opposed to the original anime, Trixie is a Badass Driver who can cover for Taejo in the Casa Cristo.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Downplayed merely Speed is shown to have been Book Dumb throughout schoolhouse. This is in dissimilarity to his anime counterpart, who was shown to be very adept and intelligent, with him and Trixie solving an Egyptian mystery through historical research.
• Adaptational Wimp: Equally evidenced past the episode "Junk Automobile 1000 Prix," the film fabricated Sparky less handy in a fight than the anime did.
• Accommodation Distillation: The Wachowskis managed to distill the feel of the blithe Speed Racer, keeping the bright colors, but bringing it into the alive activity arena.
• Accommodation Dye-Task: In the anime, Racer Ten's racing compatible has white and ruddy colors. For the picture show, he wears a black racing uniform.
• Ain't Also Proud to Beg: Taejo, when Cruncher Cake threatens to accept his easily eaten by piranhas.

  Taejo: No, please!

• All for Nothing: Taejo's plans to have Racer 10 and Speed help his squad win the Casa Cristo 5000 so he can uncover prove that volition implicate Royalton initially plough out to be a farce when the Racer family unit learns from Inspector Detector that they were being played for chumps.
• Almost Osculation: Twice, until the end — where the trope gets parodied as Spritle and Chim-Chim interrupt information technology for the sake of a quip, and then it resumes.
• Amazing Technicolor World: And how. This flick is so vibrant that some critics reported visual fatigue.
• Ambiguous Time Menstruation: The motion-picture show seems to take place a few decades into the hereafter, with hovercrafts, futuristic cities, and advanced car safe technology, but Ben Burns is said to take driven in the 1943 1000 Prix. Richard Roundtree, who plays Burns in the present, was built-in in 1942, which means even if the flick took place the twelvemonth 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 gear up when it seems to be.
• Anachronic Order: Several scenes (especially in the beginning) continue switching around between multiple points of time.
• Animesque: It'south been called 'the first live-action anime'. That's an accurate description.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Spritle (and Chim-Chim).
  • Speed was something of 1 to Rex.
• Anti-Climactic Unmasking: Twisted around the viewer, since Racer X is Rex Racer, only when Speed Racer meets him on the empty runway, he's played by a random guy courtesy of Magic Plastic Surgery.
• Artistic License – Cars: Convertible sports cars like the Mach 5 would exist 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 upward 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 ameliorate choice.
  • T180's like the Mach 6, besides brand V8 Engine Noises despite appearing to be rocket powered.
• Artistic License – Physics:

• Naturally, none of the car combat moves the drivers do are close to possible in existent life, and a machine that is strong and rigid enough to come up out unscathed in such accidents would impart the force of the impact onto the driver.
• There is no conventionally possible manner to transmit power to a cycle that tin turn 360 degrees within the fender, much less steer it. The wheels are clearly being driven by something, otherwise, the Mach half-dozen wouldn't exit burnout marks from a standing start.
• During the Casa Cristo Rally, the drivers' uniforms would be covered in the ruddy desert sand, but Taejo'south white uniform remains pristine.

• Artistic License – Sports: At no signal in the moving-picture show do we see any driver wearing a total confront helmet or a head and cervix restraint, both safety improvements that were introduced in the late 20th century. While the "Kwik-Save" might go along drivers from being trapped in a burning machine, information technology does nada against flying debris or neck injuries.
• Ascended Extra: Mom Racer. While in the original series, she is a minor graphic symbol with express dialogue, in the movie, Susan Sarandon plays her as a strong, caring mother who provides emotional support and inspiration for Speed.
• Every bit Long every bit Information technology Sounds Foreign:
  • Royalton'southward German is totally off.

    Royalton: When I was a kid, nosotros used to say "Pänkuchen sind Liebchen!" — "Pancakes are love." (what he said translates to "pancakes are sweethearts")

  • Also Chim Chim's "favorite Tv set show" doesn't audio like German language as claimed by Pops.
• A-Team Montage: The Racers rebuilding the Mach Vi for the Grand Prix, intercut with Royalton and Musha's contract signing.
• Avoid the Dreaded 1000 Rating: The only reason for any of the cursing in the picture show.
  • Subsequently Speed rejects Royalton'due south outrageously generous but sell-out bargain, (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 shut!
  • In the final Grand Prix, when Speed reaches Jack "Missive" Taylor, they appoint in a personal duel and Speed'south Mach 6 hits the GRX several times. In one of these, Speed utters "get that weak shit off my track!" Difficult to distinguish due to the crashing sounds and the engine noise, so it went uncensored anyway.
• Crawly Aussie: Melbourne-born Boot Gurry uses his native accent every bit Sparky.
• Awesome Mc Coolname: Your family name is Racer and y'all name your kids King and Speed?
• Awesomeness Is a Force: Implied in the terminal lap of the last 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 automobile effectually 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 six's tires are melting.
• Awesomeness Is Volatile: As seen with Awesomeness Is a Force. The Mach 6 manages to go Speed to the stop 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 improve; he has barely plenty energy to take off his helmet. The oversupply pulls him out and carries him to the winner podium. Seeing equally they both reached what could exist described as Speed Nirvana, they are in adept shape all things considered.
• Badass Driver: Nearly half the cast, though Speed deserves special mention when he Has his "in the zone" moment in the concluding race.
• Badass Family: The Racers and extended family all apparently know how to deal out some crawly whoopass. Except Sparky.
• Bee Bee Gun: A bee hive is used as a weapon in-race.
• 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 Ophidian pulls off a maneuver that could have cost a disguised Trixie her life, an enraged Speed performs the same move confronting Snake, coming inches abroad from killing the terrified man before relenting.
• Big Bad: E.P. Arnold Royalton is the principal adversary of the moving picture.
• The Big Damn Buss: Speed and Trixie's kiss at the finish after Speed wins the Thou Prix.
• The Big Race: Several increasingly over the tiptop races culminating in the WRL Grand Prix.
• Bloodshot Ending: Speed wins the One thousand Prix, Royalton's cheating and corruption are exposed and he is put in prison, it is implied that the WRL will be reformed. However, Racer X has decided against revealing to his family that he is however live.
• Blood Sport: While there are plenty of motorcar crashes, this is downplayed by the fact that all cars have the foam bubble "Kwik-Relieve" arrangement installed, and any devices that are designed for or can be used to intentionally impairment other racers, such as the Spearhook, are illegal. This makes it probably the almost plausible bloodsport in fiction.
• Bond 1-Liner: Delivered by Pops Racer after dispatching a ninja:

  Trixie: Was that a ninja?
  Pops: More like a nonja.

• Book Dumb: As a young child, Speed was so obsessed most automobile racing that he spoke about little else; he even filled out a multiple choice test's reply sheet so that the dots read GO Male monarch Get. He later admits he probably would non have finished loftier school without Trixie'south assistance.
• Broken Pedestal: Speed, when he learns that the M Prix is always fixed and several of the racers he looked upward to are nothing but corporate shills whose "wins" were always planned.

  Speed: Mr Burns? The '43 Prix. Did...you lot know yous were going to win?

  Burns: Y'know, everybody thought that me and Stickleton hated each other. Funny, ain't information technology?

• Bullet Time: Information technology was written and directed past the Wachowskis. Think about that.
• Phone call-Back: Speed attempting to leave his younger brother and father behind in an exact mirror of what happened with Male monarch when Speed was a child.
• Canon Foreigner: Royalton, Togokahn, and Ben Burns were among the characters specifically created for the flick.
• Tin can't Get Abroad with Nuthin': Speed and Trixie tell a fib to assist Racer X and Inspector Detector by racing in the race that killed Rex.

  Spritle: Expect!
  Pops: I'thousand not falling for that.
  Spritle: Information technology'due south Speed!
  Pops: Speed's skiing!
  Spritle: ...then who'southward driving the Mach 5?!
  [On the boob tube, the Mach 5 roars upwards the road. Cue an Oh, Crap! from Pops.]
  Pops: Oh, no...

• Car Fu: Taken Up to Eleven. Also actually called such in the video game.
• Catchphrase: Trixie's "Cool beans."
• Cement Shoes: Cruncher Block wanted to use this method on Taejo, but he decided to use piranhas to try and eat Taejo's hand.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: This trope is spelled out verbatim past the judge in the Racing Chronicle issue virtually Royalton's conviction and sentencing.
• Chekhov's Armoury: All of the "defensive modifications" on Speed's car come into proper use. Except for the Homing Bird.
• Colour-Coded Characters: by Discussion 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 — Light-green
  • Sparky — Orangish
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: Ninjas infiltrate the hotel where Taejo, Racer 10 and Speed are staying to take their squad out of commission. The start ninja, a stealthy assassin, is deftly successful at silently drugging Taejo, while the 2nd somewhat annoys Racer 10. Supported when the third makes problem for Speed, Sparky, Spritle and Chim-Chim, merely then subverted as he is comically relieved of his pants by Spritle and Chim-Chim, then trounced past Pops Racer, who derides the assaulter as a "non-ja".

  "Terrible what passes for a ninja these days."

• Context-Sensitive Button: Speed has i push button for each of the Mach v's various tricks, however they're each shown capable of performing a variety of very precision maneuvers. For case, the "jump" button may deploy all four leap anxiety to hop over someone, or it might deploy just the left two to flip to the correct, like how 'tap','double tap', 'press' and 'press and concord' can practise different functions in a video game but with more options than the ones mentioned above.
• Continuity Nod: To the original serial and the original Japanese version of the prove; the finish 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 vocal.
• Cool Car: Every auto in the movie, pretty much, but the Mach 5 remains the coolest.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive:
  • Royalton, of class.
  • Hell, any of the WRL sponsors qualify. They've been fixing races for the benefit of the stock market for at to the lowest degree 48 years.
• Creator Cameo:
  • Peter Fernandez, Speed's original voice player, appears equally a racing announcer at Thunderhead.
  • Corinne Orr - Trixie'southward voice extra - appears as the race announcer at the Grand Prix.
• Crush Filter: Speed and Trixie take a Love at Beginning Sight i when they kickoff lay optics on each other as grade-schoolers.
• Dawn of an Era: Ben Burns fifty-fifty says and then when Speed manages to not simply expose Royalton only manages to break speed records to win the race from last place. In front of the entire world an Independent Team, Machine, and Racer blew out all of the Big v to win the largest race in the earth. By winning, Speed demolished the race rigging and destroyed one of the biggest companies ever.
• Destination Defenestration: Pops throws the ninja who infiltrated the Racers' hotel room out of their window.
• Disney Acrid Sequence: Several times during the film, just especially during the terminal race, where Speed literally becomes the race and the track dissolves into, well, Nirvana.
• The Dreaded: Criminals, terrorists and other racers alike fear Racer X, "The Straw of Boom".
• Epic Race: The Casa Cristo 5000.
• Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: See Badass Family.
• Evil Brit: Eastward.P. Arnold Royalton. Interestingly, he has a semi-realistic working class London emphasis, not the usual "posh" evil emphasis. This might suggest that he is from a poor background. If his speech most building his own figurer out of scraps is true, so he definitely came from a poor family. His thespian, Roger Allam, was built-in in London.
• 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?

• False Affably Evil: Despite being warm and friendly while initially courtship the Racer family, after Speed rejects his offer, Royalton reveals his true personality past giving Speed a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
• Fighting Fingerprint: Played with. Speed suspects Racer X of beingness his Long-Lost Relative Male monarch, because Racer X drives in the same distinctive way King did. Racer X proves him wrong by removing his mask, showing he looks nothing similar Male monarch. He is, naturally.
• The Picture show of the Series: Of Speed Racer.
• Fingore: Cruncher Block attempts to have his piranhas bite off Taejo'due south hand, but it doesn't work out every bit Racer Ten is able to rescue him. One of his henchmen ends upwards having his finger eaten in his endeavour to save them when a devious bullet breaches the tank.
• Flashback:
  • A good bit during the first race, as Speed and family think 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 dearest of the sport, which causes him to essentially transcend reality and complete an entire lap in mere seconds, winning the race.
• Floating Advice Reminder: The hero has such a moment towards the end.
• Foreshadowing: Inspector Detector asks Racer X if he really wants to be at the Racer firm for the endeavor at recruiting Speed. Racer seems unusually emotional about it. We acquire afterward that Racer X is King, Speed's older blood brother who everyone believes died years before in a racing crash.

• Gosh Dangit To Heck: Averted; there'due south a moderate corporeality of blasphemous ("ass" is said a lot; there'southward both a in-movie Sound Effect Bleeped and entirely uncensored "shit") and Spritle even flipped Royalton once. Notwithstanding it's still rated PG.
• Complimentary French: Johnny "Goodboy" Jones, one of the Casa Cristo sportscasters, sometimes peppers his speech with French words courtesy of his thespian Melvil Poupaud.
• Green Screen: Was filmed almost entirely on dark-green screen to requite information technology an anime-manner upshot.
• Groin Attack:
  • Taejo delivers i to Cruncher Block while disguised equally Horuko during the last leg of the Casa Cristo.
  • Spritle does this during the mob fight.
• Happily Married: Mom and Pops Racer. Pops went so far as to say marrying his best friend was the most important thing he'd ever washed in his life, above and across his sons.
• Happy Ending: With kiss included. Just then, see Bitter Sugariness Ending.
• Heel–Confront Turn: Taejo decides to honor his word and turn over incriminating prove to imprison Royalton after being inspired by Speed's incredible win of the k prix.
• Helmets Are Inappreciably 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.
• Here We Go Again!: Said give-and-take-for-discussion by the the Grayness Ghost towards the end of the film when Speed Racer catches up to him.
• Hoist past His Own Petard:
  • The female member of the Barbarian team (y'know, the ones that were bribed with furs?) is attempting to launch a beehive via built-in catapault into Taejo's car, but a quick side bump from Speed sends the giant honeycomb straight into the air, and dorsum into the driver's seat.
  • Royalton fits Cannonball's car with a spearhook over his protests, merely in case he might need information technology. When Cannonball gets desperate enough to use information technology against Speed, Speed manages to jump their cars near a race camera, conspicuously showing the spearhook is coming from Missive's car, non only ruining Cannonball's career only Royalton'southward since he made the auto and would accept approved its installation.
• Human-Focused Adaptation: Downplayed example, as the series always focused on humans, simply in the series, the Mach 5 was constantly called the fastest car in the earth, and the original Japanese series was named for it instead of the driver. Here, there'southward nothing stated to be particularly special about whatsoever version of the machine, instead focusing far more on Speed'due south skill as a driver.
• Idiosyncratic Wipes: All through the movie. There are images of people'southward heads traveling beyond the screen with the new scene unscrolling behind them. The scene immediately before the K Prix is one over a minute long with the practiced guys, the bad guys, and the Racer family unit all sliding beyond the screen equally Ben Burns declares "This is not a race. This is a showdown." In a case of Bookends, right after the race, Racer X gets one of his one-time face, his doctors, and his new face, to explicate to the audition how he pulled off his mask when Speed (would otherwise have correctly) identified him as his brother, Male monarch.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: Almost all the cars in the Casa Cristo have them (peculiarly the Barbarians), even the "defensive" modifications made to Team Togokahn (Racer 10, Speed, and Taejo) could be quite dangerous.
• Implied Death Threat: When Speed declines Royalton'southward offering, the latter threatens to do whatsoever information technology takes to ensure Speed won't win, identify, or fifty-fifty finish the Thou Prix.
• Ironic Echo: Royalton "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Speed gets 1 in the finale every bit he uses sheer Heroic Willpower to come up upwards from behind

  "Y'all ready to throw abroad your toys?! Are yous ready to become a real race car commuter!?"

• Karma Houdini: Ben Burns was only as kleptomaniacal every bit 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 globe afterward he won the One thousand Prix, it'southward entirely likely he was never happy with the situation in the start place.
• Large Ham: The whole bandage, with the exception of Susan Sarandon, who played the wholesome Mom Racer. Even the most negative critic liked Roger Allam's over-the-pinnacle villainy.
• Leitmotif: Well-nigh the entire soundtrack is remixes of the anime theme.
• Alive-Action Adaptation: Of the original anime, although the mode it was shot (90% green screen) makes information technology wait more like a live-activeness anime.
• Long Lost Sibling: Intentionally subverted by Racer X, who takes off his mask to evidence to Speed he's not actually Male monarch Racer. But he is.
• Loophole Corruption: Taejo's sister uses this to get Speed into the Grand Prix. Ordinarily you'd demand to win an entry document, which Speed technically did not, but since he helped Taejo win the team rally and Taejo declined, he tin claim the spot.
• Love at Outset Punch: Played with. Speed offset notices Trixie afterwards she punches out the Blastoff Bitch on his behalf.
• Loved Ones Montage: During the Chiliad Prix at the finale of the alive action Speed Racer pic, Speed'southward Heroic 2nd Wind later on 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 every bit he comes from behind to take the pb for the 2nd time in the race.
• Machine Empathy: Male monarch teaches Speed to "bulldoze, not steer" by listening to the experience of the car. Speed later uses this power to intuitively spring-start the Mach 6 in the centre of the last Grand Prix.
• Magic Plastic Surgery: Racer X aka Rex Racer.
• Mega-Corp: Royalton Industries is the premiere maker of T-180 race cars, and is headed by Corrupt Corporate Executive Royalton.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": An unusual version in that the emotion and reason for the Oh, Crap! is nearly different for the different factions equally Speed shows up at the terminal race.
• Meta Twist: The identity of Racer 10 — it's a You Should Know This Already if you lot are familiar with the anime. he's Speed's older brother King Racer, who is believed expressionless by anybody.
• Montages:
  • Lots of them, generally woven into the diverse activity scenes. This allows the Action Prologue to basis the states in the entire family's history; and, later, Speed'southward disobedience of Royalton's Monologuing is made all the more than hollow considering we've already seen that the good guy loses.
  • The movie is actually a pretty practiced written report on well-handled exposition. Infodumps are done visually, essentially via the use of Cutaway Gags, and with Idiosyncratic Wipes (oftentimes involving the face of the character being exposited about) to lead both into and out of the cutting-away.
• Mr. Fanservice:
  • The appropriately sexy Emile Hirsch every bit the hunky hero Speed.
  • Matthew Fox as Racer X.
  • Rain ^note a Korean pop star, with whom Stephen Colbert has established a one-sided feud. And also appeared on the evidence long enough to beat Colbert at Trip the light fantastic toe Dance Revolution. He was really asked to star in the Ninja Assassin film subsequently his fight scene in Speed Racer was positively received. as Taejo. ^annotation Information technology's like the screenwriters got together and asked, 'Now that we have Rain, how many fangirl moments can we give him?' He's offset seen haemorrhage and with a ripped silky shirt, later with no shirt, in a dress, kicking bad guy ass, and finally in a tuxedo. Hmm.
• Ms. Fanservice: Trixie. She is played by Christina Ricci afterward all.
• Mundane Made Awesome: When facing a ninja, Racer X whips out a length of material, whips it effectually dramatically, then ties it around his face to act as a mask.
• My Menu: Inspector Detector attempts to give one to Pops, just he declines.

  Inspector Detector: If you alter your mind...!
  Pops: Keep your card, Principal Inspector.

• My Greatest Second Chance: When King left the family to fight the corporations, Pops viewed information technology as a expose and told him not to come dorsum, 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.
• Mythology Gag: In the anime, Racer X always holds himself dorsum so his younger brother can win the race. The movie does this backwards during the opening activeness sequence, when Speed deliberately loses to King's Racing Ghost. Speed knows that no one else could vanquish his time, so he is giving Rex immortality, in a sense.
• Neck Lift: Taejo chokes Cruncher Block after his Groin Assail on the Togokahn plane.
• Nerds Are Sexy: Speed and Racer X both have their fangirls, just everyone was surprised at just how sexy Inspector Detector turned out with his styling specs. (He is a German Johnny Depp.)
• Non-Activeness Guy: Sparky. Spritle and Chim-Chim win more fights than he does (to wit: they piece of work together to de-pants a ninja, while Chim-Chim later gets to hitting a guy with a wrench).
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Roger Allam, the actor who plays bad guy Arnold Royalton, bears an astonishing resemblance to British author and critic Christopher Hitchens, correct downwardly to the accent. Many reviewers have commented on it.
• Not-Fatal Explosions: The cars all have a organisation chosen "Kwik-Save" that puts them in a protective foam chimera when they crash. Serpent Oiler has a parachute. A failure in this system was blamed for the death of Rex Racer.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • The Racer family when Rex's decease is announced.
  • Taejo when Cruncher Cake well-nigh 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.
  • Subsequently 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 that Pops won the Greco-Roman Wrestling State Championship.

    Non-ja: Uh-oh.

  • Cruncher Block is surprised when he realizes that Horuko is actually Taejo in disguise while on the Togokahn plane.
  • Speed has i (combined with a Heroic BSoD) right equally they entered the cave where Rex died. He speedily 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 when Cannonball Taylor uses his spearhook on Speed.
  • Every single shot of Royalton'south face from the moment the spearhook is revealed on-camera until the end of the flick.
• Oil Slick: Used by Snake Oiler during the Casa Cristo rally.
• Older Than They Look: Christina Ricci was 27 when she played the role of Trixie, while Emile Hirsch was 23. Anyone watching would call back he'due south the older of the two.
• Papa Wolf: Damage i of Pops's sons, and yous will be sent flying through a window. Simply ask the non-ja.
• Departing Words Regret: Between Pops and Rex, before Male monarch was presumed killed in the crash.
• Precision F-Strike:
  • Ben Burns gets it when Speed shows up to the final race. "Holy sh[*blip*]!" The Double Take his boyfriend commentator Cass Jones gives him is merely icing on the cake.
  • Speed gets one (uncensored!) that likewise doubles as a Badass Avowal during the final race:

    "Get that weak shit off my track."

• Pretty in Mink: Horuko shows up to help the Speed family unit, coming straight from the opera, and wearing a white dress with a white trick fur wrap.
• Product Placement:
  • Real advertisements appear among the faux 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 written report a supposed mouse problem, his Motorola walkie-talkie gets a close-upwards.
  • Petrobras even gets a fully 3D-rendered machine, although it plays no relevant office in the film. The automobile was actually custom built to feature in Petrobras promotional events back in the twenty-four hours (and information technology actually raced, unlike the Mach 5 which was merely a prop). In the video game, players can drive said car (and it is one of the fastest).
• Punch Take hold of: Happens to the non-ja when he takes a swing at Pops.
• Put on a Prison house Bus:
  • Cruncher Block and his henchmen are terminal seen being taken into custody past Inspector Detector's team in the 2nd half of the film.
  • In the ending'due south magazine montage, Royalton himself is tried and eventually incarcerated off-screen.
• "The Reason You Suck" Spoken language: Royalton gives 1 to Speed when he refuses to sign a contract to race for him, serving upwards a generous helping of Large Ham as he explains how the sport of racing is actually nothing more than than a corporate tool for financial proceeds. 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'southward babyhood hero as just another corporate shill.

  Royalton: (derisive laugh) Yous poor, naïve chump. I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that load of sickening schmaltz, and I'chiliad going to give yous a fleck of an education, and at the end of it — if you lot're smart — you'll give thanks me.

• Remake Cameo:
  • The Japanese dub of the film brings back three of the original vox actors, albeit in different roles. Kenji Utsumi, the voice of Inspector Detector in the original series, voices Pops Racer; Kiyoshi Kobayashi (the original vocalism of Mr. Black) is the vox of Tetsuo Togokahn; and Katsuji Mori (the original Speed Racer) voices Ben Burns.
  • In the Latin American Castilian dub, Arturo Mercado (the original voice thespian of Speed Racer) voices Tetsuo Togokahn.
• The Reveal: Subverted when Racer Ten reveals his identity to Speed later The Crucible and Speed learns that Racer Ten is not his brother, Rex Racer, equally he had suspected and and so double subverted when information technology is revealed that King Racer faked his death and had Magic Plastic Surgery equally the ultimate disguise to fight against corruption as Racer Ten.
• Rousing Speech: When Speed loses all hope of e'er redeeming the crooked sport of racing, Racer X helps restore him to Wide-Eyed Idealist form.

  Racer X: It doesn't matter if racing never changes — what matters is if we let racing modify us.

• Rule of Cool: The entire film runs on this. Information technology knows its adapting an anime and embraces that fact with bright visuals and flashy and over-the-pinnacle racing that would make REDLINE chroma. The pic makes the laws of physics its bowwow.
• Rule of Fun: Ditto.
• Save the Day, Turn Abroad: Racer X is actually Rex, who faked his death to assume the Racer X identity. He decides to non to reveal his identity to keep his family safe. Ten tells Inspector Detector that while hiding the truth may have been a mistake, it is a mistake he will have to live with.
• Scantron Picture: At the beginning of the movie, the immature Speed fills the bubbling on a test to read Become REX GO, prompting his teacher to call his mom in for a coming together.
• Screw the Money, I Take Rules!: Inspector Detector threatens to shut down the Grand Prix when Royalton tries to deny Speed's Loophole Abuse. Royalton complains nigh the cost, simply Inspector Detector sticks to his guns, confident that Royalton will fold.
• Screw the Rules, I Accept Money!: Mr. Royalton, lampshaded by Pops Racer after a whirlwind tour of his corporate headquarters.

  Royalton: What'southward incorrect Mr. Racer?
  Pops: To be honest Royalton, I'one thousand feeling more intimidated than impressed. This kind of company scares me. People like you have mode too much money. When someone gets that kind of coin, they start thinking that the rules everyone else plays by don't mean squat to them.

• Screw This, I'thousand Outta Here!: Royalton's backers exit him backside when Speed exposes his corrupt methods.
• Seen Information technology All: Pops. "Terrible what passes for a ninja these days."
• Self-Made Man: Royalton if yous believe his claims regarding his ancestry.

• Serious Business: Even more then than in the anime. Auto racing is the well-nigh popular and almost noble sport in the world, there'due south coverage in multiple languages (which in Existent 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 economic system. This is because the "Big Five" corporations fix races to drive up or downwards the price of their own stock every bit suits their own plans. If Royalton's largesse is any indication, those Big Fives do take a major issue on the global economic system.
• Setting Update: The film moves from The '60s to a futuristic Retro Universe, way wackier and out of this earth than the original series.
• Shout-Out: The Crucible race has enough of shout outs to the original series, even giving Speed an excuse to wearable a neckerchief (so he can use information technology to comprehend his mouth during the desert run). At the cease of the race he jumps out and poses like in the original anime intro.
  • And the plot of that part of the picture show was similar to the beginning of the serial.
  • The motorcar-jacks make the verbal aforementioned audio they did in the anime and work the verbal same style (encounter Context-Sensitive Push button above).
  • Not related to the original series, one of the founders of motorcar racing Royalton names, Benjamin Braddock, is named later the protagonist of The Graduate.
  • Almost of the named characters, fifty-fifty minor ones, are named after characters from the anime. Cruncher Block and Ophidian Oiler were both i-shot villains in the series.
  • One of the Vikings screams "KROM!" equally a battlecry.
  • The "non-ja" has a P-chan dangle on his automobile keys.
  • One of the racers who died in The Crucible is named Cyrus the Virus O'Man.
• Signature Mode: Some Wachowski trademarks:
  • Exposition/Activeness montage, first seen in The Matrix Reloaded, used everywhere here.
  • The Dial 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 yous hear DVD Commentary from Laurence Fishburne virtually how they had to cut immediately later on they accomplished that stunt, because both he and Hugo Weaving were yelping in pain.
  • Bullet Time, of class.
• Slow-Motion Driblet: Mom drops a drinking glass of wine when Male monarch Racer'southward decease is announced on the news in a Flash Back.
• Smug Serpent: Snake Oiler, Speed'south principal rival throughout the Casa Cristo 5000.
• Speed Demon: Speed has had a love of racing since he daydreamed about being a racer just like his blood brother Male monarch. Speed even goes as far every bit saying that racing is a organized religion in his family.
• Spiked Wheels: The Femme Fatale headhunters have these, which can fifty-fifty be remote controlled to swordfight the shields installed on the Mach v.
• Spiritual Successor: The video game is the closest thing we'll get to F-Nil on the Wii and DS.
• Stock Scream: When Spritle and Chim-Chim are racing through Royalton Industries.
• Stripperific: Despite playing the hero's loyal love interest, Christina Ricci'south Trixie tends to dress similar a femme fatale. This is most notable during her date in the Mach 5 with Speed. That crimson wearing apparel...
• Stuff Bravado Up: The pic has loads and loads of gratuitous explosions, merely the whole movie is built on rule of cool and machine-fu so no one really cares.
• Technobabble:
  • One of the DVD Bonus Content clips is about cipher but the cars themselves, and quickly degenerates into this since the cars (and physics) accept nothing to do with Existent Life.
  • Engineering sense of humor relies a fair bit on technobabble equally information technology is, and the Supercharged bonus seems to exist written with that in mind.

• That Human Is Dead: Racer 10 chose non to reveal himself equally Rex to his family, even telling Speed that his brother is truly dead.
• Theme Naming: The "Headhunters" (teams bribed by Cruncher Block to have out Squad Togokahn) are the "Flying Foxes" (Femme Fatales), "Semper Fibre" (dressed equally G.I.south), and "Thor-Axine" (Vikings). And then there's Ophidian Oiler...
• Throwing the Fight: Many of the races are fixed. A good half of the racers are in that location just to deliberately cede themselves in order to terminate the ones not playing forth.
• Token Practiced Teammate: Horuko is appalled when her male parent and brother play a joke on the Racer family unit into helping them. To make upward for it, she goes to the Racer family and gives them Taejo's automatic invitation to the Grand Prix.
• Training from Hell: What Royalton puts his drivers through.
• Trophy Room: Shelves of trophies are seen in the living room.
• Visual Pun: The vertically integrated product line at Royalton is literally vertical.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • On the final lap of the Chiliad Prix...

    Royalton: STOOOP HIIIM!!!!!!!

  • Snake Oiler gets one before, when he tries and fails to send Speed off an icy, narrow mountain pass.
• Wacky Racing: Courses that would be at habitation in F-Zero or Hot Wheels? Check. Themed racing teams, including i of barbarians paid in furs? Bank check. Cars covered in special weapons and improbable technology? Cheque.
• Weaponized Car:
  • All the cars take auto-jacks which permit them to hop effectually the track. There's also the illegal spearhook, an extendable clamp mounted on the undercarriage that grabs a nearby automobile and keeps it from driving off. This is by and large used for a Taking You with Me, since it's pretty hard to elevate someone into an accident without catastrophe 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 forepart, 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 has numerous machine guns on his vehicle when rescuing Taejo.
  • Cruncher Block's big rig has holes for the people in the cab to shoot out of and a missile launcher in the grill.
• When All You Have is a Hammer…: "[Racing is] the only thing I know how to do, and I gotta practice something."
• Why Don't Y'all But Shoot Him?: Put into play during the Crucible when Ophidian Oiler, foiled in his attempts to beat Speed, pulls out a pistol and opens burn down on him. This is obviously cheating, so he would accept been disqualified even if Speed hadn't sent him flying off the cliff.
• Broad-Eyed Idealist: Speed. After he realizes how dirty the sport is (cheers to a "The Reason You Suck" Speech) he'southward reminded past Racer X that it doesn't matter, so long as the dirt doesn't rub off. In the terminate, Speed decides to make racing fit his ideal. He plainly succeeded, as he inspired everyone after he won.

  Ben Burns: It's a whole new world, baby! It's a whole new globe!
  Inspector Detector: This will change everything.
  Racer X: Information technology already has.

• With a Friend and a Stranger: Squad Togokahn, except that simply Racer X knows this for a fact, given the Surreptitious Identity. Speed does option up on how well he and 10 sync together, leading him to suspect that he might actually be Rex Racer.
• Wingding Eyes: When the Semper-Fiber squad is bribed with a Briefcase Full of Coin, the team leader gets dollar signs in his eyes.

• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Taejo Togokahn offers to turn over incriminating evidence if Racer X and Speed help his squad win the Casa Cristo 5000, on the grounds that Royalton will ruin his family unit financially if they don't. They practice, which causes Togokahn'southward stock to skyrocket, and he leaves them empty-handed.
• Wraparound Background: Used in the nigh obvious way possible, on both sides of the car, with a bike that rings its bell every time it passes.
• Xanatos Gambit: As noted in Serious Business concern, a company may intentionally drive down the value of its own stock if information technology can proceeds some other do good in doing then. Naturally if this programme fails, and something else happens, they still benefit.
• Zorro Mark: While rescuing Taejo from Cruncher Block, Racer X machine-guns a giant 'X' into the rear door of Block's trailer.

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