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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      "Racer X is really Speed Racer's long-lost older brother Rex Racer" OF COURSE HE IS HE JUST MOVED THE SYLLABLES AROUND They had to have done that on purpose, especially since the Narrator reminds us of this EVERY TIME WE SEE HIM

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      (Fun fact, "Mach 5" is a significant number in and of itself, as the demarcation between what aircraft engineers call "supersonic" vs. "hypersonic" speed Originally it seems like the Mach 5 is just its name, rather than there having been a Mach 3 or Mach 4)

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      (This was, of course, changed for the 2008 movie, where the creation of a Mach 6 is a big deal I figure it's like the version numbers on Windows Anyway when I was a kid I thought this meant the car could literally go at Mach 5, which is totally impossible)

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      The rl land-speed record was set by the ThrustSSC in 1997 at 763 mph, which is just barely over Mach 1 depending on how you count Fun fact, the "Fastest Car on Earth" on Speed Racer (the GRX) has a speedometer that tops out at 400 kph (250 mph)

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      I mean, maybe the car goes faster than the top speed on the speedometer, but then why even have it But they talk about the GRX going "at the speed of sound" like it's a big deal, and he needs the special V-Gas drug to keep the G-forces from killing him

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      When the Wachowskis did Speed Racer 2008, on the other hand, and the associated video game, they specified that all the cars have to be traveling at ~400 mph most of the time just to stay on the tracks (they designed them with roller-coaster-style vertical loops etc)

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      The G-forces involved in making hairpin turns at that speed over and over again would probably cause a human being to black out (the top speed of a real-life Formula One racecar is in the low 200 mph range) But that's why it's set in a goofy science-fiction future

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      As we all probably remember, the opening titles of the Speed Racer cartoon have Speed sideswipe a driver and force him off the track, whereupon he drives through the fence and off a cliff, and his car explodes in a massive fireball While the peppy music keeps playingpic.twitter.com/z5GqNXAXYO

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      I really appreciated that the movie kept the horrifying collisions and explosions from the anime intact, and just said this is a video-game world where everyone's car has a "Kwik-save" system that covers your body in fireproof shock-absorbing goo immediately before impact

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      Even outright saying that cutscene death is permanent and other deaths aren't (Rex Racer's tragic death wasn't caused by the fiery head-on collision, which is normal, but by dastardly assassins disabling his Kwik-Save before the race)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

      But yes, just looking at the opening credits of the original anime Speed Racer would be disqualified from most real-life racing organizations and, possibly, arrested and put on trial for murder

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Aug 2020

          Regrettable accidents happen in extreme motorsports but, you know, it didn't really look like an accident and he doesn't seem to regret it

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