My favorite is the Masked Racer (Fukumen Resa) becoming "Racer X" Yes, he has an X on his mask, fine But they ALSO made his original name "Rex Racer" (from Ken'ichi Mifune) IT'S THE SAME NAME
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"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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(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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect
I have 2 year olds so I am showing/watching old favorites (so much pandemic screen time, oh well) and the casual violence of so much stuff I looooooved as a kid literally makes me wonder if I was/am a sociopath
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There are SO MANY moments from the cartoon where something horrible happens to a bad guy and Speed just shrugs it off, and because you don't actually see the guy's dead body inside the vehicle the narrative just assumes it's okay
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Replying to @arthur_affect @midafternoon
There's a scene where a bad guy crashes a helicopter and it BURSTS INTO FLAMES and Speed gets out of the car and stands there WATCHING TO MAKE SURE NO ONE ESCAPES FROM THE WRECK And then, satisfied, drives off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @midafternoon
You can't even justify this as "Maybe he's supposed to have bailed out just before it crashed" because if he did then why would Speed be just standing there watching the helicopter burn up instead of doing something about it
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