Line #29 WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSpeedRacer


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[ExpositoryThemeTune Go, Speed go! Let that Mach 5 thunder roll! You got the power, Speed Racer, let it show! Go, Speed, Go!]]"'']]
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4	''The New Adventures of Speed Racer'' was a 1993 American adaptation of the classic ''Anime/SpeedRacer''. Produced by Fred Wolf, the man who helped adapt the 1987 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, this ''Speed Racer'' series ran for one 13 episode season. While it has most of the same characters as the original ''Speed Racer,'' it's a ContinuityReboot instead of a SequelSeries, since Speed is introduced to the brand new Mach 5 in the first episode. The series has a story arc that involves TimeTravel and mutants from the future interfering in present day affairs.
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7	!!Tropes used in this incarnation of ‘’Speed Racer’’ include:
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9	* AdaptationDyeJob: The original Mach 5 was almost completely white, but in this series it's mostly blue. Also, Trixie was originally a brunette but is now blonde.
10	* AdaptedOut: Mom Racer is absent from this version, with Pops being a single father.
11	* BadFuture: The second half of the show deals with preventing a future where the world is reduced to a poisonous wasteland, with what is left of humanity mostly mutated and serving as second class citizens and slaves in a MegaCity ruled by Caligula P. Barnum.
12	* BrainInAJar: In "B.O.S.S." the titular computer is revealed to be [[spoiler:the disembodied brain of inventor Pavel Masterson.]]
13	* BrokenPedestal: In the first episode where Racer X appears, Speed's also competing with a racer who happens to be an old idol of his. Who unfortunately turns out to be a double agent working for a hostile country.
14	* CardCarryingVillain: Largo Sludge is a deformed man whose first scene has him ranting about how he will poison the whole world because the government tries to regulate his pollution. He would fit right in as a WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet villain.
15	* CoolCar: Mach 5 of course. It has been completely redesigned for this show and looks much more like a street race car, sporting a primarily white and blue color scheme, a variety of gadgets and is constructed out of an alloy that makes it NighInvulnerable.
16	* DarkerAndEdgier: While definitely not without humor, the show is both visually and vocally far less over the top than the original. And that is not even getting into the BadFuture stuff.
17	* FantasticGhetto: In the future, people mutated by toxic waste are relegated to living in ghettos, while "Norms" live far away from the toxic waste spills.
18	* HollywoodCyborg: Professor Tick-Tock. He has some robot parts on the right side of his face and, below the neck, the entire left side of his body is robotic.
19	* LawEnforcementInc: Racer X works for a crime-fighting organization called [=InterNet=]. As the show was created in the early 90s, the word internet hadn't yet taken on its current meaning.
20	* MadScientist: The series has two examples.
21	** Dr. Norbius, a competitor of Pops Racer who sells his inventions to terrorists.
22	** Dr. Brainbiter travels back in time to the Jurassic to acquire a rare mineral that would allow him to MindControl the human race.
23	* NotNowKiddo: Whenever Sprittle has something important to say, the adults all tell him to shut up.
24	* TagalongKid: Sprittle and Chim-Chim, not unlike in the original series.
25	* TheRival: The first episode of the series introduces the amoral Axel Ripley as a rival Speed has been in contention with for some time. He would not appear in any subsequent episodes.
26	* RepulsiveRingmaster: Caligula P. Barnum, a wealthy businessman from the future, oversees the deadly battle races, which he wants Speed to compete in.
27	* ReusedCharacterDesign: Speed's design is similar to Dave Seville from the 1980's Chipmunks series, as it was another show that Fred Wolf worked on.
28	* {{Ruritania}}: Fredonia and Sylvania, two Eastern European countries that appear in "The Race Against X," have a centuries of hostility between them.
29	* StableTimeLoop: The only reason Largo Sludge is able to create his mutagens is because Caligula P. Barnum handed him the correct formulae, with the final episode revealing Barnum was also responsible for the explosion that created the toxic wastelands in the first place. [[spoiler: Speed and Racer X are ultimately able to ScrewDestiny and send the mutagen across time 20 million years into the future.]]
30	* TimeTravel: The later half of the series features a story arc about mutants from the year 2078 traveling back in time to the present day.
31	* TownWithADarkSecret: Pleasantville, where the townsfolk are [[spoiler:[[ReplicantSnatching robots who kidnapped and impersonated the locals.]]]]
32	* TheUnreveal: The show never actually flat-out says that Racer X is Speed’s brother Rex, thought Speed himself highly suspects it and the show gives many hints towards that being the case.
33	* UnroboticReveal: In one episode, the heroes buy a MasterComputer for their house. Turns out [[spoiler:the [[BrainInAJar salvaged brain]] of a deceased criminal mastermind needed their workshop's facilities to build himself a new body]].

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