Fridge Logic for F-Zero.
Fridge Brilliance
- The incredibly twitchy controls of GX suddenly become justified when you remember that these are supersonic rocket-powered hover-sleds: no traction, tons of balance issues, extremely high speeds. GX cars handle the way such vehicles would actually handle! (Doesn't make the game any less hard, though.)
- Princia Ramode has a crush on Samurai Goroh. She is unlocked by beating the Story Mode level where you race against Samurai Goroh. Coincidence?
- Many players consider the Fat Shark to be one of the best, if not THE best, machine in the game. Its pilot, Don Genie, is filthy rich. So it makes sense that he simply paid enough money to commission a machine that was as good as possible to easily win races with.
- By contrast, in X, the Black Bull is considered the worst machine due to its weak boost, plus its high grip and heavy weight impeding its ability to drift. However, these same qualities also make it very well-suited for vehicular combat and it does quite well in Death Race. Combined with the lore stating that Black Shadow made it to be able to knock away his competition, this may be a case of the game encouraging you to also knock your opponents off the track in order to win rather than try to play fairly.
- In GX, however, the lack of acceleration is the only thing that prevents the Black Bull from being as broken as the Fat Shark (thanks to its fourth engine behind Black Shadow's cockpit), and it's heavily hinted that both pilots have connections in the organized crime sector. It's possible that Black Shadow simply bribed Don Genie so he would give him more powerful engines to destroy the competition in a more efficient way.
Fridge Horror
- If the Great Star really is EAD's "brother" scrapped and recycled as a racing machine, then F-Zero just took Luigi's status as a Butt-Monkey/The Chew Toy to freakishly terrible new heights. Damn... even in a different series, Luigi gets no respect.
