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* [[Executive Meddling]]: Completely averted when Savin Yeatman-Eiffel refused to give in to demands from potential investors to rewrite the main character as a boy. He states on the behind-the-scenes documentary on the DVD's that this is (one of) the reason(s) why production on the show had been delayed.
* [[Facial Markings]]: Molly, Maya. [[Word of God]] confirms that they're tattoos, in case you were wondering.
* [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]: The flamboyant Flint is the track favourite on his homeworld of Alwas, and, along with his gunner, Marcel, is believed by everyone there to be unbeatable. However, when Molly actually races him, she quickly learns his true secret to success: the judges fix races for him by deploying traps that only affect the challenger. When trying to play fair fails, Molly decides to goad Flint into proving his "skills" by flying into the traps; he promptly crashes.
* [[Falling Into the Cockpit]]: When Rick is unable to fly the Arrow, Don Wei stubbornly refuses to let Molly take his place, despite the fact that she is the only other person on the team with any hope of success. So what does Molly do? While Don's not around, she uses her [[Wrench Wench]] skills to reconfigure the Arrow's controls and hijacks the ship for the next race. She [[Beginner's Luck|barely manages to win]], but Don is still so angry with her disobedience that he wants to withdraw the whole team from the race. It takes a direct order from the President of the Earth Coalition to keep him from doing so, and another disaster with Rick to make Molly the team's permanent pilot.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Inverted, every alien race seems to hate humans, or just treat them as inferior.
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* [[Flying Seafood Special]]: Oban has flying manta rays, and some of them are really huge.
* [[Freudian Trio]]: [[The McCoy|Molly]], [[The Kirk|Jordan]] and [[The Spock|Aikka]] are officially designed to fit this trope.
* [[Frothy Mugs of Water]]: Several instances of this occur throughout the series. In the first episode, Rick is holding a champagne bottle that had its color changed to blue in the US broadcast but was left unchanged on the DVD release. Likewise, the tavern on Alwas is a popular hang out for the heroes, but none of their beverages are ever referred to as alcohol (Molly's drink is "grenadine milk," Rick's drink is "o-fish soda.")
** Jordan also drinks coffee a lot, but the one time he actually called his brew 'Jordan's Java Jolt', the line was cut from the US broadcast.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Para-Dice, an energetic gaming [[Catgirl]] whose star racer is controlled by a ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]''-style gamepad.
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* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Molly toward Aikka, and later on Jordan toward Molly.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|O. And Jordan, sort of.}}
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: [[Those Two Guys|Stan and Koji]].
* [[Hide Your Lesbians]]: Ning and Skun are strongly implied to be a couple. Since they come from a [[One-Gender Race]] it makes sense. Of course, since this show was playing on [[Toon Disney]] and ABC Family, the most romantic thing we see them doing is holding hands.
* [[Hometown Hero]]: In the preliminaries on Alwas, the home team of Flint and Marcel are given the edge with traps activated to foil their opponent but not them.
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* [[Mighty Glacier]]: While it might seem counter to the idea of a race, Grooor's star racer has very poor speed but phenomenal defense. This fits in nicely with his usual strategy of crushing his opponents against a wall.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Maya
* [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]] / [[Multi
* [[Musical Assassin]]: Ceres
* [[Necromantic]]: Molly and Muir both want to bring back a loved one with the ultimate prize. {{spoiler|When it's revealed that this isn't possible, Muir drops out of the race completely.}}
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* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Played straight with Alwas, but strongly averted with Oban.
* [[Skintone Sclerae]]: The Nourasians have this.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Lord Furter proves to have a severely inflated opinion of his own racing ability, even though he knows he cheated his way into the finals.
** And before him there was Flint, whose victories were only due to the judges fixing the races in his favor.
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Molly is the only prominent female for much of the series, but she subverts the trope by being [[The Protagonist]] and [[The Hero]].
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* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: Canaletto's plan involves {{spoiler|emotionally scarring a girl with the right background, then ensuring she is the one to represent her planet during the races, and counting on her to win so her scars will cause her to reject the role of Avatar so he can steal it for himself.}}
** He ''does'' have limited prescience. Too bad that doesn't include {{spoiler|what [[Spanner in the Works|Jordan]] would wind up doing}}.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Despite making it through to Oban, Toros is implied to have killed ''himself'' for his "unacceptable" loss to Molly, the first loss of his racing career.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Molly's attitude towards Spirit, the racer who she thinks is responsible for her mother's death. She wrecks the Whizzing Arrow when she faces him, only to learn the truth when he shows her the events of that day through his eyes. Later, however, it turns out that {{spoiler|Canaletto was responsible for Maya's death.}}
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