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Deciding working for another company would not give him the creative control he needed, creator Savin Yeatman-Eiffel founded his independent own animation studio, spent years raising funds and years more perfecting the animation in cooperation with Japanese studios. Yeatman-Eiffel worked hard to secure the best talent available from both France and Japan, wrote the scripts for all 26 episodes in several languages and was personally involved in every level of the project, sparing no expense and [[Doing It for The Art|spending years polishing the final result to a mirror shine]]. Start to finish, almost a decade.
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* [[The Ace]]: Rick Thunderbolt, who is {{spoiler|taken out of the race in the second episode and eventually incapacitated so he'll never race again}}
* [[Action Girl]]: Molly and all other female pilots in the show, though her rivals are definitely in the [[Dark Action Girl]] category.
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* [[Anime Theme Song]] - Actually in both Japanese ''and'' French, for the French, British English and Japanese versions. The American English release used a somewhat generic English-language song, though they left the end theme the same.
** The DVD simply uses an entirely English version of the original song.
* [[Anime Hair]]: Molly, Jordan and Don Wei all have [[Multicolored Hair]]; Molly's red is really [[Delinquent Hair]], Don's white stripes are from old age. Meanwhile, Rick and Maya both have [[Rapunzel Hair]], with the latter being a [[Rose
* [[Anti
** Hell, the worst you could call Sul is a [[Jerkass]]. [[Good Is Not Nice|He isnt actually evil]], he has simply done everything-except win the Ultimate Prize, that is-and wants to win just for the sake of doing it. He's actually a fairly nice for someone who's almost god.
* [[The Archer]]: Aikka's magic arrows are his greatest weapon during races.
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: Ceres constantly hurls verbal abuse at his opponents and likes to reiterate his superiority by playing his flute to make them hallucinate and probably crash. Grooor plays it similarly, focusing on humiliating his opponent and disabling their star racer. He confronts Molly after his loss with the serious intention to ''kill her''.
* [[A
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Rick Thunderbolt. Jordan C. Wilde qualifies, too.
* [[Badass Biker]] / [[Biker Babe]]: Molly on her rocket seat, which she grafts on the the Arrow's steering column. Ning and Skun's star racers are both essentially flying motorcycles - one is a racing bike and the other's a chopper, based on the handlebars.
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* [[Big Bad]]: Canaletto
* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: Rick becomes this for Molly.
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Jordan gets his from his grandpa, apparently. And Satis has a pair as long as his beard!
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Jordan Wilde}} becomes the new Avatar, destroying Canaletto and restoring Oban. However, he does this having just {{spoiler|admitted his love for Eva.}} The last shot of him is {{spoiler|one of him [[Manly Tears|silently crying]], as the chances of him ever seeing Eva again as the Avatar are unlikely.}} Everyone else, however, returns home to happier lives.
** Eva, for her part, {{spoiler|failed to bring her mother back from the dead, but she did finally come to accept her loss and reconcile with her father.}}
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Jordan. Poor, poor Jordan.
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Quite literally! When Don Wei reveals that he's discovered Molly's masquerade, she unloads a decade's worth of hurt on him.
* [[Card
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Molly uses "Here goes nothing" and "Not good" quite a bit.
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Rush's Star racer has a ''laser chainsaw'', and his pick-axe has a similar feature.
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* [[Dark Is Evil]]: The Crogs.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: {{spoiler|Spirit}}
* [[Dark
* [[A Day in The Limelight]]: Stan and Koji in episode 12.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most of the main cast except maybe Aikka (unless he's talking to Jordan).
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* [[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 [[
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Inverted, every alien race seems to hate humans, or just treat them as inferior.
* [[Femme Fatalons]]: Skun has these.
* [[Five
* [[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.
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* [[Golden Snitch]]: The later races of the second tournament are worth ''much'' more than the earlier ones, {{spoiler|naturally allowing the Earth team to catch up in the rankings.}}
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Most of the characters that aren't villains are like this.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Kross' scar across his right eye is partially used to differentiate him from Toros, but also makes Kross more intimidating that him.
* [[Happily Married]]: Don Wei and Maya were this, which made her death all the more devastating.
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Eva/Molly.
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* [[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
* [[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.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Aikka gains the opinion that humans can't be trusted after the race between him and Molly. Before the race both had promised not to shoot as long as they other didn't, Aikka because his mount had been hurt in the previous race, Molly because one of Aikka's arrows could disable their ship. They go most of the race doing this, but just before the finish line Don Wei unlocks Jordan's turret (which Molly had shut down at the start of the race and locked the techs out of). Jordan immediately shoots, Aikka disables the ship, then insults Molly before finishing the race.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Satis as Super-Racer.
{{quote| '''Satis:''' I see you tried to top the fabulous design of my Super Star-Racer! Your attempt has failed!}}
** Lord Furter as well. See [[Small Name, Big Ego]].
* [[Laser
* [[Last of His Kind]]: Ceres, who subverts the usual angsty portrayal by being extremely proud to be the last surviving member of one of the oldest races in the universe. The art book establishes that this is mostly a front and he's actually bitter about being so alone.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: One of the reasons Toros and Kross are so formidable - their star racers have great cruising speed and powerful offensive capabilities.
* [[Line
* [[Living Ship]]: G'dar (Aikka's giant beetle), Spirit (he IS his ship), Muir's ship, and O's ship.
* [[Love Confession]]: Jordan tries unsuccessfully to tell Molly his feelings multiple times. {{spoiler|Until the last episode, that is...}}
* [[Love Triangle]]: Molly, Jordan and Aikka; they seem to be a Type 7 in [[Triang Relations]]. {{spoiler|She doesn't pair up with either of them in the end.}}
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: Though Don Wei puzzles it out on his own.
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: Para-dice's racer fires swarms of missiles, tipped with ''[[What Do You Mean
* [[Magical Native American]]: More like "Magical Indigenous Person", but Ceres is an ancient creature designed after totem carvings and such. His star racer is propelled by planetary magnetism and he can hypnotize people with his flute or use sound from his star racer to slice things in half.
* [[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
* [[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.}}
* [[Neck Lift]]: Grooor does this to Molly in one episode, and Kross does this to Aikka in another.
* [[Never Say Die]]: Played straight most of the time, with one notable edit in the US broadcast; in episode 14, all lines about Toros comitting suicide were cut out.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Molly's race with Aikka. {{spoiler|Given that Aikka is a [[Glass Cannon]] who rides a giant bug instead of an easily repaired vehicle, he was resigned to blowing Molly away in accordance with his government's orders. When Molly approached him with an offer of a straight-up race, he was moved by her competitive yet friendly attitude and was willing to take a loss as long as his wounded mount wasn't killed. She locked down Jordan's turret as the race began, and was winning soundly - until Don Wei ''unlocked'' Jordan's turret and ordered him to open fire. Cue humiliating defeat.}}
** As well as a [[Humans Are Bastards]] comment from Aikka.
* [[Nitro Boost]]: Aikka uses a spell on G'dar to the same effect; the Whizzing Arrow's hyperdrive.
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* [[Novelization]]: There is a novel adaptation that covers the first six episodes of the anime, but it's only available in French and there's no word as to whether the remaining twenty episodes will be novelized.
* [[Opt Out]]: {{spoiler|Molly and Muir}} before the final race.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: The Crogs. [[Dark Is Evil|Pitch-black skin?]] Check. [[Good Colors, Evil Colors|Red clothes?]] Check. [[Evil Sounds Deep|Deep voices?]] Check. [[Glowing Eyes of Doom|Yellow eyes?]] Check. [[Spikes of Villainy|Love of sharp, pointy weapons?]] Check.
** And [[Big Bad|Canaletto]], of course.
* [[Paper
* [[Parents As People]]: Don and Maya Wei managed to subvert this while Eva was little; despite having successful careers and being very in love with each other, they somehow still had enough time to dote on their only child. Don plays it painfully straight after Maya's fatal accident, leading straight into the next trope.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Don Wei stuck his daughter in boarding school and did his best to forget about her after the death of his wife. {{spoiler|To his credit, he ''does'' get better in the end.}}
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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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* [[Wacky Racing]]: Very much so.
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Rick Thunderbolt 60% of the time; otherwise, he's in [[Sensual Spandex]].
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy|Well-Done Daughter Gal]]: Eva's motivation for most of the series is to get back the love Don Wei denied her for ten years. The irony is that Don doesn't know she's his daughter at all until well into the latter half of the series.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: In ''The Art of Oban Star-Racers'', it's revealed that when the story was first conceived in 1997, the genders and personalities of the main characters were different. A younger and less confident Rick Thunderbolt was the Earth Team pilot, an older Molly was the gunner, and Aikka was a princess.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Eva was this while at boarding school by wearing a boy's uniform. This caused Don Wei, who hadn't seen in her in ten years and did not recognize her, to mistake her for a boy.
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