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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: ED 101. He blew a fuse and went psycho...
* [[Animesque]]: In TDR 2000, almost all of the pedestrians, especially the women, have anime hair colour. Pink, blue, green, purple, they've got it.
** At least two cars are [[Shout -Out|references]] to anime/manga: The Mecha and The Machine. The Mecha is a [[Rice Burner]] with an anime girl vinyl and is driven by a purple haired [[Animesque|animesque]] girl. The Machine, while it is a hot rod crossed with an SUV, is driven by a cyborg who is merely a head with his body being ''the entire car itself''. His name? [[Akira (Manga)|Tetsuo]].
*** There has been [[Shout -Out|references]] to anime/manga in the older games. The most noticeable is the Mach 13 from the second game, which is just the [[Speed Racer (Anime)|Mach 5]] with a dull paintjob and without the cool gadgets. For such a violent racing game, I'm surprised they left out the buzzsaws...
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: The opponents aren't very bright.
* [[Autobots Rock Out|Autobots, Rock Out!]]: The "Red Book Audio" (CD music that can be played in conjunction with the game) features instrumental versions of several [[Fear Factory]] songs, played by [[Fear Factory]] themselves. You don't really play much of a hero in this game, though.
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* [[Expy]]: Max Damage is clearly the game's counterpart of [[Twisted Metal|Needles Kane a.k.a Sweet Tooth]]. While not a [[Monster Clown]], he's equally [[Ax Crazy]], is a [[Legacy Character]] (so as his car) and is also the game's [[Mascot]].
* [[Follow the Leader]]: A russian game, Armageddon Riders, tries this but with more emphasis on racing.
** And then we have [[Zombie Driver]], which is Crazy Taxi [[Everything's Deader Withwith Zombies|with zombies]]!
*** And then we have [[Blood Drive]].
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Throughout the series, Vlad's cars tend to be the fastest, although they're frail and terrible at cornering.
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* [[Psycho Electro]]: Stella Stunna, who connects herself to the battery of her car for an "extra buzz". More annoyingly, in the first game her sportscar comes with a built-in Electro Bastard Ray that automatically kills pedestrians in a wide radius, which would be great if you could steal her car during the campaign but you can't. She will however gladly zap every pedestrian you are about to run over in the first thirty seconds of the race, causing you to run out of time and lose. Cue throwing your mouse through the monitor.
* [[Punny Name]]: Damn near '''everyone'''.
** More like '''everything'''. Opponent names, their cars, the level's names. Almost everything is a [[Shout -Out|reference]] to something/someone.
** According the the [[The Wiki Rule|Wikia]], there are at least [http://carmageddon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Puns 130 puns] in the series.
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: You will most likely finish the game in this manner than by racing.
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