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A key mechanic since ''F-Zero X'' is [[Life Meter|the single energy bar]] [[Cast From Hit Points|which is used for both the ship's shields and]] [[Nitro Boost|boost power]], so taking damage limits your ability to boost. More to the point, every boost takes you one step closer to blowing up.
 
An anime series entitled ''F-Zero: GP Legend'' aired in 2003, but was cancelled in the U.S. before completing a full season. In Japan, it aired as ''F-Zero Falcon Densetsu''. It ran for the whole series in the east, and ended with a [[Grand Finale]] (possibly the grandest of them all; just search [[Memetic Mutation|"Falcon]] [[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Punch"]] on YouTube).
 
Captain Falcon went on to become a member of the ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Super Smash Bros]].'' roster. Along with the good captain, this series also has a huge cast of other strange and bizarre racers. How bizarre? Captain Falcon is probably the ''most normal'' one.
 
An in-progress compilation of [[Loads and Loads of Characters|the many characters]] can be found [[F-Zero (Video Game)/Characters|here]]. All tropers are encouraged to help out.
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=== YOU GOT [[Nitro Boost|BOOST POWER]]! ''F-Zero'' contains examples of the following: ===
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Possibly unintentional. In the anime, Ryu (Rick) is voiced by [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]]. One of the later episodes has him clad in a white dogi, training under a waterfall, with his hair down. This makes him greatly resemble [[Street Fighter|another Ryu voiced by Morikawa]].
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: In ''GP Legend'', many characters have their hair colors as slightly lighter shades. The most noticeable change comes from {{spoiler|Captain Falcon}}, whose hair is now brown instead of black.
* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: A few characters get this treatment. [[Villain Episode|Even some of the villains]].
* [[Affably Evil]]: Black Shadow in brief flashes. He says the below line as politely and calmly as could be.
{{quote| '''Black Shadow''': "Falcon, you've come to die? I needn't have wasted time looking for you then."}}
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* [[Alternate Continuity]]: Three. ''Maximum Velocity'', ''GP Legend'' (the anime), and ''GP Legend'' (the game).
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: Somewhat inevitable seeing as aliens are involved, but several characters have alternate colors that give them even weirder skin tones.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield|Amazing Technicolor Racetrack]]: Phantom Road in ''GX''. Rainbow Road from ''X'' also qualifies, though it was much less technicolor than the original ''[[Mario Kart 64 (Video Game)|Mario Kart 64]]'' version.
* [[Amazonian Beauty]]: Mrs. Arrow in the games.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Baba. He wears an outfit with leopard prints and [[Screams Like a Little Girl|wails like a girl]] if he falls off the track in ''X''. ''GX'''s voice acting gave Baba an effeminate voice and several... [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|questionable comments.]] And then there's his bonus movie in ''GX''... the less you know, the better.
** As of now (i.e. ''GX''), it seems that Baba has traded in the "Ambiguously" for "[[Macho Camp|Camp]]".
** Jack in the anime. It's not nearly as bad as Baba (and he does retain his [[Handsome Lech|key characterization]]), but still. Either that, or he's [[Camp Straight]].
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Captain Falcon... [[Captain Obvious|we don't need to spell this one out for you]]. Super Arrow's seems to be avians, while Beastman's is a [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs|dinosaur]].
* [[Animal-Themed Superbeing]]: Captain Falcon and Beastman fit types two (Animal Alias) and one (Animal Abilities) respectively.
* [[Anime Hair]]: The frontrunners would be James McCloud and Jack Levin in ''GX'', the former's hair being redesigned to make his parallels with that of [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Fox's]] father more obvious. James even has [[Skunk Stripe|white streaks going through them]]. Jack's hair is taken to ridiculous lengths in the anime. Antonio Guster reveals in his interviews that [[Compressed Hair|he hides a mohawk under his helmet]], and it's ''[[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue]]''. Kate Alen has [[Funny Afro|a pretty funky afro]], [[Subverted Trope|but no one ever seems to talk about it]].
* [[The Anime of the Game]]: ''F-Zero GP Legend'', known in Japan as ''F-Zero Falcon Densetsu'' (''F-Zero The Legend of Falcon'').
* [[Announcer Chatter]]: From ''X'' onwards, but especially in ''X''. [[Nitro Boost|"YOU GOT BOOST POWER!"]] "WATCH YOUR BACK!" [[Have a Nice Death|"TOO BAD. YOU LOST YOUR MACHINE."]] [[Have a Nice Death|"OFF COURSE! RETIRED."]]
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** Mr. Zero himself seems to indulge in this himself throughout the anime. He's much more subdued in the games.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "Everyone you meet is food. Eat all the food put in front of you. And brush your teeth properly." - Bio Rex
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Reactor Mights from ''F-Zero GP Legend'', which provide the F-Zero machines they empower with enhanced performance capabilities but can end up [[Deadly Upgrade|tampering with the machine if left unchecked]] and are intended to be used with the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|Dark Reactor]].
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Captain Falcon and Black Shadow, the Arrows and Zoda, Beastman and Bio Rex, Ryu/Rick and Zoda in the anime, etc.
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: Many of the tracks make good use of this. A few of them actually overlap themselves with the two tracks being face-to-face.
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* [[Badass]]: Obviously, Captain Falcon is ''the'' prime example, but you can make cases for several other characters in the games and anime.
* [[Badass Boast]]: Many characters get this in their post-race interviews. Deathborn gets a sinister ([[Motive Rant|and extremely long]]) one in the penultimate chapter of Story Mode. Falcon then [[Up to Eleven|one-ups]] ''everyone'' when he tells off {{spoiler|''[[Powers That Be|the creators of his universe]]''}}.
{{quote| '''Deathborn''': "Falcon, shall I tell you something before you die? {{spoiler|Dark and Light - the two great forces which make up our universe. These two forces are condensed in each of our belts. Didn't you know? At the moment when [[Yin-Yang Bomb|these forces become one]] - [[A God Am I|it is possible to seize that power]]. [[Omnicidal Maniac|Then, I can turn this whole galaxy into a pile of ashes in an INSTANT!]] How I've waited for this moment! [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|The world will fall into total darkness]]."}}<br />
'''Captain Falcon''': "Not if I can help it. I'll destroy you yet!" }}
** To put that last one into perspective, Captain Falcon finds the suggestion that even {{spoiler|the lords of all creation}} can best him on the track absolutely ridiculous.
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** And again with Falcon's "Bart Lemming" identity. Falcon may be a paragon of strength and courage, but as Bart he's gentle, soft spoken, and even a bit of a goof.
* [[Belly Dancer]]: Princia invokes a bit of it at the Settings screen before a race and during her ending. She even wears [[Bare Your Midriff|suitable attire.]]
* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: Leon, averted in that he only ''resembles'' [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Wolf O'Donnell]]. He pretty much acts as an anthropomorphic [[Expy]] of [[wikipedia:Fray Tormenta|Fray Tormenta.]]
** Actually, given his [[Cuteness Proximity|affinity for cats]], Leon is probably some sort of humanoid feline (it's more noticeable in his artwork from ''X''). In the anime, Leon is more or less a [[Big Badass Wolf]] (or at least, moreso than his game counterpart).
** Speaking of Wolf O'Donnell, James' episode in ''GP Legend'' has him mentioning a friend who sacrificed for his sake. His friend's last name was [[Shout-Out|O'Donnell]].
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* [[Bonus Level of Hell]]: ''GX'''s penultimate chapter in Story Mode. Of course, [[To Hell and Back|Falcon gets out of there in one piece]].
* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Captain Falcon and Samurai Goroh double as these outside of the races. [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|The only time Falcon is ever seen on the job]] is in [http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.1304 a short comic] included with the original ''F-Zero''. This comic, to date, is the ''only'' time that Falcon uses his gun. ''Ever''.
* [[Bowdlerization]]: Several, but the more prominent ones are changing the name of Blood Falcon's Hell Hawk to the Blood Hawk and renaming Miss Killer as Luna Ryder. The latter [[Woolseyism|actually works to a degree]], considering that Miss Killer drives the ''Moon Shadow'', but it's also a case of [[Never Say "Die"]].
* [[Boy Band]]: Jack Levin was once a part of one before joining the F-Zero races.
* [[Brain In Aa Jar]]: Look at [[Serial Prostheses|Deathborn]]. ''Look at him!'' Also, {{spoiler|Roy Hughes/Mighty Gazelle}} in the anime.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Misaki Haruka was turned into Miss Killer and forced under Black Shadow's orders. She breaks free of his psychic probing, only to be [[Taken for Granite|carbonized]] like [[Star Wars|Han Solo]]. She gets over that too.}}
* [[Bring My Brown Pants]]: The normally monotone and calm Mr. Zero is scared witless if he has to interview any creepy, menancing, or downright evil characters. Oddly, he remains calm with Don Genie.
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* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Ai Maeda was not only the seiyuu of Kate Alen in the anime, but also sung both of the series' ending themes, "Resolution" and "Forever". [[Digimon Adventure|This is not the first time it happened.]]
** Well, in-universe, [[Typecasting|Kate]] ''[[Typecasting|is]]'' [[Idol Singer|a singer...]]
* [[Character Development]]: In ''GX'', most of the cast was given quirky personalities in order make them seem more realistic. The ''GP Legend'' anime then turned this on its head by redefining a good portion of the cast or [[Flanderization|flanderizing]] what was already there (for example, Beastman [[Face Heel Turn|became]] a game hunter [[Only in It For Thethe Money|who was in only for the money]]). In fact, some of Captain Falcon's seemingly [[Out-of-Character Moment|Out Of Character Moments]] from ''[[Super Smash Bros]].'' [[Characterization Marches On|became an actual part of his anime persona]].
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In the games, there isn't much to go on from Captain Falcon except for his righteousness. Then, ''[[Super Smash Bros]].'' turns the guy into a campy, over-the-top brawler with a [[Megaton Punch|Falcon Punch]]. Come the ''F-Zero GP Legend'' anime, Captain Falcon is a fusion of both personalities (being a [[The Stoic|stoic]] hero as Captain Falcon, but something of a lovable and well-meaning goof as Bart Lemming) and [[Ascended Meme|even uses the Falcon Punch]] in the [[Grand Finale]].
* [[Chekhov MIA]]: In the anime, Andy Summer, Jody's [[Never Found the Body|supposedly]] [[Dead Little Sister|dead older brother]] is actually {{spoiler|Bart Lemming, the current Captain Falcon}}.
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Don Genie.
** "Corporate Executive"? The guy's a ''[[The Mafia|mobster]]'' for God's sake!
* [[Cowboy Bebop Atat His Computer]]: IGN once referred to Captain Falcon as "Blue Falcon", ''[[I Am Not Shazam|the name of his vehicle]]''.
* [[Critical Annoyance]]: The ranking system in the original ''F-Zero'': Fall below a certain position and the game's beeping [[Most Annoying Sound|will blare in your ear 'til you make it back to an acceptable spot]]. Or fail to do so and explode.
* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: If you so much as rub paint with another machine when you're at critically low health, your machine a splode.
* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]: Machines with E-ranked grip aren't as bad of the vehicle parameter system tells you. In fact, these machines are able to exploit several [[Game Breaker|Game Breakers]], allowing them to take massive shortcuts and gain ridiculous bursts of speed.
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Gazelle looked as if he were going this route (see "[[Blood Knight]]" above), but he seems to have avoided this come ''GX''. Played straight with {{spoiler|Deathborn, who is believed to have had his humanity eroded by the tinkerings of The Creators. Their dialogue implies that they were going to rip out Captain Falcon's soul when they won and transform him into Deathborn's successor.}}
* [[Cyberpunk Is Techno]]: In a toss-up from ''X'''s rock-heavy soundtrack, the majority of the songs found in ''GX'' are techno.
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** This is actually inverted with the original four characters in regards to the increasing amount of newcomers (see "[[Jack of All Stats]]" below).
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: John Tanaka to Jody Summer.
** May also crossover with [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]], considering that he's at F-Zero solely in order to protect her (and propose to her if he wins) and named his [[Robot Buddy]] J-Love 1. [[Captain Obvious|Guess what the "J" stands for]].
** In the anime, Leon may count in regards to Lucy Liberty, seeing as he risked transforming into a werewolf (and subsequent capture by Beastman) to save her. A possible subversion, as Lucy seems to slightly reciprocate his feelings. Sadly, we'll never know, considering that Leon appeared for all of ''one'' episode, and there'll never be a sequel series.
* [[Double Unlock]]: How ''GX'' works. Luckily, [[Money for Nothing|currency is easy to come by.]]
* [[Down to Thethe Last Play]]: In ''X'' and onward, there can be some pretty thrilling moments in the last straightaway as everyone who is playing to win uses up every last drop of their energy to boost past the competition, knowing full well that one scratch = dead after doing that (in some games, your blown-up machine can still drift past the finish).
* [[The Dragon]]: Blood Falcon to Black Shadow, and Black Shadow to Deathborn.
* [[Dramatic Wind]]: [[Rule of Cool|For some reason]], most of the cape-wearing characters get it at the Settings screen in ''GX/AX''.
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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: {{spoiler|Ryu Suzaku/Rick Wheeler and Misaki Haruka/Miss Killer in the anime.}}
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The very first game. Only four playable racers with not much personality to go on besides the manual's mini-comic, other racers were portrayed as generic recoloured vehicles, the tracks were all flat with no loops to speak of, and the boost feature here was where you'd be rewarded a boost each time you finished a lap rather than it being [[Cast From Hit Points]].
* [[Earth Is the Center of Thethe Universe]]: Not quite. Several planets in the game are of good importantance, but Mute City (which is a futuristic [[New York City]] according to the anime) is regarded as [[Capital City|the most advanced and sophisticated city in the universe, thus making it a very populated center of trade and commerce]]. All of ''GX'''s Story Mode appears to transpire on Earth.
** In ''Maximum Velocity'', Bianca City is said to have taken over Mute City as the most important city in the galaxy. It is also located on Earth.
* [[Emergency Transformation]]: How Mighty Gazelle came to be.
* [[Expy]]: [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|James McCloud]].
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Michael Chain listens to a combination of Heavy Metal and Opera while racing because it reminds him of his ([[Parental Abandonment|deceased]]) mother and father.
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Lucy Libery, perhaps to [[Enforced Trope]] the fact that she's the youngest member of the Mobile Task Force.
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* [[Watch It Stoned]]: Dr. Stewart, Jody, and Princia's bonus movies are essentially [[Mushroom Samba|acid-trips]]. The first must be seen to believed.
** An in-game example with Zoda, whose body is pumped full of adrenaline and dopamine.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]]: Bio Rex.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: Billy.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses]]: [[Punny Name|Princia]] Ramode.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Rainbows]]: [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Rainbow Road]] (yes, ''[[Mario Kart (Video Game)|that]]'' Rainbow Road), natch. The energy meter becomes a rainbow when you obtain [[Nitro Boost|Boost Power]]. Subverted with the Rainbow Phoenix, which is actually red and pink.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Samurai]]: Guess who!
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Sparkles]]: ''A lot'' of the bonus movies in ''GX'' will blind you with their... [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|Oooh! Shiny!]]
* [[Everything's Deader Withwith Zombies]]: The Skull.
* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]: James McCloud's bonus movie from ''GX''. He tried a somersault when he should have [[Do a Barrel Roll|done a barrel roll]]. <ref>[[Never Heard That One Before|Ha ha]], [[Memetic Mutation|get it]]?</ref>
* [[Everything's Squishier Withwith Cephalopods]]: Octoman. His anime counterpart is a bit more sinister, but both versions are used for [[Comic Relief]].
* [[Evil Counterpart]]/[[Evil Knockoff]]/[[Evil Twin]]: Blood Falcon. Obviously, he's the [[Shadow Archetype]] to Captain Falcon.
** [[Fangs Are Evil]]: Despite being a clone of Captain Falcon, he has prominent fangs and even a different voice.
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* [[The Good Captain]]: [[Captain Obvious|Three guesses.]]
* [[Good Looking Privates]]: Jody Summer, Lily Flyer, and maybe John Tanaka, who are members of the Galactic Space Federation, a para-militaristic organization dedicated to expanding human relations across the cosmos and keeping the peace. Oh, and be careful about Lily.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Captain Falcon has a single scar located above his left eye. Beastman's entire body is ridden with cicatrices from a traumatic childhood experience involving a giant crocodile on the planet White. Leon has a scar running over his left eye, giving him a passing resemblance to [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Wolf]]. It should be noted that all three characters are on the side of Good.
** Don Genie's right eye (the one with the [[High-Class Glass|monocle]]) also has a vertical scar. He's evil, or at least ''highly'' [[Greed|greedy]].
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: In the character videos in ''GX'':
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** [[Eric Stuart]]: Samurai Goroh, Black Shadow, and Octoman in the dub.
** [[Hideyuki Tanaka]]: Captain Falcon.
** [[Isshin Chiba]]: Dr. Clash and John Tanaka. [[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|No steamroller dropping here]].
** [[Kazuki Yao]]: Jack Levin.
** [[Kikuko Inoue]]: Jody.
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* [[Hired Guns]]: Pico is a hitman. Captain Falcon and Samurai Goroh are bounty hunters, while Beastman is the beast-hunting equivalent of that.
* [[Homage]]: Captain Falcon's costume rather resembles that of [[Judge Dredd]].
** James McCloud. [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|That is all]].
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Jody Summer and Mrs. Arrow.
* [[Hot Dad]]: James McCloud.
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* [[I Am the Trope]]
{{quote| '''Super Arrow''': "I am Champion! I am [[For Great Justice|Justice]]! [[This Is Sparta|I am SUPER ARROW!]]"}}
** Remind anybody of anything? Clearly an homage to ''[[Batman the Animated Series|Batman: The Animated Series]]'', considering that both characters are superheroes and the ''F-Zero'' series either parodies or does homages to absolutely massive portions of Western culture at every turn.
{{quote| '''Batman''': "I am vengeance! I am the night! [[This Is Sparta|I am]] [[Batman: theThe Animated Series|BATMAN!]]"}}
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Super Arrow in spades throughout the anime. [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|He does have some flashes of brilliance though]].
* [[Idle Animation]]: Each character was given three in the Settings screen in ''GX/AX'': a basic standing pose, as well as two other character-specific actions that they'd break into from time to time.
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** The top speeds of the machines, possibly. In-game, 1,000 km/h seems more like about 300-350.
*** That's because you're not paying attention to the relative scale of the machines and the track. Even Cosmo Terminal's freakishly narrow-feeling split ribbons are actually fairly wide if you compare them to the vehicles.
* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: James McCloud, resembling a human version of [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Fox's]] [[Disappeared Dad|dead dad]], who also happens to be an expert starfighter pilot, who also drives a F-Zero racer that resembles an Arwing with its wings chopped off... Leon probably also counts as well, and in return the ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]]'' series got Octoman and a suspiciously thematic ending in ''Command''.
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: All four characters from the original game are now Jacks due to the vast amount of [[Fragile Speedster|Fragile Speedsters]] and [[Mighty Glacier|Mighty Glaciers]].
** More precisely, the Blue Falcon is the [[Jack of All Stats]], and has been designed as such from the beginning. Even in ''GX'', the Golden Fox merits the best boost rating in the game, the Wild Goose has some of the best impact resistance in the game, and the Fire Stingray is faster (and [[Mighty Glacier|heavier]]) than all but a handful of machines (except for Beastman, you pretty much have to be evil to be faster than Goroh). The ''GX'' version of the Wild Goose deserves further discussion. It has the ''shortest'' boost in the game, along with some seriously weird handling--its control hysteresis is in the same range as the Mad Wolf, worse than any other vehicle, which combined with the unusual boost strength and duration makes driving it a fairly interesting experience.
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*** Mrs. Arrow is pretty much the same as her husband, despite the fact that she has no inherent superpowers.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Aside from Silver Neelson at the end of the anime episode focusing on him, there is Samurai Goroh. Lacking in terms of manners and kindness, yet the [[Spoiled Sweet]] space princess Princia [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|is head-over-heels for him]]. He also has a son, which would imply that another women felt the same way in the past. This, however, is subverted with anime!Goroh and his wife Lisa.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: [[Everything's Better Withwith Samurai|Samurai Goroh]] is obviously a standout here. Dai Goroh too, as his profile even states that he takes after his father and loves to take out his katana and whip it around. His wife Lisa Brilliant has also been seen with a katana at least once, but seems to [[The Gunslinger|prefer firearms]].
** In an earlier episode of the anime, Super Arrow (alongside several other characters) is imprisoned behind a cage of laser beams by the Bloody Chain gang. In retalitation, he pulls out a katana to slash through and deflect the lasers, earning the admiration of his peers and wife. Of course, [[All Just a Dream|Super Arrow is just snoozing. It never happens.]]
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]: Captain Falcon is rockin' that heroic jawline.
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* [[Leitmotif]]/[[Bootstrapped Theme]]/[[Recurring Riff]]: There's a reason the themes for Big Blue and ''especially'' Mute City are so [[Crowning Music of Awesome|well-known]].
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Fire Field. ''GX'' takes this to the logical extreme, where you actually race ''inside'' the outer crust of the planet.
* [[Let's Play]]: Quite a few. But perhaps the greatest and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|most gut-busting one]] comes from the [[Freelance Astronauts]] [http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/games.php?id=30 and their conquest of Story Mode] in ''GX''. Prepare for tons of pop-culture references (that will probably go over your head), lewd jokes, [[Lampshade Hanging|trying to instill logic into the game's universe]], and [[Parody Sue|the epic story of]] '''[[Final Fantasy VII|Sephiroth]] [[DragonballDragon Ball|Goku]] [[Trigun|The Stampede]]'''. Said story has ''[[The Tale of Sephiroth Goku the Stampede (Fanfic)|its own page]]''.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: For a non-licensed racing game, it has quite a few characters and individual machines.
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: In the anime, {{spoiler|Captain Falcon is Jody's older brother Andy, [[He's Just Hiding|believed to have been killed at an earlier date.]]}}
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* [[Omniglot]]: Mrs. Arrow speaks over 40 languages, including several alien tongues, one of which is Takoran (Octoman's native tongue and an language that humans have found great difficulty in learning).
* [[Onee-Sama]]: Jody plays this role in the Mobile Task Force, specifically towards Ryu/Rick, Lucy, Jack, and (to a lesser extent) Clank. She later becomes the [[Team Mom]].
* [[One Game for Thethe Price of Two]]: ''GX'' was released alongside an arcade counterpart, ''AX'', which contained a slot for you to plug in your GCN save card. Doing so would allow you to unlock ''AX'''s tracks and vehicles, plus components for the Create-A-Car function, [[Old Save Bonus|on your save.]]
** [[Fake Difficulty]]: The number of ''AX'' cabinets purchased by English-speaking arcades? 20. Use a [[Game Shark]].
*** Or if you are around Anaheim, CA, there is one in [[Disney Theme Parks|Disneyland's]] Starcade.
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*** Beating all the other cups on Master also unlocks it IIRC. The legitimate ways are difficult but can be gotten with enough persistence.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Hyper Zoda}} in the anime.
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: Billy, as his real name (Eeeach Koo-koo-koo Yia) is incomprehensible to humans. A few other characters could count, but some of their names are revealed [[All There in the Manual|in supplemental materials.]]
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: In the anime, Leon (who is normally a [[Bishonen|bishie]] teenager) becomes a werewolf after experiencing an adrenaline rush. He usually manages to keep some of his lucidity.
* [[Over-the-Shoulder Pose]]: Jody Summer in the Settings screen before a race in ''GX''.
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* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Both Captain and Blood Falcon have one. The former's is made even more [[Badass]] in an eyecatcher from the latter half of the anime.
** And when multiple Bloods show up in the anime, their scarves are colour coded.
** So does James McCloud. Given his [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|source inspiration]], it was a no-brainer.
** Subverted with Dr. Stewart, who wears a [[The Power of Friendship|Scarf Of Friendship]] to symbolize his special bonds.
** Princia, Gomar, and Shioh ''do'' have scarves... but they're probably not ones of asskicking.
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** Black Shadow is explicitly stated to want to blow Captain Falcon up in a race, so that his thousands of adoring fans can watch him die.
** To quote the original ''F-Zero'''s manual, winning a race means "earning the highest honor that could be bestowed upon anyone in the Universe." Now that's [[Serious Business]].
** ''GX'''s Story Mode attempts to justify this as {{spoiler|the main world and Underworld's championship belts hold the essences of light and darkness. When combined, they possess enough power to turn its wearer into a ''god'' and [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|destroy the universe.]]}}
* [[Shark Tunnel]]: Big Blue in ''GX''.
* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: Sand Ocean. ''GX'' adds a [[Sand Worm]], but it can't get to you.
* [[Shorter Means Smarter]]: Shioh values his shorter companion Gomar for his apt decision-making abilities.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many, most of the characters are "living" shout outs with recipients including Nintendo's EAD group (Mr EAD), ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]]'' (James McCloud and Leon), and ''[[Crazy Taxi]]'' (PJ). ''F-Zero X'' also has ''[[Mario Kart 64 (Video Game)|Mario Kart 64]]'''s Rainbow Road as a track.
** And if you're playing the [[No Export for You|Japan-only]] Expansion Kit for ''F-Zero X'', Rainbow Road gets [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXqJEEAA-sw a remix of the MK64 Rainbow Road music].
** The ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]]'' series from its original inception seemed to be more subtle shoutout to ''F-Zero''. The two most prominent characters were a ''golden fox'' and a ''blue falcon'', anthropomorphized.
*** In one of the endings of ''Star Fox: Command'', Fox and Falco blatantly turn their arwings into F-Zero racecars (it's called G-Zero in ''Command'', but we all know what it's referring to).
** Jane B. Christie from ''Maximum Velocity'' is basically an [[Expy]] of ''[[Metroid]]'' heroine Samus Aran, with more [[Fan Service]] [http://www.gamehiker.com/wiki/images/5/5e/Jane-MV.jpg thrown in]. How's that possible, I'll never know.
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** In ''GX'''s Story Mode, Captain Falcon enters a bet race under the alias of [[Nintendo Entertainment System|Famicom]].
*** Additionally, Falcon's odds in that race are 2560:1. 2560 is, canonically speaking, the year that the original ''F-Zero'' took place.
** Mr. EAD [[Super Mario Bros.|vaguely resembles a certain Italian plumber, wears a Starman on his belt, calls his vehicle his brother, eats lots of cake in his movie]], and was created by [[Shigeru Miyamoto|Shiggs Mapone]]. Hmm...
** Episode 40 of the anime involves a comical [[Show Within a Show]] involving the F-Zero machines belonging to the Mobile Task Force docking into [[Combining Mecha]] that form something akin to what you'd see in ''[[Macross]]''.
** If you let the vintro video for the first Port Town track in ''GX'' play for a little while, R.O.B. is shown.
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* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Most planets not named Earth. ''GX'' subverts this by revealing that planets such as Big Blue are more diverse than originally thought.
* [[Single-Minded Twins|Single Minded Triplets]]: Dai, San, and Gen.
* [[Sliding Scale of Villain Threat]]: Black Shadow presumably wants to [[Take Over the World]]. Deathborn wants to ''[[The End of the World Asas We Know It|destroy the universe]]''.
* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: White Land, although you wouldn't know that until ''GP Legend'' and ''Climax''.
* [[Space Elevator]]: Cosmo Terminal.
* [[Spin Attack]]: 'Cuz [[Everything's Better Withwith Spinning]]. [[Awesome Yet Practical|It has some practical applications too.]]
** Taken to the max with [[Gratuitous English|"BOOSTO FAIYAA!"]], the [[Department of Redundancy Department|awesomely awesome]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0SeZtp054 fusion of a boost and a spin]. Ryu/Rick then [[Up to Eleven|outdoes himself again]] with [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower|a full-powered Boost Fire]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJn69FgEko Words fail us.]
* [[Spirited Competitor]]: Several racers come across as this, according to their post-GP interviews in ''GX''. Quite a few refuse the prize money and/or give it away to charity, and others enjoy the challenge of the races and comment on trying to uphold the glory of the sport.
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* [[Team Mom]]: Jody Summer goes from an [[Onee-Sama]] to this in the anime.
* [[Team Pet]]: The Arrows get one in the form of Speed Bird, a [[Robot Buddy|robotic bird]] that [[It Was a Gift|was presented to Super Arrow by one of his sponsors.]] Although it's [[The Voiceless|silent]] in the games, the anime makes it a quirky form of [[Comic Relief]].
* [[Ten -Minute Retirement]]: Flirted with thanks to Silver Neelson, who is considering retirement (he ''is'' close to 100, after all), but is probably too fickle to go through with it.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: If the BGMs for Mute City and Big Blue or Hiro-x's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbf0i0iNE3M The Meaning of Truth] plays, you ''know'' that something grand is going to happen in ''GP Legend''.
* [[There Can Be Only One]]: Taken quite literally in the episode "Only One Falcon" (episode 30) from ''GP Legend'', as it revolves around Captain Falcon and Blood Falcon duking it out during a high-stakes race. Blood Falcon's machine [[Stuff Blowing Up|blows up]], but he gets better... [[Cloning Blues|sorta.]]
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: In the anime, any combonation of Octoman, Bio Rex, the Skull, and Baba, all members of Dark Million. It should be noted, however, that none of these characters are evil in the games.
* [[Time Police]]: Phoenix. He has come from the 29th century to prevent some unspecified "disaster", but how it ties into the F-Zero Grand Prix is never explained. ([[Fandom]] believes that it has something to do with Deathborn.) Phoenix doesn't even ''hide'' the fact that he's from the future, despite refusing to tell his audience any details about said timeline. His [[Robot Buddy]] QQQ is actually his [[Time Machine]], but can't return the pair to the future until his [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|AI is repaired]]. Fan speculation usually pegs him as Falcon's descendant, but this is attributed more to [[Rule of Cool]] than any verifiable proof.
* [[Token Minority]]: [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played with]]. We have several species of aliens with only one member representing them (i.e. Pico, Octoman, Draq, Leon, Zoda, PJ, etc.; both Gomar & Shioh and Dai San Gen are exceptions, [[Twin Telepathy|but this is justified]]), cyborgs, robots, androids, and genetically-enhanced animals. Most of the humans are presumably Caucasian, but Goroh is [[But Not Too Foreign|Japanese-American]] (therefore meaning that his son Dai Goroh is also mixed), Kate appears to be of African descent, Alexander O'Neil (of ''[[Alternate Continuity|Maximum Velocity]]'') is black, Nichi (also from ''Maximum Velocity'') is a [[Magical Native American]], and characters like John Tanaka and Kumiko ([[Rule of Three|again from]] ''Maximum Velocity'') have names indicative of Asian ancestry.
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Mighty Gazelle's bonus video in ''GX'' involves an epic transformation sequence {{spoiler|[[Rule of Funny|into a moped]]}}.
* [[Truce Zone]]: As seen in ''GX'', the Bet Race Diner in Mute City is this. Many a racer converges here to drink, chat, and race. Even [[Arch Enemy|foes]] like the Arrows and Zoda are shown to be somewhat more amiable towards one another here. It's a general consensus that this is one of the best scenes of the games, as it gives a brief glimpse of life off of the track.
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* [[Wasted Song]]: ''F-Zero GX'' has 41 of them; every pilot has their own theme that is only heard when you read that pilot's profile or toggle it on during replays.
* [[The Watson]]: Ryu Suzaku/Rick Wheeler plays this role in the anime.
* [[Wearing a Flag Onon Your Head]]: Samurai Goroh and his son Dai Goroh wear the Japanese flag on their heads.
* [[We Can Rebuild Him]]: Mighty Gazelle after the [[Noodle Incident|Horrific Grand Finale]]. {{spoiler|According to the backstory, this happened to Deathborn on ''three'' occasions.}}
** It happened to Gazelle ''again'' in the anime, as this incarnation is really {{spoiler|Roy Hughes, the presumed to be dead father of [[Child Prodigy]] Clank. Well, actually, it's his [[Brain In Aa Jar]]. Gazelle malfunctions and shuts off after remembering his life as a human and [[Heroic Sacrifice|saving his son from time bombs]] only to [[Unexplained Recovery|inexplicably return at a later date]]. By the [[Grand Finale]], Roy is back in his own body.}}
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The original sequel to ''F-Zero'' was going to be called ''Zero Racers'' (or ''G-Zero''). It was a pseudo-3D racer and replaced Dr. Stewart with a newer character named Origammy. [[Nintendo Power]] previewed it and a prototype was seen at the 1996 E3 trade show. Because it was for the failed [[Virtual Boy]], [[Vaporware|this sequel never saw the light of day.]]
** The ''Expansion Kit'' for ''X'' included suped-up versions of the Blue Falcon ([http://fzero.wikia.com/wiki/File:SF.png Super Falcon]), White Cat (Super Cat), and Fire Stingray ([http://fzero.wikia.com/wiki/File:Super_Stingray.jpg Super Stingray]) that were [[Dummied Out]] in the original ''F-Zero X'' and never were seen again in the series. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCYqaqHTMtQ here] for an example.
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