Wacky Racing: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Speed Racer]]'' had the Mach 5, Dangerous Courses and a ''Vehicular Acrobatics Team''. And let's not get started on [[Speed Racer (film)|the movie!]]

* In cartoons and anime marketed towards kids, an episode like this is inevitable. Most don't involve violence at first, [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat|until at least one bad guy starts cheating]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** A first season ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' episode had a race between trainers riding one of their Pokémon (or in one case, Pikachu riding Squirtle).

*** One episode during the Johto saga had something called "Extreme Pokémon", where the Pokémon pulled the trainer on a skateboard.

* ''Kinetica''. The racers ''wear'' their vehicles, with the wheels attached to the ends of their arms and legs, and they race on the walls and/or ceilings of large skyscrapers. Oh, and did I mention that more than half the racers are hot chicks whose "vehicles" [[Fan Service|show lots of skin]], and that the game is [[Nintendo Hard]]?

* ''HSX Hypersonic.Extreme'' (also known as ''G Surfers''). Think of F-Zero X, ''20 times faster'' and taking place on a ''Real-Scale rendition of the world''. It also features a very powerful track editor which takes advantage of said ''Real-Scale rendition of the world''.

* ''[[Grip Shift]]'', despite featuring cars, is more of a [[Platform Game]] than an actual racing game. Ditto for the ''[[Track Mania]]'' games.

* The [[Trope Namer]] had a video game based on it made for the Sega Dreamcast and for Playstation 2. Unlike other Mario Kartlikes, you didn't pick up powerups along the track—you chose three from a list specific to the character you chose before every race, and picked up tokens along the track that would let you use the powers you chose.

** The [[Grand Finale]] for ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' has a scene where all the villains drive racecars (with Mojo Jojo's tank resembling the Mean Machine) to race to the Mayor's office where the Key to the World is being hidden. Upon insistence from the Professor, the Girls drive a dune buggy (which looked like a pink [[Shout-Out]] to Speed Buggy).

* Disney's ''[[The Replacements]]'' had an homage [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''Speed Racer''.

* Pretty much every cartoon inspired by Hot Wheels. (''[[Accele Racers]]'' in particular, is where the Alternate Racing Dimension thing comes from.)

* ''[[Dragon Booster]]''. The cars are in this case dragons, and the tracks are utterly insane given that they are being raced by living creatures.

* ''[[NASCAR Racers]]'', set in a future where NASCAR has evolved into a ''[[Speed Racer]]'' style event around grotesque dangerous tracks. Ironically, though, it's actually safer than real NASCAR, since all the vehicles have "rescue racers", an escape pod jettisoned in the event of a crash.

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' had a ''Wacky Races''-esque episode where the Titans were trying to beat various villains to steal back a [[MacGuffin|mysterious suitcase belonging to Robin]] from Ding-Dong Daddy.

* ''[[The Dukes]]'', the Hanna-Barbera [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'', featured the Duke cousins (originally Coy and Vance and later the more familiar Bo and Luke) in an automobile race around the world against Boss Hogg, in a duel over the ownership of Duke farm.

* ''Tom Slick'', a companion segment to ''[[George of the Jungle]]'', forced the hero and his nemesis, Baron Otto Matic, to convert their racecars into different forms in virtually every episode. During the short run of the series, the Thunderbolt Greaseslapper became, among other things, a skateboard, a blimp, a submarine, a locomotive, a snowmobile and a swamp buggy.

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