— Narrator English title of the anime series Mach Go Go Go! (based on Tatsuo Yoshida's manga of the same name), and one of the best remembered anime series for several generations of fans and detractors alike. Speed Racer (Go Mifune) is the young driver of the Mach 5, an incredible supercar designed by his father 'Pops' Racer (Daisuke Mifune). Speed would race dangerous routes against dangerous people and come out on top with his 'girlfriend' Trixie (Michi Shimura) trailing him in a helicopter and his little brother Spritle (Kurio) and his pet chimp Chim-Chim (Sanpei) frequently stowing away in the trunk. The 'Mach Five' ('Mach Go' in Japanese, note Or simply, 'The Mach' yielding the pun in the original name) had an array of gadgets more at home on Bond's Aston-Martin than on a racing vehicle, like autojacks, note Meant more for maintenance, but frequently used to make the car jump. A spy robot, underwater capabilities and a trunk (which even street-legal sports cars often lack). Note Though at the time a sports car actually did have to have a trunk to compete. The pun in the original title comes from the triple meaning of the sound 'go' in Japanese — the number 'five', a denotation for the number or name of a machine ( Mach Go-Go means the Mach Type 5 — the same can be seen in Tetsujin 28-go), and the English 'Ready, set, go'. Speed's Japanese name is also 'Go Mifune' (hence the 'G' on his shirt). The show is notable for being one of the very first anime localized in English for US television, all the way back in 1967, following only and. It was by far the most successful and well-known series for decades, and practically defined anime (or 'Japanimation', as it was known at the time) in America until around the mid-90s. Speed Racer is remembered by Americans for its goofy character designs, limited animation and a very low-quality English localization, courtesy of Trans-Lux and Zavala-Riss Productions, as well as its memorable characters and over-the-top sensibilities. The show is both fondly remembered and reviled by many anime fans not for introducing anime to a wider audience, but for coloring its general image at the time. Speed's effeminate look, the way the dubbing actors have to race through the dialogue and narration to fit in all the exposition, and the long sequences without movement all combine to create a style that defined not only this show, but the view of. 'He's a hard man to lose. Are you trying to completely uninstall Speed-Racer-Comic-Book-Creator-1.2.15?This page contains the detailed uninstall tutorial. Speed Racer (Comic Books) Speed Racer, also known as Mach GoGoGo (マッハGoGoGo), is a Japanese media franchise about automobile racing. Mach GoGoGo was. Speed Racer on Tuesday joined the crew of cartoon characters starring in the do-it-yourself digital comic-book software series from Planetwide Games in Aliso Viejo. He's a demon on wheels! There was a American-made Speed Racer cartoon in that wasn't well-received. Four years later, there was. Its English adaptation was produced by and titled Speed Racer X, but was short-lived thanks to a lawsuit between DIC and the American-based Speed Racer Enterprises. The most amusing appearance of Speed Racer in America had to have been in a series of tongue-in-cheek commercials for and Insurance. One of the ads for ESPN featured real NASCAR drivers complaining about how hard it was to compete with Speed, and showed actual race footage with the Mach 5 matted in; another featured NASCAR officials trying to determine if the Mach 5 was suitable for competition. (The decision? No, it was too powerful. 'NASA might accept it, but not NASCAR.' ) An ad for Geico involves Trixie (from a helicopter) telling Speed (driving in a race) that she saved money by switching to Geico. SRE intended to revive the whole title into a new franchise in time for the anime's 40th anniversary. Wrote and directed a based on Speed Racer in 2008, which was met enthusiastically by some fans, but failed to impress critics or do well in the box office. A week before the film's release, premiered yet another American television adaptation called to play up the hype for the film. The second season premiered. Speed Racer Enterprises' rights to the franchise expired on May 31, 2011. After two lawsuits issued in 2012 between Tatsunoko and SRE were dismissed, the former company announced in a press release issued on December 6, 2014 that all rights to Speed Racer reverted to the studio. On May 25, 2015, Tatsunoko announced that they were developing a new Speed Racer anime series, in addition to a new licensing program to reintroduce the franchise. In August of that year,. Funimation gave the English version of the series its first Blu-ray release (and a DVD re-release) on May 30, 2017. A collector's edition, with the original Japanese version of both the original series and the 1997 remake, was released on November 3, 2017. As of late 2016, the series can be viewed on. Speed Racer provides examples of: •: It's not too bad of an affectionate parody, but it sadly has not been updated since late-2010. •: At the beginning of every episode there's a weird unexplained five-second freeze frame; this was where the original version included its title cards, while the American version included its own between the theme song and the episode itself. •: Pops, naturally. •: Michi/Trixie is far more Speed's equal than the helpless She flies her own helicopter and on the occasions where she was kidnapped she managed to be more trouble to her captors than she was worth. •: American-made tie-in comics reveal Speed's actual first name is Greg (to match the G on his shirt), and Pops' is Lionel. •: The Mach 5's submarine mode only has 30 minutes' worth of air. Guess what they're about to run out of at the end of part 1 of a 2-parter. •: From the mouth of titular Terrifying Gambler: 'I'm wanted for robbery, murder, swindling, and cheating at dominoes!' •: Several characters, but especially Speed and Rex. •: The Racers. Even Spritle. • Daisuke Mifune/Lionel 'Pops' Racer. •: In the first episode, a group of thugs attack Speed on the raceway, demanding his windshield. Immediately, Go/Speed deduces Pops put his fancy blueprints on the windshield of the car in invisible ink. •: Most of the episodes. •: Fukumen Racer [The Masked Racer]/Racer X. •: • One story arc featured a car named after 's horse. Or 'Melange' as it was known after being translated from French to Japanese to English. • An international peace conference somehow came out as an 'International Piecemeal Conference'. •: • • It should be noted however, that while the English version is about Speed himself, the Japanese one was more about the car. •: Speed has an 'M' on his helmet and a 'G' on his shirt, both for his Japanese name, Go Mifune. Trixie also has an 'M' on her blouse, for Michi Shimura. Since the Mach 5 carries a stylized M design on the hood people who saw the English dub can be forgiven if they thought the 'M' on Speed's helmet also stood for 'Mach'. • Or for 'Meteoro', Speed's name in the Spanish dub. •: Speed likes to exclaim to such an extent that it becomes this. Note that this is a side effect of the rather heavy English scripts Fernandez wrote around the lazy syllable syncing of the original Tatsunoko animation. •: Speed is framed in 'Mach 5 vs. Mach 5' when a copy of the Mach 5 was used as a getaway vehicle in the theft of the Mizmo Beam. Trixie and Spritle were able to confirm Speed's alibi for the night of the crime. •: Pretty much the whole point of the show. The Mach 5 is not only fast, but it has auto jacks that double as a jumping mechanism, belt tires that allow it to safely drive through any rough terrain as well as sideways, sawblades to cut through heavily-wooded terrain, bullet-proof glass, illumination lights that make high beams look like nothing, the ability to drive underwater like a submarine, complete with periscope, and a homing robot that can take pictures and send taped messages anywhere. • And not just the Mach 5, either. The episode 'Gang of Assassins' featured ninja cars. • Racer X's signature car, The Shooting Star, is quite impressive, but other than being able to hop similar to the Mach 5's auto-jacks, it doesn't appear to have any special features. • In 'The Fastest Car in the World,' the GRX sent Speed Racer onto an acid trip due to its sheer awesomeness. • Don't forget 'The Mammoth Car', which was basically a rubber-wheeled train. One made of solid GOLD no less. • In 'The Supersonic Car', the Racer family breaks the land speed record in a rocket car. • Every car in the Car Acrobatic Team sprouts little wings that let it stay airborne longer when making a jump. • In 'Mach 5 vs. Mach 5', the Mach 5's had full-sized rocket-propelled wings that allowed it to fly under its own power, and a. •: The second part of 'The Great Plan'. And both parts of 'The Fire Race.' •: Skull Duggery and Zoomer Slick were originally Genzo Sakai in the Japanese version, Go Mifune's original rival who was only around for four episodes. Note The Duggery was originally the name of his car. •: • The English episodes released by Speed Racer Enterprises are rendered badly. The framerate and audio is slightly high pitched and faster, compare to how it was made originally, which only makes it of the characters speaking fast than it already is. This is noticeable if you watch the original Japanese version, or you listen to some of the original soundtrack pieces. The only episodes that are not affected prior to Funimation's releases are the ones released in the 1993 video (these include the Car Hater and the Mammoth Car). • The framerate was fixed when Funimation released the series under their belt, but their release has very noticeable audio glitches. 'The Great Plan' in particular has the first part obviously time-compressed with a noticeably higher pitched audio from Speed Racer enterprises, and part 2 has a noticeable drop in the audio during the recap. Episode 5 (The Secret Engine Part 1) also suffers a noticeable audio blip in the first minute and a half of the episode. •: Pretty much the whole cast got their names localized for the English version. A Latin American adaptation also changed the title (and the title character's name) to 'Meteoro'. •: Then again, these are high-performance race cars, and they did explode like that in real life in the 1950s and 60s. • Worth of note is in the intro, when Speed knocks a car off the race track, sending it flying through the air, and crashes with an abnormally big explosion the size of a nuclear blast! •: The villains in 'Race The Laser Tank' get buried in fresh hot lava in the titular tank. Even the characters are horrified. • Also an Air Traffic Controller with headphones that administer spikes to the brain, through the ear. • A few scattered scenes throughout the series also feature Speed occasionally picking up a Tommy gun and pumping nameless full of lead. •: The car with the GRX engine from 'The Fastest Car in the World' is treated as such, with Speed apparently getting high from going so fast, and later experiencing withdrawal symptoms. •: In 'The Most Dangerous Race in the World', Speed installs miniature retractable wings on the underside of the Mach 5. They are never seen again. This is a show with 'cars crashing spectacularly' as a main attraction, after all. •: Pops Racer/Daisuke Mifune. •: Who doesn't remember the hilarious dialogue? •: The final three episodes. 'The Trick Race' deals with the Car Arcobatic Team getting revenge on Speed, and Speed finding out whom Racer X is. 'The Race Around the World' deals with Speed and Sparky trying to win the race, with the narrator giving a foregone conclusion after Speed won the race. •: In 'The Fastest Car on Earth', the 'smash intact bottle over head' version is attempted on Pops. Who shrugs it off and throws the poor dumb bastard who tried it across the room. In 'Motorcycle Apaches', Spritle and Chim-Chim are able to defeat an enemy spy by throwing bottles at him. •: Snake Oiler gives off this vibe, as he's dubbed with a nasally voice and seems to speak out the corner of his mouth. Not to mention. Averted in that he's not a con man so much as a daredevil - but still an arrogant cheater. •: The dub of the original anime is incredibly infamous, to the point that it's ragged on in anime parodies to this day. Later revealed he was only given two days to dub each episode: the first day to write and the second to record. •: The episode 'The Car Hater' features Mr. Trotter, a father who lost his son in a car crash and deems cars dangerous. He then proceeds to interrupt a race by riding his horse into the track and hires a bunch of goons to sabotage cars throughout the city in an attempt to prove his point. It isn't until his daughter is almost killed in one of the sabotaged cars and the Mach 5 being the only immediate means of transport to help her to the hospital that Mr. Trotter realizes that he messed up big time. •: Spritle is an exact double for Jam, Prince of Saccharin. •: While Speed occasionally loses due to various outstanding circumstances, he only outright loses once in the original series. In 'The Snake Track,' Rock Force beats him by using his technique of turning corners on two wheels. • Although there were a few other races in the later seasons (of the 60s series) that Speed lost because something else came along. •: Pops has put the blueprints to the Mach 5 in invisible ink on the windshield of the car. •: In one of the typical side-stories, Speed and a bunch of other people get captured by a sociopathic madman who is going to kill them for getting in his way, and the killer says it won't be that difficult, since he's murdered over 4,000 people. •: For the most part, it was mostly done well at the time. According to Peter Fernandez, the team had to make sure their lines go well with the mouth movements, and was tricky due to how they're done differently. There are a few times the characters might say something without their mouths moving, though it's not a big deal since this was also in the original version. •: A big part that of what made the show memorable to most. And also the main point of parody outside of the fast-talking. •: Kurio/Spritle and Sanpei/Chim Chim. •: Unbeknownst to Speed, Racer X is really his long lost brother, Rex Racer (Ken'ichi Mifune). The Narrator tells the viewer this every chance he gets; or Rex thinks about it where only the viewer can hear. •: The dub cast was made up of four people (one of which—Peter Fernandez—is uncredited for his voice acting role. The studio would only spring for three actors so writer/director Fernandez threw in his voice for free). •: The dub is infamous for turning almost everyone into this. Whenever somebody does a Speed Racer parody, this is always a necessary component. Though this helps as the series is about racing. •: Again, Speed. •: For the English dub, a narrator was added for the series. •: There are several deaths in the show (not a LOT, mind you) mostly due to crashes and other racing dangers. In the English dub, these people were considered 'smashed up,' rather than killed. • However, there were a few episodes where people die off-screen and they simply don't mention them dying or being smashed up. 'The Fire Race' was possibly the worst, since over ninety racers die, some of them in onscreen accidents, too. They also mention people having died in the past, too. • Only three people survive the Alpine Race, Speed, Racer X and Snake Oiler, and Snake is (possibly, it's not very clear) killed when his car explodes right before crossing the finish line. •: The two-parter 'Gang of Assassins' featured these. They even drove ninja cars. (At the time the series was translated into English, most westerners had never heard of ninja, so the word was translated as 'assassin.' ) •: Chim-Chim/Sanpei. •: Speed in 'The Man Behind The Mask'. He machine-guns his way through the titular villain's private army in order to foil his plot. •: Mach Five was originally called the 'Mach Go-Go' in Japan. •: Pops Racer. Mess with his kids? If they don't kick your ass, he will. •: Trixie wears a pink top. •: Attempted on the Mammoth car. It has so many tires that it didn't have any effect. •: Particularly with the bad guys. •: True to their name, these are the kind of antics the Car Acrobat Team (from 'The Most Dangerous Race') do. •: Inspector Detector. •: Baron von Vondervon. •: Crop up from time to time, most notably on the cars used by Ace Deucey's gang in 'The Great Plan'. •: When your name is Speed Racer, there's really only one job you can have. Averted in the Japanese version either way with more 'normal' name of Go Mifune. • Not to mention Pops Racer and Inspector Detector, and one-time characters like Snake Oiler, Hap Hazard, Vice President Duper. •: •: Spritle/Kurio. •: When Speed Racer Enterprises took over the English rights of the anime, they replaced the intro's logo with their take of it, and changed the fonts of the title cards and credits. Funimation kept a mixture of the two. The credits and title cards were remade for HD in a font similar to Enterprises (correcting their 'Crimes' typo on Jack Grimes' credit), but the intro's logo was kept from Trans-Lux, minus the copyright year. •: The Mach 5 has equipment that allows it to turn into a or a hover car (on water) when needed. •: A subversion since it's technically not 'weaponized' per se. The Mach 5 sported pneumatic jump-jacks (button 'A'; actually for easy access to the underside of the car for maintenance), a retractable bulletproof canopy (button 'D'), rotary saw blades (button 'C'; for cutting wooden obstacles), traversible infrared headlights (button 'E'), deploy-able tire armor (button 'B'; actually for climbing steeper roads), underwater operational capability (button 'F'), and a remote-controlled robot homing pigeon (button 'G'). (And, in 'The Most Dangerous Race in the World', extendable mini-wings which increased its jumping distance.) • In 'Mach 5 vs. Mach 5', the evil clone Mach 5 also sported full-sized flying wings (with rocket assist) and a called the 'Mismo Beam.' When a mommy Comics and a daddy Comics love each other very much, they get together and have a baby Comics. It's a special, magical thing, and should only happen within the bonds of holy. In 1996, and co-created a Limited Series called, oddly enough, Marvel Vs. DC, in which the of the two powerhouse companies met, fought, and came out friends— then. Except for a very few,. It seems that of each company's main continuity was in fact the creation of two known as 'The Brothers'. For eons, they were ignorant of each other until the first brought them to each others' attention. Each wanting to be the singular of the Multiverse, they decided that in true Superhero fashion, the matter could only be settled with a. Or rather, a series of one-on-one battles between the most similar heroes. Some of these fights were between characters who would later be Amalgamated, such as and. Some were matched by ability; the versus the, for example. The loser's universe would be destroyed, so both sides had plenty of motivation to kill each other. At the same time, a young man named, A.K.A., discovered that he was a. This was apparently (he acquired the abilities from a homeless man who died soon after). Access could only stand by and watch as the two universes did battle. Marvel was ahead six to five, when suddenly. The named the Living Tribunal and try to take the pressure off by merging both universes into an Amalgam where the iconic main characters of each world merge into single beings with aspects of each— and become Dark Claw, and Captain America become Super Soldier (). Some were merged because they were in powers or purpose, others because their names sounded alike (resulting in some awful ) and still others for the heck of it (see the list below). Each had a 'remembered' history that splits the difference between the merged characters— there was a Super Soldier who joined the All-Star Winners Squadron, a team of called Generation, etc. The Brothers quickly pulled themselves apart, thus separating the Marvel Universe and DC Universe once again. Angered, they decided to forego the contest and simply battle each other. This would've surely resulted in the destruction of both universes. Access managed to bring Cap and Bats to the interdimensional battlefield between the Brothers, and showed the big boys a first-hand look at the beings whose realities they were planning to eliminate— and they liked what they saw. Impressed by the iron wills of these two mere mortals, and seeing that they were, the Brothers called off their grudge match, the was pressed, the limited series ended, and all was good. Turns out Access can't stay in one universe too long, or his powers go haywire and begin transposing inhabitants from one universe to another. And in the sequel All Access, it turned out the Amalgam Doctor Strangefate had hidden himself in 's mind, and burst out to try to re-create his universe by merging the Big Two. So once again, cue fight music as the and throw down, only to be saved by creating an independent without affecting the original two (though based on the first one). This Amalgamverse was safely tucked away inside Access and again all is well. Except for a few whacky adventures in the Unlimited Access miniseries, but those had no plot effects and were apparently just for fun. Several sets of Amalgam comics set in the merged universe have been published jointly by both companies. The titles include: Agent of,, Bullets & Bracelets, Justice League Avengers, and many others. In the Marvel Multiverse, it was originally listed as Earth-692 before being retconned to Earth-9602. A reboot of the concept, which he will co-write with. • Abominite (Hellgrammite + Abomination) • All Highfather Odin (Highfather + Odin) • Amanda Deathbird (Amanda Waller + Deathbird) • Amazon ( + ) • Ambush the Lunatik ( + Lunatik) • Angellhawk/Warren Hall (/Carter Hall + Angel/Warren Worthington III) • Antimony/Debbie Walker (Platinum of the + Debbi + + Hellcat/Patsy Walker). • Apollo/Ray Summers (Ray + ) • Aqua-Mariner ( + ) • Arrowcaster (Speedy + Nightcaster) • Aurora Trigger/Cinnamon (Aurora of + Cinnamon + one of the Trigger Twins) • Banisher (Bane + ) • Baron Zero/Wolfgang Von Strucker (Mr. • Amazon (1996). • Assassins (1996). • Bruce Wayne Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. • Bullets and Bracelets (1996). • Doctor Strangefate (1996). • JLX (1996). • Legends of the Dark Claw (1996). • Magneto and the Magnetic Men (1996). • Speed Demon (1996). • Spider-Boy (1996). • Super Soldier (1996). • X-Patrol (1996). • Bat-Thing (1997). • Challengers of the Fantastic (1997). • Dark Claw Adventures (1997). • The Exciting X-Patrol (1997). • Generation Hex (1997). • Iron Lantern (1997). • JLX Unleashed (1997). • Lobo the Duck (1997). • Magnetic Men Featuring Magneto (1997). • Spider-Boy Team-Up (1997). • Super Soldier: Man of War (1997). • Thorion of the New Asgods (1997). Tropes demonstrated by the Amalgam Universe: •: Basically characters and backstories from and are combinated into a new shared universe. •: Doctor Octopus, in the Spider-Boy titles. • Thunder Ross is depicted far more sympathetically, as he adopts Spider-Boy and plays a role similar to Uncle Ben. •: Kyle Rayner's counterpart in Iron Lantern, due to being amalgamed with the Guardsman. •: Super-Soldier. This includes also the mentioned below. •: 's problem when fighting. •: Dark Claw Adventures was drawn in the style of and billed as being based on the animated version of the character. •: Some of the portmanteau names are just painfully stupid. • At least in one case, it was done on purpose due to the: there's a merge of two characters who already had each one separately– DC's Matter-Eater Lad, from, and Marvel's villain Paste-Pot Pete (who changed his name to Trapster) were combined into. Paste-Eater Pete. • Plus calling the flash/cannonball amalgam 'Cannonflash' instead of 'Flashcannon' because Cannon comes first in his name. •: Did rather well in the pre merge fights: Of the non-powered combatants only lost and she was fighting another (more or less) in. Beat and (rather more impressively) beat. • In the merged universe: Most of the characters in the title Bruce Wayne Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Catsai, from Assassins, Trevor Castle from Bullets and Bracelets. •: Several of the one-shots had twist endings or left plot points seeking resolution. For example Bruce Wayne Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Has an ending which implied that most of the featured heroes and villains were killed in an explosion. Their fate was never clarified. X-Patrol ended with a major character crippled and the rest of the team reacting to it. •: The whole point of the universe is that pretty much every single character is a combination of a DC character and a Marvel character. • Two examples that really stick out here are Magneto and Will Magnus. As if it wasn't enough to make one character out of the, they decided to make two characters, explain them as brothers and put them on opposite sides of the law. Even more interesting, the one who took the name Magneto ended up becoming a hero, while the one called Will Magnus became the villain, in a reversal of their namesakes' usual roles. Strangefate is the only character to be fully aware that the Amalgam Universe is not 'real', and so attacked Access to prevent the universes from being restored. The ending of his issue was a. •: The Spider-Man that appears in the series is Ben Reilly rather than Peter Parker, as the Clone Saga was still running in all the Spider-Books at the time. However, when out of costume Ben has his normal appearance of looking like Peter rather than the look he'd adopted with his hair dyed blonde and cut short. •: The Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour. •: In some cases, a single Marvel or DC characters originated more than one amalgam: Marvel's Daredevil originated Dare (merged with Deathstroke, in Assassins) and Deaddevil (merged with Deadman, in The Exciting X-Patrol); DC's Batman originated the titular characters of Legends of the Dark Claw (merged with Wolverine) and Bruce Wayne: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. •: Shatterstarfire's fingers. In X-Patrol, drawn by Roger Cruz, she had four fingers per hand, as Shatterstar; In The Exciting X-Patrol, penciled by Bryan Hitch, each of her hands has five fingers, as Starfire (and most humans). •: The Hellfire League of Injustice summon Fing Fang Fire to destroy all the mutants, only to be reduced to skeletons for their troubles. •: About half of the original comics are flashbacks giving exposition to the merged characters' origins. •: Marvel's and DC's are both male, but they were merged into a female character: Slade Murdock/Dare from Assassins. •: Inevitable with The Skulk (Hulk + Solomon Grundy). And by the actual Hulk (his Merged Mulk personality) when making firewood. His girlfriend laughs and tells him not to scare her like that. •: Some of the one-shots had faux letter columns with letters from portmanteaus of DC/Marvel creators (such as ) referencing. •: Near the end of the original Marvel vs. DC miniseries that led to the creation of the Amalgam universe, the Hulk refers to Superman fighting the Mole Man and his underlings as 'Superman vs. The Mole Men', which could very well be a reference to Superman and the Mole Men, a 1951 film starring the Man of Steel that featured underground humanoids. •: A few of the amalgams, such as Beastling and Thanoseid, have the body of one component, and the color scheme of the other. •: Super-Soldier. •: Doctor Strangefate wants his universe to be kept together, even if he has to make two others collapse into it. Since the DC and Marvel universes are incompatible with each other (even the size of the Earths is different) we would later see the potential consequences of doing so in.
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