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JP and Sonoshee McLaren

Someone's havin' doubts, huh? Hell, I'k merely trying to go on this matter interesting. You lot can't write me off like that. You lot're simply a voice, pal! You lot DON'T KNOW A DAMN Affair ABOUT RACING!

— JP

Ready in the far future, REDLINE is nearly the galaxy's biggest and deadliest illegal route race, merely held every five years at a secret location not unveiled until practically the last minute. Naturally, everyone wants to take part, merely to do so they take to qualify in one of the Yellowline races first. One such racer, Sweet JP, almost achieves it. Unfortunately, his prized yellow machine TRANSAM 20000 suddenly "malfunctions" just short of the finish line.

Waking up in infirmary with an arm and a leg in casts and his dreams in tatters, JP is shocked to detect he has in fact made the form. Information technology turns out the venue has been announced: the fascistic, authoritarian military superpower state of Roboworld, who aren't exactly pleased about their world being used as an impromptu racetrack and make it perfectly clear that they intend to cease the racers with farthermost prejudice before the starting flag has fifty-fifty been dropped. As a result, two racers have already dropped out, and JP is voted in through a popularity competition.

The directorial debut feature of Takeshi Koike, produced by Madhouse Studios and released in 2010 afterwards spending half a decade in development, REDLINE is a racer movie unlike annihilation seen before and potentially one of the most daring and important anime movies of the decade. Visually, it's easy to see that Koike is a huge fan of western graphic art, and has been influenced equally much by French comic creative person Moebius, the Usa animated film Heavy Metallic, cult Uk sci-fi comic 2000 Advertisement and Star Wars as much as he has by the likes of Katsuhiro Otomo, Hiroyuki Imaishi or Leiji Matsumoto. Not that REDLINE feels or looks like a brew-up of different styles – somewhere in the visual chaos it unrelentingly throws at its audience it becomes something that is far more than the mere sum of parts, a unique piece of blitheness that at times doesn't even feel like anime in the traditional sense. It was also drawn - past hand - over the form of vii years.

Bank check out the totally sweet trailer. As of late Dec 2011 it has been released on Bluray and DVD in the US and United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. Information technology was dubbed and released under Manga Entertainment.

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REDLINE contains examples of:

• Abnormal Ammo: JP'southward mechanic: Old Man Mole has a revolver shotgun that fires screwdrivers, and he uses it to devastating effect during his Big Damn Heroes rescue of Frisbee.
• Accented Cleavage: Boiboi.
• The Ace: Machinehead. A cyborg built to race and certified badass who has won the Redline several times in a row. Listen y'all, this is a race that only happens once in 5 years.
• Action Daughter: Arguably Sonoshee, although her activity is limited to driving, as is nearly anybody else's. But for comparison, when faced with a missile bearing down on her, she pops open her cockpit, draws a gun, and pops the sucker correct out of the air.
  • She too does a skillful job of fending off Lynchman with the missiles and car guns on the Crab Sonoshee.
• Advanced Tech 2000: JP's car is the TRANSAM 20000.
• Aerith and Bob: James (see below) and Frisbee.
• Affably Evil: Secretary Titan, with a dash of Wicked Cultured every bit well. Although he's loyal to Roboworld, he'south friendly, polite, and seemingly close with the President.
• All Work vs. All Play: Sonoshee and JP as revealed in a flashback. Incidentally, rather than jeering with all the other onlookers at her as she tried to get her car out of a ditch on her own while proclaiming that she'd compete in the Redline race, JP admired Sonoshee'due south determination and so every bit a result took up racing professionally.
• Almost Kiss: Two. One when JP and Sonoshee are talking nearly steamlight and are interrupted past Shinkai. The second one is interesting as it'south involuntary: when Machinehead uses his steamlight nitro heave in the concluding stretch, Sonoshee does the same in JP'southward car and the extreme speed forces their faces together, though they don't lock lips.
• Ambiguously Christian: Trava makes the sign of the cross over his chest as he is preparing to start the race. One-time Man Mole also briefly crosses himself later killing the Inuki boss and his goons. Nobody makes whatever other mention of religion.
• Amphibious Automobile: The Crab Sonoshee, which uses a hovercraft engine.
• Anti-Climax: Just before the Redline starts, the president of Roboworld orders the planet's Kill Sat to be fired on the dropship. Nothing happens, equally Lynchman and Johnny Boya had sabotaged it beforehand. Thankfully, this is fabricated up for on spades once said Kill Saturday finally sees activeness against Funky Boy.
• Crawly, merely Impractical: According to Old Human Mole, the TRZ Airmaster engines take a lot of power, only are very unstable (the one they manage to get has 35,000 horsepower). They claw it up anyhow.
• Awesome Mc Coolname: Quite a few.
  • Sonoshee McLaren, whose last name is an obvious reference to the Formula One racing squad and sports car manufacturer.
  • "Sweet JP"; Word of God says his full name is James Punkhead.
  • "Machinehead" Tetsujin (Iron Human being) and his vehicle, "God Wing"
  • The bio-weapon "Funky Boy", cartoon parallels to the atomic bombs "Little Boy" and "Fatty Man".
  • Secretary Titan.
  • Colonel Volton.
  • It would actually be easier to name everyone without a crawly name. Even the announcer has the name "Void-practice". His co-host has the comparatively less (but withal) awesome name "Minvera Hanasse".
• Badass Boast: Done past a few of the racers as you might look, simply Machinehead has real grounds for information technology. "I'K THE Rex OF REDLINE."
• Badass Driver: Hell yeah! All Redline racers would accept to be if they not just want to take part on the titular Redline Race merely likewise take on on Roboworld'south racetrack while fighting the military machine forces in that location.
• Badass Pacifist: JP is the just racer who doesn't pack weapons of any kind on the track. He makes up for it with Hot Claret and pure driving ability.
• Bare Your Midriff: Sonoshee in her racing outfit.
• The Berserker: Little Deyzuna, every bit demonstrated during his introductory scene, or rather, beatdown of Trava.
  • Berserk Push: Simply the mere mention of Trava is enough to set him afire.

    Little Deyzuna: "bet you experience lamentable for leaving me behind in the army now ...I've been waiting for this a long fourth dimension, TRAVAAAA!"

  • Berserker Tears: Always sheds some tears whenever he's in this state.

    Shinkai: "Scary, huh? When he starts crying, he gets super-strong."

  • Shinkai is a more nuanced version only ultimately feistier example of the trope. Off the track, he's rather calm and cautious, just fifty-fifty as Trava and he are about to enter their motorcar at the start of the race, he begins to erratically scream, his movements becoming spastic and frenzied which carries over into the competition proper.
• The Big Damn Kiss: JP and Sonoshee. While in mid-air, in a magical field, after having just barely won the titular race.
• Big Eater: Sonoshee'southward order at Oasis appears to consist of four plates of alien seafood, with the main course being an unabridged cooked lobster on top of a huge pile of spaghetti. She loses that appetite when she realizes the spaghetti noodles are actually living worms.
  • Shinkai also proves to be ane in the same scene when he shows up later and scarfs downwardly each entire plate between sentences.
• The Big Guy:
  • Machinehead is a gigantic cyborg, towered over all other characters past most a trunk length. And he's every bit as strong and tough equally he looks, a berserk Little Deyzuna virtually broke his hand punching him, then Machinehead sends him flight with a motion-picture show of his mitt.
  • His vehicle, Godwing, is no slouch in this department either. While everyone else'southward vehicles are at least believably car sized, Godwing is titanic, being almost as big as a pocket-sized spaceship. And just like its driver Godwing takes the burden of Roboworld's firepower and is still commanding a pb, even if it has to destroy the racetrack itself to do and so.
• Bio Punk: Roboworld very unexpectedly turns out to exist this, with plenty of Organic Applied science and a Living Ship housing their Kill Sabbatum.
• Blatant Lies: The President of Roboworld'due south speech nigh how Roboworld is a world of peace and equality, while he yells angrily with ominous music playing in the background.
• Blush Sticker: Sonoshee had them as a girl. They show upward again near the cease of the picture show.
• Boom, Headshot!: Representative of the Inuki Group gets a two screwdrivers shot into his eyes from a shotgun. There's also ane of his goons whose the offset to get said screw drivers from said shotgun if you break information technology correctly you can run into that it'south three screwdrivers impaled on his caput, two on each eye and one in his mouth.
• Ho-hum, but Applied: JP'southward TransAM cars are the puniest racing vehicles among those of the Yellowline and Redline contestants. They as well don't accept whatsoever weapons or armor and their (relatively) small engines have a while to reach a competitive top speed. However, they're much more manueverable, capable of performing daring stunts and hairpin turns that none of the other cars can, its compact size makes it very hard to hit, and its main gimmick is its ability to become the near out of using Nitro as shown at the start of the picture show where he and Sonoshee use the boost at roughly the same fourth dimension during a straightforward dead estrus only for him to pull ahead because his car isn't burdened by the weight of the Crab Sonoshee's larger build and armaments.
• Bounty Hunters: The Dynamic duo: Lynchman and Johnny Boya are a pair of these.
• Helm Crash: Any vehicle on it that JP sets human foot in will terminate up becoming a smashed wreck, although information technology's never intentional.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Somehow manages to manifest even in a race where anything goes; Gori-Rider, Miki and Todoroki try to just dig their manner past all the deadly obstacles and lynchpin turns only to air current up in even bigger trouble and mode behind all the other competitors.
• Chekhov's Gun: Sonoshee's steamlight pendant, and the detonator on JP's car, though non in the way you'd expect— instead of being used to impale off JP's chances of winning, it was used to gain even more speed. By somehow with the aid of the Steamlight nitro allowing JP to brand his car into a directly up rocket..
• Colonel Badass: Colonel Volton, who commands his own special forces, has the potency to mobilize the planet'south entire military strength, and fifty-fifty plow into a Kaiju monster capable of matching Funky Boy.
• Commissar Cap: Appropriately enough for a homo of his station, Colonel Volton'southward helmet resembles 1 of these.
• Competitive Balance: Each of the Redline competitors can exist broken down in a particular category:
  • Sonoshee's Crab Sonoshee, while not equally fast as the TransAM 20000, has some decent offensive options and can have a lot of penalty, making it a Jack-of-All-Stats. Its main gimmick, amphibiousness, falls into Situational Sword. On a course like the Redline, where any path (other than presumably outright air travel) is allowed as long every bit you go to your destination, an amphibious machine can turn into a huge Game-Breaker in the right situation, fifty-fifty then on a course without water information technology's still a fast machine with information technology'southward engine not creating much exhaust assuasive information technology to not exist targeted past most heat seeking missiles.
  • The Superboins' Boincar, which is able to transform into a humanoid mecha and use magic to destroy armed forces vehicles, is a Magic Knight. Nonetheless, the magic is apparently a bit of a Game-Breaker, as they swear off using information technology on other racers and but unleash it confronting Roboworld'southward forces.
  • Lynchman and Johnny Boya'due south Lynchcar, which boasts powerful Sidewinder missiles and a hateful rocket-ballast, yet gets thrown around a lot in the race, is a Glass Cannon.
  • Miki and Todoroki's Semimaru, which is an odd, problems-like vehicle that takes reward of Gori-Rider's excavating, uses a lot of Confusion Fu.
  • Sugariness JP'southward TransAM 20000, alongside Trava and Shinkai's Speed Master are both poorly/not at all armed and with a ability-to-weight ratio that borders on insane, slotting them both neatly into Fragile Speedster.
  • Gori Passenger's Gorilla Tank has a built-in drill allowing it to brute-force it's fashion through well-nigh obstacles, even surviving drop of several stores without impairment, to compensate for the fact that information technology's slower than the other racers making it The Fauna.
  • Meanwhile Machinehead's Godwing is heads and shoulders above the other racers in almost all categories, but the strain of piloting it would kill a normal human, making information technology Difficult, but Awesome. Unfortunately for the other racers, Machinehead specifically modified himself to either be immune to information technology's drawbacks or take advantage of them, instead turning him and Godwing into a Game-Billow (modest wonder why he's won three sequent Redline races).
  • Little Deyzuna, who shows up midway through the race and not even in a customized vehicle, is a Joke Character. Although he could be considered a Lethal Joke Grapheme as despite existence in a bog-standard vehicle he still managed to stay hot on the tails of the racers right up to the end.
• Absurd Wheel: So many to cull from.
  • JP uses a souped-up anti-gravity bike (that looks like a love-child betwixt a chopper and a custom motorcycle created by a Bōsōzoku member) to get around Europass. Onetime Man Mole gives it a ride and uses it to corking effect against some Inkui goons
  • Miki and Todoroki's bizarre racing vehicle, "Semimaru", which has ii wheels and six legs. Whether it's a absurd bike or a spider tank depends entirely on which mode it's in at the time.
  • Crab Sonoshee is arguably this due to being a hovercraft that has it's "steering wheel" exist just chopper-style motorcycle handlebars.
  • Gori Passenger'due south "Custom Rider" that's hidden within his "Gorilla Tank".
  • The Sand Bikes used by the Roboworld military.
• Cool Car: Merely of form, though JP's TransAM 20000 is the most traditional example.
• Cool Shades: Sonoshee when she's racing; also Bosbos and Boiboi (and everyone else from planet Supergrass).
• Cryptic Background Reference: The setting is much more expansive than what we see; there are occasional references to a recent galactic war, and the Redline racers all have adventures and careers off the track, but we simply run into the slightest hints of any of this.
• Curse Cut Short: twins Miki and Todoroki during their interview.

  Miki and Todoroki: GORI-Passenger, Yous MOTHERF-*BEEP*

• Curb-Stomp Boxing: Little Deyzuna vs. Trava. Information technology's more like Little Deyzuna beats the ever-loving shit out of Trava. While crying the whole time.
• Cute as a Bouncing Betty: Funky-Boy, Roboworld's height hugger-mugger biological superweapon.
• Cyber Cyclops: Big Deyzuna.
• Unsafe Forbidden Technique:
  • Nitro. A single dose can exponentially increase the power of an engine, but most engines tin simply handle 1 tiny cap of the stuff at well-nigh earlier the vehicle starts to interruption down from the strain and unless yous're a actually slap-up driver, it's hard to maneuver a Nitro boosted auto on whatever class that isn't a straight line. Most racers prefer "safer" upgrades like gadgets, armor, or firearms (Pops considers grafting a cannon onto the TransAM a more reasonable mod than installing an engine that tin can take three caps of Gilded Nitro without blowing upwardly). Some similar Trava and Shinkai endeavor to spoof the speeds granted past Nitro by using larger engines or even several at once. The fact that JP relies heavily on this feature and tin can weave past obstacles and other racers while using it makes him a favorite of the crowds and a Wild Menu dark equus caballus upstart for his opponents.
  • Steamlights are this Up to Eleven. They're enormously more powerful than nitro boosts, but the drawbacks are likewise amplified to such an extent they're all merely unusable - no rider could perchance handle the speed, and no engine could perhaps handle the ability without existence torn autonomously, relegating steamlights to the status of rare collectibles and jewelry pieces. The merely racer to be able to use such power is Machinehead, who can handle the speed thanks to his cyborg augments and whose vehicle is besides powerful plenty to handle the boost. At the climax of the flick, JP and Sonoshee pop ane into the TransAM to match him, the immensely powerful TRZ Airmaster engine can handle the recoil and their combined driving skills manage to handle the ungodly speed boost.
• Nighttime and Troubled Past: JP. While working off his and Frisbee's debt to the mafia, he had been caught red-handed once in fixing 1 of the races, which led to him spending some time in the prison. Sonoshee learns most this when watching the news report on Boob tube.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Abroad from the race rails, Sonoshee is very reserved and has trivial inclination to meet with other people let alone romance, but JP quickly whittles away at her.
• Deranged Animation: Call back of a more than realistic Dead Leaves.
• Determined Expression: JP during Yellowline, complete with a closeup of his nose bleeding from the excessive speed.
• Dirty Cop: The racer "Dirty Policeman Hamesh Frini, AKA Gori Rider" was defenseless on camera beating up his opponents (Miki and Todoroki to be precise), and having an affair with a Fair Cop. When asked about information technology by reporters, he attacked them too.
• Disqualification-Induced Victory: JP loses the qualification circular for the titular Carmine Line race. Nevertheless, when multiple qualifiers dorsum out (due to the race being set on a Death World), JP qualifies due to popular vote.
• Does This Remind Yous of Anything?:
  • The Boincar is a pink dragster styled to await like a woman lying on her back with her legs in the air. Make of it what you will. Information technology doesn't assistance matters that, upon its transformation into a bipedal grade to fight off Roboworld military vehicles, Boiboi and Boibos' cockpits shift into the car'due south transparent breast cavities.
  • Godwing'southward tip looks suspiciously phallic when Machinehead activates the platinum nitro charge. It doesn't help that Machinecaput is right at the tip of it glowing carmine and orange from the friction.
  • The final scenes build to a furious climax as the racers nail toward the finish line. In a triumphant denouement, after the racers have finished, every ane of them is panting, sweating and grinning in what looks like a country of post-coital bliss. They look upward with approval at Sonoshee and JP, who tenderly cover one another and declare their dear.
• Double Meaning: Representative of the Inuki Group, worried JP might non throw the race, says that they're virtually to see how close JP and Frisbee are. On the face of it, he's asking if JP cares about Frisbee plenty to have the dive for him, but it could also utilize to whether or not Frisbee cares plenty about JP to keep from detonating his car to make sure he doesn't win.
• The Dragon: Volton is really this to the Roboworld President, being in control of near all armed forces operations against the Redline racers.
• Drives Like Crazy: Everybody. Because how crazy the race is, it'southward the only style to drive.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: JP and Sonoshee ultimately win the Redline race together, and the rest of the racers are quite satisfied with the competition. As an added extra, there's The Large Damn Kiss shot.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Sonoshee is not happy to discover that the racing title the media accept given her is 'Cherry-Boy Hunter'.
• Everybody Lives: All the Redline racers manage to brand it through the death trap race. In fact, the only casualties in the whole flick are Big Deyzuna, the mob boss and his 2 goons, and a bunch of Roboworld mooks that get vaporized by Funky Boy.
• Everybody Smokes: As function of its retro style, many of the bandage are smokers. Frisbee and Old Human being Mole both smoke, Sonoshee enjoys a cigarette while watching news nearly the Redline and JP appears to be a chainsmoker, rarely seen without one.
• Evil Brit: Secretary Titan, who lets out a rather phlegmatic air compared to the residue of the Roboworld officers.
• Evil Counterpart: Like the Crab Sonoshee, the Lynchcar is a (and is the only other) Redline vehicle that hovers instead of using wheels, assuasive it to "bulldoze" on water. Still, while they're both loaded with weapons, the Crab Sonoshee was built with a higher accent on durability and speed while the Lynchcar puts a premium on either pulling its rivals out of the fashion with its anchors or simply blowing them up with its other armaments. Their drivers quickly earn ane another'south ire at the very start of the race with Lynchman and Johnny Boya condign secondary antagonists to Sonoshee as a result.
• Exploding Fish Tanks: An entire restaurant full of fish tanks.
• Expy: Most of the other racers and characters are imported from previous Takeshi Koike / Katsuhito Ishii productions (eastward.g. Miki and Todoroki are from The Mole Brothers, and Trava and Shinkai were from a 4 part series chosen Trava: Fist Planet)
  • Johnny Boya and Lynchman's car is the Batmobile taken Upwards to Xi. And Johnny Boya is Beavis, downward to the vocalization.
  • JP looks somewhat like Travis Touchdown.
  • According to some, Shinkai looks and sounds reminiscent of Dr Zoidberg.
  • Funky Boy is a hideously powerful baby-like beingness kept dormant in an surreptitious military facility simply to be allow loose and wreak unstoppable havoc, even after being shot with an orbital cannon. Remind you of anyone?
    • Or an even more similar, intentionally giant bioweapon that spits lasers and was activated too soon.
• Facial Markings: Frisbee.
• Fast Tunnelling: Miki and Todoroki hitch a ride on Gori Rider'south Gorilla Tank as he tunnels nether a minefield before embarking on their ain tunnelling adventure and winding up in the pb.
• Feminine Women Tin can Cook: When she'southward off the race-track, Sonoshee is no tomboy. She can also cook i succulent looking sukiyaki-like bowl.
• Flapping Cheeks: When Sonoshee triggers her Nitro Heave, her cheeks wobble, eyes bulge, and tears and spittle fly every bit she accelerates. Moments later on, JP uses his Nitro Boost to take hold of upward with her. The exact aforementioned thing happens to him.
• Fluffy the Terrible: Non as cutesy equally other examples, only you wouldn't look the name Funky Boy to exist given to a nigh-unstoppable, Godzilla-sized Lovecraftian bioweapon who screams Wave Movement Beams and has a Healing Factor so powerful that it tin can come back from beingness head-shotted past a Kill Sabbatum with the power of a nuke.
• Foreshadowing: Sonoshee's talk almost the steamlight on her pendant: "They say if you pop information technology in your tank, it releases 100 times more free energy than gilded nitro". She pops it into JP's Trans Am to get the concluding heave about the end of the Redline.
• Foreign Queasine: Sonoshee ordered the exotic looking seafood sphaghetti stew. Then JP pointed out that the thing is actually an Alien Lunch when the "sphaghetti" starts moving around. That said, Shinkai thought it was succulent when she handed information technology off to him.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The mob dominate is the same man who inspired JP to race in the beginning place, judging by his appearance and his 2 girls.
• Friend in the Black Marketplace: In improver to beingness JP's primary (and only) engineer, Pops is also a prolific junk dealer who's aiming to brand a tidy sum through trading his wares during the Redline frenzy and is savvy enough to snag the very last Airmaster engine for the TransAm.
• From a Single Cell: Funky Boy is vaporized by Roboworld'southward Kill Sat, but nevertheless manages to regenerate from some leftover bits.
• Gainax Ending: JP and Sonoshee race Machinehead at incredible speeds, with JP winning by the tufts of his hair (literally) and the movie ends with JP and Sonoshee kissing while floating in blue burn down. Oh, and the terminal second of the moving-picture show is only Love with curly letters.
• Gainaxing: Sonoshee afterward winning the Yellowline. And while racing the Redline. And every fifth scene. After, the Superboins get in on it likewise.
• Gender-Blender Proper noun: Mr. Minerva Hanness, one-time Redline champion and current Redline news anchor.
• Godzilla Threshold: Happens several times into the Redline race.
  • When Volton is just about fed up with his special forces getting owned past the racers, he orders the mobilization of the planet'southward entire military forcefulness.
  • The Superboins break their 'no magic' promise when Roboworld'southward troops corner them.
  • Colonel Volton transforms himself into an Eldritch Anathema in society to fight evenly with Funky Boy.
• Gorn: In that location isn't much blood in this movie (Information technology's a racing pic. Why would it need claret?) but they have enough blood for several movies of this type during Old Man Mole's Big Damn Heroes moment with the screwdriver shotgun.
• Graceful Loser: Everyone who didn't make it to the finish line, for a refreshing alter. The unabridged race comes off as a badassery competition, and office of it is this trope. Everyone seems honored to be present when JP and Sonoshee ride the shockwave of their own damned exploding engine over the Redline. Machinehead pops not one but 2 Steamlights, and yet shows an amazed pride at the event.
  • Which is kind of a mood backlash given that he was talking trash to them merely a moment earlier, only information technology'due south implied that Sonoshee is his daughter/junk dealer, gave her a Steamlight, meeting her for dinner). Perhaps he was trying to motivate them both, and saw winning the Redline as a Rite of Passage for her, and proof of JP's suitability for him.
    • Alternatively; the trash talk was just a side-outcome of the Steamlight running through his augmentations and getting his blood upwardly.
  • None of the other racers save JP, Sonoshee, and Tetsujin entertain whatsoever chance of winning first place at the final stretch of the race, but keep going total throttle anyways purely to become beginning-class, front-row seats to see how the race ends.
• Ham-to-Ham Gainsay: The racer's taunts and dialogue between each other tin get downright silly. Here'southward an example:

  Trava: You think you're going to take me out that like shooting fish in a barrel, you scumbag?
  Deyzuna: I've been waiting a long fourth dimension for this... TRAVA!
  Trava: Come and get it, DEYZUNA!
  Deyzuna: MY RIDE IS GOING TO WHIP YOUR SORRY ASS!
  Trava: IN YOUR DREAMS You lot SLIMY Slice OF SHIT!
  Shinkai: COME AND GET ME Yous PUSSY!

• Hood Ornament Hottie: When they're non racing, Bosbos and Boiboi pose and preen so much that it's almost ridiculous.
• Hero of Another Story: Plenty. Nigh obvious is Lynchman and Johnny Boya, who non just are in-universe crimefighters/bounty hunters, but also accept their own motion picture series and toy line. Then there'southward Trava and Shinkai, who are really from another series and have some sort of offscreen story with Little Deyzuna. Basically anyone who gets a significant corporeality of screentime but isn't part of Roboworld or involved with JP, Sonoshee or Machinehead has their own little story offscreen.
• Hot-Blooded: Everyone.
• Humongous Mecha: The Superboins' Boincar is able to transform into i of these. The flight-capable mechas from the Roboworld ground forces likewise qualify.
• Idol Singer: Bosbos and Boiboi found fourth dimension to release a CD in between the racing and Fanservice.
• Impossibly-Depression Neckline: Bosbos.
• Improbable Hairstyle: JP's epic pompadour; how he keeps information technology that way without product is a mystery. It's even the reason he won, considering it was the get-go role of him to cross the finish line.
  • Oddly enough, he is shown combing it in the first 15 minutes to go on it out of his optics. Still a mystery how it stays up though.
• In-Series Nickname: All the racers have one. For instance, "Sweetness JP" is a snarky epithet hurled at him by the others because he's also fair-minded to use landmines, rocket-propelled grenades or tactical nukes but to win a race.
• Incendiary Exponent: In a movie this crawly, you knew it would happen. But JP and Sonoshee manage to attain information technology by having Frisbee and the Old Man detonate their engine remotely, which somehow leads to them going even faster, and existence little more than strapped to a hunk of metal propelled by a continuous explosion.
• Incoming Ham: JP has 1 particular moment of ham when he announces his intent to drive in the Redline.

  JP: "hither, give me that *grabs the closest video photographic camera and points the lense at him* ROBOWORLD! Here I COME!!"

  • And Psychoman, the racer from early in the Yellow Line who takes pressing a push up to Invader Zim levels of ham. He yells 'Have THIS!' so loud spittle flies out his oral fissure, and pushes the button and so hard the glass over it shatters.
• Interrupting Meme: When discussing some parts of the truly crawly soundtrack people take the tendency to UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ. Discover.
• Kaiju: Funky-Male child, Roboworld's bioweapon, which is locked in Zone 7X. Then Gori-Rider accidentally awakens it. Afterward on, Volton transforms himself into 1 in order to fight Funky Boy.
• Kill Sat: Roboworld has one, and they utilize information technology twice: the start attempt, targeting the Supergrass ship conveying the REDLINE racers, fails thanks to Lynchman and Johnny-Boya sabotaging the cannons. The 2nd attempt manages to destroy Funky Boy; however, it regenerates.
• Large Ham: Several, given this is a World of Ham.
  • The president of Roboworld, who makes grandiose speeches about "ensuring justice" and "being a symbol of humanity that exists for peace", despite edifice various weapons of mass destruction.
  • Also, Machinehead (well he is voiced by Michael McConnohie after all).
  • And so at that place's Colonel Volton, voiced past the largest ham of voice actors: Jamieson Toll.
  • The unnamed announcer introducing all the racers (In Japanese, mind you) might only out-ham all of them:

  Announcer: "MIKI ANDO TODOROKEEEEEEEEEEAAAAH!!'''

• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Sonoshee comments that her butt can exist seen on the Telly, while viewers of the picture can see her topless while eating fruit very suggestively during that detail moment.
• Left Hanging: Due to the way the moving-picture show abruptly finishes as before long as JP and Sonoshee win the race and share a tender moment in midair, a lot of plotlines remain unresolved. Did Colonel Volton manage to get Funky Boy under control? What will happen to Roboworld at present that their bioweapons have been exposed? What will happen to Deyzuna for his desertion? All these questions and more than are left completely unanswered. Presumably trying to answer them would have taken a few more years of animation...
• Leitmotif: About characters accept them, though the notably reoccurring ones are Machinehead's, Lynchman and Johnny Boya's, and the Superboins'.
• Let'southward Fight Like Gentlemen: ALL of the racers (well, except Gori Rider). On the rails, they're perfectly willing to blast each other with Sidewinder missiles, just off it, "We're all racers, we're here to testify off how badass we are, not slaughter each other similar those fuddy-duddy Roboworlders." Machinehead shows upward while Little Deyzuna is picking a fight with Trava, and the mere presence of a 7-human foot tall cyborg distracts the Roboworlder enough for the racer to wander off. He then gets in Machinehead'southward face, but the big man merely says "Fine. I'll walk around you." Heh. Manly men are Redliners, even when they're sexy girls.
• Loveable Rogue: JP.
• Love at First Sight: Sonoshee doesn't call back, only JP saw her when she was a kid and he was smitten ever since.
• Ludicrous Speed: The entire goddamn motion picture. Even more so when Nitro/Steamlight is used by having time tedious down and the cars/drivers stretching before launching away. Well-nigh the end line, JP (while using the Steamlight heave plus the explosive under his wheels) sees the end line in extremely slow motion.
• Made of Iron: Everyone qualifies for simply surviving in their cars, only JP and Sonoshee deserve props for the former surviving at least 4 car crashes (One was at 300 km/h. JP was miraculously unharmed.) that nosotros know of over the course of the movie, 3 without whatsoever sort of bodily impairment, and Sonoshee being in his motorcar in the last crash, both of them with no noticeable harm. Oh, and they were both on fire at the time.
  • Also, Tetsujin. He swallowed non one, but TWO steamlights and survived.
• The Mafia: Inuki Group.
• Magitek: Supergrass engineering.
• Manly Tears: In a twenty-year-former recording, Machinehead Tetsujin cries the outset time he wins Redline.
• Mauve Shirt: Large Deyzuna, whom we encounter a close up of when he's being vaporized past "Funky Boy"
• Mean Grapheme, Nice Actor: While on the track the racers volition do whatever it takes to win and volition appoint in countless trash talk with their opposition. Off the track they are perfectly reasonable and nice people.
• Meaningful Proper noun: Bosbos, Boiboi and the boin function of "SUPERBOINS" are all japanese onomatopoeia for large bosoms bouncing.
  • Tetsujin, part of Machinehead's name, means Ironman in Japanese.
  • Pun aside, the Semimaru is named after a cicada, hence the shape and burrowing feature.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: While in that location is no "mid-season" per se, after the Yellow Line Sonoshee and JP both get upgrades to their vehicles. Sonoshee has a third engine attached to the dorsum while JP's Trans AM is completely overhauled, gaining a superior engine, fifth wheel and overall more angular pattern. In the segments featuring the other racers, this happened to Machinehead's Godwing (with each successive Redline win) and Lynchman's Lynchcar (the last model of which is now on sale in model-form in-universe). The other riders seem to accept kept their original rides.
• Mister Muffykins: Endemic past Machinehead.
• Mix and Lucifer: One reviewer summed it up as, "as if the bandage of Top Gear raced through minefields on the Northward Korean border or the cast of The Cannonball Run took on Darth Vader."
  • IGPX: Immortal 1000 Prix meets Dead Leaves.
  • Wacky Races: Sci-Fi Anime Edition?
  • Initial D meets FLCL.
  • Its besides beingness called F-Zippo meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, taken both Upwardly to Eleven in sheer Hot-Blooded Series Escalation.
  • Speed Racer(from the picture) races to take down Adam Sutler.
  • Paris-Dakar revisited à la Ōban Star-Racers
• Moment Killer: The page motion picture was heading in the direction of an Almost Kiss — until Shinkai decided to pace in.
  • Equally the power up music got good during the final stretch, information technology of a sudden stops and cuts to the remnants of the Roboworld army commenting on how they can't catch the Redliners. It then resumes with omnious music instead.
• Ms. Fanservice: Bosbos and Boiboi. Sonoshee races in at a solid 2d place.
• Naked in Mink: The "SUPERBOINS", Bosbos and Boiboi, are dressed like this during a televised interview.
• Nice Job Breaking Information technology, Hero: The reason why the Roboworld regime doesn't want the race to happen on their planet aside from having all their illegal arms edifice programs and laboratories exposed is because they're agape the commotion caused by the racers will wake upwardly a Cthulhu-esque bio-weapon that they've created in said illegal research programme. Guess what happens when Gori Rider digs too deep.
• Nice Shoes: JP and Sonoshee wearable absurd boots with stylish zippers and bulbous toes. Several other racers wearable distinctive footwear, and their feet dominate intense Pedal-to-the-Metallic Shots as they stride on the gas. It's similar the foot equivalent of Gainaxing.
• Nitro Boost: Several dissimilar types, with varying colors, strength — and, of class, amount of damage to the automobile using it. JP uses "Gold Nitro", little capsules of awesomesauce he drops right into the manual through a dash-mounted valve. Above everything else is the legendary "Steamlight", which appears to exist collapsed antimatter stored in beautiful petty sapphires. Sonoshee wears ane equally a necklace and drops it into JP's tank so they can match Machinehead in the final stretch.
• No Kill Like Overkill: Roboworld's solution against the Redline racers entering their atmosphere? One Impale Sat. And that'southward without because that it was very easily sabotaged and vandalised by 2 of said racers beforehand.
• Now Which I Was That Voice?: Subverted, in that the english dub credits are shown afterwards the Japanese credits.
  • Patrick Seitz - JP
  • Michelle Ruff - Sonoshee McLaren
  • Liam O'Brien - Frisbee
  • Steve Kramer - Former Man Mole
  • Spike Spencer - Redline race commentator Void Exercise (the one with the square head)
  • Michael McConnohie - "Machinehead" Tetsuzin
  • Jamieson Price - Colonel Volton
  • Derek Stephen Prince - Little Deyzuna
  • Tony Oliver - Shinkai
  • Sam Riegel - Miki
• Off-Model: Expected due to its deranged nature.
• One-Gender Race:
  • The magic-using people of Supergrass seem to be all female: you never run across any men, even in crowd scenes. Makes sense, since they are apparently all Magical Girls.
  • The cyborgised citizenry of Roboworld, on the other hand, seem to be all-male person.
• One-Winged Angel: Colonel Volton, who transforms himself into a Kaiju-like monstrosity in lodge to fight evenly with Funky Boy.
• Out-of-Genre Experience: Going in expecting a Widget Serial about futuristic illegal street racing is all well and good, and gets you lot most of what yous'd wait. But and then, during the final human activity, Funky Boy escapes containment and goes on a binge, and at present the race all of a sudden has a Kaiju movie going on in the background.
• Panty Shot: Despite the mink, Bosbos and Boiboi don't go as far every bit Bones Instinct.
• Pedal-to-the-Metal Shot: Featured prominently and frequently. Some of the near noteworthy include JP feverishly pressing on the gas pedal at the final stretch of Yellow Line, and and then Sonoshee kicking her foot on his to give them the necessary speed to attain the outer lane in the titular Redline'south last run.
• Pet the Canis familiaris: Literally, in Machine Caput's case.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: TRANSAM 20000 is always the tiniest of the cars in any race JP enters, just also one of the most powerful.
• Planet of Hats: Roboworld, though slightly dissimilar to how y'all might look.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: one of the pre-race profiles of the racers features a brief slice of western music, which has also been heard in web-game Cactus McCoy equally the main theme.
• Punny Name / Bilingual Bonus: Miki and Todoroki's racing vehicle, Semimaru. Maru in Japanese tin translate to circumvolve, making it a play on words of semicircle.
• Putting on the Reich: The Roboworld flag resembles the Nazi flag, and their Mooks have a stormtrooper-esque wait to them.
• Rated M for Manly: Latches onto the part of the brain that likes high-speed racing, breasts, explosions and vivid colors.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Trava and Shinkai.
• Refuge in Audacity: The Redline Mothership; with its loli princess at the helm, it just warps wherever the fuck it wants and makes a race track. How to achieve this? Well, get-go yous get to your standard heavily defended fascist state and:
  • Declare you're going to take an illegal road race on their dwelling house planet.
  • Evade their point defenses and paint a pink finish line on their headquarters.
  • Accept two of your racers disable and vandalize their satellite defense system.
  • Teleport in and drop your racers from depression orbit.
  • Aid in setting their resident behemothic monster free to rampage.
  • Teleport the whole transport underground, lift it up under their headquarters, and make the spine of the ship the final stretch.
  • The method of teleportation they used was simply possible in theory, which is how they protected their racers from existence attacked enroute. The Roboworld president actually called this an audacity. They literally took refuge in audacity.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: While watching TV, Sonoshee complains most the camera coiffure focusing on her ass while she'south fixing her car. Right afterward she says this, the scene changes and the audience gets to savor a shot of her blank breasts.
• Revenge Before Reason: Picayune Deyzuna is and then assail making Trava and Shinkai pay for 'abandoning' him that he ends up going AWOL and joining the race.
• Rule of Absurd: From the absurdly fashionable automobile designs, to the sheer corporeality of activeness happening throughout the story, this movie supremely lives on this trope.
• Rule of Fun: This ends up being the reason why Machinehead and JP/Sonoshee end upwards pushing for the finish line using their steamlights. Machinehead ends upwardly using his just to "make the race more interesting".
• Dominion of Romantic: Compared to the same Dominion Of tropes this one is a little more subtle; virtually of the character motivations unremarkably stalk from what is a genuine love for racing, a indicate most axiomatic when you consider how glitzy and glamorous Redline is presented beyond billions in the milky way despite technically being illegal. Past the end of the movie, any hint of antagonism between the racers is exchanged for mutual admiration and euphoria, and as if to drive this declaration abode, J.P. and Sonoshee profess their dear for one another consummate with a Big Damn Kiss and an finish card that but reads Honey; pretty much reframing the picture show equally not only a story well-nigh the love for the race; but finding dearest within it. Information technology's particularly apt given how the pic was substantially a similarly born passion project.
• Scenery Porn: To quote Bearding: "Every single frame is a goddamn wallpaper!"
• Schizo Tech: Apparently V8s and chopper style bikes will remain pop in the hereafter.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Frisbee somewhen becomes this when he sees just how close JP is to winning Redline, aslope a combination of guilt for nearly trashing JP's hopes and dreams twice and Representative of the Inuki Group trying to alter the deal by having the Transam 'malfunction' before information technology reached first identify.

  "He's so close... I want to see him win, I want to see him win for one time in his life!!"

• Spiral This, I'm Outta Here!: The remaining pursuing Roboworld troops towards the stop of the moving picture.

  "... Fuck this, they're too fast."

  • When Old Homo Mole bursts into the Inuki Boss's headquarters armed with a shotgun and kills his henchmen, the two girls that had been doting on him the entire moving-picture show cheerfully say "Cheerio" before booking it out of the room.
• Serial Escalation: Redline (and its lesser qualifying round counterparts: Blueline and Yellowline) has ever been a no-holds barred combat racing competition that operates on the very fringes of legality, but using a mechanized hellhole like Roboworld as the venue is near certainly not normal. Two Yellowline winners actually bow out because having to bargain with the other cutthroat racers and ecology hazards is bad enough without an entire planet's army gunning for you. From what little can be seen from the previous three Redline competitions in Machinehead's promo, they were far tamer than the one shown at the climax of the film.
• Serious Business: The Redline race. Justified considering the betting and advertising make a ton of money, and co-ordinate to Lynchman 'there's enough money riding on this race to buy several planets!'
• Shed Armor, Proceeds Speed: The Crab Sonoshee is upgraded with a modular tertiary turbine for the Redline race which helps the vehicle become faster, merely can also exist detached in case it burns out or if it gets caught on something.
• Shout-Out: To various anime and western shows.
  • Sonoshee McLaren is probably named after the Formula 1 team / route-legal supercar manufacturer McLaren.
  • Gori-Rider'southward pursuit of Miki and Todoroki is a accept-off from the viaduct pursuit scene from Terminator 2.
  • Deadwon'southward Firebird and Bumms concrete characteristics are a nod to Dick Dastardly's Mean Automobile #00 and Muttley from Wacky Races
  • Lynchman & Johnny Boya'south introduction uses the famous spotlight running scene from Lupin III serial.
    • For that matter Lynchman and Johnny Boya are clear expies of Batman and Robin, and their car is a have-off of the Batmobile from the 1989 movie.
• Sibling Team: Miki and Todoroki. Likewise, the 'SUPERBOINS' Bosbos and Boiboi.
• Pocket-size Girl, Big Gun: Sonoshee uses a very big double barreled pistol to manualy accept out a sidewinder missile headed straight for her. She manages to hit it, but slightly too late.
• Smoking Is Cool: All over the place, a lot of smokers here.
• Infinite Elves: The magical inhabitants of Supergrass, who are major backers of the Redline race and accept submitted their own team, the Superboins.
• Spy Catsuit: Bosbos and Boiboi.
• Stealth Pun: The movie's championship refers to the maximum engine speed at which an internal combustion engine or traction motor and its components are designed to operate without causing damage to the components themselves or other parts of the engine. It tin can too refer to the manager's full embrace on the line quality of animation in this moving picture, since everything rendered in it is derived from a solid black line!
• Stuff Blowing Up: Lots and lots of stuff. Especially JP. Twice. simply he was fine both times.
• Surrounded past Idiots: Colonel Volton starts feeling this way when his own personal forces go their asses handed by the racers and when his three direct subordinates, specially Piddling Deyzuna and Dr. Sabose, stray from their objective.
• Technical Pacifist: JP doesn't actually believe in Vehicular Combat and scoffs at Pops' offer to install guns in the [TransAM]. It's implied that this is where his "Sweet" moniker comes from. Conversely, he doesn't see anything wrong in making it and then that his fellow racers blow up one another or letting their bigger and louder cars soak up all the damage from traps, defenses, and other environmental hazards while he blazes past when the coast is clear.
• Applied science Porn: The amount of details in each racer auto, transport and other vehicles is absolutely ridiculous.
• Too Dumb to Live: The workers that sabotage the power station think information technology's a skilful idea to wake upwards Funky Boy, an extremely powerful bioweapon, hoping it'll help the Redline racers in the fight against Volton.
• Transforming Mecha: The Superboins' pink racer "Boincar", as well as Roboworld's fighter aircraft.
• Transhuman: Old-fashioned humans are in the minority. Roboworld is full of cyborgs, and at that place are people with canis familiaris heads, or extra arms, and all sorts of nonhuman attributes, merely it'southward non explained if they're transhumans or aliens.
• Troperiffic: This movie is adored by tropers. Not to the extent of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann or other Troper Critical Mass works, simply it'due south impressive for a 100-minute film that seems to have been destined to become obscure.
• Unusual User Interface:
  • Reigning Redline Champion Machinehead and the denizens of Roboworld plug themselves into and literally become role of their vehicles.
  • Sonoshee's hovercraft racer uses a chopper style motorcycle handlebar setup for steering.
  • Miki goes into his part of the "cycle" sideways.
  • While in car mode it'due south controlled conventionally, the Superboins' car is piloted with magic when it's in robot mode.
• Up to 11: Absolutely everything and everybody in the film.
• Vehicular Combat: When the Yellowline race is riddled with racers firing missiles at each other, yous know it fits the trope. Taken to the next level in the Redline race, where the racers are practically fighting an all-out war against a planetary military superpower.
• Villain Has a Indicate: Fifty-fifty though the people of Roboworld are warmongering assholes, they are merely defending their territory from what is essentially a strange invasion, and likewise trying to make certain that their military secrets don't get broadcasted all over the universe.
• Wacky Racing: Taken to levels never before seen.
• Warp Bulldoze: The Redline mothership which drops the racers onto the planet.

  President of Roboworld: "A hyper-dimensional drive? They're going to violate our airspace using navigational equipment that only exists in theory!? THE Nerve OF THOSE VERMIN!"

• Weak, merely Skilled: JP, he'southward arguably one of the most normal drivers in both appearance and vehicle, but he makes up for it with insane speed and driving skills.
• Weaponized Car: All of them, except JP'southward TRANSAM 20000, as JP refuses to have whatever weaponry mounted on it.
• What Happened to the Mouse?:
  • There'due south all this dramatic build up for Funky Boy, but equally presently as Volton turns himself into a monster and fights him head on, they both vanish from the plot and never return.
  • In that location was also a build-up for Miki and Todoroki seeking revenge on the Gori Passenger, just that really never comes upward during the race.
  • Little Deyzuna violated Volton's orders and committed treason, the penalisation of which is expiry, to bring together the race. Notwithstanding we don't know what happened to him after that and considering how fucked up Roboworld is by the end of the race. There's the possiblity he won't even take the problem of getting courtroom marshaled.
• Willfully Weak:
  • During their interview the Superboins Bosbos and Boiboi make it known that they won't be using magic out of respect for the other racers. Once it becomes apparent just what sort of hell Roboworld's got prepared for them, though, all bets are off.
  • Sweet JP refuses to employ weapons despite everyone else doing so. Fifty-fifty going to Roboworld, the most he'll practice is install a new engine that is, at best, a danger to himself.
• Work Off the Debt: A much darker version. JP's friend Frisbee took out a loan from some mafia types to pay for an engine for JP to apply in an upcoming race on the proviso that he won, unfortunately JP lost; as a result both Frisbee and JP had to work the debt off by fixing races (JP would hang back in final place until the final lap, shoot upwardly to pole postion and so lose, though JP never exactly tried to follow the final part of the deal, causing Frisbee to make him lose by sabotaging his machine). Worse nonetheless Frisbee got caught redhanded race fixing and JP served time for it (taking the fall for Frisbee) prior to the movie beginning.
• World of Ham: Cheers to all the Serious Business.
• Wrench Wench: Sonoshee isn't merely the racer, she'south also the mechanic backside the Crab Sonoshee

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