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JP and Sonoshee McLaren

Someone'due south havin' doubts, huh? Hell, I'm just trying to keep this affair interesting. You tin can't write me off similar that. Y'all're but a vox, pal! You lot DON'T KNOW A DAMN Affair Virtually RACING!

— JP

Set in the far future, REDLINE is about the galaxy's biggest and deadliest illegal road race, just held every five years at a hush-hush location not unveiled until practically the last minute. Naturally, everyone wants to have office, only to do so they have to authorize in one of the Yellowline races first. 1 such racer, Sweet JP, about achieves it. Unfortunately, his prized yellow automobile TRANSAM 20000 suddenly "malfunctions" but short of the finish line.

Waking up in hospital with an arm and a leg in casts and his dreams in tatters, JP is shocked to find he has in fact made the grade. It turns out the venue has been announced: the fascistic, disciplinarian military superpower state of Roboworld, who aren't exactly pleased virtually their earth being used as an impromptu racetrack and make it perfectly clear that they intend to stop the racers with extreme prejudice before the starting flag has even 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 after spending half a decade in development, REDLINE is a racer movie different anything seen earlier and potentially ane 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 as much past French comic creative person Moebius, the The states animated film Heavy Metallic, cult Uk sci-fi comic 2000 Advertising 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 similar a mash-upwardly of different styles – somewhere in the visual chaos information technology unrelentingly throws at its audience it becomes something that is far more than than the mere sum of parts, a unique piece of animation that at times doesn't fifty-fifty feel similar anime in the traditional sense. It was likewise fatigued - by hand - over the class of seven years.

Check out the totally sweet trailer. As of tardily December 2011 it has been released on Bluray and DVD in the US and Britain. It was dubbed and released under Manga Entertainment.

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REDLINE contains examples of:

• Abnormal Ammo: JP's mechanic: Erstwhile Man Mole has a revolver shotgun that fires screwdrivers, and he uses it to devastating effect during his Big Damn Heroes rescue of Frisbee.
• Absolute Cleavage: Boiboi.
• The Ace: Machinehead. A cyborg built to race and certified badass who has won the Redline several times in a row. Mind y'all, this is a race that simply happens once in five years.
• Activeness Girl: Arguably Sonoshee, although her activeness is limited to driving, as is nearly everyone else'south. Only for comparison, when faced with a missile bearing downwards on her, she pops open her cockpit, draws a gun, and pops the sucker right out of the air.
  • She also does a good job of fending off Lynchman with the missiles and machine guns on the Crab Sonoshee.
• Avant-garde Tech 2000: JP's automobile is the TRANSAM 20000.
• Aerith and Bob: James (see below) and Frisbee.
• Affably Evil: Secretary Titan, with a nuance of Wicked Cultured as well. Although he's loyal to Roboworld, he's 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's decision and so as a result took up racing professionally.
• About Kiss: 2. 1 when JP and Sonoshee are talking virtually steamlight and are interrupted by Shinkai. The 2d one is interesting as it'southward involuntary: when Machinehead uses his steamlight nitro boost in the concluding stretch, Sonoshee does the same in JP'due south motorcar 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 breast as he is preparing to start the race. One-time Human being Mole besides briefly crosses himself later killing the Inuki dominate and his goons. Nobody makes whatever other mention of religion.
• Amphibious Machine: The Crab Sonoshee, which uses a hovercraft engine.
• Anti-Climax: Just before the Redline starts, the president of Roboworld orders the planet's Kill Sabbatum to be fired on the dropship. Zip happens, as Lynchman and Johnny Boya had sabotaged it beforehand. Thankfully, this is made up for on spades once said Kill Sat finally sees action against Funky Boy.
• Awesome, merely Impractical: According to Old Human Mole, the TRZ Airmaster engines have a lot of power, but are very unstable (the one they manage to get has 35,000 horsepower). They hook information technology upwards anyhow.
• Awesome Mc Coolname: Quite a few.
  • Sonoshee McLaren, whose last proper name is an obvious reference to the Formula One racing team and sports car manufacturer.
  • "Sweet JP"; Word of God says his total name is James Punkhead.
  • "Machinehead" Tetsujin (Iron Man) and his vehicle, "God Wing"
  • The bio-weapon "Funky Boy", cartoon parallels to the atomic bombs "Footling Male child" and "Fat Human".
  • Secretary Titan.
  • Colonel Volton.
  • It would actually be easier to name everyone without a awesome name. Even the journalist has the proper noun "Void-do". His co-host has the insufficiently less (but still) awesome name "Minvera Hanasse".
• Badass Boast: Washed by a few of the racers as yous might wait, but Machinehead has existent grounds for information technology. "I'Chiliad THE King OF REDLINE."
• Badass Driver: Hell yes! All Redline racers would have to be if they not only want to take part on the titular Redline Race only also take on on Roboworld's racetrack while fighting the armed forces forces there.
• Badass Pacifist: JP is the only racer who doesn't pack weapons of any kind on the track. He makes up for it with Hot Blood and pure driving power.
• Bare Your Midriff: Sonoshee in her racing outfit.
• The Berserker: Lilliputian Deyzuna, as demonstrated during his introductory scene, or rather, beatdown of Trava.
  • Berserk Push: But the mere mention of Trava is plenty to set him afire.

    Picayune Deyzuna: "bet you feel sorry for leaving me behind in the ground forces at present ...I've been waiting for this a long fourth dimension, TRAVAAAA!"

  • Berserker Tears: Ever sheds some tears whenever he'southward in this land.

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

  • Shinkai is a more nuanced version but ultimately feistier example of the trope. Off the rails, he's rather calm and cautious, but fifty-fifty as Trava and he are nearly to enter their car at the start of the race, he begins to erratically scream, his movements condign spastic and frenzied which carries over into the competition proper.
• The Large Damn Buss: JP and Sonoshee. While in mid-air, in a magical field, later on having only barely won the titular race.
• Large Eater: Sonoshee'south order at Oasis appears to consist of four plates of alien seafood, with the chief grade being an entire 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 one in the aforementioned scene when he shows up later and scarfs down each unabridged plate between sentences.
• The Large Guy:
  • Machinehead is a gigantic cyborg, towered over all other characters by nigh a trunk length. And he's every scrap as strong and tough as he looks, a berserk Little Deyzuna almost broke his hand punching him, then Machinehead sends him flying with a flick of his hand.
  • His vehicle, Godwing, is no slouch in this department either. While everyone else's vehicles are at to the lowest degree believably car sized, Godwing is titanic, being almost as big as a small spaceship. And simply like its driver Godwing takes the brunt of Roboworld's firepower and is notwithstanding commanding a lead, even if it has to destroy the racetrack itself to do so.
• Bio Punk: Roboworld very unexpectedly turns out to exist this, with plenty of Organic Technology and a Living Ship housing their Kill Sat.
• Blatant Lies: The President of Roboworld's speech about how Roboworld is a earth of peace and equality, while he yells angrily with ominous music playing in the background.
• Chroma Sticker: Sonoshee had them as a girl. They show upwardly again near the terminate of the picture show.
• Boom, Headshot!: Representative of the Inuki Group gets a two screwdrivers shot into his eyes from a shotgun. There'southward also i of his goons whose the first to get said screw drivers from said shotgun if you pause information technology correctly you tin can see that it's iii screwdrivers impaled on his caput, ii on each eye and one in his mouth.
• Dull, but Practical: JP'southward TransAM cars are the puniest racing vehicles among those of the Yellowline and Redline contestants. They as well don't have whatever weapons or armor and their (relatively) small engines take a while to reach a competitive height speed. However, they're much more manueverable, capable of performing daring stunts and hairpin turns that none of the other cars tin, its meaty size makes it very hard to hit, and its chief gimmick is its power to become the about out of using Nitro every bit shown at the start of the film where he and Sonoshee use the boost at roughly the same fourth dimension during a straightforward dead heat merely for him to pull ahead because his auto isn't encumbered by the weight of the Crab Sonoshee'south larger build and armaments.
• Bounty Hunters: The Dynamic duo: Lynchman and Johnny Boya are a pair of these.
• Captain Crash: Any vehicle on it that JP sets foot in will terminate up condign a smashed wreck, although it's never intentional.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Somehow manages to manifest even in a race where anything goes; Gori-Rider, Miki and Todoroki try to simply dig their way past all the deadly obstacles and lynchpin turns only to current of air upward in even bigger trouble and way behind all the other competitors.
• Chekhov'south Gun: Sonoshee's steamlight pendant, and the detonator on JP'southward car, though not in the manner y'all'd expect— instead of existence used to kill off JP'due south chances of winning, it was used to proceeds fifty-fifty more than speed. By somehow with the assist of the Steamlight nitro allowing JP to brand his car into a straight upward rocket..
• Colonel Badass: Colonel Volton, who commands his own special forces, has the authority to mobilize the planet's entire military force, and even turn into a Kaiju monster capable of matching Funky Boy.
• Commissar Cap: Appropriately enough for a man of his station, Colonel Volton'south helmet resembles one of these.
• Competitive Balance Each of the Redline competitors can be broken down in a item category:
  • Sonoshee's Crab Sonoshee, while not as fast every bit the TransAM 20000, has some decent offensive options and can take a lot of penalization, making information technology a Jack-of-All-Stats. Its main gimmick, amphibiousness, falls into Situational Sword. On a course similar the Redline, where any path (other than presumably outright air travel) is allowed every bit long as you get to your destination, an amphibious machine can plow into a huge Game-Breaker in the right situation, even and then on a form without water information technology's however a fast machine with information technology's engine not creating much exhaust allowing it to not exist targeted by most oestrus seeking missiles.
  • The Superboins' Boincar, which is able to transform into a humanoid mecha and utilise magic to destroy military vehicles, is a Magic Knight. However, the magic is apparently a scrap of a Game-Breaker, as they swear off using information technology on other racers and only unleash it against Roboworld's forces.
  • Lynchman and Johnny Boya'southward Lynchcar, which boasts powerful Sidewinder missiles and a mean rocket-anchor, yet gets thrown around a lot in the race, is a Glass Cannon.
  • Miki and Todoroki'southward Semimaru, which is an odd, issues-similar vehicle that takes advantage of Gori-Rider'south excavating, uses a lot of Confusion Fu.
  • Sweet JP'due south 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 Frail Speedster.
  • Gori Rider'due south Gorilla Tank has a born drill allowing it to brute-forcefulness it's way through most obstacles, fifty-fifty surviving drop of several stores without harm, to compensate for the fact that it'southward slower than the other racers making it The Brute.
  • Meanwhile Machinehead's Godwing is heads and shoulders in a higher place the other racers in almost all categories, but the strain of piloting it would kill a normal human, making it Difficult, but Awesome. Unfortunately for the other racers, Machinehead specifically modified himself to either be immune to it's drawbacks or have reward of them, instead turning him and Godwing into a Game-Breaker (small wonder why he's won 3 consecutive Redline races).
  • Little Deyzuna, who shows up midway through the race and non 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 notwithstanding managed to stay hot on the tails of the racers right upward to the cease.
• Cool Bike: And then many to cull from.
  • JP uses a souped-upwards anti-gravity bike (that looks similar a dear-child betwixt a chopper and a custom motorcycle created by a Bōsōzoku member) to go around Europass. Old Man Mole gives it a ride and uses it to swell consequence against some Inkui goons
  • Miki and Todoroki'southward baroque racing vehicle, "Semimaru", which has two wheels and half dozen legs. Whether information technology's a absurd bike or a spider tank depends entirely on which mode it'southward in at the time.
  • Crab Sonoshee is arguably this due to beingness a hovercraft that has it'southward "steering wheel" be just chopper-mode motorcycle handlebars.
  • Gori Rider's "Custom Rider" that'southward hidden within his "Gorilla Tank".
  • The Sand Bikes used past the Roboworld military.
• Cool Car: But of form, though JP's TransAM 20000 is the most traditional example.
• Cool Shades: Sonoshee when she's racing; besides Bosbos and Boiboi (and everyone else from planet Supergrass).
• Curse Cut Short: twins Miki and Todoroki during their interview.

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

• Adjourn-Stomp Boxing: Lilliputian Deyzuna vs. Trava. It'southward more like Picayune Deyzuna beats the ever-loving shit out of Trava. While crying the whole time.
• Cute as a Bouncing Betty: Funky-Boy, Roboworld's top undercover biological superweapon.
• Cyber Cyclops: Big Deyzuna.
• Unsafe Forbidden Technique:
  • Nitro. A single dose can exponentially increase the power of an engine, only nigh engines can only handle one tiny cap of the stuff at most earlier the vehicle starts to break downward from the strain and unless y'all're a really peachy commuter, it's hard to maneuver a Nitro boosted car on any course that isn't a straight line. Well-nigh racers adopt "safer" upgrades like gadgets, armor, or firearms (Pops considers grafting a cannon onto the TransAM a more reasonable mod than installing an engine that can take three caps of Aureate Nitro without blowing upward). Some like Trava and Shinkai try to spoof the speeds granted by Nitro by using larger engines or even several at once. The fact that JP relies heavily on this feature and can weave past obstacles and other racers while using it makes him a favorite of the crowds and a Wild Card night horse upstart for his opponents.
  • Steamlights are this Up to Eleven. They're enormously more powerful than nitro boosts, but the drawbacks are too amplified to such an extent they're all but unusable - no rider could mayhap handle the speed, and no engine could possibly handle the power without beingness torn apart, relegating steamlights to the condition of rare collectibles and jewelry pieces. The merely racer to be able to use such power is Machinehead, who tin handle the speed thanks to his cyborg augments and whose vehicle is also powerful enough to handle the boost. At the climax of the movie, JP and Sonoshee pop one 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.
• Dark and Troubled Past: JP. While working off his and Frisbee's debt to the mafia, he had been caught ruby-handed once in fixing one of the races, which led to him spending some time in the prison. Sonoshee learns about this when watching the news report on Telly.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Away from the race track, Sonoshee is very reserved and has footling inclination to come across with other people let alone romance, but JP quickly whittles away at her.
• Deranged Animation: Call up of a more realistic Expressionless 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 Off-white Cop. When asked virtually it by reporters, he attacked them too.
• Disqualification-Induced Victory: JP loses the qualification round for the titular Cerise Line race. However, when multiple qualifiers back out (due to the race being attack a Death Earth), JP qualifies due to popular vote.
• Does This Remind Y'all of Anything?:
  • The Boincar is a pink dragster styled to look like a woman lying on her back with her legs in the air. Brand of it what you will. Information technology doesn't aid matters that, upon its transformation into a bipedal form to fight off Roboworld war machine vehicles, Boiboi and Boibos' cockpits shift into the car's transparent breast cavities.
  • Godwing'southward tip looks suspiciously phallic when Machinehead activates the platinum nitro accuse. It doesn't help that Machinehead is right at the tip of it glowing red and orange from the friction.
  • The concluding scenes build to a furious climax as the racers blast toward the finish line. In a triumphant denouement, after the racers accept finished, every ane of them is panting, sweating and smiling in what looks like a state of mail-coital bliss. They look up with approving at Sonoshee and JP, who tenderly cover 1 another and declare their dearest.
• Double Meaning: Representative of the Inuki Group, worried JP might non throw the race, says that they're about to see how close JP and Frisbee are. On the face up of it, he'southward asking if JP cares about Frisbee enough to have the dive for him, merely it could also utilize to whether or not Frisbee cares plenty near JP to keep from detonating his machine to make sure he doesn't win.
• The Dragon: Volton is actually this to the Roboworld President, being in control of almost all military operations confronting the Redline racers.
• Drives Like Crazy: Everybody. Considering how crazy the race is, it's the but way 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 contest. As an added extra, there'south The Big Damn Kiss shot.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Sonoshee is not happy to notice that the racing title the media have given her is 'Carmine-Boy Hunter'.
• Everybody Lives: All the Redline racers manage to make information technology through the expiry trap race. In fact, the only casualties in the whole movie are Big Deyzuna, the mob boss and his 2 goons, and a bunch of Roboworld mooks that get vaporized past Funky Male child.
• Everybody Smokes: Every bit part of its retro way, many of the cast are smokers. Frisbee and Old Man Mole both fume, Sonoshee enjoys a cigarette while watching news well-nigh 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 rest of the Roboworld officers.
• Evil Counterpart: Like the Crab Sonoshee, the Lynchcar is a (and is the just other) Redline vehicle that hovers instead of using wheels, allowing it to "bulldoze" on water. Yet, while they're both loaded with weapons, the Crab Sonoshee was congenital with a higher accent on durability and speed while the Lynchcar puts a premium on either pulling its rivals out of the way with its anchors or but bravado them up with its other armaments. Their drivers quickly earn one another's ire at the very kickoff of the race with Lynchman and Johnny Boya becoming secondary antagonists to Sonoshee as a upshot.
• Exploding Fish Tanks: An entire eating house total of fish tanks.
• Expy: Most of the other racers and characters are imported from previous Takeshi Koike / Katsuhito Ishii productions (e.k. Miki and Todoroki are from The Mole Brothers, and Trava and Shinkai were from a four function series called Trava: Fist Planet)
  • Johnny Boya and Lynchman's car is the Batmobile taken Up to Eleven. And Johnny Boya is Beavis, down to the vocalism.
  • JP looks somewhat like Travis Touchdown.
  • According to some, Shinkai looks and sounds reminiscent of Dr Zoidberg.
  • Funky Boy is a hideously powerful infant-like beingness kept dormant in an cloak-and-dagger military facility but to be allow loose and wreak unstoppable havoc, even after existence shot with an orbital cannon. Remind yous of anyone?
    • Or an even more similar, intentionally giant bioweapon that spits lasers and was activated as well shortly.
• Facial Markings: Frisbee.
• Fast Tunnelling: Miki and Todoroki hitch a ride on Gori Rider's Gorilla Tank as he tunnels under a minefield before embarking on their ain tunnelling adventure and winding up in the lead.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: When she's off the race-track, Sonoshee is no tomboy. She can too cook one delicious looking sukiyaki-like bowl.
• Flapping Cheeks: When Sonoshee triggers her Nitro Boost, her cheeks wobble, optics bulge, and tears and spittle wing as she accelerates. Moments later, JP uses his Nitro Boost to catch up with her. The verbal aforementioned thing happens to him.
• Fluffy the Terrible: Not as cutesy as other examples, but you wouldn't expect the name Funky Boy to be given to a nigh-unstoppable, Godzilla-sized Lovecraftian bioweapon who screams Wave Movement Beams and has a Healing Gene so powerful that it can come back from existence head-shotted by a Impale Saturday with the power of a nuke.
• Foreshadowing: Sonoshee's talk virtually the steamlight on her pendant: "They say if you lot pop it in your tank, information technology releases 100 times more energy than gold nitro". She pops it into JP's Trans Am to get the concluding boost near the cease of the Redline.
• Foreign Queasine: Sonoshee ordered the exotic looking seafood sphaghetti stew. So JP pointed out that the thing is actually an Conflicting Dejeuner when the "sphaghetti" starts moving effectually. That said, Shinkai idea it was delicious when she handed information technology off to him.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The mob boss is the same man who inspired JP to race in the first identify, judging by his appearance and his two girls.
• Friend in the Black Market: In addition to existence JP's chief (and only) engineer, Pops is also a prolific junk dealer who's aiming to make a tidy sum through trading his wares during the Redline frenzy and is savvy plenty to snag the very concluding Airmaster engine for the TransAm.
• From a Single Cell: Funky Male child is vaporized past Roboworld's Kill Sat, but however manages to regenerate from some leftover bits.
• Gainax Catastrophe: JP and Sonoshee race Machinehead at incredible speeds, with JP winning past the tufts of his hair (literally) and the motion picture ends with JP and Sonoshee kissing while floating in bluish fire. Oh, and the concluding second of the film is just LOVE with curly letters.
• Gainaxing: Sonoshee after winning the Yellowline. And while racing the Redline. And every fifth scene. Later on, the Superboins go in on information technology also.
• Gender-Blender Proper noun: Mr. Minerva Hanness, former Redline champion and current Redline news anchor.
• Godzilla Threshold: Happens several times into the Redline race.
  • When Volton is but about fed up with his special forces getting owned past the racers, he orders the mobilization of the planet's entire military strength.
  • The Superboins break their 'no magic' hope when Roboworld's troops corner them.
  • Colonel Volton transforms himself into an Eldritch Abomination in order to fight evenly with Funky Boy.
• Gorn: At that place isn't much blood in this movie (It's a racing flick. Why would it demand blood?) but they accept enough blood for several movies of this type during Old Human Mole's Big Damn Heroes moment with the screwdriver shotgun.
• Graceful Loser: Everyone who didn't make it to the cease line, for a refreshing change. The entire race comes off every bit a badassery contest, and office of it is this trope. Anybody seems honored to be present when JP and Sonoshee ride the shockwave of their own damned exploding engine over the Redline. Machinehead pops non one but two Steamlights, and still shows an amazed pride at the event.
  • Which is kind of a mood backlash given that he was talking trash to them just a moment earlier, but it'due south unsaid that Sonoshee is his daughter/junk dealer, gave her a Steamlight, coming together her for dinner). Possibly he was trying to motivate them both, and saw winning the Redline equally a Rite of Passage for her, and proof of JP's suitability for him.
    • Alternatively; the trash talk was just a side-upshot of the Steamlight running through his augmentations and getting his blood up.
  • None of the other racers salvage JP, Sonoshee, and Tetsujin entertain whatever gamble of winning first place at the final stretch of the race, only keep going full throttle anyways purely to go splendid, front-row seats to see how the race ends.
• Ham-to-Ham Combat: The racer's taunts and dialogue between each other can get downright light-headed. Hither's an example:

  Trava: You recollect you're going to take me out that easy, you scumbag?
  Deyzuna: I've been waiting a long time for this... TRAVA!
  Trava: Come and go information technology, DEYZUNA!
  Deyzuna: MY RIDE IS GOING TO WHIP YOUR Deplorable ASS!
  Trava: IN YOUR DREAMS YOU SLIMY PIECE OF SHIT!
  Shinkai: Come up AND GET ME You lot PUSSY!

• Hood Ornament Hottie: When they're not racing, Bosbos and Boiboi pose and preen and then much that it's nearly ridiculous.
• Hero of Another Story: Enough. Near obvious is Lynchman and Johnny Boya, who not but are in-universe crimefighters/bounty hunters, but besides have their ain movie series and toy line. So in that location's Trava and Shinkai, who are actually from another series and accept some sort of offscreen story with Little Deyzuna. Basically anyone who gets a pregnant corporeality of screentime only isn't part of Roboworld or involved with JP, Sonoshee or Machinehead has their ain little story offscreen.
• Hot-Blooded: Anybody.
• Humongous Mecha: The Superboins' Boincar is able to transform into 1 of these. The flying-capable mechas from the Roboworld army also qualify.
• Idol Vocalist: Bosbos and Boiboi plant time to release a CD in between the racing and Fanservice.
• Impossibly-Low Neckline: Bosbos.
• Improbable Hairstyle: JP's ballsy pompadour; how he keeps it that way without product is a mystery. It's even the reason he won, because it was the first part of him to cross the finish line.
  • Oddly enough, he is shown combing it in the first 15 minutes to continue it out of his eyes. All the same a mystery how it stays up though.
• In-Serial Nickname: All the racers take one. For example, "Sugariness JP" is a snarky epithet hurled at him by the others because he's also off-white-minded to apply landmines, rocket-propelled grenades or tactical nukes just to win a race.
• Incendiary Exponent: In a motion picture this awesome, you lot knew it would happen. Only JP and Sonoshee manage to achieve it by having Frisbee and the Erstwhile Man detonate their engine remotely, which somehow leads to them going even faster, and being footling more than strapped to a hunk of metal propelled past a continuous explosion.
• Incoming Ham: JP has one particular moment of ham when he announces his intent to bulldoze in the Redline.

  JP: "here, requite me that *grabs the closest video camera and points the lense at him* ROBOWORLD! Hither 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 'Accept THIS!' so loud spittle flies out his oral cavity, and pushes the button so hard the drinking glass over it shatters.
• Interrupting Meme: When discussing some parts of the truly awesome soundtrack people have the trend to UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ. Detect.
• Kaiju: Funky-Boy, Roboworld'southward bioweapon, which is locked in Zone 7X. And so Gori-Rider accidentally awakens it. Later on, Volton transforms himself into ane in society to fight Funky Male child.
• Kill Saturday: Roboworld has 1, and they use it twice: the first attempt, targeting the Supergrass ship carrying the REDLINE racers, fails cheers to Lynchman and Johnny-Boya sabotaging the cannons. The second endeavour manages to destroy Funky Boy; withal, it regenerates.
• Large Ham: Several, given this is a Earth of Ham.
  • The president of Roboworld, who makes grandiose speeches nearly "ensuring justice" and "being a symbol of humanity that exists for peace", despite building various weapons of mass destruction.
  • Also, Machinehead (well he is voiced by Michael McConnohie after all).
  • So at that place's Colonel Volton, voiced by the largest ham of phonation actors: Jamieson Price.
  • The unnamed announcer introducing all the racers (In Japanese, mind yous) might simply out-ham all of them:

  Journalist: "MIKI ANDO TODOROKEEEEEEEEEEAAAAH!!'''

• Leaning on the 4th Wall: Sonoshee comments that her butt tin can exist seen on the Television set, while viewers of the movie tin encounter her topless while eating fruit very suggestively during that particular moment.
• Left Hanging: Due to the manner the movie abruptly finishes as soon equally 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 command? What will happen to Roboworld now that their bioweapons have been exposed? What will happen to Deyzuna for his desertion? All these questions and more are left completely unanswered. Presumably trying to respond them would have taken a few more years of animation...
• Leitmotif: Most characters accept them, though the notably reoccurring ones are Machinehead's, Lynchman and Johnny Boya's, and the Superboins'.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: ALL of the racers (well, except Gori Passenger). On the track, they're perfectly willing to smash each other with Sidewinder missiles, but off it, "We're all racers, we're here to show off how badass we are, non slaughter each other like those fuddy-duddy Roboworlders." Machinehead shows up while Fiddling Deyzuna is picking a fight with Trava, and the mere presence of a seven-foot tall cyborg distracts the Roboworlder plenty for the racer to wander off. He then gets in Machinehead's 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.
• Honey at Commencement Sight: Sonoshee doesn't call up, but JP saw her when she was a kid and he was smitten always since.
• Ludicrous Speed: The entire goddamn movie. Even more than so when Nitro/Steamlight is used by having time slow down and the cars/drivers stretching before launching away. Near the terminate line, JP (while using the Steamlight boost plus the explosive nether his wheels) sees the finish line in extremely dull motion.
• Made of Iron: Anybody qualifies for only surviving in their cars, simply JP and Sonoshee deserve props for the sometime surviving at to the lowest degree 4 auto crashes (One was at 300 km/h. JP was miraculously unharmed.) that we know of over the course of the movie, 3 without any sort of bodily impairment, and Sonoshee being in his machine in the final crash, both of them with no noticeable harm. Oh, and they were both on fire at the time.
  • Also, Tetsujin. He swallowed not one, but TWO steamlights and survived.
• The Mafia: Inuki Grouping.
• Magitek: Supergrass engineering science.
• Manly Tears: In a twenty-year-old recording, Machinehead Tetsujin cries the first time he wins Redline.
• Mauve Shirt: Big Deyzuna, whom we run into a close up of when he's being vaporized by "Funky Boy"
• Mean Character, Squeamish Histrion: While on the track the racers will do whatever it takes to win and will engage in endless trash talk with their opposition. Off the track they are perfectly reasonable and nice people.
• Meaningful Name: Bosbos, Boiboi and the boin part of "SUPERBOINS" are all japanese onomatopoeia for big 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 characteristic.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: While in that location is no "mid-flavor" per se, after the Yellow Line Sonoshee and JP both go upgrades to their vehicles. Sonoshee has a third engine fastened to the back while JP's Trans AM is completely overhauled, gaining a superior engine, fifth cycle and overall more athwart pattern. In the segments featuring the other racers, this happened to Machinehead's Godwing (with each successive Redline win) and Lynchman'due south Lynchcar (the terminal model of which is at present on auction in model-form in-universe). The other riders seem to have kept their original rides.
• Mister Muffykins: Endemic by Machinehead.
• Mix and Match: I reviewer summed information technology up every bit, "as if the cast of Pinnacle Gear raced through minefields on the North Korean border or the cast of The Missive Run took on Darth Vader."
  • IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix meets Dead Leaves.
  • Wacky Races: Sci-Fi Anime Edition?
  • Initial D meets FLCL.
  • Its also existence called F-Zero meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, taken both Up to 11 in sheer Hot-Blooded Series Escalation.
  • Speed Racer(from the film) races to take down Adam Sutler.
  • Paris-Dakar revisited à la Ōban Star-Racers
• Moment Killer: The folio picture was heading in the direction of an Almost Kiss — until Shinkai decided to step in.
  • As the power up music got practiced during the final stretch, information technology suddenly stops and cuts to the remnants of the Roboworld ground forces commenting on how they can't take hold of the Redliners. It then resumes with omnious music instead.
• Ms. Fanservice: Bosbos and Boiboi. Sonoshee races in at a solid 2d identify.
• Naked in Mink: The "SUPERBOINS", Bosbos and Boiboi, are dressed like this during a televised interview.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The reason why the Roboworld government doesn't want the race to happen on their planet bated from having all their illegal artillery building programs and laboratories exposed is because they're afraid the commotion caused by the racers volition wake up a Cthulhu-esque bio-weapon that they've created in said illegal research program. Estimate what happens when Gori Rider digs too deep.
• Nice Shoes: JP and Sonoshee wear cool boots with stylish zippers and bulbous toes. Several other racers clothing distinctive footwear, and their feet dominate intense Pedal-to-the-Metal Shots as they step on the gas. It's like the foot equivalent of Gainaxing.
• Nitro Heave: Several different types, with varying colors, strength — and, of grade, amount of damage to the automobile using it. JP uses "Gold Nitro", little capsules of awesomesauce he drops correct into the manual through a nuance-mounted valve. In a higher place everything else is the legendary "Steamlight", which appears to be collapsed antimatter stored in beautiful little sapphires. Sonoshee wears i as a necklace and drops it into JP's tank so they can lucifer Machinehead in the concluding stretch.
• No Impale Like Overkill: Roboworld's solution against the Redline racers entering their atmosphere? One Impale Sabbatum. And that's without because that it was very easily sabotaged and vandalised past two of said racers beforehand.
• Now Which Ane Was That Vocalisation?: 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 - Old Man Mole
  • Spike Spencer - Redline race commentator Void Exercise (the ane with the square caput)
  • 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.
• 1-Gender Race:
  • The magic-using people of Supergrass seem to be all female person: yous never run across whatsoever men, even in crowd scenes. Makes sense, since they are apparently all Magical Girls.
  • The cyborgised denizens of Roboworld, on the other manus, seem to exist all-male.
• Ane-Winged Angel: Colonel Volton, who transforms himself into a Kaiju-like monstrosity in order to fight evenly with Funky Boy.
• Out-of-Genre Experience: Going in expecting a Widget Serial nigh futuristic illegal street racing is all well and skillful, and gets you most of what you'd expect. Just then, during the final human action, Funky Boy escapes containment and goes on a binge, and now the race all of a sudden has a Kaiju flick going on in the background.
• Panty Shot: Despite the mink, Bosbos and Boiboi don't get as far as Basic Instinct.
• Pedal-to-the-Metal Shot: Featured prominently and often. Some of the most noteworthy include JP feverishly pressing on the gas pedal at the terminal stretch of Yellow Line, so Sonoshee kicking her foot on his to give them the necessary speed to reach the outer lane in the titular Redline's last run.
• Pet the Dog: Literally, in Machine Head's instance.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: TRANSAM 20000 is always the tiniest of the cars in any race JP enters, but also one of the about powerful.
• Planet of Hats: Roboworld, though slightly different to how you might expect.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: 1 of the pre-race profiles of the racers features a cursory piece of western music, which has also been heard in web-game Cactus McCoy as the main theme.
• Punny Proper name / Bilingual Bonus: Miki and Todoroki's racing vehicle, Semimaru. Maru in Japanese can interpret to circle, 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 look to them.
• Rated Yard for Manly: Latches onto the part of the brain that likes high-speed racing, breasts, explosions and bright 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 rail. How to achieve this? Well, first yous go to your standard heavily dedicated fascist state and:
  • Declare you're going to have an illegal road race on their dwelling planet.
  • Evade their indicate defenses and pigment a pink finish line on their headquarters.
  • Accept two of your racers disable and vandalize their satellite defense force system.
  • Teleport in and drop your racers from low orbit.
  • Aid in setting their resident giant monster free to rampage.
  • Teleport the whole ship hugger-mugger, elevator it upward under their headquarters, and brand 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 being attacked enroute. The Roboworld president actually chosen this an audacity. They literally took refuge in brazenness.
• Reluctant Fanservice Daughter: While watching TV, Sonoshee complains virtually the camera crew focusing on her ass while she's fixing her automobile. Right after she says this, the scene changes and the audition gets to enjoy a shot of her bare breasts.
• Revenge Before Reason: Picayune Deyzuna is so attack making Trava and Shinkai pay for 'abandoning' him that he ends upwardly going AWOL and joining the race.
• Rule of Absurd: From the absurdly stylish car designs, to the sheer amount of action happening throughout the story, this movie supremely lives on this trope.
• Dominion of Fun: This ends up beingness the reason why Machinehead and JP/Sonoshee end up pushing for the end line using their steamlights. Machinehead ends up using his simply to "make the race more interesting".
• Rule of Romantic: Compared to the same Dominion Of tropes this one is a little more subtle; most of the character motivations ordinarily stalk from what is a genuine beloved for racing, a point most evident when you consider how glitzy and glamorous Redline is presented across billions in the galaxy despite technically existence illegal. Past the stop of the flick, any hint of animosity between the racers is exchanged for mutual admiration and euphoria, and as if to drive this annunciation domicile, J.P. and Sonoshee profess their love for 1 another consummate with a Big Damn Kiss and an end card that only reads Dear; pretty much reframing the movie as not just a story about the love for the race; but finding love within it. It's particularly apt given how the movie was essentially a similarly built-in passion project.
• Scenery Porn: To quote Anonymous: "Every single frame is a goddamn wallpaper!"
• Schizo Tech: Apparently V8s and chopper style bikes volition remain popular in the time to come.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Frisbee eventually becomes this when he sees just how close JP is to winning Redline, alongside a combination of guilt for nearly trashing JP'due south hopes and dreams twice and Representative of the Inuki Group trying to alter the deal by having the Transam 'malfunction' earlier it reached commencement place.

  "He'south so close... I want to see him win, I want to see him win for once in his life!!"

• Screw This, I'g Outta Hither!: The remaining pursuing Roboworld troops towards the end of the movie.

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

  • When Old Man Mole bursts into the Inuki Dominate's headquarters armed with a shotgun and kills his henchmen, the ii girls that had been doting on him the entire moving-picture show cheerfully say "Good day" before booking information technology out of the room.
• Serial Escalation: Redline (and its bottom qualifying round counterparts: Blueline and Yellowline) has always been a no-holds barred combat racing competition that operates on the very fringes of legality, just using a mechanized hellhole like Roboworld equally the venue is most certainly not normal. 2 Yellowline winners really bow out considering having to deal with the other cutthroat racers and environmental hazards is bad enough without an entire planet's ground forces gunning for y'all. From what picayune 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 because the betting and advertising make a ton of coin, and according to Lynchman 'at that place'southward plenty money riding on this race to buy several planets!'
• Shed Armor, Gain Speed: The Crab Sonoshee is upgraded with a modular third turbine for the Redline race which helps the vehicle become faster, merely can as well exist detached in example information technology burns out or if it gets defenseless on something.
• Shout-Out: To various anime and western shows.
  • Sonoshee McLaren is probably named after the Formula One squad / route-legal supercar manufacturer McLaren.
  • Gori-Rider's pursuit of Miki and Todoroki is a have-off from the viaduct pursuit scene from Terminator ii.
  • Deadwon'southward Firebird and Bumms concrete characteristics are a nod to Dick Dastardly'southward Mean Machine #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 take-off of the Batmobile from the 1989 motion-picture show.
• Sibling Team: Miki and Todoroki. Also, the 'SUPERBOINS' Bosbos and Boiboi.
• Small Daughter, Big Gun: Sonoshee uses a very large double barreled pistol to manualy take out a sidewinder missile headed straight for her. She manages to striking it, but slightly too late.
• Smoking Is Cool: All over the place, a lot of smokers hither.
• Space Elves: The magical inhabitants of Supergrass, who are major backers of the Redline race and have submitted their own team, the Superboins.
• Spy Catsuit: Bosbos and Boiboi.
• Stealth Pun: The movie'south title 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. Information technology can too refer to the director'due south full embrace on the line quality of animation in this motion-picture show, since everything rendered in it is derived from a solid black line!
• Stuff Blowing Upward: Lots and lots of stuff. Particularly JP. Twice. but he was fine both times.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Colonel Volton starts feeling this style when his own personal forces get their asses handed past the racers and when his three directly subordinates, especially Niggling Deyzuna and Dr. Sabose, stray from their objective.
• Technical Pacifist: JP doesn't actually believe in Vehicular Gainsay and scoffs at Pops' offer to install guns in the [TransAM]. Information technology's implied that this is where his "Sweet" moniker comes from. Conversely, he doesn't see annihilation incorrect in making information technology so that his young man racers blow upwards ane another or letting their bigger and louder cars soak up all the harm from traps, defenses, and other ecology hazards while he blazes by when the declension is articulate.
• Technology Porn: The amount of details in each racer automobile, transport and other vehicles is absolutely ridiculous.
• Also Dumb to Live: The workers that sabotage the power station think it'due south a good idea to wake up Funky Boy, an extremely powerful bioweapon, hoping it'll assistance the Redline racers in the fight against Volton.
• Transforming Mecha: The Superboins' pinkish racer "Boincar", as well as Roboworld's fighter aircraft.
• Transhuman: Erstwhile-fashioned humans are in the minority. Roboworld is full of cyborgs, and there are people with canis familiaris heads, or extra arms, and all sorts of nonhuman attributes, but it's not 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, but it's impressive for a 100-minute movie that seems to have been destined to become obscure.
• Unusual User Interface:
  • Reigning Redline Champion Machinehead and the citizenry of Roboworld plug themselves into and literally get part of their vehicles.
  • Sonoshee'south hovercraft racer uses a chopper way motorbike handlebar setup for steering.
  • Miki goes into his part of the "wheel" sideways.
  • While in car mode it's controlled conventionally, the Superboins' car is piloted with magic when information technology'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, you lot know it fits the trope. Taken to the adjacent level in the Redline race, where the racers are practically fighting an all-out war against a planetary military superpower.
• Villain Has a Point: Even though the people of Roboworld are warmongering assholes, they are just defending their territory from what is essentially a foreign invasion, and also trying to make certain that their war machine secrets don't get broadcasted all over the universe.
• Wacky Racing: Taken to levels never earlier 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, but Skilled: JP, he'southward arguably one of the well-nigh normal drivers in both advent and vehicle, simply he makes up for it with insane speed and driving skills.
• Weaponized Motorcar: All of them, except JP'south TRANSAM 20000, as JP refuses to have any weaponry mounted on it.
• What Happened to the Mouse?:
  • In that location's all this dramatic build upwardly for Funky Boy, merely as soon as Volton turns himself into a monster and fights him head on, they both vanish from the plot and never render.
  • In that location was too a build-upwardly for Miki and Todoroki seeking revenge on the Gori Rider, but that actually never comes up during the race.
  • Niggling Deyzuna violated Volton's orders and committed treason, the penalization of which is death, to join the race. However we don't know what happened to him subsequently that and considering how fucked upward Roboworld is past the terminate of the race. In that location's the possiblity he won't even accept the problem of getting court marshaled.
• Willfully Weak:
  • During their interview the Superboins Bosbos and Boiboi make information technology known that they won't be using magic out of respect for the other racers. One time it becomes apparent just what sort of hell Roboworld'southward got prepared for them, though, all bets are off.
  • Sweet JP refuses to use weapons despite everyone else doing and then. Fifty-fifty going to Roboworld, the most he'll do is install a new engine that is, at all-time, 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 consequence both Frisbee and JP had to piece of work the debt off by fixing races (JP would hang back in last identify until the final lap, shoot up to pole postion and so lose, though JP never exactly tried to follow the final part of the bargain, causing Frisbee to brand him lose by sabotaging his car). Worse even so Frisbee got defenseless redhanded race fixing and JP served time for it (taking the fall for Frisbee) prior to the moving picture beginning.
• Earth of Ham: Thanks to all the Serious Business organisation.
• Wrench Wench: Sonoshee isn't just the racer, she's besides the mechanic behind the Crab Sonoshee

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