History Anime / REDLINE

** 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. [[spoiler:Once it becomes apparent just what sort of hell Roboworld's got prepared for them, though, all bets are off.]]

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: Subverted, in that the english dub credits are shown after the Japanese credits.
** Creator/PatrickSeitz - JP
** Creator/MichelleRuff - Sonoshee [=McLaren=]
** Creator/LiamOBrien - Frisbee
** Creator/SteveKramer - Old Man Mole
** Creator/SpikeSpencer - Redline race commentator Void Do (the one with the square head)
** Creator/MichaelMcConnohie - "Machinehead" Tetsuzin
** Creator/JamiesonPrice - Colonel Volton
** Creator/DerekStephenPrince - Little Deyzuna
** Creator/TonyOliver - Shinkai
** Creator/SamRiegel - Miki

** 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 it DifficultButAwesome. Unfortunately for the other racers, Machinehead specifically modified himself to either be immune to it's drawbacks or take advantage of them, instead turning him and Godwing into a GameBreaker (small wonder why he's won three consecutive Redline races).

* ChekhovsGun: Sonoshee's steamlight pendant, and the detonator on JP's car, though not in the way you'd expect-- [[spoiler:instead of being used to kill off JP's chances of winning, it was used to gain even more speed. By somehow with the help of the Steamlight nitro allowing JP to make his car into a straight up rocket.]].

* MixAndMatch: [[http://www.salonfutura.net/2010/10/real-gone/ One reviewer]] summed it up as, "as if the cast of ''Series/TopGear'' raced through minefields on the North Korean border or the cast of ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' took on [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]]."
** ''Anime/IGPXImmortalGrandPrix'' meets ''Anime/DeadLeaves''.
** Wacky Races: Sci-Fi Anime Edition?
** ''Manga/InitialD'' meets ''Anime/{{FLCL}}''.
** Its also being called ''VideoGame/FZero'' meets ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' in sheer HotBlooded SerialEscalation.
** ''Film/SpeedRacer''(from the film) races to take down [[Film/VForVendetta Adam Sutler]].
** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris-Dakar Paris-Dakar]]'' revisited à la ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers''

* RefugeInAudacity: 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, first you go to your standard heavily defended fascist state and:

* ActionGirl: Arguably Sonoshee, although her action is limited to driving, as is nearly everyone 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 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.

* BareYourMidriff: Sonoshee in her racing outfit.

* OffModel: Expected due to its deranged nature.

** Machinehead is a gigantic cyborg, towered over all other characters by almost a torso length. And he's every bit 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 least believably car sized, Godwing is titanic, being almost as big as a small spaceship. And just like its driver Godwing takes the brunt of Roboworld's firepower and is still commanding a lead, even if it has to destroy the ''racetrack itself'' to do so.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Representative of the Inuki Group]] gets a two screwdrivers shot into his eyes from a shotgun. There's also one of his goons whose the first to get said screw drivers from said shotgun if you [[FreezeFrameBonus pause]] it correctly you can see that it's ''three screwdrivers'' impaled on his head, two on each eye and one in his mouth.

* CheatersNeverProsper: Somehow manages to manifest even in a race where anything goes; Gori-Rider, Miki and Todoroki try to just dig their way past all the deadly obstacles and lynchpin turns only to wind up in even bigger trouble and way behind all the other competitors.

** Sonoshee's Crab Sonoshee, while not as fast as the [=TransAM=] 20000, has some decent offensive options and can take a lot of punishment, making it a JackOfAllStats. Its main gimmick, amphibiousness, falls into SituationalSword. On a course like the Redline, where any path (other than presumably outright air travel) is allowed as long as you get to your destination, an amphibious car can turn into a huge GameBreaker in the right situation, even then on a course without water it's still a fast machine with it's engine not creating much exhaust allowing it to not be targeted by most heat seeking missiles.

** [[spoiler: Little Deyzuna]], who shows up midway through the race and not even in a customized vehicle, is a JokeCharacter. Although he could be considered a LethalJokeCharacter as despite being in a bog-standard vehicle he still managed to stay hot on the tails of the racers right up to the end.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Sonoshee comments that her butt can be seen on the TV, while viewers of the movie [[MsFanservice can see her topless]] while [[EroticEating eating fruit very suggestively]] during that particular moment.

* MisterMuffykins: Owned by [[RealMenWearPink Machinehead]].

* MeaningfulName: Bosbos, Boiboi and the boin part of "SUPERBOINS" are all japanese onomatopoeia for [[{{Gainaxing}} large bosoms bouncing.]]

* {{Gainaxing}}: Sonoshee after winning the Yellowline. And while racing the Redline. And every fifth scene. Later on, the Superboins get in on it too.

* BigEater: Sonoshee's order at Oasis appears to consist of four plates of [[AlienLunch alien seafood]], with the main course 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.

* ForeignQueasine: Sonoshee ordered the exotic looking seafood sphaghetti stew. Then JP pointed out that the thing is actually an AlienLunch when the "sphaghetti" starts moving around. That said, Shinkai thought it was delicious when she handed it off to him.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sonoshee's talk about the steamlight on her pendant: "They say if you pop it in your tank, it releases 100 times more energy than gold nitro". [[spoiler:She pops it into JP's TransAm to get the final boost near the end of the Redline]].

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: [[spoiler: Frisbee eventually becomes this when he sees just how close JP is to winning Redline, alongside 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 it reached first place.]]

* NiceShoes: JP and Sonoshee wear cool boots with stylish zippers and bulbous toes. Several other racers wear distinctive footwear, and their feet dominate intense [[PedalToTheMetalShot Pedal-to-the-Metal Shots]] as they step on the gas. It's like the foot equivalent of {{Gainaxing}}.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Boiboi.

** Steamlights are this UpToEleven. They're '''enormously''' more powerful than nitro boosts, but the drawbacks are also amplified to such an extent they're all but unusable - no rider could possibly handle the speed, and no engine could possibly handle the power without being torn apart, relegating steamlights to the status of rare collectibles and jewelry pieces. The only racer to be able to use such power is [[spoiler:Machinehead, who can handle the speed thanks to his cyborg augments and whose vehicle is likewise powerful enough to handle the boost.]] At the climax of the movie, [[spoiler: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.]]

** Johnny Boya and Lynchman's car is the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]] taken UpToEleven. And Johnny Boya is [[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead Beavis]], down to the voice.

** Its also being called ''VideoGame/FZero'' meets ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', taken both UpToEleven in sheer HotBlooded SerialEscalation.

* UpToEleven: ''Absolutely everything and everybody in the film.''

** BerserkButton: [[RantInducingSlight Just the mere mention of Trava]] is enough to set him afire.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Quite a few.
** Sonoshee [=McLaren=], whose last name is an obvious reference to the UsefulNotes/FormulaOne racing team and sports car manufacturer.
** "Sweet JP"; WordOfGod says his full name is James Punkhead.
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Machinehead"]] Tetsujin (Iron Man) and his vehicle, "God Wing"
** [[spoiler: The bio-weapon "Funky Boy", drawing parallels to the atomic bombs "Little Boy" and "Fat Man".]]
** Secretary Titan.
** [[ColonelBadass Colonel Volton]].
** It would actually be easier to name everyone without a awesome name. Even the announcer has the name "Void-do". His co-host has the comparatively less (but still) awesome name "Minvera Hanasse".

* PantyShot: Despite the [[NakedInMink mink]], Bosbos and Boiboi don't go as far as ''Film/BasicInstinct''.

* CompetitiveBalance Each of the Redline competitors can be broken down in a particular category:

** The final scenes build to a [[ImmodestOrgasm furious climax]] as the racers blast toward the finish line. In a triumphant denouement, after the racers [[SexualEuphemism have finished]], every one of them is panting, sweating and grinning in what looks like a state of post-coital bliss. They look up with approval at [[spoiler: Sonoshee and JP, who tenderly embrace one another and declare their love.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Boiboi has pink hair and Bosbos has green hair with yellow highlights. Trava has blue hair, though he's not exactly human. Sonoshee has green ''and'' pink hair, and JP's hair can be seen as a shade of blue in some scenes.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Dr. Sabose apparently can't fight the Superboins seriously.
--> '''Colonel Volton:''' "I'm gonna have your a** if you don't stop messing around with those cosplaying rejects from a porno!"
** The cosplayers remark in the original line was aimed at [[StandardSuperheroSuits Lynchman and Johnny Boya]], so it was more a shot at his inability to stop any of the bizarre cast members.

* AffablyEvil: Secretary Titan, with a dash of WickedCultured as well

* MulticolouredHair: Sonoshee has green and pink hair. and Bosbos' hair is green and yellow

* NiceShoes: JP and Sonoshee wear cool boots with stylish zippers and bulbous toes. Several other racers wear distinctive footwear, and their feet dominate intense {{Pedal-to-the-Metal Shot}}s as they step on the gas. It's like the foot equivalent of {{Gainaxing}}.

* AmbiguouslyChristian: Just before the race starts, Trava makes the sign of the cross over his chest. Old Man Mole also briefly crosses himself after [[spoiler:killing the Inuki boss and his goons]]. Nobody makes any other mention of faith.

--> '''Little Deyzuna''': ''"bet you feel sorry for [[ItsPersonal leaving me behind]] in the army now ...I've been waiting for this a long time'', '''[[SayMyName TRAVAAAA!]]"'''

--> '''Shinkai''': ''"He becomes impossibly strong when he cries."''
%%** Shinkai is a more nuanced version but ultimately feistier example of the trope. Off the track, he's rather calm and cautious, but even as Trava and he are about to enter their car at the start of the race, he begins to erratically scream, his movements becoming spastic and frenzied which carries over into the competition proper.

* CurbStompBattle: Little Deyzuna vs. Trava. ''Orrrr'' Little Deyzuna beats the ever living shit out of Trava. Either's fine.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sonoshee's talk about the steamlight on her pendant - "They say if you pop it in your tank, it releases 100 times more energy than gold nitro". [[spoiler:She pops it into JP's TransAm to get the final boost near the end of the Redline]].

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:JP and Sonoshee race Machinehead at incredible speeds, with JP winning by the tuffs of his hair (literally) and the movie ends with JP and Sonoshee kissing while floating in blue fire. Oh, and the final second of the movie is just ''LOVE'' with curly letters.]]
* {{Gainaxing}}: Sonoshee after winning the Yellowline. And while racing the Redline. And every fifth scene. Later on, the Boinboins get in on it too.

* GracefulLoser: ''Everyone'' who didn't make it to the finish line, for a refreshing change. The entire race comes off as a badassery competition, and part of it is this trope. Everyone seems to be just honored to be ''present'' when [[spoiler:JP and Sonoshee ride the shockwave of their own damned exploding engine over the Redline.]] Machinehead pops not one but ''two'' Steamlights, [[spoiler:and still shows an amazed pride at the event.]]

--->'''JP:''' "here, give me that *grabs the closest video camera and points the lense at him* ROBOWORLD! HERE I COME!!"

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Sonoshee comments that her butt can be seen on the TV, while viewers of the movie [[MsFanservice can see her topless]] while [[EroticEating eating cherries very suggestively]] during that particular moment.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Most characters have them, though the notably reoccurring ones are Machinehead's, Lynchman and Johnny Boya's, and the Super Boins'.

* ManlyTears: Machinehead cried the first time he won the Redline.

* MomentKiller: The page picture was heading in the direction of an AlmostKiss-- until Shinkai decided to step in.

* NiceShoes: JP and Sonoshee wear cool boots with stylish zippers and bulbous toes. Several other racers wear distinctive footwear, and their feet dominate intense shoots as they stomp pedals to metal. It's like the foot equivalent of {{Gainaxing}}.

* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: While watching TV, Sonoshee complains about the camera crew focusing on her ass while she's fixing her car. [[LampshadeHanging Right after she says this, the scene changes and the audience gets to enjoy a shot of her bare breasts.]]

** When Old Man Mole bursts into the Inuki Boss's headquarters armed with a shotgun that he shoots the Boss's henchman with, the two girls that had been doting on him the entire movie cheerfully say "Goodbye" before booking it out of the room.

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