History Characters / TheAmazingRace21

* EliminationHoudini: [[{{In-Universe}} They discussed this in leg 10]], saying they were lucky to still be around, and that there was one team like this every season.

* FanDisservice: Jaymes {{In-Universe}} during the Hasma Roadblock. He spilled some of his frog fallopian tubes on the table, and the restaurant's patrons were shown looking disgusted as he sucked it up off the table.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: [[{{In-Universe}} They cited themselves as this]] during their pre-Race interviews for All-Stars.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: [[{{In-Universe}} Rob said this about himself]] in his introduction on how the teams would view him, either they would see him as an arrogant ass, or they would love him.

* SurpriseDifficulty: [[{{In-Universe}} Discussed]] at the beginning of the third leg.

* HistoryRepeats: They lost Abba's passport in Moscow, the same city where [[Characters/TheAmazingRace13 Toni & Dallas]] lost theirs. Both times, a cab driver drove off with their passports still in the car.

* GenreSavvy: In France, James correctly guessed that the leg prize would be a pair of Ford Escapes after they were given the car to drive during the leg, [[ProductPlacement and one of their tasks included showing off a feature of the car]].

* GenreSavvy:
** Heading into the Roadblock in Indonesia, given the clue "Who likes to party?", they immediately point out the misleading nature of the clue (the Roadblock involved peddling a children's ride while making balloon animals), and how they didn't make their decision based on the clue.
--->'''Natalie''': If they were referring to real partying, I would have said me.
--->'''Nadiya''': But because it's ''The Amazing Race'' and we know the challenge wouldn't be "down thirty bottles of tequila," I went with it.
** They engineered a plan specifically to target Ryan & Abbie for elimination, by U-Turning them with the first slot of the Double U-Turn, [[LoopholeAbuse then burning the second by using it on a team who had already passed the U-Turn]], disallowing Ryan & Abbie from using the second slot to save themselves.

* {{Expy}}: Lexi is essentially [[Characters/TheAmazingRace17 Mallory]]. Even when she's being cutthroat she's energetic and adorable.

* BaseBreaker: [[{{In-Universe}} They cited themselves as this]] during their pre-Race interviews for All-Stars.

* BaseBreaker: [[{{In-Universe}} Rob said this about himself]] in his introduction on how the teams would view him, either they would see him as an arrogant ass, or they would love him.

* IronicNickname: A long-haired rocker type who goes by {{Abba}}.

Double amputee and competitive snowboarder and her on and off boyfriend. They started off strong, finishing 2nd in the first leg, and coming out of the Roadblock in 2nd on the second leg, but then their cab driver got them dreadfully lost looking for Wijaya Motor, putting them out in 10th. Amy would later finish as the runner up on Season 18 of ''Series/DancingWithTheStars''.

* HandicappedBadass: Amy is a competitive snowboarder who lost both of her legs, spleen, and hearing in her right ear due to Neisseria meningitis.
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Due to Neisseria meningitis, Amy lost both her legs, her spleen, kidney, and the hearing in her right ear.

The 21st Season of the Race, and the only one to offer a prize of $2 million to the team who won the first leg if they went on to win the Race[[note]]They didn't[[/note]]. While they continued [[Characters/TheAmazingRace20 Season 20's]] trend of a more physically tough and varied course, the producers improved on Season 20's main flaw (the generally unlikable cast) by finding one of the most fun and entertaining casts the show had ever seen. The season focused mainly on the personalities of the teams, allowing it to not only overcome, but thrive despite the biggest production snafu since [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAllStars2007 All-Stars]], when missed flights and a lost passport pushed half of the teams over ten hours behind the front teams. The cast, the numerous dramatic and memorable moments, and one of the most shocking endings in the series all added up to a great season.

Life Partners and Goat Farmers, they were the stars of the reality show ''The Fabulous Beekman Boys'', and are quite possibly the most unlikely team to ever win the race. They barely avoided elimination for seven straight legs, slipping by as other teams hit some horrible luck and made game breaking mistakes. They would not finish above 4th place until only four teams remained, and not finish above 3rd until the final leg. In the end, Josh passed up Lexi on the [[JustForFun/{{Hello}} Hello]]/[[ThatsAllFolks Goodbye]] FinalExamFinale puzzle, becoming poster boys for the fact that anyone really can win the race.

* DarkHorseVictory: They are easily the weakest team to ever win the race (even acknowledging this in post-race interviews saying they'd rather be the worst winners than the best losers), having finished in the bottom-2 for seven straight legs, yet survived all seven legs. In comparison, only one other team had survived six bottom-2 finishes ([[Characters/TheAmazingRace5 Kami & Karli]]), and they held that record for ''eight years'' until Josh & Brent broke it[[note]]Though Terri & Henry also managed to survive six close shaves in [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAsia2 Asia Season 2]][[/note]]. They also have the the least number of top-2 and top-3 finishes of any winner in race history, as well as the worst finishing average. They're also the second team to win after being 13 hours behind at one point ([[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAllStars2007 Eric & Danielle]]). In the final leg, Trey & Lexi twice said how they weren't worried about the Beekman Boys, as the Chippendales were their real competition.

* WhoIsThisGuyAgain: Possibly the hardest team to tell apart in race history, as not only are they twins with the same hairstyles, same style of clothing, and even both have nose piercings, but they refer to each other as "Twinnie". Though sometimes they will wear same style of clothing but different colors, and one will refer to the other by name early on, helping the audience to tell them apart.

* IWasBeatenByAGirl: James, when Nadiya beat him on the bus repair Roadblock.

* FriendToAllChildren: James claim to be this.

* HumblePie: James claims he was eating some after being served by the Junior Champ at the Table Tennis roadblock.

* MusclesAreMeaningful: Why they picked the Ice detour on Leg 2

* AssumedWin: Because of their overconfident nature. At the first roadblock, Natalie assumed it would be a piece a cake because she played table tennis while in Sri Lanka and her opponent being a child.
* {{Badass}}: They called them the most Badass Sri Lankans you'll even meet.

* ThisIsACompetition: Ryan after winning the first leg stated they had to use any means necessary to win.

* HandicappedBadass: Amy is a competitor Snowboarder who lost both of her legs, spleen and hearing in her right ear due to coco menogtitus.

The 21st Season of the Race, and the only one to offer a prize of $2 million to the team who won the first leg if they went on to win the Race[[note]]They didn't[[/note]]. While they continued [[Characters/TheAmazingRace20 Season 20's]] trend of a more physically tough and varied course, the producers improved on Season 20's main flaw (the generally unlikable cast) by finding one of the most fun and entertaining casts the show had ever seen. The season focused mainly on the personalities of the teams, allowing it to not only overcome, but thrive despite the biggest production snafu since [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAllStars All-Stars]], when missed flights and a lost passport pushed half of the teams over ten hours behind the front teams. The cast, the numerous dramatic and memorable moments, and one of the most shocking endings in the series all added up to a great season.

** And this was not even the first time a team missed consecutive connecting flights in Frankfurt, putting them way behind the pack and eliminating them in 5th place. The same thing happened to [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAllStars Uchenna & Joyce]], right down to the flights being missed in the exact same legs.

* DarkHorseVictory: They are easily the weakest team to ever win the race (even acknowledging this in post-race interviews saying they'd rather be the worst winners than the best losers), having finished in the bottom-2 for seven straight legs, yet survived all seven legs. In comparison, only one other team had survived six bottom-2 finishes ([[Characters/TheAmazingRace5 Kami & Karli]]), and they held that record for ''eight years'' until Josh & Brent broke it[[note]]Though Terri & Henry also managed to survive six close shaves in [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAsia2 Asia Season 2]][[/note]]. They also have the the least number of top-2 and top-3 finishes of any winner in race history, as well as the worst finishing average. They're also the second team to win after being 13 hours behind at one point ([[Characters/TheAmazingRace11 Eric & Danielle]]). In the final leg, Trey & Lexi twice said how they weren't worried about the Beekman Boys, as the Chippendales were their real competition.

* ArtificialLimbs: Both legs.

* LoveItOrHateIt: Rob said this in his introduction InUniverse on how the teams would view him.

* WorldDomination: Ryan jokingly said this at the fallopian tube roadblock.

* ChekhovsHobby: They pick Trey to do the first roadblock on leg one because he was the table tennis champ back at home.

Double amputee and competitive snowboarder and her on and off boyfriend. They started off strong, finishing 2nd in the first leg, and coming out of the Roadblock in 2nd on the second leg, but then their cab driver got them dreadfully lost looking for Wijaya Motor, putting them out in 10th.

-->'''Josh''': There's always that one team that somehow stays in til the end, and you're like, "[[EliminationHoudini How and why are they still here?]]" [[{{Foreshadowing}} Rarely do they win]], but [[Characters/TheAmazingRace2 occasionally]] [[Characters/TheAmazingRace11 they]] [[Characters/TheAmazingRace16 have]].

* RunningGag: Lexi's obsession with Trey's muscles, and he obsession with marriage while Trey didn't seem to be in such hurry.

** James & Abba lost a six hour lead because their cab driver drove off with their passports.

* DeusExMachina: They were saved by another team's catastrophic disaster that was not under their control not once, but ''twice'', with James & Abba losing a six hour lead because their cab driver drove off with their passports, and Ryan & Abbie missing a connecting flight and having their second connecting flight delayed due to mechanical malfunction. Had either flight landed on time, the U-Turn would not have killed Abbie & Ryan, and Josh & Brent would likely have been the team eliminated instead.

* BreakoutCharacter: They are easily the most notable team to won the Amazing Race in recent seasons. They gotten invited back for All-Stars 2 and Survivor.

* BaseBreaker: [[{{In-Universe}} They cited themselves as this]] during their pre-Race interviews for All-Stars