History WesternAnimation / HotWheelsAcceleracers

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The first three movies take place over a few days, but ''The Ultimate Race'' only takes place over half a day, and possibly as short as two-and-a-half hours. The movie begins with the Cosmic Realm opening and the drivers getting ready. Around 20 minutes after the hour allocated to complete the Cosmic Realm ends, Vert and Gelorum get into the eponymous ultimate race. That Vert is able to complete the race on just one tank of gas (plus the scenes showing what everyone else is doing in the meantime) suggest that it only takes one or two hours. The film ends about ten minutes after the race does.

* SkewedPriorities: Dr. Tezla only started to install the EDRs into every car when the racers began winning Accelechargers. Lani quickly realizes he cares more about the Accelechargers than his own drivers and questions what really happens if the Drones keep winning said Accelechargers.

** Jack constantly insisting Vert to quit racing in the realms with Teku speaks more than him being OverprotectiveDad, but also about how [[spoiler:he's one of the Silencerz who partake in the Racing Realms for their own agendas as well while opposing Metal Maniacs and Teku.]]

For the most part, it was MerchandiseDriven, just like its predecessor, ''Hot Wheels: Highway 35 World Race''. The competent storyline and very vehicle in the toyline being tailor-made to fit in with the story suggests it was also made [[DoingItForTheArt for the art]], much like ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. Because Mattel paid to make these movies, it was impossible to be ScrewedByTheNetwork, as they would just take their business elsewhere--but the company that did the CGI animation was another story.

** A minor one, but in the Cliffside Realms, two Drone cars corner Shirako but don't actively attack like normal Drones would. [[spoiler:They're also Silencerz of course]]
** [[spoiler:The wreckage of Banjee's car seen in the Swamp Realm indicates that [[FridgeHorror Tezla sent in more drivers who likely died in the realms and is not telling the Teku or Metal Maniacs about their fates]] and not bothering to search for the missing drivers]]

** During Vert's heart-to-heart talk with his dad, [[spoiler:as Jack packs his bag, a car key that have the same purple shading as the Silencerz cars is visible, although not focused on. Jack is the leader of the Silencerz field team.]]

* BagOfSpilling: All of the returning cast from ''World Race'' lose their cars from the preceding movie in Ignition where they all get abandoned or destroyed in the Storm Realm (With the exception of Mark Wylde's Corvette Stingray (2003), as it was impounded by the police during the TimeSkip between ''World Race'' and ''Acceleracers''). The biggest offender is that all but one of the licensed vehicles don't return, though this may due to licensing issues. The '70 Plymouth Roadrunner shows up in Ignition though, but it's not used again afterward.

''Hot Wheels: Acceleracers'' is a [[AllCGICartoon CGI-animated]] saga created by Creator/MainframeEntertainment, known for the GenreLaunch of CGI animation after creating ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', and endorsed by Creator/{{Mattel}}, creator of the Toys/HotWheels toy franchise on which the films are based. The movies ran as specials on the Creator/{{Toonami}} block of Creator/CartoonNetwork.

* AllThereInTheManual: There was a collectible card game released as a tie-in to the movies which provides various bits of info about the setting of Acceleracers, especially the realms. Some interesting Realms shown in the series include the Micro Realm, where the racers are [[{{LeaningOnTheFourthWall}} shrunk to the size of toy cars]], the Warped Realm, where RealityIsOutToLunch, the Reactor Realm, which takes place in what's left of a nuclear power plant, the Blizzard Realm, which has the worst of the Ice Realm turned UpToEleven and the Solar Realm, which is a massive lap around the sun as the racers avoid the occasional sunspot that lands on the track.

* MadeofExplodium: Whenever a Racing Drone is forced off the track or crashes into a wall. If they're not squashed, smashed or broken into pieces, expect an explosive end for that poor robot.

* PyrrhicVictory: The Teku and Metal Maniacs both defeat the drones [[spoiler:at the cost of Vert Wheeler being captured by the Silencerz]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The franchise as a whole ends on this note with the Teku and Metal Maniacs successfully rescuing Markie from the Racing Drones' HQ and becoming on much better terms with each other than ever before and Vert ensuring Gelorum's defeat by racing through all the realms using his own skills while she used the Accelechargers and she gets sent flying away by an Acceleron when she tries to attack Vert. The drones are also defeated as a whole since the Silencerz steal the Wheel of Power from the drones' HQ and acquire the Accelechargers when Vert ends up in their HQ. On the downside, Gig is forced to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself]] to destroy the Acceledrome to eliminate the drones occupying it to save the humans and Vert, being in the Silencerz' HQ, is separated from his friends who want to go looking for him, but are unlikely to find him any time soon. Kadeem has also been transformed into a drone and he refuses to come back with his former allies and possibly falls to his death.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The franchise as a whole ends on this note with the Teku and Metal Maniacs successfully rescuing Markie from the Racing Drones' HQ and becoming on much better terms with each other than ever before and Vert ensuring Gelorum's defeat by racing through all the realms using his own skills while she used the Accelechargers and she gets sent flying away by an Acceleron when she tries to attack Vert. The Drones are also defeated as a whole since the Silencerz acquire the Wheel of Power and the Accelechargers when Vert ends up in their HQ. On the downside, GIG is forced to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself]] to destroy the Acceledrome to eliminate the Drones occupying it to save the humans and Vert, being in the Silencerz' HQ, is separated from his friends who want to go looking for him, but are unlikely to find him any time soon. Kadeem has also been transformed into a Drone and he refuses to come back with his former allies and possibly falls to his death.]]