History WesternAnimation / SpeedRacerTheNextGeneration

* CoolLoser: Speed... in the social food chain, that is. On the track, he usually wins.

* BackForTheDead: The Mach Five is revived, only to end up truly totaled. When he returns at the start of season 2, Speed Sr. brings with him a once more newly-revived Mach Five.

%%* BigManOnCampus: X, ''so'' much... after he stops being a jerk to Speed.

%%* BrainInAJar: [[spoiler: This happened to Stan in the altered Timeline.]]
%%* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Headmaster Spritle and Zile Zazic, respectively. In scenes they share together, you can just ''feel'' the tension.

%%* ChangelingFantasy: The show appeared to be going this way by the last episode.
%%* ChickMagnet: First X, then Speed ''and'' X. And they're reunited brothers. Quite the "MrFanservice" pair!

%%* CoolCar: In a car racing show like this one, it pretty much goes without saying that there'd be {{Cool Car}}s aplenty.
%%* CoolLoser: Speed... in the social food chain, that is. On the track, he usually wins.

%%* DoAnythingRobot: Chim-Chim

%%* EarnYourHappyEnding: And by golly, does Speed and his friends have to ''earn it''.

%%* EveryManHasHisPrice: For Conor, it's cookies. [[spoiler:Not like it did Zile any good.]]

%%* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The school's Virtual Track.
%%* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:X Racer in "Racing With the Enemy".]]

%%** And, [[spoiler:eventually, Annalise Zazic.]]

** [[spoiler: After Speed and the gang changed the timeline to prevent the Shadow Committee, Zile was arrested, got divorced by his wife and had Annalise taken from his custody. This eventually causes him to reverse his VillianDecay by making him go through a VillainousBreakdown.]]

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: In line with the Speed Racer live action movie it was released in conjunction with, the lead characters and setting isn't in Japan like the original show. In this show, Speed, Spritle and X are American. It takes place in a desert akin to Arizona, with truckers and country hicks!

''Speed Racer: The Next Generation'' is the third consecutive television adaptation, a {{Revival}} created to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the entire franchise and in conjunction to the wide release of the [[Film/SpeedRacer live-action feature film]], and a SequelReset taking place [[ExtyYearsFromNow 40 years from the original storyline]]

** Conor makes a reference to the IAmYourFather moment from ''StarWars'' when hypothesizing that the original Speed may be Speed's father. He turns out to be right. [[spoiler: And then there's when the Shadowy Woman reveals herself as Speed and X's mother...]]

* AdaptationalNationality[=/=]RaceLift: While the Racer family and the original supporting characters are American (see We All Live in America), by the look Speed Sr's photo and Speed Jr., the Racer family still appear Japanese at least.
* AlphaBitch: Annalise, though she grows out of it in later seasons.

* BigManOnCampus: X, ''so'' much... after he stops being a jerk to Speed.

* BrainInAJar: [[spoiler: This happened to Stan in the altered Timeline.]]
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Headmaster Spritle and Zile Zazic, respectively. In scenes they share together, you can just ''feel'' the tension.

* ChangelingFantasy: The show appeared to be going this way by the last episode.
* ChickMagnet: First X, then Speed ''and'' X. And they're reunited brothers. Quite the "MrFanservice" pair!

* CoolCar: In a car racing show like this one, it pretty much goes without saying that there'd be {{Cool Car}}s aplenty.
* CoolLoser: Speed... in the social food chain, that is. On the track, he usually wins.

* DoAnythingRobot: Chim-Chim

* EarnYourHappyEnding: And by golly, does Speed and his friends have to ''earn it''.

* EveryManHasHisPrice: For Conor, it's cookies. [[spoiler:Not like it did Zile any good.]]

* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The school's Virtual Track.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:X Racer in "Racing With the Enemy".]]

** And, [[spoiler:eventually, Annalise Zazic.]]

* LaserBlade: The Mach 6's saws.

* OlderAndWiser: '''Spritle.'''

* PreviouslyOn

* TimeTravel: The main arc for the second season.

** WhamLine: [[spoiler:Definitely when the Shadowy Woman reveals her identity.]]

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: His name is ''Speed''? And his brother's name is ''X''?
** Apparently it's better than Preston dePedal, an [[spoiler: alias X has to use to gain access to Alpha Academy.]]

* AcademyofAdventure: Speed and his friends get involved in a variety of events (from being sent mysterious letters to getting stuck inside the Virtual Track) primarily due to Zile’s [[spoiler: and later the Committee’s]] plans to steal the Mach 6.

* FirstDayofSchoolEpisode: The Beginning Part One focuses on Speed’s arrival at the Racing Academy.

* LazyArtist: The Flash characters are stiff, with outlines that have no life to them, interacting with ConspicuousCG environments and race cars (the Maya models aren't even rendered with a finished look). In the pilot movie, two shots have badly-mixed shading over the characters, prompting the studio never to use shading on them again except for extreme cases.
** That is, until the second season, when the shading returns, only it looks slightly better due to actually ''having'' an animation budget.

** Conor makes a reference to the IAmYourFather moment from ''StarWars'' when hypothesizing that the original Speed may be Speed's father. [[CaptainObvious He turns out to be right.]] [[spoiler: And then there's when the Shadowy Woman reveals herself as Speed and X's mother...]]