History YMMV / SpeedRacer

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saM8Rn0ahFA A sound that normal humans make]]". The sound in question? "Oip."

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The DoubleSubversion about Racer X's origin explains why Speed never suspected X was his brother: It has already been "disproven".

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Hap Hazard needs a race's prize money to get his [[IllGirl sick sister]] the hospital treatment to save her life, and the show even goes out of its way to make Speed take his competitive nature to the logical extreme and [[JerkassBall ignore this fact for the sake of his racing pride.]] However, Hap Hazard had been kind of an arrogant {{Jerkass}} himself up to this point. Speed then loses anyway by a pure technicality, and Hap's response is to toss his sister in the air while loudly and cheerfully boasting to the world around him, "''I beat Speed Racer!''" Viewers seem to side more with Speed's SoreLoser tantrum than with Hap's "victory".

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The theme song, whether in Japanese ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YTq7AJm_GI Mahaa Go-Go-Go!]]) or English ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCm1w_KTiY Go Speed Racer Go!]]), is incredible to hear.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Many have accused the victory milk drinking as an example of FrothyMugsOfWater, but it's actually a reference to a real life racing tradition, most famously the Indianapolis 500.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Ariel Winter as young Trixie, only a year before she became famous as Alex Dunphy on ''Series/ModernFamily''

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: People [[KilledOffForReal die]] in this series on a regular basis, and while there's no gore or explicit blood, it doesn't even attempt to disguise how horrible some of the wrecks and incidents are, nor disguises things like villains plummeting off cliffs and real guns shooting people quite a lot. No one [[NeverSayDie dances around the subject matter either]], which makes it all the more jarring to realize that an entire generation of kids were raised on a series that puts more controversial cartoons like ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' to shame. Today's audiences consequently suffer a case of ValuesDissonance when they look back on this and realize just how ''dark'' such an over-the-top and corny series can be thanks to its shonen roots.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The DoubleSubersion about Racer X's origin explains why Speed never suspected X was his brother: Its already been disproven.

** When Racer X visits the Racer home with Inspector Detector. First and foremost, it's Rex's first time home in ten years, and there is no chance of it being a happy homecoming. Secondly, there's a two second look that X gives Spritle. In that moment, Rex realizes that he has another little brother, but he'll never be able to get to know or develop a relationship with this one.

** Nearer the end of the film, John Goodman's Pops is heartbreakingly sincere as he refuses to make the same mistake he did with Rex, assuring Speed that he will always love him and welcome him home no matter what.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saM8Rn0ahFA Oip]]."

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saM8Rn0ahFA Oip]]."

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Hap Hazard needs a race's prize money to get his [[IllGirl sick sister]] the hospital treatment to save her life, and the show even goes out of its way to make Speed take his competitive nature to the logical extreme and [[JerkassBall ignore this fact for the sake of his racing pride.]] However, Hap Hazard had been kind of an arrogant {{Jerkass}} himself up to this point. Speed then loses anyway by a pure technicality, and Hap's response is to toss his sister in the air while loudly and cheerfully boasting to the world around him, "''I beat Speed Racer!''" Viewers seem to side more with Speed's SoreLoser tantrum on the side than with Hap's "victory".

** In "The Man on the Lam", the robber Lawson Lanster is reunited with his daughter Delicia whom he hasn't seen since she was a baby. He also learns that she became blind, and that her mother is busy trying to earn money for Delicia's operation. He doesn't tell her that he's her father, letting her think he's a friend of her father. At the end of the episode, his dying wish to Speed is to give his eyes to Delicia. Speed and Trixie tells her that he had to leave and to look up at the sky whenever she thinks of him.

** In "The Man on the Lam", the robber's dying wish is for his eyes to be given to his blind daughter, who's remains unaware that he was her father.

* SoBadItsGood: Except it's so bad it's ''awesome''.

** Speed's/Go's Japanese voice actor Katsuji Mori would later play [[WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine another energetic character who likes being fast, and supports the number 5.]]

* BetterThanCanon: Minor example, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S18Hm1q0srE this]] fan edit replaces the song that plays during the climactic final race with ''The Top'' from ''Manga/InitialD''. It's near-universally considered a massive improvement.

--->'''YouTube Commenter''': They killed this man live in the studio to get that scream

--->'''obese person''':They killed this man live in the studio to get that scream

* MemeticPsychopath: Speed himself is one, due to a large amount of clips being posted showing moments of him that...didn't age well, such as being told another racer needs to win so he can pay for his sister's medical treatment...then [[LackOfEmpathy refusing to throw the race and speed up]] or getting his enemies killed with no remorse. Type [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Speed+Racer+Sociopath&page=&utm_source=opensearch "Speed Racer Sociopath" in the [=YouTube=] search box]] for some interesting results...