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Nightmare Fuel / Hot Wheels: AcceleRacers

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  • The realms are fun and cool to drive in-Then various things will pop out and try to murder you, like giant flesh eating slugs and insects, kamikaze trucks, lightning bolts, Monster fish, sharp 90 degree curves that you can fly off from into something that can kill you, Giant scorpions and buzzards, radioactive wastedumps, giant alligators caverns with giant bats and mountain sized stalagmites, bottomless pits, quicksand, black holes, extreme solar flares-and even if you survive all of that, if you don't make it out of each of the realms within an hour, you're trapped forever. Drive to survive, indeed...
  • Special mention goes to the Storm Realm from the first movie; from the drivers being launched out into the void from the get-go, to the drones displaying even more aggression and brutality than in World Race, an absurd number of extremely close calls, Kadeem tumbling into the void, and Vert leaving the realm with his car cut in half because he barely exited the closing portal in time, the whole sequence is extremely tense and wracked with terror.
  • Seeing that Banjee, Dan and Alec were lost in the realms and Dr. Tezla refusing to tell any of the new drivers about it, one can surmise that since we don't know how long Lani worked for Tezla, there's the very real possibility that he sent in more drivers from the World Race into the realms and isn't telling anyone, not even Lani about this. What's to say characters like Esmeralda, Skeet or Chuvo weren't sent into the realms and died and Tezla will never tell anyone about this?
  • Kadeem and Markie both being slowly converted into Racing Drones. Markie was lucky enough to escape before he underwent full conversion, but still came out permanently altered for life. You can tell Gelorum evidently turned Markie's left arm robotic to prove she wasn't screwing around when she was threatening him, but Kadeem... Poor Kadeem... And all the creepy smiles and twitching he makes afterwards proves something is VERY wrong and messed up inside him now. The Drone conversion machine does not look pretty as we see it slowly inch towards Kadeem's POV, it's implied that the swirling robotic parts rip his face and other limbs apart to replace them with robotic equivalents. Poor Markie also got his arm ripped off.
  • The end of the series where Vert finds out his dad Major Wheeler is a Silencer gives off sooooo many questions. The idea that Vert had to race against his dad and might have ended up attacking him and vice verse adds a lot of worries to the talk the two had in Breaking Point. This also adds a HUGE Tear Jerker moment in that scene, because he knows his son was getting in extreme danger in the Racing Realms and didn't want his son getting hurt without telling him why he shouldn't. The fact that this is how the series ends while Left Hanging only adds salt to the wound...
  • This likely crosses over Fridge Logic as well, but the reason why Lani always seems so quick to lose hope when it appears that the drivers could be dead is probably because she's seen many of them die before...

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