History Fridge / FZero

** In ''GX'', however, the lack of acceleration is the only thing that prevents the Black Bull from being as broken as the Fat Shark, thanks to its fourth engine behind the cockpit, and it's heavily hinted that both pilots have connections in the organized crime sector. Black Shadow simply bribed Don Genie so he would give him more powerful engines to destroy the competition in a more efficient way.

** In ''GX'', however, the lack of acceleration is the only thing that prevents the Black Bull from being as broken as the Fat Shark, thanks to its fourth engine behind the cockpit. Black Shadow simply bribed Don Genie so he would give him more powerful engines to destroy the competition in a more efficient way.

* FridgeBrilliance:
** The incredibly twitchy controls of ''GX'' suddenly become justified when you remember that these are supersonic rocket-powered hover-sleds: no traction, tons of balance issues, extremely high speeds. ''GX'' cars handle the way such vehicles would ''actually'' handle! (Doesn't make the game any less hard, though.)
** Princia Ramode has a crush on Samurai Goroh. She is unlocked by beating the Story Mode level where you race against Samurai Goroh. Coincidence?
** Many players consider the Fat Shark to be one of the best, if not THE best, machine in the game. Its pilot, Don Genie, is [[Fiction500 filthy rich]]. So it makes sense that he [[BribingYourWayToVictory simply paid enough money to commission a machine that was as good as possible to easily win races with]].
** By contrast, in ''X'', the Black Bull is considered the worst machine due to its weak boost, plus its high grip and heavy weight impeding its ability to [[GoodBadBugs drift]]. However, these same qualities also make it ''very'' well-suited for vehicular combat and it does quite well in Death Race. Combined with the lore stating that Black Shadow made it to be able to knock away his competition, this may be a case of the game [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration encouraging you to also knock your opponents off the track in order to win]] rather than try to play fairly.
* FridgeHorror: If the Great Star really ''is'' EAD's "brother" scrapped and recycled as a racing machine, then ''F-Zero'' just took [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Luigi]]'s status as a ButtMonkey[=/=]TheChewToy to freakishly terrible new heights. Damn... even in a different series, ''Luigi gets no respect''.

* FridgeHorror: If the Great Star really ''is'' EAD's "brother" scrapped and recycled as a racing machine, then ''F-Zero'' just took [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Luigi]]'s status as a ButtMonkey[=/=]TheChewToy to freakishly terrible new heights. Damn... even in a different series, ''Luigi gets no respect''.
* FridgeLogic:
** His vow in the games to kill Captain Falcon in the GP notwithstanding, if Black Shadow has Captain Falcon's DNA in the form of nearly-identical clone Blood Falcon (in both the games and the anime), why doesn't he just find out who Falcon is under the mask?
*** Perhaps because Falcon's secret identity is, you know... a secret? Like he's not a famous billionaire playboy and he wouldn't look any more recognizable to you than a random homeless person? You could unmask Falcon's clone and you wouldn't have any idea of who he was. Or, if you don't like that explanation, perhaps some terrible facial scarring on CF prevents his clone from looking exactly like him. Who cares?
** How are the racers able to withstand speeds ''surpassing'' 1000km/h?
*** Some kind of [[InertialDampening acceleration compensation]], one assumes. Fortunately there's enough anti-gravity-type tech apparent in the series that such a thing isn't all that far-fetched...
** If the White Cat was still inside the building when it exploded, how could Jody participate in the F-Zero GP two chapters later? The same could be asked about Samurai Goroh, whose machine exploded earlier that day (in Chapter 2).
*** They all had spare machines. That's the same reason you can smash them in one race in the Grand Prix and they're back by the next race. Hell, your retries in the Grand Prix are even referred to as spare machines. This, however, brings up some further FridgeLogic with some racers: there were only two F-Zero machines found by Draq and Roger, and the economy of Leon's homeworld is so poor that, even with the help of Fable (the guy who designed the Space Angler), Zou probably couldn't crank out another racer. Of course, some of this can be chalked up to RuleOfCool, RuleOfDrama, and the ever-popular MST3KMantra.
** In Captain Falcon's ending video, where the hell was Super Arrow when his kid was about to get run over by a train?

** [[spoiler:Ryu Suzaku, who took so much heat for not being Captain Falcon [[LegacyCharacter inherits the title]] at the end of the anime.]]

* FridgeLogic: His vow in the games to kill Captain Falcon in the GP notwithstanding, if Black Shadow has Captain Falcon's DNA in the form of nearly-identical clone Blood Falcon (in both the games and the anime), why doesn't he just find out who Falcon is under the mask?
** Perhaps because Falcon's secret identity is, you know... a secret? Like he's not a famous billionaire playboy and he wouldn't look any more recognizable to you than a random homeless person? You could unmask Falcon's clone and you wouldn't have any idea of who he was. Or, if you don't like that explanation, perhaps some terrible facial scarring on CF prevents his clone from looking exactly like him. Who cares?

*** They all had spare machines. That's the same reason you can smash them in one race in the Grand Prix and they're back by the next race. Hell, your retries in the Grand Prix are even referred to as spare machines. This, however, brings up some further FridgeLogic with some racers: there were only two F-Zero machines found by Draq and Roger, and the economy of Leon's homeworld is so poor that, even with the help of Fable (the guy who designed the Space Angler), Zou probably couldn't crank out another racer. Of course, some of this can be chalked up to RuleOfCool, RuleOfDrama, and the ever-popular MST3KMantra.

** If the White Cat was still inside the building when it exploded, how could Jody participate in the F-Zero GP two chapters later?
*** The same could be asked about Samurai Goroh, whose machine exploded earlier that day (in Chapter 2).
**** They all had spare machines. That's the same reason you can smash them in one race in the Grand Prix and they're back by the next race. Hell, your retries in the Grand Prix are even referred to as spare machines.
**** For some racers, it's certainly plausible, but for others, GameplayAndStorySegregation comes into play. For example, there were only two F-Zero machines found by Draq and Roger, and the economy of Leon's homeworld is so poor that, even with the help of Fable (the guy who designed the Space Angler), Zou probably couldn't crank out another racer. Of course, some of this can be chalked up to RuleOfCool, RuleOfDrama, and the ever-popular MST3KMantra.