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In General
Originally, there were two teams on top of the Tokyo expressway, both with a four member line-up. On one side were The Four Devas, known as the "Four Heavenly Kings" note in Japan, loners who found themselves lead by one man, thought for years to be the fastest in Tokyo.
On the other side were The Four Devils note , who were thought of as mere urban myths by most. Fast to the point of legend, they were less of a team and more of a casual aggregation of racers.
The Devas and the Devils would both disband upon their complete defeats at the hands of a single racer, but that was only a chapter in their respective stories. Some, in particular, would contribute to the birth of new, legendary teams.
On the other side were The Four Devils note , who were thought of as mere urban myths by most. Fast to the point of legend, they were less of a team and more of a casual aggregation of racers.
The Devas and the Devils would both disband upon their complete defeats at the hands of a single racer, but that was only a chapter in their respective stories. Some, in particular, would contribute to the birth of new, legendary teams.
- Disk-One Final Boss: The Devas are set up to be the very best on the C1 Loop... and then, upon their defeats, more teams show up, eventually leading the player to face the Devils.
- Four Is Death: Both teams have a four-driver line-up, and both teams' Japanese names utilize "Shi" instead of "Yon" in their prononciations. Bonus points to the Devas, who have Death God Driver amongst their ranks.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble:
- The Devas:
- Sanguine: Midnight Silver Wolf. A prideful driver who only wants to face those he deems on the same level as himself, he never backs down from such challenges and has endured some truly harrowing events without ever leaving the Expressway.
- Choleric: After Midnight Cinderella. To her, highway racing was a way to let off the stress of her everyday life, atleast at first, and her "American-style" driving had the tendency to overwhelm whoever she was racing against. She's also definitely not afraid of speaking up her mind, no matter how rude others might find her.
- Melancholic: Death God Driver. Brooding, but surprisingly introspective, he tries to present himself as completely fearless, but his own behaviour indicates moments of faltering and self-awareness in that projection.
- Phlegmatic: Dream Wraith. Disliked by others because of his personality, he tends to alternate between stubborn pride and a desire to see other drivers improve enough to beat him. In spite of everything, he always tends to take a supportive role within a team, even if he's the one spearheading it.
- The Devils:
- Sanguine: Crimson Devil. Although stoic and self-centered, his constant drive to improve himself and become the very best does not go unnoticed. Neither do his various eye-catching bodykits, a "loud and proud" statement by themselves.
- Choleric: Exhaust Eve. Even when her alleged mood swings are taken into account, Eve's short temper and stubborness are always on display. She desires to stand out amongst the crowds on the Expressway, and detests the Thirteen Devils, calling them "bratty kids".
- Melancholic: Z.E.R.O. Task-oriented above everything else, very analytical and detailed in his tuning and driving. In spite of that, Z.E.R.O prefers to keep his head down, retaining a discreet and elegant air in the process.
- Phlegmatic: UNKNOWN. To be fair, next to nothing is known about his personality. What is known is that he's incredibly reserved and protective of his privacy, as well as impossibly calm. He's also completely indifferent to anything, be it good or bad.
- The Devas:
- Legend Fades to Myth: The truth about both Devas and Devils quickly faded into memories in the years following their defeats. This is shown by the bits of lore contained in various bios offering contrasting claims about them: by the time of Import Tuner Challenge, the new generation of street racers will offer some hilariously erroneous explanations and opinions on the lot of them, including those who are still active like Midnight Cinderella.
- Theme Naming: The Four Devas have a general night theme going on with their street names. Midnight Cinderella and Midnight Wolf are obvious, with the latter being a double whammy as wolves are popularly thought as nocturnal animals, whilst Dream Wraith's association is more tied to the act of dreaming taking place at night. Death Driver seems to be the Odd Name Out... but, like with Midnight Wolf, popular thought associates death with night in multiple ways.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The Four Devils have a strong Abrahamic theme to them and their street names: Crimson Devil and Exhaust Eve are self-explanatory, evocating, respectively, the Big Red Devil and the female progenitor of mankind. Z.E.R.O. and UNKNOWN aren't quite as apparent, but their stickers feature, respectively, an angel and a horned, winged skull placed on top of an exhagram. His original sticker featured an inverted crucifix and the Number of the Beast.
The Four Devas
Death Driver
"Death Driver "Keiichi Oda
Cars: Nissan Silvia (S15) Spec-S (Tokyo Xtreme Racer), Nissan Silvia (S15) Spec-R (Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2), Nissan Silvia (S15) Spec-RK (Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero), Nisan Silvia (S15) Custom "Death Driver" (Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3, Street Supremacy), Mazda RX-7 FD3S A'pex D1 Project (Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix), Mazda RX-8 SE3P Custom "Death Driver" (Import Tuner Challenge)
Death Driver's logo up to 3.
- Fear emerges from inside oneself.
Following his defeat, many thought Oda had perished in a crash that totaled his car. And yet, in the late hours of the night, rumors abound him still prowling the Tokyo Expressway to challenge up-and-coming racers...
- Berserk Button: His bio in Street Supremacy mentions that ever since his faithful crash, Keiichi has developed a strong distate for reckless drivers, especially those who get ahead by bumping into their opponents' cars. Should the player do just that, or bump into anything during a race against him, he will refuse to join their team.
- Degraded Boss: He became a Wanderer after the events of the first game. He's still as fearsome as he was before, though.
- Dub Name Change:
- Crave's translation changed his real name to "Ben Salinas" in 2 and "Craig Owens" in Zero.
- Moreso, his street name is "Death God Driver" in all games in Japanese. In the Crave translation, it becomes "Grim Reaper" in the first two games, "Devil Driver" in Zero, The Death Driver in 3, and, finally, plain "Death Driver" in Street Supremacy and Import Tuner Challenge.
- Interface Screw: Just like Gloomy Angel, a blue-ish filter will be applied over the camera whenever the player gets into his S15's slipstream in 3.
- Not Afraid to Die: Keiichi is said to be incapable of fearing anything, even death itself, which allows him to reach limits other drivers would balk at. Zigzagged after the events of the first game, though: he continues to project an area of fearlessness, and drives like it, but the upgrades he installed on his S15 indicate that his crash has shaken him up.
- Palette Swap: Downplayed; His S15's and Gloomy Angel's in 3 sport the exact same decals, but with different colors, aero parts, rims, and performance. Likewise in Street Supremacy, where performance-wise, their two cars are identical.
- Shrouded in Myth: Ever since a crash that almost destroyed his S15, he disappeared from the racing scene, to the point many thought he had perished. One night, however, he reappared out of the blue, as if nothing had ever happened, much to the disbelief of many of his fellow drivers.
- Skeleton Motif: His unique sticker features a hooded skeleton welding a scythe. His RX-8 in Import Tuner Challenge is covered in decals featuring the Grim Reaper.
Midnight Cinderella
"Midnight Cinderella" Mitsue Hayashibara
Cars: Mazda RX-7 FD3S Type RZ (Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2), Mazda RX-7 FD3S Type RKK (Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero), Nissan Silvia (S15) HKS Hiper (Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix), Mazda RX-8 SE3P Custom "Midnight Cinderella" (Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3, Street Supremacy, Import Tuner Challenge)
Midnight Cinderella's logo by the time of Import Tuner Challenge.
Click here to see her silhouette in Import Tuner Challenge.
- Automatics are real cars!
- But Not Too Foreign:
- Born in Japan, Mitsue spent years living in the United States, to the point of earning her license over there and being more familiar with automatics than manuals. Later bios state that her daytime job is translator, hinting at having a strong, if not total command over English.
- Her bio from Street Supremacy is more precise about this, stating she returned to Japan after turning thirty. Because of Street Supremacy 's dubious canonical nature, however, take this with a pinch of salt.
- Captain Crash: As a result of driving an automatic transmission, her car takes a lot of time to re-accelerate after braking. Mitsue's solution is to not let off the accelerator, even when braking. As a result, she crashes often in slow corners. She grows out of it by the time of 3.
- Challenge Seeker:
- By Zero, it's mentioned that she's constantly seeking opponents driving high-power cars to give her something resembling a close battle, finding no release in handily trashing anyone challenging her as she did whilst part of the Devas.
- Actively wanting a challenge is also the reason why she turns down the player's challenge when they first meet her in Import Tuner Challenge, thinking of them as yet another run-of-the-mill racer of the C1 Loop. She promptly changes her tune after the player begins racking up win after win.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: Her bio in the first game mentions how no one saw her lose a single race since she started racing on the Expressway. Zero mentions she took a noticeable break from racing after she finally lost as part of the events that lead to the Devas' dissolution.
- Degraded Boss: Alongside two of her fellow Devas, she's demoted to Wanderer starting with 2, albeit one of the hardest ones in each game she appears in. Averted come Import Tuner Challenge, where she returns to being a boss.
- Driving Stick: One of the few, if not only drivers on the Tokyo Expressway to drive a car with an automatic transmission, something that some clearly mock her for given the quote usually found in her various bios.
- Dub Name Change:
- Crave's translation changed her real name to "Kimberly Combs" in 2 and "Judy Baughman" in Zero.
- Moreso, her street name is "After Midnight Cinderella" in Japan. In the Crave translation, it's "Midnight Cinderella" in the first game, "Late-Night Cinderella" in 2 and Zero, "Past 12 O'clock Cinderella" in 3, back to "Late-Night Cinderella" in Street Supremacy, and finally back to "Midnight Cinderella" in Import Tuner Challenge.
- Graceful Loser: Tends to generally take her defeats his way, fully admitting when she has been bested. She even notes she previously misjudged the player in Import Tuner Challenge upon being defeated.
- The Lad-ette: Mitsue is not only a very famous veteran in a world stereotypically associated with male interests, but a very blunt and straightforwards person. On one side, this makes her very respected by her street racing person and considered a point of reference... on the other, some of her male colleagues flat-out do not see her as a woman as a result.
- Meaningful Name: Her street name, Midnight Cinderella — or After Midnight Cinderella in Japan — became more meaningful in Zero, where the requirement to face her is for the console's internal clock to be between 12 AM and 2 AM.
- Mr. Exposition: Takes up this role upon being defeated in Import Tuner Challenge, pointing the player in the right direction during their rise as the Expressway's fastest and explaining to them the backstories of several characters, such as the PHANTOM NINE, White Charisma, and Jintei.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Calls out Jintei to his face after the player notches a third win against the PHANTOM NINE, having realized what happened to him and why he left the world of street racing years ago. Mitsue, in particular, will point out how the man he used to be, the man who inspired her, wouldn't behave like how he's been behaving, before telling Jintei to get a grip on himself. Doubles as Dare to Be Badass.
- You Remind Me of X: Will remark on how much the player reminds her of Jintei, another racer who appeared just as suddenly and immediately left an enormous impression upon her. She even encourages the player to live up to that comparison.
Midnight Wolf
"Midnight Wolf" Tatsuya Fukuda
Cars: Nissan Skyline R32 RV2 (Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2), Nissan Skyline R33 RK (Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero), Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R V-Spec (Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3), Nissan Fairlady Z32 Custom "Silver Wolf" (Street Supremacy), Nissan Fairlady Z32 R Twin Turbo 2-by-2 T-Bar (Import Tuner Challenge)
Midnight Wolf's logo by the time of Import Tuner Challenge.
- Is that all you wanna say?
Better known as Midnight Wolf, Tatsuya's technically the second-in-command of the Devas, and the third member of the team the player will face.
- The Aloner:
- After being involved in a crash that killed his best friend, he avoids crowds like his life depends on it. What makes it particularly tragic is that the crash was no fault of his own, yet he believes himself to be a bad luck charm. As a result, Tatsuya only appears late in the night, when he thinks that he can run in peace. Notably, after the Devas split up, he never joined any other team.
- Seems to have died down somewhat by the time of Import Tuner Challenge; although he still thinks of himself as responsible for that crash, he's eased up a bit towards other drivers. That said, he now shows up even later than before, towards daybreak.
- Berserk Button: Like his fellow Deva Keiichi Oda, Tatsuya looks down on reckless drivers, especially those who bump into other cars, be it accidentally or on purpose. In his case, however, the feeling is partly caused by self-loating.
- Broken Ace: Very few drivers can boast to be as good of a racer as Midnight Wolf in his prime, whose ability to read opponents' and traffic's movement to capitalize on them is compared to art in Zero. However, underneath the façade of the stoic champion lies a lonely, self-loathing man with a lot of internalized negativity over things he merely thinks he's caused, to the point he's incapable of judging them objectively.
- Degraded Boss: He became a Wanderer following the events of the first game. In spite of that, he's actually tougher than some early-to-mid-game bosses.
- Dub Name Change:
- Crave's translation changed his real name to "Gordon Pierce" in 2 and "John Cooperson" in Zero.
- Moreso, his street name in the Japanese version of all games is "Midnight Silver Wolf". Crave's translation changes that to "Nocturnal Wolf" in the first game, "Silver Wolf" in 2, "Night Wolf" in Zero, back to "Silver Wolf" for 3, then back again to "Night Wolf" in Street Supremacy" before finally settling on "Midnight Silver Wolf" for Import Tuner Challenge.
- The Jinx: Believes himself to be this, as "every time" he races as part of a group, he'll claim someone will end up involved in an accident of some kind. It's merely self-loathing projection from the accident that claimed his best friend's life, however, as no other accident of the sort has ever been recorded.
- Shout-Out:
- To eagle-eyed players, his personal sticker should look atleast a bit familiar: it bears a great resemblance to a Kamen Rider helmet.
- A far more obvious one: his Fairlady Z32 in Street Supremacy is clad in a KARR-inspired bodykit.
- Tragic Bromance: He and his best friend were very, very close, racing as part of the same street racing team. When they were unexpectedly involved in a crash, his best friend was killed and his team dissolved, leaving Tatsuya to shoulder the self-imposed blame all by his lonesome. In the present day, he's constantly isolating himself and pushing away anyone who dares get too close to him out of fear of getting someone killed again.
- We Used to Be Friends: His bio in Zero mentions that he fell out with his fellow Devas over some sort of dispute.
Dream Wraith
"Dream Wraith" Yohei Kimijima
Car: Honda NSX NA2
Dream Wraith's signature logo
- We've got one goal: to run every single one of you off the road.
There was a moment in time when people on the C1 Loop thought that the limit had been reached, that there was nothing that could go faster than that yellow NSX NA2. If racing around the Loop is akin to a dream, then managing to catch sight of that car might as well been considered a mirage: no matter how much you insisted that you saw him, no one was willing to believe you.
That's the legend of Yohei Kimijima, better known as Dream Wraith. Leader of the Devas, and the last member of the team the player will face.
- Asian Rudeness: Subverting Japanese Politeness, Yohei is, for a lack of a better term, a complete jerk whenever he interacts with the player, deeming them to be a mere obstacle in his way to the top, and will mock their achievements as insignificant. Per his bios, this extends to near everyone who interacts with him.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: His "Zero Countering" technique he developed to make up for his car's lack of torque at low speeds: it allows him to reduce deceleration as much as possible without putting straining the tires, but it makes the car understeer to dangerous levels. All it takes is one mistake for Yohei to crash head-first into the nearest obstacle.
- Disk-One Final Boss: Serves as one in the first Tokyo Xtreme Racer. After him, the player will have to deal with the Four Devils.
- Dub Name Change:
- Crave's translation changes his real name to "James Sweet" in 2 and "Adrian Lewandows" in Zero.
- Moreso, his street name remains consistent as "Dream Wraith" or, alternatively, "Dreaming Wraith" in Japanese versions of all games. In Crave's translations, his street names becomes "Banshee" in the first game, "Phantom Racer" in 2, "Dreamy Ghost" in Zero, "Dream Cloud" in Street Supremacy and, finally, "Dream Fiend" in Touge Wars.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
- His bio in Street Supremacy states that, in spite of his behaviour, Yohei actively sends anonymous e-mails to every opponent he defeats with advice on how to improve their racecraft and tips on what to specifically work on. As much as he wants to be on top of the racing world, he wants to see other succeeds too.
- He will also begrudgingly respect the player upon being defeated in Drift 2 after having previously insulted them, further conceding that he might be the kind of driver Jintei is always on the lookout for: from him, that's massive praise.
- Living Legend: Was this in earlier games, being so blindingly fast that, reportedly, next to no one could see him approaching in their rear view mirrors. This gradually died down as he faced the new generation of racers and lost against them.
- No Swastikas: Double Subverted: the skull that's prominently featured on his unique sticker in the first game features what resembles a shuriken on its' forehead. Just in case, though, it was removed in the international release, and the entire sticker was revised in all versions starting with 2.
- Put on a Bus: Kimijima doesn't show up in 3, with his spot in the Thirteen Devils taken by Crimson Devil, most likely due to licensing issues with Honda. He returns starting with Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix, and returns properly in Drift 2.
- Talented, but Trained: The most skilled of the Four Devas, and one of the most skilled of the Thirteen Devils upon joining them, Yohei started to constantly train to better his abilities following his first defeat. By the time of Drift 2, he's been at this for atleast a decade, and it shows: whereas he can easily control his car on the tight mountain passes of Japan, most players to whom he will loan it to will lose control of it as soon as possible.
- Took a Level in Badass: He held the record for the fastest lap of the C1 Loop and was one of Tokyo's fastest in the first game. After his defeat, he doubled down his efforts and massively improved his already-great ability, to the point he halved his laptime.
- With Friends Like These...: The other members of the Thirteen Devils cannot get along with him due to his personality and insistence on always striving to be at the very top, no matter what. The feeling is reciprocated, due to the other Devils' zany personalities, but he does hold respect for Jintei.
The Four Devils
Crimson Devil
"Crimson Devil" Raito Miyakawa
Cars: Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R V-Spec (Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2), Nissan Skyline R34 RK (Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero), Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R "Custom Naginata MS-14S" (Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3), RX-8 "Red Devil" (Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix), Nissan Skyline R34 "Triple Claw MSM-07" (Street Supremacy), Subaru Impreza (GDB) Custom "Crimson Devil" (Import Tuner Challenge)
Red Devil's logo by the time of Import Tuner Challenge.
- Whirlwind.
- Battle Aura: When battling against the player in 3, his car will emanate a faint, red glow.
- Dub Name Change:
- Crave's translation changes his real name to "Skip Gibson" in 2 and "Kazuo Tanaka" in Zero.
- Moreso, his street name is "Crimson Devil" in all games in Japanese. In the Crave translation, it becomes "Raven Blood" in the first game, "Red Devil" in 2 and Zero, The Red Devil in 3, Red Demon in Street Supremacy, and finally "Crimson Devil" in Import Tuner Challenge.
- Lightning Bruiser: At a whopping 1190 HP note , and combined with its' size and electronic traction system, Raito's R34 GT-R can blow anything away through raw power, being capable of breaking the 250 MPH barrier.
- Rice Burner: His Skyline R34, and, later, Subaru Impreza, looks well beyond ridiculous, thanks to its' many Gundam-inspired body kits. And yet, in spite of appearances, Raito's car has been amongst the fastest in Japan for years, and remains amongst them to this very day.
- Shout-Out: His street name, unique sticker, and starting with Zero his R34's body kits, are all massive Gundam references, in particular to Char Aznable.
- The Stoic: His signature characteristic is how little he emotes or reacts to anything. Even when going over 250 MPH, Raito does nothing to show it, which only creeps out some of his fellow racers.
- Strong and Skilled: Raito's driving style has been described at various points as "superhuman", with many believing him to have to be possessed in order to pull certain stunts off. Justified, as only great drivers would be capable of keeping cars such as his under control to begin with, and it'd take extraordinary ones to extract their full potential.
Exhaust Eve
"Exhaust Eve" Chinatsu Moriyama
Cars: Toyota Supra JZA80 RZ (Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2, Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero), Honda Odyssey Genki (Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix), Toyota Supra JZA80 Custom "Exhaust Eve" (Street Supremacy), Subaru Impreza (GC8) WRX Type-R STi Version VI (Import Tuner Challenge, as "Erratic Jeanne d'Arc")
Exhaust Eve's signature logo
- Super beauty.
In reality, who they're truly talking about is "Exhaust Eve" Chinatsu Moriyama, second member of the Four Devils that the player will face. Described as a "gorgeous woman", Moriyama tends to be a rather quiet, reserved office worker, but when she gets behind the wheel, she becomes unrecognizable, to the point people believe she has a split personality.
- Adaptational Job Change: In games up to Zero, she was an unassuming office worker, whereas in Street Supremacy, she suddenly became a make-up artist. By the time of Import Tuner Challenge, instead, she's gone back to university, passed the bar exam, and became a lawyer.
- Broken Ace: A studious and intelligent woman since her childhood, and a tremendous talent behind the wheel, Eve has always been undercut by her own stubborness, which caused her to carry on in spite of consequences. Moreso, after a string of really bad dates and relationships, she suffers from infrequent panic attacks when left alone with men, crippling her social ability.
- Dub Name Change:
- Crave's translation changes her real name to "Missi White" in 2 and "Shelly Chen" in Zero.
- Moreso, her street name is "Exhaust Eve" across all entries where she appears, barring her return in Import Tuner Challenge where, as part of Be Legend, she goes by the street name "Erratic Jeanne d'Arc". Crave's translations keep "Exhaust Eve" as her street name in the first game, only to inexplicably change it to "Full Moon Eve" in 2 as a reference to her bio in that game, "Exotic Eve" in Zero, and back to "Exhaust Eve" for Street Supremacy... and then, in Import Tuner Challenge, she's renamed "High Maintenance".
- Split Personality: It was either vaguely implied or outright confirmed by her bio in the first three games that "Eve" was a second personality of hers that emerged under the full moon. Every game afterwards dropped this aspect of hers completely.
Z.E.R.O.
"Z.E.R.O." Miyabi Matsumoto
Cars: Porsche 911 930 (Tokyo Xtreme Racer), Porsche 911 964 Turbo (Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2, Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero), Toyota Corolla AE82 FX (Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3), Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R Custom Race Car (Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix)
Z.E.R.O.'s signature logo
- Misapprehension is attached to life.
For ten long years, "Z.E.R.O." Miyabi Matsumoto embodied the concept of "undefeated" on the Tokyo Expressway. Taking on opponent after opponent, night after night, year after year, Z.E.R.O. went undefeated for an entire decade, making him and his 911 symbols of street racing. There was no one faster than him... well, no one, except one person.
- Absurdly Long Wait: The requirements to face Z.E.R.O in 2 and Zero are this. Whereas other Wanderers require a minimum amount of days to pass before they'll appear, which will arrive naturally as you play through the games, Z.E.R.O. will only bother to pop up on the Southbound direction of the Wangan after Day 365. In the vast majority of cases, the player will not naturally reach that in-game date, possibly wrapping up every other opponent well beforehand.
- Broken Win/Loss Streak: If his bio in 2 is to be believed, Miyabi racked up over a thousand highway races over a ten-year periodnote , and he never lost until the events of the first game.
- Degraded Boss:
- From Final Boss of the first game, to mere Wanderer come 2 and all subsequent games. That does not mean he lost any of his skill or speed; if anything, he is as fast the Final Bosses, Jintei and White Charisma.
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 takes it to laughable extremes, as he switches out his 911 for a Corolla AE82, a far cry from the race-capable sports car. His bio in the game justifies it, as he wrecked his 911 and asked a friend to loan him the AE82 to keep racing in any way possible.
- Dub Name Change: Crave's translation changes his real name to "Jeff Davis" in 2 and "Tristan Li" in Zero. Unlike every other opponent in the games, his street name consistently remains the same, albeit spelled simply as "ZERO" or "Zero".
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Z.E.R.O. used to be one of the greatest drivers in Tokyo, if not Japan at large, and would've been the greatest driver if it wasn't for a certain deep blue Fairlady Z. He didn't lose a race out of a thousand, for ten years. All it took was a few losses against truly exceptional racers for Z.E.R.O.'s star to catastrophically plummet... not that he minds. By the time of 3, he's reduced himself to driving a barely tuned commuter car to continue racing, cementing his fall. Meta-wise, that also ends up being his final appearance.
- Meaningful Name: Z.E.R.O., per his bio in Zero, apparently stands for "zero losses", as in he never lost a single race upon taking up that mantle. Has since become an Artifact Name after the events of the first game.
- Number Two: Appears to be this to UNKNOWN during their shared time within the Four Devils.
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
Cars: Nissan Fairlady Z (S30) (Tokyo Xtreme Racer), Nissan Fairlady Z (S30ZX) (Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2, Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero), Nissan Fairlady Z Custom "Devil's Z" (Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix), Nissan Fairlady Z (S30) Custom "UNKNOWN" (Street Supremacy, Import Tuner Challenge)
UNKNOWN's logo by the time of Import Tuner Challenge.
- ......
All that's truly known about them is that they drive a deep blue Nissan 240Z S30, capable of going at impossible speeds and moving in ways that seem to defy physics themselves, and that they only appear to challenge those he deems the very strongest of the Metropolitan Expressway. They briefly led Tokyo's strongest team, the Four Devils, before going solo after their first defeat and disbandment.
- Demoted to Extra: In Street Supremacy, they appear as a late-game Wanderer rather than the True Final Boss. Justified, in that apparently, the original UNKNOWN has retired, having let his apprentice take up the mantle.
- Legacy Character: Street Supremacy implies it, as UNKNOWN's bio mentions that the original driver of the S30Z retired, having passed their car down to an apprentice. Should that be the case, the original UNKNOWN might also be a Legacy Character themselves, with the car passed down from generation to generation.
- My Name Is ???: His street name and real names are either three questions mark or "UNKNOWN", depending on the game and localization. It isn't an active choice on their part, they're just that mysterious.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: According to his more recent bios, the very few who know of his existence refer to him as "The Demon of the Metro" or "The Ghost of a Legendary Racer".
- Shrouded in Myth: The fastest racer in Tokyo, and possibly all of Japan, and yet, nobody knows a single thing about them. Due to only challenging the very best of Tokyo, very few know he truly exists and isn't some urban legend, and those who do know tend to remain quiet on the subject matter.
- Skeleton Motif: His unique sticker features an horned skull placed in the middle of a pentagram.
- The Voiceless: In their sole, in-the-flesh appearance in the non-canon Racing Battle: C1 Grand Prix, they don't utter a single word: their dialogue, before and after being defeated, consists exclusively of elipses.
- True Final Boss: Of all mainline Tokyo Xtreme Racer titles, barring 3.
