F-Zero/YMMV

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Deathborn (to his fans): "You're all going to die. Say goodbye to your loved ones."

  • Crazy Awesome: Zoda. He is riding around in a modified missile. We repeat, he is riding around in a modified missile. Once, when the Death Anchor flipped over, two racers died.
    • He's beaten handily by Spade, though. His Magic Seagull has no doors. Sure, The Skull's Sonic Phantom has no steering wheel, but at least he can actually escape from his vehicle. It's like Spade is giving the entire concept of safe driving a middle finger and then shouting, "Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!".
  • Ear Worm:
  • Ensemble Darkhorse:
    • Everybody loves the AX racers, who haven't appeared since the days of GX/AX.
    • Of the above group, Phoenix, Princia and Lily seem to get the most attention. Considering they were the most heavily advertised characters for AX alongside Captain Falcon, this may have been an Invoked Trope on the part of the developers.
    • Samurai Goroh must be one, considering the treatment he received in the anime, as well as the fact that he was the only character outside of Captain Falcon to get some sort of non-trophy representation in Super Smash Bros. Brawl (he was an Assist Trophy).
    • Let's face it, every racer is one of these. Everyone has their own personal favorite.
  • Epileptic Trees: Is Deathborn Jay Gonso Snarky, the voodoo priest that allegedly bestowed Black Shadow with immortality and the ability to reincarnate?
    • Although its chance of occurring is low, one well-thought out theory suggests that Phoenix and QQQ are the villains Phoenix was sent to capture due to QQQ being unable to return them to the future.
  • Even Better Sequel: X was the point in the series where everything took off. GX ramped this up even more: the speed was cranked up to insane levels and the previously one-dimensional characters were fleshed-out. Oh, and it was a very polished, very fun game to play. There's a reason that critics lauded it as one of the best racers of its time.
  • Evil Is Cool: Averted with Zoda. He has five fans, which is amazing in itself. Zoda himself is shocked by these new developments.

Zoda: "I have fans? Hey, raise your hand if you're my fan. 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... I have five fans!"

    • Some of the other villains (Blood Falcon, Black Shadow, Deathborn) possibly play this trope straighter.
  • Evil Is Sexy: Blood Falcon.
    • From the anime, Miss Killer.
  • Fandom Rivalry: With Mario Kart, especially ever since Mario Kart 8 introduced a number of elements that some feel has given Nintendo an excuse to junk F-Zero once and for all, such as anti-gravity, 200cc mode, and F-Zero crossover tracks.
  • Fanon:
    • Silver Neelson's first name being Mortimer.
    • Likewise with Phoenix. His last name is not Lestrade.
  • Faux Symbolism: The two numbers that make up Blood Falcon's pilot number (2 and 5) look like the reflection of one another. When added together, you get 7, Captain Falcon's number.
  • Foe Yay: Zoda and the Arrows, in spades. Allegedly, Zoda had the hots for Mrs. Arrow, wanting to make her his #2 in his Evil Empire. Luckily, she turned him down. Thank GOD.
    • From the anime, there's Ryu/Rick. He has so much of this with both Zoda and Miss Killer. So much. To twist the knife further, it's later revealed that Miss Killer's true identity is that of Misaki Haruka: his girlfriend from the past who was also put into cold sleep.
  • Fountain of Memes: Captain Falcon. All his campy lines are memes. YESZ! Show me ya MOVES! Falcon PAWNCH!
  • Game Breaker: Every 3D title has some sort of exploit that lets you take a huge advantage, such as grinding the wall for massive bursts of speed in X and the notorious snaking technique in GX.
    • Also, Space flying. There's a reason sites like Mr. Fixit Online have ladders for both Snakers, Flyers, AND non-Snakers.
    • In GX, putting together a custom machine with the lightest parts in the game creates a racer with god-like handling. Conversely, building together the heaviest parts in the game creates an unsteerable brick.
      • An unsteerable brick that goes faster than any other machine in the game, generally. You can use the drift turns and spin turns for most corners, but you may have to apply the brakes on the tighter ones.
    • In GP Legend, the game does not make some sort of obvious effort (such as the escort UFO in the original or spontaneous combustion in GX) to block you from taking massive shortcuts. Making the right jumps will allow you to cut off much more of a given course than the developers intended you to.
  • Gameplay Derailment: See directly above. World-record runs of 3D F-Zero games look NOTHING like how a decent player would play.
  • Good Bad Bugs: The aforementioned glitches.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:

Kyo: "That's what I'm all about: gettin' f***ed."

Mr. Zero: "Don't you miss having a human form?"
Mighty Gazelle: "Not at all. You have no idea how good a coat of oil feels or a good jolt of electricity!"

    • Leon. This guy will never lament his lot in life, preferring to stay optimistic. He also happens to be extremely selfless, perhaps moreso than any other character.

Leon (on the key to his victory): "Racing for someone other than myself."

  • It's Hard, So It Sucks: The sheer amount of backlash against GX's Story Mode is staggering, especially Chapter 7 on Very Hard. It's so infamous that it overshadows almost everything else in the game, even though this particular chapter on a particular difficulty only provides one unlock (in particular, a machine in AX).
  • Jerkass Woobie: Zoda in the anime. When it turns out that you're not only an Unwitting Pawn to Black Shadow, but to fate itself, you do become a bit more sympathetic.
  • Love to Hate: Between his thunderstorm of cheese, him being so unapologetically evil, and the vocal stylings of Norio Wakamoto, Black Shadow is this. As such, he was always the first choice for this series in "Who do you want to see in Brawl?" lists (granted, a lot of this is because the best option after Captain Falcon, Samurai Goroh, was an Assist Trophy).
  • Magnificent Bastard: Deathborn. Black Shadow qualifies in the anime.
  • Mainstream Obscurity: We all know about the anime's Falcon Punch scene, but very few have actually watched that show.
  • Memetic Badass: "FALCON PUNCH!" Though it mostly applies to the Super Smash Bros. series, it nearly came full circle when Captain Falcon used it in GP Legend. In the words of the ending song of GX, "Thank Heaven he's on the right side or else there'd be nowhere to hide."
  • Memetic Molester: Captain Falcon. Try not to think about it too hard. Most likely stems from his Falcon Dive special in Super Smash Bros..

"YESZ!"

    • Variation with Mr. Zero. He's seen as a Memetic Molester Ephebophile due to his interviews with Princia Ramode and Lily Flyer, neither of whom are legal.

Mr. Zero: "You've got a fantastic body [Princia]. How do you keep it so beautiful?"
Mr. Zero: "What do you [Lily] consider to be your best features?"
Mr. Zero: "What kind of guys do you like [Lily]?"

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