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Speed Racer (三船剛, Mifune Gō), known in Speed Racer: The Next Generation as Speed Racer Sr., is the titular main protagonist of the Speed Racer franchise.
He is voiced by Katsuji Mori in Japanese, and the late Peter Fernandez in English. In the movie, he is portrayed by Emile Hirsch.
History[]
He is known for his love of racing and for valuing his family. He drives the Mach 5 (as well as other cars, such as the Mach 6 in the movie) and always manages to wind up in extreme danger with either his younger brother or his girlfriend Trixie. Speed is shown to miss his older brother, Rex (secretly disguised as Racer X), in both versions.
Off the track, he wears a blue shirt with an orange "G" (standing for his Japanese first name, Gō) with a white collar, a red racing bandanna around his neck, white pants, red socks, brown loafers, and yellow gloves. He is 18 years old, has a brown, almost black, pompadour, and his eyes are brown (in the anime version they are blue). In racing, he sports a white open-face helmet with an M (representing Mifune Motors) on top. In the anime, on special occasions, Speed wears a red blazer with a yellow "G" embroidered on it. In the live-action film, he wears a white leather racing jacket unzipped over his classic outfit. He wears his classic outfit (without the embroidered "G") in the first half of the Casa Cristo 5000. To strengthen the character's back-story continuity between Speed and his older brother Rex, Speed's red socks were considered "lucky socks".
Other Media[]
- Speed Racer has appeared in a number of promos on Cartoon Network:
- In the "Parking Lot", he and Scooby-Doo tried to get a parking space from Fred Flintstone, Chicken, and Thundarr the Barbarian only for Judy Jetson to take it.
- In another promo, he rams the Mystery Machine off the road and the end, he says "Dogs shouldn't learn how to drive."
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Speed's 1993 form bears a physical resemblance to both Prince Eric and Aladdin.
- Its being rumoured that his appearence became an inspiration for the Driver from the Rally-X arcade game released by Namco in 1980, and whos appearence would seemingly also become a basis for Turbo, the main antagonist from Wreck-it Ralph, due to the fact that the latter's arcade game being largely inspired off Rally-X.