AcceleRacers: The Humanity Of Gelorum (Video Essay)

Despite the fact that Gelorum was designed to race and is a robot, she is more human than it seems.

[@dakotacollis5123]

ngl i still find it funny how gelorums big plan was to get the wheel of power then just hope the accelerons decided to let them kill them all. instead she just rolled up and went to attack and the acceleron was just like "no." before yeeting her into the void great plan.

[@digitalnative5678]

That shrug when Gelorum was asked what Wylde learned in prison told me more about what kind of character she was then any words could describe.

[@calvinsomers1197]

I watched them all recently but didn’t pick that up. You’re right that shrug did not look robotic.

[@aybsselsunbeam8667]

I also like the little shrug at 5:36 Almost to make herself seem more "human"

[@Plasmagon99]

I feel like the Acceleracers left the Drones on earth not because they were abandoned but because the Acceleraces knew they would make a good rival to test the Humans when they became ready to race. But because the Drones did not see it that way, they grew to hate the Acceleracers and created their own downfall. (EDIT) It was also likely that the Accelearcers wanted the Humans to have an enemy to race against to prevent them from killing each other too.

[@hybridAbsol]

Racing Drones > Skynet

[@jamstheshapeshifter]

Accelerons*

[@kurtisvandermiller4507]

@@hybridAbsol omg yes! The drones are legit a scary faction for a kids show. Like they have a literal military. They have planes, mine bombs, energy balls, a thing that can launch off cars to flip cars. If they had all the accellchargers they probably could take over the world.

[@justssj4chillin8]

​@@kurtisvandermiller4507actually they could most likely take over the universe because of how op the AcceleCharger are.

[@miggs_got_lost6486]

its actually very likely that the drones themselves are "what the eccelerons left for us" as gelorum puts it when interrogating kadeem

[@ayumi3112]

Gelorem be like: idc about humans let’s just get accelacharges and kill the accelerons

[@Luigibro-ti5wh]

Honestly Acceleracers does feel like it's pretty good for video essay's since there's a bunch of stuff even i don't really noticed so keep it up man!

[@chinnymisc]

Yeah I agree, thank you!

[@aybsselsunbeam8667]

I like know right!

[@christiancooper478]

Yeah, i mean I’ve literally watched it over 300 times. Im rewatching all if it for the 301st time. I have all these questions, but i dont have the kind of thought process this guy has to answer them and I appreciate this dude for answering some of them.

[@christiancooper478]

I also wonder where she goes after she’s thrown into what seems to be infinity. I want an official answer and see where she went after being tossed off the end of the track. Does she hit a ground? Does she float infinitely? Is it like a landless planet that only has a core and just melts into liquid metal? If she hit a ground, what does it look like? Is there even a sun? Its white and cloudy all around so it has to have a sun, if its cloudy it must have weather. I dont think we will ever know and that its all left to imagination. I dont like that answer because its mine and it would be different to the creator’s idea on what happened after she was tossed and if there’s even weather or a sun or even ground.

[@marlus5332]

I was waiting for someone to start making video essays on Acceleracers... it's such a perfect series for that kind of video!! Great job!! Keep it up!!

[@jonasreis90]

Gelorum was so complex since World Race, because she is really more human then human, and she can't even see that, she studies human so much to learn how they work but can't see herself becoming one

[@hybridAbsol]

I feel like this was a Terminator reference where the machine can disguise itself as a human but it must remove the host first to avoid suspicion, therefore the white haired woman was probably innocent until the drone kills her and controls her identity

[@jasonrowland4854]

Bro bringing back the childhood right here. I loved this show as a kid

[@justssj4chillin8]

Im sorry but am i the only one laughing at 4:15 because of how the drones are actually showing traits of human motives being "Nosy" and then immediately is like Oh Sh#t on what happened to that other drone😂

[@chinnymisc]

yeah hhahaah

[@alirodrigues7432]

And then just go back to work casually afraid of Gelorum 😂😂😂 i can’t

[@amylutece8533]

Bro I literally had this song from the beginning of that one movie stuck in my head from ages like 8-18 thanks for getting it stuck in there again for another 10 years xD

[@thatonehumanirken2006]

Bro i loved this series thank you for making these my friends still think these are kids movies

[@artistanthony1007]

AcceleRacers is way too dark for a kids movie, sure it doesn't have blood and gore but I don't think those two things should be used as reasons it's not for kids, there's other ways that it can't be a movie for kids.

[@thatonehumanirken2006]

@@artistanthony1007 exactly

[@maxsanchez764]

@@artistanthony1007 Bro I thought i was the only one tripping thinking this is dark

[@Tick25]

I used to watch this movie, not exactly sure on which movie it is. For years at night while I slept, I almost know every line by heart.

[@GoroGoroGoroAwome]

absolutely amazing and underrated vid mate

[@chinnymisc]

Glad you enjoyed

[@dreccasawa9975]

Interesting fact about the Gelorum-Kadeem dialogues in Breaking Point, from the Latin Spanish Translation: The part of "Tesla hasn't told you?". The original line is "He doesn't know". However, in the translation it got changed to "He didn't want you to know"

[@hotel_arcadia]

In German she says "Apparently, he doesn't know it himself." Interesting...

[@DocVolteer]

Interesting in the Portugues version also she day that line too "Tesla hasn't told you?"

[@anthonyspitery6332]

A huge part of me wanted Gelorum to be Tesla’s wife, who was corrupted and turned into a cyborg by the drones. It may show why Tesla is willing to allow other drivers to die in order to stop her? Also Did he work with the government/ keep secrets from them? Was he a part if the Silencerz just as Vert’s father was last revealed? So many unanswered questions to one of the most epic shows of my childhood

[@mistressofdreams6031]

Actually the Silencerz portion has already been answered. Lonnie: You're working for the Silencerz! Gig: So did Dr. Tesla, until he stole our technology. -Acceleracers: The Ultimate Race

[@jackson3475]

WTF is the deal with the accelerons? Everytime I try to understand those weirdo aliens all I get is mixed messages... The Challenges were to win through sheer skill, but at the end when Gelorem goes crazy the dude just uses his Godlike powers to solve the problem (which kinda feels like the exact opposite of what it was preaching moments prior). They're seemly benevolent(?) but what the accelerons did to their drone creations was pretty much a dick move... Also _why_ do they feel the need to make humans risk life and limb just to become good enough racers to join them?

[@chinnymisc]

Drones because addicted to winning which meant using accelerchargers to win. Also by our drivers not learning the correct skills = consequences with a major incentive to be careful and learn the skills

[@maxs9062]

To quote Dr. Tesla, “The more I study it the less I understand. I only know what I have to do.”

[@anthonyspitery6332]

Through a creative standpoint of the show, the SIMPLE answer is these questions aren’t meant to be answered. “The more I study, the less I understand.”-Dr. Tesla The LORE answer as far as I can tell is this: To them, racing is more than just a friendly sport. Think of it like the hunger games, or Predator, as there are many predator analogies with the drones (such as the robot eye view from their heads on occasion when they are scanning, the ? accelecharger making them invisible, etc) The drones and Accelerons have a hunter’s discipline, and for them dominating and winning is victory. The drones value doing anything it takes to win-which is where the difference starts. Accelerons still value driving more than purposely exercising brutality and eliminating drivers to win. To them, the competition and danger factor is part of the sport, and that is meant to have a balance. The Accelerons are probably living like this because they themselves are too powerful, and its a meditative lesson for themselves to to be able to store such power (Such as the accelechargers) and exercise their creative ingenuity…But not actually use it. Thats why they created this entire structure with the wheel and realms. To share it, and conquer it, but not by destroying its reason for it happening. “Wisdom is like a circle, what you receive, you must give back.” The best thing I can surmise is that it is a lesson about greed and selfishness, as almost every character in the show learns this lesson as well in seeing past their selfishness.

[@mistressofdreams6031]

@@anthonyspitery6332 the ? accelecharger is a mystery, it seems like its just invisibilty but also a short distance teleport. The only charger I saw the drones use that I learned just now was the warped charger, its the one that makes them become 2d. The fog charger is easy to figure out, its used in the storm realm in Ignition if you recall.

[@ShockInazuma]

@@mistressofdreams6031The ? Accelecharger is canonically the Warped Realm Accelecharger. It’s shown in the Acceleracers Card Game, among other realms not shown in the movies like Desert, Solar, Canyon, and Monument, just to name a few.

[@Detwand]

I like that the drones also resemble some form of test to the racers. Stay clear of others. Brawling with other racers doesn't get you faster to teh finish.

[@meritumkratosx]

Gelorum and the drones being rejected for what they were created for reminded me of Tailung with Shifu

[@ainsleyharriott_1849]

Man i think even the creators of the series haven't thought of it so deeply. Nice videos man!

[@continuedstory88]

Gelorum There is a kind of charm of female + king + alien

[@christiancooper478]

Has anyone else wanted to see her shell face after she crushed it? Or watch her whole transformation? Those are two things that bother me at that scene after all these years. I just want to see to see the face flattened after stepping on it and i want to see the transformation. Why couldnt we get to see that!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SuperSaiyan3985]

I wish the connection between Gelorum in World Race and Gelorum in AcceleRacers was better explained. Besides the fact that she looks wildly different, what was the deal with the Clyp Corporation that she allegedly worked for and those different drones? How'd she go from that to amassing this whole army of racing drones and invading Hot Wheels city? There's a big gap there LOL.

[@miggs_got_lost6486]

from theories ive seen, its likely most of, if not all of, the drones used to take over hot wheels city were the same ones abandoned with gelorum on earth. and the clyp drones are her first attempts at recreating their own "biology", and are meant to be able to disguise themselves as humans better when in vehicles, so as to not reveal their true purpose/identity to either kurt or possibly the silencers. some theories also state that the silencers may actually be clyp, and that gelorum and tesla were both members of clyp before their transition into the silencers. the evidence for that being kurts rough version of the silencers cloaking tech is the world race, as well as tesla having a car from them and gig. it is unclear when tesla left clyp, whether it was before or after the world race. i personally think it was after though.

[@alirodrigues7432]

4:07 i was scared asf w this scene when i have like 7 years old 😂

[@house._.6634]

Is it just me that thinks Vert's mum kind of resembles gelorum? It kind of also makes sense since she is missing or "dead." It could be possible that she could have been captured and turned into a drone

[@skullmarrowprozpekt6857]

So gelorum got eternal pain along with Neverending Torture and suffering? So she got sent to Brazil gotcha

[@matiasfanello1305]

It would be wonderfull if someone does a Live Action movie of Acceleracers and cast Charlize Therone as Geloroom

[@Chris-rz3wq]

there is some pretty obvious symbolism with the colour green

[@afdelta0120]

6:01 that was likely a hallucination taro had. He was knocked out again after all.

[@chinnymisc]

i know i know, but it does display what gelorum would do

[@afdelta0120]

@@chinnymisc I guess, but even the delivery is weird now that I view it as a grown up. Out of line with the cold anger she usually has. Either way, hope your vid did well here.

[@rns_nickitoloko_psn5775]

@@afdelta0120 wait....is your pfp the X-02 Wyvern?

[@afdelta0120]

@@rns_nickitoloko_psn5775 with shitty paint on red wing tips. Never changed it since like 2010. I was barely a teen.

[@rns_nickitoloko_psn5775]

@@afdelta0120 2010!? LOL Dude you basically predicted mihaly 11 years ago. It's always nice to see another Ace Combat guy in the Accelleracers community

[@ChromeMan04]

I had a feeling she was once human. She resembles Karma a bit.

[@Oliveira-rp9md]

now that I've seen this she kinda reminds me of Satan, works perfectly with her character archetype

[@keynanmartinez]

She is a pretty good villain in Hotwheels.

[@jewelscoop3570]

Hopefully these videos keep getting steam so the new hotwheels unleashed gets acceleracers DLC

[@chinnymisc]

That would be cool

[@MSARCTICEDGE]

If they did, they'll be worried that it'll be very popular again like last time

[@TheLegitAlpha]

Honestly, she would have succeeded if she hadn’t cheated on the most convoluted driving test known to man.

[@syvarristorgast6380]

Has anyone else thought that Geloram is Vert's mom? Like what they did to Kadeem? Unlikely I know but still.

[@chinnymisc]

so verts mum lived for thousands of year?? also they just robotised kadeem :D

[@Facta.Non_Verba]

​@@chinnymisc she has the same appearance of Vert's mom. Not that she is his mom but uses her mask, and we know that something bad happend to vert's mom.

[@mistressofdreams6031]

@@Facta.Non_Verba Could be just the current "shell"

[@ChromeMan04]

@@Facta.Non_Verbano she doesn’t. That’s is a photo of Verts mom and she looks nothing like gelorum. I say she resembles karma more.

[@stranger9847]

You know what if the drones weren't abandoned because of fear what if they abandoned them because they were bored. The drones simply weren't challenging enough and were tossed to the curve because of it.

[@maxsanchez764]

I love accereracers but damn, Why tf do these movies have to be so scary 😭

[@house._.6634]

Exactly like i got nightmares cuz of drone kadeem

[@monteiro1345]

The beats are hard af lmao I never noticed as a kid

[@adamamato4889]

I'm guessing gelorum is either based on irma grese or ilse koch

[@Mariocat99]

5:04 throws me off that Gelorum and Vert's VA also voiced in the new Johnny Test and MLP

[@kunlesanders]

And also Bionicle movies

[@WAGAKO19]

What do you think what Kadeem went through in the transformation? Think of it in the mk11 scene where the facility cut the heads off by a huge saw blade and extracted the brain

[@KingofStreet3]

I have nearly all accelachargers from the TCG, I just need to find more un open packs lol

[@kamonek3825]

Gelorum needed the accelechagers to survive the realms and to reach the accelerons, remenber what all the realms did to the drones? Yes all the real hazards happened to the drones and not the human drivers

[@mistressofdreams6031]

Yeah, Thats why the drones got most of the chargers, they were totally picked on the most. Also there is a realm and actually more than one now that I think about it that only the drones could do without focusing, Warped and Lava.

[@user-wm3ow6jg8d]

Gelorum my first crush

[@user-wm3ow6jg8d]

no wonder i'm bottom

[@taoma9676]

Χαχαχαχαχαχ αρε μαλακα😂

[@TEKUxMIKU]

This dries w are the best villain!s.? Hands down.

[@rifky8121]

still waiting for the fifth movie :(

[@rifky8121]

even though I already know it's impossible

[@screecher6577]

Nice explanation dude sorry you didn't get alot of people to view this

[@chinnymisc]

i only posted it like a day ago lol

[@TheDragonfriday]

It little hard since this film is so old. I don't think not a lot of people that watched it. I watch it when I was very young into hot wheels.

[@Rickil96trollencio]

Gelorum is pretty hot 👌🏻

[@Rickil96trollencio]

Gelorum is so creppy.

[@adamamato4889]

1. Gelorum is has blonde hair and blue eyes 2. She says " destroy all the humans s ( like sub humans 3. It's a cartoon but humans and other animals have nerve systems s system so be tourteing kadeen and making him a drone cyborg she/ the drones have destroyed/ damaged his nervous system ( which is very much like nazi experiments on allied pows "

[@coatguy2990]

I don't get the entire acceleron thing. They feel kinda unfinished and bland in their story. Also they absolutely make no sense as can be seen in the info we already have "the accelerons feared the drones which is why they banished and abandoned them" - then this acceleron dude just outta nowhere makes the strongest drone of them all fly through eternal space via telepathy? WHY were they afraid of the drones then??? Feels like "oh yeah we need a grand finale - just do something with those acceleron dudes and let it end on a cliffhanger with Verts dad"

[@mr.froglegs]

Maybe they weren't ever afraid of them. That's just what the drones convinced themselves to make themselves feel better

[@mistressofdreams6031]

@@mr.froglegs also Coat Guy is correct that it was a major plot hole, one that will never be filled, ever :(

[@azure4622]

Yeah it really sounds like she's making that up

[@TheMadsav1993]

What movie is this

[@chinnymisc]

Acceleracers

[@Security-ou9ep]

I think he meant which one of the 3

[@Security-ou9ep]

Nvm. Your using clips from all 3

[@user-wm3ow6jg8d]

so is she human after all or a robot؟

[@lol-ih1tl]

She's a robot disguised as a human, just like Mark Zuckerberg.

[@adamamato4889]

4. The drones world / hq / what is is a subliminal nod too conventional camps 5. She Brags about " supremecy " like the nazis

[@sholt7948]

Traduct in spanish plss l am speak spanish

[@artistanthony1007]

Gelorum has no humanity and apparently she's a male especially with how her mouth does move when in the actual 4th Movie while in Ruins Realm 3.3, the voice is just a recording and "her" mouth doesn't move.

[@chinnymisc]

I'm 80% i didn't base her character development on gender + she has human characteristics = she has humanity

[@artistanthony1007]

@@chinnymisc Hmm I see, I still believed that the female was just a disguise and that voice was also meant to deceive, you can even see that she acts way more of a dominant male than a female, has way too much aggression and the Accelerons while appear genderless, do have a gender and they also speak with no mouth, that trait is clearly something Gelorum has too.

[@chinnymisc]

@@artistanthony1007 most people when disguising themselves change their appearance such as clothes, hair etc and not gender. So I thinkgelorum disguised herself as a women because she is a female even though she a robot lol