AcceleRacers: The Curse of Being a Leader

[@stevetalon]

Man oh man, the irony of being a Wave Ripper... Vert, WATER you doing?!

[@NOLOAF-AR]

might have to pin this

[@NOLOAF-AR]

twitter.com/noloaf/status/1031656370066673665?s=21

[@nicoofthenight8403]

Jaden gtfout

[@ColinM]

Steve Uberhero IM... IM... IM GONNA, I GONNA PASS YOU

[@imcintyre01]

I find your profile 100% fitting for this comment

[@88flak63]

"What could go wrong on the freeway?" *everything goes wrong on the freeway*

[@slateoffate9812]

88 Flak Murphy's law.

[@jajathenewking6131]

Anything.

[@ayumi3112]

Especially trucks and super cars

[@not_kjb]

Especially in burnout or need for speed

[@aaronlonghuynh5245]

When Vert saved Taro, he should have said: "But a Wave Ripper would help a Scorcher"

[@NOLOAF-AR]

yeah, he should've. i wish kurt called vert a surf rat in the water realm! 😭

[@nicklarricks]

Vert helped Taro twice. He helped saving Lani.

[@macewbee]

Yep

[@ihscomics2432]

How come both The World Race and Acceleracers start with Tesla failing at something and ending it with Vert and his dad doing something? Awkward parallels...

[@NOLOAF-AR]

IHSComics ` “doing something...” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@uncoolkid6821]

To be fair, the series wasn't suppose to end there so this parallel is in no possible way intentional, but it is still kind of weird

[@scp049isnotafurryitsjustab3]

@@uncoolkid6821 the series ends in with BF5 with Vert and Dad

[@1ULTRAKNIGHT]

One part of the irony you forgot. Kurt nearly died next to a BROKEN BRIDGE

[@NOLOAF-AR]

what’s ironic about that?

[@greenhardin1700]

noloaf In Leg Two of World Race, he cuts a shortcut short by sabotaging that bridge in front of the Wave Rippers.

[@astrofox2409]

Wow you're right.

[@carl-stevensinkler7894]

ULTRAMANZX lmao I forgot about that but that man stay crashing in realms he’s an aggressive driver but Kurt was crashing a lot in acceleracers

[@KairuLateNightUpload]

ULTRAMANZX I t di n t F aL l ?!

[@JohnDoe-wb6vl]

I like how almost every team leader gets totally rekt in the realm in which they would be expected to perform the best, then there's Kurt who just fucks around with speeding semi-trucks in the metro realm.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

John Doe i mean, you’d think he’d be the one to win that realm since he was the leader of streetbreed. what’s especially interesting about that is that the silencer who won the realm was disguised as kurt when going through the portal 👀

[@kuroneko3230]

to be fair kurt never really excelled in any realm, since he was focused on being a spy for galorum.

[@JohnDoe-wb6vl]

@@kuroneko3230 I still dont understand why Kurt would give up a really far ahead lead in the second leg of the world race just to stress about the shortcut. Even if he noticed it from the main track and thought "oh no what if someone uses that to get ahead of me" the better decision would just be to continue hauling ass instead of stopping and letting literally everyone pass him up.

[@kuroneko3230]

@@JohnDoe-wb6vl he didn't know what was up ahead and wanted to use the drivers as bait to see if it was safe to go? Also, they might see kurt if he's far ahead of them rather than behind him, where they'll have a "less" likely chance of spotting him. Notice how kurt is usually far away from the drivers when shooting them down or whatever.

[@JohnDoe-wb6vl]

@@kuroneko3230 His whole job as a spy was to win the wheel himself for gelorum tho, would make no sense to jeopardize that by wasting time attacking drivers that arent a threat

[@Arkonai]

It's funny that Vert even mentions that he should have brought his surfboard when he enters the water realm, and I've always questioned how could Taro crash in the lava realm when he had the most experience in driving over lava... One thing I noticed, they re-used the Eye On The Sky from the Street Breed of HW35 to model the drone cameras we see in the realms, like when Nolo is upside down on the metro realm and uses the swamp accelecharger.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

Arkonai he mentioned that? dang it! i wish i included that in the video and i noticed that as well! the silencerz also use a similar device

[@Shady_Inktail]

noloaf coincidence, I think NOT!

[@thesquatch9821]

One thing that Taro forgot, the heat shields don't have traction on hard surfaces

[@decypherthekhaos9044]

This is because Dan was captured and presumably killed by the drones or saved by the Silencerz in the Fog Realm. They took his technology to make the recon drones.

[@CharizardMaster69]

In the WR: These cars can take a beating without so much as a scratch! Acceleracers: Slingshot is pretty much destroyed, Taro’s roadrunner is all but destroyed, the Deora 2 is cut in half.

[@LeaveTheMark_YT]

Slingshot never got destroyed, just turned upside down. It must have been too complex/not worth it for the animators to make another model of Slingshot with body damage.

[@-SoonerorLater]

And Nolo has a similar wipeout that Vert had in the first dimension race in WR, and similar to Vert that crash also happens near the beginning. But while Vert’s Deora 2 sustained zero damage, Nolo’s car was scratched to hell and his spoiler flew off.

[@LeaveTheMark_YT]

@@-SoonerorLater Synkro wasn't built by Dr. Tezla, so it would be understandable as to why it got so damaged.

[@Charles-7]

well the deora 2 was cut in half by being splitting in literal two from the portal of the wheel of power.

[@Rad1antGeneralZelcina]

@@LeaveTheMark_YT Slingshot lost a wheel when it crashed. Kurt was forced to abandon it and ride with Carma out of the Storm Realm.

[@slingshotkurt8474]

6:38 WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SPEED FOR THAT JUMP!!

[@dylanhale7300]

Very good point, exact same situation minus Taro...

[@TheAcePool]

'When you have driven in a sandSTORM in the Sahara, Banjee... THIS is nothing.' *ALMOST DIES IN THE STORM REALM* *CAPTURED BY DRONES, TORTURED AND TURNED INTO A ROBOT*

[@NOLOAF-AR]

TheAcePool LMAO can’t believe i didn’t catch that...a part two is definitely on the way. or maybe a reupload? idk...

[@simonriley3273]

LOL

[@wakspacific6928]

@@NOLOAF-AR Kadeem is the leader of the Dune Ratz. Like a desert rat, he gets caught.

[@artistanthony1007]

Technically Part Robot as he isn't fully machine, he still has his human heart, other internal studf, upper body and one pair of his arms.

[@ihscomics2432]

Add these two in. Kadeem nearly dies in the storm realm. Kadeem's car can handle not srorms, but sandstorms. And for him to nearly die in not a sand, but a storm is ironic. And Markie. Almost dies in the junk realm. He's a metal maniac. His car can withstand beat ups and junk thrown at it. Pretty ironic, huh?

[@NOLOAF-AR]

dude. YOU ARE A GENIUS. kadeem's car (and even kadeem himself) can handle driving through situations where it would be hard to see. such as a sandstorm, or in this case, a thunderstorm. fits perfectly the fact that markie was a metal maniac that almost died in the junk realm never occurred to me...now i feel stupid 😅

[@NOLOAF-AR]

amazing finds man! :D originally i wasn't going to make a part two to this video, but with what you just told me i can definitely start working towards it. just have to find a couple more examples

[@mrdasjo]

To add to that, maybe Dan Dresdin got lost in the Metro realm, since he was the Street Breed team.

[@petelebeouf7580]

ill glady go back and watch the movies for ya

[@austinposey8423]

That’s true including if he was stuck in sand he would use sand tires

[@AlvaroGaming1337]

“You know what they say about guys with big feet” HAHHAAH

[@ShadowIsatis]

The worst part is that at 1:01? You could see he was right *there* at the finish. This was an epic fail in every sense of the word. Vert should have gotten the GoT shame walk for that stupidity alone.

[@natrix3759]

This series still had even more potential than what was shown. They could've made a sick videogame where drivers enter and race through realms avoiding obsticles and drones to get to the portal. Accelechargers are such a good concept as well. Wish there was an official videogame for these movies:(

[@andrewreid6867]

Doesn't matter if you're equipped for the environment or have some home advantage, the realms are all about driving skills.

[@TheFurryInShambles]

Andrew Reid You're right,but those are expected to obviously adapt to the environment they are best at back at home should be the ones ahead of the pack. Not the other way around.

[@axl1632]

Not to mention that the Realm's Hazards are more treacherous and it has more impredictible attacks than the Highway 35's realm hazards ones.

[@THERYDERPROJECTGTAChannel]

4:31 Pork Chop was scared because of the water therefore he took the other path

[@imcintyre01]

You know, it’s ironic that I’ve learned all my driving tips from watching a fictional driving show.

[@oTakisApoTinAchaia]

There's another thing as well in the #1 example of irony shown in the video: Vert is "going for the record" with his "fastest time ever" being about 30 mins. He ends up crashing to failure only to watch Taro performing a 20 mins run...

[@deependdiver9737]

Lol kurt had to prove his badassery with that semi dodge..... "see ya"

[@jakemiller4291]

My theory: Kadeem is actually still alive, and wasn't killed during the fall to his "death" in the Ultimate Race. He was actually badly damaged and the code used to make him behave like a drone was destroyed, but the real Kadeem is still in there (because he remembered the fight between Kurt in the desert stage of Highway 35, also maybe the twitches are him trying his best to fight against the drone-ness) and maybe he would get rescued at a later time but be a cyborg, similar to Wylde, but his whole body is robotic.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

wait, kadeem is thought to be dead? i always figured he would have easily survived that fall because of his new drone legs. also, the real kadeem is definitely still there. remember when kurt asked him about his home? you can see him hesitate a bit before responding. and the fact that gelorum talks about "memories being restored" when constructing new RD-L1 confirms that at least some of kadeem's memory is still intact. btw, i never thought about the twitches like that. that's really cool and highly plausible. i always thought that was just him malfunctioning or something :/

[@Shady_Inktail]

noloaf I always considered him to have either easily survived or smashed to pieces after the fall. And awhile back I had a theory that if they could remove the malicious programming from Sparky, they could potentially do it to Kadeem. And if they did, he’d probably explain all the horrific things that Gelorum did to him. Vert probably wouldn’t take it well either, seeing as they’re close friends. He was my favorite character out of the bunch in Ignition, and it makes me so mad that that’s what happened to him.

[@SieghartFa]

Although my 10 year old me thought about kadeem being dead, i now think that he only wasn´t dead (because i learned that characters only die if the body shows up) but he even has the capabilities to be the next Big boss(since that monstrosity of a drone was, like throw to space by the accelerator). Maybe they actually plan something this way, that in the end they are capable of redeeming kadeem and maybe galora actually comes back in some way. Dammit, every time i think about this thing i want the story to continue.

[@jamstheshapeshifter]

@@matthewpolfer1286 Sure it will Wouldn't exactly put it past Wylde

[@Rad1antGeneralZelcina]

It is entirely possible that everytime Kadeem twiches, it’s him trying to fight the Drone programming. Especially with one line he said to Wylde after Wylde said: “Alright Kadeem, let’s see what you’re made of!” followed by Kadeem saying “Still human after all...” then he twitches. Also Kadeem most likely survived as Drones can leap very high in the air (shown in several occasions. One in the Swamp Realm where RD L1 tries to kill Vert. It wasn’t shown how he got there, but it leads into another moment when the Drones breached the Acceledome and three RD L1’s are shown leaping high in the air out of their cars. Drone Kadeem is also seen leaping very high).

[@simonriley3273]

I find it funny when vert went off course vert said “Shoot The Curl!” 2:16 (As if he is riding the wave but he screws up)

[@NOLOAF-AR]

finally, someone noticed! 😂

[@joshuamoore3065]

You missed some more irony in the first one!! Vert tries to go for the “record” and wipes out right? Well Taro gets sandwiched by two drone racers and ends up in Drone City. Taro thus has to complete the realm AGAIN in order to get back to the Acceledrome. HE HAS 20 MINUTES. Taro ACTUALLY completes the realm in record time, while Vert tries and fails!

[@fongentripaloski]

Such attention to detail and good writing keeps me a fan of this saga even at 21 years old. I was introduced to it around 9-11 years old. What makes me more happy is that fans still talk about it even today

[@NOLOAF-AR]

SDS_SABER seeing things like this brings tears to my eyes :’)

[@Optimaloptimus]

3:34 I just realized, the grapple connection rope(?) was actually able to withstand direct contact with lava.

[@JohnDoe-wb6vl]

As for Kadeem, it is still ironic how he disappeared because in both the desert leg of the world race and the storm realm, an energy ball causes him to go flying off the track.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

John Doe what’s ironic about that?

[@kingofroses302]

Also, Taro coming back through the water realm for an actual fastest time ever adds to it.

[@slingshotkurt8474]

"Balance increases traction."

[@NOLOAF-AR]

nobody beats kurt wylde ;)

[@mikasaackerman9520]

See ya!

[@celticwind4122]

It real racing it does carry over, keeping the car settled and smooth is the best way to increase laptimes.

[@zacariascisneros6399]

That helped me a lot in Real Racing 3 xd

[@ryeonkyle8479]

H eh Trac tio n

[@gaberamirez7658]

Kadeem's is ironic because arguably the most competitive, one-track minded driver in the World Race gets lost because he tries to genuinely work with someone else. Also the storm/sandstorm thing people have mentioned.

[@pako5586]

Do you remember that kurt attached himself in the desert leg of the world race to a dunratz car how does kadeem die again

[@NOLOAF-AR]

pakoisaias 39 he did? i don’t remember that exactly and it is thought kadeem commits suicide at the end of the ultimate race by letting go of the ledge him kurt and markie were on. but i think he is still alive as he could’ve easily survived the fall (especially with all those drone implants)

[@pako5586]

noloaf kurt attached himself to the mega duty car

[@NOLOAF-AR]

pakoisaias 39 do you have a time stamp? i don’t remember :(

[@pako5586]

noloaf 48:44 and like yellow lantern said he was thrown off a track in the same realm

[@2001spy]

@@NOLOAF-AR I doubt he died from that fall, since a action figure of him was revealed for the 5th unreleased movie.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

love all the discussion happening on these videos guys, keep it up! :D

[@estthecoolguy]

I kind of hate Taro, Kadeem died because of him, and then he says "remember Kadeem?".

[@NOLOAF-AR]

It wasn't necessarily his fault. The blame should be put on the Drone that shot him

[@estthecoolguy]

Well he declined the teamwork request didn't he? If he accepted it they could've helped each other.

[@CharizardMaster69]

Thasan Sornthanayodsakorn I think that’s because he feels guilty about it and is looking for any excuse to shift blame.

[@aralskt4319]

Glad I could give you a helping hand I wonder the reason for this irony of the WR team leaders failing or having something bad happen to them despite having a bit of a elemental advantage was to show just how dangerous the realms truly are In Banjee’s case, I think he could’ve been slightly out of his element since the Swamp Realm would be more treacherous than the Forest Realm. Still ironic he may have taken that path across the water that Porkchop avoided (not out of instinct, but because he has hydrophobia as revealed in Speed of Silence) I guess you could make a comparison to when Zed 36 knock Kadeem of the track with his energy cannon during the desert leg and him getting dragged off the track in the Strom Realm. But that’s where it ends IMO

[@NOLOAF-AR]

thanks so much man. keep an eye on discord on the next coming days. i have a few thing i'd like to discuss :] that is true. but i think the color schemes and the general atmosphere of the swamp realm and a forest like environment is enough to draw a comparison. and i never noticed that about porkchop...i thought he was just being reckless in that scene in ignition. but yeah, now to think of it he his scared of water and he did avoid the track above it

[@pako5586]

YellowLantern 15419 i think the swamp trees in the realm causes the giant mosquitos less mobility and due to banjee taking the other road you can clearly see there are no trees and before that you could see the bug ascending from the water so my theory is he took the cut and the mosquitos drained him of his gas

[@CherryBerry81ossom]

Off*

[@yeahya2737]

its crazy the foreshadowing with pork chop and his reaction when monkey mentions the clear path over the "water".... this series was crazy man

[@ultravince_xxi]

It really hurts me to see ballistik sinking in the swamp realm because banjee was my favorite character.

[@vergil9981]

the irony in kadeem, is that in the desert highway on highway 35, he manage to get back on track by himself, but on the storm realmhe failed to do so

[@Jony_terant]

maybe the irony of kadeem was that he could drive in sandstorms in the sahara but he couldnt see the drone that hit wylde and made him lost control

[@Ratchetrpg01]

For the first one, I thought you were going to say that Vert was going for the record, wrecks, then Taro does the track in 20 minutes.

[@dubl44]

I remember reading a comment somewhere that someone saw Dresden's Sidedraft in the Metro realm, never could find it personally, but it is possible. I just don't think the drones or silencerz are incompetent enough to fail the Metro realm's first opening, negating that theory. Real question is, what realm did Alec Wood get lost in?

[@aralskt4319]

We don’t know for sure what realm he could have been lost in. It could have been in one of the realms that the drones won (Warped, Fog or Monument). There was a rumor someone started which stated that Alec was lost in the Storm Realm, but that was most likely headcannon since no poor of that claim surfaced. Now there is a theory that’s more plausible that the silencer that hit Taro at the end of the Ice realm was Alec. Probably as payback for when him and Kadeem spun Alec out when he asked for a chance at winning.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

very interesting, i'll have to be on the lookout for that the next time i watch breaking point i have no idea, tbh. i find it odd that alec drove for tezla before vert did. the fact that alec didn't even tell him about this (even though they were best friends) makes it even more strange

[@dubl44]

Perhaps Tezla didn't want to catch the Silencerz attention really early on by contacting Vert, given that Vert's father is one. And we don't know a whole lot of what happened in the years between Highway 35 and Acceleracers, other than the fact that Kurt n Vert became good friends and joined up with a street racing team, with Taro sticking around as well. Seems like the rest went their different ways, maybe Alec was planning to go to college or something and it resulted with him and Vert growing apart.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

yes, you're right. i didn't think of that. a lot can happen in two years do you remember that scene with vert and his dad in breaking point? the dialogue between them is very interesting. on the surface, it's just a dad telling his son to stop messing around with some street punks. but if you look deeper, it could be that vert's dad wants vert to stop racing with the teku because him and his team (the silencerz) don't want any competition in reaching the accelerons. sounds like an ulterior motive to me

[@SpeedDemonPowerage98]

DubL storm realm for a very short Scene you can see his wrecked Switchback.

[@-LastStand-]

0:40 Also the lyrics says alot about tge scene. Part of it says: when i hit the ground, i hit it running. GO! GO! GO! GO!

[@BenjaminMcDonnell]

For Kadeem the irony is that at the end of the Final race where him and Kurt go at it. They were in the same position as in desert leg in the world race. But in the world race Kurt didn’t help him and was able to go up and fight him. But in the drone headquarters, Kurt tried to help him but he refused and let go.

[@stinger59605]

What about how in the world race, galorem said to vert “let’s see how well you drive with half a car.” And that’s exactly what happened to deora 2 at the end of the storm realm.

[@IarleyCarmo]

And he drive so well

[@kyleyuen245]

6:18 I just realized Kurt says he picked up a drone because his camera went out

[@cosmiccomputer9380]

1:50 gotta love that reference

[@ultravince_xxi]

Plus at 7:19 He was trying to play chicken with a semi truck.

[@dieselrichardson9055]

Dude you hurt me SO bad with the first 2 minutes of Vert. I KNEW it was coming.

[@AIMalek]

You forgot this about porkchop in speed of silence METAL MANIACHS AINT AFRAID OF NOTHING minutes later Im afraid of water

[@vulcanizedanthony145]

It's 12 in the morning and I just discovered your channel. I absolutely love these movies, and I love your content. It genuinely makes me so happy. Thank you, so much. I had no clue that other people liked these movies as much as I do. Thank you so much for your content.

[@NotBladed]

2:18 sounds like a timer like the amount of time he has left before he has to hit the edr

[@Charles-7]

it's even ironic that Banjee Castillo almost died in the swamp realm, the former leader of the road Beasts, who that he and his highway 35 team was swamp themed.

[@luanpereirafurtado]

4:56 Wait a minute, they mention any times in the movies that the same realm never opens twice, then how are they in the same realm Banjee was lost?

[@Knp36972]

The Swamp Realm has not been finished , Then it was reopened

[@Frightenerd]

This is some dark but interesting themes, rip banjo

[@warpvortex5822]

Vert is a Wave Ripper, he nearly dies at the water realm Taro is a Scorcher, he nearly dies at lava realm Kadeem is a Dune Ratz, he nearly dies at storm realm, and got captured by the drones.... 10/10 logic

[@checkitimawesome]

Kadeem got lost in a storm, similar to a DUST storm. There.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

' IHS Comics said something similar. when i make a part 1 to this video, you already know that's gonna be included 😎

[@evlshoots]

6:49 BUT THAT'S A TEKU CAR BRAND NEW IN THE SERIES NOT EQUIPPED WITH THE PREVIOUS STREET BREED UPGRADES

[@NOLOAF-AR]

THE IRONY COMES FROM THE FACT THAT KURT **USED** TO DRIVE A STREET BREED CAR

[@NOLOAF-AR]

JUST HOW VERT **USED** TO BE THE THE LEADER OF THE WAVE RIPPERS, YET HE WIPES OUT IN THE WATER REALM

[@demongamer1332]

2:30 maybe you should've have said was "Strange is itn't?" As a sonic the hedgehog movie reference(Cartoon)

[@samuelkim1827]

i think the irony about kadeem is that i think i remember when he mentions that his home is surrounded by sand storms in world race (if i remember correctly), and that he is stopped by the storm realm as a result

[@honokafrl2469]

0:32 Vert is flying in ummmm 0 mph?

[@honokafrl2469]

slow the vid down so u can see vert fly at 0 mph

[@josepht8162]

You should've included Porchop when he told Vert "Metal Maniacs ain't afraid of nothing" like your one to talk your afraid of water and failed in the water realm. But I respect his fear because like he said as a kid he watched how his old man drowned and that can really affect and traumatize someone especially at a young age.

[@majorsy-0325]

XD I bursted at the first one because he is a wave rifter

[@emarceeqem4715]

The additional irony of “going for the record” is that there probably *is* no record for that course, and winning in a more careful manner would gave given him the course record anyway. Also, I just thought of the irony for Kadeem. It might be a reach, but the Dune Ratz motto was "ride the wind." And he is captured after falling to his doom in the storm realm.

[@christianlenik5307]

So NOLOAF is saying: "Because they were Leaders, they are Not allowed to get a bit risky (Vert), make Mistakes (Taro), can die (Benjee, If you hear closer to Lani in the beginning, she Said "Dan Dresden (Former Street Breed), Alec Wood (Former Wave Ripper and Verts Friend) and Benjee (as WE know later also Kadeem) worked for Dr. Tezla and vanished"

[@Kovalziio17]

No one : Taro every time in a race : *I'm gonna pass you*

[@STARCHRISS]

Wow nice keep it up!

[@NOLOAF-AR]

StarChriss will do :]

[@Baseline808]

Taro needs to stop saying I'm gonna pass you. He always does pass someone, pass out.

[@evilmountain7147]

Plenty of irony surrounding Kadeem’s death... remember that scene in the world race, where Kadeem and Taro take out Alec Wood? 8:01 is likely a callback to that, and Kadeem is expecting them to work together again

[@darkhorse581]

Also, as soon as Vert said that he was going for the record, *KARMA* has struck

[@springblastyanimations1104]

2 dune rats landed close to the track and 1 uses a parachute or 2 to land safely Kadeem uses a Parachute to well glide? Idk and The Drone deleted the parachute making Kadeem Fall into the cloudy clouds and such

[@nicoofthenight8403]

If the realms never open twice, how did banjee get where he is?

[@MinatiMusicGroup]

Cyber Dragon754 asking the real questions here

[@fireknight3468]

The biggest irony was Vert trying to break the record in the Water Realm and fails due to pride. Taro breaks the record only because he needed to get out ASAP!

[@000xyz]

ok here is some irony for kadeem. first, the only interaction he had with taro was taro saying "i'm gonna pass you" where subsequently they end up finishing together (and kadeem makes the joke about passing vs tying). the final interaction he has with taro is kadeem wanting to team up, but taro says "i'm gonna pass you", resulting in kadeem facing 2 drones alone, and subsequently falling off the track, which leads to the other irony. in the 3rd race of highway 35, he gets a vision of his elder telling him that if he keeps racing, he will face a great danger at the end of his path....his path results in being augmented as a racing cyborg brainwashed to the point he says "the kadeem you knew is gone". he also has only 2 major fight scenes. the first is him as a hero fighting kurt wilde who at the time was a spy working for the racing drones. the latter is again against kurt wilde, except this time, kurt is heroically trying to save his brother, while kadeem is working for the drones (role reversal). and notice how in both fights, the fight ends with the villain falling down a cliff

[@daniismana8929]

2021 and i still watch this

[@101jir]

What makes the irony so perfect is it is a very real mindset, in videogame racing at least if not real world. You know your car has certain advantages and you want to exploit them to the fullest. But then you do stuff that even with your car's advantages are just too much. I live in Minnesota, and honestly I think I see more 4WD vehicles in the ditch during snowstorms than any other type of transmission, and I suspect that is why. Could also be that I think people confuse 4WD with AWD, easy enough mistake to make and I know I barely grasp it myself.

[@mikecharlie3975]

This is very interesting , considering the fact that a big percentage of road accidents happen in familiar areas and places near the people's houses This is a great example of that , the drivers were not on guard because they felt very comfortable with the surroundings and therefore made errors I guess kurt was the only one to keep an open mind and stay cool

[@naturewise966]

The irony of the storm realm with Kadeem was not Kadeem himself but the fact that whenever taro says “I’m gonna pass you” something bad always happens and it happened to be Kadeem this time around. First with vert on the little race that taro and vert had. Vert uses his grappling hook instead of I’m guessing his nitrous. Then the second time was when taro was racing Kadeem and he never actually passed Kadeem and now he does it again to Kadeem and what happens, something bad. It never works whenever taro says “I’m gonna pass you”

[@maximuskeene8572]

even more ironic for vert in the water realm is that he could've saved himself by using those propulsion jets (idk what they're called) on the bottom of his car to fly back onto the track and finish the race instead of panicking and using the edr

[@zackaryhaselius2226]

I think the Teku call them Jump Jets.

[@karrich1515]

This is actually some pretty interesting ironic events, if only kadeem was lost in some sort of desert realm

[@pumcia718]

The Lava Realm scene reminds me so much of the same Volcano scene from the world race.

[@TekuTaurus]

Thought you would mention how, as long as he won, it would be a record time no matter what since no one else had ever completed the realm yet. Don't need to push it if everyone else is 8 minutes behind you

[@RevItUp7]

I think you should check out the really close similarities to Crankshaft Bay in Hot Wheels Velocity X. It resembles the metropolitan realm.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

i use to play that a BUNCH as a kid

[@kuroneko3230]

My headcanon is that, being in the water realm got Vert all pumped up and so he got too excited because it reminded him about surfing, causing him to get distracted.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

DiamondSeltzer hehe, that makes a ton of sense. i can totally see that! plus he has a poster of someone surfing in his room in the acceledrome

[@kuroneko3230]

@@NOLOAF-AR he's mentioned surfing a bunch of times and has two surfboards on his previous car too!

[@trevorniddrie1088]

Oh snap good point out the water realm!

[@jamstheshapeshifter]

Here's your irony for kadeem When his parachute is shot by the drones, it seems to play right into when kurt fired at kadeem in world race

[@Jayler9o]

Vert could use his jets to get the accelecharger, but he was dumb and forgot it, damn hard to accept, but he did it many times.

[@muddasicc]

So to summarize, each reappearing leader of the racing teams within HW35 come close to death in some form that correlates to the team they lead, shits actually pretty interesting, never thought about it this way, interesting observation

[@NOLOAF-AR]

hehe, thanks man cool profile picture btw c:

[@x-90]

Well the street racer-Nolo, looses Synkro in this scene

[@Inkastar-tz8yd]

storms are typicly in deserts so kadeems demise is ironic in that way

[@group2gaming]

Irony: vert goes for the record time of 30 minutes and then taro completes the realm in less than 20

[@joulesapura349]

LOL

[@pastaforya4078]

Maybe the irony of Kadeems death is when Taro catches up to him he says I'm going pass you. The same thing he says ind the world race when they tied. Also when they where done with the race he says next time. Sorry if my English sucks

[@aaronkristofer18]

They should've actually reprised the Wave Rippers theme in the Water Realm, it fits terribly well with the scene.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

it does! but the song go is also so iconic, so i’m glad they went with that

[@fireknight3468]

Ironic Vert tried to break the record in the Water Realm for bragging rights, while Taro ends up breaking it out of need to get back to Earth

[@gaguillon3068]

I think something is ironic about Kadeem he was killed by a grappling hook that can refer to when the driver in world racer entered the sand area and then one of the dune rats got grappled by another car dragging extra weigh along him.

[@osmacar5331]

Kadeem gets lost in a storm, former DUNE ratz leader, the irony made itself

[@NOLOAF-AR]

i don’t see the correlation it’s not like the the thunderstorm obstructed his vision he was just shot off the track

[@zachmarques]

did you know that the street breeds eye in the sky is just like the drones recon drone, kurt raced for galorome

[@AlvaroGaming1337]

I love your videos man keep it up!

[@NOLOAF-AR]

i'll try my best to! stay on the lookout for new videos :D

[@hyperx72]

A few more things: The Teku don't win in the metro realm, but beat the metal maniacs in the junkyard realm. Taro's iconic line ruins everything, and the Alien robot's biggest defeat comes from space. I also love how vert grew as a character between adventures. Starting off as a cocky and selfish skateboarder/surfer, but evolving to a team leader and a very selfless person even since the first time you see him in Acceleracers, where he tries to save Kadeem who wasn't even on his team.

[@NOLOAF-AR]

me too man. i love that little scene he has with kadeem in the world race where he realized what winning means to other people, and not just to himself and sick findings man! i plan on making a sequel to this video soon, would you mind if i included some of your findings? (with credit of course) :D

[@hyperx72]

Oh! Sure! Go ahead! I'd love to be recognized!

[@afdelta0120]

Kurt had that under control.

[@LeaveTheMark_YT]

Isn't it also ironic that both times Synkro gets demolished, it occurs within a city environment?

[@NOLOAF-AR]

good eyes :0

[@yeetisthefetus7214]

It's sad how vert lost his best friend alec because whenever Lonnie argues with Dr Tesla she mentions him. As well two other drives including Benji

[@Yagueshita_]

Now that i was watching world race for the 109th time, i saw that Dresden became a leader of the street breed some time later, and you can see his sky eye in a drone theme in metro realm, btw he is also lost in the realms so we can think dresden got captured by drones and probably became one 😢

[@its_goyo]

It might be ironic with Kadeem's death in the storm realm after he said how driving through the desert was nothing or something similar in world race to banjee. I know it's a reach but it's the scene where Kadeem and Banjee are driving through smoke. Deserts can have sand storms and Kadeem died in the storm realm. Maybe...?