Every F-Zero Home Console Pilot + Why F-Zero Deserves a Comeback! 

My thoughts on the pilots in the GameBoy Advance installments and the GP Legend anime: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m7wRjBUcGWo.html

The pilots are the reason why F-Zero is my favorite game series. The gameplay is amazing but secondary. Without the pilots, there is no heart.

Another thing about Goroh interestingly enough is that he may be a ruthless thief, but he would never kill anyone. Yet we see him threaten Falcon's life on a couple of occasions. But maybe Falcon knows his threats are just hot air. And I believe Dr. Stewart played a big part in preventing any casualties from the huge F-Zero accident that happened before X, so based off of that I'd imagine he indeed is largely responsible for Mighty Gazelle's cyborg implements.

Who is here after F-Zero 99?

Honestly, this is one pretty diverse cast of racers! Better than having a pink-gold variant.😂

WHOA thank you so much for mentioning my cover of James McCloud’s theme! Great video!!

Great breakdown of the series' racers. One of my favorite things about F-Zero, next to the fantastic gameplay, is the presentation. Most arcade-style racing games of this type are deliberately barebones in that area, which is fine, but what makes F-Zero stand out is its dedication to that 80s-90s comic book aesthetic. For a Japanese franchise, it really nails the stylings of American comics from that era. All of the characters take after common archetypes like superheroes, supervillains, bounty hunters, mutants, aliens, cyborgs, etc. It's campy and doesn't take itself seriously, but still exudes a degree of badassery that perfectly matches the tone of the medium it's emulating. The characters are all fairly shallow parodies, but there's just enough to each of them that they're fun and endearing. Leaving so much up to the mind of the player also lends an element of personalization to the experience of gameplay. Why exactly DOES Goroh hate Falcon so much? You're never really told in any detail, but all you know is you get an extra sense of satisfaction from running your rival off the road during a grand prix. The effort to include ultimately trivial but entertaining detail through characterization seems like a small thing, but it adds a ton of charm to the actual play experience and puts F-Zero on a higher pedestal for me than most other futuristic racing games.

I haven't actually seen anyone talk about the characters in F-ZERO who aren't just Captain Falcon, Goroh or Black Shadow. Thank you

I’ve never been too fond of the F-Zero series but after watching this video, it’s criminal that Nintendo hasn’t tried anything new with these games or characters yet. It totally deserves more!

Yeah I agree with the silliness F-Zero is essentially Pro Wrestling as racing.

As someone pursuing a second college degree at age 34 I relate to Silver Neelsen on a spiritual level. I want this series to come back now more than ever.

Weird thing with octoman, in the games he has a noble reason to race, where as in the anime he works for zoda and black shadow

I appreciate that the girls in this game are just as muscular as the guys - true girlbosses

I always thought the James McCloud reference was really cool and that they should've eventually attempted human versions for more of the Star Fox cast. Imagine a human Falco, Krystal, Wolf and even Andross here. F-Zero GX also always gave me a fighting game vibe with the way it's character lore and arcade ending movies were handled.

I always loved Jody Summer, she reminded me a lot of Samus.

“the evil forces will never get their hands on this belt I’LL KEEP WINNING!” *- Captain Falcon.*

Man, your rank-order list was crazy. Goes to show the variety of the characters and the different opinions people can form of them. For real, though, F-Zero characters are pretty cool and, I think, if more people knew about them, it would make lots more fans for the series.

So glad to see a video that puts the spotlight on the characters. This was always a very underrated aspect of the series. Maybe if they do another game (whenever that will be) they can try to do something to flesh them out more, like a World Tour mode similar to Street Fighter 6, especially if they have Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator of the Yakuza games, working on the game again. Hell, this can also work for a new Virtua Fighter game. Also, for my favorite characters in the series, Captain Falcon is an obvious one but I really think Phoenix really cool, I also really like Samurai Goroh, being the brash rival of Falcon who has a lot of personality but is also a decent father surprisingly enough. And I would also love to mention Princia Ramode, who I have a huge soft spot as she somewhat reminds me of Jam design wise but probably has more similarities to Daisy from the Mario series, both being tomboy princesses of a desert area.

22:50 I think his design (mainly the glasses) are based on Beat from Jet Set Radio As for the Machine name, I think the dolphin part is a reference to the GameCubes Codename (which was Dolphin, they loved to make dolphin references back then)

the fact none of the Pilot Themes (especially Captain Falcon's) is in Smash Bros is a grave gaming SIN

You know what they should do. A comic for every character, where they show up a bit of lore to these magnificent people.

GX's soundtrack honestly didnt have to go nearly as hard as it did, but they were like "nah EVERYONE gets a song" shows how much they cared.

I support your F-Zero support.

Didn't even watch it yet but thank for covering one of my favorite racing games and series of all the time.

I grew up playing F-Zero X and GX. I love these games, I love these characters, I love each characters theme songs. GX especially shows that F-Zero has such a colorful cast of characters and it is so criminal that they haven't done literally ANYTHING with almost the entire cast. Hoping with the success of F-Zero 99 that Nintendo decides to bring them back in the coming years (hopefully with a little better writing lol) Awesome video, thanks for spreading the good news of F-Zero :)

I loved James McCloud's Theme so much I would just stay on the select screen, options or whatever just to hear his song play over and over again. Such a cool rift.

Kinda wish you went into the interviews more. Mighty Gazelle actually revealed he does Disaster Rescue when he isn’t racing. So would that make him a hero in your definition?

1:19 off the top of my head dr stewart, pico, jody summers, octoman, and james mccloud

1:19 I tried this challenge initially, managed to get all 5, celebrated, only to later realize I got the names wrong anyway. Oh well! Glad to see you're back, Characters In-Depth!

How about a game about Captain Falcon being a bounty hunter that takes down evil-doers. Perhaps he can team up with F-Zero pilots along that way to give them time to shine? I don't know, I would love that. To drive to places is with their vehicles.

Awesome video! It's great to see someone talk about F-Zero's forgotten cast. I always thought F-Zero had a ton of fun and quirky characters that needed more spotlight, but never got to shine due to the severe lack of F-Zero games. These character have a lot of potential. Give us more from them, Nintendo!

Blood Falcon's Hell Hawk logo is pretty sick btw.

StarFox and FZero. Two game series I love that get no respect

There’s some interesting tidbits about the machines. Like Draq and Roger’s machines. Not only did they wind up unclaimed, apparently they were built by a racing team that completely and mysteriously vanished after something called The Great Accident

Goroh actually had a decent time in the Anime, he was badass and actually helped the heroes a lot but doing it for his benefit as well but he would help with honor. But he also trolled quite a bit and it was hilarious. Goroh was my favorite during the anime besides Ryo and Haruka. The anime was badass and amazing and even though its ending was sad it was really good.

I appreciate that you gave attention to the lore side of F-Zero, as it is really one of the BIG unique aspects of the series that makes it great. I mean, we even got our own anime--is that not proof F-Zero is more than just a racing game?

I don't want to be this guy, but I almost knew all the names from the game, even most of the Cars names. My brother and I played this game to no end, doing everything on Extreme took so much of our time, but there were very few games that felt so rewarding beating the Extreme difficulty. Mission 7, the Grand Prix, took calculating and perfect driving to even think about winning. Kill Black Shadow right at the start of the race, because he started one position behind you. Take out Blood Falcon next, because he will hug the first place for the whole race. Boosting perfectly, and taking every turn for 5 full laps and you MIGHT win. Or Mission 5, saving Jody....holy crap man. You get like 45 Seconds. One teeny tiny mistake, and you restart. And you have to boost 24/7, so driving as fast as possible for the Blue Falcon, while dodging doors in a tunnel and flying through gaps that barely have enough space to fit through. You also had to take every boosting arrows, or you couldn't make it because your own boosting was not enough. F-Zero is such a good franchise, a shame that Nintendo buried it because of the bad sells.

I think my favorite pilot in terms of being outside the machine is Leon. He's a surprisingly nice guy! But PJ just shot up for me as well. Maybe its because i just learned that what i previously thought was a mouth is actually his snout.

Masterful video on literally my favorite game, and franchises ever!!! Thank you so much for this!!

I AM THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE MR. EAD FAN GRAAAAAAAHHHHH

that part with silver neilson and you wanting to keep at it a being a voice actor got to me, been streaming for a year now but its something i want to do as a full time thing so the video at that part really gave me some motivation to keep streaming up

I bet you're stoked now that it's back and dominating the online discord. Definitely didn't see that coming.

I started get deep in the f-zero franchise thanks to X on the switch I’ve also purchased the original cartridge for the n64 and GX This games deserve so much love damn they’re just AWESOME

That Pico dub was *On-POINT*

F-Zero 99 is a step in the right direction for the series. It truly needs to define itself compared to modern day Mario kart

Let's go! Numerically! 0. Deathborn 1. Mighty Gazelle 2. Jody Summer 3. Dr. Stewart (My doctor's name is coincidentally also Robert Stewart.) 4. Baba 5. SG 6. Pico 7. CF 8. Octoman 9. Mr. EAD 10. James McCloud 11. Billy 12. Kate Allen 13. Zoda 14. Jack Levin 15. Bio-Rex 16. The Skull 17. Antonio Guster 18. Beastman 19. Leon 20. Super Arrow 21. Mrs. Arrow 22. Gomar & Shioh 23. Silver Neelsen 24. Michael Chain 25. Blood Falcon 26. John Tanaka 27. Draq 28. Roger Buster 29. Dr. Clash 30. Black Shadow 31. Don Genie 32. Digi Boy 33. Dai, San, and Gen 34. Spade 35. Dai Goroh 36. Princia Ramode 37. Lily Flyer 38. PJ 39. QQQ 40. Phoenix And that's just GX.

I feel like the world is ready for the campy goofiness of F-Zero again. I hear GX is getting a remaster for Switch that will drop in 2024. Hell yeah!

This was an excellent video and has great editing and commentary. I hope you get more views soon!

THANK YOU FOR PUTTING SILVER ON TOP OF YOUR LIST! THAT MEANS THE WORLD TO ME!

Nintendo: We can’t make a new F-Zero game until we can come up with a new gimmick for it. Also Nintendo: Gives us a sequel to mediocre launch title for the Switch that not a lot of people remember or liked.

My favorites have got to be Spade, Phoenix, and Silver Neelson. Phoenix has the best character theme.

Hey, I paused the video at 1:23 and was able to name seven: Jodi Summer, Dr. Stewart, Lisa Alen, Black Bull, Blood Falcon, and James McCloud. I could probably name more but I have a headache right now. I read quite a few bios in F-Zero GX, man we really need another one of those. Great video so far.

12:22 Shoutout to Iwata who created both the Star Fox and F-Zero series. He’s also the very reason why Fox and Falcon (Captain Falcon, not Falco Lombardi) are connected to each other.

1:44 does the "G" make it sound cooler 😂

F-Zero’s lore is why I think F-Zero stands out from other racing games to me. Other racing games wish they had story and music like this

1:21 Easy. Super Arrow, Mrs. Arrow, Phoenix, PJ, Princia Ramode, Dr. Stewart, Pico, Black Shadow, Deathborn, Michael Chain, Silver Neelson, DaiSanGen, Dai Goro, Jody Summers and Blood Falcon

So, for that first question at the start. 1. Zoda 2. Super Arrow 3. Ms. Arrow 4. James McCloud 5. Phoenix 6. Blood Falcon 7. The Skull As much as I love F-Zero Nintendo scares me with their responses to F-Zero between “We don’t know what to do with it.” And “Mario Kart already exists.” I’m horrified thinking of what Nintendo would do to the series. The last game Nintendo developed for F-Zero was X which was amazing but that was older Nintendo. I’m just afraid Nintendo will try to gimmick the game up with stupid mechanics and stuff nobody wants. Like the Mario sports games that had to have stupid gimmicks like making fighting game mechanics in tennis and racing in Mario golf.

Fun fact about Spade: He's actually the ball in his torso, the rest of him is just a projection

Man i miss this series...loved GX

Then FZERO 99 came out only using 4 of the og pilots but thats okay cause DR. STEWART IS HIGH TIER FOR ONCE BABYYYYY

Damn am I missing out. Captain Falcon is so well known for being in Smash Bros and his “Falcon PUNCH” meme. This series NEEDS a comeback.

And then F-Zero 99 came out. & it's absolutely fun as hell

Baba needs to remain untouched if they ever make a new game. He's fabulous the way he is. And Dai, San and Gen deserve to return too. Seriously, if the problem is their voices, just have them played differently. They could even still have accents with a more PC portrayal, as long as no one tries to play the "accents in general are racist somehow" card that too many people like to play now.

To this day F-Zero is one my favorite games on the GameCube still can’t beat very hard😂

What a fantastic video! Even though I discovered the video now, it's a great way of introducing everyone quickly to all the characters F-zero has to offer. But I have to be that guy and say that I would have liked that you mentioned two important facts that were censored! These are in the japanese version, which is still dubbed in english (no jp dub), where in the interviews, Digiboy says that he doesn't believe in god (upon asked, "Who believes in such illusions?"), and that Baba dresses in drag, which is pretty cool if you ask me. Still, I must say again that thanks for the effort!

25:20 I'm not sure whether life is short or not, but his machine, Night Thunder, is great

1:20 Honestly it took me a moment to think about five characters besides Samurai Goroh and Captain Falcon. Dr. Stewart, Pico, Judy Summer, Black Shadow, and Blood Falcon. The thing is unless you bothered to look at the trophies in Melee, Brawl, or Ultimate you likely wouldn't know about them let alone the game itself.

1:43 The GX makes it sound even cooler.

F Zero 99 looks promising......

aweosme I like James McCloud

Nice video. Great work! What is the name of the music? …when the EVIL category start @13:29

That's why F-Zero are so specials compared to others futuristic games, there's a complete lore and universe in it, about pilots, and also about their machines, like Black Shadow's Black Bull being an old desamorced missile, Zoda's Death Anchor too, but he doesn't know that it's not desamorced and so his machine litteraly is a bomb being able to explode at any moment on the race Fire Stingray, Green Panther and Silver Rat are all the catch from an old thief when Goroh and Guster were still in good terms, but after Goroh's betrayal, Guster stole the Green Panther as a revanche, Silver Rat is also a prototype machine, it explains why it's overall weaker than any other machine except in boost power Others examples of lore according machine is Leon's Space Angler being pretty weak due to the lack of good quality stuff to build it after the war on his planet, on the contrary of Don Genie's Fat Shark being an absolute monster due to the amount of money spent into it, it's even said that Fat Shark's engine is litteraly made of pure gold And there's so much more lore ! That's why F-Zero is the best racing game franchise ever made !

Octoman is portrayed as a villain in the anime storyline, which I always thought was oddly mature seeing as his profile shows him fighting for his own planet and everything

Sega really went all out with the GX soundtrack. Every character has a unique theme

very outstanding video!! youve honestly piqued my interest for this neat game. from what i saw i'd say my favorites are: Spade (i REALLY like their design) Super Arrow & Mrs. Arrow (theyre too cute.) Mighty Gazelle (i think hes cute too!!) Deathborne (hes SO funny yet still has a menacing streak to him) maybe Blood Falcon too (i have a strange obession with pathetic evil clones LOL) with that said, maybe i should give GX a try.. looks fun as hell

I always thought the princess character was a reference to Night into Dreams

How does this not have at least 1k likes? This is a great vid. The one who wants to get his plnet out of poverty is probably my favorite tho.

I grew up playing f zero x and never played/ heard of f zero gx till a few years ago and always assumed the anime which I watched when I was little was the official lore story line and just imagined it when I played fzero x. Now I gotta play Gx to experience the campaign and those crazy tracks

Really struck me how new this list was when you used that pic of the Garage 56 NASCAR entry at Le Mans at 10:54, LOL. And fuck, this vids inspired me to try and do some fan-art; I've only ever played F-Zero GX, but I'm still annoyed that Nintendo's done next to nothing with the franchise since then because it was so fun and the characters had so much potential.

I’ve always wanted to play one of the console f zero but my favorites are samurai goroh, PJ, blood Falcon and captain Falcon

Bruh the trio pilots are so fun, they should come back

F-Zero really has a nice cast of characters, also recently I watched the movie Redline and I can see the inspiration

We need a movie fr

Do you want to see a Open World F Zero game Starring Captain Falcon?

Love the use of the GX Character themes

unexpected BRASIL reference at 17:00

It's such a crime that Falcon is the only character that's in Smash, like cmon not even Dr. Stewart? So many of them are interesting! Favorite character for me is a tough one, I like a lot of em. I can't decide between several of them, like Dr. Stewart, Mighty Gazelle, Ms. Arrow, Jody, or Gomar & Shioh. Favorite craft in the 3D games though is the Fire Stringray, that thing cruises! Also I'm GX I think it's the only one when a moving tail rudder.

I think Bolson from Zelda: Breath of the Wild might have been somewhat inspired by Baba. Both characters are flamboyant and wear some form of tiger print

People who cosplay as Falcon and have the scarf out have failed. That stupid look is only is Smash, he never has it out in F-Zero.

13:06 Thats cool! :D

I want a 99 mode, but mabe 99 induvidual racers is much to ask fore😅. I want F-Zero to have bouth a story mode where you go on a galaxy spanning bountyhunting adventure where he mabe has to bring down another racer or have to team upp with fore example pico to doo a bounty. I also want a carriere mode where you cruate youre own carracter and machene. You start the carriere mode with youre first 3 or so cupps in F-Zero's version of formula 2 until you win and earn youre super lisence. Once you are in the bigg luege you continually uppgrade youre machene , gett new and better sponsores and build a fanbace. Until you have earned enough cash to build the ultimate speedmachene and best Captain Falcon himself

I wished you would go to do the anime as well, because I love on of the characters there. However you did a great job spotlighting other pilots in the franchise, because having Captain Falcon as the ONLY representitive in Smash Bros. is downright criminal.

F-ZERO 99 IS THE GREATEST THING THAT COULD’VE HAPPENED TO THE FRANCHISE!

I really hope 99 succeeds so that Nintendo will be enticed to make a new F-Zero game

You're like name Pilots that aren't Captain Falcon or Samurai Goro and I'm about to yakko's world the entire cast over here. Now mind you that I don't currently have a rhyming guide with me but it would go something like this Mr EAD, Octoman, Digi-Boy, Dai Sen Gen, Baba, Gomar & Shioh. Spade, Roger Guster, Draq, Antonio Guster, Zoda, Pico, Princia Ramode

I played GX just so I can unlock PJ, I love him so much

Not Me at the start of the video just thinking mrs arrow,kate, and jody lol😂

Draq in the top 10 let's gooooooo

This is my fav video game of all time

You got what we've all been wishing for, more F-ZERO!