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Brief canon thing
Jul. 8th, 2017 10:27 amNot a lot of people have time to watch the glorious trainwreck of B movie schlock that is Death Race 2050.
So here's the 2 minute summary:
It's 2050, and life should be good: there's world peace, and cancer has been obliterated...but these cause their own problems. The United Corporations of America has a 99% unemployment rate. To keep people from thinking too hard, the government goes to great lengths. Starting with food--Mood Whiz, a cracker topping that is also an antidepressant/antipsychotic--and going to large scale entertainments. Such as...the Death Race, a transcontinental three-day road race across the American continent, from Nueva York, through the Eastern Fallout Zone and deadly, gun-toting Red Zone, and ending in Los Angeles, the now flooded Land of 1,000 Islands.
Racers in the Death Race are scored for time in the race, but also score points in terms of pedestrian kills (a way to make the cure for overpopulation fun!) along the way.
In this world, and this race, Frankenstein is a four-time champion. And the Chairman of the UCA has decided that, well, he's old hat, and the audiences need something new, a new hero. Frankenstein just wants to win his fifth race so he can retire: the Chairman, his colluding lover, and a ninja-stacked Resistance, have other plans....
So here's the 2 minute summary:
It's 2050, and life should be good: there's world peace, and cancer has been obliterated...but these cause their own problems. The United Corporations of America has a 99% unemployment rate. To keep people from thinking too hard, the government goes to great lengths. Starting with food--Mood Whiz, a cracker topping that is also an antidepressant/antipsychotic--and going to large scale entertainments. Such as...the Death Race, a transcontinental three-day road race across the American continent, from Nueva York, through the Eastern Fallout Zone and deadly, gun-toting Red Zone, and ending in Los Angeles, the now flooded Land of 1,000 Islands.
Racers in the Death Race are scored for time in the race, but also score points in terms of pedestrian kills (a way to make the cure for overpopulation fun!) along the way.
In this world, and this race, Frankenstein is a four-time champion. And the Chairman of the UCA has decided that, well, he's old hat, and the audiences need something new, a new hero. Frankenstein just wants to win his fifth race so he can retire: the Chairman, his colluding lover, and a ninja-stacked Resistance, have other plans....
