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== ''Cars'' ==

=== Lightning McQueen ===

Owen Wilson (Films)

Keith Ferguson (TV) }}

* [[The Ace]]

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]

Voiced by:

[[Larry the Cable Guy]] }}

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Mater is basically a G-rated Larry the Cable Guy, with his voice pitched up a tiny bit. His lines "Get er done", and "I don't care who you are, that's funny right there", are taken straight from his stand-up routines.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|In ''Cars 2'', after discovering that others think that he is just clueless and distracting.}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: The sequel definitely elevates him to this.

* [[Eagle Land]]: Mater is viewed as a mix of Types 1 and 2 by foreign cars.

* {{spoiler|[[Flying Car]]: Mater is able to fly by using his rocket boosters together with his parachute.}}

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Despite seeming rather simple minded, he has very broad knowledge of car parts and engines and can identify any engine at a glance.

* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: Being a [[Genius Ditz]], {{spoiler|he manages to figure out Axlerod's involvement with the Lemons and his plot to discredit alternative fuel sources.}}

* [[The Hero]]: Of the sequel.

* {{spoiler|[[Knighting]]: By the Queen of England herself.}}

{{quote|1951 Hudson Hornet

Voiced by:

[[Corey Burton]] (Video Games) }}

* [[Blue Eyes]]: Designed after his actor’s very own eyes.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Hanging Judge]]: Judging from his introductory speech.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]

* [[Not So Different]]: From Lightning.

 

=== Sally Carrera ===

Voiced by:

Bonnie Hunt }}

* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: "Stickers" for Lightning, originally to tease him about having stickers instead of headlights. In the second film, she still calls him this, even after he gets actual headlights installed.

* [[The Chick]]

* [[Embarrassing Tattoo]]

* [[Hello, Attorney!]]: Lightning is immediately smitten when he sees her.

* [[Official Couple]]: With Lightning.

 

[[George Carlin]] (Cars)

Lloyd Sherr (Cars 2) }}

* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Goes with his hippie nature. More specifically, {{spoiler|he, along with Sally, were the only ones not to participate in the Radiator Springs vs. Lemon Gangs in London.}}

* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]

Voiced by:

Paul Dooley }}

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]

* [[Properly Paranoid]]: {{spoiler|He greatly distrusts Axlerod and switched out Lightning’s Allinol with Fillmore’s organic fuel. This is what actually saves Lightning from being killed later on.}}

Tony Shalhoub (Luigi)

Guido Quaroni (Guido) }}

* [[Chaste Toons]]: Luigi's aunt and uncle (see below)

* [[The Danza]]: Guido.

Voiced by:

Jennifer Lewis }}

* [[Happily Married]]: To Ramone.

* [[Sassy Black Woman]]

Voiced by:

[[Cheech and Chong|Cheech Marin]] }}

* [[Happily Married]]: To Flo.

* [[Hot Paint Job]]: He’s fond of giving these, as well as usually sporting one himself.

Voiced by:

[[Pixar Regulars|Joe Ranft]] (Cars) }}

* [[Gentle Giant]]

* [[The Voiceless]]: [[The Quiet One|He almost never speaks onscreen to begin with]], but after the death of his actor he becomes this in the sequel.

 

=== Sheriff ===

Voiced by:

Michael Wallis }}

* [[By-The-Book Cop]]

* [[The Sheriff]]: [[Captain Obvious|Obviously]].

Voiced by:

Katherine Helmond }}

* [[Dirty Old Woman]]

 

=== Mack ===

Voiced by:

[[Pixar Regulars|John Ratzenberger]] }}

* [[Gentle Giant]]

* [[Nice Hat]]: The large sail on his roof resembles a trucker cap.

 

=== Strip “The King” Weathers ===

Voiced by:

Richard Petty }}

* [[Doomed Moral Victor]]: {{spoiler|Although he doesn’t die, he becomes severely injured by a crash caused by Chick Hicks during the final lap of the tie-breaker race.}}

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: The King is based on a racecar his actor, Richard Petty's owned; the Plymouth Superbird.

Voiced by:

[[Michael Keaton]] }}

* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Arrogant Racer Guy]]

* [[Classic Villain]]

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Lightning McQueen. Chick starts off as a more extreme version of McQueen, but eventually becomes this after Lightning undergoes [[Character Development]].

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Chick is deeply envious The King’s status as Dinoco’s golden boy. Plus he’s green to boot.

* [[Jerkass]]: Through and through.

* [[Porn Stache]]: His grill resembles one.

Adrian Ochoa (Wingo)

Lou Romano (Snot Rod) }}

* [[Embarrassing First Name|Embarrassing Full Name]]: DJ's full name is Devon Montegomery Johnston the Third.

* [[Rice Burner|Rice Burners]]

 

=== Tractors, Frank, and Vroomaroundus Bugus ===

* [[All Animals Are Dogs|All Farm Equipment Are Cattle]]

* [[Canis Latinicus]]

Lindsey Collins (Mia)

Elissa Knight (Tia) }}

* [[I'm Your Biggest Fan]]: To McQueen. They briefly followed Chick when McQueen disappeared, but switch back by the end.

* [[Single-Minded Twins]]

Edie McClurg (Minny)

Richard Kind (Van) }}

* [[Directionless Driver]]: Van refuses to ask for directions while the two of them are looking for an on-ramp, claiming that he can use the GPS. Unsurprisingly, they end up getting lost in the desert.

* [[Happily Married]]

 

=== RustEze Pit Crew Members, Sponsors, and Associates ===

* [[Actor Allusion]]: The two hosts of the RustEze sponsor presentation are voiced by the hosts of the radio show Car Talk. They're ''barely'' acting!

** And are modeled after cars they each owned.

 

=== Dinoco Pit Crew Members, Sponsors, and Associates ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

 

=== Hostile Takeover Bank Pit Crew Members ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

* [[Five-Bad Band]]

 

=== Piston Cup Racecars ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]

 

=== Dale Earnhardt Jr. ===

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]

 

=== Piston Cup [[R Vs]], Pit Crews, Facility, and Audience ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

* [[I'm Your Biggest Fan]]

 

=== Car Media Reporters, Anchors, and Celebrities ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]

 

=== Cars on the Highway ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

 

=== Stanley ===

[[File:Stanley_2_820.png|frame]]

* [[Happily Married]]: To Lizzie. Before he died, at least.

* [[Our Founder]]

* [[Posthumous Character]]

 

=== Bessie ===

* [[Furry Confusion]]

 

=== Alarm Clock ===

* [[Companion Cube]]

 

=== Cars in Flashback ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

 

=== Trev Diesel and Aircraft ===

* [[Cool Plane]]

* [[Cool Train]]

 

=== Cars in Epilogue ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

* [[The Taxi]]

 

=== Pixar Cameos ===

* [[Anthropomorphic Shift]]

* [[The Cameo]]

{{quote|Voiced by:

[[Michael Caine]] }}

* [[Amphibious Automobile]]: Finn can transform into both a hydrofoil and a submarine.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]

{{quote|Voiced by:

Emily Mortimer }}

* [[Affirmative Action Girl]]

* [[Flying Car]]: They’re standard issue for agents nowadays.

{{quote|Voiced by:

[[Jason Isaacs]] }}

* [[Cool Plane]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: Sid sports the recurring [[Pixar]] [[In-Joke]] "A113" on his tail fin.

{{quote|Voiced by:

[[Jason Isaacs]] }}

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]

* {{spoiler|[[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: He was put through a freaking ''trash compactor''!}}

{{quote|Voiced by:

[[Bruce Campbell]] }}

* {{spoiler|[[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Torque is brutally tortured to death by Zündapp as part of a demonstration of the effects of an electromagnetic pulse on Allinol.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Dead Star Walking]]}}

{{quote|Voiced by:

John Turturro }}

* [[Achilles' Heel]]: [[That One Level|Dirt tracks.]]

* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Arrogant Racer Guy]]: Even ''moreso'' than Chick Hicks. However, unlike Chick, Francesco plays fairly and doesn't resort to dirty tricks to win.

Voiced by:

Thomas Kretschmann }}

* {{spoiler|[[Dragon-in-Chief]]: Zündapp is the main ''physical'' threat, but everything he does is under the orders of his boss, Miles Axlerod.}}

* [[Evil Genius]]

{{quote|Voiced by:

[[Eddie Izzard]] }}

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Brit]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Non-Action Big Bad]]}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: He was originally going to be portrayed as an old Russian racecar that performed very poorly.

 

=== Grem and Acer ===

Joe Mantegna (Grem)

Peter Jacobson (Acer) }}

* [[Bar Brawl]]: How the two actually both meet their end.

* [[Co-Dragons]]: To Zündapp.

Brad Lewis (Tubbs Pacer)

John Mainieri (J. Curby Gremlin) }}

* [[The Alleged Car]]: All are modeled after some of the most notorious Alleged Cars of all time; besides Gremlin, Pacer and Yugo the Trunkovs are based on ZAZ Zaporozhets, the smallest and cheapest Soviet car.

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Tubbs is voiced by Brad Lewis, one of the film's co-directors.

Voiced by:<br />

Velibor Topic }}

* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Besides the similar name, the Hugos have quad headlights but are based on a model that only ever had single headlights.

* [[Elite Mook]]

Voiced by:

Stanley Townshend }}

* [[Costume Copycat]]: Mater disguises himself as Ivan to infiltrate the Lemons' meeting in Porto Corsa.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Can be seen as this to Mater.

* [[Husky Russkie]]

* [[Lzherusskie]] : Ivan is meant to be Russian, but plot necessity forced him to have the same Chevrolet-based cab design as Mater.

 

=== Tony Trihull ===

{{quote|Voiced by:

Lloyd Sherr }}

* [[Animal Motifs]]: He's apparently part shark as well.

* [[The Brute]]

 

=== Lemon Mooks ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

* [[The Alleged Car]]

 

=== Other Lemon Vehicles ===

* [[Black Helicopter]]

* [[Van in Black]]

Voiced by:

Jeff Gordon }}

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]

* [[Those Two Guys]]: With Lewis.

{{quote|Voiced by:

Lewis Hamilton }}

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]

* [[Those Two Guys]]: With Jeff.

 

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* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: Shares Lighting McQueen's [[Game Breaker]] offroad racing skill.

 

=== Nigel Gearsley ===

Voiced by:

Greg Ellis }}

* [[I Am Very British]]

 

=== Max Schnell ===

[[File:Max_Schnell_3_6044.png|frame]]

* [[Dub Name Change]]: The German dub renames him "Sebastian Schnell", after his German actor, Sebastian Vettel.

* [[Germanic Efficiency]]

 

=== Miguel Camino ===

[[File:Miguel_Camino_3_376.png|frame]]

* [[Badass Spaniard]]

 

=== Carla Veloso ===

{{quote|Voiced by:

Jossara Jinaro }}

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Carla is the only female competitor in the World Grand Prix.

* [[Spicy Latina]]

{{quote|Voiced by:

Erik Passoja }}

* [[Fake Nationality]]: Shu's voice actor is American.

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: His design sports the legendary Ka-Ryu dragon.

=== Rip Clutchgoneski ===

[[File:Rip_Clutchgoneski_2_4675.png|frame]]

* [[Advertised Extra]]: Barely even that. Clutchgoneski doesn’t have any toys of him and didn’t even appear in the video game.

* [[Ruritania]]: His homeland is the “Republic of New Rearendia”.

 

=== World Grand Prix Pit Crew and Audience ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

 

=== Cars in Radiator Springs ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

* [[Big Shadow, Little Creature]]

 

=== Cars in Tokyo ===

* [[Acrofatic]]: Kingpin Nobunaga, Pinion Tanaka, and Kimura Kaizo the sumo vans.

* [[The Cameo]]: Many of the characters from ''Tokyo Mater'' return.

{{quote|Voiced by:

[[Deadliest Catch|Sig Hansen]] }}

* [[Cool Boat]]

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]

 

=== Cars in Paris ===

* [[Furry Confusion]]

* [[Non-Standard Character Design]]

Voiced by:

Michel Michelis }}

* [[Friend in the Black Market]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: His name in French means "to tumble".

 

=== Stephenson ===

* [[Cool Train]]

 

=== Cars in Porto Corsa ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

Vanessa Redgrave (Mama Topolino)

Franco Nero (Uncle Topolino) }}

* [[Chaste Toons]]: To Luigi.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Uncle Topolino.

 

=== Cars in London ===

* [[Bar Brawl]]

* [[British Royal Guards]]

 

=== The Queen and Prince Wheeliam ===

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]

 

{{quote|Voiced by:

Mark Winterbottom }}

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]

* [[Land Down Under]]

 

=== Fernando Alonso ===

{{quote|Voiced by:

Fernando Alonso }}

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]

 

=== Vitaly Petrov ===

{{quote|Voiced by:

Vitaly Petrov }}

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]

 

=== Flash ===

{{quote|Voiced by:

Janne Nilsson }}

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]

 

=== Memo Rojas Jr ===

{{quote|Voiced by:

Memo Rojas Jr }}

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]

 

=== Long Ge ===

[[File:Long_Ge_8146.png|frame]]

 

== ''Mater's Tall Tales'' ==

=== Characters in ''Rescue Squad Mater'' ===

* [[Five-Man Band]]: The Rescue Squad.

** [[The Hero]]: Fire Truck Mater.

 

=== Characters in ''Mater the Greater'' ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

* [[Cool Plane]]

 

=== Characters in ''El Materdor'' ===

* [[A Load of Bull]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

 

=== Characters in ''Tokyo Mater'' ===

* [[All There in the Script]]

* [[Five-Bad Band]]

{{quote|Voiced by:

Mach Tony Kobayashi }}

* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Arrogant Drift Racer Guy]]

* [[The Cameo]]: He appears briefly at the pre-race party in ''Cars 2''.

 

=== Characters in ''UFM: Unidentified Flying Mater'' ===

* [[Cool Plane]]: Captain Munier the attack helicopter.

* [[Herr Doktor]]: The scientist pitties at [[Area 51|Parking Area 51]]. Mater himself disguises himself as “Dr. Abschlepp Wagen”.

* [[Flying Saucer]]: Mator.

* [[Tank Goodness]]: Although he is not a tank, Corporal Kim, who runs Parking Area 51, is a large, menacing military van.

=== Characters in ''Heavy Metal Mater'' ===

* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: Mater’s band was originally called “Mater and the Gas Caps”, but later chose the name “Heavy Metal Mater” when a pitty carrying a 1-ton weight came in after the recording session and asked “Where do you want this heavy metal, Mater?”

* [[Audience Participation Song]]: “Dad-Gum”

 

=== Characters in ''Monster Truck Mater'' ===

* [[And I Must Scream]]: Paddy O'Concrete's fate.

* [[Bad Humor Truck]]: I-Screamer.

 

=== Characters in ''Moon Mater'' ===

* [[Cool Boat]]: The aircraft carrier near the end of the short.

* [[Cool Starship]]: Roger the Space Shuttle.

 

=== Characters in ''Mater, Private Eye'' ===

* [[Big Bad]]

 

=== Characters in ''Air Mater'' ===

* [[Cool Plane]]

 

=== Dusty Crophopper ===

[[File:Dusty_Crophopper_2_7742.png|frame]]

 

* [[Acrophobic Bird|Acrophobic Plane]]

* [[Adorkable]]

* [[The Hero]]: Of ''[[Planes]]''.

 

=== Skipper ===

[[File:Skipper_3_5625.png|frame]]

 

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[The Obi-Wan]]

 

=== Sparky ===

[[File:Sparky_2_9856.png|frame]]

* [[Grease Monkey|Grease Pittie]]

 

=== Judge Davis ===

[[File:Judge_Davis_2_6687.png|frame]]

 

He looks to be either an early North American P-51 Mustang, a Curtiss P-40, or a combination of the two.

 

=== Chug ===

 

=== El Chupacabra ===

 

=== Ripslinger ===

 

 

== ''Other'' ==

=== The Screaming Banshee ===