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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: [[Bruce Campbell]].

* [[Base Breaker]]: Mater. ''And how!!!'' While children seem to love this character, most other people despise him. There's pretty much a consensus that he ruined (or at least severely hurt) ''Cars 2''.

** [[Troperiffic]]

** One of the major complaints about the sequel is the fact that the [[Cliché Storm]] element is taken to nigh painful extremes.

* [[Critical Dissonance]]: The sequel has been not very good received by critics, yet loved by its target audience.

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Guido's Pit Stop.

* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: McQueen's [[Honor Before Reason]] decision {{spoiler|to stop himself and help The King finish the race.}}

* [[Ear Worm]]: Weezer's "You Might Think" from ''Cars 2'' is upbeat, and very catchy to being slightly annoying.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Mater was one of the principle characters in ''Cars'', yet was still one of the many characters in a more [[Ensemble Cast]]. However, he is the star of ''Mater's Tall Tales'', and is the co-protagonist in ''Cars 2'', with all the trailers and the ''whole story'' focusing more on him than Lightning.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: To more conservative viewers, the sequel's {{spoiler|"once big oil, always big oil"}} message might come across as one.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: One of the supporting characters is a diminutive and lovable forklift named ''Guido''... damn you [[Jersey Shore]]...

** Back when the first movie was released, [[Mad Magazine]] did a spoof that mentioned (among other things) that they cut an appearance by the "Popemobile" at the last second. Well, guess what actually appears in the sequel...

** Turns out ''Cars 2'' [[Shanghai Noon|isn't the first sequel starring Owen Wilson to end with a knighting in England.]]

* [[Ho Yay]]: In the sequel, Mater puts together quite a day out for his best friend when he comes home, and even tries to infiltrate Lightning's date with Sally. They have a secret handshake that a bystander notices gets longer every time they do it. If that's not bad enough, at one point Lightning chases after Mater repeatedly yelling "You're the bomb." Yeah...

* [[Internet Backdraft]]: Lots regarding the sequel, going from [[Fan Dumb]] diehards saying that the film only seems bad in comparison to the rest of Pixar's work (and calling any and all critics of the movie "haters" who are gleeful that Pixar has finally produced a genuinely bad film) to the Pixar [[Hate Dumb]] who actually are gleeful that Pixar has finally produced a genuinely bad film (and wasted no time in rubbing it in the noses of said diehards).

* [[Mind Screw]]: {{spoiler|At one point when discussing fossil fuels in the sequel, dinosaurs are brought up. DINOSAURS. Just sit and let that sink in for a minute.}}

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Chick Hicks, the film's antagonist, was already a douche due to his dirty racing tactics, but at the end when he {{spoiler|purposely runs The King off the road -- causing his crippling crash -- and has no remorse for it}}, it's apparent to every character, onscreen and off, that he's somewhat of an a-hole.

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]:

** Some of the [[Family-Unfriendly Death]] in the second movie. {{spoiler|Also, high ''octane'' nightmare ''fuel''. Yay, puns.}}

* [[Tear Jerker]]: The 'Our Town' scene, especially when Luigi pushes up the sign saying, "We're still open!"

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: In Paris, Mater comes across a car that has its eyes in its headlights instead of on the windshield (a possible [[Take That]] toward previous depictions of anthropomorphized cars). Mater ([[Nightmare Fuel|and the audience]]) are suitably horrified.

** It does, however, bring back memories of the cars in ''[[Brave Little Toaster]]'', which the director of ''Cars 2'' worked on.

* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: These two race cars. Yes, the pink car is actually a boy, and the blue car is actually a girl, despite the [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]] stereotype.

* [[The Woobie]]: If you notice very hard in the "Our Town" sequence, Mater had a coat of sky blue in the flashback. When customers stopped coming to Radiator Springs and business closed and all the cars are looking at the empty road, the first car to leave in disbelief is Mater. Plus, he is the one who has physically changed the most- not a hint of paint left on him. And in the present, he's probably the most crazy of the bunch. Evidentally, he took the by-pass the hardest.

 

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