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3->''When You're In Over Your Headlights,\
4Who Do You Trust?''
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6''Cars 2'' is the ActionizedSequel to ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'', released in June 2011, and the first Creator/{{Pixar}} sequel to a movie other than ''Franchise/ToyStory''.
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8Oil Baron-turned-electric-vehicle Sir Miles Axlerod has discovered Allinol, a new clean alternative fuel source. To promote it, he creates and sponsors the first ever World Grand Prix, where the best racers compete to see who's the fastest car in the world. One of the finalists is Piston Cup winner Lightning [=McQueen=], who brings along his friends from Radiator Springs as his pit crew, along with first-time team member Tow Mater.
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10Unfortunately, when an intelligence exchange goes awry, Mater gets mistaken for a master American spy. When he accidentally screws up Lightning [=McQueen=]'s competition against Formula One racecar Francesco Bernoulli, Mater ends up getting recruited by British espionage agents Finn [=McMissile=] and Holley Shiftwell to help them stop the [[StealthPun machinations]] of a lemon car crime syndicate led by international weapons developer Professor Zundapp and his enigmatic boss, the [[BigBad Lemon Kingpin]], who want to sabotage the World Grand Prix and Allinol so that they can eliminate this threat to their monopoly on fuel. Now, while [=McQueen=] struggles against his guilt, Mater must balance his duty to save the world and his efforts to save [=McQueen=], who is quickly being targeted...
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12A video game adaptation, ''Cars 2: The Video Game'', was released on June 21, 2011.
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15!!''Cars 2'' provides examples of:
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18[[folder:Tropes A to E]]
19* AbandonedCatchphrase:
20** For some reason, Mater never says one of his catchphrases "Git-r-done!" (his voice actor's famous catchphrase) once throughout the film.
21** Darrell Cartrip, for some reason, never says his trademark "Boogity boogity boogity! Let's go racin'!" whenever each of the World Grand Prix races start and the green light goes on.
22** This is the sole film so far where Lightning doesn't say "YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe". See the trope below for further details.
23* AbortedArc: [[spoiler:After spending much of the film focused on the World Grand Prix and his rivalry with Francesco, [=McQueen=] abandons the final race to go after Mater, and the exposure of the Lemons' plot takes up the entirety of the climax. Because of this, the end of the London race is not shown and it isn't revealed who won. With the epilogue showing a new race taking place in Radiator Springs, it could be that the London Race was cut short without a decisive winner due to Axelrod's arrest, but this is not said outright, and the film ends before we see who wins]].
24* AccidentalRhyme: Mater pulls off one when posing as a waiter in Hot Springs' restaurant.
25-->''"Good evenin'. My name is Mater and I'll be yer waiter. Pfft. Mater the waiter. That's funny, right here."''
26* ActionPrologue: The opening shows Finn doing stuff that wouldn't be out of place in a ''Film/JamesBond'' film.
27* ActionizedSequel: Goes from a racing movie to a spy movie.
28* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time Creator/BruceCampbell appears in a [[Film/TheLoveBug Disney film featuring sentient cars]].
29* AesopAmnesia: Averted in a ContinuityNod; Mater mentions to Francesco that the reason Lightning hasn't entered the race is that he has learned to slow down and enjoy life. Then he gets Lightning to enter another race for the sole reason that Francesco has just embarrassed Lightning in public.
30* AllThereInTheManual:
31** The salescar with eyes in her headlights that Mater encounters in Paris is named Celine Dephare.
32** The agent who gets blown up is Rod "Torque" Redline.
33** The Gremlin and Pacer are Grem and Acer, respectively.
34** The secret organization Finn and Holley work for is never stated in the movie, but is referred to as C.H.R.O.M.E. on the movie's official website and in the tie-in game.
35* AnimeLand: Japan is depicted in this manner, more or less an extended version of the way it was shown in the ''Tokyo Mater'' short.
36* AnswerCut: Professor Zundapp says, "Who can stop us now?" The film then cuts to Mater saying, "Mater, Tow Mater, that's who!"
37* ArtisticLicenseAwards: Mater is rewarded with an honorary knighthood for his efforts and dubbed "Sir Tow Mater".[[note]]Non-Commonwealth Realm citizens can only receive honorary knighthoods.[[/note]] However, honorary knights are not granted the title of "Sir" and are not dubbed at their knighting ceremonies. On a related note, Sir Miles Axelrod is addressed a few times as "Sir Axelrod." Knights are not referred to as "Sir (Surname)". The correct way to address him would be "Sir Miles" or "Sir Miles Axelrod."
38* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: While Lightning is asking Mater to behave himself at the World Grand Prix kickoff party, Mater speeds off and he tries to stop him but gets sidetracked by two of the competitors and mingles with them.
39* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Mater can recognize any engine and give you all the details about it just by taking one look at it, regardless of how old or obscure it is. [[spoiler:He realises who the mastermind is after Guido is unable to unscrew the bomb bolted into him, since it uses the exact same brand of bolts used for the old British engine he saw earlier and connects it to the oil leaking incident he got blamed for.]]
40* BatmanGambit:
41** [[spoiler:Mater's plan to get Miles Axlerod to disarm the bomb: by standing next to him, forcing Miles to blow his cover to save his own life]].
42** [[spoiler:Axlerod's plan to kill Lightning by planting a bomb in Mater himself also counts]].
43* BerserkButton: Saying that Lightning [=McQueen=] isn't fast enough is a very, very, very, very, '''VERY''' horrible idea, as Francesco Bernoli learned the hard way.
44* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The regulars of Radiator Springs save Mater and [=McQueen=] from the Lemons in London]].
45* BigNo: Rod screams one when the Lemons find out Mater is their true target -- he just endangered the life of a civilian.
46* BilingualBonus: After the Japanese bartender dishes out a big glob of wasabi which Mater mistakes for pistachio ice cream, he backs up and delivers the line "okuyami moshiagarimasu", which translates to something along the lines of "You have my condolences". Averted on the home video releases, which feature a subtitle track that is just the bartender's line, translated as "My condolences."
47* BlandNameProduct: Even though most of the cars are referred to by their real model names (even the lemons), "Hugo" (as opposed to the real-life "Yugo") is an exception.
48* BorrowedCatchphrase:
49** Just before the Tokyo race when Lightning does his "Speed, I am speed" ritual, Francesco teases it as "Francesco is triple speed".
50** When Grem and Acer are planning to destroy Lightning with the camera, Grem quotes, "Instead of saying 'Ka-chow', he's gonna go 'Ka-boom'!"
51* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Happens to Mater after he discovers that everyone else sees him as a clueless [[TheDitz ditz]], good only for distracting others]].
52-->"No one realizes they're being fooled when they're too busy laughing at the fool."
53* BritishRoyalGuards: Mater tries to get one of these to laugh shortly before his knighting ceremony.
54* BreatherEpisode: This movie retroactively serves as one for the ''Cars'' trilogy, being a mostly lighthearted, fast-paced action film set during the peak of Lightning's racing career. ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' would go on to take a much more down to earth and serious tone, with its story revolving around an older Lightning as his racing begins to go downhill.
55* BuffySpeak: Before the race in Porto Corsa when Francesco mocks Lightning, at one point he says to him, "I think you're forgetting the insulting part of that insult."
56* BusCrash: It's mentioned that Doc Hudson passed away sometime between ''Cars'' and ''Cars 2'', reflecting the fact that his voice actor, Paul Newman, died two years after making the first film.
57* ButNowIMustGo: Lightning has to depart with his team for Tokyo after he gets his redesign.
58* ButtMonkey: Otis, the friendly ol' rustbucket of Carburetor County.
59-->'''Mater:''' Well, since this is your tenth tow this month, it's on the house!
60* TheCameo:
61** Kabuto, the main villain of [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts ''Tokyo Mater'']], actually makes several brief appearances during all of the Japan scenes.
62** Three time Daytona 500 winner Jeff Gordon features as one of the main World Grand Prix racers, Jeff Gorvette (a {{pun}} on his real name and the fact that he is portrayed as a Corvette, rather fitting for Gordon due to having spent his entire racing career with Chevrolet team Hendrick Motorsports). In international localizations of the film, he is replaced by other racing celebrities that are better known to the locality than Jeff Gordon:
63*** The Australian release features V8 Supercar racer Mark Winterbottom as "Frosty" (his RealLife nickname).
64*** The Spanish release features Formula One racer Fernando Alonso as himself and uses a Spanish sports broadcaster as one of the race announcers.
65*** The Russian release features Formula One racer Vitaly Petrov.
66*** The Mexican release features Rolex Sports car racer Memo Rojas Jr.
67*** The German release features Formula One racer Sebastian Vettel as "Max Schnell". Schnell is already in all versions of the film, but he gets an extra line in the German version.
68*** The Swedish release features Touring Car racer Jan Nilsson as "Flash".
69*** The Brazilian release features retired racer Emerson Fittipaldi, and the announcers were dubbed by local sports broadcasters.
70** ''Series/DeadliestCatch'''s Sig Hansen voices his own crab fishing boat, [=F/V=] ''Northwestern'' ("Crabby" in the film itself), complete with crab pots. He even uses "crabbing" as his excuse when [[ItMakesSenseInContext confronted by a military warship]].
71* CarFu: Done literally when Finn [=McMissile=] uses martial arts to attack a group of thugs -- while idling in front of a sign advertising Carate and CarFu lessons.
72* CarsWithoutTiresAreTrains: One of the activities that Mater drags Lightning into in the beginning of the movie is driving on abandoned railroad tracks without tires. Subverted when Lightning and Mater are unable to get traction on the rails.
73* CassandraTruth:
74** When Mater tries to tell his friends about his encounters with Holley Shiftwell and her world of international espionage, no one believes him because they think he's just telling another of his tall tales.
75** And this comes up as a BrickJoke later on--especially the part about Mater and his girlfriend.
76** And when he tries to tell Finn and Holley that he's just a tow truck, ''[[IgnoredConfession they]]'' [[IgnoredConfession don't believe him]] because they think it's a SarcasticConfession and his other antics are ObfuscatingStupidity.
77* TheCavalry: Done literally [[spoiler:when Sarge contacts his old military buddies (we know one is a Corporal as that one is named as such) to bring ''the entire British Army'' to rescue Mater and Lightning]].
78* ChaseScene: At the Tokyo airport.
79* ChekhovsGun: Done by Pixar themselves -- a key aspect of ''Cars 2'' is Mater's habit of [[BlatantLies fanciful storytelling]], which causes his friends to dismiss his claims of espionage adventure as mere stories. Since this was a characteristic not shown in the first film, it was feared that its sudden appearance would look like an AssPull, so the [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts "Mater's Tall Tales" shorts]] were created to establish this trait ''two years in advance''.
80** Also done literally with Mater's gatling guns [[spoiler:which he uses to escape from being tied up in Big Bentley]].
81* ChekhovsSkill: Mater's ability to recognize old and obscure engine parts at a glance. Sadly [[RedHerring averted]] with the ''Series/{{Jackass}}''-worthy stunts Mater puts Lightning through at the beginning.
82* CityPeopleEatSushi: At a party in Tokyo, lovable American hick Mater mistakes wasabi for pistachio ice-cream and asks for a big heaping scoop. He then embarrasses himself by rushing to a fountain to wash off the burning sensation from his mouth.
83* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In the epilogue of the previous film, the Glenrio Motel was converted to a racing museum, but in this film and onward, as well as the various games that precede said film, the motel remains intact, with the racing museum replacing the Medical Clinic following Doc's offscreen death. Lightning's Racing Headquarters, which was introduced in ''Mater-national Championship'' which replaced the Radiator Springs Garage, is also nowhere to be seen here.
84* CluelessAesop: Sarge's last line was "once big oil, always big oil", implying that all of them are villains. This is a shocking statement given that the closest thing the series has to a BigGood is Tex, CEO of the Dinoco oil company.
85* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Professor Zündaap inflicts this on Rod "Torque" Redline with the EMP camera]].
86* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Tokyo and Porto Corsa races of the World Grand Prix are bright and full of color, and take place on a clear night and sunny day respectively. The London race, however, is dull and darkly colored, and takes place on a cloudy day, which foreshadows the disasters that will happen there [[spoiler: as well as the reveal of the BigBad]].
87* CompanyCrossReferences:
88** In Paris, Gusteau's from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' appears briefly, with a change in spelling that makes it '''Gastow's'''.
89** Also there's a drive-in movie marquee at one point mentioning a film titled ''[[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles The Incredimobiles]]''. Curiously enough, the Incredimobile is also the name of Mr. Incredible's car at the very beginning of his film.
90* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Subverted: when [[spoiler:Mater]]'s captors overturn a table and take cover behind it, it gets absolutely ''shredded'' by the Gatling guns - they only have to thank their luck that [[spoiler:Mater]] doesn't know what he's doing and is shooting way high.
91* ContinuityNod:
92** When Mater talks to Francesco on the talk show, he explains that Lightning wants to rest after having completing the latest racing season because he's learned to slow down and enjoy life -- which was the {{Aesop}} of the first film.
93** The Tokyo race includes a dirt track, where Mater reminds Lightning to use the skills that Doc Hudson taught him about turning on dirt in the first movie.
94** "Whoever that tow truck is, he's got to be the world's best backwards driver!"
95** The ending with Finn and Holley's last scene is scripted word-for-word from the similar scene in the first film, about the supporting cast being in debt to the main character and the reply, "I appreciate that, thank you. ...Actually, there is one thing...", followed by a GilliganCut. Mater (who said the reply here) was the main beneficiary both times.
96** The Japan scenes could actually be this to [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts ''Tokyo Mater'']], complete with a brief cameo of Kabuto. Is also economical--Pixar created the shorts so they could reuse models and environments for the sequel!
97* CoolBoat: The boats the Lemon cars have are based off the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_class_littoral_combat_ship Independence-class littoral combat ship]].
98* CoolPlane: Finn's partner Siddeley is a tricked-out spy jet (not surprising, given his name -- the Hawker-Siddeley Corporation was responsible for much of the Royal Air Force's hardware).
99* CostumeCopycat: [[spoiler:Ivan is a tow truck that looks a lot like Mater. Holley helps Mater with a holographic disguise to look like him, after Mater tries out several very conspicuous and outrageous modes]].
100** This one [[spoiler:gets turned around almost immediately afterwards, when the villainous tow truck replaces Mater's hook with his own (identical in profile) hook in a crowd scene while the other Lemons have grabbed him]].
101* CostumeEvolution: Starting with this movie, Lightning no longer has sticker decal headlights and taillights, they are replaced with actual working ones.
102* CoversAlwaysLie: On the poster for this film, Lightning [=McQueen=] is in the centre, making him the hero. In this film, the real hero is Mater. Averted with the Blu-Ray + Digital and the 2019 4K Ultra HD releases, which solely feature Mater on the cover.
103* CoverVersion: The film features Music/{{Weezer}} performing their rendition of Music/TheCars' "You Might Think". In addition to subtly referencing the film's title, the choice of band also nods to the fact that Cars frontman Ric Ocasek produced Weezer's [[Music/WeezerTheBlueAlbum blue]] and [[Music/WeezerTheGreenAlbum green]] albums.
104* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:Turns out, the reason Lightning was not affected by the beam was that Sarge didn't trust the advertisers and swapped out Lightning's Allinol with Fillmore's organic fuel.]]
105* CreatorCameo: To celebrate Pixar's 25th anniversary, the animators inserted John Lasseter in the movie as Jeff Gorvette's pit crew chief.
106** The two Citroëns kissing in the middle of the Pont des Arts also represent Lasseter and his wife.
107* CulturalTranslation: Some foreign releases had minor World Grand Prix race cars replaced with cars representing their own countries. Australia has Frosty Winterbumper, Russia has Vitaly Petrov, China has Long Ge, Spain has Fernando Alonso, Sweden has Jan Nilsson, and Latin America has Memo Rojas, Jr.
108* CutLexLuthorACheck: The villains' plan revolves around discrediting alternative fuels so that they can keep on selling their oil. Except that the only legitimate alternative fuel that had ever been shown on camera is Filmore's organic gasoline, which wasn't being sold outside Radiator Springs. If Axelrod and the lemons had stuck with selling their oil legitimately, they would still have had plenty of time to get crazy rich before any alternative fuel could be produced in sufficient quantities to threaten the oil industry.
109* DarkerAndEdgier: While it's still a colorful family-friendly film, the sequel justifiably features more peril than the original.
110-->'''John Lasseter:''' There is peril. There is threat. You want the bad guys to be bad.
111** We get on screen car deaths through direct violence. That's quite a genre shift. It's not often you see ''the Mafia'' (or Lemons) featured in a G-rated film.
112* DeathTrap: An elaborate one set for Finn, Holley, and Mater, courtesy of Zundapp [[spoiler:since he wanted to have them watch him kill [=McQueen=] first]].
113* DecoyProtagonist: Lightning becomes this throughout the second half of the movie, due to Mater taking up most of the story.
114* DemotedToExtra: All the Radiator Springs residents who aren't part of Lightning's pit crew (including Sally) only show up at the beginning and in the third act.
115* TheDon: The four heads of the Lemon families: J. Curby Gremlin, Vladimir Trunkov, Creator/VictorHugo and Tubbs Pacer.
116* TheDoorSlamsYou: When Grem and Acer are beating up the American spy in the bathroom, Mater happens to come out of a stall and unintentionally hit Acer in the face. When it closes, Acer is seen with quite the pained expression on his face.
117* DoNotCallMeSir: A friendly variation when Mater, who prefers to still be his down-to-earth self, is dubbed a knight by the Queen:
118-->'''Queen''': I hereby dub thee Sir Tow Mater.\
119'''Mater''': "Sir"? Shoot, you can just call me Mater, Your Majesty. I don't wanna hear none of this "Sir" business.
120* DoubleEntendre: Ivan the tow truck's offer of 'Road-Side Assistance' to Holley.
121** In the bathroom Mater comments on how the female animated car "gets to giggling right before she starts squirting".
122** Mater asks a female car in a dark alleyway "What're you sellin'?" to which she begins "flashing" her headlights, making it seem like Mater is unintentionally soliciting a prostitute.
123* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:During the final race, Lightning chases after Mater while the latter warns him to stay away. [=McQueen=] assumes that Mater is still upset following their argument, not yet realizing that Mater has an ''actual bomb'' attached to him]].
124-->'''Mater:''' [=McQueen=], you don't get it… I'm the bomb!\
125'''[=McQueen=]:''' Yes, Mater, you ''are'' the bomb! That's what I'm trying to say here!
126* DressingAsTheEnemy: Mater does this with a holographic program that allows him to resemble Ivan and infiltrate the Lemons in Italy.
127* {{Eagleland}}: Mater is viewed as a hybrid of Type 1 and Type 2 by non-American cars meeting him for the first time.
128* EarlyBirdCameo: During the [[BarBrawl Pub Rumble]] near the end of the film, a tapestry on the wall shows [[MindScrew automobile versions]] of Queen Eleanor, Princess Merida, King Fergus, and the Royal Triplets from ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}''.
129%% * EspionageTropes: Lots.
130* EtTuBrute: [=McQueen=] invokes this [[spoiler:after Mater inadvertently causes him to lose the first race in the World Grand Prix]].
131* EurekaMoment: Mater gets one of these [[spoiler:while Luigi tries to remove the bomb bolted on him. This gives him the identity of the mastermind behind the sabotage]].
132* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Francesco admits that when he's abroad, he misses his mom. And yet he ''still'' finds a way to act like a {{Jerkass}} by pointing out that he isn't abroad at the moment and his mom is in the stands.
133* EvilBrit: [[spoiler:Sir Miles Axlerod]].
134* EvilPlan: The Lemons have a device that causes the alternative fuel Allinol to combust in cars. They use the device during the charity race promoting Allinol to discredit alternative fuels and force cars back to fossil fuels, which the Lemons control and thus profit from.
135* EyeCam: When the Tokyo race is about to begin and Lightning is focusing himself, we get a shot through his eyes looking straight-on before he closes them to do his pre-race ritual.
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138[[folder:Tropes F to K]]
139* FakingTheDead: Finn [=McMissile=] uses a set of decoy tires to pretend that he's been torpedoed by the enemy.
140* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Rod "Torque" Redline's engine is made to overheat and explode, though it's only shown as a vague reflection]].
141** An earlier scene has secret agent Leland Turbo [[spoiler:shown as a crushed car cube]].
142* {{Filler}}: The film itself has been retroactively rendered as such in the greater ''Cars'' film series, since ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' barely, if at all references this film's events.
143* FancyToiletAwe: During the Tokyo section of the Grand Prix, Mater comes across the car equivalent of a Japanese toilet (it's an oil change bay) and is confused by the functions, particularly the bidet.
144* FlyingCar: Holley Shiftwell.
145** Mater becomes one when he deploys his parachute and rocket thrusters.
146* {{Foreshadowing}}:
147** When Lightning [=McQueen=] and his pit crew arrive at Tokyo to meet Miles Axlerod, while they are all talking to Axlerod Sarge is frowning while everyone else is smiling, suggesting that he is thinking that Axlerod is up to no good. [[spoiler: Guess who's actually right!]]
148** Also, the line "But I ''never'' leak oil!" [[spoiler:Guess who was with Mater when the tow truck saw a puddle of oil on the carpet!]]
149** At the same time when the leaking occurs, the oil has a rather jagged and pointed area which points in the direction of Axelrod, [[spoiler: foreshadowing who really leaked.]]
150** A blink-and-you-miss when the leaking occurs. Axelrod flinches and reverses away from the oil, but Mater does not. Also, he sounds nervous as he backs away, and seems to grunt slightly before the oil is released.
151** Three words. "Rear view mirrors." [[spoiler: You can see Axlerod's rear view mirrors on the Lemon Kingpin while he's making his speech.]]
152** A minor one; during the TravelMontage, Lightning and Mater pass a billboard of Lightning being advertised as a vacuum cleaner called "Lightning [=McClean=]". This happens to come into big detail in ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' when Sterling wants to take Lightning off the racing circuit to become a merchandise brand.
153* ForgottenFallenFriend:
154** The film opens with Finn's old friend and fellow agent, Leland Turbo, messaging him for help, but Finn arrives at the oil platform too late and finds that the Lemons have found Leland and crushed him into a cube. Despite his horrified reaction in the moment, neither Finn or Holley are shown mourning or even mentioning Leland again, though he is indirectly referenced when discussing Mater and [=McQueen's=] relationship.
155-->'''Finn:''' Friendships can be dangerous in our line of work, Mater.
156** Downplayed with Rod "Torque" Redline, the American agent. Due to Mater only briefly meeting him in the bathroom in Tokyo, the rest of the cast are completely unaware of Torque's existence and his death, despite him [[SmallRoleBigImpact essentially setting the main plot of the film into motion]]. Even when Mater reveals to Finn and Holley that he isn't really a spy, they never question the real spy's whereabouts, nor does Mater ever piece together that Torque planted the MacGuffin on him.
157* FriendshipSong: "Collision of Worlds", that plays in the credits, is about Lightning and Mater's friendship with each other and their trip around the world together.
158* FromBadToWorse: When Mater attempts to deactivate the bomb bolted onto him, the bomb rejects his voice and starts a 5-minute countdown. Goes [[ExaggeratedTrope From Worse To Even Worse]] when they force Zündapp to tell the bomb to deactivate... which takes ''a whole minute'' off the countdown because [[NotMeThisTime he wasn't the one who armed the bomb.]]
159* FurryConfusion: The first film had Volkswagen Beetles only appear as literal bugs. However, this one has "human" VW Beetles.
160** Also there are both "human" and "bird" planes.
161** And "human" and "snake" trains; and "human" and "hamster/gerbil/small rodent" cars. (See the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vn9Z7ChOYk ''Cars 2''/State Farm commercial]] to see examples of all of this.)
162* GatlingGood: Mater is outfitted with two while acting as a spy.
163-->'''Mater:''' Dad-gum!\
164'''Computer:''' Gatling gun: request acknowledged. ''[guns deploy]''\
165'''Mater:''' Shoot, I didn't mean--\
166'''Computer:''' Request acknowledged.\
167''*[[MoreDakka Gatling guns open fire]]*''
168* GeniusDitz: Mater reveals a surprising understanding of engines and car parts. Justified by his job towing broken cars.
169* GetOut: Said four times throughout the movie:
170** By Grem and Acer when Mater starts annoying them in the bathroom.
171** By Holley when she somehow manages to hack into Mater's headset and tells him to leave the pits so he can help Finn.
172** By Holley again as she tries to tell a disguised Mater to abort the mission in Porto Corsa after Axelrod announces the final race is cancelled.
173** By Mater as he warns everyone to leave the pits because the Lemons implanted a bomb there [[spoiler: when it's really ''on him'']].
174* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: When he's infiltrating the Lemons, Mater is equipped with a heads-up display that gives him detailed information about all the criminals and schemers around him.
175* GoodIsNotDumb: Mater's simple nature belies the fact that he's a genius at recognizing obscure and old car parts at a glance. [[spoiler:Later, he also figures out Axlerod's plan to discredit alternative fuels from earlier clues]].
176* GoryDiscretionShot: Rod’s explosion to death is only shown barely as a reflection in the photo of him and Mater in the bathroom.
177* GreenAesop: Zig-zagged.
178** Axlerod sponsors the World Grand Prix to promote his alternative fuel, Allinol. Subverted when [[spoiler:it's actually regular gasoline, and he's sabotaging his own race to discredit all alternative fuels]].
179** Played straight when [[spoiler:it's revealed that [=McQueen=] has been racing with Filmore's organic gasoline the entire time, because Filmore and Sarge don't trust Big Oil companies]].
180** Downplayed, as the villains are merely exploiting the fuel issue [[spoiler: as a means to get revenge for being ostracised and ridiculed.]]
181* GreenwashedVillainy: The plot centers on a race organized by Sir Miles Axelrod to promote his new alternative fuel Allinol. It turns out that [[spoiler:he's trying to discredit alternative fuels so that he and his lemon buddies can keep on selling oil out of the oil fields they own.]]
182* GroundByGears: Around the climax of the movie, Finn and Holley are tied to the giant clock gears of the Big Bentley by the bad guys, with them edging closer to being crushed by another gear each minute. Holley manages to save them by making the clock run in reverse.
183* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The movie starts out with Lightning as the focus as he comes home after winning a fourth Piston Cup in a row and prepares for the World Grand Prix. After Mater leaves on Siddely, the movie splits into a two-story mechanism with Lightning's plot with the race as the B-story and Mater's plot with being a spy as the main one.
184* HerrDoktor: Professor Zündaap caters to this, as if the giant monocle, condescending tone of voice and his experience in dangerous weaponry didn't give it away before.
185* HiddenDepths: Although Mater is out of his depth in many ways being touted as a high-class American spy, he does prove to have extensive knowledge in things such as engine parts and lemon car models that prove very valuable to Finn and Holley's mission.
186* HighDiveEscape: Finn [=McMissile=] jumps off an offshore oil rig.
187* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mater uses [[spoiler:the bomb Miles Axlerod planted inside him]] to force [[spoiler:Miles]] into exposing himself as the BigBad... and if he hadn't, he would have been blown up by his own bomb in a very literal example of the trope.
188* HotPaintJob: Lightning, courtesy of Ramone, gains a rather flashy one for the World Grand Prix, complete with a raised spoiler and actual working lights.
189* UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor: In London, car versions of both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Wheeliam appear.
190** And the Queen's ancestors appear to be Princess Mercedes, Queen Wheeleanor, and King Fergas.
191* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Miles Axlerod, who promotes Allinol as the future of fuels, claiming that it will make fossil fuels like gasoline obsolete, leaks oil and frames Mater for the leak at the Tokyo party, only for the racers to discover that Allinol is nothing more than regular gasoline which causes engines to blow up when hit with an electromagnetic pulse laser as a ploy to discredit alternative fuels.]]
192* IgnoredEpiphany: At one point, Mater tries to talk the bad guys down, but their response falls straight into this trope.
193* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: Torque gives Mater the data before being tortured to death.
194* IHaveManyNames: Alexander Hugo goes by the nicknames "Chop Shop Alex", "Alexander The "Not So" Great", and "Alex Hu "Don't" Go".
195* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:"Everything is voice-activated these days."]]
196** When it's revealed that Sarge swapped out Lightning's Allinol for Filmore's organic fuel Filmore calls him a hippie.
197* IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes: When Finn asks Mater if Hugos and Trunkovs are considered lemons, Mater responds:
198-->"Is the Popemobile Catholic?"
199* JamesBondage: [[spoiler:Finn, Holley, and Mater get tied to the inner workings of Big Bentley after they are captured by the Lemons]].
200* JawDrop: Guido's jaw drops, along with his forks dropping to the ground with it, when he realizes Mater has been telling the truth about Holly.
201-->'''Luigi:''' Guido believe you now.
202* {{Jerkass}}: Bernoulli, the Italian contestant and Lightning's main rival in the Grand Prix. Unlike Chick Hicks, he doesn't seem to be a cheat, just very talented and very arrogant. He seems to get better at the end of the film, to the point where he becomes VitriolicBestBuds with [=McQueen=].
203* JerkassRealization: Mater has a dream where he sees his activities over the past few days with Lightning abroad and finally realizes what an embarrassing jackass he has been.
204* TheKiddieRide: A twin ride featuring Lightning [=McQueen=] and Tow Mater, released by Cogan in 2013. Ital-Resina have also made an unlicensed race car simulator ride in 2016 that shows clips from the movie's video game and resembles the A-Team van.
205* {{Knighting}}: Happens to [[spoiler:Mater]] in the end.
206* KnockOutGas: When the lemons [[spoiler: kidnap Mater after he tries to warn [=McQueen=] of their plan to kill him, they place him in the trailer of a truck that releases gas that renders Mater unconscious.]]
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209[[folder:Tropes L to P]]
210* LetsGetDangerous: [[spoiler:In the big brawl with the {{Mooks}} at the end, the residents of Radiator Springs prove themselves to be capable fighters, particularly Mater. (Making him a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass)]]
211* MachineBlood: When the Lemons blow up Rod "Torque" Redline, we actually see a puddle of oil trickle under the Lemons' tires once Redline is finally dead.
212* MadnessMantra: Mater utters one when he enters the bathroom.
213-->"I never leak, I never leak, I never leak..."
214* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Turns out that Professor Zundapp has been working for Sir Miles Axlerod the whole while, who actually wants to press the continued use of regular gasoline, which he has a massive off-shore oil reserve of. Sabotaging the World Grand Prix is just a plot to besmirch ''all'' alternative fuels]].
215* MasterOfDisguise: Both Finn [=McMissile=] and Mater, thanks to their voice-activated holographic disguise systems.
216* MatryoshkaObject: Sarge, Luigi, and Guido during the ending credits.
217* MidairCollision: The scene where Mater and Finn [=McMissile=] are both attempting to flee from Grem and Acer at Tokyo Airport, and in the process one of [=McMissile's=] projectiles collides with those of the villains.
218* MindScrew:
219** At one point when discussing fossil fuels, Mater asks "[[LampshadeHanging What happened to the dinosaurs?]]". ''Dinosaurs''. Just sit and let that sink in for a minute.
220** There's a female car in Paris whose eyes are in her headlights instead of her windshield. Naturally, Mater reacts to her appearance with shock.
221** There's a literal Popemobile, who rides inside a larger Popemobile.
222** Just what does Crabby the crab boat catch, anyway? Teeny undersea [=ROVs=]? Minisubs?
223* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: Done by Finn [=McMissile=] when he spies on the Lemons.
224* MistakenForSpies: Finn [=McMissile=] and Holley Shiftwell mistake Mater for an American spy.
225* MistakenlyAttackedMole: Holley Shiftwell ends the ChaseScene where Tomber flees from Finn [=McMissile=] by deploying her taser on Tomber. The minute they're alone, Finn interrupts Tomber's complaints to explain that Holley had no idea that Tomber was Finn's informant.
226* {{Mooks}}: Professor Z's underlings are The Lemons, a motley assortment of unloved car designs such as Gremlins and Pacers.
227* MoreDakka: Surprisingly enough, the destructive effects of [[GatlingGood gatling guns]] are showcased with more realism by a Pixar animated film than by most live-action ones - wherever [[spoiler:Mater]] aims, stuff gets absolutely ''torn apart''.
228* MrFanservice: InUniverse, Francesco Bernoulli. Sally and Flo are heavily attracted to his open tires.
229-->'''Flo:''' I gotta get me some coolant!
230* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lightning experiences this shortly after he gets the note from Mater about going back home due to making Lightning lose the race in Japan. Mater also felt this way when he gets knocked out prior to his arrival in London.
231* NationalStereotypes: Several, most notably GayParee, BritishRoyalGuards, and the big village banquet from Guido's Aunt and Uncle. And Mater, of course.
232-->'''Finn [=McMissile=]:''' Is he American?\
233'''Holley Shiftwell:''' Extremely.
234* NeverTrustATrailer: Most of the film's trailers and marketing indicated that Finn would mistake both Mater and Lightning for secret agents and rope them into the mission, and some promotional screencaps show Lightning and Finn interacting in scenes where only one of them is present in the finished product [[note]]Most notably, one shows [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/9/9c/Cars2_FinnMaterLightningMcQueen.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140322140921 Finn leading McQueen and Mater in their tour around Tokyo]] and another shows [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/d/d6/Disney-Cars-2-Wallpaper.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150806193700 McQueen driving alongside Mater and Finn during the tarmac chase]][[/note]]. [=McQueen=] and the other Radiator Springs residents are not involved or aware of the spy storyline for the bulk of the film, and Mater is only mistaken for a secret agent because the real agent plants the MacGuffin on him.
235-->'''Finn:''' [[MissingTrailerScene These Americans are clearly master spies.]]
236* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:If it hadn't been for Axlerod's oil leak, Mater wouldn't have ended up involved with the agents to stop his plan, with Mater being the one to expose him as the Lemon Kingpin. As such, Axlerod's own faulty lemoness ended up being his undoing]].
237* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed
238** Darrell Waltrip, as Darrell Cartrip from ''Cars'', is joined by Formula One commentator David Hobbs as David Hobbscap, and sportscaster Brent Musburger as Brent Mustangburger.
239** Jeff Gordon appears as Jeff Gorvette. See TheCameo above for more details.
240** Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton appears as himself, albeit as a [=McLaren MP4-12C=] Grand Touring car (Complete with tooth gap).
241* NonstandardCharacterDesign: The salescar with her eyes in her headlights in Paris.
242* NotJustATournament: The World Grand Prix was actually organized by the Lemons just so they can zap all of the competing racecars with a deadly EMP emitter as an attempt to destroy public trust in alternative energy sources and force everyone back to using gasoline.
243* ObfuscatingStupidity: Finn and Holley believe this is what Mater is doing when they think he's the American agent they're supposed to meet with. Subverted later on when [[spoiler:Mater actually is able to figure out Axlerod's scheme before anyone else, who all assume he's still just as moronic as ever]].
244* ObviousVillainSecretVillain: Professor Z is an evil German scientist who is the brains of the lemons. [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, Miles Axelrod is revealed to be the mastermind ordering the lemons around.]]
245* OddballInTheSeries:
246** This is the only movie so far where racing is not the CentralTheme, someone other than Lightning is the main focus, and Music/RandyNewman is not the composer.
247** This is the only movie in the ''Cars'' franchise in which the lead character does not appear in a new paint job towards the end.
248** This is the only film not to open with a race.
249* OhCrap:
250** When Mater learns that [[spoiler: the bomb]] is ''not'' in Team [=McQueen=]'s racing pits, but instead, [[spoiler: his air filter]]!
251** Tony Trihull's eyes widen in shock just before [[spoiler:being blown up when Finn releases a bunch of timed mines in an attempt to break away from the magnet pulling him in]].
252** The look on the two thug cars who get diverted into a pub, and then break the table where the patrons were enjoying their beer. The patrons are not pleased about that...
253* OfficialCouple: After the [[ShipTease Ship Teases]] throughout the first movie, Lightning officially refers to Sally as his girlfriend when introducing her.
254* OnlySaneMan: Francesco Bernoulli, after the World Grand Prix degenerates into WackyRacing.
255* ParodicTableOfTheElements: The Automotive Table of the Elements.
256* ThePollyanna: Mater.
257* PoorCommunicationKills: The film's plot revolves around Mater being mistaken for an American spy, and the various conflicts and misunderstandings that occur as a result.
258** During the Tokyo race, Mater tries to have a conversation with Holley over his headset while still on the line to [=McQueen=], which distracts the latter and causes him to lose the race. When explaining himself afterwards, Mater mentions hearing Holley's voice in his head, which makes Lightning assume that Mater's "girlfriend" is imaginary, making him even angrier.
259** While Holley shows some doubts about his methods during the mission, she and Finn wholeheartedly believe that Mater is the real spy. Even when Mater has no knowledge about intel he supposedly collected, causes constant setbacks for their mission and even tells them outright that he's just an ordinary tow truck, Finn believes that Mater is just being [[LostInCharacter extremely dedicated]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity to his cover story]], which leads to him being InnocentlyInsensitive when he later compliments Mater for playing an [[HalfwittedHillbilly "idiot tow truck"]] so well.
260** During the climax, [[spoiler:Mater realizes that the Lemons strapped a bomb to him in order to kill Lightning; and he desperately tries to drive away from [=McQueen=] while the latter tries to apologize for their earlier falling out. During the chase, Lightning interprets Mater's various warnings as simple words of regret, not realizing what's actually going on until he sees the bomb for himself.]]
261--->'''Mater:''' If you get close to me, you're gonna get hurt real bad!\
262'''[=McQueen=]:''' I know I made you feel that way before, but none of that matters!
263* PowerOfTrust
264* PrecisionFStrike: When Francesco is furious after Lightning mocks him over the phone, he launches into an Italian-induced rant that's so suggestive, the show had to mute him out.
265* ProductPlacement: Mater sings the State Farm Insurance jingle when making a joke about Finn and Holley being "agents" (alluding to "insurance agents", not "secret agents") a few scenes after he meets them. The film has major tie-ins with State Farm, and Pixar even animated an entire commercial featuring an anthropomorphic State Farm vehicle voiced by their regular ad announcer.
266* ProperlyParanoid: Sarge, [[spoiler:who saves [=McQueen=]'s life by secretly swapping out his sabotaged Allinol fuel with Fillmore's organic biofuel, because he's naturally distrustful of oil companies]].
267* PuppyDogEyes: Seen on Guido and Luigi when they read Mater's tearful farewell note.
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270[[folder:Tropes R to Z]]
271* RedIsHeroic: Leland Turbo and Lightning are both red. Leland Turbo is a RedShirt, but he is still a good guy as before he was killed, he worked with Finn [=McMissile=]. Lightning is this like in the first film, but it's more noticeable here as he is far less of a {{Jerkass}} than he was in the first film.
272* RedShirt: Agent Leland Turbo, a fellow agent of Finn [=McMissile=]. Kind of lampshaded by the fact that he actually is red. He's only seen alive in the opening during his transmission to Finn, then we see that Grem and Acer caught him and killed him by crushing him into a cube, as Finn witnesses right before his cover is blown.
273** Red "Torque" Redline as well. [[spoiler:He's the original agent that was supposed to pass the identity of the lemon kingpin to Holley and Finn. He slips it to Mater instead, and is subjected to ColdBloodedTorture, which destroys his engine and kills him.]]
274* RuleOfCool: It's the reason Pixar made cars do martial arts and fight scenes.
275* RunningBothSides: [[spoiler:Sir Miles Axlerod is hosting the World Grand Prix to promote his Allinol ''and'' is the shadowy leader of the Lemons]].
276* SabotageToDiscredit: This is [[spoiler:Axlerod's]] plan - to purposefully make [[spoiler:Allinol]] dangerous in order to discredit [[spoiler:green energy in general.]]
277* SadisticChoice: Mater gives one to [[spoiler:Miles Axlerod]] after realising that he's the BigBad: he can either deactivate the bomb he planted [[spoiler:inside Mater]], thus [[EngineeredPublicConfession outing himself as the one who planted it]], or he can let it explode and [[TakingYouWithMe die along with Mater]]. He chooses the former option at the last second.
278* SequelGoesForeign: While the original film took place in Radiator Springs, in the sequel there are stops in Tokyo, Paris, Italy and London.
279* TheShadowKnows: Right after Finn discovers that Leland Turbo has been killed by the lemons, a jet of fire shoots up behind him, revealing his shadow on the ground below and giving away his position to the lemons, who look up and see him.
280* ShapeshifterSwansong: Invoked when Mater's holographic disguise gets damaged, causing him to cycle through all the other forms he cooked up for it before it gives out.
281* ShootTheBullet: An automobile version of this pops up in the airport chase scene, where the bullets in this case are missiles fired from Finn and one of the Lemons.
282* SoftWater: Averted with one of the mooks in the opening sequence. [=McMissile=] survives a similar impact minutes later, but he's also a heavily modded ''007'' car who, among other things, is designed to be submersible.
283* SoLastSeason: In the first movie, [=McQueen=] training on dirt roads gave him a GameBreaker advantage in the Nascar-style races. This race, being a cross-country race, has dirt tracks incorporated into the official World Grand Prix routes, which most of the cars can handle perfectly well (though [=McQueen=] still edges them out in skill). Ironically, the dirt tracks are Francesco's AchillesHeel.
284* SouthernFriedGenius: While he can be rather clueless in other areas, Mater knows everything there is to know about engines, car parts, and the kind of cars that constantly break down. This inside knowledge just happens to be exactly the kind of information Finn and Holley need for their mission.
285* SpannerInTheWorks: Mater is simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when he accidentally interrupts a fight in the bathroom between the Lemons and the American agent, which allows the agent to plant [[MacGuffin a flash drive with valuable intel]] on him. This causes Holley and Finn to mistake Mater for the agent and rope him into their mission, which inadvertently leads [[spoiler:to Mater saving the day all on his own]].
286* SpotlightStealingSquad: It's hard to remember that in the first film, Lightning was the protagonist while Mater was just a supporting character. Mater was [[KidAppealCharacter incredibly popular with kids]], and as a result a lot of the spin off material (the "Car Toons") focused on Mater. Come the second film, he's the unquestionable main character, with Lightning's ordeal with the race as a side story.
287* SpySpeak: Finn [=McMissile=] and Holley Shiftwell recognize each other by discussing the Volkswagen's air-cooled engines. Holley later tries the same passphrase when meeting Mater (who just happens to have encyclopedic knowledge of engines) and he inadvertently gives the correct response just by making conversation, causing Holley to mistake Mater for the American agent.
288* StealthPun: [[spoiler:Mater IS the bomb!]]
289** Not to mention in the meeting of the Lemon families, there are piles of real lemons on the tables.
290* StockScream: When Grem and Acer get beat up at Ye Left Turn Inn, one of them emits the Wilhelm scream.
291* StrappedToABomb: Mater's air filter is replaced by a bomb as a contingency plan to kill Lightning [=McQueen=]. [[spoiler:He later uses it to coerce a confession from the BigBad]].
292* StumbledIntoThePlot: How Mater finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy: because an intelligence exchange goes awry and Mater gets [[MistakenForSpies mistaken for a master American spy]].
293* SuddenNameChange:
294** A minor villain whose first name appears to be Fred actually alternates between the surnames "Fisbowski" and "Pacer."
295** Similarly, Sal Machiani (a yellow three-wheeled truck seen in Italy) is actually referred as "Ape" in one of the film's promotional posters.
296** Yet another minor villain, Petrov, actually alternates between the surnames "Trunkov" and "Oilski."
297* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Subverted at the end when Fillmore claims not to have [[spoiler:switched Allinol with biofuel]]. It's then revealed that it was actually Sarge who did so.
298* SustainedMisunderstanding:
299** Mater tries to warn Lightning not to come near him since he has a bomb attached to him, but Lightning believes that Mater is telling him to stay away because of the previous embarrassing events. Then when Mater explicitly mentions being the bomb, Lightning misunderstands it as him finally understanding his own worth.
300** Holley and Finn consistently believe that Mater's confession of being just a tow truck is merely keeping up his cover story at all times.
301* TakingYouWithMe: Mater threatens the Lemon King with this tactic in the climax.
302* TalkingYourWayOut: When he's surrounded by the Lemons' {{Mooks}}, Mater tries to invoke this by sympathizing with them as outcasts and laughing stocks. [[spoiler:It doesn't work]].
303* TeaserOnlyCharacter: [[spoiler:Leland Turbo]].
304* TimeBomb: In the climax, Mater gets a bomb on his hood that activates either by manually pressing a button or on a timer, the latter of which is invoked upon Mater attempting to deactivate the bomb through a voice command. The bomb is secured using rare bolts and the only way to deactivate it is through the voice of the one who activated the bomb. [[spoiler:The bomb is ultimately disabled when Axlerod gives the command to deactivate the bomb upon Mater interrogating him up close.]]
305* TimeSkip: The film takes place four years after the first film, when Lightning has won his fourth consecutive Piston Cup.
306* ThirdPersonPerson: "Francesco is familiar with this reaction to Francesco." This seems to be a bad character tic.
307* ThisCannotBe: When Francesco finds himself overtaken by flying spycar Holley and [[spoiler:rocket-enhanced ''Mater'']].
308* TimeForPlanB: [[spoiler:After the EMP cannon fails, the lemons resort to using a bomb strapped to Mater to kill Lightning]].
309* ToiletHumour: Mater accidentally goes into the women's bathroom in Tokyo. And once he gets to the right bathroom, he gets caught inside... in a bidet!
310* TooImportantToWalk: One of the high-ranking Lemons has a tow-truck Mook drag him around, which Mater replaces to infiltrate the Lemons' meeting.
311* TransformationSequence: Lightning gets one when he is being done up for the World Grand Prix, one particular moment being his decal headlights and taillights are hollowed out and fitted with actual working ones.
312* UndersideRide: Finn [=McMissile=] actually clings to the underside of Tony Trihull with his magnetic tires in order to sneak into the Lemons' oil rig.
313* TheUnmasking: [[spoiler:When Mater exposes Axlerod for being the true villain and the whole thing was his fault.]]
314* UnwittingPawn: Mater ends up as this when he goes to warn [=McQueen=]'s pit crew about the bomb planted in their midst. [[spoiler:It's actually in his air filter]].
315* UrineTrouble: Invoked when Mater gets on the stage in Japan and a puddle of oil appears under him [[spoiler:which was actually caused by Miles Axlerod]].
316* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Axlerod when Mater confronts him as the leader of the Lemons. He starts off cool, trying to prove his innocence and accusing Mater of [[StealthPun blowing smoke]]. But as the countdown reaches the single digits he starts panicking. And with no one coming to help him and Mater not backing off, he's eventually forced to deactivate the bomb. Even ''he's'' surprised that Mater, of all cars, was the one to figure out his plan]].
317* VisualPun: At the Lemons' meeting in Italy there are platters of lemons on the table.
318* VitriolicBestBuds: Lightning and Francesco Bernoulli by the end.
319* WallOfWeapons: Finn [=McMissile=] shows off an entire arsenal of weapons aligned on the lab walls for Mater to choose as he is getting ready to disguise himself.
320* WackyRacing: The London leg of the World Grand Prix. A race cannot be considered sane or normal when a rocket-equipped tow-truck starts driving backwards.
321* WeaponizedCar: The espionage characters feature missiles, rockets, machine guns, and targeting systems hidden all along their bodies, most notably Finn [=McMissile=], Holley Shiftwell, Rod Redline, and Mater.
322* WellIntentionedExtremist: All of the bad cars are motivated to sabotaging Allinol largely because of their stake in oil/gas, but also payback for all the taunting and mocking they've received due to being "lemons".
323* WhamLine: Quite a few.
324** When Z has Rod Redline tortured and brings out the device the Professor had in the opening.
325-->'''Professor Z''': This "camera" is actually an electro magnetic pulse emitter.
326** Later after the Italy race
327-->'''Professor Z''': Allinol must be finished for good. [=McQueen=] cannot win the last race! Lightning [=McQueen=] [[spoiler:must be '''KILLED!'''']]
328** This warning from Finn at the climax regarding [[spoiler:the bomb]]:
329-->'''Finn [=McMissile=]''': Mater, listen to me! [[spoiler:The bomb is on ''YOU!'']] They knew you'd try to help [=McQueen=]! [[spoiler: When we were knocked out, they planted it in your air filter!]]
330* WhosLaughingNow: The reason why the Lemons were evil.
331* WhyAmITicking: [[spoiler:Mater gets a time bomb bolted to his engine as a backup plan to kill Lightning [=McQueen=].]]
332* WilhelmScream: When the {{Mooks}} are in the pub fight.
333* WorldTour: The international race.
334* WrongBathroomIncident: While in Tokyo, Mater has to go to the bathroom, but [[WhichBathroomDilemma can't tell which is the men's room]]. He goes through one door, and a high-pitched scream is heard, and Mater apologizes as he quickly exits and goes into the other bathroom.
335* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler:Even after Finn and Holley learn that Mater isn't really a secret agent, they still encourage him to save the day, and even ask him to join them on another mission in the epilogue]].
336-->'''Finn:''' [[spoiler:Spy or not, you're still the smartest, most honest chap we've ever met.]]
337* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: First by Grem when he and Acer spot Mater in Tokyo after he leaves the pits. Later on by Mater himself as he is distracted by the souvenirs in a Paris market.
338* YourMom: When the lemon cars interrogate Torque about his associate, he says it was "Your mother. Oh no, I'm sorry, it was your sister. You know, I can't tell them apart these days."
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