History WesternAnimation / Cars2

* 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".

* CassandraTruth: 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.

Unfortunately, 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 Holly 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...

* CassandraTruth: When Mater tries to tell his friends about his encounters with Holly Shiftwell and her world of international espionage, no one believes him because they think he's just telling another of his tall tales.

** And when he tries to tell Finn and Holly 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.

** The ending with Finn and Holly'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.

* CostumeCopycat: [[spoiler:Ivan is a tow truck that looks a lot like Mater. Holly helps Mater with a holographic disguise to look like him, after Mater tries out several very conspicuous and outrageous modes]].

* DeathTrap: An elaborate one set for Finn, Holly, and Mater, courtesy of Zundapp [[spoiler:since he wanted to have them watch him kill [=McQueen=] first]].

* DoubleEntendre: Ivan the tow truck's offer of 'Road-Side Assistance' to Holly.

* FlyingCar: Holly Shiftwell.

** By Holly when she somehow manages to hack into Mater's headset and tells him to leave the pits so he can help Finn.
** By Holly again as she tries to tell a disguised Mater to abort the mission in Porto Corsa after Axelrod announces the final race is cancelled.

* GroundByGears: Around the climax of the movie, Finn and Holly 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. Holly manages to save them by making the clock run in reverse.

* 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 Holly's mission.

* JamesBondage: [[spoiler:Finn, Holly, and Mater get tied to the inner workings of Big Bentley after they are captured by the Lemons]].

* MistakenForSpies: Finn [=McMissile=] and Holly Shiftwell mistake Mater for an American spy.
* MistakenlyAttackedMole: Holly 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 Holly had no idea that Tomber was Finn's informant.

* ProductPlacement: Mater sings the State Farm Insurance jingle when making a joke about Finn and Holly 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.

** Holly and Finn consistently believe that Mater's confession of being just a tow truck is merely keeping up his cover story at all times.

* ThisCannotBe: When Francesco finds himself overtaken by flying spycar Holly and [[spoiler:rocket-enhanced ''Mater'']].

* WeaponizedCar: The espionage characters feature missiles, rockets, machine guns, and targeting systems hidden all along their bodies, most notably Finn [=McMissile=], Holly Shiftwell, Rod Redline, and Mater.

* ForWantOfANail: [[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]].

* NotJustATournament: The World Grand Prix was actually organized by the Lemons just so they can zap all of the competing racecars with a deadly radiation cannon as an attempt to destroy public trust in alternative energy sources and force everyone back to using gasoline.

** 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 shows blatant hints suggesting otherwise, 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.

* SouthernFriedGenius: Mater knows everything about engines and engine parts, but in an idiot savant kind of way.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Mater]].

* SpySpeak: Finn [=McMissile=] and Holly Shiftwell recognize each other by discussing the Volkswagen's air-cooled engines. This backfires (thankfully not fatally) because [[spoiler:Mater, a tow truck with encyclopedic knowledge of engines, inadvertently says the right passphrase]].

** 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). In international localizations of the film, he is replaced by other racing celebrities that are better known to the locality than Jeff Gordon:

* TheCavalry: Done literally [[spoiler:when Sarge contacts his old military buddies to bring ''the entire British Army'' to rescue Mater and Lightning]].

** The ending with Finn and Holly'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.

** ''Series/DeadliestCatch'''s Sig Hansen voices his own crab fishing boat, the ''Northwestern'' ("Crabby" in the film itself), complete with crab pots. He even uses "crabbing" as his excuse when [[ItMakesSenseInContext confronted by a military warship]].

** During the climax, [[spoiler:Mater realizes that the Lemons strapped a bomb to him in order to kill Lighting; 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.]]
-->'''Mater:''' If you get close to me, you're gonna get hurt real bad!\\

''Cars 2'' is the ActionizedSequel to ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', released in June 2011, and the first Creator/{{Pixar}} sequel to a movie other than ''Franchise/ToyStory''.

* BreatherEpisode: This movie serves as one for [[WesternAnimation/Cars3 the threequel]], which came out six years later and showed Lightning’s racing starting to go downhill.

** During the climax, [[spoiler:Mater realizes that the Lemons strapped a bomb to him in order to kill Lighting; 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 words of regret for their earlier falling out, not realizing what's actually going on until he sees the bomb for himself.]]

* AbortedArc: [[spoiler:Who won the race?]]

* AbortedArc: Who won the race?

* MistakenlyAttackedMole: Holly 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 Holly had no idea that Tomber was Finn's informant.

* 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.

* CharacterOutlivesActor: Because of the death of [[Creator/PixarRegulars Joe Ranft]], Red the firetruck actually lost his voice permanently and does not speak in the sequel. [[TheQuietOne Not that he spoke much in the previous film anyway.]]