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Sir Miles Axlerod: Welcome, everyone. I wish I could be with you on this very special day, but… my clutch assembly broke. You know how it is. Tubbs Pacer: Been there. J. Curby Gremlin: Forget about it. Vladimir Trunkov: We know how you feel. Sir Miles Axlerod: We are here to celebrate. Today, all your hard work pays off. The world turned their backs on cars like us. They stopped manufacturing us, stopped making our parts. The only thing they haven’t stopped doing, is laughing at us. They’ve called us terrible names: jalopy, rust bucket, heap, clunker, junker, beater, wreck, rattletrap… lemon. But their insults just give us strength. Because today, my friends, that... all... ENDS! They laughed at us, but now it's our turn to laugh back. Embrace your inner lemon. Let it drive you. This was meant to be alternative fuel's greatest moment. But after today, everyone will race back to gasoline. And we, the owners of the world's largest untapped oil reserve, will become the most powerful cars in the world! They will come to us, and they will have no choice, because they will need us. And they will finally respect us! So, hold your hoods high! After today, you will never again be ashamed of who you are! Long live lemons!
The Lemons are the main antagonists of Pixar's 12th full-length animated feature film Cars 2 and its videogame.
They are an international criminal organization of lemon cars known for their several manufacturing defects that left them rejected by society, and they intend to get their revenge by discrediting alternative fuel in order to make profit out of selling oil. This terroristic group consists of 44 notable members and five notable associates.
They are considered to be the biggest loser cars in history. Mater described Lemons as a tow truck's "bread and butter".
At a top secret meeting, the Lemon Heads scheme to become the most powerful cars in the world!
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~ Lemons' Diecast Collection description
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Mater: Well, A Lemon needs parts, ain't nothing truer than that. Finn McMissile: Lemon? Mater: Yeah, you know cars that don't ever work right. Lemons is a tow trucks' bread and butters like them Gremlins and Pacers we run into at the party, the race and the airport.
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~ Mater describing the Lemons
History[]
Background[]
According to their boss Sir Miles Axlerod, the Lemons have felt rejected by the world because of their defects during the past, an event that left them feel unloved. The film, however, reveals little details regarding how their fellow cars treated them. They became criminals in attempt to the sabotage race and ruin the alternative fuels as well, making the world use ordinary gasoline.
Cars 2[]
On the Pacific Ocean, Finn McMissile went with Crabby to search for a car, but Tony Trihull menaced Crabby. Later McMissile infiltrates in the Oil Rig to find his friend Leland Turbo, but Grem and Acer killed him. From this moment he killed some Lemons, then Finn fakes his death.
As such, Miles Axlerod formulates a plan that involves forcing the entire world to abandon alternative fuel and resorting to using oil (as he still owns the largest oil reserves in the world despite his claims that he has been converted into a hybrid). To that end, Axlerod created the World Grand Prix for racers around the world to show off a new alternative fuel called Allinol (which is actually gasoline engineered to ignite by an EMP beam). He also plans on murdering anyone who gets in their way.
Being in cahoots with Axlerod's plot and sharing the ownership of the oil reserves, several Lemon families conspired to aid Axlerod in his plan to sabotage the Grand Prix races. To that end, Axlerod gets his right-hand Professor Zündapp to create an EMP weapon designed as a WGP camera to ignite any Allinol supply during the races. Because of this, the first two races in Tokyo and Porto Corsa were disasters as many racers engaged in crashes after getting their Allinol ignited by the EMP beam. To cover his tracks, Axlerod suspends using Allinol for the third and final race in London, though Lightning McQueen stands firm on his decision to use Allinol. Because of this, Axlerod contacts Zündapp to murder McQueen during the final race. This was witnessed by McQueen's best friend Mater, along with two British agents Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell, who end up being captured and take hostage in Big Bentley.
During the final race, Zündapp gets Grem and Acer to fire up their EMP beam on McQueen, but he later escapes unharmed (due to Sarge switching McQueen's Allinol supply with Fillmore's organic fuel), just as Mater escapes to warn McQueen of the plot. Anticipating this, Axlerod arranges for Zündapp to place a bomb inside Mater's air filter so that he and McQueen would be killed by the explosion. As Mater runs off out of range, Zündapp ends up being chased by a freed McMissile, forcing the other Lemons to take action and catch McQueen. Though McMissile and Holley manage to defeat Zündapp, the other Lemons surround them in an intersection, preparing to wait for the imminent explosion to kill McQueen, Mater and the agents. Mater tries to talk the Lemons out of the plan by pointing out that it won't make them feel any better, but even though the Lemons agree with him, they still want him and his friends dead for their greed. Fortunately, McQueen brought in his friends from Radiator Springs to stop them, forcing the Lemons to surrender.
Mater eventually proceeded to expose Axlerod as the mastermind behind the plot by forcing him to deactivate the bomb within close range. With the plot exposed, the Lemons are arrested for conspiracy to commit crime, murder, attempted murder, and embezzlement.
It can be implied that after their arrest, the authorities managed to confiscate their weapons (including the EMP camera which was left inside the Big Bentley) and their oil rig.
Cars 2: The Video Game[]
In Cars 2: The Video Game, the Lemons appear again as the main antagonists (alongside Professor Zündapp) and five from them are playable characters.
In Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure, the Lemons appear again in the first level and third level of the game.
Disney INFINITY[]
In Disney Infinity, one of the Lemons who appears in the concept art was Grem. He was supposed to be a playable character, but he was cancelled.
Cars 3[]
The Lemons doesn't make their physical appearance in Cars 3, but Miles Axlerod appears as a picture in Sterling's Office shields and Acer makes a cameo in a newspaper about the Haneda Airport chase.
Personalities[]
They are described as cold-hearted terrorists who want their revenge for being insulted by the other cars in the world, and sadistic because they ruined some WGP racers motors during the World Grand Prix event and tried to kill Lightning McQueen. Near the end however, their cowardice was shown by way of Sir Miles Axelrod deactivating the bomb he placed upon Tow Mater.
Members[]
The Lemons are a coalition of at least four criminal families made up by cars infamous for malfunctioning. Out of the forty-four known members listed here, at least 70% (31 out of 44) of all of the Lemons were arrested.
Crushing Leland Turbo to death (succeeded on the Oil Rig).
Torturing Rod "Torque" Redline (succeeded in Japan).
Fully sabotaging the World Grand Prix (succeeded in Japan and Italy but failed in England).
Kill Lightning McQueen to completely discredit Allinol (failed due to Allinol was actually Fillmore's organic biofuel).
Fully sabotaging the World 70% (31 out of 44) of all of the Lemons were arrested.
Quotes[]
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Let's Go
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~ Acer's first words in the film
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Tony: What are you doing out here?! Crabby: What does it look like, genius? I'm crabbing! Tony: Well, turn around and go back where you came from!
Crabby: Yeah, and who's gonna make me?
[Tony deploys his missile launcher.] Crabby: All right! All right! Don't get your prop in a twist! [turns around, as Tony heads back to the oil rigs] What a jerk. Sorry, buddy. Looks like it's the end of the line. [hears no answer] Buddy?
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~ Tony Trihull's first appearence in the film.
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Tannoy: Incoming. All workers report to the loading dock.
Finn: [through his radio] Leland Turbo, this is Finn McMissile. I'm at the rally point. Over. [hears static] Grem: [as the other cars gather up] All right, fellas, you know the drill. Finn: [through his radio] Leland, it's Finn. Please respond. Over. [hears static again, then he takes out his spy camera from inside his right headlight to zoom in on the thugs] Acer: Come on, guys. These crates aren't gonna unload themselves. [opens a crate] Zündapp: Raus Hier [speaks indistinctly as he appears] ...get out of here. Too many cars here. Out of my way. Finn: [after he scans the professor] Professor Zündapp? Rod: [in Gremlin disguise] Here it is, Professor. You wanted to see this before we load it? Zündapp: Ah, yes. Very carefully.
[Muggsy then opens the box, which has a camera in it. Finn immediately starts taking pictures of it] Sehr gut. Rod: Oh, a TV camera. What does it actually do? Zündapp: This camera is extremely dangerous. Finn: What are you up to now, Professor? [uses his mounted quad harpoon gun from his undercarriage to sink into the structure of each of the platform's sides, and whizzes across, before moving himself down to get a closer look, taking more pictures of the camera] Zündapp: This is valuable equipment. Make sure it is properly secured for the voyage. Rod: You got it. Grem: Hey, Professor Z! This is one of those British spies we told you about.
[While Grem is talking, Muggsy closes the box, and he and Rod leave. Finn gets out one of his machine guns as he watches Zündapp coming to Grem and Acer, who are beside a crate.] Acer: Yeah! This one we caught sticking his bumper where it didn't belong. Zündapp: Agent Leland Turbo.
[Acer then opens the lock on the crate, then a crane picks up the crate's top and sides, showing Leland Turbo crushed into a cube.]
Finn: [gasps] Zündapp: It's Finn McMissile! [as Finn begins to shoot at them] He's seen the camera! Kill him! Tannoy: All hands on deck! All hands on deck!
Tony: Not for long! [shoots out a torpedo]
[Just as the torpedo is about to hit Finn, it explodes, causing the water to shoot up, before it shows flames on the surface, as the combat ships search around it to see if Finn is still alive. The camera moves into the water, showing that Finn is still alive, leaving trails of oil from his rear turn signals. He then transforms into a submarine, with an oxygen tank over his mouth, and escapes as he releases a set of tires from his trunk. The tires all come up to the surface inside the circle of flames.] Grem: [chuckles evily, then talks to Zündapp over the radio] He's dead, Professor. Zündapp: Wunderbar! With Finn McMissile gone, who can stop us now?
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~ Grem, Acer, Tony and Zündapp during Finn's "death"
Tubbs Pacer: Hey, Victor! J. Curby Gremlin: There you are. Vladimir Trunkov: Come here! Come here! J. Curby Gremlin: Victor Hugo. I'm J. Curby Gremlin from Detriot. It's good to see you. Victor Hugo: Is the big boss here yet? Vladimir Trunkov: No, not yet. Tubbs Pacer: He's supposed to be here any minutes. Finn McMissile: Here we go. Professor Zündapp: Guten Tag. Tubbs Pacer: Ahh, it's just the professor. Victor Hugo: Zündapp! When is he coming? Professor Zündapp: He's already here.
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~ Lemons' meeting in Italy
Trivia[]
Though they are considered the darkest villains of the Cars franchise due to their willingness to commit murder, Mater sympathizes with them due to their troubled pasts (and his experience of being laughed at himself because of his antics). That said, the narrative and Mater himself make it clear that it doesn't justify their crimes. Furthermore, even some of their more ruthless members agree that it wouldn't make them feel better, implying that they commit crimes not just out of greed, but also out of resentment, though they didn't repent for their crimes and attempted to kill Mater, McQueen, Finn and Holley anyway because, as J. Curby Gremlin pointed out, it was "worth a shot".
They are also implied to have problems with acquiring the parts they need to survive.
Tyler Gremlin and Don Crumlin appear in Cars 2: The Video Game along with several look-alikes. They are enemies that you have to destroy in Hunter or Attack modes. In those modes, multiple amounts of them appear, and you have to destroy them. In Hunter mode, they could try to shoot you.
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