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** 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.
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* 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.
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* TheDon: The four heads of the Lemon families: J. Curby Gremlin, Vladimir Trunkov, VictorHugo and Tubbs Pacer.
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''Cars 2'' is the ActionizedSequel to ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', released in June 2011. Oil 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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* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Out of respect to the late PaulNewman, Doc Hudson from the first movie had also died before the events of this movie. By contrast...
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* MidairCollision: Another Pixar example would be 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.
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** This warning from Finn at the climax regarding [[spoiler:the bomb]]
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-->'''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!]]
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-->'''Professor Z''': Allinol must be finished for good. [=McQueen=] cannot win the last race! Lightning [=McQueen=]...[[spoiler:must be '''KILLED!'''']]
**This warning from Finn at the climax regarding [[spoiler:the bomb]]
-->'''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!]]
-->'''Professor Z''': Allinol must be finished for good. [=McQueen=] cannot win the last race! Lightning [=McQueen=]...[[spoiler:must be '''KILLED!'''']]
**This warning from Finn at the climax regarding [[spoiler:the bomb]]
-->'''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!]]
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*WhamLine: Quite a few.
**When Z has Rod Redline tortured and brings out the device the professor had in the opening.
-->'''Professor Z''': This "camera" is actually an electro magnetic pulse emitter.
**When Z has Rod Redline tortured and brings out the device the professor had in the opening.
-->'''Professor Z''': This "camera" is actually an electro magnetic pulse emitter.
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* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: However, Doc Hudson (voiced by the late Paul Newman) is inferred to have died between movies; note that [=McQueen=] is the champion of the Hudson Hornet Memorial Piston Cup.
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It's also infamous for being the only Pixar film to have a Rotten score on RottenTomatoes (a mere 39%), and a [[BaseBreaker sizable portion]] of Pixar fans consider it to be a major step down in quality for the studio.
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* TheHouseOfWindsor: In London, car versions of both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Wheeliam appear.
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* DevelopmentGag: In Paris, Mater encounters a car whose eyes are placed where her headlights should be. This scares Mater away. This is a reference to the development of the first ''Cars''; the characters were originally gonna have their eyes placed on their headlights, only to have them relocated on their windshields after JohnLasseter found it more appealing that way.
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->''When You're In Over Your Headlights,\\
Who Do You Trust?''
''Cars 2'' is the ActionizedSequel to ''Cars'', released in June 2011. Oil 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.
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 international weapons developer Professor Zundapp. 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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* ActionPrologue: The opening shows Finn doing stuff that wouldn't be out of place in a ''Film/JamesBond'' film.
* ActionizedSequel: Goes from a racing movie to a spy movie.
* ActorExistenceFailure: Played straight with Doc Hudson, as Paul Newman died in 2008. Doc is mentioned in the beginning of the film, and it is suggested that [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim he passed away between the two films]].
** Averted with Fillmore (George Carlin also died in 2008), who is voiced by Lloyd Sherr instead.
** And averted with Red (Joe Ranft), who does not speak at all (save for the odd sound effect).
* AesopAmnesia: Averted in a ContinuityNod; Mater mentions that the reason Lightning hasn't entered the race is that he has learned to slow down and enjoy life.
* AnimeLand: Japan is depicted in this manner, more or less an extended version of the way it was shown in the ''Tokyo Mater'' short.
* 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.
* BatmanGambit: [[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]].
** [[spoiler:Axlerod's plan to kill Lightning by planting a bomb in Mater himself also counts]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The regulars of Radiator Springs save Mater and [=McQueen=] from the Lemons in London]].
* 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 DVD release, which features a default subtitle track that is just the bartender's line, translated as "My condolences."
* 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.
* BlandNameProduct: Even though most of the cars are referred to by their real model names (even the lemons), Hugo is an exception. Whoever owns the Yugo trademark doesn't have a sense of humor.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Happens to Mater after he discovers that everyone else sees him as a clueless [[TheDitz ditz]], good only for distracting others]].
-->"No one realizes they're being fooled when they're too busy laughing at the fool."
* [[BritishRoyalGuards British Royal Cars]]
* ButtMonkey: Otis, the friendly ol' rustbucket of Carburetor County.
-->'''Mater:''' Well, since this is your tenth tow this month, it's on the house!
* TheCameo: Kabuto, the main villain of [[PixarShorts ''Tokyo Mater'']], actually makes several brief appearances during all of the Japan scenes.
** 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:
*** The Australian release features V8 Supercar racer Mark Winterbottom as "Frosty" (his RealLife nickname).
*** The Spanish release features Formula One racer Fernando Alonso as himself and uses an Spanish sports broadcaster as one of the race announcers.
*** The Russian release features Formula One racer Vitaly Petrov.
*** The Mexican release features Rolex Sports car racer Memo Rojas Jr.
*** 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.
*** The Swedish release features Touring Car racer Jan Nilsson as "Flash".
*** The Brazilian release features retired racer Emerson Fittipaldi, and the announcers were dubbed by local sports broadcasters.
** ''Series/DeadliestCatch'''s Sig Hansen voices his own crab fishing boat, ''Crabby'' (complete with crab pots).
* 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.
* 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 this comes up as a BrickJoke later on--especially the part about Mater and his girlfriend.
** 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.
* TheCavalry: Done literally [[spoiler:when Sarge contacts his old military buddies to bring ''the entire British Army'' to rescue Mater and Lightning]].
* 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.]]
* ChaseScene: At the Tokyo airport.
* 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''.
** Also done literally with Mater's gatling guns [[spoiler:which he uses to escape from being tied up in Big Bentley]].
* 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 [=McQueen=] through at the beginning.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Professor Zündapp inflicts this on Rod "Torque" Redline with the EMP camera]].
* CoolBoat: The boats with Lemon cars have are based of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_class_littoral_combat_ship Independence-class littoral combat ship]].
* ContinuityNod: When Mater talks to Francesco on the talk show, he explains that [=McQueen=] 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.
** "Whoever that tow truck is, he's got to be the world's best backwards driver!"
** 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.
** 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!
* 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).
* 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 [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Mater tries out several very conspicuous and outrageous modes]]]].
** 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]].
* 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.
* CreatorCameo: To celebrate Pixar's 25th anniversary, the animators inserted John Lasseter in the movie as Jeff Gorvette's pit crew chief.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While it's still a colorful family-friendly film, the sequel justifiably features more peril than the original.
-->'''John Lasseter:''' There is peril. There is threat. You want the bad guys to be bad.
** 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.
* 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]].
* DemotedToExtra: Most of the original cast.
* DevelopmentGag: In Paris, Mater encounters a car whose eyes are placed where her headlights should be. This scares Mater away. This is a reference to the development of the first ''Cars''; the characters were originally gonna have their eyes placed on their headlights, only to have them relocated on their windshields after JohnLasseter found it more appealing that way.
* TheDon: The four heads of the Lemon families: J. Curby Gremlin, Vladimir Trunkov, VictorHugo and Tubbs Pacer.
* DoubleEntendre: Ivan the tow truck's offer of 'Road-Side Assistance' to Holly.
** In the bathroom Mater comments on how the female animated car "gets to giggling right before she starts squirting".
** 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.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Mater does this with a holographic program that allows him to resemble Ivan and infiltrate the Lemons in Italy.
* {{Eagleland}}: Mater is viewed as a hybrid of Type 1 and Type 2 by non-American cars meeting him for the first time.
* 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}}''.
* EspionageTropes: Lots.
* EtTuBrute: [=McQueen=] invokes this [[spoiler:after Mater inadvertently causes him to lose the first race in the World Grand Prix]].
* 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]].
* 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.
* [[spoiler:EvilBrit]]: [[spoiler:Sir Miles Axlerod]].
* FakingTheDead: Finn [=McMissile=] uses a set of decoy tires to pretend that he's been torpedoed by the enemy.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Rod "Torque" Redline's engine is made to overheat and explode, though it's only shown as a vague reflection]].
** An earlier scene has secret agent Leland Turbo [[spoiler:shown as a crushed car cube]].
* FlyingCar: Holly Shiftwell.
** Mater becomes one when he deploys his parachute and rocket thrusters.
* FurryConfusion: The first film had Volkswagon Beetles only appear as literal bugs. However, this one has "human" VW Beetles.
** Also there are both "human" and "bird" planes.
** And "human" and "snake" trains; and "human" and "hamster/gerbil/small rodent" cars. (See the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vn9Z7ChOYk ''Cars 2''/State Farm commercial]] to see examples of all of this.)
* GatlingGood: Mater is outfitted with two while acting as a spy.
-->'''Mater:''' Dag-gum!\\
'''Computer:''' Request acknowledged. ''[guns deploy]''\\
'''Mater:''' Shoot, I didn't mean--\\
'''Computer:''' Firing.\\
''*[[MoreDakka Gatling guns open fire]]!*''
* GeniusDitz: Mater reveals a surprising understanding of engines and car parts. Justified by his job towing broken cars.
* 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.
* 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]].
* GreenAesop: Zig-zagged.
** 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]].
** 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]].
** Downplayed, as the villains are merely exploiting the fuel issue [[spoiler: as a means to get revenge for being ostracised and ridiculed.]]
* HerrDoktor: Professor Zündapp caters to this, as if the giant monocle, condescending tone of voice and his experience in dangerous weaponry didn't give it away before.
* HighDiveEscape: Finn [=McMissile=] jumps off an offshore oil rig.
* TheHouseOfWindsor: In London, car versions of both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Wheeliam appear.
** And the Queen's ancestors appear to be Princess Mercedes, Queen Wheeleanor, and King Fergas.
* IgnoredEpiphany: At one point, Mater tries to talk the bad guys down, but their response falls straight into this trope.
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: Torque Gives mater the data before being tortured to death.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:"Everything is voice-activated these days."]]
** When it's revealed that Sarge swapped out Lightning's Allinol for Filmore's organic fuel Filmore calls him a hippie.
* JamesBondage: [[spoiler:Finn, Holly, and Mater get tied to the inner workings of Big Bentley after they are captured by the Lemons]].
* {{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=].
* 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.
* {{Knighting}}: Happens to [[spoiler:Mater]] in the end.
* 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)]]
* 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]].
* MasterOfDisguise: Both Finn [=McMissile=] and Mater, thanks to their voice-activated holographic disguise systems.
* MatryoshkaObject: Sarge, Luigi, and Guido during the ending credits.
* MindScrew
** 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.
** 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.
** There's a literal Popemobile, who rides inside a larger Popemobile.
** Just what does Crabby the crab boat catch, anyway? Teeny undersea [=ROVs=]? Minisubs?
* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: Done by Finn [=McMissile=] when he spies on the Lemons.
* MistakenForSpies: Finn [=McMissile=] and Holly Shiftwell mistake Mater for an American spy.
* {{Mooks}}: Professor Z's underlings are The Lemons, a motley assortment of unloved car designs such as Gremlins and Pacers.
* MrFanservice: {{In-universe}}, Francesco Bernoulli. Sally and Flo are heavily attracted to his open tires.
-->'''Flo:''' I gotta get me some coolant!
* 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.
* MythologyGag: In Paris, [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} Gusteau's]] appears briefly, with a change in spelling that makes it '''Gasteau's'''.
** Also there's a drive-in movie theater showing ''[[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles The Incredimobiles]]''. Curiously enough, the Incredimobile is also the name of Mr. Incredible's car at the very beginning of his film.
* NationalStereotypes: Several, most notably GayParee, BritishRoyalGuards, and the big village banquet from Guido's Aunt and Uncle.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Professor Zundapp, the Lemons and their boss, [[spoiler:Sir Miles Axelrod. Just pretend that alternate fuel for cars is to oil what anyone or anything non-Aryan was to Nazism]].
* NeverSayDie: At the beginning of the film, it's suggested that [[spoiler:Doc Hudson]] is dead. [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim He is]].
** Totally averted in several scenes in the film, unlike any other Pixar film. They don't even really try to say things like "gone" or "taken care of". A good example:
-->'''Professor Z:''' It's Finn [=McMissile!=] '''Kill him'''!
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed
** 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.
** Jeff Gordon appears as Jeff Gorvette. See TheCameo above for more details.
** Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton appears as himself, albeit as a [=McLaren MP4-12C=] Grand Touring car (Complete with tooth gap).
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: The salescar with her eyes in her headlights in Paris.
* 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 all alternative energy sources and force everyone back to using gasoline.
* 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]].
* OhCrap: Tony Trihull utters a small "Uh-oh" 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]].
** The look on the two thug cars who get diverted into a pub, and then breaks the table where the patrons were enjoying their beer. The patrons are not pleased about that...
* OnlySaneMan: Francesco Bernoulli, after the World Grand Prix degenerates into WackyRacing.
* ParodicTableOfTheElements: The Automotive Table of the Elements.
* ThePollyanna: Mater.
* PowerOfTrust
* 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.
* 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]].
* PuppyDogEyes: Seen on Guido and Luigi when they read Mater's tearful farewell note.
* RuleOfCool: Pixar made cars do martial arts and fight scenes.
* RunningBothSides: [[spoiler:Sir Miles Axlerod is hosting the World Grand Prix to promote his Allinol ''and'' is the shadowy leader of the Lemons]].
* SequelGoesForeign: While the original film took place in Radiator Springs, in the sequel there are stops in Tokyo, Paris, Italy and London.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* SouthernFriedGenius: Mater knows everything about engines and engine parts, but in an idiot savant kind of way.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Mater]].
* 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.
* 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]].
* StealthPun: [[spoiler:Mater IS the bomb!]]
** Not to mention in the meeting of the Lemon families, there are piles of real lemons on the tables.
* StrappedToABomb: Mater's 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]].
* SuddenNameChange:
** A minor villain whose first name appears to be Fred actually alternates between the surnames "Fisbowski" and "Pacer."
** Similarly, Sal Machiani (a yellow three-wheeled truck seen in Italy) is actually referred as "Ape" in one of the film's promotional posters.
** Yet another minor villain, Petrov, actually alternates between the surnames "Trunkov" and "Oilski."
* 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.
* TalkingYourWayOut: When he's surrounded by the Lemons' {{Mooks}}, Mater tries to invoke this by sympathizing with them as outcasts and laughingstocks. [[spoiler:It doesn't work]].
* TeaserOnlyCharacter: [[spoiler:Leland Turbo]].
* ThirdPersonPerson: "Francesco is familiar with this reaction to Francesco." This seems to be a bad character tic.
* ThisCannotBe: when Francesco finds himself overtaken by flying spycar Holly and [[spoiler:rocket-enhanced ''Mater'']].
* TimeForPlanB: [[spoiler:After the EMP cannon fails, the lemons resort to using a bomb strapped to Mater to kill Lightning]].
* 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!
* [[TooImportantToWalk Too Important To Drive]]: One of the high-ranking Lemons has a tow-truck Mook drag him around, which Mater replaces to infiltrate the Lemons' meeting.
* UncannyValley: In-universe, seemingly the reason for Mater's reaction to the car with headlights for eyes.
* UndersideRide: Finn [=McMissile=] actually clings to the underside of Tony Trihull with his magnetic tires in order to sneak into the Lemons' oil rig.
* 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]].
* 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]].
* 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]].
* VisualPun: At the Lemons' meeting in Italy there are platters of lemons on the table.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Lightning and Francesco Bernoulli by the end.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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".
* WhosLaughingNow: The reason why the Lemons were evil.
* WhyAmITicking: [[spoiler:Mater gets a time bomb bolted to his engine as a backup plan to kill Lightning [=McQueen=].]]
* WilhelmScream: when the {{Mooks}} are in the pub fight.
* WorldTour: The international race.
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