| “ | Welcome, everyone. I wish I could be with you on this very special day, BUT… my clutch assembly broke. You know how it is. 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! | „ |
| ~ Sir Miles Axlerod rising to power, with his disguised voice. |
Sir Miles Axlerod is the main antagonist of Pixar's 12th full-length feature film, Cars 2, the second installment of the Cars film series.
He is the CEO of Axlerod Industries, who in actuality is also the manipulative leader of the Lemons who wanted to turn the entire world against alternative fuels and make money out of it along with Professor Zündapp. However, his plans were foiled when Mater exposed his crimes. He is also the arch-nemesis of Mater.
He was voiced by Eddie Izzard.
What Makes Him a Shonen Villain?[]
- Villainous: He commits a number of villainous deeds throughout the movie while trying to accomplish his goal of making alternative fuel look bad, such as ordering Grem and Acer to use a death ray on race cars running on the "environmentally-friendly" alternative fuel known as Allinol and causing them to crash during the World Grand Prix, giving the order for the death of Lightning McQueen when McQueen stated that he intended to use Allinol during the final race in London, and planting a bomb in Mater's hood as an alternative for killing McQueen which would also kill countless innocent cars within the vicinity. He also manipulated the lemons into becoming dangerous criminals in the first place by reminding them of how non-lemon cars treated them, making him responsible for all of their actions.
- Powerful/Skillful: As a very manipulative criminal mastermind and the character who has the most power in the entire series, he acts as both the founder of the World Grand Prix and the leader of the Lemon terrorist group simultaneously, and has an immense amount of power and wealth at his disposal with these leadership positions.
- Power-Hungry: He is obsessed with making himself and the other lemons rich and famous through the discrediting of Allinol and alternative fuels, and strives to become an all-powerful car in the world through selling fossil fuel, as well as make a huge amount of fortune and earn all of the money in the world.
- Pursues a Big-End Goal: His ultimate goal is to make alternative fuel look bad through the use of Allinol (which is in reality just modified gasoline engineered to explode when hit by an electromagnetic pulse) in order to force everyone to go back to using natural gasoline at all costs, and also become rich and famous with the other lemons.
- Arrogant: He has a self-righteous attitude and views everyone else as inferior to him.
- Intelligent: He is extremely intelligent and manipulative, as he had thought the entire plan to get rid of Allinol through, having set everything up to make him look like an innocent car including faking being nice on interviews and to the racers with his faux affability.
- Cold-Hearted/Ruthless: While not sadistic like Professor Zündapp, Axlerod is still ruthless, uncaring and cruel as he has no qualms with the injuries that the World Grand Prix racers received when their engines exploded after being hit by the EMP ray emitted from the weaponized camera and shows no remorse for any of his crimes even after his defeat.
- Laughably Evil: Despite having a few very minor comedic scenes such as when he leaked oil and blamed it on Mater, they don't detract from his villainy at all and just highlight how much of a cruel monster he is, and he is played completely seriously.
- Psychopathic: He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, with his anger and greed making him willing to remorselessly commit heinous crimes just to get revenge on those who laughed at him and his fellow lemon cars.
- Narcissistic: He wishes all non-lemons to respect him and is willing to harm other cars in order to do so.
- Freudian Excuse: He was humiliated in the past for being a lemon, and breaking down in the middle of a forest.
- Has Incompetent Minions: His fellow lemons all ultimately fail to stop Mater, Finn McMissile, and Holley Shiftwell from foiling their plans and exposing him as the mastermind behind the whole terrorist plot.
- Serves as a Foil to the Hero/Protagonist: He acts as an evil counterpart to both Mater and Lightning McQueen:
- Both Axlerod and Mater look to be worn-out vehicles with their racer counterparts way out of their league by comparison, and both seemingly have a passion for helping cars (Mater always willing to tow his cars to safety, Axlerod wanting to change the world with his new alternative fuel). However, their polar opposite traits could not have been more distinct. While Mater is very rusty on the outside, his inside is very much intact, being capable of physical combat as a spy vehicle, driving backwards at a very high speed, and admittedly never leaks oil, even when Axlerod blames him for it. Speaking of Axlerod, he looks to be a very sophisticated and high functioning electric-car (or so he and everyone else thinks) on the outside, but when all is said and done, he's nothing more than a gas-guzzling lemon with a broken clutch assembly, faulty oil system, and (as Mater himself sees his disguise at first glance) the worst engine to all vehicles. Personality-wise, Mater is a low-class goofball making an embarrassment to McQueen in Tokyo, but is really a good-natured vehicle at heart who ultimately wins the respect of his peers by exposing Axlerod with his crimes. Speaking of Axlerod, he is presented as the highly dignified, gentlemanly oil tycoon running the World Grand Prix, but is really a vile monster who would kill or blow up cars in secret just so he could make a profit and gain power. Both cars also struggle with personal insecurity regarding the film's overall theme: being yourself. Mater, despite being The Ditz and a goofball, eventually becomes self-aware that he was getting on McQueen's nerves and ends up having a Heroic BSoD when Finn McMissile unintentionally calls him out for it. Though after a pep talk from Lightning, he eventually accepts who he is. Axlerod on the other hand knows that he is a Lemon with serious engine issues, but goes out of his way to maintain a gentlemanly philanthropic persona while also committing heinous actions towards other cars just so he could gain some respect among his peers. He'll even go as far as to throw Mater under the bus lying that he leaks oil when in fact it was him who was leaking oil, just so that he could look good in the public as an "electric car” as he faked it knowing electric cars don’t leak oil. If Mater tried to change his personality instead of being himself, he would've ended up like Axlerod but in a different way as Mater is not evil.
- Both Axlerod and McQueen have shown annoyance towards other vehicles, such as Mater, for putting barriers on their respective goals (Lightning wanted to win the race; Axlerod attempted to discredit alternative fuel). However, Lightning has his reasons for being angered about his racing goals being hindered, while Axlerod simply had a rather petty basis for giving alternative fuels a bad name. In addition, Lightning, for all his external cockiness, was able to befriend several other vehicles, such as his now-best friend Mater, while Axlerod has only pretended to be friendly and doesn't seem to care about his underlings, not even his partner-in-crime Zündapp. Axlerod serves as an example of what Lightning would have possibly become if he had never let go of his ego, refused to value friendship, and clung solely to self-interest and control over others though it is unlikely he would attempt to murder others or become evil as he is a racer but would probably be more likely to cheat like Chick Hicks and sabotage cars in that way.
- Bloodthirsty: He (along with Zündapp) orders Grem and Acer to use the weaponized camera during the World Grand Prix that would cause the Allinol-powered engines of the racers to explode, just to paint alternative fuel in a bad light so that their fuel would be worth more money. He is also willing to commit murder in order to accomplish his goal in becoming rich through his untapped oil reserves, as shown when he orders the death of McQueen when the latter decided to use Allinol in the last race after the Lemons had managed to successfully discredit Allinol. He also plants a bomb in on Mater's hood so that if McQueen survived getting killed by the EMP camera, Mater would go to McQueen's pit and Zündapp would blow it up, which would kill dozens to hundreds of innocent cars.
- Is a Game Changer: He is one of the more evil villains that the Cars franchise has to offer, as well as Pixar in general.
- Is a Secondary-Color Nemesis: He has a dark green paint job, and has a roof with black on it.
- Is a Dark Lord: He wants to convince the entire world to turn against alternative fuels through the usage of Allinol.
External Links[]
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Dark Lords Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Villains Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Disney Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Pixar Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Cars Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Scrappy Wiki
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