The Worthless Worldbuilding of Pixar’s Cars 

No they use the wheel chair stairs ♿

Cars 1 had more functionality in their architecture. In the stadium there were ramps instead of stairs.

I’ve never seen stairs in any of these movies

@@oliyes406 There are some nice examples. They drink oil through straws because they have no hands, wheel locks act as handcuffs, phones don't have any handles and are automatic because they can't hold anything, etc. The world for the most part functioned around its inhabitants. Most of the leaps in logic didn't become problematic until Cars 2 started throwing random lines at every minute that broke continuity.

​@@jianalexander1359 Ramps?

Also, with the existence of a Car pope, does that mean Car Jesus exists?

there was a car hitler, with car nazis and car concentration camps... bruh.

they were HIJACKED BY THE FORKLIFTS

@@remixtheidiot5771Car-centration camps

​​​@@leithaziz2716 He does. In a post-credits scene in the first movie, one character says "For the love of Chrysler, can we please ask someone for directions?!" Jesus Chrysler is canon!

How does cars movie stand out? It doesn’t matter Choopo being stupid here

​@@makinyoumad9498I'm curious, why are you here making a ton of comments if it "doesn't matter?"

​@@makinyoumad94989:09

It's because in others movie, the universe is somewhat coherent. Like it's just another universe but with different laws of physics. For exemple the Monster Inc lore is its own universe and everything make sense according to the laws the movies sets themselves. It's just another universe in which the physics are in a way that makes interdimensional travel possible through doors and that human emotions can be harvested into energy. It's just different laws of physics that doenst exist in our reality. From that, you can expend on the universe by making tons of supposition of this universe history and organisations. The problem in the cars movie is that the universe doesn't make any sense and keeps on contradicting itself and nothing seems to be coherent. You can't expend the lore beyond the stories in the movies because there isnt any consistency keeping the lore together.

It's because Cars is boring af so people's minds naturally gravitate towards these otherwise pointless questions

I think shoes. If they're feet, then in the TSA bit someone had their feet temporarily amputated just for a safety check Edit: No wait, that is actually somehow reasonable in the Cars universe since replacing parts is normal nvm. Let me give yall something else cursed. What's the Cars equivelant of WikiFeet called? WikiWheels?

@@RainbyFIN The shoes are like the tires in the Cars Universe, hence why Luigi and Guido owned a tire shop.

Oh wow, most common fetish in the world demonized again

@@poweroffriendship2.0 they owned a shoe store the entire time, unbelievable.

No, no, no think of it more like arms and legs with the car body being clothes. Sally is saying she likes his exposed arms and legs, i.e his muscles. Francesco is implied to be an attractive italian celebrity.

Basically in a way they really just do what ever. I mean just look at how most cars look at Mater when people see him they just see him as a nobody but once they get to know him more they respect him.

So... the main problem you have with cars is it's one success, to show off wacky born in privilege shit in the real word?

Being born privileged is pretty accurate to real life.

Pretty privilege is real and I'm sorry if that truth hurts

If you grew up with it AND retain your sense of wonder and innocence into adulthood like I have, you STILL don’t question it. The movies are so entertaining and fun that you just go along with it.

HE went from 0 to 100 real quick...

Lots of people actually die in Cars 2 and it's wild

And I'm still saying that if the Cars franchise was about humans instead of actual cars, then Cars 2 wouldn't even be approved to begin with. The large dead count it has makes me think Pixar was lucky that they managed to get away with all of that

They literally have guns in Cars 2

@@theoguncleslappy9150 good ol murica

And since the planes are also sentient, that means the planes were either radicalized into the attack or the car terrorists hijacked them or damage their organs.

@@CubeytheawesomeCar Muslims confirmed

How tf would 911 happen if the planes themselves are sentient

It was mainly Cars 2 that opened this rabbit hole. Before that, the universe wasn't too thought on as everything bar some things were designed explicitly with cars in mind, & to pay tribute to Americana & nascar. The moment they introduced the sushi, commercial planes, airports, etc. is when people seriously started getting confused.

The Cars world building is just as complicated as the FNAF lore and Kingdom Hearts timeline combined.

@@poweroffriendship2.0 none of which are good 💀

@@Red-jl1qr Kingdom Hearts is pretty good

Yeah, Pixar worldbuilding questions are typically things like "Why are Riley's emotions different genders, but her parents' aren't?" or "So... are the toys immortal?" They aren't typically core to your understanding of the world, like everything to do with Cars

The hood is a hood

So Mater is less exposed organs and more voldemort?

​@@gungle2595like a fallout ghoul

Also that means they slowly grow, since his hood is slightly smaller

i personally think of being hoodless as being shirtless

The alien is also car-like, being a UFO, and drinks motor oil, meaning this is an interplanetary case of convergent evolution where the alien happened to come from a planet with the same temperature, the same gases in the atmosphere and the same energy source (oil).

Lightning's dream sequence in the first Cars movie had aliens that resembled the Tripods from _War of the Worlds,_ which invaded the city with one of the poor cars got incinerated into ashes. That's until Lightning in his Dinocco form shot the missiles towards said aliens to save the day. (Choopo mentioned that Finn McMissile is a cyborg spy who equipped weapons and gadgets inside his body, but doesn't realized that Dinocco Lightning also had a weapon coming out of his body, so this implied that he's a cyborg too.)

​@@poweroffriendship2.0But that was a dream, and most likely him thinking of a commercial or even movie

Doesn’t it ever occur to people that it’s a cartoon and we see these movies to have fun?

​@@benmalsky9834 Picking at everything is part of the fun!

you must be the equivalent of boring then for telling people how to have fun.​@@benmalsky9834

If Cars 2 didn’t happen, I would’ve lost interest in the series at a young age and not cared for Cars 3. The Cars 2 game was also one of my first video games, so I owe it that too. That’s why the second one holds such a special place in my heart.

@@benmalsky9834 still lots of cartoons made by Pixar back then did make sense and it made them all the better

Wait a minute...

Great, now I'm imagining the humans from wall-e on all fours crawling around and saying "vroom vroom" in vr headsets, thanks for that >:(

wait, then what does that mean for the cars using VR headsets in Cars 3?

@@TheIce_Demon A game within a game, like how you can play the og wolfenstein in the newer games

This explains so much

The alternate universe

What is bro talking about?

​@@makinyoumad9498 I'm drowning in the sauce

@@makinyoumad9498 what if lightning mcqueen was named lightning freakqueen

“Pull off your skin”

Are they born, or are they made? And do they grow? If so how?

“The manufacturer”

Ain’t even a big question. It’s been stated that they get built in factories

If I had a nickel for every franchise where the existence of child cars implies the existence of car sex, I'd have 2 nickels

Then get birthed through the exhaustion pipe Duh

In the deleted scene of the first Cars movie (Community Service), Lightning's engine aka his brain transported on to a steamroller and Mater stole Lightning's body as he wished he wanted to be a racecar. That deleted scene is an implication of body horror. Let's not forget about Mater living in a junkyard, which it's full of metal scraps and car parts. Imagine entering someone's house and there are bodies scattering on the ground.

​@@poweroffriendship2.0wait so you're telling me Mater live in a graveyard.

Great. Now I have the neural connection between cars and Soulkiller from Cyberpunk.

I think they can ADD stuff to their bodies but they cannot remove anything

Because he’s forklift certified!

Wait is that the movie that showed ww2?

@@poenpotzu2865 yep.

Same!!!!! No one ever talks about that movie and I remember when it was advertised!

I actually loved planes (THE MOVIE) growing up, Now that I think about it……. *what happens when a plane wrecks in a race*

@@poenpotzu2865 It implied that Car Adolf exists in this universe. In this universe, he should be Mercedes-Benz 770 (since that's his car in real life).

Possum

After all the technological hardwork that most other vehicles cannot do, the Forklifts deserves a raise for giving them a hand.

Think most people got that take away too. It also came as a surprise to me, mainly because i barely remenbered that Planes was a thing that happened, so its hard to believe it happened twice.

I’d like to believe this but the model car she is based on is 16 years newer than Doc is. I’m pretty sure it’s just a cruel joke about street vendors’ stereotypical appearances that has flown under the radar. They say she’s a reference to how they initially were going to design the cars but I think that’s the cover up, I don’t find it plausible they’d decide to create a movie that Chevron could’ve sued for.

@@hayleyhellbound9513 Chevron? International Harvester made a Scout commercial in the 70s with a cartoon Scout with a sentient car with the headlights as eyes.

Actually there are birds too, but they are an Easter egg to a pixar short

The Dinoco company in the first movie also had a non-carified dinosaur in its logo.

I mean are plants not life?

@@KepleroGT honestly, plant life is least of my concern. The geological structures like plateaus and hills are shaped like cars. And in the movie Planes, we see that meteorological phenomena such as clouds are actively shaped like cars or air planes.

Maybe the flag existed before bears went extinct and the cars took over

The downfall of Lord Bung is crazy

The main reason goes hand in hand with the second point. All those other worlds funtions like our own. They have humans in it (except Bugs i think, but still seems like our world from a diferent perspective). The narrative in all this movies is to show us something we dont see in a world that could be our own. While the Cars world is completely separated from ours, no humans to be seen, yet way too similar in every other way. Thats what leaves people thinking. While the concepts of movies like Toy Story and Inside Out are so simple to understand that we dont even need to conciously think about it, we know implicitly that Inside Out is purely metaphoric and Toy Story quite literally works though the magic of make-believe (something canonised by the explanation of how toys come to live), the concept of Cars is so thoughtless that peope cant help but question it. If it made any sort of sense beyond its basic premise, "our world but with cars instead of people", then it wouldnt be so facinating to try and find some logic in the madness.

When you make your characters non-human, you either have to find a way to slot them onto the real world, or create a universe for them to exist in. Bluey, the characters are functionally human with a coat of paint, so you can roughly assume human technology and history maps onto their world. Robots, non human, but exist with their own culture, aesthetic, and history, if in a narrow view because the movie isn't going to turn into an alt universe history lesson. Cars ... they are non-human, have no real human analogue in terms of physical capability or biology (outside of tongues?) and yet they still somehow exist in a world that looks like humans lived inside.

Apparently Mater implies a factory, and yet the universe also implies cars coming out of the ocean, evolution??? Also, if cars are running the factories, why are they putting in places for a hypothetical person to sit inside?

Here goes the Cars 2 hate train again

@@rentertainment2769*hate car

@@CosmizEvethere are sentient trains in the Cars universe

@@rentertainment2769 reasonably though. even die hard fans of cars will admit the second film shouldn't have happened lol

How is it true

Yet makes too much sense. Of the theories of humanoids entities being inside the cars, that one is the only one that works, horrifying as it may be (all those theories are horrifying really)

Its actually the oposite of trying too hard, its prety clear the writers of the Cars movies didnt try at all with their worldbuilding. No thought was put into it beyond the shallow "what would be the car counterpart for this?" question. Its quite lliteraly a car replica of our world. A product made for kids cause kids are the only ones that wouldnt question it. It worked exactly as intended. You see Cars being super popular with its target audience while everyone else stares baffled at the bizarre, nonsensical world they created.

@@pedrovallefin8406 i think we can meet in the middle here. there's an upside down bell curve as to how hard trying will pay off and they sit right at the bottom in the middle. if they put less effort in, we wouldnt have so many stupid things to point out. if they put more effort in, the world would be better, and the things we are pointing out would not be stupid. either would help.

The court room in cars 1 had a quasi religious mural of a factory, implying that there was an original factory in the same vein as the garden of Eden.

What if cars is like brave new world where they worship henry Ford and productivity

If Henry Ford was a car, does that mean he invented himself?

No they didn’t

Watch ANY documentary or commentary from Pixar staff about Cars, and you will understand hat it’s all in good fun, that it’s meant to be a fun cartoon. They always have a lot of fun making them.

Me too!

Same, since I've loved NASCAR since diapers.

Cardolf Hitl😂r

What would sins be? Drunk driving? Breaking the speed limit? Using leaded oil? I DONT NEED SPEEP, I NEED ANSWERS

@@GideonHannsz-ht3qm Im sure someone could paint you a picture of car sodoma and gomorra, but im not sure if its a picture you would want to see. Not if you wish to keep your sanity intact.

@@pedrovallefin8406 Probably had a whole lot of aggresive drivers......

the only good part of the franchise

"Kachigga! Kachigga! Kachigga chigga chigga chigga!"

@@not_a_shroom7190You didn’t just forget…. HE DID WHAT IN HIS CUP???

Also Big Bentley is real😢

HOW?

def a Volkswagen

@@YataTheFifteenth Those are flies and insects in the world though.

​@@J-1410Only beetles are flies

Homie got a epiphany from cars lore.

Literally thinking the same thing lol

Maybe the planes carrying passengers is more like carrying them in a backpack or piggyback, since only the cockpit and maybe the engines etc. are alive while the cabin isn't, just like how Macks trailer in which McQueen was transported wasn't alive.

I saw a video about that and the reason celine was like that because it was in the early stages of fusing with the car shell

@@dudemp4 I'm pretty sure that's the exact same video I watched 👉🏾

For me its: they are cars, funcition like cars. And nothing more 😂

The shelf, you missed that.

You missed choopo, you fool

There also would’ve been a Planes 3, But that didn’t happen cause DisneyToons (The movie studio that animated planes) shut down

But thats not part of the canon precisely because its a deleted scene. Its rather doubtful that you can consider what that scene implies part of the Cars lore, especially considering they most likely deleted it to avoid such implications.

​@@pedrovallefin8406 It's also a dream sequence so even if it was canon it was just a nightmare

There’s actually three movies. What’s the “half”?

Why is there still hatred for Cars 2 in the world?

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charon?

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One of the writers for the first movie stated that, in his headcanon, the cars rebelled against humanity and massacred them into extinction. I'm not even joking.

@@thewitheredstrikerno wonder that isn’t canon

Sarge’s model was used in ww2 ….

It’s just an easter egg. For fun. Pixar’s movies are FULL of them, where they are just meant for the amusement factor that has nothing to do with anything else.

There was also the Dinoco logo which was a non-car dinosaur. And for the first movie there was a teaser that showed a non-car bumblebee getting stuck on Maters windshield.

same

No car will ever perform a medical procedure, no way hoesey

@@aturchomicz821 doc literally does in the first movie. he is a doctor. that is his job

Trains are probably slave or something. Same for shuttles. Are the subs the most free race?

@@GideonHannsz-ht3qmthe submarines can have smaller vehicles inside of them, as the video said it is still the forklifts who have the most autonomy out of any car race, superior in all tasks except speed, which is excelled in by the standard car

@@GideonHannsz-ht3qmalso the space shuttles can not only return to earth (and most do in real life), but also have landing gear meaning they are capable of ground movement like a regular car does I’m not sure if a space shuttle really has gas to _drive_ on its own, but we know that cars don’t need gas to move, in the first movie, they siphoned all of lightning mcqueen’s gas when he was hooked to that paving machine (which according the cars character encyclopedia is actually sentient even though we never see eyes or a mouth) but he could still move, he just had to sort of “crawl” on the ground by putting one wheel over the other rather than just rolling them

There it is! That’s what’s important, story and characters