| “ | 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. |
| “ | How did the tow truck figure it out? | „ |
| ~ Sir Miles Axlerod's last words, wondering how his arch-nemesis managed to expose him. |
Sir Miles Axlerod, also simply known as Sir Axlerod, is the main antagonist of Pixar's 12th full-length animated feature film Cars 2, the second installment of the Cars franchise.
He is 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 was the CEO of Axlerod Industries, and Mater's arch-nemesis.
He is initially presented as a friendly and well-intentioned honest host of the World Grand Prix, a race created to demonstrate his "environmentally friendly" alternative fuel Allinol. However, deep down, Axlerod is a relentless and callous terrorist kingpin of the Lemons, a group of "loser" cars who want to tarnish the reputation of Allinol (which turned out to be a scam) and alternative fuel as a whole, so that they could prosper and make a profit by selling oil.
He was voiced by Eddie Izzard.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He invented Allinol, which was supposedly alternative fuel, but was actually a highly explosive type of gasoline he would use as the required fuel for the race cars in his World Grand Prix as his plan to paint alternative fuel in a bad light.
- Not only that, but it was also designed to actually kill cars in some cases, such as Rod "Torque" Redline and Lightning McQueen, with McQueen only surviving because Sarge swapped his fuel with Fillmore's biofuel.
- He and Zundapp ordered Grem and Acer to use cameras during the World Grand Prix that would cause the engines of the racers to explode, causing several crashes that risked the lives of the cars, just to paint alternative fuel in a bad light so that their fuel would be worth more money.
- He gave the order to have Lightning McQueen killed when McQueen said his intentions to still use Allinol for the last race, planning to have Grem and Acer kill him while forcing Mater to watch.
- He planted a bomb on Mater's hood so that if McQueen survived the camera, Mater would go to McQueen's pit and Zündapp would blow it up, which would kill dozens to hundreds of innocent cars.
- While he did deactivate the bomb on Mater's hood, unwillingly saving everyone within the vicinity, he only did this to save his own skin, showing his cowardliness.
- Even when he was caught by the police, he still didn't show any remorse for what he had done and simply asked how Mater managed to find out his secret.
- He showed no care for his minion Professor Z, as they are being merely professional.
- Even though he may have been humiliated in the past for being a lemon, and breaking down in the middle of a forest, it comes off as a petty excuse compared to all of his deeds, especially when he amasses a huge amount of respect overall to move on.
Trivia[]
- Due to his true nature being shown only at the end of the film, some people say he doesn't qualify as he hasn't done onscreen villainy effects coming off as not heinous enough to qualify. However, this is not true as Axlerod caused lots of racers to be hurt by Allinol, even ordering Lightning McQueen to be killed by using his Allinol and facade to manipulate those into being harmed and make alternative fuel look bad and that fact that he planted a bomb on Mater's hood whilst offscreen still had onscreen effects. Not to mention he was the one who created it just so he could gain wealthy by having everyone flock back to oil fields which he owned one of the biggest.
External links[]
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Villains Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Disney Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Pixar Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the World of Cars Wiki
- Sir Miles Axlerod on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Sir Miles Axelrod on the Scrappy Wiki
[]
 Pure Evils
| ||
|
Movies Cartoons Video games Fanon See Also | ||